It's always a good way to waste some time, so why not give us your Desert Island Discs. Here's how it works:

* You have quit your job and decided to voyage around the world in a small paddle boat. Not having any boating skills, you immediately wash ashore on the nearest (and yet still incredibly remote) desert island. You know it's a desert island because there's a cactus there. (Sadly, you just missed crashing on the nearby dessert island, which had a sundae bar.)

* On this desert island, conveniently, is a top-of-the-line CD-player. You're not sure how it got there (maybe it belongs to the cactus?), and yet there it is, plugged into the island's one and only power outlet.

* Also quite conveniently, the only item from your boat to wash ashore with you is your backpack filled with the 10 CDs that you absolutely cannot live without. And some gum. But we're not concerned about the gum. We are concerned with the CDs: Which 10 discs did you bring? Give us your list!

* Remember that double albums (or even triple albums, like The Clash's "Sandinista!") count as a single disc when you are on any desert island. However, since there is no way a box set could fit into that little backpack of yours, you didn't bring any with you. Also, the island's only other inhabitant, a man by the name of Probst, is known to force people who bring more than 10 CDs to eat insects of increasing grossosity, so you better not exceed that limit.

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Okay, I’ll bite.

In no particular order:

Nazz – Nazz
Gentle Giant – Free Hand
Jellyfish – Spilt Milk
Be Bop Deluxe – Sunburst Finish
Sufjan Stevens – Greetings from Michigan
Dictators – Manifest Destiny
Teen Machine – After School Special
Stealers Wheel – Ferguslie Park
Kid Creole & Coconuts – Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
Scissor Sisters – Self Titled

(I really did try to include a couple of selections from this side of the millenium... )


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OK, I'll give it a shot...but with the undertanding that I only had about 2 minutes to think about it before I grabbed the discs....

Jimi Hendrix - Soundtrack Recordings
Pink Floyd - The Wall
S.O.D. - Live at Budokan
Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks
The Doors - The Doors
Lez Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti
Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack
The Who - Tommy
J.S. Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier Vols 1 & 2
Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street

OK, I'll throw in my two cents...

No particular order

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Spiritualized - Live at Royal Albert Hall
Strokes - Room On Fire
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdiand
Beta Band - 3 E.P.s
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

I've heard this question before somewhere ....

My first choice would be to burn 10 compilation CDs of all my favorite songs ever ... but if I had to choose pre-made ones, then:

Beatles-1
Sex Pistols-Never Mind the Bollocks ...
Prince-Greatest Hits
The Smiths-The Queen is Dead
The Cure-Singles
Talking Heads-Greatest Hits
REM-Eponymous
Stone Roses-Greatest Hits
Pulp-Different Class
Spiritualized-Complete Works 1/2 (Kind of cheating because I am forecasting that it will be available as a two-disc thing)

oooooooo.....good call on the Stone Roses and Talking Heads

In no particular order:

Buzzcocks-Singles Going Steady
Guided By Voices-The Best of GBV:Human Amusements at Hourly Rates
Gun Club-Fire of Love
Modest Mouse-Lonesome Crowded West
Minor Threat-Complete Discography
Black Flag-The First Four Years
My Morning Jacket-At Dawn
The Replacements-Let It Be
Uncle Tupelo-Anodyne
X-Wild Gift

Again, in no particular order:

S.O.D. - Live at Budokan
Joy Division - Substance
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Black Flag - Wasted Again
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bullocks
Fugazi - 13 Songs
The Ramones - The Ramones
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Let's Go Bowling - Music to Bowl By
Angry Samoans - Back from Samoa

Since I asked the question, I better add mine:

Depeche Mode: Violator
The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Modest Mouse: The Moon & Antarctica
New Order: Substance
Primal Scream: XTRMNTR
R.E.M.: Murmur
The Smiths: Louder Than Bombs
Stone Roses: Stone Roses
Talking Heads: The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads (which I conveniently burned onto CD from vinyl prior to setting off on my boating trip)
Yo La Tengo: Electr-o-pura

Sly & The Family Stone - Greatest Hits
Hip Hop Greats: Classic Raps (Rhino)
The Selecter - The Very Best of...
Sergio Mendes - Four Sider
Meal Ticket - Misconceptions
The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire Vol. 1
Mambo Kings - Soundtrack
The Best of Sam & Dave
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

I could name 100 discs but I suppose I could just bring an iPod with me now...

I'll even rank them...


1. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over the Sea (heh, the title seems a bit appropriate in this thread)
3. The Beatles - Abbey Road
4. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
5. Radiohead - Kid A
6. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
7. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
8. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
9. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
10. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

Radiohead - "OK Computer"
Sonic Youth - "Daydream Nation"
Neutral Milk Hotel - "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
The Pixies - "Surfer Rosa"
The Dismemberment Plan - "Emergency and I"
Modest Mouse - "The Moon and Antarctica"
Destroyer - "Streethawk: A Seduction"
Cocteau Twins - "Treasure"
XTC - "Black Sea"
David Bowie - "Station to Station"

I'm sure this list will change by next week:

The Beatles, Abbey Road
David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust
Joni Mitchell, Blue
Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street
Beastie Boys, Paul's Boutique
Radiohead, OK Computer
Cat Power, You Are Free
PJ Harvey, Dry
Mos Def, Black on Both Sides
Patti Smith, Horses

Dear Metacritic Music Editor:

If you must bring Modest Mouse, I am taking a different boat. I will send you a postcard from my own island which will be pleasantly emo free.

Modest Mouse has never been, nor ever will be, "emo". People who call them "emo" just display their own ignorance and poor judgement. Issac Brock has always been very passionate in his music but please bring up an instance where he has over-emoted?. Brand New, Thursday, or Bright Eyes they're not. I see absolutely nothing "emo" in their music at all. Is Neutral Milk Hotel "emo" in your eyes as well? After all, Jeff Mangum sure does sing passionately.


Modest Mouse has been able to string along three classics in a row now ("Lonesome Crowded West", "The Moon and Antarctica" and yes "Good News for People who Love Bad News"), a feat extremely few bands can pull off. Besides Radiohead and perhaps The Flaming Lips, who else has pulled that off in the past 15 years?.

AEnima - Tool
At Folsum Prison - Johnny Cash
Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
Furnace Room Lullabye - Neko Case & Her Boyfriends
Gentlemen - The Afghan Whigs
Horse Stories - Dirty Three
OK Computer - Radiohead
Rid Of Me - PJ Harvey
Summerteeth - Wilco
Things We Lost in the Fire - Low

Oh man, I don't give a crap whether Modest Mouse is emo or not. I was joking. You can ask someone whether any given band is emo or not and some people will think it is, and some will think it's not, but mostly people get all defensive and don't want their favorite bands to be emo. Why, I don't know. There are lots of bands that many people call "emo" that I think are great. And lots that I don't like, it has nothing to do with the label.

I will accept that Modest Mouse is not emo. That's fine with me. I still don't like Modest Mouse and don't want it on my island. I also don't like Neutral Milk Hotel and would prefer it stay away from my island as well.

It tough to imagine what one would need to feel on a desert island, so i suppose i'll just answer with the ten albums that i have have spun around more than my brain has or ever will.


1. u2 - joshua tree
2. radiohead - kid a
3. modest mouse - the lonesome crowded west
4. guster - keep it together
5. manitoba - up in flames
6. sigur ros - agaetis byrjun
7. the weakerthans - left and leaving
8. explosions in the sky - the earth is not a cold dead place
9. sufjan stevens - seven swans
10. weezer - weezer

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Originally posted by Sean Johnston:
Modest Mouse has never been, nor ever will be, "emo". People who call them "emo" just display their own ignorance and poor judgement.

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As far as I can tell, although "emo" may have had some sort of meaning several years ago, it seems to have lost that over the past year. Now, if you like a band, you call them "indie," and if you don't like a band, you call them "emo."

1. wilco - summerteeth
2. new porographers - mass romatic
3. the delgados - great eastern
4. the counting crows - across a wire
5. the decemberists - castaways and cutouts
6. sunny day real estate - live
7. the magnetic fields - 69 loves songs
8. elliott smith - either/or
9. the white stripes - de stijl
10. elton john - best of