Re: Your 5 favorite albums
I take it you're in the 35+ group, Jimmy
Off my lawn, both you kids.
Hmm, not a topic I've ever given much thought to. Having now given it some thought, I come up with the following, in no particular order:
1. Nine Tonight - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
A live-concert greatest hits album - and somewhat interchangeable with Live Bullet, their earlier live album. One or the other might be my fave at any particular time.
2. The Stranger - Billy Joel
The soundtrack of my summer between high school and college. The number of car accidents I nearly got into while blaring Only The Good Die Young is near infinite.
3. This Desert Life - Counting Crows
The soundtrack for one of the most simultaneously awesome and awful periods of my life. Listened to it incessantly at the time, then couldn't listen to it for years. Now we're okay again.
4. New Miserable Experience - Gin Blossoms
To be honest, the only album on this list that I'll listen to without skipping any tracks whatsoever.
5. Tommy Tutone - Tommy Tutone
Their second album made them famous for 867-5309 (Jenny) and is pretty good, too - but I prefer their first album.
Runner Up: Twisted - Del Amitri
EDIT: I just realized I omitted Bat Out Of Hell. Well, see - I compiled the above list by going thru my iTunes catalog, and iTunes is the one medium that I haven't bought Bat Out Of Hell in yet. I literally have bought it in every other form of recordable media that it was ever available in.
Besides, Bat Out of Hell isn't really so much an album as a GODDAM RELIGION YOU HEATHEN BASTARDS.
/goes to buy Bat Out of Hell on iTunes right this instant