Desert Island Albums

So the story goes.. you were washed up on a deserted island (with electric and a music player) but you only had ten albums on you at the time (musta been weight restrictions from the airport -_- ). Which would you choose?!?

1. Genesis - Foxtrot

2. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound

3. Jerthro Tull - Thick as a Brick

4. I and Thou - Speak

5. Toxic Smile - 7

6. Yes - Close to the Edge

7. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element

8. Supertramp - Crime of the Century

9. Devin Townsend - Terria

10. Pat Metheny - The Way Up

yes, as you guessed I'm a bit of a progrock nut.. anyways let's hear your desert island albums! I'm always looking to hear new music, obviously I whole-heartedly recommend these amazing albums ( I better not hear any ignorant hate about Genesis, these albums were when Peter Gabriel were the lead singer and they weren't terrible)

oh crap, I'd might have to think about replacing something with Pink Floyd - Animals

1. The Tetris soundtrack.

End.

1. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
2. Dance of Death - Iron Maiden
3. Boston - Boston
4. Demanufacture - Fear Factory
5. Hotline Miami Soundtrack
6. Aenima - Tool
7. Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera
8. Master of Puppets - Metallica
9. With Teeth - Nine Inch Nails
10. The Blackening - Machine Head

If I had to pick just one....either Blood on the Track or Hotline Miami.

1. The White Stripes - The White Stripes

2. Boys Life - Boys Life

3. L7 - Bricks Are Heavy

4. Nirvana - MTV Live and Unplugged NY

5. The Cure - 3 Imaginary Boys

6. Wu Tang Clan - The 36 Chambers

7. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers

8. Artic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

9. Nirvana - In Utero

10. Nirvana - Nevermind

There's plenty more I'd like to take but these are the first that came to mind.

• One of my Chopin collections. I don't remember how they're supposed to be organized (the CDs I mean), since I changed the metadata and reorganized them into folders by Waltzes, Nocturnes, Impromptus, etc. I'll take the Nocturnes and the Mazurkas. They're by far the longest, at four hours together. I'll count those as two.
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• Johannes Brahms - Orchestral Works, Wolfgang Sawallisch
• My Bach collection. The violin concertos, orchestral suites and Brandenburg concertos are in the same album.
• Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons and Violin Concertos, Itzhak Perlman
• My Beethoven symphonies. I believe they're all in the same set. If I can only take two, then 5 and 9.
• Sign o' the Times
• Electric Ladyland
• Another Green World
• Physical Graffiti or Horses by Patti Smith or Songs in the Key of Life or Abbey Road

Beach House - Bloom

The Beatles - Abbey Road

The Doors - The Doors

Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I

Neil Young Greatest Hits - Neil Young

Nirvana - In Utero

Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt

The White Stripes - De Stijl

Zeus - Say Us

I can't believe how many eponymous albums I took with me on this trip.

I'll be on dessert island.

suckers.

@joshwent: sounds delicious

Tool - Lateralus

Tool - Aenima

A Perfect Circle - Three-Sixty

Carina Round - Things you Should Know EP

Karnivool - Asymmetry

The Doors - The Doors

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon

Tear For Fears - Greatest Hits (Counts)

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Porcupine Tree - The Incident

Silversun Pickups - Neck of The Woods (Cardboard Cover, remained under weight limit)

1. Blood & Chocolate - Elvis Costello

2. Death of Tragedy - Abney Park

3. Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson

4. DoA: The Third and Final Report - Throbbing Gristle

5. When The Pawn... - Fiona Apple

6. October Rust - Type O Negative

7. The 2 Cent Show (or maybe Mk. III) - Steam Powered Giraffe

8. Opheliac - Emilie Autumn

9. L.A. Woman - The Doors

10. (II) - Crystal Castles

Breach - Kollapse

the Melvins - Stag

Skip James - Early Recordings

Jerry Fielding - The Gambler OST

Ennio Morricone - The Thing OST

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre

Burzum - Filosefem

Alice in Chains - Dirt

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

in other words your top 10 albums.

Queen's Greatest hits and Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell are the only two I can think of off the top of my head.

@bucklebutt: Hey, I like Foxtrot! I'm going to go listen to Willow Farm now.

@ripelivejam: pretty much, but variety should be taken into account.. that could change things

Doctor Mario and Young Phat-All the way in. David Lynch sings the Police double l.p. Five dope kids-Dope. Sorcery's stunt Rock and dvd.

I'm a coward, so I'm not going to be ranking my list. Many of these albums I just get that craving to listen to. The Kinks in particular. They are the Lay's Chips of bands, I can't just listen to one album. For a couple of these albums I'm not sure I'd say they are all time favorites, but they have their hooks into me at the moment.

• Beck - Modern Guilt
• David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
• The Hotrats - Turn Ons
• The Kinks - The Great Lost Kinks Album
• The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
• The Kinks - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
• The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround
• Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968 (four disk compilations count, right?)
• Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964–1969 (ditto^)
• The Who - Live at Leeds

Kanye West-college dropout

Childish Gambino-because the internet

Biggie-ready to die

Off the top of my head

• Larry and His Flask - All That We Know
• Kent - Hagnesta Hill
• The Black Keys - Brothers
• The Black Keys - El Camino
• The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
• The Constellations - Southern Gothic
• Metric - Fantasies
• The Sounds - Something to Die For
• Scott Pilgrim Soundtrack (I only want two songs off of it though)
• Rich Douglas - Shadowgate OST

@tooprime: Supper;s Ready is my all time favorite song :)

@nightriff: Hell yeah Boston - Boston.

Amazing Album.

1. Long Season - Fishmans
2. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3. Another Green World - Brian Eno
4. Here Comes The Indian - Animal Collective
5. Future Days - Can
6. Sowiesoso - Cluster
7. Zooropa - U2
8. The Capital - Sean McCann
9. Selected Ambient Works Vol.II - Aphex Twin
10. Pop - Gas

What two tracks? I almost added that album to my list, I dig the whole thing. Especially the Beck tracks and Metric's Black Sheep.

1. Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
2. October Rust - Type-o Negative (@shagge RIP peter)

Honestly, this is all.

@tom_omb: I guess actually it's 3 tracks, I forgot that there were two versions of Beck's Ramona on there, the other is of course Black Sheep

Hmmm... I always have so much trouble with these lists. But here is what i would probably bring as of this particular moment:

• Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle
• Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
• Crooked Fingers - Bring on the Snakes
• Fang Island - Fang Island
• Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
• Hum - Downward is Heavenward
• The Receiving End of Sirens - The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi
• Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
• Wheat - Hope & Adams
• 65daysofstatic - One Time for All Time

If I did this tomorrow, I would probably have ten completely different choices.

• Tool - Aenima
• Reuben - Racecar is Racecar Backwards
• Reuben - Very Fast, Very Dangerous
• Reuben - In Nothing We Trust
• Jamie Lenman - Muscle Memory
• Every Time I Die - New Junk AestheticBiffy Clyro - Infinity Land
• Oceansize - Effloresce
• Maybeshewill - Not For Want Of Trying
• Beatles - Abbey Road