The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
OK Computer - Radiohead
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Odessey & Oracle - The Zombies
Keep It Together - Guster
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Slanted & Enchanted - Pavement
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
The Bends - Radiohead

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Originally posted by Arthur2Sheds:
2. Pete Townshend, Rough Mix
Yeah, I'm a geezer.

Terrific album, A2S, and great to see it getting a guernsey.

You say you're a "geezer", so I'll permit you one Senior Moment.

You "forgot" Ronnie Lane.

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Originally posted by Wonderhat7:
Keep It Together - Guster

That's an interesting choice, but I like it. Guster is a very neat, fun band.

1.my bloody valentine - loveless
2.radiohead - kid a
3.pavement - slanted and enchanted
4.pavement - wowee zowee
5.neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
6.the flaming lips - the soft bulletin
7.arcade fire - funeral
8.wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
9.jeff buckley - grace
10.yo la tengo - i can hear the heart beating as one

OPeth - Blackwater Park
Led Zep - Physical Graffiti
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
White Stripes - De stijl
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Genesis - Nursery Crymes
Doors - La Woman
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Porcupine Tree - In Abstentia
Devin Townesnd - Accelerated Evolution

Nursery Crymes?!

What an interesting choice!!

The Beatles - Abbey Road
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Nas - Illmatic
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Radiohead - Kid A
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

This is an interesting thread. I would really miss a few records, but a desert island is a desert island...
I'd bring:
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl I+II
Sleater-Kinney -The Woods
Television Personalities - Part time punks (Best of)
Blonde Redhead - 23
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane...
Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage
Chumbawamba - WYSIWYG
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
The Tables - Shady Whims And Obstacles

This is not neccessarily my ten favourite albums, but I'd like to have them with me..

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Originally posted by SmegHead:
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous

Love the choice, my 2nd fave live album after Cheap Trick Live at Budokan...

I haven't done this exercise in awhile (it's always different).

The Kinks - Something Else
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
REM - Reckoning
The Replacements - Let it Be
The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)
Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
Wire - Pink Flag
Spoon - Series of Sneaks
Gang of Four - Entertainment
The Real Kids - The Real Kids

I think variety and album length are big factors here - this isn't a list of my top 10 albums by a long stretch. I'd choose:

1. The The - infected (if only one this would be it!)
2. Radiohead - the bends
3. REM - automatic
4. Sigur Ros - takk
5. Faith No More - angel dust
6. Flaming Lips - soft bulletin
7. Talkin Heads - stop making sense
8. Tindersticks - tindersticks1
9. Yo La Tengo - and then nothing
10. Avalanches - since I left you

That has a bit of everything pretty much

Can't resist lists, so here's another: no order.

Can - Tago Mago
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings Cole Porter
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes for Cash
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Phil Spector - Best of the Girl Groups
Beatles - Revolver
The Who - Who Sell Out
Duke Reid - Treasure Isle Recordings
Prince Buster - Greatest Hits
Bo Diddley - Chess Recordings

I might as well add my own list.

I should add that if I really were on a desert island, I'd pack a giant inflatable CD that doubles as a life raft and another 300 foot wide CD made out of food, but beggars can't be choosers.

Mr Bungle - California
Ministry - Psalm 69
John Zorn/Naked City - Naked City
Derek & Clive - Ad Nauseam
Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude
The Orb - Pomme Fritz
Steve Reich & Pat Metheny - Electric counterpoint
Melt Banana - Cellscape
Pulp - Different Class
Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells

I'll probably want to change this list in 5 minutes. So many CDs and I have to choose 10 - not fair.

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Slint - Spiderland
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Can - Tago Mago
John Coltrane - Ascension

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Originally posted by Duncan Black:
John Zorn/Naked City - Naked City
Steve Reich & Pat Metheny - Electric counterpoint
Melt Banana - Cellscape

Yeeeeee.

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Originally posted by Duncan Black:


Mr Bungle - California

Pulp - Different Class

Nice.

Hejira - Joni Mitchell
Electric Ladyland - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Chuck Berry's Golden Decade Vol. 1 - Chuck Berry
Grand Funk - Grand Funk Railroad
Big Fun - Miles Davis
The World of John Mayall Vol. 1 - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
My Houdini - Tactics
White Bread Black Beer - Scritti Politti
The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Vol. 1 - V/A
The Beatles - The Beatles

The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
The Beatles – S/T (White Album)
Beck – Sea Change
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St.
Radiohead – The Bends
Talking Heads – Remain in Light
A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life

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Originally posted by Portable Joystick:

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Originally posted by Duncan Black:
John Zorn/Naked City - Naked City
Steve Reich & Pat Metheny - Electric counterpoint
Melt Banana - Cellscape

Yeeeeee.

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Originally posted by PRG:

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Originally posted by Duncan Black:


Mr Bungle - California

Pulp - Different Class

Nice.

Thankyou. My taste in music doesn't always meet with such favourable reactions. I'm pleasantly surprised that you've heard of Electric counterpoint - it is a beautiful piece of music though.

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Originally posted by Duncan Black:
Thankyou. My taste in music doesn't always meet with such favourable reactions. I'm pleasantly surprised that you've heard of Electric counterpoint - it is a beautiful piece of music though.

Oh, I'm a huge Steve Reich fan. Definitely one of my favorite musical artists of the 20th century. Electric Counterpoint isn't my favorite piece of his, but it's still quite excellent. You're right, beautiful is the best way to describe it.