10 LPs and an Island

[motaloca]

the beatles rubber soul
Black sabbath Masters of Reality
Bruce Springsteen Nebraska
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dreams
Kyuss Blues for the red sun
Jesus and The Marry Jane Psychocandy
Weather report heavy weather
Johny Cash Live from St. Quentin
Dinosaur Jr. Where you been?
Funkadelic Funkadelic

10 is just not enough music.
selection would also depend on the location of the Island. lol

 

[Snagglepuss]

Lets see mmm..

Pink Floyd - Meddle
Jimmy Hendrix - Cry of Love
Dj Tiesto - Live at trance energy 2000
Ozzy -Diary of a madman
Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Shuggie Otis - Her comes Shuggie
Collision - Apply the Breaks
Jimmy Buffet - Living and Dying in 3/4 time
Butthole Surfers - Hairway to Steven

...ok i could live and make it if i had these on the island...

 

[Young Pumpkin]

Well I'm certainly picking up on some new stuff I never new about. Thanx all...........YP

(Been a while since I've heard of Shuggie Otis)

 

[mpd]

Ten albums? That's like saying pick your ten favorite strains and you get them without any matches or some such stuff....

I would have to go with:

1. Pink Floyd - The Division Bell.
2. Ozzie Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz.
3. Carlos Santana - Supernatural.
4. Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms.
5. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Fit To Be Tied.
6. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Millennium Collection.
7. ZZ Top - Eliminator.
8. Peter Tosh - Mama Africa.
9. Bob Marley & The Wailers One Love.
10. Rolling Stones - Get Your Ya-Ya's Out - 40th Anniversary Boxed Set.

Man, picking just 10 artists to take with you on the island would be hard, but with this mix I could make it for a while - especially with the 4 disc anniversary Stones album.

On the other hand, I could do it all with Pink Floyd by adding Animals, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall and Momentary Lapse of Reason to the list and expanding my Joan Jett selection. If you really want rock and roll in your face you have to put on the bull dyke and let her have at it.

Still, being it is an island, I could easily load up on Culture, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley and Black Uhuru to pass my days... Maybe add some Jimmy Buffet and Delbert McClinton. Oh God, that takes you right into country music and how can you do that if you don't have Alan, George and the rest of the real balladeers out there belting it out.

Wait, there's all that great classical music and some really great movie scores - Star Wars, Heat, Lord of the Rings....

In the end, any 10 albums will do... Music is about how it makes you feel and not how you feel about the music. Poetry in motion, just reach up and grab some right out of the air...

I think they call that "joy".

 

[armedoldhippy]

some of Waylon & Willie's stuff. Floyd's "Animals" anything by the Doors. Jefferson Airplane, the Dead, ummm i know i'll think of something else. later...

 

[THC_Decapitator]

the beatles rubber soul


10 is just not enough music.
selection would also depend on the location of the Island. lol

i love Dinosaur Jr. Where you been?

 

[Young Pumpkin]

Wow, interesting list. We may have to do a 10 favorite "Artist" thing.

 

[angler45]

this thread may be old but he is my ten lps:
1) the who tommy
2)the doors la woman
3)led zeppelin led zeppelin II
4)blind faith self titled
5)zz top tres hombres
6)rolling stones sticky fingers
7)aerosmith first album
8)eric clapton backless
9)eric clapton slowhand
10)stevie ray vaughn couldn't stand the weather

 

[olddaffy]

in no particular order.


Decade: Niel young
Forty ounces to freedom: sublime
Dirt track Date: southern culture on the skids
Easter atti smith
Buried treasure: Dave Brubeck
Frampton comes alive: Peter Frampton
The Last waltz: the band and friends
Ladies of the canyon: Joni Mitchel
Never mind the bullocks: sex pistols
Car wheels on a gravel road: Lucinda Williams

 

[simon]

In no order, whatsoever, off the top of my head:

Nick Cave - The Firstborn Is Dead
Philip Glass - Gassworks
Röyksopp - Melody AM
Clash - Sandinista
Cheb Khaled - Sahara
The Mighty Underdogs - Droppin' Science Fiction
Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus - Zion Train
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Sons of San Joaquin - A Cowboy Has To Sing
Robert Miles - Dreamland
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Swan Song
ZZ Top - Deguelo
Hank Williams - Greatest Hits (the yellow 2LP set)
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

...I can go on for days. If it weren't for the security issue, I'd post a pic of my collection. Without getting specific, I've been a music nut since childhood, worked in the industry in my youth, and amassed a rather sizable quantity of music over the last several decades. To this day, I go record shopping weekly and I'm always surfing around for new and interesting music. I also enjoy (very) fast, great-handling cars and moonlit walks on the beach.

Simon

 

[Piel]

This is a tough one:

1) Pink Floyd "Wish you were here"
2) Leonard Cohen "Songs from a room"
3) Bob Marley "Greatest Hits"
4) Bunny Wailer "Blackheart Man"
5) Beethovens 5th symphony
6) Neal Young "Decade"
7) Bob Dylan "Best of"
8) ZZ Top "Rio Grande Mud"
9) Bruce Springsteen "River"
10) Willie Nelson "The Essential"

I used quite a few "Best ofs" so I could get all the important singles in there!

 

[Piel]

Shit I forgot all the metal! And the Jazz, and the blues...

 

[olddaffy]

9) Bruce Springsteen "River"

I think I might have to trade my sex pistols for the river.

 

[simon]

I'm still surprised by how many of us included a ZZ Top record. Given the vast differences in tastes and social/cultural backgrounds, it's almost astonishing. Never would have guessed.

Simon

 

[Piel]

Who cannot like ZZ Top? They´re an xcellent live act

 

[fishheadbob]

You can't limit yourself to Geezer rock, it gets old in a hurry, even though there's definitely some on my list:

Dark Side of the Moon ...... quintessential geezerdom
Al Green's Greatest ..... When God's in the shower he tries to sound like Al
Beethovens' 9th ..... Arguably better than his 5th
Frank Sinatra Greatest Hits ..... One of a kind voice
Hank Williams Greatest .....the previously mentioned yellow boxed one
La Boheme ..... Puccini makes me cry
James Brown Greatest Hits .....OW!
Harvest Neal Young .....Another Geezer favorite
Abbey Road
Supernatural or Moonflowers ..... Santana






Thank god for XM and their 2 zillion channels

Honorable mention to Thriller, Duke Ellington, Lucinda Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, CHUCK BERRY and lots of other rock founders, Mendelsohns Violin Concerto, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, lots of old classical guys like Mozart - still discovering them

 

[simon]

Al Green's Greatest ..... When God's in the shower he tries to sound like Al

Amen to that!

Simon

 

[Snagglepuss]

Vinyl....I've got about 1000....waiting for the day when I get a USB turntable and can stick them on the PC. Tons of stuff I haven't listened to in years.

They make a turntable these days ,its been out for a few years .That allows you to record from record directly to cd ,all in 1 machine .Its around $200 ,you can get them at sams club, and on ebay.

On another note,alot of records are worn out with lots of hiss and pops,they have a program called Dart 32 for the audiophile.Basically you hook your tuntable to your sound card with a small preamp in between to adjust signal strengh,then record to pc using a basic wave program.Then you can use Dart 32 pro to remove hiss and pops from the old ass recordings.

The pc hookup thing worked for a little while ,used a small radioshack pre-amp , but i ran into some grounding issues that caused big buzzes and hums..I think the recorder machine could be a great way to go.....

 

[Young Pumpkin]

They make a turntable these days ,its been out for a few years .That allows you to record from record directly to cd ,all in 1 machine .Its around $200 ,you can get them at sams club, and on ebay.

On another note,alot of records are worn out with lots of hiss and pops,they have a program called Dart 32 for the audiophile.Basically you hook your tuntable to your sound card with a small preamp in between to adjust signal strengh,then record to pc using a basic wave program.Then you can use Dart 32 pro to remove hiss and pops from the old ass recordings.

The pc hookup thing worked for a little while ,used a small radioshack pre-amp , but i ran into some grounding issues that caused big buzzes and hums..I think the recorder machine could be a great way to go.....

Hold on, some of did take the time to care for 'em well. I cleaned mine always before playing. Always kept them in a special sleeve to save the original if it was "printed". Stored the LP cover in another sleeve and generally took very good care of mine, especially "promo" copies. Usually spent about 200$ on a turntable cartridge every 2-3 years. Kept the arm balanced for minimum friction and damn near recorded everything on the first or 2nd play. But that was as an adult and probably after I bought my fourth copy of Grand Funks 1st live LP. And started to consider the value of some of the older ones.

Footnote: ZZ Top live??? maybe in the early days but I saw one a few years back (Their last???) and walked out of the show. I wanted to hear some 3 man band, some blues, some Texas blues, something to kick ass. All I got was Legs, Sleeping bag, and other drum machine music. Coulda been recorded for all I know with them just posing out there (Milli Vanillie???) But I lasted 4 songs longer than a "Nazereth" concert. That only took 1 song and I left, the singer having a broken leg didn't help. I came for the opening acts anyway. Mahogany Rush really blew them away. Then they opened with "Love Hurts", way to mellow after Frank and company just burned down the house

 

[foomar]

Hold on, some of did take the time to care for 'em well. I cleaned mine always before playing. Always kept them in a special sleeve to save the original if it was "printed". Stored the LP cover in another sleeve and generally took very good care of mine, especially "promo" copies. Usually spent about 200$ on a turntable cartridge every 2-3 years. Kept the arm balanced for minimum friction and damn near recorded everything on the first or 2nd play.

I was not the only one then.

Classics.