Uh oh, 15 Albums to cure A.D.D.
15 would really be cheating the amount of reasons, events, and stories connecting all of these albums as very important life puzzle pieces.
1a. the muppets “the muppet movie soundtrack”
1b. neutral milk hotel “in an aeroplane over the sea”
1c. wilco “being there”
1d. the replacements “don’t tell a soul”
1e. the jungle book “the jungle book soundtrack story book & songs”
1f. bryan adams “reckless”
1g. the old 97s “too far to care”
1h. john cafferty & the beaver brown band perform: ” eddie & the cruisers: the original motion picture soundtrack”
1i. bob dylan “highway 61 revisited”
1j. def leppard “hysteria”
1k. bruce springsteen “born to run”
1l. bob dylan “self portrait”
1m. pavement “crooked rain, crooked rain”
1n. the the “dusk”
1o. teenage fanclub “bandwagonesque”
2a. willie nelson “red headed stranger”
2b. bob dylan “blood on the tracks”
2c. sam cooke “keep movin on”
2d: bob dylan “nashville skyline”
2e: hall & oates “big bam boom”
2f: my morning jacket “Acoustic Citsuoca Live! at the Startime Pavilion”
2g. tom waits “closing time”
2h: wilco “a.m.”
2i: wilco “summerteeth”
2j. rem “document no. 5″
2k. george michael “faith” & “listen without prejudice”
2l. pavement “wowee zowee”
2m. pavement “brighten the corners”
2n. the replacements “hootenanny”
2o. the replacements “let it be”
2p. the replacements “pleased to meet me”
2q. the replacements “tim”
2r. the jayhawks “tomorrow the green grass”
2s. david gray “a century’s end”
2t. the smoking popes “born to quit”
2u. jeff buckley “grace”
2v. liz phair “exile in guyville”
2w. neil young “zuma”
2x. rem “automatic for the people”
2y. m. ward “transfiguration of st. vincent”
2z. wilco “yhf: the engineer sessions”
3a. air “moon safari”
3b. the flying burrito brothers “gilded palace of sin”
3c. son volt “trace”
3d. marvin gaye “what’s goin on”
3e. extreme “pornagrafitti”
3f. guided by voices “bee thousand”
3g. velvet underground “velvet underground” & “loaded”, f*ck, all of it.
3h. john cale “paris 1919″
3i. bruce springsteen “tunnel of love”
3j. neko case “furnace room lullabyes”
3k. beastie boys “paul’s boutique”
3l. teenage fanclub “songs from northern britain”
3m. crowded house “temple of low men”
3n. air supply “the one that you love”
3o. creedence clearwater revival – ALL CCR IS HOLY.
3p. elliot smith “either/or”
3q. the band “self-titled”
3r. the clash “london calling”
3s. the flaming lips “the soft bulletin”
3t. paul westerberg “14 songs”
3u. singles “original motion picture soundtrack”
3v. red house painters “songs for a blue guitar”
3w. the smiths “strangeways here we come”
3x. donkey boy “cosmic trucks” ep
3y. the la’s “self-titled”
3z. bob newhart “the button down mind of bob newhart”
4a. rod stewart “never a dull moment”
4b. uncle tupelo “anoodyne”
4c. blur “13″
4c. whiskeytown “stranger’s almanac”
4d. big star “#1 Record/Radio City”
4e. the jayhawks “sound of lies”
4f. josh rouse “dressed up like nebraska”
4g. stephen malkmus & the jicks “self-titled”
4h. matthew sweet “100% fun”
4i. bap kennedy “domestic blues”
4j. steve earle “train a comin”
4k. ryan adams “heartbreaker”
4l. mercury rev “deserter’s songs”
4m. eric clapton “unplugged”
4n. tom petty “wildflowers”
4o. traveling wilbury’s “v.1″
5a. david bowie “hunky dory”
5b. tom waits “mule variations”
5c. silver jews “american water”
5d. the byrds “sweetheart of the rodeo”
5e. chris mills “wall to wall sessions” & “the silver line”
5f. the rest of bob dylan, all of it, including the 80s.
5g. uncle tupelo “march 16th-20th, 1992″
5h. the kinks “muswell hillbillies”
5i. def leppard “pyromania”
5j. michael jackson “thriller”
5k. peter yorn “musicforthemorningafter”
5l. the frames “set list”
5m. dandy warhols “13 tales from urban bohemia”
5n. josh ritter “the animal years”
5o. elvis costello “get happy!”
5p. wilco “the wilco book soundtrack”
5q. david bowie “the rise and fall of siggy stardust and the spiders from mars”
6a. oasis “definitely maybe” & “what’s the story”
6b. the faces “ooh la la”
6c. television “marquee moon”
6d. chris mills “wall to wall sessions” & “the silver line”
6e. spoon “girls can tell” & “kill the moonlight”
6f. grandaddy “sophtware slump”
6g. radiohead “the bends”
6h. fountains of wayne “self-titled”
6i. weezer “pinkerton”
6j. rolling stones “some girls”
6k. m. ward “post war”
6l. poison “look what the cat dragged in”
6m. stone roses “second coming”
7a. morrissey “you are the quarry (expanded edition)”
7b. the handsome family “through the trees”
7c. reo speedwagon “wheels are turning”
7d. cheap trick “lap of luxury”
7e. john cale “vintage violence”
7f. the polyphonic spree “the fragile army”
7g. the fox & the hound “picture story disc & soundtrack”
7h. bruce springsteen “born in the usa”
7i. zombies “odessey and oracle”
7j. price “purple rain”
7k. superman, the movie “original motion picture soundtrack by john williams”
7l. derek & the dominoes – “layla & assorted love songs”
8a. stone roses “stone roses”
8b. my morning jacket “at dawn”
8c. lambchop”nixon”
8d. matthew sweet “altered beast”
8e. neil hamburger “great moments at dipressa’s pizza”
8f. rolling stones “let it bleed”
8g the handsome family “in the air”
8h. beck “mutations”
8i. the braves “quiet, hushed, animals” ep
8j. kenny rogers “the gambler original motion picture soundtrack”
8k. aretha franklin “I never loved a man the way I do”
8l. long winters “when I pretend to fall”
8m. phish “billy breathes”
8n. kris kristofferson “kristofferson”
9a. bill cosby “himself”
9b. johnny cash “orange blossom special”
9c. pavement “slanted & enchanted”
9d. lionel ritchie “dancing on the ceiling”
9e. the kinks “lola vs. the powerman”
9f. gomez “bring it on”
9g. rufus wainwright “self-titled”
9h. marah “if you didn’t laugh, you’d cry”
9i. lambcop “cmon”
9j. lambchop “no, you cmon”
10a. golden smog “down by the old mainstream”
10b. radiohead “ok computer”
10c. lou reed “coney island baby”
10d. sam cooke “live at the harlem square club 1963″
10e. foo fighters “the colour & the shape”
10f. the pernice brothers “big tobacco”
11a. pearl jam “no code”
11b. nirvana “in utero”
11c. lambchop “how I quit smoking”
11d. teenage fanclub “thirteen”
11e. golden smog “weird tales”
11f. belle & sebastian “dear catastrophe waitress”
11g. the thrills “so much for the city”
11h. grandaddy “sumday”
11i. the wrens “the meadowlands”
12a. mississippi john hurt “rediscovered”
12b. john fahey “the voice of the turtle”
12c. beatles “beatles for sale”
12d. counting crows “august & everything after”
12e. spoon “ga ga ga ga ga”
12f. oasis “don’t believe the hype”
13a. built to spill “keep it like a secret”
13b. m. ward “transistor radio”
13c. the wandering sons “little bird”
13d. the hansons “christmas record”
13e. cameron mcgill “hold on beauty”
13f. ryan adams & the cardinals “cold roses”
13g. metallica “the black album”
13h. the pretenders “learning to crawl”
13i. the whigs “mission control”
13j. carla bozulich “red headed stranger”
14a. beach boys “sunflower”
14b. matthew sweet “girlfriend”
14c. elvis “the memphis sessions”
14d. All remaining material by the Replacements, Paul Westerberg, Pavement, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Jay Farrar and anything connected.
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#15: All kinda recent …
Fleet Foxes “self titled” & the “sun giant” ep.
Kanye West “808s & Heartbreak”
Neil Hamburger “Sings Country Winners”
Cameron McGill & What Army “Warm Songs for Cold Shoulders”
Frightened Rabbit “Midnight Organ Fight”
The Felice Brothers “The Felice Brothers”
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – “Lie Down in the Light”
Norm MacDonald – “Ridiculous”
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There’s a few songs that haven’t left my brain in years and are on constant internal repeat:
David Mead, “Indiana”
Guided by Voices “Chasin Heather Crazy”, “Dragon’s Awake” & “The Key Losers”
The Smiths “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out”, “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now”, ” I Won’t Share You”, man the list goes on.
The Lemonheads “If I could Talk I’d Tell You”
Christiana Aguilera “Beautiful”
Smoking Popes “Follow The Sound” & “Pretty Pathetic”
Flaming Lips “Are you a Hypnotist”
Sade “By Your Side”
Neil Finn “She Will Have Her Way”"
Neko Case “I Wish I was The Moon”
Beach Boys “California Saga / Big Sur”
Coldplay “Fix You”
David Garza “Float Away”, “Disco Ball World”, “Slave”
Bryan Ferry “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright” & anyone I’ve collected covering this Dylan classic.
Elliot Smith “Say Yes”
Big Star “September Gurls”
Pavement “Range Life”
The Replacements “Achin To Be” & “Can’t Hardly Wait”, and wow, damn St. Paul.
Al Green “For The Good Times”
Chris Mills’ version of “Don’t Be Crushed”
Old 97s “Designs on You”
Grateful Dead “Ripple”
Public Enemy “Fight The Power”
Nick Lowe “Lately I’ve let things slide”
Willie Nelson “Funny How Time Slips Away”
Shins “Good as Gone”
Jay Farrar “Barstow”
Jay-Z “99 Problems”
Frightened Rabbit “Backwards Walk”
Lucinda Williams “Over time”
Johnny Cash ” I Still Miss Someone”
Sam Cooke “Keep Movin On” & “Bring it On Home”
Todd Snider “Enjoy Yourself”
Nina Simone “Just In Time”
….AND Wilco “Spiders (Kidsmoke)” takes the 10 minute cake and f*cks this list and everything above it to shreds.
More and more and more, Jazz had to be discarded due to the fact I work & study to those more than connect with them emotionally however Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things” interpretation and Cannonball Adderly’s “Somethin Else” record standout as constant go-tos for mood and focus. Anyway, all this shit, these go round and round in a continuous circle for many memorable reasons– imagine my brain being a giant jukebox record player that never stops spinning. Bye bye.
