To keep their little heads from falling in the snow

Joe off of Flickr passed on a meme on the facebooks:

15 Albums in 15 Minutes

The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

Metallica – Metallica

Appetite for Destruction – Guns’n’Roses

It was the style at the time.

The Levellers – Levellin’ the Land

Reminds me of festivals, campfires and endless summers in deepest, darkest Somerset.

Portishead – Dummy

1st year at university. Ubiquitous but brilliant. Nothing like it has been produced since.

Manu Chao – Clandestino

Other than Santana’s collaboration album, Supernatural. This was our year in Seville’s soundtrack.

Black Box Recorder – England Made Me

Love the guitar, tunes and especially the lyrics of all these. Brutal it is, but I love how it simultaneously celebrates and rubbishes its subject matter. Sarah Nixey’s got a fine voice on her too.

Shakira – Pies Descalzos

I get all kinds of crap for liking Shakira. But face it, she’s a thousand times better than Kylie. And her gig in Guadalajara three years was one of the best I’ve been to. There. Argument settled.

The Smiths – Best of Vol. 2

The first Smiths album I bought (1992). And it’s an excellent primer…

The Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground & Nico

Paranoia, sado-masochism and violas never sounded so good.

REM – Automatic for the People

Choose any track off this one, any of em. Gold.

The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry

Still my favourite Cure album. I’m all about the minimalist production.

Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy

Jamaica? Nah, she went by herself.

Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour of Bewilderbeast

Best album of the noughties for my money.

Molotov – ¿Dónde jugarán las niñas?

Spanglish soundtrack to Guadalajara 1998.

Underworld – Dubnobasswithmyheadman

Mixin’ it up, two track acoustic guitar of Rachel Stevens’s (ex S Club 7) Sweet Dreams my L.A. Ex made with Audacity and my 22 quid guitar from Corte Ingles, Seville:

sweet_dreams_my_LA_ex_acoustic.mp3 (623k file)

The $9.99 a month Spotify Pro subscription is without a doubt one of the best things I throw dollars at. The Guardian iPad app’s a close second. Anyroad, let’s see how easy it is to embed a playlist in WordPress… This one’s a work in progress I’ve dubbed ‘Pop-U-Like‘: