Hello, Hello...is this thing on???
I did this on Facebook, and I was so proud of the list I thought it was appropriate for my first LJ post - in years. Literally years. That made me feel old.
Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you that they changed your life, or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that, no matter what they were thought of musically, shaped your world. When you finish, tag 15 others, including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so others know the drill. Get it? Good.
1. Sunny Day Real Estate - How it Feels to Be Something On
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
3. Radiohead - OK Computer
4. Failure - Fantastic Planet
5. Hum - Downward is Heavenward
6. Swervedriver - 99th Dream
7. Neil Finn - Try Whistling This
8. Varnaline - Shot and a Beer
9. Tom Petty - Wildflowers
10. Blip - Everything is Fine
11. Counting Crows - August and Everything After
12. Catherine Wheel - Adam and Eve
13. School of Fish - Self Titled
14. Guided by Voices - Do the Collapse
15. Knapsack - This Conversation is Ending, Starting Right Now
Honorable Mention:
Pixies - Death to the Pixies
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Josh Rouse - Under Cold Blue Stars
Damnwells - PMR
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Nada Surf - Let Go
Crowded House - Recurring Dream
No Knife - Hit Man Dreams
The Postal Service - Give Up
Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
Smoking Popes - Destination Failure
Better than Ezra - How Does Your Garden Grow
Superchunk - Here's Where the Strings Come In
Weezer - Blue Album
Varnaline - Sweet Life
Archers of Loaf - White Trash Hero
Coldplay - Parachutes
Creeper Lagoon - Take Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday
Dave Mathews - Under the Table and Dreaming & Crash
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Elliot Smith - XO
The Finn Brothers - Finn
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
Obviously I had a hard time getting it down to 15...
Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you that they changed your life, or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that, no matter what they were thought of musically, shaped your world. When you finish, tag 15 others, including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so others know the drill. Get it? Good.
1. Sunny Day Real Estate - How it Feels to Be Something On
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
3. Radiohead - OK Computer
4. Failure - Fantastic Planet
5. Hum - Downward is Heavenward
6. Swervedriver - 99th Dream
7. Neil Finn - Try Whistling This
8. Varnaline - Shot and a Beer
9. Tom Petty - Wildflowers
10. Blip - Everything is Fine
11. Counting Crows - August and Everything After
12. Catherine Wheel - Adam and Eve
13. School of Fish - Self Titled
14. Guided by Voices - Do the Collapse
15. Knapsack - This Conversation is Ending, Starting Right Now
Honorable Mention:
Pixies - Death to the Pixies
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Josh Rouse - Under Cold Blue Stars
Damnwells - PMR
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Nada Surf - Let Go
Crowded House - Recurring Dream
No Knife - Hit Man Dreams
The Postal Service - Give Up
Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
Smoking Popes - Destination Failure
Better than Ezra - How Does Your Garden Grow
Superchunk - Here's Where the Strings Come In
Weezer - Blue Album
Varnaline - Sweet Life
Archers of Loaf - White Trash Hero
Coldplay - Parachutes
Creeper Lagoon - Take Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday
Dave Mathews - Under the Table and Dreaming & Crash
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Elliot Smith - XO
The Finn Brothers - Finn
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
Obviously I had a hard time getting it down to 15...