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