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(ma) T.T. Henry
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Date Posted: 09:25:04 04/03/01 Tue
Okay here it is will, I was kind of surprised with what I ended up with. I didn't at all go with the conventional albums, for example I hate U2, although I know that there albums have been very successful. You won't find Oasis - Don't look back in anger, or The beatles- double white in this list nor will you find Santana's award winning album or The Doors. I took this list very personally and only put an album in if it effected me in some way so this may not be the most successful albums list ever, but definately my top ten.
10) Bush - Sixteen Stone
I put this in for the same reasons as you. I felt this album at the same time as being very popular and successful, it didn't sell out and it had some great songs on it ranging from heavy hard loud songs, to light heartfelt songs and I love glycerine to smitherines.
9) Greenday - Dookie
I was very excited to put this in the top ten. I think this album is also extremely successful with FIVE top 5 singles on this album. I think this is the best album that greenday has put out and every song is enjoyable. Billie Joe's lyrics and vocals are exceptional on this album and is a must have for any alternative rock lover
8) Dynamite Hack - Superfast
You may have been expecting this album to be closer to number 1 but I am being honest and my love for a brilliant musician is not overlooked by personal preference so that is why I have put "superfast" at number 8. I love this band to pieces! However I think that there are better musicians ahead of them in the list. At the same time, this album defines slack rock and the variation in styles from hard slack rock to love ballads to a country folk rap cover have earned the hack a place in my heart forever. Although Boyz n the Hood's one hit wonderism has put the hack in the shadows forever, I think it adds to the bands mysterious style and lends them to comparison with such bands as weezer and the early powderfinger. You know how I feel about these guys. DH 4 ever.
7)and 6) Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
Our Lady Peace - Happiness is not a fish you can catch.
I cannot seperate these two albums and I was disappointed that you just substituted these albums for one another. I think both these albums are an achievement in their own right. I can't decide which album is better because I feel that clumsy has a more natural feel to it and produces their best songs ever with "superman's dead" "clumsy" and "4am" However other songs on the album don't come close to these hits. Whereas "Happiness..." is very consistent in it's singles and although the main songs don't stand up against the above singles I've noted, there are seven or eight very good songs making this album a brilliant compilation of Our Lady Peace's work. "Thief" is a brilliant song and always have my vote.
5)Blink 182 - Live "The Mark, Tom and Travis Show"
This album will absolutely blow your socks off. I have never heard such a great Live album before. Most live albums either substitute sound quality for the "live" atmosphere, or the "live" atmosphere for sound quality. However this album delivers both with an exclamation mark! The songs are sped up and the music loud delivering a brilliant lists of great blink 182 hits and also adding many on stage conversation. A brilliant album that brings back memories of some great concerts with you will. Definately deserving of #5 if not higher.
4)Powderfinger - "Odyssey #5"
Some of the most brilliantly talented musicians put together in one band, such talent reminds me of The Red Hot Chili Peppers. This band can do the lot, from Hard Grunge, to soft melodies to spine tingling funk and they deliver all of this in their latest album - Odyssey #5. Words can't give this album enough credit. You just have to listen. "my happiness" "Like a Dog" "My kind of Scene" "These Days" and "Whatever makes you happy" deliver a priceless piece of plastic that can be all yours for a bargain of under $20.
3)Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
I have kind of explained why I chose this in the above. I think with band members in a band that the RHCP have, how can you go wrong. I could almost put every Red Hot Chili Peppers album in this space but Californication sticks out sentimentally with my friends and with the era it represents, senior year. The best time of my life. A brilliant cd which again offers variation in style with each band member shining in his own right. I feel that Anthony Keidas is the best vocalist in a group of very talented vocalists. Flea is by far the best Bassist, in fact he is way out on his own as the best ever and John Fruschanti is without argument the best guitarist of his time. This album-Undoubtedly, #3
Now these last two albums were an easy pick. I feel that they seperate themselves from the rest. I was hoping that when I finally cut it down to the final two, that these albums would have been successful in the music industry, which they were, but also successful in the minds of our close high school friends. I hoped that when I heard these final two albums that they could shape the events of my high school years in Texas. They both do exactly that. I wanted the final two albums to be albums that you could not skip past any of the songs or just browse to the good ones - because they were all brilliant. Both of these albums fit the criteria above. So "without further ado" - William Irwin- 2001, Here are the final two.
2)Third Eye Blind - Self Titled
A fucking brilliant composition of lyrics, feelings, guitar riffs, drum beats and bass lines wrapped into a brilliant DEBUT album, containing SIX hit singles and eight other brilliant pieces. This album has it all - "motorcycle drive by" makes my list of top 10 singles ever but "God of Wine", "Semi-Charmed Life", "Jumper", "Narcolepsy", "Losing a Whole Year", "Graduate", "How's it Going to Be", "The Background", and the rest of album is not to be cast in the shadows. Stephen Jenkins in incendiary and his band is very worthy of holding the #2 best album on my list.
1)Eve 6 - Self Titled
When I started making this list, I never had a doubt about what the number one album was going to be. Eve 6 was the first album that went down on my little scrap piece of paper with a little #1 next to it. Ever song shines in it's own brilliance! Jon Siebels lets us into his mind with his scratchy guitar riffs packed with a tonne of bass behind it courtesy of Max Collins who also holds his own with his ingenious way with words. This would be successful in it's own right but he also delivers his lyrics with a nasally deep tone that, put together with Jon on guitar and Tommy on the skins, presents an unbeatable package. Every song could be released as a single in my mind. Who could forget the memories that "open road song" represents. - road trips, summers, and it even earned a spot on the friends video that we made. Jesus Nitelite explodes with emotion and catches me by surprise every time it starts. I hate singling out songs because I don't want to downgrade the ones that I don't mention, however the track "Showerhead" is the climax of this album which also earns itself a spot in my top ten singles of all time- a spot that will soon be reveals with the rest of the top ten list!
I also want to add (and I didn't do this on purpose) that I realised both of these top two albums are debut albums by these bands and are also both self-titled. Nothing fancy, the music speaks for itself.
And Oh my god, I just noticed another thing that has just blown me away. I really can't believe it, I really didn't plan it out. The first concert that we ever went to was Third Eye Blind and do you remember who opened for them....... Eve 6. I swear I didn't plan that. Also they were both performing their debut albums, the albums I have just listed. They hadn't made any other albums then. So in retrospect, I have have been to the best possible concert (judging by music content, not mosh pits which are also fun) that I could have put together myself. I think it's so cool that it turned out like that without my planning it. I wished I would have known both of these bands better back then, especially Eve 6.
I also want to give special mention to all Counting Crows albums, Incubus- Make yourself, Powderfinger-Internationalist, The Living End-Self titled, Eve 6-Horrorscope, Good Will Hunting Soundtrack, Oasis-Take a look over your shoulder, All other Red Hot Chili Peppers albums.
So that rounds out the top 10 albums list in the opinion of Matt Henry. I hope you enjoyed reading it because I certainly enjoyed making it. Music is an escape for anyone who wants it. "The thought of the sounds of these bands falling upon deaf ears brings a tear to my eye and a wrenching in my heart."- matt henry. Everybody should be able to hear these wonderful sounds! Until next time - (ma) T.T. Henry
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