5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam

Name Jeff Ament

Current city Missoula, MT

Really want to be in Essaouira, Morocco

Excited about Top secret soundscape scoring gig.

My current music collection has a lot of EG Records stable, US hardcore 1978-1984, NY avant, Windham Hill.

You wouldn’t expect me to listen to Marillion’s Misplaced Childhood.

Preferred format Vinyl by far, but I’m lazy so MP3s in the car.

5 Albums I Can’t Live Without:

1

Discreet Music

Brian Eno

I just get lost in these pieces and hear different rhythms and melodies every time I listen…perfect companion for a fella by himself on an island.

2

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

So many layers, incredible shifts and colors. Bill Laswell remix is stunning.

3

Agaetis Byrjun

Sigur Ros

Aliens have landed. This tour was maybe the best thing I’ve ever seen live, right next to 1983 Bad Brains.

4

Laughing Stock

Talk Talk

Truly beautiful interplay, musicians really listening to each other. Uninhibited passion vocally. This and Mark’s solo record super influential.

5

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin

Only because it’s two records, cuz they did not make a bad record. I’d be happy with any one of them. “In the Light” and “Kashmir” both otherworldly, which would be needed on the desert island.

Honorable Mentions:

This list took me five months to whittle down.

John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band

Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions

Peter Gabriel’s 1

Neil Young’s Decade

Gordon Downie’s Introduce Yerself

Public Image Limited’s Second Edition

Black Flag’s Damaged

Grizzly Bear’s Shields

Portishead’s Dummy

David Bowie’s Hunky Dory

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