Desert Island Albums

[reorx24]

you know the routine... you're stuck in a desert island, and can only bring 5 albums. What will they be? oh, and no crappy compilation albums like NOW 5 and other ####, but best of albums are allowed. My picks are...

1) The Beatles - White Album
2) Legend - Bob Marley
3) We Sold Our Soul for Rock and Roll - Black Sabbath
4) Superunknown - Soundgarden
5) ...And Justice For All - Metallica

Oh, and can it be any more obvious that Im a HUGE rock fan?

[povvy]

Tool - Lateralus
Tool - ?nima
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Pink Floyd - Animals

Patrick.

[Bakerman]

The Beatles "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Beck "Odelay"
The Rolling Stones "Let it Bleed"
The Who "Live at Leeds"
Lou Reed "Magic and Loss"
Nirvana- "Unplugged in NY"
The Grateful Dead- "D_I_C_K's Picks #18"
David Bowie-"Scary Monsters and Super Creeps"
Wings over America

How is that for a diverse selection?

[Jackonicko]

Interesting, Bakerman! In each case they seemed like 'second best albums' by the artists you mention. Great, but just not quite as great as:

Beatles: Revolver or Rubber Soul (you choose, I feel generous)
Beck: Yeah, agreed!
Rolling Stones: Exile on Main St, Some Girls or Black and Blue
The Who: Who's Next (have you heard the new edition?)
Lou Reed: Transformer
Nirvana and the 'Dead: It's all tedious crap to my undiscerning ear!
Bowie: Hunky Dory or Ziggy
Wings? Please!

Now pick holes in these five:

Stone Roses: Second Coming
Faces: A Nod's As Good as a Wink.... to a Blind Horse
Georgia Satellites: Let it Rock!
Groove Armada: Vertigo
Screaming Jay Hawkins: Black Music for White People

'Nearly made it's
Oasis: Definitely Maybe
Jimi Hendrix: In the West
Portishead: Dummy
Pretenders: Learning to Crawl
Primal Scream: Give Out but don't Give Up
Sneaker Pimps: Becoming X
Squeeze: Some Fantastic Place
George Thoroughgood: Move It On Over

[Bakerman]

Originally posted by Jackonicko
Interesting, Bakerman! In each case they seemed like 'second best albums' by the artists you mention. Great, but just not quite as great as:

Beatles: Revolver or Rubber Soul (you choose, I feel generous)
Beck: Yeah, agreed!
Rolling Stones: Exile on Main St, Some Girls or Black and Blue
The Who: Who's Next (have you heard the new edition?)
Lou Reed: Transformer
Nirvana and the 'Dead: It's all tedious crap to my undiscerning ear!
Bowie: Hunky Dory or Ziggy
Wings? Please!

Now pick holes in these five:

I'll try to respond:

Beatles- I have a strong preference for Sgt. Peppers. While I agree the Revolver is a masterpiece, Rubber Soul is more of a transistional album from lovable mop tops to druggie musicians.

Rolling Stones: I love Exile and Some Girls, Black & Blue is fair at best, and not in the same league as Let it Bleed

The Who: Live at leeds was remastered back in 95 with several new tracks added, and is my favorite by far. I have not heard the new version of Who's Next. I have considered buying it at the Apple Music Store. Shall I assume you recomend it?

Lou Reed: Transformer is a minor work IMHO, particularly in comparison to Magic and Loss

Bowie: I know em all, but I adore Robert Fripp's guitar on scary monsters

Wings: Music is a subjective experience, and I have loved these albums since I was 14 or so.

I haven't heard any of your suggestions, so I cannot pick them apart but I may try some of them out because you liked them so much!

[Bakerman]

Originally posted by Jackonicko

Nirvana and the 'Dead: It's all tedious crap to my undiscerning ear!


Ooops-Forgot to respond to these:

Nirvana-loved them to death, the music was roudy , honest and non-pretenious, a real breath of fresh air in the early 90's!

Grateful Dead- Suggest you hear the one I recomended rather than just bashing it based on a pre-concieved notion. The Dead were a MUCH better live band than their studio albums ever portayed, and the one I suggest is really something. Now, if you have already heard it then we can just agree not to agree, but it is really quite special.:)

[MidPack]

I'm probably older than most of you...

1) Beatles - Abbey Road
2) Sheryl Crow - any except SC & Friends
3) Billy Joel - Greatest Hits
4) Nirvana - Nirvana
5) Sting - ...All This Time
6) James Taylor - James Taylor Live
7) Jimmy Buffett - Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays
8) The Who - Tommy

But there are so many others I like (Smashing Pumpkins, The Cars, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews, Joan Jett, Queen, REM...) that I'd probably take my iPod and a solar charger ;)

[Bakerman]

Originally posted by MidPack
I'm probably older than most of you...

;) [/B]
I doubt it- I will be 41 next month. :(

[Microchips]

(1)- Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
(2)- Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinate Sadness
(3)- Zwan- Mary Star of the Sea
(4)- The Offspring- Ixnay on the Hombre
(5)- Foo Fighters- The Colour and the shape


What- I'm a Billy Corgan fan... :D

[MidPack]

Bakerman: I doubt it- I will be 41 next month. Yep, got you by 8 years...

[m.r.m.]

1. u2 - achtung baby
2. u2 - all that you can?t leave behind
3. david gray - white ladder
4. muse - origin of symmetry
5. the police - greatest hits

[tonko]

1. Genesis - Nursery Cryme
2. Primus - Frizzle Fry
3. Tori Amos - Under the Pink
4. Transatlantic - SMPTe
5. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

[ironchef9000]

Clash - London Calling
Days of the New - II
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
Who - Tommy


BTW, the remastered Who's Next, as asked above, is f'in awesome, but I could've gone without the added B-sides....But the quality is superb....Who's Next and Tommy are neck in neck in terms of my favorite who album, but Tommy....man, Tommy is such a fine album.......

[space6donkey]

1. Shostakovich- Symphony #10
2. Pixies- Surfer Rosa
3. Massive Attack- Protection
4. Firewater- The Ponzi Scheme
5. James Carter- JC on the set

I decided if I had to be stuck on a desert island, I'd need some variety. Though 5 pods would be better than 5 discs, no need to choose at all:D

[dmt1]

1. The Beatles--Revolver, Rubber Soul's a close second. Sgt. Pepper--way overrated IMHO
2. The Who--Who's Next. Just a regular album that sounds like a greatest hits album--and the new version, with the extras, is definitely worth it.
3. Bob Marley--Legend--granted, it's a greatest hits, but it is oh so good...
4. Steely Dan--Show Biz Kids
5. Bob Dylan: Discography

[stonersmurf22]

1 Disturbed- The Sickness- For obvious reasons, which are of course only known by me
2 50 Cent- Get Rich or Die Tryin'- Come on, live witout In Da Club?
No Way
3 Nelly- Country Grammer- LOVE just sittin and listenin to this CD
4 Chevelle- Wonder What's Next- The Red. No more needed.
5 Creed- Human Clay- Anytime I hear What If, it makes me want to sing. Course this is probably a bad thing...

As you may have noticed, alot of my songs are a little newer than others listed, but it seems like i just might be slightly younger that most of the people listing...

[geistwerks]

please let me be stranded with my ipod and not 5 albums! please! for the love of all that is holy! i can't choose just 5!

choosing just five would probably kill me. thank god for ipods.

but if i have to choose...

1. scion - arrange and process basic channel
pull all my deep techno into one mix. one disc.

2. joy division - box set
see? already i can't do it. i just chose a 4 disc box set. i can't play by the rules. i suck, i know it. but this 4 disc set is so close to my heart. i gave all my old vinyl away when i got this.

3. rancid - and out come the wolves
my favorite modern day punk band best album.

4. the clash - the clash on broadway
cheating again. yeah i know. 3 discs.

5. lustmord - the place where the black stars hang
my idol, my inspiration, my greatest influence. sound architecture and ambience at its finest.

glad i got an ipod. now if they could just make them waterproof for a desert isle...

[Hephador]

The Clash - London Calling
Sigur R?s - ?g?tis Byrjun
New Order - Substance
Radiohead - OK Computer
Duke Ellington - Newport 1956

[swsmith50]

The Clash "London Calling"
Beatles "Let It Be"
Replacements "Let it Be"
The Fall "Live at the Witch Trials"
Husker Du "Land Speed Record"
X "Beyond and Back Anthology"
Descendents "Milo Goes To College."

But there have been so many other great records I'll just take my pod.

[wolfpacker]

Really hard to pick just 5. These aren't what I'd
necessarily pick as my top 5 albums of all time, btw.
But for having to listen to the same 5 albums over and over,
these work for me.

Bob Marley - Legend
Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking
The Cure - Staring at the Sea
Rush - Different Stages (Live 3 CD set)
Ryan Adams - Gold

[TuneSlammer]

In no order:

Nebraska...B Springsteen
Swodfishtrombones/Raindogs/Franks' WIld Years...T.Waits
(well, they are a trilogy)
OK Computer...Radiohead
Wrecking Ball or maybe Luxury Liner...E.L. Harris
Land...Patty Smith


Also rans:
The River...BS
Essence...Lucinda Williams
Doolittle...Pixies
anything Marvin Gaye has to say
Virgin Suicides Score...Air