If you were stuck on a desert island and had a choice to bring 5 albums with you, what would they be?

[ASH1962]

Heard this question bantered about on the radio the other day, thought it would be cool to ask the board. Here are mine:

1) Genesis - A Trick of the Tail

2) Moody Blues - To our Children's Children's Children

3) Steely Dan - Aja

4) Genesis - Selling England by the Pound

5) Super Jets 1969 highlight album

 

 

[Jetster]

Marvin Gaye- What's going on

Van Morrison- Moondance

Pink Floyd- Dark side of the Moon

The Who- Who's next

The Beatles- Revolver

Honorable mention- The Rolling Stones- Get your YA Yas out. 

[kelly]

10 minutes ago, ASH1962 said:

Heard this question bantered about on the radio the other day, thought it would be cool to ask the board. Here are mine:

1) Genesis - A Trick of the Tail

2) Moody Blues - To our Children's Children's Children

3) Steely Dan - Aja

4) Genesis - Selling England by the Pound

5) Super Jets 1969 highlight album

[ASH1962]

honorable mention, I forgot that

Definitely PF - Animals

Beatles - Any LP

Chicago and Beach Boys any LP

Genesis - The Lamb 

[freestater]

Pink Floyd- Pulse live album (because we'd cover a lot of ground there. 

Pink Floyd- Obscured by Clouds (if you've never heard this underrated classic..you're welcome) 

Steely Dan- Decade of Hits (again, just to cover ground. It would suck tho, not having Home at Last)

Johnny Cash- American IV

Creedence-  Chronicle 

 

[BUM-KNEE]

1. Sacred Reich - The American Way

2. Sepultura - Beneath the remains

3. Pantera - Vulger Display of Power

4. Clutch - Blast Tyrant

5. Stompbox - Stress

(#6 I would sneak on in my sock) Black Sabbath - Live Evil

[Gastineau Lives]

Jet - wings

Jet boy jet girl - elton motello

Benny and the jets - elton john

Jet boy - new york dolls

Leaving on a jet plane - john denver version

[Peace Frog]

Santana Abraxas

Stevie Ray Vaughn Texas Flood

Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East

Stanley  Clarke School Days 

Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music

(and I’d sneak in Led Zeppelin’s boxed set and BB King Milestones)

 

[Jetster]

11 minutes ago, freestater said:

Pink Floyd- Pulse live album (because we'd cover a lot of ground there. 

Pink Floyd- Obscured by Clouds (if you've never heard this underrated classic..you're welcome) 

Steely Dan- Decade of Hits (again, just to cover ground. It would suck tho, not having Home at Last)

Johnny Cash- American IV

Creedence-  Chronicle 

 

No HITS albums please, lol.

[T0mShane]

Nobody under the age of 54 has ever listened to an entire album. No one under the age of 35 has ever had to purchase an album.

I’m not saying this to make fun of anyone. I just think it’s interesting how irrelevant this once-staple question is to younger people. It’s like talking about your favorite VHS tape.

[Apache 51]

The Chronic............

Steal  Your Face........To clean the Weed I grow

Tapestry..............To show Jeanie my feminine side

Dark Side of the Moon..........

Anything by The Chili Peppers

*Million choices........HM...... Europe 72

[freestater]

14 minutes ago, Jetster said:

No HITS albums please, lol.

Oh, I'm sorry. Didn't know this was your desert island...

[PCP63]

High Voltage

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Let There Be Rock

Powerage

Highway To Hell 

 

Wouldn't need much more than Bon Scott's AC/DC. 

 

Honorable Mention: Sad Wings of Destiny by Judas Priest

[Apache 51]

Just now, PCP63 said:

High Voltage

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Let There Be Rock

Powerage

Highway To Hell 

 

Wouldn't need much more than Bon Scott's AC/DC. 

how will you hear the plane?

[kelly]

12 minutes ago, T0mShane said:

Nobody under the age of 54 has ever listened to an entire album. No one under the age of 35 has ever had to purchase an album.

I’m not saying this to make fun of anyone. I just think it’s interesting how irrelevant this once-staple question is to younger people. It’s like talking about your favorite    VHS tape  .

[Warmbrother]

The Meters - kickback

grateful dead - europe 72

allmans - live at the fillmore

Rush - hemispheres

black sabbath - heaven and hell

 

[Apache 51]

54 minutes ago, Jetster said:

Marvin Gaye- What's going on

 

Great Music!

[Warmbrother]

15 minutes ago, T0mShane said:

Nobody under the age of 54 has ever listened to an entire album. No one under the age of 35 has ever had to purchase an album.

I’m not saying this to make fun of anyone. I just think it’s interesting how irrelevant this once-staple question is to younger people. It’s like talking about your favorite VHS tape.

Interesting perspective and appreciated BUT its not a bad thing.

The truth is music today sucks. Digital sucks. Singles suck. Cds suck and sound like chalkboard scratching. 

Back in the album days, it was an experience that included the artwork on the cover and lyrics and credits. 

People were more into music back then. Today its just silly trends that last 2 months and never stand the test of time. Stupid dances. Awful focus on synchronized dancing.

terrible

[Jetster]

7 minutes ago, Apache 51 said:

Great Music!

Barry Gordy told Marvin Gaye people would not buy an album about social issues but Marvin was not deterred. What's Going On stayed on the charts for 2 straight years & has consistently been in the top 10 Albums of all time. 

Give it another listen & it's still relavent today. I like to pour myself a glass of Makers over a nice big ice block & listen to that album. Smooth as silk. 

[Peace Frog]

37 minutes ago, T0mShane said:

Nobody under the age of 54 has ever listened to an entire album. No one under the age of 35 has ever had to purchase an album.

Neither of these is true.

My kids range from 25-31 and every single one of them has listened to thousands of entire albums (did you ever drive to Florida or the OBX with 4 kids?). My kids all had CD players and would pop them in and listen to them all the time.  And my kids have each bought hundreds of CDs over the years.  Not in the last 5 years or so, but absolutely they did.

But you could be right about everybody else.  Except their friends and my friends kids.

But other than that you're right.  

 

 

[Beerfish]

Moody Blues - A Question Of Balance

Crowded House - Crowded House

Gordon Lightfoot - Old Dans Records

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

The Band - Cahoots

(In reality it would be the greatest hits albumns of each of these artists but I excluded those.)

 

[Peace Frog]

26 minutes ago, Warmbrother said:

Interesting perspective and appreciated BUT its not a bad thing.

The truth is music today sucks. Digital sucks. Singles suck. Cds suck and sound like chalkboard scratching. 

Back in the album days, it was an experience that included the artwork on the cover and lyrics and credits. 

People were more into music back then. Today its just silly trends that last 2 months and never stand the test of time. Stupid dances. Awful focus on synchronized dancing.

terrible

Music today DOES suck but the beauty of music is that the past lives on.

My kids got Guitar Hero years and years ago and one day my youngest son came up to me and said "Dad, have you ever heard that song Stairway to Heaven?  It's great!"  And then he informed me that Stevie Ray Vaughn could really play the guitar.

My kids still listen to music from the 60s 70s 80s today.  Not all the time but they do and they appreciate when they are all back at the house and I put my playlists on and I can see them mouthing the words to a Crosby Still Nash Young song--warms my heart.  

[Apache 51]

40 minutes ago, Jetster said:

Barry Gordy told Marvin Gaye people would not buy an album about social issues but Marvin was not deterred. What's Going On stayed on the charts for 2 straight years & has consistently been in the top 10 Albums of all time. 

Give it another listen & it's still relavent today. I like to pour myself a glass of Makers over a nice big ice block & listen to that album. Smooth as silk. 

I love Marvin and Tammi too.

[Apache 51]

51 minutes ago, Warmbrother said:

Interesting perspective and appreciated BUT its not a bad thing.

The truth is music today sucks. Digital sucks. Singles suck. Cds suck and sound like chalkboard scratching. 

Back in the album days, it was an experience that included the artwork on the cover and lyrics and credits. 

People were more into music back then. Today its just silly trends that last 2 months and never stand the test of time. Stupid dances. Awful focus on synchronized dancing.

terrible

Not all of it, but a good amount is throwaway  one hit wonder crap. Instant gratification, disposable like everything else the last 20 years. 

 

 

[Jetster]

43 minutes ago, Beerfish said:

Moody Blues - A Question Of Balance

Crowded House - Crowded House

Gordon Lightfoot - Old Dans Records

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

The Band - Cahoots

(In reality it would be the greatest hits albumns of each of these artists but I excluded those.)

 

Question of Balance, the Moody Blues...GREAT CHOICE! 

[Jetster]

1 minute ago, Apache 51 said:

Not all of it, but a good amount is throwaway  one hit wonder crap. Instant gratification, disposable like everything else the last 20 years. 

 

 

Have to say Ive digging on some Leon Bridges (Bad Bad News) & Nathaniel Ratteliff & the Night Sweats (You worry Me), Amos Lee too.

[Peace Frog]

1 hour ago, Jetster said:

Barry Gordy told Marvin Gaye people would not buy an album about social issues but Marvin was not deterred. What's Going On stayed on the charts for 2 straight years & has consistently been in the top 10 Albums of all time. 

Give it another listen & it's still relavent today. I like to pour myself a glass of Makers over a nice big ice block & listen to that album. Smooth as silk. 

Listening to the whole album now (I’m over 54 so, yeah) and it holds up very well. Been a while. Almost as if it’s one long song flowing in and out of each other. 

[Lith]

The Who - Quadrophenia

Stones - Sticky Fingers

Tull - Aqualung

Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

Clash - London Calling

 

Edit -- Not sure what I was thinking leaving Ziggy Stardust off my list.  Ziggy is in ; Tull is out.  Sorry, Ian.

[TJ]

1 hour ago, Jetster said:

Barry Gordy told Marvin Gaye people would not buy an album about social issues but Marvin was not deterred. What's Going On stayed on the charts for 2 straight years & has consistently been in the top 10 Albums of all time. 

Give it another listen & it's still relavent today. I like to pour myself a glass of Makers over a nice big ice block & listen to that album. Smooth as silk. 

Berry Gordy

[Peace Frog]

15 minutes ago, TJ said:

Berry Gordy

Barry Gerdy. 

[Warmbrother]

1 hour ago, Jetster said:

Have to say Ive digging on some Leon Bridges (Bad Bad News) & Nathaniel Ratteliff & the Night Sweats (You worry Me), Amos Lee too.

Ok I’ll rephrase that.

 

thees a TON of great music today. TONS! But you have to be very interested and invested in music to find it.

the difference is that back in the day “pop” musical was good music. You couldnt avoid it.

today pop is garbage. And you cant avoid it either

[Apache 51]

8 minutes ago, Warmbrother said:

Ok I’ll rephrase that.

 

thees a TON of great music today. TONS! But you have to be very interested and invested in music to find it.

the difference is that back in the day “pop” musical was good music. You couldnt avoid it.

today pop is garbage. And you cant avoid it either

Always have tapes........

[freestater]

...honorable mention: 

Murder by Death- Red of Tooth and Claw

[Gastineau Lives]

3 hours ago, T0mShane said:

 It’s like talking about your favorite VHS tape.

Scandal in the Mansion - John Holmes' best work, in my opinion. It's his Forrest Gump/Simple Jack

[Lith]

1 hour ago, Jetster said:

Have to say Ive digging on some Leon Bridges (Bad Bad News) & Nathaniel Ratteliff & the Night Sweats (You worry Me), Amos Lee too.

Really like Nathaiel Rateliff.  First Night Sweats album is awesome -- give it a listen.  SOB, I Need Never Get Old.  Some great stuff. 

Another band I really like that doesn't seem to get much attention or airplay is The Revivalists.  They had a hit last year with Wish I Knew You, but their other stuff is so much better.  Good music is out there waiting to be found.  Just have to know where to look.