Thanks for stopping by my old blog. This blog was active from July - early December 2006. It represents my 50 favorite albums at that time. Rather than updating the old blog I'll just say that there are some albums that would now make this that...

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This is recorded beauty. This is an album that has been with me, been a part of me ...for so long now. The lush sounds contained on this album take you to another place - somewhere apart from the hum-drum of everyday life. Picture yourself somewhere in...

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This is a masterpiece. I get the same feelings from The Joshua Tree that I get from The Unforgettable Fire, but they are even stronger. I spent alot of nights lying awake in bed at night listening to this album on headphones when I was a teenager....

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This album feels like being 16. I was starving to death (literally) and experiencing heart problems from severe electrolite imbalances. All of this to serve the end purpose of becoming a state wrestling champion in the future. I remember shivering in my..

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What can be said about Nevermind that hasn't already been said 1000 times? It changed music as we knew it...blah blah blah. I suddenly wanted to be a sad slacker in a flannel shirt. It was with 1993's release of In Utero that my feelings about...

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