Some Favorites

Some people have asked what my favorite records are… here’s a few, recent and not-so-recent :

John Mayer “Continuum”
Mute Math (eponymous)
Copeland “Eat, Sleep, Repeat”
Jonatha Brooke “Steady Pull”
Splender “Halfway Down The Sky”
Kevin Gilbert “Thud”
Toy Matinee “Toy Matinee”
The Real Efforts Of Real People (still unreleased as of 2/2008)
Del Amitri “Twisted”
Francis Dunnery “Tall Blonde Helicopter”
Switchfoot “Nothing Is Sound”
Halloween, Alaska “Halloween, Alaska”
Phoenix “Alphabetical”
Teitur “Poetry & Aeroplanes”
Athlete “Vehicles & Animals”
Duncan Sheik “White Limousine”
John Mayer “Room For Squares”
Death Cab For Cutie “Plans”
Frou Frou “Details”
Radiohead “The Bends”
Radiohead “OK Computer”
Massive Attack “Mezzanine”
Crowded House “Woodface”
Soulwax “Much Against Everyone’s Advice”
Sam Phillips “Cruel Inventions”
Jon Brion “Meaningless”
Keane “Hopes And Fears”
Butterfly Boucher “Flutterby”
Marc Broussard “Carencro”
Daniel Lanois “Shine”
Imogen Heap “Speak For Yourself”
Jellyfish “Bellybutton”
Aqualung “Strange & Beautiful”
Sondre Lerche “Two Way Monologue”
Wheat “Per Second…”
Kelly Clarkson “Breakaway”
BT “Emotional Technology”
Sigur Ros “( )”
Seal (everything he’s done)
Doves (anything and everything by them)
U2 (anything and everything by them, too… well, maybe not “Pop”)
and I pretty much think that Go West’s “King Of Wishful Thinking” is a perfect song.

I also love The Beatles, The Who, Marvin Gaye, Frank Sinatra, yadda yadda, but I don’t produce stuff like that so it seems rather silly to list all these great classic artists that are only listed on everyone’s bios so they appear cool. But I guess I just did that. I’m not as cool, though. Not yet. Maybe never. I’m okay with that… I also write my bio in the first person, as opposed to pretending I’m being chronicled by some independent journalist.