MacGuyver

A friend posed this question to me the other day and it took me quite awhile to actually finish a list. The rules are simple. Name 10 albums you would take with you to be secluded on a desert island. It's an odd situation, I know, being stuck on a desert island and having nothing with you but 10 albums of your choosing and the required media player, but just play along. You can absolutely not use a Greatest Hits/Box Set/Anthology. Okay so go ahead and post your list! Try to be nice and not over ridicule mine.

1. Incubus - Morning View
2. Incubus - Make Yourself
3. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
4. Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
5. The Beatles - The Beatles [White Album]
6. The Who - Tommy
7. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
8. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
9. Eminem - The Eminem Show
10. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

Y'all are probably raising your eyebrows at my Incubus and rap selections but I absolutely can not live without those two incubus albums. Those two are two strains of the same mind that effectively connects with every level of my emotion.

Led Zep is such a tough pick. I picked Houses of the Holy but it was kind of a three horse race between that, Physical Graffiti, and (IV, or Zoso). I almost took Physical Graffiti just for the sheer volume of LZ tracks on there, but I decided to settle on Houses of the Holy since it has the most of my favorite tracks, even though I love them all.

Most people look at "Are You Experienced" as the Hendrix album to have, but honestly I love the soundscape that is Axis: Bold as Love. There is nothing like the swell of sound that is that entire album. I kind of feel the same way about Dark Side of the Moon. I love an album where I can get entirely lost in the environment that the sound provides, a very full and active album that still has its ways to be subtle.

Tommy was a tough pick, and I only really picked it because of the amount of tracks. Quadrophenia was my other Who pick, along with Who's Next. The Who is another difficult pick, in like Led, I enjoy most all of their work.

Miles is kind of a tricky pick for me. I have my regrets about this pick, because often I feel that Kind of Blue is way over hyped. Don't get me wrong, it's one of the more definitive albums of modern music, but I'm not exactly a fan boy that gets his panties in a bunch whenever people talk bad about Miles. This pick was mostly out of my respect for what the album is. I've transcribed solos from it (thanks High School Band Director... ), so I have an appreciation for it, but there are definitely jazz cuts that I dig better than this album. I think I more picked this because I love jazz, but the soul of jazz can't be encompassed in one album. Generally when I listen to jazz, jam with other musicians, etc, what we do is kind of bop around with different ideas, sub genres, etc. Since this album is generally the poster child for jazz, thus it's my pick.

The last two are kind of a tip to hip hop, in what I think is a very deep Eminem CD, and a very very underappreciated Tribe Called Quest. Eminem was a tough pick over Dr. Dre's Chronic 2001, but I think that The Eminem Show has more of a social critique to it, which I respect a lot, coming from a guy who found himself under a shitstorm of critique at the time, and didn't really change himself.

More Honorable Mentions:
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (this was bumped at the very last second for Tommy, as this was on my list earlier)
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Eagles - Hotel California
Beatles - Sgt. Peppers, Abbey Rd.

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dippin

It is hard to pick albums, since it's been a while since I actually bought an album (as opposed to scattered songs).

In any case, here's my 10:

the clash - london calling
bad religion - generator
ramones - animal boy
rancid - and out come the wolves
Belle and Sebastian - if you're feeling sinister
new order - substance
Jorge Drexler - Sea
Pixies- Bossanova
Pixies - trompe le monde
and any of the Toquinho and Vinicius de Moraes compilations

pointbock69

Hard to top dippin!

"It is hard to pick albums, since it's been a while since I actually bought an album (as opposed to scattered songs).

In any case, here's my 10:

the clash - london calling
bad religion - generator
ramones - animal boy
rancid - and out come the wolves
Belle and Sebastian - if you're feeling sinister
new order - substance
Jorge Drexler - Sea
Pixies- Bossanova
Pixies - trompe le monde"

Jehu Salinger

I'm pretty sure the list will be different tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, or the day after that, ... but anyway, for now, this one'll have to do

1. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
2. Hot Water Music - Caution
3. Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
4. Against Me! - New Wave
5. The Lawrence Arms - The Greatest Story Ever Told
6. Dillinger Four - Midwestern Songs of the Americas
7. She & Him - Volume 1
8. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
9. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
10. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly

I would prefer The Randy Newman Songbook over Curtis Mayfield though, and the double disc The Very Best of Elvis Costello instead of This Year's Model, but no compilations are alowed, so, yeah... Also: Against Me!'s New Wave would have to be the Fargo Records deluxe edition, because it's got a couple of nifty bonus tracks

Not Right Now

1.) Jane's Addiction - Ritual De lo Habitual
2.) The Clash - London Calling
3.) AFI - The Art of Drowning
4.) Combichrist - What The Fuck is Wrong With You People?
5.) Blaqk Audio - Cex Cells
6) Nujabes - Modal Soul
7) Aphex Twin - Richard D James LP
8) Squarepusher - Ultravisitor
9) Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
10) The Teenagers - Reality Check

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Pig Destroyer - Prowler In The Yard
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Babbletron - Mechanical Royalty
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is A Dead Scene
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Henry Cow - Leg End
Knut - Terraformer
Radiohead - Kid A
Infidel?/Castro! - Bioentropic Damage Fractal
Meshuggah - Catch 33

Having only ten albums to choose from would suck but I'm pretty sure I could die happily with only these. Good stuff.

Back Burner:

Zs - The Hard EP
Cage - Movies For The Blind
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Ulver - Blood Inside
The End - Within Dividia

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thespian86

My top 10 Desert Island are not really the ones that I think are the best, but ones that I love the most:

1. Easy Tiger - Ryan Adams
2. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - Of Montreal
3. Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins
4. Room On Fire - The Strokes
5. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
6. London Calling - The Clash
7. Tears Roll Down - Tears For Fears
8. Synchronicity - The Police
9. The Very Best of Elvis Costello - Elvis Costello
10. Songs For Silverman - Ben Folds

Some runners up would be:

Pretty In Pink - S/T
Vampire Weekend - VW
Gordon - The Barenaked Ladies
Fleet Foxes - FF

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Anxst

Ouch, hard choices.

1. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
2. Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
3. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
4. The Beatles - The White Album
5. The Poxy Boggards - Lager Than Life
6. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
7. The Matches - Decomposer
8. Chris and Rich Robinson - Brothers of a Feather
9. U2 - The Joshua Tree
10. The Replacements - Tim

Tough choices all along.

Highway 61, as I can listen to that album for forever. Every song is incredible.

Frank's Wild Years for the feeling of my favorite insane bar nights.

Physical graffiti is just all over the place. It rocks, it wails, it weeps.

The White Album is the same. A song for every mood there.

Lager Than Life for sing along times. Singing along can get you through a lot.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God is simply immortal to me. I can listen to it, and think of my relatives in Ireland, and my dad getting drunk and talking about Sligo Town.

Decomposer is a really underrated album, in my opinion. I love to listen to it.

Brothers of a Feather is so intimate, and has some great songs on it. It's a little melancholy in spots, but that seems fitting for the situation.

The Joshua Tree is songs of hope, and songs of sorrow.

Tim...well, it's the 'Mats! What more can I say.

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RogueGypsy

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - self titled
Led Zepplin - Physical Graffiti
Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth
Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard In My Backyard
Afroman
ICP - Riddle Box
Metallica - Garage Days
Black Sabbath - Sold Our Souls for Rock & Roll
Grieg - Peer Gynt
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

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Daniel_

I made two lists, and can't pick between them - either would do.

List One

Yes - Yessongs
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Queen - Live Wembley 1986
Simon & Garfunkel - Concert in Central Park
Muse - HAARP
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Blvd
The Beatles - Let It Be
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

List Two

Barenaked Ladies - Maybe You Should Drive
Cash - American IV
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Meat Loaf -Bat Out Of Hell
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Spock's Beard - Snow
VA - Trojan Chill Out

Leftovers

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Neil Young -Harvest
Eagles - Eagles Live

I'm not good at selecting...

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SSJTWIZTA

i cant do this. i tried and i tried, got sick of deleting, and gave up.

10!?
no way man. no fucking way.

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Moriarty

Well, I picked 10. It was not the easiest task, but I really enjoy the albums below.

1. Miles Davis > My Kind of Blue
2. John Coltrane > Blue Train
3. Widespread Panic> Light the Fuse and Get away
4. Radiohead > Ok Computer
5. Eric Clapton > Unplugged
6. Michael Houser > Door Harp
7. Phish > Picture of Nectar
8. Deftones > Adrenaline
9. Bob Dylan > Highway 61 Revisited
10. Bob Marley > Exodus

MacGuyver

I know seriously. I hated this question when my friend brought it up because I changed it a lot of times. I would probably change it again if I put the thought into it right now, but I don't want to haha. Someone else I knew when I asked him rattled his list off in about 3 seconds flat. He's the only person I know who could decide so quickly. Everyone else probably takes at least an hour popping back and forth. He wrote it in a note:

1. Sticky Fingers -- The Rolling Stones
My Dad bought me this for Hanukkah when I was 14. It was the only thing in my CD player for about a month after that. Probably the single most important album I've ever listened to in my life.

2. Rubber Soul -- The Beatles
When Nate's dad gave me the entire Beatles collection on CD when I was 13, I was very excited. But it wasn't until Rubber Soul was listened to all the way through that it became clear to me why this band was, is and will always be the finest of the cream which rose to the top.

3. Who's Next -- The Who
Top to bottom, this album might be the culmination of all that is rock. Last year, I found my father's yearbook from high school, and his only quote was from the first song on there. I find comfort in that.

4. My Aim is True -- Elvis Costello
My dad bought me this randomly when I was 15. I couldn't fall asleep at my grandparents' house one night, so I popped it in my CD player and listened to it in the dark. It was like a bomb going off in my head.

5. Beginnings -- The Allman Brothers
This is my answer to anyone who thinks Lynard Skynard is talented. Skynard is a joke compared to the absolute southern brilliance that is this album. The second track on this album is as fine a song as you will ever hear.

6. Kind of Blue -- Miles Davis
Bought this one randomly freshman year. I was pissed about not being able to go home for the weekend, so I went to Barnes and Noble 10 minutes before it closed, called my father, and asked him "If the store closes in 5 minutes and I have one album to buy that I've never heard, what do I buy?" This was his answer. I listened to it all that weekend, didn't talk to anyone.

7. American Idiot -- Green Day
This album, from top to bottom, said everything I felt about the political climate at the time. And the music was fantastic. I don't care if you didn't like it because it got played into the ground by radio stations. 5 years later, I challenge you to listen to this all the way through and not be struck by how good it actually is.

8. Chutes too Narrow -- The Shins
This was my guilty pleasure in high school. I didn't tell anyone I listened to it. The lyrics in every song on this album never cease to get me when I least expect it. It reminds me of winter, and how removed from everything I felt during high school. This got me through my parent's divorce, along with a song or two off of "Oh Inverted World".

9. Blood on the Tracks -- Bob Dylan
"Bringing it all back home" and "Blonde on Blonde" are brilliant to be sure, but I hated Bob Dylan until I heard this album. Nothing political, no awkward chanting. Only amazing poetry and a voice that I finally understood to be simply another instrument with which Dylan told this story. This album changed my mind about him and subsequently opened the door to his earlier work, which is, if you understand its time, place and aim, incendiary.

10. NYC Man -- Lou Reed
There is no cooler human being on this planet than Lou Reed. It's not necessarily happy music, or particularly inventive. But his tone, his lyrics, and his simplicity are intoxicating if you're by yourself. High school would have been a lot different for me if I hadn't randomly discovered this guy while driving from Phoenix to California back in high school.

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Deeds, not words, shall speak [for] me.
---John Fletcher

SSJTWIZTA

haha!

Jesus! he had that all worked out.

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First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for me And there was no one left to speak out for me.
-Pastor Martin Niemoller

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