3 albums

gymman39

u can only bring 3 albums with u to the famous desert island..which 3 would u bring???

SilverScreen

Where's this famous desert island you speak of?

Jordo141

1) Doolittle - Pixies - My favourite album and unquestionably the greatest album ever made IMO. The perfect depressant to a life alone on the island.

2) This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About - Modest Mouse - I listen to this album when I want to sit down and ponder life. Plenty of time for that on the island.

3) Blue Album - Weezer - Charming and laidback. The closer "Only In Dreams" is especially so.

DEFTLEFTHAND

The Stone Roses.

Pink Floyd, The Wall.

Alice in Chains, Dirt.

homerun_homer

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Nirvana - Nevermind
Mansun - Six

I was going to throw in Manics Holy Bible but then I thought that would be way too much gloom on my desert island.

smokedeels

The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

At a push my all-time favourite album. Loud aggressive Garage Rock with some haunting slower numbers and amazing lyrics. It won't get old no matter how long i'm stuck on the island.

Madvillain - Madvillainy

I'd need a Hip-Hop album with rhymes to make me laugh and blow my mind in equal measure. This album will feed my need for Funk, Jazz and Dub too. Dense and wonderful stuff. IMveryHO the best Hip-Hop record ever made.

Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers

I'd need an album with simple catchy tunes about young love and loss. This is my favourite one of that ilk.

KnowYourEnemy

homerun_homer wrote: »

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Nirvana - Nevermind
Mansun - Six

I was going to throw in Manics Holy Bible but then I thought that would be way too much gloom on my desert island.

Cracking

me-skywalker

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinte Sadness
Manics - Generation Terrorist
James Vincent McMorrow

maupat

Thriller - Michael Jackson
Nevermind - Nirvana
White Ladder - David Gray

johnnycnandy

The Stone Roses

S&M-Metallica

Uprising-Bob Marley

Dick Turnip

Eels - Beautiful Freak

The National - Alligator

Whipping Boy - Heartworm

Miguel_Sanchez

If people could actually state why they're listing the albums it'd be a great help in ensuring this thread doesn't become one of the dreaded list threads.

Jim_Kiy

3 albums? I would go nuts having to listen any band repeatly.
I would prefer to listen to the exotic birds that would flock to my island.
3 great albums though..

1) Spiritualized Ladies etc
2) Smashing Pumpkins Siamense dream
3) dunno

PeonyBella

These wouldn’t’ necessarily be my top three albums of all time but for a desert island….

PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea. Runs the gauntlet of emotions so surely I’d be able to find something for every mood. And all the NY references would be a nice counterbalance to the desert island-ness.

The Decemberists – The Crane Wife: A beautiful story that I can always find something new in.

The Streets – Original Pirate Material: Because after all that time alone in Paradise I’m thinking hearing some one else’s anecdotes would be kinda welcome.

I might have to swim over to Jordo141 and borrow Doolitte from time to time though!

Jordo141

PeonyBella wrote: »

The Decemberists – The Crane Wife: A beautiful story that I can always find something new in.

Very high up in my favorites that one!

A V A

these are all albums i listen to all the way through so i would be getting the best out of them and have never got tired of them!!!!

blink 182 - self titled

the cure - disintegration


foals - antidotes

TwoCanDan

1: Tom Waits: Rain Dogs...
Funny, strange, tender, manic, sinister, poetic...the first Tom Waits album I discovered, and also my favourite...I don't think I could ever get bored of it.

2: Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime...
For duration (well over an hour) and number of tracks (43 on the cd I have) alone this would be indispensable. Add in the fact that it's brilliant the whole way through and you have one of the ultimate desert island discs (provided you like Minutemen)...

3: James Blackshaw: Litany of Echoes...
A beautiful album of instrumentals...useful if hearing the same lyrics over and over on the other two albums eventually becomes tiresome...

DDDDDeannnnn

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses : I'm sure there'll be some sunny days on this island and this album is the one I always seem to put on when lounging around on such days.

The Libertines - Up The Bracket : My favourite album,so it's a no brainer.

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory : Possibly the coolest album ever,it would be like having two more people on the island with Q-Tip and Phife Dawg.

Collibosher

Picking three was harder than I thought, next week could change again, with the exception of my first choice.:D

Pixies - Doolittle : From the opening bass notes on 'Debaser'....just a perfect album. Like it as much now as I did when it came out, spine tingling


The Jam - Sound Affects :Weller's finest moment, still sounds good and fresh 32 years on.


The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead : Timeless classic.

cloptrop

The Doors - soft parade , id need a doors album and the back there in seminary school bit never gets old. You cannot patition the lord with prayer or probably the first one <the doors> I cant decide

Bob dylan - Bob dylan could pick a load of these albums but if it was just one this one , its mainly all covers funnily enough , house of the rising sun and some old classics on it.

The Who -live at Leeds , Id have took then and now , but I dont think compilations should be allowed , would just lead to the floyd doors and beatles box sets.No shame about Lucy moonhead by aslan

MichelleLong

Daniel Johnston - Welcome to my world I just absolutely love the innocence in his voice.

Jefferson Drake Tyler - The last best place As above, i love the honesty in his voice and for me, he is one of the best lyricists on this planet.

Best Coast - Crazy for you I love the rawness of this album and i can't get enough of Bethany's voice.

Fishooks12

Any three Huey Lewis albums

Fishooks12

A V A wrote: »

these are all albums i listen to all the way through so i would be getting the best out of them and have never got tired of them!!!!

blink 182 - self titled

the cure - disintegration

One great album, one I'd have to paid to listen to

Tabnabs

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream. From the pinnacle of their career, so much talent, so much noise, so pleasant to have on repeat.

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing. This album wouldn't make it into my top three favourites, but if I had to listen to something again and again then this would have to be there for the shear quality of the tracks.

Orbital - Snivilisation. Another epic masterpiece. Track after track of aural gold. Are We Here? I could listen too til the end of time.

Technocentral

Would have to be vinyl versions:

1. Closer - Joy Division
2. Timeless - Goldie
3. The Best of Leonard Cohen (1975).

Stompbox

1) The Strokes - Room On Fire: 11 guitar-pop classics that slap a big smile on my face every time.

2) The Immediate - In Towers and Clouds: To remind me of home.

3) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest: The lush orchestration would be perfectly suited to the the tropical environs.

Battleflag

The Clash - London Calling
Pixies - Bossanova
Radiohead - In Rainbows


I would eventually get sick of them though!

Bodhidharma

Albums? So I presume something like a box set wouldn't be allowed?

In that case I'll take:

Bic Runga - Drive: I think being alone on an island you'd need something nice and calming, especially an angelic woman's voice which, in your depressed state, you could pretend is your girlfriend.

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness: Its my favourite album and has enough changes in tone so that it doesn't ever really get repetitive. Its also a double album which will take up more time.

Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations: Lots of humanity in this record, reminds you of the important things in life. I imagine it would boost you up when you feel low and lonely. Again bonus points for being a double album.

I love Bob Dylan, Alice in Chains, Radiohead, and Interpol but they are just going to make you feel bitter, angry, depressed or alone and you'd need to avoid those feeling.

Rage Against the Machine, The Clash, Nirvana, Sex Pistols and the like will just make you more aggresive which will take up valuable calories by destroying things.

Classical and ambient stuff, while great, will probably make you give up and starve to death.

TheStook

1.- Demon Days- The Gorillaz

2.- Oracular Spectacular- Mgmt

3. Distraction Pieces- Scroobius Pip

Balmed Out

new adventures in Hi fi REM
The stone roses
Dark side of the moon. pink floyd

St.Spodo

The Stone Roses: The soundtrack to many a sunny day. Uplifting.

Doolittle - Pixies: Hardly a bad song on the album. From Debaser to Here Comes Your Man to Monkey Gone to Heaven to Hey and the rest, it is one of my favourite albums. It aged really well too.

Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths: I know it's a compilation album and I was torn between it and The Queen is Dead. I couldn't live on an island without a few Smiths tracks, and this is one stellar album.

Washington Irving

Gorillaz - Demon Days Just love the album, it has no weak tracks imo. Would kinda suit the mood
Archiméde - Trafalgar Happy, optimistic album.
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not One of my favourite albums of all time, couldn't leave it out

Could have had any Bowie or Beatles album in there. The Doors, The La's, MGMT, Small Faces and Wire around there too

sweetie

Wilco - Being there - still my favourite album ever and with such a long album, no filler and lots of different styles. Best gig ever too (Whelans)

Radiohead - the bends - just reminds me of my college years and buying the NME every week and Select magazine but could easily have chosen sfa, boo radleys, massive attack, supergrass, oasis, verve, teenage fanclub etc

REM - automatic for the people - one of the first albums that made me fall in love with music. A close call with this and nevermind

Honorable mentions: Odelay and Ill communication - taught me that great music didnt have to be all guitars.

JerryHandbag

I'd have to go with 3 albums that go from loud, not so loud, to quiet.

Loud - Primal Scream "XTRMNTR", fantastic album with plenty of loud guitars, Accelerator and Shoot Speed/Kill Light in particular, and the usual electronic and acid jazz/house influences throughout.

Not so loud - Smashing Pumpkins "Adore", definitely the most laid back of their catalogue and I, well, adore it

Quiet - David Kitt "Small Moments", a homemade bedroom recorded collection of quiet vocals, acoustic guitar and gentle electronic beats. Perfect music to help my ears recover from the louder stuff.

ntlbell

I think people are completely forgetting the scenario and just yapping on 3 great albums.

You're on a desert island, you're going to hear these albums again and again and again and again till death do you part. Are you really going to Listen to David gray whale on year after year? Radio head? NIRVANA?

I'm not suggesting any of the above are bad but you would be using the CD covers to slit your wrists within a few weeks.

This has been mentioned all ready and is perfect for the circumstances.

DJ Shadow - Entroducing

This has everything one could possibly need on a deserted island and runs through so many genre's from totally chilled out to rocking break beats.

Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions.

This is mind blowing and one of the best "mixed/re-mixed" albums every made imo. Again you get everything, Jazz, Lamb and Depeche mode? all day every day repeat, repeat and repeat lap up every minute of it.

FSOL - Lifeforms.

In a place where all you can see is sand for miles you're going to need something to be able to take you off on a surreal magical musical journey.
No album can do it it better than this.

larrykinney

Hmmm..... (strokes Indie chin)


OK, well for the reasons mentioned above, 'Endtroducing', by DJ Shadow;
'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'by Wilco, I've listened to it pretty much every day for the last 10 years and still haven't tired of it so prob never will....

Finally, 'Bad Timing' by Jim 'O Rourke, just 'cos it's layered and kinda challenging and I always feel compelled to listen to it all the way through.