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favorite albums of the 90's...


What a tall order.  Don't know if in my present state (had a root canal 
yesterday and the Lortabs are kickin' in) that I could come up with all the 
recordings that I would consider faves.  Anyway, thought I'd throw out a 
few:

Rheostatics -  Whale Music
                Introducing Happiness
                Music inspired by the group of 7
                The Blue Hysteria
                Double Live
                THE STORY OF HARMELODIA (Tie with GDBD for best album        
                                   the 90's)
*Lustre - Lustre
*Bela' Fleck and the Flecktones - Live art
                                 Left of Cool
*Phish - Junta
        Rift
*This Train - The Emperors New Band
*Mazzy Star - She hangs brightly
*Seventy Sevens - Pray Naked
                  Drowning with Land in Sight
                  Tom Tom Blues

*Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
*Seal - Human Beings
*Love Coma - (the one Mike Roe produced)
*LSU/Mike Knott (everything he released)
*Pale Saints - Slow Buildings
*Bruce Cockburn - The Charity of Night
                  Breakfast in Nawlins, dinner in Timbuktu
*Lost Dogs - Little Red Riding Hood
*All OTR (of course)
*Maria Mckee - You gotta sin to get saved
               Life Is Sweet
*Sarah Mclachlan - Fumbling towards ecstacy
*Son Volt - Trace
*Indigo Girls - Rites of Passage
                Swampophelia
*The Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green grass
                The Sound of Lies
*Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
                    Maybe you Should Drive
*The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
                    Zaireeka
                    The Soft Bulletin
*Radiohead - O.K. computer
*Air french band - Air
*The Dandy Warhols - Come Down
*Innocence Mission - Umbrella
                     Glow
                     Birds of Our Neighborhood
*Belle and Sebastian - (everything released)
*Leo Kottke - One Man, One guitar, No vocals
*The Stone Roses - Turns to stone


Ok,ok....there's a few.

~KT

>From: Alfred B Johnson <hoopyfrood at juno_com>
>Reply-To: Alfred B Johnson <hoopyfrood at juno_com>
>To: Over-the-Rhine at actwin_com
>Subject: good albums
>Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:49:54 -0500
>
>Losties--
>
>I'm really bad at listing favorite albums.  I used to be in a band with a
>guy who has top ten llists for everything.  Best albums.  Best singles.
>Best foods.  Worst foods.  Most annoying things.  (If I remember right,
>Phil Collins was his number 4 most annoying thing, and number 3 was
>people who tried to convince him that Phil Collins was talented; whether
>you agree or not, that's a brilliant strategy for stiffling a personally
>annoying subject.  But this is a tangent.)  I have no skill in this.
>
>Best albums of all time?
>
>Something by the Beatles.
>Something by the Stones.
>Something by the Clash.
>Something by the Velvet Underground.
>Somethinng by the Pixies.
>Something by U2.
>Something by Prince.
>Something by Springsteen.
>Something by Dylan.
>Something by REM.
>
>That'd be a pretty weighty ten.  But racially imbalanced, especially
>since rock and roll rolls out of the blues and stuff.  But there you go.
>
>But so much left out.
>
>Hendrix?  The Cure?  Janis?  The Dead?  Nirvana?  Pearl Jam?  Pavement?
>Phair? Jeff Buckley?  Hole?  Elvis?  Buddy Holly?  Johnny Cash?
>
>See.
>
>Still I have only one non-white guy, and still I've left out a hundred
>great bannds and performers.  Hell, what about SInatra!!!  Where's the
>justice!!
>
>This is just too hard.
>
>Worst album buys?
>
>Something by Petra.
>
>Funniest?
>
>I have a copy of Guardian's Fire and Love autographed by the entire band
>AND the bass players little boy, who was about 6.
>
>And so I leave you with this bit of info:
>
>Michael Penn has a new album coming out at the beginning of February,
>called MP4, with a subtitle I forget.  It may be the best album of
>2/2000, but I haven't heard it, so I don't know.
>
>And something by OtR would go on some sort of top ten somewhere, but
>which one?
>
>ping ponging over the abyss,
>
>Fred
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