Looking over my posts from the last few months there is little that I find particularly entertaining. They seem to reflect my mood through most of the semester: irascible. But I’m not that guy. Really, I’m not.

So I got to thinking about my favorite bands and my favorite music the other day and gave myself an assignment: Which 10 albums would I take with me if the Chancellor sent me to a desert island (wink…that irascibility is not entirely faded)?

Here they are. In case you have not heard the album I’ve added a track suggestion that I think reflects the album; maybe you can check it out on Spotify or some other similar service. I’ve posted a public playlist on Spotify, in case you use that service.

The Smiths – Hatful of Hollow (track: This Charming Man)
Modest Mouse – Lonesome Crowded West (track: Trucker’s Atlas (which is not available on Spotify))
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime (track: History Lesson Part II)
Uncle Tupelo – No Depression (track: Graveyard Shift)
Sonic Youth – Dirty (track: Chapel Hill)
Pixies – Tompe Le Monde (track: U-Mass)
Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted (track: Two States)
U2 – The Joshua Tree (track: In God’s Country)
REM – Document (track: Finest Work Song)
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (track: King of Carrot Flowers Part I)