Ok. I was watching the movie “High Fidelity” tonight. With John Cusack. Throughout the movie it’s “your Top this” and “Your top 10 songs about…” etc. My friend Darren recently had a survey on his Facebook page but I never could figure out how to reply to it. (Gonna try later.)

Anybody out there? All you people that register daily? What are your top 15 albums of all time? Comment and think about this. Think about the albums that changed your life. Think about the albums you’ll drag out and listen to over and over and never get sick of. Think about albums where you know every single song, where you can sing each song as if an anthem. Those are favorite albums.

Here are mine (pretty much in order, though I could still tweak it a bit if it came down to ten I could take with me to a desert island. The first five, however, rock-solid the best five of my life.)

Prefab Sprout – “Two Wheels Good” (Steve McQueen)
Deacon Blue – “Raintown”
David Sylvian – “Gone to Earth”
Big Star – “#1 Record”
Ben Folds Five – “Ben Folds Five”
The Pernice Brothers – “Overcome by Happiness”
Camper Van Beethoven “The Third Album plus Vampire Can Mating Oven”
American Music Club – “Mercury”
The The – Soul Mining
The Apartments – “A Life Full of Farewells”
New Radicals – “Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too”
Scud Mountain Boys – “Massachusetts”
Jeff Buckley – “Grace”
The Replacements – “Don’t Tell a Soul”
Van Morrison – “Astral Weeks”

edit: Swapping out Afghan Whigs – “Congregation” in favor of The The – “Soul Mining”
edit #2: Swapping out Husker Du “Warehouse: Songs and Stories” for Van Morrison “Astral Weeks”