Listography - Top 5 Albums by a band

So my mate Chris of Jelly Bean Books has done her Listography on this topic and as I am music MAD I wanted to do my own.

So in no particular order here are my top five albums by a band.

Icehouse - Man Of Colours

This was on of the first albums I ever owned. I still have it on vinyl in fact. The melodies are amazing and Iva Davis is such an amazing song writer. The title song is a beautiful ballad and it still makes me stop and listen whenever I hear it and who hasn't belted out "Electric Blue" at some point.

Green Day - Dookie

I LOVE this album! I credit it largely to when my taste in music had it's first big turn. Prior to Dookie I was a "boy band" chick.

Something about the angsty guitars and amazing beats appealed to my adolescent brain and I started to be converted. To this day it still gets high rotation on my iPod.

Pearl Jam - Ten

So as some of you know I am a HUGE Pearl Jam fan, but I can't honestly say it happened in 1991 when this album came out. It was more like 1997.

Eddie Vedder's gravely voice got me from the first lines of Once. And their songs MEAN something. Maybe not to the listener but you sure as hell know that Eddie and the boys had stories to tell and opinions to share and in this album the did it with such amazingness (yes, it is a word :) ).

I still could listen to this album on repeat all day. No Problems.

Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (AKA Jimmy Eat World)

There is a reason this has two titles. It was initially released as Bleed American and then after 9/11 it was changed, out of respect to a self titled album.

I found this band by accident at the 2003 Sydney Big Day Out and was instantly hooked. Th poppy beats, the melodies, hell everything about this album is pure happy to my ears. I know every song by heart and would be devastated if I ever lost this album.

Poison - Open Up And Say Ahh







Hard decision to pick just 5 but I could NOT let this top 5 go without adding this album. Something about an 80's hair band that can both take the piss out of themselves and do a kick arse power ballad just smacks of awesome! I have this on vinyl too. LOVE it!

Honorable mentions also go to:

Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
Garbage - Self Titled
Crowded House - Woodface

When Love and Hate Collide

I love sewing. Really I do. And I think considering I had no clue whatsoever what I was doing when I got my machine in June last year that I'm doing ok. It's my zen.....my happy place.

That is of course until it isn't.

Take last night for example. I sit down to finally stitch up a long awaited order and brrrrrrrrffffffffffffft.

The coin purse: No drama's. All good there. Very happy with it.

Phase two of the project and it all goes to crap. My machine, a trusty little singer decides it's been possessed by either some form of demonic force or my two and a half year old and simply REFUSES to co-operate.

It's tension goes funny. Too tense, then too relaxed, back to tense. What does it need a friggin massage?? I play with it's nobs and give it a clean, check the bobbin, but there is no pleasing the bugger. Nothing is good enough.

Right as I reach that critical moment when I realise there's no flyscreen on my sewing room window at the moment and throwing it out into my front yard is becoming more and more appealing with every "ng-ng-ng-ng-ng-ng" noise the needle makes I decide, instead, to say several things that shouldn't be repeated (just in case there are kiddies next to you) and walk away.

It will not beat me. I will go back in there and I will win. You have not seen the last of me Singer!!!

But not tonight, it's cold.....and I'm tired.....and the house is quiet.....and you seem to have a spooky red glow about you.....

I'll win tomorrow.