My Top 10 Moosic albums EVER!?!?

Yes, the title lacks coherence and was intended to be like that

Narrowing them down is really hard. Putting them in order is even harder. So the order isn't really that important and might be more so just when I thought of them. I'm also sure that I'll forget one that I should've included and it'll drive me crazy. This list could also greatly fluctuate and be changed many times.

There are tunes that I likely listen to way more, but these albums always come to mind. These are a mix of most-life-changing, most-influential and most-listened-to.

Did I go for quantity over quality on this post?

10: Pearl Jam - "Ten"

This definitely could've been put way higher on the list but I thought it was funny that I put it in the "Ten" position.

People that were around for its release in 1991 likely have a much greater association with this album than I do. Perhaps a certain scent that it relates to. I wasn't even around yet for when it was released, like a lot of albums on this list. But like those before me, this album was a soundtrack to inspire teenage shenanigans mixed with a bit of wheelie boards. Everybody wants to talk smack about Eddie's vocals but they're simultaneously aware that it's actually just what they want to hear, on every track of this album.

9: Led Zeppelin - "Physical Graffiti"

This is one of the best albums you'll ever hear spun on vinyl. Which can be a list of its own. "Here's a list of the best sounding vinyl records that I own." "Physical Graffiti" just sounds so "raw", god. "The Rover", "In My Time of Dying", "Houses of the Holy" and "Trampled Under Foot" all deliver such a punch from your speakers, it's tear-jerking. Some of the greatest songs ever written without even having to switch to the second LP.

8: The Police - "Outlandos D'Amour"

To keep the theme of "best sounding vinyl that I own" going, the one that I found living in an abandoned barn for 20+ years with no sleeve might take the cake. Outlandos D'Amour sounds sooooo good when you spin it around in circles. The more weathered it is, the better I guess. It adds to the "rawness". "Born In The 50s" is enough to make me not want to take it off the turntable for months alone. That's besides the chance to hear hits like "Roxanne" and "Next To You" in analog.

7: A Tribe Called Quest - "The Low End Theory"

To add a jazzy hip-hop twist to this list. "Jazz (We've Got)" Nothing will make you boogie quite like this album (or sit completely still). It'll have you hooked with the first bass line from the opening track "Excursions". Then you can "Check out the Rhime" or "Scenario" and the rest of this album. It'll have you "Buggin' Out". Seriously, those bass lines are spiritually healing.

6: Audioslave - "Audioslave"

"I Am the Highway" could be the greatest song ever written. I can say that confidently. The live solo version featured in Chris Cornell's "Songbook" is a highway to greatness on its own. (RIP Chris) This album is just such a good listen from start to finish on a serious note. But you can get some "Gasoline" before "the Highway" for your "Getaway Car" on a not-so-serious note. Oh my god.

5: Talking Heads - "Speaking In Tongues"

"Home is where I want to be but I guess I'm already there", Ouch. Everything about "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" is just so lovely. Im sure the neighbours love to hear "Girlfriend Is Better" rattle my speakers and "Moon Rocks" is just too fucking groovy for this planet. (see what I did there) Those definitely aren't the only songs worth listening to though, It's no secret how good this album is.

4: Alice In Chains - "Jar of Flies"

We're getting into the territory of that formerly trending picture of Bill Clinton with your four favourite albums now.

I did a blog post specifically about this album not long ago, so I won't go too in depth on it. That blog is for that. But rest assured this album is top notch all the way through. Whether it puts you in your feels or not. Listen to it, "NO EXCUSES"!

3: Townes Van Zandt - "Townes Van Zandt"

Again with the "all killer no filler". Maybe this isn't the kind of album to say that for. But this album was actually a gateway drug. I realized "wow, this country-bluesy-folk kind of stuff is actually phenomenal?" "Waiting Around To Die", "Lungs", "I'll Be Here In the Morning", "Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel" and "None But The Rain" could all be listed as the best songs ever. Whether it just be further lighting my love for outlaw country or just further exposing the old man in me.

2: The Dead South: "Illusion & Doubt"

Let's add some "Bluegrass" or "Blue Trash" to the list.

*Wrong album, but "Sugar and Joy" could easily take its place.

What A change-up for this one. "Boots", "The Good Lord", "Miss Mary" and "Gunslinger's Glory" would be enough to make this one of my most listened to albums by themselves. I could've picked most other albums from The Dead South and been alright with it. But every song on this album makes me realize why I love listening to these guys so much. Also, they wrote "One Armed Man" about me I'm sure of it.

1: Black Sabbath - The first 5 albums

I didn't want to take up a bunch of different spots doing so, and I couldn't narrow it down to just one album. But what you need in your life is more of Ozzy's haunting howl, Geezer's fuzzy galloping bass, Bill's thunderous cannon drum smacks and Tony's lightning quick or sludgy and slow riffs of doom. A lot of people don't even know that Ozzy Osbourne was the original frontman of Black Sabbath? He sounded different then in such a good way. Talk about a life-changing discovery. It's quite the can of worms that you'll open up. I know that discovering this stuff in my teenage years boot-kicked me in the face in just the way I wanted to be. So hard. Songs like "The Wizard" on the Black Sabbath album, the "Rat Salad" drum solo from Paranoid (watch the "Live In Paris 1970" video OMG), "Lord Of This World" from Master of Reality (watch Fred Gall's Habitat part), "Under The Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes" from Volume 4, "A National Acrobat" from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath all put my brain in a blender. (ironically) I could go on forever and talk about every track on those albums.

LISTEN TO VOLUME 4 🤘

See here's the first one I almost didn't mention

BONUS!

Honourable mention: The White Buffalo - "Once Upon A Time In The West"

"I Am The Light" might be the best sounding ending to an album you'll ever hear. We'll start with the end first. But you'll hear many great things throughout, no doubt. "The Pilot", "One Lone Night", "Wish It Was True", "Hold The Line", oh goodness, and there's more. There are so many albums that I can consider as like greatest hits albums from Jake and this is definitely one of them. Put his voice on everything just like Frank's Red hot.