1. Bjork - Vespertine
2. Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
3. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
4. Radiohead - OK Computer
5. Radiohead - Kid A
6. Portishead - Dummy
7. Bjork - Homogenic
8. Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
9. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
10. White Stripes - Elephant

1. my bloody valentine - loveless
2. Kitchens of Distinction - The Death of Cool
3. Minor Threat - Discography
4. Fugazi - Red Medicine
5. New Order - Substance
6. The Trash Can Sinatras - Cake
7. Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
8. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
9. The Dismemeberment Plan - Emergency & I
10. Underworld - Beaucoup Fish

R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Radiohead - Kid A
U2 - Achtung Baby
The Beatles - Revolver
Social Distortion - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
Pearl Jam - Ten
Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

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Originally posted by KT:
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.

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Sorry for the overreaction, you see, us Modest Mouse fans are rather passionate about them and anyone calling them "emo" (which they're commonly mislabeled as) definately gets us going. Emo is largely a derogatory term in many circles, and usually brings up the image of ugly 14 year old suburbanite girls writing in their Live Journal and crying away to Dashboard Confessional. To lump Modest Mouse into this catagory does a great disservice to one of the great bands of our generation.

Actually, I've gotta admit I'm quite a fan of a lot of bands who are labelled "emo". I quite like "Pinkerton" (although, I won't label it a classic like some), Death Cab for Cutie, Sunny Day Real Estate, and yes, I didn't mind Bright Eye's last album (more for the arrangements and songwriting, I still find Conor Oberst's singing to be highly grating. His quiver in his voice makes you think if he's actually Conor Orbison. Okay, that was a bad joke, I'll admit).


Doesn't like Modest Mouse AND Neutral Milk Hotel?. Tisk, Tisk. Are you from Venus?

Weezer -- Pinkerton
My Bloody Valentine -- Loveless
Queens of the Stone Age -- Rated R
Idlewild -- 100 Broken Windows
Beatles -- White Album
Oasis -- What's the Story Morning Glory?
Beck -- Odelay
Sleater-Kinney -- Dig Me Out
Monkees -- Greatest Hits
Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- Once More With Feeling (cast recording)

PS I am a boy who likes girls.

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Doesn't like Modest Mouse AND Neutral Milk Hotel?. Tisk, Tisk. Are you from Venus?

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I think I must be, since everyone I know worships these bands like musical god idols. I have given both more than a fighting chance. I even went to see Modest Mouse play live ... but it's just not my style. I recognize that they have talent, but I don't really like the guy's voice, mostly. It grates on my ear. And Neutral Milk Hotel was a disappointment to be honest ... I loved Elephant 6 stuff, and since they were kind of the icon of that collective, I thought they they would be so great, but it just wasn't my style. I guess I'm not ready for avant-garde, I still need a little bit of a hook.

You've at least given "Good News For People Who Like Bad News" a try, right?. That album is going to win over many people who previously weren't crazy for Modest Mouse. Some complain that it's too "poppy" but I think it's a downright melodic bitchslap (to put it elequently). It's quite different in tone and structure from TM&A an TCW, if you aren't aware.


Both Jeff Mangum and Issac Brock's voices are aquired tastes definately, and at first they turned me off as well, but I found it bizarre how they both grew on me. Now I can't believe I ever had a problem with their voices.

Modest Mouse is notoriously inconsistant live, and the unspoken truth is that well, they're actually a much better studio band than a live band. You'd think that their music would lend itself well to a live environment, but it seems to me (from bootlegs anyways. I haven't had the good fortune to see them live yet) that all the "little things" that make up the full Modest Mouse production are sorely missing live. Some of their songs just sound too flat with the traditional guitar/bass guitar/drums setup.

Erm ... no. But it is sitting up on our new music living room shelf. So maybe if the illustrious Music Editor doesn't mind, I will hork it for a minute and listen. I have been known to change my mind about bands before if they put out something more to my liking. (Yo La Tengo comes to mind).

As for Modest Mouse live, I thought they actually put on a good show despite my lack of appreciation for the music. They seemed pretty energetic to me and they had kind of a cool video show going on on a projection screen. Maybe it was a good night.

Some Utterly amazing choices here: (Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Miles Davis, REM, Joy Division, Fugazi, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Pearl Jam).

As mentioned previously, It’d be incredibly hard, just to narrow it down to 100 Albums, but I’ve donned my thinking Cap, and come up with this list, which I’ll probably want to change the moment I post it:

Bill Laswell / Jah Wobble – “A Dub Transmission”
Can – “Tago Mago”
Morcheeba – “Big Calm”
Grandmaster flash – “The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
Wu Tang – “Enter The Wu Tang (36 chambers)
The Velvet Underground – “Loaded”
John Coltrane – “Blue Train”
Marvin Gaye – “What’s going on”
Brian Eno – “Before and after Science”
Fleetwood Mac – “Rumours”

Fetish

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You've gotta love seeing the Wu Tang Clan and Fleetwood Mac on the same Desert Island selection.

Bitches Brew
OK Computer
Agaetis Byrjun
Loveless
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven!
69 Love Songs (three discs lets you cheat the maximum!)
Daydream Nation
Pet Sounds
Selected Ambient Works vol. II
The Disintegration Loops I-IV (four discs lets you cheat the maximum even more!)

Setting and weather have a lot do with music for me. Perhaps i'm taking the hypothetical too far, but, if i'm actually on a desert island, i think i'm going to be listening to my summertime record collection. Therefore, as much as i love radiohead, sigur ros, and other wintry bands, they will remain off my list because, as previously mentioned, i really can't listen to winter music in summer. It just doesn't feel right.

microphones - the glow, pt. 2
(very warm, organic, and outdoorsy)
beatles - revolver
(good day sunshine!)
nick drake - pink moon
(if this island's any good, i'd better be seeing some mad pink moons)
pixies - surfer rosa
("i was swimming in the caribbean"...assuming that's where this island is, of course)
elliott smith - xo
(i would've picked either/or, but this one is sunny in a revolver kind of way)
modest mouse - building nothing out of something
(this kicks ass. also, it's the only mouse record that i've purchased in the summer, making it the default selection in this instance)
de la soul - 3 feet high and rising
(in case a party happens)
elvis costello - armed forces
(accidents will happen...like being stranded on a desert island i guess)
bob dylan - another side of bob dylan
(i think this is a really underrated classic. case in point: "to ramona" has maybe the best lyrics of any song ever)
miles davis - kind of blue
(it has to rain on desert islands every once in a while)

The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
Prince - Best of and B Sides
Live - Throwing Copper
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The White Stripes - De Stijl
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Dr Dre - 2001
Ben Folds Five - Reinhold Messner
Outkast - Stankonia

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Originally posted by St. Ides Heaven:
Setting and weather have a lot do with music for me. Perhaps i'm taking the hypothetical too far, but, if i'm actually on a desert island, i think i'm going to be listening to my summertime record collection. Therefore, as much as i love radiohead, sigur ros, and other wintry bands, they will remain off my list because, as previously mentioned, i really can't listen to winter music in summer. It just doesn't feel right.

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This is an interesting point. But wouldn't you also want some music that doesn't coincide with the weather? In case you get tired of all the constant sunlight or something?

To make this more interesting, I'll limit myself to albums I myself have bought. This augments the list because when my brother buys a CD, I just rip his copy.

Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
Adult. - Anxiety Always
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Giddy Motors - Make It Pop
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Hood - Cold House
Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
1929 - Last But Not Leased
Bardo Pond - Amanita
Sightings - Michigan Haters

Also, even though you're not asking, the gum I'd bring is Arctic Chill Dentyne Ice.

haha...i suppose a little more variety might be in order. I did put kind of blue on there in case of rain, but i suppose 9 sunny albums and 1 rainy one isn't a very good mix. If i were to put some other winter albums on there, i'd have to go with yo la tengo - painful, kid a, elliott smith - either/or, and the third velvet underground album. also, even though all my choices are summer records, i tried to include selections that would represent a variety of emotions. De la soul is sunny fun times. Nick Drake is sunny sad times. Bob Dylan is sunny, poetic times. Modest Mouse is sunny, emotional times etc. as a side note, a lot of what season an album is depends on when i got it. For instance, even though most would classify amnesiac as a winter record, because i bought it when it in the summer, i became familiar with it then and now associate it with that season.

Very difficult, especially as I am not by my music collection right now. Here is my list with about ten minutes of thought put into it. If I knew ahead of time I was going to be stranded I would put much more time and thought into it...
Beatles-Revolver
Johnny Cash-Columbia Records 22 Greatest Hits
Descendents-Two Things At Once
Mr.Bungle-California
Mozart-Requiem
Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon
Ramm Ell Zee-The Bi-Conicals Of The Ramm Ell Zee
Suicidal Tendencies-How Will I Laugh Tomorrow...When I Can't Even Smile Today
Ween-The Mollusk
The Wailers-Burnin'
I know I'm missing something...

If I were stranded on a desert island, probably the last of my concerns, at least musically, would be what season in the hell it was. I know that BAM started this concept, but I always considered it the idea of what 10 albums you would want if you could never get back to civilization, aka, your record collection. So based on that, I will go with "The Beatles", "Cosmo's Factory" by Creedence, "The Clash", "Pink Flag" by Wire, "Get Happy!!!" by Elvis C., "Pure Mania" by The Vibrators, "The Undertones", "Repeat When Necessary" by Dave Edmunds, "Kid A" by Radiohead, and "Behind the Music" by The Soundtrack of Our Lives. I realize that this only leaves off 50-100 essential albums, but it's my island, right?

In no particular order ...

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom
Decemberists - Her Majesty
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan, the Great Lake State
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Burt Bacharach - Reach Out For Me
Simon & Garfunjel - Bookens
Postal Service - Give Up
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Dread Beat and Blood