Desert Island Albums

I have to pack eight albums. That’s what I would pack today (might slightly change if you ask me some other day)

Dream Theater – When Dream and Day Unite

Jethro Tull –  Thick as a brick

Anathema – We’re here because we here

Dave Matthews Band – Before these crowded streets

Yes – Close to the edge

Emmylou Harris – Wrecking Ball

Transatlantic – The Whirlwind

Rush – A show of hands

Yessongs - Yes

1. Genesis - The Lamb (musical bildungsroman of huge complexity - crammed full of mythological and religious allusions as well as clever references to pop culture. This deeply symbolic album would fill many hours of repeated plays on the island challenging the listener to get completely to grips with Gabriel's vision)
2. Gabriel Yared - The English Patient OST (would bring a real sense of the desert to the desert island - also my fav movie soundtrack)
3. Keith Jarrett - La Scala (I never tire of hearing these amazing live piano improvisations. From wild, spastic, explosions of dissonance to heart-meltingly beautiful lyrical passages, this is a timeless album)
4. Vaughan Williams - 3rd Symphony (beautiful, melancholy evocation of the English Pastoral, but also an elegy for the First World War)
5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (the album that started my love affair with prog)
6. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (reminds me of a very close friend who sadly died a few years ago)
7. Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate (brilliant Beatlesy melodies with clever, acerbic lyrics)
8. Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn (just a great album!)

Edited by Green Shield Stamp - May 22 2015 at 14:14

essexboyinwales wrote: I love these lists, but they're so hard... ...but... ...today.... Weather Systems - Anathema Blue Sky - Devin Townsend Project Image And Words - Dream Theater The Human Equation - Ayreon Brave - Marillion Tubular Bells II - Mike Oldfield The Seventh House - IQ Selling England By The Pound - Genesis

Wait!  Where's EEFP by BBT?  And Dimensionaut by Sound Of Contact.....

1. King Crimson - In The Court of The Crimson King

Univers Zero - Ceux De Dehors

Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - December 30 2015 at 17:07

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

Edited by FragileBrick - December 31 2015 at 09:57

Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd

I"m sure I've played this topic before but always fun channeling my inner Tom Hanks...

8 huh.. even though all are so ingrained in my soul I don't need really to have them on me to actually hear them...

1) Yes - TFTO
2) ABB - Live at the Fillmore
3) Willie Nelson - The Troublemaker
4) Rachmaninoff - Rach plays Rach..
5) Airplane - After Bathing at Baxters
6) Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
7) Steely Dan - Katy Lied
8) Dave Brubeck - Time Out

This week, it would be eight Yes albums, so I won't play until my mood shifts.