We have had some music chats in the past, some of which turned somewhat ugly (hmmph!) but I thought this could be an interesting chat-starter. I'd like you all to choose and list ten "desert discs" - ten essential albums which you would take onto a desert island (one with electricity and a CD-player, bizarrely enough) to the exclusion of all others. I'll start, shall I?

Tori Amos, From the Choirgirl Hotel - Probably not her best, but the one I consistently enjoy most.

The Beatles, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Had to have a Beatles album, didn't I?

Deborah Conway, Bitch Epic - The greatest female rock act ever to appear in Australia.

Peter Gabriel, PG4 (aka Security, in the US) - My favourite musician, and my favourite of his albums.

Billy Joel, The Nylon Curtain - Billy learns some cynicism. My favourite of his stuff.

Midnight Oil, Redneck Wonderland - Raw, angry political protest music with real balls. Love it.

Powderfinger, Internationalist - Cleaned up at the ARIAs (Aussie music awards) for good reason.

Reef, Glow - Got this one for free in a radio contest. The best zero dollars I ever spent.

Paul Simon, Graceland - One of the best pop albums of the eighties, and of the century.

The Whitlams, Eternal Nightcap - Possibly the greatest Australian album ever recorded.

Wow, that was hard... so many runners up, including Boom Crash Opera, Tracy Bonham, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Neil Finn, Crowded House... etc etc etc...

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Ok I won’t be mean now...

1. Weather Report, The Jaco Years - not one of the best, but better "live" versions of Teen Town and Three Views of a Secret than others do.

2. Miles Davis, The Essential Miles - haven't heard it, but I want a little of everything, bop, modal, cool, fusion. All the styles he played.

3. Keith Jarrett, The Koln Concert - fabulous solo improvised piano.

4. Chicago, The Chicago's Greatest Hits - great classic rock.

5. Bill Evans, Sunday at the Village Vanguard - the greatest jazz pianist and founder of modern jazz piano.

6. Gustav Holtz, The Planets - gotta have some classical.

7. Assorted Classic RB CD - Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Luther Vandross, MC Hammer, KC and the Sunshine Band.

8. Some Disco- The BeeGees.

9. A Motown Classics CD.

10. The Blues Brothers.

I only own about 25 CD's personaly- working on buying more, if only they wern't so expensive.

I'm going to assume you mean that I can't make mix cds, and answer from that perspective. This is *really* hard choice, and I'm sure I'll think differently later. By the way, this list assumes that I can actually *get my hands on* two of these CDs at some point in the future.

Evoken - Embrace the Emptiness
Shape of Despair - Shades of...
Vintersorg - Ödemarkens Son
Vintersorg - Till Fjälls
Otyg - Sagovindars Boning
Otyg - Älvefärd
Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand Lakes
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Finntroll - Jaktens Tid

I'd *hate* to give up dISEMBOWELMENT, Bjork, Primus, Novembers Doom, and the vast multitude of other musicians who I'm not in the mood to listen to at the moment, but whom I couldn't immagine never hearing again... but this was the first thing I thought of.

"Gravity's Rainbow", Pat Benatar
"Dummy", Portishead
"Pulse", Pink Floyd
"Very Best of Cream"
"Stir", Stir
"Fire of Unknown Origin", B.O.C.
"Rumours", Fleetwood Mac
Some kinda German Trance compilation
Some kinda Baroque compilation
Symphonies 40 & 41, Mozart

Then, after listening to these same ten albums day after day, I'd go mad and eat my own feet.

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Then, after listening to these same ten albums day after day, I'd go mad and eat my own feet.

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Motown's Greatest Hits 25th Anniversary - Various Artists -

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band - The Beatles -

American Noise - American Noise -

This is my kind of thread. An excellent excuse to waste half an hour. My choices, in no particular order, are . . .

1. The Beatles - 'The Beatles' (White Album).
(Can I sneak this in as one album?)

2. The Beatles - 'Sgt. Pepper's . . .'
(The title track blows me away every time & has done since I was 12.)

3. Nick Drake - 'Pink Moon'.
(One of those albums you can play on repeat mode all day.)

4. Led Zeppelin - 'Led Zep IV'.
(My first ever Led Zep album. Although, the drumming on 'When The Levee Breaks' gets this one in by itself.)

5. Sam Cooke - 'The Best Of Sam Cooke'.
(Just because of that 'whoohoahoa' thing he did with his voice on 'You Send Me'.)

6. Bob Dylan - 'Highway 61 Revisited'.
(If only for 'Ballad Of A Thin Man'.)

7. Bob Dylan - 'Blonde On Blonde'.
(If only for 'Visions Of Johanna' or '4th Time Around'.)

8. Bob Dylan - 'Bringing It All Back Home'.
('It's Alright Ma ...I'm Only Bleeding' - Enough said.)

9. John Martyn - 'Solid Air'.
(Fantastic voice & nice tribute to Nick Drake.)

10. Joni Mitchell - 'Blue'.
(It'd be nice to have some female company on my desert island.)

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Some great discs being mentioned. I am especially fond of these:

Soundgarden, Superunknown - I loved this when a friend played it incessantly years ago, but I only just got around to buying it myself recently. A really great hard rock album.

The Who, Live at Leeds - I have always regretted that I was too young (or perhaps not even born) to have seen The Who at their peak. We have a tape of the final concert of their late eighties reunion tour, in which the first set consisted of Tommy in its entirety, including guest singers for many of the characters, and the second act was a huge greatest hits compilation. It's been too long since I have watched this one. Hey, Who fans - did this concert ever come out on CD? We wants it, preciousss...

The Beatles, The Beatles (aka The White Album) - My second choice after Sgt Pepper. Filled with so many classic Beatles tracks and mindbending moments of psychedelia, I don't know where to start.

Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin 4 - I agree about "When the Levee Breaks". I think it is one of the greatest driving songs ever written. No matter where you are driving, the fenceposts or streetlights or lines on the road always seem to flash past in rhythm when "Levee" starts up...

Sweeeet...

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I'm not gonna even try to order these:

- Led Zeppelin ZoSo
- The Doors - untitled
- John Lennon - Shaved Fish
- The Best of Velvet Underground
- Bob Dylan - Highway 61 revisited
- Opera at the Movies (One of the perks of enjoying classical and opera is that you can get kickass cds for $3.99.)
- Nirvana - Nevermind
- Johnny Cash - Greatest Hits Vol2
- The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974
- Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Escaping from an Island

I know I'm missing a few.

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You're all a bunch of Nazis.

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Don't know if I can do this...
No particular order

-American Pie Soundtrack
-Train:Train
-Matchbox 20:Yourself or Someone Like You
-Various Artists:Ultimate 80's
-MOM:Methods of Mayhem
-Madonna:The Immaculate Collection
-Incubus:Make Yourself
-Hole:Live Through This
-Jimmie's Chicken Shack:BYOS:Bring Your Own Stereo
-Richard Marx:Greatest Hits

Come back for me in no more than 8 hours with change of collection.

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Mediocrity at its most average.

1)Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
2)Victor Wooten - A Show of Hands
3)Bela Fleck - UFOTOFU
4)Jaco Pastorious - The Birthday Album
5)Rush - Moving Pictures
6)Yes - Fragile
7)Dream Theater - Images and Words
8)Chiaroscuro - Brillant Pools of Darkness
9)David Helfgott - Rachmaninov Piano Concerto no.3
10)The Great Italian Arias - Pavarotti/Bjoerling/cararres/Dominigo/Stefano/Wunderlich amongst others. Actually a 4 cd set but in one package.

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Alphabetically by artist. On most of these, practically every cut's a classic. I do differ from the field on my Beatles and Led Zeppelin choices, which is not in any way to disparage the ones you chose.

Allman Brothers: Brothers and Sisters
Beatles: Abbey Road
Eric Clapton: History of Eric Clapton
CSN&Y: Deja Vu
Grateful Dead: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Grateful Dead
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II
Santana: Abraxas
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
Traffic: John Barleycorn Must Die
"Weird Al" Yankovic: In 3D

And a lot of great music stays home :-(

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In no particular order:

Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
The Avalanches - Whatever album Frontier Psychiatrist is on, just so I'd have that one song.
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Mozart - Requiem
The Presidents of the United States of America - II
Rammstein - Mutter (just for its unintentional amusement value, you understand)
Bill Hicks - Arizona Bay
Vangelis - Bladerunner Soundtrack
Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari

I'd also be gnawing on my feet after a few days, especially once I realised that bringing the Rammstein CD was a terrible mistake.

Oooh! Oooh! David Helfgott! We have a collection of his titled Brilliantissimo, and it is beautiful.

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Oooh, this is a tricky one. But I'd probably go for (in no particular order):

[list]
[*]UNKLE- Psyence Fiction
[*]Death in Vegas- The Contino Sessions
[*]Primal Scream- Vanishing Point
[*]Elbow- Asleep in the Back
[*]DJ Shadow- Endtroducing
[*]Radiohead- OK Computer
[*]Handsome Boy Modelling School- So... How's Your Girl?
[*]Spiritualised- Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space
[*]Ash- 1977
[*]Massive Attack- Mezzanine
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This is very impressive. No one's laughed at anyone's taste in music yet.

Huh.... Not one nasty remark. How truly great. I mean, nobody even pointed out that only a Nazi would listen to Rammstien.

*giggle*

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

It is not often that we can hear someone who is truly a unique talent like Mozart over any of his immediate peers. David Helfgott is one of those talents. Amazing.

I saw mention of Holst: The Planets, who is my favorite 20th century composer/piece. His India/asian influences created some monumental pieces, and I've always fantasized about creating a Fantasia based soley off of the entirety of "The Planets".

To be honest, I have 500+ Cds & tapes in my 50 of which are Frank Zappa, another true genius. The thought of only having 10 of them makes me sad. Zepplin, Blacksabbath, Beatles, Floyd, King Crimson, Michael Brecker, Frank Sinatra, Beethoven, Puccini, Joe Satriani, Muddy Waters, Hank Williams Sr, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, pearl jam, Metallica (early years)
.... so many, I have at least 130 artists in my collection, and I wouldnt give up any of them.

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Why hasn't anyone mentioned The Transformed Man by William Shatner? Other than the obvious reasons?

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bunnerabb vill not be tolerated!

I'll just mention Godwin's Law here to stop it getting invoked.

I finally got around to buying a copy of The Planets a few months back, after intending to do so since studying it briefly in high school music. I found it very amusing that so many film scores, especially SF and action, have liberally copied Holst's Mars.

Speaking of Mars and fantasy musical endeavours, I have wanted for years to stage Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds as a live show with a small orchestra, a good rock band, a few spotlit mikes in the front of the stage, and the backdrop lit by projections of Martian war machines. I'd pay to see that.

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Heres mine. Yup, that's pretty much it.
Pennywise-Full Circle
Pennywise-Land of the Free?
Rancid-Self Titled
Rancid-And out come the Wolves
Titan A.E. Soundtrack
Linkin Park-Hybrid Theory
Korn-Issues
Korn-Freak on a Leash
MXPX-Pokinacha
MXPX-Slowly going the way of the Buffalo

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Heres mine. Yup, that's pretty much it.
Pennywise-Full Circle
Pennywise-Land of the Free?
Rancid-Self Titled
Rancid-And out come the Wolves
Titan A.E. Soundtrack
Linkin Park-Hybrid Theory
Korn-Issues
Korn-Freak on a Leash
MXPX-Pokinacha
MXPX-Slowly going the way of the Buffalo

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Umm, I meant to put it twice. Yeah, that's it.

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