Albums to Live By - I ran out at 10.
So. On facebook, my lovely friend ^ tagged me in a note where you were supposed to list the 15 albums you've lived by. And I mentioned, well, a lot of albums I've lived by have been mixes, but I couldn't write those. So I'm going to take this moment to list the Albums I've Lived By - Mix Version here, complete with a list of the actual songs on that album, just in case any of you care.
I don't imagine that you do, but hey...it's a music thing, and I like those.
1.
Breakfast at Tiffany - Deep Blue Something
Drops of Jupiter - Train
The General - Dispatch
With or Without You - U2
Love Song - Third Day
We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel
Livin on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Tiny Dancer - Elton John
Hero - Chad Kroeger
Origin of Love - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
2.
Stacey's Mom - Fountains of Wayne
Hard Candy - Counting Crows
Wonderwall - Oasis
I've Just Seen A Face - The Beatles
The Picard Song - Dark Mantra
What I Got - Sublime
I Believe in a Thing Called Love - The Darkness
Hey Ya - Outkast
Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
500 Miles - The Proclaimers
Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Bring It Back - S Club 7
In My Life - The Beatles
3.
London Calling - The Clash
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Layla - Eric Clapton
Spanish Bombs - The Clash
Heavy Fuel - Dire Straits
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
The Unforgettable Fire - U2
Tunnel of Love - Dire Straits
Message in a Bottle - The Police
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Invisible Sun - The Police
Salsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Babylon - David Gray
Electrical Storm - U2
4.
Budapest - Jethro Tull
Mysterious Ways - U2
Walk On - U2
What Time Is It? - Spin Doctors
Put Your Lights On - Santana
Everything She Does Is Magic - The Police
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
What It Is - Mark Knopfler
Sultans of Swing (live) - Dire Straits
On Every Street (live) - Dire Straits
Desperado - The Eagles
Brothers in Arms (live) - Dire Straits
5.
Black Mambo - Angel & the Mambokats
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Anna Begins - Counting Crows
Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls
Untouchable Face - Ani DiFranco
The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
Vitto's Ordination Song - Sufjan Stevens
The Denial Twist - The White Stripes
On My Own - The Used
Plane - Jason Mraz
Hurt - Johnny Cash
The Great Below - NIN
The Departure - Gattaca Soundtrack
6.
Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
The Wind - Cat Stevens
Holiday - Green Day
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Sad Lisa - Cat Stevens
Round Here (live) - Counting Crows
Both Hands - Ani Difranco
Midnight Radio - Hedwig
If I Laugh - Cat Stevens
Red Rain - Peter Gabriel
Slow Motion (unedited) - 3eb
Faraway - Apocalyptica
7.
Song to the Siren - This Moral Coil
June on the West Coast - Bright Eyes
Round Here
Days Like These - Billy Bragg
Sodom, South Georgia - Iron and Wine
Y'all Don't Wanna Step to Dis - Against Me!
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Masters of War - Bob Dylan
1987 - Saul Williams
Both Hands - Ani Difranco
Twenty Four Hours - The Joy Division
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side - The Smiths
8.
Airbag - Radiohead
Crystal - New Order
Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band
Porcelain - Moby
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart - Wilco
For Nancy - Pete Yorn
Do You Realize?? - The Flaming Lips
South Side - Moby
Clocks - Coldplay
The Test
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oytser Cult
My Weakness - Moby
9.
Lux Antenea - Clint Mansell
Wounded - 3eb
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
Medication - Garbage
Creep - Stone Temple Pilots
Polly - Nirvana
Disarm - The Smashing Pumpkins
Glory - Liz Phair
The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Garbage
My Immortal - Evanescence
Hurt - Johnny Cash
The Great Below - NIN
10.
Carry On - CSNY
Heavy Fuel - Dire Straits
Zombie - The Cranberries
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Hotel Detective - TMBG
Hardware Store - Weird Al
Blinded - 3eb
Pass the Bottle Around - The Corsairs
Like the Rain - Clint Black
Electrical Storm - U2
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Angry Inch - Hedwig
Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters - Elton John
Green Grow the Rashes - Altan
Walking in Space - HAIR
Cockroach Cacophony - Aztec Two-Step
Vincent - Don McLean
Corsairs Rap - The Corsairs
WOW that took awhile.
I don't imagine that you do, but hey...it's a music thing, and I like those.
1.
Breakfast at Tiffany - Deep Blue Something
Drops of Jupiter - Train
The General - Dispatch
With or Without You - U2
Love Song - Third Day
We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel
Livin on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Tiny Dancer - Elton John
Hero - Chad Kroeger
Origin of Love - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
2.
Stacey's Mom - Fountains of Wayne
Hard Candy - Counting Crows
Wonderwall - Oasis
I've Just Seen A Face - The Beatles
The Picard Song - Dark Mantra
What I Got - Sublime
I Believe in a Thing Called Love - The Darkness
Hey Ya - Outkast
Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
500 Miles - The Proclaimers
Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Bring It Back - S Club 7
In My Life - The Beatles
3.
London Calling - The Clash
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Layla - Eric Clapton
Spanish Bombs - The Clash
Heavy Fuel - Dire Straits
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
The Unforgettable Fire - U2
Tunnel of Love - Dire Straits
Message in a Bottle - The Police
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Invisible Sun - The Police
Salsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Babylon - David Gray
Electrical Storm - U2
4.
Budapest - Jethro Tull
Mysterious Ways - U2
Walk On - U2
What Time Is It? - Spin Doctors
Put Your Lights On - Santana
Everything She Does Is Magic - The Police
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
What It Is - Mark Knopfler
Sultans of Swing (live) - Dire Straits
On Every Street (live) - Dire Straits
Desperado - The Eagles
Brothers in Arms (live) - Dire Straits
5.
Black Mambo - Angel & the Mambokats
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Anna Begins - Counting Crows
Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls
Untouchable Face - Ani DiFranco
The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
Vitto's Ordination Song - Sufjan Stevens
The Denial Twist - The White Stripes
On My Own - The Used
Plane - Jason Mraz
Hurt - Johnny Cash
The Great Below - NIN
The Departure - Gattaca Soundtrack
6.
Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
The Wind - Cat Stevens
Holiday - Green Day
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Sad Lisa - Cat Stevens
Round Here (live) - Counting Crows
Both Hands - Ani Difranco
Midnight Radio - Hedwig
If I Laugh - Cat Stevens
Red Rain - Peter Gabriel
Slow Motion (unedited) - 3eb
Faraway - Apocalyptica
7.
Song to the Siren - This Moral Coil
June on the West Coast - Bright Eyes
Round Here
Days Like These - Billy Bragg
Sodom, South Georgia - Iron and Wine
Y'all Don't Wanna Step to Dis - Against Me!
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Masters of War - Bob Dylan
1987 - Saul Williams
Both Hands - Ani Difranco
Twenty Four Hours - The Joy Division
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side - The Smiths
8.
Airbag - Radiohead
Crystal - New Order
Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band
Porcelain - Moby
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart - Wilco
For Nancy - Pete Yorn
Do You Realize?? - The Flaming Lips
South Side - Moby
Clocks - Coldplay
The Test
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oytser Cult
My Weakness - Moby
9.
Lux Antenea - Clint Mansell
Wounded - 3eb
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
Medication - Garbage
Creep - Stone Temple Pilots
Polly - Nirvana
Disarm - The Smashing Pumpkins
Glory - Liz Phair
The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Garbage
My Immortal - Evanescence
Hurt - Johnny Cash
The Great Below - NIN
10.
Carry On - CSNY
Heavy Fuel - Dire Straits
Zombie - The Cranberries
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Hotel Detective - TMBG
Hardware Store - Weird Al
Blinded - 3eb
Pass the Bottle Around - The Corsairs
Like the Rain - Clint Black
Electrical Storm - U2
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Angry Inch - Hedwig
Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters - Elton John
Green Grow the Rashes - Altan
Walking in Space - HAIR
Cockroach Cacophony - Aztec Two-Step
Vincent - Don McLean
Corsairs Rap - The Corsairs
WOW that took awhile.