Your Desert Island Discs.

[JonM]

"So, you're stranded on a desert island..."

We all know the game, but I want to play it again, and carefully this time. Favorite-Album-of-All-Time threads are unfair, but the scenario is different here. Your all-around favorite albums might not suffice here. You need to choose albums that cover the entire sonic spectrum, so that you're not missing any styles, feelings, or genres. If you're primarily a classic rock fan, and you pick Led Zeppelin IV, Who's Next, Revolver, Exile On Mainstreet, and Electric Ladyland, you might be happy for a while, but you have no hip hop, no reggae, no jazz, no punk, etc. You have to pick the records that will sustain you, cover all your musical bases.

I'll stop being a hippie and make the rules. Ten albums is always too many, and five is always too few, so I'll give you seven. Pick seven albums diverse enough to sustain you indefinitely on a desert island. If you really think you can make it on 7 Beatles records, that's fine, but consider it carefully.

Also, no need to put them in order. That's the most unfair trick of all in games like this.

I'll start:

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
OutKast - Aquemini
Radiohead - Kid A
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Devotional

[EonBlueApcolyps]

Sublime - s/t
Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishka
GY!BE - Lift Your Skinny Fists...
RATM - s/t
ATDI - Relationship of Command
Wu-Tang Clan - Forever
Glassjaw - EYEWTKAS

[pixiesfanyo]

Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (special 2 disc one)
Binary Star - Masters of the Universe
Off Minor - Innominate
Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On

[incubliss]

This is an amazing thread idea, people can then see what others like and check out new music aswell. We're probably going to get a lot of eclectic stuff posted in here.

I'm gonna give mine more of a think.

[Zappa]

Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat
Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby
Wire - Pink Flag
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Duke Ellington - Masterpieces by Ellington

7 isn't nearly enough. I have no classical (Debussy's first book of preludes or some of Stravinsky's ballets would fit right in), no death metal (Cryptopsy's None So Vile or Cynic's Focus, anyone?), no reggae (Heart of the Congos, Toots & the Maytals' Funky Kingston?), nothing strictly alternative rock (Spiderland, OK Computer, Surfer Rosa), no 60s psych (Revolver, Odessey & Oracle by the Zombies), no classic prog (Yes's Close to the Edge, King Crimson's Larks' Tongues in Aspic), and nothing particularly ambient/uninvolving (Eno's Ambient 1, Mogwai's Happy Songs For Happy People). All of this is incredibly important to the balance of my musical food pyramid.

[Zebra]

The Aquabats - The Aquabats vrs. the floating eye of death
Frank Zappa - Freak Out
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Slint - Spiderland
Beck - Mellow Gold
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Spocks Beard - Snow (double disk...hehe)

[insanepunkguy]

simon and garfunkel- bridge over troubled water
bob marley and the wailers- exodus
editors- the back room
franz ferdinand- franz ferdinand
funeral for a friend- casually dressed and deep in conversation
eminem- encore
radiohead- kid a

[Tonys_Theme]

Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Led Zeppelin - How the West was Won
The Ramones - Greatest Hits Live
Johnny Cash - Greatest Hits
Gorrilaz - Gorillaz
The Pretenders - Isle of View
The Black Keys - Thickfreakness

[Jacaranda]

The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Big Star -Third/Sister Lovers
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Eminem - The Eminem Show
The Rolling Stones - Flowers
Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
Britney Spears - Greatest Hits: My Prerogative

Meh, I missed out on post-everything and a lot of stuff. I couldn't do this and have a good mind about it if I didn't have pop on it.

[sketchyjoe]

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Bill Hicks - Arizona Bay
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
World/Inferno Friendship Society - East Coast Supersound Punk of Today
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Johnny Cash - The Essential Johnny Cash


That was hard.

[Kurtz]

The Clash - London Calling
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Radiohead - Kid A
Muse - Absolution
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Matisyahu - Live at Stubb's

[Smackers]

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Flippy/desert_island_albums








I bet no one looks at it.

[Zappa]

I only have half of yours, Smackers. Hmm.

[ATM]

Radiohead - Amnesiac
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
Frank Zappa - Make a Jazz Noise
Elliot Smith - From a Basement on a Hill
Black Sabbath - s/t
Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust

I kind of rushed this, but I'd do just fine with these albums.

[RollerQueen]

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP (toss-up between him and Kanye)
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Glassjaw - Worship & Tribute
Elllliotttt Smith - XO
Slint - Spiderland
Radiohead - The Bends

Thank God I can't stand classic rock, country, most pop, and you.

[Pirate Satellite]

The Grateful Dead- American Beauty
Four Tet- Rounds
Okkervil River- Black Sheep Boy
Augustus Pablo- King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown
The Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin
Edan- Beauty And The Beat

This last one is a toss-up between London Calling, OK Computer, Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil So Keep Your Ear To The Ground, It Still Moves by My Morning Jacket and Blood On The Tracks. I'll decide and edit it.

[asymm]

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Flippy/desert_island_albums

holy ****. The Neverhood. I haven't heard, played, or thought about that game for years. Wow, I need to play that game again.

[Doctor D.]

Phish - Hoist
Primus - The Brown Album
The Residents - The Commercial Album
J. Dilla - Donuts
Tom Waits - Swordfish Trombone
GWAR - Carnival Of Chaos
MF DOOM - MM..Food

I was going for albums I know I could listen to a million times and not get bored of em'.

[YDload]

This would be tough. I think, since I have listened to so few "great" albums in the critical sense, I'd have to choose some that I'm not even that familiar with. Just so they can grow on me in my absence from society.

Trail of Dead- Source Tags and Codes (I'm positive that I will not grow tired of this one)

Sublime- Sublime (This encompasses quite a few music styles as it is!)

Mr. Bungle- California (I have not heard this album in full yet!)

Frank Zappa- Apostrophe (I've only heard this a few times but it has excellent potential for rediscovery)

The Flaming Lips- Clouds Taste Metallic (So I don't get too depressed.)

Minus the Bear- Menos El Oso (lots of songs about swimming = good. lots of songs about socializing with other people = :()

Minutemen- Double Nickels On the Dime (This is Bob Dylan to me.)

I seem to have left out pop music for the most part, but that's because I won't be charting the progression of popular music that the rest of society listens to while I'm gone. I don't want to yearn for pop, I think I'll just block it out of my head entirely.

[Sound Boy]

Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust


hell yeah! i just got this album.

i couldnt think of just seven...its too damn hard but with technology im sure you can fit some ona mix/MP3 cds. i'd rather just get stuck with my ipod

Incubus - all of them
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Deftones - White Pony
Tool - Undertow
Third Eye Blind - s/t
Minus the Bear - Menos el Oso
Coheed and Cambria - IV
Led Zeppelin - all
Weezer - Pinkerton
Saves the Day - Through Being Cool
Broken Social Scene - Feel Good Lost
Reggie and the Full Effect - all of them
Radiohead - all of them

[Sound Boy]

Minus the Bear- Menos El Oso (lots of songs about swimming = good. lots of songs about socializing with other people = :().

you are now offically in my cool book

[hits of sunshine]

Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols, Daydream Nation, EVOL, Bad Moon Rising
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde
Patti Smith - Easter, Horses
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed, Their Satanic Majesties' Request, Exile On Main St.
Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Vol. 4
Babes In Toyland - Nemesisters, Fontanelle
Led Zeppelin - I, II, IV, Physical Graffiti
Frank Zappa/M.O.I. - Uncle Meat, We're Only In It For The Money, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Hot Rats, Freak Out!
Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, DSM

[zabbit82]

yeah, im a classic rock fan...

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti, IV, Presence
Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, 1984, Diver Down
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street, Beggars Banquet, Sticky Fingers
Incubus - Morning View
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Oasis - (Whats The Story) Morning Glory?
The Who - Who's Next, Quadrophenia
At The Drive In - Relationship Of Command, In/Casino/Out
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, Im Burning Star IV
Aerosmith - Rocks
The Beatles - Revolver

[YDload]

yeah, im a classic rock fan...

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti, IV, Presence
Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, 1984, Diver Down
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street, Beggars Banquet, Sticky Fingers
Incubus - Morning View
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Oasis - (Whats The Story) Morning Glory?
The Who - Who's Next, Quadrophenia
At The Drive In - Relationship Of Command, In/Casino/Out
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, Im Burning Star IV
Aerosmith - Rocks
The Beatles - Revolver

i hope when you get stuck on a deserted island, your cd player gets lost on the sunken ship that brought you there

[Excursions]

Television - Marquee Moon
The Velvet Underground - Loaded
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Slint - Spiderland
Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

[Badmoon]

Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace with God
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Peter Tosh - Equal Rights
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Calexico - Convict Pool [EP]

Can't fit Gris-gris :(

[I Was A Kaleidoscope]

Uh.
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
That just about covers the electronic side of things.
I'll think of more later.

[Scuba_Steve]

this thread was going downhill for a second.... anyway, my 7.

Elliott Smith- Basement II Demos
Al Di Meola- Elegant Gypsy
Death- The sound of persaverance
Frank Zappa- Apostrophe
Frank Zappa- Joes Garage
Johnny Cash- (some greatest hits CD)
BB King- Live at the Regal

[I Was A Kaleidoscope]

Hah, Zaireeka.


i'm gonna lyk..bring 4 cd players when i lyk...get trapped on an island and lyk...smoke weed while i lyk..listen to the flaming lipz..man. it's gonna be so radd, man. lyk totali

[Daniel!]

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Television - Marquee Moon
Operation Ivy - Energy
fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full-On
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
The Who - Live At Leeds
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

[Bukowski]

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting vegetables
Johnny Cash - The Essential Johnny Cash
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
The Slackers - Wasted Days

That's 8, yeah so.

[Concubine]

What happen when the batteries are dead?? :naughty: Oh well,

1. Elliott Smith - XO
2. At The Drive In - Relationship Of Command
3. Saetia - A Retrospective
4. Deftones - White Pony
5. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
6. ...Trail Of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
7. Opeth - Still Life

[zink182]

Turn on the bright lights - Interpol
Antics - Interpol
...And Out Come The Wolfes - Rancid
Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Ros
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
Anarchists Are Hopeless Romantics - My Summer As A Salvation Soldier
Legend - Bob Marley And The Wailers

[IHeartDisco]

Right 7 albums:

Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb (My ska)
QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf (My fav album of all time)
Desert Sessions 9 & 10 (A quite ranged album and second fav album)
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (Its PJ)
Glassjaw - Worship & Tribute (A bit of screaming and riffage)
Soulwax - Nite Versions (something to groove to)
and an Atmosphere album (for some rappin' innit)

[Little Man being Erased]

^ fanboy :p



At some point I might do a list. I know everyone's hanging out for it.

[dei]

This is hard. I'll update later.

[PinkFreud]

Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Jeff Buckley - Grace (Legacy Edition)
Mr. Bungle - California
Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
The Allman Brothers - Eat A Peach
The Velvet Underground - Loaded.

Bah. Very hard to make.

[sweboy]

The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Rancid - Life Wont Wait
Looptroop - Fort Europa
Sublime - 40oz to Freedom
Mogwai - Young Team
Protest The Hero - Kezia
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby's Meets Rockers Uptown
Bomb the Frickin' Music Industry! - To Leave Or Die In Long Island

[Smackers]

I only have half of yours, Smackers. Hmm.

I recommended you Secret Chiefs 3 about a year ago and I asked you about it after a few months and you said you still hadn't looked into them. I think you might have an interest in Sir Millard Mulch though, his music has been described by Trey Spruance as: "It's like Stravinsky, only CRAZIER!" I don't know why more people don't know about him.



holy ****. The Neverhood. I haven't heard, played, or thought about that game for years. Wow, I need to play that game again.

It's one of the biggest staples of my childhood. Terry Scott Taylor's songs will never get old to me.

[xhaereticusx]

Explosions in the sky-those who tell the truth...
Mars Volta-Deloused...
John Coltrane- Giant Steps
Naked City-Radio
Bane-It all Comes Down to This
Bright Eyes-Lifted...
The Faint- Danse Macabre

[IHeartDisco]

^ fanboy :p





haha shush!

:rolleyes:

[ATC]

Massive Attack-Mezzanine (trip-hop/pop)
Quetzal-Worksongs (Latin Jarocho)
Six Organs of Admittance- School of flowers (post-rock/folk)
November's Doom-Pale Haunt Departure (doom/metal)
Holcombe Waller-Troubled Times (singer songwriter)
DJ Shadow-Private Press (electronica)
Radiohead-The Bends (rock)

I could live forever listening to those albums.

[6Stringer]

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... (always need some trip-hop)
Dangerdoom - The Mouse & The Mask (favorite rap album)
The Real McKenzies - 10,000 Shots (favorite album by favorite punk band)
Metallica - Master of Puppets (classic album, imo)
Dane Cook - Retaliation (for comedy)
Dave Chapelle - Killin' Them Softly (same as above)
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (tops the list of my favorite albums)

[EonBlueApcolyps]

Dane Cook - Retaliation (for comedy)
Dave Chapelle - Killin' Them Softly (same as above)


Despite Dane not being funny thats a good idea to include a comedy album. Id replace one of my rock albums and put in David Cross - Shut Up, You ****ing Baby

[italic zero]

Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach (it's almost 3 1/2 hours long and sends me into a trance)
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Mr. Bungle - California
Radiohead - OK Computer
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Beatles - Revolver

[EightMilesHigh]

Six Dead Kennedys albums and one random hardcore rap album.

[Happymeal]

Strung Out - An American Paradox
Converge - Jane Doe
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Bright Moments
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret
Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
The Nation of Ulysses - Plays Pretty for Baby

[MindlessPickle]

Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Beastie Boys - The Sounds of Science
The Clash - London Calling
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
The Doors - The Doors
The Velvet Underground - Loaded

[fingis]

the new kings - take back the streets
radiohead - o.k. computer
coldplay - parachutes
feist - let it die
broken social scene - feel good lost
the shins - chutes too narrow
bad religion - stranger than fiction

[Lucky Thirteen]

The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana - roots reggae
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - so much soul
Pink Floyd - Meddle - my desert island staple
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West - modern rock masterpiece
John Lee Hooker - Don't Look Back - chillin' blues
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica - to keep me sane
Sun Ra - Nothing Is ... - to remind myself

[BillCosby]

Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetology

I'll have enough time to digest all of it. I can never sit still long enough to listen to both discs all the way through.

Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets

I'm going to need some Ted Leo, of course.

Brian Wilson - Smile

For the bright, sunny days.

Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison

For the cold, lonely nights.

Weezer - Pinkerton

:)

Cursive - The Ugly Organ

Replay value ohmygah

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

To fill my hip-hop needs.


This sucks, I want more choices.

[Robert Crumb]

Despite Dane not being funny thats a good idea to include a comedy album. Id replace one of my rock albums and put in David Cross - Shut Up, You ****ing Baby

I'd bring that Richard Pryor box set, assuming box sets aren't disqualified and I actually had the thing.

I don't know what seven I'd bring, but for topics' sake:

Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Miles Davis - A Silent Way
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Prince - Sign O' the Times
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

[Zmev]

I would bring explosives and blow up the island.

Then, music and making a list of what cds to bring to said island would be the last of my worries.

[ert90]

Iron & Wine-Our Endless Numbered Days
Catch 22-Keasbey Nights (Actually probably Vol. II when it comes out)
The Strokes-Is This It
The Clash-London Calling
Jerry Seinfeld-I'm Telling You For The Last Time
Less Than Jake-Losing Streak
Nick Drake-Pink Moon

[Kurtz]

Despite Dane not being funny thats a good idea to include a comedy album. Id replace one of my rock albums and put in David Cross - Shut Up, You ****ing Baby
Actually, Dane is pretty funny.

But if I had to bring a comedy CD, it would definitely be Bill Hicks - Rant in E-Minor. Hicks was brilliant.

[YDload]

Why would you bring a comedy CD? Jokes get old, no matter who is telling them.

[ATM]

Yea, I gotta agree with that.

[Bartender]

And I'd disagree. Great (truly great) comedy should be just like music.

[EonBlueApcolyps]

Actually, Dane is pretty funny.

I thought that at first, that was up until I couldnt walk down the halls or into one of my classes without someone quoting one of his jokes.

[Lucky Thirteen]

comedy should be just like music

Are you a comedian as well?

[Sound Boy]

yeah as far as comedy albums are concerned they arnt as funny and will get older faster then the actual footage. however i still always laugh at robin williams and George Carlin stand up

PS: seeing Dane Cook next month!

[6Stringer]

I thought that at first, that was up until I couldnt walk down the halls or into one of my classes without someone quoting one of his jokes.

Yeah, that is annoying now. I can't enjoy him as much as I used to.

[Bartender]

Are you a comedian as well?

Nope. Not in any real kind of way, anyway.

[Lucky Thirteen]

Gotcha! :naughty:

[Pale-Folklore]

Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley