Top 20 albums for you?

[lost in music]

Only twenty albums? That's tough!

Joe Jackson - Night And Day
Joe Jackson - Blaze Of Glory

In a recent thrift store haul, I picked up the Mike's Murder soundtrack. I hadn't thought about Jackson in a while, outside of the occasional blessed hearing of Steppin' Out on the in-store play at CVS. The first side has some fun Night and Day-era also-rans. Second side is all instrumentals. Good stuff. It's reminded me to go back and listen to the classics as well.

[Pepe]

"Cosmopolitan" and "1-2-3 Go!" are my favourite tracks of "Mike's Murder".

Joe Jackson did a few really nice records in the last few years. I can really recommend his last one, "Fool" and especially "Fast Forward" that has 16 songs that were recorded in four different studios in Amsterdam, Berlin, New York and New Orleans.

[goroth]

I fiddled around with the order a whole bunch, but I kept wanting to switch things around after the top 5, so I gave up. Top 5 are solid.

1. DJ Food – Kaleidoscope
2. Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool
3. Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
4. 50 Foot Wave – Power & Light
5. The Cure – Disintegration
6. CHVRCHES – Screen Violence
7. Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps
8. Prince – Purple Rain
9. Faith No More – Introduce Yourself
10. Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual
11. Blondie – Self-titled
12. B-52’s – Self-titled
13. Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion
14. Taylor Swift – Fearless
15. Paramore – Self-titled
16. My Chemical Romance – Danger Days: True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
17. Blonde Redhead – Melody of Perfect Damaged Lemons
18. Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
19. Beastie Boys – Check Your Head
20. Fleetwood Mac – Tusk

Fnm! Right on!

[Seance]

Jimi Hendrix -- More Experience
The first album I ever bought (at Rasputin Records on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley):


Built to Spill -- There's Nothing Wrong With Love

Aimee Mann -- I'm with Stupid

The Breeders -- Last Splash/Pod

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 -- Lovelyville/Hope It Lands/Strangers from the Universe

Sam Cooke -- All of it, but especially Night Beat and Live at the Harlem Square

De La Soul -- Buhloone Mindstate (add the song Stakes Is High and it would probably be the best hip-hop album ever)

The Feelies -- Crazy Rhythms

Parliament -- Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome

Little Peggy March -- Ultimate Compilation

Blondie -- Parallel Lines

The Go-Gos -- Beauty and the Beat

Can -- Ege Bamyasi

Talking Heads -- Almost everything. Particularly Remain in Light/More Songs About Buildings and Food/The Name of This Band Is....

Violent Femmes -- Violent Femmes

Pixies -- Surfer Rosa/Bossanova

Big Star -- 1 Record/Radio City

Bill Withers -- Just as I Am/Still Bill

Harry Nilsson -- Pandemonium Shadow Show/Nilsson Schmilsson

Miles Davis -- Bitches Brew

[Seance]

Also everything by:

Komeda
Sloan
Bedhead
The New Year
Neko Case

[Chankgeez]

Nice list, Sean, good to see The Feelies on there. (definitely one of my top 20 as well!)

[Seance]

Nice list, Sean, good to see The Feelies on there. (definitely one of my top 20 as well!)

I pretty much love all their albums. But that first one is like

Also.... lots of those albums are favorites for sentimental/emotional reasons. There's plenty of music that
I love, but sometimes an album comes into your life at a particular point in time and resonates so much it
feels like it was made just for that particular moment.

Which is what happened for me with There's Nothing Wrong with Love and I'm with Stupid. They both came
into my life at a particular moment of deep heartbreak and felt like they'd been written just for that moment.

Also... the Little Peggy March... it's funny how you can hate a sappy song on the radio... and then you experience
heartbreak and all the sudden that same sappy song can bring you to your knees.

Forgot to add things like:

The Maytals
The Specials
The Flamin' Groovies

[Chankgeez]

All worthy additions!

This's one of my top 20 as well:

[Seance]

All worthy additions!

This's one of my top 20 as well:

Yes!

I have that on CD. Unfortunately not on vinyl.

Also worthy:

Joe Higgs -- Life of Contradiction

Willie Williams -- Armagideon Time

[lost in music]

I forgot to include Built to Spill! Although I probably have gone with Keep It Like a Secret. They would def be in my Top 20 but I'm not sure who I would sub out.

[Chankgeez]

[coupleonapkins]

Also... the Little Peggy March... it's funny how you can hate a sappy song on the radio... and then you experience
heartbreak and all the sudden that same sappy song can bring you to your knees.

I have the same fondness for Peggy, but I'm attached to this somewhat similar compilation (not a dud in the bunch). Her voice was so powerful, and I think her only heir in that department was Jenny Toomey, who had a similar brassiness that not many others had.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_fRToFFG8s

I bought this on a whim before I new whatever folk music was/is, and it probably changed my life.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa9PXESJINQ

And I'll also add the late & lamented Phil Ochs LP "Greatest Hits" (actually his final LP produced by Van Dyke Parks) to whatever pile I'm amassing at this point:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VZ4lxPjCHQ

[Dandolin]

Despite being a huge VDP fan, I never really listened to any Ochs other than "Rehearsals for Retirement" which I snagg'd inna dolla bin
looking forward to this

also, i'm outta here b/c i find the very idea of reducing my listening history to 20 favorites existentially terrifying

[goroth]

I find Frank existentially terrifying.

[Dandolin]

srry, my frood