# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/81 "2014-04-04T11:40:07Z")
Doolitle - Pixies Stone Roses - Stone Roses Century Flower - Shelleyan Orphan Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - The Cure Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths Aion - Dead Can Dance Reading, Writing & Arithmetic - The Sundays Workers Playtime - Billy Bragg Mask - Bauhaus ---
**Author:** ![Donegal\_Dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Donegal\_Dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donegal_Dragon)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/82 "2014-04-04T13:16:47Z")
Love what others are listing here are a few others to add **Procol Harum** -A Whiter Shade Of Pale **Billie Holiday** -At Storyville **Etta James** -At Last **Bob Marley** -Exodus **Emmylou Harris** - Bluebird **Bonnie Raitt** - Takin My Time **Charlie Parker** - Bird and Diz **Miles Davis** - Kind of Blue **B.B. King** -Live in Cook County Jail **Carol King** - Tapestry and I have still left out Sam Cook, Otis Redding etc, etc,etc. ---
**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 5, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/83 "2014-04-05T15:31:53Z")
No compilations? Oops. My bad. Three substitutions to my list, then: Instead of _Greatest Hits_ by the Rolling Stones, _Let It Bleed_, since it includes “Gimme Shelter.” Instead of _Greatest Hits_ by Bob Dylan, _Highway 61 Revisited_, since it includes three of my favorites of his, the title track, “Ballad of a Thin Man” and “Desolation Row.” Instead of _Greatest Hits_ by Hall and Oates, I’ll go with the Beatles’s _Sgt. Pepper’s_. From, er, the ridiculous to the sublime. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/84 "2014-04-05T22:24:49Z")
Bringing it all Back Home- Dylan Hot Rats- Zappa American Songs- Johnny Cash Music From Big Pink- The Band King of the Delta Blues Singers- Robert Johnson Flying Burrito Brothers- Gilded Palace of Sin Captain Beefheart- Mirror Man Amigo- Arlo Guthrie Who’s Next- The Who Let it Bleed- Stones ---
**Author:** ![Crustacea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@Crustacea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crustacea)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/85 "2014-04-06T04:49:36Z")
Arcade Fire - Reflektor Animal Collective - Centipede Hz Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest Radiohead - In Rainbows New Pornographers - Twin Cinema Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Tori Amos - Scarlet’s Walk Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob R.E.M. - Automatic For The People National - Trouble Will Find Me ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191/86 "2014-04-06T23:09:01Z")
Pink Floyd: _The Wall_ Yes: _Tales from Topographic Oceans_ Buggles: _The Age of Plastic_ Vangelis: _Heaven and Hell_ Daft Punk: _Discovery_ Peter Gabriel: Car (PG1–first self-titled album) The Cars: The Cars (self-titled) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: _Damn the Torpedoes_ Elton John: _Too Low for Zero_ Prince & The Revolution: _Purple Rain_ I’d probably swap-out Elton John for a good recording of Stravinsky’s _The Rite of Spring_ if that counts as an album. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-desert-island-albums/292191.md?page=4)