5. television - marquee moon
it led me into the post-punk scene, and this was really the first album i remember that i let grow on me. i'm out of time. maybe i'll finish this later.
4. olivia tremor control - dusk at cubist castle
i liked this, and a friend recommended that i listen to some neutral milk hotel. the rest is magical lovefest history.
3. elliott smith - elliott smith
it's the album that got me digging elliott. the white lady loves you more was the first of his records that i couldn't stop listening to. i enjoy either/or quite a bit more, but this was the one that got me going.
2. tom waits - rain dogs
i heard this album for the first time when i was 12 years old or so, and it was really the first time i realized that there was music out there that i enjoyed a lot more than nelly and linkin park.
1. neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
it's the album that has pretty much shaped who i am. i've listened to it probably three times as much as any other, yet it still leaves me in like, temporary paralysis each time.
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