A meme circulating around Facebook about one's Top 25 Most Influential albums needs new life here, if you'll allow the indulgence. These're in chronological order. This might help explain my musical weirdness, or it might just confuse you:
The Early Years (1981 - 1993)
1. Tickle Tune Typhoon - Circle Around ...Kinder-pop!
2. Firesign Theatre - Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers / I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus ...This was not by choice; it was my dad's pick
Side A of "Don't Crush That Dwarf".mp3
3. The Beatles - Revolver ...Mom's pick
And Your Bird Can Sing.mp3
4. Steely Dan - A Decade of Steely Dan ...From both parents
Reelin' in the Years.mp3
5. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream ...I have listened to this album far, far more than any other.
Geek U.S.A..mp3
The Teen Years (1993 - 1999)
6. U2 - Achtung Baby ...Can YOU pick out the (supposed) 11 oral sex references throughout the album?
Even Better Than the Real Thing.m4a
7. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill ...Quintessential angsty mid-90's femme-rock
8. Radiohead - OK Computer ...Revolution #1: Changed the way I listened to music
Let Down.mp3
9. Tori Amos - Boys for Pele ...So, so important
Father Lucifer.mp3
10. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Kinda I Want To.mp3
The College/Bellingham Years (1999 - 2003)
11. Jeff Buckley - Grace ...Revolution #2, and my top "desert island" album pick
So Real.mp3
12. They Might Be Giants - Flood
Istanbul (Not Constantinople).mp3
13. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs ...I still worship Stephin Merritt as the lyrical god he is
Epitaph for My Heart.mp3
14. Velvet Goldmine OST ...Ah yes, the important Bowie/glam phase
Placebo - 20th Century Boy (T. Rex cover).mp3
15. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
Words and Guitar.mp3
The Post-College Years (2003 - 2008)
16. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans / Illinois ...Revolution #3. Sufjan is my hero.
To Be Alone With You.mp3
17. Elliott Smith - XO
XO (Waltz #2).mp3
18. Andrew Bird - Weather Systems
Weather Systems.mp3
19. the Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree / Ghana ...Revolution #4 -- an epiphany! John Darnielle and Peter Hughes as friends and influences
Going To Kirby Sigston.mp3
20. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
My Body is a Cage.m4a
These Days (2008 - Present)
21. Jens Lekman -When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog
You Are The Light (By Which I Travel Into This And That).m4a
22. Cut/Copy - In Ghost Colours
So Haunted.m4a
23. Islands - Arm's Way ...My pick for best album of last year. Epic! Move over, NMH
J'aime Vous Voire Quitter.m4a
24. the Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed ...A whole new perspective
Mole.mp3
25. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals ...Ridic catchy. I think this album'll last the years.
Set It Off.mp3
