5 Albums I Can’t Live Without
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Poo Bear
Name Poo Bear Best known for Saying “Happy Bearthday.” Current city Los Angeles, CA. Really want to be in Los Angeles, being the best father and husband to my wife and kids. Excited about My joint venture label deal with Def Jam for Bearthday Music, new single “The Day You Left.” My current music collection has a lot of Original and unreleased music. Preferred format I would have to choose streaming because of the incredible accessibility. [embedded content] 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without 1 ChangesJustin Bieber With the Changes album, every song was different from the next while keeping the whole body of work extremely cohesive and powerful. 2 PurposeJustin Bieber The Purpose album spread a whole new sound in pop music, therefore heavily influencing all genres of music. This album not only ...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Rod Argent of the Zombies
Name Rod Argent Best known for Founder and keyboard player of The Zombies and Argent. Writer of “She’s Not There”, “Time of the Season”, “Tell Her No,” “Hold Your Head Up” and many album tracks. Current city Petersfield, in Hampshire, U.K. Really want to be in West Sedona/Boynton Canyon, Arizona. I would be walking and wandering with Cathy, my wife, in one of the most magical and healing places we’d ever visited. It’s considered a sacred place by the indigenous Native American tribes of the Southwest, and after staying there some years back, I can understand why. Excited about The new Zombies album we are currently recording. I’ve now written two-thirds of it, and we’ve already recorded close to half….we’re recording for the first time in my studio, it’s only small, but brilliantly acousti...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Pat Monahan of Train
Name Pat Monahan, singer of Train Best known for My juggling bananas and, of course, my show on SiriusXM The Pulse. Current city Issaquah, WA Really want to be in Issaquah – I love it there. Excited about Getting back out on the road for our tour this summer and performing some live shows again. Also, our upcoming album. Not sure if I have a name for it yet. It might be called What If. My current music collection has a lot of My current music collection is basically streaming, but I listen to a lot of hip hop and Khalid on Pandora is my jam. I love it. And a little bit of I think the genre of music for this next record for Train is going to be more a more Motown thing than hip hop. Don’t judge me for I don’t think of there as being guilty pleasures. You either like it or you don’t. I’m not...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Toosii
Name Toosii Best known for Hood Romantic/Love Songs — also known for being funny as hell (but I can be serious too). Current city Raleigh, NC. Really want to be in Las Vegas, gambling — I win so much money in Vegas! Excited about My upcoming tour – the “Thank You For Believing” tour – tickets on sale now! I can’t wait! My current music collection has a lot of A lot of pop music and a lot of Drake lately. And a little bit of Country. Don’t judge me for Honestly, no. I listen to it all, no shame in my game lol. Preferred format CDs – that’s where the $$ is! [embedded content] 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without 1 Nothing Was the SameDrake Great body of work – nice project to study as well. 2 Platinum Heart (Deluxe)Toosii Technically my first project after I was signed, so it’s real special to me. ...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: David Crosby
Name David Crosby Best known for Probably harmony. I do good harmonies. Current city Central California. Really want to be in No, I really like it here [in California]. I do like Western Europe. I like England and France and Italy and Spain, particularly Italy. Excited about New album For Free (July 23). What’s exciting about it is that this is the fifth one. I’ve done five records in the last six years, which I don’t know anybody who has. Not young people or old people or anybody. Frankly, they’re good records. That’s what excites me. I love good music. I love good songs, and I think that’s what we’re doing. I think we’re presenting a bunch of really good songs. My current music collection has a lot of Probably more singer-songwriters than anything else, but there’s a lot of jazz, a lot o...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Matt Sorum
Name Matt Sorum Best known for Playing rock ‘n roll drums…but just as well known for drinkin’ and scallywaggin’!! Musical groups were Guns N’ Roses because that had an open bar tab, The Cult which fit my clothing style of all black all the time, and Velvet Revolver where Scott Weiland turned me on to a better haircut and a good neck scarf. Now I’m with Billy F Gibbons for that cool groove that feels especially good, as I’m finally maturing. My fun, bucket-list band is Kings of Chaos, and playing with my heroes like Steven Tyler, Robin Zander and Wayne Newton (I really did play with Wayne) is kind of like a childhood dream. Current city Palm Springs, California. Really want to be in I love Italy: Rome, Florence and Lucca are incredible. Watch Stanley Tucci in Searching for Italy. All h...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Gary Kemp
Name Gary Kemp Best known for Songwriter and guitarist for Spandau Ballet; Sy Spector in The Bodyguard; Ronnie Kray in The Krays; guitarist and singer in Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets. Current city London. Really want to be in A concert hall full of beautiful folk watching a show. I may or may not be on stage. I don’t bloody mind at the moment, just give me anything! Excited about My new solo album, INSOLO (July 16). My current music collection has a lot of Solo female artists in it: St. Vincent, The Anchoress, Lana del Rey, Rachel Eckroth… And a little bit of Prog. Actually, a lot of prog. Don’t judge me for Liking Yacht Rock. Preferred format Always vinyl at home. It’s the arena albums were designed to fit in: two 20-minute acts, unless it’s prog, then it can be four. And, of course,...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Mike Peters of The Alarm
Name Mike Peters, MBE Best known for Big hair in the ‘80s—and more recently for saving lives one concert at a time through our Love Hope Strength Foundation. Current city Dyserth, North Wales. Really want to be in I would love to be back in Los Angeles on the beach and running up and down the boardwalk between Santa Monica and Venice Beach. Having the chance to play a show while I was there would be a bonus! Excited about The new Coloursound album with Billy Duffy, and The Alarm recently released a new album entitled WAЯ that was written, recorded and released in 50 days, starting on the night the capital building was being occupied on Jan. 6. It was released on my birthday, Feb. 25, just as the last fader was moved on the mixing desk, we put it straight onto the Internet and a...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Daniel Kohn, SPIN’s Editorial Director
Name Daniel Kohn Best known for Taking a photo of Prince Harry and Afrika Bambaataa backstage at Wireless Festival in 2009 (and SPIN’s Editorial Director). Current city San Fernando Valley. Really want to be in Tokyo – name a cooler city, I dare you. Excited about Being able to go to live shows again. My current music collection has a lot of Out of print CDs and extremely rare vinyl pressings. Been on a huge singer-songwriter kick as well. And a little bit of Live albums (actually, a lot of). Listening to a live album — even not in its purest of form — gives you the true essence of what an artist sounds like without the bells and whistles of the studio. Don’t judge me for Loving Van Hagar. If loving them is wrong, I don’t wanna be right. And yes, I was made fun of a lot during elementary a...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Sam i
Artist/Name: Sam i Best known for: Producing for artists like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kanye West, Lizzo, Doja Cat, etc… My artist projects NASA and Sam i, my film score work for Bad Grandpa, Jackass, etc., my directing on projects like Wu-Tang in Space and my company Squeak E. Clean. Current city: Los Angeles Really want to be in: Tokyo for Sakura bloom, wandering around the city, and eating bomb ramen. Excited about: I have a new song out called “Shake” that’s a bop… By the time this comes out, the Breakbot Remix will be out. My current music collection has a lot of: I’d like to change this to “My current music playlist has a lot of: Music from the ’50s. And a little bit of: Music from 2021. Don’t judge me for: Still loving club music, despite how corny the scene has become. Vinyl/CD/Streaming/S...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Katherine Turman
Name Katherine Turman Best known for Writing for SPIN first in 1992/3… and then again, again starting in 2020! A book in-between: Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal. Other writing. Lots of it. Radio producing. Current city Brooklyn, New York. Los Angeles native. Really want to be in A quiet beach, a lounge chair under an umbrella, clear aqua ocean to float in, a great book (maybe Joan Didion, John Banville or Jose Saramago), a cocktail. Excited about First TV episodes I’ve ever written (on the venues the Troubadour, the Aragon and Preservation Hall) for a new docu-series airing on AXS TV this summer; a major music podcast I can’t reveal yet (sorry!); improving my writing and the time and brain-power to do that. My current music collection has a lot of Everything. Leanin...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Jimmy Brown of UB40
Name Jimmy Brown Best known for Being the most important member of UB40, as well as the drummer. Current city Left the city years ago, now live out in the countryside. Replaced the sound of police sirens with the occasional hooting owl. Really want to be in Got a new arrival in my house, a new grandson, so I’m not thinking about being anywhere else at the moment. But give it a couple of weeks… Excited about Got a new album out called Bigga Baggariddim. It’s a collaboration with some of the best reggae artists from around the world. It’s a diverse, eclectic record with featured artists from as far as New Zealand and India, and of course Jamaica, as well as the UK and USA. I’m very proud of it. My current music collection has a lot of ‘90s music right now. Some people are nostalgic for the 1...
