"Desert Island" CDs

[Dave Siff]

OK, I combed through the archives and couldn't find a thread like this, so just let me know if it's been done before.
Here's the situation: you're going to be marooned on a desert island for some reason (what the heck is a "desert island" anyway??) You have a boom box with batteries that will never go dead. You're allowed 5 CDs.. that's it. For the rest of your days. What do you bring?
I would take:
1) The Minutemen, "Double Nickels on the Dime"
2) Rush, "Hemispheres"
3) Bill Evans Trio, "Sunday at the Village Vanguard"
4) Green Day, "1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours"
5) Led Zeppelin, "Physical Graffiti"

[Acacia]

Powerslave - Iron Maiden
Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
Men At Work - Cargo
Into the Pandemonium - Celtic Frost
Reign in Blood - SLayer

My mind will change as soon as I click submit.

[Dave Siff]

Originally posted by Acacia


Powerslave - Iron Maiden
Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
Men At Work - Cargo
Into the Pandemonium - Celtic Frost
Reign in Blood - SLayer

My mind will change as soon as I click submit.

Sean.. right on with Celtic Frost!! Damn, I forgot about them. I'm surprised no one named their cover of "Mexican Radio" in that "favorite covers" thread. What a trip.

[Scottzo]

Jaco Pastorious: Birthday Concert
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones: Outbound
Zeppilin: Physical Griffiti
Coltrane: Giant Steps
Beatles: White Album

[Stingray5]

Weather Report - Heavy Weather (couldn't go on without being able to cue up "A Remark You Made" every now & then...)

Beatles - Abbey Road

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Phish - Billy Breathes

John McGlaughlin Trio - Live at the Royal Festival Hall

Rush - Presto

King's X - Ear Candy

Spock's Beard - The Kindness of Strangers

Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - Beyond the Missouri Sky

John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman - (Self titled)


Oops! I did 10! Can I be on 2 different islands? Pleeese???

[Deynn]

This is subject to change....

Bill Evans Trio...Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Miles Davis...Kind of Blue
Cream...Wheels of Fire
Patrick O'Hearn...Metaphor
Tangerine Dream...Poland

[gweimer]

I'm not even sure that all of these are on CD, but if I had to go in a hurry, without thinking about it.....

The Beatles - 1962-1966
King Crimson - Lark's Tongue in Aspic
Sharks - First Water
Ian Hunter - Ian Hunter
Hughes/Thrall - Hughes/Thrall

But, being in a hurry, these might accidentally fall in the bag....

Wishbone Ash - New England
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Utopia - Network

[Farley]

Yes - Yessongs
Spocks Beard - Live at the Whiskey
ALL - Pummel
Bella Fleck & the Flecktones - Live Art
Transatlantic - SMPTE

[Funkster]

This was a tough decision:

1: Little Feat, Feets don't fail me now
2: Rush, 2112
3: Atlanta Rythym Section, Best of
4: Infectious Grooves, The Plague that shakes your booty
5: Bob Marley, Legend

[KB]

1. Poi Dog Pondering : Pommegranete
2. Seal: Seal (his first album)
3. Camper van Beethoven : Key Lime Pie
4. Galactic: Late for the Future
5. Portishead: Dummy

other that might slip in:
Victor Wooten: A Show of Hands
Art of Noise: Seduction of Debussy
Red Hot Chili Peppers: One Hot Minute
Cracker: The Golden Age
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew

-KB

[john turner]

1. rush - moving pictures or exit stage left - can't live without camera eye/ can't live without xanadu...
2. iron maiden - live after death or killers
3. yngwie malmsteen - rising force
4. megadeth - rust in peace
5. anekdoten - vemod (swedish band that is excellent, EXCELLENT!!! - check out their website - http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-25753/anekdoten/ )

wow, what about, dropping in at the last minute...

frank zappa, you can't do that on stage anymore vol. 1 or 3

yes - tales of topographic oceans/keys 1 &/or 2

[Edited by john turner on 09-09-2000 at 04:20 PM]

[odie]

Tough to just take 5!!!

1. Iron Maiden- Live After Death
2. Incubus- Make Yourself
3. RHCP- Blood Sugar Sex Magic
4. Metalica- Master of Puppets
5. Led Zepplin - Zepplin I(first album) but it has to be on vinyl!!!

[djproject]

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Blur - Blur
Moby - Play
Enigma - Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!

However while thinking of this, I know of others:

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins - The Aeroplane Flies High
(That is probably cheating because it's five CDs )
Baz Luhrmann - Something for Everybody
Radiohead - OK Computer
Depeche Mode - The Singles 86>98
Blur - 13

[Shoot], maybe I should just bring my entire CD collection. Except how in the [heck] to do transport it to an island.





Derek Power

P.S. My CD collection will probably deny me a million dollars and some new friends (if I was on Survivor! )

[MM]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Allman Bros. Band - Live at the Filmore East
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9

[Deynn]

Today's picks.....

Jack Bruce...Songs for a Tailor
Willie Dixon...I am the Blues
Albert King...King of the Blues Guitar
BB King...Completely Well
Johnny Winter...White Hot Blues

[The_Bass]

If we´d all go to the same island with 5 cd´s each then we could just borrow from each and other..

5 cd´s?? that´s hard!

I´d just take a boom box that can play mp3 cd´s and take 5 cd´s overflown with mp3´s... (I´m not breaking rules, am I?)

[JMX]

Top 5 - at the moment...

1. Lacuna Coil - In A Reverie
2. Damn The Machine - Damn The Machine
3. Galactic Cowboys - Let It Go
4. Drain - Horror Wrestling (call themselves Drain STH in the U.S. now, I think)
5. Victor Wooten - A Show Of Hands