Desert Island

1 Yes, Close to the Edge

2 Pink Floyd, Wish You were here (or do I?  )

3 Weather Report, Heavy Weather

4 Genesis, Wind and Wuthering

5 Gentle Giant, Free Hand

6 ELP, Brain Salad Surgery

7 King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King

8 Radiohead, Kid A

9 Rush, Hemispheres

10  Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Live Art

11 Phish, Hampton Comes Alive (actually, can I just burn a mix?   )

12 Dave Matthews Band, Before These Crowded Streets

(as for Phish, it would have to be the entire Hampton comes alive box set - that in itself would do me  )

 

Many dynamic choices 

Well VC - today's list goes as follows (again, this list could change on a daily basis, as I swim back & forth to the shipwreck for that essential CD I forgot in all the panic when Diddy sunk the ship to see if anyone could swim as well as he could - swine!)

1 - There is no tomorrow (Psy-Trance compilation)
2 - Yessongs (Yes)
3 - Made In Japan (Deep Purple)
4 - Boxed set of the Ring Cycle (Wagner - hey, DON'T expect me to live without Wagner, or choose between the 4 operas in the cycle)
5 - Thraak (King Crimson)
6 - 8:30 (Weather Report)
7 - Six (Mansun)
8 - Fanfare (ELP 2CD compilation)
9 - Cornology (Bonzo Dog Band)
10 - Live At The Fillmore (The Allman Brothers)
11 - Porgy & Bess (Miles Davis/Gil Evans)
12 - Guitar (Frank Zappa)

Diddy, I hate you forever for sinking that ship!


Edited by Jim Garten

1. Genesis- Foxtrot (1972)

2. Peter Gabriel- Gabriel 3 (1980)

3. Genesis- The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974)

4. Outkast- Stankonia (2000)

5. Pink Floyd- Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)

6. King Crimson- In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969)

7. Genesis- Selling England By The Pound (1973)

8. Red Hot Chilli Peppers- By The Way (2002)

9. Eminem- The Eminem Show (2002)

10. Vincent De Moor- Moor (2000)

11. Curtis Mayfield- Superfly (1972)

12. Peter Gabriel- Shaking The Tree (1990)

At least half of these albums are progressive rock but their are other genres included like Rap, Soul, College Rock etc. I think there is a good mix of music there, new stuff that prog fans might enjoy.

Stormcrow wrote: Reduce myself to a paltry, meesly 12 albums  EGAD!  Yoiks and little fish hooks I think I'd almost rather open a vein!

After the gloomy old Crow offs himself, I'll let him season in the sun a bit, then you can all come over to my island for a delicious curry! (eating crow?) Endless coconut gets a little "old" after a while. As we dine, Maani and Robj will regale us with the coconut shell version of "Funeral for a Friend."

What other suitable dinner music can you suggest, fellow castaways?

Hey Dude! Stop trying to eat "Wilson!"

Edited by Peter Rideout

Stormcrow wrote: Peter Rideout wrote: What other suitable dinner music can you suggest, fellow castaways? Oh come now, Sir Rideout!  That's just too easy! "SUPPER'S READY"

Ha! Good one, ol' pal! I should have guessed!

Anyone else?

When Andrew Lloyd Webber was on the legend BBC radio programme "Desert Island Discs", he selected Shostakovitch's 1st Cello Concerto as one of his eight, stating it was "the first rock concerto". On the strength of hearing the music there I bought the album (Rostapovitch on cello  Bernstein conducting), and now a serious music favourite. In a strange way (because I avoid Lloyd Webber's musicals normally) I think he might be right......

I'd like to thank velvet clown for allowing Mariah to visit me every Tursday during my ordeal on my desert island for intelectual disscussions etc.

Velvetclown wrote:  Mike Keneally " Hat "

I heard that Kevin Gilbert was featured on this record. Could you tell me what this album sound like and do Gilbert sings on it ?

For me it's got to be:

Best of Kylie Minogue          ;         

Steps Greatest hits

Leonard Nimoy sings

The Faust tapes

The Portsmouth Sinfonia plays popular classics (if you haven't come across this one, none of the orchestra knew how to play their instruments, classic stuff!)

Railways sounds - The Deltics (recordings of railway locomotives on LP)

Passion Play - Jethro Tull

Any 5 live albums by Jimi Hendrix

I mean, let's be realistic here, I'm going to need every incentive I can get to get off the island. Listening to that lot, I'd have a boat built in a day!