"Perfect Albums" - Page 4

  • Copper Blue by Sugar. Jokingly referred to as "Husker Du Mark Two" when I first heard it, this is the record that, for me, all alternarock guitar skronk must be measured against. Not many people can stack up to Bob Mould in that category, and this may be his best work. Crashing drums, propulsive bass lines, and buzz-saw guitars, and somehow he always manages to sneak in both a memorable hook and a melody. Not to mention pretty solid lyrics. Not a happy record, but it does contain the world's catchiest tune about drowning your significant other ("A Good Idea"), and "If I Can't Change Your Mind" is as wistful as a wall of sound can ever get.

  • And that's ten, which is a nice round number, and a good place to stop. There are dozens of albums hanging just below the level of this list (Fight Songs was the last one on (I've been on a country-ish kick for a little while now, and needed something to represent that), while Exile On Main St. and Utopia Parkway were the last two cut, and might well make it into the top ten if you asked me again in a month), and dozens more which were excluded on the basis of one arbitrary criterion or another. But these ten are consistent favorites, and probably as good a quick indicator of my tastes in music as anything else I could provide.

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