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You are about to be abandoned on a desert island, which somehow has electricity, a CD player and speakers but no internet, postal service or chance of rescue. Don't ask questions, it really doesn't matter. You can take 10 (changed from 5 as 5 is too difficult, although 10 is tough as well) albums, no greatest hits and only 1 album per band allowed. This is all the music you have to listen to for the rest of your life. What would you go for? Basically interested in checking out new music so want to see the favourites.

 

For me (in no particular order):

 

1) Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2) Anthrax - Among The Living

3) Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4) System Of A Down - System Of A Down

5) Alter Bridge - One Day Remains

6) Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

7) Stormtroopers Of Death - Speak English Or Die

8 ) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

9) Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

10) Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

 

I'll probably change my mind in 5 minutes.

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Sgt Peppers - The Beatles

Alf - Alison Moyet

Something by Robert Zimmerman probably 'The Essential'

Mob Rules - Black Sabbath

Led Zep IV - Led Zep

Wish You Were Here - Floyd

The Sun Sessions - Elvis

Bridge Over Troubled water - Simon and Garfunkel

The Best of Ska - Various

 

Only nine as , I'm probabaly missing an obvious one.

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The Beatles: Revolver

The Rolling Stones: Beggar's Banquet

Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde

The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds

Neil Young: After the Goldrush

Frank Sinatra: Only the Lonely

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

Ella Fitzgerald: The Gerswhin Songbook

Mozart: Piano Concertos 21 & 23

Beethoven: Symphonies 3 & 5

 

 

 

Ten is not enough!

 

:(

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Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

The Wildhearts - Earth Vs The Wildhearts

Nirvana - Nevermind

Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I (couldn't live without "Coma")

Metallica - Garage, Inc.

AC/DC - Back In Black

Buckcherry - Buckcherry

Terrorvision - How To Make Friends And Influence People

Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

Pearl Jam - Ten

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If I was stuck alone on an island, I'd probably want the records that made me most happy, rather than just my favourites (some of which are a bit gloomy or angry).

 

Fela Kuti and Afrika 70 - Zombie

Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix

John Coltrane - My Favourite Things

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

Joseph Nothing - Dummy Variations

Joanna Newsome - The Milk Eyed Mender

New Order - Technique

Scientist - Scientist Rids The World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires

Toots & the Maytals - 20 Massive Hits (sorry Rattlehead, they were a singles band)

Miles Davis - Big Fun

 

But I'd probably choose ten completely different albums if, for example, I was stood in front of my collection with 60 seconds to decide before my certain exile.

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Radiohead - OK Computer

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow (sorry, sort of compilation)

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

The Cure - Disintegration

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Joanna Newsom - Ys

Daft Punk - Homework

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

 

I'll narrow it down later

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We did this before, a few years back. It's a right sod to come up with the albums of choice, and in as little time as the next day one can change one's mind. Let's have a go off the cuff.

 

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

XTC - Skylarking

The Dukes Of Stratosphear - Chips From The Chocolate Fireball

The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children

Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

Talking Heads - Fear Of Music

Laurie Anderson - Mr Heartbreak

Pat Metheny - Secret Story

Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries

Beach Boys - Surf's Up

 

 

But it could 10 compeletely different others as well. Unlike Hamilton, I left out Mozart, but I could include Mahler. For pete's sake, I've left out Yes, Led Zep, Jimi, Peter Gabriel, Jethro Tull, Simple Minds and loads of others. I'll grudgingly say that my top 3 would always be in any selection of mine. But I'd almost certainly add Surf's Up. There, I have.

 

I never need any Beatles tracks as I know all the ones I love atom by atom in my head. I could say the same of Beach Boy tracks, but I like them just that much more. Besides, it's impossible to rekindle those BB harmonies in one's memory perfectly. I can sing practically all XTC tracks accurately, bar a few off GO2, to myself as well. But Skylarking is just so great, it would be sacrilege to leave it out. ;)

 

Selecting is tough. No easier than it was last time.

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The Specials - The Specials

The Undertones- The Understones

Selecter- Too Much Pressure

The Beat- What is Beat

The Jam- Sound Affects

Talking Heads- Little Creatures

Queen- Night at the Opera

The Skids- The Saints are Coming

The Clash- London Calling

Leona Lewis-Spirit

 

I agree ten is nowhere near enough, 100 might do it !!

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Radiohead - OK Computer

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow (sorry, sort of compilation)

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

The Cure - Disintegration

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Joanna Newsom - Ys

Daft Punk - Homework

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

 

I'll narrow it down later

 

You'd honestly want to sit in solitude, for the rest of your life, listening to Joy Division? Knowing there would never be anybody's hand to hold ever again?

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Beatles Revolver

Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here

Arcade Fire Funeral

Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 1...or 2 (possibly 2 depending on the island)

The Orb 'Ultraworld'

Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy

Led Zeppelin IV

Coldcut JDJ mix

FSOL Lifeforms

Interpol TOTBL

 

This would get me through a few months by which time I'd be sick of it all and want to come home.

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Led Zeppelin - IV

Pink Floyd - Meddle

The Clash - The Clash

The Verve - A Northern Soul

The Who - Quadrophenia

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are you Experienced

The Doors - Waiting for the Sun

The Smiths - Meat is Murder

Black Sabbath - Sabotage

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

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The Specials - The Specials

The Undertones- The Understones

Selecter- Too Much Pressure

The Beat- What is Beat

The Jam- Sound Affects

Talking Heads- Little Creatures

Queen- Night at the Opera

The Skids- The Saints are Coming

The Clash- London Calling

Leona Lewis-Spirit

 

I agree ten is nowhere near enough, 100 might do it !!

 

What's number 10 all about?

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The Beatles: Revolver

The Rolling Stones: Beggar's Banquet

Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde

The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds

Neil Young: After the Goldrush

Frank Sinatra: Only the Lonely

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

Ella Fitzgerald: The Gerswhin Songbook

Mozart: Piano Concertos 21 & 23

Beethoven: Symphonies 3 & 5

 

 

 

Ten is not enough!

 

:(

 

Uncanny! With the exception of Ella I'd pretty much mirror all of those (Highway 61 instead of Blonde on Blonde though). If I was stuck on the island with Rattlehead I'd have to throw him and his music system into the sea!:smt040

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The Clash: The Clash

C o ckney Rejects: Greatest Hits Volume One

Warsaw/Joy Division: An Ideal For Living (Technically an EP but sod it)

Motorhead: Overkill

The Specials: Specials

Stiff Little Fingers: Inflammable Material

C ock Sparrer: Shock Troops

Sex Pistols: Never Mind The B0ll0cks

Madness: One Step Beyond

Various Artists: Oi! The Album

 

That was difficult.

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Tough, but here's what I'd go for (in no particular order):-

 

Def Leppard - Hysteria

Iron Maiden - A Brave New World

Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4

Pink Floyd - The Wall

McFly - Wonderland (yes, really)

Chumbawamba - A Singsong And A Scrap

Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Michael Jackson - Thriller

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Maxwell - Embrya

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paul weller - heavy soul

Thin Lizzy - Live and dangerous

Metallica - Master of puppets

Muse - Origin of Symetry

Lifehouse - No name face

Stereophonics - bartender and the thief

Foo Fighters - There is nothing left to lose

Dire straits - dire straits - the very best of the dire straits

Paul Weller - catch the flame

The Libertines - Time for heroes

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1) Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne

2) Leige and Lief - Fairport Convention

3) Hark the Village Wait - Steeleye Span

4) Live - James Taylor

5) Roots - Show of Hands

6) Best of.. - Sandy Denny

7) The Lark Ascending - Vaughan Williams (Comp)

8)Gettysburg - OST

9) The Complete Les Miserables - Cast Album

10) England My England - Cambridge Choir of Kings College

11) Morris On - Richard Thompson, John Kirkpatrick etc. (substitute!)

 

Pretty boring selection for most people I know but I guarantee that I would never get fed up with any of them on that island.

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New Order - Technique

Stone Roses - Stone Roses

Genesis - Selling England By The Pound

Mercury Rev - Deserters Song

James - Laid

Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain (or Heaven Up Here)

Television - Marquee Moon

Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus

Doves - Last Broadcast

Scritti Politti - Songs To Remember

 

No compilations makes for a few coin tosses.

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Uncanny! With the exception of Ella I'd pretty much mirror all of those (Highway 61 instead of Blonde on Blonde though). If I was stuck on the island with Rattlehead I'd have to throw him and his music system into the sea!:smt040

 

I do understand that not everybody can appreciate wonderful music. As it goes, I do actually like most of the albums on your list.

 

I also need to find a space for Alice In Chains' Dirt on my list. Unfortunately this means I probably have to drop Led Zep II.

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The Band-Rock of Ages

The Beatles-White Album

Carole King-Tapestry

Stevie Wonder-Musicquarium.

John Lennon-Plastic Ono Band

Robbie Robertson-Robbie Robertson

BB King-Let the good times roll

Jerry Lee Lewis-Last man standing.

Johnny Cash-American recordings 3 Solitary Man

Paul Simon-Graceland

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The Maccabees - Colour It In

Metallica - The Black Album

Radiohead - The Bends

Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City

Foo Fighters - The Colour & The Shape

Biffy Clyro - Puzzle

System of a Down - Toxicity

Ash - Free All Angels

Vincent Vincent and the Villains - Gospel Bombs

Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Journey of Dreams

 

A bit of variety never hurt anyone ;)

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