About this mouse potato

Music

Music has always been a love of mine. I took classical piano lessons as a child, until my teens, but was too lazy to practice enough. I started working in college radio in 1978 and quickly became a fan of what was called "new-wave" at that time. Most of the music I like tends to be Brit-pop, or have jangly guitars in it. I also like almost any music with piano in it.

Here are some of my favorite albums of all time (or that I can think of at the moment). Maybe sometime I'll write more about each one. But for now, here's a plain-old list.

  • David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
  • Badly Drawn Boy - About A Boy Soundtrack
  • The Beggars - The Beggars
  • The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
  • Eva Cassidy - Songbird
  • Charlatans UK - Some Friendly
  • The Church - Seance
  • The Clash - Black Market Clash
  • The Colourfied - Deception
  • Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
  • Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
  • The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
  • The Damned - Strawberries
  • Martha Davis - Policy
  • The dB's - The Sound of Music
  • The Doves - Lost Souls
  • Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
  • Everything But the Girl - Amplified Heart
  • Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel III
  • Jeff Hanson's Here At Home
  • Hole - Live Through This
  • Joe Jackson - Blaze of Glory
  • Keane - Hopes and Fears
  • The La's - The La's
  • Magazine - Definitive Gaze
  • Van Morrison - No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
  • Pauline Murray & the Invisible Girls
  • Pretenders - The Pretenders
  • Radiohead - OK Computer
  • The Ramones - Subterranean Jungle
  • R.E.M. - Dead Letter Office
  • Romeo Void - It's a Condition
  • The Saints - Out in the Jungle
  • Simon & Garfunkel - Concert in Central Park
  • Patti Smith - Wave
  • Smithereens - Especially for You
  • Stellastarr* - Stellastarr*
  • Stiff Little Fingers - Go For It
  • The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
  • The Stranglers - Aural Sculpture
  • Suede - Suede
  • Matthew Sweet - In Reverse
  • U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
  • U2 - How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
  • Suzanne Vega - Nine Objects of Desire
  • The Velvet Underground & Nico
  • The Who - Who's Next
  • XTC - Drums and Wires