Desert Island Albums

Piggy-backing off of the 90's Disc thread... what are you Desert Island albums?

You are trapped on a desert island (with an inexplicably killer sound system). What top Ten (or top Five and Top Ten) albums would you take with you?

For me...

First 5 in no particular order:

1. Pink Floyd - 'Wish You Were Here'
2. Steely Dan - 'Aja' (but Pretzel Logic is close)
3. Yes - 'Fragile'
4. Led Zeppelin 2 (tough call over Physical Graffiti)
5. Jeff Buckley - 'Grace'

And 6-10...

6. Duran Duran - 'Rio'
7. Rush - 'Moving Pictures'
8. Daft Punk - 'Random Access Memories'
9. Miles Davis - 'Kinda Blue'
10. Willie Nelson - 'Stardust'

Honorable mentions:

• Tom Waits - 'Mule Variations' (this got bumped by Miles Davis)
• Elton John - 'Goodby Yellow Brick Road'
• Nina Simone - 'Pastel Blues'
• Herbie Hancock - 'Head Hunters'
• Beatles - 'Abbey Road'
• Police - 'Synchronicity'

Man, that's a hard one to answer, partly because–and I know this probably shows I'm a youngin–I tend to listen to one or two songs from an artist instead of a whole album.

However, Daft Punk has to be on my list somewhere.

AX7-Nightmare

Bowie- Ziggy Stardust

Mastodon- Hushed and Grim 

Rush- Hemispheres

Leprous- Aphelion

second stream-

Cure- Disintegration 

Dream Theater- Six Degrees or Systematic Chaos

Shooter Jennings- Black Ribbons

Velvet Revolver- Contraband

In reply to barefootcyborg5000 :

That's only 9.

(Ziggy Stardust, Disintegration, and Hemispheres were all strong considerations for me.)

In reply to Beer Baron 🍺 :

Then I'll add your Mule Variations. 

I don't have the mental capacity to come up with a list right now, but Van Halen 5150 would be one, and Rush, probably moving pictures. Maybe Metallica S&M. 

Good lists. I'd enjoy my time listening to music on the desert island with y'all...

Three outstanding live albums (to me) are:

1987 - Peter Gabriel "Plays Live"

1977/78 - Little Feat "Waiting for Columbus"

1976 - J. Geils Band "Blow Your Face Out"

Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.  Double album, one of the most interesting collections of non radio played music, from the height of Bernies lyrics.

Edit: Can I cheat, and bring Caribou and Rock ofbthevWesties as well?

 How about every album from 73, 74 and 75?  Would that be too much?

I suck at this game and I'll show my age but here goes in no particular order:

The Who, Who's Next

Weather Report, Heavy Weather

Jeff Beck, Guitar Shop 

Steely Dan, Aja

Rush, Moving Pictures

Boston, Boston 

Police, Synchonicity

Eric Clapton, Slowhand

Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow

Pretenders, Learning to Crawl

Pearl Jam, 10

The Who, Quadrophenia

Bob Seger, Live Bullet

Dire Straits, Making Movies

Steely Dan, Katy Lied

Killer sound system on a desert island huh? 

Van Morrison - Moon dance

Rancid - out come the wolves

Young Jeezy - trap or die 

Type O Negative - least of the worst 

Kottonmouth Kings - hidden stash 2

Alice in Chains - music Bank 

Todd Snider - near truths and hotel rooms

John Prine - Prime Prine

Pink Floyd - division Bell

Marilyn Manson - antichrist superstar

As long as there's a shuffle mode, I'm good with this list..

In reply to RevRico :

Damn, Divison Bell.  That and Dark Side of the Moon should have been on my list...my brain freezes up every time I try to do one of these

In reply to 11GTCS :

I always have trouble narrowing things down. If I answered this tomorrow, it would probably be entirely different. 

I did have trouble picking a Floyd album though. While I like the tracks better on Dark Side, I feel like Division Bell is a more cohesive album. Echoes was also high on the list, and I have fond memories of Animals after seeing the Australian Pink Floyd do it live in concert a few years back. 

In reply to RevRico :

We saw Australian Pink Floyd at the Wang Center in Boston a few years back, old school restored theater with solid acoustics from the time before amplification so a great place to see a show.  My son was in a massive Pink Floyd phase at the time and we got tickets for the whole family for his birthday.  They were amazing, likely the best live performance I've ever seen.

berkeley me.

No.

This one hurts my head.

Don't forget to bring one of these with you to the island.

I'll just list bands because I don't remember specific albums...

The Guess Who

Led zeppelin 

Iron butterfly

Pearl jam

Cake

Stevie wonder

Jethro Tull

Metallica

The Who

Marvin Gaye

Man, that is a weird list.  Lolz.

Oh boy.  I haven't kept up with newer stuff really, so I'm going off a bad memory, but here goes.

1. Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien

2. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

3. Type O Negative - October Rust (barely beating out Bloody Kisses)

4. KISS - Double Platinum (I grew up in the 70s, what can I say?)

5. Metallica - Ride the Lightning (one of the 1st metal albums I bought in early high school)

(I'll stop here and reserve the right to inevitably come back and say "oh yeah, forgot about that one.")

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Metallica - ...And Justice for All

Rush - Moving Pictures

Mastodon - Leviathan

Boston - Boston

"B Side"

ZZ Top - Greatest Hits (Is that cheating?)

Gojira - Having a hard time deciding between "From Mars to Sirius" or "The Way of All Flesh"

The Cars - Greatest Hits 

Alice In Chains - Dirt

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

What albums carry sound the furthest across open ocean?

z31maniac said:

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Metallica - ...And Justice for All

Rush - Moving Pictures

Mastodon - Leviathan

Boston - Boston

"B Side"

ZZ Top - Greatest Hits (Is that cheating?)

Gojira - Having a hard time deciding between "From Mars to Sirius" or "The Way of All Flesh"

The Cars - Greatest Hits 

Alice In Chains - Dirt

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

This is a pretty good mix, I'd change anything Gojira for weezer - pacific daydream but otherwise I'd live with and slowly die with the rest.

In reply to chandler :

Ooohhh yeah. Weezer's blue album will always be one of my favorites. 

I agree with my fiance, I asked her this earlier after I answered and she said, "E36 M3, that is such a hard question to answer."

chandler said:

z31maniac said:

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Metallica - ...And Justice for All

Rush - Moving Pictures

Mastodon - Leviathan

Boston - Boston

"B Side"

ZZ Top - Greatest Hits (Is that cheating?)

Gojira - Having a hard time deciding between "From Mars to Sirius" or "The Way of All Flesh"

The Cars - Greatest Hits 

Alice In Chains - Dirt

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

This is a pretty good mix, I'd change anything Gojira for weezer - pacific daydream but otherwise I'd live with and slowly die with the rest.

I'm not a big country fan, but Garth Brooks being an Okie (like myself) has some great tunes. So does Dolly Parton, I don't know how you couldn't help yourself but to sing along to (9 t0 5). Also a few from "The Man in Black" and some others, but I'm not as well versed in their catalogs to confidently be able to pick an album. 

If you wanted another thrash album, Rust in Peace by Megadeth is a great thrash album. 

I like way too many different genres of music, but do have a couple I'd pick.

I'd also want Rhonda Vincent Ragin' Live. Yes, bluegrass.

Not a bad song on this album:

Being a child of the 80s, I'd have to have a selection from my favorite hair band.

For my last choice, I'd probably go with the Greatest Hits compilation of Shania Twain. Her voice is just...delicious.

z31maniac said:

In reply to chandler :

Ooohhh yeah. Weezer's blue album will always be one of my favorites. 

I agree with my fiance, I asked her this earlier after I answered and she said, "E36 M3, that is such a hard question to answer."

I thought blue album but the dang thing is like 28 minutes long, don't want to have to get up out of the sand to push play that often....

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

What albums carry sound the furthest across open ocean?

Lots of low end and big subs.