I haven’t had much time lately to think about posting much — in fact, I’m sure my Mac is feeling neglegted…
But, one thing I can do while working and driving to work, is listen to music on my iPod. When I read Jason Kottke’s reaction to some recent Critics’ picks for the best albums from the last twenty years, I started thinking about my own list.
First, it seems arbitrary to draw a line at 20 years — I prefer to put the seperation between classic rock, and modern rock, since most of the important music of the past 20–30 years, (for me), falls into the latter category.
For the next 5 days, (weekend excluded), I will post my list for the Most Influential Modern Rock Albums, in no particular order. Here is my first choice:
Blur, Parklife : Though today I more admire the earlier Modern Life is Rubbish, I can’t deny that Parklife was a transformative album for me. Released in 1994, when I was still in high school, it came to represent everything that wanted to be — clever, articulate, sarcastic, pop-aware, and paranoid.
Drawn largely on Martin Amis’ characters, especially from the novel London Fields, the album revelled in pre-Millenial malaise, and got me to sing along… la la la la.
I can pretty much gurantee that OK Computer will not be on my list… but you never know.
You’ll have to stay tuned… I’ve got #2 and #3 already written… ;-)
You could always do your own Top 5, over on “Tbone”:http://tbone.suckahs.org.