Last week saw the first annual Sod Conference (patent pending), when Nate and his wife were in Bismarck (which, as was agreed to be all attendees, should henceforth be referred to either as The Biz or ‘Smark) and joined me, the admin, and infrequent blogger Kelly Hagen for drinks at the local drinking hole. Much merriment and festivities were had. If you weren’t invited, rest assured that it was probably intentional.

Anyway, it was during our gathering that Nate stated that he felt like everyone on the Sod Blog should have joined in on his, Kelly’s and Chris’s recent listings of the definitive albums of each year of their sad, empty lives. So fine. I’m nothing if not a frequent and tragic victim of peer pressure. Here’s my list of the only albums that have ever mattered during my stay on the planet earth.

1978 – (blank)
1979 – (blank)
1980 – (blank)
1981 – (blank)
1982 – (blank)
1983 – (blank)
1984 – (blank)
1985 – (blank)
1986 – (blank)
1987 – (blank)
1988 – (blank)
1989 – (blank)
1990 – (blank)
1991 – Pearl Jam – Ten
1992 – (blank)
1993 – Pearl Jam – Vs.
1994 – Pearl Jam – Vitalogy
1995 – Pearl Jam – Merkin Ball (Yeah, yeah. It’s a single. Shut the hell up.)
1996 – Pearl Jam – No Code
1997 – (blank)
1998 – Pearl Jam – Yield
1999 – (blank)
2000 – Pearl Jam – Binaural
2001 – (blank)
2002 – Pearl Jam – Riot Act
2003 – Pearl Jam – Lost Dogs
2004 – (blank)
2005 – (blank)
2006 – Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam
2007 – (blank)
2008 – (blank)

I’ll fill in the blanks some other time, if and when every other musical band on earth discontinues sucking.