New Musical Information

Since I've been putting off the next Spinach Inquisition post, I thought I'd tackle something I've wanted to type up for a while now.  The bottom of this post will act as an archive for my old MySpace Music blurb, but here's the new Music blurb.

Imagine you're a Lost castaway. You have power and a record player. You just happened to be carrying 25 LPs on Oceanic flight 815. What are they?

The stipulations here: You must actually own the albums (in whatever format). No greatest hits compilations. No live albums. No movie soundtracks (b/c then everyone would say The Big Chill soundtrack and New Order Substance and Depeche Mode 101 and the the Ella Fitzgerald Verve Collection). I'm numbering the list, but it's not in any real order.

1. Since I'm currently listening to it: Sugar, Copper Blue
2. The Beatles, White Album
3. The Sundays, Blind
4. Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Are You Normal?
5. Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend
6. The Cure, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
7. Belle and Sebastian, Tigermilk
8. Brittle Stars, Brittle Stars
9. Buffalo Tom, Big Red Letter Day
10. Charming, Champagne and Magazines
11. Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Get Happy (reissue)
12. Nick Drake, Bryter Layter
13. Depeche Mode, Violator
14. Dillon Fence, Living Room Scene
15. Luna, Penthouse
16. Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville
17. The Pixies, Doolittle
18. R.E.M., Green
19. The Replacements, Pleased To Meet Me
20. Simon & Garfunkel, Sounds of Silence
21. The Judybats, Pain Makes You Beautiful
22. Mojave 3, Out of Tune
23. U2, The Joshua Tree
24. Teenage Fanclub, Thirteen
25. Velocity Girl, Simpatico!

It's a little scary how most of these albums came out when I was in high school and college. Perhaps familiarity breeds content?       :)

Anyway, I want to see comments with everyone's list of 25. Or however many you want to throw up there. Because I'm curious about these sorts of things.

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In no real order: The Sundays, The Pixies, Velocity Girl (and by extension, Sarah Shannon), The Cure, The Smiths (and Morrissey), Matthew Sweet, Depeche Mode, New Order, Brittle Stars, Charming, Elvis Costello (both with the Attractions and the Imposters), The Blake Babies (and Juliana Hatfield, The Mysteries of Life, and John Strohm), Mojave 3 (and Slowdive), Radiohead, Guster, R.E.M., Blur, The Mighty Lemon Drops, The Ocean Blue, The Stills, Franz Ferdinand, Simon and Garfunkel, The Jayhawks, Straw Dogs, U2, Atticus Scout, The Lou, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Cocteau Twins, Matt Nathanson, Teenage Fanclub, Luna, Lush, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Sugar (and Bob Mould), The Raconteurs, Foo Fighters, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, My Morning Jacket, The Judybats, Lush, Dillon Fence, Ultra Vivid Scene, Weezer, The Beach Boys, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Death Cab for Cutie (and The Postal Service), Nine Inch Nails, Arcade Fire, British Sea Power, The Replacements, Nick Drake, Ladytron, The Cardigans, Dressy Bessy, Pulp (and of course, Jarvis Cocker), The Arrogants, Majestic and the list goes on and on and on...