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August 22, 2007
LATEST BLOG PROJECT: THE ANDYTOWN TOP 10
Hey gang,
The AV Club has a series that I'm all Cocoa Puffs over called My Year of Flops. It's an interesting project, as AV Club writer Nathan Rabin goes through movies that bombed and gives them a compassionate but critical eye. This has inspired me to start my own list, much less ambitious - My Top 10 Favorite Albums of All Time. I will be going through and talking about what I like about each of them, where I was when I started listening to them, how I (often) rejected the band on immediate listen, but eventually grew enamored/obsessed with this particular output.
This is a completely subjective list, and all I did was go through my Ipod and pick my favorite albums, then narrow them down. That said, my definitive list may eventually be quantitatively undefinitive, as I may change my mind. But I'll stick with my ten choices.
It was really hard for instance, to leave off Nick Cave and Neutral Milk Hotel, especially since everyone who has talked to me has heard me clammering about the latter all Summer, so much so that their remarkable album has become a central theme in my new album. And part of me really wanted to include Television's MARQUEE MOON and Neil Young's ON THE BEACH, but that would be unauthentic proof that I'm some kind of eclectic hipster, which I'm not. It was equally hard to leave off Weezer, Phish, and Pearl Jam, who played such a big part of my high school experience, but I can honestly say I never listen to their albums anymore unless I want to grab a piece of that again, so that's that. I have included two clear nostalgia picks, which I feel pretty good about.
But I like the list; it mixes nostalgia and certain unarguable (and, granted, uninformed) instincts I have about music, and the way I have come to open myself up to a wide variety of disparate bands.
I'll leave you with my honorable mention, in no particular order:
Neutral Milk Hotel – IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA
Arcade Fire – FUNERAL
Beach Boys – SURFS UP
Beach Boys - PET SOUNDS
The Beatles – SGT. PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
The Beatles - MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
Clem Snide – YOU WERE A DIAMOND
The Decemberists – PICARESQUE
Elliott Smith – FIGURE 8
Television – MARQUEE MOON
A.C. Newman - THE SLOW WONDER
Flaming Lips – YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS
Guns n’ Roses – APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
John Cale – PARIS 1919
Love - FOREVER CHANGES
The Kinks – ARTHUR (OR THE DECLINE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE)
The Kinks - FACE TO FACE
Weezer – WEEZER
Neil Young – ON THE BEACH
Nick Cave – INTO MY ARMS
Nirvana – NEVERMIND
Pearl Jam – VS.
Pedro The Lion – CONTROL
Phish – RIFT
R.E.M. – EPONYMOUS
Radiohead – THE BENDS
Sigur Ros – AGAETIS BYRUM
Steely Dan – PRETZEL LOGIC
The Stooges – THE STOOGES
The Strokes – IS THIS IT?
Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah - SOME LOUD THUNDER
Talking Heads - TALKING HEADS '77
Talking Heads – REMAIN IN LIGHT
Talking Heads – SPEAKING IN TONGUES
U2 – ACHTUNG BABY
The Velvet Underground – The VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO
The Velvet Underground – LOADED
Wilco – BEING THERE
Wilco – YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT
Stay tuned for my first entry, at number 10, The Doors L.A. WOMAN.
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