Turns out that I decided to organize my favourite albums, mainly due to it helping with an assignment I have for school. I worked down to my 50 favourite albums, then cropped again to 25, and then I went to my room, dug out all 25 cd’s and layed them out, and arranged them into this “Top 25 discs to have influenced me in my lifetime on this planet so far”.

Everyone every now and then (at least, everyone with Facebook) manages to get stuck into a meme, filtering round a group of your friends and occasionally it comes over with its big tits and sits on your lap, and asks you to fill it out. People seem to be on a favourite albums bandwagon lately, and I thought I’d grab my knapsack and hitch myself a ride.

I used to make favourite album lists, but recently I’ve found narrowing down the amount to anything can get really frustrating, often omiting things for the wrong reasons. So today I sat down and had a good plow through my music collection, and came up with a shortlist, a list of every album that has meant something special to me. It’s impossible to include everything you like, I for one found myself often wanting to include many artists but not really liking an entire album by someone who might make a favourite artists list, however I feel like I have a good list of albums, I counted them up when I’d finished and wound up with exactly 100.

So now I put it on YOU, by reading this post it means you can ask me to review one of the albums on the list. You’re guaranteed to get a positive review!

Here tis’:

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4 Dead – Blood And Piss
AC/DC – Back In Black
At The Drive-In – In/Casino/Out
At The Drive-In – Relationship Of Command
Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles – The White Album
The Bird – The Sound Of No Sound
Blink 182 – Dude Ranch
Boards Of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children
The Bronx – II
Jeff Buckley – Grace
Cake – Fashion Nugget
Carcass – Necroticism
Cex – Maryland Mansions
Coldplay – Parachutes
Converge – You Fail Me
Cursed – Two
Cypress Hill – Black Sunday
Dandy Warhols – Thirteen Tales
Dead Kennedys – Bedtime For Democracy
Death From Above 1979 – Heads Up
Deftones – Around The Fur
Dillinger Escape Plan – Calculating Infinity
Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
The Doors – L.A. Woman
Dr. Dre – Chronic 2001
Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde
Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
Faith No More – The Real Thing
Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
Fear – The Record
Frenzal Rhomb – Not So Tough Now
Front End Loader – How Can We Fail When We’re So Sincere?
Funkadelic – Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On
Fugazi – 13 Songs
Fugazi – Repeater
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven!
Gomez – In Our Gun
Gorillaz – Gorillaz
Green Day – Insomniac
Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced?
Isis – In The Absence Of Truth
Jesu – Silver
Korn – Korn
Kyuss – Welcome To Sky Valley
Lard – Pure Chewing Satisfaction
Led Zeppelin – II
Les Savy Fav – The Cat And The Cobra
Limp Bizkit – Three Dollar Bill, Y’all$
Machine Gun Fellatio – Bring It On!
Marilyn Manson – Portrait Of An American Family
Marilyn Manson – Smells Like Children
The Mars Volta – Deloused In The Comatorium
Max Tundra – Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be
McLusky – Do Dallas
Metallica – Master Of Puppets
Metallica – …And Justice For All
Midnight Oil – Blue Sky Mining
Minor Threat – First Demo Tape
Mouse On Mars – Idiology
Neu! – Neu!
Nine Inch Nails – Broken
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
Nirvana – In Utero
Only Living Witness – Prone Mortal Form
Oval – Ovalprocess
Pantera – Vulgar Display Of Power
Pantera – Far Beyond Driven
Parliament – Up For The Down Stroke
Pearl Jam – No Code
Pink Floyd – Meddle
Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon
The Presidents Of The United States Of America – The Presidents Of The United States Of America
Queens Of The Stone Age – Queens Of The Stone Age
Radiohead – The Bends
Radiohead – Kid A
Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine
Sepultura – Chaos A.D.
Slipknot – Slipknot
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
Soundgarden – Batmotorfinger
Sparta – Wiretap Scars
Stone Temple Pilots – Purple
The Stooges – Fun House
Strapping Young Lad – City
Strapping Young Lad – Alien
The Strokes – The Strokes
System Of A Down – System Of A Down
The Tea Party – The Edges Of Twilight
Tool – Opiate
Tool – Undertow
Tool – Aenima
Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die
U2 – Zooropa
White Zombie – Astro-Creep 2000
The Whitlams – Eternal Nightcap

I’ve realized the error of actually paying for a hosting space when all I was doing was posting blogs. Photo on left is the view from my rooftop, it’s a hazy day today so you can only just see the city in the distance. Kat and Pat will be living in the big building on the right, which is deceptively only 30 seconds from my house.

I’ve started school. A Bachelor of Theatre Production at the Victorian College Of The Arts. I’m working on a show, a mish-mashing of material by my two favourite Canberran writers David Finig and Hadley. Hear them talking awkwardly about themselves here and here, respectively.

I’m playing bass in a band, it comprises of the songs of my lovable housemate Ric Atkinson. Hear some awkwardly rough demos here.

Something I wrote on the train into school yesterday. Shrouded in grey, light rain falling, calmness reigning.

There’s a certain serenity in the air this morning, one that is undoubtedly true. The water hangs sullenly in the air and settles so peacefully on thirsty surface, its’ gentle touch permeating the atmosphere and dosing everyone around with a smile. The light has been caught between sunrise and daylight for hours now, and the lightning strikes in my ears find a home amongst the slowly collapsing grey of the AM, and help me settle into a feeling that I hadn’t thought existed in this city.

Listening: Fennesz – Black Sea