Desert Island Discs

[Barney Rubble]

An oldie and a goodie. Pick five - no cheating and saying "I can't decide". Here are mine (bear in mind my tastes don't include much from outside the last five years or so, as I was either not born yet or just musically clueless when it comes to most stuff before then):

1. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Fresh, original, catchy, lyrically precise - awesome album.

2. The Killers - Hot Fuss
Worth buying just for Mr Brightside alone.

3. Idlewild - Warnings/Promises
Thanks Rich - that's all I have to say about this one.

4. Green Day - American Idiot
Contains some of my favourite guitar riffs of all time.

5. Guns 'N' Roses - Greatest Hits
Contains the rest of my favourite guitar riffs of all time.

And before someone says it, yes, I know the last two shouldn't be there. But then, I've always had bad taste.

[Langeveldt]

1. Feeder - Comfort in Sound - Comfortably my fave album
2. Idlewild - Warnings/Promises - Favourite Band
3. Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows - Favourite Band
4. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
5. Prime Circle - Live this Life

[Samuel_Vimes]

OK - to make it harder for myself, I'm not gonna take collections...

1. Tori Amos - Under the Pink
Vocals and piano. Don't need anything else for lovely pieces of music. Plus, I could yell Cornflake Girl over the entire island if I wanted to - we are going to be alone on this desert island, right?.

2. Tom McRae - Tom McRae
I'd take all three he's published if I could, but I want a bit of variety, and this one is his most poignant.

3. The Beatles - Help!
Would have taken Let It Be except I'd have way too many soppy ballads then

4. Vamp - Siste Stikk
Norwegian band that sings in a lovely Rogaland dialect and are obsessed with sailing and water (one of the songs is called "Another song of the ocean"). Probably their best album which I've got, anyway - the others have a few bland songs

5. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
I bought you mail order / my plain-wrapper baby / your skin is like vinyl / the perfect companion / you float in my new pool / deluxe and delightful / inflatable doll / my role is to serve you / disposable darling / can't throw you away now. Dancable poetry.

[Pothas]

Radiohead- Ok Computer
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 revisited
Lou Reed- Transformer
REM-Automatic for the people
Jeff Buckley- Grace

[Tom Halsey]

2Pac - All Eyez On Me
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Dr. Dre - 2001
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

So many more I could have mentioned, but had to keep it to five... sure Dre's long awaited Detox when released will join the list too.

[Loony BoB]

Albums, then, I'm assuming.

The Killers - Hot Fuss
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
Jars of Clay - Truck
Something with Brahms' Lullaby (Piano). Because that is what I believe to be the most beautiful piece of music ever composed. Would also prove the perfect balance to the other music.

Difficult to leave out the goo goo dolls, Bryan Adams and Def Leppard, but oh well.

[_Ed_]

Radiohead - OK Computer
David Gray - White Ladder
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Pulp - Different Class

[Smudge]

Radiohead - The Bends
Crowded House - Together Alone
Chemical Brothers - Surrender
Gomez - Bring It On
Finn Brothers - Everyone Is Here

[Loony BoB]

Ooh, actually, I might consider swapping Alanis for Crowded House - Recurring Dream. Good call, Voltman.

[Natman20]

I don't ussually listen to full albums I ussually get random songs but my fav are a bit weird (I really miss that smiley faced gif)

1. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
2. Infact I don't have any fav albums

Gotta love music

[andyc]

Hmmmm

The Living End- Roll on
Muse- Absolution
Muse- Origin of Symmetry
Crowded House- Recurring Dream (thanks Bob and Voltman)
Not sure about the last one. Maybe Back in Black or something by Coldplay

[Smudge]

But does a Best Of (Recurring Dream) count as a real album?

[33/3from3.3]

1. Green Day - American Idiot (apropriate title)
2. Radiohead - OK computer
3. The Killers - Hot fuss
4. Eminem - Curtain Call
5. Fall out Boy - From under the Cork Tree

[Barney Rubble]

Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree

Keep quiet
Nothing comes as easy as you
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret and your biggest mistake
The hand behind this pen relieves a failure every day...

Absolutely love that album. Only had it two weeks but if I'd been naming ten albums, it'd probably have been in there.

[andyc]

But does a Best Of (Recurring Dream) count as a real album?

Of course it does.

If I couldn't take that one, I wouldn't be taking any Crowded House CD probably (mainly because I don't really know that many of their albums).