Hows about a "Desert Island Disks" thread to get things going...

If you could pick just three disks to have if you were stranded on a desert island (with a great Hi-Fi and mains power of course), what would they be?

Here's mine:
Rush - Moving Pictures
Level 42 - World Machine
Deep Purple - Made In Japan

Spem In Alium - Tallis Scholars
Strange Angels - Laurie Anderson
Exsultate Jubilate - Emma Kirkby

Auric

Ah Um - Charlie Mingus
Love Supreme - John Coltrane
Greatest Hits - Jorge Ben (has almost all the best songs)

Tough.

Auric,
Spem in alium is a marvellous album, too.

You want to be stranded on a desert island with a Level 42 album?! That can't be healthy:D

This week, it would be:
David Bowie - Low
Stereolab - Sound Dust
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People

John McLaughlin - Extrapolation
Susumu Yokota - Sakura
Wire - Pink Flag

I think the records to take are not your absolute favourites, but those that have the all the basic elements you like about music.

My favourite records take particular elements of these records and extrapolate and refine them into magic, but I can't think of another set that covers everthing I like about music.

Too many to choose, but tonight the pick list would be.... :D


Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
Marillion: Misplaced Childhood
and a toss-up between
Heart: Dog and Butterfly and Elton John: Madman Across the Water.

Tomorrow, proablably something completely different. :confused:

Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life on the Bush of Ghosts
Bach Goldberg Variations - Ito Ema
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - Beyond the Missouri Sky

Bert and John by Jansch and Renbourne
Astral Weeks by Van the Man
Gaucho by the Dan

prowla

I'd take Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses instead of Deep Purple but the other two are spot on.

Mick

Albums - pah!

I'd have the following singles

Kites - Simon Dupree and The Big Sound
Eloise - Barry Ryan
Alone again or - Love

Just Three?

Have to be double albums then

The Beatles - White Album

Big Star - Radio City/ #1 Record

Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

Those'd just about stop me going bananas on a desert island

Nice

Pete

On this Island I would mostly be listening to:

Yellow Shark - FZ
Blue Valentine - Tom Waits
Ah Hum - Mingus

And a yearning for hundreds more.

MarkW

Sun spot - Dark Soho
Forever changes - Love
Little earthquakes - Tori Amos

That is well difficult - but Dark Soho in all cases as, for a "dance" oriented album, it's one hell of a versatile - sleep/eat/drink/do things you shouldn't/work to it - you can do anything with it unlike a lot of albums....

Ed:
I never said I was healthy!

Mykel:
Physical Graffitti would've been my next (although I don't think Led Zep recordings were very audiophile).
Dog & Butterfly - now that's an album I haven't listened to for a while (listened to "Little Queen" last week though).

Mick:
I recently bought the digitally remastered Made In Japan CD, with extra live tracks (black cover rather than gold). It's well worth a listen.

Pete:
I think several listens to "Revolution Number 9" would definitely not keep you sane!

My choice today:

The Beatles - White Album
Neil Young - WELD
Wir sind Helden - Die Reklamation


Cheers
Gernot

My choice:
1.Love/forever changes
2.Beefheart/troutmask replica
3.Can/ege bamyasi

I like the "My choice today" cop-out. So, until I change my mind (in about 5 minutes, probably):

Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Mary Coughlan, Red Blues,
Mozart, Piano Concertos 21 and 24

Markus

Originally posted by prowla
Ed:
I recently bought the digitally remastered Made In Japan CD, with extra live tracks (black cover rather than gold). It's well worth a listen.

Got that on vinyl for about a quid mint. Great fun, although the drumming on the "blues" number is pretty terrible IMMHO.
Richie Blackhead can *play* the guitar when he puts his mind to it - I played the DP back-to-back with Esther Phillips' Black Eyed Soul and the similarities in the geetar work in places was quite interesting.

Also my list for today, this week anyway!

Springsteen - Darkness on the edge of town
Crowded House - Together Alone
Steve Earle - Exit 0

1 Simple Dreams by Linda Ronstadt. The songs are good and there's a variety; rock, country, traditional,.. The main reason though is to get the album jacket. There are two photos of her in this skimpy black satin dress of which I'm certain she's not wearing underwear. She has a white daffodil in her hair too. Very sexy. If I'm on a desert island, I'd definitely want photos if you know what I mean!

2 Big Bamboo by Cheech And Chong. Actually, I prefer the first album (with the classic "Dave" and "Trippin' in Court") but Big Bamboo comes with a giant rolling paper. If I'm on a desert island I'd definitely want some comedy and something to smoke!

3 Forever Changes by Love. The new version recorded last year with orchestra. I just listened to it earlier today and it is superb!! Arthur Lee envisioned the arrangement in his head over and over while he was in prison for several years. So I figured it'd be good played over and over on a desert island.

Ron The Mon

P.S.
Gilligan probably was smarter than any of us in what to bring as he brought a transistor radio he could carry around in his pocket and either play it aloud or with headphones.

Gilligan probably was smarter than any of us in what to bring as he brought a transistor radio he could carry around in his pocket and either play it aloud or with headphones.
It's obvious that you don't live in the UK - the drivel we get on the radio would send me round the bend!

Originally posted by prowla
It's obvious that you don't live in the UK - the drivel we get on the radio would send me round the bend!

Ah, but as far as I remember Giligan only listened in black & white.

Best;

Mark

ABC - Lexicon of Love

Kula Shaker - K

A third is impossible as there are too msany I love, if really pushed then a Northern Soul compilation.

I know a third now

The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, best rock album ever

today´s choice:

Turin Brakes - The Optimist LP
Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup (going to see them tomorrow
at the Arena in Hamburg)

Originally posted by Ron The Mon
3 Forever Changes by Love. The new version recorded last year with orchestra. I just listened to it earlier today and it is superb!! Arthur Lee envisioned the arrangement in his head over and over while he was in prison for several years. So I figured it'd be good played over and over on a desert island.


Hmm - yeah - great gig and I was there - bummer about the excessive heat in the Royal Festival Hall though. Blinding set however, and you can hear my raucous gob at the end of the set - he he he hmm ;)

His set at Glastonbury (same formula) was almost as good - though he should have done Stephanie Knows Who at the end rather than 7 and 7 is...

Kind of Blue, Ah Um and Love Supreme.
All mentioned above.

I picked up a mono Mingus - Dark Saint and the Sinner Lady (only had the CD up to now) - and this might just replace the Coltrane - oh, in a year or so...

Tony - can we have a "dating section" - I think I want to seduce Joel, we seem 'musically compatible"

:D

I picked up a mono Mingus - Dark Saint and the Sinner Lady (only had the CD up to now) - and this might just replace the Coltrane - oh, in a year or so...

Nice – I’m envious. Which pressing did you find – US Impulse with heavy gatefold sleeve or the UK one on HMV? I’d kill for a mint original US stereo copy, mine is the 80s DMM Impulse which does actually sound excellent.

Tony - can we have a "dating section" - I think I want to seduce Joel, we seem 'musically compatible"

Joel does indeed appear to have rather decent taste! I intend to pick his brains on Japanese traditional music sometime soon….

Tony.

This has proven to be very difficult, but here goes:

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions : Rattlesnakes

Prefab Sprout : Steve McQueen

Aimee Mann : I'm With Stupid

Anyone out there approving of my choices??

It's the UK one - a lucky find in Lancaster Market whilst being entertained at Chez Duerden. The US one would be far to lucky!

There was a Davis / Porgy and Bess that looked like a UK original, but at £18 decided it was a bit much - although if it had been a favourite Miles I might have gone for it.

I got a Speakers Corner reissue of Mingus, Mingus..(etc) recently - good pressing. I might get a similar of DSATSL to compare the Mono with Stereo. The mix/balance seems very different from the stereo CD.

Uber-flat mono jazz and nerdy 180g re-issues. I'm just confused!

Jonathan

Yes, kevinl, I strongly approve of 'I'm with Stupid' by Aimme Mann. I reckon it's her best album.

Today, I'd vote for:

Gene Clark 'No Other'
Laura Nyro 'New York Tendaberry'
Husker Du 'Zen Arcade'

Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Rachmaninov Piano concerto 3 (Bolet/Fischer)
Kate Bush, Never Forever

Cheers

Nic.

Herbert/kevinl

I've got "Lost In Space" by Aimee Mann. Guess I'll have to check out "I'm With Stupid".

Paul

I'd have to agree with anything by Aimee Mann, or 'til tuesday for that matter. Everythings Different Now is a fantastic pop record.

Chris

So difficult to answer this question. I'm sure that in a couple of days i'll totally disagree with these choices but here goes....

1/ The Icicle Works - 'The Small Price Of A Bicycle'
2/ Frank Zappa - 'Bongo Fury'
3/ Yes - 'Fragile'

I have left out compilations as this is cheating IMHO....:D

This week's version:

Manu Chao, Clandestino
Ojos de Brujo, Bari (Spanish Flamenco Punk; brilliant)
Bardo Pond, Dilate (Velvet Undergound meets Portishead; the singer is so-so, but otherwise the album's brilliant)

Markus