Over the last few years, a local radio station, 88.5 WXPN, held contests that asked listeners to send in their favorite songs and their favorite albums.

This is what I contributed...not the most original, but so it goes. Top 10 albums (the number in parantheses is where the album eventually placed in the contest). 10. Thriller - Michael Jackson (127) 9. Our Time in Eden - 10,000 Maniacs (318) 8. Disintegration - The Cure (96) 7. Automatic for the People - REM (60) 6. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - The Cure (440) 5. White Ladder - David Gray (45) 4. Revolver - Beatles (9) 3. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan (5) 2. White Album - Beatles (6) 1. Abbey Road - Beatles (1)

Top 10 songs 10. Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke 9. Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 8. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye 7. American Tune - Paul Simon 6. Long May You Run - Neil Young/Stephen Stills 5. No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley 4. Positively Fourth Street - Bob Dylan 3. Let It Be - The Beatles 2. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys 1. Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles

I had to fight back the urge to change what I had in these lists...

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Kirk says:

Great list. I always find it hard to come up with a "favorites list", but I do know that Damien Rice's "O" and Paul McCartney'd "Chaos and Creation" definately made the list.

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dermahrk says:

Nice list. Glad to see Left Banke on there. If you're curious, buy the CD by Montage, the teenage group that Michael Brown, the wunderkind of Left Banke, produced, wrote a lot of. VERY Left-Banke-ish.

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