1-Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)-Eurythmics- This album affects my view of music to this day.
2-Purple Rain-Prince-Music changed and I knew it.
3-Born in the USA-Bruce Springsteen-Raw, powerful, driven and pure American.
4-Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana-Music changed again and I knew it.
5-Thriller-Michael Jackson-If someone needed one album to explain the 80's, this has to be it.
6-Mandika-Sinead O'Connor-One of the most stunning voices in the history of music.
7-I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got-Sinead O'Connor-Pain, rage and agony in music. Heartbreaking and angry. Wow.
8-Yes I Am-Melissa Etheridge-Music to come out to.
9-Hedwig and the Angry Inch Soundtrack-Various Artists-Wildly inventive, dead-on lyrical content and original beyond almost anything else.
10-Private Dancer-Tina Turner-This album brought on my love affair with The Queen of Rock and Roll.
11-On How Life Is-Macy Gray-I get every song on this album stuck in my head.
12-She's So Unusual-Cyndi Lauper-Part of the amazing rush of new talent from the early 80's that made my teenage soundtrack.
13-Greatest Hits-Creedence Clearwater Revival-The album explains a great deal of the 60's and 70's.
14-Hungry Again-Dolly Parton-Listening to an artist "re-find" herself is a wonderful moment.
15-Van Lear Rose-Loretta Lynn-Brilliant collaboration between Jack White and Loretta Lynn that makes Loretta Lynn relevant in music again.
