List 10 Albums you must have on a deserted island

[maxrandb]

assuming turntable, stereo, electricity and weed is available.

1. Quadrophenia - The Who
2. Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
3. Oversight Sensation - Frank Zappa and the Mothers
4. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
5. Welcome to the Club - Ian Hunter Live with Mick Ronson
6. Days of Future Past - The Moody Blues
7. Who's Next - The Who
8. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
9. Tales from the Topographic Ocean - Yes
10. Beggar's Banquet - The Rolling Stones

I could by with these.

[True Dough]

1. I would trade all 10 albums

For a tent, matches, rations, flares, a rifle, a spear, etc.

[Glamrock]

28. You must be a blast at parties.

[PJMcK]

33. I would trade all 10 albums

for a boat.

ETA: And a compass.

[jberryhill]

68. You have a turntable

So you can use the magnet from the motor to make a compass.

Although that might be the last thing you use that motor for, since you can also make a rotary saw with it.

[RAAD2]

2. Joshua Tree - The Wall - Paranoid - Pyromania

Dark Side Of The Moon - check
Wish You Were Here
Physical Graffiti - check
Frampton Comes Alive
Agents Of Fortune
Who's Next - ok

[maxrandb]

4. Frampton Comes Alive

the album that was issued to every Freshman entering High School in the 1970's

[jberryhill]

52. Yes, but

I am reasonably sure that not only do I not feel the way Peter Frampton does, but I’m glad I don’t.

Not if he feels anything like he looks, anyway.

He’s working on Frampton Drops Dead.

[hellbound-liberal]

20. You've got three of mine!

Agents of Fortune- YES!

[CabalPowered]

3. Okay

The The - Dusk
Widespread Panic - Everyday
Pearl Jam - Ten
Traveling Wilburys - Volume 1
Fleetwood Mac- Tango in the night
Bob Marley - Legend
Grateful Dead - Europe 72
Gordon Lightfoot - Cold on the shoulder
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly

In no particular order..

[JuJuYoshida]

5. The The- Dusk is on MATCH!

I wore the hell out of that CD

[CabalPowered]

6. Same here!

Caught these guys opening for Depeche Mode in 93' and never stopped loving them..

[lunasun]

7. Saw same tour ! I was going equally as a big time fan of both although the the opened -Chicago

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I think infected had just come out ?

ETA it was Dusk.. I’m all mixed up on concerts time but started playing some the the after your post and see that Dusk was 1993

[CabalPowered]

12. Ya I'm pretty sure it was Dusk

And Violator. Ahh good times!

[lunasun]

8. Agree good choice Matt Johnson

I would also add Infected and Soul Mining to my steamer trunk of albums I would have to take x I can’t pick 10 no way

[Number9Dream]

9. Choices would probably change per mood, but here goes...

In no order:

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Live at the Fillmore East - Allman Bros.
Ashes Are Burning - Renaissance
Roxy & Elsewhere - Zappa / Mothers
The Yes Album - Yes
Exile on Main Street - Rolling Stones
Revolver - The Beatles
Romantic Warrior - Return To Forever
Foxtrot - Genesis
Benefit - Jethro Tull

[lastlib]

18. Love Renaissance!

Can Annie Haslam sing, or can Annie Haslam SING?? -- -- --

My top ten:
Led-Zeppelin 4 - Led-Zeppelin
Desperado - The Eagles
Tommy - The Who
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
White Album - The Beatles
Past, Present & Future - Al Stewart
On The Threshold Of A Dream - Moody Blues
Hemispheres- Rush
The Grand Illusion - Styx
Leftoverture - Kansas

[Thyla]

10. In no particular order

Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
...And out come the wolves - Rancid
Surrender - The Chemical Brothers
Nevermind - Nirvana
The Wall - Pink Floyd
The White Album - TISM
Nature - Paul Kelly
War on Errorism - NOFX
Murder Ballads - Nick Cave
Glastonbury 2011 set by Pulp.

[Glamrock]

29. And out come the wolves!

Great fucking record! I haven't listened to it in a few years now. I've got a 10 hour drive tomorrow. Guess what's at the top of the list?

[ProudLib72]

42. Destination unknown

Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby SoHo

[Glamrock]

44. What a great record.

While they may look punk, I gotta admit, they kinda put me in mind of Hanoi Rocks.

[SeattleVet]

11. My 10

1. Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
2. Cheap Thrills - Big Brother and the Holding Company
3. Wheels of Fire - Cream
4. Freak Out! - Mothers of Invention
5. Canned Heat - Canned Heat
6. Woodstock
7. Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix Experience
8. Remember the Wind and the Rain - Jaime Brockett
9. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely hearts Club Band - Beatles
10. Vincebus Eruptum - Blue Cheer

[maxrandb]

13. I only do these things

so I can get some ideas of music and albums I want to check-out

[lilactime]

14. My list

Basket of Light - Pentangle
Liege and Lief - Fairport Convention
Turn Turn Turn - The Byrds
Scheherazade And Other Stories - Renaissance
The Book of Invasions - Horslips
Medieval Roots - New York Pro Musica
Grave New World - The Strawbs
Below The Salt - Steeleye Span
Al Stewart - Modern Times
There's Gonna Be A Storm - The Left Banke

[yonder]

65. We must have traveled similar paths or be brothers/sisters in tunes - good choices there

Some Steeleye, Fairport, Pentangle and yes, the Byrds belong too. I don't know anyone else that knows about Horslips, even my ITM bandmates. I gotta ask if the Left Banke album is the one with Walk Away Renee? I've been onto that as a favourite for 50+ years.

I might select something a bit different but we must be cut from the same cloth, sounds like to me.

[lilactime]

67. That album does have Walk Away Renee on it - it is a compilation of

the Left Bank's first two albums plus other music, and interesting liner notes recounting their somewhat convoluted history. I actually remember the very first time I ever heard that song in 1966! I've been a fan ever since.

I was first attracted to a Horlips album cover back in 1974 I think. I was already a huge fan of British/Irish traditional music but I'd never heard of Horslips before then - but I bought the album anyway and have been a fan of them ever since. Very cool to meet another Horslips fan!

[mulsh]

15. Is it cheating that my first five are double albums? In no order of preference.

Ellington At Newport, re-release of complete show, - Duke Ellington
The Last Waltz - The Band
Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones
Will The Circle Be Unbroken - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
The Man With The Mandolin - Dave Apollon
Meet The Beatles - The Beatles
Where's The Money - Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces
What's Going On - the version with the live performance and original album. - Marvin Gaye
There's A Riot Going On -Sly and the Family Stone

[Coventina]

16. My list, in no particular order:

Beethoven's 9th Symphony - not sure which one, probably Herbert Von Karajan's.

American Life - Madonna

Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths

Staring at the Sea - The Cure

The Unforgettable Fire - U2

Life's Rich Pageant - REM

Ocean Rain - Echo & the Bunnymen

Music for the Masses - Depche Mode

Beauty and the Beat - The Go-Go's

One Step Beyond - Madness

[ZZenith]

60. Are you aware of the "Beethoven's 9th" app?

It takes up a huge amount of space on your phone or iPad but it’s great fun and one of the performances is Karajan from 1962. It’s really very clever and you can follow along with customizable scores or even original manuscripts. Gave me an even deeper appreciation for the piece.

[bif]

17. Since I'm into so many types of music, it's almost impossible

I'd have to have a list of 10 rock albums, classical albums, jazz albums, and world music albums.

[red dog 1]

19. I would include "Dark Side of the Moon" but I'd also want "The Wall"

Also:
- Sgt. Pepper
- Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
- Hand Sown, Home grown - Linda Ronstadt
- Stonedhenge - Ten Years After
- Muswell Hillbillies - The Kinks
- Eagles - The Eagles
- Abbey Road
- Tommy (1969 double album) - The Who

[Martin Eden]

23. God Save The Kinks

You selected Muswell Hillbillies, so I'll go with ...

Arthur, The Kinks
Abbey Road, The Beatles
Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
Eat a Peach, Allman Brothers
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Traffic
Yer Album, The James Gang
Fragile, Yes
Legend, Bob Marley
I Was Warned, Robert Cray
In Step, Stevie Ray Vaughan

I'm sure I'd revise this list if I had more time to review my collection. In this age of digital music I think our desert island collection should be whatever we can fit on an sd card.

[red dog 1]

24. Gotta' love The Kinks!

[hellbound-liberal]

21. I'll have a go at this...in no particular order...

1. Dark Side of the Moon
2. Physical Graffiti
3. Machine Head
4. Agents of Fortune
5. All the World’s a Stage
6. Allman Brothers at Fillmore East
7. On the Border
8. Born to Run
9. What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
10. Yessongs

[maxrandb]

22. That Alman Brothers Band album is awesome

[exboyfil]

27. All the Word's a Stage and Yessongs are live albums

I might take both over my original studio albums for those artists (Farewell to Kings and The Yes Album).

I am going to put you in a box. What original studio albums by those artists instead of your selections?

[maxrandb]

34. I love Yes

I added the double album Tales from the Topographic Ocean because I think it's a little appreciated masterpiece.

I love Pink Floyd, but for prog rock, as a band... member by member, Yes were much better musicians.

I mean IMHO Steve Howe and Chris Squire blow Gilmore and Waters out of the water. Add in Rick Wakeman and The Floyd just can't match the virtuosity of Yes.

[exboyfil]

36. I will not argue with you

about Yes being better than Pink Floyd since I like Yes better myself. You are right about Howe and Squire. I came to Yes through 90125. I then got The Yes Album, and I was blown away. I wore the grooves out over a semester in college. Very few albums ever did that for me. The others being A Farewell to Kings and Quadrophenia. I never had that same feeling about a Pink Floyd album - not that I didn't love them as well.

[maxrandb]

38. Many times I've put on Starship Trooper

on during a drive, cranked it up, and then couldn't remember a second of my drive when it was over.

[7wo7rees]

25. Fun to make this!

...and thanks for the party supplies!

In no order:

Prince - 1999
Led Zeppelin - II
Willie Nelson - Teatro
Neil Young - Unplugged
Billie Holiday - Greatest Hits
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
J. Geils Band - Blow Your Face Out
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Joao Gilberto & Stan Getz - Getz/Gilberto
Oscar Peterson - Exclusively For My Friends: The Lost Tapes

[exboyfil]

26. I have some of the same

Definitely you are another Who fan. Quadrophenia is my all time favorite album.

Definitely 1 (Quadrophenia), 2 (Physical Graf.), 4 (Dark Side), and 7 (Who's Next). I would go with a different Yes album (The Yes Album), Traffic (John Barleycorn Must Die), a different Rolling Stone album (Exile on Main Street), David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust), Rush (Farewell to Kings), Dire Straits (Dire Straits), and REM (Life's Rich Pageant)

I know it is 11. I would probably scratch Dire Straits if my wife wasn't with me. That is our favorite album to listen to together.

I assume no greatest hits collections or live albums.

[maxrandb]

35. I was going to put Tommy on the list

But if you ever saw The Who perform it live in 70s you could never listen to the album the same.

God! They were the greatest live band I've ever seen. Went to see them on their recent Who Hits 50 tour, and at age 70, Pete still played til his fingers bled.

[exboyfil]

37. I saw them after Moon died around 1980

While I enjoyed them, the heart was gone.

I would have loved to have seen them live during the Tommy/Who's Next era. Without Quadrophenia Tommy would have been on my list.

[maxrandb]

39. Ringo's son Zach Starkey has been their drummer for years now

Keith actually gave Zach his first drum kit when he was 9 or 10 years old.

They struggled for years with some Moon replacements. Zach is about as close as I've seen them get.

He's a fantastic drummer.

[maxrandb]

40. You could give Quadrophenia to any teenager in 100 years

and they'll still get it and love it.

[Glamrock]

30. Great thread!

In no order of importance....

Amorica - Black Crowes
Spilt Milk - Jellyfish
Exile on Main St. - The Stones
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
The Gilded Palace Of Sin - Flying Burrito Brothers
Check Your Head - Beastie Boys
Performance: Live At The Fillmore - Humble Pie
Animals - Pink Floyd
The White Album - The Beatles
Wake Me When It's Over - Faster Pussycat

Ask me tomorrow and there'll be changes....

[ChubbyStar]

46. Jellyfish YES!!!

I love that album.

[mr_lebowski]

54. I saw 'em on Spilt Milk tour at the Warfield in SF ... Counting Crows opened for 'em

Cause August and Everything After wasn't out yet ... and fun story, about 7 months later, I saw Counting Crows, at the same spot, but as headliners ... and the opener? Radiohead (The Bends tour).

Two great, great shows.

[ZZenith]

55. Can hardly contain my envy.

You saw a rare and beautiful thing, as you know.

[mr_lebowski]

59. If that makes you jelly, you don't EVEN wanna know what all these say lol ...

[ZZenith]

61. Oh yes I do!!!

Really wish I had been able to save all of mine but suffered too many personal disasters and lost them along the way.

What a great stack of memories there, eh? Didn’t get to see Clockwork Angels but did get to see r40. First saw them on Hemispheres and they were every bit as powerful and crisp 37 years later.

Saw the Joshua Tree tour as well - what else ya got in there?!

All-time favorite shows?

[mr_lebowski]

62. That was INDOOR leg of Joshua Tree, too, like 1 month after release ...

That one's in SF, but there's also an LA and San Diego one, all within 10 days of each other ... it was Spring Break, total kismet Those shows are maybe my all-time faves, just cause I LOVED THEM so freaking much right then. And they were crazy good right then, and the crowd was insane. Such a love-fest.

Think I have my Power Windows and Grace Under Pressure tour tickets in there still ...

Remind me later and I'll fill you in, I've already typed a LOT today ...

[ZZenith]

63. Understood about the typing!

Thanks for the excellent response.

I wasn’t that much of a U2 fan until my wife dragged me to see them live. She was in the second row at the Red Rocks show when they filmed “Under a Blood Red Sky” in ‘83 and she was like, “No, you’ve got to see them live to understand!” Well, I left that show understanding perfectly well! We got to be in the Rattle and Hum movie as well. My Gawd could those lads bring it.

Saw Power Windows and G.U.P. as well. Oh, the halcyon days of youth...

[ChubbyStar]

66. The Bends Just Say Amen

Fake plastic trees, my iron lung....music genious

[John Fante]

31. Strictly off the top of my head:

1-4: London Symphony Orchestra - The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music
5. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
6. Daft Punk - Discovery
7. Beatles - The White Album
8. Radiohead - OK Computer
9. David Bowie - Rise of Ziggy Stardust...
10. Arcade Fire - the Suburbs

[DFW]

32. I hate having to eliminate, but......

My Feet Are Smiling--Leo Kottke
Earth Music -- The Youngbloods
Younger Than Yesterday -- The Byrds
Strange Days -- The Doors
Scenes From The South Side -- Bruce Hornsby
Revolver -- The Beatles
Disraeli Gears -- Cream
Luck of the Draw -- Bonnie Raitt
Hissing of Summer Lawns -- Joni Mitchell
The Twelve Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus -- Spirit

[ArnoldLayne]

41. I just remembered another one. Elvis Costello- Armed Forces.

[ProudLib72]

43. Mine

How The West Was Won - Zeppelin (purists may argue with me, but OMG! Page knew what he was doing when he remastered and put these songs out! Otherwise, I'm going to need the complete collection of Zeppelin)
The Slider - T Rex
Red - Black Uhuru
Axis - Hendrix
Library of Congress Recordings 1941 - 1942 - Son House
Founder of the Delta Blues - Charlie Patton
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash - Pogues
Free Your Mind (or maybe Maggot Brain) - Funkadelic
Two Sevens Clash - Culture
Doolittle - Pixies

[Glamrock]

45. Agreed!

How the west was won is a sick sick sick collection!

[ProudLib72]

47. You gotta LOVE this

Where they cut from the original to their version, OMG! The first time I heard it, I had to listen to that one part about eight times in a row!

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[Glamrock]

48. I know!

Makes the hair on my arms stand at attention!

[roscoeroscoe]

49. Here is the all-time Desert Island Disc Top 10 List

Much respect to everyone's musical taste, but I'm a veteran of the Tower Records era, and I know desert island discs. The category requires a very high level of all time listening power, and calls for representing the artists at their all time best. We all know the best live performances are the true live performances, so the roscoeroscoe list is heavily represented with live albums. You will not be disappointed having a listen on this desert island! Enjoy:

1. Waiting for Columbus, Little Feat
2. A Night in San Francisco, Van Morrison (solos by Candy Dulfer, John Lee Hooker, Junior Wells and Jimmy Witherspoon)
3. Live in Paris and Toronto, Loreena McKennitt
4. Graceland: The African Concert, Paul Simon
5. Babylon by Bus, Bob Marley and the Wailers
6. Let it Be, The Beatles
7. The Music of Eric Satie, The Velvet Gentleman, Camarata Contemporary Chamber Group ( Gnossiennes No. 1 can be heard in the soundtrack to The Painted Veil)
8. Illegal, Immoral and Fattening, Flo and Eddie
9. 80's mixtape, with The Clash, English Beat, Peter Tosh, Ultravox, Sly & Robbie, Starship, Crowded House, Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd, etc.
10. beach mixtape, with Sunlight on Water by Santana, Sugar by Maroon 5, No Digggity byEd Sheeran & Passenger, then into Kygo mixes

You will not be disappointed!

[WiffenPoof]

50. My ten...

Aqualung... Jethro Tull
Aja... Steely Dan
Dark Side Of The Moon... Pink Floyd
Chicago Transit Authority... Chicago
Santana I.... Santana
The Wall... Pink Floyd
Thick As A Brick... Jethro Tull
The Royal Scam... Steely Dan
Paranoid... Black Sabbath
Rumors... Fleetwood Mac

Sorry... Got to add:
The White Album... Beatles
Frampton Comes Alive... Peter Frampton
Songs In The Key Of life... Stevie Wonder

[jberryhill]

51. The 10 volume "how to build a boat from scratch" audiobook

[ZZenith]

57. !!!

Very funny!

[Shemp Howard]

64. Excellent! You beat me to it. (nt)

[ZZenith]

53. Alright- I'll play...

1. Dark Side of the Moon - PInk Floyd (telling that this is on nearly everyone’s list)
2. Close to the Edge - Yes
3. Jellyfish - Spilt Milk (with this you get every great Rock Band rolled into one)
4. Grace - Jeff Buckley
5. A James Brown Christmas - James Brown (only bust this out once a year - old family tradition)
6. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
7. Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel
8. Rumors - Fleetwood Mac
9. Beethoven’s Ninth - Bernstein & the Wiener Philharmoniker
10. Stoney End - Barbra Striesand

[SHRED]

56. Good choices

My tastes are to varied for 10.
But I'd be happy with yours.

[yellowdogintexas]

58. Just so you understand, in my mind a boxed set counts as one

My Steely Dan boxed set
CSNY 4 Way Street
Willie Nelson Stardust
Collected works of Mozart
A big album of Baroque music
Rumors Fleetwood Mac
The Mikado
Complete works of George Gershwin
one of those big Classical collections with a variety of composers.
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

[RobinA]

69. At This Moment

Off the top of my head

Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Springsteen
Simon & Garfunkel Live in Central Park
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
Katy Lied - Steely Dan
Brandenburg Concertos - Bach
Chronicle - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Hot Licks - Rolling Stones
Greatest Hits - Eagles
Honky Chateau - Elton John