Friday, January 30, 2009

Okay, so I've worked it out with my top 25 albums of all time. I'm not happy with the list, but how could anyone ever be happy with such a list? And keep in mind here that I have certainly not listened to all or even many of what any music historian would call the greatest albums of all time. These are going to be the 25 that I have enjoyed the most, or have meant the most to me. But first I thought I would publish a list of albums that I considered that DID NOT MAKE THE TOP 25. So I will call these:

The Rest

AFI - The Art of Drowning
Animal Chin – 20 Minutes from Right Now
The Anniversary – Your Majesty
Armchair Martian – Who Wants to Play Bass?
Audio Karate – Lady Melody
Brother Ali – Shadows on the Sun
Cadillac Blindside – These Liquid Lungs
The Coup – Pick a Bigger Weapon
Dead to Me – Cuban Ballerina
Dillinger Four – Civil War
The Eagles – Desperado
Fifth Hour Hero – Not Revenge, Just a Vicious Crush
Filmmaker – An Invitation to an Accident
The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound
Gomez – In Our Gun
Good Riddance – Operation Phoenix
Iron and Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
Laymen Terms – Drive to Nowhere: Verity’s Novel
Less than Jake – Anthem
Mad Caddies – Keep it Going
Manchester Orchestra – I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child
Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s – The Dust of Retreat
Propagandhi – Potemkin City Limits
Radiohead – OK Computer
Rancid - …And Out Come the Wolves
Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous
Rise Against – Revolutions Per Minute
RX Bandits – The Resignation
Elliott Smith – XO
Soundgarden – Down on the Upside
Stars – Set Yourself on Fire
Strung Out – Twisted by Design
Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
The Suicide Machines – A Match and Some Gasoline
Ted Leo + Pharmacists – Hearts of Oak
Thrice – The Illusion of Safety
Rocky Votolato – The Brag and Cuss
TV on the Radio – Dear Science

I'll post the actual top 25 later, when I've written a little something about each album. These above are great albums in their own right, the best album by each band listed. If you want, you should check them out.
I was talking to Cam recently, and he said he's writing in his blog again. And I said what, you shut up, just like that, with no quotation marks and lots of commas. And that, along with (my) Leslie's constant prodding to write more, has convinced me that I should write more. A hobby. Try and bat away the boredom demons by striking at a keyboard. So here we are. Honestly I don't even remember what I used to write about on here. So to all my nonexistent after all time time readers, I'm sorry if whatever shows up here in the future doesn't live up to the soaring and unrealistic expectations set by the old writings. If you're like me and you'd like to relive those glory days, the posts are preserved here indefinitely. Classics like "Adam's Driving School" and "You're Not Going to Pass Your Old Valentine's Custard Off on Me" will live forever. New classics will surely be created. I guess what I'll plan on doing from now on is just post any fiction I make up, any rants I feel like writing about, and some other crap. Which, I guess, is probably exactly like it used to be.

I was talking to Cam recently, and we decided that it would be cool to try to come up with our top 25 albums of all time and post them. I think that I'll do that very soon, possibly even today. If I can make those kinds of important decisions in such a short time. Actually the main purpose of this first post was for me to remember how the hell I log into this thing. With that mission obviously accomplished, I will bid you adieu for now.