Name your 10 "desert island" cds (2 Viewers)

[Chris]

Ok, here goes:

Beatles - Abbey Road
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Tori Amos - Under the Pink
Soundtrack - Until the End of the World
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Dead Milkmen - BEELZEBUBBA
Enya - The Memory of Trees
Deep Forest - Comparosa
Soundtrack - Grosse Point Blanke
REM - Monster

That's what I'd love to say.. in honesty, if I could only have ten basic audio CDs they would be:

John Grisham Audio Book #1
John Grisham Audio Book #2
Misc SciFi Audio Book #3
Lemony Snicket Audio Book
Star Trek Audio Book
Star Wars Audio Book
Tori Amos UTP
Beatles Abbey Road
Asimov Short Stories Audiobook

 

[Chris Hopper]

Coil- Love's Secret Domain
Coil- Moon's Milk (In Four Phases)
The Cure- Disintegration
Sonic Youth- Goo
His Name is Alive- Stars on E.S.P
My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
Pixies- Death to the Pixies
REM- Green
Rasputina- Thanks for the Ether
Scorn- Vae Solis


Very close... All Tool, the rest of the Coil and Throbbing Gristle collection, and Single Gun Theory- Like Stars in My Hands

 

[Mark Murphy]

My list (in no order):

1. Aenima - Tool

2. My Life - Mary J. Blige

3. Jar of Flies - Alice in Chains

4. Thirteenth Step - A Perfect Circle

5. The Infamous - Mobb Deep

6. Box Set Disc 1 - Led Zeppelin

7. Illmatic - Nas

8. Down on the Upside - Soundgarden

9. Unplugged in New York - Nirvana

10. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

 

[Josh LM]

1. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
2. The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
3. Franz Ferdinand - self titled
4. The Used - self titled
5. The Used - In Love and Death
6. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
7. Green Day - Dookie
8. Men At Work - Business as Usual
9. The Strokes - Room On Fire
10.The Strokes - Is This It

 

[Steve_L]

Great idea. Here's my list.

1. America - Self Titled
2. Joni Mitchell - Blue
3. Steely Dan - Aja
4. J Geils - Full House
5. Crosby Stills and Nash - Self Titled
6. Dave Bruebeck - All Together Again
7. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
8. Paul Simon - Graceland
9. Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore East
10. Paul Butterfield - East - West[/list=1]

 

[Jon_Are]

This is off-the-cuff; no doubt I'm overlooking some favorites.

(In no particular order, but numbered to create further confusion):

1. Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
2. The Beatles - Abbey Road
3. The Clash - London Calling
4. Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
5. Beck - Odelay
6. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
7. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Legend
8. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
9. Neil Young - After the Goldrush
10. Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights


Jon

 

[Jay Mitchosky]

Can't immediately think of 10 but two for sure would be Queensyche, Operation: mindcrime and Dream Theater, Images and Words. Actually give me almost the complete library from both and I'd be set.

 

[Jan H]

Too damn tough, I have over 1200. My collection is roughly evenly divided in thirds between rock, jazz, and classical, so, since I'm bored, I'll make 3 separate top 10's of each:

Rock:

1. The Who - Who's Next
2. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
3. Steely Dan - Aja
4. Rush - Moving Pictures
5. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
6. Beck - Mutations
7. Radiohead - The Bends
8. The Beatles - The White Album
9. Van Halen - I
10. Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Jazz:

1. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Umm
2. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
3. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
4. Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
5. Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby
6. Gonzalo Rubalcaba - The Blessing
7. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
8. Stan Getz - Bossas and Ballads
9. Dave Brubeck - Take 5
10. Gilberto/Getz - The Girl From Ipanema

Classical:

1. Beethoven 5 & 7 Symphonies - Kleiber/DG
2. Bach Solo Cello Suites - Rostropovich/EMI
3. Mahler 9 - Von Karajan/DG
4. Copland - Appalachian Suite, etc. Reference Recordings
5. Brahms - A German Requiem - Robert Shaw/Telarc
6. Schumann/Grieg Piano Concertos - Murray Perahia/CBS
7. Tchaikovsky/Mendelssohn Violin Concertos - Dutoit/Chung/London
8. Wagner - Tristan und Isolde - Bohm/DG
9. Chopin - Ballades - Kristian Zimmerman/DG
10. Mozart - Piano Concerto 24 - Mitsuko Uchida/Philips

That desert island better have one kick-ass sound system!

 

[Andrew 'Ange Hamm' Hamm]

Chris, you are my hero.

Here's a quickie list, without thinking too much:

• Peter Gabriel - Security
• The Who - Quadrophenia
• Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
• Joe Jackson & Friends - Heaven & Hell
• Sam Phillips - Fan Dance
• Rich Mullins - A Liturgy, a Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band
• Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans
• Wesley Willis - Rush Hour
• Bruce Cockburn - Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws
• Genesis - Selling England by the Pound

 

[matthewRaz]

flaming lips - soft bulletin
grandaddy - sumday
shawn colvin - whole new you
aimee mann - lost in space
the church - priest=aura
the beatles - revolver
super furry animals - phantom power
elliot smith - xo
radiohead - kid a
spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

 

[Kenneth Harden]

Cool to see Portishead and Boards of Canada mentioned!

I have NO idea what I would pick. I am WAY too tired to think right now.

 

[DonaldB]

Giant Steps - John Coltrane
Masada 9: Tet - Masada
A Feather On the Breath of God - Hildegard von Bingen/Gothic Voices
Hex Enduction Hour - The Fall
Pink Flag - Wire
Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones
Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin - J.S. Bach/Nathan Milstein
Fork Songs - Tall Dwarfs
Jump On In - DQE
A Trip to Marineville - Swell Maps

 

[David Hobbes]

Rush - Permanent Waves
Rush - Counterparts
Husker Du - Ware: Songs and Stories
Bob Mould - Black Sheets of Rain
Mary's Danish - Circa
Dance Hall Crashers - Honey I'm Homely
Led Zep - Physical Graffiti
Bach - Brandenburg Concertos
The Cult - Electric
Popinjays - Flying Down to Mono Valley

for today at least

 

[Greg Layton]

Of course something like this changes with every passing week.. but I guess this would be my current top 10..

01) Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
02) John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
03) Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
04) Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
05) Ekoostik Hookah - Ohio Grown
06) Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
07) Longpigs - The Sun is Often Out
08) Moxy Fruvous - Bargainville
09) Pink Floyd - Animals
10) Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

CCR's Chronicle Vol. 1 & 2 would definatly go on here if my particular island allowed Greatest Hits albums.

 

[Jimmy Nugent]

Barry Adamson- As above So below
David Baerwald- Triage
Kate Bush-The Dreaming
Elvis Costello- Imperial Bedroom
Brian Eno & David Byrne- My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Peter Gabriel- "Acid Face" '80
Joe Henry- Fuse
Davis Sylvian & Robert Fripp- The First Day
XTC- Mummer
Yello- Stella

Jimmy

 

[Jimmy Nugent]

...and then for day two of my desert island exile:

Bob Schnieder- Lonelyland
Damien Rice- O
Alan Parsons Project- Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Alison Krauss- New Favorite
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Micheal Brook- Night Song
Aztec Camera- Dreamland
Led Zeppelin- III
Pink Floyd- Animals
Roger Waters- The Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking
Robbie Robertson- Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy

Jimmy

 

[Jimmy Nugent]

I would then be forced to fight off terrestrial "Space Madness" on day three with the following:

Toni Childs- The Womans Boat
Planet P Project- Pink World
Wolfgang Press- Funky Little Demons
William Orbit- Hinterland
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Van Morrison- Blowin' Your Mind!
Tori Amos- Little Earthquakes
Robert Cray- Strong Persuader
Radiohead- OK Computer
Natalie Merchant- Tigerlily

Jimmy

 

[Jimmy Nugent]

Once the reality of the situation had sunk in, I'd have the following ten to console me on day four:

Nine Inch Nails- The Fragile
The Fixx- Reach The Beach... appropriate, no?
Bryan Ferry- Mamouna
Danielle Dax- Blast The Human Flower
Fischer Z- Going Deaf For A Living
Susanna Hoffs- Susanna Hoffs
Supertramp- Crime of the Century
Sugarcubes- Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week!
Sam Phillips- Martinis & Bikinis
Jam Nation- Way Down Below Buffalo Hell

Jimmy

 

[Jimmy Nugent]

Rescued on day five...

Jimmy

 

[Andrew 'Ange Hamm' Hamm]

Jimmy Nugent, you are my new hero for the day. Have you heard her latest two albums? Effing incredible, but VERY different.