Desert Island Top 10 w/ rules...

[Rae]

Oh, okay, I'll participate off the cuff too in the spirit of not overanalyzing.

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
The Replacements - Hootenanny
Mission of Burma - Vs
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Roky Erickson - I Think of Demons
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Sublime - 40 Oz to Freedom
7 Year Bitch - Viva Zapata
Tortoise - TNT
and oh, let's say Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Scream

I will look at this list in one hour and be angry about 80% of the things I chose.

~Rae

[PeruvianSkies]

Oh, okay, I'll participate off the cuff too in the spirit of not overanalyzing.

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
The Replacements - Hootenanny
Mission of Burma - Vs
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Roky Erickson - I Think of Demons
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Sublime - 40 Oz to Freedom
7 Year Bitch - Viva Zapata
Tortoise - TNT
and oh, let's say Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Scream

I will look at this list in one hour and be angry about 80% of the things I chose.

~Rae

I think that's a good list. Just out of curiosity are you M or F? This is not a post meant to test people...there are no right or wrong selections and I am sure once you got on the Island with that 'perfect 10' that you would be like...'why the heck did I bring this?" and end up using it to chop up fish that you caught with your bare hands.

[Rae]

And a special mention for one that's been in very heavy rotation lately ...
Signal To Trust - Golden Armour (I'd say that Sloshy and Mason and Stoney and some of you other mathy but melodic guitar lovers, Crazy Rhythms Feelies meet the Daydream Nation Sonic Youth-type rock fans should hear this, even if it does borrow a little more than it should from Albini's Shellac mold, with a bit of that early Clean sound too, all taking it back in an incestuous path toward the VU, but stopping closer to those Wire heads, but I know that most of you already have heard these guys, and I just need to pay more attention ... http://archive.audioreview.com/10/0EF95646.php ... do a ctrl-A to highlight text for contrast)

Aww, I'm blushing. I should say that this new record is some distance ahead of their last full-length and even the 7" between in terms of accomplishment. The first two you could appreciate while secretly knowing you enjoyed their live shows more, passing them on to friends with apologies for the production values and general amateurness... but this one I feel confident passing around with no reservations whatsoever. It's a great record. Slosh, if you won't let me send you this, then please buy it yrself... modern-radio.com.

~Rae

[Luvin Da Blues]

Keep adding to the list and taking away but always revert to the classic albums when I short list, tho this didn't help cause there is SO much.

These albums are some I still listen to so they have stood the test of time and can't see their appeal to me diminishing any time soon. I know some of you are thinking that my list was too easy but if I still listen to them I can listen a bit more till Gilligan brings Ginger to brighten things up.

1) ZZ Top-Rio Grande Mud

2) Alvin Lee -Pure Blues

3) Supertramp-Crime Of The Century

4) Stones-Sticky Fingers

5) Queen-A Night At The Opera

6) Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon

7) Omar & the Howlers-Hard Times In The Land Of Plenty

8) Lynyrd Skynyrd-Second Helping

9) Zep III

10) Beatles-Abby Road

[MindGoneHaywire]

Beck--Mutations
Rolling Stones--Exile On Main St.
Green Day--American Idiot
Beatles--White Album
Heartbreakers--L.A.M.F.
Elvis Costello & the Attractions--Get Happy!!!
Beach Boys--SMiLE
The Who--Quadrophenia
Ramones--Road To Ruin
Miles Davis--Kind Of Blue

Too many artists that didn't record during the album era skews this list somewhat, but what can you do.

2nd 10 today:

The Replacements--Let It Be
Nirvana--Unplugged
John Coltrane--Blue Train
Iggy & the Stooges--Raw Power
Etta James Rocks The House
The Clash--London Calling
Billie Holiday--Lady In Satin
Public Enemy--It Takes A Nation Of Millions
The Misfits--Walk Among Us
Big Star--#1 Record

[Troy]

Gee, I don't even listen to albums anymore . . . Can't I just bring my iPod with 3500 songs in it? It'll take up less room.

Right this second, no thought, here's 10.

XTC- English Settlement
Stan Ridgway- Mosquitoes
Mike Keneally- Dancing
Pink Floyd- WYWH
Zappa- Sheik Yerbouti
Genesis- Wind and Wuthering
Estradasphere- Palace of Mirrors
Beatles- Revolver
Porcupine Tree- The Sky Moves Sideways
Mr. Bungle- California

[Rae]

2nd 10 today:

Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Consonant - Consonant
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Rapider than Horsepower - Stage Fright, Stage Fright
Jack Logan & Liquor Cabinet - Mood Elevator
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain

Honestly, these could change from day to day... although I can't believe I forgot Nebraska the first time around...

~Rae

[GMichael]

Gee, I don't even listen to albums anymore . . . Can't I just bring my iPod with 3500 songs in it? It'll take up less room.

iPod's don't work on this island. I think it's Sawyer's fault.

[Slosh]

I'll have to bring In The Aeroplane Over The Sea to the island with me as well since I'll need something to chop up fish I caught with my bare hands (and everything else). Kinda crude and uncivilized trying to chop fish with an mp3 player, nude. But I'm not telling you if I'm M or F.

[Stone]

Consonant - Consonant

~Rae

Wow, great choice (not that the rest of your choices aren't), and a somewhat surprising one. That's an album I haven't listened to in far too long, and I need to get it out this weekend.

[GMichael]

I'll have to bring In The Aeroplane Over The Sea to the island with me as well since I'll need something to chop up fish I caught with my bare hands (and everything else). Kinda crude and uncivilized trying to chop fish with an mp3 player, nude. But I'm not telling you if I'm M or F.

There goes breakfast.

[Slosh]

There goes breakfast.

Want me to catch you a fish?

[GMichael]

Want me to catch you a fish?

Can I have the fish heads? The eyes are my favorite. How about a little rice to go with that? But please, put something on first.

[Slosh]

But please, put something on first.

Okay, I'll put on this:

[GMichael]

Okay, I'll put on this:

OK fine. But at least turn it up. Maybe if it's loud enough I'll loose my sight.

[nobody]

Every time I see these threads I always wanna trade lists with someone about 10 seconds after I post. RAE's is lookin' damn good to me right now.

[Ex Lion Tamer]

The Clash - London Calling
Wire - Chairs Missing
VU w/Nico
Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
E. Costello - Get Happy
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
The Glands - s/t
Bob Dylan - Highway 61, Revisited
English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It.

[Davey]

Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Pixies - Doolittle
Luna - Bewitched
Laika - Silver Apples of The Moon
Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura
Mink DeVille - Cabretta
Paul K & The Weathermen - Love Is A Gas
Califone - Roomsound
David Bowie - Low
The Notwist - Neon Golden

Luna - Bewitched
Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers (forgot how much I love to listen to this sucker)

Califone - Roomsound
Red Red Meat - There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight (still much left to explore on this cacophonic blend of dusty old deconstructed blues and fragmented ambient trips only hinted at in Keith Richards younger daze at Nellcôte - one of the gems still left shining as the 90s luster continues to fade)

[Davey]

Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain

Yea, that turned into one of my favorites too, especially when considered along with the next one. Be hard to hit that peak again ...

I know that serpents will cross universes to circle around our necks
I know that hounds will cross a universe to circle around our feet
They're always close
Always so close
Step by step, one's beside me, to kill me or to guide me
Why wouldn't I be trying to figure which one out
Why wouldn't I be trying to figure which one out

[3-LockBox]

In no particular order:

Pink Floyd - DSOTM

Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy

Rush - Moving Pictures

XTC - Skylarking

ELO - New World Record

Kansas - Masque

Beatles - White Album

Smashing Pumkins - Melloncollie & The Infinite Sadness

David & David - Welcome To The Boomtown

Yes - Going For The One

Of course, this list is subject to change without further notice.

honorable mention going to:
Don Henley - Building The Perfect Beast
Andreas Vollenweider - White Winds
Flower Kings - Paradise Hotel
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Gerry Rafferty - City To City

[GMichael]

In no particular order:

Pink Floyd - DSOTM

Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy

Rush - Moving Pictures

XTC - Skylarking

ELO - New World Record

Kansas - Masque

Beatles - White Album

Smashing Pumkins - Melloncollie & The Infinite Sadness

David & David - Welcome To The Boomtown

Yes - Going For The One

Of course, this list is subject to change without further notice.

honorable mention going to:
Don Henley - Building The Perfect Beast
Andreas Vollenweider - White Winds
Flower Kings - Paradise Hotel
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Gerry Rafferty - City To City

Can I pitch my tent near yours?

[3-LockBox]

Can I pitch my tent near yours?

Depends on what you mean by "pitching a tent" pal...


oh what the hell, sure...

[Rich-n-Texas]

Depends on what you mean by "pitching a tent" pal...


oh what the hell, sure...

Can we start a commune near yours?

[GMichael]

Can we start a commune near yours?

I found 3 cases of Darma beer. That should get us through the first hour.

[PeruvianSkies]

I found 3 cases of Darma beer. That should get us through the first hour.

Are the cases bottles or cans? Either way we can use both. If it's cans we can use the aluminum for cooking things in later as well as making a sharp edge for cutting and perhaps killing wild animals. Likewise if they are bottles we can use that for boiling water to drink, use the glass for cutting and perhaps (if we get a fire going) we could make molotov cocktails and throw it at any perpetrator within a arms-throw distance.