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My Top 25 Albums
October 8, 2008
I have this major personality flaw — whenever there is something I really *need* to be doing, I procrastinate and instead fritter away the time doing completely trivial things like making lists. Right now on my dining room table sits a pile of letterbox stamps I have yet to carve for the County Fair gathering next weekend. I carved for a while earlier this evening and then got side-tracked making this list of my top albums of all time… where this came from, I have no idea. My original intent was 10 albums, but the OCD in me just couldn’t stop at 10, so it’s a top 25 list (even that was really hard).
Let me just say that these are *my* favorite albums — I make no claims that they are all *great* albums in terms of sales or mass appeal or technical genius, just that they have endured as albums I love to listen to over and over again without skipping tracks or getting bored. They are comfortable, like old friends — it may have been a while we last connected, but each visit is more intimate than the last and leaves me wondering why I waited so long and promising to spend more time together.
So, in no particular order…
- R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
- U2 - The Joshua Tree
- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
- Pink Floyd - The Wall
- The Who - Who’s Next
- Cowboy Junkies - Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
- Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
- Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
- Van Morrison - Moondance
- Roxy Music - Avalon
- Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
- Camel - Nude
- Collective Soul - Collective Soul
- Eric Clapton - Slowhand
- Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
- Def Leppard - Hysteria
- Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
- John Hiatt - Bring the Family
- Jewel - Goodbye Alice in Wonderland
- Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites
- Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Boston - Boston
- Kirsty MacColl - Kite
- The Band - The Last Waltz
- Fish - Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors
There, now that I’ve got that out of the way maybe I can get some carving done.
Posted by Deb
October 20th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Seeing “The Last Waltz” in your list made my day! I love this idea…