Desert Island Discs

[Gordonbcb]

Oh this is a really difficult one. Once I start with a list, so many more come into my head.

AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
Bon Scott was the most amazing front man - total legend.

The Beatles - Abbey Road
Possibly my favourite album of all time. Very clever writing.

Blondie - Parrallel Lines
Great example of pop/punk.

Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Great rock songs, great riffs.

Frank Sinatra - The Capitol Years
Sinatra from 1953 to 1961 with some timeless arrangements by Nelson Riddle.

Swing Out Sister - Kaleidoscope World
Don't know why I like this, I just do.

And for a couple of greatest hits albums.......

Queen - Greatest Hits part 1

David Bowie - itunes essentials
I'm a late convert to the genious of Bowie

Aerosmith - Greatest Hits
The 1980 version with Dream On and Sweet Emotion etc

[Styler]

I both love and hate doing things like this, I'm always chopping and changing as I love so many albums. There's no way I could do it for singles!

I've really enjoyed reading others lists, I can't help but feel I'm coming at this from a different musical angle however!


Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Dark, powerful, brooding, atmospheric... sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly. It was the difficult follow up to the massive "The Downward Spiral" and a lot of fans just didn't get it. Their loss.

Check out - La Mer


Rush - Signals
Although a tough choice, Signals is probably my favourite Rush album overall. The usual amazing bass and delicate guitar work now combined with washes of melodic synth and subtle reggae influences.

Check out - Subdivisions


Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
An amazing album that would have been much bigger had it been released a few years earlier. Sadly Marillion had faded from the public eye by the mid 90s so not enough people got to listed to this collection of soaring melodies, loosely themed around fallen heroes.

Check out - King


Tears for Fears - Elemental
This album came out around about the time I started secondary school when I was mostly listening to stuff like Megadeth. A friend of mine let me hear it and it was a relevation, you didn't need heavy guitars to make powerful music Although it's showing it's age a little I still love it.

Check out - Fish Out of Water


Guided by Voices - Human Amusements at Hourly Rates
"Best of" albums are a little like cheating in these situations but Robert Pollard has written literally thousands of songs between GbV and his solo career so trying to pick one album is impossible. Probably the only "indie" band that I like, Rob is simply a lo-fi genius.

Check out - Twilight Campfighter


Type O Negative - October Rust
Satisfying my inner goth, this a great album that doesn't take it's self to seriously. Amazing melodies and atmospheric keyboards with the late Pete Steele's unique voice.

Check out - Love You to Death


The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
For me, these guys are the definitive Alt Rock band. Love or hate Billy Corgan's voice, no one else writes songs quite like his. The risk of making a double album paid off, it's wonderfully diverse and sounds as fresh as it did 15 years ago.

Check out - Thirty-Three


A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Maybe my favourite male vocalist of all time, Maynard James Keenan takes time away from his main band Tool to sing in APC. I adore Tool, the best live band I have ever seen but their albums can be patchy. This album however is fantastic all the way though.

Check out - 3 Libras


Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal
The underrated second album of an underrated duo. Deep and thoughtfull music with simpler arrangements than their later work.

Check out - De Profundis


Queensryche - Operation Livecrime
My favourite live album ever made, the live re-enactment of one of the best prog rock concept albums, Operation Mindcrime. Queensryche were dubded "the thinking-man's metal band" and with good reason. Couldn't find a decent live clip though.

Check out - Eyes of a Stranger

[daverave999]

I'm going to come back to this later, as I've almost written an essay. I need to cut it down! Brilliant idea for a thread.

[Robusto]

I could have danced all night, as well.
It's hard to zoom in on all these good tracks!

[nicwing]

I could have danced all night, as well.
It's hard to zoom in on all these good tracks!

Yeh but that's the fun, and that's why I did it every year and saved the spreadsheet so I can look back and see how new music has fed in and how my taste has changed.

The thing is no matter how eclectic your taste there is still something out there you have never heard.

[Robusto]

Absolutely.

I had to "learn" Aretha Franklin's version of Son Of A Preacher Man for a dep job a couple of weeks ago. I had only heard the Dusty Springfield version up to that point.

Bloody hell! What a discovery! I love gospel-y stuff and this version is an absolute joy. It's life-enhancing stuff.

Funny thing is I've been close to angry with myself for not having heard it along the way! (I do love her piano style, and her voice is one of the best).

Having two sons with wide musical tastes means I hear new stuff all the time. I've said on here before I am glued to Radio 4 and rarely listen to music radio so what I hear them listening to is often a revelation.

I'm listening to loads of Eminem currently. I think his stuff - lyrics and music - is class.

[nicwing]

I was listening to 6 Music last night waiting for a program to come on and heard some truly amazing stuff.

It's extraordinary how I have avoided bands with weird names 'The Butt Hole Surfers' for example and then hear them on the radio and find them to be quite great.

[bigbarneyhotdog]

BBC 6 music is on all the time round here, in the house, car & crash helmet. Not in my man cave though, that's where the record players are

[Lascaux]

Smoking den records! Love it, what are your favourite records to smoke to then?


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[Stevieboy]

It's extraordinary how I have avoided bands with weird names 'The Butt Hole Surfers' for example and then hear them on the radio and find them to be quite great.

Aye. Good band but I can see why they'd never become a house-hold name!
"Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to X-Factor:THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS". Can't see it somehow

[nicwing]

OK, as no one is working to the 8 disks format, here are my top 20 from 5 years ago, will work on an update in due course.


1 Another Girl another Planet The Only Ones
2 Northern Sky Nick Drake
3 Come on baby lets go down town Neil Young + Crazy Horse
4 Down the Road apiece The Rolling Stones
5 Who know's where the time goes Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny
6 Move it on over George Thorogood and the Destroyers
7 Don't put me on The Flamin Groovies
8 It's all over now baby blue Them
9 Everybody here wants you Jeff Buckley
10 My back pages The Byrds
11 Head and Heart John Martin
12 Crazy Love Van Morrison
13 20 million things Lowell George
14 Find the river REM
15 There she goes The La's
16 Suzanne John Martin
17 Dust my Broom Elmore James
18 Downtown Neil Young and Pearl Jam
19 Cadillac Walk Mink Deville
20 A Fishermans tale John Martin

[Robusto]

If you've got three hours, Saint Nic, could you explain why you like them, please. It's interesting.

[ChrisMClark]

Not an easy one to answer this!

After a quick think:

Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a memory. (The album that got me into DT, introduced to me by by drumkit teacher)
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings (probably only because it's their most recent album)
Dream Theater (AGAIN!) - Any early album (pre 1994)

And on the more 'refined' side:
Anything by the following:
Rachmaninov
Shostakovich
Rimsky-Korsakov
Mussorgsky

(Yes, I have a Russian fetish )

[cigarboozer]

funky dl - if i had a day to live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9irx7qmZQk&feature=related

prob just put this song on repeat

[Puff Scotty]

Sorry Robusto, I can't do this
Everytime I think of one album I just get set to type it, then think of another....

ARRRRGH!!!