The Album Project

A Mistake is asking friends to share their top 25 favorite albums of all time. At first I resisted submitting. My tastes tend to have wild swings and are a bit more cheesy than the rest of our friends. However, I sat down to give it a shot last night and the whole thing just kind of poured out.

Here is the list as he posted it yesterday. I have a few additional notes at the bottom:

Submitted on the condition that you disclose that my collection of "albums" has not really changed since 1996.

1) The Beatles - Rubber Soul (the perfect bridge between their pop years and their more experimental years)
2) Fugazi - 13 Songs (greatest opening bass riff EVER)
3) Led Zeppelin - III (too often overlooked)
4) Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (I've listened over and over and over again)
5) Paul McCartney - Unplugged (originally released as a limited edition, it was the first album that I RAN to the store to purchase)
6) Cake - Fashion Nugget (gave me faith that there was still good music to be recorded)
7) U2 - Zooropa (totally under appreciated and dismissed for far too long)
8) Billy Joel - Turnstiles (by far his best work)
9) Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (first time in years that I was excited when buying an album)
10) The Killers - Hot Fuss
11) Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
12) The Matrix - Music from the Motion Picture
13) Tomb Raider - Music from the Motion Picture (don't judge, just listen to it and enjoy)
14) Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste (because everyone needs an angry teenage album)
15) Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs (and a second for good measure)
16) The Buzzcocks - Operators Manual (essentially a greatest hits, but an awesome one)
17) Pearl Jam - Ten (so hard to pick between this one and VS)
18) Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bullocks
19) Moby - Play
20) The Who - Who's Next
21) The Velvet Underground - The Best of The Velvet Underground (yes, I know that it's the easy pick)
22) Paul Simon - Rhythm of the Saints
23) Dar Williams - Mortal City (I blame and thank Jester for this one)
24) Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
25) Michael Jackson - Thriller (first LP I ever owned, how can it not be on here)

My personal metric for this was, "what are the 25 discs that I could listen to almost every song on and not really want to skip one track?"

Upon further reflection, I think that I wold take out Thriller and replace it with They Might Be Giants - Flood. That album has been more present in my life than Thriller and evokes more memories across many different times (including now, since MLTU loves it).

I have also decided to listen to all 25 in order to see if this list holds up.

Comments

[FAU]

AYD just reminded me of Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever.

I have no clue what I'd take out from the list above, but that one should be on this list as well.