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desert Island albums
Posted by stevegell on 8 June 2011 - 10:12pm.
Driving home from work listening to Neil Young on the mp3 my mind drifted off into wondering about my desert island disc choice; what it would be etc when they finally get round to asking me. I always struggle with this because I'm always sure that the 8 allowed tunes wouldn't be nearly enough. Desert Island Albums.....now that's more like it.......So in no particular order.......
Graceland - Paul Simon
Tell Tale Signs - Bob Dylan
Delicate Sound of Thunder - Pink Floyd
The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
Neil Young - Old Ways
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Live
The Band - Greatest Hits
Book - The Beatles Anthology
Luxury - A Solar powered radio/IPod for spoken word podcasts
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Whats Shaking on the hill- Nick Lowe
Tabla Rasa - Arvo Part
2nd Movement of Beethoven 5th Symphony
Better Git it in your Soul- Charles Mingus
Fell in love with a girl -The white Stripes
So Damn Happy -Loudon Wainwright
Bitches Aint Shit - Ben Folds
How do you mend a broken Heart - Al Green
a poor joke falls flat
can I just point out that my eight selections where just thrown together without any thought and were part of a "Joke" as the OP was displayed twice and I was going to be first in both postings with two separate lists sent within minutes of each other...oh how everyone would have had a jolly old laugh at that....Uh yeah...oh dear
Eight favourite albums. Let's see
In no particular order
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
David Bowie - Low
Burial - Untrue
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Mozart Symphonies 38-41
George Szell- Brahm's First Piano Concerto
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live!!
Radiohead - Kid A
Alcohol fuelled choices I'll probably regret in the morning!
John Martyn - Solid Air
Beatles - Revolver
Stones - Exile...
R.E.M - lifes Rich Pageant
The Smiths - The world Wont Listen
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
XTC - English Settlement
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Carabara - That's my record collection!
(except for REM)
Here's a variation on the theme:
Bert Jansch - 1st Album (1965)
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (Beano Album) (1966)
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced (1967)
Cream - Disraeli Gears (1967)
Incredible String Band - The 5,000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion (1967)
Beatles - White Album (1968)
Jeff Beck - Truth (1968)
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (1973)
top selection
Nuff said!
An insomniac checks in...
Bob Dylan ~ Blood On The Tracks
Love ~ Forever Changes
Shack ~ HMS Fable
Nuggets ~ 1965-1968
Waterboys ~ This Is The Sea
Show Of Hands ~ Roots
Byrds ~ Greatest Hits
Jackie Leven ~ Forbidden Songs Of The Dying West
Book ~ Frank Herbert-Dune
Luxury ~ A fridge full of ice cold lager
...that was bloody hard, I`m off back to bed!
Here's Mine
Everything Everything-Man Alive
The Beatles-White Album
Stevie Wonder- Songs In The Key Of Life
XTC-Apple Venus Vol 1
Owen Pallett-Heartland
Suede-Dog Man Star
ELO-Out Of The Blue
Kate Bush-Hounds Of Love
Book Moby Dick
Luxury-A Case Of Fine Red
Sure I've missed something essential
but off the top of my head these are the eight that mean the most to me at the moment.
Dream Syndicate - Days of Wine and Roses
Fairport Convention - What We Did on Our Holidays
Waterboys - This Is The Sea
Oysterband - The Shouting End of Life
Love - Forever Changes
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Trembling Bells - The Constant Pageant
Eighteenth Day of May - Eighteenth Day of May
On this day at this time...
Keith Jarrett - Kohn Concert
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Nuggets 65-68
Big Star - No1 Record Album
Keef Hartley Band - Halfbreed
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
Hem - Rabbit Songs
Book - Radio Times Cryptic Crosswords
Luxury - Guitar
Right about now
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue/ Bambu
Various - Lazy Dog vol 1 mixed by Ben Watt
Various - Global Underground mixed by Anthony Pappa
Various - Cafe Del Mar Volumen 5
Layo & Bushwacka - Low Life
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Larent Garnier - Unreasonable Behaviour
Various - 200% Dynamite
And that's because I am booking a ticket for Ibiza as I write!
At this point...
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses*
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Beatles - Anthology 3
Suede - Dog Man Star
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
The Clash - London Calling
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Book - Watchmen
Luxury - Football and a wall to boot it against
*though as a firm believer of Kate Mossman's theory of familarity, I know this record note by note, scratch by scratch. It plays in my head without the need of a physical record but I NEED to look at it!
At this time...
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Alfie - A Word In Your Ear
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Gemma Hayes - The Hollow Of Morning
Burial - Untrue
Kanye West - 808s And Heartbreak
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Book - George Orwell "Burmese Days" - every time
Luxury - Guitar (and strings, obvs)
Today, the list is:
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Damned - Machine Gun Ettiquette
Stiff Little Fingers - Go For It
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Who - Quadrophenia
Beatles - Abbey Road
Jam - All Mod Cons
Henry Priestman - Chronicles Of Modern Life
My Eight
Various - Let's Do Rocksteady : The Story Of Rocksteady 1966-68
Gregory Isaacs - Extra Classic
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
Andrew Deutsch - The Sun
Arvo Part - Kanon Pokajanen
Chic - C'est Chic
Velvet Underground - Third Album
The Necks - Hanging Gardens
Book - Treasure Island
Luxury - a hammock
Will change tomorrow but...
Astral Weeks - Miseryguts
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
Breaking Glass - Hazel O'Connor
Dusty In Memphis - Dusty Springfield
Time - ELO
Louder Than Bombs - The Smiths
Purple Rain - Prince
Reading back over my selection I'm never going to win a happy contest am I?
Book - Anything by Leslie Thomas
Luxury (shamelessly plagarized from RichieRichie, sorry mate) - a fridge full of ice cold lager.
Not 8 favourites of all time...
...but 8 I've been hooked on in recent times.
Beach House - Teen Dream
Anouar Brahem - Le Voyage de Sahar
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
O Emperor - Hither Thither
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Manu Katche - Neighbourhood
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender