THE PERFECT ALBUM through the years (my life in music) January 12, 2012 at 10:18 pm
I’ve been thinking of this little experiment for a while. Go back in your history and recall all the MAJOR ALBUMS of your life. No googling, memory only. And share the list in chronological order from the earliest major love affair to your current FAVORITE. (do this from memory as best you can, this is not a reference but a survey of your memories)
First Known Crushes
- James Gang – The James Gang Rides Again
- Peter Frampton Comes Alive
- Boston – self titled
- The Beatles – HELP
High School Begins
- The Talking Heads – ’77
- The Cars – self-titled
- The Ramones – self-titled
- Foreigner – self-titled
- ACDC – Back in Black
- Led Zepplin – Houses of the Holy
- Kiss – Destroyer
- The Who – Tommy (rock opera)
- Robin Trower – Day of the Eagle
- Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bullocks
- Steely Dan – Countdown to Ecstasy
- The B-52′s – self-titled
- U2 – Boy
- Jean Michelle Jarre – Oxygene
- The Romantics – self-titled
- Icehouse – self-titled
- The Knack – Get the Knack
- Van Wilks – Bombay Tears
- Def Leppard – High and Dry
- Rush – 2112
- Judas Priest – Hell Bent for Leather
- Utopia – Ra
- The Beatles – The White Album
- The Who – Quadraphenia
- The Kinks – Sleepwalker
- Styx – The Grand Illusion
College Begins
- Mr. Mister – Welcome to the Real World
- Level 42 – World Machine
- Saga – Heads Or Tails
- Pat Methany – Off Ramp
- Robert Plant – The Principle of Moments
- The Church – The Blurred Crusade
- The The – The Soul Mining
- Larsen/Feiten Band – self-titled
- Del Amitri – Twisted
- REM – Murmur
- INXS – Kick
- XTC – English Settlement
- Yes – Big Generator
- Rush – Signals
- Bruce Cockburn – Stealing Fire
- The La’s – self-titled
- Michael Hedges – Aerial Boundaries
- The Tubes – The Completion Backwards Principal
- The Goo Goo Dolls – A Boy Named Goo
- Eric Johnson – Ah Via Musicom
- Kazumi Watanabe – Mobo I and II
Post English Degree from UT
- The Grays – self-titled
- Doyle Bramhall II – self-titled
- Vertical Horizon – Everything You Want
- The Cure – Kiss Kiss Kiss
- David Gilmore – About Face
- Imperial Drag – self-titled
- Wilco – Summerteeth
- King Krimson – Three of a Perfect Pair
- Brother Cane – Seeds
- Southern Culture on the Skids – Dirt Track Date
- World Party – Private Revolution
- The Weakerthans – Fallow
- Pink Floyd – A Momentary Lapse of Reason
- William Orbit – Strange Cargo (new age)
- Dog’s Eye View – Happy Nowhere
- Radiohead – The Bends
- Alanis Morrisette – Jagged Little Pill
- Semisonic – Feeling Strangely Fine
- Third Eye Blind – self-titled
- The Blue Nile – Hats
- The Cult – Electric
Next Wave
- Black Grape – It’s Great When You’re Straight
- Toy Matinee – self-titled
- Self – Subliminal Plastic Motives
- Silver Jet – Pull Me Up, Drag Me Down
- The Lemonheads – Car Button Cloth
- Sheryl Crow – C’mon C’mon
- Tears for Fears – Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
- Cotton Mather – Cotton is King
- Kowanko – self-titled
- Joe Satriani – Flying in a Blue Dream
- P Hux – Deluxe
- Tahiti 80 – Fosbury
- Deep Forest – self-titled (new age)
- Suzanne Vega – 99.9 F
- The New Radicals – Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too
- Kevin Gilbert – Thud
- Extreme – III Sides to Every Story
- The Sugarplastic – Bang, The Earth is Round
- Soundgarden – Superunknown
- Josh Rouse – 1972
- Collective Soul – self-titled
- Stereophonics – Performance and Cocktails
- Fountains of Wayne – self-titled
- Goldfrappe – Felt Mountain
- Jason Falkner – Author Unknown
- The Doves – Lost Souls
- Jet – Get Born
- The Wannadies – Bagsy Me
- Grandaddy – Sumday
- Monte Montgomery – 1st and Repair
- Simple Minds – Good News from the Next World
- Pete Yorn – Music for the Morning After
- Rhett Miller – The Instigator
- Echo and the Bunnymen – Evergreen
- Gay Dad – Leisure Noise
- Coldplay – X and Y
- Kevin Gilbert – Shaming of the True (rock opera)
- Poe – Haunted
- The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
- Eels – Daisies of the Galaxy
- Garbage – Beautiful Garbage
Current Wave
- Nada Surf – The Weight is a Gift
- Metric – Fantasies
- The Shins – Shoots Too Narrow
- Pedro the Lion – Achilles Heel
- Liz Phair – self-titled
- Muse – The Resistance
- Ken Andrews – Secrets of the Lost Satellite
- Bernard Fanning – Tea and Sympathy
- Jets to Brazil – Orange Rhyming Dictionary
- Citizen Cope – self-titled
- Gin Blossoms – New Miserable Experience
- Dada – Puzzle
- Grant Lee Buffalo – Jubilee
- Radiohead – OK Computer
- Mark Kozelek – What’s Next to the Moon (Amazing ACDC acoustic remakes)
- Black Crows – By Your Side
- Radiohead – In Rainbows
- Dawes – Nothing Is Wrong
- Ludovico Einaudi – Divenire (classical)
- Mutemath – self-titled (a 2012 discovery for me – blown away by all mutemath cds)
