10 Desert Island Discs

[mark414]

no anthologies, no greatest hits, no box sets; in other words, just 10 albums that you would bring should you find yourself stuck on a desert island (and the boombox with you runs on solar power)

01) The Clash - London Calling
02) Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions...
03) Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
04) DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
05) Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
06) Ice Cube - Death Certificate
07) Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
08) 2Pac - All Eyez On Me
09) John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
10) The Beatles - Abbey Road

and an honorable mention for Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key of Life

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Hmmm...

Hard to choose just ten...

1) The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
2) The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
3) The Clash - London Calling
4) Sweatshop Union - United We Fall
5) Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
6) El-P - Fantastic Damage
7) Aesop Rock - Labor Days
8) The Roots - Things Fall Apart
9) Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
10) Elliott Smith - Figure 8

[GirlinContempt]

12. Emo

:P ;)

[ghostsofgiants]

15. Meh, what can you do?

:P

[GirlinContempt]

16. Poke a little

friendly fun atcha ;)

[ghostsofgiants]

19. Haha

Meanie! :P

[mitchum]

2. My 10:

Howlin' Wolf- Moanin' at Midnight
Richard and Linda Thompson- Pour Down Like Silver
Brian Eno- Here Come The Warm Jets
Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed
Lou Reed- Street Hassle
Roxy Musc- Debut Album
Son House- Death Letter
John Coltrane- My Favorite Things
REM- Automatic for the People
The Stooges- Funhouse

[Blue Belle]

3. So hard to choose...

"Nothing Like the Sun" - Sting
"Greatest Hits" - Earth, Wind, and Fire
"Sand in the Vasiline" - Talking Heads
"Greatest Hits" - Al Green
"Ken Burns - Jazz" Soundtrack from the Documentary
"Songs in the Key of Life" - Stevie Wonder
"Time Capsule" - the B52's
"Rumors" - Fleetwood Mac
"Greatest Hits" - Bob Marley
"Glass Houses" - Billy Joel

[tarkus]

28. Way to be a cheater, Blue Belle...

You can't get all those greatest hits and anthologies past me...

[opiate69]

4. my 10

1. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
2. Tool - AEnima
3. The Beatles - White Album
4. X Japan - Dahlia
5. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
6. The Melvins - Stag
7. Eleven - AvantGardeDog
8. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
9. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
10. Soundgarden - BadMotorFinger

[Squeech]

5. I'll play too

I can never really limit it to ten, but here's a stab at it:

The Henry Cow Leg End (original mix)
Frank Zappa: Civilization Phaze III
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Trout Mask Replica
Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps
Charles Ives' 4th Symphony
Thelonious Monk: Monk and Trane (not sure if this exists as a CD yet, but it should, dammit!)
Grateful Dead: Live Dead
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Happy Trails
the Luis Bonfa solo guitar album on Folkways (I forget the exact title)
French/Frith/Kaiser/Thompson: Live Love Larf & Loaf

But it's gonna hurt not to have any Jefferson Airplane or George Gershwin.

[Jara sang]

6. What? You're on an island and you got no Reggae?

You need some Marley, Tosh and Jimmy Cliff in that mix.:smoke:

[cestpaspossible]

7. in no particular order

Mingus Ah Um - Charles Mingus
Mamagubida - Tryo
Le Sacre du Printemps - Stravinsky
Europe '72 - Grateful Dead
Billie's Best (Verve) - Billie Holliday
Funkadelic - Funkadelic
Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes
Hot Dawg - David Grisman
Phish - Junta
Steeleye Span - Please to see the King

[Seneca]

8. Here goes

1. Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
2. John Lennon/Yoko Ono - Two Virgins
3.

You see, by the time #2 is done, I will be extremely motivated to swin through shark-infested waters to get myself the hell off the island. I really am not fond of being stranded on one. :-)

[CanuckAmok]

9. In no particular order:

The Clash - London Calling
Einsturzende Neubauten - Ende Neu
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
The Gun Club - Fire of Love
Any good recording of Beethoven's 9th
Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
The Who - Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
The Police - Outlandos D'amour
The Benny Goodman Orchestra Live at Carnegie Hall

[GirlinContempt]

14. Interesting mix

[bbernardini]

10. I'm working on my Top 100 list, but here's 10 of them:

1. Kevin Gilbert - Thud
2. Kevin Gilbert - The Shaming Of The True
3. Stuart Davis - Nomen Est Numen
4. Sugar - Copper Blue
5. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
6. Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
7. The Hooters - Nervous Night
8. Mike Keneally - Dancing
9. Genesis - Seconds Out
10. They Might Be Giants - John Henry

[bbernardini]

21. Wait, I need to change one!

Replace #10 with Todd Rundgren's "2nd Wind". How the hell did I miss that?

[GirlinContempt]

11. Hmmm ok.

New Order - Get Ready
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
Violent Femmes - Add It Up
Download - Sidewinder
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Twice Upon A Time
Haujobb - Vertical Theory
The Damned - Damned, Damned, Damned
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Joy Division - Closer
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death

Just, off the top of my head

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

13. Lemme see here:

1. Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
2. White Album - Beatles
3. Extended play Trust (w/ bonus tracks) - Elvis Costello
4. Beach Boys - This great mix my father compiled
5. West Side Story - Original Broadway Cast Album
6. Two Against Nature - Steely Dan
7. Harder They Come Soundtrack - Jimmy Cliff, et al.
8. Poses - Rufus Waitwright
9. Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello
10. Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Edit: I just finished reading the OP. Whoops. Changed "Decade" by Steely Dan to "Two Against Nature" (despite lame-ass production, still has excellent songs). And I'm leaving the Beach Boys entry as is. I'm a rule-breakin' bad boy...what can I say.

[cassandra uprising]

31. *Have I ever told you you're my hero*

Sorry for the ear worm. That's what happens when you get hit in with a 2 X 4 by the likes of your fabulousity.

swoon and faint.

:hi:

[GirlinContempt]

35. Eeek

:blush: Why thank you sweetheart! and :hi: long time no see

[cassandra uprising]

37. hey you

Chavez and I were off line for a while and I've been slinging beers and burgers for money so I haven't had much time on the puter. How's going with you?

[GirlinContempt]

40. Its goin pretty okay

could be a whole lot better. Things shaping up for you at all? How's every little thing?

[khashka]

17. My 10

1) KaTe Bush - The Dreaming
2) Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
3) Bauhaus - Swing The Heartache
4) Current 93 - Swastikas For Noddy
5) Current 93 - Earth Covers Earth
6) The Doors - 13
7) Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
8) Tori Amos - Under The Pink
9) Siouxsie and The Banshees - Peepshow
10) Bronski Beat - Age of Consent




Khash.

[XemaSab]

18. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

In no order

Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral
Modest Mouse: Lonesome Crowded West
Radiohead: OK Computer
A bird CD for whatever island I happen to be on so I can ID the little boogers
Machines of Loving Grace: Concentration
Folk Implosion: One Part Lullaby
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Depeche Mode: Violator
Any other randomly picked CD by NIN, Radiohead or Modest Mouse... they all kick ass!

[NYdemocrat089]

20. Hmmm....hard question

I'd probably want:

Beatles - One
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up
Dave Matthews Band - Busted Stuff
Dave Matthews Band(I know...I'm obsessed)- Some Devil
Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Tchaikovsky - Overtures
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Coldplay - X&Y
Georges Bizet - Carmen

[hyphenate]

22. Probably some of mine would be what I listen to

in the car most of the time. Sorry; some of them are compilations and "greatest hits" albums because some of the originals are old. (Like me)

Alan Parsons - Live
David Lanz - Beloved
Soundtrack - Paint Your Wagon
Soundtrack - Footloose
Mark Lindsay - Arizona
Don McLean - Greatest Hits
John Denver - Greatest Hits
Soundtrack - Somewhere in Time
Alan Parsons - Ammonia Avenue
Soundtrack/concept album - Chess
Soundtrack - Fantasia

I would also like Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Holst's Planets if I could.

I know my taste in music is a little strange, but hey--that's what makes the world go round!

And yes--there are more than 10--I can't count! :D

[Initech]

23. Being a Zappa fan, my ten would be:

1. Frank Zappa - Freak Out!
2. Frank Zappa - You Cant Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4
3. Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures
4. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
5. Tool - AEnima
6. Bill Hicks - Relentless
7. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
8. Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove: Greatest Hits
9. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
10. Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

edit: If I were to pick all 10 Zappa discs:

1. Freak Out!
2. We're Only In It For The Money
3. The Best Band That You Never Heard In Your Life
4. Zoot Allures
5. Bongo Fury
6. Uncle Meat
7. You Are What You Is
8. You Cant Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4
9. You Cant Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6
10. The Man From Utopia

[PittPoliSci]

39. good choices! i love six degrees of inner turbulence!

[tarkus]

42. I can't explain why, but I'm not a huge fan of that album.

I love Metropolis II and Train of Thought... I have just never been a big fan of Six Degrees. That is one album where, in almost every song, LaBrie's vocals kill me inside. And the Freeper lyrics in "The Great Debate" are a major turnoff.

[Initech]

47. You think Dream Theater are Freepers?

Man, they slammed religious fanatics on the track "In The Name Of God".

[tarkus]

49. Yeah, now that it isn't like 4 in the morning I see what you mean...

"Freeper" wasn't really the word I was looking for. And no freeper could play like those guys...

[Initech]

51. I'm still wondering who has better taste in music - us or the freepers?

I'd say us!

[ole_evil_eye]

24. being a metal head, mine would be

System of a Down-Mezmerize
Slipknot-Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Mushroomhead-XIII
Led Zeppelin-IV
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Slayer-Reign in Blood
Rage Against the Machine-S/T
Pantera-Far Beyond the Southern Vulgar Cowboy's Greatest Hits
Korn-S/T
Tool-Aenima


sounds pretty good, imo

[LibraLiz1973]

25. My "jams" lol

1. Alice in Chains- Unplugged
2. Fleetwood Mac- Rumors
3. Stevie Nicks- The Wild Heart
4. Depeche Mode- Violator
5. Tori Amos- Little Earthquakes
6. Coldplay- A Rush of Blood To The Head
7. Foo Fighters- There Is Nothing Left To Lose
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication
9. Beastie Boys- Pauls Boutique
10. Tom Petty- Wildflowers

[ok_cpu]

26. My 10

Radiohead "OK Computer"
Genesis "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"
Jeff Buckley "Grace"
Public Enemy "Fear of a Black Planet"
The Beatles "Abbey Road"
Johnny Cash "Orange Blossom Special"
Pearl Jam "No Code"
Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese Dream"
Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique"
Sunny Day Real Estate "Diary"

[cassandra uprising]

33. Oh Sunny Day!

:bounce:

Wow that takes me back.

[tarkus]

43. Wow. Someone else likes "Lamb Lies Down..." AND Public Enemy. NM

[Elidor]

27. I'd have a different list every day of my life - this is it for now

01) Eclipse: A Journey of Permanence & Impermanence - Various Artists (Most of them with Simon Posford contributing)
02) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (almost chose Wish You Were Here)
03) Ennio Morricone - One of the compilations of his spaghetti western soundtracks
04) A3 - Exile on Coldharbour Lane
05) Gary Moore - Blues Alive
06) John Lee Hooker - pretty much anything, I guess I'll go with Mr. Lucky
07) Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
08) Hallucinogen - In Dub (Ott)
09) Macy Gray - Macy Gray On How Life Is
10) Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs

[tarkus]

29. Incredibly difficult...

Octupus- Gentle Giant
Heavy Horses- Jethro Tull
Train of Thought- Dream Theater
License to Ill- Beastie Boys
Moonlight in Vermont- Johnny Smith
Harpsichord Concertos: J.S. Bach
Lateralus: Tool
Moving Pictures: Rush
Little Earthquakes: Tori Amos
Close to the Edge: Yes

My God. No Leonard Cohen? No Genesis? No Public Enemy? No Roger Waters? No Charlie Parker? No Gwen Stefani? I am certainly screwed if I am ever on a desert island.

Edit: I had 11, had to cut it down...

[elshiva]

30. Good thread:

In no order:

1. Van Morrison: "A Period of Transition"
2. Indigo Girls: "Shaming of the Sun"
3. Who: "Who's Next"
4. Cris Williamson: "The Changer and the Changed"
5. Meg Christian: "I Know that You Know"
6. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell: "United"
7. Kinks: "Face To Face"
8. The Move: "Shazam"
9. Roy Wood: "Boulders"
10. Melissa Etheridge: "My Little Secret"

[enigmatic]

32. In no order:

The Days Of Wine And Roses- The Dream Syndicate
Kind Of Blue- Miles Davis
Anodyne- Uncle Tupelo
New Day Rising- Husker Du
Yo, Bum Rush The Show- Public Enemy
Lost Son- Richmond Fontaine
California- American Music Club
Devotion + Doubt- Richard Buckner
Berlin- Lou Reed
Closer- Joy Divison

[Lilyhoney]

34. Can I just have one big zip file with a bunch of downloaded music

It is crazy how fast one can tire of one single album.

[cassandra uprising]

36. ooooh, I shake my fist at you!!!

This thread cannot be denied. This is my working list, in no order, due to change.

1 Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
2 Charles Mingus - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
3 Living Colour - Times Up
4 Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin
5 Fela Kuti - Beast of No Nation
6 Franz Shubert -Anything
7 Tribe Called Quest - Beast Rhymes and Life
8 Bjork - *i can't decide which one right now*
9 PJ Harvey - Dry or Stories from the City/ Stories from the Sea
10 Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light Til Dawn

Honorable mentions

John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom
Carlos Montoya - Spanish Guitar Magic
Aretha Franklin - Greatest Hits
Gil Scott Heron - The Best of
A must have recommendation from RandomKoolZip

This is too fucking hard.... :banghead: the list goes on and on... London Calling.. no must stop... must... resist... Joy Division... aaaahhhh!!!

[RandomKoolzip]

50. Honestly, if you want a recommendation from me....

I say check out the new CD by Antony and the Johnsons. I played it for dolo amber when she was here in Chicago and she's in love with it.

[PittPoliSci]

38. mine

Dream Theater - Live at Budokan
The Damned - Strawberries
Death By Stereo - Into the Valley of Death
The Queers - Don't Back Down
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
Ramones - Leave Home
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Darkest Hour - Hidden Hands of the Sadist Nation
In Flames - Reroute to Remain

[GirlinContempt]

41. Nice

[Magrittes Pipe]

44. Arrrgh! But my list changes weekly!

In alphabetical order:

John Coltrane, Live in Japan
Eno, Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)
Serge Gainsbourg, Histoire de Melody Nelson
The Gun Club, The Fire of Love
Love, Forever Changes
Charles Mingus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane over the Sea
Pixies, Surfer Rosa
Sly and the Family Stone, Stand
Wire, Pink Flag

The no compilations rule left out The Anthology of American Folk Music and a collection of Skip James' early recordings. Bastard!

[Telly Savalas]

45. Here they are

Thelonious Monk - Live at the "It" Club
John Coltrane - Blue Train
John Coltran - Afro-Blue Impressions
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variations ('56 recording)
Various Artists - Samba Soul 70 (My daughter's favourite album)
Grateful Dead - Without a Net
Flaming Lips - In a Priest Driven Ambulence
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Toby Keith/Ted Nugent- Islands in the Stream and Other Great Duets

Of course if you were to ask again in 20 minutes you'd get a different answer.

[RandomKoolzip]

46. Here's a kicky list:

Double Nickels on the Dime - Minutemen
Secaucus - The Wrens
Black Sea - XTC
Dead Dog's Eyeball - K. McCarty
Lather - Frank Zappa
Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia - Guided by Voices
Revolution of the Mind - James Brown
In the City - The Jam
Nobody's Cool - Lotion
Pony Express Record - Shudder to Think

[General Zod]

48. Mine changes all the time.....

But here's mine for this week:

1. The Who- Quadrophenia
2. The Ramones- Rocket To Russia
3. The Clash- London Calling
4. Genesis-Duke
5. Jackson Browne- The Pretender
6. Peter Gabriel-So
7.The Beatles-Rubber Soul
8.Cheap Trick-In Color
9.Bruce Springsteen-Darkness on the Edge of Town
10. R.E.M. Murmur