Musical day...

You ever have one of those days that you just want to lay around and listen to music? Today was that day for me.

I must have listened to hundred's of songs from my CD collection. Thank goodness I moved all of my music to my hard drive, or else my "cave" would have been an absolute mess of CD's and CD cases.

Okay, now I'm going to jump right in and ask you, reader to do me a favor. I am going to throw down my list of my favorite top 5 all time albums (albums, not specific musicians or bands or songs, something to pop in and listen from track 1 to track xxx). You'll find my musical tastes land all over the place, but I do have a basic theme. My favor to ask is for you to search your collection and let me have your top 5 all time albums (see my definition above). You can tell me why they are your top 5, or you can just list them. I would like to add to my collection, but I don't like spending money on a "one good song" CD. That's part of why I haven't added to my collection for several years.

Okay, here's mine:

1. Metallica - Master of Puppets - My reason is that this was my first introduction to what has become my favorite band of all time. It's hammering style and lyrics helped me through some tough times (Damage, Incorporated is one of my top 5 favorite headbanging songs).

2. Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? - Again, first introduction to one of my favorite bands outside of Metallica (Dave Mustaine was part of Metallica at the beginning). Odd, but some of it's lyrics are self-destructive and those same lyrics helped me through and out of some of my most self-destructive phases. Not sure how that works, but it did.

3. AC/DC - Highway to Hell - Favorite album of my second most favorite band of all time (right behind Metallica). Just a great "fun" album. Sex, drugs and rock n roll, I don't think there is a serious bone in any of their bodies. Best album with Bon Scott singing.

4. Suzanne Vega - 99.9 fahrenheit degrees - Doesn't quite fit with the others above does it? Hmm, just great lyrics and awesome music to back them up. I can pop this in and listen to it over and over and over. Every song is worth listening to.

5. Everlast - Eat at Whitey's - This was a difficult decision, but I think I have to give this one it's props. Solid all the way from Whitey to Graves to Dig.

Biggest competitor to #5 was the Motion Picture Soundtrack to Heavy Metal. Biggest problem with that one is I just can't make myself listen to Open Arms by Air Supply - makes me want to run screaming from the room. But it does have my favorite love song (yes, I actually do have a favorite love song), which is Don Felder's "All of You".