This old man has been around for 35 years as of today. How do I celebrate? Just listening to music. Music is as vital to my well-being as oxygen, as defining of me as are my red hair and blue eyes. They say humans are at least 60% water? I think I'm 90% music, split the rest as you like. If I were to sit still and silent next to you, before long, you'd hear the buzzing of my organs amplify and organize into a song.
The following albums, one from every year of my life, have each had a hand in creating the person I am today. If not for them, maybe my hair would be grey by now, my eyes black.
2013 - Midlake - Antiphon
2012 - Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
2011 - Other Lives - Tamer Animals
2010 - Junip - Fields
2009 - Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
2008 - Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
2007 - AU - AU
2006 - Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
2005 - Hood - Outside Closer
2004 - Wilco - A Ghost is Born
2003 - Manitoba (Caribou) - Up in Flames
2002 - Beck - Sea Change
2001 - Sparklehorse - Its a Wonderful Life
2000 - Elliott Smith - Figure 8
1999 - Built to Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
1998 - Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
1997 - Radiohead - OK Computer
1996 - Stereolab - Emporer Tomato Ketchup
1995 - Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
1994 - Portishead - Dummy
1993 - A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
1992 - Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
1991 - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1990 - The Breeders - Pod
1989 - Fugazi - 13 Songs
1988 - The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
1987 - Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
1986 - Peter Gabriel - So
1985 - The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
1984 - Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
1983 - U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky
1982 - Michael Jackson - Thriller
1981 - Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches
1980 - Talking Heads - Remain in Light
1979 - The Clash - London Calling
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