Bear said to put it back, so here it is:
I be lovin’ me some lists. Especially the music ones. So, after listing your top 10 current picks, I ask: what are your top 20 albums of ALL TIME????? (Imagine the booming echo) These should be the most important albums in your life, not just a list of what you believe to be the most important albums in the history of rock. And in no particular order, of course. For me? Check it:
- Radiohead – OK Computer/Kid A/Hail to the Thief (I know, I’m cheating.)
- U2 – Achtung Baby/Rattle and Hum/Wide Awake in America (Still cheating…)
- Pixies – Doolittle/Trompe le Monde/Surfer Rosa (Will continue to cheat. Get over it.)
- Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots/Soft Bulletin
- Toad the Wet Sprocket – Dulcinea
- Whiskeytown – Pneumonia
- Chris Whitley – Dirt Floor/Terra Incognita
- Wilco – Summerteeth/Being There/Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Replacements – Pleased to Meet Me/Tim/All Shook Down
- Elliot Smith – Figure 8/XO
- Smiths – Louder Than Bombs/Peel Sessions/The Queen is Dead/Strangeways, Here We Come
- Old Dirty Bastard – N***A PLEASE/Return to the 36 Chambers, the 37th Chamber
- Beatles – White Album/Revolver/Sgt. Pepper
- Depeche Mode – Violator
- Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour of Bewilderbeast
- Oasis – Definitely Maybe
- John Frusciante – To Record Only Water for Ten Days
- R.E.M. – Automatic For the People
- Coldplay – Parachutes/Rush of Blood to the Head
- Kashmir – Zitilites
Ok, so I bent the rules. A LOT. Meh.
Dude, why didn’t you just call this the top 20 bands/artist in your life? You gots about 60 albums on there.
YOU FUCKING PUSSY!!!!
Leave it up. It was interesting. I was about to post a couple of my top albums. Certainly not 20, but a couple that have either had a great impact or that never get old.
Sorry, bear. I put it back.
That’s right bitch. Heed my every command.
Now I actually do have to come up with some albums…
Are you going to take that abuse hordak?
I say, “Hordak: Attack!”
(Someone had to say that eventually. Admit it, you’ve all been thinking the same thing.)
1. Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
2. Weezer – Blue Album
3. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
4. Police – Outlandos d’Amore
5. B.O.C. – Cultosaurus Erectus
6. Beta Band – 3 E.P.s
7. AC/DC – Back in Black
8. Bo Hansson – Magician’s Hat
9. Supergrass – I Should Coco
10. Rush – Farewell to Kings
11. Velvet Underground – Loaded
12. Joy Division – Closer
13. Ween – Pod
14. Roxy Music – Siren
15. Ian Brown – Unfinshed Monkey Business
16. Q.O.T.S.A. – Q.O.T.S.A.
17. TMBG – Apollo 18
18. The Cars – The Cars
19. Green Day – Dookie
20. Reldni – Long Trip to South Point (Not technically an album…but I was going to list Tits at my #20, so I figured this was better.)
Thanks, loki, for making me feel like this post wasn’t COMPLETELY worthless.
I did one up for you. Instead of leaving it here, I just did a new [post](/2005/03/31/tims-definitive-music-post/ “My Big POST”). BINCH.
“Bintch” is spelled with a T, bintch.
Since I can’t sleep, here is my top ten list.
1. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
2. Helium – The Dirt of Luck
3. Pixies – Doolittle
4. RZA/GZA –Liquid Swords
5. Oasis –Definitely Maybe
6. Afghan Whigs – Black Love
7. Cramps – Flamejob
8. Quintron –These Hands of Mine
9. International Noise Conspiracy – Survival Sickness
10. Folk Implosion – One Part Lullaby
Honorable Mentions:
***The Police – Everything they ever did except ‘Mother’ and ‘Friends’***
The Moldy Peaches : The Moldy Peaches
Afghan Whigs -1965, Congregation, Up in It, Uptown Avondale
Daft Punk –Homework
Sonic Youth – Dirty, Goo
Cardigans- Gran Turisimo
Comp.- Let them eat Jellybeans
Clinic –Walking with Thee
Beta Band -3EP’s
Ian Brown – Unfinished Monkey Business
Counting Crows –August and Everything After
Twilight Singers – Twilight as Played By the Twilight Singers
Elliot Smith – Figure 8
Mind you, I don’t actually listen to many full albums. I’m a piece by piece MP3 fellow. But these albums are some of my favorites.
I thought I wasn’t going to answer this question because I couldn’t make up my mind. But the thought has been bugging me for weeks now. I still can’t say what the top 20 albums I either like only part of an album or like most of an artist’s albums about equally. So, instead, in roughly chronological order, here are the top 30 musicians who influenced my musical interests over the years:
1. Early teens:
1. Peter, Paul, & Mary
2. Joni Mitchell
3. Simon & Garfunkle
2. High School:
4. Belly
5. Aerosmith
6. REM
7. Breeders
3. Early College:
8. Tori Amos
9. Counting Crows
10. BOC
11. Portishead
12. Squirrel Nut Zippers
13. Ash
14. Failure
4. Late College:
15. Seely
16. Rasputina
17. The Muffs
18. Sneaker Pimps (especially on account of “How Do” which they lifted from the Wicker Man soundtrack).
19. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
20. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
5. Reading Squalor:
21. The Aquabats
22. Tuscadero
23. Jimmy Castor Bunch
24. Zap Mama
6. The Married Life:
25. Pentangle
26. OutKast
27. Astrud Gilberto, Jobin, et al
28. Gordon Lightfoot
29. Nellie Mckay
30. Les Baxter
Alot of others too, but these are the ones I keep comming back to over the years.