Categories for a desert Island

[graeme]

Sure that something similar gets done every so often but I'm bored off work with a knackered back so....

In the same vein as the desert island discs, if you could only choose one album from each BROAD category of music to take with you, what would it be?

Just for fun:

ROCK Led Zepellin - Physical graffiti
POP Gerard de Palmas - Marche dans le sable
JAZZ John Coltrane - A love supreme
CLASSICAL Brahms - 4 symphonies (conducted by Herbert Von Karajan)
ALTERNATIVE/PUNK The stranglers - The Raven
COUNTRY The eagles - Hotel California (does that count as country?)
SOUL Nina Simone - Classic Nina
RAP Please fuck off presently before I teach you English - the (s) hits
BLUES Robert johnson - Complete

Can't think of any more broad categories except that shit computerised dance bollocks but I don't think that counts as music unless you're interrogating someone who has been force fed hallucogenic paranoia inducing pills and you fancy a quick boogie between punches and fingernail removals...

Like I said, bored as fuckity.

[chefcraig]

ROCK Elton John "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"/Talking Heads "Remain In Light"
POP Monkees "2CD Anthology"
JAZZ Miles Davis "Kinda Blue"/Vince Guraraldi Trio"Charlie Brown Christmas"
CLASSICAL Mozart "Your Favorite Mozart"
ALTERNATIVE/PUNK The Replacements "Tim"
COUNTRY Ray Charles "Modern Sounds In Country Western Music"
SOUL Temptations "Anthology"/ James Brown "Live At The Apollo"
RAP Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique"
BLUES B.B. King "Live At The Regal"

[hatchetforce]

one thing and one thing only: Miles Davis ~ "Bitches Brew"

[graeme]

one thing and one thing only: Miles Davis ~ "Bitches Brew"

I just cannot get into that album. I bought it, I love "Miles runs the Voodoo down" and am pretty partial to "Spanish key" too, but I hate the production. Overall, he's my favourite artist, simply because of all the people who played onhis records (esp. trane, Bird, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter) and I buy a shit load of his stuff but I just can't......

...MUST TRY HARDER. (repeat)

[WinterlessIceness]

Meh I'll be awake for hours and hours and fucking hours so why not

ROCK - Van Halen 1984
METAL - Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis
POP - Roxette anything
JAZZ could care less
CLASSICAL Tchaikovsky Nutcracker
ALTERNATIVE Death Cab For Cutie Transatlantisism
INDUSTRIAL CnC soundtracks compilation
PUNK From Autumn To Ashes whichever
INDIE Brand New Deja Intendu
MISHARS_ALLTIME_FAVORITE_GENRE The Used Self titled
COUNTRY Cross Canadian Ragweed Live and Loud at Billy Bob's Texas
SOUTHERN ROCK Drive By Truckers The Dirty South
SOUL could care less
RAP Aceyalone - A Book Of Human Language
BLUES Vangelis Blade Runner ESPER edition

[Ace Ventura]

Cool topic!


ROCK- Van Halen- Fair Warning
POP- The Outfield- Play deep
JAZZ/CLASSICAL- John Coltrane - A love supreme/Rachmoninov- Any
ALTERNATIVE/PUNK- The Clash- London Calling
COUNTRY- Tim McGraw- Greatest hits
SOUL- Stevie Wonder- Talking Book/Greatest Hits
RAP- Kid Rock- Devil without a cause
BLUES- John Mayer Trio- Try! (Seriously)

[WinterlessIceness]

How you guys leave out metal is beyond me!

[chefcraig]

How you guys leave out metal is beyond me!

I dunno, as you listed "Vangelis" as a "Blues Artist", Mish!

[graeme]

I dunno, as you listed "Vangelis" as a "Blues Artist", Mish!

Yeah, I didn't get that either. "electronic blues" anyone?

Anyway, I did say BROAD categories since I know we can break down all into little bits....

eg. Jazz: Bebop, cool jazz, free jazz, modern jazz, jazz fusion, modal jazz etc

Think BIG brush strokes, otherwise we get to take a hundred albums each on this island and that's just plain fucking cheating.....

...and it might get a bit crowded

[hatchetforce]

I just cannot get into that album. ...MUST TRY HARDER. (repeat)

LOL! After about the 7,727th listening, I decided to quit listening for something new and just decided to grow new ears.

I dunno, as you listed "Vangelis" as a "Blues Artist", Mish!

[WinterlessIceness]

I dunno, as you listed "Vangelis" as a "Blues Artist", Mish!

Well THAT album IS blues! Rofl , I don't care if he plays synthesizers instead of a Fender .

[graeme]

Well THAT album IS blues! Rofl , I don't care if he plays synthesizers instead of a Fender .

Don't know if it is "blues" (not a flatted third in sight if you ask me) but it certainly is "blue" so I guess you get in on a technicality. eg. the difference between can't and cunt is only one letter too. (plus a fiddly apostrophe thingy)

OK, Get on the boat then, looks like we have some good tunes.

[WinterlessIceness]

Don't know if it is "blues" (not a flatted third in sight if you ask me) but it certainly is "blue"

Is it?!


Very precise difinition of 'blue' indeed

[graeme]

Is it?!


Very precise difinition of 'blue' indeed

Yeah, love that movie, esp the original cut with the voice over and the real light ending (sorry purists) and a great soundtrack too.

Still reckon one of the best film soliloquoys ever was Rutger's "tears in rain" speech just before he dies. Right up there with "To be or not to be" (Hamlet) or even "How did that dead hooker get in my bed" (Hamlet 2 - The Revenge). Tragic bit of cinema. Harrison Fords best role too.

[Number 47]

ROCK-Black Sabbath "Symptom Of The Universe"
POP- Frank Sinatra "In The Wee Small Hours"
JAZZ-John Coltrane Quartet "Ballads"
CLASSICAL-Bach "Brandenburg Concertos/Violin Concertos (complete)"
ALT/PUNK- Rancid "And Out Come The Wolfs"
COUNRTY- Lucinda Williams "Car Wheels On a Gravel Road"
SOUL- James Brown "In The Jungle Groove"
RAP- Public Enemy "Fear Of a Black Planet"
BLUES- Howlin' Wolf "Moanin' At The Moonlight"
+the Carl Stalling Project Vol. 1 and 2 (for coconut picking and those times when I'm so hungry that I invision anyone else on the island as a huge cooked chicken with those fancy little paper booties)