The Final 52.
Seven days and hundreds of suggestions later and I got a list which is even better than I hoped for. The joy in sharing bands, I find, is not only improving somebody’s life, but attaching yourself to that brand for that person, so pat yourselves on the back because you’re now intrinsically part of my taste. Surprisingly, there was very little overlap in suggestions. Three albums were mentioned twice: Iggy Pop’s The Idiot, Silver Jews’ American Water, and New York Dolls’ New York Dolls, and two were mentioned three times: Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks and Lou Reed’s Transformer. With no further ruminating, here’s the list:
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral, My Trial
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Marnie Stern - In Advance of a Broken Arm
The Sugarcubes - Life’s Too Good
The Breeders - The Last Splash
Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time
Belle & Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister
Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Of Montreal - The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy
The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
Bright Eyes - Lifted Or the Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
Panic! At The Disco - Pretty. Odd.
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Maybe I’ll write 80-100 woefully uninformed words on each album as I hear them just to attempt to articulate my thoughts, which is what this whole exercise is about, but at the very least I’ll be updating the list and crossing things off as I go. This is not in chronological order either; at the start of each week I’ll just pick an album from it, because what if I end up loving The National but it takes me until next Christmas to find them? That hardly seems fair to The National. Anyway, thanks again for all your suggestions, nerds. Merry Christmas y’all.
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