Post one per day, in no particular order, your 10 all-time favorite albums that really made an impact and are still in your rotation to this day. Post the cover, no need to explain your choice.

Day Seven: Bringing Down the Horse by The Wallflowers

This is an interesting one. Bringing Down the Horse was another album that I had as one of my first CDs, but unlike 1 or some of the other albums I’ve written about, this is the only album by The Wallflowers that I’ve ever listened to. It didn’t inspire me to find other music from them.

At the same time, though, I’ve never taken any song from this album out of my collection, not once. Even with different bands that I have, as I mentioned with My Chemical Romance, I’ve added and removed songs over time. Bringing Down the Horse is still there in its entirety, untouched. I’ve always had 11 songs by The Wallflowers, and that probably won’t change.

What has solidified Bringing Down the Horse for me then? I don’t know, and it certainly can’t be pinpointed even if I did. However, I can honestly say that each of those 11 songs still click with me to this day. I don’t listen to them every time they come up on shuffle, and I sometimes skip to the next song before one of them is done. Yet I relate to every track in various ways, and I love how they’re put together and performed.

I rarely have the whole album of any one band, and if I do, it’s not for long. I believe that this album is one of the only exceptions in my collection.