Desert Island Top 10 w/ rules...

[PeruvianSkies]

Ok, what is everyones 10 albums that they would take if they knew that they were going to be stranded on an Island for a lengthy period of time. The rules are:

You must choose 10 albums from any generation, no compilations (soundtracks are not allowed unless it's a score) or greatest hits albums.
You cannot choose any artists more than once.
Other than that...pick away and provide at least some reasons for your selections....

Here are my choices:

David Bowie: ZIGGY STARDUST - so many great albums to choose from, but this one takes the cake mainly for the songs It Aint' Easy and Lady Stardust

Jocelyn Pook's UNTOLD THINGS - great laid back and mellow for those evenings of contemplation on the island.

Philip Glass THE HOURS soundtrack - superb contemplative recording.

Stevie Wonder's INNERVISIONS - bring some funk and reality into the picture for those ocassions of joy.

Sigur Ros AGAETIS BYRJUN - just something fun to listen to.

Jimi Hendrix BAND OF GYPSIES - one of my favorite guitar-driven recordings.

Alan Parsons Project EYE IN THE SKY - Hmmm. I just like this album for some odd reason.

Nada Surf LET GO - just a cool album with loads of memories.

Elliott FALSE CATHEDRALS - also many memories.

Paloalto SELF TITLED - memories and hope.

[GMichael]

BOSTON - The first one (one hit after another)
RUSH - Tough call but I'll say Moving Pictures. (it's the one I'm listening to now)
YES - Tomato (blast from the past)
PF- Wish You Were Here. (great tunes)
VH - Women & Children First (love Eddie's work here)
Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Souls For Rock&Roll. (nuff said)
The Eagles - Hotel California (I was a young teenager in lust)
Spyro Gyra - Fast Forward (So I had to grow a little)
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery (Killer CD)
Kansas - Leftoverture (yeah yeah, I know the one track is played. but I love side 2)

[PeruvianSkies]

BOSTON - The first one (one hit after another) ABSOLUTELY!
RUSH - Tough call but I'll say Moving Pictures. (it's the one I'm listening to now) GREAT CHOICE.
YES - Tomato (blast from the past) YEP!
PF- Wish You Were Here. (great tunes) SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM MY HEAD HURTS
VH - Women & Children First (love Eddie's work here)
Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Souls For Rock&Roll. (nuff said)
The Eagles - Hotel California (I was a young teenager in lust) FAVORITE TRACK IS #2
Spyro Gyra - Fast Forward (So I had to grow a little)
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery (Killer CD) AGREED
Kansas - Leftoverture (yeah yeah, I know the one track is played. but I love side 2)

Nice selection...that Island will be rockin'.

[ForeverAutumn]

Kansas - Leftoverture (yeah yeah, I know the one track is played. but I love side 2)

I knew there was a reason that I liked you! If you check the archives for similar threads, you'll see that Leftoverture always, always, always is at the top of my Desert Island list.

I'll give you my top five for now, because I don't have time to come up with ten before Lost starts.

Kansas - Leftoverture - the best album ever made IMO. Great music, great lyrics, killer album. And, yeah, I'm sick of Carry On, but it's a solid song that's been ruined by classic rock stations that refuse to recognize the greatness of the other tunes on this album.

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Welcome To The Machine. 'nough said.

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust - This album changed my life.

Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs - This album excited me in a way that music hadn't excited me in years.

Hem - Rabbit Songs - This CD is my favourite stress reliever. The music, the songwriting, and Sally Ellyson's incredible voice all work together to sooth the savage beast within.

[Dusty Chalk]

Lpppt -- rules are for ...erm... people who follow rules.

[unleasHell]

Amon Duul II - Wolf City
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
Hendrix: Electric Ladyland
Smiths: Greatest Hits (The Austrailian remaster with 20 songs...lol)
Echo & the Bunnymen: Ocean Rain (Remaster)
Camel: Mirage
T. Rex: Electric Warrior
Robin Trower: "2-on1 CD" Twice Removed from Yesterday & Bridge of Sighs
Durutti Column: The Return of the Durutti Column
Genesis: Foxtrot

[PeruvianSkies]

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust - This album changed my life.

I gotta hear more about his one...as it is also on my list...

[Duds]

Tool - aenima - my all-time favorite band
Kyuss - welcome to sky valley - awesome disc to listen to sitting around a fire
Clutch - self titled - one of my fave bands
fu Manchu - action is go - same as above
Pantera - Vulgar display of power - insane disc
Black sabbath - paranoid - gotta have the almighty sabbath with ya!
Metallica - master of puppets - top 5 metal disc of all time
Corrosion of conformity - wiseblood - love em
Down - nola - band made up of pantera and corrosion members, great cd
Pink Floyd - WYWH - duh

[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

And because it's just so new, and just so charmingly good ...
Blonde Redhead - 23

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)

[GMichael]

I knew there was a reason that I liked you! If you check the archives for similar threads, you'll see that Leftoverture always, always, always is at the top of my Desert Island list.

That can't be the only reason.

[Resident Loser]

Beach Boys Pet Sounds

Dylan Blonde On Blonde

Beatles Rubber Soul

CSN Crosby, Stills And Nash

Beethoven Piano Concerto #5, "The Emperor" Ozawa & Serkin

Mozart Die Zauberflote

Davis Kind Of Blue

Evans Portrait in Jazz

Byrd The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd

Nakai Canyon Trilogy

jimHJJ(...off the top of my head anyway...Reasons? They're all good...)

[-Jar-]

Tool - aenima - my all-time favorite band
Kyuss - welcome to sky valley - awesome disc to listen to sitting around a fire
Clutch - self titled - one of my fave bands
fu Manchu - action is go - same as above
Pantera - Vulgar display of power - insane disc
Black sabbath - paranoid - gotta have the almighty sabbath with ya!
Metallica - master of puppets - top 5 metal disc of all time
Corrosion of conformity - wiseblood - love em
Down - nola - band made up of pantera and corrosion members, great cd
Pink Floyd - WYWH - duh

hopefully you'll be on the other side of the island so I can borrow your stuff..

-jar

[-Jar-]

Husker Du - New Day Rising
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Mahler 9th - Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic
Mahler 6th - Sinopoli/Philharmonia
Hum - Downward is Heavenward
Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Slint - Spiderland
Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
Bark Psychosis - Hex
The Cure - Disintegration

this isn't easy.

-jar

[Stone]

I'll try this without giving it much thought:

Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Bob Marley - Catch a Fire
Ramones - Leave Home
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Fugazi - Repeater
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
Devo - Freedom of Choice
Suicidal Tendencies - s/t

[Duds]

Of course, come on down, i'll be roasting a wild boar over an open flame.

hopefully you'll be on the other side of the island so I can borrow your stuff..

-jar

[ForeverAutumn]

That can't be the only reason.

Also, you'll kill spiders for me.

I gotta hear more about his one...as it is also on my list...

Ziggy Stardust was my first real rock album. I bought it because I liked the cover and it was on sale. It started a life long love affair with Bowie's music. And it forever changed the way that I listened to music and the type of music that I listened to.

Kyuss - welcome to sky valley - awesome disc to listen to sitting around a fire

...nice call on the Kyuss.

[Slosh]

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)

Funny, but when Rae was street-teaming Folklore (no, not the 16 Horsepower album) I happened to get in a conversation with someone at a record store and described it as The Dismemberment Plan mixed with Shellac. And I thought I was the weird one

Since I'm here my DIDs (of the moment):

Spoon - A Series Of Sneaks
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Grandaddy - Sumday
Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth
Les Savy Fav - Inches
Pinback - Summer In Abaddon
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
Radiohead - OK Computer
Sepultura - Chaos AD (need my metal fix)
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (Yeah, it's new. Yes, it is that good.)

NP: Wilco (live boot)

[Duds]

Thanks FA!



...nice call on the Kyuss.[/QUOTE]

[GMichael]

Also, you'll kill spiders for me.
.

I feel so...
so used.

[PeruvianSkies]

I always find myself picking different things when it comes to ...let's say a Desert Island than what I listen to on a day-to-day basis. I think that all of us have our 'sacred' stash of albums that we frequently visit and re-visit, but if I know that I only have a few to listen to for quite some time it becomes a whole different beast. I suppose when I think about it I really want to be able to listen to songs that paint vivid pictures for me and things that are reflective and personal for me. Yet at the same time, songs that don't grow tiresome, which even the best ones do at times.

[PeruvianSkies]

Also, you'll kill spiders for me.



Ziggy Stardust was my first real rock album. I bought it because I liked the cover and it was on sale. It started a life long love affair with Bowie's music. And it forever changed the way that I listened to music and the type of music that I listened to.



...nice call on the Kyuss.

Well for me, I guess ZIGGY STARDUST was the first album that when I listened to it, at first, was rather average. I skipped through it a bit and found a few tracks that I could enjoy, but then something magical happened. I found myself craving it. It was a rock album that had this beautiful nature to it that nothing else quite had before. It also is the first and only album that I am aware of where songs like IT AIN'T EASY truly sound more like a whole rock choir vs. just one man singing out. It's just an amazing record with such passion and mystery. I, of course, love just about every other Bowie album, but this one I always come back to and each time fall in love again.

[nobody]

Haven't done one of these for a long time...but what the hell

and, yeah, it's basically impossible


The Clash: London Calling
Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime
Marvin Gaye: Superhits
The Upsetters: Super Ape
Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges: Blues Summitt
Chuck Berry: Anthology
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Love & Rockets: Express
Massive Attack: Protection
OutKast: ATLiens

or...if we could do box sets (really cheating for this one)

Clash (Singles Box)
Stax Collection Vol. 1
Black Box: Wax Trax Box Set
Hitsville USA Motown Collection
Miles Davis & John Coltrane Columbia Recordings
Beethoven Symphony Box (probably von Karajan's, but not picky)
Lee Perry: Arkology Box
Nuggetts (original 4 disc box)
Massive Attack Singles 90/98 Box
Velvet Underground: Peel Slowly and See Box
No Thanks: The 70s Punk Rebellion Box Set

and, ya know, I'm still missing a bunch of ****.

[DariusNYC]

Let me pretend I had to run to this desert island quickly and didn't have too much time to analyze this or make it perfect; here' an off-the-top-of-my-head list:

The Smiths -- Louder than Bombs
Velvet Underground & Nico (s/t)
Jay-Z -- The Blueprint
Miles Davis -- *****es Brew
Rolling Stones -- Exile on Main Street
Talking Heads -- More Songs About Buildings and Food
David Bowie -- Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars (I'm sure it was the power of suggestion, but that is an excellent choice)
Billie Holiday -- Love Songs compilation or any other disc of hers I could find from the late 30s or early 40s
Louvin Brothers -- When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of the Louvin Brothers
Daft Punk -- Discovery

[PeruvianSkies]

Can't help but notice that this one keeps coming up. I wonder if Bowie and Islands is just a natural thing. Hmmm. Anyway, I am listening to the SACD of ZIGGY STARDUST now because it's been on my brain with this thread. Lovin' the sax....wooot.

[DariusNYC]

Let me pretend I had to run to this desert island quickly and didn't have too much time to analyze this or make it perfect; here' an off-the-top-of-my-head list:

The Smiths -- Louder than Bombs
Velvet Underground & Nico (s/t)
Jay-Z -- The Blueprint
Miles Davis -- *****es Brew
Rolling Stones -- Exile on Main Street
Talking Heads -- More Songs About Buildings and Food
David Bowie -- Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars (I'm sure it was the power of suggestion, but that is an excellent choice)
Billie Holiday -- Love Songs compilation or any other disc of hers I could find from the late 30s or early 40s
Louvin Brothers -- When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of the Louvin Brothers
Daft Punk -- Discovery

Oops, you said no compilations or greatest hits in your "rules". Sorry. Only problem is, when you're picking albums from the "pre-album" era, it is impossible. Louder than Bombs was sort of like its own album. Anyhow, the rules kinda suck for me, but thanks for starting the thread.