Desert Island Discs...what are yours?

[agezinder]

Okej everyone, I want to see a list of the 10 CD's you'd have if you were stranded on an island. I'll go first...

1. Rachmaninoff's 2nd and 3rd piano concertos performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy

2. Fiona Apple "Tidal"

3. Garbage "Version 2.0"

4. Tristania "World of Glass"

5. U2 "Achtung Baby"

6. Hooverphonic "Blue Wonder Powder Milk"

7. Sting "Best of Sting: 1984-1994"

8. Emma Shapplin "Carmine Neo"

9. Depeche Mode "Violator"

10. Bond "Born"

 

[S.Daedalus]

Very very very good idea for a thread:

1.) Portishead ~ Live in NYC
2.) Sneaker ~ Pimps Becoming X
3.) Tricky ~ Maxinquaye
4.) Beth Orton ~ Daybreak
5.) Tori Amos ~ To Venus And Back
6.) Dj Shadow ~ Endtroducing
7.) Lamb ~ Fear of Fours
8.) Groove ~ Armada Vertigo
9.) The Insider SoundTrack
10.) Miles Davis ~ Kind Of Blue

THAT WAS WAY TO HARD!!!

argggg.....

(almost made it Massive Attack vs. The Mad Proffesor and Amon Tobin supermodified)

- Stephen

 

[agezinder]

Very very very good idea for a thread:

1.) Portishead ~ Live in NYC
2.) Sneaker ~ Pimps Becoming X
3.) Tricky ~ Maxinquaye
4.) Beth Orton ~ Daybreak
5.) Tori Amos ~ To Venus And Back
6.) Dj Shadow ~ Endtroducing
7.) Lamb ~ Fear of Fours
8.) Groove ~ Armada Vertigo
9.) The Insider SoundTrack
10.) Miles Davis ~ Kind Of Blue

THAT WAS WAY TO HARD!!!

argggg.....

(almost made it Massive Attack vs. The Mad Proffesor and Amon Tobin supermodified)

- Stephen

I thought it would be easy listing my top 10, and indeed it was hard!!! Those are my top 10 for the moment. lol

You're a huge Portishead fan...I'm going to have to listen to them someday. Didn't they have a song called "6 feet under?" or something like that?

 

[Nitsuj]

• De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)
• Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly (2002)
• Goodie Mob - Soul Food (1995)
• Nappy Roots - Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz (2002)
• Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star (1998)
• Talib Kweli + Hi-Tek: Train of Thought (2000)
• Talib Kweli: Quality (2002)
• Dr. Octagon(aka Kool Kieth) - Dr. Octagon (1996)
• U2 - Best of 1980-1990 & Best of 1990-2000
• UB40 - Labour Of Love (1983)

 

[S.Daedalus]

I thought it would be easy listing my top 10, and indeed it was hard!!! Those are my top 10 for the moment. lol

You're a huge Portishead fan...I'm going to have to listen to them someday. Didn't they have a song called "6 feet under?" or something like that?

It was very very hard and i'm with you on that, this is my list for NOW. But one CONSTANT threw out it all is my Miles Davis and Portishead.

The song you are refering to is called 6 Underground and Preformed by Sneaker Pimps. You can hear it on the album I selected or you can hear it also on 'The Saint' soundtrack.

You should most certainly listen to portishead, because Beth Gibbons is the best female vocalist i've heard in a long long long long time. I'd say ever, but really now..Ella? Janis? Either way, pick up a couple tracks, namely Sour Times, probably there most famous.

Feel free to PM me if you feel like talkin' more about music, i'm always up for fiinding new music.

- Stephen

 

[agezinder]

It was very very hard and i'm with you on that, this is my list for NOW. But one CONSTANT threw out it all is my Miles Davis and Portishead.

The song you are refering to is called 6 Underground and Preformed by Sneaker Pimps. You can hear it on the album I selected or you can hear it also on 'The Saint' soundtrack.

You should most certainly listen to portishead, because Beth Gibbons is the best female vocalist i've heard in a long long long long time. I'd say ever, but really now..Ella? Janis? Either way, pick up a couple tracks, namely Sour Times, probably there most famous.

Feel free to PM me if you feel like talkin' more about music, i'm always up for fiinding new music.

- Stephen

Best female vocalist? Hmmm, now I'm curious....what do you think of Hope Sandoval from Mazzy Star?

 

[agezinder]

• De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)
• Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly (2002)
• Goodie Mob - Soul Food (1995)
• Nappy Roots - Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz (2002)
• Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star (1998)
• Talib Kweli + Hi-Tek: Train of Thought (2000)
• Talib Kweli: Quality (2002)
• Dr. Octagon(aka Kool Kieth) - Dr. Octagon (1996)
• U2 - Best of 1980-1990 & Best of 1990-2000
• UB40 - Labour Of Love (1983)

Good one there with UB40...I almost listed Legend by Bob Marley.

 

[horny_giraffe]

My ten long-time favorites:

1. A disc containing Faure's and Durufle's requiems. I sang in a choir as a tenor in a live performance of Faure's requiem, and it stuck with me. Very stirring. Brings tears to my eyes. Favorite track: Libera Me.

2. Steel Pulse, "True Democracy." I've had this one for years. My brother had a copy and it reminds me of him and when I was younger and more idealistic. Plus, it's great reggae and not too political like Steel Pulse got, later. Favorite track: Chant a Psalm

3. Peter Gabriel "Security." His trademark wail was never better than when he sings "San Jacinto" and the funky "Shock the Monkey." Favorite track: San Jacinto

4. Prince "Purple Rain." This is Prince's masterpiece. Totally 80's, funky and psychedelic. His best work, IMO. Favorite track: I would die 4 U.

5. The best of Thomas Dolby, Retrospectacle. Besides "She blinded me with Science," the rest of Thomas Dolby's music is understated and introspective, but slickly produced and easy to listen to. Favorite track: Flat Earth

6. Daryl Hall and John Oates, Greatest Hits, Rock and Soul part I. Pure nostalgia. Reminds me of sitting in high school detention with my earphones on, lusting after pretty girls. Favorite track: Sarah Smile

7. StereoLab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night: Self-consciously weird and intentionally inaccessable, but ultimately it kind of grew on me. Abstract jazz pop? Favorite track: Infinity Girl

8. Esquival! Other worlds, other sounds. Four Corners of the world. Early 60's, late 50's big latin band sound. Very listenable. Favorite track: Poinciana.

9. The Mills Brothers: PaperDoll 50's quartet harmonies and big band music. Neato! Favorite track: I've got my love to keep me warm.

10. Steely Dan: A decade of Steely Dan. 70's combination of jazzy rock, slick vocals, interesting lyrics and nostalgia. Favorite track: Hey nineteen.

 

[Coolville]

1. U2 - the first "best of"
2. U2 - the second "best of2
3. Zbigneuw Preisner - the collection.
4. Bleu - soundtrack (by Priesner)
5. Coldplay - first album
6. Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glor
7. Next Stop Wonderland - soundtrack
8. Beatles - White Album
9. Simon & Garfunkel - greatest hits
10. The Verve - first album

 

[Gord]

If you follow the original Desert Island discs on Radio 4 you get 8 songs only , one book ( apart from the Bible and complete works of shakespear ) and one Luxury

mine would be

. Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Performer: Flatt and Scruggs
Composer: n/a
Publisher: Bear Family
CD Title: Flatt and Scruggs 1948-1959
Band: 12
Label: Bear Family
Rec No: BCD 154472/A

2. Sky Boat Song
Performer: The Regimental Band & the Massed Pipes of the Scots Guards
Composer: trad
Publisher: Music for Pleasure
CD Title: The Scots Guards on Parade
Band: 16
Label: EMI
Rec No: CC 292

3. Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Performer: Hank Williams
Composer: Williams
Publisher: Acuff-Rose Music
CD Title: The Legendary Hank Williams
Band: side 2 trk 3
Label: K Tel
Rec No: NE 1121

4. Tutti Frutti
Performer: Little Richard
Composer: LaBostrie-Penniman
Publisher: Speciality Records
CD Title: Rockfile Vol 23
Band: 11
Label: Backline
Rec No: BLCD 9.00905

5. Across the Universe
Performer: Beatles
Composer: Lennon/McCartney
Publisher: EMI Records
CD Title: Past Masters Vol 2
Band: 13
Label: Parlophone
Rec No: CDP 790044 2

6. Highlands
Performer: Bob Dylan
Composer: Bob Dylan
Publisher: Sony Music
CD Title: Time out of Mind
Band: 11
Label: Columbia
Rec No: 486936 2

7. Morris Room
Performer: The Celebrated Ratliffe Stout Band
Composer: Devereux, Palmer & the Rats
Publisher: Plant Life Records
CD Title: Vanlag/Celebrated Ratcliffe Stout Band
Band: side 1 trk 5
Label: Plant Life
Rec No: PLR 030

8. Only the Lonely
Performer: Roy Orbison
Composer: Orbison/Melson
Publisher: The Connoisseur Collection
CD Title: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll - 1960
Band: 1
Label: Connoisseur Collection
Rec No YRNR CD 60


actualy they were Billy Connolys choices - but good ones

 

[horny_giraffe]

If you follow the original Desert Island discs on Radio 4...

You do "Pretentious Music Critic" really well. You could do a skit on SNL. God knows it would be better than the normal crap they put out.

 

[Gord]

You do "Pretentious Music Critic" really well. You could do a skit on SNL. God knows it would be better than the normal crap they put out.

Dont know if you have ever heard Desert Island discs - its not a bad programme - what is SNL ??

ok and more pretentious choices here - this is Brian May of Queen

. Saturn - The Bringer of Old Age from the Planets Suite
Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Sir Alexander Gibson
Composer: Gustav Holst
Publisher: Chandos Records Ltd
CD Title: Holst: The Planets
Band: CD Track 5
Label: Chandos
Rec No: Chan 7082

2. Maybe Baby
Performer: Buddy Holly and the Crickets
Composer: Hardin/Petty
Publisher: MCA Records
CD Title: Buddy Holly and the Crickets 20 Golden Greats
Band: CD Track 7
Label: MCA Records
Rec No: DMCTV 1

3. Tracks of My Tears
Performer: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Composer: Robinson/Moore/Tarplin
Publisher: Motown
CD Title: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, 18 Greatest Hits
Band: CD Track 6
Label: Tamla Motown
Rec No: TCD 06071

4. Back On My Feet Again
Performer: The Babys
Composer: Bugatti/Musker/Waite
Publisher: Chrysalis Records
CD Title: The Babys Anthology
Band: LP Side 1 Track 5
Label: Chrysalis
Rec No: CHR 1351

5. To Know Him Is To Love Him
Performer: Anita Dobson featuring Brian May on guitar
Composer: Phil Spector
Publisher: Bourne Music Ltd
CD Title: Talking of Love
Band: LP Side 2 Track 3
Label: Odeon
Rec No: ODN 1007

6. Since You've Been Gone
Performer: Rainbow
Composer: Russ Ballard
Publisher: Island Music Ltd
CD Title: The Best of Rainbow
Band CD2 Track 1
Label Polydor
Rec No 800 075-2 & 076-2

7. Highway to Hell
Performer: AC/DC
Composer: Young/Young/Scott
Publisher: J Albert and Son (Pty) Ltd.
CD Title: Highway to Hell
Band: CD Track 1
Label: Atlantic
Rec No: K 250628

8. We Will Rock You
Performer: Brian May and Queen
Composer: Brian May
Publisher: Queen Productions Ltd
CD Title: News of the World
Band: CD Track 1
Label: EMI
Rec No: CDP 746209 2

If Brian could take just one record it would be No 1, Saturn - The Bringer of Old Age from the Planets Suite, by Holst

His book, apart from The Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare, would be Out of the Silent Planet, by C S Lewis.

His luxury would be his own guitar: the Red Special.

 

[horny_giraffe]

Dont know if you have ever heard Desert Island discs - its not a bad programme - what is SNL ??

ok and more pretentious choices here - this is Brian May of Queen

All right. Graciously done.

SNL is Saturday Night Live, out of New York City. It's a television show that used to be funny and quite popular, but now consists of largely unfunny skits, mediocre musical guests, and guest MCs/hosts who wear their black turtlenecks and try desperately to capitalize on the lost cache that being the host of this show once had.

I'm not familiar with this Desert Island Discs show. What's Radio 4? Is it streaming on the internet?

I think I get it, though. These are Brian May's (of Queen) choices and they play these songs, right?

On a completely unrelated note, are you a Scott?

 

[Gord]

All right. Graciously done.

SNL is Saturday Night Live, out of New York City. It's a television show that used to be funny and quite popular, but now consists of largely unfunny skits, mediocre musical guests, and guest MCs/hosts who wear their black turtlenecks and try desperately to capitalize on the lost cache that being the host of this show once had.

I'm not familiar with this Desert Island Discs show. What's Radio 4? Is it streaming on the internet?

I think I get it, though. These are Brian May's (of Queen) choices and they play these songs, right?

On a completely unrelated note, are you a Scott?

Yes it is on the net - 9.00 am on Friday ( uk time ) go to www.bbc.co.uk and follow links etc

yes guests come on a choose their top 8 songs etc and spout some nonsence for 1/2 hour - its a bit of a legend here being going for ages

and I am a Scot - Killie boy

 

[kidthor]

Sorry...but I'm much too greedy to pick only ten CDs...

The Cure...My entire collection
Toad the Wet Sprocket...My entire collection
Counting Crows...My entire collection
Train...Entire collection
Tom Waits...Entire collection
The Clash...London Calling
Prince...Purple Rain
Brian Setzer...Entire collection
Ani Difranco...Entire colletion
Nine Inch Nails...Pretty Hate Machine


...Ok...so that's a lot more than ten discs, but I had trouble pairing down to just those...this desert island thing sucks...

 

[d_arthur]

hmm...my list would go something like this:

Utah Saints - Utah Saints (European Release)
Madonna - Erotica
Pet Shop Boys - Closer To Heaven Demos (19-Track Acetate)
Underworld - Everything, Everything
William Orbit - Pieces In A Modern Style
BT - Movement In Still Life (European Release)
Erasure - Cowboy
Orbital - Werk
Madonna - Deeper and Deeper (Henner and Green Mixes)
KMJ - Control

(actually, I'd probably take 10 burned discs with a bunch of live performances, vinyl-rips, and a few of my own tracks)

 

[S.Daedalus]

William Orbit - Pieces In A Modern Style

Fantastic CD. All William Orbit stuff is great!


And to answer your questions agezinder:

I know very little by mazzy star, but what i have hear I most certainly enjoy.

- Stephen

 

[teddybear4play]

I've only seen a Desert Island Five . . . never 10. This may take some thinking . . .

Aerosmith — Toys In The Attic
Peter Gabriel — So
Lauryn Hill — The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
Metallica — Metallica (a.k.a. The Black Album)
nine inch nails — the downward spiral
Pink Floyd — Dark Side Of The Moon
Bruce Springsteen — Born To Run
Talking Heads — Remain In Light
U2 — The Joshua Tree
"Weird Al" Yankovic — Running With Scissors

TB4p

 

[Thrillhouse]

Rush - Moving Pictures
Rush - Exit: Stage Left
They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - More Noise and Other Disturbances
Cordelia's Dad - how can i sleep?
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Sport Fishin'
London Symphony Orchestra - Verdi: Requiem
Nomeansno - The Day Everything Became Nothing/Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed
Living Colour - Time's Up
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill

 

[agezinder]

Hey thanks for listing your top 10 people. If you look in Tower Record's Pulse magazine, they have a section near the front called Desert Island Discs or D.I.D.'s and they list 10 CD's. That's where I got the idea for this thread. Listing 5 is near impossible given my deep interest in a wide range of music ranging from classical to techno to jazz to new age to pop.

I just want to see what everyone's musical interests are and I'm waiting for someone to post all CD's by the same artist. I saw someone do that with Depeche Mode CD's. lol. They're a great band, but come on, have some variety, right?

OKej people, post some more...I wanna see what lurks in your CD wallets!

 

[horny_giraffe]

Hey. I want more.

 

[S.Daedalus]

Bump for the evening people

 

[Ezarc]

1) Bob Marley -Legend
2) Steely Dan-Decade of Steely Dan
3) David Bowie-Changes One
4) The Smithes-"Singles"
5) Jimmy Buffett-Songs you know and love(not sure about the title here)
6) Sisters of Mercy-Floodland
7) Metallica-S&M
8) Seal-Seal(his second one)
9) The Crow-Soundtrack
10) Sarah McGlocklin-Mirrorball

 

[WaxNWane]

The Cure - Disintegration
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Outkast - Atliens
The Church - Starfish
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Pale
The Sundays - Reading, Writing, 'Rithmetic
U2 - Joshua Tree
American Analog Set - The Golden Band
Beth Orton - Central Reservation

 

[acitore_vuli]

1. Go West - Go West
2. Depeche Mode - Violator
3. Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
4. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
5. Kansas - Left Overture
6. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced
7. Nickel Creek - Nickel Creek
8. Aerosmith - Aerosmith
9. Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
10. Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries