I wanted to sit down for the longest time and do this list for the XPN 885 greatest albums contest they've got going on. However, it's turned out to be much harder than I thought it would be, and I've gone ahead and missed the darn votin'. Drat!
Nevertheless, I'm doing my list anyway, because if I don't do it now, when I'm motivated, it'll never happen.
So, here goes:
10. Thriller - Michael Jackson
This number 10 spot is probably the hardest to figure out, because it's the last space you have. You might think this an odd choice, but so what. When I was 9, this album was HUGE and I couldn't get enough. I remember gathering all the loose change I could find and saving up so that I could buy one of those cheesy fan magazines. I also remember practising my moonwalk, although I never did perfect it. So, the album sold 50 million copies ... there's a reason. It rawked! And although I was only 9, I'm not going to deny the effect the album had on me, so here it is at number 10.
9. Our Time in Eden - 10,000 Maniacs
I was getting home from class one day during my freshman year at UF, and as I walked past the common room on my dorm room floor, an acquiantance was watching MTV on TV. The video for "These are DAys" was on, and I was immediately hooked. I got this CD and dug every song, and I went back to their past catalogue and grabbed everything I could. I loved it all, but this album will always hold a special place because I played it nonstop for years.
8. Disintegration - The Cure
I got this CD from my brother in 89 or 90, and I really dug it in high school. However, there is a particular time that sticks out. It was the summer of 94, between my sophmore and junior years. I was taking summer classes at school and had a dorm room to myself. I hated it really ,cuz all my friends had gone home, I had an unrequited crush on a red-haired girl in one of my classes, and I wasn't doing all that well in my classes. Plus, it rained torrentially everyday, and the stupid dorm room had these nasty ass lime greem walls. So, to make the misery complete, I played this album every afternoon after my classed. I still managed a 3.0 average, so that was ok. Thankfully, I don't equte the album with misery anymore, just great tunes.
7. Automatic for the People - REM
Every song is a classic. I think I actually killed the cassette I had of this thing from playing it so much.
6. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - The Cure
Happy Cure, Sad Cure, and everything in between. I think it's their best all-around album. "A Thousand Hours" to "Hot Hot Hot" says it all. My brother gave me an old cassette of this in 88, and I remember driving around with him as we played it in the car. Nice.
5. White Ladder - David Gray
I got this in late 2000, within a few weeks of my getting laid off from a dot com three days before Xmas, and in the midst of a gray New Jersey winter. I loved the sound, as it was a melding of different styles that I hadn't yet heard. When I listened to each song the first time, it just dragged me in. I felt I could relate to each song, and I thought I had found a gem, so I grabbed on to it as hard as I could.
(Crap, I'm getting tired now. The next four are all bloody obvious anyway. Good night.)
4. Revolver - Beatles
3. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
2. White Album - Beatles
As Paul would say, "It's great. It sold. It's the Beatles fucking White Album. Shut up."
1. Abbey Road - Beatles
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