Ah the time-wasting joys of Facebook. I was asked to compile a list of top ten albums and when I sat down to write them out it took some time…much more than I wanted to spend compiling a list just for fun. The friend who asked me to do this is a dear old friend and budding DJ Liam Mockridge so for him, I made the effort and it was fun. I realised that choosing my top ten all-time favourite songs would have been much easier because there are so many artists that I love listening to, depending on my mood. Choosing top albums involves loving at least several of the songs on there so, in the end I was able to whittle it down to my all-time top 13 albums plus 3 compilations. I am quite tempted to compile another list of my top 10 spiritual/yoga/meditation/world music albums too because there are so many great artists that I love in that genre alone and that’s what I listen to mostly these days but I don’t want to spend all day compiling lists of music I love – there is too much to do today! The albums on this top 13 list have stuck with me as great loves over the years and I never get sick of hearing them.
Depeche Mode- 101
Madonna- True Blue
Nine Inch Nails- The Downward Spiral
The Velvet Underground & Nico
David Bowie- Hunky Dory
Eek-A-Mouse- Wa Do Dem
The Doors- Strange Days
Patrick Wolf- Lycanthropy
Peaches- The Teaches of Peaches
Yoav- Charmed & Strange
M.I.A- Arular
The Beastie Boys- Check Your Head
Tchaikovsky- The Nutcracker
These are my favourite compilation albums because I have loved playing them from beginning to end over the years and still do- they have stood the test of time for me:
Nouvelle Vague- Nouvelle Vague
Hotel Pelirocco- Compilation
Kashpoint- Compilation
The Conscious Hipster 