My High Fidelity Moment

On my Facebook page, I recently posted this challenge: come up with your personal all-time top five albums.

The rules are deceptively simple, but very strict:

First, the album need not be by your favorite band; nor does it need to be by even a very good band.

Second, the album must be one that you can, and do, listen to from start-to-finish without skipping a single song.

It's pretty difficult once you think about it, because even really great, critically-acclaimed, "groundbreaking" albums will have one or two stinkers on them.

Here's my top five (in no particular order):

1. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

2. Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins

3. Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails

4. The Joshua Tree - U2

5. The Bends - Radiohead