10 All Time Favorite Albums (plus 22 more bands)

Last night on facebook, I finally finished my 10 all time favorite album challenge that I had been invited to participate in. I chose:

- PJ Harvey - 4-Track Demos
- Diamanda Galas - Plague Mass
- Hole - Live Through This
- Sonic Youth - Dirty
- Kate Bush - The Dreaming
- Peaches - The Teaches of Peaches
- Rasputina - Cabin Fever
- Cocteau Twins - Treasure
- Portishead - Portishead
- Tori Amos - Boys for Pele

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Even though part of me felt tempted to do this for another ten or more days, I probably shouldn't really spend much more time on it, BUT I did decide to name 22 other albums and/or artists who ALMOST made my list of ten.

- Cyndi Lauper (who I posted a small personal article about on my fb page)

- Sinéad O'Connor (haven't listened to her much in recent years, but loved her and her first two albums, "The Lion and the Cobra" and "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" when I was in high school - and since I didn't know anyone else who liked her at the time, my Dad went to one of her concerts with me :) )

- Siouxsie and the Banshees (whose "Peepshow" album I discovered when I was about 15, then later I was especially drawn to the "Hyæna" album, so I pick both of them)

- Joy Division

- The Clash

- The Cure

- Dead Can Dance

- Violent Femmes first album

- The Beastie Boys (especially "Paul's Boutique")

- Tricky

- Nirvana

- Nine Inch Nails

- Marilyn Manson

- Bjork (especially the "Homeogenic" album)

- Kristin Hersh (especially "Strange Angels" and "Sunny Border Blue")

- Julie Ruin (the original 1998 album, when Kathleen Hanna took a break from Bikini Kill, who I also like)

- Le Tigre

- CocoRosie ("Noah's Arc")

- Florence and the Machine

- Interpol (especially "Turn on the Bright Lights", but I hardly ever listen to them anymore, because the ex-husband and I listened to them a lot together and saw them in concert a few times and listening to them causes me to think of him)

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The last two I feel a little awkward/reluctant to admit to really liking, because I don't want the appeal of a band to me to seem unintentionally or cluelessly sexist or racist, but...

- Eminem (I feel awkward about admitting, because so many people seem to hate him, but I've liked a lot of his stuff for years)

- Die Antwoord (Love their sound and the visuals of many of their videos, thought of them as a fun, artsy, quirky, goofy shock value sort of band that doesn't really care who they offend, which I'm fine with for the most part - as long as they're not being racist - and recently I've started to wonder if my white woman brain might be missing the fact that they ARE racist. I'm honestly not really sure about this and I've read various points of view on the matter.)