I've featured a lot of pictures looking north on Elizabeth Street, but from memory this is one of the few taken looking south. This was taken on Thursday, at around 4:30 pm, as I am grumpy waiting for the 4:20 express.
Sunday Top Five!
A wisp of melancholy and an intense feeling of being old accompanied my oversight of a "best singles on the past decade" list online yesterday evening. More precisely, I either failed to recognise, or flippantly dismissed most of the entries.
You see, my formative musical years happened some time prior to the year 2000. Thus, today's list. In chronological order, I present to you My Five Favourite Record Albums of the 1990s!
U2: Achtung Baby
R.E.M.: Automatic for the People
Pulp: Different Class
Radiohead: OK Computer
Wilco: Summerteeth
Just missing the cut were a long list, culled to a very short list that included: Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible; Portishead's Dummy; Guided by Voices' Alien Lanes; Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain; Radiohead's The Bends; and Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space.
No place for the Macarena, unfortunately.
What else have I missed? Who have I dissed?
Feel free to voice your dissatisfaction.
Comments
I may have put Powderfinger's Internationalist, Crowded House's Together Alone, and Rage Against The Machine's self-titled album in, as well.
Midnight Oil's Blue Sky Mining is one of my real favourites, too...
the list would go on...of course
I would have to put "Pink Floyd" (even w/o Waters) Pulse live set in my top five. Such an awesome sound.