The day the cookie monster died

So I re-bought the Violent Femmes self-titled debut. It rocks. It got me to thinking of other self-titled musical collections of things called songs. Some of my favorites are described below.

Violent Femmes (1982)
1. Blister in the Sun
2. Kiss Off
3. Please Do Not Go
4. Add it Up
5. Confessions
6. Prove My Love
7. Promise
8. To the Kill
9. Gone Daddy Gone
10. Good Feeling
If you add the bonus tracks "Ugly" and "Gimme the Car", this is nearly a greatest hits cd. blister in the sun, though, IMO is over-rated as a hit pop song, it opens the album strong, and having such a solid track list puts this one right up there.

Weezer (1994) -Known as the blue album
1. My Name is Jonas
2. No One Else
3. The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
4. Buddy Holly
5. Undone
6. Surf Wax America
7. Say it Ain't So
8. In the Garage
9. Holiday
10. Only in Dreams
Also better known as, the CD before Rivers went sober and sold his soul to the devil to become a pop superstar. While this disc has plenty of poppy hits, it's much more true to the roots of the "alternative rock" movement that blew up in the early 90s.

Goldfinger (1996)
1. Mind's Eye
2. Stay
3. Here in Your Bedroom
4. Only a Day
5. King for a Day
6. Anxiety
7. Answers
8. Anything
9. Mable
10. The City With Two Faces
11. My Girlfriend's Shower Sucks
12. Miles Away
13. Nothing to Prove
14. Pictures
15. Phonecall
16. Fuck You and Your Cat
17. Ode to Dau
Another of those "before they sold out" kind of CDs, this one helped propel the 3rd wave of ska into the mainstream with "here in your bedroom" - which wasn't very ska-y. The disc has punk energy, good transition between songs, and a solid track list.

Metallica (1991) -Known as the black album
1. Enter Sandman
2. Sad but True
3. Holier Than Thou
4. The Unforgiven
5. Wherever I May Roam
6. Don't Tread on Me
7. Through the Never
8. Nothing Else Matters
9. Of Wolf and Man
10. The god That Failed
11. My Friend of Misery
12. The Struggle Within
Knowing me, you'd know this isn't my favorite Metallica disc. It's more of a mix of radio-friendly and "old-metallica" than any other of their CDs though. This put Metallica more on the map than ever before, and the tracks that didn't invade you on MTV and the radio were very solid too.

The Doors (1967)
1. Break on Through
2. Soul Kitchen
3. The Crystal Ship
4. 20th Century Fox
5. Alabama Song
6. Light My Fire
7. Back Door Man
8. I Looked at You
9. End of the Night
10. Take it As it Comes
11. The End
I love this one. cover to cover. The "side one" tracks are amazing. True, some of the side two stuff is usually press-the-next button material for most but I dig them too. I can't understate that this is one of my favorites of all-time, not just of the eponymous releases.

Presidents of the United States of America (1995)
1. Kitty
2. Feather Pluckin
3. Lump
4. Stranger
5. Boll Weevil
6. Peaches
7. Dune Buggy
8. We Are Not Going to Make It
9. Kick Out the Jams
10. Body
11. Back Porch
12. Candy
13. Naked and Famous
Minimalist rock. Punky. Fun. This one is easy to listen to and easy to like. This is one of the rare CDs that I've bought 4 times. Granted, a couple times were from a used CD place so it serves me right. Ug. Now I got "We're not gonna make it" stuck in my head.

Led Zeppelin (1971) -Known as Led Zeppelin IV
1. Black Dog
2. Rock and Roll
3. The Battle of Evermore
4. Stairway to Heaven
5. Misty Mountain Hop
6. Four Sticks
7. Going to California
8. When the Levee Breaks
Left this one for last b/c it would be impossible to compare this one to anything. This one is solid. I don't even skip the weirdo "battle of evermore". Drumming on the steering wheel and singing Robert Plant off-key...it doesn't get much better than that.

Honorable mention (of ones I also own) to the Beatles (1968 White Album), Cypress Hill (1991), Led Zeppelin (1969 Led Zeppelin II), Nirvana (2002 actually is a greatest hits cd, points--;), Rage Against the Machine (1992), Soulfly (1998)
...mainly because there's a lot of "filler" on those discs, and whilst decent, aren't on my list, though they may be on others.