Loudon Wainwright III's Grown Man-it's hard to narrow down to any one album, but that album is important as far as when it came along in my life. And it's a classic Loudon album.
I here was this book that my father had called Making Music by George Martin, The Beatles' producer. My dad was a drummer in a country band and was also an aspiring singer and songwriter.
When "Weird Al" Yankovic attended Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road farewell tour earlier this year at the Los Angeles Forum, it felt like things had come full circle.
I am happy to have the opportunity to say it aloud as I think to myself often as such in my mind. It is The Future of What by Unwound. It is hard to describe how but I get so excited just thinking about this album.
I was 18 or 19 and I had been listening to Warpaint's Exquisite Corpse EP relentlessly. I was studying down in Brighton and I remember when "Undertow" came out and I used to have to get the train regularly and I think I listened to it 35 times on one jour