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Your 5 desert Island albums

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If you were stranded on a desert Island woth only 5 albums for the rest of your life, what would they be?

1) Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
2) Ok Computer (Radiohead)
3) Abbey Road (Beatles)
4) Crash (Dave Mathews)
5) Who's Next (The Who)
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1) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Damn the Torpedoes

2) The Beatles: White Album

3) Chris Whitley: Living With the Law

4) Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska

5) Steve Earle: Copperhead Road
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kenny rodgers and the first edition
george carlin-classic gold (does that count)
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the who-greatest hits
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1. Abbey Road, by The Beatles
2. Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd
3. Red, by King Crimson
4. The White Album, by The Beatles
5. All Things Must Pass, by George Harrison
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Abbey Road your favorite too Foul? It's hard to choose, but I think I would be better off having a little variety. (I can take hypothetical questions a little too seriously). So I had to cut the White Album (although I suppose The White Album *is pretty ecclectic) as well as Dark Side.
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Well, I suppose I might replace All Things Must Pass with Beethoven's 9th, but White Album won't budge! 8)
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Hmm, doesn't Lord Foul pose this question on a regular basis in this thread? :wink: Ha, ha, I don't mind. The more lists the merrier!

1) Revolver -- The Beatles
2) New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) -- Simple Minds
3) 4th album -- Led Zeppelin
4) Achtung Baby -- U2
5) Peace In Our Time -- Big Country
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Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Absolution - Muse
Statues - Moloko
Dummy - Portishead

I think it's more important to have five albums that will be able to compliment most moods than to pick the five best albums ever.
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Yes, that's my reasoning, too, Nav. :)
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My reasoning too. Just so happens my 5 favorite albums cover the moods, as well.
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Nav wrote:Absolution - Muse
Muse is really good, They just haven't had time to make it onto my desert island list yet. I have to know that I absolutely cannot get sick of a particular album for more than a month or so before I can really say if I like them.
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Absolution is perhaps a brave choice, but I wanted to have a Muse album and it's more balanced than their first too efforts which were, respectively, too quiet and too rocky.

Absolution has a very good range, with songs like Sing for Absolution contrasting nicely with more riotous efforts like Stockholm Syndrome.
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A Gun wrote:5) Steve Earle: Copperhead Road
Wow! I thought I was the only guy who appreciated Steven Earle! Nice choice.

If you like Earle I would highly recommend Grant Lee Buffalo's Mighty Joe Moon and Fuzzy. Take a listen and let me know what you think AG.
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1) Pink Floyd - The Wall

2) Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti

3) Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory

4) Def Leppard - High 'n Dry

5) Van Halen - Fair Warning
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1) Tool - Lateralus
2) Rush - Signals
3) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
4) The Police - Ghost in the Machine
5) Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Wow - "Copperhead Road" I used to love that album. (There's 3 of us now - let's form a band)
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I too was surprised to see "Copperhead Road". I haven't heard it in at least a decade, but it was a helluva album.
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Husker Du : the Living End
Throwing Muses : the Doghouse Tapes
Minutemen : Double Nickles On the Dime
Roger Waters : Live
Alison Krauss & Union Station : Live
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S&M - Metallica & San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
The Very Best of - The Beach Boys
Hormonally Yours - Shakespear's Sister
Oh Yeh! - Aerosmith (Greatest Hits)
Pablo Honey - Radiohead
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If you were stuck on a desert island

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If you were stuck on a desert island what 15 albums would you want to have?#1 Led Zeppelin 4,#2 Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East,#3 The Who Live at Leeds,#4James Taylors Greatest Hits,#5 Black Sabbath Paranoid,#6 Yes Yesstory,#7 Deep Purple Machine Head,#8 The Muddy Waters Box Set,#9 AC/DC Back in Black,#10 John Hartford Steam Powered Aereoplain,#11 John Hartford Mark Twain,#12 Led Zeppelin 2,#13 Widespread Panic-Night of Joy,#14 Willie Nelson Red Headed Stranger,#15 The Beatles-The White Album.
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1) Throwing Muses : Doghouse
2) Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound of Thunder
3) Minutemen : Double Nickles On the Dime
4) Husker Du: the Living End
5) Husker Du : Zen Arcade
6) Sugar: File Under B-Sides
7) Dumptruck : For the Country
8) Jay Farrar: Stone, Steel & Bright Lights
9) Tanya Donelly: beautysleep
10) Uncle Tupelo: Anodyne
11) Phish : live Halloween show, played the White album
12) Pearl Jam: live in Australia
13) Alison Krauss: Live
14) Mike Watt: In the Engine Room
15) Thanks To Gravity: Slingshot
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