Thursday, December 18, 2008

A Number Of Connected Albums Penned Down Consecutively, Consequentially.

Life/ Blog/ Myself/ You/ 2008, 

I'v been meaning to do this since an era. So I sat down, arranged and re-arranged and got myself a fine December 18th gift, to celebrate many winters of randomness. Even though this one won't require a sweater, it continues to give me chills of a different kind. I feel smug, yet uncontent in the knowledge that it might not be positive all night along. After 2008's random run, 2009 shall not be a good year. Its one of those years you so know about. And when I say 2008 was not bad at all, you very well may take a clue as to how pathetic and downtrodden it might get, this January onwards.

"Because when within virtue, 
we lose every part of the clue,
a puzzle becomes static, 
and pieces stick like glue."

Here I go then. My 100 favorite albums and I don't give a fuck if you think I went wrong here or I spelt something incorrect or because you don't like something or love something that is not here. Well, fuck you because you have a bad music taste or opinion, whichever yields results. I would have included my favorite unplugged/acoustic, live, best of, collections too but these are all studio albums and I have heard all of these 20 times AT LEAST. I shall keep editing the same and the same shall appear in Red, sanguine, crimson RED. The Blue shall lose. And how am I so sure? I am not but I love to laugh, cry, win, live etcetra and this year around, I got much of nothing.

The/ MY 100 Greatest Albums Of All Time - 

1. Radiohead - The Bends

The dust settles, I close my eyes as Planet Telex starts off with rapturous monotone, seemingly the throat dries despite no intention to sing. Then the breathing slows and title song kicks in, equal melancholy and it only further pervades as fresh strains and simple beats pull the room in chorus with "two jumps in a week, don't you think thats pretty clever, don't you boy". Questioning my own wish for recognition or a life, Fake Plastic Trees summarizes what would have otherwise been a lost cause. Bones and (Nice Dream) are an easy prelude to what becomes toast with Just. While someone might dismiss the album at this point saying the best has been heard, the early tapes switched off and conked themselves around in format for only Side B to hypnotize. My Iron Lung and Bullet Proof (especially the Live CNN version) are more than good songs. They clean the purest part of you and remind you of the candle that will soon flicker out. Only so that Black Star can rip another heart, and Sulk can make perversion child's play. Street Spirit fades out, me slipping into sadness and Yorke saddling away, harping relentlessly, maybe pointlessly with or without Greenwood's silent drama. The Bends. That is it.



2. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run


3. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
4. The Beatles - Revolver.
5. Pearl Jam - Vs
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
7. Tool - Lateralus
8. Oasis - Heathen Chemistry
9. Radiohead - Ok Computer
10. Pearl Jam - Ten
Sounds perfect at 10, innit?

11. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
12. Moby - Play
13. Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
14. Foo Fighters - One By One
15. Bruce Springsteen - The River (disc 1 & disc 2)
16. Sting - Mercury Falling
17. Sigur Ros - ( )

18. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
19. Ani DiFranco - Not A Pretty Girl
20. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

21. Tool - Undertow
22. Bryan Adams - On A Day Like Today
23. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
24. Incubus - A Crow Left Of Murder
25. Radiohead - Kid A
26. Alice In Chains - Dirt
27. Sting - ...Nothing Like The Sun
28. Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A
29. Nirvana - Nevermind
30. Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales

31. Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch

32. The Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
33. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
34. Audioslave - Audioslave
35. Matchbox Twenty - More Than You Think You Are
36. Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
37. Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
38. U2 - Pop
39. Pearl Jam - No Code
40. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

41. Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
42. The Clash - London Calling
43. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubles Waters
44. Bon Jovi - Keep The Faith
45. The Police - Synchronity

46. Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
47. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
48. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
49. Incubus - Make Yourself
50. Queen - A Night At The Opera

51. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
52. Counting Crows - August And Everything After
53. Soundgarden - Superunknown
54. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
55. The Verve - Urban Hymns
56. U2 - The Joshua Tree
57. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
58. Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
59. The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
60. The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse

61. Blur - Parklife

62. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
63. Rage Against The Machine - Battle Of Los Angeles
64. Michale Jackson - Thriller
65. Green Day - American Idiot
66. Ben Harper - Fight For Your Mind
67. Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album)
68. Zero - Hook EP
69. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
70. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

71. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
72. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
73. Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish And Hot Dog Flavored Water
74. Rush - Snakes And Arrows
75. Bjork - Volta

76. Savage Garden - Savage Garden
77. Bon Jovi - Crush
78. Radiohead - Pablo Honey
79. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
80. The Killers - Hot Stuff

81. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
82. John Mayer - Continuum
83. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
84. Pink Floyd - The Wall
85. Dave Matthews Band - Busted Stuff
86. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor ( 1 & 2 )
87. Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
88. The Cranberries - Bury The Hatchet

89. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
90. Damien Rice - O

91. R.E.M - Automatic For The People
92. Eminem - The Eminem Show
93. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
94. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
95. Incubus - Light Grenades
96. Creed - Human Clay
97. David Gray - White Ladder
98. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That Is What I Am Not
99. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
100. Cake - Fashion Nugget/ Comfort Eagle



There, There

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Brilliant..!!
I never knew you had the will to do something so spectacular..
Anyhow, keep up the good work...AND GIVE ME SOME OF YOUR MUSIC .!!!

Silver Mist said...

How?? How? :0

...Wow!

Jalap. said...

Haha. It took too much time. You guys should give it a shot too. And feel free for the music dude. I have 65% of those albums.