I would like one day each week where I can go off the grid and not worry about my blog. You guys can take care of yourselves.
So I’m instituting “Off the Grid Fridays” where I can just post a random topic and not worry about jumping into the conversation.
I can get to you guys later.
So let’s try it out.
Patrick Erwin tagged me with the Fifteen Albums meme on Facebook.
The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.
I am not sure I can remember fifteen albums, but here is my list.
- Violator — Depeche Mode
- Arena — Duran Duran
- Nevermind — Nirvana
- Learning to Crawl — Pretenders
- American Idiot — Green Day
- Gorrillaz — Demon Days
- Fashion Nugget — Cake
- Like a Virgin — Madonna
- Spike — Elvis Costello
- Doolittle — Pixies
- Front by Front — Front 242
- Wild — Erasure
- Licensed to Ill — Beastie Boys
- Vision Thing — Sister of Mercy
- Louder than Bombs — The Smiths
Holy crap, you can see exactly how old I am.
What’s on your list? You don’t need to give me 15 — but what albums stick with you?
75 comments ...wanna add one?
In no particular order, my top 10
1. Master of Puppets – Metallica
2. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
3. Agents of Fortune – Blue Oyster Cult
4. Among the Living – Anthrax
5. Sonic Brew – Black Label Society
6. Piece of Mind – Iron Maiden
7. Hellbilly Deluxe – Rob Zombie
8. Lightening to the Nations – Diamond Head
9. Holy Diver – Dio
10. Permission to Land – The Darkness
Ah, Anthrax.
1. Stone Roses-Stone Roses
2. Computer World – Kraftwerk
3. Kings of the Wild Frontier – Adam & the Ants
4. Twisted – Hallucinogen
5. In It for the Money – Supergrass
6. Ritual de lo Habitual – Jane’s Addiction
7. Tangram – Tangerine Dream
8. Equinox – Jean- Michel Jarre
9. Low-Life – New Order
10. Different Class – Pulp
11. Q: Are We Not Men?; A: We Are Devo – Devo
12. Music for the Jilted Generation – Prodigy
13. Claro Que Si – Yello
14. Not Available – The Residents
15. Life’s Rich Pageant – R.E.M.
I almost added Ritual de lo Habitual – Jane’s Addiction and New Order is a big miss on my list. I had to make way for Madonna, though.
Laurie, if you think your list dates you, just wait.
1. Live at the Fillmore-The Allman Brothers Band
2. Layla and other Assorted Love Songs – Derek and the Dominoes
3. II – Led Zeppelin
4. Who’s Next – The Who
5. Santana-Santana (first album)
6. John Prine – John Prine
7. Workingman’s Dead/American Beauty – Greatful Dead
8. Tapestry – Carole King
9. Paranoid – Black Sabbath
10. Rock of Ages – The Band
11. 4 Way Street – CSN & Y
12. Aqualung – Jethro Tull
13. Will the Wolf Survive – Los Lobos
14. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – Neil Young
15. The Classics – The Clash
needed to add a 16th today and that is anything by Stevie Ray Vaughn, today is the 20th anniversary of his death.
John, I just checked out your list! And YOU think your list dates you!
Thanks for Stevie Ray! That leaves me more room on my list!
Aqualung? hahahahahhahahahha.
okay, thanks for that laugh.
The Red, Yellow, and Green Albums – Days of the New
Automatic for the People – REM
Collaborations – KJ52
Crash – Dave Matthews Band
Flood – They Might Be Giants
Lucacentric – Lucas
Meteora – Linkin Park
The Power Station – The Power Station
The Ghosts That Haunt Me – Crash Test Dummies
12 Stones – 12 Stones
The Power Station – The Power Station
Bang-a-gong. Yes. I approve.
Arena! I’ve had that album on vinyl, cassette, cd, and digital! One of my faves…
OK, here’s the rest of my list, off the top of my head and in no particular order:
Billy Joel – Greatest Hits 1&2
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Duran Duran – Thank You
Rush – The Spirit of Radio
Twelve:01 (local band from college that put out a couple of cd’s independently – love them!)
OK, I’m having trouble remembering actual albums now, since everything I do now is downloaded pretty much individually! (And yes, I do like greatest hits albums… sorry! Skip the filler songs and give me the good stuff…)
Thank You? The covers album? Good one.
1. Van Morrison…any of them.
2. Dave Matthews – anything, except Busted Stuff
3. Bryan Adams – Summer of ’69
4. Poison – Flesh and Blood
5. Pink – I’m Not Dead
6. Tim McGraw – Greatest Hits
7. Faith Hill – Cry
I’m with you on Bryan Adams — my husband hates that Summer of 69 song with a passion.
This is easy:
1. OK Computer by Radiohead
2. Closing Time by Tom Waits
3. Windows for Stars by For Stars
4. Electroshock Blues by Eels
5. Something to Remember Me By by Ben Lee
6. A Grand Don’t Come For Free by The Streets
7. Putting the Days to Rest by The Long Winters
8. Welcome Interstate Managers by Fountains of Wayne
9. Songs for Silverman by Ben Folds
10. VS. Children by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
11. ELO’s Greatest Hits
12. Infinite Arms by Band of Horses
13. Stay Positive by The Hold Steady
14. Our Endless Numbered Days by Iron & Wine
15. Come on Feel the Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens
Thank You For Listening -
Dave
Whoa. Thank you for playing!
Heck I can never remember album names so here are the groups:
Black Angels
Moby
U2
Ministry
ELO
Kasabian
Johnny Cash
Mott the Hoople
Soundtrack to Velvet Goldmine
Hollies Greatest Hits
Badfinger’s Greatest Hits
Supergrass
Psychedelic Furs
Sisters of Mercy
Enigma
Heck I can never remember album names so here are the groups:
Black Angels
Moby
U2
Supergrass
Hollie’s Greatest Hits
Badfinger’s Greatest Hits
Enigma
Johnny Cash
Sisters of Mercy
Rob Dickenson
Kasabian
Mott the Hoople’s Greatest Hits
Ministry
ELO
Andrew WK
This is good. Thanks!
The White Album – The Beatles
Abbey Road – The Beatles
Deja Vu – CSN&Y
Surrealistic Pillow – Jefferson Airplane
Disraeli Gears – Cream
Emerson Lake & Palmer – ELP
After the Gold Rush – Neil Young
Tumbleweed Connection – Elton John
Aqualung – Jethro Tull
Out of the Blue – ELO
Glass Houses – Billy Joel
A Night at the Opera – Queen
Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
Turn of a Friendly Card – Alan Parsons Project
Under the Table and Dreaming – Dave Matthews Band
God, talk about showing your age! I could have just filled the list with Beatles albums, but I figured that was cheating….
Thanks for reminding me of Tumbeweed Connection – his best album. How could we contain the list to just 15?
Yeah, one Beatles album per list. We should have put that in the rules.
OK in no particular order:
Goo Goo Dolls- Dizzy up the girl
Eagles – Hotel california
Incubus – Live 2004
stone temple pilots – CORE
Sprinsteen – born to run
Def Leppard- Vault
Led Zep – Physical graffitti
the WHO – Quadraphenia
Beattles – Sgt Pepper
Rolling Stones – Sticky fingers
Van Halen – #1
Paramore – Riot (my daughter loves Paramore)
- thats enough for now…i could survive a weekend in the woods with those albums!
M
What would you be smoking while in the woods listening to Hotel California? Huh?
Meanwhile, my Facebook post showed how bad I am at accepting simple, linear directions….I did fifteen times three, for various eras (of course).
What can I say? I’m a bit of a music freak. I’m at the level of music aficionado in between “I buy four albums a decade” and “I buy the US version, the British version, and the Japanese special-edition.”
But if I had to pick fifteen from those:
DUSTY IN MEMPHIS Dusty Springfield
HEJIRA Joni Mitchell
HOUNDS OF LOVE Kate Bush
EDEN Everything But The Girl
SUBSTANCE New Order
KITE Kirsty MacColl
KING OF AMERICA Elvis Costello
UPSTAIRS AT ERICS Yaz/Yazoo
TROPICAL BRAINSTORM Kirsty MacColl
ILLINOIS Sufjan Stevens
EXILE IN GUYVILLE Liz Phair
JORDAN THE COMEBACK Prefab Sprout
TO BRING YOU MY LOVE PJ Harvey
SIMPLE THINGS Zero 7
KID A Radiohead
Thanks for the name check, Laurie! I love the tag line for your new blog. Kinda says it all, doesn’t it!
You are better than me. I couldn’t do this by decades!!
P.S. – We’re all aging ourselves by using the term “album” – it’s a mostly foreign concept to these damn kids today, who buy single tracks from iTunes when they’re not stealing outright.
Hey! Some of us Gen Y kids only buy albums. We might be crazy that way.
Hipsters!
Porgy and Bess – Leontyne Price and William Warfield version
Guys and Dolls – first Original Cast Recording
I Do! I Do! – Original Cast Recording
Mame – first Original Cast Recording
1776 – first Original Cast Recording
Hello, Dolly! – first Original Cast Recording
Hair – first Original Cast Recording
Sounds of Silence – Simon and Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel
People – Barbra Streisand
Funny Girl – Movie Soundtrack
The Way We Were – Barbra Streisand
No Secrets – Carly Simon
Court and Spark – Joni Mitchell
Headquarters – The Monkees
I could name a lot more, but just thought about what I listened to, over and over, in my youth (age 8-18 yrs).
Good list. I like The Monkees!
Yikes! Attractive Friday time-suck: must flee (or I’ll never make it to happy hour)!
Go drink!
Because I love them. Because I listen to them all the time. Because I remember where I was when I first heard them and when I first bought them.
Genesis – Selling England by the Pound
Rush – Moving Pictures
Supertramp – Crime of the Century
Marillion – Clutching at Straws
Fish – Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors
Green Day – American Idiot
Pearl Jam – Ten
The Police – Outlandos d’Amour
Billy Joel – Glass Houses
AC/DC – Back in Black
The Beatles – Abbey Road
Boston – Boston
Crazy 8′s – Still Crazy After All These Beers
Led Zepplin 1
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
I’ve owned most of this list on vinyl, cassette and cd.
GOOD LIST. Nice job. I own Chipmunk Punk on vinyl. I should have put that on my list.
The only album I can remember lately is:
Cozza Frenzy. by BassNectar
Hm. Must be the lack of drugs.
1. Prolonging the Magic – Cake
2. Ga Ga Ga Ga – Spoon
3. Either Or – Elliot Smith
4. White Album – Beatles
5. Post War – M. Ward
6. Absolute Garbage – Garbage
7. Yankee Fox Trot Hotel – Wilco
8. Cease to Begin – Band of Horses
9. Four Cornered Night – Jets to Brazil
10. Greatest Hits – The Cure
11. Dookie – Green Day
12. The Last Broadcast – The Doves
13. Sticky Fingers – The Rolling Stones
14. When the Pawn – Fiona Apple
15. The Lonesome Crowded West – Modest Mouse
Very good list, Naomi!
OK, none of these originated on a 78. Here goes:
The Doors (self titled)
The Beatles, Abbey Road
Crosby Stills & Nash (self titled)
The Eagles (self titled)
The Pretenders, Learning to Crawl (yay, Laurie! Love Chrissy – you gotta love a smart woman with an opinion)
The Rolling Stones, Let it Bleed (hard choice here)
Bonnie Raitt (self titled)
Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow
John Mellencamp, Uh-Huh
Link Wray, Rumble
The Allman Brothers, Live at the Fillmore East (yes John – many memories of this album)
Mad Dogs & Englishmen
Janis Joplin, Cheap Thrills
Paul Rodgers, A Tribute to Muddy Waters
The Red Elvises, I Wanna See You Belly Dance
Schwoo. Solid list. Love love love Chrissy.
CB from LV – I love Chrissie Hynde, too. My favorite story about her is when she went to see Joni Mitchell play live and Carly Simon was in the audience. Chrissie had a few too many and at some point got in Carly’s face and said, “that’s a REAL %^&$ng artist!”
And oh yeah, she has a new musical partner (who may or many not also be her romantic partner) and they just released a new album this week. Love this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT75sQkMVUU
In no particular order:
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Roxy Music – Avalon
The Horrors – Primary Colours
Kate Bush – Aerial
U2 – Boy
Broken Social Scene – Feel Good Lost
Moby – Play
The Damned – Strawberries
REM – Chronic Town
Earlimart – Mentor Tormentor
The Frames – Burn the Maps
The Jam – All Mod Cons
Elvis Costello – This Year’s Model
Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear The Heart Beat As One
XTC – English Settlement
XTC. Yes.
U2 -achtung baby
Thragically Hip-Fully Completly
Neil Young-Tonoght’s the Night
The Clash-London Calling
Midnight Oil-Red Sails in the Sunset
Rush-2112
Daniel Lanois-Shine
The Who-Live at Leeds
The Beatles-Sgt Pepper
Abba-Grt Hits
Blondie-Best of..
Snatches of Pink-Love is Dead
Northern Pikes-Secrets of the Alibi
Johnny Cash-Live at Folsom Prison
Abba — totally yes.
And midnight oil. reminds me of a boy.
I think U2 probably tops the list for the one I listen to most often.
Basia – Time and Tide
Cheap Trick – Live at Budokan
U2 – The Joshua Tree
Def Leppard – Pyromania
REO Speedwagon – Hi Infidelity
Depeche Mode – Violator
Don Henley – The End of the Innocence
REM – Document (R.E.M. No. 5)
Green Day – American Idiot
Honeymoon Suite – The Big Prize
Journey – Escape
Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Trouble Is
Melissa Etheridge – Melissa Etheridge
Smithereens – Especially for You
Prince and the Revolution – Purple Rain
I love it when The Smithereens and Prince can be on the same list.
Well, since you asked…
Perhaps the most influential album ever for me is the soundtrack from the movie Stuart Little II. Yep, a movie where a mouse makes the cat look like a total ass. Who’d a thunk it? But, let’s face it. Who else but Stuart could have Steppenwolf and Celine Dion on the same album and make it work?
Being the anti-establishmentarian that I am, I am defying your request and listing songs, not albums:
1. “Another Small Adventure” by Chantel Kreviazuk on the Stuart Little II Soundtrack (My life’s theme song)
2. “Ain’t it Heavy” by Melissa Etheridge (This lyric inspired a whole direction in my artwork, my lesser known but perhaps more profound and expressive collage work: “There’s a hole in my jeans I only wanted to fade. I’ve been ripping out seams somebody else made tonight.”)
3. “Better Now” by Collective Soul (“Oh I’m newly calibrated, All shiny and clean. I’m your recent adaptation. Time to redefine me.”)
4. “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black-Eyed Peas (I used this to dedicate my Downtown Cats mural and the moment will forever be ingrained in my mind.)
5. “The Art in Me” by Jars of Clay (A great song about finding that essential beauty and creativity within each individual soul.)
I could go on and on. Life is one perpetual theme song for me. But I have bored you enough.
Holy crap! I am older than you!
You are a rule-breaker!
My timeless music…
1. Rumours. Fleetwood Mac
2. Hotel California. Eagles
3. After The Gold Rush. Neil Young
4. Led Zeppelin IV
5. History. America
6. Toys in the Attic. Aerosmith
7. The Singles. Carpenters.
8. Soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever.
9. Eternelle. Edith Piaf
10. Photographs and Memories. Jim Croce.
11. Cat’s in the Cradle. Harry Chapin
12. Tusk. Fleetwood Mac
13. Belladonna. Stevie Nicks.
14. The Best of John Denver
15. Soundtrack to the Wizard of Oz
Oooooh. The Soundtrack to the Wizard of Oz, huh? That surprises me!
In no particular order:
Automatic For the People- REM
Ten and Vs.-Pearl Jam
Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink-Tori Amos
Pretty Hate Machine-Nine Inch Nails
Godsmack’s self-titled debut album
Mental Jewelry and Throwing Copper-Live
Core-Stone Temple Pilots
Dirt and Jar of Flies-Alice In Chains
Yup, I’m dating myself.
NIN. Good call.
War – U2
The Joshua Tree – U2
Disintegration – The Cure
Shabooh Shoobah – INXS
London Calling – The Clash
Greatest Hits – ABBA
Grease soundtrack
Planet Earth – Duran Duran
Pretty in Pink soundtrack
Best of Blondie
Black Holes & Revelations – Muse
Elephant – The White Stripes
Fame Monster – Lady Gaga
Love Tattoo – Imelda May
Songs to Learn & Sing – Echo & the Bunnymen
Is this the first mention of Grease? I think it is. I thought it would come sooner!
No particular order after the first two (sorry has to be two radiohead albums at 1&2 – its the law)
1. The Bends – Radiohead
2. In Rainbows – Radiohead
3. Smiths – Hatful of Hollow
4. Kings of Leon – Youth & Young Manhood
5. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
6. Paul Weller – Stanley Road
7. PJ Harvey – Uh huh her
8. Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Californication
9. The Strokes – Is this it?
10. The Who – Quadrophenia
11. The Verve – Urban Hymns
12. The Velvet Underground – Peel Slowly and See
13. Jimmy Hendrix Experience – Gold
14. Doors – LA Woman
15. U2 – Achtung Baby
The only U2 album I enjoy is Achtung Baby. Bono on a political rant? No thanks.
I’m now kicked out of the liberal elites club, but I don’t care.
1. Nevermind the Bollocks – Sex Pistols (I don’t care for it now, but this was the first album I ever bought, and it set the tone for the rest of my life!)
2. London Calling – The Clash
3. Minor Threat – the one with bald Ian on the cover
4. Skinny Puppy – Vivisect (painted the artwork on a leather jacket, which used to get me harassed, my fiance inherited this jacket back in the 90′s, and it didn’t make him any friends either….)
5. Reckoning – REM
6. Swordfish Trombones – Tom Waits
7. Discipline – King Crimson
8. Moving Pictures – Rush (I LOVE Rush….I’m a nerd…)
9. The Top – The Cure
10. American Recordings – Johnny Cash
11. Built to Last – Sick of it All
12. Savin Hill – Street Dogs (and everything else by these guys….)
13. Do or Die – Dropkick Murphys
14. Melt – Peter Gabriel
15. So Long So Wrong – Alison Kraus and Union Station
16. BONUS ALBUM!!!!! Love – The Cult (still effing awesome after all these years)
Then there’s the endless variety of mixed punk rock cassette tapes friends made me a really long time ago….
Skinny Puppy, LOL. That reminds me of so many guys in my life.
I need more the 15, evidently…
17. Party at Ground Zero – Fishbone
18. Rum, Sodomy and the Lash – the Pogues
19. Streetcore – Joe Strummer and the Meslcaleros
20. The Empire Strikes First – Bad Religion
Gotta go now….lovey-dovey stray kitties at my front door….
First fishbone entry. I approve. Got hit in the face at a fishbone concert in 1991. It was an honor.
1. Super Taranta – Gogol Bordello
2. Blue Eyed Black Boy – Balkan Beat Box
3. Sailin Shoes – Little Feat
4. Target Practice – Unknown Hinson
5. Return of the Loving Dead – Nekromantix
6. Long Tall Texans Story – Long Tall Texans
7. Smok’em if You Got’em – Reverand Horton Heat
8. Criminals – The Joneses
9. Rocket to Russia – Ramons
10. Up Up Up – The Givers
11. Blank Generation’s 1st Album – Blank Generation
12. Pandemonium – The Legendary Shack Shackers
13. Bad Music for Bad People – The Cramps
14. To Hell With the King – Black Irish Texas
15. P-Pop-Highschool – PeelanderZ
Rev Horton Heat? Now that’s an awesome entry.
ok…sooo if I can only be limited to 1 album per band – here is my list…In no particular order these are 15 albums that each have the most distinct memories for me
The Doors (self titled)
Green Day – Dookie
311- 311
TLC – CrazySexyCool
No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom
Weezer – Raditude
Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Lets Face It
Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill
Sublime – Second Hand Smoke
Creed – Arms wide open
Dirty Dancing Soundtrack
Grease Soundtrack
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Meridith Brooks – Blurring the Edges
Bush – Sixteen Stone
Why am I not surprised about 311? Also, your list dates you, too. Just like mine. It’s interesting to see how four years plays out in the musical world!
I don’t mind dating myself when it is in regard to the BEST DECADE IN MUSIC HISTORY!!! (90′s)
These are such time capsules of my life:
INXS – Kick
Yes – Big Generator
Evita movie soundtrack (w/ Madonna)
Chicago 17
Steely Dan – Aja
Beatles – Abbey Road (love them all but if I had to choose just one…)
Dance Hall Crashers – Lockjaw
Billy Joel – Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2
George Michael – Listen Without Prejudice
Harry Connick, Jr. – We Are In Love
ABBA Gold
Mamas & Papas – Greatest Hits
Ooooh. All good minus Yes. No thanks. Ken likes YES but he always tells me, “Not bad YES.”
I’m like, dude, I can’t tell the diff.
HAHA! My husband Jack and I both love Yes – both good and bad (old and new?). It was one of the common threads that brought us together. As in, “You like Yes too? There aren’t many that I know… Wanna go out on a date?”
Holy heck! How did I miss a Steely Dan album in my own list?!? And I think this is the first it’s surfaced! I think I have every one they ever made, but my real fave is Can’t Buy a Thrill. And you know what else this made me think of? Dire Straits! I think I have all of theirs, too, and most of Mark’s solos.
A little late to this party but I couldn’t resist driving you crazy with my “oldies” list! Actually, I think Ken will identify with it much more than you will so if you’re not sure who these artists are ask him – his taste is excellent!
In random order. . .
Fleetwood Mac – Rumors
Agualung – Jethro Tull
Physical Graffitti – Led Zepplin
Hotel California – The Eagles
Tapestry – Carol King
Abbey Road – The Beatles
Mud Slide Slim – James Taylor
The Stranger – Billy Joel
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
Pretenders – Pretenders (1st album by far the best!)
Little Queen – Heart
Tuesday Night Music Club – Sheryl Crow
Greatest Hits – The Band
Songs in the Key of Life – Stevie Wonder
Joining the discussion late but wow our lists are similar. Wild by Erasure? Didn’t expect to see that but I love that album!
First off, congrats on the new blog and the new venture. Catching up (finally), but looking forward to continued reading.
Here’s my way nerdy, child-of-the-late-70s-all-80s list of 15, err, 16 albums. Not all are my faves (though many are), but these are either the ones the stuck with me, or contain songs that did:
-Thriller
-Born in the USA
-G. Love & Special Sauce (self-titled album)
-Star Wars soundtrack
-The Empire Strikes Back soundtrack
-Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk by Meco (but only on 8-track; I can remember where the songs faded in and out when changing tracks while forcing my mom to play this in her Pontiac)
-Enter the Wu-Tang
-Liquid Swords
-Men at Work – Business As Usual
-Fun Lovin’ Criminal – Come Find Yourself
-Grease soundtrack
-Reservoir Dogs soundtrack
-Clerks soundtrack
-Fishbone (self-titled album)
-Nirvana – Unplugged in New York
-Beastie Boys – The In Sound From Way Out
Saw this myself on Facebook recently. Tough for me since I could probably pick a 100 that stick with me. I also like two very differnet genres, classic rock and 70s-80s-90s alternative. For you, I’ll go the alternative route, my top 15:
The Pixies – Surfer Rosa, Doolittle
U2 – Achtung Baby
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Fugazi – 13 Songs
Beastie Boys – Check Your Head
Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West
Built to Spill – Perfect From Now On
Radiohead – OK Computer, Hail to the Thief
The Clash – London Calling
REM – Lifes Rich Pageant
Weezer – Pinkerton
The Police – Ghost In The Machine
Janes Addiction – Kettle Whistle