Top 10 "Desert Island" CDs

[ChileMass]

oh ya does anyone else agree that almost everything that came out since 2000 has been crap, i thought 90's were awsome for rock, but this decade doesnt seem like it is going to well for music

I don't agree. And I think this is really dependant on what you consider "rock." How wide or narrow is your definition of rock? For example, I love the Killers.

I hated rock in the 90s after 1992, when Nirvana and the Seattle scene pushed out the music I loved earlier in the decard like Ride, Charlitans, Stone Rodes, the Farm, Primal Scream, and the other English bands like them.

Josh B - I have to agree with you. I liked a lot of those bands, also. I'm not really a fan of much after Nirvana and the rock scene circa 1992. There are a few newer acts I like that are really throwbacks to earlier styles (e.g., Rev. Horton Heat, Green Day), but most everything else is just noice or bad attitude, IMHO. Me fossil, new rock bad.......

 

[ski_resort_observer]

In no particular order

Beatles - Srgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles - White Album
The Who - Who's Next
Traffic - Vagabond Virgin, John Barlycorn
Fleetwood Mac - Bare trees
Mimi Farina
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Nickle Creek
CSN&Y - Manassas
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Stones - Sticky Fingers

 

[ChileMass]

Nickle Creek

OK - so tell me more about Nickel Creek - I have heard their name several times recently and friends have told me I have to check them out.....

I think a lot of us have very similar musical tastes. Next winter can be the 1st Annual AZ Blues/Folk Festival......

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Nickel Creek

Hmmmmm.....Nickel Creek is a bluegrass/folk group who made the big-time a couple of years ago.

The gal plays a mean fiddle and sings as sweet as Allison Kraus. Their first big hit was "Tale of a Lighthouse", the video was filmed in Portland.

If you like bluegrass you should check them out.

 

[pedxing]

Armadillo World Headquarters! I loved the place back when I was a student at U.T. Austin. I never did see Commander Cody there, but did see Asleep at the Wheel and plenty of other acts there. The audiences were always great!

I really don't know what I'd take with me, if I could only have 10 - it wouldn't be my 10 favorites - because I would want some variety. My first stab at it would be:
Aerosmith - Get Your Wings (or their first album)
Caesaria Evora - Cafe Atlantico (or virtually anything by her).
Gato Barbieri - Live in New York (or his greatest hits, anything with the Live in NY version of Lluvia Azul)
James Brown - Live at the Apollo (or 20 Greatest Hits)
Leonard Cohen Almost anything except Death Of a Ladies Man and his last three. Maybe Various Positions, or Songs of Love and Hate.
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (or Kind of Blue, or Sketches of Spain)
Robert Johnson - Complete Collection
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstacy
Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat
Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams (Or Sweet Old World)

Yikes that's ten already... I'll have to smuggle in some honorable mentions. Off the top of my head:

Bach - Well Tempered Clavier Glen Gould
Beatles - Rubber Soul, Revolver, Beatles for Sale, Help.
BB King - Live at the Regal or Live at Cook County Jail.
David Bowie - (start w/ Hunky Dory and Man Who Sold the World)
Leonard Cohen - Everything else (w. the few exceptions)
Concrete Blond - Almost anything
Iris Dement - Just about anything (esp. Infamous Angels and My Life)
The Doors -
Ignatz Friedman - Great Pianists (or other recordings performig Chopin, Beethoven etc.)
Joe Farrell Quartet
Lori McKenna: First two albums
Gunds 'n' Roses - Apetite For Destruction
Phil Ochs - Pleasures of the Harbour
Public of Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet or Nation of Millions
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St., Beggars Banquet

I'd still be missing a lot of great music. Maybe if we're on the same Island - I can borrow some of the stuff y'all have mentioned here. A lot of these lists sound great.

I think Joss Stone and Alicia Keyes will one day put out classic albums. But I haven't heard anything by either of them that I'd really miss not hearing.

 

[pedxing]

CD's I'd be dying to borrow from the other posters include.

Traffic - John Barlycorn
Fleetwood Mac - Bare trees
Joni Mitchell - Blue
CSN&Y - Manassas
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Stones - Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street
The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
Bruce Springsteen: The River
Grateful Dead: Europe '72
Grateful Dead: Live/Dead
Emmylou Harris: Spyboy
The Beatles: White Album
Alice in Chains- Unplugged
Nirvana- MTV unplugged (gee I shoulda put that on my list)
Pink Floyd- wish you were here
Pink floyd- pulse
Metallica- S and M (Disc 1)
Metallica- S and M (Disc 2)
Tool - lateralus
NIN - lotsa stuff
Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Stephen Stills - Super Session
Dire Straits - 1st release
Doors - Morrison Hotel
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Grateful Dead - "Amedican Beauty"
Bob Marely - "Kaya"