1. Pearl Jam - No Code 2. Beatles - Revolver 3. Led Zeppelin- II 4. Radiohead - The Bends 5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side 6. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 7. Metallica - Master of Puppets 8. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan 9. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream 10. The Doors - ST
Very tough for me to leave off Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley The Band - Music From Big Pink Jimi Hendrix - (any of them!)
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1. Pearl Jam - No Code 2. Beatles - Revolver 3. Led Zeppelin- II 4. Radiohead - The Bends 5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side 6. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 7. Metallica - Master of Puppets 8. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan 9. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream 10. The Doors - ST
Very tough for me to leave off Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley The Band - Music From Big Pink Jimi Hendrix - (any of them!)
Good, balanced list, Abe. And yes, any such list will have omissions that are tough to leave out. It's almost absurdly difficult to formulate such a list, lol!
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!" -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
The Tragically Hip - Day for Night Rush - 2112 Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971 Beatles - Revolver Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed Pearl Jam - No Code Husker Du - Zen Arcade Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Pink Floyd - The Wall Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Leaving Suicidal Tendencies, Mark Lanegan, Faith No More or King’s X off this list was difficult.
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The Tragically Hip - Day for Night Rush - 2112 Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971 Beatles - Revolver Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed Pearl Jam - No Code Husker Du - Zen Arcade Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Pink Floyd - The Wall Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Leaving Suicidal Tendencies, Mark Lanegan, Faith No More or King’s X off this list was difficult.
A lot of top-tier stuff there, for sure!
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!" -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Not truly objective top 10 material, but Blues Traveler Four and Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road are both incredible albums that would make my personal top ten.
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Not truly objective top 10 material, but Blues Traveler Four and Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road are both incredible albums that would make my personal top ten.
T&T or maybe Soul are preferred, but the first four records are really fucking good. Blues Traveler are mind blowingly good, live. Popper's voice is just ridiculous. Have seen them two times pretty recently and I think they are significantly better now then they were when I saw them early in their career.
1. Pearl Jam - No Code 2. Beatles - Revolver 3. Led Zeppelin- II 4. Radiohead - The Bends 5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side 6. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 7. Metallica - Master of Puppets 8. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan 9. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream 10. The Doors - ST
Very tough for me to leave off Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley The Band - Music From Big Pink Jimi Hendrix - (any of them!)
Good, balanced list, Abe. And yes, any such list will have omissions that are tough to leave out. It's almost absurdly difficult to formulate such a list, lol!
Thanks brian! I’ve thought about this list way too much lol
The Tragically Hip - Day for Night Rush - 2112 Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971 Beatles - Revolver Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed Pearl Jam - No Code Husker Du - Zen Arcade Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Pink Floyd - The Wall Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Leaving Suicidal Tendencies, Mark Lanegan, Faith No More or King’s X off this list was difficult.
Interesting list! I like the Neil young selection and I definitely thought about Ritual de Lo being on mine.
Also, I love all the ones mentioned on your hard to leave off list! Which Faith No More would you pick?
The Tragically Hip - Day for Night Rush - 2112 Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971 Beatles - Revolver Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed Pearl Jam - No Code Husker Du - Zen Arcade Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Pink Floyd - The Wall Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Leaving Suicidal Tendencies, Mark Lanegan, Faith No More or King’s X off this list was difficult.
Interesting list! I like the Neil young selection and I definitely thought about Ritual de Lo being on mine.
Also, I love all the ones mentioned on your hard to leave off list! Which Faith No More would you pick?
Thanks! Your list is solid Abe.
My favourite FNM album is Angel Dust (by a sliver) but for this list it would probably have to be The Real Thing. The first time I heard that album I was hooked and it still holds up today.
The Tragically Hip - Day for Night Rush - 2112 Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971 Beatles - Revolver Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed Pearl Jam - No Code Husker Du - Zen Arcade Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Pink Floyd - The Wall Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Leaving Suicidal Tendencies, Mark Lanegan, Faith No More or King’s X off this list was difficult.
A lot of top-tier stuff there, for sure!
Thanks Brian! Your list is great as well. The Robert Johnson one especially. Love that album
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The Tragically Hip - Day for Night Rush - 2112 Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971 Beatles - Revolver Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed Pearl Jam - No Code Husker Du - Zen Arcade Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Pink Floyd - The Wall Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Leaving Suicidal Tendencies, Mark Lanegan, Faith No More or King’s X off this list was difficult.
A lot of top-tier stuff there, for sure!
Thanks Brian! Your list is great as well. The Robert Johnson one especially. Love that album
Sure thing, 1T! This has been fun. I'm enjoying seeing all this lists... and learning that there are some glaring gaps in my record collection!
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!" -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
The Tragically Hip - Day for Night Rush - 2112 Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971 Beatles - Revolver Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed Pearl Jam - No Code Husker Du - Zen Arcade Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Pink Floyd - The Wall Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Leaving Suicidal Tendencies, Mark Lanegan, Faith No More or King’s X off this list was difficult.
A lot of top-tier stuff there, for sure!
Thanks Brian! Your list is great as well. The Robert Johnson one especially. Love that album
Sure thing, 1T! This has been fun. I'm enjoying seeing all this lists... and learning that there are some glaring gaps in my record collection!
I checked and I’m only missing 3 off your list. I’m going to Spotify them when travelling for work and give them a listen and see if I need to add them to my Discogs want list 👍. Since your list was first I’ll start there lol
While the Hip were relatively unknown to our friends across the border they still had pockets where they were well known. Upstate New York, New England and Washington State particularly. If you have never listened to them I strongly encourage you to give Day For Night a listen. It’s a great introduction to the band. While I LOVE all their albums, it is the defining album for the band IMO. Some may not agree, but it is similar to No Code in that it is an album that saw an already very successful rock band go in a new direction, one that was artistically different and somewhat risky but showed what talented songwriters and musicians they are. Cheers B!
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The Tragically Hip - Day for Night Rush - 2112 Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971 Beatles - Revolver Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed Pearl Jam - No Code Husker Du - Zen Arcade Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Pink Floyd - The Wall Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Leaving Suicidal Tendencies, Mark Lanegan, Faith No More or King’s X off this list was difficult.
A lot of top-tier stuff there, for sure!
Thanks Brian! Your list is great as well. The Robert Johnson one especially. Love that album
Sure thing, 1T! This has been fun. I'm enjoying seeing all this lists... and learning that there are some glaring gaps in my record collection!
I checked and I’m only missing 3 off your list. I’m going to Spotify them when travelling for work and give them a listen and see if I need to add them to my Discogs want list 👍. Since your list was first I’ll start there lol
While the Hip were relatively unknown to our friends across the border they still had pockets where they were well known. Upstate New York, New England and Washington State particularly. If you have never listened to them I strongly encourage you to give Day For Night a listen. It’s a great introduction to the band. While I LOVE all their albums, it is the defining album for the band IMO. Some may not agree, but it is similar to No Code in that it is an album that saw an already very successful rock band go in a new direction, one that was artistically different and somewhat risky but showed what talented songwriters and musicians they are. Cheers B!
I must check out Day for Night, 1T! Your mentioning it reminded me that I had read something in the AllMusic review about it but couldn't remember so I looked it up. AM 's review in words seems fair enough (https://www.allmusic.com/album/day-for-night-mw0000627518 ) but they only gave it three stars. The fan's reviews disagree with that rating, one saying:
"Come on, AllMusic, this album deserves way more than three stars! The
problem with reviewing the Tragically Hip is that their albums demand
repeated listenings before their depth is fully revealed--which is not
to say that all of the Hip's albums are great, but most of them get
better with age. This album is the Hip's greatest achievement."
and another that says:
"....and out of the muck, comes an album so dark and absorbing, you'll have to hold on to not get sucked in to its void. ...the fact is, in the U.S.A., this band is little known and never
critically praised. If you are reading this, I implore you to enrich
your life with this band."
I must do that!
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!" -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Not truly objective top 10 material, but Blues Traveler Four and Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road are both incredible albums that would make my personal top ten.
Recently picked up Four on CD and was blown away! I saw them live once back in the 90s when I was in college, had a few CD singles but never listened to all of that particular record.
To heck with the need to be snootchy bootchy about what the music did, meant, blah.
Looking at many lists, there is no fucking way everyone else is using the highbrow radar on their picks.
That stated, this is what I type up this evening -- in a metal mood, would be very different tomorrow:
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
AC'DC - Back in Black
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
Sunday afternoon is feeling "alternative/90s" after the last list was metal/80s.
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin Faith No More - Angel Dust
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Pearl Jam - Ten
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Rage Against the Machine - RATM
Sublime - 40 oz to Freedom
Been on a serious RHCP kick lately as I have been reading AK’s book Scar Tissue. Rough read but pushed me to check out their first 3 records. Never listened to Freaky Styley until recently. Also, I may be in the minority here, but One Hot Minute slays me. Not like Blood Sugar did when I was 13, but man, what a cool transformation style wise. Then to follow it up with Californication?
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A top 10 in no particular order...
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (but I could have a picked at least a dozen others) Pearl Jam - Ten Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost SeBADoh - Bakesale DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... You Am I - Hourly, Daily R.E.M. - New Adventures in HiFi Afghan Whigs - Black Love Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle dEUS - The Ideal Crash
...and 10 that didn't quite make the cut
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea Chemical Bothers - Exit Planet Dust Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Counting Crows - August and Everything After Faith No More - Angel Dust Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
speaking as a child of the 90's....
“Do not postpone happiness”
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
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To heck with the need to be snootchy bootchy about what the music did, meant, blah.
Looking at many lists, there is no fucking way everyone else is using the highbrow radar on their picks.
That stated, this is what I type up this evening -- in a metal mood, would be very different tomorrow:
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
AC'DC - Back in Black
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
Sunday afternoon is feeling "alternative/90s" after the last list was metal/80s.
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin Faith No More - Angel Dust
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Pearl Jam - Ten
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Rage Against the Machine - RATM
Sublime - 40 oz to Freedom
Been on a serious RHCP kick lately as I have been reading AK’s book Scar Tissue. Rough read but pushed me to check out their first 3 records. Never listened to Freaky Styley until recently. Also, I may be in the minority here, but One Hot Minute slays me. Not like Blood Sugar did when I was 13, but man, what a cool transformation style wise. Then to follow it up with Californication?
The uplift mofo party plan & mother's milk were the first two I listened to but then BSSM took them even higher
The Tragically Hip - Day for Night Rush - 2112 Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971 Beatles - Revolver Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed Pearl Jam - No Code Husker Du - Zen Arcade Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Pink Floyd - The Wall Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Leaving Suicidal Tendencies, Mark Lanegan, Faith No More or King’s X off this list was difficult.
A lot of top-tier stuff there, for sure!
Thanks Brian! Your list is great as well. The Robert Johnson one especially. Love that album
Sure thing, 1T! This has been fun. I'm enjoying seeing all this lists... and learning that there are some glaring gaps in my record collection!
I checked and I’m only missing 3 off your list. I’m going to Spotify them when travelling for work and give them a listen and see if I need to add them to my Discogs want list 👍. Since your list was first I’ll start there lol
While the Hip were relatively unknown to our friends across the border they still had pockets where they were well known. Upstate New York, New England and Washington State particularly. If you have never listened to them I strongly encourage you to give Day For Night a listen. It’s a great introduction to the band. While I LOVE all their albums, it is the defining album for the band IMO. Some may not agree, but it is similar to No Code in that it is an album that saw an already very successful rock band go in a new direction, one that was artistically different and somewhat risky but showed what talented songwriters and musicians they are. Cheers B!
I must check out Day for Night, 1T! Your mentioning it reminded me that I had read something in the AllMusic review about it but couldn't remember so I looked it up. AM 's review in words seems fair enough (https://www.allmusic.com/album/day-for-night-mw0000627518 ) but they only gave it three stars. The fan's reviews disagree with that rating, one saying:
"Come on, AllMusic, this album deserves way more than three stars! The
problem with reviewing the Tragically Hip is that their albums demand
repeated listenings before their depth is fully revealed--which is not
to say that all of the Hip's albums are great, but most of them get
better with age. This album is the Hip's greatest achievement."
and another that says:
"....and out of the muck, comes an album so dark and absorbing, you'll have to hold on to not get sucked in to its void. ...the fact is, in the U.S.A., this band is little known and never
critically praised. If you are reading this, I implore you to enrich
your life with this band."
I must do that!
I look forward to reading your (and Lou’s) thoughts on the album after you have a listen. 😎
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (but I could have a picked at least a dozen others) Pearl Jam - Ten Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost SeBADoh - Bakesale DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... You Am I - Hourly, Daily R.E.M. - New Adventures in HiFi Afghan Whigs - Black Love Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle dEUS - The Ideal Crash
...and 10 that didn't quite make the cut
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea Chemical Bothers - Exit Planet Dust Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Counting Crows - August and Everything After Faith No More - Angel Dust Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
speaking as a child of the 90's....
^^^ Four albums I strongly considered for my list.
Quite the list here, there are several albums I’ve never heard and some artists I either don’t recall or have never heard. More stuff to check out!
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Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (but I could have a picked at least a dozen others) Pearl Jam - Ten Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost SeBADoh - Bakesale DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... You Am I - Hourly, Daily R.E.M. - New Adventures in HiFi Afghan Whigs - Black Love Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle dEUS - The Ideal Crash
...and 10 that didn't quite make the cut
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea Chemical Bothers - Exit Planet Dust Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Counting Crows - August and Everything After Faith No More - Angel Dust Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
speaking as a child of the 90's....
Nice and nice!
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!" -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Not truly objective top 10 material, but Blues Traveler Four and Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road are both incredible albums that would make my personal top ten.
Recently picked up Four on CD and was blown away! I saw them live once back in the 90s when I was in college, had a few CD singles but never listened to all of that particular record.
The album tracks don't have the super memorable hooks of Run Around and Hook, but they are really good. Every time I bust it out I remember how much I forgot how heavily rhythm and riff based their songs are. It's easy to miss the bass and guitar with Poppers vocals and harmonica work, but songs like Crash Burn are almost Zeppelin like in the rhythm and riff aspect. The lyrics for Just Wait and Long Way to Fall are pretty awesome too.
"The answers
Are getting harder and harder
And there ain't no way to bargain or to barter
But if you've got the angst or you've got the ardor
You might faint from the fight but you're gonna find it
For every challenge could have paradise behind it
And if you accept what you have lost and you stand tall
You might just get it back and you can get it all
So now you know why it's a long way to fall"
💙🎵Blues Traveler
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Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (but I could have a picked at least a dozen others) Pearl Jam - Ten Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost SeBADoh - Bakesale DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... You Am I - Hourly, Daily R.E.M. - New Adventures in HiFi Afghan Whigs - Black Love Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle dEUS - The Ideal Crash
...and 10 that didn't quite make the cut
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea Chemical Bothers - Exit Planet Dust Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Counting Crows - August and Everything After Faith No More - Angel Dust Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
speaking as a child of the 90's....
^^^ Four albums I strongly considered for my list.
Quite the list here, there are several albums I’ve never heard and some artists I either don’t recall or have never heard. More stuff to check out!
It was really hard to leave Daydream Nation out of my top 10 for sure. And there's no way I could put together a list without some Lanegan or Lou Barlow on it.
I just spotted Zen Arcade on your list, that's a great record I need to play again soon.
“Do not postpone happiness”
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
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Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (but I could have a picked at least a dozen others) Pearl Jam - Ten Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost SeBADoh - Bakesale DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... You Am I - Hourly, Daily R.E.M. - New Adventures in HiFi Afghan Whigs - Black Love Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle dEUS - The Ideal Crash
...and 10 that didn't quite make the cut
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea Chemical Bothers - Exit Planet Dust Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Counting Crows - August and Everything After Faith No More - Angel Dust Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
speaking as a child of the 90's....
^^^ Four albums I strongly considered for my list.
Quite the list here, there are several albums I’ve never heard and some artists I either don’t recall or have never heard. More stuff to check out!
It was really hard to leave Daydream Nation out of my top 10 for sure. And there's no way I could put together a list without some Lanegan or Lou Barlow on it.
I just spotted Zen Arcade on your list, that's a great record I need to play again soon.
Yes and yes!
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!" -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
@dankind By The Way! Such a gorgeous record. Head over heals in love with that one. I remember when the local Warner rep came to our store to bring some posters and promos completely bagging the album as ‘garbage.’ I remember blaring that record and The Strokes first one after close many, many nights.
@dankind By The Way! Such a gorgeous record. Head over heals in love with that one. I remember when the local Warner rep came to our store to bring some posters and promos completely bagging the album as ‘garbage.’ I remember blaring that record and The Strokes first one after close many, many nights.
Heh. I think we both had the same job around the same time.
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Frusciante kills it Gonna have to listen to that today.
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2. Beatles - Revolver
3. Led Zeppelin- II
4. Radiohead - The Bends
5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side
6. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
7. Metallica - Master of Puppets
8. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
10. The Doors - ST
Very tough for me to leave off
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Jimi Hendrix - (any of them!)
Good, balanced list, Abe. And yes, any such list will have omissions that are tough to leave out. It's almost absurdly difficult to formulate such a list, lol!
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Rush - 2112
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971
Beatles - Revolver
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Pearl Jam - No Code
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Leaving Suicidal Tendencies, Mark Lanegan, Faith No More or King’s X off this list was difficult.
A lot of top-tier stuff there, for sure!
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Blues Traveler are mind blowingly good, live.
Popper's voice is just ridiculous. Have seen them two times pretty recently and I think they are significantly better now then they were when I saw them early in their career.
Sure thing, 1T! This has been fun. I'm enjoying seeing all this lists... and learning that there are some glaring gaps in my record collection!
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
The problem with reviewing the Tragically Hip is that their albums demand repeated listenings before their depth is fully revealed--which is not to say that all of the Hip's albums are great, but most of them get better with age.
This album is the Hip's greatest achievement."
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Faith No More - Angel Dust
when I was in college, had a few CD singles but never listened to all of that particular record.
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (but I could have a picked at least a dozen others)
Pearl Jam - Ten
Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
SeBADoh - Bakesale
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
You Am I - Hourly, Daily
R.E.M. - New Adventures in HiFi
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle
dEUS - The Ideal Crash
...and 10 that didn't quite make the cut
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Chemical Bothers - Exit Planet Dust
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
speaking as a child of the 90's....
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
The lyrics for Just Wait and Long Way to Fall are pretty awesome too.
"The answers
I just spotted Zen Arcade on your list, that's a great record I need to play again soon.
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
Yes and yes!
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
By The Way! Such a gorgeous record. Head over heals in love with that one. I remember when the local Warner rep came to our store to bring some posters and promos completely bagging the album as ‘garbage.’ I remember blaring that record and The Strokes first one after close many, many nights.
Gonna have to listen to that today.