Desert Island Discs: Name 5 albums/CDs you can't live without

[BurtWorm]

Me:

The Modern Dance, Pere Ubu

1. Non-Alignment Pact
2. Modern Dance
3. Laughing
4. Street Waves
5. Chinese Radiation
6. Life Stinks
7. Real World
8. Over My Head
9. Sentimental Journey
10. Humor Me


Safe as Milk, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band


1. Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do
2. Zig Zag Wanderer
3. Call On Me
4. Dropout Boogie
5. I'm Glad
6. Electricity
7. Yellow Brick Road
8. Abba Zaba
9. Plastic Factory
10. Where There's Woman
11. Grown So Ugly
12. Autumn's Child
13. Safe As Milk (Take 5)
14. On Tomorrow
15. Big Black Baby Shoes
16. Flower Pot
17. Dirty Blue Gene
18. Trust Us (Take 9)
19. Korn Ring Finger


I Think of Demons, Roky Erickson

1. Two-Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer)
2. I Think of Demons
3. I Walked With a Zombie
4. Don't Shake Me Lucifer
5. Night of the Vampire
6. Bloody Hammer
7. White Faces
8. Cold Night for Alligators
9. Creature With the Atom Brain
10. Mine Mine Mind
11. Stand for the Fire Demon
12. Wind and More

Halim, Natacha Atlas


1. Marifnaash
2. Moustahil
3. Amulet
4. Leyli
5. Kidda
6. Sweeter Than Any Sweets
7. Ya Weledi
8. Enogoom Wil, Amar
9. Andeel
10. Gafsa
11. Y Albi Ehda
12. Agib


Apollon Musagete/Concerto in D/Cantata, Igor Stravinsky, Esa-Pekka Salonen


1. Apollo (Apollon musagete): First Scene (Prologue): Apollo's Birth
2. Scene 2: Apollo's Variation
3. Scene 2: Pas D'action
4. Scene 2: Calliope Variation
5. Scene 2: Polyhymnia Variation
6. Scene 2: Terpsichore Variation
7. Scene 2: Apollo's Variation
8. Scene 2: Pas De Deux
9. Scene 2: Coda
10. Scene 2: Apotheosis
11. Concerto In D For String Orchestra: I. Vivace
12. Concerto In D For String Orchestra: II. Arioso: Andantino 13. Concerto In D For String Orchestra: III. Rondo. Allegro 14. Cantata: A Lyke-Wake Dirge. Versus I. Prelude
15. Ricercar I: The Maidens Came
16. Cantata: A Lyke-Wake Dirge. Versus II. First Interlude 17. Ricercar II: Sacred History
18. Cantata: A Lyke-Wake Dirge. Versus III. Second Interlude 19. Westron Wind
20. Cantata: A Lyke-Wake Dirge. Versus IV. Postlude



If I got to pick five more, I'd add Chopin Preludes, Toots and the Maytalls (or a Trojan ska collection), Ain't I'm a Dog (a collection of rockabilly), Beethoven Piano Concertos, a Rhino collection of 1950s R&B.

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. The GTA Vice City soundtracks

have they made San andreas' soundtracks yet?

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. Only five?

1. Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue"


2. The Clash, "London Calling"


3. Massive Attack, "Mezzanine"


4. Tom Waits, "Small Change"


5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, "Let Love In"


(Ask me tomorrow and the list will probably be different.)

[BurtWorm]

3. I'm sure at least a couple on my list wiould change tomorrow

[Tektonik]

4. It's hard to choose only five, but here I go

New Order- Technique
New Order- Substance
Joy Division- Closer
Bjork- Homogenic
Depeche Mode- Violator

[JimmyJazz]

5. I admit to cheating a bit on the first one.

[realisticphish]

6. ok

1. Tool- Lateralus
2. Ekoostik Hookah- Ohio Grown
3. Ministry- Houses of the Mole
4. Rush- Roll The Bones
5. Nine Inch Nails- The Fragile

[redqueen]

7. Ooooh I love these... I get to make notes for new tunes to listen to!

As for me, just for this moment (it probably changes hourly) my list would be:

Genesis - Trespass
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Steely Dan - Gaucho
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Janis Joplin - Greatest Hits (sorry had to cheat on that one :))

[bbernardini]

8. Zappa, Kevin Gilbert, Stuart Davis, Porcupine Tree, Mike Keneally

1. Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
2. Kevin Gilbert - The Shaming Of The True
3. Stuart Davis - Nomen Est Numen
4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
5. Mike Keneally - Dancing

[keithjx]

9. Today's five.

1. Social Distortion - Sex, Love, and Rock and Roll
2. Tool - Aenema
3. Perfect Circle - 13th Step
4. Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
5. Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport

KJ

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

10. I like this kind of thread

because I'll learn about what others like and then try it. Realizing of course, many choices are colored by age, background etc, here are my choices;

Songs in the key of life- Stevie Wonder
Revolver/Rubber Soul/ Sgt. Peppers/The White Album (can I count this as one?) :)
Kiko- Los Lobos
Deja Vu- CSNY
Anything composed by Vivaldi

[BurtWorm]

11. I think you'd have to pick one of those Beatles albums.

If I had to pick one, it would be Revolver, meself. ;) I think I didn't pick any Beatles because they're so utterly familiar, but that's today.

[redqueen]

13. Ooooh Kiko and the Lavender Moon...

Adore that tune. :)

[BurtWorm]

12. kick

[taught_me_patience]

14. I'll go for the classic rock...

In Order:
Greatful Dead: American Beauty
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zepplin: Box Set (but why is it missing "How Many More Times"?!?!?!?)
Bob Marley: Legend
Metallica: Black Album


taught.

[jpgray]

15. For today

The Kinks - Face to Face


The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace


Soft Machine - Volume Two


Can - Future Days


Dovers - We're Not Just Anybody

[Aiptasia]

16. Mine of the moment

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Ween: Chocolate and Cheese
The Flaming Lips: Clouds Taste Mettalic
Beck: Odelay
Tangerine Dream: Tangram

[fishwax]

17. Five for the moment

Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
Cure for Pain (Morphine)
Dick's Picks Volume 19 (Grateful Dead)
If Found, Cast in Sea (The Candles)
Heart of Saturday Night (Tom Waits)

Of course, there are others I couldn't live without, but some of them I've listened to enough that I've pretty much got every note memorized :)

[seemunkee]

18. Tough

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Clash - London Calling
Miles - Birth of the Cool
Coltrane - Giant Steps

[ralps]

19. Right now my favorite 5 albums are

The Very Best of Acoustic Alchemy- Acoustic Alchemy
Kill Bill Vol.1- soundtrack, various artists
Platinum and Gold Collection: Aretha Franklin- Aretha Franklin
Carry On- Crosby, Stills & Nash
and
Fourplay- Fourplay
there are so many more I could name that the list would go on forever.
:hi:

[RedstDem]

20. That's Easy

TYA
A Space In Time



Peter Green



Life Without The Beatles...No Way !



ELO's Out Of The Blue



Does This Count As One ?
Led Zep Box Set



Probably Change My Mind Soon...

[bloodyjack]

21. OK

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Get On Jolly


David Bowie - Hunky Dory


Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg


Silver Jews - Bright Flight


Puccini's Turandot


And maybe I would try to hide this in my beard or something

[redqueen]

22. Kick

I need new music! :7

[BurtWorm]

23. People are cool to this thread for some reason.

Maybe it's just too hard to limit yourself to five albums? :shrug:

I'll bet you'd like Natacha Atlas. She sings in Arabic, but it's to a really hip, banghra-like beat.

[redqueen]

24. Yeah... it's too hard to pick!

I'll check out Natacha... have you heard Ayub Ogada?

[BurtWorm]

26. No. Another Arabic pop singer? Looks like an African name, actually.

I know Hakim, another singer based in Egypt with an amazing voice. He, like Natacha, has been produced by the British global beat band Transglobal Underground.

[redqueen]

33. Yes, he's from Africa.

Amazingly talented artist. I *highly* recommend checking him out.

[BurtWorm]

34. I'll look into him.

Thanks! :toast:

[yellowdogintexas]

25. this would be mine now:

My Steely Dan Boxed Set

something by Mozart

Best of Friends, by Loggins and Messina


The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan


either a nice Baroque disc or a nice Segovia disc,
oOH Segovia playing Baroque!!!!!

[enigmatic]

27. Mine:

Pere Ubu's GOD by the way, from my hometown, Clevo, and I knew Peter Laughner a little bit...

Here we go:

The Days Of Wine And Roses- The Dream Syndicate



Anodyne- Uncle Tupelo



Velvet underground Live 1969- Velvet underground



Lost Son- Richmond Fontaine



Davotion+Doubt- Richard Buckner



And a 6th, because I'm cheeky..

Songs of Love/Live- Mark Eitzel

[BurtWorm]

28. Very intriguing choices.

I was considering putting another live Velvets album on my list, a subdued little set they did at some pub in Texas. I can't remember the name of the album though, and it doesn't have "I Can't Stand It Anymore" on it, which is my current VU "hit" for some reason.

I'll bet Laughner was a pretty interesting guy, to say the least. ;)

[enigmatic]

29. Oh, he was an incredibly nice guy.....

When he wasn't smashed off his ass, of course:) My brother knew the guys from Rocket From The Tombs from living at The Plaza in Downtown Cleveland, and I got to see them a few times just jamming. Peter was an amazing guitar player and songwriter; it's incredibly sad to me that so little of his work was recorded....

[BurtWorm]

30. I just found Charlotte Pressler's "Those Were Different Times" on line

Well done piece. Really captures the period. I recognise those types from where I grew up in Maine, of all places. There were all sorts of pockets and places where smart kids at loose ends wound up in bands. It probably still goes on, but those really were different times.

[BurtWorm]

31. I just realized the only Brit on my list is a woman who sings in Arabic!

I used to think of myself as a Britophile in the 1970s, but I've really become more of a New Worlder when it comes to pop music. Not that I don't like British rock. I considered putting Diamond Dogs by Bowie on the top five, but I forgot about it when I mused on the next five I'd pick.

Hmm.

[bmbmd]

32. Depends-

Am I by myself, or is there a woman with me?