What’s up with that?

Recently, I was asked (on FaceBook) to list fifteen albums I’ve heard that will always stick with me.

The rules were simple: List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Here’s what I came up with. I may have gone over my fifteen minutes and I may have used outside sources (Google) to help me, mostly to remember. The list isn’t in a specific order.

1. Queen – Live Killers (1979)
2. Kiss – Alive (1975)
3. Queensryche – Rage for Order (1986)
4. Queensryche – Operation Mindcrime (1988)
5. Pink Floyd – The Wall (1979)
6. Motley Crue – Too Fast For Love (1981)
7. Guns’n’Roses – Appetite for Destruction (1987)
8. Bowie, David - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars (1972)
9. Cheap Trick – At Budokan (1979)
10. Def Leppard – Hysteria (1987)
11. Def Leppard – Pyromania (1983)
12. Aerosmith – Live Bootleg (1978)
13. SRV – Texas Flood (1983)
14. SRV – Couldn’t Stand the Weather (1984)
15. Queen – Queen (1973)

Kindly note the date range…1973 – 1988! Can it be that not ONE album, not a single artist has impacted me as much as the music of over TWO DECADES ago? Was the last time I was touched so deeply by a song really when I was 20 years old?

Now, I can think of a good couple of handfuls of albums that I listened to ad nauseum when I first got them: Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt, Ten Summoner’s Tales by Sting, even Flamenco a Go-Go by Steve Stevens. But none of them would make the list above.

What’s up with that?