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. 

168

Animal Collective

Sung Tongs 

Being a college student.

167

Dirty Projectors

Bitte Orca

Cleaning the USU education building at 4am.

166

OutKast

Stankonia

Being alive in the 2000s.

165

M.I.A.

Arular

Summer 2019.

164

Nick Drake

Five Leaves Left 

Fall 2015.

163

Pixies

Doolittle

USU spring semester 2014. Heard most of these songs in high school though.

162

Kanye West

The College Dropout 

Summer.

161

Bjork

Post

Spring 2019.

My 233 Personal Favorite Albums (pt 1/6)

Hello folks.

I've been trying to list the impossible list for like 18 months now: My personal favorite albums of all time! How many albums am I gonna bring up? 233. 

Honestly, the list could have been ridiculously longer. As for blurbs, I'm just gonna write down what part of my life each album reminds me of. I'm gonna split it up into 6 parts. Here, I'll go over #233-201. My final section will be much wordier.

The whole process of ranking these albums (and deciding who makes the cut) has been a big fat waste of time. But they're soundtracks to times of my life that bring back positive memories. Or perhaps this was music that brightened up the bad times. Perhaps as a teen, or as an adult. Some stuff I revisit often, some stuff I save enshrined on a pedestal. Important musical experiences for a guy who listens to a lot of music.

I'm not dead, but I'm 35. My entire music personality might be engraved and in the ground at this point.

So here we go, yo! 

No albums in this background made the list.

233

Dinosaur Jr.

You're Living All Over Me

Shredding.

232

Pixies

Surfer Rosa 

Being 17.

231

Pavement

Wowee Zowee 

Training for my half marathon in Feb 2018.

230

Ryan Adams

Heartbreaker

Failed dating excursions.

229

Devendra Banhart

Cripple Crow

Redfish summer 2009.

228

Sturgill Simpson

A Sailor's Guide to Earth 

Summer and fall, 2016.

227

Vampire Weekend

Contra 

My early days at USU. 

226

Mercury Rev

Deserter's Songs 

April 2016.

225

Cannibal Ox

The Cold Vein 

Feb 2016.

224

Grouper

Ruins 

Lying awake at night on antipsychotics (fall).

223

Death Cab for Cutie

We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes 

Every summer for the last 7 years.

222

Lambchop

Nixon

Summer 2019. 

221

Xiu Xiu

Fabulous Muscles 

Feb 2016.

220

Superchunk

Foolish 

Springtime.

219

Archers of Loaf

Icky Mettle 

Springtime.

218

R.E.M.

Reckoning 

USU spring semester 2013.

217

The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground & Nico

Cleaning the USU journalism building at 4am.

216

Coldplay

A Rush of Blood to the Head

Being a sensitive 14 year-old boy.

215

Iron & Wine

Our Endless Numbered Days 

Spring and summer. 

214

Simon & Garfunkel

Sounds of Silence 

Rainy spring days, 2019. 

213

Sufjan Stevens

Songs for Christmas 

Christmas. But also studying for finals late into the night at the TSC building in Dec 2013.

212

Arcade Fire

Reflektor 

Halloween 2013.

211

U2

Achtung Baby

Sophomore year of high school.

210

Dr. Dre

The Chronic

Spring nights. Perhaps April 20th?

209

Pink Floyd

Dark Side of the Moon

My classic rock days: Age 11-13.

208

Van Morrison

Moondance 

Summer.

207

Slowdive

Souvlaki

Lying awake at night on antispychotics (summer). 

206

Erykah Badu

Mama's Gun

Enjoying music in my 30s. 

205

Daft Punk

Discovery

Owning a car with good speakers.

204

The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys Today!

Late summer nights alone; questioning the universe, crushes.

203

Cat Power

Moon Pix

Cold snow-lit nights in solitude.

202

Van Halen

Van Halen

Living in California.

201

The Flaming Lips

Embryonic 

Spring semesters at USU.