Albums That Changed My Life

Forwarded this over from Facebook.. thought it was very cool :)

Think of at least 25 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, weeks, months, years. These are 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. When you finish, tag 25 others, including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill.

No being cool. Which albums have you actually listened to thousands of times?

In no particular order:

1. Mickey Mouse Disco
2. Annie (The Musical) Soundtrack
3. The Chipmunks - Christmas with the Chipmunks
4. Buddy Holly – The Buddy Holly Story
5. The Drifters – Drifter’s Golden Hits
6. The Eagles – Hotel California
7. Journey – Frontiers
8. H20 – Daryl Hall and John Oates
9. Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
10. Enya – Shepard Moons
11. Prince – Purple Rain
12. Prince – 1999
13. Weird Al – In 3D
14. Lenny Kravitz – 5
15. Foreigner – Records
16. Styx – Kilroy Was Here
17. Michael Jackson – Off the Wall
18. Sarah McLaughlin – Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
19. Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine
20. Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
21. Incubus – Morning View
22. Radiohead – The Bends
23. Yes – 90125
24. Erykah Badu – Baduzium
25. Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
26. Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill
27. Woodwork – Viewfinder
28. Sting – Nothing Like the Sun
29. The Smiths – Louder Than Bombs
30. The Cure – Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
31. Depeche Mode – Catching Up With Depeche Mode
32. The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
33. Cocteau Twins – Four-Calendar Café
34. Crowded House – Woodface
35. The New Radicals – Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too
36. Howard Jones – Dream Into Action
37. Yaz – Upstairs at Erics
38. INXS – The Swing
39. U2 – War
40. Jamiroquai – Traveling Without Moving
41. Two A.D. – Various
42. William Orbit – Strange Cargo III
43. Acen – 75 Minutes
44. Jeff Buckley – Grace
45. Moby – Play
46. Peter Gabriel – So
47. Rick Springfield – Living in Oz
48. Ten Hands – Be My Guru
49. Weezer – Weezer
50. Wolfmother - Wolfmother

Accessibility and Responsibility

From NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and nightly.msnbc.com.

It’s nice to see a President accessible and own up to his mistakes – not only via press release, but also on national television. Here are a few remarks that gave me chills and left me with more hope, despite the “mistakes.”

“..I’ve got to own up to my mistake, which is, that ultimately, it’s important for this administration to send a message that there are not two sets of rules… I’m frustrated with myself, with our team, but ultimately, my job is to get this thing back on track….”

“The fact of the matter is Tom Daschle pulled out today, and I’m here on television saying I screwed up. And that’s part of the era of responsibility is not, never making mistakes, it’s owning up to ‘em and trying to make sure you don’t repeat ‘em. And that’s what we intend to do.”

--President Barack Obama

See the video here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#29002023

"Sugar Lumps"

Currently my favorite song from The Conchords :) Was on last night! (Not work friendly if you are reading from there :)