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.
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.
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
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
Only in this order because that’s how I thought of them:
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[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]
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.
My list would definitely include something by the Zombies.
OP here, interested to see what I picked 9 years ago.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Go back and reread the OP, people:
Sounds of the Earth: Ocean Waves CD
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.
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