{"id":913,"date":"2004-01-22T23:14:54","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T23:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-913.html"},"modified":"2016-05-15T23:49:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T21:49:11","slug":"favourite-albums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/01\/22\/favourite-albums\/","title":{"rendered":"Favourite albums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m on a music tip, I might as well put down my top ten list of favourite albums.  I&#8217;ve been meaning to do this for a while, but the list keeps changing on me.  Also, now that I listen to music mainly on MP3 on my computer, the very concept of &#8220;album&#8221; is blurring.  If I&#8217;m in the mood for some Barenaked Ladies, I&#8217;ll spin up a playlist of my favourite songs spanning <em>all<\/em> of their albums.  It&#8217;s actually quite rare nowadays that I listen to a single album all the way through.  (The main exception being when I get something new, and want to find out which songs I&#8217;m going to like.)  This is probably why some of my favourite bands, such as BNL and Toad The Wet Sprocket, don&#8217;t feature on this top ten list:  they have no one album that I would choose above their others.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the list.  It&#8217;s in alphabetical order, because ordering them by preference would just be <em>too<\/em> difficult.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Badly Drawn Boy &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00004TJWD\/\"><i>The Hour Of Bewilderbeast<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Bluetones &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000084TS\/\"><i>Return To The Last Chance Saloon<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dave Matthews Band &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005QD8E\/\"><i>Live in Chicago 12.19.98<\/i><\/a> (But only Disc 1; disc 2 leaves me completely cold)<\/li>\n<li>Deep Blue Something &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000024BOX\/\"><i>Byzantium<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Glen Phillips &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005AVR1\/\"><i>Abulum<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gorillaz &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005M08C\/\"><i>Gorillaz<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lifehouse &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005NGS9\/\"><i>No Name Face<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Live &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005NZKG\/\"><i>V<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sarah McLachlan &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003JA05\/\"><i>Mirrorball DVD<\/i><\/a> (This is cheating, I suppose, because it&#8217;s a DVD rather than a CD.  To whose who object I say, &#8220;nyah.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Radiohead &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000002UJQ\/\"><i>OK Computer<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ah, sod it.  Here&#8217;s the next ten, too:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bleu &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000095J1T\/\"><i>Redhead<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Miles Davis &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000024F6G\/\"><i>Kind Of Blue<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Doves &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000065SXM\/\"><i>The Last Broadcast<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Falco &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000031X3X\/\"><i>Falco 3<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Groove Armada &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005NGSK\/\"><i>Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub)<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Linkin Park &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00004Z459\/\"><i>Hybrid Theory<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Manic Street Preachers &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000007VOL\/\"><i>Generation Terrorists<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Red Hot Chili Peppers &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000067CPX\/\"><i>By The Way<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sting &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00000GAGZ\/\"><i>The Soul Cages<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tears For Fears &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00000JR2A\/\"><i>The Seeds Of Love<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m on a music tip, I might as well put down my top ten list of favourite albums. I&#8217;ve been meaning to do this for a while, but the list keeps changing on me. Also, now that I listen to music mainly on MP3 on my computer, the very concept of &#8220;album&#8221; is blurring. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/01\/22\/favourite-albums\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Favourite albums&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3531,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/3531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}