Desert Island discs--comments welcome

[Swiss Cheese]

The albums I would take on a deserted island and why.

1. Beggers Banquet--Rolling Stones Many, if they were to choose a stones album, would take Exile on Main Street. They are both great but Beggers is the stones finest blues rock album all the way through.

2. Blood on the Tracks--Bob Dylan--The finest return album ever!!!!!

3. Baja Sessions--Chris Isaak--A mellow rockin album to let you drift away.

4. Wilco--Wilco--One of the finest albums of country rock. Yes it rivals the early Sun material.

5. I Feel Alright--Steve Earle--Another return album but for self induced reasons. This album tells of the his life on the "other side of the tracks".

6. Freedom--Neil Young and Crazy Horse--This album is some of the finest rockin and songs written in the 90's. The grandfather of grunge show the kids a few things on this album. "Rockin in the Free World" while the best known of the tunes on the album isn't even close to being the best.

7. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road--Lucinda Williams--Your gonna want to hear a womans voice sooner or later it might as well be from that also write incredible songs.

8. Electric--The Cult--Balls out rocking and one of the best cover versions ever--"Born to be Wild"

9. Rubber Soul--The Beatles--A great fusion of what the Beatles were and what they were to become.

10. Live at the Troubadour--Neil Diamond--I know that Diamond is now a joke but the young Diamond was a great song writter and performer. This is the best of his best caught at his peak.

11. Moondance--Van Morrison--This album is incredible songwritting from start to finish and I think everyone can relate to some part of this album.

12. Reservoir Dogs Soundtrack--Various Artists & Steve Wright--Your gonna need to laugh and you might as well hear music while your doing it...just had to add this album.

All comments welcome if anyone is interested!!!!! I had to do somthing whil I am waiting form my next on-line tourney.

Swiss Cheese

Swiss Cheese

[RINCON]

Swisscheese- Quite and interesting selection of music.I can't argue with any of the selections,but its obvious you are a little bit older than me.No problem I like all music!!
I would need a little bit of everything so here goes
OZZY, METALLICA
WILLIE NELSON,WAYLON JENNINGS,JOHNNY CASH
AEROSMITH, VAN HALEN, DEF LEPPARD
EMINEM,EAZY-E
SINATRA,GEORGE STRAIT
EAGLES,DOORS,BEATLES
The greatest hits of each of these artists would do me just fine.Good luck in your tournament.

RINCON

[Allan]

Looks like a good list, but Neil Diamond? Is his best of his best so much better than something else you could bring? And Van Morrison I've always found to be boring, sorry....

Here is mine, completely different in no particular order,

1) Bach, The Art Of the Fugue, A genius using the last of his life force to squeeze out what he knows will be his last gift to the world and asking the world to please remember him. Something to think about intellectually on the island.

2) Duke Ellington, The Great Paris Concert, A great live album, with one of the great Ellington lineups.

3) Bob Marley and the Wailers, Kaya, One of my all-time favorite albums

4) D'angelo, Voodoo. Athough there are obviosly far better soul artists/albums out there I can't get enough of this album.

5) Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauders, for my hip hop fix

6) Led Zeppelin, I don't know what album I'd actually bring but I can't imagine not having one

7) Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, The Smithsonian live recordings, good foot stomping american roots music.

8) Tower of Power, anything live by them for party music

9) Guns and Roses, Appetite for Destruction, For memories of old friends and to get my morning started w/o coffee.

10) Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier, My favorite opera, if for nothing else the final trio......

11) Joni Mitchell, Blue, Great songs

12) I'm not too into soundtracks so I'd go with the only one I own, Pulp Fiction..


Allan

[Mark Heide]

Swiss Cheese,

If I was the dictator on that desert island, all of that music would be banned. Since, I only like very little popular music, here is my list:

1. Stravinsky-The Rite of Spring-Conducted by Pierre Boulez with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra.

2. Schostakovich-Complete Symphonies-Rudolf Barshai and WDR Orchestra.

3. Luigi Nono-Prometeo-Ingo Metzmacher-Ensemble Modern

4. Prokofiev-Complete Symphonies-Neeme Jarvi RSNO.

5. George Crumb-Ancient Voices of Children

6. Debussy-Images for Orchestra-Fritz Reiner and CSO.

7. Toshio Hosokawa-In die Tiefe der Zeit-Thomas Demenga and Teodoro Anzellotti.

Those are some of my favorites and I never get tired of listening to them.

Good Luck

Mark

[Swiss Cheese]

Your list reminded me of one--Kind of Blue--Miles Davis--an incredible listen, pure genius, and I don't really understand music theory or any of that I just know it is a cople of real musical geniuses working togather.

I also am not into soundtracks but the ones from Quentin T are not your normal soundtracks.

[Swiss Cheese]

Mark,

Thanks for your input, one of the reason I listed these is to see what other people like and maybe get some ideas of other types of music that I could enjoy.


Swiss Cheese

[Phat Mack]

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George Crumb-Ancient Voices of Children

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What is this one?

[Mark Heide]

George Crumb is a modern composer. I had to analyze this piece when I was in college for my music theory class.
Here's a link to the original recording that was used by many audiofile stores to demonstrate product back in the days of vinyl.

http://www.towerrecords.com/product.asp?pfid=1066380

Good Luck

Mark

[John Cole]

Mark,

Believe it or not, I have Ancient Voices of Children on both LP and CD.

Here's one perhaps very few have heard, but I like a lot: the soundtrack to One From the Heart.

I won't list any more because everybody thinks I'm highfalutin anyway. [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

John

[Allan]

I would take this list, but I would replace the Crumb with Ligeti, maybe the woodwind quintet...


Allan