Your 5 desert Island albums

Post by **Cail** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:12 am

<sigh>

1. Animals - Pink Floyd
2. High 'n Dry - Def Leppard
3. The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
4. Defenders of the Faith - Judas Priest
5. The Seer - Big Country

More later.....

Post by **Usivius** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:34 pm

I did this before, but let me put what is in my head (and heart) right now and see if they match up...

- "Gates of Delirium" - Yes
- "Mr. Bungle" - Mr. Bungle
- "The Power to Believe" - King Crimson
- "Carmina Burana" - Carl Orf
- "Outside 1.0" - David Bowie

Post by **Usivius** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:36 pm

LOL.. only one the same, but my previous list if pretty good too.

Post by **Cagliostro** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:40 pm

1. Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
2. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
3. Loud Family - Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things
4. They Might Be Giants - Mink Car
5. Kate Bush - Aerial

I really want to put Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy in there, but I can't find one to boot. So I'd have that disk in the case with another one.

So let's start a new one. If you had a 20 gig iPod and the wonderful tree sap charger (check your local stores), what would you put on it?

Okay, just kidding.

Post by **stonemaybe** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:01 pm

Cagliostro wrote:1. Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
2. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
3. Loud Family - Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things
4. They Might Be Giants - Mink Car
5. Kate Bush - Aerial

I really want to put Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy in there, but I can't find one to boot. So I'd have that disk in the case with another one.

So let's start a new one. If you had a 20 gig iPod and the wonderful tree sap charger (check your local stores), what would you put on it?

Okay, just kidding.

I thought long and hard about fall from grace and daisies too!

Post by **amanibhavam** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:23 pm

Tough.

*resisting the temptation to simply list 5 PF albums*

Pink Floyd - Meddle
John Mayall - Jazz-Blues Fusion
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Led Zeppelin - II.
Radiohead - OK Computer

Post by **Cagliostro** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:46 pm

Stonemaybe wrote:
I thought long and hard about fall from grace and daisies too!

I liked your pick of Rum Sodomy and the Lash (which still wins rewards as the best album title every, at least in my book), but it just seems like Fall From Grace is the peak - everything came together in that album in my opinion. Rum Sodomy and the Lash was fantastic, but there was still some tinkering. It's a pity Cait didn't stick around for Fall From Grace, otherwise I think it would have been even more perfect in my eyes. Stupid Elvis Costello.

Post by **stonemaybe** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:12 pm

Fall from grace has my fave Pogues song on it - Bottle of Smoke - and some of the other tracks nearly reach that level as well- Turkish Song of the Damned, Birmingham Six/streets of sorrow, south australia, but I think Rum Sodomy is stronger all round. There isn't a song on it that I'd skip! And Sally maclennane and sickbed of cuchulainn are only a tiny tiny bit below bottle of smoke.

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:27 pm

I never answered this? Five albums I can't go without, huh? I'm amazed I haven't done this one before...

Jon Anderson ~ Olias of Sunhillow
Pink Floyd ~ Meddle
Phillip Glass ~ koyaanisqatsi
Genesis ~ The Lamb lies down on Broadway
Yes ~ Going for the One

and a sixth, just because I would really want it...

Moody Blues ~ every good boy deserves favour

Post by **The Dreaming** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:04 am

lol, if I could have 10!

6) Pink Floyd - Wish you Were Here
7) The Who - Quadrophenia

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
9) Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
10) Dream Theater - Octavarium

Picking double albums kinda feels like cheating though. (Although there are probably not more than 5 really good double albums now that I think about it)

That leaves what? 8 out of 10 bands are British. Why do you damn brits have to make such awesome Rock music? (And Comic books too) I am way too much of a musical Anglophile.

P.S. And what am I listening to now? Queensryche...

Post by **Cail** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:51 am

Queensrÿche is from Washington.

Sad, but most of the stuff I really like, other than the LA Metal, is all from the UK.

Post by **Usivius** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:02 pm

Menolly wrote:I never answered this? Five albums I can't go without, huh? I'm amazed I haven't done this one before...

Jon Anderson ~ Olias of Sunhillow
Pink Floyd ~ Meddle
Phillip Glass ~ koyaanisqatsi
Genesis ~ The Lamb lies down on Broadway
Yes ~ Going for the One

and a sixth, just because I would really want it...

Moody Blues ~ every good boy deserves favour

Very cool choices.

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:04 pm

Cail wrote: Sad, but most of the stuff I really like, other than the LA Metal, is all from the UK.

*nodding*

I think Philip Glass is American, but otherwise pretty much UK for me as well.

Although, if I were to switch out the Moody Blues, it would be for Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene, who is French, or Ray Lynch's Deep Breakfast, who is American...

Post by **Mortice Root** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:31 pm

No particular order-

Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
The Cure - Disintegration
U2 - Achtung Baby

And if I get a sixth -

Queensryche - Promised Land

Post by **The Dreaming** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:42 pm

Lol, I don't know why I thought they were British.

Post by **Mortice Root** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:45 pm

'Cuz they're good?

Post by **Sorus** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:58 am

Remind me to dig out my 'around the world in metal' list one of these days...

Post by **Cail** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:07 am

Hey Sorus, one of these days could you please dig out your "around the world in metal" list?

Thanks.

Post by **stonemaybe** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:31 pm

Cail wrote:Hey Sorus, one of these days could you please dig out your "around the world in metal" list?

Thanks.

Leave out the German bit, though, ok?

Post by **stonemaybe** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:12 pm

I was bored last night, and decided to go through this thread counting up how many votes each band got, to see who was most popular on KW. It's a few threads merged, so some people have given their lists more than once, but I've counted each one, on the rationale that those people probably like their music more, so their votes should have greater weight.

The results are not surprising in the least, considering the banter in Vespers!

Spoiler

1. Pink Floyd (16 times on a list)
2. Led Zeppelin (10)
3. Beatles (8 )
=3. Rush (8 )
5. Tool (7)
6. King Crimson (6)
=6. Radiohead (6)

And because I'm in a statisticky mood, now I'm going to work out where each band is from and add up each country's votes. So, of 274 albums mentioned (I didn't include classical or soundtracks), which country got the most votes? England and USA were way out in front, but which got most? It was tight between Canada, Ireland, and Scotland for third, as well....And other than those, only five other countries got a look in.

(I have far too much time on my hands

)

Spoiler

1. England 121
2. USA 120
3. Canada 10
4. Ireland 8
5. Scotland 7
6. Sweden 3
7. Australia 2
8. Iceland 1
9. Jamaica 1
10. South Africa 1

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