What would be your five "deserted island" discs?

[INTELBYTES]

If you were deserted on an island with only five of your favorite albums, what would they be? (doubles count as one)
Mine: 1. Beatles - Revolver 2. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street 3. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish 4. Pink Floyd - The Final Cut, and drum roll please.... 5. The Who - Who's Next.
:silly:

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Ouch, that's a HARD one!

But, off the top of my head let's go with:

* Spock's Beard - "V"
* Gentle Giant - "Free Hand"
* Supertramp - "Crime of the Century"
* UK - "Danger Money"
* Dream Theater - "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence"

Better click <submit> before I change my mind and pick 5 other ones.

[bbernardini]

Darn you!

You just made my choice harder! :)

[dmkinsey]

2. My top 5

in no particular order
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
John Lee Hooker- The Healer
Supertramp- Crime Of The Century
Dick Dale- Tribal Thunder
Metallica- the black one

[guitar man]

4. Little Feat..

....Waiting for Columbus

Stevie Wonder-Songs in the Key of Life

Tower of Power-The Warner Years

AC/DC-Highway to Hell

The Beatles-One

[leftist_rebel1569]

3. Hmmm....

"Lateralus" by Tool
"Aenima" by Tool
"Undertow" by Tool
"Rage Against The Machine" by Rage Against the Machine
"Dirt" by Alice in Chains

Those are the first 5 that popped into my head. Of course, it would suck to live with only those 5 albums, and to leave everything else behind...

[JohnKleeb]

20. Why did I know tool, RATM, and Alice in Chains were on ya list

:D because I know ya lol
Ok my list
1. My personal CD I made
2. Marley: Legend
3. Hendrix: Best of
4. Another personal CD
5. Lennon: Imagine

[bbernardini]

5. My top 5 (and top 10)

I know I won't be able to keep it to 5, so I'll do the top 5, and then the backup 5:

In no particular order:

1. Stuart Davis - Nomen Est Numen
2. Mike Keneally - Dancing
3. Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
4. The Hooters - Nervous Night or One Way Home
5. Todd Rundgren - 2nd Wind

Then the backup:

6. Spock's Beard - V
7. King Crimson - deja VROOOM DVD soundtrack
8. The Tubes - Remote Control or Completion Backward Principle
9. Utopia - "An Evening With Utopia" soundtrack
10. XTC - Oranges and Lemons

[DODI]

6. Here are mine - in no particular order

Waiting for Columbus - Little Feat
Running on Empty - Jackson Browne
Making Movies - Dire Straits
Wings Over America - Wings
Steely Dan's Greatest Hits (the old one on the album that has not gone to CD)

[INTELBYTES]

7. After giving it more thought....

My list could change practically on a daily basis. Those 5 popped into my head quickly. The "honorable mention" list could be pages long!:+

[HuckleB]

8. Well, here's a fab five, at any rate...

The Clash -- London Calling
Bob Marley and the Wailers -- Catch A Fire
Manu Chao -- Clandestino
Emmylou Harris -- Roses in the Snow
Willie Nelson -- Red Headed Stranger

[Faygo Kid]

9. We MUST add classical

Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, etc. Then, "Beggar's Banquet," the Stones; "Sergeant Pepper's," the Beatles; some Marvin Gaye, agree with the earlier poster on Stevie Wonder, and top it off with Sinatra. Stir (not shake) for a tasty brew.

[SiobhanClancy]

10. Just five...

isn't easy:)

1)Renee Fleming-By Request
2)Son House-Complete 1965 Sessions
3)Irish Heartbeat-Van Morrison/Chieftains
4)U2-Achtung Baby
5)Bach: St. Matthew Passion-Nikolaus Harnoncourt w/Concentus Musicus Wien

[INTELBYTES]

11. The standard is usually 10 records

I chose 5 for brevity, and to make it a little tougher. I can't believe I left out R.E.M. - Murmur!:o

[SiobhanClancy]

12. Ok....

five or ten,makes no difference...nobody ever agrees with my choices:)

[UCLA02]

23. Achtung Baby like a MoFo!

I'd put all-U2 on MY list, but I'd probably get flamed, so here goes...

1. U2--The Joshua Tree
2. Miles Davis--Kind of Blue
3. Sting--The Soul Cages
4. Beatles--Sgt. Pepper's
5. Springsteen--Any w/ the E Street Band (lean toward Darkness on the Edge of Town, tho)

[regnaD kciN]

47. Your fifth choice...

5)Bach: St. Matthew Passion-Nikolaus Harnoncourt w/Concentus Musicus Wien

I hope that's their first recording of it, from the early 70s?

I guess I should list mine as well. I'm listing any multi-disc set as a single pick, but I still couldn't get it down to five...make it ten and I'll give it a go:

1) Beethoven: Complete Symphonies - Barenboim/Vienna (Teldec)
2) Mozart: Complete Symphonies - Hogwood/AAM (L'Oiseau-Lyre)
3) Handel: Messiah - McGeghan/Philharmonia Baroque (Harmonia Mundi)
4) Bach: St. Matthew Passion - Harnoncourt/CMW (Teldec)
5) The Julian Bream Edition (RCA)
6) Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 - Kertetz/Vienna Philharmonic (London)
7) Wagner: Ring Cycle - Solti/Vienna Philharmonic (London)
8) Baltimore Consort: On the Banks of Helicon (Dorian)
9) Baltimore Consort: LaRocque & Roll (Dorian)
10) Beatles: One (Capitol)

The trick here is that the Beethoven is a 6-disc set, the Moxart a 19-disc set, the Handel and Bach 3 discs each, the Bream Edition runs 28 discs (everything he ever recorded for RCA), and the Wagner contains 14 discs. Along with the other releases, that makes for a rather hefty 77-disc "top ten" list...but I couldn't imagine cutting a single one. (And even this one leaves out any piano, violin, or 'cello works. Anyone want to make it a "top fifteen" list? ;-) )

[hlthe2b]

13. No way, I'd have to have five by genre...

at least..
And I could limit to 5 rock/pop; 5 classical; 5 jazz but would love to add five folk/bluegrass and maybe 5 world.

Ok, I have a tough time making decisions. What I do know is that anyone who spent a year listening to the same five albums, would probably be too wasted to ever return! :evilgrin:

[salinen]

14. Not in order

Pink floyd - darkside of the moon

Graham Nash - songs for beginners

Fleetwood Mac - Then play on

It's a beautiful day - It's a beautiful day

Queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf

[hlthe2b]

17. Wow, salinen, one of the few who knows : Its a Beautiful Day!

I like all your choices, but am always surprised when someone remembers White Bird" and all their other harmonies.

[salinen]

34. h

"There's a girl in my room and a face on the wall with no eyes"

[madddog]

29. we used to get SO stoned

to the It's a Beautiful Day album...there's one song on there that sorta speeds up at the end...a real mind fu**.

[INTELBYTES]

15. Ain't that the truth

Thankfully, none of us would REALLY ever have to pick just 5 in real life, but it's fun anyway. :smoke:

[Red_Storm]

16. here is my five but......

i'd have to sneak in at least another five on to the island.......


1. Greatest Hits - Al Green
2. In A Silent Way - Miles Davis
3. The Basement Tapes (Original Album + Bootlegs) - Bob Dylan
4. Urban Hymns - The Verve
5. Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

bringing these along also

Sketches Of Spain, Cookin', Kind Of Blue, Love Songs - Miles Davis
Blood On The Tracks, Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan
1962-1966 & 1967-1970 - The Beatles
My Favorite Things, Giant Steps, The Gentle Side Of, - John Coltrane
Let's Get It On, I Want You - Marvin Gaye
Into The Music - Van Morrison
Right Place Wrong Time - Otis Rush

[seventhson]

24. I'll hang out on your island - great choices BUT

Love Supreme (Coltrane)
Leon Thomas - The Creator has a master plan

Red hot and Blues (Jazz)

Curtis Mayfield (Live) if there's a hell below we're all gonna go.

Trouble man (Marvin Gay)

Eddie Kendricks (My people Hold on)

I know it is six BUT I thinkj either Coltrane or Thomas is on the red hot cd)


on second thought I'd need a female voice so:

Sade (anything) and Lady sings the blues soundtrack might replace marvin and eddie.

Oh hell -- this is impossible.

I want my greensleeves by Coltrane and taj mahal too yikes

[Red_Storm]

33. I know, I know, I know !!!!!!!!!!!

Believe me, if I ever head out to a desert island I would take a whole suitcase full of music, don't need that many clothes !!! and I would include more Trane, more Marvin, definitely Sade !!! more Miles, more Dylan, more Blues, and on and on ............

[leftofthedial]

18. It would change ten times a day, but right now

Beatles - Revolver

Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues

Little Feat - Sailin Shoes

Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow

The Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby

[greendog]

19. Well, if I can only take five......

.....how about:

"The Essential Leonard Cohen"

"Rear View Mirror" - Townes Van Zandt

"Heart of the Gaels" - Green Linnet Records Sampler

"Best of the Colpix Years" - Nina Simone

"Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" - Lucinda Williams

[DiverDave]

21. Well,

My picks, also in no order.
Pink floyd- Animals
Elton John- Goodbye yellow brick road
Eric Clapton- 461 Ocean Blvd.
Jimmy Buffett- Songs you know by heart
Robert Johnson-King of the delta blues singers.

[peacefreak]

22. Today's 5

Blood on the Tracks--Bob Dylan
Pieces of the Sky--Emmylou Harris
Blue--Joni Mitchell
American Beauty--Grateful Dead
Best of Chuck Berry

[electricmonk]

25. Mine

First 5 that pop in my head, subject to change in 30 seconds.

Minor Threat-Complete
Clash-London Calling
MIA-Murder In a Foriegn Place
Government Issue-5 (aka self-titled)
Dickies-Stukas Over Disneyland

[alfredo]

26. Jesrusalem -Steve Earl

Native Dancer - Wayne shorter
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
The White Album - Beatles
Plumb - Jonatha Brooke

[madddog]

28. tough choices

In no order:

Hendrix-Electric Ladyland
AC/DC-Highway to Hell OR Back in Black...real coin toss there.
Metallica-And Justice For All (or Megadeth Peach Sells...another toss up)
Yngwie Malsteen: the first album, can't remember what it's called
Fighting Men from Crossmaglen: 50 Irish Rebel Songs...double cd set...with just about every song a rampant Irish Republican needs, including A Soldiers Song and Roll of Honor.

ask me tomorrow, and I've have a different list lol...all except for the last one. THAT one in non negotiable!

[INTELBYTES]

31. Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force?

The one with "Black Star" as the opening track? I have that record... Haven't heard it in many years, but it is a good record.

[mitchum]

27. "Here Come The Warm Jets" Brian Eno

"My Favorite Things" John Coltrane
"Let It Bleed" Rolling Stones
"The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death" John Fahey
"Live 69" Velvet Underground

[greendog]

30. Here Come the Warm Jets

I haven't heard that one in years. Great album.

[mitchum]

32. I'm kind of a freak for it

Honestly, I really have listened to it at least 5 times a week since its release. I may have a problem...

[salinen]

35. Nice painting

I'd like to see it bigger.

[Big Muff]

36. hard choice

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 2. Clash - London Calling 3. Beatles - Abbey Road 4. Husker Du - Flip Your Wig 5. Minor Threat - Complete Discography

[trof]

37. Jingle Bells, Silent Night, Deck the Halls,

Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer, and Christmas in Killarney.

OK, I confess.
I haven't seen Lady Hawk in a couple of hours and I was getting lonesome.
:evilgrin:

[NashVegas]

38. Nick Cave

1. Live Seeds
2. Replacements - Let it Be
3. Muzsikas - the Bartok Album
4. Waterboys - Live Adventures of the Waterboys
5. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Voodoo Jive: The Best of Screamin' Jay Hawkins

[ThomWV]

39. Brothers & Sisters, Looking for Columbus

Gotta have Alman Brothers and some Feet

Tom Waits would have to be in there somewhere, mabye a good bit of Steve Roach as well.

Thom

[mac56]

40. It would probably make sense to pick five discs I don't know -

but that doesn't address the spirit of the question, so -

1. "With The Beatles" - The Beatles
2. "Tapestry" - Carole King
3. "Heat Treatment" - Graham Parker & The Rumour
4. "This Year's Model" - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
5. "Our Time In Eden" - 10,000 Maniacs

[BigBen]

41. hrmm

Radiohead - OK Computer
Sigur Ros - Agertis Byrten (totally butchered that title)
Bob Marley - Legend
Ani DiFranco - Living in Clip
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World

My apologies to the hundreds of my favorite artists whom I surely offended by leaving them off:(

[Whitacre D_WI]

42. Oh wow...

Cut it to five, and it becomes harder. "Top ten" lists allow for personal favorites, but five "desert island" records cut it down to one very simple criterion:

What records can I not live without?

Thusly, without further ado, may I direct your attention to:

Love "Forever Changes"
Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane over the Sea"
The Pixies "Surfer Rosa"
Bassholes "Blue Roots"
The Stooges "Fun House"

If I were given ten choices, I'd diversify my selection. Some Coltrane, some Fahey, Skip James. Sly, of course. More Columbus tunes from the likes of Gibson Bros. and Great Plains. But for five? I think these picks work pretty well for my needs.

[av8rdave]

43. That would be a tough choice....

but here goes:

U2 - The Joshua Tree
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Neil Young - Decade
Stevie Ray Vaughn - The Sky is Crying

av8rdave

[nemo137]

44. oh, man

Uncle Tupelo - 89/93 Anthology
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time out
Beatles - Revolver
the Specials - The Specials
Bob Dylan - Bringing it all back home

[RandomKoolzip]

45. Prepare to be underwhelmed......

1. "Hunka Hunka Burnin' Log," 76% Uncertain
2. "Make a Jazz Noise Here," Frank Zappa
3. "Box," Guided by Voices
4. "The Harder they Come soundtrack", various artists
5. "New Day Rising," Husker Du

[Insider]

46. donald byrd - new perspective

eric b. & rakim - paid in full
joe sample - invitation
kraftwerk - electric cafe
rachelle ferrell - first instrument

hidden in a body cavity:
destiny's child - the writing's on the wall

begging for more:
sounds of blackness - time for healing
iyanla vanzant - in the meantime
wally badarou - echoes
earl klugh - nightsongs
fleetwood mac - greatest hits

[Interrobang]

48. That's harsh. Mine would be...

1) A Dead Kennedys mix disc I made for the trip containing my favourites!
2) My "25 Years of Disco" mix disc (contains Donna Summer, Claudja Barry, Kylie Minogue, Sly Foxx, Blur, Rammstein, KMFDM, Information Society, and Hadiqa Kiani)
3) A NIN mix disc w/cuts from "Pretty Hate Machine" and "The Downward Spiral"
4) Einsturzende Neubauten, "Strategies Against Architecture II"
5) Jello Biafra, "Machine Gun In The Clown's Hand" (spoken word)

I'd probably try to double-stack the CDs secretly in the cases, though, so I could bring

1) Lords Of Acid, "Voodoo U"
2) The Beastie Boys, "Hello Nasty"
3) The Bloodhound Gang, "One Fierce Beer Coaster"
4) Insane Clown Posse, "The Great Milenko"
5) The Ramones, "Ramones Mania"

[INTELBYTES]

49. Time to revive this one...

Looks like I should have made it top ten albums though!
:bounce:

[Colin Ex]

50. Man, that's really hard.

Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Bad Religion - The Gray Race
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing (Or Sleeping With Ghosts... God that's a hard choice)
AFX - Analogue Bubblebath 3
Saves the Day - Through Being Cool

Woo! I might add Metal Machine Music but it would guarantee that nobody would want to save me.

-C