Unsuck Listen List

This not an homage to any traditional idea of “best”. These are listens that struck me and continue to strike. For brevity’s sake, I listed the first thing I heard – subsequent unsucks usually followed.

* items have not yet stood the test of enough time. Let’s say, 10 years.

Crowded House’s Self-Titled Debut
Cocteau Twins’ Treasure
Counting Crows’ August and Everything After
The Cure’s Staring At The Sea
Dave Matthews Band’s Crush
Eddie From Ohio (their entire discography - have known them since before their first release)
Garden State Soundtrack
The Innocence Mission’s Self-Title Debut
*Jamie Collum’s Catching Tales
John Coltrane’s The Last Giant: The John Coltrane Anthology
John Wesley Harding’s Why We Fight
*Jonatha Brooke’s Steady Pull
Kansas’ Two for the Show
k.d. lang’s Ingenue
*KT Tunstall’s Eye to the Telescope
*Marc Cohn’s Burning the Daze
Michael Penn’s March
*Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil Soundtrack (with the exception of Clint Eastwood’s “Accentuate the Positive” – painful!)
*Mike Doughty’s Haughty Melodic
Miles Davis’ Birth Of The Cool
R.E.M.’s Murmur
Neil Finn’s Try Whistling This
*Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me
Prefab Sprout’s Two Wheels Good
*Space Cowboys Soundtrack
Speidel, Goodrich & Goggin’s Self-Titled Debut
Squirrel Nut Zippers’ Hot
Sting’s Dream of the Blue Turtles
The Sunday’s Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
Violent Femmes’ Self-Titled Debut
XTC’s Skylarking