Your top 10 singles and albums

[EnglishBengal]

Just thought I'd do this to find out what music everyone is into.

Picture this, you're going to be stranded all alone for a few months on a remote island with nothing but a cd and a set of your all-time favourite records to keep you going. If you could take 10 albums and 10 singles with you, what would they be?

I haven't done mine yet cos it's so hard. I've got so much music in my head and I can't think for the life of me.

[EnglishBengal]

OK, I'll kick start things....

Albums:
1. The Smiths - Best Of
2. Pixies - Doolittle
3. Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
4. Ultra Vivid Scene - Joy 1967-1990
5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
6. Pearl Jam - Best Of
7. Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
8. Fountains Of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
9. Placebo - Placebo
10. Jane's Addiction - Ritual De La Habitual

Singles (not all were released as singles):
1. Visage - Fade To Grey
2. Goo Goo Dolls - Lazy Eye
3. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
4. Placebo - Infra Red
5. Kasabian - Club Foot
6. Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
7. Incubus - In My Room
8. Smiths - What Difference Does It Make
9. Fountains Of Wayne - Please Don't Rock Me Tonight
10. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor

[Kochman]

Albums
1.Pink Floyd - The Wall
2.Pantera - Great Southern Trendkill
3.Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
4.Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
5.Rage Against the Machine - self title
6.Incubus - Science
7.Incubus - Make Yourself
8.Chevelle - Wonder Whats Next
9.Chevelle - This Type Of Thinking
10.Beck - Any CD

[JC]

[quote]9.Chevelle - This Type Of Thinking[/quote]


Amazing CD...one of my favs!

[Kochman]

[quote name='Kochman' post='347741' date='Sep 24 2006, 12:17 PM']Albums
1.Pink Floyd - The Wall
2.Pantera - Great Southern Trendkill
3.Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
4.[s]Pantera - Cowboys from Hell[/s] Slipknot - Vol.3 The Subliminal Verses
5.Rage Against the Machine - self title
6.Incubus - Science
7.Incubus - Make Yourself
8.Chevelle - Wonder Whats Next
9.Chevelle - This Type Of Thinking
10.Beck - Any CD[/quote]


A little update. This may change here soon. I want to get Pantera Vulgar Display of Power somewhere in there.


[quote name='JC' post='347745' date='Sep 24 2006, 12:20 PM']Amazing CD...one of my favs![/quote]


Yea it Rocks!!!!

[|Montana Bengal|]

U2 - Rattle and Hum
U2 - Achtung Baby
Rem - Automatic for the People
Van Halen - Right Here, Right Now
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Barenaked Ladies - Everywhere for Everyone, Bozeman
Moxy Fruvous - Live Noise
Dave Matthews Band - Crash
Dido - Angel (love her voice)
Mozart - Any CD

Okay, now I realize that I've cheated a little because some of these are double albums. So if I couldn't have them I'd replace:

Pink Floyd - The Wall with Darkside
Van Halen - Right Here, Right now with Van Halen I
Barenaked Ladies - Everywhere for Everyone with Greatest Hits I

[Guest #22]

hmm...
In no order
1.) John Coltrane-[i]Giant Steps[/i]. One of three albums that I own on LP and CD. I know it's the trendy pick, but you have a really melodic album. I like it better than [i]Kind of Blue[/i], and the lineups not nearly as good.
2.) Pharoah Sanders-[i]Karma[/i]. Colors is a little lame, but this album is almost good enough to get me believing in God. OR McCoy Tyner's [i]Enlightenment[/i].
3.) Peter Tosh-[i]Equal Rights[/i]. Seen?
4.) John Prine-[i]Diamonds in the Rough[/i]. I'm a hick.
5.) Leo Kottke-[i]6&12 String Guitar[/i]. Listen to it, if you haven't.
6.) The Band-[i]The Band[/i]. A really bottomy and acoustic album.
7.) Pete Seeger-[i]Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Bigger Fishes[/i]. I won't lie. This (just like the #4 pick) is just a feel-good album. Since I'm on a desert island, and all.
8.) Albert King-[i]Born Under a Bad Sign[/i] is just a pick in sheer terms of efficiency, since every Bluesman or white rocker (ERIC CLAPTON) afterwards would take every good lick out of this album. So, by picking this, I save myself the strain of getting about 200 other different records.
9.) Tower of Power-either [i]Urban Renewal[/i] (which gets spotty), or [i] Live & In Living Color[/i]. Please don't make fun of me.
10.) Jimi Hendrix-Axis:Bold as Love. I don't know why, but this is my favorite Hendrix album.





fuck singles

[VonBlade]

No-one could make fun of someone who picks Albert King....

Ok. Hmm. Top 10. In [b]no[/b] order :

1) [b]Radiohead - OK Computer[/b]. Staggeringly brilliant. I'd nearly have The Bends just for Fake Plastic Trees but the combination of slow and fast stuff on OK just wins out. And Lucky is optimistic for those who think of Radiohead as doom and gloom. Advert over.
2) [b]Stevie Ray Vaughan - Box Set[/b]. So I'm cheating by getting a Box Set. So sue me. SRV is God. The Rude Mood/Pipeline combo is blistering. Leave My Girl Alone from Alpine Valley is absolutely mind-bendingly powerful. Lenny is as chilled as anything you could desire. Wonderful.
3) [b]Pink Floyd - Pulse[/b]. Hmmm. Tough call this. Anything from the Roger years works for me. So why Pulse. Well the live version of Comfortably Numb, specifically [i]this[/i] live version, is near perfection.
4) [b]Susan Werner - I Can't Be New[/b]. None of you will of heard this, or of her, but this is some of the finest singer-songwriting there is to be had. Achingly beautiful, joyful, soulful and sad in equal measure. Nowhere near famous enough.
5) [b]David Gray - Flesh[/b]. Pre White Ladder he was a bittersweet folk style acoustic songwriter. Post White Ladder he was more polished and slightly cheerier. This is tales of a broken heart in a cynical body at it's finest.
6) [b]Billy Bragg - The Essential Billy Bragg[/b]. Another box set. Another solo singer-songwriter. The UKs Bob Dylan, only more political. Also highly recommended is his reworkings of Woody Guthrie. But as I believe in dancing with what brung ya, it has to be his own songs.

Jesus this is harder than I thought.

7) [b]Little Feat - Representing the Mambo[/b]. A fabulously 'tight' band that are based in Texas Blues but yet somehow transcend it. And again, like so many of my choices, it's not so rocking as to get tiresome and not so mellow as to be bland. If I've only got 10 albums I need something for 2am as much as lunchtime.
8.) [b]Stephen Lynch - Superhero[/b]. We all need to laugh. Stuck on a desert island when I don't like fish means I doubly do. And no-one makes me laugh quite as much (yet remaining within music albums) as Mr Lynch. "As I slowly slide the hanger up your thigh". Nuff said.
9) [b]Reel Big Fish - Favourite Noise[/b]. It hasn't got "Drunk Again" which I love, but for high-energy it's as good as it gets. Guaranteed to wake you up, make you mosh [i]and[/i] put a smile on your face.
10) [b]Elvis Costello - Greatest Hits[/b]. Mr Costello covers every genre with aplomb. Capable of writing heart-felt ballads, political bombast and wry looks at the minutae of life, all with equal passion and ability. And if you haven't ever heard "I Want You", the achingly painful ballad of a heart-broken man desperately trying to cling on to the wreckage of his relationship after her affair, you should. [b]Now[/b]. It's full of wrath and desperation in equal measure.

It's taken me over an hour to decide these, so I can't be arsed with singles. And no-one will read this or know who I have referenced anyway.

[SmoothD]

My list


1. The Police:Syncronicity
2. Miles Davis; Miles Smiles
3. Miles Davis; Kind of Blue
4. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
5. Sade; Best of Sade
6. Keith Sweat; Make It Last Forever
7. David Sanborn; Straight to the Heart
8. Al Green; Greatest Hits
9. Stevie Ray Vaughn; Greatest Hits
10. Rocky I Soundtrack

[Jason]

Billy Joel Greatest Hits 1 and 2
Billy Joel Greatest Hits 3
Billy Joel Nylon Curtain
Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits
Fleetwood Mac Tusk
Simon and Garfunkel Tales From New York
Simion and Garfunkel Concert in Central Park
Credence Clearwater Revival Gold
Huey Lewis and the News Greatest Hits
Supertramp Breakfast in America

[|Bunghole|]

Jesus, how tough is this? I'm a guitar player and junkie, so I'll try to make sense. I may intermix albums and singles intermittently.

No particular order, just as they come to mind:

1. Yngwie Malmsteen: Rising Force
2. Dave Matthews: Under The table And Dreaming
3. Beastie Boys: Ill Communication
4. Radiohead: OK Computer
5. Metallica: And Justice For All
6. Anything by Sara McLachlin
7. Nirvana: Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah
8. Pink Floyd: The Wall
9. Jimi Hendrix: Axis
10. Black Sabbath: Masters Of The Universe

There are too many singles to mention.

[|Bunghole|]

[quote name='Jason' post='350843' date='Sep 25 2006, 07:24 PM'][b]Billy Joel Greatest Hits 1 and 2
Billy Joel Greatest Hits 3
Billy Joel Nylon Curtain[/b][/quote]
Do you happen to like dating girls 30 years your junior and crashing your car into North Hampton trees?

[Jamie_B]

In no specific order (and this lists more personal than it is a critique)

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
U2 - The Joshua Tree
U2 - Achtung Baby
Wynton Marsalis - Carnaval (for myself, though most wolnt even know who he is)
Wynton Marsalis (septet) - In This House, On This Morning
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
Guns and Roses - Use your Illusion 1
Guns and Roses - Use your Illusion 2
(Ill take a hit on this one but I like them) Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

[MULLY]

No particular order

Albums
Metallica - The Black Album
Van Halen - (their first one)
Godsmack - Awake
Godsmack - Faceless
AC/DC - Back in Black
Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Extreme - Pornografitti
Mr. Big - Lean Into It
Aerosmith - Greatest Hits

MULLY
have to think about the singles

[Jason]

[quote name='Bunghole' post='350849' date='Sep 25 2006, 09:33 PM']Do you happen to like dating girls 30 years your junior and crashing your car into North Hampton trees?[/quote]

I'm really not into 8 year olds.

[Guest Coy Bacon]

1) Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 "Four Sider"
2) Tower of Power "Back to Oakland"
3) Big Joe Turner "The Very Best of Big Joe Turner"
4) Woody Shaw "Rosewood"
5) Robert Johnson "The Complete Recordings"
6) Dexter Gordon "Sophisticated Giant"
7) The Count Basie Orchestra "The Atomic Mr. Basie"
8) Duke Pearson "Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band"
9) Hank Mobley "High Voltage"
10) Clifford Brown & Max Roach "Clifford Brown & Max Roach"

Singles:
1) James Brown "Sex Machine"
2) James Brown "Mother Popcorn"
3) Ohio Players "Funky Worm"
4) Ohio Players "Pleasure"
5) Funkadelic "Not Just Knee Deep"
6) Funkadelic "One Nation Under a Groove"
7) Parliament "Flashlight"
8) The New Birth "I Can Understand It"
9) The Beginning of the End "Funky Nasau"
10) Sly and the Family Stone "Sing a Simple Song"

[Guest Coy Bacon]

[quote name='#22' post='349757' date='Sep 24 2006, 11:14 PM']hmm...
In no order
1.) John Coltrane-[i]Giant Steps[/i]. One of three albums that I own on LP and CD. I know it's the trendy pick, but you have a really melodic album. I like it better than [i]Kind of Blue[/i], and the lineups not nearly as good.
2.) Pharoah Sanders-[i]Karma[/i]. Colors is a little lame, but this album is almost good enough to get me believing in God. OR McCoy Tyner's [i]Enlightenment[/i].
3.) Peter Tosh-[i]Equal Rights[/i]. Seen?
4.) John Prine-[i]Diamonds in the Rough[/i]. I'm a hick.
5.) Leo Kottke-[i]6&12 String Guitar[/i]. Listen to it, if you haven't.
6.) The Band-[i]The Band[/i]. A really bottomy and acoustic album.
7.) Pete Seeger-[i]Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Bigger Fishes[/i]. I won't lie. This (just like the #4 pick) is just a feel-good album. Since I'm on a desert island, and all.
8.) Albert King-[i]Born Under a Bad Sign[/i] is just a pick in sheer terms of efficiency, since every Bluesman or white rocker (ERIC CLAPTON) afterwards would take every good lick out of this album. So, by picking this, I save myself the strain of getting about 200 other different records.
9.) Tower of Power-either [i]Urban Renewal[/i] (which gets spotty), or [i] Live & In Living Color[/i]. Please don't make fun of me.
10.) Jimi Hendrix-Axis:Bold as Love. I don't know why, but this is my favorite Hendrix album.
fuck singles

Pharoah Sanders lived in Cincinnati for a while.[/quote]

[-Dan_Bengals_FL-]

Real Quick off top of my head:

Alice in Chains - Tripod
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Pearl Jam - Ten
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Greatest Hits
Neil Young - Greatest Hits
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
Tom Petty- Greatest Hits
Collective Soul- Collective Soul
Stone Temple Pilots- Purple
Notorious BIG - Ready to Die

[Guest BadassBengal]

Its hard...but... here i go


1. Notorious B.I.G.- Ready to Die

2. K-Os- Joyful Rebellion

3. Extended F@mm- Happy Fuck You Songs

4. One.Be.Lo- S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M.

5. John Mayer- Continuum

6. Outkast- ATLiens

7. Obie Trice- Cheers

8. Kanye West- Late Registration

9. Lupe Fiasco- Food & Liquor

10. 2Pac- All Eyez On Me

[Jamie_B]

[quote name='BadassBengal' post='351922' date='Sep 27 2006, 12:07 AM']Its hard...but... here i go
1. Notorious B.I.G.- Ready to Die

2. K-Os- Joyful Rebellion

3. Extended F@mm- Happy Fuck You Songs

4. One.Be.Lo- S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M.

5. John Mayer- Continuum

6. Outkast- ATLiens

7. Obie Trice- Cheers

8. Kanye West- Late Registration

9. Lupe Fiasco- Food & Liquor

10. 2Pac- All Eyez On Me[/quote]



What no Kenny Chesney?

[Nati Ice]

[quote name='BadassBengal' post='351922' date='Sep 27 2006, 12:07 AM']Its hard...but... here i go
1. Notorious B.I.G.- Ready to Die

2. K-Os- Joyful Rebellion

3. Extended F@mm- Happy Fuck You Songs

4. One.Be.Lo- S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M.

[u][b]5. John Mayer- Continuum[/b][/u]

6. Outkast- ATLiens

7. Obie Trice- Cheers

8. Kanye West- Late Registration

9. Lupe Fiasco- Food & Liquor

10. 2Pac- All Eyez On Me[/quote]why are you sooooooo gay?

you could have at least picked some john mayer [i]trio [/i]and played it off like you liked his more blusy style

PS - college dropout > late registrationx1000

[Nati Ice]

[quote name='Jason' post='350843' date='Sep 25 2006, 09:24 PM']Billy Joel Greatest Hits 1 and 2
Billy Joel Greatest Hits 3
Billy Joel Nylon Curtain
Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits
Fleetwood Mac Tusk
Simon and Garfunkel Tales From New York
Simion and Garfunkel Concert in Central Park
Credence Clearwater Revival Gold
Huey Lewis and the News Greatest Hits
Supertramp Breakfast in America[/quote]are you sure youre not my mom?





ok, im lazy and dont want to think, so im just going to copy paste a few things (oh, and i am [s]probably[/s] cheating/planning on this island having a ton of weed)

Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Greatest Hits
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Box Set
Sublime - Sublime
John Legend - Get Lifted (fuck you)
Tool - 10,000 Days (fuck you, again)
Eminem - The Eminem Show (fuck you, doubly)
...and add a classical disc to that and call it a day. although its way too deep of a section to just declare a couple random movements so off the top of my head i really have no clue as to the specifics of that pick.

[Jason]

[quote name='Nati Ice' post='351931' date='Sep 27 2006, 12:19 AM']are you sure youre not my mom?[/quote]

Why, does she have great taste in music too?

[Montecore]

Narrowing it down to 35 albums wasn't [i]too[/i] painful, getting it down to 10 was just about unbearable …

All the Pain Money Can Buy -- Fastball
Anthology -- Lovin' Spoonful
Rubberneck -- Toadies
Odelay! -- Beck
Gordon -- Barenaked Ladies
Sparkle and Fade -- Everclear
Under the Table and Dreaming -- DMB
Vitalogy -- Pearl Jam
Warning -- Green Day
When I Woke -- Rusted Root

For my 10 singles, I'll pick 10 of my favorites Zeppelin songs, since I couldn't narrow it down to a specific album …

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Dazed And Confused
Going To California
In My Time Of Dying
Kashmir
Over The Hills And Far Away
Since I've Been Loving You
What Is And What Should Never Be
When The Levee Breaks

Also, bear in mind, the list could change depending on my mood … (for example, if I wasn't happy about being stuck on an island, there'd be at least one or two NIN albums up there ...)

[ChicagoBengal]

In no particular order...

Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell - Social Distortion

White Light, White Heat, White Trash - Social Distortion

Face to Face - S/T

Incubus - Make Yourself

Badlands - S/T

Guns 'N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

U2 - The Joshua Tree

Pennywise - About Time

My Chemical Romance - 3 Cheers for Sweet Revenge

L.A. Guns - Cocked and Loaded



Singles would take me forever to narrow down, so I'll stick to the "albums".