Music Thread--If stranded on an island forever, what would be your 3 albums?

[Bully13]

Music is an interesting topic. what I generally like depends on the setting and whom I'm around. I've often thought that your favorite and most intimate favorites though would be if you were isolated by yourself forever.

My 3 choices would be Dark Side of the Moon, Beggar's Banquet, & Exile on Main Street. (yeah, I'm a Stones fan)

However I would be sorely missing :

Zeppelin's "The Rover" , "Thank You" & "Bring it on Home". plus several others from Zep

Jimmy Buffet's " A Pirate Looks at 40"

Willie Nelson's version of "Always on my Mind", Johnny Cash's " Sunday Morning Sidewalk"

Elvis Presley's "American Trilogy" and his cover of "I did it My Way"

[parabrave]

Dark side of the moon, Quadrophenia and Tommy. Im a who nut

[Tbonewannabe]

Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits - if you can't have a greatest hits then I would pick In Your Honor

Kings of Leon - The Collection - this is also kind of cheating since it is basically their first 4 albums

Led Zepplin - IV

Soundgarden - Down on the Upside - if Kings of Leon is cheating

[BeardoMSU]

NOFX - Punk in Drublic

The Beatles - 1

Elliott Smith - Either/Or

...but no ****ing way I could settle at 3, lol. I reject your reality, Bully13!!!!

I'd find a way to smuggle in:

Pixies - Doolittle

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

John Williams - Cinematic Scores Greatest Hits

U2 - Joshua Tree

Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

Nirvana - In Utero

The Offspring - The Offspring (self-titled)

Dr. Dre - Cronic

Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

[BrunswickDawg]

3 would be next to impossible for me, I?d only be able to survive with 10 - and I?d be pissed at only 10. All these have backstories as to why they are special and I can?t live without them (I?ll spare you that)

Rush - Signals
REM - Fables of the Reconstruction
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn?t Stand the Weather
Pink Floyd - Meddle
The Police - Ghost in the Machine
The Allman Brothers Band - Live at the Fillmore
Pearl Jam - 10
Guadalcanal Diary - 2x4
The Black Crowes - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Blind Melon - Blind Melon

[Prediction? Pain.]

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Hell yes. This or Wish You Were Here could easily have been my third. If the topic was three songs instead of albums, "Echoes" almost surely makes the cut.

[BrunswickDawg]

And I?ll add - I don?t there is a shitty album on this list so far - y?all got some good taste.

[Prediction? Pain.]

I can say the first two without any hesitation:

1. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon (I best have some fancy coconut headphones and a water-wheel-powered turntable on this deserted island)

2. Miles Davis's Kind of Blue

There have been periods in my life where I may as well have been on a desert island with only those records, so this isn't really a hypothetical answer.

[Related side note: If y'all haven't listened to a high-end pressing of Dark Side in a dimly lit room with headphones, you should give it a whirl.]

[Side note related to first side note: I'm not a total stoner. I promise.]

I'm having trouble picking the third, though. I set my phone down and thought about it for a while. The first two choices are almost instinctual. My two favorite albums, and I can and do listen to them regularly. But any number of records could be my third favorite. A Duane-era Allman Bros album, a Brian Jones-era Stones album, a post-Rubber Soul Beatles album, a late-50s Thelonious Monk album, Red Headed Stranger, a Pavement album, one or two other Floyd albums, and so on and so on.

I then realized that it was pointless to try to pick my third favorite album for this exercise. Instead, I figured that I needed something fun and simple on my island that I could listen to repeatedly without getting bored or depressed. Dark Side and Kind of Blue are a lot of things, but simple is not one of them.

The first two that popped into my head fitting that bill were Abbey Road and that collection of all of Mississippi John Hurt's 1928 recordings on Okeh Records. Either would be great. But then I thought that it'd be nice for the third to be a country album. And so I landed on:

3. Paul Burch's Blue Notes

Burch played a little with the indie-rock band Lambchop back in the day and may have done a duet or two with Ralph Stanley, but otherwise is relatively little known. Just a dude from Nashville with an incredible voice who writes awesome old school country songs.

[BrunswickDawg]

Hell yes. This or Wish You Were Here could easily have been my third. If the topic was three songs instead of albums, "Echoes" almost surely makes the cut.

Well, I?m impressed with your Miles Davis. I almost added Miles and Quincy Jones: Live at Montreux. Such a great live retrospective of his whole career - from Porgy and Bess to Boplicity. Blues from Pablo on it is sublime.

[biscuit]

Willie Nelson-Countryman
Johnny Cash-Live at Folsom
GnR-Appetite
The Dead-9/9/74
Allmans- at the Fillmore east
REM-Document
Black Crowes-Southern Musical
Stones-Let it Bleed
Eagles-greatest hits
NMAS-shake hands with shorty
any Coltrane I could find

[Tbonewannabe]

I would add:

Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth

Just started listening to him but I listen to this a lot at work on my headphones.

[parabrave]

Well if its an island guess I'll have to have every JB, Leon Russell and Robert Plant.

[BeardoMSU]

I'd also add:

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Modest Mouse - Good News for People who Like Bad News
Rage Against the Machine - Self titled 1992
REM - New Adventures in HiFi
The Killers - Sam's Town
Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Weezer - Blue Album
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required

[Bully13]

I'd also add:

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Modest Mouse - Good News for People who Like Bad News
Rage Against the Machine - Self titled 1992
REM - New Adventures in HiFi
The Killers - Sam's Town
Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Weezer - Blue Album
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required

Dire Straits : Making Movies. "Juliet, "...etc...

Phil Collins is boring...

as an old 17, would be wiling to listen to some of this new shit you mellinials are spewing. I'll give it a go.

greatest song in rock that never heard the airwaves? "Loving Cup" by the Stones "Exile"

[BeardoMSU]

Phil Collins is boring...

[Prediction? Pain.]

as an old 17, would be wiling to listen to some of this new shit you mellinials are spewing. I'll give it a go.

And this is for you, 13:



Oh, and I definitely see where you're coming from with your comment about Lovin' Cup. Maybe this is just because my local stations were especially plasticized, but I'd say that the bulk of Exile, Beggar's, and Let It Bleed have all been woefully neglected on the radio. Listening to Exile now and wondering why the hell I heard more Bad Company and Rod Stewart singles on my "Classic Rock" stations growing up than songs like Sweet Virginia and Torn and Frayed.

[Bully13]

And this is for you, 13:



Oh, and I definitely see where you're coming from with your comment about Lovin' Cup. Maybe this is just because my local stations were especially plasticized, but I'd say that the bulk of Exile, Beggar's, and Let It Bleed have all been woefully neglected on the radio. Listening to Exile now and wondering why the hell I heard more Bad Company and Rod Stewart singles on my "Classic Rock" stations growing up than songs like Sweet Virginia and Torn and Frayed.

Great post dude. gracias. lmao on the cartoon as well. Exile is the 17ing bomb. Beggars was the 1st time they wrote their own blues songs. but I still love their cover of Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain".

https://youtu.be/-BkPm8JIJJQ

[Tbonewannabe]

AWOLNation - Megalithic Symphony. Sail is one of my favorite songs and Burn It Down is one of those songs that makes you want to break everything. Great workout song.

I can't believe I just overlooked The Black Keys. It would be one of my 3 albums.

The Black Keys - El Camino is one of my favorite albums ever.

Drivin' N' Cryin' - Fly Me Courageous is also an awesome album.

[BrunswickDawg]

AWOLNation - Megalithic Symphony. Sail is one of my favorite songs and Burn It Down is one of those songs that makes you want to break everything. Great workout song.

I can't believe I just overlooked The Black Keys. It would be one of my 3 albums.

The Black Keys - El Camino is one of my favorite albums ever.

Drivin' N' Cryin' - Fly Me Courageous is also an awesome album.

You just destroyed all your music credibility with Drivin' N' Cryin'***
My least favorite band. Ever. No contest. I've even told Kevn Kinney to his face how much I hate his band (which made his buddy Peter Buck howl with laughter).

I do like the Black Keys, even though they did rip off Jack White.

[Tbonewannabe]

You just destroyed all your music credibility with Drivin' N' Cryin'***
My least favorite band. Ever. No contest. I've even told Kevn Kinney to his face how much I hate his band (which made his buddy Peter Buck howl with laughter).

I do like the Black Keys, even though they did rip off Jack White.

One of our best friends used to work on their tours. I had hardly heard of them before she took us to a show. They are fantastic live and Kevin is about the nicest guy you will meet.

I like The White Stripes but I think The Black Keys are better. Seven Nation Army is a fantastic song though but Little Black Submarine and Gold on the Ceiling are 2 of my favorite songs ever.