Desert Island

Well, I would make of course my own compilations, but... Let's go:

- My own Camel 2cd compilation (Ok, just let me pass this one)

- Halcyon days (Strawbs)

- Alchemy (Dire Straits)

- Battiato Collection (Franco Battiato)

- Going for the one (Yes)

- Octopus (Gentle Giant)

- Elements Box set (Mike Oldfield)

- 20th Annnyversary Box Set (Jethro Tull)

- Shadow of the Moon (Blackmore's Night)

- Retrospectacle (Thomas Dolby)

- Tears of the Sun (The Enid)

- Da Capo (Renaissance)

Bonus Tracks: Some themes from the 'Conan the Barbarian' soundtrack. 

Everything besides women, will be provided

So far, great choices by all

If batteries are not included....we´ll just rub two sticks together

 We' all be better off avoiding islands completely.  Ouch!!!

 A FUN thread! Cheers, Velvet!

OK, in no order, and not all prog:

1. Handel - Watermusic (The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock)

2. Yes - Close to the Edge (or some boxed set that includes it)

3. Beatles - 67-70 (unless there's now a better boxed set, remastered)

4. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound

5. Genesis - Foxtrot (this and the above could be replaced with a really good boxed set of the earlier, essential stuff)

6. Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (or the boxed set that Danbo includes above, if it's on there)

7. The Who - Who's Next (can't live without this one!)

8. Deep Purple - Machine Head (Hey, ya gotta "rock" if you're going back to the stoneage!)

9. Beethoven - Symphony # 6 (the "Pastoral," fitting for the setting)

10. King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic (or some definitive boxed set that has most of that on it - Considering the situation, it had better include "Exiles.")

11. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (of course!)

12. Gentle Giant - Free Hand

In my underwear: my three, homemade, 120-track-plus MP3 prog compilations, plus certain seeds) (I mean wheat, barley, etc., of course!)

As the rest of you great guys will likely be on adjoining islands, we will soon master the art of dugout canoe construction, and we can gather to borrow discs from each other -- no "Lord of the Flies"-type wars allowed, but the unwashed Jim can play the role of "Piggy." Maani will control the conch, I will be responsible for the fire (hey, I heat my house with wood!), and with writing "HELP! Send women and CDs!" in big block letters, in the sand with my size 12 feet....

We'll also need copies of "Apeman" by the Kinks, and "Buy Me an Island" by Audience.

PS: May I bring some books, please?

PPS: Diddy, swim over here and lend me your Physical Graffitti, would you? Don't mind the sharks -- they don't bite (much)!

12. Diamond Head - Living on Borrowed Time

11. Miles Davis - Bags Groove

10. Roger Norrington's superb interpretation of Beethoven's 5th

9. Santana - Santana

8. Pink Floyd - Meddle

7. Metallica - Master of Puppets

6. Camel - Mirage

5. Penderecki - Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima

4. Camel - Snow Goose

3. Genesis - Foxtrot

2. Beatles - Abbey Road

1. Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear (24-Bit Remastered version!) - if there was only one allowed, this would be it!

...oh damn, left my copy of Woodstock behind - can I swim back and get it...?

...oh, oh, and my copy of "Ship Arriving Too Late..." - this is reeelly hard!!!

Always really tough too choose because of those albums you can't take

Martin Orford - Classical Music And Popular Songs

ELP - Return Of The Manticore (4 CD Box Set)

Yes - Close To The Edge

Kayak - Royal Bed Bouncer

Genesis - Foxtrot

Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail

Kate Bush - The Kick Inside

Rush - Chronicles (2 CD)

Pink Floyd - Echoes (2 CD)

Mike Oldfield - Boxed (3 CD)

Tangerine Dream - Dream Sequence (2 CD)

Vangelis - Portraits

Patrick Forgas : "Synchronicité"

Steve Morse Band : "Coast to coast"

Bruford : "one of a kind"

Spyro Gyra : "Point of view"

J S Bach : "The art of fugue"

Marcus Viana : "Pentanal" (violinist for Sagrado Coraçao da Terra)

TOTO : a compilation with tracks taken from the 7th one" and "IV"

Eric Johnson : "Venus isle"

Jethro Tull : a compilation made of all the bonus tracks on the remastered CDs and the entire "Chateau d'Isaster tapes"

Marillion : "misplaced childhood" remastered two CDs version

Saga : "Heads or tales"

Cirque du soleil : a compilation of their most beautiful tracks

Okay velvetclown, and you must know that obviously I would have the entire Mariah Cariey catalogue stashed away somewhere where no one could discover it! Here goes my list and it includes everything under the sun, I don't confine my musical interests to only artists and bands which in some way or another fit under the category of progressive rock:

Inner Mounting Flame- Mahvishnu Orchestra 1

Concerto Aranjuez- Rodrigo ( Julian Bream )

Sabbotage- Black Sabbath 3

UFO- Guru Guru 4

The Two Sides Of Peter Banks- Peter Banks 5

Albedo 0.39- Vangelis 6

Beaubourg -Vangelis 7

In A Glass House - Gentle Giant 8

Soundtrack fom the animated film Heavy Metal 9

Carmina Burana- Carl Orff (Cleveland Symphony) 10

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 (Berlin Philharmoniker) 11

Hamburger Concerto - Focus 12

I think that  would probably do me fine given only twelve bloody choices. Check out Steve Hawking's book "Black Holes And Baby Uinverses" to find out his preferences.

Well life is hard and then you die Stormcrow

As I explained before, no women will be provided,( not even inflatable ones) but in Vibrationbabys case, Mariah will visit you every thursday for some philosophical discussions and she will also teach you how to float without using a lifejacket.

Yes Glass-Prison there are many islands in this area of the world

Great choices gentlemen