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Desert Island
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Desert
Island Discs - Spring 2003
Peter
Montgomery:
Desert
Island Discs -- version 1 - Peter M.
(I
thought about this for the past few days. Here is a stab a my favs.)
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1.
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2.
David Bowie - Ziggie Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
3.
The Clash - London Calling
4.
Blondie - Parallel Lines
5.
The Beatles - Revolver
6.
David Bowie - Low and/or Heroes
7.
Carter USM - 101 Damnations
8.
Sex Pistols - Never mind the Bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols
9.
Code of Honor - Beware the Savage Jaw
10.
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
Jennifer Fleming:
1.
Radiohead - OK Computer
2.
Sonic Youth - Day Dream Nation
3.
The Verve - Northern Soul
4.
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
5.
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
6.
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
7.
Beck - Midnite Vultures (I know...I'm a freak)
8.
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
9.
The Birthday Party - Mutiny/Bad Seed
10.
Prince - Purple Rain
Sarah
Beach:
1.
The Clash - London Calling
2.
Bjork - the one with Bachelorette on it (Homogenic?)
3. Elvis
Costello - Armed Forces
4.
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie
5.
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
6.
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
7.
Joni Mitchell - Blue
8.
Staple Singers - Gospel Greats
9.
Annette Hanshaw - Girl Next Door
10.
Dukes of Stratosphear - Psonic Psunspot
Evan Krasts:
1.
Radiohead - Kid A
2.
The Beatles - White Album
3.
John Coltrane - Blue Train
4.
Pavement - Terror Twilight
5.
Metallica - Master of Puppets
(for
Day #223 when I get pissed and start pelting things with coconuts)
6.
Manu Chao - Clandestino
(to
enjoy in the sun as I go slowly INSANE!)
7.
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
(for
life affirming power)
8.
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
(3rd
Stone from the sun is still the coolest thing ever)
9. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
10.
Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits
Dave Graham:
1.
Pink Floyd - Animals
2.
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
3.
The Doors - Strange Days
4.
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
5.
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
6.
Royal Crown Revue - Mugsy's Move
7.
Nirvana - Incesticide
8.
Frank Zappa - Apostraphe/Overnite Sensation
9.
Primus - Suck on This
10. Neurosis - The Word as Law
Tough
choices. It was harder than I thought it'd be....
-Dave
Will Wright:
Oh
ok, here's mine in no particular order
0.
no Beatles (I'm with Penn and Teller on this, the Beatles have had enough
play to last two civilizations)
1.
Aphex Twin: ...I Care Because You Do
2.
Depeche Mode: Violator
3.
Queen: Flash Gordon
4.
Art of noise: Who's afraid of the art of noise
5.
David Bowie: Changesbowie
6. Red
Elvises: Grooving to the Moscow beat
7. Brigit
Brat (Gods Girlfriend): Whore Damage
8. 386DX:
CD-2
9. Holst:
The Planets
10. See
Colin Slash: Quart Of Meat
(the
last one I'm biased towards not only because it great, but mainly because
I named the title track for them)
Will Wright
Brian Murphy:
Without
spending hours, and noting that a list of songs would be more useful than a
list of albums (come on guys, the album is dead!)
1.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
2.
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
3.
Pearl Jam - Ten
4.
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
5.
Sarah McClaughlin - Surfacing
6.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
7.
U2 - Boy
8.
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
9.
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (self titled)
10.
Van Halen - Van Halen (self titled)
Chris Iverson:
This
was hard. keep in mind i picked "best of" albums only to
consolidate albums of fav. artists. i mean, we're only allowed to
bring 10. i did the best i could.
1.
suede - coming up
2.
mamma cass elliott - dream a little dream
3.
beethoven - favourite piano sonata's
4.
joy division - substance 1977- 1980
5.
the smiths - 'the very best of the smiths' cause it's all on one
6.
morrissey - 'the best of' 'cause it's all on one (except moon river, which
i love)
7.
black eyed peas - behind the front
8.
the pretenders - the singles
9.
new order - substance - the singles
10.
led zeppelin - early days, the best of volume 1.
Kathleen Waters:
in
no particular order
1.
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2.
The Who - Who's Next
3.
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted or Crooked Rain -- I can't decide!
4.
Radiohead - Kid A
5.
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
6.
Son Volt - Trace
7.
The Clash - London Calling
8.
Kruder & Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions
9.
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
10.
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Suzanne
Onodera:
I
have to just stop right now and send this because I could go on and
on. Didn't manage to squeeze Motorhead in there but what the hey...
Suzanne's
list version 1. Not in order because I'm lame.
1.
rovo- imago
2.wire
- pink flag
3.buzzcocks
- singles going steady
4.mission
of burma - vs ( still incredible after all of these years)
5.joy
division - substance ( compilation)
6.the
clash - give 'em enough rope
7.ramones "
rocket to russia" ( I cut teeth on this album)
8.pell
mell- interstate
9.django
reinhardt - quintet of the hot club of france
10.the
damned " best of"
Regrets:
david bowie "ziggy stardust", lounge lizards " queen of all
ears" , lee morgan "sidewinder " , wedding present
"bizzaro" (yes peter this is a great album), x-ray
specs- germ free adolescents
Mike
Tatum:
This
always kills me....
1.
Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
2.
Whiskeytown- Stranger's Almanac
3.
Neil Young- Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
4.
English Beat- Special Beat Service
5.
The Who- Quadrophenia
6.
The Replacements- Let it Be (Unsatisfied would have a whole new
gastronomical angle, wouldn't it?)
7.
The Rolling Stones- Exile on Main Street
8.
Billy Joe Shaver- Restless Wind
9.
Big Star- #1Record/Radio City (they are pressed on the same CD!)
10.
Pixies- Doolittle
Some
albums I would sincerely miss:
Alejandro
Escovedo- Bourbonitus Blues
Son
Volt- Trace
Wilco-
Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
Smiths-
Louder than Bombs
Cannonball
Adderly- Somethin' Else
Willie
Nelson- Shotgun Willie
Everything
but the Girl- Walking Wounded
Husker
Du- Candy Apple Grey
Pavement-
Slanted & Enchanted
Hank
Williams Jr.- Greatest Hits
Velvet
Underground- Loaded
Uncle
Tupelo- Anodyne
Elvis
Costello- Get Happy (I really should bring this one!)
Richard
Buckner- Since
The
Stooges- Fun House
I've
got to stop. Not to create a work stoppage across the state of California,
but here's some recent albums I can't stop listening to:
Bobby
Bare Jr. - Young Criminals Starvation League (This is what a Smiths country
dirge album would sound like)
Kathleen
Edwards- Failer (If you haven't guessed, I like the Alt. Country and this
is right in my wheelhouse.)
Crooked
Fingers- Red Devil Dawn (Lead singer from Archer of Loafs)
Zwan-
Mary Star of the Sea (I guess I still like the Smashing Pumpkins)
Have
a great day.
Kerwin
So:
a
few years ago, my list might have looked something like this (in no order
whatsoever):
1.
replacements
- tim
2.
yo la
tengo - painful
3.
nirvana -
in utero
4.
guided by
voices - bee thousand
5.
jawbreaker
- 24 hour revenge therapy
6.
goo goo
dolls - superstar car wash
7.
seam - are
you driving me crazy?
8.
built to
spill - perfect from now on
9.
nick drake
- pink moon
10. dj shadow -
endtroducing...
honorable
mentions:
joy
division - substance
papa
m - live from a shark cage (now that D. Pajo is in zwan i hope his
record sales increase)
dianogah
- battle champions
mogwai
- young team or ten rapid
husker
du - new day rising
sugar
- copper blue
red
house painters - something really depressing
john
coltrane - a love supreme
pixies
- doolittle
buzzcocks
- operators manual
pavement
- slanted & enchanted
stone
roses - s/t "the lemon album"
smiths
- louder than bombs
REM
- automatic for the people
buffalo
tom - let me come over
grant
lee buffalo - mighty joe moon
the
rest of the story is just way too long to tell.... thanks for the trip down
memory lane.
Jonah Liebert:
Very
painful. Probably better that I can't/don't sit at home and look
through my CD's.
1.)
Pink Floyd - Meddle
2.) Budgie - Squawk
3.) Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds of the Western World
4.) Billie Holiday - The Silver Years (Verve)
5.) Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
6.) Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
7.) AC/DC - High Voltage (US version)
8.) Big Star - Sister Lovers/Third
9.) Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (correct speed reissue)
10.) Led Zeppelin - I
Yes,
I wanted The Replacements "Let it Be" on my list too, but I just
could not fit it. And some Motorhead and Nirvana
"Bleach" and some Black Sabbath and Van Halen's first and
maybe KISS's first and lots of other albums.
...The
album will never die.
Peter DiMaria:
1,000 - sure, 100 -
maybe, but 10? Imagine my relief to see others, including the widely
respected Mr. Tatum, give in and bend the rules before I had to embarrass
myself with my own excess items...
Peter
SOUTH SHORE
1. Sparks - Kimono My
House
2. Black Flag - Damaged
3. Buzzcocks - Another
Music in a Different Kitchen
4. Beatles - White
Album
5. Zombies - Singles
A's & B's
6. Spirit - Time Circle
7. Dbs - Stands for
Decibels / Repercussion
8. Eno - Another Green
World
9. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
10. Wire - Pink Flag
NORTH SHORE
1. Poulenc - Mass in G
Major, Motets for Christmas & Lent, Four Short Prayers of St. Francis
2. Talvin Singh - O.K.
3. Durutti Column - The
Guitar and Other Machines
4. Penguin Cafe
Orchestra - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
5. Fripp & Eno -
Evening Star
6. Stephen Scott -
Minerva's Web/Tears of Niobe
7. Peter Michael Hamel
- Nada
8. Dead Can Dance -
Into the Labyrinth
9. Arvo Part - Tabla
Rasa
10. Philip Glass -
Einstein on the Beach
*BONUS SECRET TREASURE
CHEST STASH* (hidden under palm tree)
1. Black Sabbath - We
Sold Our Soul for Rock n' Roll
2. Johnathan Richman -
Back in Your Life
3. April March -
Chrominance Decoder
4. Sagittarius -
Present Tense
5. Moody Blues - Days
of Future Passed
6. Mercury Rev -
Deserter's Songs
7. Sweet - Best of
Sweet
8. Vince Guaraldi -
Charlie Brown Christmas
9. Fred Waring &
The Pennsylanians - The Sounds of Christmas
10. Frank Sinatra - In
the Wee Small Hours
11. Urge Overkill -
Saturation
12. Glenn Miller - The
Essential of Glenn Miller
13. Emerson Lake &
Palmer - Tarkus
14. Altern 8 - Full On
Mask Hysteria
15. X - Los Angeles
16. Talking Heads -
Talking Heads 77
17. Screamers - Demos
1977-78
18. High Llamas -
Hawaii
19. Beach Boys - Little
Deuce Coupe
20. Eno/Bowie - Low
John Slater:
Damn, this was tough.
I've had a top 5 list in my head for awhile, but expanding it to 10 opened
up way too many possibilities. At one point I had a list of about 25
essential albums before I went through the painful process of elimination.
Anyway, here are the
ones that made the cut (ask me next week and it could be totally
different):
1. The Beatles -
Revolver
2. REM - Automatic for
the People
3. Pavement - Crooked
Rain, Crooked Rain
4. Radiohead - OK
Computer
5. Neutral Milk Hotel -
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
6. The Clash - London
Calling
7. The Smiths - The
Queen is Dead
8. Belle &
Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
9. The Velvet
Underground - The Velvet Underground (3rd album)
10. The Pixies - Surfer
Rosa
Albums by the Rolling
Stones, Fugazi, the Stone Roses, Beck, Stevie Wonder, the Beach Boys, the
Violent Femmes, Nirvana, the Beastie Boys, Big Star, the Flaming Lips,
Wilco and many others are floating sadly just offshore.
Liz Scanlon:
This was tough. I find
myself drawn back to the classics that never get old. In fact, I wish I could listed to
them all right now. These are in no particular order.
Beastie Boys--Licensed to Ill
Stevie Wonder--Songs in the Key of Life
The Rolling Stones--Sticky Fingers
The Band--The Last Waltz
Bob Marley--Kaya
Pearl Jam--Ten
Dr. Dre--2001
REM--Fables of the Reconstruction
Soul Hits of the 70's--Volume 9
The
Specials-Specials
Cristian
Mueller:
This changes almost every day for me, but here is today's list (not
necessarily in order):
1. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
2. Jeff Buckley - Grace
3. Kruder & Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions
4. Boards of Canada - Glee
5. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
6. Miguel Migs - For Your Mind
7. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
8. Miss Kitten & the Hacker - First Album
9. Nick Drake - Way to Blue
10.
Radiohead - The Bends
Rhonda Spencer:
OUCH!!!
This was really tough....
Van Halen--Van Halen
Joe Henry-Fuse
Jellyfish-Spilt Milk
Crowded House-Woodface
Cracker-Cracker
Grant Lee
Buffalo-Mighty Joe Moon
Aimee Mann--Bachelor
no. 2
Led Zeppelin-Physical
Graphitti
Smashing
Pumpkins-Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Elliott
Smith-Figure 8
Peter
Montgomery #2:
Fellow music lovers:
After seven years on
the island, a Portuguese merchant marine vessel picked me up.
On our way from the
Pacific to their Cacao factory near the Horn of Africa, a huge storm in the
Indian Ocean hit us.
All the crew and the
ship were lost. Lucky I was
able to piece together my favorite CDs from the ship's vast library, jam
them with a stack of peanut butter sandwiches, into a waterproof blue
flight case, and float to a nearby atoll. Other than my longing for the spicy Madeira-style shrimp
cakes fried up by my pals from Lisbon, I was happy to have found dry land
-- and to have great tunes with me.
Though my previous list
are truly my favs. -- after having listened to Bowie and the Beatles for
seven years, I am thrilled
that the below albums
are seriously amazing stuff.
These are sounds that
changed the world and ring in my soul.
1) Tuxedomoon - Desire
2) Madonna - Ray of
Light
3) Kraftwerk -
Radio-Activity
4) Devo - Duty Now for the Future
5) New Order - Power,
Corruption & Lies
6) Lene Lovich -
Stateless
7) Thomas Dolby - The
Golden Age of Wireless
8) Human League - Dare
9) Moby - Everything Is
Wrong
10)
Go-Gos - Beauty & the Beat
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