i like lists. which is probably why i like vh1 so much. they like to list things. it's very diverting.

anyway, here's a new list for y'all. in a previous installment, i brought you my favorite individual songs. now, my favorite albums - those i tend to listen to in their entirety.

again, i'm too lazy to provide any order outside of alphabetical (by performer, multiple titles listed by release date):
1. Ryan Adams - Gold
2. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
3. Tori Amos - Under the Pink
4. Tori Amos - The Beekeeper
5. Bad Religion - Recipe for Hate
6. Belle & Sebastian - Tiger Milk
7. Christian Kiefer - Medicine Show
8. Counting Crows - August and Everything After
9. Ani DiFranco - Dilate
10. Ani DiFranco - Living in Clip (both discs)
11. Ani DiFranco - Little Plastic Castles
12. The Dwarves - The Dwarves Are Young And Good Looking
13. Janis Joplin - 18 Essential Songs
14. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
15. Don McLean - American Pie
16. Tift Merritt - Tambourine
17. Nirvana - In Utero
18. Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
19. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
20. Liz Phair - Juvenilia
21. Rasputina - How We Quit the Forest
22. Sandman - The Long Walk Home
23. Sandman & Jen Grady - Love's Hangover Sale Part 2
24. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
25. Nina Simone - The Blues
26. Subincision - Subincision
27. Suicide Machines - Destruction by Definition
28. Ween - The Mollusk
29. Ween - Quebec
30. Weezer - Pinkerton

as i'm looking at this, i know it's fairly incomplete. i've lost a lot of albums over the years. so these are the ones i have, or can remember having and listening to repeatedly.

ah well, it's been a while again. so a new list!

so i started out with this idea that i would challenge everyone (like anyone is reading this) to come up with 1 CD (80 minutes) of music for a sort of desert-island situation. but then, i couldn't narrow it down that much. i mean, i am seriously down to everything i ever put on multiple mix CDs, listened to on repeat for a long, long time, etc etc, and i still have 40 songs. so screw it, i'm making a double CD set.

these are alphabetical by song title, because i'm too lazy to order them properly:

1. Amarillo by Morning - George Strait
2. America - Simon & Garfunkel
3. Angie - The Rolling Stones
4. Ben McCulloch - Steve Earle
5. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
6. Can't Get Enough of Your Love - Barry White
7. Cooling - Tori Amos
8. Danny Boy (traditional; i like the version by the Chieftains & Diana Krall)
9. Earthbound - Rodney Crowell
10. Easy Mark - Nerf Herder
11. Eli, the Barrowboy - The Decemberists
12. Erendira - Christian Kiefer
13. Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight - Whiskeytown
14. Fight Test - The Flaming Lips
15. Flower - Liz Phair (but i prefer the Pansy Division cover)
16. Full of Grace - Sarah McLachlan
17. Good Hearted Woman - Waylon & Willie
18. Hey Jupiter - Tori Amos
19. Houses on the Hill - Whiskeytown
20. If You Could Save Yourself, You'd Save Us All - Ween
21. Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight - many versions, i like the one by the Dead Ringer Band
22. Let Me Touch You For A While - Alison Krauss & Union Station
23. Misery & Gin - Merle Haggard
24. Miss Being Mrs. - Loretta Lynn
25. My Only Bad Habit - Cross Canadian Ragweed
26. New Zero - Rasputina
27. Niteclub - The Old 97's
28. Oh My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams (maybe my favorite song EVER)
29. Origin of Love - Hedwig & the Angry Inch
30. Return of the Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons, but i prefer the Ryan Adams/Emmylou Harris cover
31. Romeo & Juliet - Dire Straits
32. Streams of Whiskey - The Pogues
33. Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
34. Swan Dive - Ani DiFranco
35. Thunder Road (acoustic version) - Bruce Springsteen
36. Time - Tom Waits
37. Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key - Billy Bragg & Wilco
38. Weightless - The Old 97's
39. White Line Highway - Sandman
40. Wouldn't It Be Nice - Beach Boys