35 Years, 35 Essential Albums

 

This old man has been around for 35 years as of today. How do I celebrate? Just listening to music. Music is as vital to my well-being as oxygen, as defining of me as are my red hair and blue eyes. They say humans are at least 60% water? I think I'm 90% music, split the rest as you like. If I were to sit still and silent next to you, before long, you'd hear the buzzing of my organs amplify and organize into a song. 

 

The following albums, one from every year of my life, have each had a hand in creating the person I am today. If not for them, maybe my hair would be grey by now, my eyes black.

 


2013 - Midlake - Antiphon

2012 - Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

2011 - Other Lives - Tamer Animals

2010 - Junip - Fields

2009 - Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue

2008 - Department of Eagles - In Ear Park

2007 - AU - AU

2006 - Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

2005 - Hood - Outside Closer

2004 - Wilco - A Ghost is Born

2003 - Manitoba (Caribou) - Up in Flames

2002 - Beck - Sea Change

2001 - Sparklehorse - Its a Wonderful Life

2000 - Elliott Smith - Figure 8

1999 - Built to Spill - Keep It Like A Secret

1998 - Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

1997 - Radiohead - OK Computer

1996 - Stereolab - Emporer Tomato Ketchup

1995 - Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith

1994 - Portishead - Dummy

1993 - A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

1992 - Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted

1991 - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

1990 - The Breeders - Pod

1989 - Fugazi - 13 Songs

1988 - The Pixies - Surfer Rosa

1987 - Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction

1986 - Peter Gabriel - So

1985 - The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

1984 - Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground

1983 - U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky

1982 - Michael Jackson - Thriller

1981 - Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches

1980 - Talking Heads - Remain in Light

1979 - The Clash - London Calling


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