Top 5: The Sacred

Welcome to week three of “Top 5.” For anyone just tuning in, the game is quite simple: a topic is chosen and then the top 5 songs, albums, artists, that most appropriately fit within the scope of the chosen topic are ordered 1 through 5.  If there is an song, album and/or artist that didn’t make the list you think should have, let us know. If you have an awesome idea for a top 5, give us a holla!

The current events this week are both literally and metaphorically down in the dumps.  So it seems most appropriate to stay away from such melancholy news and keep it about the music this time around.  This weeks top 5 is a list of those albums that everyone, everyone, and I mean everyone who claims to be a music enthusiast absolutely, without a doubt, 100% loves.

These are the albums that, if ever at a party of music snobs, you should never, ever, under any circumstances say you do not like because such a statement would cause the entire group of party goers to turn on you with pitchforks and flames and immediately shout “heretic, heretic, burn the blasphemous heretic!”  These are the albums you just have to like because not liking them would mean you are basically an incompetent fool with no taste and, really, who wants to be that.  These are the Top 5 most sacredly adored albums we’ve all come to love. Whether that love is out of legitimate adoration or fear for our lives will likely be forever unsaid.

5. Marquee Moon – Television

4. London Calling – The Clash

3. Nevermind – Nirvana

2. OK Computer – Radiohead (it’s actually quite unacceptable to not like any Radiohead album except, for some reason, Pablo Honey, which must be respected, of course, but not liked.)

1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles

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