Damien Rice has a captivating, haunting singing voice and this is just a great album to listen to and be able to feel the pain that comes along with living. If you enjoy depressing music, and I myself am a big fan, you can do no better than curling up one day with Damien Rice and let him take you on a ride through your sadness.

Because of her singing and the great songwriting of her songs, Dido always has a place on my top five women I would propose to if I ever decided to get married. She has a song for every emotional state you will ever be in and that's really what I want from an album: putting into words and music that which I sometimes do not know what to say.

As you can no doubt tell now from this list, I am a big of artists who can actually sing and there are few voices I've heard that are better than Matt Hales of Aqualung. No doubt about it this is an album I could never get tired of.

What can really be said to give this album the justice it deserves for such a talented group of singers. "I'll Make Love To You" and "On Bended Knee" are good enough to put this album on any top 10 list, but Boyz II Men don't stop there. They give you a legitimate hit song on every track. Well done Nathan, Shawn, Michael, and Wanya,

Babyface at his finest. That's pretty much enough for any rave.

With all that has happened over the years with MIchael Jackson as he has tried to recapture the childhood he never had, it is easy to forget just how great a voice he had and just how excellent the Jackson 5 were as a whole. I dare anyone to listen to this album and not come away a Jackson 5 fan.

Even though this is #7 on my list, I am not afraid to make the confession that I have never listened to the whole album. This ranking is so high based on five of the songs of this album, "Your Song," "Come What May," "Elephant Love Song Medley," El Tango de Roxanne," and "One Day I'll Fly Away" that I absolutely love and have been in numerous of my mix CDs.

With all of the albums that came out after Tupac's death, it's hard to remember which was the first one, but there's no mistaking the greatness of this album. Shakur was a very good lyricist and showed it on this album. Of course, when I made this CD illegally in my CD burning heyday, I just had to put on the best diss song ever recorded, "Hit 'Em Up." That just made it even that much greater.

Outkast is both one of my favorite rap groups and one of the most creative groups out there and this album came out with their quirkiness was still new and not overplayed as it is becoming now. Either way, you can't go wrong with this CD in your playlist even if the last two songs on it are clunkers.

This album is more on this list for nostalgic purposes than musical ones, but it is still a pretty good album. I got into music later than most and this is one of the first albums I ever bought so it will always be a special one to me.