Your "desert island" albums.
I don't remember seeing this here before. But the idea is that you're stuck on a desert island and you only have five albums to listen to for the rest of your life. What would they be?
Mine:
1) Björk - Vespertine
2) XTC - Skylarking
3) Kate Bush - The Dreaming
4) Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
5) Gustav Holst - The Planets Suite (not going to be particular about which recording)
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Paul Simon Graceland
Wilco A Ghost is Born
Wilco Summerteeth
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs Vol 1
I'm still swimming in harmony. I'm still dreaming of flight. I'm still lost in the waves night after night...
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Abbey Road -- The Beatles
10 -- Pearl Jam
Dress Casual -- Mandy Patinkin
Les Miserables -- Original Broadway Cast
Concert in the Park -- Paul Simon
Only five? I thought it was normally ten . . .
Okay uh let's try
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus
Electric Version by the New Pornographers
Graceland by Paul Simon
Doolittle by the Pixies
Hard Normal Daddy by Squarepusher
PS woot, wassup Graceland buddy!! :: high fives Pepperlandgirl ::
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pep and I are Abbey Road buddies, too! And almost Graceland buddies...I cheated by using a Paul Simon live album instead.
Yeah, I came this close to being Abbey Road buddies with you guys. I have a mental top ten list (hence my difficulty in narrowing it down to five!) and Abbey Road is on there. That's an awesome fucking album without question.Originally posted by Sarahfeena
pep and I are Abbey Road buddies, too! And almost Graceland buddies...I cheated by using a Paul Simon live album instead.
Yeah, paring it down to 5 is really, really tough. I had to leave Nirvana AND The Who off the list. I feel like I don't even know myself.
Man, I thought I was being generous with 5. Usually when I see this question, it's 3!
Man, that's just cruel! I had to cut the Beatles and Coltrane just to get it down to five!
I will bring the following:
Wish You Were Here: Pink Floyd
Dark Side of the Moon: Pink Floyd
The White Album: Beatles
Led Zeppelin IV: Led Zeppelin
Crosby, Stills & Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash
We-ell, this is going to be hard.
1. La Traviata: Carlos Kleiber, Cortrubas, Domingo
2. Dvorak "Serenade for Strings" and "9th Symphony"
3. Nat "King" Cole, Greatest Hits, the one my dad had
4. The Complete Mercury Recordings of Flatt and Scruggs
5. There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Paul Simon
Argh.
Looks like we've officially found our direction. Mellophant: the internet's leading Paul Simon fan website!
It's funny. He is a favorite of mine, but it's more that I don't get tired of him. Whereas my passion for others burns hotter, but cools off faster.
If that makes sense.
I rediscovered Graceland maybe ten years ago, but it was totally familiar when I bought it again from hearing it at home when I was in the single digits. It just never wears out. She makes the sign of the teaspoon, he makes the sign of the wave. The poor boy changes clothes and puts on aftershave to compensate for his ordinary shoes.
That's my favorite song from that album. It's gorgeous.
"American Tune" pushes "Rhymin' Simon" over "Graceland" for me. But it's close.
I love American Tune...it is way overlooked in his catalog, in my opinion.
Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach
Beethoven: 9th Symphony (Norrington recording)
Dengue Fever: Dengue Fever
Various: The Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru
Various:Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Reggae
I'ma post in this thread again to say that I was thinking this over in the shower this morning and I came up almost the same list, except this time I chose A Love Supreme by Coltrane instead of the Squarepusher album.
It's hard to decide, you can't pick something real recent because it's only a safe choice once it's stood the test of time for a few years.
Billy Joel - Songs in the Attic
Beatles - Abbey Road
Paul Simon - Concert in the Park (lot of music for a single pick!)
Ray Bryant - Here's Ray Bryant
Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet (or Exile on Main Street or Flash Point)
On a different day, might have to sub in a good recording of Mozart's 41st. Ditto John Lee Hooker - Live at the Cafe a Go Go. Of course, BB King's Live From Cook County Jail could find its way onto the list.
Picking 5 sucks. No Dire Straits, Talking Heads.
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
Graceland rocks, BTW, but most of it is on Concert in the Park.
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
1) The Clash, From Here To Eternity:Live
2)the soundtrack from The Harder They Come
3)Television, Marquee Moon
4)The Stooges, The Stooges
5)The Verve, A Storm In Heaven
Give me whiskey when I'm thirsty,Give me a cold beer when I'm dry, Give me root beer when I'm sickly, Give me a headstone when I die.
Brand New: Deja Entendu
Jimmy Eat World: Static Prevails
Saves the Day: Stay What You Are
Explosions in the Sky: All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone...
Alkaline Trio: Crimson
Hell hath no fury, like a woman's scorn for video games.
Put YHF there instead of AGIB and I'd say we're aboot right.
Five albums? Yeesh.
With only five to name, I'm at risk not only of overlooking some of my favorite artists, but entire genres of music that I love. OK, so here are five, with an eye towards representing my musical tastes as well as possible. No particular order:
The Clash, London Calling
Celtic Frost, Into The Pandemonium
Fugazi, 13 Songs
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
The Replacements, Tim
...and then I'll clock AndrewRyan on the head and take his albums, because four of those would be in my Top 20.
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Oh ya? Well the first thing I'd do on this desert island is make a shiv out of a crab shell! Bring it on!
Hell hath no fury, like a woman's scorn for video games.
1. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
2. Russian Circles - Enter
3. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
4. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
5. Pelican - City of Echoes
Hell, if I didn't do things just because they made me feel a bit ridiculous, I wouldn't have much of a social life. - Santo Rugger.
Rust in Peace was my #6 album, and Seasons is in the Top 10. I'm impressed that you picked it; it doesn't seem to be most people's favorite Slayer album.
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That's because Reign in Blood is better.
Hell hath no fury, like a woman's scorn for video games.
I like Seasons because it's a definate maturation of the classic 80's sound of the band without being the odd nu-metal stylings of Divine Intervention forward. It's without a doubt my favorite Slayer album, which I've had to stand up for before in discussion. Lots of people really dislike it, but I think the recording quality is excellent and the overall tone of the album is just about perfect, it's the perfect mesh of the "Slayer Minor Tritone Riff" with the ability to write songs slower so that the dual guitar sound is intelligable.
Hell, if I didn't do things just because they made me feel a bit ridiculous, I wouldn't have much of a social life. - Santo Rugger.
It is an almost impossible choice.
Cowboy Junkies Lay It Down.
Heather Nova Wonderlust
Mylène Farmer Avant Que L'ombre (Live 2CD a Bercy)
Happy Rhodes The Keep
Zhong TingTing Eurasia No Hana
No - it's just too hard - can we make it 500 instead
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The Barbra Streisand Album - Barbra Streisand
A Night At The Opera - Queen
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Spirit - Earth, Wind and Fire
Hark Knock Life - Jay-Z
I'm sneaking 3 more in (2 in a jacket - heh-heh)
The MisEducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
DLG - Dark Latin Groove
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald
They weren't singing....they were just honking.
Glee 2009
Forever Changes - Love
The Stone Roses
Scott 2
What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
To sleep, perchance to experience amygdalocortical activation and prefrontal deactivation.
Yeah, this is one that got barely pushed out of my top five.
♪ Now the joy of my world is in Zion ♫
This one's in my Top 10. It's as close to a perfect album as I've heard.
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*Liebe Ist Für Alle Da - Ramms+ein
*Uprising - Muse
*Achtung Baby - U2
*Up - REM
*Power Plant - Gamma Ray
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