# What are your desert island albums? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191 "2005-02-27T22:11:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![sweetfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@sweetfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweetfreak)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/61 "2005-03-06T15:39:49Z")
Tori Amos _Little Earthquakes_ The Clash _London Calling_ Coldplay _A Rush of Blood to the Head_ Evanescence\* Fallen\* The Flaming Lips _Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots_ Led Zeppelin _Physical Graffiti_ Dave Matthews Band _Crash_ Radiohead _OK Computer_ Tool _Undertow_ Wilco _Being There_ Note: This list subject to change at any given moment. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/62 "2005-03-06T18:28:17Z")
Sarah McLachlan, Surfacing U2, The Joshua Tree Moby, Play Pink Floyd, The Wall REM, Automatic For The People Paul Simon, Graceland Paul Simon, The Rhythm of the Saints The Beatles, Abbey Road The English Patient soundtrack Edward Scissorhands soundtrack I’m not really passionate about anything but the first three. ---
**Author:** ![ChristmasEve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@ChristmasEve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChristmasEve)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/63 "2005-03-06T22:18:11Z")
Tough choices…I’ve relied on the CDs that never get back into their cases. The Pixies _Doolittle_ Doll by Doll _Gypsy Blood_ David Bowie _Diamond Dogs_ Graham Parker & The Rumour _Squeezing out Sparks_ R.E.M. _Automatic for the People_ Iggy & the Stooges _Raw Power_ Nirvana _Nevermind_ Red Hot Chilli Peppers _Californication_ Teardrop Explodes _Kilimanjaro_ Portishead _Dummy_ ---
**Author:** ![80sMusicfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/2acd7d/32.png) [@80sMusicfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sMusicfan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/64 "2014-04-03T02:21:49Z")
Ac/Dc- Back in Black Judas Priest - screaming for Vengence Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith Judas Priest - Turbo Def Leppard - High N Dry Def Leppard - Pyromania Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Mad man Ozzy Osbourne- Tribute to Randy Rhoads Van Halen -1 OzzyOsbourne - No rest for the Wicked ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/65 "2014-04-03T02:41:50Z")
Only in this order because that’s how I thought of them: [ol] [li]_ **Innervisions** _ - **Stevie Wonder** [/li][li]_ **The Predator** _ - **Ice Cube** [/li][li] _ **Aja** _ - **Steely Dan** [/li][li]_ **The Stranger** _ - **Billy Joel** [/li][li] _ **Hothouse Flowers** _ - **Wynton Marsalis** [/li][li]_ **Reach the Beach** _ - **The Fixx** [/li][li] _ **Pyromania** _ - **Def Leppard** [/li][li]_ **Tattoo You** _ - \*\*The Rolling Stones \*\*[/li][li] _ **Songs in the Key of Life** _ - **Stevie Wonder** [/li][li]\*\*\*Hey Love \*\*\*- A 1980s released compilation of classic soul love songs[/li][li] _ **I Feel For You** _ - **Chaka Khan** [/li][li] _ **Breakfast in America** _ - **Supertramp** [/li][li]_ **Fulfillingness’ First Finale** _ - **Stevie Wonder** [/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/66 "2014-04-03T04:27:29Z")
1. Pink Floyd - Animals 2. Tool - Ænima 3. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf 4. Peter Gabriel - Us 5. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes 6. Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog 7. Radiohead - OK Computer 8. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine 9. Alice in Chains - Dirt 10. Clutch - Blast Tyrant 11. Deftones - White Pony ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/67 "2014-04-03T06:16:19Z")
What great choices. My albums with me on the desert island are personal favorites, not to appeal to other’s interests. I’ll limit this to one per artist. 1. Abbey Road 2. Layla 3. Achtung Baby 4. Sticky Fingers 5. Grateful Dead Dick’s Pick’s Vol. 4 6. Aja 7. Breakfast In America 8. Tom Lehrer, That Was the Year That Was 9. Born to Run 10. Eat A Peach 11. Beethoven’s 9th Solti 12. Kind of Blue ---
**Author:** ![irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irritant)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/68 "2014-04-03T06:49:14Z")
My list would definitely include something by the Zombies. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/69 "2014-04-03T14:22:28Z")
OP here, interested to see what I picked 9 years ago. > [@twickster](#): > > My list: > > [ul] > [li]_Exile in Guyville_ – Liz Phair[/li][li]_Exile on Main Street_ – the Stones[/li][li]_A Foreign Sound_ – Caetano Veloso[/li][li]_Love Devotion Surrender_ – Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin[/li][li]_Mad Dogs and Englishmen_ – Joe Cocker[/li][li]_Pirate’s Choice_ – Orchestra Baobab[/li][li]_Poetic Champions Compose_ – Van Morrison[/li][li]_What’s Going On_ – Marvin Gaye[/li][/ul] > > The other two I’d have to pick on the morning I left. > > So – what are your ten? Update: _A Foreign Sound_ and _Poetic Champions Compose_ are off the list; Andrew Bird’s _Hands of Gold_ and Thelonious Monk’s _Straight, No Chaser_ are on. And I’d still pick the last two on the morning of my departure. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/70 "2014-04-03T15:49:00Z")
Beethoven - Symphonies 5 & 6 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Steely Dan - Aja Tom Waits - Heart of Saturday Night Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Thelonius Monk - Monk’s Music Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell Oscar Peterson - Motions and Emotions Erroll Garner - Plays Misty Vince Guaraldi - Peanuts Portraits Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me ---
**Author:** ![NVME702-redux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@NVME702-redux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NVME702-redux)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/71 "2014-04-03T17:53:36Z")
10,000 Maniacs- In My Tribe U2- The Joshua Tree Bob Marley- Exodus Pixies- Doolittle Paul Simon- Graceland Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings- Give the people what they want soundtrack to Sweet Dreams soundtrack to O Brother where art thou soundtrack to 40 first dates ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/72 "2014-04-03T18:34:04Z")
1. “Revolver” - The Beatles 2. “Otis Blue” - Otis Redding 3. “Let it Bleed” - The Rolling Stones 4. “Astral Weeks” - Van Morrison 5. “London Calling” - The Clash 6. “Who’s Next” - The Who 7. “A Salty Dog” - Procol Harum 8. “At Fillmore East” - The Allman Brothers Band 9. “English Rose” - Fleetwood Mac 10. “Highway 61 Revisited” - Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/73 "2014-04-03T23:42:59Z")
I couldn’t live without these… 13kai wa Gekkou - Buck Tick Ai no Wakusei - Sakurai Atsushi Achtung Baby - U2 Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits Simply Red - Simply Red Cowboy Bebop OST Rocky Horror Soundtrack And just for the extra wtfs Renaissance Holiday - Mannheim Steamroller Trans Siberian Christmas Album ---
**Author:** ![Andiethewestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andiethewestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andiethewestie)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/74 "2014-04-04T02:29:29Z")
Rubber Soul Beatles Sticky Fingers Stones Unforgettable Fire U2 Ghost In the Machine The Police Parachutes Coldplay Impressions Yo Yo Ma Aretha Gold Aretha Franklin Marvin Gaye Live at the London Palladium Pet Sounds Beach Boys The Essentials KC and the Sunshine Band Inspiracion Espiracion Gotan Project After the Gold Rush Neil Young Goldberg Variations Glen Gould ---
**Author:** ![Andiethewestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andiethewestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andiethewestie)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/75 "2014-04-04T02:38:26Z")
I have to add Bob Marley and the Whalers Exodus and I want to add the heir apparent to this list of faves Doo-Wops and Hooligans Bruno Mars ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/76 "2014-04-04T03:54:11Z")
Tough call, but it comes down to these: _Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony_ - Cleveland Orchestra _Sampler 1981_ - Windham Hill _Abbey Road_ - The Beatles _The Turn of a Friendly Card_ - The Alan Parsons Project _A New World Record_ - Electric Light Orchestra _Greatest Hits_ - Rolling Stones _Greatest Hits_ - Bob Dylan _Greatest Hits_ - Hall and Oates _Brandenburg Concertos_ - Apollo’s Fire _Handel’s Messiah_ - Apollo’s Fire ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/77 "2014-04-04T04:13:50Z")
Go back and reread the OP, people: > [@twickster](#): > > Ground rules – no compilation albums or “best of/greatest hits.” ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/78 "2014-04-04T04:35:02Z")
Sounds of the Earth: Ocean Waves CD ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/79 "2014-04-04T05:19:58Z")
My number one choice is Tom Waits Sings the Hoagy Carmichael Songbook. Until that album exists, I am not getting stuck on any damned desert island. However, after that: Muddy Waters - Real Folk Blues Muddy Waters - More Real Folk Blues Tom Waits - Blue Valentine The Nutmegs - Street Corner Soul The Acapella Swingers - Let’s On Doo Wop Tom Waits - Heart Attack and Vine Tom Waits - Small Change Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner Most of my favorite tunes are from a time before the album itself was an important unit of music. If there’s an album whose contents I am familiar with, it’s probably by Tom Waits. ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/80 "2014-04-04T07:57:32Z")
Cowboy Junkies - **The Trinity Session** Tom Petty - **Wildflowers** Tord Gustavsen - **The Ground** Arcade Fire - **The Suburbs** The Tragically Hip - **Road Apples** The Tragically Hip - **Live Between Us** unless live albums aren’t allowed, in which case I’d have to choose between **Day For Night** and **Trouble at the Henhouse**. Boards of Canada - **Music Has the Right to Children** Austin Wintory **"Journey (Original Soundtrack)** Ornette Coleman - **The Shape of Jazz to Come** Trans Am - **Futureworld** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191.md?page=5)