You have to spend the rest of your life on this Island and you are only allowed to bring 12 albums with you, well you all know the drill. It can be Single/Double/Triple or Boxed cd sets etc. It can be any kind of music, not just prog.Think about it for a while and post whenever you are ready.

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. 

I would take the following cds, hoping to find a cd player and electric current in that island :

1. Genesis: Selling England

2: Genesis: Foxtrot

3. Camel: Harbour of Tears

4: My own Yes compilated cd

5: My KC compilated

6: Sinkadus: Aurum Nostrum

7: Museo Rosenbach: Zarathustra

8: Le Orme : Felona E Sorona

9: Metamorfosi: Inferno

10: Murple: Io Sono Murple

11. Allusa Fallax: In Torno Alla Mia Educazione Cattiva

12: Par Lindh Project: Gothic Impressions 

Everything besides women, will be provided

Twelve, Huh? Gotta go with as many "bang for the buck" releases as possible. Gets lonely on a Desert Island. Rebecca Romjin Stamos is single now, she can carry my collection. HHmmm, okay, here goes:

1. U.K. - U.K.

2. Echolyn - A Little Nonsense (3 disc)

3. Stevie Ray Vaughan - SRV (Box Set)

4. Yes - In a Word (5 disc)

5. Salem Hill - Be

6. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

7. Emerson, Lake and Palmer -  Return of the Manticore (4 discs)

8. Gentle Giant - Edge of Twilight

9. John Lennon - Anthology (4 disc)

10. King Crimson - The Great Deceiver (4 discs)

11. Frank Zappa - Shut up and Play yer Guitar (3 disc)

12. Allan Holdsworth - All Night Wrong

This is much harder then I thought. Sheesh VC, we can only hope to get ship-wrecked with plenty of batteries or an island with a hydro-electric plant.

So far, great choices by all

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

Velvetclown:

So someone has been generous and "upped" it from 10 to 12?  How nice.

Two lists.  The first is comprised entirely of double and triple albums - since you get far more music that way!  The second is my single-CD list.

Double/Triple:

1.  Welcome Back My Friends (ELP)

2.  Playing the Fool (Gentle Giant)

3.  Live at the Fillmore (Allman Bros.)

4.  The Lamb (Genesis)

5.  The Wall (Pink Floyd)

6.  Sometime Anywhere (The Church)

7.  English Settlement (XTC)

8.  Tales (Yes)

9.  The White Album (Beatles)

10.  Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton)

11.  Physical Graffiti (Zep)

12.  Consequences (Godley/Creme)

Single CDs (a much harder choice!):

1.  Sgt. Pepper (Beatles)

2.  Foxtrot (Genesis.  2nd choice: SE)

3.  In A Glass House (Gentle Giant.  2nd choice: Octopus)

4.  In The Court of the Crimson King (2nd choice: Larks Tongues)

5.  Close to the Edge (Yes.  2nd choice: Time and a Word)

6.  Mummer (XTC.  2nd choice: Nonesuch)

7.  Sheet Music (10CC.  2nd choice: How Dare You)

8.  Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd.  2nd choice: Animals)

9.  Hope (Klaatu)

10.  Crime of the Century (Supertramp)

11.  Cinque (Deus ex Machina.  2nd choice: Equilibrismo di Insofferenza)

12.  Supernatural (DC Talk.  2nd choice: Jesus Freaks)

Unfortunately, this means I have to leave all my Bowie, Joni, Moody Blues, Nektar, Zappa, EJ and other greats behind.

What an exercise in futility!

Peace.

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

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Hmmm...O.k. I'll try

• Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
• National Health - Of Queues and Cures
• Gentle Giant - Free Hand/Interview (both are on one CD)
• Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three
• Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible (I count that as one)
• Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE II
• Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. II Scenes from a memory
• Grobschnitt - Rockpommels Land (or maybe Solar music)
• ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
• Uriah Heep - Salisbury (or 'very eavy...very umble')
• Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitty (but maybe II)
• Opeth - Blackwater Park

Maybe I would pick others tomorrow, who knows...

 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)!

Oh No !!!!! I think I might have copied some TV show, about surviving on an Island, I guess I have to remove the MP3 files right away

Once again GREAT selections from everyone

My 12 deciples will arrive here tomorrow

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!!!

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

No Problem, as a accomplished life-guard it would be no problem for me to bring all my other Led Zep CDs with me as well. I don't mind the sharks...why? I don't know

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

Led Zeppelin II

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East

Jethro Tull - Aqualung (Benefit? Thick As A Brick?)

Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

Frank Zappa - I don't know which one!!! (maybe I'd better pick one of the Threesomes. But I also like his music from the seventies!! Dilemma! )

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

Gentle Giant - Power And The Glory

Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans

AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You've Got It!

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

I CAN'T DO THIS! If you'd ask me again tomorrow, I'd give you a completely different list!

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

ooh goody, another 'desert island' thread!

1. Rush - A Farewell To Kings/Hemispheres (I burned the two onto one CD)

2. ELP - ELP

3. Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory

4. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (or Islands, for an ironic twist)

5. Yes - Fragile/Close to the Edge (see Rush)

6. Genesis - Selling England

7. Zeppelin - How The West Was Won

8. Jimi Hendrix- Electric Ladyland

9. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue (I see I'm not the only one to like it)

10. John Coltrane - Blue Train

11. Rachmaninoff compilation

12. Black Sabbath - Debut

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.

Reduce myself to a paltry, meesly 12 albums 

EGAD! 

Yoiks and little fish hooks I think I'd almost rather open a vein!

I'm sure I'd certainly brave the sharks to swim to the next island to do some trading.

Speaking of sharks:

Did you know that there's never been a documented case of a shark attacking a lawyer?

Yes!

It's just professional courtesy. 

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

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  )

My island discs:

Soft Machine-Third

John Coltrane-A Love Supreme

Elton Dean-Just Us

Hugh Hopper-Carousel

Robert Wyatt-The End of An Ear

King Crimson-Lizard

Pink Floyd-Animals

Henry Cow-Leg End

Frank Zappa-Roxy & Elsewhere

Nucleus-We'll Talk About It Later

Caravan-If I Could Do It Again, I'd Do It All Over You

Matching Mole-Self/titled

Here we go :

1. Dream Theater " Live Scenes From New York " 3 cds

2. Shostakovich " Complete String Quartets " 6 cds

3. Frank Zappa " You Are What You Is "

4. Marillion (with Fish) " Curtain Call "  6 cds

5. Porcupine Tree " Lightbulb Sun "

6. East Of Eden " Mercator Projected "

7. Jethro Tull " Minstrel In The Gallery "

8. King Crimson  " The Great Deceiver " 4 cds

9. Genesis " Lamb Lies Down On Broadway " 2 cds

10. XTC " The Big Express "

11. Loudon Wainwright III " The BBC Sessions "

12. Mike Keneally " Hat "

PROGTANIC

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.

Jim Garten wrote: 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!) Diddy, I hate you forever for sinking that ship!

 BUT...Now we all have a lot of time to listen to our choices, no work, JUST the music...if there's a player on each island

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! http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb033 -

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!"

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" 

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?

Imagine, no work , no women , no.........hey.......just forget it:

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......

 Boy, endless lists of albums, without commentary, are such fun to read!

Meanwhile, back on the "Isle of Abandoned Progholes," the decidedly non-hirsute Danbo is in desperate need of sunscreen (or a hat -- those palm fronds just don't have the UV factor!) to protect his now crimson baby-bottom-bald pate , as the heroic (but easily-led) Diddy, a copy of Physical Graffiti in his teeth, finds himself --somewhat at a loss -- in the pearly-whites of a Kraut and schnitzel-loving great white....

 Oh the Reality!

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 ?

Velvetclown wrote:   PROGTANIC

  Ha! Good one!

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!

Peter Rideout wrote:  Boy, endless lists of albums, without commentary, are such fun to read! Meanwhile, back on the "Isle of Abandoned Progholes," the decidedly non-hirsute Danbo is in desperate need of sunscreen (or a hat -- those palm fronds just don't have the UV factor!) to protect his now crimson baby-bottom-bald pate , as the heroic (but easily-led) Diddy, a copy of Physical Graffiti in his teeth, finds himself --somewhat at a loss -- in the pearly-whites of a Kraut and schnitzel-loving great white....  Oh the Reality!

now I have to go to a football (or soccer for the Americans) match...something I would miss on a desert island...but we could meet and form a team, beach soccer, hmmm...

Alexander wrote: My island discs: Soft Machine-Third John Coltrane-A Love Supreme Elton Dean-Just Us Hugh Hopper-Carousel Robert Wyatt-The End of An Ear King Crimson-Lizard Pink Floyd-Animals Henry Cow-Leg End Frank Zappa-Roxy & Elsewhere Nucleus-We'll Talk About It Later Caravan-If I Could Do It Again, I'd Do It All Over You Matching Mole-Self/titled

Pretty obvious what part of prog you like!! Great list! "we're only in it for the music"!!

LUCAS: Mike Keneallys HAT album is very much in the Frank Zappa vein and it is almost impossible to get hold of( It has been sold out and the record company have not made any new copies for 2 years now ) Kevin Gilbert plays a very little part on HAT, so if you´re a fan of Gilbert, don´t bother to get a copy.

HOW ABOUT TWELVE COPEIS OF MARIAH CAREY............NO NOT ALBUMS!!!

JUST MARIAH!

Well no man is an Island........but MARIAH ?????????!!!!!!!

Deep Purple..........Made In Japan

Yes......................Yessongs

Rainbow..............Live In Germany

Mostly Autumn......Catch The Spirit

Kate Bush.............The Kick Inside

Spocks Beard........V

Transatlantic..........Live In Europe

The Beatles...........Blue Album

The Beach Boys.....Best of

Uriah Heep............Live 93

Porcupine Tree.....In Absentia

Deep Purple..........Fireball

StarshipTrooper wrote: Uriah Heep............Live 93

 Good, hard-rockin' list, Starship! I'm also a (classic) Heep fan -- did they have their original vocalist on that album? Is it mostly older material

Peter Rideout wrote:  Meanwhile, back on the "Isle of Abandoned Progholes," the decidedly non-hirsute Danbo is in desperate need of sunscreen (or a hat -- those palm fronds just don't have the UV factor!) to protect his now crimson baby-bottom-bald pate ,  Oh the Reality!

Peter, Peter,

I would never, repeat never, leave home without my, Garten trained, badger pelt hair pieces. Understand, Sir, that badger pelts are one of the best protections against UV rays. Since they are Garten trained, they can handle sweat in any disco. They're water-proof!!! Also, they can be shoved into the eager jaws of any hungry Great White, just ask Jack Russell (obscure reference).  

Peter,

I suspect ST means Live '73, which did indeed feature the late, great David Byron. He died in 1985 having parted company with Uriah Heep some years previously.

...I will take with me a handful of Brian Eno 'ambiant part' albums, 'Salisbury' (Uriah Heep), 'Lizard' (King Crimson), 'ART' (Ashra tempel), 'Over' (Peter Hammill), 'Birds of fire' (Mahavishnu orchestra), 'Flammende Herzen' (M. Rother),  'Last' (Agitation free). 

Peter Rideout wrote: StarshipTrooper wrote: Uriah Heep............Live 93  Good, hard-rockin' list, Starship! I'm also a (classic) Heep fan -- did they have their original vocalist on that album? Is it mostly older material

No, it's not their 'original' singer, the album must be called 'Spellbinder' and was recorded in cologne/germany as far as I know...Because I sold 'Spellbinder' on eBay and it was from 93 I think...This album was bad because of the singer, I also sold 'Sea of Light'...I don't like the newer Stuff, but the 'old' one is awesome...I really like 'Salisbury' and all other 'early' albums. Peter, maybe I could smuggle them to my island and bring them with me wehen I'm on my way to bring you 'Physical Graffitty'

Easy Livin wrote: Peter, I suspect ST means Live '73, which did indeed feature the late, great David Byron. He died in 1985 having parted company with Uriah Heep some years previously.

Oops. Yes I did mean 73 and david Byron.

Good selections

Ön är egentligen Gotland, men säg inget till dom andra.

Vibrationbaby.

Sorry to be pedantic, Uriah Heep's a band which mean a lot to me (as you might guess!). David Byron actually died in his own home in Maidenhead near London, where he lived alone. He left Uriah Heep in 1976, some 9 years before his death, and went on to record with Rough Diamond and the Byron Band, as well as a couple of solo albums. I've just finished reading Jeff Perkins excellent biography of Byron "Born to Perform", an essential read for all classic Heep fans.

Hammar wrote: Pretty obvious what part of prog you like!! Great list! "we're only in it for the music"!!

Thanks. Canterbury,Jazz-Rock,Fusion, & Avant-Garde are my favorite prog subgenres.

(I am also a big fan of Avant-Garde/Free Jazz & improvised music.)

uf, ahem...

a very tough choice, what about DVD's

anyway... in no partucular order...

1. king crimson: the essential king crimson

2. porcupine tree: stars die, the delerium years

3. the cure: join the dots

4. pink floyd: shine on (the box)

5. marillion: made again

6. dream theater: awake

7. steve vai: alive in an ultra world

8. miles davis: essential miles

9. chick corea: ECM compilation

10. earthworks: stamping ground

11. peter gabriel: hit

12. björk: greatest hits

it is a very hard one, ask me tomorrow and i give a completely different list

peace

Bityear: Desert betyder öde, inte öken i detta fallet. Gotland på vintern är ganska öde.

ROBIN TROWER LIVE 1975

RAINBOW RISING: RAINBOW

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON; PINK FLOYD

RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE TRILOGY: GONG(I WILL CUONT THIS AS THREE ALBUMS

SALISBURY:URIAH HEEP...IN MY OWN VERY HUMBLE OPINOIN,I HAVE ALWAYS CONSIDERED THE TRACK SALISBURY  TO BE HEEPS MAGNUM OPUS(IS THAT THE RIGHT TERM?) AND ONE OF THE GRAET UNDERATTED EPICS OF ROCK...SIMILAR..IN ITS WAY, TO CHILD IN TIME OR STAIRWAY TO HEAVAN

THICK AS A BRICK:JETHRO TULL

TARKUS: ELP

THE LAMB LEIS DOWN ON BROADWAY:GENESIS

IN SAERCH OF SPACE:HAWKWIND

THE BEST OF MARIAH CAREY.....OR IS THAT JIM CAREY?

BUT SERIOUSLY,SHEIK YERBOUTI:FRANK ZAPPA

Great !!!! Keep em coming

dude wrote: SALISBURY:URIAH HEEP...IN MY OWN VERY HUMBLE OPINOIN,I HAVE ALWAYS CONSIDERED THE TRACK SALISBURY  TO BE HEEPS MAGNUM OPUS(IS THAT THE RIGHT TERM?) AND ONE OF THE GRAET UNDERATTED EPICS OF ROCK...SIMILAR..IN ITS WAY, TO CHILD IN TIME OR STAIRWAY TO HEAVAN

Yeah...I second this opinion...it's really a classic and their best work IMO...I love this song, the whole album as well...

Not after I have visited Visby

Velvetclown wrote:  Dick

LOL but he's made a lot of money out of it - and "Jesus Christ Superstar" was originally a rock opera, the album having an interesting line-up. His choice for Desert Island Discs is the most personally memorable, which went serious/ rock/ serious /rock etc, including the Shostakovitch Cello, the only one of two musical discoveries I've made from the programme in 40 years of listening. The other was that of a choice by the remarkable Ian Drury. He included a piece by Ornette Coleman, the bass riff of which he admitted he had lifted for the tune "Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll". Drury related that he confessed this to Charlie Haden who played it, and Haden responded by saying not to worry because he had lifted it from a Cajun tune!!!

 As Governor-for-Life Rideout emeres from his luxuriously-appointed three-storey hut around mid-day, monocled and resplendent in "field grey" uniform, and tapping his high leather boots (Storm's skin had proved more resilient than its original owner had been) with his riding crop, he is smugly pleased to see that Danbo, Dude, Velvet and others have been up for hours, and are dutifully toiling away at their appointed tasks in the wheat and barley fields. Not seeing Garten, he is at first wrathful, until he recalls that the wispy and pasty-skinned Brit, unable to tolerate the sun, had been transferred to brewery duty (where he is, even now, surreptitiously, and in direct contravention of Rideout's orders, and the centuries-old Bavarian Purity Law -- a flogging will surely ensue -- adding twigs and coconut husks to a certain golden elixir). Discipline remains a problem -- but perhaps the upcoming gala execution of the rebellious Dutch youth (caught trying to build a signal fire) will put the irksome issue forever to rest....

Pausing to ascertain that all is well with a certain crop (reserved for the Governor's private use, and fertilized with the remains of the departed Stormcrow), and satisfied that the peasants have not been at it again, Rideout hears the opening lines of one of his favourite selections booming from the monster stereo that he has ingeniously constructed from the various players he had justly confiscated from the other, less-cultured and deserving castaways.

As The Who's Roger Daltry sings: "Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals," Rideout muses that it is indeed hard work ordering these menials about, but reflects that someone had had to take charge of the riff-raff, and who better than he?

Strolling back into his hut (more of a plantation house, or fortess, really), Governor Rideout wonders if he should order the planting of cotton, before retiring again to his four-poster king-sized bed, and the welcoming (if immobile) arms of his Mariah doll.

It's a GOOD life....  

Well Peter you´re doing a fantastic job a the Mayor Of Simpleton

Velvetclown wrote: Well Peter you´re doing a fantastic job a the Mayor Of Simpleton

"Never been near a university...."

Thanks, but I don't require your approval, Velvet, just your unquestioning obedience.

It´s too late for that I´m afraid, but Peter thanks for all the laughs

The topic started with Velvetclown,

My preferred disc is Velvet Underground & Nico!!!

I know, it is not prog, but in another topic somebody said that Rhapsody are prog....

Velvetclown wrote: It´s too late for that I´m afraid, but Peter thanks for all the laughs

You're welcome, Velvet, and thanks for the great thread/opportunity!

 I just want to spread good cheer, and a love of great music!

Danbo and Dude secretely meet amidst the waving wheat stalks and lament the escape of fellow miscreant, Velvetclown. "Hope he makes it, the bloody bugger," says Dude. Crikey. Danbo informs the Aussie about his meeting with Garten, the prancing Brit smoker. Rideout's leadership is wavering as they speak. Holding the Prog CDs ransom. So dear to the castaways is the music of their lives that they indentured themselves to the devious despot.    

(Flashback) "Seems ol' Rideout wants an ale at each bleeding meal, wot," relates the nicotine stained hero. "Well Jim," responds the muscular Californian with wavy hair and deep azure eyes, "give the bastid a swallow of your British recycled pilsner, old chap." Hmm, bottoms up Rideout. HAHAHAHHA

(Back to the wheat) "Okay, dude. Mariah's yours when it's all said and done. Just make sure the breathing has completely stopped for two whole minutes. I don't want to take a chance on the bugger resurrecting himself." Danbo contemplates the old professors lack of musculature, Mariah feeding him as his arms are too weak to lift a common kitchen fork. Totally defenseless, the pathetic imp. "I'll show that Prog stealing Canadian a thing or two." Danbo grasps pile of discarded Mariah Carey CDs, all that's left after Rideouts burglary, and flings them against the palm frond covered side of Rideout's "fortress."     

 ^ Thanks Danbo -- a most worthy addition! You even managed to use the correct "it's."

But recall: unable to live with only 12 selections, the fragile Stormcrow (the proghole formerly known as "Velvet") had died by his own palsied hand. (He listened to M.C. until he died of poor taste -- took all of 2 hours -- an agonizing death!)

diddy wrote: Peter Rideout wrote: You're welcome, Velvet, and thanks for the great thread/opportunity!  I just want to spread good cheer, and a love of great music!

Sometimes I wonder weather the people on your university learn something or if they laugh all the time???

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Thanks Diddy! (I should perhaps point out that I teach at a college, not a university -- in Canada the two are not the same.)

I do like to inject humour into my teaching -- oddly enough, my students seem to enjoy it....

Peter Rideout wrote:  ^ Thanks Danbo -- a most worthy addition! You even managed to use the correct "it's." But recall: unable to live with only 12 selections, the fragile Stormcrow had died by his own palsied hand. (He listened to M.C. until he died of poor taste -- took all of 2 hours -- an agonizing death!)

My mistake, I meant Velvetclown.  No offense intended.

danbo wrote: Peter Rideout wrote:  ^ Thanks Danbo -- a most worthy addition! You even managed to use the correct "it's." But recall: unable to live with only 12 selections, the fragile Stormcrow (nee Velvet) had died by his own palsied hand. (He listened to M.C. until he died of poor taste -- took all of 2 hours -- an agonizing death!)   My mistake, I meant Velvetclown.  No offense intended.

None taken, I'm sure.

Gotta love that "edit" button!

It's great if you use before anyone else "quotes" you.

I edited my post, now yours will leave 'em scratching their heads.

 I could edit that too!

But s'okay, think I....

Hey, I just edited it anyway! (This one, too!)

We old progholes aim to please!

Bloody, largely skinless, and wrapped in a discarded caftan; Stormcrow slowly staggers in the tropical sun, clutching a CD of Mariah Carey singing the greatest hits of Michael Bolton and displaying that he's picked up a curious limp.

"Thinks I died, does he?"

"Flay me, will he?"

"Thinks he's discarded me on the midden heap of history, does he?"

"I must hie me hence and have Zildjian tend my sundry wounds!  Then it's time to plot my vengence!"

It's a long, long hot way to the Fortress Of Solipsism™.

 The tow-headed Danbo searches out the recovering Stormcrow to offer assistance in capturing, spitting, seasoning and slow roasting the weak Canadian's pitiful body, before offering it for the population's consumption. The fatty, stringy meat sizzling like bacon. Yumm!! bleeeech. 

Storm is painfully weak after having his flesh stripped from his body by Rideout and his pack of skin ripping weasels. Danbo provides Storm with healing wheat bread and weasel meat (the pack thins, eh, Canuck?). Plenty of fresh brewed beer is available as Garten refills the Governor's casks with his own (Pee-sner) brand.  

Storms voice whispers, "Peter's power is waning, even viagra won't save him now."


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 Uh oh! Drums in the distance! (Sounds like an old Carl Palmer routine....) The natives are getting restless!

 Maybe I can placate the murderous simpletons with a cut of my private dental floss crop....

Now, where did I leave my pygmy pony and zircon-encrusted tweezers?

Easy Livin wrote: Vibrationbaby. Sorry to be pedantic, Uriah Heep's a band which mean a lot to me (as you might guess!). David Byron actually died in his own home in Maidenhead near London, where he lived alone. He left Uriah Heep in 1976, some 9 years before his death, and went on to record with Rough Diamond and the Byron Band, as well as a couple of solo albums. I've just finished reading Jeff Perkins excellent biography of Byron "Born to Perform", an essential read for all classic Heep fans.

Thanks Easy! I knew Byron was dead, but learned so only lately, and didn't know how or when. Too bad.

 The rock & roll lifestyle often exacts a heavy price.... 

GENTLEMEN REMEMBER WHAT I SAID BEFORE ABOUT NOT LETTING YOU STAY UP TO WATCH CARTOONS!!!.......OH WAIT WERE ON A DESERT ISLAND..... WELL I WONT LET YOU STAY UP TO WATCH COCONUTS FALL OF THE TREES IF YOU DONT BEHAVE!!!

AND NOW FOR THAT SECRET RENDEVOUS WITH MARIAH CAREY

p.s velvetclown has returned!!

A dark dot on the horizon soon reveals itself to be a hot-air balloon, reminiscent of that constructed by the Montgolfier brothers, but by the looks of it, before their time. A Da Vinci design, in all likelihood.

As it nears the island, it is apparent that the pilot is having difficulties keeping it up (quiet at the back...), as great tongues of flame lick the inside of the canvas, lighting up the interior of a slowly sagging, limp form (I said QUIET at the back!!!).

A flight-jacketed and behelmeted figure, replete with goggles appears at the edge of the basket, which is beginning to skim the frothy, foaming waves. It leaps into the turqouise waters, and slightly spoils the overall heroic-ness by floudering around desperately for a while until his feet hit the sand and he can walk up the beach.

Dripping, covered with seaweed, and a crab hanging from his goggles, he proceeds to remove his helmet charismatically (stop sniggering - I won't warn you again!).

"YEEEEOWCH!!!"

The figure shakes a gauntletted hand frantically, in an attempt to shake off the rather large crab, which eventually gives up its hold - although not on the gauntlet, and scuttles away with its prize.

The leathers all drop rapidly, under the hot sun, and Cert appears in beach shorts and bright Hawaii shirt, proudly clutching a single CD.

"Guys, guys!!!" he pants, clutching one hand under his arm to stem the flow of dripping blood, "I've got !!...

No, not that...

 - The CD that will change our lives FOREVER!!!!"

He hands it over with trepidation to...

(to be continued ... )

P.S. The CD is, of course the genre (of music) defining http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000070S1/qid=1083053387/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/104-5382383-7433536?v=glance&s=music - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000070S1/qid =1083053387/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/104-5382383-7433536?v=glance&a mp;s=music

**Hot Shot City IS Particularly Good**

THE MEN RAN TO THE REMAINS OF THE BALLOON

"ARE YOU ALRIGHT" THEY CALLED

WHEN THEY RAECHED CERTIFIED HE WAS SITTING ON THE BEACH WINDED BUT UNHARMED "WHERE DID YOU GET THAT BALLOON?" STORMCROW ASKED

FROM SOME PEOPLE ON THIS ISLAND" CERTIFIED REPLIED "THERES A PROFESSOR A COUPLE OF WOMEN(A STIR GOES THROUGH THE ASSEMBLED MEN) SOME RICH COUPLE AND SOME OTHERS THE PROFESSOR IS RAELLY SMART HE CAN BUILD RADIOS AND GYMS AND OTHER STUFF BUT HE CANT FIX A HOLE IN A DAMN BOAT!!!ANYWAY HE BUILT ME THIS BALLON"

"WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THEIR "DUDE ASKED

"IS IT FOOD! ,CIGARETTES !MARIAH CAREY!"(DUDE SMILES TO HIMSELF THINKING OF LAST NIGHTS SECRET RENDEVOUS) THEY ALL ASK.

"NO ITS AN URGENT MESSAGE .....GENTLEMEN PREPARE YOURSELVES............PEARL HARBOR HAS JUST BEEN BOMBED!!!!"

"WAIT A MINUTE!!!!!" SAID DANBO "THAT WAS OVER SIXTY YEARS AGO"

"REALLY!" CERTIFEID LOOKED PUZZLED "I THOUGHT THAT SOLDEIR LOOKED TO OLD TO BE WEARING A UNIFORM! I WONDER IF ANYONE KNOWS HES ON THAT TINY ISLAND ALONE!"

"WELL WHATS IN THE OTHER PACKAGE?" ASKED DUDE

"ITS A NEW CD SOMETHING THAT WILL CHANGE OUR LIVES" WAS CERTIFEIDS EXCITED REPLY "WE MUST GET THIS TO SAR MAJOR RIDEOUT IMMEDIATLY"!!!

THE MEN MARCHED BACK TO THE CAMP WHISTLING THE THEME FROM "BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI"

Still weak from his injuries, Stormcrow stands shakily as his faithful raccoon sidekick Zildjian and the newly repentant danbo, spackle his bare muscles and sinew with quick drying, kevlar fiber laced silicon rubber.  The hydraulic cyborg muscle implants and titanium bone reinforcements seem to be healing.

Stormcrow thinks to himself: "This danbo showed true cleverness to pilfer the Moosehead beer elixir of life from the dastardly, tyranical, despotic Rideout! 

"Otherwise I might not have survived."

Idly gnawing the breastbone of one of the very weasels that may have originally ripped his flesh, he murmers, "Careful there, that's a tender area."

Drifting into a feverish euphoria, Stormcrow dreams of radioactive beaver and installing turbojet power on all-weather tropical fruit bats.......

Danbo, in serious need of a replacement side-kick after banishing the radio-active beavers to Las Vegas, enlists the aid of a passing Bandersnatch. Whiffling through the frumious Tumtum forest, Danbo and the Bandersnatch plot the demise of the manxome foe, Peter Rideout. "Hmm, thought Danbo, "no vorpal swords available in this tulgey wood. Ah, a slithy tove, trained to nip the mastoid complex slightly behind the jaw bone, could render poor slave Mariah free from the grasp of that peevish imp, Rideout." A plan, even a poor one, executed properly, can have positive effects.

Bandersnatch and Danbo gyre'd about the wabe, searching for the tove of choice. As brillig approached, time waned, the window of opportunity shrank like a cigarette in Garten's lips. "Callooh" exclaimed the Bandersnatch as the perfect tove came into view. Tripping over a mome rath, the Bandersnatch loosed his hold upon the slithy tove. "Oh fuit gibbers," cursed Danbo. "The burbling Rideout will snorpel another day. Cert will force us all to listen to that Hasselhoff disc again. Oh the humanity!!!"

Moral: A poor plan, poorly executed, has disastrous effects.   

dude wrote: BANDERSNATCH!!!?....I WAS JUST TALKING TO LARRY NIVEN THE OTHER DAY...........

Larry Niven, author of Ringworm?

After Danbo finishes feeding the bumbling Bandersnatch to Stormcrow, he stuffs a few of Garten's discarded cigarette butts into his ears and attends Cert's Hasselhoff concerto. Egad, "Hot Shot City" over and over and over again.

Meanwhile, at the Rideout Fortress, "Epitaph" pours from the speakers as Mariah again feeds whispy Peter another dollop of liquifying chedar cheese. "You must eat to get strong, pumpkin" quips the Top 40 diva as she wipes a bit of saliva from the wobbling jowls. 

In no order:

• The Box (VdGG)
• Playing the Fool (GG)
• Octopus (GG)
• Selling England by the Pound (Genesis)
• Foxtrot (Genesis)
• Seconds Out (Genesis)
• Live at Carnegie Hall (Renaissance)
• Shine On [Box] (Pink Floyd)
• Yessongs (Yes)
• Yesshows (Yes)
• Welcome Back My Friends... (ELP)
• Thick as a Brick (JT)

This is impossible...........I am missing about 100 CD's I'd NEED!