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[li]Meshell Ndegeocello, Bitter[/li][li]Joni Mitchell, Blue[/li][li]Bruce Springsteen, Greatest Hits[/li][li]Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde[/li][li]Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill[/li][li]Jill Scott, Who Is Jill Scott[/li][li]Fiona Apple, When the Pawn…[/li][li]Cowboy Junkies, Lay It Down[/li][li]Billie Holliday, This Is Jazz Vol. 15[/li][li]Billy Bragg and Wilco, Mermaid Avenue Vol. 1[/ul][/li]
Many of the CDs other posters have mentioned are also favorites (Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead) but these are the ones I simply cannot live without - I know it’s tired, but they are “the soundtrack of my life” (gag, choke, gag).
I forgot Dan Bern. He’s important…I’ve been listening to all of his albums for about 2 weeks straight…its addictive. Like herion but without the injections.
I forgot Dan Bern. He’s important…I’ve been listening to all of his albums for about 2 weeks straight…its addictive. Like heroin but without the injections.
U2 - All That You Can’t Leave Behind
U2 - Joshua Tree
Sting - Brand New Day
Sting - Ten Summoner’s Tales
Sting - Fields of Gold
Cheap Trick - Greatest Hits
Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick ('97)
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
The Police - Every Breath You Take (The Singles)
Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You
Disclaimer #1: In no particular order… Disclaimer #2: Subject to change without notice…
Songs You Know By Heart, Jimmy Buffett For The Record: 43 Legendary Hits, Merle Haggard A Man Ain’t Made of Stone, Randy Travis Swimming in Champagne, Eric Heatherly I’m Not So Tough, Mindy McCready The Whole SHeBANG, SHeDAISY What Mattered Most, Ty Herndon Greatest Hits, Tim McGraw I’m Alright. Jo Dee Messina Let Me In, Chely Wright
Wrathchild America – 3D (Good luck finding it, out of print)
Alanis Morisette – Jagged Little Pill
Damn Yankees – Damn yankees
Bonnie Tyler – Faster Than The Speed Of Night
Judas Priest – Defenders Of The Faith
Metallica – Ride The Lightning
Gwar – Scumdogs Of The Universe
Honorable Mentions
Sarah McLachlan – Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Enya – Watermark
Anthrax – Persistence Of Time
Seal – Seal
Front Line Assembly – Millenium
Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms
Iron Maiden – Piece Of Mind
Iron Maiden – Powerslave
Metallica – Kill 'em All
Tori Amos – Boys for Pele
Beatles, Revolver
Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti
Garbage, Version 2.0
Howlin’ Wolf, His Best
Lounge Lizards, Voice of Chunk
Massive Attack, Mezzanine
Missing Persons, Spring Session M
Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street
Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense
XTC, English Settlement
0 - Portishead-Live at Roseland
1 - Afghan Whigs-Gentlemen
2 - Radiohead-Kid A
3 - Radiohead-Ok Computer
4 - Loud Family-Interbabe Concern
5 - Elliot Smith-8
6 - Sparklehorse-Good Morning Spider
7 - The Motherhips-Box Set(I will take a box and place all their CDs inside it. So sue me.)
8 - Arvo Part-Tabula Rasa
9 - Compilation of various songs.
Most of my CDs are compilations, but sticking to artist LPs
10 The Last Match - Aislers Set
9 Domestiques - Delgados
8 Don’t Bore Us Get To The Chorus: The Best of Roxette
7 Dookie - Green Day
6 Billy Joel The Best Of Vol 1&2
5 Best of Belinda Carlisle
4 Plastic Letters - Blondie
3 Smash - Offspring
2 Peloton - Delgados
1 Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
R.E.M. Fables of the Reconstruction R.E.M. Murmur Broadcast The Noise Made By People TMBG Flood Hunters & Collectors Ghost Nation Massive Attack Mezzanine Huun-Huur-Tu Where Young Grass Grows Portishead Dummy Edith Frost Telescopic Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas
And I’m gonna cheat and find the shortest CD in my list, and burn a new disc of it, tacking on Edith Frost’s 3-song EP “Love Is Real” at the end. So there.
A Perfect Circle- Mer de Noms
Smashing Pumpkins- Adore
Silverchair- Neon Ballroom
Trance Nation
Switchblade Symphony- The Three Calamites
The Cure- Galore
The Cure- Staring at the Sea
Bring it all to me- a CD I burned
Saturday Morning Cartoons Greatest Hits
Bad Religion- The Gray Race
In alphabetical order (and, like everyone else said, these are subject to change),
Beatles - Abbey Road
Bjork - Homogenic
Coldplay - Parachutes
For the Masses: A Tribute to Depeche Mode
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Radiohead - Kid A
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Stigmata (Soundtrack)
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
I don’t think I’ve ever sweated so much over a post. This is a cruel, cruel concept.
Bloodletting - Concrete Blonde
Abbey Road - The Beatles
What’s the Story, Morning Glory - Oasis
The Bends - Radiohead
Everything - Bangles
Dummy - Portishead
Eternal Nightcap - The Whitlams
Grace - Jeff Buckley
13 - Blur
The Good Son - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
That’s my answer to the question, but I’m going to cheat and include another five albums. I narrowed it down to a list of fifteen albums that I really couldn’t do without, and casting aside five of them was sheer torture. There’s really no difference between these and the list above, and if you’d asked me tomorrow I might have picked a different set of ten from the list. So here’s the rest:
Cosmic Thing - The B-52’s
Breathing Tornadoes - Ben Lee
Central Reservation - Beth Orton
The Edges of Twilight - The Tea Party
Wish List - Falling Joys
Cool choices Airbeck, dodge_this, Purd Werfect, vengeance and dust. I think I could handle being stuck on a desert island with you guys.
[sub][sup](Yes, dammit, the Bangles. You got a problem with that?)[/sup][/sub]
