Top 5 albums
RG posted this recently and since then I’ve had a think about it and then hurridly put down a few albums in his comments. While I wait for my phone to update I thought I might expand on my particular choices. For me, though my top five albums are those that have had the most impact on me. The albums that invoke the strongest emotions, the ones I was listening to at key points in my life. You say top five to me and that’s what springs to mind, it’s not about their artistic merit is what I mean. That doesn’t really mean much to me.
Anyway,
1) Placebo – Placebo (Spotify – it’s a rereleased version, so differs slightly to the orginal) – The first album that really affected me, I can still remember the first time I heard Teenage Angst on the radio. I still associate a large part of my teenage years to the opening guitars of Come Home.
2) Brand New – Deja Entendu (Spotify) – It’s one of those, this just-seems-to-be-the-background-to-how-I-feel-right-now albums.
3) Kate Havnevik – Melankton (Spotify) I have no idea how I started listening to this. It’s just found a place where I’m just happy to listen to it regularly. It’s almost but not quite background music, is soft but not. I don’t know. All I know is I’ll listen to it all the way through and that when the strings rise at 3:08 in Sleepless is up there with one of my favourite single parts of a song ever.
4) A Perfect Circle – Mer De Noms. (Spotify) Passed over to me over 10 years ago and containing 3 Libras which is perhaps my favourite song of all time. It’s that song and the sound that runs across the whole album.
5) DJ Tiesto – Magik 5 Still, still have trance as the music that I will forever bob my head to. This is just awesome from start to finish.
(Also Blood Red Shoes – Box of Secrets, Longview – Mercury (for shame I know), Billy Talent – Billy Talent)