Desert Island Disks/Influences

[dwillis45]

This type of thread has probably appeared somewhere on this BBS, but here goes.........

List your "Desert Island Disks." You know, those indespensible CD's/Albums that would sustain if you had to do the castaway thing.

Here are mine (Sorry, I can't seem to come up with a shorter list. I'm too old, I guess, or I've just been listening to music for too long!)

Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited,
Neil Young: On the Beach, Tonight's the Night
Joni Mitchell: Blue
Jackson Browne: For Every Man
Robyn Hitchcock: Eye, Perspex, Island
REM: Chronic Town
Gillian Welch: Time (The Revelator)
Old Crow Medicine Show: Eutaw
Camper Van Beethoven: Key Lime Pie
The Replacements: Let It Be, Tim
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures, Closer, Still
Echo and the Bunneymen:Crocodiles
The Cure: Boys Don’t Cry, Pornography, Happily Ever After
The Smiths: The Smiths, Meat is Murder
The GoBetweens: Send Me a Lullaby
Slovenly: We Shoot for the Moon, Riposte
The Wedding Present: Sea Monsters
The Fall: This Nations’ Savings Grace
Kevn Kinney: MacDougal Blues
Gang of Four: Entertainment
New Order: Movement
Wire: Pink Flag
The Dream Syndicate: The Days of Wine and Roses
Fugazi: Repeater
Dumptruck: For the Country
The Pixies: Come On Pilgrim, Doolittle
Pavement: All
Scrawl: Plus,Also,Too; He’s Drunk
Zeitgeist: Translate Slowly
Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes
Pearl Jam: 10
Silkworm: Firewater
My Dad Is Dead: Lets Skip the Details

 

[Aaron Cheney]

From strictly a songwriting point of view, here are 5 that come to mind:

Beatles - Rubber Soul
Beatles - Abbey Road
Beatles - Revolver
Beatles - SPLHCB
Beatles - White Album


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[stonepiano]

because I'm bored....

while I feel this exercise might have been more stimulating w/ a better defined set of rules, (ie one album per artist, five total, no greatest hits albums, etc) I've decided to contribute as others have, w/ no restrictions...

Here are mine:

Steely Dan - Gaucho
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Steely Dan - Then and Now (Old Demos)

Beatles - White Album
Beatles - Revolver
Beatles - Rubber Soul

Harry Chapin - The Gold Medal Collection

James Taylor - Greatest Hits

The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack

John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Neil Young - Acoustic Afternoon

They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18
They Might Be Giants - John Henry

GNR - Appetite

The Who - Who's Next

Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series Disc 1
Bob Dylan - Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan

Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Grateful Dead - American Beauty

Cake - Comfort Eagle


And something with Aliotta, Haynes and Jeremiah's "Lake Shore Drive." One of the coolest songs I've ever heard, IMHO.

 

[Politicker]

"Lake Shore Drive" is a great song. In my experience, no one has ever heard of that song outside the city of Chicago. Or at least it is not played on classic rock radio anywhere outside Chicago.

 

[stonepiano]

Yeah, I noticed that too, Politicker!

If you dig the song, I did a tab of it (partially because I couldn't find it anywhere) and it's available on my website here.

It's a little funky because I did it in word Times New Roman instead of Courier New or Arial but it's enough to understand how the song works.

I've also heard that one of the three guys (I think it's Aliotta) is still in Chicago teaching harmonica somewhere in the burbs. I kinda want to schedule one lesson and just talk about the song!

 

[robotica]

If I was stranded tomorrow, this is what I'd want with me:

dEUS: In a bar, under the sea, The ideal crash
The Divine Comedy: Cassanova
Broken Social Scene: You forgot it in people
Rufus Wainwright: Want one
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief, The bends
Cornelius: Point
Stephen Malkmus & Jiks: Pig Lib
David Bowie: Diamond Dogs, Station to Station
Super Furry Animals: Guerilla
Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska
Pernice Brothers: Yours, mine and ours
The Strokes: Room on fire

Damn! I told myself I'd stop at five.