Makes me wanna be more than I am

A Listmania! list by Guido Bowden "guidobowden"
 
Frengers: Not Quite Friends But Not Quite Strangers
1.  Frengers: Not Quite Friends But Not Quite Strangers by Mew
The list author says:
  "MEW!! Extraordinary danish indie. This has beauty bursting out of every song and you dont find that often. Final track is comforting sounds, an infinite endtro like no other, but it'snot too much."
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Blood On The Tracks
2.  Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan
The list author says:
  "Bloody heck! Get a deck of cards, christen this cd, 10 tales and laments, and rants, and invocations. Surely a work of ripped up genius. Ha! I can't help it if i'm lucky"
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Pearl Jam Live Verona
3.  Pearl Jam Live Verona by Pearl Jam
The list author says:
  "Undecided at best album, so check out their live stuff: greatness from early songs like Yellow Ledbetter to maturity of Wishlist. If you dismissed PJ back at the end of grunge then more fool you."
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Family Tree
4.  Family Tree by Björk
The list author says:
  "Indubitably (?!) the most inventive, original and consequently COOL and inspiring contemporary performing and recording artist. Need a Bjork jab every now and then, like now, punk."
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Howl Howl Gaff Gaff [Us Import]
5.  Howl Howl Gaff Gaff [Us Import] by Shout Out Louds
The list author says:
  "Recently upturned this on quest to pan the gold from the immense slag heap of little indie bands. What a find! Swedes find a better way of using English (like Bjork), Very Loud is unpolished nugget!"
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Everything Is Wrong
6.  Everything Is Wrong by Moby
The list author says:
  "Ignore the car advert twiddles of Play and jump to this. Wow! Happyhardcore house through to screaming over guitar mulch (best ignored or pinch of salted) through to purest ambient dreams, raw talent"
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Grit
7.  Grit by Madrugada
The list author says:
  "Music to listen to on the Rome Metro on the way to translate for a schizophrenic. That's how i like to remember it. This is a good intro to the Norwegians with tunes as moody as their spanish name."
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Graceland: Remastered and Expanded
8.  Graceland: Remastered and Expanded by Paul Simon
The list author says:
  "Surely the greatest storyteller in rocknroll. Check this: 'The Mississipi delta, shining like a national guitar' Astounding lyricism and fun tunes with African undertheme. Superb"
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Whatever And Ever Amen (Remastered Edition)
9.  Whatever And Ever Amen (Remastered Edition) by Ben Folds Five
The list author says:
  "Another great one who spins a tale (check the story in Brick). Ben Folds must have more characters in his tunes than anyone. Sometimes too cocky for his own good but comedy and melancholy mixed well."
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The Essential Bruce Springsteen
10.  The Essential Bruce Springsteen by Bruce Springsteen
The list author says:
  "I only knew his 80s pop before i bought this. A whole world to discover from another great storyteller. Especially the first three tracks of Disc1. Makes you wanna live like comet, burn to shine. Cars"
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Hot Buttered Soul
11.  Hot Buttered Soul by Isaac Hayes
The list author says:
  "Hey what's this? My word! What a collection of 4 awesome tracks. Walk On By cover is just mindblowingly good. And good fun, you can tell Chef's having fun. Give it a poke, it wont disappoint unless..."
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Give Up
12.  Give Up by The Postal Service
The list author says:
  "Discovered Such Great Heights on Snowboard DVD Lame. Had to find out more. Quirky concept of creating an album by post. Perhaps not timeless, but right now its doing the summer stuff."
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Dookie (U.S. Version)
13.  Dookie (U.S. Version) by Green Day
The list author says:
  "I couldn't listen to this for nearly ten years (after the age of 16), i thought it was not musical enough to deserve my attention. Now i have come full circle: so much fun and angst and masturbation!!"
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G'n'R - Lies
14.  G'n'R - Lies by Guns N' Roses
The list author says:
  "Oooh. Side A of RocknRoll finger blisters, Reckless life indeed. Side B of acoustic wonders. Is Patience not outstanding? One in a million is evil but the real G'n'R."
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Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (Arrow Classic)
15.  Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (Arrow Classic) by Ernest Hemingway
The list author says:
  "A few books to close. I get a funny feeling when reading Hemingway, like there is not enough of me to fill all i want to do. I must be more..."
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The Essential Hemingway
16.  The Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
The list author says:
  "Anyone into skiing/snowboarding track down the short story Cross Country Snow. Nobody has put it into words better than Hem, and he was skiing 70 years ago with wooden planks and nought else."
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A Happy Death (Penguin Modern Classics)
17.  A Happy Death (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
The list author says:
  "If you grew from L'Etranger then see to this. Badly put together and composed but the quest is inspiring. Will deal with all you need to reach the title and then leave you flustered."
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
18.  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The list author says:
  "Continuing with the idea that foreign lands breed marvellous ways of using language (this is obviously a translation) have a look at this and then tell me what the hell is going on. Quite beautiful..."
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The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics)
19.  The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The list author says:
  "Like Hemingway, and Camus, and those 80s high school movies when i was 14, this makes me feel like my life is not enough and i go and get more of it. This is a good thing."
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Time Out Rome - 7th Ed ("Time Out" Guides)
20.  Time Out Rome - 7th Ed ("Time Out" Guides) by Time Out Guides Ltd
The list author says:
  "And finally, all of the above will be no good to you if you stay where you are. So go and live in Rome. Actually, maybe you'd prefer it if you stayed where you are. Sorry"
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