20 Autobiographically Essential Albums
Someone asked this question on Vagrant Cafe: "So if they made a 3-hour biopic about your life, what records would HAVE to be included... either for nostalgia, influence, enjoyment, importance, or setting?"
Here's my list, in chronological order. Obviously, I don't listen to some of these records anymore, but I can't imagine not including them.
Maranatha Music - The Joy Album
Newsboys - Going Public
Schubert - Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)
Plastiq Musiq's New Musiq Volume 2
Joy Electric - The White Songbook
Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit
The Lassie Foundation - Leaves California
Soul Junk - 1957
Starflyer 59 - Leave Here a Stranger
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Radiohead - OK Computer
Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
m83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, Lost Ghosts
Br. Danielson - Brother is to Son
TV on the Radio - Young Liars
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Erik Satie - Trois Gymnopedies
