Desert Island Dozen Records List
brianlux
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This is a take-off on the classic "Desert Island Disc" list. I used to read these listed frequently when Tower Records published them in their newsletter and the one's listed by musicians in Musician Magazine. That was several years ago and there's been so much more music recorded since then that I decided to expand it to an even dozen.
Some basic grounds rules:
- Twelve only! No cheating!
- Original albums only ( I know- boo, hiss!) No compilations, best of albums etc.
- This is your list- don't put down what you think will make you look cool to someone else. Be true to yourself.
- Everyone gets their own list- it's their list- don't give them grief if you don't like it.
- My advice is choose your list to include only what you wouldn't mind hearing over and over- in other words, forget about the critical ratings- and think variety unless you truly only listen to one or two bands.
- This is a thought experiment. You will not really be forced to listen to only 12 records for the rest of your life- you can leave the island when you've had it with your selection.
- This is harder than it looks. I started with a long list and pared it down- and re-wrote it over and over.
- If all else fails, use the edit button.
OK, my list:
1. Pearl Jam: “Yield”
2. Pearl Jam: "No Code"
3. Neil Young & Crazy Horse: “Rust Never Sleeps”
4. Neil Young with Crazy Horse: "Broken Arrow"
5. Jimi Hendrix: "Axis: Bold As Love"
6. The Replacements: “Let it Be”
7. Paul Westerberg: "Mono/Stereo"
8. The New York Dolls: “The New York Dolls”
9. The Ramones: “Leave Home”
10. Dump Truck: “For the Country”
11. Larry Coryell: “Coryell”
12. Harvey Mandel: "Games Guitars Play"
Some basic grounds rules:
- Twelve only! No cheating!
- Original albums only ( I know- boo, hiss!) No compilations, best of albums etc.
- This is your list- don't put down what you think will make you look cool to someone else. Be true to yourself.
- Everyone gets their own list- it's their list- don't give them grief if you don't like it.
- My advice is choose your list to include only what you wouldn't mind hearing over and over- in other words, forget about the critical ratings- and think variety unless you truly only listen to one or two bands.
- This is a thought experiment. You will not really be forced to listen to only 12 records for the rest of your life- you can leave the island when you've had it with your selection.
- This is harder than it looks. I started with a long list and pared it down- and re-wrote it over and over.
- If all else fails, use the edit button.
OK, my list:
1. Pearl Jam: “Yield”
2. Pearl Jam: "No Code"
3. Neil Young & Crazy Horse: “Rust Never Sleeps”
4. Neil Young with Crazy Horse: "Broken Arrow"
5. Jimi Hendrix: "Axis: Bold As Love"
6. The Replacements: “Let it Be”
7. Paul Westerberg: "Mono/Stereo"
8. The New York Dolls: “The New York Dolls”
9. The Ramones: “Leave Home”
10. Dump Truck: “For the Country”
11. Larry Coryell: “Coryell”
12. Harvey Mandel: "Games Guitars Play"
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Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Morphine - Like Swimming
Ludovico Einaudi - I Giorni
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Pearl Jam - Yield
1 thru 7-classics:
PJ-Binaural, Yield, No Code
Soundgarden-Superunkown
The Doors-S/T
The Beatles-White Album
Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Dream
7 thru 10-the harder/faster stuff:
Against Me-Searching for a Former Clarity
Rise Against-The Unraveling, Appeal to Reason
Metallica-And Justice for All
And 12-need to slow it down and relax:
Band of Horses-Everything All the Time
"Why go home? I am home! And I gotta tell you, it feels FUCKIN GREAT to be here. You may experience this yourself but, if you were born in Chicago, you're always from Chicago. And even if you don't live in Chicago, Chicago will always live in you."-Ed
2) The Beatles - White Album
3) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
4) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
5) The Who - Tommy
6) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
7) Mother Love Bone - Apple
8) Pearl Jam - vs.
9) The White Stripes - Elephant
10) Jack White - Blunderbuss
11) Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
12) Van Halen - Van Halen I
Only put a little thought into this list. I'm sure I missed something I would want.
That's what made it difficult for me to make a list of only twelve (choosing ten back in the day was even more difficult!). I must have changed my list twenty times! It's a tough assignment!
Neil Finn--7 Worlds Collide
My Morning Jacket--Z
Neil Young--Decade
Radiohead--OK Computer
Rolling Stones--Exile
Heartless Bastards--All This Time
Pearl Jam--Yield
White Stripes--Get Behind Me Satan
Pink Floyd--Wish You Were Here
Brad--Welcome To Discovery Park
The Band--The Last Waltz
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The National - Alligator
Radiohead - Kid A
Ty Segall - Melted
REM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
blur - Modern Life is Rubbish
Bjork - Homogenic
Daft Punk - Discovery
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Arcade Fire - Funeral
White Stripes -Elephant
Whiskeytown - Strangers Alamanac
Decade is a compilation, mfc... but it's Neil so you get a pass on that one.
i know....i couldn't pick just one NY album!
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2) Appetite for Destruction
3) Exile on Main Street
4) IV (Zoso)
5) The Beatles (White Album)
6) Electric Ladyland
7) The Wall
8) Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
9) Blind Faith Redux (cheated within rules there
10) Ten
11) Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
12) Who's Next
No band names necessary....
Here's my list off the top of my head and in no particular order:
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Paul Kelly - Hidden Things
silverchair - Diorama
Crowded House - Temple of Low Men
Pearl Jam - Binaural
Pearl Jam - Yield
Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild Soundtrack
John Butler Trio - April Uprising
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zep - Zoso
Jennifer Lopez - JLo (I'm in a deserted island... need a lil musical binge
Beatles - White Album
.. I'll press submit before I over-think it
True for me except for Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking. Should I be ashamed to admit that?
Educate me, Edson.
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Guns 'n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
The Who - Quadrophenia
Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites
REM - Automatic for the People
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
U2 - Achtung Baby
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Garbage - Garbage
Heavy on stuff from my high school and college years, lacking in recent stuff (I just don't fall in love with albums like I used to), light on classic-rock staples (hard to single out one album I prefer for artists like the Beatles, Stones, Springsteen, Zeppelin, etc).
Shaquille O'Neal - Shaq Fu: Da Return
Crazy Town - The Gift of the Game
Lou Bega - A Little Bit of Mambo
Mars Volta - Francis the Mute
Weezer - Make Believe
Chris Cornell - Scream
Matchbox 20 - You or Something Like You
Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
Crash Test Dummies - And God Shuffled His Feet
John Mayer - Douche of the Year
Prince - Batman
Who's Next
No Code
Yield
Empty Glass
Zep III
Purple
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Handwritten
Let It Bleed
Beggar's Banquet
DEGENERATE FUK
This place is dead
"THERE ARE NO CLIQUES, ONLY THOSE WHO DON'T JOIN THE FUN" - Empty circa 2015
"Kfsbho&$thncds" - F Me In the Brain - circa 2015
Eddie Vedder. Into the Wild.
Joe Strummer. Street Core.
Arctic Monkeys. Suck It and See.
Ten Years After. Cricklewood Green.
Bob Dylan. Bootleg Series Volume 8. Tell Tale Signs.
Butch Walker. Left of Self-Centered.
Down and Above. Hold Your Breath for a Rising Tide.
White Stripes. Icky Thump.
Mother Love Bone. Self Titled.
Roger Waters with Eric Clapton and David Sanborn and Michael Kamen conducting the London Phil
An extremely under appreciated album. No need to be ashamed, but you should get it.
The Felice Brothers- The Felice Brothers
The White Album- Beatles
King for a Day- Faith No More
Pain in my Heart- Otis Redding
Ill Communication- Beastie Boys
No Code- Pearl Jam
Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd
The Last Waltz- The Band
Yield- Pearl Jam
Far Beyond Driven- Pantera
Relationship of Command- At The Drive In
ERRRRRRRRRRR this is fucking Impossible!! I have changed it ten times!! hitting submit and I will start working on my life boat ASAP!!
Abrn Hlls '98 - Clarkston 2 '03 - Grd Rpds '06 - Abrn Hlls '06 - Clvd '10 - PJ20 - Berlin 1+2 '12 - Wrigley '13 - Pitt '13- buff '13- Philly 1+2 '13 - Seattle '13
Thanks! I'll check it out.
Sorry- it really is torture!
Excellent list however!
Abrn Hlls '98 - Clarkston 2 '03 - Grd Rpds '06 - Abrn Hlls '06 - Clvd '10 - PJ20 - Berlin 1+2 '12 - Wrigley '13 - Pitt '13- buff '13- Philly 1+2 '13 - Seattle '13
... 10c Survivor... :corn:
Abrn Hlls '98 - Clarkston 2 '03 - Grd Rpds '06 - Abrn Hlls '06 - Clvd '10 - PJ20 - Berlin 1+2 '12 - Wrigley '13 - Pitt '13- buff '13- Philly 1+2 '13 - Seattle '13
The Tragically Hip- Phantom Power
Bruce Springsteen- Nebraska
Tom Waits- Mule Variations
The Weakerthans- Left & Leaving
Pearl Jam- Yield
Buffalo Tom- Let Me Come Over
Drive-By Truckers- Southern Rock Opera
U2- Achtung Baby
Skydiggers- Restless
The Lowest of the Low- Shakespeare My Butt
Death Cab for Cutie- Transatlanticism
Steve Earle- I Feel Alright
-Tom Waits
So, your desert island discs are your inspiration to just swim for it?