Meticulously listing out the soundtrack to my life.
By Erik Hagen • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: General Sod, Music
Last week saw the first annual Sod Conference (patent pending), when Nate and his wife were in Bismarck (which, as was agreed to be all attendees, should henceforth be referred to either as The Biz or ‘Smark) and joined me, the admin, and infrequent blogger Kelly Hagen for drinks at the local drinking hole. Much merriment and festivities were had. If you weren’t invited, rest assured that it was probably intentional.
Anyway, it was during our gathering that Nate stated that he felt like everyone on the Sod Blog should have joined in on his, Kelly’s and Chris’s recent listings of the definitive albums of each year of their sad, empty lives. So fine. I’m nothing if not a frequent and tragic victim of peer pressure. Here’s my list of the only albums that have ever mattered during my stay on the planet earth.
1978 - (blank)
1979 - (blank)
1980 - (blank)
1981 - (blank)
1982 - (blank)
1983 - (blank)
1984 - (blank)
1985 - (blank)
1986 - (blank)
1987 - (blank)
1988 - (blank)
1989 - (blank)
1990 - (blank)
1991 - Pearl Jam - Ten
1992 - (blank)
1993 - Pearl Jam - Vs.
1994 - Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
1995 - Pearl Jam - Merkin Ball (Yeah, yeah. It’s a single. Shut the hell up.)
1996 - Pearl Jam - No Code
1997 - (blank)
1998 - Pearl Jam - Yield
1999 - (blank)
2000 - Pearl Jam - Binaural
2001 - (blank)
2002 - Pearl Jam - Riot Act
2003 - Pearl Jam - Lost Dogs
2004 - (blank)
2005 - (blank)
2006 - Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
2007 - (blank)
2008 - (blank)
I’ll fill in the blanks some other time, if and when every other musical band on earth discontinues sucking.
Erik Hagen is comprised of equal parts X and Y chromosomes, snips, snails, puppy dog tails, and a whole lot of water. He was born into this world covered in blood, naked, and slightly hysterical. Very little has changed since.
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Didn’t you once call Radiohead’s “OK Computer” the greatest album of all-time? And it doesn’t even make your favorite albums list? I smell shenanigans.
On one hand, you make a valid point. On the other hand, kindly shut the hell up.
I also smell shenanigans! And chicken marsala. Odd…
I can recall almost all of the bands that I have enjoyed over the years. Perhaps the reason for that is that I own most of their music on CD now. Music is an important part of my life and one of the things I spend a little money on regularly. I never buy CD’s that are new, I’ll wait till I can get them used for 1/2 or less of the original price.