I was thinking the other day about my favorite and/or most influential albums, so I decided to make a list of the Top 10. This isn’t a past decade list, just in my lifetime for me personally, which would give us from about mid-80s or so through present day, in no particular order.
- Jagged Little Pill-Alanis Morissette. This is the one that inspired me to make the list. I was listening and realized how many of her songs influenced pop culture. Anyone my age probably knows the bitter chick line, “I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner.” They will also add the emphasis to dinner. It also was about the only thing I could listen to that would tick my parents off, so it worked for my teenage years.But Ironic, Head Over Feet, Hand in My Pocket, You Learn…were all great songs…from one album. The rest of it is pretty good too.
- Stunt-Barenaked Ladies. This may be my favorite CD of all-time. One Week is my absolute favorite song, but I can listen to the entire album straight through without skipping. Call & Answer, Never is Enough, etc…good stuff.
- August and Everything After-Counting Crows. My Dad actually got this for me. It was then I realized he actually had pretty good music taste and gave us at least one thing we could agree on when I was a teenager.
- Continuum-John Mayer. Love him or hate him, he can play guitar and it doesn’t come much better than every single track on Continuum.
- Songs You Know by Heart-Jimmy Buffett. ’nuff said.
- Songs from an American Movie, Vol. I-Everclear. I just like it. And it’s the home to a top 3 song of mine, Wonderful.
- Everything Aerosmith. Choosing one was too hard. I probably listened to Nine Lives the most, but you can’t ignore some of the earlier classics.
- Forgot to Breath-The Muckrakers.
- Confessions-Usher. Yep. I confess. I actually only ended up with this after my car was stolen. The thieves left it in there and thus began my untouchable PS2 Karaoke version of Burn.
- Nevermind-Nirvana. What can I say…I was angry in the 90s.
I’m sure I left off something obvious, but that’s what I got for now. There would be a lot more honorable mentions if I wasn’t trying to look at the entire album.
How about you? What are yours?
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