Desert Island Discs

StoneCold Skywarp · Post by **StoneCold Skywarp** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:20 pm

For those that have never played before, allow me to explain.

Assuming that all other necessary amenities were provided (electricity, CD player, record player, hot running showers & three square meals a day) what albums would you absolutely, positively, completely NOT be without on a desert island?

I'll post my reply when I'm not half asleep on the keyboard

Post by **Denyer** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:50 pm

I'm kinda used to having everything I might want to listen to around me by now, TBH. So I'll just pick out some albums I enjoy listening to all the way through rather than taking tracks from and mixing up...

Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy
Green Day - Warning
Mary Prankster - Roulette Girl
System of a Down
The Wildhearts - Endless Nameless
Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview + Losing Streak
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Ash - Intergalactic Sonic 7s
Murry the Hump - Songs of Ignorance
James - Best Of

Covers most of the bases, I feel.

Post by **zigzagger** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:14 am

My music essentials survival kit:

"Doolittle" and "Surfer Rosa" By Pixies
"Fever to Tell" By Yeah Yeah Yeah's
"The Singles" By Bikini Kill
"Pornography" and "Three Imaginary Boys" By The Cure
"Pre-emptive Strike" By DJ Shadow
"Disco Volante" and "self titled" By Mr Bungle
"Peeping Tom" By Peeping Tom
"Bedside Toxicology" By RX (Ritalin)
"Last Rights " By Skinny Puppy
"Directors Cut" By Fantomas
"self titled" By General Patton and The X-ecutioners
"Songs the Lord Taught Us" By The Cramps
"Call The Doctor" By Sleater-Kinney
"Swing the Heartache: The BBC Sessions" By Bauhaus

.....I so could add more, but I won't.

Post by **Hound** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:18 am

Tool, all of their CDs
Beatles White Album
Garbage
Toadies Rubberneck
Peter Gabriel So
Eminem Marshall Mathers LP

tahukanuva · Post by **tahukanuva** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:43 am

Move Along - All American Rejects
Back in Black - AC/DC
All the Right Reasons - Nickelback
Greatest Hits - Guns n' Roses
Hysteria - Def Leppard
Greatest Hits - Queen (shock, surprise...)
Beatles - One

Hysteria and the Queen one are the only ones with favorite tracks, with the rest being albums I at least enjoy most of the tracks.

another tf fan · Post by **another tf fan** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:55 am

In no particular order:

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Def Leppard : Hysteria
Nirvana : Nevermind
Soundgarden : Superuknown
Primus : Frizzle Fry
Jesus Jones : Perverse
Eminem : Marshall Mathers LP
E-40 : Grit and Grind
Brotha Lynch Hung : Loaded
50 Cent : Get Rich or Die Tryin

Ackula · Post by **Ackula** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:37 am

In no particular order at all...

Ayumi Hamasaki - Rainbow
Ayumi Hamasaki - A Best/ A Ballads
Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain
Rozz Williams - Whorses Mouth
Misfits - Coffin Boxset
Hank III - Straight to Hell
G.G. Allin & AntiSeen - Murder Junkies
Rob Zombie - Music (Greatest Hits)
Brujeria - Mexicutioners
Rozz Williams & Gitane Demone - Dream Home Heartache
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Mortiis - Stargate
Mr. Bungle - California
Utada Hikaru - Exodus
Faith No More - Greatest Hits
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Hit & Run Holiday
Waylon Jennings - Greatest Hits
Pantera - Greatest Hits
The Omen Soundtrack
Superjoint Ritual - A Lethal Dose of American Hatred
Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger
Hank Williams - Complete Singles Collection
and last of all a compilation disc of my favorite tunes from Mozart, Mussorgsky, Bach, and Wagner

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:48 am

It's no fun when there're no limits. So let's say, fifteen...

Judas Priest - Priest... Live
Ozzy Osbourne - Live & Loud
Bon Jovi - Live in London
Guns N' Roses - Banzai
Iron Maiden - Live at Donington
Whitesnake - Back in Donington
Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live
U2 - PopMart
Van Halen - Right Here, Right Now, Live
Def Leppard - In the Round, Into your Face, Live
Saxon - Heavy Metal Thunder
Rainbow - Stranger in Us All
Bryan Adams - Live at Wembley
Skid Row - Banzai 2 (Live at Budokan)
Winger - Live in Tokyo

slartibartfast · Post by **slartibartfast** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:31 pm

I thought desert island disks was 3 albums and one object (lol tony blair the rock guitarist)

african horns : a groovy, mellowed out jazz-thing, my staple impress-your-mates-with-your-knowledge-of-obscure-bands album.
the jazz album - Dmitri Shostakovich : 1920s russian composer decides to copy new orleans style. bouncy.
"transformers the movie OST" : no, I ain't taking the piss.

if I could have some more I'd add some Frank Sinatra and some Rolf Harris.

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:03 pm

Limiting myself to ten, and one per artist:

Bowie - Stage
Ramones - End of the Century
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
The Beatles - Let It Be
The Cure - The Head on the Door
The Damned - Strawberries
Air - Moon Safari
Electric Six - Fire!
Japan - Adolescent Sex
Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:32 pm

Originally posted by slartibartfast
I thought desert island disks was 3 albums

Eight according to the ad that was just on.

CounterPunch · Post by **CounterPunch** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:48 pm

I've done 8

Alice In Chains - Music Bank (disc 2 Dirt Era)
Pantera - Revinenting Hell/The Best Of
Counting Crows - Films About Ghosts/The Best Of (see a pattern?)
Foo Fighters - In Your Honour (discs 1 and 2)
Metallica - Master of Puppets and Black Album
Antony and the Johnsons - Self Titled and I Am A Bird Now

That was actually incredibly difficult, Ive had to miss out Soundgarden, Radiohead, Muse, Audioslave, Beastie Boys, Silverchair

Grandmaster Shockwaeve · Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:17 am

My Top 5:

Brian Wilson - SMiLE
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Billy Joel - The Stranger
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Funny how I seem to like artists that start with "B."

The next 5, if I'm allowed them:

Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Green Day - American Idiot
The Killers - Hot Fuss

My tastes seem to be pretty mellow compared to most people here.

Zudo Bug · Post by **Zudo Bug** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:42 pm

Is Tahukanuva the only one who would take a Queen album with them? How can you not take an album by the greatest rock band in history with you? My list would be full of Queen albums including their Live At Wembley album and The Works which has one of the greatest rock tracks ever composed - Hammer To Fall.

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:15 pm

Originally posted by Zudo Bug
How can you not take an album by the greatest rock band in history with you?

Because I for one like other bands more. Mind, if I limit myself to twenty albums, not fifteen, Queen's Live at Wembley would be among them.

Post by **Denyer** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:38 pm

Originally posted by Zudo Bug
Is Tahukanuva the only one who would take a Queen album with them? How can you not take an album by the greatest rock band in history with you?

Notice no selection from the Beatles either. No great attachment to either band, personally -- I like some of the hits, and they were important historically, but not much inclination to listen to a normal album release by either. (Ditto for James and Ash -- a "best of" for either is fine. Live At The Wireless is occasional fun, not a frequent listen.) The closest for Queen, for me, would be Made In Heaven. Or the soundtrack to Highlander that never got released (as it is, you have to pick tracks for that off several albums...)

The main criteria for desert island listening, IMO, is stuff I wouldn't be bloody sick of after a few months, so my picks are stuff I've listened to for years already.

Though there are placeholders. SOAD represents a particular style, MTH an era (it's difficult to choose a Crocketts or Crimea album because I like to mix up dozens of tracks by those bands.) Also a lot of feelgood music there.

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:05 pm

Queen have always been more of a "good radio" band for me, y'know? I like the stuff, but can't ever really see myself paying for any of it... "Let it Be" is largely there for personal reasons too.

slartibartfast · Post by **slartibartfast** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:26 pm

yea, me too. Under most other circumstances I'd have some pink floyd up there in the top three... but if I was stranded on a desert island with 'the wall' I'd probably go insane.

The beatles and queen are both top bands, just not what I'd listen to on my own on a sunny, sandy beach. Not certain I could say exactly why though. Maybe some beach boys would go down better.

another tf fan · Post by **another tf fan** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:04 pm

maybe, just maybe, it's because the Beatles aren't as good as there legend is.

I know, blasphemy.

Like for instance i seem to be the only one with "Nevermind" on the list. Maybe Kurt's music isn't living up to his legacy.

slartibartfast · Post by **slartibartfast** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:13 pm

y'know, something that I've noticed is the lack of nirvana remixes. It seems odd that a band that had that much influence pretty much sunk without trace. The foofighters are really good but they never saw much of the limelight somehow.

not so much as an ibiza club track