Off the top of my head

1. Kate Bush (that was the easy one)
2. Revolver / Beatles - I was born in 1967
3. Either Mojo / Tom Petty or Courage Of Others / Midlake - probably Midlake
4. Dangermouse & Sparklehorse / Dark Night Of The Soul
5. Rolling Stones, Queen or Madness - go with Rolling Stones
6. Apple Lossless on an iPod - if not CD

1. Bruce Springsteen
2. The Planets by Holst - London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent - released in '53 (I was born in '56) and my late Dad's favourite record
3. The new Ron Sexsmith - already my favourite album of the year
4. Astral Weeks
5. The Beatles
6. I guess the vinyl might melt in the burning heat so CD

1. Duane Allman
2. In the Wee Small Hours
3. Queen of Denmark
4. Hot Buttered Soul
5. Smokey Robinson
6. CD, please.

1) Stuart Murdoch from Belle and Sebastian
2) Abbey Road
3) Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom
4) 69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields
5) The Smiths
6) Vinyl, why not?

You may notice I've chosen a couple of triple albums there. I'm going to need a lot of music if stuck on a desert island!

1. Mark E. Smith
2. Meddle by Pink Floyd
3. The Fool by Warpaint
4. The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
5. The Smiths
6. Vinyl

1. Fela Kuti. Choice only partly informed by the fact that he released close to 50 albums.
2. Herb Alpert Presents ~ Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66
3. Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom
4. Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart
5. The Beatles
6. Vinyl please Kirsty

1. Johnny Marr
2. Blonde On Blonde
3. High Violet - The National
4. The Who Greatest Hits
5. The Beatles
6. Vinyl for the sleeves and something to look at but would also love them in high bit rate files for my iPod.

1. Donald Fagen
2. Birth of the Cool
3. Robert Plant's Band of Joy
4. Aeriel - Kate Bush
5. David Bowie
6. Vinyl

1 - Alex Paterson
2 - Deep Purple; Machine Head
3 - Janelle Monae; The ArchAndroid
4 - Vitalogy; Pearl Jam
5 - Elvis
6 - Apple Lossless on iPod and a solar powered charger.

A tougher set of choices than I thought this would be.

Andy Partridge
The Beatles,Please Please Me
Everything Everything,Man Alive
Associates,Sulk
E.L.O.
Vinyl

1. Dylan
2. "Mingus Ah Um"
3. Odd Future "Goblin"
4. Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time
5. Bowie
6. Vinyl, it'll give me exercise having to get up and turn the records over.

1. Neil Young (Thats a lot of music)
2. Kind Of Blue
3.Buddy Miller's Silver Majestic Strings (best album this year for me)
4.Carla Bley Escalator Over The Hill ( I have owned for 30 years & must get around to it)
5. The Who
6.Vinyl

1. Paul McCartney
2. in the Wee Small Hours of the Morning - Frank Sinatra
3. Le Noise - Neil Young
4. 1. Outside - David Bowie
5. The Kinks
6. Vinyl

1 - Jim Reid (for the Jesus and Mary Chain output)
2 - All Summer Long - Beach Boys
3 - Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
4 - Dangermouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul
5 - Blondie (but I'm going to hide 'Teenage Kicks' in the 'War Baby' picture sleeve. No-one will ever know !)
6 - Vinyl

1. The B-52's
2. Folk Routes, New Routes/Shirley Collins & Davey Graham
3. Queen of Denmark/John Grant
4. Paris/Malcolm McLaren
5. David Bowie or Beautiful South. Mmmm, Bowie
6. CD I'm afraid

1. Iggy Pop or Julian Cope...hmmm, Iggy wins it!
2. The Who "My Generation"
3. Edwyn Collins "Losing Sleep"
4. Paul Westerberg "Stereo/Mono"
5. The Jam or The Clash...Weller gets the prize!
6. Vinyl

1. Keith Jarrett
2. John Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard (Complete)
3. "In the Clearing/In the Cavern" by the Eple Trio (a superb record if you like ECM-style chamber jazz. Which I do. A lot.)
4. "United States Live" by Laurie Anderson
5. The Kinks
6. CD

1.) Frank Zappa
2.) Exile On Main Street
3.) Wire - Red Barked Tree
4.) Sunhouse - Crazy On The Weekend
5.) Wonder Stuff
6.) Vinyl

1. Paul weller
2. The who my generation
3. The streets computers and blues
4. Lonnie Liston smith expansions
5. David Bowie
6. On digital (but I'll have all the vinyl sleeves for something to read if I may)

1. Richard Thompson (that way I'd also get lots of Linda, Sandy Denny and Fairport, and some Crowded House, Shawn Colvin, Christine Collister, Tim Finn, etc etc)

2. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (had to check this, and it was just a couple of months before I arrived)

3. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me

4. Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night

5. David Bowie

6. I'm not really fussed, but probably CD

1. Donald Fagen
2. Johnny Cash with his Hot and Blue Guitar
3. Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972
4. Anais Mitchell: Hadestown
5. The Beatles
6. CD

1. Tommy Cogbill
2. Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan
3. Down To The Sea - Sam Hare
4. Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart
5. The Beatles
6. CD

1. Elvis Costello
2. Bridge Over Troubled Water
3. Last - the Unthanks
4. Love - Forever Changes
5. Eels
6. Vinyl

3 hours and 23 comments in and my 'album released before you were born' still marks me out as the oldest on here. Look, I love you all from the heart of my bottom but how can anyone's 'before they were born' album be Machine Head??? I was already sitting round in my greatcoat and burgundy loon pants nodding my long hair to Blackmore's riffage and tapping out Paicey's shuffles before you were born, for chuff's sake!
**slinks away to find the Wincarnis and listen to that nice David Jacobs

***someone will come on here now and ask what Wincarnis is - look it up!

1. Kim Deal
2. Abbey Road
3. John Grant - Queen Of Denmark
4. The Clash - London Calling
5. The Beatles
6. Apple Lossless, iPod, decent speakers

AM sure will change my mind but as of today:-

Elvis Costello (has played with so many people that there would be variety in spade loads)

Louis Armstrong - his instrumental stuff in particular

Tom Russell - Blood and Candle smoke

Anna Calvi - first listen couldnt understand the fuss - it is growing

Rolling Stones - might have chosen Eels but Dog faced boy already chosen Costello and Eels and dont want to come across as some kind of stalker
CD

1. Bob Dylan

2. Gene Clark - Gene Clark

3. The Courage Of Others - Midlake

4. Closing Time - Tom Waits

5. The Kinks

6. CD

...and relax

1. Charles Thompson (aka Frank Black/Black Francis)
2. Revolver
3. Body Talk by Robyn
4. 21 Singles by The Jesus and Mary Chain
5. R.E.M.
6. 320kbps MP3 is just fine.

1> Frank Zappa
2> Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
3> Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
4> They Might Be Giants - Dial A Song: 20 Years Of..
5> The Beatles
6> Vinyl

Some of these might not be actually available on vinyl, in which case I demand special pressings be made. If you're going to dump me on a desert island then I feel it's the least you could do..

I hope asking for a 52-track anthology for #4 will not be considered cheating. It really is part of my collection and I haven't played it since shortly after I bought it.

Being the age I am, picking something released before I was born was difficult. Hardly anything was released on album except classical music, movie soundtracks and a little bit of jazz. Just about everything else was on singles, probably at 78RPM!

1. Elvis Costello
2. Neil Young - On The Beach (hey, I'm on an island, right?)
3. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (this may only be a passing phase, but right now I can't get enough of it)
4. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
5. The Beatles
6. Vinyl (though I'd imagine sand might be a problem)

1. Slade, just for the hell of it
2. The Byrds - "Fifth Dimension"
3. er.... "Queen of Denmark", I guess. I haven't actually heard that much recent music... *face of shame*
4. "Best of..." - Tim Hardin
5. Blur
6. CDs on a CD player with a "Random Play" function

...

Not really that hard.

1. Radiohead
2. Tom Waits Rain Dogs (born 7 months later)
3. Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
4. Scott Walker The Drift
5. Blur
6. CD

Thankyou for your time.

1 The Beatles
2 Moanin' At Midnight/Howlin' Wolf
3 Jim Jones Revue
4 Forever Changing: The Golden Age Of Elektra
5 The Rolling Stones
6 CD (that way I get Past Masters in the HJH set)

1. Keith Richards
2. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
3. Wake Up The Nation - Paul Weller
4. The Chess Story (13 cd box - nice)
5. The Who
6. Lossless on ipod for the random factor, and a good quality amp/speaker set up

1.Nina Simone - lots of recordings ( with lots of duplication ) but astonishing back catalogue

2.Kind Of Blue .It beat me by about 4 months .

3.No idea.Don`t buy / listen to new stuff ( Sorry)

4.David Murray "Morning Song"

5.The Fall

6.Vinyl

1. Paul McCartney (rhen I get just about every Beatles track, plus Wings, solo stuff and some Elvis Costello)
2. GERSHWIN: Porgy and Bess (Original Cast Recordings) (1935-1942)
3. Bellowhead: Hedonism
4. Miles Davis: In a Silent Way
5. Rolling Stones
6: iPod I suppose, so I can take the music all over the island.

1: Bob Dylan
2: 'Discover America' - Van Dyke Parks
3: 'Archandroid' Janelle Monae
4: Leroy Anderson 'Blue Tango'
5: Elvis Presley
6: Vinyl

As an aside, I originally just wrote 'Elvis' for number 5, but then (looking over the thread) thought that there was a strong chance someone would think I meant the (IDWTGT)CH rather than the fella out of 'Clambake', so I added the surname. Obviously this isn't terribly important (or indeed, interesting) but it struck me as funny, passage of time and all that.

1. Paul McCartney
2. Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society (Deluxe Edition)
3. Beady Eye
4. Jimmy Webb - Archive + Live
5. The Jam
6. Vinyl

Here are the rules; you are allowed to choose:

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2. Bob Dylan- Blood On The Tracks
3. The Decemberists- The King Is Dead
4. Patti Smith- Horses
5. The Beatles
6. CD

1. The Walkabouts
2. The Doors - Strange Days
3. Scissor Sisters - Night Work
4. High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
5. Suede
6. CD

1. Miles Davis

2. The Beatles - Rubber Soul

3. John Grant - Queen Of Denmark

4. Love - Forever Changes

5. David Bowie

6. Lossless on the ipod, and that B&W Zeppelin dock!

1. Miles Davis
2. Songs For Swinging Lovers
3. Hadestown - Anais Mitchell
4. Hitsville USA The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 (if this doesn't count Janececk Quartor Talich)
5. The Beatles (would The Funk Brothers count?)
6. CD

1 Neil Young
2 Born in 1954 (when rock was young - thanks Bernie) so had to think hard about this. Probably some Duke Ellington - the Blanton/Webster band.
3 Everything Everything
4 My daughter bought me a Neil Young bootleg for my birthday in December - Live On Sugar Mountain Feb 1st 1971. I've played it a few times but the computer and iPod are so much more convenient that I don't play the vinyl very often. Must make more of an effort.
5 Beatles
6 Reel to reel. The Revox revival is overdue.

Neil Young
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will.
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
Suede
Ipod (for mobility)

1. Jackie Leven
2. Songs for Swingin’ Lovers Frank Sinatra
3. Dangermouse Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul
4. 69 Love Songs Magnetic Fields (was going to be The Pale Orchestra Mirror Man but JL is on it so I’d already have it!)
5. Chris Sievey & The Freshies
6. Vinyl for the sleeves and something to look at but would also love them in high bit rate files for my iPod (pinched from Leedsboy)

1. Justin Currie
2. "Cliff" Cliff Richard
3. "Butterfly House" The Coral
4. "The Berry Vest" Best of Gilbert O'Sullivan (haven't listened to it properly after "We Will" and it means I've got those early classics with me)
5. The Jam
6. ipod for me

I may be 60 but...I`ve still got me ears,

1. Bob Dylan, except the religious trilogy.
2. Don`t recall many classic albums pre 1950 so I`ll settle for Robert Johnson`s 78s.
3. Decemberists - The King Is Dead
4. Steely Dan - Citizen, bit of a cheat, it`s a box set
5. Rolling Stones
6. Apple Lossless/iPod

Cathal Coughlan - Microdisney, Fatima Mansions, solo stuff - awesome back catalogue - some of the Bubonique stuff is interesting too.
some jazz record - a Chet Baker album maybe. I have a real blind spot here so that would be good.
I'll go for Dark Night of the Soul too (ta, Bogart)
Hadestown by Anais Mitchell
The Jam - could have been the Clash, Buzzcocks, Nick Cave or REM but the Jam used to mean so much to me.
no preference - I tend to go for mp3 these days, but as others have noted the sleeves of cds or vinyl would be welcome.

1. The complete recorded works of one artist - i.e. pick a person and you get every track they played on
Phil Lynott (therefore Thin Lizzy, solo stuff and guesting on a few Gary Moore tacks...)

2. An album released before you were born
A HArd Day's Night - The Beatles. Released 1 month and 1 day before I was...

3. An album released since the start of 2010
House Of Cards - Emily Baker - an album released by a friend of mine this year which is flippin' brilliant. Female singer songwriter - http://www.emilybaker.co.uk/

4. An album you have bought but never quite listened to properly (you will have loads of time)
Murhpy's Heart - Thea Gilmore Listened to it once or twice when I bought it and it's kinda got lost since then. Suspect that with a little bit of quality time I might grow to love it.

5. All the singles of one artist (complete with b-sides)
The Electric Light Orchestra

6. State the format you would like them on (CD, Vinyl, DAT, 8-track?)
CD (too much sand to get in the grooves of an LP).

1. Miles Davis
2. John Coltrane: Giant Steps
3. Midlake: The Courage of Others
4. Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
5. The Beatles
6. Vinyl

1. With a fond look back at Fela, I think I go for Miles Davis
2. Anthology Of American Music
3. No time like the present, so the latest Unthanks, Last.
4. Messiaen box set
5. The Beatles
6. CD, ta.

1. Elizabeth Fraser - then I get all the Cocteaus, some This Mortal Coil, Massive Attack, Ian McCulloch's 'Candleland' and her lovely solo single from last year (or maybe the year before?)
2. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
3. Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo (if you aren't familiar with this but like Neil Young or Beach Boys, you might just love it)
4. Wilco - Being There (just never got into this one despite playing some of their other stuff a lot)
5. The Smiths
6. Vinyl for the aesthetics (those Smiths 12"s, Cocteaus album covers!)

1. Bob Dylan
2. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
3. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
4. Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
5. Marvin Gaye (nearly picked Suede for the quality of their b sides, but I've got to have some motown on this island!)
6. Vinyl

1. Prince
2. The Beatles - A Collection of Beatles Oldies
3. Trentemøller - Into The Great Wide Yonder
4. Tom Waits - Orphans
5. Depeche Mode (30 Years and multiple mixes = a lot of music)
6. Vinyl

1 Neil Young

2 Did they make albums before I was born?
Anything by Howlin' Wolf

3 Mink Hollow Road - The Mummers

4 Ys - Joanna Newsome
(with Van Dyke Parks'fabulous orchestration)

5 The Who

6 CD

1 Miles Davis
2 The White Album - The Beatles
3 Build a rocket boys! - Elbow
4 Tonights the night - Neil Young
5 David Bowie
6 Vinyl

1 Cocteau Twins
2 The Freewheelin' - Bob Dylan
3 Heligoland - Massive Attack
4 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong - The Fall (both discs please)
5 Elvis Costello
6 High end MP3 please

ta
J.

1. Robert Fripp (Bowie, Eno, Crimso, Roches, Gabriel, Robert Miles, Sylvian, Daryl Hall, Blondie, Toni Childs, Talking Heads, Grinderman etc.)
2. The White Album (Born in 69)
3. The Blood of Heroes - The Blood of Heroes
4. Navicon Torture Technologies - Gospels of The Gash
5. The Fall
6. Have to go with lossless iPod with speakers

Ask me again in 2 weeks time and no doubt my mind will have changed..

1. PJ Harvey
2. Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
3. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
4. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
5. The Beatles
6. Vinyl

1 - The Complete Works of Miles Davis
2 - Before I was born - Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners (1956)
3 - Album since 2010 - Grails - Deep Politics
4 - Album from my collection to investigate further - Sun Ra : The Singles
5 - All the singles of Elvis Presley
6 - Vinyl, please.