Can't Write If You Can't Relate: My 233 Personal Favorite Albums (pt 2/6)

Helloooooooooo!

We now enter part 2 of this 6-part series. #200 - #161.

I am again just telling you what each album reminds me of. But I think I'll add more words on later posts.

I can't help but be self-referential. On a list like this, sometimes good memories trump good music. If I had a clearer emotional recollection of my childhood, there would be like 5 Barenaked Ladies albums on here.

No albums in this background made the list.

200

Radiohead

The Bends

Being sad and/or depressed, but distinctly in a "bitter teenage boy" kind of way.

199

Coldplay

Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends

Senior year of high school.

198

Billy Bragg & Wilco

Mermaid Avenue

Lazy sunny Saturdays.

197

Arcade Fire

The Suburbs

Summer.

196

The Mountain Goats

The Sunset Tree

2021 (for better or worse).

195

Japandroids

Celebration Rock

My 22nd birthday.

194

Leonard Cohen

I'm Your Man

Fall 2019.

193

Disclosure

Settle

2013.

192

Danny Brown

Atrocity Exhibition

Halloween 2016.

191

Run the Jewels

Run the Jewels 2

Being 24.

190

The Beatles

Abbey Road

What expensive rock music should sound like.

189

Death Cab for Cutie

Transatlanticism

Summer drives.

188

Slint

Spiderland

Spring 2015.

187

Sun Kil Moon

Ghosts of the Great Highway

Summer 2019.

186

Red House Painters

Red House Painters

Fall slowly turning into winter.

185

Iron & Wine

The Shepherd's Dog

Spring and summer 2016.

184

Bill Callahan

Apocalypse

Springtime.

183

The Notorious B.I.G.

Ready to Die

Feeling very confused.

182

Guided by Voices

Alien Lanes

Spring 2017.

181

Daft Punk

Random Access Memories

Summer 2013.

180

Chance the Rapper

Coloring Book

Summer 2016.

179

Elliott Smith

New Moon

May 2018.

178

Wilco

Being There

Summer.

177

A Tribe Called Quest

The Low End Theory

Cleaning the USU education building at 4am.

176

Sly & The Family Stone

There's a Riot Goin' On

Spring 2015.

175

Bruce Springsteen

The River

Driving down a desolate highway on a summer evening.

174

Prince

Sign o' the Times

Late summer nights in my 30s.

173

Sufjan Stevens

Seven Swans

Redfish summer 2009.

172

The Strokes

Room on Fire

Thanksgiving 2008.

171

J Dilla

Donuts

Spring 2014.

170

Flying Lotus

Cosmogramma

Spring semesters at USU.

169

Neutral Milk Hotel

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

...I don't really know. I have little memories attached to this album from multiple eras of my life. Saw them live when I was in college. That's not happenin' again.