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25 Albums that Changed My Life

Oh no! A meme on my blog? It’s all downhill from here. But really, did you expect me to pass up a music-themed post, especially when I’m not feeling my best and have a hard time finding inspiration?

Think of 25 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world.

I couldn’t even begin to put these in order of preference. They’ve all been number one in my heart at some point or another. So, in true Rob Gordon fashion, I put them in autobiographical order, all the way from high school up to now.

I won’t even begin to try and explain each album or even the general progression of my music habits. If you are curious, that’s kind of what comments are for.

  1. Jimi Hendrix – Woodstock
  2. Project 86 – Drawing Black Lines
  3. Incubus – Make Yourself
  4. Radiohead – OK Computer
  5. Tool – Aenema
  6. A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
  7. Sigur Rós – Ágætis byrjun
  8. Extol – Undeceived
  9. Sufjan Stevens – Michigan
  10. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine
  11. The Mars Volta – De-loused in the Comatorium
  12. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
  13. Radiohead – Amnesiac
  14. He Is Legend – I Am Hollywood
  15. Killswitch Engage – The End of Heartache
  16. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Irony is a Dead Scene
  17. Explosions in the Sky – The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place
  18. mewithoutYou – Catch for Us the Foxes
  19. The Appleseed Cast – Low Level Owl: Volume 1
  20. mewithoutYou – Brother, Sister
  21. This Will Destroy You – Young Mountain
  22. Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
  23. Sigur Rós – Takk
  24. Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
  25. This Will Destroy You – This Will Destroy You

Monthly Playlist: May 2008

June is here. It’s the busy time of year. Graduations, going-away parties, weddings, vacations. No time for posting on blogs that nobody reads anyway.

May went by in a blur, leaving me just enough time to reminisce about music I used to love (Killswitch Engage, The Used, Eels, Death Cab For Cutie) and wish for half a minute that I had good music taste during the 90s (Pavement, Oasis, The Magnetic Fields). Then I went with Matt down to Irvine last weekend to experience the face melting metal of Iron Maiden and Anthrax live. It’s impressive that old guys are still capable of tearing it up like that.

  1. Jimmy Eat World – “Here It Goes” (Chase This Light)
  2. Hammock – “City in the Dust on My Window” (Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow)
  3. 16 Horsepower – “Splinters” (Live: March 2001)
  4. Eels – “Railroad Man” (Blinking Lights and Other Revelations)
  5. Eels – “The Other Shoe” (Blinking Lights and Other Revelations)
  6. Killswitch Engage – “Take This Oath” (The End of Heartache)
  7. The Used – “Let It Bleed” (In Love and Death)
  8. Death Cab For Cutie – “Transatlanticism” (Transatlanticism)
  9. Duffy – “Mercy” (Rockferry)
  10. Moving Mountains – “Grow On, Grow Up, Grow Out” (Pneuma)
  11. The Appleseed Cast – “The Clock and the Storm” (Peregrine)
  12. Pavement – “Unfair” (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
  13. Oasis – “Champagne Supernova” (What’s The Story, Morning Glory?)
  14. The Magnetic Fields – “Busby Berkeley Dreams” (69 Love Songs)
  15. Bon Iver – “Skinny Love” (For Emma, Forever Ago)
  16. Iron Maiden – “Run to the Hills” (Number of the Beast)
  17. Anthrax – “Madhouse” (Spreading the Disease)

I’ve become a bootleg fiend as of late. I got a whole bunch of Coachella recordings, other random shows I was at and a few I wish I was at. Maybe I should start posting a few samples for your enjoyment. I’m at the brink of filling up my laptop’s hard drive. It’s about time for a new computer anyway.

You probably won’t hear much more from me this month (as if that were unusual). I’m road-tripping to Colorado to see the fam for a week, and then I’ll be start cleaning and packing to prepare to move into a new place that I just confirmed late last night. Exciting times. Peace.

33 Most-Played Artists of 2006

Part two of four of my evil list-making scheme.

  1. Sufjan Stevens
  2. Explosions in the Sky
  3. mewithoutYou
  4. Radiohead
  5. The Appleseed Cast
  6. Nickel Creek
  7. The Dillinger Escape Plan
  8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  9. The Mars Volta
  10. A Perfect Circle
  11. Andrew Bird
  12. MxPx
  13. AFI
  14. Alison Krauss
  15. Project 86
  16. Tom Waits
  17. Sigur Rós
  18. The Faint
  19. Chris Thile
  20. This Will Destroy You
  21. Mew
  22. Iron & Wine
  23. Coldplay
  24. Cloud Cult
  25. John Mayer
  26. Opeth
  27. Joshua Radin
  28. Killswitch Engage
  29. Incubus
  30. Ryan Adams
  31. Norma Jean
  32. Robert Johnson
  33. The Black Keys

Once again, thanks to Last.fm for making this list possible.

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