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Aww yeah baby, it's birthday month!
(Actually it's birthday day today. So yum.)

3rd:
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Fight Softly

4th:
Labour Days
Float
Sung Tongs
Never Let Me Down
Elliott Smith
Figure 8
Give Up
One Hundred Things You Should Have Done in Bed

I think this year's was a pretty good haul. Also, wtf, another year older. It makes me feel funny every time.

*18th:
New Moon
From a Basement on the Hill
XO

So, yeah, I just spent all my birthday money on Elliott Smith. I have one more coming I think, and I also got the Flight of the Conchords radio series today. Which is awesome, obviously.

*19th:
Either/Or

Oh look, there it is.

This is the first in a series of lists, chronically my favorite albums of the decade. Each year will get its own list, and at the end there will be a cumulative list.

Here is some ground rules:

-Album must be either >30 mins long or >8 tracks.
-I will go by original release date (Sorry Agaetis Byrjun)
-No mixtapes, compilations, re-issues, etc

Here is 2000:

25. Enon – Believo!
24. Aesop Rock – Float
23. Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
22. The White Stripes – De Stijl
21. The Apples in Stereo – The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone
20. The Weakerthans – Left and Leaving
19. A Silver Mt. Zion - He has Left us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of our Rooms
18. Destroyer – Thief
17. Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele
16. Eels – Daisies of the Galaxy
15. At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
14. The Microphones – It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water
13. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
…

Okay, here's to completely mindless self-indulgence. So last.fm has been plagued by the excruciating over-abundance of these "top 50 albums" lists that came about through the top 50 albums generator that came out a while back. Well you know what? I think it's time for me to join the crowd and contribute.
I'll probably make a "my favorite albums list (just because I feel you need to know what my favorite albums are, since it's so important that you know, you know?)" in the near future, which will be quite different from this (since my last.fm scrobbles don't represent my tastes flawlessly).

Omega_Switch22B's top albums
1. maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map (124)http://ilo.gda.pl/filip/cover/resizer.php?i=http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/174s/3609491.jpg&w=160 http://ilo.gda.pl/filip/cover/spacer.gif2. Nas - Illmatic (79) http://ilo.gda.pl/filip/cover/resizer.php?i=http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/174s/15939749.jpg&w=160 http://ilo.gda.pl/filip/cover/spacer. …

April 8, 2008

This is my music collection BEFORE my computer upgrade. Current laptop of 4 years has 30GB; within a month I plan on upgrading to much bigger. Correspondingly, the music collection should increase.

This is the "before" snapshot:

Artist - Album

!!! - !!!
4hero - Two Pages

A
A Minor Forest - Flemish Altruism (Constituent Parts 1993-1996)
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Add N To (X) - Avant Hard
Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
Aesop Rock - Float
Al DiMeola - Friday Night in San Francisco
The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place
The Album Leaf - One Day I'll Be on Time
The Album Leaf - The Seal Beach EP
Amon Tobin - Foley Room
Amon Tobin - Permutation
Andy Statman & David Grisman - Songs of Our Fathers
Animal Collective - Feels
Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe
Arab Strap - Monday At The Hug And Pint
Arab Strap - The Red Thread
…

Artist: Aesop Rock
Album: Float
Release Date: August 1999
Label(s): MUSh
Standout Track(s): Drawbridge, Big Bang, The Mayor and the Crook.

How I heard about it: Again, Ryan Wert.

Where I bought it: Used bin at Vertigo.


When I was first getting into Aesop Rock I was told that this was his top album so I had to go out and grab it. I still think Labor Days is better, but this is a very strong album. The first thing that jumps out at me is the pure length of the thing, 20 songs, some are very short, but there are ten that check in at over 4 minutes. The songs aren't that poppy like his more current stuff. The beats aren't the catchy part, the lyrics are the catchy part, always good when a hip hop artist can pull that off.

This is his first album and I have to imagine when it came out it received some mixed reviews. Like I said, the beats aren't catchy, it will probably never be played at your favorite club, but the guy can write and deliver lyrics like nobodies business. …

I've decided (with the insistence of Leah :P) to make a Top 23 albums of my lifetime. One for each year.

They are going to appear in alphabetical order.

And I'm limiting myself to one album per artist as well.

I'm feeling somewhat nostalgic today, and respectful towards the roots of my music taste.

This was not easy to do AT ALL. And I'm sure that it would differ on a different day, under a different mood.

But here we go.

Adrenaline - Deftones
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f72/mistercrinkles/adrenaline.jpg
This was an album that I acquired in ninth grade. This was after people had already started listening to Rage, a band I had been into for quite some time. I needed something else to charge me up, and low and behold there was Deftones. Instantly I was blown away by their sound. They had the grunge sound of a few years prior with the angst and energy that fit my life so well at the time.
Favorite track: Lifter

Aenima - Tool
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f72/mistercrinkles/aenima.jpg
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This is a comprehensive list of the albums in my collection that I enjoy. It is only about 2/3rds of my library, as many albums are ones that I no longer like or never liked. Artists of whom I have more than one album include a link to the artist's page. I will do my best to update it with additions and removals as I see fit.

Of course, if you see anything missing from here that you think I'd like, including albums from bands listed that I do not have, feel free to do so in a comment, artist recommendation, or personal message!

Aesop Rock
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives
Labor Days
Float

In A Safe Place

Sung Tongs

I Am a Bird Now

Funeral

Fingers Crossed

Everything All the Time

The Beatles
1
Abbey Road
Help!
Let It Be
Magical Mystery Tour
Please Please Me
Revolver
Rubber Soul
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
White Album

Beck
Guero
Mellow Gold

Belle & Sebastian
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
If You're Feeling Sinister

Let's Dance

Big Head Todd And The Monsters
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