00:01Hey I am Jon Feidelberg and today I am going to be blind ranking my favorite
00:06albums and I'm very excited. Alright, first one is a heater, Blink 182, Take
00:12Off Your Pants and Jacket. A formative album for myself, for me for sure. I
00:18actually heard it described recently when Blink started doing like their
00:20reunion tours where someone said, oh I get it now, Blink 182 is Bruce
00:27Springsteen from Millennials and I thought that was very clarifying. Oh yeah,
00:32this is this is what my entire personality is based on. I remember when I
00:36was a kid I was going to a family vacation at the Greenbrier in West
00:39Virginia and it's a very beautiful place and it was a very important vacation for
00:43my grandparents and my whole family and I was locked in on Blink 182, Take Off Your
00:49Pants and Jacket. I was a little depressed emo kid the entire time. I had my disc
00:54equipment and my headphones on and I just sat in the corner and just listened to
00:57this and was like, these guys really get me. These guys fucking get me. I guess they
01:02introduced me to depression, so very important. As far as rankings go, I know
01:07this, I know these albums are designed for me. I know I'm going to get our mind.
01:11This is probably like, it's maybe three. It's a top, it's not on the bottom tier, but it's
01:20not a top dog. You know what? As far as importance to me, it might be a top dog, but
01:24as far as my
01:25favorite, I'm going to go three. It's also, it's not my favorite Blink album. I'm a live album guy,
01:30so the Mark Tom and Travis show is my, that's my Blink, that's my Blink album.
01:35Try not to look. I'm like, staring right at the camera. Okay. Folklore. Folklore is Taylor's,
01:44it's Taylor's greatest album. Folklore is a piece of art that is, I'm going to, I'm going to,
01:51I'm going to start talking crazy now. For male fans of Taylor Swift, this was the album that like
01:58people stopped making fun of you for it. I think if I remember correctly, like you're always going to
02:02deal with that. But like, this is when she stopped being a pop star. I think, I don't know. I,
02:07in my
02:08head, this is when like mainstream, she was accepted. It took a long time for Taylor to get accepted.
02:13But in my head, this is when it was like, oh shit, she's bananas talented. She's this singer songwriter
02:19who's doing all this in COVID. I remember Aaron Dressner. That's his name, right? Dessner from the
02:25national. He tells a story about Taylor reached out to him during COVID and was like, Hey, I'm thinking
02:31about putting together an album. Send me any samples you have, anything you've been working
02:35on that doesn't, you know, someone doesn't own yet. And he sent her a couple of samples and he
02:40woke up the next morning and like the album was done. Taylor had like hammered through all of it.
02:45Cardigan, she finished that night. Betty, she finished that night. There were a couple others,
02:49but to me, that's, this is, this is, this is Taylor. This is Taylor's big one right here.
02:54I'm going to leave it two. Cause I think I still got one more, but Taylor, this is going
03:00to be two for me. That is for sure. The Taylor album. I still go back and listen to like
03:06the
03:06most often that in red. Oh, stories of a stranger. Oh, I are. I couldn't even start talking about
03:19OAR and, and everything that they mean to me and everything they've done. Like, like before I knew
03:24them as people, um, just what they meant to me as artists, having to put this up here is fucking
03:29hard. I got into OAR in high school. Like everyone did. I studied abroad between my junior and senior
03:35year of high school in Salamanca, Spain. And I would listen to the wanderer like nonstop that album.
03:40So that's my like, OAR, that album, 34th and 8th, that's their live show. As I said,
03:44I'm a live guy, uh, 34th and 8th at Hammerstein ballroom. Is it? I think they're, they're like,
03:50like the most important band in my life, but stories of a stranger. Isn't my fucking number one.
03:56So I'm leave. I'm clearly I'm leaving number one for somebody important. Um, uh, so stories of a stranger,
04:02if it was a different album, it might become number one, but stories of a stranger has to go four.
04:12Oh, DMX flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood. Dude, I was a huge DMX fan as a kid.
04:19I, I,
04:20I didn't really get the rap bug as much as like a lot of kids my age did. DayZ was
04:26huge. The
04:26blueprint was huge. Fucking Mace and P Diddy, mo' money, mo' problems. But I was a DMX guy.
04:31I fucking loved DMX. And as a kid, I really wanted this album. I, I, I don't know. I wanted
04:38this album. And so I asked for it for Easter. I asked for it for my Easter present and my
04:43mom
04:44put this, my mom used to like really do up Easter or she did up everything, but she would do
04:48this
04:48thing with our Easter baskets where she would have like a, I guess like a woman's powder type thing.
04:52Like, I don't know, it looks like a fucking, I don't know, a sponge of sorts and you dip it
04:56in powder
04:56and she would make it look like East, like the Easter bunny dropped off your basket. And, uh,
05:01she did that one year when I was probably like seven. And so I was childish enough that
05:04she would do that kind of shit. But inside my Easter basket sat this, flesh of my flesh,
05:08blood of my blood. Uh, my mom said it, it reminded her of crucifixion. So she was happy to get
05:13it for Easter. It's a great, great, great fucking album. DMX is my favorite rapper probably,
05:19but I would have to go, that one's last, that one's last, but, but a banger of an album.
05:27Number one with a fucking bullet. Number one with a bullet. Fall Out Boy,
05:32take this to your grave. It's, it's number one. It is, it's no skips. It's probably what,
05:3610 songs on this album? Let's see. Uh, 12, literally no skips. And, and here's the thing
05:42too, that people don't fucking, people don't know, people don't remember, I guess.
05:48The song titles for punk rock was the best. Okay. Uh, I think this, this starts off with
05:54tell that Mickey just made my list of things to do today. They are insane. Fall Out Boy had
05:59the craziest names of albums, uh, dead on arrival, great grand theft auto, grand theft
06:02autumn. Where's your boy? Where is your boy? I hope he's a gentleman. Um, homesick at space
06:07camp, sending postcards from a plane crash, which you were here. Oh my God. Chicago. So two years
06:12ago, the pros and cons of breathing grenade jumper, calm before the storm, reinventing the wheel
06:16it to run myself over the patron saint of liars and fakes. There are zero skips on this album.
06:21It is a fucking banger. It is. It's perfect. It's perfect. I love Fall Out Boy so much. And
06:28the longer, like the older I've gotten, the more I've, I've loved them. It's, it's, it's a terrible
06:35band name to say you're, you love them. It's not a great band name. I don't like the band
06:39name Fall Out Boy, but the band itself, I fucking love it is. It's number one. It's, it's number
06:51one. Number one. I used to do that. I used to, with that album, I used to, like, it was
06:57like pulling into like my high school parking lot. I still vividly remember that. Like that
07:02album blaring. I fucking, I had my grandfather's, my grandfather died and I got his car, which
07:09was a Buick LeSabre, like a, like a green Buick LeSabre. And when my grandfather died,
07:14he only had one arm. And, uh, so he had a fucking suicide wheel on the car, like this
07:20little like knob that attached to the wheel so you could drive with one hand. And I used
07:24to whip that fucking thing around listening to that album. It is, it's still my, it's my
07:30favorite album of all time. It's my favorite album of all time. It's fantastic. Last one.
07:35Last one. I'm nervous. God, I was just listening to this with my daddy yesterday on Father's
07:44Day. We were listening to this yesterday on Father's Day. This, bro. Okay. So this album
07:49right here, Town and Crows, August and Everything After. It is a, uh, an emotional album, I guess,
07:55a depressing album, uh, a slow album, but I, um, liken it or I, I associate it with a vacation
08:04I took in high school to the Bahamas. And I went down there with a group of friends from
08:09high school and I went down there with three separate girls and I had a crush on all of
08:13them. And I was like, if I hook up with one of these girls this weekend, it's going to
08:16be perfect. And instead of hooking up with any of those girls or finding love, what I did
08:21was I got so sunburned on day one in the Bahamas with this complexion that I couldn't go outside
08:27for the rest of the trip. And I had to sit in a dark room, sunburned, probably second degree burns,
08:33and the girls who I had a crush on, who I wanted to see me as a sex symbol, saw
08:37me as a hurt little
08:38doe and they would come in and they would rub aloe on my back because I was in such pain.
08:43But all I
08:43would do is I would sit in the dark and I would listen to this album. And it's not really
08:47a summer
08:47album. It doesn't really give beach vibes, but I always associate with that because I was so
08:51fucking depressed in Harbor Island. It's a name. Mr. Jones is a heater. Anna Begins is the one. Little
09:01Blue Buildings is a smash. It is Rain King, Bang Sullivan Street, another hitter. It's amazing.
09:07It's amazing. Anna Begins is the one. Anna Begins. Oh my goodness gracious. This one's going five,
09:13but these are five unbelievable albums. I don't think I would change anything. I think
09:21if we had a different OAR album, they would probably move up to one or two. If it was
09:2634th and 8th of The Wanderer, that would probably be one or two and that would move everything back one.
09:32But aside from that, I think Take This to Your Grave, I think that's the order. I think I'd stick
09:37with that.
09:38Thank you very much for watching. Again, I'm John Feidelberg and those are my favorite albums.
09:43Check me out on Out of Order YouTube or anywhere else.
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