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My Desert Island

Jemal and I have been talking about this for days, it's the age old question, If you were to be trapped on a desert island for the rest of your life what 10 CD's would you have to have?. These are the CD's that I would have to have to survive on an island by myself forever.



Sure, I could have taken American Idiot instead of Warning but while I like the first songs on American Idiot it loses it's tone in the last two and I would much rather have one that I like every song on and that had the same rhythm through out the whole thing. And I know that The Who is a little off for me but to tell you the truth I grew up listening to it and I know every word to the rock opera.

So, tell me your picks. Or share your deep concern or love for the ones that I chose. I thought that this might be something good for everyone to finally get out in the open and we will really know the kind of person you are.

Posted by Caffeine on February 12, 2007 02:20 PM |

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In no particular order:

1. The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper

2. Robert Johnson, Complete Works

3. Maria Muldaur, Richland Woman Blues - or - Maria Muldaur

4. Howlin Wolf, The Chess Box

5. Sonnie Boy Williamson, Nine Degrees Below Zero

6. Blind Willie Johnson, Complete Recorded Works

7. Blind Willie McTell, Atlanta 12 string

8. Blind Boy Fuller, East Coast Piedmont Style

9. Laketown Buskers, Dance Around in Your Bones

10. Muddy Waters, The Chess Box

Honorable Mention: Janis Joplin, Pearl

Posted by: Skanking1 [TypeKey Profile Page] | February 12, 2007 10:20 PM

I had Sgt. Peppers on my list too but Jemal convinced me to take it off. If the list was 15 long it would have been on there for sure.

And you like a lot of blind musicians.

Posted by: Freshcaffeine [TypeKey Profile Page] | February 13, 2007 11:20 AM

Here's Rolling Stone's top 500 albums based on, "the votes of 273 rock musicians, critics and industry figures, each of whom submitted a weighted list of 50 albums" and featuring a strong 60's and 70's generational bias, as well as a bias towards English and American bands. Wikipedia has more info.

They put Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at number one and included the Beatles 11 times with 4 albums in the top 10.

And I didn't tell you to take TB:SPLHCB off your list - I just said that I'd put Abbey Road on my list instead. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" is a lovely song, but I can only listen to so many time before I want to put on a trampoline show to raise money to put out a hit on Mr. Kite.

I've been trying to narrow it down, and then realized that I have an 80GB iPod. Why would I limit myself to 10 albums?

Posted by: Jemaleddin [TypeKey Profile Page] | February 20, 2007 10:14 AM

Now that is just cheating. iPods don't count.

Posted by: Freshcaffeine [TypeKey Profile Page] | February 20, 2007 10:36 AM

Sorry, it keeps spam down to a minimum. I have had any spam in months because of it. That and using Typekey. I really need some editing of my site, some kind of separator between the comments to they are easier to read.

Posted by: Freshcaffeine [TypeKey Profile Page] | February 20, 2007 11:00 AM

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