So, I've decided that a key component is missing from my blog page. Something so close to my heart that it woke me up from a near 2-year-no-blog slumber. Mainly, that I have yet to share from my vast musical expertise *tongue-in-cheek*
top 10 albums b/c bret says so...
Here's the necessary preface: It's an art to compose a good album... & I'm not just talking about good music (although that is an essential ingredient), but for a good album there's got to be a cohesion, a theme, and an integrity that is maintained throughout the entire experience. And that's the thing, it should be an experience that takes you somewhere- not that an individual song or two does this, but the album as a whole works together in giving you one unified message. With this in mind, Compilations/Live performances/and "Best of" albums do not count... only artist-engineered studio-albums will be considered.
...so, here goes (in no particular order):
DIARY
–Sunny Day Real Estate
“classic & ingenuitive.. tough to believe this was 1994/fathers of emo… i listened to this album for 3 weeks straight on a 53min loop”
SONGS FOR A BLUE GUITAR
–Red House Painters
“changed my life”
IN RAINBOWS
–Radiohead
“unbelievable... i've written more sermons to this album”
THE AUTUMNS
–the Autumns
“perfection... my favorite band from 1993-2003 (when i stopped having a "favorite" band)”
THE TEXAS JERUSALEM CROSSROADS
–Lift to Experience
“a taste of twisted texas rock- highs & lows: highly emotive.. genius.”
THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF REINHOLD MESSNER
–Ben Folds Five
“incredible album: me in so many places”
TRANSATLANTICISM
–Death Cab for Cutie
“cohesive & seattle strong”
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
–Pink Floyd
“classic album: takes you someplace. 3rd lion's roar”
SEA CHANGE
–Beck
“good depressing rock: great break-up album”
SIAMESE DREAM
–the Smashing Pumpkins
"got me thru my formative years"
4 comments:
Very nice... you have at least 4 albums that would be on mine.
You left out Joshua Tree, an album which inspired half of those bands, and leaving out The Beatles is borderline sacrilegious.
But nobody's perfect.
Good choices. Surprising that you chose "In Rainbows" over others, but understandable. I, of course, agree wholeheartedly with The Autumns self-titled, Lift to Experience, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Reinhold Messner is a great one. I would have included in my top ten EVERYTHING David Bazan has ever done (probably Achilles' Heel the most) because he's a genius and I would give my right--you know--to be like him. Also, Emery's The Question, OCMS's self titled, Allison Krauss and Union Station's New Favorite, ummm, as much as it pains me to say these two due the cliche of it, CC's August and Everything After and TTWS's Fear.
Other than Pink Floyd (who I've never liked much) and that Beck album (which I've always thought was overrated), I think we see pretty eye to eye musically.
So when I noticed that, plus your blog/resource choices (i.e. a bunch of Reformed stuff), plus your preaching, plus the fact that you mentioned cigar-smoking (although I prefer a pipe)...well, I'll just say I think we could hang out.
Andrew
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