Top Ten Albums of My Time
October 18th, 2005WXPN recently took a break from their normal broadcasting to present the 885 greatest albums of all time, which ended yesterday with the Beatles’ legendary Abbey Road taking top honors. Rather than finding fault with a list put together by listeners (which I can’t do anyway), I think I’ll just document my own. To that end, here is a list of the top ten albums from my own 32 years worth of time. These are albums that became important to me at one time or another and still hold much of their original power.
And unlike some of the nanzy-panzy artists on XPN’s list, I will put them in hierarchal order (Hack!! Cough! Adam Duritz.).
- 10. Grease - Movie Soundtrack (Hey, gotta start somewhere)
- 9. Rumours - Fleewood Mac (Thanks mom!)
- 8. So - Peter Gabriel
- 7. What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye
- 6. Sparkle and Fade - Everclear
- 5. Funhouse - The Stooges
- 4. Electric Warrior - T. Rex
- 3. Nevermind - Nirvana
- 2. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
- 1. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Today, Ziggy is not necessarily even my favorite Bowie album, which is alternately either Low or Lodger, but in terms of sheer impact, I have to give it credit for being the bomb that exploded open my soul as a teenager. Honorable mention should also go to the Pixies’ Trompe Le Monde, Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces, and whoever else I’m going to come across on my iPod and regret not adding.