i really can't believe no one's posted this, yet. i checked the music forum twice, so don't yell at me if i'm just blind...

desert island top five albums - no boxed-set compendiums, and no cheating!

yes it's hard. it's supposed to be.


mine:

otr - gdbd
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
otr - eve
radiohead - ok computer
glenn gould - brahms intermezzos

Someone watched High Fidelity recently.

Off the top of my head:

The Beatles - Revolver
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Yes - Close To The Edge (I think I prefer Relayer, but I'd hate to go the rest of my life without hearing "And You And I", so this album gets the nod)
Thunder - Live
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory

not recently, but i do own high fidelity. :)

no, i just heard a track off of yankee hotel foxtrot on the radio, and realized i loved the album enough that it needed to be on my list.

my trouble is picking an otr album - there are a couple that i'm sure will never be on this list, but others fight constantly for their spots! til we have faces, patience, eve, gdbd, ffr, dnoty - i really couldn't do without any of those. but - five only!

I know. It bugs me. 5 isn't enough. I would die without an OTR album...but I'd also die without Yes, the Beatles, and Brian Wilson, so...why am i getting all frustrated about such a silly question?

five!? geez... 50 would be tough... but here goes...

Chroma Key - Dead Air For Radios (no matter what, this one is always #1)
Pink Floyd - Wish You were Here (that comment addressed to the rest of my CD collection, obviously)
Faith No More - King For a Day, Fool For a Lifetime
Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
Elliott Smith - Either/Or

that was unfair. unfair, indeed.

~fafs

oooh... elliott came soooo close to making it onto my list! but i decided that if i was alone on a desert island, elliott would NOT be one to cheer me up...

but what if i'm wrong???

I'm cheating and there's nothing you can do to stop me:

The current five I can't go two days without listening to:

1. Sam Phillips- A Boot and a Shoe
2. Tess Wiley- Not Quite Me
3. Patty Griffin- Impossible Dream
4. Lisa Germano- Lullaby for Liquid Pig
5. Sigur Ros- Agaetis Byrjun



And my all-times:

1. Aimee Mann- Lost in Space
2. Sam Phillips- A Boot and a Shoe (and I'm not even kidding, kids, go buy this album if you haven't)
3. Over the Rhine- Ohio
4. Radiohead- OK Computer
5. Sixpence None the Richer- Sixpence None the Richer
6. Wilco- Summerteeth
7. Jeff Buckley- Grace

AUGH! I can't stop! Why do I subject myself to these lists?

Even 50 is bordering on ridiculous, but I'll try five anyway...

Eric Clapton--From The Cradle
Lou Reed--New York
The Beatles--White Album
Dire Straits--Dire Straits
U2-Achtung Baby

OK, I lied...I can't do 5...

5 more--

Jimi Hendrix--Are you Experienced?
Moby-Play
Cowboy Junkies--The Trinity Sessions
The Doors--Morrison Hotel
Led Zeppelin--Physical Graffiti (can I have a double album? If not, I'll just take the second disc...)

* miles davis - kind of blue
* otr - gdbd
* 77's - tom tom blues, or ep, or 88's
* mahalia jackson - best of
* adam again - perfecta -- or dig, or 10-songs...


aHHHHHH!

harder than i thought it would be
zayne

Beethoven -- Late String Quartets, Guarneri Quartet (remastering of 70s analog recordings)
Schubert -- Winterreise live in Bremen, Schreier (tenor) and Richter (piano)
John Coltrane Quartet -- Live at Birdland
Lucinda Williams -- Essence
Over the Rhine -- Good Dog Bad Dog

Guess that's it!

Absolutely impossible, but I'll try anyway. Off the top of my head, in no particular order:

the innocence mission - Glow
Over the Rhine - Eve
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
Victoria Williams - Loose

Why do I love listening to women so much? Someone explain that to me. It's like the Lilith Fair in here.

If I got to take ten, I'd add:

Rich Mullins - A Liturgy, A Legacy and a Ragamuffin Band
Julie Miller - Blue Pony
The Choir - Wide-Eyed Wonder
Adam Again - Dig
77s - Sticks and Stones



Matt

I went with the premise of 5 CDs that I would never get tired of... I could probably listen to each of those 8 hours a day...

* slaps the hands of rulerofsubdivision1057, markianmc, and matt_nightingale *

Hej, no cheating!!!

Only 5...





OK, let's compromise... only 5 iPod minis...



~fafs

Five is tough, buit I think I can do this.

An American Heritage of Spirituals - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Good Dog Bad Dog - Over the Rhine
James Taylor - James Taylor
Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions (a double, but I would choose the second disc if I could only take one)
Nickel Creek - Nickel Creek


I think that having some variety will be the best option.

Well first can we have satellite radio? Five is tough but it is an island.

1"Way To Blue" Nike Drake
2."Scarlets Walk" Tori Amos
3."The OutField" The Out Field
4."Special Beat Service" English Beat
5. "Look Sharp" Joe Jackson

ooooh... i need to listen to that one, again....

rulerofsubdivsion1057:

Where in the world did you find Mizz Wiley's music for purchase?!

She's hardly a bug on the windshield.

http://www.wileyrock.de/

1 -- Over the Rhine Good Dog Bad Dog
2 -- Rich Mullins A Liturgy, A Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band
3 -- Stevie Wonder At The Close of a Century (Disc 2)
4 -- Common Electric Circus
5 -- Getz/Gilberto #2

It's a good mix, huh? It features music that's fast and fun, slow and mellow, worshipful, and/or gets the groove on (wink, wink)...

Dan,

Thanks for the site. I'm pretty familiar with it.

I was just wondering if ros1057 had picked it up somewhere Stateside.

Thanks again,
[jp/p].

nope. i've tried. and tried. and tried.

can't do it. can't narrow it down to 5. but i'd bring all my lyric sheets so i wouldnt forget the words. maybe id just bring classical and amibient but i have no idea which ones.
no, no couldn't do that

I can do one desert island disk (Chroma Key's Dead Air For Radios).

But 5... well, that opens up too many possibilities and frustrations...

BTW, cute avatar, d....

i want you all to know that instead of actually reading your posts in this thread, i simply copied the artists and albums that you posted and saved them to a .txt file entitled "albums i should check out"

when i can narrow it down to 5 or 10 i'll get back to you.

oops see hijack thread.

whoa - that hijack thing is... tricksy!

hmm. to my surprise, my three picks for The Bomb Shelter are still on the list:

1. Ohio, OtR
2. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, Sarah McLachlan
3. Coldplay Live 2003

but to those I would add:

4. Sam Phillips, A Boot and a Shoe (my newest love)
5. U2, Joshua Tree

jp/p: Nope. Had to send my $15 dollars to her Dad just like everybody else . I actually kind of like doing it that way: it seems so indie.

It is frustrating the complete lack of attention she gets when it's clear she has fans everywhere. I've been meaning to send an angry email to the Paste Music people but I haven't gotten around to it. Maybe that's it: all her fans are just lazy.

rulerofsubdivision1057:

No need to ream the folks at Paste. They're good people.

As it happens, I understand Tess is quite happy with her lot, having seen all manner of 'success' and notoriety in the past, she is touring rather extensively in the part of the world she loves. And, meanwhile, her albums are selling like hotcakes at an Indie House of Pancakes.

Sometimes America's sales reports just aren't the mark of success that everyone's looking to and I, for one, am glad to see her happy with as much.

On sending money to artists directly, I agree, it's a wonderfully homespun way of helping both artists and their fans to maintain a healthier perspective about what each of our roles are in this spirit-exchange that we call music.

One of my favourite artists, in fact, doubles as a bartender four months out of every year that he's not working the roads in his pickup, belting out his songs in dumpy roadside dives (very often to the tune of less than $100 a night).

Another bloke I like a lot runs the eternally hokey ToolBarn.com. He is happy and doing quite well in his Omaha scene. Truth is, he'll be as successful and as bad as he wants to be as the father of anti-rockstardom.

And more power to him.

So, really, as far as some of these musicians are concerned, a lack of attention isn't a bad thing at all. It's a good thing. It's a rich thing. It's a medium in which to focus, to concentrate the passions and inhabit meaningful perspectives.

True, these guys and dolls aren't in the majority of musicians, but they do exist and a good many of them are quite happy as such.

I know I'm happy for them.

Daffodils,
[jp/p].

5? are you out of your F**king mind???
ok, so here's my problem with High Fidelity...they clearly state that you can't be a serious person if you have less than 500 albums. and I agree. but then he goes around making "top 5 lists" all the time, which is fine, but anyone who really has 500+ albums knows that a "top 5" is ridiculously impossible. laughably impossible. "ma'am, you've had twins. which one would you like to keep?"

1) Over the Rhine - Good Dog, Bad Dog
2) Perlman's "Cinema Serenade" (w/ "Cinema Paradiso" theme)
3) Sarah Masen - The Dreamlife of Angels
4) Sixpence None the Richer - This Beautiful Mess
5) Kansas - Drastic Measures

There are better albums out there than Kansas Drastic Measures, I know... but it was such a huge part of my life that I have to include it. and you make me leave out things by The Sundays, and The Smiths, and U2, and Pet Sounds fer f*cksake. and I cannot, in good conscience leave out Undercover's "Branded", or Innocence Mission's first CD... just physically can't be done. I'll shoot myself, right in the face, I swear to god... I couldn't sleep at night knowing I left those and so many more essentials off the "top 5".

that's it, I'm putting an end to this madness right now...

agree! agree! (laughed my head off through this part)




thank you.

I know I know I know. She couldn't be in a better place, and I don't want her to become big, or even less miniscule than she is now. I just want her to get some recognition! Am I asking too much?

First, I was so happy to see all the quality picks. Just to know that other people have heard of Dream Theater makes me smile.

Truthfully, if I could have ONLY five, I'd probably cheat and burn five mixes on my Mac. But here's my best "fair" attempt...


"Vertigo" -by- Jump, Little Children

"Black Sheep" -by- Martin Sexton

"1200 Curfews" -by- Indigo Girls

"Songs in the Key of Life" -by- Stevie Wonder

"Want: One" -by- Rufus Wainwright

In no particular order...

1. Over the Rhine - Good Dog, Bad Dog
2. Switchfoot - Learning to Breathe
3. Guster - Lost and Gone Forever
4. Radiohead - OK Computer
5. Rolling Stones - Forty Licks

My music, like my moods, has a very large scope. Music, for me, is simultaneously an emotional experience and a heart-felt expression--if I'm going to have only five albums, I want to make sure I have as much of that scope covered as possible.

1. Good Dog, Bad Dog - Over the Rhine
2. Kansas - Jennifer Knapp
3. The Nothing Venture - Five o'Clock People
4. Delicate Fade - Common Children
5. 7 Deadly Sins - Miranda Stone


Damn you. Damn you all. I need some tracks from each of these albums to survive, but there's no happy rock. Noooooo!

heee... yay. posts like this are the reason i started this thread, brookd. if it were easy, it would be boring!

besides - the guys in high fidelity are constantly changing their minds about top fives, and making up new sorts of top fives ("top five track one/side ones. go!"). just like there is no art without pain, there is no joy without agony. right? right.

Radiohead The Bends
Radiohead Ok Computer
David Bowie Station to Station
Otr GDBD
Steve Wonder Songs in the Key of LIfe

The last one is just in case the weather is good, but I wouldn't count on it.

But really I could make it with the two first ones...

Patrik

OK, I am a music phenatic (did I spell that right?).
And if I had the money I would own thousands of CD's.
But also being an artist, I am always critiquing music.
Since I do this, it is pretty easy to narrow it down to five top albums.
Now, top 100 would be hard since when I get down to the 50 or 75th CD, they all tend to have their perfections and their flaws so it's hard to choose which is better.
So stop complaining and critique those albums and come up with your top five albums.
It's not like your actually going to be sent to a desert island with these albums.
We're just trying to find out your top 5.


1. The Beatles - Abbey Road
2. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
3. Led Zepplin - IV
4. Jeff Buckley - Grace
5. The Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin

enjoy...

Oh yeah baby...could anyone go without this????? I am sure you could, but what a great disc!

yay for allies! want to be my best friend?

ummm...

(could also be interpretated as 5 albums i would not have made it this far without)

Common Children- The Inbetween Time
Over the Rhine- Good Dog Bad Dog
Matthew Good- Avalanche
steve Delopoulos- Me Died Blue
Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element I

agree. but with 100, you have room to breathe, and maybe include them all without too much conflict.



I tried, I really did. I offered my best attempt at it. and then I almost shot myself. so I decided to complain instead. I found that to be funner.



but I might be, and then oh, the regret I would have to live with...

very funny!!! : )

I like a good sense of humer.
I'm sorry I was hard on you guys.
It just got annoying by the time I read through most of them.

Enjoy...

humor...

sorry about the spelling : )