Just reading at the Onion A.V. Club how they've been making lists of the favorite albums, picking one from each you've been alive. They can be albums you liked at the time, or ones that you like now.
Here's the original link
http://www.avclub.com/content/blog/geeky_list_time_pick_an_album_for
And my list.
While you're making this, prepare yourself for intense waves of nostalgia. Also, don't beat yourself up for not listening to cooler music when you were in junior high, you didn't know.
1983- The Police, Synchronicity
1984-The Pretenders, Learning to Crawl
1985-The Cars, Greatest Hits (seriously, this played at my house almost every day)
1986-Cyndi Lauper, True Colors
Note: This was the first album I ever bought. I distinctly remember picking it out at some music store in Jackson, MS. I found it again about a year ago at Grimey's. Sadly, Cyndi's cover of "What's Going On" doesn't hold up like it used to, but I still love it.
1987-U2, The Joshua Tree
1988-Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man
1988 (honestly?)-New Kids on the Block, Hanging Tough
1989-The B-52s, Cosmic Thing (just because I still have a thing for "Love Shack")
1990-Angelo Badalamenti, Soundtrack from Twin Peaks (other than that, a terrible year for music, I'm glad I was only 7 at the time)
1991-Amy Grant, Heart In Motion (shameless)
1992-R.E.M.,Automatic for the People
1993-Counting Crows, August and Everything After
1994 (now)-Jeff Buckley, Grace
1994 (then)-Portishead, Dummy
1995-Smashing Pumpkins, Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
1996-Fiona Apple, Tidal
1997-Radiohead, O.K. Computer
1998-Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1999-Bonnie "Prince" Billy, I See a Darkness
2000-New Pornographers, Mass Romantic
2001-Ryan Adams, Gold
2002-Bright Eyes, Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
2003-The Postal Service, Give Up
2004-Modest Mouse, Good News for People Who Love Bad News
2005-The Hold Steady, Separation Sunday
2006-Neko Case, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
2007-Feist, The Reminder (this was the hardest one to pick, I don't know why, I'm totally up in the air about this one)
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3 comments:
What about 2k8?
i feel like i should wait for alll of 2008.
Even though it would probably be the new Hold Steady. But I don't want to have two of the same bands on my list. tuff decisions
That makes it too tough. My list is full of repeats; not my fault that the Hold Steady made the best record of the year twice.
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