Desert Island Recordings

[skizzerflake]

Here's a variation of favorites...if you were stranded on the proverbial desert island and your merciful captor gave you a sound system and said you could bring 50 Cds or vinyl disks, what would some of them be?

Remember that you are going to be here for the duration. We all have music that we love for a couple weeks and then forget. This time, however, you want stuff that you can listen to for the long haul, until the island moves or the Losties find you in some time warp. That might be years.

I will start with one nominee, The Pogues, If I Should Fall From Grace With God. Done back in the late 80's this album inspired a wave of punky Celts to try similar music but none so far have approached the big symphonic sweep of Shane McGowan's masterpiece. I periodically come back to this album and it always makes me feel good.

 

[Adam]

Can we have 50 CDs that contain music ripped at 160kbps?

Come on...you knew that someone was going to ask something like that.

[BTW - Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms]

 

[jliedeka]

I'll go with Rachel Barton-Pine's CD with Bruch's Scottish Fantasy and some other cool Scottish stuff.

Jim

 

[pcefrog]

only one.

soundtrack from the movie ...Castaway........sorry couldnt resist.

 

[jamie2112]

Thats a tough one....Sgt. Peppers, Revolver, Dark side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here....Aja ,Waiting for Columbus

 

[STRONGBADF1]

If I had to pick one right now... Joe Satriani - Is There Love In Space?

 

[jliedeka]

Maybe Bob Marley's Legend. I hope the desert island is tropical.

Jim

 

[jamie2112]

I would want a 1TB hard drive instead....does that count?

 

[skizzerflake]

Can we have 50 CDs that contain music ripped at 160kbps?

Come on...you knew that someone was going to ask something like that.

[BTW - Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms]

Why not....it's about music that you continue to like, no matter the format. You'll just have to pedal a little harder on the bike/generator to power the server. BTW, Brothers in Arms is one of my possible nominees from the 80's.

 

[jamie2112]

I would add the Live Dire Straights- Alchemy double cd as well its got all their great songs live. Once upon a time in the west is a killer....

 

[Adam]

Britney Spears - Britney.

I've never heard it, but I've got two words for you - cover art.

 

[jliedeka]

I'm with you. I don't know anything about her music but she is babe-alicious.

J

 

[Hawkeye]

I don't know how many we're "allowed" to have with us on this desert island but in my opinion the ability to have *all* my music, or 1TB of mp3's etc, kind of renders the topic meaningless. Of course I'll *like* to have *all* my music, but I'll limit this to only a handful of albums that I absolutely love and never grow tired of, no matter how many times I listen to them.

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
The Beatles - Revolver
Richard Wright - Wet Dream

 

[skizzerflake]

I don't know how many we're "allowed" to have with us on this desert island but in my opinion the ability to have *all* my music, or 1TB of mp3's etc, kind of renders the topic meaningless. Of course I'll *like* to have *all* my music, but I'll limit this to only a handful of albums that I absolutely love and never grow tired of, no matter how many times I listen to them.

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
The Beatles - Revolver
Richard Wright - Wet Dream

The idea is about the music that sticks to you for a long time. If it were just about tech, I'd take a couple racks of blade servers and have the entire universe of music.

 

[jliedeka]

+1 for I, Robot and Astral Weeks.

I'd add Moondance and His Band and the Street Choir.

The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
AC/DC - Back in Black
Sade - Best Of
Traffic - On the Road
Sweet Vine
Bela Fleck - Ufo Tofu

 

[skizzerflake]

I will add to my list the two 1999 albums by Mike Ness of Social Distortion. These CDs are a matched pair. "Under the Influences" was mostly old country classics with a few Ness songs and "Cheating At Solitaire" was mostly Ness songs with a few old country covers and an excellent version of Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right". On both albums, Ness's ragged monotone singing really works and his post-rehab remorse makes them into very wise albums.