Music: Favourite Albums of All Time

I am a severe Melancholy - so hence the blogging which I find carthartic.

Melancholies are supposed to be talented and into art, writing and music and stuff- but I'm not...well I can draw Ok caricatures of dopey people but I'm not allowed to sing as I am the most tone deaf person the world has known - according to my wife. (Well she has an absolutley beautiful voice but does not use it...which is worse?)

Well I have settled with the fact that I just have to listen to and appreciate music and books and things. It made me think if I had to survive with my 10 favourite CD's on a deserted island what would I take:

CD's:

• Chris Rea - "Shamrock Diaries" Circa 86 - I Discovered Blues Rock.
• Chris de Burgh - "The Getaway" - Freedom and Surfing with the boys out of high school.
• John Cougar - "Scarecrow" - Got my first drum kit - had garage band.
• Van Morrison - "Moondance" - Independence!!! - sent to Karratha to work...toyed with alcohol in a big way and experimented with spirituality. Almost lost job for surfing during a Cyclone and told by Bank Manager he did not want to send me back to my parents in a body bag.
• Chris deBurgh - "The Power of Ten" - Bought first unit aged 23. Lived alone.
• Chris Rea - "On the Beach" More contemplative. Broke from peer group - made own decisions.
• Dido - "Dido" Married with one kid.
• David Gray - "White Ladder" Wife finished Uni - joint incomes end of trying to get ahead financially...for a short while!
• Eva Cassidy - "Song Bird" - First trip to the States - first heard her on Harlem Gospel bus tour in New York. Thought she was black!
• Sarah McLachlan - "Afterglow" - Just built house after 5 years of planning - birth of second kid. End of dual incomes and getting ahead financially.

All albums have marked key milestones in my life.