Writer's Block: Ten for the Tenth

[i_amthecosmos]

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Oh god. I'm one of those people, uh-huh. Um, list subject to change at will and if I forget anything important. Oh, and live and best of records will be counted.

1. I Am the Cosmos-Chris Bell
2. Pet Sounds-the Beach Boys
3. Radio City-Big Star
4. Stoned Soul Picnic-the Best of Laura Nyro
5. Fun House-Iggy and the Stooges
6. It's Alive-The Ramones
7. Belfegore-self-titled (80's industrial rock, pre-Nine Inch Nails.) Thrown overboard in favor of the New York Dolls, self-titled first album. Sorry Belfegore.
8. Call the Doctor-Sleater Kinney
9. The Beatles Anthology One and Two
10. Back to Mystery City-Hanoi Rocks-their best record, and I have to adknowledge the huge effect they had on me growing up.

Honorable mentions would include The Smiths, Steve Earle, Nirvana, much more. I could easily redo this whole list.

Favorite Complations:
No Thanks! The 70's Punk Rebellion
Left of the Dial: 80's College Radio Alternative

If I'd done this list in the 80's, it would've included more Hanoi Rocks, some R.E.M, more Ramones, and Guns and Roses Appetite for Destruction. Probably Redd Kross as well. Most of these records are older because I have to live with them for a while before I'm sure they're top ten worthy. It's also astonishingly 60's and early 70's. I never really was a child of the 80's, I just grew up then.

Comments

[caitinlv.livejournal.com]

Oh god. I'm one of those people, uh-huh.

Welcome aboard - I'm a total whore for making lists like this.

[i-amthecosmos.livejournal.com]

I liked your list! Diana Ross and the Pointer Sisters! I felt bad for having only two female artists listed here.

And oh man, I forgot Steve Earle! (My musical taste is "self-destructive, useally male singer-songwriters who if they're not dead by 27, it wasn't for lack of trying.")

[caitinlv.livejournal.com]

I love your description of your musical taste. Mine turns out to be '70s r&b and 80s new wave, or stuff that sounds like it. That Pointer Sisters album fits both. The Lep, well, it has some new wavey synth elements, so I'm pretending that counts. The one album I almost included is True Blue by Madonna, go figure.

And you've got Laura Nyro and Sleater-Kinney, that's a whole lot of female in just those two choices.

[sic-gurrl.livejournal.com]

whoa! And I can't even think of 3. :/

[i-amthecosmos.livejournal.com]

I'm looking at this a few hours later and want to change half of them. I can't believe I don't have any New York Dolls on there.

[annamaryse.livejournal.com]

I'm kicking myself for not mentioning the Dolls. Trade ya for Ziggy.