What I could do without it – buy a car, shower myself in hundred dollar bills, have a life. Oh wow. But..

There are some things that feel out of society, little secrets, places that can only be found through sound. These places I visit each day and feel the warmth of heaven upon me. As much as I would love to stop collecting, listening, writing, I feel that these past discoveries, selfish they are, are immensely important. Writing a song like Darkened House, hearing Hurt by Nine Inch Nails for the first time, writing a song like Shattered or its emotional counterpart – Lost to the Good, or hearing something fantastic in a Steve Kilbey song that I feel nobody else may feel. I do not know who I would have become if I had not heard these songs.. these obsessions.

Have a listen to some of these and you may hae an idea where my music is heading. These are songs which allowed me to see something new in music.

A Perfect Circle – Magdelena
A Storm of Light – Vast and Endless
Adrian Belew – Ampersand
Aereogramme – In Gratitude
Agalloch – She Painted Fire Across the Skyline
Amon Amarth – The Hero
Anael – Devil’s Tongues
Aphex Twin – Come To Daddy
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #2
Atavist II Ruined – II
Audioslave – Cochise
Barenaked Ladies – The Old Apartment
Big Wreck – Overemphasizing
Bjork – Unravel
Blind Melon – Paper Scratcher
Bloc Party – Plans
Blood of the Black Owl – Crippling of Age
Bloodbath – Hades Rising
Bloodhound Gang – Mope
Blur – Ambulance
Brian Welch – Home
Broken Social Scene – Cause=Time
Buddy Guy – Baby Please Don’t Leave Me
Burst – We Watched the Silver Rain
The Chemical Brothers – Setting Sun
The Church – Two Places at Once
Collective Soul – Crown
Dave Matthews – So Damn Lucky
The Dears – Lost in the Plot
Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism
The Decemberists – The Tain
Deftones – Digital Bath
Derek ad the Dominos – Little Wing
Destroyer – Destroyer’s Rubies
DJ Shadow – Napalm Brain – Scatter Brain
The Doors – People are Strange
Dozer – From Fire Fell
Econoline Crush – Sparkle and Shine
Editors – All Sparks
Edwin – Hang Ten
Envy – The Unknown Glow
The Eyes of a Traitor – With Different Eyes
Filter – Hey Man Nice Shot
Final Fantasy – That’s When the Audience Died
Finger Eleven – Above
Foo Fighters – Everlong
Frog Eyes – Silence but for the Gentle Tinkling of the Flowing Creek
Genesis – The Musical Box
Genghis Tron – Board up the House
Gojira – The Way of All Flesh
Grizzly Bear – Lullabye
Handsome Furs – Snakes on the Ladder
Hawksley Workman – Anger as Beauty
Hednoize – Drain
Hypocrisy – Roswell 47
I Mother Earth – Earth, Sky, & C
Isidore – Sanskrit
Islands – Ones
Jack Frost – Providence
Johnny Clegg – Work For All
Kasabian – Shoot the Runner
Khanate – Pieces of Quiet
King Crimson – Coda Marine 475
Korn – My Gift To You
Kula Shaker – SOS
Liars – Drum and the Uncomfortable Can
Live – Selling the Drama
Lunatic Soul – The Final Truth
Marilyn Manson – The Reflecting God
Marty Willson-Piper – How Come They Don’t Touch The Ground
Mastodon – Hearts Alive
Matthew Good – Primetime Deliverance
The Melvins – Civilized Worm
Meshuggah – Bleed
Metallica – One
Midge Ure – The Gift
Moist – Resurrection
My Dying Bride – The Dreadful Hours
Neurosis – Times of Grace
Neverending White Lights – I Hope Your Heart Runs Empty
Nine Inch Nails – Burn
No-Man – Truenorth
Opeth – The Lotus Eater
Our Lady Peace – Naveed
Paradise Lost – Gothic
Peter Gabriel – Intruder
Phil Collins – Survivors
The Philosopher Kings – Can’t Get My Mind Around You
Pink Floyd – Echoes
Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing
Primordial – The Coffin Ships
Psykosonik – I am God
Queensryche – Anybody Listening
Radiohead – Let Down
The Refo-mation – Traitor
Reverend Bizarre – Cirith Ungol
Roger Waters – It’s A Miracle
Rosetta – Red in Tooth and Claw
Rush – Freeze
Ryan Adams – Hotel Chelsea Nights
Satyricon – Black Lava
Sigur Ros – Untitled 4
Skepticism – Nothing
Soundgarden – The Day I Tried To Live
The Smashing Pumpkins – Mayonaise
Spirit of the West – Just Another Day
Steve Kilbey – Space
Strapping Young Lad – Devour
Sunset Rubdown – Snakes Got a Leg
Swan Lake – City Calls
System of a Down – Chop Suey
The Tea Party – A Certain Slant of Light
Tool – Third Eye
The Tragically Hip – Stay
Treble Charger – Red
Unearthly Trance – Permanent Ice
Unkle – Rabbit in Your Headlights
The Verve – A New Decade
Wilco – Misunderstood
Wolf Parade – I’ll Believe in Anything