Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The Jared P. Stout Ultimate Album List

This blog is going to start off with a bang. During the past few weeks I've been coming up with a list of my Top 25 favorite albums of all time, and during the next few weeks, I'm going to be releasing the list one album at a time.

This is something I've thought about doing for a long time, but it's not exactly an easy thing to do as most people could understand. I actually didn't have all that much trouble coming up with about the first 16 albums or so. I actually used the help of brackets for the remaining spots.

I think I'm finally ready to finalize the list, which has been changed a few times in the last week, even after I thought it was already finalized, but I'm pretty sure I have it now.

Sometime in the next few days I'm going to start with the No. 25 album and try to do a post every one or two days. Every once in awhile during the countdown, I'm going to add a few special honorable mention albums. These aren't necesssarily No. 26-30 or anything, they're just albums that are particularly special to me but weren't good enough to make the list.

Before I begin to release the list, here are a few fun facts:
  • The No. 1 album was actually pretty easy for me.
  • No. 25, on the other hand, was incredibly difficult. I actually changed it about four times, and if I waited one more week, I think it could change again.
  • Only three bands made the list more than once and none made it more than twice.
  • In a slight surprise, neither the Pixies nor Fugazi made the list at all. It's possible that Fugazi would have about four albums between 26 and 50 if it were a longer list.

I'll be posting the links on Facebook, so please be sure to check out the list.

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