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"Desert Island" music lists...
"Desert Island" music lists...Has anyone seen the movie "High Fidelity"? John Cusack's main character is always making "Top 5" lists. I thought it might be fun for us to do personal lists of music we can't live without...we've done movie lists, now it's time to get to know each other's musical tastes! Gotta pass the time until those precious DVDs arrive, huh?
 Anyway...I couldn't just pick five....so here is SCF's Top Ten List of CDs I'd Need if Stranded on a Desert Isle:  Radiohead- OK Computer The Beatles- Abbey Road Sarah McLachlan- Solace Ella Fitzgerald- Something to Live For Portishead- Dummy Depeche Mode- Violator Tori Amos- Little Earthquakes Otis Redding- The Very Best of... Stevie Wonder- Songs in the Key of Life Simon and Garfunkel- Greatest Hits This list would probably change if you asked me next week...but this is what I'm going with for now. Your turn!!!  Peace, SCF "You're sooo beautiful, it HURTS to look at you."
Hey SCF! My friend and I were just talking about the same thing the other day. Quite possibly because we both LOVE High Fidelity.
The one condition of our list was no "best of/greatest hits" or compilations because it seemed like cheating. That kicked the Immaculate Collection right off my list.  I will have to pare my list down to 10 selections now.
AHHHHHHH - I SUCK I CAN'T STOP AT TEN. Maybe someone can help me vote 8 CD's off the island so I can confirm to the 10 CD rule.
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground Best of Sugar Hill Gang - Rappers Delight Smiths - Louder than bombs James - Laid Sky Cries Mary - Moonbathing Tori Amos - Boys for Pele Pixies - Trompe Le Monde Meat Beat Manifesto - Subliminal Sandwich Stabbing Westward - Wither, Blister, Burn and Peel Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream BranVan3000 - Glee Eve's Plum - Envy Tom Tom Club - Dark Sneak Love Action Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Live Blind Mellon - Change Dead Milkman - Big Lizard in My Backyard Erasure- Pop 20 hits To limit it to just 5 (because once I get into these things it's like a flood)...
Simon & Garfunkel - the complete works (technically 3 CD's but you'll be lenient with me I hope) Jewel - This Way Guns & Roses - Appetite for Destruction - Charango - Morcheeba Nevermind - Nirvana Thus, there should be something to cover my every mood  --------------------------------------------- http://www.urban-hills.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------
"There's sand in my CD Player."Yay, another list.
And my list, in no particular order;
"I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose."
This is very hard to do! Like everyone else, my choice of music really depends on my mood. I love rock, 80s pop, moody stuff and music to mellow out to. So I'm sorry, I just can't whittle it down any further. Here's my list as it stands today.
U2 - Rattle & Hum Stereophonics - Just Enough Education to Perform Pearl Jam - Ten Aerosmith - Big Ones Alanis Morissette - Under Rug Swept Sheryl Crowe - The Globe Sessions Tracy Chapman - New Beginning Norah Jones - Come Away with Me Jamiroquai - A Funk Odyssey Dirty Dancing More Dirty Dancing Madonna - True Blue Madonna - Like a Prayer But all this could easily change tomorrow  Mom. Streamers?
These lists tell me that MSCL fans have great taste in music. My favorites from other people's lists:
Jamiroquai - A Funk Odyssey (Debs) Pixies - Doolittle (ClarenceWorley) Eels - Beautiful Freak (ClarenceWorley) Nevermind - Nirvana (starbug) Depeche Mode- Violator (socalledfan) Yeah, most of these songs were released before clearchannel bought out most of the music industry. Or maybe we are all just about 28 years old.
I tend to suffer even more than most from the syndrome of buying a CD to hear the one or two tracks that I actually like and never even bothering with the other 45 minutes of crap. I also enjoy obscure instrumental music from sources like computer games and TV shows that is rarely if ever made available on CD or any other format. And I am apparently the last person on earth who cannot stand the loud deep bass on most modern sound systems.
 OK, now that I'm done ranting, here's my Top Five CDs Whose Music I Mostly Enjoy:
If you want to know what I mean by obscure, watch the X-Files episode "Deep Throat" and pay attention to Mark Snow's backgrounds, especially during the scenes with Jerry Hardin. That always gives me a bigger high than any illegal drug ever could  .I'm sure you all think I'm crazy by now, and you would be correct. I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
-- Clarence Darrow I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. -- Mark Twain ARRGH! I forgot one of the best bands ever in my list. I can't believe I did that... so, allow me to add just one more:
Billy Pilgrim - all good stuff but best album = 'in the time machine'. Beautiful. best lyrics in first album in song 'get me out of here'. Oh no. It's started.... --------------------------------------------- http://www.urban-hills.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------
Okay, here's mine- put 'em together and you've pretty much got the soundtrack to my life. (btw, we all have amazingly similar music tastes)
Simon and Garfunkel- Greatest Hits Counting Crows- August and Everything After Toad the Wet Sprocket- Dulcinea Tori Amos- Little Earthquakes Erasure- The Innocents Madonna- The Immaculate Collection The So I Married an Ax Murderer Soundtrack U2- The Joshua Tree Yaz- Upstairs at Eric's And number ten is a toss up- help me decide? It's between: Toad the Wet Sprocket- In Light Syrup The Some Kind of Wonderful Soundtrack INXS Greatest Hits Counting Crows- Across a Wire OMD- The Best of OMD Yay! I love making these lists! another blast from the past... we should all start a radio station for MSCL fans. By the way, does anyone have a satellite radio? I have been in friends' cars who have it - there are 100 channels and it seems really nifty especially since local radio (at least where I live) is so bad. I heard a lot of good obscure songs that radio doesn't play anymore. The radio's are still very expensive but the monthly fee is supposed to be only $12 or $13. Since I don't have cable, I'm thinking getting satellite radio as a guilty pleasure someday soon. *THE CD OF YOUR LIFE*Ok. I'd like to thank So-Called Fan for totally destroying my concentration today! ALL I CAN THINK OF IS MUSIC!!! I've had a great old time blowing the dust off my CDs and listening to the tracks I've not played in ages. It's like Nostradamus says, some CDs you buy just for one precious track, and then they sit on your shelf just waiting for the next bout of nostalgia. For me, today has been one of those days. So far, I've been a teenager, I've stomped around in the DMs of my early twenties and then sat back and truly 'appreciated' good music, like people do at my age.
So I'd like to suggest we take this thread to another level: if you could have all your odd & favourite tracks on one long-playing CD - the CD of your life - which ones would you choose?? As you can guess, mine are listed below: Python Lee Jackson - In a Broken Dream Aerosmith - Dream On (live version with orchestra) Don Henley - Boys of Summer Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You The Cardigans - Favourite Game Sheryl Crowe - Redemption Day Madonna - Into the Groove (original *non Immaculate* version) Dead or Alive - Spin me Round Kylie Minogue - In Your Eyes Anastacia - I'm Outta Love The Wallflowers - 6th Avenue Heartache Jewel - Who will Save your Soul?? All about Eve - Martha's Harbour Sam Brown - Stop 4 Non Blondes - What's Up?? Culture Club - That's the Way Tracy Chapman - Remember the Tinman The Eagles - Hotel California David Gray - Shine Alanis Morissette - So Unsexy Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl Nina Simone - Feelin' Good Moulin Rouge - Roxanne Juliette Lewis - Hardly Wait (Strange Days Soundtrack) Depeche Mode - Walking in my Shoes Nickelback - How you Remind Me Pearl Jam - Jeremy Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia my Reflection Stabbing Westward - Shame Marilyn Manson - I Put a Spell on You U2 - God Part II It's taken me the best part of today to come up with this list - believe me, there are more. I won't blame you if you don't want to add your individual tracks because it is time consuming, but I certainly enjoyed myself! Maybe I should stop acting like a kid in a sweet shop and get on with some work now hey? Mom. Streamers?
Gonna cheat as my brain is a little swiss-cheesed at the end of the
day, so gonna use my collection stored on my PC at work! My tastes tend to change over time, so here are some of my faves: Jack off Jill - Kind hearts grey flowers Queensryche - Promised Land The Cure - Disintegration The Cure - Wish Stabbing Westward - Wither, Blister, Burn and Peel Queen Adreena - Drink Me Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes The Smiths - The World Won't Listen Psychedelic Furs - Should God Forget Sarah Mclachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Any modern goth/rock/industrial movie soundtrack! And if no one is listening some cheesy 80's synth! ( Alphaville, Anything Box ) Jase
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You officially have my permission to add best of/greatest hits albums. LOL... I have two on mine...well technically three, the Ella Fitzgerald is a compilation.
