And now for something a little different

Not a set list (I have so many to upload) but a meme!

From the dreaded Facebook 15 Albums Meme...

"Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, months, weeks and years. These were the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world."

1. Parallel Lines - Blondie
New wave was the first music genre I discovered on my own - roughly age 9 or 10. The first track, Hanging on the Telephone, just blew my mind. I met Deborah Harry about 12 years ago; she was gracious and as awesome as I anticipated.

2.The Doors - The Doors
Released the same year as Sgt Pepper and Surrealistic Pillow, this to me typifies all that was fantastic and fatal about the Summer of Love. Morrison. I listened to this non stop in junior high school.

3.Back in Black - AC/DC
The first album I asked my parents to buy me - and they did.

4.Dirty Mind - Prince
The neighborhood kids introduced me to Prince around the time Controversy came out. After a few years I went back to find more Prince and stumbled upon Dirty Mind. Scandalous. Funky. Fabulous.

5. Touch - Eurythmics
I had the Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) album but it was Touch that made me a rabid Eurythmics - and by extension - Annie Lennox fan. It was a tip off to adoration of all things electronic leading to....

6. Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
This album was released in 1977 but I didn't discover it until roughly 1983 or 84. Played it until the grooves wore out.

7. Leave Home - Ramones
Welcome to Punk Rock. Also released in 1977 and entered my world in 1984.

8. Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
My favorite track on this album is Are You Experienced. Yes, I know Electric Ladyland is better, but this the first Hendrix I bought. I played it non stop my freshman year of college.

9. Fables of the Reconstruction - R.E.M.
Another album that dominated my college years as I became a philomath myself. Alternative music becomes popular music.

10.The White Album - The Beatles
In truth Revolver means more to me musically, but The White Album comforted my seventeen year old broken heart.

11. Doolittle - The Pixies
Debaser and Tame picked up the pieces of my mind that were destroyed by Blondie, pulverized them, and shot them into space.

12.It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
The soundtrack for my first summer of research in graduate school, at the synchrotron in Stoughton, Wisconsin. Don't believe the hype - it's a sequel.

13. Nevermind - Nirvana
Classic. My favorite Nirvana tunes are on other albums (Pennyroyal Tea, In Utero, Aneurysm, From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah) but this ripped the 1990s out of the utter crap that was pop music. Also, eff Pearl Jam. Poseurs.

14.Diva - Annie Lennox
The soundtrack to the start of my first significant relationship - six and half years of mostly joy. After our breakup, I'd listen to it and mourn.

15.Living in Clip - Ani Difranco
The soundtrack to the start of my second (and current) significant relationship - ten years of Sturm und Drang, ideas and lust, devotion. Like the energizer bunny, still going.

BONUS
16.OK Computer -Radiohead
Minor keys. Paranoia. Thom Yorke. Macintosh Simple Text. Enough said.