So you're 5 desert island albums are….

Led Zep 111.

plus 4 of the above.

Southern Harmany or Amorica. Black Crows
Harvast. God aka Neil Young
Let it Bleed, some old blokes
Screamadia, some more old blokes, or The stones Roses.

Pixies – Doolittle
Stone Roses – Stone Roses
Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
REM – Out of Time or Automatic for the People
Nick Cave – Push The Sky Away
Johnny Cash – Live at Fulsom Prison
…shit, that’s six…

Tough call. And apt to change from day to day.

Ride. Nowhere.
Julian Cope. Jehovakill.
Manic Street Preachers. The Holy Bible.
Mega City Four. Who Cares Wins.
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip. Repent Replenish Repeat.

The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
Otis Blue – Otis Redding
The Charlatans – The Charlatans
Live at San Quentin – Johnny Cash
A Northern Soul – The Verve

5 is too damned hard.

Lovely to see Ride mentioned!

Dory Previn – Mythical Kings and Iguanas
Little Feat – Feats Don’t Fail Me Now
Deerhoof – Runners Four
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Pram – Gash

…in no particular order.

MIA arular
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver
Stooges Fun House
Pharcyde bizarre ride…

No Doors or Aphex or Wu tang or white stripes or DfA 1979 or caribou or Rage. life is tough

Weezer – Blue Album
I’ve been known to play it three times in the trot….. If I could have written and performed music this would have been the album I would have written. Perfection.

Green Day – Dookie
It’s fair to say that hearing Basket Case was a pivotal point in my life

Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill
Again, played over and over until we wore the tape out. Something genuinely new at the time, still some of the best tunes ever IMO.

Dire Straits – Love over Gold
Long lumbering tunes I get into

Prodigy – Music for the Gilted Generation
Again, something genuinely new and it’s never aged. Still fresh.

Leonard Cohen – The Best Of (1976)
U2 – The Joshua Tree
R.E.M. – Green
The Smiths – Louder Than Bombs
The Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues

(A bit sneaky to use compilations, I know, but that way I get more songs.)

Today’s choice would be

Greig’s piano concerto – Andsnes/Berlin Philharmonic
Thomas Waller – Memorial
The Beatles – 1
Bob Marley – Legend
Pulp – Hits

Happy to follow the precedent set and use compilations although in Waller’s case he predated the rise of the Album so most original recordings would have been 2 tracks at best.

Some interesting choices. Surprised to see so few mentions of Talking Heads. Despite choosing Blood on the Tracks I’d be slightly worried about the mental state of some people after listening to some of the more dour albums being offered 😕

My wife’s choice, she’s younger than me but still likes the classics

Coldplay The Scientist
Gorillaz Demon Days
Luther Vandross Give me the Reason
Athlete Vehicles and Animals
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman

Kid A – Radiohead
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
Low – Things we lost in the fire
Cinematic Orchestra – Motion
For Tet – Everything Ecstatic
(And I’d sneak in Blithefield – Beautiful Wave ’74 up me jumper too)

whitestone – Member
Despite choosing Blood on the Tracks I’d be slightly worried about the mental state of some people after listening to some of the more dour albums being offered

I don’t think I could cope with any Richard Thompson, much as I love him.
An eternity in solitude with Waltzing’s for Dreamers or Meet on the Ledge?

Nick Drake would have me running into the sea within half an hour and absolutely no Joy Division.

On yer genuine desert island, I reckon you’d need humour, anger, danceability and something suitable for sunsets.

Hard to narrow down to 5 but here goes:
The Clash – 1st album.
The Beatles – White album.
Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers remixed version. (listening to it now)
Island Records presents Dub – Hard and Heavy Dub Cuts.
The Clash – Super Black Market Clash.
You can never have too much Clash.

As suggested above, this is too tricky, 50 albums would be easier:

1. A concept album, either Tommy, The Who or The Wall, Pink Floyd
2. Blood on the tracks, Bob Dylan
3. Something funky, Maggot Brain, Funkadelic or possibly Sign of the Times, Prince
4. In a Silent Way, Miles Davis
5. Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Benjamin Britten (ousting a Kate Bush album, which feels like betrayal!).

New Order – Power, Corruption & Lies
Stone Roses – Stone Roses
Smiths – Queen Is Dead
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis Bold As Love
Led Zeppelin – III

2 approaches to this:
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Born to Run
The River
Magic
Wrecking Ball
Gets a whole lot more complicated if you allow bootlegs and nugs releases.
However if I limit myself to 1 album per artist the it would be something like:
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Highway 61 Revisited
Clash 1st
Exile on Main Street
Revolver
……….today. Always going to include the 1st 2!

God Shuffled His Feet – Crash Test Dummies

Stone Roses – Stone Roses

Replicas – Gary Numan

Welcome to The Pleasuredome – Frankie GTH

Snap – The Jam

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis Bold as Love
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Matrix – Sleepwalk
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV

Want to take an Orbital live show as well!

I’ve changed my mind
Mogwai-Come on die young
My Bloody Valentine-Loveless
Slint-Spiderland
Wu Tang-36 Chambers
Radiohead-A moon shaped pool

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

I feel the same about Zappa. As for choosing 5 classical albums – impossible.
Some great suggestions on here I agree with though.
Solid Air
Parallel Lines
Wrecking Ball
and others.

There would have to be some Richard Thompson so I’m going for Mirror Blue.
Oh and on the basis I’m still playing it regularly after 40odd years, The Yes Album.

Heligoland – Massive Attack
Around the fur – Deftones
Blues Brothers soundtrack
AM – Arctic Monkeys
Evil Empire – Rage Against the Machine

Hope I’m on a different desert island to you lot taking Radiohead albums.

😉

Rum,Sodomy and the Lash – The Pogues
Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie
London Calling – The Clash
Gold – Ryan Adams
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road – Lucinda Williams

Decision on which album by the artist is tough enough.

I am assuming I would be alone on said island. If I had laydee company I would need to substitute in The Delfonics.

Is anyone keeping count? Whats the STW top five?

There’s far less Underworld here than I would have guessed.

Only problem I ever had was choosing just one Underworld album so hence I went with the Gas compilation, which is sort of like Underworld yet played beneath the ocean and stretched to infinity.

Anyway changed my mind:

Gas – Nah und Fern
Destroyer – Destroyer’s Rubies
Stereolab – Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Motorpsycho – The Death Defying Unicorn
Curtis Mayfield – Superfly

Oceanlab – Sirens of the Sea (+ remixes if that’s allowed)
Immortal Technique – Revolutionary vol. 2
Pulp – Different Class
George Michael – Ladies & Gentlemen
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 3, Jascha Horenstein conducting the London Symphony Orchestra

Bit of something for every occasion there.

Sea Change – Beck
Moondance – Van Morrison
Murray Street – Sonic Youth
Siamese Dream – Smashing Pumpkins
Soft Bulletin – Flaming Lips

Man Machine – Kraftwerk on the substitutes bench along with Houdini – Melvins

Too many Oasis shouts here for my liking.

Some good shouts but …

Now that’s what I call music 11

Now that’s what I call music 12

Pan pipe moods

Help – Warchild Album

Pink Floyd – Wish you were here

wilburt – Member

Is anyone keeping count? Whats the STW top five?

Not keeping count, but this is what I’ve noticed as popular

Led Zepp, ‘Physical Graffiti’
Stone Roses, ‘The Stone Roses’
Miles David ‘Kind of Blue’ very popular (and why not?)
Bowie, Hunky Dory beats Ziggy
Joshua Tree.

Might say something about our age

Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
The Clash London Calling
Brian Eno Another Green World
Martyn Bennett Bothy Culture
John Coltrane A love supreme

Liking your selection Blackhound. I’d have Lucinda Williams in my rotating 3: World Without Tears tho’.

joolsburger – Member
Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
Nightmares on Wax – Smokers Delight
Infected – The The
Vivaldi – The four seasons (Neville Marriner/Alan Loveday)
James Brown – In a jungle Groove

I’d been dividing you all into two groups – those who list the artist/band first, and those who list the album first, until I got to this post.

The Notwist – Neon Golden
The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
Faith No More – Angel Dust
Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Mike Oldfield – Ommadawn

I think I’d be happy with those 5, but there’d still be others that I’d miss a lot.

Shack – H.M.S. Fable
Jaco Pastorius – Continuum
Bill Callahan – Dream River
Martin Simpson – Prodigal Son
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Mustt Mustt

I could go on and on…will miss many others 🙂
Wish I’d added the The Gloaming – 2

Unbelievably difficult, there are so many albums I’ve grown to love over the years, but so far I’ve got:
XTC – Apple Venus
Kris Delmhorst – Songs For A Hurricane
Emmylou Harris – Cowgirls Prayer
Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
Elvis Costello – All This Useless Beauty
Talk Talk – It’s My Life
But that means there’s no Portishead, Belly, The Dears, Metric, Arcade Fire, Sandy Denny, Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits, Wolf Parade…
Maybe another list a bit later on.

Some nice choices there, CountZero. I like the Emmylou Harris especially. Meanwhile, XTC intrigues me. Certainly growing up in Canada, I was one of the few who had ever heard of them.

XTC are a quintessential English band, they really couldn’t come from anywhere else, and Apple Venus is, IMHO, their best album, there are some stunning songs, like Greenman, Harvest Festival, and Easter Theatre, of Colin Moulding’s slightly more humorous songs, and a blistering, scathing attack on an ex, called Your Dictionary.
Great band, really worth checking through their catalogue.
I’m very fond of quite a few Canadian bands, it’s only thanks to 6Music that they’ve managed to get exposure here over the last ten years or so, I saw The Dears last night in a small Bristol venue, they were brilliant, met Murray and Natalia afterwards as well, then there’s Metric, Arcade Fire, The New Pornographers, Stars, Broken Social Scene…
Any of which could be included in my five albums.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables- The Dead Kennedys
Never Mind The Bollocks-The Sex pistols.
Leftism-Leftfield
Bend Sinister-The Fall.
Doolittle-The Pixies and any other Pixies album

I’ve found this task really bloody difficult. My initial thoughts were that I’d real off 5 in no time, yet I’m struggling to find 1 more, I have 4.. the other 1 is eluding me simply for the reason I don’t want to leave all the other favourites out, so I’m stopping at 4.
I’ve gone from the heart, those albums that carved a niche in me..

Another eclectic mix but variety is the spice on a desert island

Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
Stereophonics – Word Gets Around
Led Zeppelin – III
Jason Isbell – Southeastern
The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come For Free