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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

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

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

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!"

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...

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.

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. 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)

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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. 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

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

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

Oh I forgot Cake and Bell&Sebastian!!

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

Prolonging the Magic: Cake

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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)

"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.

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.

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!)

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

TK - heck yeah!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!)

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.)

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#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

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.

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

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.

Her Majesty- The Decemberists

Chutes Too Narrow- The Shins

Infinity On High- Fall Out Boy

Twin Cinema- The New Pornographers

Illinois- Sufjan Stevens

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

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.

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

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

(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.

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

R.E.M - Green

Blood Hound Gang - Use Your Fingers

Dutchmassive - Junk Planet

Boredoms - Pop Tatari

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.

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.

White Album--The Beatles

Tapestry--Carole King

Weezer--Weezer

System of a Down--Hypnotize

Pink Floyd--Dark Side of the Moon

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

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

-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...

*applause* for Jams for Murder By Death!

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.

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. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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"

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...

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.

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

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)

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

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!

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.

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

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 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.

can I take a digital satellite radio instead? ;)

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?

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.

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...

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

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).

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

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.

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

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)

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

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

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

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.

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!)

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

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.

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

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
Last Waltz - The Band
White Album - The Beatles
The Smiths - Singles
Any Nina Simone CD

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)

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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. :/

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

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!!!

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

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

Beautiful Sharks - Something for Kate

Things Fall Apart - The Roots

Rounds - Four Tet

XO - Elliott Smith

Goo - Sonic Youth

(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

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?

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

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

Lauren:

Attagirl!

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

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

Oy vey. My five?

1) Bob Dylan -Greatest Hits (capitalizing on the boxed set loophole to get 4 dylan discs in one!)
2) Tryo -Grain de sable
3) Weezer -Blue Album
4) Louise Attaque -Comme on a dit OR Louise Attaque
5) The Beatles -Sgt. Pepper's (it's one of my favorite feel-good albums of all time)

Also, Tom from 10:35pm, marry me? "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" is possibly my favorite song ever, and Elliott Smith could easily knock out one of my above picks.

other honorable mentions:
Interpol -Antics
Rufus Wainwright -Poses
Rilo Kiley -More Adventurous
Avenue Q -original Broadway cast recording

I'm all for starting the suggest Pajiba colony. :)

Jeez...5.
In no particular order, and subject to change daily (hourly, even) depending on mood, right now, this second:

Local H - Pack Up the Cats
36 Crazyfists - Bitterness the Star
The Cure - Disintegration
Icehouse - Icehouse
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come: A Chimerical Bombast in 12 Bursts

I can think of 20 more right away which could easily replace any of these.

1: Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2: Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
3: The Stooges - Raw Power
4: Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
5: The Velvet Goldmine Soundtrack

I'd hold out for 10 CD's and a smaller island, but here goes:

1.) The Band- or this one CD and North America as the island;
2.) and 3.) The Atlantic History of Rhythm and Blues--I'd bargain for the whole set, but settle for Disc 4 (Ray Charles and his early contemporaries) and Disc 6 (Otis, Sam & Dave, Aretha, Wilson Pickett, among others);
4.) O.C.M.S.- Old Crow Medicine Show- I could listen just to "Wagon Wheel" for a month at a time;
5.) The Basement Tapes- Bob Dylan and the Band- the audio equivalent to your favorite pair of blue jeans
...and a clam rake, a surfcast outfit, a 30:30 Winchester, a desalination kit, 60 cases of Gosling, and a waterproof, bugproof teakwood cabin.

Bjork: Homogenic
The Roots: The Tipping Point
Led Zeppelin 3
John Mayer: Heavier Things
Biggie: Ready to Die

Felt Mountain - Goldfrapp
Supernature - Goldfrapp
Long Gone Before Daylight - The Cardigans
Super Extra Gravity - The Cardigans
Spice World - Spice Girls

1. Citizen Cope - The c. g. recordings
2. Tegan & Sara - So Jealous
3. Jack Johnson - On and on/ Brushfire fairytales
4. Stabilo - Cupid?
5. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open

U2- The Unforgettable Fire
Cake- Fashion Nugget
The Proclaimers- Sunshine on Leith
ELO- Strange Magic: The Best of..
Doctor Who OST (er..I cannot live without the theme song. I..just..can't.)

That was excruciatingly difficult, and I do believe I sort of hate you now.

1. Queen - Greatest Hits
2. Queen - Greatest Hits II
3. Michael Buble - Michael Buble
4. Jet - Get Born
5. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

And Vermillion - I'm sorry, but "Princes of the Universe" is on Volume III, so you'd either have to choose that or go with Volume I (the best one, I might add).

1. The Gathering - How to Measure a Planet?
2. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
3. Metallica - Master of Puppets
4. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
5. Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

scratch that, DJ Shadow, Entroducing and any album by Amon Tobin, i love trip hop, couldn't live with these two!

Interesting! I recently took part in a similar excercise, when a friend had a bunch of stuff stolen, including her entire CD collection. She sent around an email to all of her friends asking for their top 3 albums to give her an idea of what to get with the insurance money...

So as I told her, my top three were:

1.The Bends - Radiohead (just, oh...cool, awesome music!)
2.Time Being - Ron Sexsmith (peaceful and soul-healing lyrics, delivered so beautifully)
3.The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (After Hours would be reason enough, but it's all so good)

Now, two more to make it five....Can I make my own best-of-REM mix? Too hard to pick just one album! OK, OK, no cheating. Here goes:

4.Reveal - REM (not neccessarily my favourite, but it just suits a sunny day on a deserted island, and I can say that with benefit of experience!)
5.Greatest Hits - Mamas and the Papas (more pretty summertime listening)

Now, who was it that said they were going to go home and hug all of their other albums and promise to never, never leave them?? I hear you! BTO, Guess Who, all my other REMs and Radioheads, good ol' Sam Roberts and Tom Waits, my dear Cowboy Junkies...Oh, how I'd miss you all. (I notice that most of these folks have been chosen by other Pajibans. Can I get stranded with you guys?)

Matt B. How weird that you came back. I thought being poster #301 on this had doomed me to unread oblivion. We'll get married during Billy Bragg's (rumored) tour this summer. I'll walk down the aisle to Must I Paint You a Picture. Our first dance will be Rainy Night in Soho. We'll drive off to That's Entertainment. What more could a girl ask of her big day? Oh, and I'm inviting everyone on this thread who included Pogues or Clash CDs on their lists.

1) Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
2) Amnesiac - Radiohead
3) The Unforgettable Fire - U2
4) GHV2 - Madonna (yes, Madonna)
5) Revolver - The Beatles

5)The Who-Quadrophenia
4) The Smiths-The Queen is Dead
3) Stan Rogers-Between the Breaks
2) The Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Show Your Bones
1) Bob Dylan-Blonde on Blonde

paddydog - sounds good to me. We can have Billy serenade us with Greetings to the New Brunette before going off on a hopelessly outdated but charming rant about Margaret Thatcher. We'll laugh as Shane Macgowan, who was of course invited, (just promise him free booze...he'll be there), slurs his way through a toast. (I saw him last year in Boston. He actually became marginally more coherent the more he drank. As much as I want him to live forever, I can't wait for the autopsy results on his liver). Anyway, we'll then drive off to...Town Called Malice, and live happily ever after. One thing though. I think we should invite ALL Pajibites (I like pajibites, it sounds like bagel bites), even those who don't share our (obviously superior) musical tastes. Seriosuly though, the fact that you share three of my favorite bands makes me swoon.

Ugh...I don't want to write this paper. Has anyone else joined the Pajiba facebook group? If anyone feels like talking music (or marriage), I'm probably I'm the only Matt B on the member list. If not, I'm probably the only Matt B with Vinnie Jones as his display pic. Okay...Black Panther paper. Now.

Clash - London Calling
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Salmonella Dub - Inside the Dub Plates
Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within
Kruder Dorfmiester - The K&D Sessions

in no particular order...

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Bob Marley - Legend

Radiohead - The Bends

The Fugees - The Score

Outkast - Atliens

New poster here. For some reason, my browser has been tethered to Pajiba since discovering this site a few days ago.
I hope this post doesn't violate the spirit of the challenge, but my perspective is different, having actually dragged my music collection to an isolated, nearly-deserted tropical island for two years. For this adventure, I brought my "best of" cassettes in the form of The Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo, The Clash, The Replacements, REM, Neil Young, Robyn Hitchcock, The Beatles, Sonic Youth, Big Star and too many NZ bands to list (did I mention it was the 80s?). I was unprepared for how difficult it was to connect with comforting punky angst while sitting under a graceful palm tree by the beach with my walkman. I won't bore you with the details, but this desert island environment was so overpowering that I found my favorite music, the stuff I previously depended upon for psychic balance, was sorely out of place here. What follows are albums that actually kept me sane and in the comfort zone (or would have had they been released at that time) on the island:

1. Groove Yard (Mango V/A 1989)
2. The Mana'o Company - Spread A Little Aloha
3. King Sunny Ade - Return of the Juju King ("Sweet Banana" should be administered in prescription form)
4. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
5. Les Nubians - Princesses Nubiennes

Oh, can I bring a guitar, too?

Cheers and thanks for the lovely posts that will definitely enrich my music collection.

RTS