15 Albums

This was a fun little Facebook exercise I thought I'd post here, too.

"Fifteen albums you've heard that will always stick with you; not necessarily your favorites or an artist's best album. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes."



1. The White Stripes - "White Blood Cells"

2. Sugar - "Copper Blue"

3. R.E.M. - "Automatic for the People"

4. New Pornographers - "Electric Version"

5. Ted Leo - "Hearts of Oak"

6. Pavement - "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain"

7. Prince - "Purple Rain"

8. Led Zeppelin - "Physical Graffiti"

9. Beatles - "Abbey Road"

10. Nirvana - "Nevermind"

11. Fleetwood - "Rumors"

12. Pixies - "Doolittle"

13. Folk Implosion "One Part Lullaby"

14. Vince Guaraldi Trio - "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

15. The Lemonheads - "It's A Shame About Ray"

Cereal Power Rankings


5. Grape Nuts

4. Honey Bunches of Oats

3. Cheerios

2. Raisin Bran Crunch

1. Frosted Mini Wheats

Pat Canole's TV Shows of the Decade

10. Arrested Development

9. Flight of the Conchords

8. The Venture Bros.

7. Futurama

6. 30 Rock

5. The Sopranos

4. Deadwood

3. Mad Men

2. Lost

1. The Wire




Honorable mention to "South Park". Those guys can still crush it when they want to.

"Pushing Daisies" was pretty good, too.

"The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" are consistently great.

And "Good Eats". Man, I love that show.

Pat Canole's Movies of the Decade

1) The Incredibles
2) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3) Primer
4) WALL-E
5) American Splendor
6) Kill Bill Vol 1 / Vol 2
7) No Country for Old Men
8) Amelie
9) Sideways
10) The Royal Tenenbaums

Honorable Mention:

The Departed
Ghost World
The Prestige
A History of Violence
Hot Fuzz
Kung Fu Hustle
Children of Men
Once
Memento
Spirited Away
Audition
Lord of the Rings

Very special honorable mention to "The Wicker Man", which has to be the most hilariously dumb movie in quite some time.