Number Five
Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers
(1999)
1. Around the World
2. Parallel Universe
3. Scar Tissue
4. Otherside
5. Get on Top
6. Californication
7. Easily
8. Porcelain
9. Emit Remmus
10. I Like Dirt
11. This Velvet Glove
12. Savior
13. Purple Stain
14. Right on Time
15. Road Trippin'
John Frusciante's return to the Red Hot Chili Peppers was a huge deal for me after being thoroughly disappointed by Dave Navarro on One Hot Minute. On Californication, there is a good mix of songs to rock out to, but you can also hear Frusciante's influence on some of the lighter, and better tracks of the album such as Scar Tissue, Road Trippin', and Porcelain. And as always, all the awesome guitar pieces in this Chili Peppers album are backed by equally awesome bass, drums, and vocals.
Here's my picks for the top 5 sappy love songs. Most are incredibly overdone, but these are the perfect songs fir when you're feeing especially in love.
1. Someone to Die For- Jimmy Gnecco & Brian May
2. Angie- The Rolling Stones
3. Stellar- Incubus
4. I Could Die For You- Red Hot Chili Peppers
5. Starlight- Muse
Number Six
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins
(1995)
•1. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
•2. Tonight, Tonight
•3. Jellbelly
•4. Zero
•5. Here is No Why
•6. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
•7. To Forgive
•8. **** You (An Ode to No One)
•9. Love
•10. Cupid de Locke
•11. Galapagos
•12. Muzzle
•13. Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
•14. Take Me Down
•15. Where Boys Fear to Tread
•16. Bodies
•17. Thirty-Three
•18. In the Arms of Sleep
•19. 1979
•20. Tales of A Scorched Earth
•21. Thru the Eyes of Ruby
•22. Stumbleine
•23. X.Y.U.
•24. We Only Come Out at Night
•25. Beautiful
•26. Lily (My One and Only)
•27. By Starlight
•28. Farewell and Goodnight
Mellon Collie is an excellent example of a band at their best. This album is all you'd ever need by The Smashing Pumpkins. It covers all their sounds: Light, airy music like Tonight, Tonight and 1979, hard rock like Zero and Bullet With Butterfly Wings, and heavy, grinding guitar work in **** You and Jellbelly. I absolutely love diverse albums, and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is the most diverse and complete album of all time. To top it off, Billy Corgan's poetry is on par with that of Jim Morrison.
