Top 10 you take to "The Island"

eclein · « **on:** 12 Apr 2010, 10:50 am »

Your going to "The Island" and can take 10 Albums/CD's/Cassettes/8tracks...your favorite 10 TOTAL (any combo equaling 10-multiple disc albums count as 1 ie: Yessongs,Europe 72,Joe's Garage type sets.) What 10 are you taking??
In no particular order for me:

1- Avalon-Roxy Music
2- Smoke and Mirrors-Lee Ritenour
3- Singles Collection-Terje Rypdal
4- Show Biz Kids-Steely Dan
5- Imaginary Day-Pat Metheny
6- Shaking the Tree-Peter Gabriel
7- Hybrid-Gary Numan
8- Nightfly-Donald Fagen
9- Brothers In Arms-Dire Straits
10- Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd

maxwalrath · « **Reply #1 on:** 12 Apr 2010, 11:22 am »

This list changes often for me...this week it's the following:

Radiohead - The Bends
Nas - Illmatic
Led Zeppelin - II
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
Grateful Dead - Filmore East '71
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies
BIG - Ready to Die
Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Sublime - Sublime

bunnyma357 · « **Reply #2 on:** 12 Apr 2010, 12:21 pm »

The Jam - In the City
Led Zeppelin - I
Lou Reed - New Sensations
Wire - 154
The Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer
The National - Boxer
The Lyres - A Promise is a Promise
Big Star - 3rd
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
Midnight Oil - Diesel & Dust

I'm sure you'd get a different list on a different day - also if I really had to pick I'd probably choose some collections like "Direction Reaction Creation" by The Jam, which includes all their albums, but that seems a little like cheating.

Jim C

eclein · « **Reply #3 on:** 12 Apr 2010, 12:24 pm »

bunnyma357- collections are not cheating if its a 2,3 cd/album/cassette/8track set it counts as 1

This is great as it gives me some new artists to check out...

Mike Nomad · « **Reply #4 on:** 12 Apr 2010, 02:23 pm »

Well, since box sets are ok... here's what I'd leave with (at the moment)

01) Buzzcocks - Product
02) Eric Clapton - Crossroads 2
03) Duke Ellington - Unknown Session
04) Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon
05) Grateful Dead - Fillmore East April 1971
06) Grateful Dead - Winterland June 1977
07) Corey Harris - Fish Ain't Bitin'
08) Illinois Jacquet - Complete Sessions 1945-1950
09) Motorhead - No Remorse
10) Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs

decal · « **Reply #5 on:** 12 Apr 2010, 09:51 pm »

I must have these at all times,no exceptions.The next ten could change daily though.

1.Willie Nelson "Stardust"
2.Jimi Hendrix Experience "Electric Ladyland"
3.Steely Dan "Show Biz Kids"
4.Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"
5.Santana "Abraxas"
6.The Band "The Band"
7.Gov't Mule "Mr. High And Mighty"
8.Jethro Tull "Thick As A Brick"
9.Allen Toussaint "The Bright Mississippi"
10.Leon Russell "Stop All That Jazz"

simoon · « **Reply #6 on:** 13 Apr 2010, 12:24 am »

In no particular order,

The all progressive list:

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
King Crimson - Larks Tongue in Aspic
Gentle Giant - In A Glass House
Banco - Io Sono Nato Libero
PFM - Per Un Amico
Anglagard - Epilog
National Health - Of Queues and Cures
Deus Ex Machina - Equilibrismo da Insofferenza
Il Balleto Di Bronzo - YS
Magma - KA

Wait...I can't even get any Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forvever, Weather Report on my list. Not to mention all the great Stravinsky, Ligheti, Penderecki, Webern...

How can 'A Love Supreme' not be on my list?!

Oh hell, this is impossible to narrow down to just 10! I'd have to cheat.

Sorry, but asking true music lovers to narrow their entire collections to 10 is worse torture than just about anything. This should be 'Top 10 from each genre'.

mjosef · « **Reply #7 on:** 13 Apr 2010, 12:42 am »

I'll just take my swimming trunks...enjoy the white sands, the clear blue water...if I want to hear music, will stay home or go to a concert.
Listen to the natural sounds of the Island...hope its far away from everything.

DanTheMan · « **Reply #8 on:** 13 Apr 2010, 01:33 am »

In no particular order:

1) Willie Nelson, Red Headed Stranger
2) Pink Floyd, DSOTM
3) Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings
4) Dr. John, Gris Gris
5) Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland
6) Grateful Dead, Reckoning
7) The Doors, The Doors

Led Zeppelin IV
9) Stevie Ray Vaughan, Texas Flood
10) Mississippi John Hurt, The Best of

Dan

SlushPuppy · « **Reply #9 on:** 13 Apr 2010, 03:01 am »

I'd rather go with nothing than take only 10. That's less than 1% of my collection. I'd always doubt my decision
and I'd quickly grow bored with what would normally be some of my favorite recordings. Too painful to think about

jsaliga · « **Reply #10 on:** 13 Apr 2010, 03:39 am »

1. Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers
2. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
3. Duke Ellington - Blues in Orbit
4. Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
5. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella & Louis
6. Hampton Hawes - The Hampton Hawes Trio
7. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
8. Anita O'Day - Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day
9. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie - Bird and Diz
10. Lester Young - The Complete Aladdin Recordings

--Jerome

lonewolfny42 · « **Reply #11 on:** 13 Apr 2010, 04:11 am »

I'd hope I'd get some good reception on that island.....

eclein · « **Reply #12 on:** 13 Apr 2010, 09:57 am »

lonewolfny42--gives a whole new meaning to "Crank it Up" or actually restores the original meaning back to that phrase!

Some great picks, some Artists I never heard of, some new stuff to buy!! Damn!!

pumpkinman · « **Reply #13 on:** 13 Apr 2010, 11:47 am »

pumpkinman · « **Reply #14 on:** 13 Apr 2010, 07:08 pm »

After reading some of the posts I would have to agree with the following statements
The next ten could change daily though
Oh hell, this is impossible to narrow down to just 10! I'd have to cheat. Decal

Sorry, but asking true music lovers to narrow their entire collections to 10 is worse torture than just about anything.
Simoon
I'd rather go with nothing than take only 10. I'd always doubt my decision and I'd quickly grow bored with what would normally be some of my favorite recordings. Too painful to think about Slush Puppy

Pumpkins tend to change there minds from day to day

pjchappy · « **Reply #15 on:** 13 Apr 2010, 07:14 pm »

1. The Division Bell -- Pink Floyd
2. Animals -- Pink Floyd
3. Wish You Were Here -- Pink Floyd
4. Dark Side of the Moon -- Pink Floyd
5. Meddle -- Pink Floyd
6. The Wall -- Pink Floyd
7. The Bends -- Radiohead
8. O.K. Computer -- Radiohead
9. Aha Shake Heartbreak -- Kings of Leon
10. Wilco -- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

If I could only take one, it would be The Division Bell.

Paul

eclein · « **Reply #16 on:** 13 Apr 2010, 07:17 pm »

I've already swapped out 3 or 4 in my head, its an exercise in futility, but I got some great ideas for new music!!!!!

Taking just one might cause a riot!!!

pjchappy · « **Reply #17 on:** 13 Apr 2010, 07:32 pm »

Well, I would give them all up for my acoustic and several sets of strings.

Paul

Noseyears · « **Reply #18 on:** 15 Apr 2010, 07:37 pm »

I will take with me an Mp3 with a mix of all the rock albums i like.

Including:
Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd

Please Please Me
The Beatles

1990
The Temptations

Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin

Hotel California
The Eagles

Sparky14 · « **Reply #19 on:** 16 Apr 2010, 06:20 pm »

Ah, I love making these lists.....in no particular order

1. Mannheim Steamroller - Fresh Aire V
2. Chris Cornell - Scream
3. Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
4. Rebecca Pidgeon - Tough on Crime
5. Patrick O’Hearn – Private Music Of Patrick O’Hearn
6. Anggun - Luminescence
7. Rick Springfield – Shock Denial Anger Acceptance
8. Queensryche – Promised Land
9. Eliza Carthy - Red Rice
10.Fisher - Uppers & Downers