I got tagged with this Facebook meme by David Stamper a little while ago, but I’m only now just getting around to addressing it. Here’s the description I was sent:
The rules: Do this if it’s fun. Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends, including me, because I’m interested in seeing what albums you choose.
So, because I’m too lazy to do it in Facebook, I’m doing it here (eventually, through the magic of Twitter, the link’ll appear in Facebook anyway). Roughly in chronological order:
- Rush, A Farewell to Kings
- Al Stewart, Past, Present & Future
- Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV
- The Alan Parsons Project, Tales of Mystery and Imagination
- Dire Straits, Dire Straits
- Kate Bush, Hounds of Love
- Neil Young, Live Rust
- Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
- King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King
- Kitaro, Silk Road
- Stan Rogers, Northwest Passage
- Dead Can Dance, The Serpent’s Egg
- The Pogues, If I Should Fall From Grace With God
- John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
- Charles Mingus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
I had to take it in chronological order to limit it to only fifteen, so no really recent stuff . . . but perhaps that’s fair as it’ll take time to show if more recent stuff will hold up to long-term listening. Not quite making it onto the list was Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis & Gil Evans.
