[bong]

My friends and I always talk about which 10 albums we would bring to a desert island (Desert Island Discs), and I would update my list every now and then. We agreed that the list should not include compilations like Greatest Hits or Best Of discs, live albums, or box sets. We're still unsure whether to allow remastered albums with bonus tracks, and if double albums should count as two discs. Anyhoo... 20 albums does open up a lot of options so I'll need to think about it. Here's my 10 DIDs:
 
EDIT: Oh, we were supposed to explain why...
 
Joy Division - Closer (1980) I grew up listening to a lot of Post-Punk stuff, I can say it's like my bread and butter. People always go for Unknown Pleasures but I feel Closer is a better album... better songwriting and instrumentation, amazing production, and very haunting.
 
The Cure - Pornography (1982) Still remains The Cure's darkest album, and is always a captivating listen from start to end.
 
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dazzle Ships (1983) OMD are often overlooked as a band, and Dazzle Ships is even more overlooked as an album. Some call it self-indulgent, some say it's unlistenable, but this album was miles ahead of it's time. The Kid A of the early 80's.
 
Ride - Nowhere (1990) I'm the biggest Ride fan I know. Dare I say it's the best Shoegaze album?
 
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991) Highly regarded as the seminal Shoegaze album... 'nuff said.
 
Catherine Wheel - Chrome (1993) Great combination of Shoegaze, Rock, and atmosphere. Awesome.
 
Starsailor - Love Is Here (2001) Utterly one of the most heartfelt albums I've heard.
 
The Tears - Here Come The Tears (2005) I'm a huge Suede fan, but I feel this is the best combination of pre-split grandiose Suede and the post-Butler pop Suede. I wish Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler will work together again because there's this magic that happens when they do.
 
Editors - In This Light and On This Evening (2009) I love Editors... I wouldn't think they would top The Back Room but I stand corrected.
 
White Lies - To Lose My Life (2009) One of the best debut albums I've heard in a long time.

 

[tcp56]

Miles davis did a tribute to Jack Johnson?    LOL

 

[Jubei]

 
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Miles davis did a tribute to Jack Johnson?    LOL

 

[LFF]

EXTREMELY HARD! Going with my "go-to" albums when I don't have anything else to listen to out of my 2,000 + album collection:
 
01. Paul Simon - Graceland
02. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
03. Dave Brubeck - Time Out
04. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
05. The Beatles - Love Songs
06. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's
07. Francesco Durante - Magnificat In B
08. W.A. Mozart - Requiem (Levin Edition, Macerras, SCO)
09. Pink Floyd - The Wall
10. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
11. J.S. Bach - Solo Suites for Cello (Starker, MLP)
12. J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations (Gould, 1955)
13. Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue (Miller)
14. Louis Armstrong & Bing Crosby - Bing & Satchmo
15. Bing Crosby - Bing With A Beat
16. Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney - Fancy Meeting You Here
17. Dexter Gordon - Ballads
18. John Coltrane - Blue Train
19. Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin' Lovers
20. Ella Fitzgerald - The Gershwin Songbook

 

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Editors - In This Light and On This Evening (2009) I love Editors... I wouldn't think they would top The Back Room but I stand corrected.  
White Lies - To Lose My Life (2009) One of the best debut albums I've heard in a long time.

Fairwell to the playground...two interesting picks there. The Back Room was such a great album, it's odd that An End Has to Start never quite worked for me. So I didn't rush to hear Evening, so imagine my surprise when I thought it was great. Still can't fathom why the press was so lukewarm toward it. Part of it for me, may be Flood. I always loved that guys layered production.

 

[Steve_72]

BT - This Binary Universe
Minus The Bear - Acoustica
Minus The Bear - Planet of Ice
Jay Malinowski - Bright Lights and Bruises
Joel Plaskett - Three
Neil Cowley Trio - Displaced
Neil Cowley Trio - Loud...Louder...Stop!
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
The Trews - No Time For Later
Josh Garrels - Jacaranda
Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
Said the Whale - Islands Disappear
Broken Bells - Broken Bells
Jet - Shine On
Jet - Get Born
Default - One Thing Remains
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes - By Your Side
Alter Bridge - One Day Remains
 

 

[Oteil]

In no particular order...
 
 
1.Aquarium Rescue Unit - In a Perfect World
2.John Coltrane - Blue Train
3.Miles Davis -  A Kind of Blue
4.Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
5.Dixie Dregs - Bring Em' Back Alive
6.The Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore East
7.Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
8.Lawn Boy - Rift
9.Viktor Krauss - II
10.Hank Mobley - Soul Station
11.Dream Theater - Awake
12.Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
13.Joshua Redman - Moodswings
14.U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
15.Led Zeppelin - I
16.The Beatles - Revolver
17. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
18.Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
19. John Scofield w/ Medeski,Martin & Wood - A Go-Go
20.BT -  This Binary Universe
 
This was extremely hard, this really made me think! It made me realize how much good music I have listened to over the years. Great thread!!

 

[zumpp99]

Although my top 20 of all time has about a hundred albums in it, I could survive nicely on these (no order except #1):
 
1 Rolling Stones-Exile on Main St
2-3 Beatles-Rubber Soul, Revolver
4 Clash-London Calling
5-6 Elvis Costello-Get Happy, This Year's Model
7-8 Graham Parker-Squeezing Out Sparks, Howling Wind
9 Big Star-#1 Record\Radio City
10 Bruce Springsteen-Born to Run
11 The Who-Who's Next
12 REM-Murmur
13 Warren Zevon-Warren Zevon
14 Bob Dylan-Highway 61 Revisited
15 Steve Earle -Guitar Town
16 Marah-Kids in Philly
17 Kinks-The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
18 The Jam-All Mod Cons
19 Nick Lowe-Jesus of Cool
20 Los Lobos-How Will the Wolf Survive?

 

[zumpp99]

Joel Plaskett? Awesome. Down at the Khyber is my JP fave.

 

[Redcarmoose]

I made this post after finding the new music I get is silver and the old stuff is gold!
 
 
 
 
UFO..........STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT
Still get chills from the pure energy and guitar work this has to offer
 
LED ZEPPELIN..........4
Great sound of this band at their apex! The heavy drums are the biggest in rock!
 
LED ZEPPELIN..........1
My first gateway hard rock record.
 
T REX..........THE SLIDER
This under rated masterpiece Bangs a Gong too.
 
AT THE GATES..........SLAUGHTER OF THE SOUL
This always runs on all eight pistons and gets the job done every time. Like many of my other favorites, it started a sub genre.
 
METALLICA..........THE BLACK ALBUM
The most loved and hated album they made. Hated as a change of sound and loved as a new direction for the band. Always there for me with an emotion of a movie.
 
DEPECHE MODE..........BLACK CELEBRATION
Strange for me to start again with playing Depeche Mode but after all these years this seems to be a classic.
 
KRAFTWERK..........AUTOBAHN
Who can even get away from this once it gets a hold of you? It seems like music that you would get sick of, but then haunts your dreams for a lifetime. Even though they made it for ridding in a car, I like to play it with my eyes closed laying down.
 
THE BEATLES..........WHITE ALBUM {THE BEATLES]
What could I even write?
 
THE BEATLES..........ABBEY ROAD
An old friend.
 
JIMI HENDRIX..........ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?
The sound of this even after all these years. It was heavy in it's day and remains heavy now. This album has changed the sound of rock.
 
WHITE ZOMBIE..........LA SEXORCISTO
The machine of this disk never stops.
 
MAYHEM..........GRAND DECLARATION OF WAR
Loved and hated by fans, this is another album I thought I would get tired of but never did.
 
NIRVANA..........NEVERMIND
When they put this out we all know how things changed. This is the real deal that sparks with energy.
 
GOLDEN EARRING..........MOONTAN
Some how it ends up being a personal favorite after buying it when it came out. Playing it once a day for a year leaves a scar.
 
EMPEROR..........IN THE NIGHT SIDE ECLIPSE
Again the mood is here from start to finish along with great musical skill. The recording could have been better but it may have lost the mood. It is what it is......history in the making.
 
JUDAS PRIEST..........HELL BENT FOR LEATHER
Perfect recorded metal.
 
JUDAS PRIEST..........BRITISH STEAL
Another all time monolithic masterpiece that stands the test of fashion, trends and time. This diddy is waiting for children of future generations to find and be inspired to learn guitar with.
 
MARILYN MANSON..........ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR
Still really cool!
 
PINK FLOYD..........DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
I may be getting sick of this? I may come back to it but all and all it goes on the list.
 
BLACK SABBATH..........BLACK SABBATH
As kid I went to the used record store looking for Black Sabbath's Paranoid, they did not have it but this was waiting to change everything for me. Now all in one record Led Zeppelin  was heavy rulers no more. A proto sound of things to come. Yes this record was scary, this record was a musical world all to itself. It never gets old.
 
 
 
 
 
 
OK, I went over 20. Life is tough.
 
BLACK SABBATH..........PARANOID
Groovy, melting, smoldering, oozzing this may be the band at their best. A gateway record for all music of this type. My ears still ring 35 years later!
 
BLACK SABBATH.......... SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH
The opening riff starts a story! A band that is in full form with prog changes as well as making more metal history. I never tire of this master piece. Just made a high definition rip with a buddy to enjoy this LP in the future.
 
BLACK SABBATH..........MASTER OF REALITY
OK, so many refer to this as the first metal LP of all time. I may agree too. Things changed for Sabbath and all of a sudden the songs were fun. Compare this to Sabbath 1 and the songs are up beat! Injected with more groove and tightness. The songs sometimes don't change but when they do it is huge. This is another 20th century time capsule that layed the ground work and template for the future. I may put this away for a year, when it comes back on there is a reminder of the power and grace of this bright invention.

 

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Fairwell to the playground...two interesting picks there. The Back Room was such a great album, it's odd that An End Has to Start never quite worked for me. So I didn't rush to hear Evening, so imagine my surprise when I thought it was great. Still can't fathom why the press was so lukewarm toward it. Part of it for me, may be Flood. I always loved that guys layered production.

I wholeheartedly agree. Since day one, The Back Room has remained one of my favorite albums. An End Has a Start has some really great moments, but it sound a bit, umm.... Coldplay-ish. I love the slightly darker sounding stuff on The Back Room, especially songs like "Fall" and "Camera." Evening definitely returns to the darker feel (it sounds like they used "Camera" as a blueprint actually), adding some more electronic production; like you said, maybe Flood's influence. Regardless, it's not just the style and production, Evening has great songs from start to finish.
 
As for White Lies, with a debut album as good as To Lose My Life, they have their work cut out for themselves with their second album.
 

 

[Botanique]

Really terrible question!
 
No order.
My beloved albums are
 
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
I am young, but I think, the grooviest groove in the world was produced by Black Sabbath, especially in this album.
 
The Stooges - The Stooges
I love all albums of them, but I wanna be Your Dog track is the best.
 
The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
This group was my door to electronic mysic. This album was the key.
 
Horse the Band - R.borlax
Eclectic hardcore. Hard, fast, but I really remember most of tracks from this album.
 
Lara Fabian - Longbox 3 cd. Consider as one position)
Perfect vocal as for me. Like Agel.
 
Metallica - Black Album
I hate smooth guitar sound but I love this album. Paradox, that is why this is my choice.
 
Cannibal Corpse - Live Cannibalism
This is live perfomance, not album. CC are classic, like Mozart, but in death metal. Very good song selection.
 
Bong Ra - Full Metal Rocket
Awesome breackore. Pure energy.
 
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Brilliant melodies wrapped in the power of natural guitar sound.
 
Scang - His Own Enemy
Russiam alernative. Roughly speaking sounds like SOAD but much havier and faster. Memorable melodies. Vocalist sings in russian, english and spain.
 
Tatu - 200 km\h in the Wrong Lane
Really love their cover of the Smiths track How Soon is Now.
 
John Coltrane - the Olatunji Concert
Such music like time machine cause musical thought ahead of time when it performs.
 
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
Programmed infinity of broken guitar rhythms & lost bits & suffering vocals. Soulless but emotional music.
 
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
On my mind, Pantera is a modern form of Black Sabbath's groove, also I like ballads from this album such as Hollow.
 
Sepulrura - Under a Pale Sky...
Live perfomance, not album. I have no words, just the best tribalcore ever made.
 
Bad Sector - Xela
No vocal, no hope, no end. Just sounds but configured genius.
 
Sadist - Tribe
Unusual form of usual music.Oriental death with keyboards.
 
Cynic - Focus
The best focus in te world. Even Harry Houdini's were not so imressive.
 
Tool - Lateralus
I think that guitar riff in Schizm track is the best.This album is a good example of balance between guitar drive & melodies.
 
Nosromo - Hysteron\Proteron
Hardcore performed acoustically.
 
In order to choose 20, I didnt note many very good music.