i heard about some facebook thing where you list the top ten music albums that shaped your life/listening choices. i thought it sounded pretty cool, but since i don't like posting notes on facebook, i'm writing them here. something to keep in mind is that i didn't buy a cd until i was about 17, so there isn't a whole lot representing my earlier years.
enjoy and feel free to make fun of me or agree that some of these would maybe be on your list too.
in autobiographical order-of course:
1-wayne's world soundtrack
first cd i ever owned. it began my taste of "modern" music. plus it gave me a taste of several generations of music from jimi hendrix to cinderella... great stuff for a sampler.
2-collective soul (blue album)
first cd i bought and listened to over and over again. i made a tape of it since my car didn't have a cd player. this influence was direct from erick banks. i ended up buying almost every album by this band. the world i know is one of the best music videos ever.
3-nirvana (nevermind)
i'd heard nirvana before but hadn't known what to think at first listen. after a second listen or two i was sold and this began my grunge/alternative music phase, of which i still am a part of.
4-everclear (sparkle and fade)
this is another cd that rocked my world. while most of the guitar licks are very similar or basically the same but in a different key, i still to this day love this album. every time i listen to santa monica i think of cruising around in my 1980 subaru hatchback. and when i listen to you make me feel like a whore, i chuckle at the thought of the video we were going to make senior year highlighting various girls in our school.
5-weezer (blue album)
great album even though i discovered it only once pinkerton came out. i was pretty much behind the power curve here, but this album and the buddy holly music video are both fantastic not to mention it's one of those albums you can listen to front to back loving it the whole time.
6-soundgarden (superunkown)
while i discovered this later, it is still one of my favorite albums of all time. i started listening to this and down on the upside my senior year. a bunch of us went to the concert at the salem armory in 1996 or so with the announcement coming that next spring (1997) that they were disbanding. it was a sad day.
7-led zeppelin (physical graffiti)
kashmir began my love affair with this english band, which has since become my favorite band of all time. i have yet to find a zeppelin song i don't like... short of the overplayed stairway to heaven... still good just overplayed. every album is like an orchestrated score that i just love.
8-radiohead (the bends)
i got to know of radiohead first through their song creep off pablo honey, but the bends was the first album i got to know how much staying power radiohead would have and how much i would grow to love them. minus thom yorke's weirdness and how he looks like clay aiken's 'special' brother, radiohead is pure genius. while the bends at first seemed like a downer cd i still love popping in this cd rain or shine.
9-wilco (yankee hotel foxtrot)
this was the album that go me listening to what's referred to as indie music. it lead to so many other band discoveries that have since shaped my musical taste. great album.
10-derby (this is the new you)
they're local and even though i'm biased because i went to high school with some of the band members, this cd is my latest love and i have to say it's the album andrea and i listened to quite a bit while we dated and eventually fell in love to. pretty much a lot of bias going on here but who cares it's my list.
runner ups or cds i thought about putting up there but decided against it for one reason or another (not in any particular order):
no doubt (tragic kingdom)
foo fighters (the color and the shape)
beck (odelay)
dandy warhols (13 tales from urban bohemia)
snow patrol (final straw)
the cars (the cars greatest hits)
aerosmith (greatest hits)
stone temple pilots (purple)
pearl jam (ten)
beatles (sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band)
death cab for cutie (plans)
cake (fashion nugget)
5 comments:
Nice work. Collective Soul, Sparkle and Fade, Weezer, Superunkown: the soundtrack to our formative years. So many memories of band camp, cruising with the guys, playing video/board games in Brady's basement.
I think we might still be able to make that you make me feel like a whore video. I'm sure I can dig up the storyboard somewhere.
Kinda makes me wonder what your kid will be into.
come on, where's Free to Be You and Me?
For reference here were mine:
1 - The Wall - Pink Floyd
2 - Green - REM
3 - Substance - New Order
4 - Rubber Soul - The Beatles
5 - Rust In Peace - Megadeth
6 - Collective Soul - self titled
7 - Pablo Honey - Radiohead
8 - Strange Days - The Doors (thanks to J. Motley)
9 - Superuknown - Soundgarden
10 - Odelay - Beck
11 - The Bends - Radiohead
12 - Metalica - Master of Puppets (I was pretty late to the game on this one)
13 - Doolittle - The Pixies
14 - Elliott Smith - XO
15 - Ruby Vroom - Soul Coughing
cool
I liked reading your list, and then Nick's. I don't have many that mirror either, but I find most of the albums justifiable. Sparkle and Fade was awesome and I preferred Down on the Upside for Soundgarden and Pink Floyd everything pushed me through high school, with mid-late 90's and classic rock being what I typically played on the CD burner.
Importantly, I think our generation's Kennedy Assassination is Soundgarden disbanding. I was facing south at a red light at the Miller/Cornell intersection in my '86 corolla, listening to 101.1.
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