Friday, March 6, 2009 at 7:15pm
Alright, I'll do this one as quickly as possible, and do the whole other one I want to do at a later point when I have more time to invest in it.
Most of you who know me could have made this list for me, though.
yeah, and I'm betting there aren't 15. There's probably closer to 100. I'll try to keep it around 20.
"Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world. When you finish, tag 15 others, including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill. Get the idea now? Good. Tag, you're it!
The challenge: do this in fifteen minutes; as if nobody is judging your answers.."
yeah....uh I kept switching back and forth from Artist/Album to Album/Artist. Oops.
Also...I did like a ton. Oops.
Bamnan and Slivercork- Midlake
The Trials of Van Occupanther- Midlake
Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads (and pretty much their entire discography)
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
The Cars - Candy-O
Sumday - Grandaddy
The Futureheads- The Futureheads
This is a Pinback CD - Pinback
The Strokes - Is This It?
The Strokes - Room on Fire
Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon
Blue Screen Life - Pinback
Summer in Abadon - Pinback
The Mechanical Hand - Horse The Band
And the Glass Handed Kites - Mew
Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts - M83
Before the Dawn Heals Us - M83
Stereolab - Margarine Eclipse
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Aphex Twin - Drukgs
Bows & Arrows - The Walkmen
Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone - The Walkmen
You & Me - The Walkmen
Man Man - all albums
The Octopus Project - all albums
Funeral - The Arcade Fire
Weezer - The Blue Album
Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips (mainly the basslines)
Feel Good Lost- Broken Social Scene
You Forgot it in the People - Broken Social Scene (mainly the basslines)
TNT- Tortoise
Clinic - Walking With Thee
British Sea Power - all albums
Andrew Bird - & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
Air - Talkie walkie
Busdriver - Temporary Forever
3750 - The Acacia Strain
Fischerspooner - #1
The Creek Drank the Cradle - Iron & Wine
Our Endless Numbered Days - Iron & Wine
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Team Boo - Mates of State
Bright Like Neon Love - Cut Copy
In Ghost Colours - Cut Copy
Sky Blue Sky - Wilco
No Need to Argue - The Cranberries
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
(And for the CLASSICS/HUGELY INFLUENTIAL portion of these)
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Meddle - Pink Floyd
Kid A - Radiohead
Amnesiac - Radiohead
Hail to the Thief - Radiohead
The Grand Illusion - Styx
Equinox - Styx
Zenyatta Mandatta - The Police
Tommy - The Who
The Cars - The Cars
Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
Yes - Every album they made, but especially Close to the Edge
Remain in Light - Talking Heads
Fear of Music - Talking Heads
Devo - Whole Discography, especially Are We Not Men
Today! - The Beach Boys (mainly side B)
CCR - Greatist Hits
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young - Deja Vu
Parliament Funkadelic - everything ever
The Clash - discography
(and for the GUILTY PLEASURES/EMBARASSING portion)
Europop - Eiffel 65
Zapp & Roger - everything
Greatest Hits - Styx
Greatist Hits - Men Without Hats
All Jock Jams compilations
KOMPRESSOR!!!!
The Locust - every song
Mannheim Steamroller - every song
Enya - every single song, ever. I quote Sunil, "It takes a man...it takes a man."
I bet if I realised I had forgotten one of my favourite albums I would get uber upset. Oh, well.
Most of you who know me could have made this list for me, though.
yeah, and I'm betting there aren't 15. There's probably closer to 100. I'll try to keep it around 20.
"Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world. When you finish, tag 15 others, including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill. Get the idea now? Good. Tag, you're it!
The challenge: do this in fifteen minutes; as if nobody is judging your answers.."
yeah....uh I kept switching back and forth from Artist/Album to Album/Artist. Oops.
Also...I did like a ton. Oops.
Bamnan and Slivercork- Midlake
The Trials of Van Occupanther- Midlake
Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads (and pretty much their entire discography)
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
The Cars - Candy-O
Sumday - Grandaddy
The Futureheads- The Futureheads
This is a Pinback CD - Pinback
The Strokes - Is This It?
The Strokes - Room on Fire
Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon
Blue Screen Life - Pinback
Summer in Abadon - Pinback
The Mechanical Hand - Horse The Band
And the Glass Handed Kites - Mew
Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts - M83
Before the Dawn Heals Us - M83
Stereolab - Margarine Eclipse
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Aphex Twin - Drukgs
Bows & Arrows - The Walkmen
Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone - The Walkmen
You & Me - The Walkmen
Man Man - all albums
The Octopus Project - all albums
Funeral - The Arcade Fire
Weezer - The Blue Album
Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips (mainly the basslines)
Feel Good Lost- Broken Social Scene
You Forgot it in the People - Broken Social Scene (mainly the basslines)
TNT- Tortoise
Clinic - Walking With Thee
British Sea Power - all albums
Andrew Bird - & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
Air - Talkie walkie
Busdriver - Temporary Forever
3750 - The Acacia Strain
Fischerspooner - #1
The Creek Drank the Cradle - Iron & Wine
Our Endless Numbered Days - Iron & Wine
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Team Boo - Mates of State
Bright Like Neon Love - Cut Copy
In Ghost Colours - Cut Copy
Sky Blue Sky - Wilco
No Need to Argue - The Cranberries
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
(And for the CLASSICS/HUGELY INFLUENTIAL portion of these)
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Meddle - Pink Floyd
Kid A - Radiohead
Amnesiac - Radiohead
Hail to the Thief - Radiohead
The Grand Illusion - Styx
Equinox - Styx
Zenyatta Mandatta - The Police
Tommy - The Who
The Cars - The Cars
Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
Yes - Every album they made, but especially Close to the Edge
Remain in Light - Talking Heads
Fear of Music - Talking Heads
Devo - Whole Discography, especially Are We Not Men
Today! - The Beach Boys (mainly side B)
CCR - Greatist Hits
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young - Deja Vu
Parliament Funkadelic - everything ever
The Clash - discography
(and for the GUILTY PLEASURES/EMBARASSING portion)
Europop - Eiffel 65
Zapp & Roger - everything
Greatest Hits - Styx
Greatist Hits - Men Without Hats
All Jock Jams compilations
KOMPRESSOR!!!!
The Locust - every song
Mannheim Steamroller - every song
Enya - every single song, ever. I quote Sunil, "It takes a man...it takes a man."
I bet if I realised I had forgotten one of my favourite albums I would get uber upset. Oh, well.
Blake TalleyYeah...I didn't put quite a few. I think it's 78 albums. I do believe I could make a top 100, and really polish it. We could exchange lists.
The film list will be the hardest.
These lists are tough because so much of it is about context and genre, etc. I think i'm going to do a top 25, simply put, and then genre/categorize, and I'm also going to put Classic stuff (meaning anything more than 15 years ago) in it's own category.See MoreMarch 6, 2009 at 7:35pm ·
Kevin Collins Blake, from Devo to CCR. That's diversity. But that's what I like about you. And Men Without Hats, cool! Sadly, they're much older now and all have hats.March 8, 2009 at 8:31pm- Blake TalleyHahaha, yes they do. But Men Without Hats deserve more credit.
Lol....side note, I just heard one of the Beach Boys cough during the organ solo in the most popular cut of "Wendy". Like, I just now heard that. Check it out, it's funny.
Well yeah, my taste seems diverse but I've always tried explaining to people that if you just went through it all in a specific way you could see how each artist leads to another, so somewhere in there every artist has similar sound or influence or something that ties it all together. Somewhere, all of it is comparable. I could find something I love about The Beach Boys in a Busdriver (experimental hip hop) song. I actually think I'm more narrow in my taste than people think. You'll never catch me listening to John Mayer or Counting Crows or any country music, ever.
dyou wanna see it
i cant read yours right now but i will in a bit and i will very much make comment like activity occur