So a friend told me about this thing going around facebook (which I am proud to say I am not a member of) where you list the top 15 most influential albums in your life. Seeing as that music is my biggest passion, I could not resist. This was much harder than I realized, so I decided to do 20. Now these are not necessarily my top 20 favorite albums, just the ones that have inspired me or had an impact on my life, good or bad. So here it goes, in no particular order:

1. Blind Melon - Soup
2. Deftones - Adrenaline
3. The Cure - Disintegration
4. The Black Crowes - Three Snakes and One Charm
5. Toadies - Rubberneck
6. Depeche Mode - Violator
7. Pearl Jam - Ten
8. Nirvana - Nevermind
9. Incubus - Science
10.Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
11.A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
12.Our Lady Peace - Naveed
13.Portishead - Portishead
14.Tool - Aenima
15.Stone Temple Pilots- Purple
16.Nada Surf - Let Go
17.Blind Melon - Nico
18.Deftones - Around the Fur
19.Placebo - Without You Im Nothing
20.Pixies - Doolittle

Just missed: Radiohead-The Bends, Failure-Fantastic Planet, God Lives Underwater-Life in the So-called Space Age, Guns N Roses-Appetite for Destruction, Morphine-The Night, Smashing Pumpkins-Gish, Soundgarden-Superunknown, New Order-Republic, U2-The Joshua Tree, Nine Inch Nails-With Teeth, Black Crowes-Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, Beastie Boys-Paul's Boutique

Yeah I know, there is almost as many honorable mentions as albums in my list, but for someone like me its just too hard to try to narrow down so much music into such a small few. And unfortunately, much of my favorite music comes from a time when my excessive use of mind-altering substances was at its peak, so its even hard to remember what I listened to sometimes....