10 albums on a desert island

1) Muddy Waters Anthology

2) Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street

3) Miles Davis Kind of Blue

4) Mozart (any compilation of piano concertos)

5) Springsteen Tracks (That is kind of cheating because its 4 discs. But for some reason its also the Springsteen release I never get tired of hearing even though its not song for song his best.

6) Mississippi John Hurt The complete 1928 recordings

7) Prince The Gold Experience

8) Robert Johnson The Centennial Collection

9) Howling Wolf (The complete Chess masters)

10) Bob Dylan (Blood on the Tracks)

TMADDDHASFNE wrote:

Rare, obscure, hard to find, and mostly rumored.

Jandek Comes Alive - Jandek

Sue Tissue Unplugged - Sue McLane

Missing Sundays - Harriet Wheeler

San Fransisco is Burning - Twisto Frumpkin

My Amazing Toothache - Blind Boy Frumpy

Bat Chain Puller II - Don Van Vliet's Ghost

Sod Farmers Lament - The Angry Bipolar Cosmonauts

A Bad Day in East Tustin - unknown

Gravity is not a Force - Gummo Marx

Variations of Microtonal Consciousness - The Pure Hate Orchestra (minus a guy named William)

Jandek is excellent. I've only heard of him because Lil Ugly Mane samples him, I'll have to check out the others on this list.

Helloween - Walls of Jericho

Helloween - Keeper of the seven keys 1

Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz

Whitesnake - 1987

Kreator - Extreme aggression

Judas Priest - Defenders of the faith

Manowar - Fighting the world

Slayer - Seasons in the abyss

Powerwolf - The sacrament of sin

Alestorm - No grave but the sea

Springsteen- The River.

Springsteen - The Rising.

Los Lobos - Kiko.

The Breeders - Last Splash.

The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues.

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.

The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street.

U2 - Rattle and Hum.

Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera.

The Hold Steady - Stay Positive.

seattle prattle wrote:

Johnny Rotten wrote:

Maybe my island will be close enough to yours that I can hear.

Massive Attack--Mezzanine

Sex Pistols--Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

Kyuss--Blues for the Red Sun

Minor Threat--First Two 7"

Black Sabbath--Paranoid

The Stooges--Fun House

Steve Earle--I Feel Alright

The Sisters of Mercy--First and Last and Always

High on Fire--Spitting Fire Live, Vol. 2

Kill Hannah--For Never and Ever

I feel like I covered all my moods.

Hey, nice stuff.

I checked out the band, Kill Hannah, on your list. Nice. I really like a couple of their songs: "Bedroom Demo" and "From Now On" (off the Never + Ever album version).

They remind me of a band i stumbled across, have you heard of this band called "The Music"?

I hadn't heard of them at all, so I listened to their first album, which is a pretty eclectic mix of things. I really liked the first half, the disco half not so much. I can see the glam comparison, and the Keith Levene style guitars. Good find.

Loppas wrote:

Helloween - Walls of Jericho

Helloween - Keeper of the seven keys 1

Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz

Whitesnake - 1987

Kreator - Extreme aggression

Judas Priest - Defenders of the faith

Manowar - Fighting the world

Slayer - Seasons in the abyss

Powerwolf - The sacrament of sin

Alestorm - No grave but the sea

Some very nice picks on this list!!

Concupiscurd wrote:

Spencer krug is incredibly talented. Loved that Band of Horses album too, remember seeing them live at the time and they were great. Excellent debut album, never reached those heights again.

bored wrote:

No.. but got into the Canadian indie scene with Arts and Crafts and the Wolf Parade folks.

I love that this discussion is taking place on LRC. I have been a big fan of Krug for a long time. His work has always made a big impact on me, but Apologies is the only album that really stands the test of time (in my opinion). I still listen to Zoomer as well, but the Sunset Rubdown stuff seems a bit naval gazey a decade on. I don't know... it was of a time and place I guess. I think Dan kept Spencer in line in some ways. Without Dan, spencer got a little too progressive. Meanwhile, without Spencer, Dan was too punk pop. Spencer's keys kept everything interesting on Wolf Parade albums.

On to Band of Horses... I feel bad for Ben. I think Everything All the Time was his Faustian album. I also really liked Cease to Begin, but things just dropped off a cliff after that one. I also got to see them when they were touring Everything. My wife and I caught them in Charleston and sat next to the bassist's parents that night. He was your normal older dad with khakis and a polo, sitting among a sea of younger hipsters with huge beards and lots of tattoos. You have to remember, this was ~2007, so the hipster movement was red hot. Without being mean, they seemed to really decline with the addition of Ryan Monroe. He is a really good musician, but I think Ben may have let him have too much control over songwriting.

Agree on Band of Horses. First album was by far the best. Reminded me of My Morning Jacket, of course.

I still enjoy all of the Wolf Parade albums, along with Krugs many random side projects. I get older and I’m more patient sitting through songs that I would have skipped in my youth. I especially like the Moonface stuff, even if it strains my limits in the initial listening. Krug just released a solo album that was enjoyable on first listen.

I could never get into Handsome Furs. Agree with you on being too progressive.

I’m bringing mixtapes to the island for some variety.

Boiler Room live mixes. They’re all bangin parties with headliner djs. Check em out on YouTube

Ryan Foreman wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

I was a 23-year-old young pup and didn't fully appreciate the moment until later. He was cool and great though.

Flagpole,

Out of curiousity. How good of form was Hooker in when he sat in with your in band. In John Lee Hooker you are talking about someone who was about the same age as Muddy Waters. Hooker was getting up in age before he ever recorded I saw him once a year or two before he died. That was in the late 90s. It was cool to see him but at that point he was barely getting through it .

He sat in with us when he would have been still 12 years or so away from death (he died in 2001). He was great. Different from what I was familiar with then, but definitely great. He lived in Redwood City at the time, and that's where we were playing.

Big Star- #1 Record

Mission of Burma -vs.

Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground

Jellyfish- Spilt Milk

Wire- Pink Flag

REM- Murmur

Replacements- Tim

Uncle Tupelo-Anodyne

X- Under the Big Black Sun

Portugal the Man- Evil Friends

memyselfandI wrote:

Big Star- #1 Record

Mission of Burma -vs.

Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground

Jellyfish- Spilt Milk

Wire- Pink Flag

REM- Murmur

Replacements- Tim

Uncle Tupelo-Anodyne

X- Under the Big Black Sun

Portugal the Man- Evil Friends

Good picks. I never travel far without a little Big Star.

Both Radio City and 3rd would easily fit in my picks.

Some good picks on here (and plenty awful ones too). Did not expect to see Jandek. In an ideal case, I would ask a friend versed in classical music for a piece, and a friend who knows Jazz for something as well.

Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished - Animal Collective

The Emotional Plague - Supreme Dicks

Leaves Turn Inside You - Unwound

Mista Thug Isolation - Lil Ugly Mane

Mount Eerie - The Microphones

This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About - Modest Mouse

Flood - Boris

Daikanjyo - Shoji Aketagawa

Long Season - Fishmans

Not Available - The Residents

Ideally I would include Long Season by Fishmans or Funeral/Reflektor by Arcade Fire, but those are so purposefully nostalgic it would be an unwise choice when trapped on a desert island separated from family and friends :'(

Anything by this man. Anything at all, provided its on repeat.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yx2piPUudlE

Mathew Sweet: Girlfriend

Chris Squire: Fish out of Water

dada: Puzzle

Gerry Rafferty: City to City

James McMurtry: Candyland

John Hiatt: Perfectly Good Guitar

The Story: Angel in the House

Thievery Corporation: Culture of Fear

Yes: Close to the Edge

George Carlin: Class Clown

Hey, notice to all desert island music lovers: make sure to fire up your favorite Iggy and the Stooges album today on this the anniversary of his birthday.

That's right, Iggy born this day, April 21st, 1947.

From the man who gave you this warning on his second album (the song, "Loose")

"I took a record of pretty music

I went down and baby, you can tell

I took a record of pretty music

Now I'm putting it to you straight from hell"

Iggy!

kmaclam wrote:

10000 Maniacs - The Wishing Chair

Tonio K - Life in the Foodchain

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Jonathan Richman - Jonathan Sings

Phranc - Folksinger

The National - Boxer

Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

Clash - Sandinista

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels

The Handsome Family - Milk and Scissors

Hard to leave without smuggling on some Husker Du, Replacements, War on Drugs, Big Thief, Waxahatchee, Bon Iver, VU, Cure, Talking Heads, ...

Just heard the news - Grand Senior Masters get a Baker's Dozen. Thx OP.

Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains

Kimya Dawson - Hidden Vagenda

Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel

Hmmmpie wrote:

This will change if you ask me tomorrow, but right now this is what I would grab as they are pulling me out of the house...

Same sentiment... maybe not tomorrow, but some of these choices my might not make the list in a few months and some listed wouldn't have been on my list 3 months ago...

Beatles - Let It Be

Bruce Springsteen - The River

Chris Stapleton - Starting Over

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

James McMurtry - Live in Aught-Three

Jason Isbell - Southeastern

Nathaniel Rateliff - And It's Still Alright

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Ryan Bingham - Mescalito

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky