• At Folsom Prison-Johnny Cash:

This is only #1 because of how much I listen to it. American IV could easily go here, but this one is just a little bit more important for me. I basically listen to this to go to sleep. Usually I can't make it past Jackson because Johnny's older music always puts me in a sleepy happy mood. I listen to this so often that one of my fantasies is to go back in time as a man, commit a crime, wind up in Folsom and go to this concert. I wish they had recorded the concert on film so I could watch it over and over and over. My favorite songs from it are I Still Miss Someone, Dark As A Dungeon, Orange Blossom Special(which is probably my favorite Cash song anyway), and The Legend of John Henry's Hammer. I love it so much that no matter what I put on my ipod. No matter what mood I am in, this album has to go on it. Hands down it is the most important album to me because it is pretty much all I listen to.

• American IV: The Man Comes Around-Johnny Cash:

I cannot really describe how much this album means to me. It is the sober melancholy brother to the At Folsom Prison record. There are no happy songs on this album. I think what makes it so important to me is it is the first Johnny Cash album I had ever heard. I assumed I had heard his music before, but my father only really got into him after this album and his death, and so Johnny came into my consciousness. At a time when I was exclusively listening to Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, The Academy is, and Panic! At The Disco, this album changed everything for me. When watching the Hurt video with my father it was the first time I had ever seen him cry. Because of its power and sadness, I can rarely listen to it, because it puts me in such a sad mood that all I can do is cry and sit on the roof and burn paper. Though my favorite song off the album is The Man Comes Around. It is Johnny at his greatest. This album would probably be #1 on this list and in my mind I constantly switch it with Folsom Prison. It was the first time I ever heard The Man In Black. The first time I ever really heard a truly sad and upsetting song that will stay with me forever.

• The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars-David Bowie:

I only got into Bowie recently. I'm only 17 FOR CHRIST SAKES! I just love listening to it because to me it shows a life I desperately wish to lead while at the same time makes me want to get as far away from that life as possible. We all want to be remembered. We all want to be thought of as amazing or even have people think of us at all. I want to bring people hope, but I am terrified of being destroyed by those same people who I brought hope to in the first place. I am also frequently worried that my sometimes extreme lack of control over my actions will lead me to an unhappy life of sex, drugs and rock and roll.

• From Under The Cork Tree-Fall Out Boy:

This album doesn't really fit with the other albums on the list, but this album is my childhood in musical form. I got into fall out boy as a lot of the people around me did; in middle school. Before fall out boy I would listen to whatever my friends or parents did. I got into rap just because it was all my best friend listened to. I didn't even know there were such things(exaggeration but still) as top 40 stations because all we listened to was Prairie Home Companion and oldies stations. Though when a close friend of mine told me in gym class in sixth grade that I should listen to this band called Fall Out Boy, I was intrigued. I bought the album with Christmas money and fell in love. At a time when all I wanted to do was make out with boys and grow up fast, this album spoke to me. It was my hymnal, my church music. I listened to it on repeat for hours. In someways it helped me grow up, while in others it helped me hold on to my youth. I have so much to say about this album, but for now this will do.

• The Beatles(The White Album)-The Beatles:

I truly love all The Beatles albums. I mean they defined music, and I don't know what my life would be like without them. But there is something about the white album that makes me like it more than all the rest. Maybe because it is so long. or maybe because this was the album where things started going downhill. I love that unlike previous Beatles albums, this one has sad patches of music where for a few songs the feeling is very sad and makes me want to cry. All I know is that I want While My Guitar Gently Weeps to play at my funeral.

Honorable mentions are(in no order): The Black Parade(My Chemical Romance), Alice's Restaurant(Arlo Guthrie), Highway 61 Revisited(Bob Dylan), Up From Below(Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros), Walk The Line(Movie Soundtrack), Elephant(The White Stripes), Make Believe(Weezer), Bridge Over Troubled Water(Simon & Garfunkel), Aftermath(The Rolling Stones), Begin To Hope(Regina Spektor), Youth(Matisyahu), Super Taranta!(Gogol Bordello),