great list.except for Nas. just can't get into it. hit me up with some Lil' Kim or Pharcyde though. hell yes.

doc - i think as long as you're passionate about your STP and KennyG, go for it...... MILF-music.i'd.like.to.forget

ok vin. i listened to it a few times, but i'll give it a few more rotations. they were a part of a great wave of boston music w. dinosaur jr, morphine, lemonheads, the pixies, sebadoh, etc... a precursor to the chapel hill scene....and then seattle.

i remember buffalo tom when i was in college. amazing.......:>>>>

But Three Easy Pieces was actually a great album. It's not like they're Survivor or REO Speedwagon doing the Calneva casinos. It was a very welcome comeback and old Buffalo Tom fans got to be nostalgic yet get something new.

It certainly was better to me than Accelerate.

I think 'Let Me Come Over' is a great album with Taillights Fade, Larry, Porchlight, etc..., but it was sad to see them get together again. Bands only have a certain amount of shelf life. Janovitz's first album 'Lonesome Billy' was good and a bunch of us got to have dinner with him at the Tin Angel in Philly when he was touring for that record. Remember they used Sodajerk in a Nike commercial awhile back.

That sucks. Such a talented and underrated band from the 90's. Soda Jerk remains one of the best pop songs to emerge from the decade.

I have Up Here as well as Lonesome Billy and the collaboration album Fireworks on TV.

So I was on Bill Janovitz's mailing list for a long time. And he was selling real estate in Maine or New Hampshire or something. It was really f'ing sad. Especially since they were such a great band. No commercial success though.

Have you checked out his solo albums? I really dig em, especially Up Here. They're more folksy than rockin but I tend to also stop at Up Here when my itunes is on random and I play the whole album.

I love the new Buffalo Tom album. I think it's their best since Big Red Letter Day.

I see we also share a fondness for SON VOLT. I haven't been a huge fan of the newer albums since Farrar re-formed the band, but the first 3 SV albums are some of my favorites

Tomorrow the Green Grass really is a great album. I realize this is partly due to the breakup of the original band members and a lineup shuffle but they haven't even come close since. It also took me about a year before i truly appreciated that album.

I'd like you list a lot more if Tomorrow the Green Grass was on it. I've never been a big Radiohead of Wilco fan (well, I deplore Wilco), but I respect their inclusions. Can't beat Public Enemy though!

Dammit -- I finally had to give in and move Siamese Dream into my Top 10 of all time.

Yes. Siamese Dream really should be on here. But who would it replace? Nirvana? The Cure?

I still can't believe you have no Smashing Pumpkins on your list!

Disintegration is clearly their finest work. (Are you just bitter cause some boy turned you down for a dance to Lovesong at the Spring Fling?)

Considering that anyone can make a remake of a song as long as they pay royalties, we'll pretend that 311 never even heard the song. Much like Sheryl Crow should never have been allowed to remake Sweet Child O Mine and Madonna should never have been allowed to remake... well, to exist.

Of all the Cure albums, Disintegration? The one with Lovesong on it? The very song that 311 did a cover of? The mark of great music is that ANYONE can remake a song and it still sounds good. Bah!

I would like everybody to know that Vin changed my life when he introduced me to my love, Ryan Adams. It began six years ago with Heartbreaker. Oh and then, there was Radiohead. After much resistence on my part, he force-fed OK Computer while criticizing my initial disinterest as a lack of taste in quality music. Now they are one of my favorites.
I am forever changed in my musical interests and Vin is the reason...for the season.

I think Cliff Poncier would disagree: "Well, I think "Touch Me, I'm Dick," in essence, speaks for itself, you know. I think that, you know, that's basically what the song is, um... about... is about, you know... I-I think a lot of people might think it's actually about, you know,"My name is Dick, and, you know, you can touch me," but, I think, you know, it can be seen either way. "

FYI, Citizen Dick is not a band. Uhhhh, Singles. The band is Mudhoney and the song is "touch me, I'm sick".

Dood, we've got OK Computer, It Takes a Nation of Millions... and now Disintegration in common for our AAT lists. Guess you actually do have decent taste in music.

Hahahah. I knew I'd get crap for counting crows. I did just recently update it to have Disintegration at 10. Still, AAEA is #11 and might make it back up to my top 10. That was a truly great album.

steve- counting crows had one stinker on their first two albums. Children in Bloom is a horrible song. AAEA had Ghost Train.

leif - Nirvana saved rock and roll by killing hair metal and deserve their place in history. I'm sure there were a bunch of good bands out of Seattle (I am partial to Citizen Dick and their stellar album "Touch me I'm Dick") but Nirvana broke through and saved us all from bullshit Poison, Motley Crue, Ratt, etc.

I dig Counting Crowes and most people list August & Everything After as their top album but I'm a "Recovering the Satellites" fan. Great, great album.

Good list Vin.

I can't believe you ripped me for RHCP whilst you have the Counting Crows in you're top 10. The rest of the list is pretty good. Although I don't really agree with Nirvana, yeah they were damn popular and it was good, there were many other equally good and even better bands to come out of Seattle during this time period.

I have to say that the following albums NARROWLY missed my f10:

Tomorrow the Green Grass by the Jayhawks
Central Reservation by Beth Orton
I'm Wide Awake It's Morning by Bright Eyes
Blue Train by Coltrane
August and Everything After by Counting Crows

Also my list is missing a Rush album because it seems like they have too many great albums but not a single phenomenal album. I guess Moving Pictures is close to making my favorite 10 and also Fly By Night.