Top Three

Albums Casey listened to on this day in 1995

By Casey Jarman


Bad Religion,
Recipe for Hate

(Atlantic)

Even in the Obama age, I listen to this every once in a while. "Don't Pray on Me" still gets me hopping mad and "Man With a Mission" has got to be my favorite country-punk song ever. And I learned a lot of vocabulary words from Bad Religion.

Buffalo Tom, Big Red Letter Day (Beggar's Banquet)
I've probably bought and sold this album five times since I was 14. And yeah, I discovered Buffalo Tom from watching My So-Called Life. I listened to "I'm Allowed" the other day and the lyrics—about feeling too old to party—make more sense now.

Moby, Everything is Wrong (Elektra)
I had heard Prodigy or the Chemical Brothers or whatever, but it was Everything Is Wrong that made me think I could love electronic music. In the liner notes, Moby wrote to his listeners in a really heartfelt way, and got all political without coming off as a dick. I thought that was cool. Then I danced in my room a lot.

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Casey Jarman

Casey Jarman

Casey Jarman is a freelance editor and writer based in East Portland, Oregon. He has served as Music Editor at Willamette Week and Managing Editor at The Believer magazine, where he remains a contributing editor. He is currently working on his first book. It's about death.

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