Kreemé Wants YOU! Dept.

Kreemé [left, and 19 my ass - Ed.] came up with a swell interactive FoamFeature™ initiative during a team-building session with me in the office oil wrestling pit! "Why not," she gasped, "ax th' Four Or Five Guys® like which is their favorite albums are?" I took another hit of nitrous oxide from the Fabergé crystal tank as she writhed playfully astride my manly torso. "Why, Kreemé! That's some swell notion!" We immediately set to and thrashed out the logistics, showering under rainbow-hued My Little Pony© waterfall.

The requirements have been adapted to the meanest intelligence to ensure participation from you, th' Four Or Five Guy© reading this! Simply list your Top Seven favorite albums of all time! In a comment!

Now there have to be rules and guidelines, or the whole affair will descend into screaming insect chaos, so the following strictures apply:

1 "Seven" means any number. If you can't think of seven, list as many as you can. If you have, like, beaucoup of favorite albums, list 'em all!

2 Albums can be any-type music. Nobody gives a shit, mainly because nobody will read your furshlugginer list.

3 Try to restrict each artist to one album (this is tough).

3 Don't like music? Don't know what an album is? List your Mom's meatloaf ingredients, or your most-treasured Hummel figurines! Join in the fun!

To set this crazy glitter ball a-rollin', here's my own Top Seven albums what have given me profound enjoyment, comfort, and pulse-quickening thrills over the decades. They're not The World's Greatest Classic Iconic Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Ever, nor am I straining to satisfy diversity and inclusivity requirements. It's all music I'd really miss; music that made a direct hit with me and never lets me down. In no particular order:

The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers

Shawn Phillips - Faces

Terry Riley - A Rainbow In Curved Air

(The) Rain Parade - First Album

Miles Davis - Big Fun

Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes

Country Joe & His Fish - Electric Music

Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Etc. 

Michael Nesmith - From A Radio Engine To Etc.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

The Beach Boys - Holland

Colosseum - Valentyne Suite

The Allman Brothers - Eat A Peach

The Church - The Blurred Crusade

Culture - Two Sevens Clash (playing as we speak!)

John McLaughlin & His Mahavishnu Orchestras - The Inner Mounting Flame

Soft Machine - Third

Kaleidoscope - Side Trips

The Doors - LA Woman

Jackson Browne - For Everyman

The Grateful Dead - From The Mars Hotel

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Stanley Clarke - First Album

The Monkees - Head

Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Derek & His Dominos - Layla

Frank Zappa & His Mothers Of Invention - Burnt Weeny Sandwich

Spirit - Son Of Spirit

Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle

HP Lovecraft - II

ZZ Top - Tres Hombres

Spanky & Our Gang - Anything You Choose

Billy Cobham - Crosswinds

It's A Beautiful Day - First Album

Santana - Caravanserai

Nilsson - The Point

Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey

Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney - Fancy Meeting You Here

Herbie Hancock - Sound System

Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music

... is that seven yet? You get the idea. Slip it to Kreemé in th' komments!