Criteria:
a. Only one album per band/artist
b. No compilation packages: original release albums only.
c. Just because I picked a record doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s my favorite by that artist, or that it’s their best album. It just means that it influenced me the most (could be because it touched me emotionally, or inspired me musically…etc.)
1.) A Rush of Blood to the Head (Coldplay)
2.) The Joshua Tree (U2)
3.) For Emma, Forever Ago (Bon Iver)
4.) Kid A (Radiohead)
5.) Live in New Jersey (Pete Yorn)
6.) United We Stand (Hillsong United)
7.) Conditions (The Temper Trap)
8.) Chunk of Change (Passion Pit)
9.) The Queen is Dead (The Smiths)
10.) Disintegration (The Cure)
11.) The Sparrow and the Crow (William Fitzsimmons)
12.) White Ladder (David Gray)
13.) A Mark A Mission A Brand A Scar (Dashboard Confessional)
14.) Transatlanticism (Death Cab for Cutie)
15.) Only by the Night (Kings of Leon)
16.) August and Everything After (Counting Crows)
17.) Cease to Begin (Band of Horses)
18.) Love is Hell (Ryan Adams)
19.) The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place (Explosions in the Sky)
20.) Good Booty (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
21.) Bringing Down the Horse (The Wallflowers)
22.) Mutemath (Mutemath)
23.) West Texas (Sleepercar)
24.) Version (Mark Ronson)
25.) American IV: The Man Comes Around (Johnny Cash)
Who influenced you?
- mt
