[Stuff Jones]

Which albums would you take to your desert island and for the rest of your life gain the most musical nourishment from? Mine are:
 

 

 

 

[maxjstern]

Pixies "Doolittle
Radiohead "Okay Computer"
Pinback "Blue Screen Life"

 

[Music Alchemist]

 
Let's be honest, though. We'd all go insane with only three albums.

 

 

[Stuff Jones]

   
 
Let's be honest, though. We'd all go insane with only three albums.

 

Yup, but better than none!
 
"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[strawberrywine]

Tough one. I think if anybody were made to listen to only three albums their entire life they'd inevitably become bored with them and will actually start to despise them, haha.
 
I thought about picking some challenging music something that I felt would hold my interest for a long time or reveal things to me more and more but I just decided to go with my three favorite albums through the years:
 
1. Ryan Adams- Heartbreaker
2. Midlake- The Trials of Van Occupanther
3. The Decemberists- The Crane Wife
 
I always seem to come back to these every so often and enjoy them.

 

[BirdManOfCT]

My three would be:
1) Pink Floyd "The Wall"
2) Roxy Music "Avalon"
3) Soundtrack "The Falcon and the Snowman"

 

[privilege15]

1. Pink Floyd - The Wall (Classic Art/Progressive Rock)
2. Король и Шут - TODD (Rock)
3. Cradle of Filth - Midian (Black Metal)
 


 

 

[vinylvalet]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Kooper/Bloomfield/Stills - Supersession
Led Zeppelin - First

 

[Davey]

Pinback "Blue Screen Life"

What a nice record, your other picks are too, but that one from Pinback doesn't get enough love.
 
Right now, this very minute, I'll go with these ...
 
Mercury Rev [1998] Deserter's Songs
Califone [2003] Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
Nina Nastasia [2002] The Blackened Air
 

 

[maxjstern]

  What a nice record, your other picks are too, but that one from Pinback doesn't get enough love.
 
Right now, this very minute, I'll go with these ...
 
Mercury Rev [1998] Deserter's Songs
Califone [2003] Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
Nina Nastasia [2002] The Blackened Air
 

You´re 100% right, Pinback may be one of the most underrated bands of all time, or atleast this time. The Shins are another band worth mentioning.

 

[Davey]

 
You´re 100% right, Pinback may be one of the most underrated bands of all time, or atleast this time. The Shins are another band worth mentioning.

 
Yea, that was a great time in the early 2000s. Those first couple Shins records are very good. Listening right now to the incredible Augie March debut, Sunset Studies from about the same time. Definitely worth tracking down for a listen, if not familiar. Has a bit of the droney sound I love of Yo La Tengo (and if you don't know them, you do need "Electr-O-Pura" and "I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One"), but more of the Beatles melodica, very poetic lyrics too. Not quite as rhythm-centric as the Pinback record, but really love the sound.
 
 

 

[maxjstern]

   
Yea, that was a great time in the early 2000s. Those first couple Shins records are very good. Listening right now to the incredible Augie March debut, Sunset Studies from about the same time. Definitely worth tracking down for a listen, if not familiar. Has a bit of the droney sound I love of Yo La Tengo (and if you don't know them, you do need "Electr-O-Pura" and "I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One"), but more of the Beatles melodica, very poetic lyrics too. Not quite as rhythm-centric as the Pinback record, but really love the sound.
 
 

Thanky you very much for these recommendations. Finally some good Indie/Alternative again! I will give them a listen!

After all this thread could ve a very seful source for new music!
 
Speaking of Beatles-inspired acts from the near future: Listen to Temples-Sun Structures and Tame Impala-Lonerism.

 

[Davey]

 
Thanky you very much for these recommendations. Finally some good Indie/Alternative again! I will give them a listen!

After all this thread could ve a very seful source for new music!
 
Speaking of Beatles-inspired acts from the near future: Listen to Temples-Sun Structures and Tame Impala-Lonerism.

 
Yea, those are good too, though of course more recent. Another quick 5 big favorites from the early 2000s in kind of the same style ...
 
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Manitoba - Up In Flames (had to change name to Caribou later)
Electrelane - The Power Out
Wrens - Meadowlands
Mirah - Advisory Committee