The rules: Don't take too long to think about it--choose fifteen albums you've heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. (These aren't favorite albums, necessarily, just the fifteen that will always stick with you.)
Below are my fifteen. As instructed, they are not my absolute favorites albums, though many of them are. They represent touchstones in my life, records I think of and remember a particular moment or time of my life, usually the moment when I first heard them played or, more often, the period of my life when I was playing them over and over again. So you'll notice a heavy bias towards the records of my youth, almost all rock and roll records. A new record, especially one you fell in love with, was kind of an event back then. You knew it was coming, you picked it up the day it was released, you spent the following week listening to it over and over again. And if you fell in love with it it became part of your record-playing routine. I guess the records below could simply be categorized as the records I played the most when I was young (with a note that I kept a lot of the Dylan and Van Morrison records that I listened to constantly back then off the list, else it would contain nothing but their records. Instead I put on the list the first of their records that I fell in love with in order to leave room for others.)
Meet The Beatles - The Beatles
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Phil Spector's Greatest Hits - Phil Spector
Tapestry - Carole King
The '68 Comeback - Elvis Presley
The Drifters Greatest Hits - The Drifters
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Heat Treatment - Graham Parker
I Don't Want To Go Home - Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
This Year's Model - Elvis Costello
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin
Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
So how about you? What's your fifteen?
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