Today I feel like making another top 5 list. So here it goes; Today's subject is music, and the twist this time is "Your Dad Has Better Taste In Music Than You (but not better then mine)" While this may or not be true, basically what I'm talking about is music from the last generation that most people my age, in their early 20's, generally ignore and don't even know whats out there. I will try to steer clear of perennial favorites that everyone knows so it should be stuff that most people here haven't heard. Onward!

#5: "Espresso Logic" by Chris Rea - Chris Rea makes truly amazing music that I'd label "soulful adult contemporary," and there are tons of his CD's that I would love to put on this list. This one gets in with title songs like "Espresso Logic" and "Gods Great Banana Skin" which is a personal favorite of mine and I suggest you download it. Be prepared, his music is great and I love the lyrics, but some of them are pretty absurd (such as the ones in the song "Espresso Logic") Very distinct. and deep voice. If you like Elton John, theres a duet on here with him, where they perform the song "If You Were Me" which they both sing very well.

#4: "Black And White Night" by Roy Orbison - I used to have a VHS of this performance when I was a kid, I loved it and I still love the album. Orbison, whom Elvis Presley called the greatest singer he'd ever heard, performs onstage with Bruce Springsteen before he became "The Boss" and play some of Orbison's biggest hits such as "Only The Lonely," "In Dreams," and others.

#3: "Amused To Death" by Roger Waters - I understand many people our generation are big Pink Floyd fans (myself included) and love their music; Waters' solo works though, and especially this album, are more what you would call adult music than rock music, and falls back into the same category as some of these other ones, especially Chris Rea. "Amused To Death" is a mellow low tempo album most of the way through that deals with important social issues such as his concept of "Amusing ourselves to death," by which he means that today people are so caught up in pop culture and entertainment that we are forgetting what is important and letting our lives and society slip away. Notables on this album are the title track and "It's A Miracle."

#2: "Live At Folsom Prison" by Johnny Cash - I'm sure most people have heard this album, it should be required listening. Johnny Cash, performing his best prison songs and soulful melodies in front of an entertainment starved crowd of inmates at Folsom Prison, who are soaking it all up. Outstanding album that really in many ways is deserving of the #1 spot if only he had played a few more of his greatest hits on it like "Get A Rythym" and "Boy Named Sue."

#1. "Son of a Son of a Sailor" by Jimmy Buffett - This album just has something for everyone. It doesn't deal with social issues on a broad scale, doesn't deal with the meaninf of life as he does in "Hot Water" on the song "Be Good And You Will Be Lonesome," but what it does offer are great songs through and through, theres not a song on this that should have been left off his greatest hits alum (well, maybe "fool button".) Downloadable worthy songs? I don't even know where to start, they all are; but try "Coast of Marseilles" and "Livingston Saturday Night."

If you haven't heard ANY of these albums, you seriously have to, I probably listen to each of them about once a week. Next time I'll do another top 10 or top 5 list, so keep checking back, alright?