Top 10 CDs/Albums on a desert island

[Eric H]

Television -Marquee Moon
Hendrix-Electric Ladyland
Harvey Mandel -Shangrenade
John Renbourn -Sir John
Beatles -Revolver
Joni Mitchell -Clouds
Albert King -Live Wire Blues Power
Jethro Tull -Stand Up
Jeff Beck Group -Rough and Ready
Page and Plant -Walking into Clarksdale
Tool -Aenima

[spongebob]

Opeth - Morningrise
Agalloch - The Mantle
Ulver - Kveldssanger
Blind Guardian - Live
Dream Theater - Live Scenes From New York
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Johnny Cash - Solitary Man
Ani DiFranco - So Much Shouting So Much Laughter
Peter Mulvey - Ten Thousand Mornings
Bruckner - Symphony no.8 (MPO, Celibidache)

[Steve C]

1.  Peter Gabriel - Passion
2.  Daniel Lanois - Sling Blade Soundtrack
3.  Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
4.  Robben Ford - Robben Ford and the Blue Line
5.  formerMember1 Kotzen - Inner Galactic Fusion Experience
6.  Tuck Andress - Reckless Precision
7.  Dixie Dregs - Freefall
8.  Monte Montgomery - 1st and Repair
9.  Gov't Mule - Gov't Mule
10. R. Carlos Nakai - Mystic Dreamer

[Paul Marossy]

1. VTT 2 (Vital Tech Tones 2 w/ Scott Henderson, Steve Smith, Victor Wooten)
2. GHS 3 (Album #3 w/ Frank Gambale, Stu Hamm, Steve Smith)
3. Pat Metheny - The Road to You, Live In Europe
4. Gregg Bissonette - Album Title Same (great tunes!)
5. Al Di Meola - Orange and Blue
6. Simon Philips - Another Lifetime
7. Chick Corea Elektric Band - Paint The World
8. Joe Satriani - Flying In A Blue Dream
9. Steve Vai - The Ultra Zone
10. Frank Zappa - Shut And Play Yer Guitar (3 album set)

[Johan]

If I can only bring 10...I am not going...

Johan

[Rodgre]

Johan brings up a point....
A few years ago I had to pretty much move to NYC for six months while I was recording a record down there. I ended up taking a huge 3-ring binder full of CDs...a couple hundred of them at least, just in case I NEEDED to hear that Jack Drag CD, or that ELO song....

Later that year, I saw this amazing invention called the IPOD. My whole life changed. I'm not a tech-nerd-gadget-master, but I really liked the concept of random access to that many songs in a small package like that. It was like the greatest radio station ever!


Roger

[Mark Hammer]

Interesting nominations so far.

certainly one of either "Electric Ladyland" or "Axis: Bold as Love"

certainly "Revolver", although given that it *would* be a desert island maybe and only 10 albums, maybe the White Album is a smarter move

certainly an album by a "breathy" female singer.  It could be "Heart Food" by Judee Sill (an absoilute masterpiece for its time and well worth seeking out), maybe "Gonna Take a Miracle" by Laura Nyro, and maybe a Jane Siberry album like "When I was a Boy".

probably some sort of Procol Harum compilation or maybe just the first album

some sort of Mothers of Invention album, likely either "Absolutely Free" or "Uncle Meat"

a best-of from somebody on Chess: could be Muddy, could be Sonny Boy, could be Howlin Wolf.

a Pharoah Saunders album of some type with Leon what's his name, the "yodeller"

Something/Anything by Todd Rundgren is also a good suggestion, although a remastered version of "Initiation" or the Live album would be nice (both of these have so much music packed onto them that the bass is absilutely disembowelled).  Aw heck, let me just pick 10 cuts form his discography and be done with it.

a Tuck Andress compilation *would* be nice, either with or without Patti.

possibly "Holland" by the Beach Boys, although only a couple of cuts would need to be playable; here again, a 10 or 12-pack of Brian and Carl Wilson's best work ever would be nice.

[Samuel]

10 copies of some complete Led Zeppelin box set thing, so I could fashion a makeshift boat out of the packaging and sail away from South Palm Tree and a CD Player Island.

[Rodgre]

...maybe "Gonna Take a Miracle" by Laura Nyro, and maybe a Jane Siberry album like "When I was a Boy".
......possibly "Holland" by the Beach Boys, although only a couple of cuts would need to be playable; here again, a 10 or 12-pack of Brian and Carl Wilson's best work ever would be nice.

Ah.... I'm so glad someone said Laura Nyro.
I agree on the "best of" Carl and Brian Wilson. It's hard to pick a whole LP.

Roger

[casey]

1. black peppercorns - tumbling ground
2. david crowder band - illuminate
3. david crowder band - can you hear us
4. david ruis - sweet mercies
5. mary's den - the unknown
6. ben manuel - upon wearing realities hat
7. out of brokeness - i know
8. as cities burn - self entitled
9. phil keaggy - acoustic sketches
10. everyone else.....

who are these guys?  

[brett]

A few cheats here (by selecting "best of"s)

1.  Are you experienced (best of) by Jimi Hendrix
2.  Give out but don't give up by Primal Scream
3.  Live at the Regal by BB King
4.  Some kinda blue by Miles Davis
5.  Living by John Butler Trio (coming soon to the USA )
6.  Best of Janis Joplin
7.  The cream of Eric Clapton (best of)
8.  Meddle by Pink Floyd
9.  London sessions by Howling Wolf
10.  Paint the sky with stars (best of) by Enya

Something by Cat Stevens was highly desired, but missed out.

[guitonit]

In no particular order......

Jellyfish- Spilt Milk
Ian Moore- Modernday Folklore
Swag- Catch All
Jellyfish- Bellybutton
Scott Henderson- Dog Party
Eric Gales- That's What I Am
Aquarium Rescue Unit- In A Perfect World
Chris Duarte- Texas Sugar Strat Magic
SRV- The Box Set
Hendrix- Anything

Scott A.

[nightingale]

1 shivering king and others---dead meadow

2 rise and fall---the warlocks

3 self titled---the velvet underground

4 forever chenges---LOVE

5 the kink kontroversy---the kinks

6 electric warior--- Trex

7 the madcap laughs---syd barrett

8 self titled---pleasure forever

9 black sabbath---black sabbath

10 S.F. SORROW---THE PRETTY THINGS

[Nasse]

If I could choose I would take some good guality guitar lesson/backing track cd s and learn to play with these.

On a desert island maybe some cd containing "Friday On My Mind" might be nice  :lol:

And maybe Remu & Hurriganes "Roadrunner" cd

[cajununicorn]

i get a kick out of thinking about records in these terms...really cuts the wheat from the chaff. also makes it hard to get the last 2 or 3...i'll start with...
1. forever changes,  love
2. easter everywhere,  the 13th floor elevators
3. loveless,  my bloody valentine
4. pink moon,  nick drake
5. what's going on,  marvin gaye
6. flying high,   gene clark
7. yankee hotel foxtrot,  wilco
8. oar,  skip spence
9. third reich and roll,  the residents
10. scott 4,  scott walker
there's not enough room for them, but there should be....sgt pepper, pet sounds, between the buttons, are you experienced, the kids are alright comp, some hank williams, slowdive, flaming lips,
so many others, such a small island.

[Fret Wire]

10 CD's by Yanni......that way, I'd spend every breathing minute starting signal fires and building rafts to get rescued from that horrible noise!

[DaveTV]

I've said this many times before. As far as the Beatles go, I've always thought that the White Album was their Sgt Pepper.

[brett]

On a desert island maybe some cd containing "Friday On My Mind" might be nice  

(by the Easybeats)
Nice pick!  Maybe Stevie Wright's Evie (parts 1, 2 and 3) too!!

The theme of hating work and wanting to get away in "Friday on my mind" would be re-assuring when lost on an island.  So maybe "Dock of the bay" would have to be in there, too.  "Message in a bottle" (Police) has that castaway theme... any others?

[Mark Hammer]

Gahhhh!!!  I forgot Stevie Wright's  "Hard Road" album.  Can I have do-overs?

Good call Brett.

[LP Hovercraft]

10 CDs by Yanni...  Best answer yet Fret Wire!  We should give out prizes for this stuff.  You are a true survivor.   The rest of us would starve to death on that eroding dirt clod.