Top 10 Albums

[Pete]

Okay, this is hard... But what are your Top 10 Desert Island Albums of all time?

Here are mine in no particular order:

1. Cracker – Kerosene Hat
2. Crowded House – Debut
3. Nirvana – Nevermind
4. Depeche Mode – Violator
5. REM – Out of Time
6. Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
7. Eagles – Hotel California
8. Morrissey – Bona Drag
9. Psychedelic Furs – All This and Nothing
10. Oasis – Definitely Maybe

[RadicalModerate]

You are right: It is difficult to pick.
Just off the top of my head (with a bit of thought) in no particular order:

Revolver: The Beatles
Aja: Steely Dan
Living and Dying in 3/4 Time: Jimmy Buffet
The Mask and The Mirror: Loreena McKennit
Stone Flute: Herbie Mann
Days of Future Passed: Moody Blues
Who Are These People: Trout Fishing in America
Astral Weeks: Van Morrison
Harvest Moon: Neil Young
Rickie Lee Jones: Rickie Lee Jones

wish I could have worked
that Archive album with
Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D-minor
or . . .

[zookeeper]

I could make a good Top Ten for me right from Pete and Rad's posts with just a bit of combination.

REM - Out Of Time (my absolute favorite...the rest in no particular order)
Depeche Mode – Violator
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Morrissey – (Anything)
Steely Dan - Aja
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Neil Young -Harvest (the original)
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - White Album

[ljbab728]

You are right: It is difficult to pick.
Just off the top of my head (with a bit of thought) in no particular order:

Revolver: The Beatles
Aja: Steely Dan
Living and Dying in 3/4 Time: Jimmy Buffet
The Mask and The Mirror: Loreena McKennit
Stone Flute: Herbie Mann
Days of Future Passed: Moody Blues
Who Are These People: Trout Fishing in America
Astral Weeks: Van Morrison
Harvest Moon: Neil Young
Rickie Lee Jones: Rickie Lee Jones

wish I could have worked
that Archive album with
Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D-minor
or . . .

I agree with most of your list. I would add:

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
America- Horse with No Name

[Achilleslastand]

This is a tough one but here they are right off the top in no order.....

Neil Young.....Harvest
Led Zeppelin......Physical Graffitti
Thin Lizzy..........Fighting
Beatles...........Rubber Soul
Beatles..........Abbey Road
Paul McCartney........Band on the Run.
Alice Cooper ...........Schools Out.
Van Halens first album.
Led Zeppelin.......II
Pink Floyd...........D.S.O.T.M.
Rolling Stones.......Sticky Fingers

Opps that's 11........Sorry about that.

[zookeeper]

I agree with most of your list. I would add:

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
America- Horse with No Name

Oooh....I agree on both of those. A Horse With No Name is a classic 70's album. Ljbab728, do you know the connection with the two bands?

[Achilleslastand]

Oooh....I agree on both of those. A Horse With No Name is a classic 70's album. Ljbab728, do you know the connection with the two bands?

Not to butt in but I know the answer but will wait for his reply...........
And here is another bit of Beatles related trivia.........What do the Beatles and Badfinger have in common?

[ljbab728]

Oooh....I agree on both of those. A Horse With No Name is a classic 70's album. Ljbab728, do you know the connection with the two bands?

Are you referring to the fact that they used two of the same producers that helped with starting the Beatles sound?

[zookeeper]

Are you referring to the fact that they used two of the same producers that helped with starting the Beatles sound?

Yes! It's amazing if you listen to some of the music from "Holiday" and a couple of the other albums. Just replace the vocals and some of those songs could have easily been Beatles tunes.

[zookeeper]

Badfinger and The Beatles... No clue. They both start with "B"? Though, "Day After Day" could have easily been a Beatles tune in that same time period.

[RadicalModerate]

I agree with most of your list. I would add:

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
America- Horse with No Name

OK . . . So where's my Braum's? =)

[SouthsideSooner]

Hmmm... We're kinda all showing our age...but off of the top of my head...

The Eagles Live album 1980
Led Zeppelin 2
The Beatles White album
Peter Framton Framton Comes Alive
Fleetwood Mac Rumors
Led Zeppelin 4
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
The Eagles Hotel California
U2 The Joshua Tree
Michael Jackson Thriller

[ljbab728]

OK . . . So where's my Braum's? =)

So you want a banana split?

[Achilleslastand]

Badfinger and The Beatles... No clue. They both start with "B"? Though, "Day After Day" could have easily been a Beatles tune in that same time period.

Yes lol that and "come and get it" was written by sir Paul and if you listen closely you can hear his voice in the choruses of "no matter what". They were also signed to Apple records at one point.

[zookeeper]

Yes lol that and "come and get it" was written by sir Paul and if you listen closely you can hear his voice in the choruses of "no matter what". They were also signed to Apple records at one point.

Very interesting! When I read what you wrote about "No Matter What" I remembered hearing that before but it had long faded from memory.

[ljbab728]

I notice that we have no votes for Miley Cyrus here yet.

[RadicalModerate]

Okay, this is hard... But what are your Top 10 Desert Island Albums of all time?

Here are mine in no particular order:

1. Cracker – Kerosene Hat
2. Crowded House – Debut
3. Nirvana – Nevermind
4. Depeche Mode – Violator
5. REM – Out of Time
6. Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
7. Eagles – Hotel California
8. Morrissey – Bona Drag
9. Psychedelic Furs – All This and Nothing
10. Oasis – Definitely Maybe

You know what I find interesting?
Out of our Host's Top 10 there are only two musical artists listed with whom I have even the slightest acquaintance =)
Elton John (specifically: Madman Across The Waters) and The Eagles (like, Every Album From A to Z).

Of course, I've heard of many of the others . . . yet they never really entered my frame of reference.

[ljbab728]

You know what I find interesting?
Out of our Host's Top 10 there are only two musical artists listed with whom I have even the slightest acquaintance =)
Elton John (specifically: Madman Across The Waters) and The Eagles (like, Every Album From A to Z).

Of course, I've heard of many of the others . . . yet they never really entered my frame of reference.

RM, it could be because you and I are a few years older than Pete?

[zookeeper]

I pretty much stopped listening to "current" music around 1999 or so. I didn't discover R.E.M. until about 2000. I put their "Out Of Time" as my favorite album ever (1991) on my list, but the almost-as-good, "Automatic For The People" (1994) is incredible as well. But I couldn't have told you a thing about them until 2000. I've listened to those two R.E.M. albums a zillion times since. Very few from the 90's era compliment my old favorites and pretty much nothing post-2000.

[RadicalModerate]

RM, it could be because you and I are a few years older than Pete?

Dang. You're probably onto something there.
D'ya think he's heard of Hendrix? or The Talking Heads (David Byrne)? =)

[OKCisOK4me]

We need some mixed paint splatter:

Led Zepplin - Physical Graffiti
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Lost Highway - Soundtrack
Queen - Greatest Hits
Aerosmith - Get a Grip
Tool - Undertow
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Tiesto - In Search of Sunrise, Volume 6: Ibiza
Tiesto - Elements of Life

[BlackmoreRulz]

Teaser - Tommy Bolin
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Close to the Edge - Yes
Get Your Wings - Aerosmith
Fireball - Deep Purple
On Stage - Rainbow
Band of Gypsies - Hendrix & co
Heaven & Hell - Black Sabbath
Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John
Apostrophe - Frank Zappa
Physical Graffiti - Led Zepplin

[Pete]

RM, it could be because you and I are a few years older than Pete?

Even though I'm 53 and thus had my adolescence in what many consider the absolute golden age of rock (the early and mid 70's) my musical tastes are very heavily slanted towards the early 90's.

That's because that was when I first moved to California and had exposure to the alternative rock -- something that never even got the smallest amount of airplay in OKC, and since there was no Internet at that time, you only heard what was played on the local radios stations. I also worked for a music company in L.A. (a forerunner of XM) in the 90's and was surrounded by some of the most knowledgeable music people in the world.

But music in general is a great passion of mine. Here are other areas where I not only have a strong interest, but a stupidly worthless knowledge:

1. 70's Disco: well beyond anything that ever got radio play
2. Modern club/dance: hundreds and hundreds of artists, producers and DJ's that few would ever have heard of
3. Opera: have seen a bunch in person and really love most the music
4. Brit Music: Not just Blur, Oasis and Depeche Mode but scores of other bands that never really charted in the U.S. but were big in the U.K. and elsewhere
5. Modern Country: Introduced by a recent girlfriend and discovered a lot of truly talented musicians; the last bastion of the singer/songwriter
6. 80's Pop Music: I know it all
7. Virtually anything and everything from the 60's & 70's


I'm a bit of an compulsive personality type (which is probably obvious by now) and music is one my obsessions.

[trousers]

In no particular order and this could change tomorrow
The Cure - Disintegration
REM - eponymous*
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and The Lash
Fugazi - In on the kill taker
Songs: Ohia - The Magnolia Electric Co
The Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Mercury Rev - Deserters Songs
Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life

[Pete]

In no particular order and this could change tomorrow
The Cure - Disintegration
REM - eponymous*
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and The Lash
Fugazi - In on the kill taker
Songs: Ohia - The Magnolia Electric Co
The Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Mercury Rev - Deserters Songs
Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life

Interesting list... I've seen The Cure and Sparklehorse live.