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Counting Crows, Recovering the Satelites
Pink Floyd, Wish You were Here
Our Lady Peace, Happiness is not a fish you can catch
Chevelle, Wonder What’s next
Silversun Pickups Carnavas
U2- Achtung Baby
Peter Gabriel- So
Gomez- In Our Gun
Iron & Wine- Shepard’s Dog
Any live Pearl Jam!!
of course in 10 minutes I’m going to think of 3 more…..soooo many…..
American Beauty, Grateful Dead
Fear of Music, Talking Heads
Briefcase Full of Blues, Blues Brothers
The Fugs First Album, The Fugs
The Times They Are A-Changin’, Bob Dylan
Cream – Disraeli Gears
U2 – Joshua Tree
The Beatles – Abbey Road
The Eagles – Hotel California
The Doors – Greatest Hits (is this cheating?)
I sure hope we are all stranded together!
I can haz more music?
Now I really feel ooooooold, with me it’s Benny Goodman, Glen Miller and Harry James……….but I did finally take to the Beatles.
I call that progress………
OH…..Freida,
don’t feel oooold music is magical & whatever thrills you is RIGHT for you….
I love all music!!!
Thanks Stella ! My son took me to a Grateful Dead concert some years back . He was the hero of that evening with people saying….I wish I could get my mom to come !……. They attention I got was better the concert. …And I learned a lot about our young people
Thanks Stella ! My son took me to a Grateful Dead concert some years back . He was the hero of that evening with people saying….I wish I could get my mom to come !……. The attention I got was better the concert. …And I learned a lot about our young people
Thanks Stella ! My son took me to a Grateful Dead concert some years back . He was the hero of that evening with people saying….I wish I could get my mom to come !……. The attention I got was better then the concert. …And I learned a lot about our young people
Born to Run
I don’t need five.
London Calling — The Clash
Complete Hot Fives and Sevens* — Louis Armstrong
What’s Going On — Marvin Gaye
Late String Quartets* (Takacs Quartet version) — Beethoven
Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas — Ella Fitzgerald
*multiple disks (it’s cheating, so what?)
This list subject to change in 15 minutes.
Maybe three come to think of it…
Bossa Nova by John Pizzarelli and
Squeeze – Singles 45 and Under
I’d need a few thernodies just in case my dog dies and a pipa to keep me playing music.
But top five:
12 Girls Band or the Evergreen Orchestra
The Chieftans
Kal HoNa Ho- From the Bollywood Classics
Miles Davis-A Kind of Blue
Venezuelan Alien- Raven
Maybe a few album covers with picturs of Mai Charoenpura on them….and Mai 4.
Wow! Really great picks! Let me add…
Dire Straits, Making Movies
Miles Davis (ditto Brian!)
Any Elvis Costello
Bob Marley, Legend
Sublime
OMG – how did I forget Making Movies?!
A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade
Laying everybody low with the love song that he made
Finds a streetlight Steps out of the shade, says something like – you and me Babe, how ’bout it?
Classic!
…and My Aim is True. Now I’m over my limit.
how could i forget bob marley….scratch one of the others….
I am down with Dire Straights [Sultan of Swing], Beatles, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Warren Zevon and Miles Davis but I am gong to want some Velvet Underground, Yes, Animals, Kinks and early Elvis. Hank Williams, Golden Earring, Spirit, Donovan, Van Morrison, The Doors, Joanie Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Led Zep and the Rolling Stones.
Now for the next two decades!!! Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedies, Metallica, Cobain and Vedder
must go cut the grass………………….
Frieda, my dad only listened to the big bands. I remember him, in the rare moment that he stretched out on the couch, listening to the music of his youth. He danced to the big bands on piers off of the coast of Lake Erie in Ohio in the heyday.
This Year’s Model made my shortlist, as did More Songs About Buildings and Food. Aretha Franklin was also on the shortlist — Young, Gifted and Black or Spirit in the Dark maybe. I’d forgotten about Marley (that was the soundtrack to a summer I spent in Utah) and it is too hard to pick just one thing from Miles…..
Damn, Cassandra…Costello and the Talking Heads. We must meet. You…me…Pandora…drinks? With Peter Gabriel providing the ambient noise, no less…
Always up for drinks and good music. One of the best concerts I went to was Elvis Costello at the Tower Theater. His opening act? Squeeze!
Billy Bragg, Worker’s Playtime
Bob Dylan, Biograph
Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska
The Smiths, Meat Is Murder
The Cure, Disintegration
If you had me pegged for any of these albums, give yourself a round of applause.
Oh, crap. Scratch the Cure and put on The Jayhawks – Tomorrow the Green Grass.
The Band-‘The Band’
Steely Dan-‘Countdown to Ecstasy’
The Clash-‘London Calling’
Tom Waits-‘Raindogs’
Bruce Springsteen-‘The Wild, the Innocent & the E-Street Shuffle’
rickj,
I had you pegged for a Pet Shop Boys album or Frankie goes to hollywood
Los Lobos: “How Will the Wolf Survive”
The Blasters: “Non-Fiction”
Replacements: “Let It Be”
Husker Du: “New Day Rising”
Was (Not Was): “What Up, Dog?”
Bruce – Born to Run or Greetings from Asbury Park
DMB – Under the Table and Dreaming or Crash
Dixie Chicks – Taking the Long Way
Patty Griffin – Living With Ghosts
Counting Crows – August and Everything After or Recovering the Satellites
ooh, maybe Natalie Merchant’s Tigerlily or 10,000 Maniacs’ In My Tribe.
This is harder than I thought it would be.
I’ve got more than 1,000 CD’s, so this will definitely be tough. Gimme a few days…
Love 10,000 Maniacs! OMG! Husker Du! Love them too! This is too hard! Gotta a soft spot for King Crimson and Brian Eno as well!
Some great new stuff, too! Green Day, Outkast, Black Eyed Peas, Scissor Sisters, and, sigh, Nelly. Basically I love music!
Mrs. Hotviti –
Naw, when I listen to flaming Euro-pop I go all out. Give me Erasure. Or better yet, Yaz – back when Vince Clarke had some edge to him. Plus, with Yaz you get Alison Moyet, so it’s win/win.
What?
Yaz! Upstairs at Eric’s! What a fun album! Yes, album!
I can’t stop posting. Great memories!
Maybe some Usher and some Eminem, too. Of course, Usher would be better if he was in video format.
OK, scratch the Eagles. The Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session.
And Matthews, don’t go stealing my women! 🙂
Usher? YEAH!
OK Computer – Radiohead
Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
Physical Graffiti – Led Zeppelin
Garage d’Or – Cracker
Unplugged – Alice in Chains
I’d take Dirt if this show never happened.
And a newer one that might make it someday….
Your Favourite Worst Nightmare – Arctic Monkeys
The Moderation Monster has eaten my list!
1) The White Album
2) pink floyd — animals
3) black sabbath — paranoid
4) elton john — tumbleweed connection
5) radiohead — ok computer
RickJ,
Billy Bragg, Worker’s Playtime.
Best. Album. Ever.
But what are you doing listening to it? That is lefty music.
All conservatives secretly want to be liberals. Their parents would disapprove, however.
I would love it if you hippies would sit around making albums like Worker’s Playtime and let us run the state, Jason. Besides, Worker’s Playtime isn’t lefty music. Talking With the Taxman About Poetry is.
Ah, Billy Bragg. Now there’s a Socialist for you. Not like that Dana Garrett.
now we’re gonna get letters…
While I was doing chores I thought Traffic and Crosby Stills Nash and Young and more Young. Cat Stevens and the San Fran sound of Janis and Jefferson Airplane.
Green Day, Bad Religion, OffSpring .
Cracker. Black Sabbath, of course Husker Du and Counting Crows first album.
*sigh* and all of the one hit wonders that we listened to in the 60’s with the transister to the ear keyed to WAMS before MMR took it all to another level.
Tom Petty, the Band sheeeeet how to stop. And I havent’ even gone over to the boxes to take a look the darn collection.
OK, Nance, pick 5 already…
No CD`s, what are you going to do for power? Just give me pictures of our gov. in a bathing suite. I won`t want to be rescued!
Elton John-Caribou
Bruce Springsteen-Born to Run
Pink Floyd-The Wall
Maynard Ferguson-MF Horn I&II
Fleetwood Mac-The Chain
OK, Nance, pick 5 already…
*
my albums have been ib storage for toooooo long
Dunno, Rick J. ‘Waiting for the Great Leap Forward’ is lefty-anthemic enough for me.
Great pick, though…
Wouldn’t matter what I chose if there weren’t any electricity to play them!
Granted, Sagacious Steve, but the rest of that album (with the possible exception of “Tender Comrade”, which carries a little politics) is some of the most personal, gut-wrenching stuff ever. And beautiful.
I’m going to cheat and include one greatest hits album on my list.
Billy Joel — 12 Gardens
Counting Crows — Recovering the Satellites
The Beatles — White Album
Live — Throwing Copper
Metallica — Black Album
Very nice, LG — The Cowboy Junkies are way better than the Eagles!
Lots of great choices here! Husker Du is a real flashback and I wish I had put something of theirs on my Ipod today.
For all of you Billy Bragg fans — have you listened to the Mermaid Avenue disks with Billy Bragg and Wilco putting music to previously unheard Woody Guthrie lyrics? Fantastic, esp. the first one.
cassandra,
Both albums were great. And what a perfect choice of musicians to perform it. While they come from different worlds, Bragg is the perfect inheritor of the Guthrie legacy (sorry, Arlo!).
Surprised that this has semi-turned into a Billy Bragg thread. Whodathunkit? Gotta say that I’m torn between ‘Worker’s Playtime’ and ‘Don’t Try This at Home’ as my fave BB ever. Glad that I’ve got both, and you should too.
Worker’s Playtime is just song after song of great poetry set to great music with big pop hooks.
I’d put it close to Born to Run as a very nearly perfect album.
Clash – London Calling
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill
Dire Straits – Alchemy (okay, that’s kind of a cheat, but I couldn’t pick between the first album and Love over Gold.)
Anything by the tempatations
Some BB King
A little bit of Chuck Berry
Clapton’s Unplugged
AC DC Black in Black
the first 3 would be some sort of greatest hits albums but so what
My luck, I’d be stranded there with Jason, so here is how I’d dole up the choices:
ME:
Jeff Buckley – Grace
Yes – Yessongs (I know, sort of cheating being a concert compilation)
Peter Gabriel – Hit (I’m cheating again)
REM – Anything from Out Of Time and earlier, although Eponymous is a good compilation of their I.R.S. days
White Zombie – Supersexy Swingin’ Sounds – very possibly one of the better remixed/compilations I have ever owned…ever.
Stopping at five sucks.
As for Jason’s library on this island: the entire ABBA catalogue. That’s what you get for getting us stuck, you bastard!
RSmitty –
Jeff Buckley’s version of Hallelujah on that album (CD?) is goosebump-worthy. Good call.
Fuck it. I’m doing 10. Flame me all you want for breaking the rules.
Criteria: Albums in which I never have to press the “skip” button. Out of about 1,000 CDs, my guess is less than 50 meet this criteria.
Richard Thompson, “Mock Tudor”
Me’Shell NdeGeocello, “Bitter”
Joe Henry, “Fuse”
The Beatles, “Abbey Road”
Bjork, “Homogenic”
David Byrne, “Feelings”
Emmylou Harris, “Red Dirt Girl”
Talking Heads, “Remain in Light”
Leonard Cohen, “The Future”
Marilyn Manson, “Mechanical Animals”
Albums missing include some U2, Prince, Travis, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Morrissey, The Smiths, Warren Zevon, White Stripes, Wilco, Ween, Aimee Mann, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson (don’t laugh), Ryan Adams.
Ok, I’m rambling. Either way, great thread!
Aw, crap. I just heard “Panic Beach”, from Maria McKee’s 1989 self-titled debut. Cross off Nebraska.
Mike –
It is your choice, but Ten CDs means that you don’t get the medical kit or the fishing hooks.
Mike –
It is your choice, but Ten CDs means that you don’t get the medical kit or the fishing hooks.
Or the stereo. Or the inflatable raft.
…but Jason’s ABBA collection probably gets to make the trip. Bastard.
…then again, if Jason’s collection gets to be lost at sea with him, then push the bastard overboard…him and his ABBA.
From Robert Christgau’s review of ABBA’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2:
“We have met the enemy, and they are them.”
ABBA Gold is, hands down, the best cleaning CD ever. Ever.
Mike – that’s a very eclectic list. It’s not every day you see a list that includes Emmylou Harris and Marilyn Manson. Oh, and I would choose Tom Waits’ Closing Time if the criteria is being able to listen without skipping.
Joe Henry! Mike, that is a drink-worthy list, but since you have 10, I think that means you are buying….
ABBA Gold is, hands down, the best cleaning CD ever. Ever.
If, by “cleaning CD”, you mean “mildly abrasive” then I agree. Abba is sorority music. “Hey girls! Take a chance on me!”
I mean if you have to clean your house, pop in the CD. It’ll be done in half the time.