Sunday, December 07, 2008 5:26:00 AM

I'm sitting here listening to some music, and I'm thinking I'm going to put together a list of my all-time favorite albums of all-time (subject to change as I listen to more, different, albums (that happens on a daily basis (usually))). Here we go, at 4 in the morning.

My top 10 albums (in no particular order):

• Astronautalis - Mighty Ocean and Nine Dark Theaters
• Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
• Weezer - Pinkerton
• Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
• Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
• Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
• Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
• Bill Evans and Jim Hall - Undercurrent
• Test Icicles - For Screening Purposes Only
• Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

Basically, my criteria to make it on this list was:

1. Did the album spring immediately to mind?
2. How long have I been listening to this album and thoroughly enjoying it?
3. Is it really that fucking good?
4. Do I know pretty much all of the words to all of the songs on it?
5. Does it evoke strong memories?
6. Is it really that fucking good?

The first three on the list actually did spring immediately to mind when I thought about putting the list together, so they were of course going to make it on the list. I was actually listening to Might Oceans and it is what spurned me to make the list because I was thinking to myself "This album is really fucking good." I think the fact that I've already posted the majority of Pinkerton on my vox is a testament to how much I like it. Actually, I'm pretty sure that I've put up at least one song from every album on my list.

--Just searched through my archives--

Oh, seems like I don't have anything from Good News, but that's easily remedied. I really love that album though. If I had to choose a top 5 out of that list, it would be in it.

Uh, things about the other albums...

Pinkerton, Good News, Commit This, and Wide Awake are all personal favorites because I relate to them way more than I probably should be able to. Wide Awake is also just a really beautiful album. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea really is that fucking good, so it is up there. It is also a beautiful, beautiful album. Songs for the Deaf is also that fucking good, along with it having a bunch of good memories tied to it. Undercurrent is by far my favorite jazz album, so it got to be in there. Not to mention, it is just an amazing album in general. DFA and Test Icicles are up there because they are also amazing. They're both heavyish bands that are also danceable and fun.

I wish I weren't so tired so I could describe these better. Maybe I will comeback tomorrow after I wake up and punch up these descriptions? Probably not.