I’ve been actively listening to music for 35 years, have seen styles and trends come and go, beginning with a narrow focus (listening to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 with my sisters in the disco age) and widening my horizons many times based on my own changing tastes and exposure to the knowledge and insights of so many friends. Now, I’ll listen to just about any kind of music and prize diversity and variety above all else. But still, I’ve been known to get stuck in a groove and become obsessed with certain albums, listening the hell out of them for weeks straight. I don’t even know where these albums stand in the grand scheme of things, if they’re critically acclaimed or cult classics… some of them you may never have even heard of; I just know that, for whatever reason, at some time in my life, they spoke to me in deep, meaningful ways. In writing them down, the urge to listen to them again hits me hard; I still love them.
- The Bangles Different Light
- Bootsauce The Brown Album
- Boston s/t
- Edie Brickell & New Bohemians Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
- Concrete Blonde Free
- Cutting Crew Broadcast
- Faith No More The Real Thing
- Happy Mondays Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches
- INXS Kick
- k.d. lang Absolute Torch and Twang
- Living Colour Vivid
- Lyle Lovett Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
- National Velvet s/t
- Robert Palmer Riptide
- Sam Phillips The Indescribable Wow
- Pop Will Eat Itself This Is the Day… This Is the Hour… This Is This!
- The Proclaimers Sunshine on Leith
- Feargal Sharkey s/t
- Sons of Freedom s/t
- T’pau s/t
- Voice of the Beehive Let It Bee
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