Okay, I couldn't resist. LiveJournal's Question of the Day:
Some people spend their whole lives preparing the answer to this question: What albums are on your personal all-time Top 10 list?

Okay folks, here goes. Now remember, we're thinking albums as a whole, not particular artists or songs. If I had to listen to only 10 *albums* for the rest of my life, they would be (in no particular order, because I can't even fathom choosing between them):

1.) Carbon Leaf, Echo Echo
2.) SR-71, Now You See Inside
3.) Sister Hazel, Chasing Daylight
4.) Gaelic Strom, How Are We Getting Home?
5.) Great Big Sea, Road Rage
6.) Green Day, American Idiot
7.) Blink-182, Enema of the State
8.) Eve 6, Eve 6
9.) John Mayer, Room for Squares
10.) Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium

That was wicked hard. haha... but, I'd have to say, I'd also give Honorable Mention's to Janis Joplin's Pearl, the Original Broadway Cast Recording of RENT and Shawn Mullins' Soul's Core.

Wow. I started to do that by my favorite songs.... but often, a song I really like is on an album I'm not too fond of as a whole. For example, I totally love "Sleeping With The Lights On" by Teitur.... but, the album as a whole - a bit lackluster.  Very hard. Some of my favorite songs didn't make it to this list at all, under the 'album' criteria. Perhaps tomorrow, I'm going to have to do a top-ten favorite SONGS of all time. *gulp*... okay, maybe top 20?

I came to an interesting realization doing this though. Between compiling my favorite albums list and sort of scrolling through my VAST (I just passed 20K songs!) music collection, I noticed: I generally do NOT like female singers. Sure, there are some songs I like and even some albums... but they were FAR from my top ten, and definitely not evenly weighted in my music collection. It's not that I don't listen to women singers, or have some sort of preconcieved prejudice against them.... but, as a whole, I don't tend to like the tonality.  AND, it's also not because I'm listening to just a particular genre that women are underrepresented in, because as you can see, we're spanning celtic, alt-rock, broadway, etc.  
So, I pose this question to you, f-list. Do you think this is because I'm female, that I naturally am more appreciative of the male vocal tones (maybe this is a good argument? My Dad tends to prefer female singers, it would seem...)?
Analyze your music (give me your top 10, if you dare!).... do you find your collections weighted toward a particular gender? If you do, why do you think this is so? 

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