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We’re one year old this week! To celebrate, every day this week each of us will re-post one of our favorite articles from this past year, just in case you missed it.

I like this post because it finally gave me a way to get my thoughts together and solidify my favorite albums. Looking at in now, I would change the order. In ascending order, it would go like this: Elliott, Boysetsfire, At The Drive In, Jets To Brazil, Weezer. I’m sure that will change again soon.

As I’ve said before, I love lists. But I just realized that I never make any of my own. Well, all that’s about to change, my friends. I’ve decided that I am going to start, beginning with a pretty easy one: my five all-time favorite albums. A few things to keep in mind as you read them: they are in no particular order. All of these albums mean so much to me that to say one is better than the other would be unfair, they are all #1′s to me. Also, as Russ has said on some of his lists in the past, these are not the best albums of all time, these are my favorite of all time. So without further ado, here they are.

1. Elliott-U.S. Songs. 1998 Revelation Records. This is the only band on my list that I can’t remember hearing for the first time. Elliott kind of creeped into my life and taken over before I really knew they were there. I have a lot of great memories that include Elliott, even though I never got the chance to see them live. This album was one side of a cassette that was on almost constant loop throughout my last two years of high school.

1. Jets to Brazil-Orange Rhyming Dictionary. 1998 Jade Tree. Orange Rhyming Dictionary was the other side to aforementioned cassette. I remember hearing this album for the first time when my sister borrowed it from a friend, and when i listened to it, I didn’t like it at all. I was still in my punk-or-die phase and not ready to hear anything new. The emotional songs and creative lyrics stuck with me, though, and soon I couldn’t get enough of it.

1. At The Drive In-In.Casino.Out. 1998 Fearless Records. This a another album that I first heard through my sister. The first song she played for me was Napoleon Solo, and I was instatnly hooked. She never got the CD back after that. It was such a new sound and I couldn’t stop listening to it. I love how every song tells a story, and I’ll never be able to get images such as poltergeists playing video games in a small ghost town out of my head.

1. Weezer-Blue Album. 1994 Geffen Records. This is definitely the most well known album on this list. When I found the date that it came out, I couldn’t believe that it was when I was only 12 years old. That’s how you know when something is good, when it appeals to a 25 year old guy as much as it did when he was a 12 year old boy. I can still listen to this album and enjoy it like it was Christmas Day 13 years ago when my grandma got it for me.

1. Boysetsfire-After the Eulogy. April 2000 Victory Records. I’ve never been more moved by hearing a song for the first time since I heard the title track in my friend Matt’s truck. It hit me so hard that I went straight to buy it after school. These 13 tracks had a bigger influence me regarding issues like politics, homosexuality, and capitalism than anything before. This is an incredible important album to me, and one that can still get my heart beating faster as I listen to it.