After finishing my Top 20 Albums, which was a list of albums I felt impacted this generation's music, people asked me what my favorite albums were.

1.) I hate this list. It doesn't seem complete.
2.) I really hate this list.
3.) These albums range from albums I loved in high school and those I love now.
4.) Than why post it? Because I have nothing better to do at the moment.

My Top 20

Dan Auerbach - Keep it Hid

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

The Black Keys - Thickfreakness

Garden State Soundtrack

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl

Lost Prophets - Start Something

Jay Clifford - Know When to Walk Away

Neil Young - Harvest

Led Zeppelin - III

Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory? (Although, not their best album -Be Here Now does it for me- it still impacted my musical preferences greatly.)

Elliott Smith - Either/Or

Sublime - Sublime

Pearl Jam - Ten

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

Silversun Pickups - Carnavas

Incubus - Make Yourself

Joshua Radin - We Were Here

My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves

The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism

Kings of Leon - Only By the Night

Warm Beer and Cold Women

Artist - Damion Suomi
Album - Damion Suomi
Released - April 22, 2009 (P is for Panda)

Reviving the same lamentations of post-blues lounge crooners with a dark lager in one hand and a Camel in the other, Florida-based Damion Suomi crafts the same tattered elegance with his eponymous debut album.

Suomi (say it with me - sue-me) carries the same weight under a new brand of Irish folk with the subtle qualities of late nineties alternative and alt-country begging for a deeper meaning and subsequently an answer.

According to fellow P is for Panda label artist, Mike Dunn, he describes Sumoi as, “kind of like Michael Stipe and Billy Bragg having too many beers and playing Woody Guthrie songs.”

And the comparison to Michael Stipe of REM is obvious: if Stipe smoked one too many stogies and drank his weight in Guinness, you’d have Suomi. The resemblance is ephemeral when tracks like Darwin, Jesus, the Devil and Me flourish under a melodic tempo of acoustic balladry set to the thrashings of Suomi’s power-questioning lyrics.

The consistent tone of his album generates an unwavering sense of bled-out relationships, bouts with his creator and bourbon, never outdoing himself and staying true to a foot-stomping riotous bar crowd.

His coarse rendition of the genre redefines where his music is bred. It’s deep, dark and full of righteous Southern influence, creating the rhythmic discord of the common man.

Laced with the cynical ranting of Suomi, his debut album remains simple and uplifting grafting a modern finesse on the traditional while staggering home after last call.

http://www.myspace.com/damionsuomi