Hi!
There are plenty other albums I really enjoy, but these are kind of special. It has a lot to do with memories(mostly), the mood I get into while listening to it, or maybe they just came in the right time.
And each one of them made me at least once want to get out there and do something new.
Actually, I don't even listen to some of them anymore, but I used to adore them and am still not ashamed for it, so I think it's fair to mention them.
I am aware that most of them are not important for the musical history, but ...you know, neither I am, so their importance is something irrelevant to me.
Mainstream isn't bad, people. Mainstream just means you don't take music so seriously. However, I agree that people who listen to the mainstream and declare how good their musical taste is are really annoying.
For each album, I've picked a couple of sentences. It's just a thing I like to do and it looks better than an ordinary list :)
I guess I will be editing this here quite often. Nothing is a final statement.
Feel free to comment, I don't take this journal too seriously.
Animal Collective -
Merriweather Post Pavilion
"He said "I like their clothes and their charming ways,
But what I really want is a simple place,
With no fashion clothes 'cause you can eat those"
''Am I really all the things that are outside of me?"
Arcade Fire -
Funeral
"When daddy comes home, you always start a fight
So the neighbors can dance in the police disco lights"
"Alice died in the night, I've been learning to drive
My whole life"
Arcade Fire -
Neon Bible
"You fool, now that you know your end is near
You always fall for what you desire or what you fear!"
"I'm living in an age
That screams my name at night
But when I get to the doorway
There's no one in sight"
Arctic Monkeys -
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
"Yeah but his bird thinks it's amazing, though
So all that's left Is the proof that love's not only blind but deaf"
"Well oh they might wear classic Reeboks
Or knackered Converse
Or tracky bottoms tucked in socks
But all of that's what the point is not
The point's that there ain't no romance around there"
Arctic Monkeys -
Favourite Worst Nightmare
"Stop and wait a sec,
Oh when you look at me like that my darling,
What did you expect,
I probably still adore you with your hand around my neck,
Or I did last time I checked"
"She said I want to sleep in the city that never wakes up,
And revel in nostalgia,
I know I said he wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up but,
Dorothy was right though"
Arctic Monkeys -
Humbug
"She said i'm really not supposed to but yes,
You can call me anything you want"
"What came first the chicken or the dickhead?"
Avril Lavigne -
Let Go
"And I wanna believe you,
When you tell me that it'll be ok,
Yeah I try to believe you,
But I don't"
"Everytime I try to make you smile
You're always feeling sorry for yourself"
The Beatles -
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
"Oh I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm I get high with a little help from my friends"
"Doing the garden, digging the weeds
Who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?"
The Beatles -
Abbey Road
"Boy, you're going to carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time"
"I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade"
Belle and Sebastian -
Tigermilk
"It's someone else's turn to go through hell?"
"He took all of my sins and he wrote a pocket novel called
"The State I Am In"
So I gave myself to God
There was a pregnant pause before he said ok"
Belle and Sebastian -
If You're Feeling Sinister
"It is mightier than swords
I could kill you sure
But I could only make you cry with these words"
"Judy wrote the saddest song
She showed it to a boy in school today
Judy, where did you go wrong?"
Belle and Sebastian -
The Boy With The Arab Strap
"Is it wicked not to care when they say that you're mistaken?"
"Why is this happening to you, you're not a child?
Why is this happening? You've too much on your mind
Things creep up on you when you are fast asleep
You are dreaming, you are sleepy
You are stuck to the sheets"
Belle and Sebastian -
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
"I was feeling like a loser
You said "Hey, you've still got me"
I was feeling pretty lonely
You said "You wanted to be free"
I was looking for a good time
You said "Let the good times start"
With a quiver of your eyelid
You took on someone else's part"
"If you find yourself caught in love
Say a prayer to the man above
You should thank him for every day you pass
Thank him for saving your sorry ass"
Billy Talent -
Billy Talent II
"There is a man, intensive care
When he awakes he will declare,
"I've been dead for 20 years!
I won't let 20 more go by..."
"Misery won't get the best of me"
blink-182 -
Enema Of The State
"Ill pack my bags I swear I'll run
Wish my friends were 21"
"She smokes a dozen and he doesnt seem to notice the smell
He took the seat off his own bike because the way that it felt"
blink-182 -
blink-182
"Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head"
"My head is made up of memories
Most of them useless delusions
This room is bored of rehearsal
And sick of the boundaries
I miss you so much"
Bloc Party -
Silent Alarm
"She said I'm going use my teeth and my breasts, I'm gonna make it happen"
"And your nose is bleeding
You've been lying to me"
Bloc Party -
A Weekend In The City
"Bubbles rise in champagne flutes,
but when we kiss, I feel nothing"
"I could feel your heartbeat across the grass"
Bloc Party -
Intimacy
"You get sadder the smarter you get
And it's a bore"
"So let's stay in, let the sofa be our car
Let's stay in, let the TV be our stars"
Brand New -
Deja Entendu
"Oh my tongue's the only muscle on my body
That works harder than my heart"
"Gave up my body and bed
All for an empty hotel
Wasting words on lower cases and capitals"
Brand New -
The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
"It's hard to be the better man
When you forget you're trying"
"So they say,
They say in heaven
There's no husbands and wives
On the day that I show up
They'll be completely out
Of their forgiveness supplies
And I can't use the telephone
To tell you that I'm dead and gone
So you won't know"
Brand New -
Daisy
"I'm a word that no one ever wants to say"
"So if I'm a liar and you're a thief
At least we both know where the other one sleeps"
Coldplay -
Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
"You thought you might be a ghost
You didn't get to heaven but you made it close"
Dashboard Confessional -
The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
"Well this is one time, well this is one time
That you can't fake it hard enough to please everyone"
"But I'm not laughing and you're not leaving
and who do I think I am kidding
When I'm the only one locked in this cell?"
Fall Out Boy -
Folie à Deux
"Nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy"
"Have you ever wanted to disappear?
And join a monastery
Go out and preach on Manic Street?
Who will I be when I wake up next to a stranger
On a passenger plane?"
Foo Fighters -
The Colour and the Shape
"If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
the only thing I'll ever ask of you
you've got to promise not to stop when I say when"
"If you walk out on me
I'm walking after you"
Green Day -
Dookie
"All her doubts were someone else's point of view"
"Let's nuke the bridge we torched
2,000 times before"
Green Day -
Nimrod
"Sugar and spice and everything nice wasn't made for only girls"
"The future just ain't what it used to be"
Green Day -
American Idiot
"The center of the earth
Is the end of the world
And I could really care less"
"Forgetting you, but not the time"
High School Musical
"This could be the start
Of something new
It just feels so right
to be here with you"
"I can't have people staring at me! I really can't!"
High School Musical 2
"Bet on it, bet on it
Bet on it, bet on it "
"When I hear my favorite song
I know that we belong
Oh, you are the music in me"
High School Musical 3
"Tomorrow can wait for some other day to be"
"Can the music ever be enough?"
Islands -
Return to the Sea
"Hot rainfalls made of magma melts Alaska
And in icy Argentine they say now I've seen it all
Who knew? Volcanoes!"
"I'm not just their leader
I'm also one of them"
Los Campesinos! -
Hold On Now, Youngster...
"Well, if a leopard doesn't change it's spots
You can't change my perceptions just from dots to dots
I swap the bruising for a bumping sensation
I'll be Ctrl-Alt-deleting your face with no reservations
And we'll stop fighting once your circuit board's igniting
Singing, I'm not finished, I'm not finished, no"
"Oh, when the smaller picture's the same
as the bigger picture you know that you're fucked"
Los Campesinos! -
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
"Oh we kid ourselves there's future in the fucking
But there is no fucking future"
"Shout at the world because the world doesn't love you
Lower yourself because you know that you have to"
Los Campesinos! -
Romance Is Boring
"I'm leaving my body to science, not medical but physics"
"I can't believe I chose the mountains every time you chose the sea"
Manchester Orchestra -
I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child
"A disaster's a disaster no matter what Christian language you drag it through"
"They ate up everyone like they were fishes
saying, "come on, come on, it's the end of the world"
Manic Street Preachers -
The Holy Bible
"He's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock
Tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want"
"And I stare at the sky
And it leaves me blind
I close my eyes
And this is yesterday"
Manic Street Preachers -
Everything Must Go
"I want to fly and run till it hurts"
"She told the truth, told the truth and then she lied"
Manic Street Preachers -
Journal For Plague Lovers
"Leave me, go Jesus
I love you, yeah I love you
Just let me go"
"It's not what's wrong It's what's right
Makes you feel like I'm talking a foreign language sometimes"
My Chemical Romance -
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
"You said you read me like a book, but the pages all are torn and frayed"
"Well I'm a total wreck and almost every day"
My Chemical Romance -
The Black Parade
"And when the lights all went out
We watched our lives on the screen"
"But there's shit that I've done with this fuck of a gun,
You would cry out your eyes all along"
Nelly Furtado -
Folklore
"I'm all I'll ever be
But all I can do is try"
"Oh yeah, the grass is green
But can you tell me, can you feel it, I just wanna feel it"
Nelly Furtado -
Loose
"From my body I could show you a place God knows
You should know the space is holy
Do you really want to go?"
"A diamond don't define what shine is"
Neutral Milk Hotel -
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
"And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's shoulder
And your dad would throw the garbage all across the floor
As we would lay and learn what each other's bodies were for"
"Two headed boy she is all you could need
She will feed you tomatoes and radio wires
And retire to sheets safe and clean
But don't hate her when she gets up to leave"
Panic at the Disco -
Pretty. Odd.
Paramore -
brand new eyes
Pink Floyd -
The Wall
Pixies -
Surfer Rosa
Pixies -
Doolittle
Pixies -
Bossanova
Queen -
Queen II
Queen -
A Night At The Opera
R.E.M. -
Out of Time
R.E.M. -
Automatic for the People
Radiohead -
Pablo Honey
Radiohead -
The Bends
Radiohead -
OK Computer
Radiohead -
Kid A
Razorlight -
Slipway Fires
Sunset Rubdown -
Shut Up I Am Dreaming
Sunset Rubdown -
Random Spirit Lover
Sunset Rubdown -
Dragonslayer
The Decemberists -
The Crane Wife
The Decemberists -
The Hazards of Love
The Killers -
Sam's Town
The New Pornographers -
Twin Cinema
The New Pornographers -
Challengers
The Offspring -
Ixnay on the Hombre
The Offspring -
Americana
Vampire Weekend -
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend -
Contra
Vypsaná fiXa -
Fenomén
Weezer -
Weezer
Weezer -
Pinkerton
Weezer -
Make Believe
Weezer -
Weezer (Red Album)
Weezer
