Been spending a bit of time working through some older music I have. I’d forgotten how much I love some of it.

If I could only take five albums with me they’d be:

Depeche Mode: Violator
Synth has never got better. Just some belting tracks – Halo, Clean and, of course Enjoy the Silence. The rest ain’t bad either

Oasis: Definitely Maybe
I was 24 when this was released so full of good memories (which I can’t remember). Full of confidence and in your face attitude.

Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
Just cos, right?

Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
Kashmir and In the Light are just epic. Just shades their other albums

J J Cale: Troubadour
Just rocks along quietly and gets your foot tapping for those quieter moments the above don’t hit

These aren’t necessarily my top five ever, but with only five to choose some variety is necessary.

No compilations, and no ‘honourable mentions’ allowed. Them’s the rules!

Joshua tree

Physical Graphiti, (agreed with In the Light and Kashmir)

Misplaced Childhood

The Wall

Changes 1 Bowie.

John McLaughlin Trio Live at the Royal Festival Hall.

Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)

Inside Out (John Martin)

Rickie Lee Jones

Real Life (Magazine)

BTW – “You are 5 desert island albums are…”

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Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan). Probably the greatest album ever recorded.
Complete recordings (Robert Johnson)
St Mathews passion (J S Bach)
Murder Ballads (Nick Cave)
Foreign Affairs (Tom Waits)

Some of this list will inevitably change as I think more about it (except for the first choice).

Yay! Pedantry still alive and kicking! Well dun Woppit 🙄

Good call on Physical Graffiti OP, with you on Kashmir, my fave track of all time 8)

Today I’ll add ( as my choice will likely vary day to day)
Leftism – Leftfield
Delicate Sound of Thunder – Pink Floyd
Queen 1
Subliminal Sessions 2 – Harry ‘Choo Choo’ Romero

Someone has to Protect The Nation against the rising tide of grammatical filth…

(Thinks… what a great album title…)

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Live from Nowhere Inparticular – Joe Bonamassa

The Division Bell – Pink Floyd

The Two Ring Circus – Erasure

Modern Times – Bob Dylan

Sunny Side Up – Paolo Nutini

Mine would change daily, but today I’ll go with:

Astral Weeks – Van Morrison.
Dust – Screaming Trees.
Teens Of Denial – Car Seat Headrest.
Blast Tyrant – Clutch.
Tyrone The Gun – Tom Blackwell.

Golden Age of Wireless – Thomas Dolby
Tougher than Leather – Run DMC
Permanent Vacation – Aerosmith
Black Holes & Revelations – Muse
The Empire Strikes Back – John Williams

And a stereo noisey enough to annoy the neighbours on the next island!

Van Morrison – St Dominic’s Preview.
The Beta Band – 3 ep’s.
The Smiths – The Queen is Dead.
Blyth Power – A little touch of Harry in the night.
Little Feat – Dixie Chicken.

Nine inch nails – downward spiral.
Oasis – definitely maybe.
The clash – London calling.
Manic Street preachers – the holy Bible.
Nirvana – in utero.

I’m stuck in the 90s popular rock segment

Edit; saw the Queen is dead above me. I’ll replace in utero with the smiths.

Eurythmics- Touch
Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
The Bluetones – Expecting to Fly
The Chemical Bros – Singles 93-03 (if that’s allowed, exit planet dust if not)
Powderfinger – Oddessy Number Five

Somewhat eclectic, but all chosen for their personal significance rather than musical symmetry.

And a stereo noisey enough to annoy the neighbours on the next island!

Agree having recently replaced my streaming devices with good old fashioned seperates and cd’s.

Bowie-Hunky Dory
Smiths- The Queen is Dead
Sting – Fields of Gold

I seem to be getting into Jazz recently so a couple of nice albums maybe with a female vocaist as recommended by STW.

Dire Straits – Alchemy Live
Pink Floyd – The Wall (Live)
Strung Out – Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues
Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

Would be hard choosing a fifth!!

If they’re taking me right this minute…
Sabre’s of Paradise -Sabresonic
My Bloody Valentine -Loveless
Led Zeppelin – Led ZepII
Blondie – Parallel Lines
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication

Hmm this is really difficult.

The Offspring – “Smash”
The Smiths- “Hatful of Hollow”
The Virginmarys- “King of Conflict”
George Dalaras & Dimitra Galani -“Live” (this would be my choice if we were only allowed one)
U2 – The Joshua Tree

Exodus Bob Marley
Random access memories Daft Punk
A Motown greatest hits of some sort
Some Girls – stones
George Thorogood and the delaware destoyers

Led Zep – Physical Graffiti
Little Feat – Dixie Chicken
Fairport Convention – Liege and Lief
Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
Paul Simon – Graceland

Spotify 😉
Though seriously
The stone roses
Propeller heads decks and drums and rock n roll
Something from. Massive attack
Needs to come back later…

5 albums? I can’t even decide which Neil Young albums to leave behind.

Pretty sure albums are not allowed, Roy won’t be happy.

The Stones: Let it Bleed
Pixies: Doolittle
Black Crowes: Southern Harmony…
King Creosote: From Scotland…
Neil Young: Weld, Live Rust, Tonights the Night, Harvest, After the Goldrush Everybody Knows This is Nowhere.

Wait a minute, I’m sure I’ve forgotten someone…

Remain in Light – Talking Heads
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Animals – Pink Floyd
Blue Sky Mining – Midnight Oil
Blue Album – The Beatles

Ask me again in half an hour and I’ll have other ideas 😀

Let me see… would have to be albums with no duff tracks…
Clipping. – ‘clpng’ (could spend time learning all the words)
Siouxsie & the Banshees – ‘The Scream’ but then again Gang of Four – ‘Entertainment’ I like more… er…
Radiohead – ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ (not even their best, but hear different things every time) or no! maybe ‘Amok’ by Atoms for Peace
Underworld – ‘dubnobasswithmyheadman’ or ‘Second Toughest’ or ‘Beaucoup Fish’
Now, would it be Alex Smoke or Tricky or !!! or ooh, Pavement .. or White Stripes… I dunno. How about Project Mooncircle’s anniversary compilation, has loads of tracks on it, nice variety! Agh. It’s too hard. Oh yeah ‘Hunky Dory’!

OK Computer – Radiohead
Music for the jilted generation – The Prodigy
2001 – Dr Dre
Revolver – The Beatles
Appetite for destruction – GnR

Something for every mood

It would have to be albums I always come back to, never get sick of and can stick on during any mood. I’d go for:

Weezer – Blue Album
Incubus – Make Yourself
Fat Freddy’s Drop – Blackbird
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Ben Howard – Every Kingdom

Leftfield – Leftism (pissed after not being able to get tickets this morning though!)

DJ Shadow – Endtroducing

Nirvana – Nevermind

Rage Against the Machine – self titled

Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork

Not necessarily the best albums, but all have meant a great deal at points in my life and withstand listening too repeatedly

couldn’t possibly say, it would change practically every time I think about it

but if pushed…

Moon shaped Pool or In Rainbows – Radiohead
Abbey Road – Beatles
Dolittle – Pixies
Q: Are We Not Men A: We are Devo – Devo
Post – Bjork (probably…)

Appetite for destruction – GnR
Maybe you should drive – Barenaked Ladies
Word gets around – Stereophonics
Reload – Tom Jones
Gordon or Born on a pirate ship – Barenaked Ladies – as Maybe you should drive doesn’t have $1M, and you can’t have too many bare naked ladies on a desert island.

Some great albums indeed!

Funny innit. I get abused (occasionally!) for my music taste, but I have at least one album from every list here except 3.
Both the lists with Daft Punk in, I have none of, but I have all other Daft Punk albums apart from the one chosen.
From both scud and nickc’s lists, I have all 5.

There, I found that quite interesting anyway 😆

Another vote for Physical Graffiti – In My Time OF Dying my fave track

Radiohead – The Bends

U2 – Achtung Baby

Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

Kraftwerk – Tour De France

Odd list when I think about it, these are the albums I have listened to the most over the years, and a bit of a cop out from the OP question as I don’t think they are My desert Island picks, and there are 3 THREE compilations albums. I guess these are the ones I have had easiest access to on various formats over the years, my tastes are much heavier than this list would suggest.

Full Moon Fever Tom Petty
Decade Neil Young
Back in Black AC/DC
Legend Bob Marley
The who then and now

From both scud and nickc’s lists, I have all 5.

from your posts on music threads, I think we have similar tastes

Again, not for being the ‘best’ albums ever but for where they take me back to at various times in my life

Wedding Present – George Best
Smiths – Hatful of Hollow
Pixies – Surfer Rosa
Pulp – His n’ Hers
High School Musical – OST (need something to remind me of my girls, and this was played incessantly when they were little)

MBV – Loveless
The Stone Roses
Beulah – When your heartstrings break
The Go! Team – Thunder Lightning Strike
Dj Spinbad – Fabriclive mix CD

Does a DJ mix count as a compilation? If not then I’m not playing.

Oh OK then, I’d swap it for The Penguin Cafe – Preludes airs etc.

PS – it was either HSM or 1D; doesn’t seem such a bad choice now does it?

Not necessarily my 5 top albums, but if I’m only going to listen to 5 for the rest of my days, I’d like a bit of variety:

Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual

Cypress Hill – Black Sunday

1812 Overture – It’s a CD I’ve got at home conducted by Karajan that’s got the 1812 and some other highlights, Nutcracker Suite I think, and possibly some Romeo and Juliet – I suppose you could think of it as a “Tchaikovsky’s Greatest Hits”

Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul

Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

EDIT: Just been reminded that it would be hard to survive without a copy of Appetite for Destruction – so the Fatboy Slim might have to go.