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Without explanation and in no particular order:

1. Appetite for Destruction - Guns n' Roses
2. Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five
3. Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
4. How to Cut & Paste: 80's Edition - DJ Yoda
5. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

wish you were here -- pink floyd
electric ladyland -- jimi hendrix experience
time out of mind -- bob dylan
kaya -- bob marley
master of puppets -- metallica

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot-Wilco
A Ghost is Born-Wilco
John Wesley Harding-Bob Dylan
Heartbreaker-Ryan Adams
Hatful of Hollow-The Smiths

Blood Sugar Sex Magic - RHCP
Pinkerton - Weezer
Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
The Joshua Tree - U2
Angel Dust - Faith No More

Being There (Disc 1) - Wilco
My Aim is True - Elvis Costello
Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
Winter Pays for Summer - Glen Phillips
O.C.M.S. - Old Crow Medicine Show

After The Gold Rush - Neil Young
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

Oof. This is a toughie. And, as a violin student, it would be blasphemous of me not to include a recording of the classical genre. So here goes:

1. Abbey Road- The Beatles
2. The "High Performance" recording of Perlman playing Tchaikovsky and Sibelius- because what desert island existence would be bearable without Sibelius
3. Picaresque- The Decemberists
4. From a Basement on the Hill- Elliott Smith
5. Graceland- Paul Simon

Ugh. That made me want to hug the rest of my albums and cry "I'll never leave you!"

The White Album - The Beatles
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
The Blue Album - Weezer
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Greatest Hits - Queen

Ooh, exciting stuff :)

1) Grace--Jeff Buckley
2) Twentysomething--Jamie Cullum
3) The Invisible Band--Travis
4) Moulin Rouge soundtrack (I need my Ewan one way or another)
5) Sing When You're Winning--Robbie Williams

Huh. That's really Brit-heavy, isn't it...

white blood cell- the white stripes
come on hear the illinoise- sufjan stevens
about a boy - badly drawn boy
soviet kitsch - regina spector
elton john: greatest hits - elton john

The Pogues - If I should fall from Grace With God (so we have something to sing along to while drinking fermented coconut juice around the campfire)

Trojan Ska Box Set (A. because it makes for good island music, and B. because its actually 3 CDs in one, so I'm getting more bang for my buck. loophole, bitch!)

Wutang Clan - 36 Chambers (I'm not a huge rap fan per se, but theres just something about never hearing "Wutang Clan Ain't Nuthin to Fuck With" again that makes me sad).

The Stone Roses - Self Titled (because who doesn't like the Stone Roses? who, I ask you?)

The Clash - Combat Rock (It actually came down to several pinnacle punk albums, I just think this one has the most long term listenability)

So there you have it.

The Wall - Pink Floyd
Complete Nocturnes & Preludes - Frederic Chopin
OK Computer - Radiohead
Let It Be - The Beatles
Best of Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Violent Femmes-Violent Femmes
Cat Stephens Greatest Hits- Cat Stephens
Out of Range-Ani Difranco
Little Earthquakes-Tori Amos
The White Album- The Beatles

1. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
2. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
3. Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way Baby
4. Radiohead - Ok Computer
5. Amon Tobin - Splinter Cell Soundtrack

1. on the beach - neil young
2. tonight's the night - neil young
3. after the goldrush - neil young
4. rust never sleeps - neil young and crazy horse
5. flip a coin between : harvest - neil young and
everybody knows this is nowhere - neil young and crazy horse

(next would come zeppelin III and some chopin)

Achtung Baby - U2
Purple Rain - Prince
Crackle - Bauhaus
Disintegration - The Cure
Screaming for Vengeance - Judas Priest

1. Good News for People who Love Bad News
(Modest Mouse)
2. Enema
(Tool)
3. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
(The Flaming Lips)
4. Five Dollar Bill
(The Corb Lund Band)
5. RainDogs
(Tom Waits)

Thanks Pajiba, for taking me away from the tedium of work!

Question: How do I recharge the batteries in my CD player when they die?

1. Jeff Buckley - "Grace"
2. The Shins - "Chutes Too Narrow"
3. Ted Leo/Pharmacists - "Hearts of Oak"
4. The Clash - "London Calling"
5. Sufjan Stevens - "Illinois"

Sorry, Def Leppard's "Greatest Hits." Maybe next time I get stranded.

I missed the chance to get in early on the iPod one, so here are my choices:

1) MF Doom and Danger Mouse - The Mouse and the Mask

2) Various - Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack

3) Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere (I skip 'Crazy' but 'Necromancing' and 'Storm Coming' gets repeated play)

4) Weird Al - I would just pick one at random, they are all good to me

5) Queen - probably a best-of disk. I need to have my imaginary swordfights to "Princes of the Universe" in order to live.

Two things I noticed:

a) My musical taste is heavily inspired by Adult Swim.

b) I may need to expand some, at least out of the geeky arena.

I may have to turn in my Pajiba Decoder Ring for these, but what the hell:

1. 30 Seconds to Mars- A Beautiful Lie
2. Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales
3. Robin Thicke - A Beautiful World
4. Alien Ant Farm - ANThology
5. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

1. Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory
1.a. The Jerky Boyz, just kidding.
2. David Bowie - Best of Bowie
3. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (in case I felt like dancing)
4. The Smiths - Singles
5. Mannheim Steamroller - In case I'm there on Christmas.....
I would also kill anyone who played Jimmy Buffet's "Margeritaville." The nerve.

Hmm, that's hard. Only five?

Tom Waits- Frank's Wild Years
Annie Lennox-Diva
Okkervil River-Black Sheep Boy
Bright Eyes-Fevers and Mirrors
Joni Mitchell-Blue

I've got a TON of CDs, so this is brutal. I've got to just pick 5 and post or I'll be agonizing all day. So, here goes:

Cold Spring Harbor - Billy Joel
Mortal City - Dar Williams
Looking Out the Fishbowl - Eddie From Ohio
Ten - Pearl Jam
Rites of Passage - Indigo Girls

1. Funeral- Arcade Fire
2. Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd
3. The Milk of Human Kindness- Caribou
4. Hail to the Thief- Radiohead
5. Harvest- Neil Young

Apollo 18 - They Might Be Giants
Under the Pink - Tori Amos
De Stijl - The White Stripes
Ben Folds Live - Ben Folds
The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls

Covers all my bases: absurdist, angsty, rockin, danceable, and... ok I got angsty on there twice. Whatevs.

Man, this is difficult. But here goes...

1) Tidal - Fiona Apple (or When the Pawn... or Extraordinary Machine)
2) Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five
3) Aretha Franklin's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
4) Cowboy Man - Lyle Lovett
5) Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

I now immediately disagree with almost all of my choices. Five is impossible.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Kid A - Radiohead
Bizarre Ride II - The Pharcyde
Classics - Ratatat
Rocking Steady: The Best of Desmond Dekker - Desmond Dekker

was going for the double album live set with the first three:

Indigo Girls - 1200 Curfews
Grateful Dead - Europe 72
Peter Gabriel - Plays Live

and even though the next two artist do have double album live sets, i'll go with these for pure perfection:

Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth
The Band - Music from Big Pink

1. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Neko Case)
2. The Lonesome Crowded West (Modest Mouse) (ties with This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About)
3. Rubber Soul (the Beatles)
4. Rid of Me (PJ Harvey)
5. Be He Me (Annuals)

David Usher- Morning Orbit
Smashing Pumpkins- Melancholy and The Infinite Sadness
The Weakerthans- Left and Leaving
Death Cab for Cutie- Transatlanticism
Empire Records Soundtrack

PoP! 20 : Erasure
1 : The Beatles
( ) : Sigur Ros
Joshua Tree : u2
Bad: Michael Jackson

A bit eclectic, but then again, life on a desert island might be dull!

beatles - revolver
bob dylan - blood on the tracks
oasis - what's the story morning glory
neil young - after the gold rush
rolling stones - sticky fingers

1. Siamese Dream, the Smashing Pumpkins
2. Paul's Boutique, the Beastie Boys
3. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
4. Let It Bleed, the Rolling Stones
5. Almost Killed Me, the Hold Steady

Only 5 huh, this is tough.

1)David Bowie-Best of Bowie
2)Queen-A Kind of Magic
3)Bad Religion-Suffer
4)Fiona Apple-Extraordinary Machine
5)The Dresden Dolls-The Dresden Dolls

How I love Pajiba for coming up with fun ways to waste away my work day.

Wow, this is tough. There's a radio station here that does "desert island discs" but they only let you pick three, so I thought this would be a breeze. I thought wrong.


1. U2 - The Joshua Tree


2. REM - Automatic for the People (this is supposed to be personal "comfort music" so don't hate me for picking not picking Murmur or Fables of the Reconstruction or something)


3. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes


4. Van Morrison - Moondance


5. Paul Simon - Graceland

Ooh, that last choice was tough. Sorry Aretha Franklin, Kate Bush, and David Bowie!

Real tough, but here it goes:

1. Kid A- Radiohead
2. Turn On the Bright Lights- Interpol
3. RHCP- Best of
4. U2- Best of 1980-1990 (CD1)
5. The Chemical Brothers- Best of

1. Outlandos d'Amour - The Police
2. James Taylor: Greatest Hits
3. Fashion Nugget - Cake
4. Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy - The Refreshments
5. AC/DC Live

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illnois
2. TV On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
3. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
4. At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
5. Nas - Illmatic

Sketches of Spain : Miles Davis

Sicks: Yellow Monkey (A Japanese Rock Band)

Fumbling toward Ecstacy: Sarah Mclachlan

White Album: Beatles

Demon Days: Gorillas

Elliott Smith - XO
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

1. Brian Eno--Music for Airports
2. Sufjan Stevens--Illinoise
3. Tom Waits--The Island Years
4. Dirty Three--Cinder
5. Spoon--Kill the Moonlight

Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Plans - Death Cab for Cutie
Greatest Hits - Elton John
Forty Licks - Rolling Stones
October Sky Soundtrack - Mark Isham

The Gray Race - Bad Religion
Blood, Guts & Pussy - The Dwarves
The Best of the Doors (1985)
Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera
Ten - Pearl Jam

Oh I forgot Cake and Bell&Sebastian!!

This is F'in impossible! Okay I take back Demon Days:

Prolonging the Magic: Cake

An impossible task. I'll give you the first 5 that pop into my head, but they're not the top five. I can't force myself to come up with a top five.

1. Endtroducing - DJ Shadow
2. Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20, 1992
3. Seal - Seal I (SHUT.UP.)
4. Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg, Edgar Meyer - Skip, Hop & Wobble
5. Faith No More - Angel Dust

Honorable Mentions:
The Clash - London Calling
Bad Brains - Rock For Light
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Mule - Mule

I wrote a ridiculously in-depth post on my blog about this... except it was 32 albums long. I'm a bit of a nut. There. Happy?

Mink Car--They Might Be Giants
Whatever and Ever Amen--Ben Folds Five
The Magic Is You--Corn Mo
Sunshine on Leith--The Proclaimers
Strange and Beautiful--Aqualung

Pulp - Different Class
Belle & Sebastian - If Your Feeling Sinister
Madonna - Immaculate Collection
Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Pixies - Death to the Pixies

Also, whoever posted Classics by Ratatat - I want to have your babies.

Gladiator Soundtrack
Marriage of Figaro
The Magic Hour (Wynton Marsalis)
Enema of the State (Blink 182)
The Lion King: Original Broadway Cast

Sublime - Sublime
matchbox twenty - matchbox twenty(shut up, all of you!)
The Doors - either the first album or a top-class "best of".

Those three are definitive, the last two could vary depending on my mood, right now I needed a couple of my favourite female-fronted albums.

Laika - Good Looking Blues
Garbage - beautifulgarbage

1. DJ Shadow - "Entroducing"
2. the Velvet Underground - "VU & Nico"
3. Can - "Tago Mago"
4. Madvillain - "Madvillainy"
5. Fugazi - "End Hits"

This is way too hard:

Bob Marley - Gold
Green Day - Dookie
The Lawrence Arms - Oh! Calcutta!
The Clash - London Calling
Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose

...the last one was so hard to choose...and i see someone up there getting REALLY sick of Neil Young

AC/DC - High Voltage (actaully a double side CD with Back in Black burned on the other side)
James Brown - Live at the Apollo
Johnny Cash - One of the 2 At x Prison albums (I'm not sure I can choose, I'll just grab whichever one is nearby as the boat sinks)
The White Stripes - Elephant
Various - Pulp Fiction Soundtrack

Zed's dead baby. Zeds dead.

Turn the Radio Off - Reel Big Fish

Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

International Superhits! - Green Day

Anthology - The Beatles

1. Ac/Dc "Back in black"
2. Megadeth "Rust in peace"
3. Hypocrisy "Virus"
4. Anthrax "Anthrology"
5. Pink Floyd "Animals"

RENT soundtrack (OBC, not movie cast)
Reservoir Dogs Soundtrack
The Cure: The Greatest Hits
The Eagles: Hell Freezes Over
Sarah McLaughlin: Fumbling Towards Ecstacy

1 Quadrophenia, by the Who. Parts 1 and 2
2 A Grand Don't Come for Free. The Streets
3 Exile on Main Street. Rolling Stones
4 Fiona Apple. Extraordinary Machine (the leaked version.
5. Lou reed. Berlin.

In no particular order, and because my island is gonna Raaawwwwk:
Show Your Bones by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
On the Outside by The Marked Men
The Argument by Fugazi
The self-titled debut by Garbage
And the self-titled debut by The Distillers, because nobody would be able to hear me try to sing along!

1. Flood - TMBG (I defy you to be sad while listening to this)
2. White Album - Beatles (of course)
3. Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys (when I wanna get funky)
4. God, Ween Satan - Ween (fun!)
5. Mr Bungle - Mr Bungle (my stompin' around music)

Top 5, in random order, for my solar powered CD player...

1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
2. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
3. OK Computer - Radiohead
4. Graceland - Paul Simon
5. We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes - DCFC

This is difficult. Damn you Pajiba.

Let's go with:

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Sparta - Wiretap Scars
Crosby, Stills, and Nash - CD 1 from their boxed set
John McCutcheon - Fine Times at Our House
Glenn Gould - J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations

Can I get stranded with someone who likes Pink Floyd, The Arcade Fire, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Allman Brothers, and Fiona Apple. Please?

1. The Commitments Soundtrack
2. Bruce Springsteen Greatest Hits
3. Veronica Mars Season One Soundtrack
4. Guns n Roses Appetite for Destruction
5. Mad Season Above

the clash - london calling
stevie wonder - songs in the key of life
marshall crenshaw - marshall crenshaw
ray charles - the birth of soul
miles davis - kind of blue

In some ways this changes because there's stuff I am more obsessed with at one time than another. But these are fairly constant.

Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
Aretha Franklin - Best of Vol. 1
Throwing Muses - s/t debut
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
Bananarama - Greatest Hits (no, seriously)

HAd to scroll down to the message box so I wouldn't taint my list:
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould
Countdown to Ecstas...Royal Sc...Pretzel Lo.....er...Steely Dan
Blood on The Tracks - Bob Dylan
Conversations with Myself - Bill Evans

"Question: How do I recharge the batteries in my CD player when they die?"

Answer: Buy a solar battery recharger. Just google it. They are awesome and a must have for camping trips.

You're fucked if you get sand in your discman though.

Weezer - Blue Album (one of the best things mankind has ever created. The Blue Album > the wheel)
Pink Floyd - Pulse (for the extended Comfortably Numb solo + complete Dark Side fo the Moon)
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place (dang, that was a hard choice)
The Decemberists - Picaresque (theatrical songs with scurvy dogs, what could be better?)
The Beach Boys - 20 Golden Greats (I grew up playing this pretty much daily on my Dad's record player)
Pearl Jam - Ten (solos + angst + my musical ephipany = yes yes)

Pink Floyd- The Wall
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Fleetwood Mac- The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac
Crosby Stills Nash and Young- The Greatest Hits
Neil Young- Decade

I really appreciate Seth saying this:

"In any event, this isn't a list of what you think are the best albums ever, nor is it a list to show off your wide and diverse musical tastes. It is your true comfort albums. The discs you know you could listen to for the rest of your life, in between cracking coconuts and pushing buttons in the hatch. (And yes, winnowing it down to just five may be hard as hell, but life's tough in exile, bitches.)"

The IPOD shuffle game seemed like a bunch of bullshit to me- I'd be willing to bet that at least half of those songs weren't from a "true" first five shuffle, but rather people trying to pick songs/bands that would sound impressively obscure. These lists seem much more honest. There's a difference between knowing what is the "best" vs. what makes you as an individual feel a certain way or "comforts" you, for whatever reason. For example, Toto's "Africa" is on my top five list of favorite songs (my best friend and I actually sat down and worked on our lists and wrote them down. It's hard!). That might seem slightly ridiculous, but for some reason that song makes me feel a certain way and evokes a certain mood that is...great and wonderful.

Sublime - Sublime
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Pearl Jam - Live, San Bernadino, 2000
Dianne Reeves - Good Night and Good Luck Soundtrack
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire

1)Bjork - Post
2)Sarah Harmer - You Were Here
3)Tegan and Sara - This Business of Art
4)Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
5)U2 - The Joshua Tree (already mentioned by a bunch of posters, but it's just such a good album... it might distract me from some of the stranded-isle-misery!)

Gonna show my age with some of these, but what the hell....
1) The Wall (Pink Floyd)

2) The Who Live at Verizon Wireless (the show I FINALLY saw them!!!)

3) Synchronicity (The Police)

4) The Long Run (Eagles)

5) Broken Boy Soldiers (Raconteurs)

hmmmmm, sure I can't sneak a "greatest hits of the 80's" with me, too?

In no order...
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Elliot Smith - Either/Or
Flogging Molly - Swagger
2Pac - All Eyes On Me
Deathcab For Cutie - Transatlanticism

1. Crass ~ Best Before 1984
2. Radiohead ~ OK Computer
3. Queens of the Stone Age ~ Songs for the Deaf
4. Gorillaz ~ first album
5. Blur ~ greatest hits album

1. Extraordinary Machine - Fiona Apple
2. Vertigo - Jump, Little Children
3. Poses - Rufus Wainwright
4. The White Album - The Beatles
5. Vespers - Rosebud

1. Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto (my parents lived in Brazil for a while, and moved to the US just before I was born. This album was the soundtrack to my childhood. It's the musical equivalent of a madeleine)
2. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (It's as close to a perfect album as man can make)
3. This uber-mix of sixties girl-group pop my brother gave me
4. Nico - Chelsea Girl (just can't face the idea of never hearing it again)
5. Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend (can you think of a better song to listen to on a desert island than "Bring it on Home to Me"?)

69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields
Young Gifted and Black - Various
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Revolver - The Beatles
FabricLive 22 - Scratch Perverts

1. David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust (that is all you really need, but for fun I will go on)
2. Nas- Illmatic (best rap album ever)
3. Metallica- Master of Puppets
4. 2-Pac- All Eyez on Me (hard to choose what Pac to go with, but when in doubt go with a double album)
5. Prince- Very Best of

Talkie Walkie - Air

Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age

Things Fall Apart - The Roots

Figure 8 - Elliot Smith

Desperate Youth, Bloodthristy Babes - TV on the Radio

Pretty much anything by Madlib

honorable mention: Dummy - Portishead

1. Life Won't Wait
-Rancid

2. Live at Folsum Prison
-Johnny Cash

3. Foundation Ska
-The Skatalites

4. Communication & Conviction: Last Seven Years
-The Tossers

5. The Definitive Collection
-Jerry Lee Lewis

Greatest Hits- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Van Halen- Van Halen
IV- Led Zeppelin
Like Vines- The Hush Sound
Suppleberry- The Kooks

Out of Time - REM
Trace - Son Volt
The Joshua Tree - U2 (I'd need those first three songs with me)
Glow - Innocence Mission (I'll need a female voice in the group)
Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello - Bach

Cheryl, hilarious! i feel like I will hate mine the minute I type them down. I am so flighty when it comes to music. But I have to go with the ones that I keep coming back to:(oh and what about homemade CDs? I would more than likely have 5 mix Cd's.But I will play the game!)

1. Parachutes-Coldplay
2. Transatlanticism-Death Cab for Cutie
3. The Best of Sly and the Family Stone
4. Wincing the Night Away-The Shins (i know this is a new one but I have listened to it for the few months since it has come out so much and still not sick of it...it's a classic for me already)
5 Shout: The Very Best of Tears for Fears

And like Cheryl I hate my list already. Because I am obsessed with Peter Bjorn and John right now, but obsessions fade (hopefully) . But I wouldn't mind being stranded with any of you fine Pajiba-ites because, GOOD LISTS!

I'm blatantly "cheating" and doing another five . . .you know, just in case I'm deserted twice in one lifetime or something . . .

Tie: Ill Communication/Hello Nasty - Beastie Boys

The New Danger - Mos Def

Undertow - Tool

Greatest Hits - Nina Simone

Maxinquaye - Tricky

Ahh . . . I now feel complete.

You know what? Fuck this. I have a new plan - cheating! Here's my new list:

1. TK's All-Time Favorite Music, Volume I
2. TK's All-Time Favorite Music, Volume II
3. TK's All-Time Favorite Music, Volume III
4. TK's All-Time Favorite Music, Volume IV
5. TK's All-Time Favorite Music, Volume V

So there.

Ok I just realized that I should have some classical music in there. So swap out Death Cab and give me Mozarts Andantes...that would be lovely!

wow! this is tough... last time was all random, now we have to think. my choices would probably be;

1) radiohead - ok computer
2) radiohead - kid A
3) arcade fire - neon bible
4) nine inch nails - the fragile
5) modest mouse - we were dead before the ship even sank

too contemporary? well, bite me! it's my island bitches!

and why the hell don't i see more radiohead on peoples' list? where's the love? i had to restrain myself from making radiohead all 5 choices.

The Polyphonic Spree- Together We're Heavy

Of Montreal- Satanic Panic in the Attic

The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Mamas and the Papas- The Papas and the Mamas

LCD Soundsystem- LCD Soundsystem

It hurt a lot to leave out Creedence Clearwater Revival Chronicle and The Temptation's Cloud Nine out.

CRAP! Royal Tennenbaums soundtrack. Ok, NOW I'm done.

Exile on Main Street- THe Rolling Stones
Il Barbiere di Seviglia with Callas- ROssini
La ballade de Melody Nelson- Serge Gainsbourg (I'm French)
The lily and the lamb- 12th century a cappella group
Beauty and the Beast disney soundtrack

Ok so I forgot Logic Will Break Your Heart by the Stills. Maybe i should have thought about this more. Ok new list:

1. Parachutes-Coldplay
2. Andantes-Mozart
3. Wincing the Night Away-The Shins
4. The best of Sly and the Family Stone
5. Logic Will Break Your Heart-The Stills

Now I feel better.

1. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

2. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

3. Josh Rouse - Nashville

4. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

5. Wilco - Summerteeth

1.U2- The Joshua Tree
2.The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's...
3.Dave Matthews Band- Under the Table and Dreaming
4.Dropkick Murphy's- Sing Loud Sing Proud
5.Weezer- The Blue Album

Mark, I was already to put The Bends on there, but at the last second I just thought that album (my favorite of theirs) might sound kind of weird on a desert island.

1. Pulp - Common People
2. Radiohead - The Bends
3. Portishead - Dummy
4. Arvo Part - 3rd symphony, Fratres and Tabula Rasa (Gil Shaham on violin)
5. Weezer - Blue Album

1. Miseducation of Lauryn Hill- Lauryn Hill
2. Voodoo - D'Angelo
3. Any Cd by Regina Spektor
4. Blazing Arrow - Blackalicious
5. Elephant - The White Stripes

1. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
2. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
3. Weezer - The Blue Album
4. The Beatles - The White Album
5. ABBA - Gold

Oops, that was supposed to be 'Different Class' by Pulp.

Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs -- Derek & the Dominos
Planet Waves -- Bob Dylan
Grace -- Jeff Buckley
Abbey Road -- The Beatles
The Essential Nina Simone -- Nina Simone

Frank Sinatra - Only the Lonely
Elton John - Greatest Hits
Revolver - The Beatles
Horace Silver - Songs for My Father
Otis Redding - Greatest Hits

Reconstruction Site - The Weakerthans
Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane over the Sea
Being There - Wilco
The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place - Explosions in the Sky
Let it Be - The Beatles

1. Up The Bracket - The Libertines
2. Supersexy Swingin' Sounds - White Zombie
3. The Eminem Show - Eminem
4. Version 2.0 - Garbage
5. Futuresex/Lovesounds - Justin Timberlake (bite me)

Dream Theater, Metropolis, Pt. II, Scenes From A Memory

Rush, Different Stages*

Head Automatica, Popaganda

The Refreshments, Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy

Sister Hazel, Fortress

*Yes, it's a three-disc-er and I'm taking all three and counting them as one and I don't care.

Christ, I've left a lot at home.

1. Heartbreaker- Ryan Adams
2. ()- Sigur Ros
3. Summerteeth- Wilco
4. Begin to Hope- Regina Spektor
5. Best of Talking Heads- Talking Heads

Modification: Five CD's no one else has picked for their island, yet.



Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails

Come With Us - Chemical Brothers

American IV - Johnny Cash

House of Pain - House of Pain

Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen

Can we make our own compilation mp3 discs??? Pretty please??? Oh well, in that case...

BLEACH THE BEST - soundtrack
Hang on Little Tomato - Pink Martini
Rumors - Fleetwood Mac (God I love this album)
GiTS:SAC OST 2 (If you know what that means, you rock; and do you think I could just hide the 1st OST in the case?)
Violator - Depeche Mode

That was hard...I had to leave off TMBG's Flood and the Beatles. :-(

Rent soundtrack ( original cast) lol
Soviet Kitcsh- Regina Spektor
Twelve Stops and Home- The Feeling
The very best of Prince
Stripped - Christina Aguilera

In no particular order:
* "Haunted" - Poe
* "Misguided Roses" - Edwin McCain
* "Wreck Your Life" - Old 97's
* "Heartbreaker" - Ryan Adams
* "An Unauthorized Guide To The Human Anatomy" - Kristy Krueger

Wow that was a LOT tougher than I thought it'd be!!

Great question, but tough, so I'm indulging my right to cheat a bit:

1) AC/DC - Black In Black (One of the greatest rock albums of all time...)

2) Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (though I reserve the right to swap this out with De La Soul's Three Feet High And Rising, as De La Soul is a bit sunnier and better for when you're hallucinating an oncoming rescue ship.)

3) High Fidelity soundtrack

4) the Death Cab For Cutie mix CD that my friend made (For when I'm feeling sorry for myself and want to get in touch with my inner EMO. Not that Death Cab's EMO, mind you...)

5) the Cowboy Bebop mix CD that my other friend made (Yoko Kanno & Seatbelts put together the perfect soundtrack for that anime and for every feeling you'll have while stuck on an island. Kudos to Vermillion for mentioning this first!)

Shame that I can't bring any Voodou, Van Halen, Tom Waits, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Poe, or any other favorites along. Guess I better load up my iPod with 80 CDs, just to be safe.

We should be allowed another five of soundtrack albums. The "CRAP! Royal Tenenbaums" person reminded me. I say:

The Royal Tenenbaums (VERY MUCH SO)
Donnie Darko
Bridget Jones's Diary
About a Boy
Sliding Doors

I also felt the loss of The Beatles and Radiohead, but couldn't pick only one album. I figure that at least one other person stranded with me will have them.

Use your Illusion I

-GN'R



Bat out of Hell II

-Meat Loaf



Under the Pink

-Tori Amos



Honky Tonk Union

-Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers



Permission to Land

-The Darkness

ha ha ha tlb just inspired this . . .

*The 5 albums I forgot and hope like hell someone else stranded with me has . . .* Finding all sorts of ways to cheat on this one . . .

The Eraser - Thom Yorke (kinda depressing in parts, but might be good music to end it all to)

Frida Soundtrack

Like Water For Chocolate - Common

Elephant - The White Stripes

Cee Lo Green . . . is a Soul Machine

I hope that one of the folks who listed Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison and Jeff Buckley - Grace are on that sinking ship with me also . . .

I have WAY too much time on my hands at work today . . .

Me too, Amanda. But... Elliot Smith? Mos Def? Tool? Common? Cee-Lo?!!!

Not to sound weird, but... can I be on your island? Or at least borrow some cd's?

the white album ( I 2cd the obviously)
van morrison- Astral Weeks
Wilco- Summerteeth
Although 15 year old me does not approve: i would sacrifice Pearl Jam in favour of
The Velvet Underground- greatest hits and
Radiohead- ?? can't pick an album or maybe Bowie- all the 'greatest hits' because you've gotta dance,
and some bob dylan
and maybe some mozart or beethoven spliced in between?

but thank god this would never happen.

TK - heck yeah!

I'm a bit schizo when it comes to music . . . it'll be a rockin' island, no? ;)

"I'm a bit schizo when it comes to music"

Oh, I know the feeling. We may die of hunger, but we'll do so while smiling and tapping our feet. I'm just as schizo. Trust me.

This was a hard one, it made me think about what albums I have listened to on a consistent basis in the past 10yrs and have yet to get board of....

1. Sublime - 40oz to Freedom

2. Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 2

3. Prodigy - Fat of the Land

4. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors

5. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

1.The Joshua Tree - U2

2.Graceland - Paul Simon

3.Born to Run - Springsteen
4.Dreams(4 CDs, all sold in one handy box!) - Allman Brothers

5.Aaron Copland's Greatest Hits(with presumably Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring, and Rodeo) - Copland

GiTS:SAC OST 2 (If you know what that means, you rock; and do you think I could just hide the 1st OST in the case?)

The first opening song for GiTS:SAC IS the best song in the world ever for all time yes.

In no particular order:

1. Mezzanine - Massive Attack
2. Illmatic - Nas
3. Takk - Sigur Ros
4. Live! In Tune and On Time - DJ Shadow
5. Soul Sides Volume 1

Meh. Probably will end up regretting the ones I put, and wishing I had stuck in others. But once you're stranded on the island I guess I'd just have to deal with it.

Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Eminem - The Eminem Show
Tori Amos - Under the Pink
Matchbox 20 - Mad Season
Alice in Chains - Dirt

Yeah, that should cover the spectrum I suppose.

1. Neutral Milk Hotel, "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
2. Pink Floyd, "Dark Side of the Moon"
3. Led Zeppelin, "Zoso"
4. Bright Eyes, "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning"
and last, but not least
5. Joanna Newsom, "Ys"

These might get some record store clerk style sneers, but here goes:

Dave Matthews Band, Crash

Counting Crows, Remembering the Satellites

Rush, Permanent Waves

U2, The Unforgettable Fire

Peter Gabriel, Security

I thought this was super easy until I realized I was listing the 8th album.

John Frusciante - To Record Only Water. I think I like The Will to Death better, but there is something so.. I can't explain it. But as far as comfort, it's Ten Days all the way.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - my brain broke here. But BSSM.

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

Johnny Cash - I'm cheating balls here, but the Legend of. Best of cds are ass, but it has too many of the songs you love to love.

Agony, agony, agony ---- Joy Division, Still.

You'll note the Johnny Cash is especially important to help mourn the loss of everything else, because country music is the music of pain.

1. Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight
2. Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
3. Matthew Good - White Light Rock and Roll Review
4. Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
5. Rent soundtrack. (Two discs. Yay, cheating!)

Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Commitments Soundtrack - Commitments

Bach, Goldberg Variations - Goldberg

Boxed Set - Stevie Ray Vaughn

Man.

pinkcheese:

Ghost in the Shell?

Okay, I'm a classical composer and my tastes run all over the place. So this is going to be a little strange (and FIVE?!?!?! JEBUS!)

1. Revolver: The Beatles
2. De Materie: Louis Andriessen
3. Siembra: Ruben Blades and Willie Colon
4. Sons of Noah: Stephen Hartke
5. St. John Passion: J.S. Bach

(In the music student version of this game, though, I've always said that I'd be happy with recordings of the complete art songs of Franz Schubert...although some Bach might be nice too...but those can't possibly count as ONE album since it takes several CDs to put them on record.)

twig - I go back and forth between Inner Universe and Rise (2nd Gig) as the best, but I also adore Velveteen and Psychedelic Soul.

Lanky, yeah. I'm going to have to listen to it now...

Guarneri Quartet & Arthur Rubinstein: Brahms & Dvorak Piano Quintets

Gil Shaham: Barber & Korngold Violin Concerti

Don Henley: Actual Miles

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis

Jacky Terrasson: Jacky Terrason

Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection

1. Faure Requiem/Lauridsen Lux Aeterna
2. Mozart--The Marriage of Figaro
3. Bach--B Minor Mass
4. Tavener--Song for Athene/Svyati
5. Vaughn Williams--Dona Nobis Pacem

I can't believe everything I'm leaving behind. I had Joni Mitchell "Hits" up there, but then I had to replace it with the Faure Requiem.

David Bowie: Best Of Bowie
Eddie Izzard: Unrepeatable (doesn't have to be music necessarily, right?)
Flogging Molly: Swagger
John Denver: Back Home Again
Joni Mitchell: Hits

SHIT! Anyone on my island want to bring along Emerson Quartet's recording of Bach's Art of the Fugue?

Jax - BIG PROPS for Immortal Technique . . . I was wondering if someone would include that.

Man, I DEF. must get stranded on an island with some of you, if only to pilfer your collections!

1. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

2. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

3. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement

4. The Moon and Antartica - Modest Mouse

5. Cold Roses - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals

OK TK you can have my babies but only because after I posted my list I immediately started cursing myself for forgetting DJ Shadow.

Double Nickels On The Dime - Minutemen

Ask The Ages - Sonny Sharrock

Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks

Zappa In New York - Frank Zappa

This Year's Model - Elvis Costello

First-time poster, months-long reader...



1. Dulcinea - toad the wet sprocket

2. Under the Table and Dreaming - Dave Matthews Band

3. Garden State Soundtrack - Various Artists

4. Document - REM

5. Tears Roll Down:Greatest Hits - Tears for Fears

Ooh, more fun. In no particular order, I'd take:

Aimee Mann - Lost In Space
Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors
Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Over the Rhine - Ohio

I'd need a lot of soothing female voices to get me through those lonely nights...

Bob Dylan - Time out mind
Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks
Bob Dylan -Nashville Skyline
Bob Dylan - Bringing it all back home
Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon
Tori Amos - from the Choirgirl Hotel
TOOL - AEnima
Radiohead - OK Computer
DMB - Before These Crowded Streets

It's not hip, but I don't give a fuck. It's honest.

1. Fisherman's Woman, Emiliana Torrini
2. OK Computer, Radiohead
3. White Blood Cell, The White Stripes
4. Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
5. Chutes Too Narrow, The Shins

I hate coming into the game so late, but here goes:

1) Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
2) OK Computer - Radiohead
3) Odelay - Beck
4) Achtung Baby - U2
5) Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow - Funkadelic

I've got to have some funk in there or else my husband won't join me on the island.

Binaural-Pearl Jam
Led Zep II
Paul's Boutique-Beastie's
Quadrophenia-The Who
Kind of Blue-Miles Davis

1. Trace - Son Volt
2. Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
3. Copper Blue - Sugar
4. Apollo 18 - They Might Be Giants (was tough to narrow down, but if I can only take one of their albums, this would be it)
5. The Mollusk - Ween

1. Boys for Pele- Tori Amos
2. This is a long drive....-Modest Mouse
3. She Hangs Brightly- Mazzy Star
4. Dig Me Out-Sleater Kinney
5. Oscillations from the anti-sun-Stereolab

"Quadrophenia" by The Who "Keith Moon is the greatest rock drummer. I don't care what you say, suck-ahs!"

"Live at Leeds" by The Who "It's like getting hit in the face by one of those speeding, multi-mile-long cargo trains you see in the Midwest. The only other album that comes close is Kick Out the Jams by MC5...another group that would be on this list. Bad Brains also rock the Casbah...as well as the Clash."

"Revolver" by The Beatles "It was either this or the White Album.

"A Best of..." by Sweet "Very underrated group. As was Slade."

The Clash--London Calling
The Shins--Oh, Inverted World
The Shins--Chutes Too Narrow (couldn't choose between their first two albums, ja)
Led Zeppelin IV
The Arcade Fire--Funeral

Achtung Baby - U2
69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Living in Clip - Ani DiFranco
Boys for Pele - Tori Amos

#1) Doves -- Lost Souls

#2) The Beatles -- The Beatles/"White Album"

#3) The Cure -- The Head on the Door

#4) "i 'heart' huckabees" Soundtrack --
(Jon Brion is brilliant!)

#5) Mozart at Midnight

Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro (If I can't bring all 3 discs, then the Bohm highlights)

Cecilia Bartoli -- Se Tu M'Ami

Duran Duran - Rio

Fleetwood Mac - Rumors

Vasco Rossi - Sara' Migliore

Okay, I'm calling it. Can we form a Pajiba music-sharing site? We could call it The Island.

Or we could just cut to the chase and form a Pajiba commune, gather up all of our music, and move to an island together.

But our island has to have a movie theater.

Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five
Winter Pays for Summer - Glen Phillips
Rockin' the Suburbs - Ben Folds
Live at Largo - Glen Phillips
Meaningless - Jon Brion

Sufjan's Illinoise is right behind the others, but I'm a relative newcomer to his music, so I'm sticking with more familiar ones.

Pulp - Different class
Los fabulosos cadillacs - Vasos vacios
Talking heads - Stop making sense
Hedwig and the angy inch (soundtrack)
Moby - Play

And since I haven't seen her name on any lists yet, can we just invite Amy Winehouse to live on our island with us? I really love her, but I haven't been listening to her music long enough to feel comfortable picking her albums over some of my old favorites.

Also, she could probably come up with some pretty soulful stranded-related songs while on the island with us, which would just be really badass.

I'm a regular reader, but a rare commenter (I'm just lazy is all). But I kind of wanted to do this one. So here goes....
1. Extraordinary Machine - Fiona Apple
2. Comfort Eagle - Cake
3. Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five (a favorite on this board, I'm seeing)
4. Come on feel the Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens
5. Gypsy Caravan - A mix by Putamayo

I'm really tempted to list the runners-up, but since that wouldn't matter on the desert island, I'll leave it at that. Also, I love you guys.

Honky Chateau - Elton John
12 Memories - Travis
Gold - Ryan Adams
The Ego Has Landed - Robbie Williams
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters

Her Majesty- The Decemberists

Chutes Too Narrow- The Shins

Infinity On High- Fall Out Boy

Twin Cinema- The New Pornographers

Illinois- Sufjan Stevens

1. Leviathan - Mastodon
2. S & M - Metallica
3. The Fragile - NIN
4. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
5. Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin

Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
The Fall - 10000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong (is it cheating to choose greatest hits records?)
Radial Spangle - Syrup Macrame
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas

Patty Griffin, Impossible Dream
Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes
The Beatles, 1
M. Ward, Transistor Radio
Yo-Yo Ma, Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suites

This is sadly lacking in the way of rock music, but these are absolutely my comfort albums.

Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Poe - Haunted
Esthero - Breath From Another
V.A.S.T. - Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel

I know. I'm a musical monorail.

1. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - the Flaming Lips
2. F#A#oo - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3. Young Liars EP - TV on the Radio
4. Mellon Collie and the Infinate Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
5. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

In no particular order (picking these was hard enough -- ordering them would be impossible)...

Van Morrison -- Moondance
The Jayhawks -- Sound of Lies
Old 97's -- Hit by a Train
Lauryn Hill -- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Everything but the Girl -- Amplified Heart

Runners up....
Indigo Girls -- Swamp Ophelia
Postal Service -- Give Up
The Perishers -- Let there be morning

Aimee Mann - Lost in Space
Steely Dan - Showbiz Kids
Cowboy Junkies - Black Eyed Man
Wilco - Being There
Gabor Szabo - Spellbinder

Dammit, I forgot about Seals' & Crofts' Greatest Hits.

1. Tegan and Sara--So Jealous
2. John Mayer--Room for Squares
3. The New Radicals--Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
4. Army of Me--Citizen (it's not out yet, but I KNOW it'll make the list)
5. Liz Phair-- Exile in Guyville

(no order)

T.I. - King

Rob Zombie - Past, Present, & Future (Greatest hits)

Queen - Greatest Hits (Vol 1 if I must choose)
John 5 - Songs for Sanity

The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Notre Dame De Paris Sountrack

The last one is a CD recording of a play in French. We had to watch a video of the play in my high school French class. The teacher (Mr DeVastey, he loved to jump off of desks (used to be a paratrooper)) burned the CD for everyone in class. Can't remember French for shit but the CD is beauty in my ears, even though I rarely listen to it. Ok I'm done rambling.

1 - Metallica / Justice
2 - Hendrix / Are You Experienced
3 - Floyd / Animals
4 - Allman Bros / Fillmore East
5 - Beatles / Sgt. Pepper

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

R.E.M - Green

Blood Hound Gang - Use Your Fingers

Dutchmassive - Junk Planet

Boredoms - Pop Tatari

Illinois => Sufjan Stevens (fuck u spelling squiggly line for saying sufjan is spelled wrong!!)

Odelay=> Beck

Speaking in Tongues => Talking Heads

Kid A or Ok Computer I cant decide :( => RadioHead

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Funeral=> Arcade Fire

Go haiti! ish ur birfday!

Oh my God is this hard... Well, let's try it. I'll start with my idea of some perfect albums (albums without any bad tracks on 'em). Plus, I could listen to 'em all for a long time without getting tired:

Details - Frou Frou
Taking the Long Way - Dixie Chicks
Extraordinary Machine - Fiona Apple

From there, it gets a little more difficult. I think I'll add the

Children of Men soundtrack (classical)

Not only is it a solid collection of classical music, which would be nice to have, but it would remind me of great cinema, which would be a must for me.

Also a must would be some sort of reminder of the holiday season, as it's my favorite time of year. Probably the least offensive album of Christmas music I can think of is

One More Drifter in the Snow - Aimee Mann

Hrm... Not exactly the list that I initially thought would turn up, but there it is. This was a lot harder than I thought! Thanks for the diversion.

Anything by:
1) Britney Spears
2) Spice Girls
3) N*Sync
4) Christina Aguilera
5) Backstreet Boys
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Okay, I wouldn't be caught dead with anything by those "artists." But from a survivalist point of view, if I'm stuck on the island--I'm more apt to find a way off if all I have to listen to is crap like that. The very thought of it chills my very soul.

1. Cake- Prolonging the Magic
2. Sigur Ros- The first album I've never been able to spell
3. Michael Franti- Yell Fire
4. Duran Duran- Greatest Hits
5. Can I pick a single track?
Bobby Hebb- Sunny

Can't live without it.
The town where I live just killed the one and only oldies station in favor of Fox Sports. That is the second one in as many years.

Stars - Heart
Elizabethtown Soundtrack (stupid movie, good soundtrack. Added bonus, a lot of variance in the music itself)
Handsome Boy Modeling School - So...How's Your Girl
John Legend - Once Again
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World

White Album--The Beatles

Tapestry--Carole King

Weezer--Weezer

System of a Down--Hypnotize

Pink Floyd--Dark Side of the Moon

Oh, as alternates I'd like to add:
Weezer - Pinkerton
Zero 7 - Simple Things

1. Elliott Smith - XO
2. Erykah Badu - Baduizm
3. Supergrass - In It For the Money
4. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
5. Josh Rouse - 1972

1) Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
2) Homogenic - Bjork
3) Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
4) Boys for Pele - Tori Amos
5) Spiritchaser - Dead Can Dance (because everyone needs an album to dance naked to)

animals -- pink floyd
lotus -- santana
a tribute to jack johnson -- miles davis
black saint and the sinner lady -- charles mingus
royal albert hall -- jimi hendrix

1. Garden State Soundtrack
2. Weezer - Pinkerton or Blue Album (TIE)
3. Brand New - Deja Entendu
4. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
5. Cold Play - Parachutes

-When the Pawn... (Fiona Apple)

-Manhattan (the movie soundtrack, all instrumental, all Gershwin)

-Queen Greatest Hits (Queen)

-Personal Best: The Harry Nilsson Anthology (Harry Nilsson)

-The Nutcracker...

1) Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight
2) Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
3) The Clash - London Calling
4) Regina Spektor - Songs
5) Murder By Death - Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?

(perhaps!)

*applause* for Jams for Murder By Death!

Ahh I spent a half hour switching albums around but here's what I finally decided on

- Gold by Ryan Adams
- Morrison Hotel by The Doors
- Axis: Bold As Love by Jimi
- The Anthology by A Tribe Called Quest
- Midnite Vultures by Beck

The first three are cake for me. Why, they're even in order!

1) 1. Outside - David Bowie

2) 1979-1983 - Bauhaus (double CD, I'm a cheater and I simply cannot live without certain Bauhaus songs)

3) Crocodile Tears and the Velvet Cosh - David J

The next two are harder.

4) Spinner - Brian Eno & Jah Wobble

5) Stay Sick! - The Cramps

I've got everything in that list: Bowie (who is his own category)with my all-time favorite album, Bauhaus to bring a little darkness to that sunny sunny tropical island, David J to make me think, Brian Eno & Jah Wobble for when I'm not concerned with language, and The Cramps for when I feel like shaking my ass and/or going insane.

blue - joni mitchell
revolver - the beatles
feels like home - norah jones
in between dreams - jack johnson
marvin's marvelous mechanical museum - tally hall

oof. i hope i never actually have to make this decision.

These are all terribly commerical, but they make me happy and have for a long time.

1. Counting Crows August and Everything After

2. Dixie Chicks Home

3. Blessid Union of Souls (also called) Home

4. Garth Brooks In Pieces

5. Dirty Dancing Soundtrack

1. Ben Folds Five - Whatever And Ever Amen (nice to see some other fans of Ben here)
2. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
3. John Williams - The Empire Strikes Back (assuming I don't get 5 dvds on this island as well)
4. Fiona Apple - When The Pawn...
5. Living Colour - Time's Up

Oh, god! What have I done? I've forsaken at least a dozen bands that I can't bear to leave, and I can't even name them in this post because it's a cheat. I guess I'd just have to hang myself from the palm tree, unless I failed like Tom in Castaway. Maybe Wilson makes musical noises if you squeeze him properly. Is Evangeline Lilly on this island? I might be able to live without music in that case.

1. The Very Best of Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne
2. Room for Squares - John Mayer
3. Relish - Joan Osborne
4. Twentysomething - Jamie Cullum
5. Blue - Joni Mitchell

Forget it. It just can't be done...I would have to give up whole entire musical "genres" and "subgenres" and I refuse to do it!

1. The Libertines - Up the bracket

2. Eminem - The Eminem show

3. Oasis - What's the story morning glory?

4. Alanis Morrisette - Jagged little pill

5. Coldplay - x + y

Yay! I can participate. No Ipod for the other one. So- (and I'm gonna cheat like a maniac.....)

Verdi's Requiem. If you can't get a catharsis from howling along to that, you're already dead. Get off my island!

Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen - not so much a singalong, but bears repeated listening, and there's always the Ride of the Valkyries if you just gotta bust out in sound.

Black Sabbath - plenty of Zep, but not enough Sab. Can't remember the name, but it's a boxed set of the first 8 albums with Ozzy. It's one selection, right?

Okay, now for some party music.

The Very Best of KISS - Bite me.

A greatest hits of Bon Jovi - Bite me harder.

I'm thinking of checking out this Sufjan Stevens person I keep seeing listed. Could be interesting.

Oh, and strand me with the metalheads and classicalists (Hi, Wealhtheow!). Too much emo and the sharks are gonna get fat......

And annoyingly, I still can't find my iPod, or I'd go back and play that other game.

1. Can - Tago Mago. (High-minded and esoteric, yes, but hasn't gotten boring since I discovered it as a lad.)
2. The Stooges - Fun House.
3. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures.
4. David Bowie - Hunky Dory.
5. At least one of the first three Devo albums; if I had to pick it would be Duty Now For the Future.

If I had extra room, I'd add Beirut's Gulag Orkestar and Panda Bear's Person Pitch (though I've only been in love with it for a little over a week).

(1). Beatles- Past Master's Volume 2
(2). Kinks- Something Else
(3). Royal Tenenbaums' Soundtrack
(4). Talking Heads '77
(5). Neutral Milk Hotel- In an Aeroplane Over the Seas

Meatloaf--Bat out of Hell
Thin Lizzy--Jailbreak
Toadies--Rubberneck
Dillinger Four--Midwestern Songs of the Americas
Everclear--Ten Years Gone

BJS1109--Sufjan Stevens is excellent, if you feel you can trust someone who loves Meatloaf....

OK, so I probably should have just written down the first five things that came to mind because now I've gotten myself into quite a jam. How to choose just five? I don't know if I can do it. I am a singer so I need my favorite sing-along CD's. Here goes:

1. Ella Fitzgerald--either "Ella in Berlin" or "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie" (if only for her rendition of "Stella by Starlight" one of my favorite standards EVER). When it came time to pack them up, I'd flip a coin and let fate decide which of the two was coming along.

2. Aimee Mann--"Bachelor #2 (or the Last Remains of the Dodo)"

3. Debussy's "La Damoiselle Elue" (CD also includes "Nocturnes" and "Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien")--I sang this in my college choir and I get chills everytime I hear or sing it. The harmony is absolutely angelic.

4. Stevie Wonder--"Songs in the Key of Life"

5. Stone Temple Pilots--"Purple"

I can't believe I chose to leave off Kurt Elling, but I had to have something a bit angsty for days when I'm pissed about being on an island for the rest of my life.

I think the next "list" should be the five movies we'd take to our island. Or has that been done and I missed it?

PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
The Cure - Paris
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine

P.S. I could hang on Chris at 2:11's island, too; I'd just take a nap when (s)he was playing Weezer. :)

(God, I love this site.)

Weezer - Blue Album ( I have probably listened to this a million times what the fucks wrong with a million more)

Eric Clapton - Cream Of Clapton (Cream, 70's shit, and Tears In Heaven how could i not bring this with me)

Elliott Smith - Either/Or ( for those sad days on that lonely island and just in case there is heroin and jack daniels there)

Bob Dylan - Free Wheelin' Bob Dylan (My all time favorite song in this world - Don't think twice It's All right)

At The Drive-In - In/Casino/Out ( If I'm stranded on an island I'll need to rock out and/or scream. Plus i'll be wishing i was an astronaut)

Also, Who the fuck in their right mind would want to listen to john mayer asthma breathin into a microphone while being stuck on an island. i would use palm branches to hang myself almost immediately after hearing him.

In no order at all:

Rufus Wainwright - Want One
Queen - Greatest Hits
No Doubt - Return of Saturn
Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel to Anything
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Once More with Feeling

Thanks to whomever recommended "Satanic Panic in the Attic." That will be on my next purchase list.

Anyway, I cannot imagine how hard this would be for some people, because it took me a while and I am a self professed "not-that-into-music" person.

the shins - chutes too narrow
the b-52s - cosmic thing
daft punk - discovery
new order - best of
franz ferdinand - self titled

This is a hard ass fucking question. I may be back. Maybe.

1. The Lawrence Arms - Oh! Calcutta!
2. Wilco - A Ghost is Born
3. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
4. Sonic Youth - Dirty
5. Brand New - Deja Entendu

Miles Davis -- "Kind of Blue"
Cocteau Twins -- "Victorialand"
Soundtrack to "O Brother Where Art Thou"
Tom Waits -- "Frank's Wild Years"
Lee "Scratch" Perry and The Congos -- "Heart of The Congos"

I think I may have to cheat a little.

JANIS- Janis Joplin
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness- Smashing Pumpkins
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band- Beatles
Joshua Tree- U2
Toys in the Attic- Aerosmith

1. Hopes and Fears--Keane
2. The Best of Simon and Garfunkel
3. A Rush of Blood to the Head--Coldplay
4. West Side Story Suite--Joshua Bell and the London Philharmonic Orchestra
5. And I can't decide between Vienna Teng and Pink Martini...

Gasp! Another fan of MGB, Jams!

And of their best album, too!

Oooh...Rosemary, you've got it! Maybe O Brother Where Art Thou? instead of A Rush of Blood to the Head. And Hang on Little Tomato by Pink Martini.

I swear that's it.

How about a game of "five disks that have not yet been nominated"?

1. "Murmer": REM.

Holds up and sounds even ... new. This deserted island thing's not such a bad gig.

3. "Love Supreme": John Coltrane.

Please. **No one** has mentioned him yet? Have none of you been on a deserted island before?



4. "Crocodile": Echo and the Bunnymen.

See above, substitute "them." So, yeah, I'm mired in the early '80's. Will Sargeant is ugly and god-like and stomps the guts out of these songs. Should be helpful when cracking Seth's coconuts.



5. "Vs.": Mission of Burma.

"That's When I Reached for My Revolver" may be the single greatest (punk) song of all time. Plus, the volleyball I'm singing this to has always liked it.



5. "It'll End in Tears": This Mortal Coil.

4AD label (e.g., Cocteau Twins) all-stars, including a gut-punch of a Jeff Buckley cover. Best right before I off myself by cliff-jumping into the froth.

Led Zeppelin II--Led Zep
Layla and other assorted love songs--Derek and the Dominoes
Blast Tyrant--Clutch
Premiere--Kornog
Best of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Oh... oh man. I don't know if I can do this...

1) The New Pornographers -- Twin Cinema
2) DMB -- Live at Red Rocks
3) Sufjan Stevens -- Come On! Feel the Illinoise!
4) The Pixies -- Doolittle
5) The Decemberist -- Picaresque (because it DOES have a nine-minute sea-shanty.)

SO HARD!!

OK Computer by Radiohead
Funeral by Arcade Fire
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco
Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins
Pixies' Greatest Hits

followed closely by The Bends, The Soft Bulletin, and Perlman's performance of Tzigane by Ravel (which doesn't crack my desert island top 5 but is the music I want to die to)

Is it normal to still be distressed hours later?? I'm nervous that I somehow WILL get stranded and that a higher power will hold me to my list and I'll stare at my germs/janis/hendrix/pinback/etc,etc,etc cds and cry.

I have fear of commitment. :(

1. Counting Crows: August & Everything After

2. U2: Rattle and Hum

3. Dar Williams: The End of the Summer

4. James: The Best of...

5. Josh Ritter: The Golden Age of Radio

1. Stranger than Fiction- Bad Religion
2. Welcome to the Black Parade- My Chemical Romance
3. Three Cheers- Caustic Soda
4. Piano Classics
5. History For Sale- Blue October

Anyone say anything about MCR and I'll... have to think of something nasty to say back.

The essential Stevie Ray Vaughan - Stevie Ray
Live in Texas - Lyle Lovett
Live at Rennie Scott's - Jamie Cullum
Dark side of the moon - Pink Floyd
Greatest hits 1&2- Prince (sometimes you just wanna dance! and try to sing falsetto)
Sheesh that's hard...this is going to bug me all night wondering what I missed that is vital to my life!

Dang it!
Have to have a second try:
London Calling - Clash
2112 - Rush
Back in Black - AC/DC
Lyle Lovett and his Large Band
Van Halen - Van Halen
(ok so I'm a bit schizo - sue me! I'm stuck on an island!

If I'm going down I want to go down with superdeluxebabe, it killed me leaving off MSI and Queen, and her other choices are just as good.

Ummm, ok second post at Pajiba (act cool)
Whistle aimlessly while posting to distract from mainstream tastes. These albums are my aural huggy blankets!
1.the Beatles- White Album
2.Jeff Buckley- Grace
3.Phantom Planet- The Guest
4.Fred Astaire- The Best of
5.U2- Rattle and Hum

That was hard, and now all my other albums are judging me with their eyes, metaphorically speaking.

Desert island DVDs are so much easier than this. Ack.

Alice in Chains - Unplugged
Queen of the Damned soundtrack
Julie London Sings Cole Porter
Talvin Singh - Anokha: Songs from the Asian Underground
Rhino's Millenium Funk Party

I had to add to this post, and they're not in any particular order:
Elephant by The White Stripes
Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
Bring 'em in by Mando Diao
Diamonds on the inside by Ben Harper
Sing Sing Death House by the Distillers
... I think

1. Night Ride Home - Joni Mitchell
2. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
3. Flood - They Might Be Giants
4. Like Drawing Blood - Gotye
5. Raid Dogs - Tom Waits

And a special runner up, Paul Simon's Anthology. I know it's cheating but it was a toss-up between that one and the Smashing Pumpkins.

In alphabetical order, by artist:

Eels - Electroshock Blues
Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth
Joni Mitchell - Blue
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20, 1992

That's the hardest question I've ever had to answer on this site. Goddamn I can't believe I couldn't fit Doolittle on there.

In no particular order:

1. The Best of John Coltrane - John Coltrane
2. Nouveau Flamenco - Ottmar Liebert
3. The Best of Joe Sample - Joe Sample
4. 22 Hits of the Carpenters - The Carpenters
5. Greatest Hits - James Taylor

I'm a greatest hits kind of girl, I guess.

Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five
Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins
Clarity - Jimmy Eat World
The Last Broadcast - Doves
Greatest Hits - Smashing Pumpkins

can I take a digital satellite radio instead? ;)

Bistro, thanks for bringing August and Everything After. I almost put it on my list, but in the end, I decided I'd probably need to rock out a bit. Hence the GNR.

What a great album August is, seriously. NO ONE I KNOW gets it.

I'm surprised this is so hard for people; I've had my list at the ready for years. I can't tell you how many times I've had this and similar discussions online. :)

moondance - van morrison
greatest hits - james taylor
at last - etta james
blackstar - blackstar
beats, rhymes, and life - tribe called quest

i can make my own reggae with coconuts and spoons right?

I feel pretty certain no one's going to read this far down, but I'd like to get this out there, even if nobody sees it but me...

Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...
The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Girl Talk - Night Ripper (dozens of CDs in one!)

Wow this game is so the uncooler brother of the ipod shuffle. Just by the choices alone. Most of them are diabolical. The land of Greatest Hits collections. Yeuch.

1. Ben Harper - fight for your mind
2. Xavier Rudd - Solace
3. Ben Folds - Whatever and ever amen
4. Paul Kelly - Songs from the South
5. The Audreys -

TK - I loves me some songs about whiskey and the devil.

Mara - I actually did a search on the page to see if anyone else had picked MG(B)... for I am a nerd. It was a toss up between BM and Audio of Being though... and damnit, Avalanche is conducive to many, many listens as well...

OK, easy.

1. Appetite for Destruction -- Guns n Roses

2. Disintegration -- The Cure

3. Get Off The Cross... -- Firewater

OK, so this isn't maybe as easy as I first was thinking.

4. Living In Clip -- Ani Difranco

5. The Requiem Mass-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (does that count?)

I feel like I'm betraying so many others here...

London Calling - The Clash
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
OK Computer - Radiohead
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Back in Black - AC/DC

To Samantha: Ewwww, MCR!! Are you frakkin' kidding me (I enjoy being contrary and right now I have not had enough venom spewed at me, so spit away, you wonderful darling)

As for my desert island list:

1)The Black Album - Metallica (the very first album that I could listen to straight through without skipping songs)
2)Meteora - Linkin Park
3)Handel's Messiah (This would be the one I listened to while prepping for our choir's debut in Carnegie Hall)
4)Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical (the one with The Hoff!!!)
5)Mesmerize - System of A Down

I said it way back in the "YOU" message thread (remember? "YOU" are idiots and are ruining our theatre-going experiences?) and I'll say it again ... I love this site, I love the authors of this site, and I love the people who comment on this site!

I can't make a list. I just can't.

But if I could, it would have Bonnie Raitt "Give It Up" on it.

I'm so surprised to see that no one else put that album on their list. Was it anyone's heartaching number 6? Or am I even odder than I thought? I love a lot of music and would be happy getting shipwrecked with just about anyone here, music-wise, but "Give It Up" is the album I have repeatedly paid money for: I had it as a record, twice as a cassette (one melted in the sun in my parent's car) and twice as a CD (one got stolen from my desk at work and I foolishly hadn't duped it).

1.Sam Roberts - Chemical City
2.Radiohead - the Bends
3.Thrush Hermit - Clayton Park
4.Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
5.TV On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity
Corrosion Of Conformity - Wiseblood
Porcupine Tree - Signify
Marillion - Afraid Of Sunlight

Radiohead- The Bends
Aretha Franklin- Greatest Hits (2 discs ;)
Mozart's Requiem (for those times when Radiohead just ain't depressing enough)
Beatles- Abbey Road
David Bowie- Diamond Dogs

*grits teeth*

Frank Zappa: Joe's Garage*
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
Duke Ellington: Carnegie Hall January 1943*
Various Artists: Atlantic R&B 1947-1971*
The Firesign Theatre: Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers

* Seth Freilich gave us an out by writing, "what are the five albums you would absolutely want with you if you were stranded on a desert isle?" (my emphasis). He didn't say there couldn't be more than one disc per album.

I'm tempted to throw in Roxy Music's Stranded only because the title is so apropos to the theme. Not that you wouldn't want to be without "Street Life," "Amazona," or "Mother of Pearl" if you could help it.

I've had to scroll down too, reading everyone else's choices makes me feel all lame and stuff so here's my five albums:

1) Costello Music - the Fratellis
2) Warning - Greenday
3) Start Static - Sugarcult
4) Modified - Save Ferris
5) 40 Licks - The Rolling Stones

There are at least 3 others I want to put on the list but these will have to do... I may have to smuggle in Ta-Dah under my grass skirt ;)

1) "Building rafts that last," an audiobook.

*) AEnima - Tool
*) The Blue Moods of Spain - Spain
*) Tri Repetae - Autechre
*) Pansoul - Motorbass
*) Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol

Hmmm, I think I'd still last but 14 days and then kill myself.

I just realised I chose 6 albums. I'm an idiot. Revised:

Weezer - Blue Album
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
Pink Floyd - Pulse
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Jackson Browne - The Very Next Voice You Hear (best of but if I can't have that, Late for the Sky)

Lil' Kim - The Naked Truth
Lil' Kim - The Notorious K.I.M.
Natasha - Natasha Is Here
Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz Thee Glits
MSTRKRFT - The Looks

1. The Love Below (Andre 3000's half of Speakerboxx/The Love Below) - Outkast
2. Parade - Prince
3. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
4. Taking the Long Way - Dixie Chicks
5. Sign O' The Times - Prince

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
The Hour of Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy
If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
The Electric Version - The New Pornographers
Depending on the mood, Pinkerton by Weezer or Abbey Road by The Beatles might knock one of these out.

* Kid A - Radiohead
* Try whistling this - Neil Finn
* Whatever and ever, Amen - Ben Folds Five
* Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
* Moo, You Bloody Choir - Augie March

What Sound - Lamb
Original Pirate Material - The Streets
The Night - Morphine
No more shall we part - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Live'n Mix - Phuture Shock

Quickly, because I'm already going to be late for work:

1. Your Arsenal - Morrissey
2. Revolver - The Beatles
3. Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones
4. Off The Wall - Michael Jackson
5. When The Pawn... - Fiona Apple

Honorable Mentions:

Dirt - Alice In Chains
Graceland - Paul Simon
Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five
Mr. A-Z - Jason Mraz
Bursting Out (Live) - Jethro Tull

Okay, I just wanted to comment to all the love out there for SUFJAN STEVENS

Anywho....

1.) Transatlanticism- Death Cab for Cutie
>>This is sooooo much better than Plans!!!

2.) Legendary- Dolly Parton
>>This is a Dolly Parton's Greatest Hits from Brit. or something, and yes, it has three CDs in it, but it comes in one CD box therefore your argument is void and I couldn't choose between the three, it would be like choosing which parent will die from death by bear.

3.) The Evolution- Ciara
>> What the Hell, how did I get to this point? REASON: I LOVE ME SOME SHAKING THAT ASS MUSIC!

4.) My Life- EMILY
>> This is a mixed CD that I made. On it is MY LIFE, and it therefore contains 23 Disney songs, ranging from the Little Mermaid to Mulan. I listen to "Part of Your World" daily and it has never/will never disapoint me.

5.) Neon Bible- Arcade Fire
>> I have listened to this at least 3 times a day since it came out, and I don't think this new obsession will die anytime soon. DAMN YOU ARCADE FIRE, DAMN YOU!!

Love,
The Mistress of Awesome,
The Rocker of Faces,
The Queen of Bears,
and A Lover of Texas (because all other states suck),

Emily

Sarah Mclachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Fiona Apple - When The Pawn
Paul Simon - Graceland

...jep, very heavy with female singer-songwriters but these albums simply have proven to never ever annoy me. If one should, I would probably replace it with "Boy For Pele" by Tori Amos.

Flaming Red - Patty Griffin (or Living with Ghosts - they both are fantastic)
Blacklisted - Neko Case
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - soundtrack
Candyass - Orgy (I have absolutely no idea why I love this cd so much, but I do.)

1. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
2. Bee Thousand - Guided By Voices
3. Black Love - Afghan Whigs
4. Frosting on the Beater - The Posies
5. Neon Bible - The Arcade Fire (I know it's only been out for a few weeks but, Holy Crap, it's a great CD!)

1. Automatic for the People - REM
2. The White Album - the Beatles
3. Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams
4. Reckonning and Revelling - Ani DiFranco
5. L'Absente - Yann Thiersen

Janis Joplin - Greatest Hits
Lone Justice - L... J......
America - Greatest Hits
The Smiths - "Singles"
Kate Bush - The Dreaming

Thank you Isabelle for reminding me about Mozart's Requiem Mass. That might have to supercede one of my five. I'm just not sure which one. . .

1. Flook - "Haven" Because if "Mouse Jigs" ever fails to make me feel immediately happy, it's because I've been dead for two years and forgot to notice.

2. Indigo Girls - "Strange Fire" (Not the reissued one, the original. May be only available on vinyl)

3. Guadalcanal Diary - "Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man"

4. Cristina Branco - "Post-Scriptum"

5. Lyle Lovett - "Lyle Lovett and his Large Band"

I'd have put The Cure's "Disintegration" if I was going to be stranded someplace happy, but with fado on the list, I don't want to overload on the suicide-inducing tracks. Man, there's no room for Nanci Griffith or R.E.M. or TMBG or Thea Gilmore....I must remember not to get stranded on that island.

1. Iron & Wine "Endless, Numbered Days"

2. Breaking Benjamin "Phobia"

3. In Flames "Come Clarity"

4. Mudvayne "L.D. 50"

5. Kenna "New Sacred Cow"

In no particular order, these are my top comfort CDs, the ones I keep coming back to when I have a bad day or just need to forget about the world for a while:

Frou Frou - "Details"

The Postal Service - "Give Up"

The Space Brothers - "Shine"

Modest Mouse - "Good News for People Who Love Bad News"

ATB - "Two Worlds" (Technically two CDs, I would pick disc two)

1: "Illinoise" - Sufjan Stevens
2: "II" - Led Zeppelin
3: "Picaresque" - The Decemberists
4: "Summer Sun" - Yo La Tengo
5: "Gold" - ABBA (what?)

1. Sonic Youth - "Sister"
2. Wire - "Chairs Missing"
3. Pixies - "Surfer Rosa"
4. Ramones - "Leave Home"
5. Velvet Underground - S/T

1. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
2. Mariah Carey - Daydream
3. Hall & Oates - Greatest Hits
4. Michael Jackson - Number Ones
5. Ryan Adams - Gold

Ys - Joanna Newsom
Boys for Pele - Tori Amos
No More Shall We Part - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Finally We Are No One - Múm
Richard Strauss' Veir Letzte Leider, preferably the Karajan/Janowitz recording, but I'm not picky as long as the 4th mvmt doesn't drag :)

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Villains - The Verve Pipe

Mozart's Requiem [the Herreweghe conducted version]

Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett

Cat Stevens - Gold

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Last Waltz - The Band
White Album - The Beatles
The Smiths - Singles
Any Nina Simone CD

1. Tom Petty- Last DJ- yay, singing along!

2. Sweeney Todd soundtrack- ditto, plus maybe the police whistles would signal for help!

3. Trumpet Rhapsody- because I cannot live without Timofei Dokshitser's performance of the Arutunian (with a bonus Gershwin!)

4. B-52s- The B-52s- it's just so darn happy

5. Travelling Wilburys- vol. 1

1:Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich (I could actually survive with just that one album)

2:In A Silent Way - Miles Davis

3:Pneumonia - Whiskeytown (best thing Ryan ever did IMO)

4:London Calling - Clash

5:Just one Beatles record (It would take me 2 weeks to pick it though)

Exile in Guyville- Liz Phair

Yankee Foxtrot Hotel- Wilco

Perfect from Now On- Built to Spill

Emperor Tomato Ketchup- Stereolab

Heaven or Las Vegas- Cocteau Twins

1) Talking Heads Greatest Hits

2) Modest Mouse - Good News for people who love...

3) The Jurrasic Park soundtrack

4) Arcade Fire - Funeral

5) Ten Things I hate about you soundtrack

Crap! I totally forgot the Counting Crows, Johnny Cash, and Cross Canadian Ragweed!! Can someone get stuck with me that has Soul Gravy, any Johnny Cash, and August and everything after?! Maybe I'll just pull a TK and fully accept my musical schizophrenia with my own mixes.

I also love this game.

1) Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - just the best album ever.
2) Twilight Singers - Blackberry Belle - cause I never get sick of it, or Greg Dulli in general
3) Massive Attack - Mezzanine - stranded or no, if its sunset on a beach, why not?
4) Blood Mountain - Mastodon - cause I might get pissed and need some heavy guitar
5) Flood - TMBG - I agree, its impossible to be depressed when listening to this.

So much fun!

1. Paul Simon - Graceland
2. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Loney Hearts Club Band
3. Nancy Griffen - Other Voices, Other Rooms
4. They Might Be Giants - Flood
5. Billy Joel - Greatest Hits (although it is a toss up w/ Abba's Greatest Hits, depends on the mood...)

1. U2 - War
2. The 77s - Sticks and Stones
3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
4. Rush - Chronicles [Disc 2]
5. King's X - Faith, Hope, Love

just a note: I've been heavily influenced by an older brother, in case that list looks rather masculine and classic for a 32-year old woman.

1. Led Zeppelin - Remasters (mwhahahaha)
2. Joni Mitchell - Blue
3. The Beatles - The White Album
4. Spirit - Spirit
5. Bert Jansch - Legend

"The Wall" Pink Floyd
Soundtrack for Mononoke-Hime from Jo Hisashi
"Fizzy Fuzzzy Big and Buzzy" The Refreshments
"Flowers of Edinburgh" Laura Riley
The Kundun soundtrack from Philip Glass

I really wish I could put in some Sound Garden or Alice in Chains, but with only 5 albums allowed, I can't pick based on 2 or 3 songs!

So it's settled, everyone who posted will be aboard the Pajiba Cruise 2008 Extravaganza...make sure to bring your 5 favorites (and based on the duplications in the list we could really mix it up)and an extra solar power/windup cd player...sinking of the ship will occur during a marathon screening of Adrift, The Passion of the Christ and Jackass #2, when the crew and guests will set fire to the ship out of sheer misery.
See you there!

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

The Cranberries - Everyone is Doing It, So Why Can't We

Pearl Jam - Ten

U2 - Achtung Baby

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullaby
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2
The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall

I'm late but I want to be included nonetheless.

Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band -the Beatles
either/or - elliot smith
siamese dream -the smashing pumpkins
The Execution of All Things - Rilo Kiley
Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake

Five:

Extraordinary Machine - Fiona Apple

Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos (Andre Previn)

Led Zeppelin IV

Living With Ghosts - Patty Griffin

O - Damien Rice



Honorable mention:

Veronica Mars S1 Soundtrack

Welcome Interstate Managers - Fountains of Wayne

'Huh?' - the mumbles

Christmas With the Rat Pack

Next - Tufts Beelzebubs

That was tough. :/

The Dubliners' Dublin - The Dubliners

Hang on Little Tomato - Pink Martini

Desire - Bob Dylan

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part

Nina Simone - Anthology

Ok.... Five huh? Well how about this...

*Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way Baby
*Sarah Slean- Night Bugs
*Metric- Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
*Emiliana Torrini-Love in the Time of Science
*Muse-Black Holes and Revelations

-Soundtrack to Amelie
-Jack Johnson- In Between Dreams
-Pink Martini- Sympathique
-any Belle & Sebastian
-The Beatles 1967-1970 (compilation 2 disk set)

Hmm....i think i may substitute something on my list for one of my new favs..

a disc called : Music from the Films of Audrey Hepburn

It is a TOTAL genius of a CD, and it even includes her singing Moon River at the end. Check it out out iTunes, people!!!

1. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
2. O - Damien Rice
3. Garden State soundtrack,
4. Gold - Ryan Adams,
5. Set List - The Frames

Live at the Fillmore East - Allman Brothers Band
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
Ah-ha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon
Morrison Hotel - The Doors

Alive! - KISS
Alive 2 - KISS
Best of Both Worlds - Van Halen
Go Chuck Yourself - Sum 41
Greatest Hits - The Offspring

Wow, this is difficult. Here goes.

1. Simple Things - Zero 7
2. Demon Days - Gorillaz
3. Discovery - Daft Punk
4. Let it Die - Feist
5 Love Deluxe - Sade

Beastie Boys - Sounds of Science

Simon & Garfunkle - live in central park

Tori Amos - Tales of the Librarian

Sinead o'connor - So far...the best of...

Rage against the machine - evil empire

Beautiful Sharks - Something for Kate

Things Fall Apart - The Roots

Rounds - Four Tet

XO - Elliott Smith

Goo - Sonic Youth

Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish
Jethro Tull - Warchild (remastered)
The Beatles - White Album
Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern

(two from my childhood)
Slint - Spiderland
Sebadoh - III
(one Jazz CD to represent them all...)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
(two to round out the 5)
The Pixies - Wave of Mutilation (best of)
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

1. The Smiths- Hatful of Hollow
2. Blur- Think Tank
3. Mingus- Oh Yeah
4. Sufjan Stevens- Illinois
5. Young Frankenstein Soundtrack

I can't believe I'm getting in so late on this my comments probably won't be read, but for the record (no pun intended):

Back to Basics: Billy Bragg
Red Roses for Me: The Pogues
Sound Affects: The Jam
American Idiot: Green Day
The Best of Leonard Cohen: Leonard Cohen

And if you're still reading, Matt B., will you marry me?

1. Boston - Boston
2. Masters Of Reality - Masters Of Reality
3. Rush - Signals
4. Kasey Chambers - Baricades and Brick Walls
5. Zero7 - Simple Things

Gary Stewart - Out of Hand
Waylon Jennings - This Time
Tompall Glaser - Tompall
Marty Stuart - Tempted
Chris Knight - Chris Knight

1.Fleetwood Mac - Rumors

2.Supertramp - Crime Of The Century

3.James Taylor's Greatest Hits

4.Queen - All That Jazz

5.Metalica - And Justice For All

Hell's Ditch--the Pogues
Rushmore soundtrack
Greatest Hits--Al Green
The Man and His Music--Sam Cooke
Best of, Vol. 2--Van Morrison

1. Doors - Greatest Hits

2. Van Halen - Van Halen II

3. Black Sabbath - Masters Of Reality

4. Styx - Grand Illusion

5. Missing Persons - Missing Persons

Lauren:

Attagirl!

1. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
2. The Velvet Underground & Nico
3. The Pixies - Doolittle
4. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
5. Cat Power - The Greatest

KISS- Dressed to Kill
Sloan - One Chord to Another
The Beatles - Revolver
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Rushmore (Soundtrack)

Apropo the cruise - depending on the trailers, we might not make it out of the harbor.

I would suggest attending the filmings with your cds/player already in a Ziploc, taped to your body.

There have been some appalling examples of the 'art' posted on here recently. If one of them is that ghodsawful Jon Schneider piece of work, I will not wait for the main feature.

I am *not* submitting myself to that clue- and logic-challenged over-long by 2 freaking minutes piece of s***.

I will hit the button and detonate the plastique plastered *all over* the bottom of my bunk.

Just a word to the wise.

1. Joni Mitchell - Blue
2. Rufus Wainwright - Want One
3. Stevie Wonder's Greatest Hits
4. Puccini - La Bohème
5. Al Green's Greatest Hits