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| | Bp made one of these lists a while back and I promised to follow suit. Finally getting around to it.
I should preface this a bit though with my music listening history. I was weaned on country music and it took me a while to shrug off those influences (although I ll always have a soft spot for classic country - Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash and the like). I never was a big fan of 80s music... I mean I sung along to the one hit wonders, but as a rule abhorred the glam hair bands. I dabbled in numerous disparate genres (from early rap to classical/opera) but it wasn t till the early 90s and the Seattle scene that I really found music that I felt spoke to me.
Since then my tastes have gotten even more eclectic. The grunge sound will always have a place in my heart but my current tastes typically fall in three vague categories depending on my mood: harder aggressive stuff (Tool, Disturbed, Ministry etc), geek rock (the kings of surreal lyrics and brilliant word plays... TMBG, Cake, BNL) and Electronica (Crystal Method, Oakenfeld, Aphex Twin).
I rarely buy albums any more and typically only download singles. So my favorite albums list won t have much in the way of recent works. I decided to allow soundtracks (just because excluding Conan would be a crime) but not compilations and that I should set a cap of one album per artist (otherwise a top ten list would be dominated by Pearl Jam and TMBG entries). I wanted to list only albums that are consistently good throughout the whole album not just albums with 2 or 3 great singles (thereby quite a few of my favorite artists are omitted).
So here s my list. Consume at yer leisure.
12. Weird Al Yankovich - Dare to Be Stupid
11. Moby - Animal Rights
10. Cake - Fashion Nugget
9. The Crystal Method - Vegas
8. Pi Soundtrack
7. Black 47 - Fire of Freedom
6. Nirvana - Nevermind
5. Matrix Soundtrack
4. Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack
3. Tool - Undertow
2. They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18
1. Pearl Jam - Ten
-bampf |
| 4/17/2003 3:51:34 PM Review | I own 2 of them (#1 and #6)
Never heard of 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Would buy 12
-Dover | | 4/17/2003 3:53:28 PM Excellent List! | I am proud to say I am probably one of the only Americans left who does not own Pearl Jam's "Ten". It was a good album though. Even better because they made it before they got all pretentious and crap.
I had almost entirely forgotten the sublime excellence of the Matrix soundtrack. Have to pull that one out in preparation for the new flicks. | | 4/17/2003 3:54:21 PM Pearl Jam | I don't own a single Pearl Jam album, hehehe.
-The Huy | | 4/17/2003 3:56:21 PM No PJ? | Then you are the devil!
It s true.
-b | | 4/17/2003 5:47:50 PM Devil | No, I'm Satan!
TGM | | 6/10/2003 9:18:20 AM Omission | Just remembered a glaring omission... probably weighing in around #6 would have been Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Suger Sex Magic. Good stuff.
-b | | 11/3/2003 10:40:56 AM Plane Crash | | If plane's carrying Pearl Jam and Hanson crashed in mid-air, I would not shed a tear. |
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