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My Top Five Albums

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Matt

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January 1st, 2008

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There are many albums that come and go but these are the ones that remain constants in my life. When I listen to these albums I am transported back to a place and time, a feeling. When I listen to these albums I am blown away by the level of musicianship or the quality of songwriting. These are the albums that I will listen to over and over from the moment I first heard them until the day I die. These are my top five albums.

The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About

The Get Up Kids are the band that changed it all for me. They demonstrated that music can be extremely emotional and personal while still being well written and super catchy. Truthfully, you could replace this album with Guilt Show, Four Minute Mile or The Woodson EP, they are all equal in my mind. But Something To Write Home About is the album I remember listening to with Justin Lee as we drove around Caledon and Brampton all through high school, it’s the album my old Grind Core band used to blast in the van on long drives through Quebec while other Metal bands made fun of us for listening to “Emo”, it’s the album I made my parents listen to in the car on my birthday one year as we drove to Toronto to buy new hi-hats at Steve’s Music. Something To Write Home About is the one album that (almost) every member of every band I’ve ever been in knows every word of.

Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come

It has never made sense to me, can Refused see the future and knew that this album would actually become the shape of punk to come or did it become the shape of punk to come because that’s what the album was called? I had never heard hardcore like this before and these guys are insane musicians. This is the most influential hardcore album of all time.

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

Rust In Peace contains some of the best musicianship I have ever heard. The songs are fast and amazingly tight and Megadeth pulls it off live, no studio magic involved. The lyrics are the perfect amount of political without it getting in the way and becoming preachy. In grade 7 I analyzed the lyrics of Dawn Patrol for a school project. The drums at the beginning of the last song, Rust In Peace…Polaris, are amazing.

Sloan - Twice Removed

The songwriting is amazing and the fact that all of the guys in the band can (and do) play every instrument makes this band incredibly tight because everyone is totally aware of what everyone else is doing. This album introduced me to Canadian indie rock. I remember hiding under the covers when I was a kid, listening to Twice Removed on my yellow Sony sport Walkman when I was supposed to be in bed.

Led Zeppelin - II

This was my first Led Zeppelin cassette, I wore it out. No one else plays drums like John Bonham played drums.

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