What, that's not mine!Mothman wrote: I didn't expect to see that on a list. I almost included ABC's The Lexicon of Love on mine.
Actually, I get in the mood for Ace of Base, Abba, Shakespears Sister, Bananarama, and other Eurogroups featuring female vocals.
I also listen to Evanescence (Fallen almost made the list) and various Heart albums (Dreamboat Annie almost made the list). Of course, these bands are from Arkansas and Canada respectively.
The strange thing about 80's Euromusic is that I didn't listen to much of it in the 1980's. I liked Durran Durran's Rio album, and I played that at parties (gotta play what the women like), but I was much more into Heavy Metal.
That doesn't mean I didn't keep some ABC, Wham!, Human League, Pet Shop Boys, The Fixx, Madness, and other bands on my playlist. I was the record critic for my high school newspaper, so I had to know what was in and what should be in.
I noted that someone up top slipped in a Petra album. I did a two piece series with the title Heaven and Hell that went over how metal was going dark and Christian rock was growing. Petra was the main focus of the second part of the series.
I also noted that VikeMike had Murmur from REM on his list, and I will have to strip something off mine for that one. I mean, that is a classic. I believe it is still their best work. It is one of those top to bottom "Dark Side of the Moon" type of albums that has no filler.
That is the same reason I put Savage Garden on my list. It has some singles, but it is so solid all of the way through.
Of course, my favorite album of all time, High -N- Dry by Def Leppard rocks from head to heel. It didn't have the singles like Pyromania and Hysteria, but it is the better album. It's too bad Def Leppard is known for crap like Pour Some Sugar on Me and Let's Get Rocked now, because they have put out some really good music with thought provoking lyrics. I use Gods of War and Paper Sun for lessons in the classroom.
There are bands that have albums with songs that are great, like Alice In Chains' Dirt, but I just don't like were other songs go on the album, so it didn't make the list. A few songs for Velvet revolver almost had it dropped, but songs like Big Machine, Spectacle, Dirty Little Thing, and Loving the Alien just cannot be removed from my bloodflow, so the album stays. I sing Slither and Fall To Pieces at Karaoke as well.
So there it is, I really don't have 25 top albums, because I love music - even pop music from Sweden.
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