Five Albums on a Desert Island

[RedScarf7]

A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets
Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis
The Mouse and The Mask - DangerDoom
Stadium Arcadium - RHCP
The Blueprint - Jay-Z

 

[ArtisticShowcase]

Pink Floyd - "The Dark Side of the Moon"
Yes - "Fragile"
Brian Eno + David Bryne - "My Life In The Bush of Ghosts"
Radiohead - "In Rainbows"
Imogen Heap - "I Megaphone"

 

[chronoaug]

Originally Posted by thekunk07

^the world won;t listen

I was actually thinking Louder Than Bombs, but both of those albums are a toss up for me since they're almost the same thing

 

[milosz]

Hard to answer - my favorite album ever is London Calling, but do I really need it on a desert island? I already have the damn thing memorized. Same with anything I'd think of as a desert island disc.

so instead:
one compilation of '40s-'50s bop/hard bop/etc. that I don't know much about
a CD of modern classical - late-19th to mid-20th maybe. I hear that I should give Shostakovich a chance
I'm sure there's a good comp of '75-'85 punk rock out there that covers the Buzzcocks AND Minor Threat
gimme one of the discs from the Anthology of American Folk Music, all of them if allowable
The Old 97's, "Wreck Your Life"

 

[mrmike98]

1- Love and Theft by Bob Dylan
2- At My Age by Nick Lowe
3- In Dreams by Roy Orbison
4- The Heroines by Tony Joe White
5- Save Your Love For Me by Nancy Wilson

 

[why]

Why so many of Dylan's shittiest albums...ugh.

 

[chronoaug]

Love and Theft is pure ****, but if you're talking about another side, we're gonna throw hands. No one knocks my back pages and to ramona round me and gets away with it

 

[FiveFiveFive]

Originally Posted by milosz

a CD of modern classical - late-19th to mid-20th maybe. I hear that I should give Shostakovich a chance

Someone once described Shostakovich's music as being "like classical music with wrong notes to make it sound modern." Sounds about right. I've never been a fan, but if you want to give him a shot, check out Marc Hamelin's recording of the 1st and 2nd piano concertos.

And if you really want meaningful dissonance, there's always Schoenberg.

 

[tagutcow]

Originally Posted by FiveFiveFive

Someone once described Shostakovich's music as being "like classical music with wrong notes to make it sound modern." Sounds about right. I've never been a fan, but if you want to give him a shot, check out Marc Hamelin's recording of the 1st and 2nd piano concertos.

And if you really want meaningful dissonance, there's always Schoenberg.

One of my favorite music reviews of all time is when a critic said Shoenberg's Kammersymphonie was "one giant 20-minute wrong note."

(That said, it's an absolute masterpiece, and ends with one of my favorite send-offs of any piece of music ever.)

 

[rdawson808]

I guess I'll go with

New Order -- Lowlife
Scritti Politti -- Cupid & Psych 85
Kristin Chenoweth -- Let Yourself Go
Pink Martini -- Hang On Little Tomato
Her Space Holiday -- The Past Presents the Future (or maybe another New Order album).