Music: 10 album deserted Island collection

[Babe Ruth]

STP purple

Yeah, that was a good album..
Looking at your avatar, reminds me.. Rollins Band The End of Silence would be in my top 10, probably top 3..

These are a few more off the top of my head..

(Louder Than Love)

 

[Spring in Fialta]

I think Another Green World by Brian Eno would be another solid bet to make it on my end. I'm not much of a fan of Ambient music but I love how in-between this one feels between his ambient sensibilities and his previous art-rock music. Converges beautifully. Often makes me teary-eyed.

 

[Shareefruck]

I think Another Green World by Brian Eno would be another solid bet to make it on my end. I'm not much of a fan of Ambient music but I love how in-between this one feels between his ambient sensibilities and his previous art-rock music. Converges beautifully. Often makes me teary-eyed.

Honestly, in terms of overall quantity of top caliber output and contribution to music, I think I'm more impressed by what Brian Eno's done than just about anyone in rock. His art rock stuff alone would have already been enough for him to rub shoulders with greats like VU, The Beatles, Dylan, etc. (arguably surpass them) Then he basically goes on to essentially have a second career in a then non-existent but wildly influential genre that he pioneers that's equally impressive in quality, in addition to producing at least a half-dozen other masterpieces, and continuing to do notable stuff for another 10-20 years. And that's ignoring his Roxy Music period.

 

[Mimsy]

The "no compilations" angle makes this more challenging, as I lose several no-brainers from my list.

--The Beatles "Help!"
--The Beatles "Rubber Soul"
--Belle & Sebastian "Write About Love"
--R.E.M. "Fables of the Reconstruction"
--Duran Duran "Rio"
--Rush "Exit Stage Left"
--The Smiths "Strangeways, Here We Come"
--Cat Stevens "Teaser and the Firecat"
--The Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack
--If I'm going to be stuck on a deserted island indefinitely, then I need a Christmas album (either Ray Conniff Singers "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" or Jim Reeves or Richard Addinsell's "Scrooge Suite")

 

[mikehmb]

Rush - Signals
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Beach House - Teen Dream
Clutch - Pure Rock Fury
Death - Symbolic
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Genesis - Duke
Misfits - Collection I
CKY - Infiltrate.Destroy.Rebuild.

 

[tacogeoff]

hmmm. on an island hey, hopefully its sunny and tropical. If it is cold, dark and miserable that may change what I would select.

Not much into the classics.......I like them but didn't grow up with them so I don't have any memories attached to them so most wouldn't do me any good on an island stranded alone.

I would probably pick albums that bring back fond memories and good times to uplift myself on the island.

Nas - Illmatic - Reminds me of how hearing this album for the first time drew me into hiphop/rap. Never had that same feeling again as there has never been a bar set so high in my books.

GNR - Appetite for Destruction - Reminds me of the good times I had with my brother growing up and a few girls I dated in my teens.

Sublime - Sublime - Reminds me of all my international friends I met at school I went to in the states for a year. a lot of drunken group sing-alongs to Santeria.

Smashing pumpkins - Siamese dream - First concert I went to with my first serious GF.

Silverchair - Frogstomp - Great times in middle school. a lot of road hockey played to this album.

Rancid - Out come the wolves - My first foray into the punk genre and only group I ended up enjoying ha.

Fugees - The Score - spent a lot of summers with friends listening to this album at the lake.

The Doors - The Doors - No rhyme or reason. I just enjoy Jim Morrison's vocals.

Metallica - Metallica (black album) - oddly enough reminds me of my Sony sportsman Walkman and biking like a madman around the campground ha. great youth memory.

AC/DC - Back in Black - Reminds me of the epic PeeWee years of hockey. blasting AC/DC before the game and warmups.

 

[TheAngryHank]

Yeah, that was a good album..
Looking at your avatar, reminds me.. Rollins Band The End of Silence would be in my top 10, probably top 3..

These are a few more off the top of my head..

(Louder Than Love)

I don't think i could include End of silence alone on an island.There would be no faces to punch whilst listening

 

[The Gongshow]

From Under The Cork Tree - Fall Out Boy
Lifes Not Out To Get You - Neck Deep
SuperUnknown - Soundgarden
Brand New Eyes - Paramore
Billy Talent III - Billy Talent
Swoon - Silversun Pickups
Free - Twin Atlantic
Mind Over Matter - Young The Giant
I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it - The 1975
...Like Clockwork - Queens of the Stone Age

 

[OzzyFan]

I like these threads to see what other people think and make me self-debate.

No More Tears-Ozzy Osbourne
Catch a Fire remaster-Bob Marley
Live! The Real Deal-Buddy Guy
At Folsom Prison-Johnny Cash
Continuum-John Mayer
Come Away With Me-Norah Jones
Banana Pancakes-Jack Johnson
Ocean Eyes-Owl City
Sympohnies 5 & 7-Beethoven (Karajan)
Kill Em All-Metallica

 

[Babe Ruth]

I don't think i could include End of silence alone on an island.There would be no faces to punch whilst listening

Just beat up on a coconut or something..

I should probably include a Rollins-era Black Flag album in my top 10 also. Maybe Slip it In.. but I think Greg Ginn was the primary creative force behind Flag, not Rollins (?)
I also liked the solo Rollins album, between Flag & Rollins Band- Hot Animal Machine.
peace.

 

[TheAngryHank]

Just beat up on a coconut or something..

I should probably include a Rollins-era Black Flag album in my top 10 also. Maybe Slip it In.. but I think Greg Ginn was the primary creative force behind Flag, not Rollins (?)
I also liked the solo Rollins album, between Flag & Rollins Band- Hot Animal Machine.
peace.

Henry Rollins is an interesting person ,great interview.
His go to way of picking a fight when he was in to that sort of thing was to stand in a dive bar,arms crossed looking pissed.I guess it works like a charm.

 

[Xelebes]

Can't think of any. If a CD player can make it or a turntable, then surely a computer could make it or a piano or a viola. But since I don't listen to albums I can't think of any that I would have to live with.

 

[The Nuge]

It’s surprisingly hard to do. Some albums have a couple great songs, but aren’t good enough as a whole.

Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Metallica - Black Album
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Eminem - Marshal Mathers LP 2
Dr Dre - 2001
Machine Gun Kelly - Lace Up
Black Keys - Brothers
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
HIM - Dark Light
CKY - Infiltrate.Destroy.Rebuild

It was hard to take out Illmatic, All Eyez On Me, and Back In Black, but I wanted to go more variety

 

[God King Fudge]

Dead Prez - Let's Get Free

Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent by Design

2pac - All Eyez on Me

Purity Ring - Another Eternity

Alcest - Kodama

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence

Kenny G - Paradise

Underoath - They're Always Chasing Safety

 

[ohcomeonref]

In no particular order:

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
The Used - In Love and Death
Collective Soul - Self Titled
Dragonforce - The Power Within
Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
Blink 182 - California
Bullet for My Valentine - The Poison
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Garage Days

 

[Sleemans]

This was fun to do, but really hard to get down to just 10.
These certainly aren't my favorite 10 albums of all-time, but I tried to get as much variety as possible.

The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Counting Crows - August & Everything After
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
The National - Boxer
The Police - Regatta De Blanc
Radiohead - Kid A
REM - Life's Rich Pageant
The Tragically Hip - Phantom Power
U2 - War

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

Hmmm...I'm going to assume I have a great pair of headphones...

John Coltrane - Complete Live at the Village Vanguard
The Dentists - Dressed (I can't live without my psych pop)
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Noname - Telefone
The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage
R.E.M. - Murmur (like I can go more than a week without listening to 'Pilgrimage')
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me (best first half/side 1 of an album I've ever heard in my life)
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists... (not an all-time favorite but seems good for the scenario)
Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession

 

[Hockey Outsider]

1. Death From Above - "You're A Woman, I'm A Machine"
2. Fela Kuti - "Expensive Shit"
   • (The version I have features this and "He Miss Road" - is that cheating if this features two separate albums on one CD?)
3. Iron Maiden - "Rock in Rio"
   • (Does a live album count? If not, "Powerslave")
4. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew"
5. King Crimson - "Red"
6. Rage Against the Machine - "Rage Against the Machine"
7. The Roots - "Do You Want More?!!!??!"
8. Slayer - "Hell Awaits"
9. The Who - "Quadrophenia"
10. Wishbone Ash - "Argus"

 

[HoseEmDown]

Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the between
Blink 182 - Dude Ranch
New Found Glory - Sticks and stones
The Aquabats - Furry of the Aquabats
Streetlight Manifesto - Keasbey nights
Coheed and Cambria - In keeping secrets of silent earth:3
Weezer - Pinkerton
Rancid - Out come the wolves
Saves the day - Stay what you are
Fall out boy - Take this to your grave

HM : American Hi-Fi - American Hi-Fi, just because me and my friends listened to that album the entire summer of 01 when we would go to Daytona every weekend, it was our beach music.

 

[Hippasus]

J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations, performed by Claudio Arrau (piano)
J.S. Bach - Bach on the Great Organ at Methuen, performed by Michael Murray
J.S. Bach - Toccata & Fugue: Famous Organ Works, performed by Karl Richter
J.S. Bach - The Art of Fugue: Fretwork, performed by Richard Boothby, Richard Campbell, Wendy Gillespie, Julia Hodgson, William Hunt, and Susanna Pell
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Mayhem - Live in Leipzig
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
Sepultura - Morbid Visions / Bestial Devastation

 

[Cheese Wagstaff]

The Stone Roses-The Stone Roses
My Bloody Valentine-Loveless
My Bloody Valentine-Ecstasy and Wine EP
Velvet Underground-White Light, White Heat
Neutral Milk Hotel-In The Aeroplame Over The Sea
Teenage Fanclub-Bandwagonesque
Pixies-Doolittle
R.E.M.-Reckoning
Primal Scream-Screamadelica
Guided By Voices-Bee Thousand

The rules say I can't take anything that would have Love Will Tear Us Apart and Atmosphere, so I'd be sorry to never hear Joy Division again.

 

[Mikeaveli]

The Beach Boys - The SMiLE Sessions

I just realized this is technically a compilation and wouldn't count

My revised list:

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Revolver
CAN - Tago Mago
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Nas - Illmatic
Radiohead - Kid A
Sweet Trip - velocity:design:comfort.
The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat

 

[JesusPrice]

Not my favorite albums list but if I was on an island i'd want something to get me motivated to work and such so Metal albums it is. I don't discover new music, so the regulars it is

1. metallica - and justice for all
2. system of a down - system of a down
3. nine inch nails - the fragile
4. megadeth - peace sells...
5. fear factory - obsolete
6. tool - laterlus
7. anthrax - among the living
8. marilyn manson - antichrist superstar
9. blind guardian - nightfall in middle earth
10. deftones - white pony

Looks pretty good for an all metal list

 

[Unholy Diver]

Dio - Holy Diver
Black Sabbath- Heaven & Hell
Judas Priest - British Steel
Donnie Iris - Back on the streets
Traveling Wilburys - Volume 1
George Harrison- Cloud nine
Spinal Tap - Break like the wind
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Rush - Permanent Waves
Bruce Springsteen- The River

 

[Royale With Cheese]

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker / Love is Hell (tie)
War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
The Clash - London Calling
Sting - Dream of the Blue Turtles
Lumineers - Cleopatra
The Head and the Heart - Self Titled
Roxy Music - Avalon
Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
Southeastern - Jason Isbell
Butch Walker - Afraid of Ghosts

Honourable mentions:

Welcome to the Boomtown - David & David
The Dirty South - Drive-By Truckers
Aliens Ate My Buick - Thomas Dolby