Desert Island Discs
Wobbie
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Tower Records used to do this....the scenario is you're headed for a deserted island (e.g. Gilligan's) and you can take 12 albums with you. You'll have to listen to them for the rest of your life :shock: . Which 12 would you take?
(your turntable is monkey powered and I'm gonna pretend all this stuff is available on vinyl)
My Desert Island Discs (in no particular order):
Achtung Baby - U2
Warehouse: Songs and Stories - Husker Du
New Miserable Experience - Gin Blossoms
Live at the Gorge - Pearl Jam
Black Sheets of Rain - Bob Mould
Let It Bleed - Stones
Live in Aught Three - James McMurtry
Lonesome Jubilee - John Mellencamp
R30 - Rush
SHMC - Black Crowes
Quadrophenia - the Who
Films About Ghosts - Counting Crows
Feel free to rip my choices! Think you can do better?
(your turntable is monkey powered and I'm gonna pretend all this stuff is available on vinyl)
My Desert Island Discs (in no particular order):
Achtung Baby - U2
Warehouse: Songs and Stories - Husker Du
New Miserable Experience - Gin Blossoms
Live at the Gorge - Pearl Jam
Black Sheets of Rain - Bob Mould
Let It Bleed - Stones
Live in Aught Three - James McMurtry
Lonesome Jubilee - John Mellencamp
R30 - Rush
SHMC - Black Crowes
Quadrophenia - the Who
Films About Ghosts - Counting Crows
Feel free to rip my choices! Think you can do better?
If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Philly I & II, 16
Denver 22
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The Cure - Disintegration
The Who - Quadrophenia
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same (remastered)
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
U2 - The Joshua Tree
The Tragically Hip - Fully, Completely
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Kiss - Live
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Pearl Jam - Ten
I'm sure I'll think of a few that I'd trade for what's already on my list but right now thats what I come up with and I'm sure I'm showing my age!
Roberto Clemente.
I'll try to put something together later, but I had to point out that I'm pretty sure a 7-disc box set is kinda cheating
Pink Floyd:Meddle
Lynyrnd Skynyrd:One More For The Road
Pearl Jam:Live at the Gorge
White Stripes:Elephant
Jimi Hendrix:Electric Ladyland
Black Crowes:Southern Harmony and the Musical Companion
Ray LaMontagne:Till The Sun Turns Black
Sigur Ros:Takk
Eels:Electro Shock Blues
Bill Hicks:Shock and Awe
Neil Diamond:Essential
Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
Neil Young- On the Beach
Pearl Jam- Ten
Dinosaur Jr- You're Living All over Me
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Alice in Chains- Dirt
Kyuss- Welcome to Sky Valley
Modest Mouse- Oh Lonesome Crowded West
Radiohead- Ok Computer
Neil Young- Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
Ryan Adams- Cold Roses
Arcade Fire- Funeral
Charlotte 03
Asheville 04
Atlanta 12
Greenville 16, Columbia 16
Seattle 18
Nashville 22
Ohana Festival 24 x2
Live - Throwing Copper
Counting Crows - August & Everything After
The Samples - Transmissions in the Sea of Tranquility
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
RATM - The Battle of Los Angeles
Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
DMB - Under the Table and Dreaming
U2 - Achtung Baby
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
Radiohead - OK Computer
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music...Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
Weezer - Pinkerton
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Scott Weiland - 12 Bar Blues
"Vinyl or not, you will need to pay someone to take RA of your hands" - Smile05
424, xxx
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Blind Melon - Soup
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
The Strokes - Is This It?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible
The Who - Who's Next
Heatmiser - Mic City Sons
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Links
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
I remembered seeing a similar thread here and decided to resurrect this one by Rob and update my Desert Island Disc list (which must be on a different thread somewhere in the heaps of threadage).
My current list does not include what are necessarily my favorite albums but are a mix of things that would give me some variety while stranded. Like most of us, my list changes over the years. Thankfully, there are lots of Islands!
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
The Dream Syndicate: The Complete Live at Raji's
Slim Dunlap: The Old New Me/ Times Like This
Japan: Quiet Life
Joy Division: Substance
Harvey Mandel: Cristo Redentor
Ornette Coleman: This is Our Music
The Replacements: Tim
Neil Young: Tonight's the Night
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
RHCP - Stadium Arcadium
Spiderbait - Ivy and the Big Apples
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
Grinspoon - Guide to Better Living
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Kiss - Alive
Led Zeppellin - Physical Graffiti
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Tool - Lateralus
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Melbourne #2 '03
Melbourne #3 '03
Melbourne #1 '06
Melbourne #3 '06
Melbourne '09
Melbourne '14
Led Zeppelin - 1
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pearl Jam - Yield
So many options but I'm good with this ten.
Yeah, for sure, so darned many options! My list is a lot different than it used to be because I went with a different strategy and made a mix of styles of music. I left out some favorites, including one of biggest, longtime favorites, Jimi Hendrix. I figured since I know all of the best Hendrix albums so well, I could just play them in my head. But sure enough, at some point on that island I would be kicking myself for not including the first one or Axis. Tough choices to make! And just remembered that I want Brian Eno's Another Green World on my list.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
I hear ya! It's hard for me to list a favorite Jimi, but if I had to , it would be Axis!
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
I have these:
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"