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    Posted: August 25 2006 at 10:03

This has probably been done before. Your stranded on an island with unlimited batteries and a ghettoblaster. You know that you are going to spend the rest of your life alone, and your only comfort is the three CD's you put in your bag prior to the planecrash (or whatever). Which albums would that be?

Mine probably are Foxtrot, Tales From Topographic Oceans and Opeth's Still Life. And you?


You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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Your right it has been done before, millions of times, but what the hell.......
 
Foxtrot
Scenes From A Memory
The Perfect Element Part1
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Wow, that's so bloody tough! Kleyan you're a smart man to include TFTO or I'd have punished you. LOL But seriously.. let's see!

The Snow Goose
Tales from Topographic Oceans
The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Special Mention: Close to the Edge, Relayer possibly. They just don't seem to last as long as the other three, though. Wow... I don't think I could take just three albums to a desert island! Too much good stuff to waste!
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Ooohh, boy!! This will be tough. If it's prog (or prog related) then:

1. Marillion - Brave
2. Marillion - Marbles
3. Neal Morse - One (or Testimony)

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1. Permanent Waves- Rush
2. Gretchen Goes To Nebraska - King's X
3. In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
 
 
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At the moment I'd take these:

Yes - Relayer
King Crimson - Red
Genesis - Foxtrot
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The Ultimate Kansas-Kansas
On Stage-Rainbow
In Concert-James Gang
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Originally posted by WaywardSon WaywardSon wrote:

The Ultimate Kansas-Kansas
On Stage-Rainbow
In Concert-James Gang


Ah, Greg, you disappoint me... What about "Made in Japan"?Wink

As to mine... I have too many favourites, but I can try:

The aforementioned "Made in Japan" (Deep Purple, of course)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
King Crimson - ITCOTCK
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Impossible task - but anyway:
ELOY - Dawn
KANSAS - Leftouverture
URIAH HEEP - Demons and wizards

but I could answer this poll a hundred times, each one differently and always feel like I should answer again ... hah ... already thinking about:
PINK FLOYD - Dark side
MANFRED MANN'S EARTHBAND - Watch
DEEP PURPLE - Machine head
... or maybe better ... eh ...
what the heck - until I decided about this, I'm drowned anyway Wacko
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Raffaella, of course putting On Stage instead of MIJ on the list was a (deadly) difficult decision, but Ritchie´s solo on Catch the Rainbow swayed my vote.

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Tales from Topographic Oceans, Moving Pictures, and Images & Words.
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And to stick to my misreading of the thread wrt three Island records, i.e. fav albums issued by Island Records originally:
 
Krimson: Red
Nick Drake: 5 leaves Left
Spooky Tooth: Ceremony
 
And anybody game to head off in a tangent to the thread? What about favourites that were originally released on Harvest Records?
 
 
Edgar Broughton Band: Wasa Wasa
Roy Harper: HQ
Soft Machine: Triple Echo
 
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Vertigo, Deram, (Columbia's British subsiderary) CBS??????????????
 
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Replace my Foxtrot with Six Wives. I just heard it again, and it intrigued me once more. Clap

Edited by Kleynan - August 26 2006 at 09:32


You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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hmmm....  hard one  to narrow to just 3


Osanna - Palepoli
Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
Raccomandata Ricevuta Ritorno - Per Un Mondo Di Cristallo
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Incredibly hard one this. Most people usually ask for your top 10, which is still hard, but not quite so impossible as 3!
Still, just for fun, let's think. Hmm, you want the best value you can get, so no short cds, no matter how much you enjoy them.
Ok, today, my three will be:
 
1) Genesis Archives 1967-75.
This way, I get the complete Lamb (my fave album of all time) in a live setting, plus a live Supper's Ready with Gabriel singing (best version I  have heard) and many other goodies.Clap
 
2) Rush - Different Stages.
The three disc live set. Many Rush classics here, all played superbly well, and well produced. Probably the best choice for a Rush fan like me.Clap
 
3) The Flower Kings - Flower Power.
This album blew me away on first listen, and is not only my favourite FK album, but one of my faves of all time. Plus, it's a double, so, again, value for money. An hour long epic (Garden Of Dreams) on one disc, plus the brilliant Astral Dog, whilst on the second disc is my fave FK track of all time, Psychedelic Postcard, along with the amazing Calling Home, Magic Pie, Painter, Stupid Girl, etc.Clap
 
Of course, there are many, many other albums I enjoy equally as well on other days. No room here for Yes, Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd or any of the other great bands I enjoy. But, I have tried to get the best value out of the situation.Big smile
 
 
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I'd definitely want 'double albums' (though multi-disk collections would be better still, but I feel that may be cheating a bit), and, though I don't normally care much if I understand the lyrics, I'd want the lyrics n English ( a loneliness issue).  A concept album with a strong story would be a plus (though, since I like to be prepared for any eventuality, I like to think I'd have remembered to pack plenty of books, an mp3 player, several large generators, a laptop, a CB short/longwave radio, solar cells, satellite phone, a huge HGTV, a satellite dish, an HD-DVD player with plenty of HDDVDs, and plenty of cables in a virtually indestructible shock resistant padded box as well as the ghetto blaster and three CDs just in case the plane crashed on a desert island and I were to survive -- not to mention a portable boat and food. However, those small comforts are not an option, so...)

The Who - Quadrophenia
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

I am tempted to throw in Tommy too.


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Can - Tago Mago - gotta have it
Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei
Harmonium - Si on avait and PFM - Per un Amico (they both fit on 1 CD Smile)
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Well, at the moment I'll say......
 
Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
Voyage of the Acolyte - Steve Hackett
 
.....yep, that sounds about rightSmile
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Whoa that is though..
 
- Selling England by the Pound
- In the Court of the Crimson King
- Fragile
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Ask me again in three months, things tend to change. But here you are for now:

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
The Who - Tommy
Rush - Different Stages
ISKC Rock Radio
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