• Joan Of Arc - Live In Chicago, 1999 (Tim Kinsella as a poet influences me greatly, as does all his music, but this album especially captures multiple aspects of what makes JOA great, and still early enough to have some of his youthful angst)

  Why? - Oaklandazulasylum (The cut and paste feel of this album is something I imagine my work having... sure things end up going together very well, but I'm sure all songs on this started out as bit's and pieces)

  Milemarker - Futurisms (Such a good album, so angry, so synthesized, so punk! My musical mission statement is that I want to be the Tim Kinsella of Hip Hop, the Why? of Punk, and the Al Burian of singer/songwriters, so obviously 1 from each had to make my list)

  Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage (the ability to write such catchy pop tunes and cohessively put them together through noise collage and studio tricks is something no other band could demonstrate this well...)

  Sole & The Skyrider Band - S/T (hearing one of my favorite MCs over almost post rock songs was just unbelievable... more proof that rapping doesn't have to be limited to sampling, laptop, or keyboard beats... not that those are always bad, but that it can be so much more)

  Paul Simon - Graceland (Maybe I just included this one because I really think it needs to be covered in it's entirety... but in the vein of Xiu Xiu) Black Eyes - Cough (I don't know what to say about this one... it just blows my mind)

  cLOUDDEAD - Ten (More Hip Hop can be more mentality, Dose & Why? Yell, sing, rap, and whisper, all while remembering the importance of the power drill solo)

  The Mountain Goats - Full Force Galesburg (It's weird for me to think back to a time when TMG was my favorite "band" (it certainly wasn't a band back then!) but the rawness and the emotion behind this album still move me greatly... and never forget, tape hiss is an instrument!)

  Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On (Another band I'm not into like I used to, but long before The Decemberist tried their hand at Indie Prog, BTS wrote this, quite possibly the most epic Indie rock record... I also would love to do a sludgey, synthy, screamy cover of "Randy Describes Eternity")

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