If you were on an island and had to pick 5 albums...

[emartin]

If you were on an island (Cast Away style) and had to pick 5 albums to be able to listen to for the rest of your life which albums would they be?

Rules:
It has to be a STUDIO album. NOT a live album or compilation (compilation is for example a greatest hits album).


Here's my list:
Back in Black by AC/DC
LOVE (remix album, NOT a compilation) by the folks that do the Cirque du Soleil music and The Beatles
11:11 by Rodrigo y Gabriela
1984 by Van Halen
Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses


I had to leave out Led Zeppelin unfortunately, but I'm happy with my list.


So in your stranded-on-an-island or post-apocalyptic world scenario, which 5 albums would you want to keep to be able to listen to?

 

[MonteSS]

Only 5? Hmmm

Rush-Moving Pictures
Boston-Boston
Van Halen-1984
Paul Simon-Graceland
Dire Straits-Brothers in Arms

...Bill

 

[WendyFish]

I can serve you up something half random and suggestive of the period in which my music sense came of age.

- Stone Temple Pilots, Purple
- Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream
- Counting Crows, August and Everything After
- Natalie Merchant, Tiger Lily
- Brahms German Requieum (and this gets listened to twice as much!)

 

[mrkillie]

I would have to agree with Moving Pictures and Boston.
I would also have to have

Abbey Road - is there really anyone that doesn't know who put that one together?
Who's Next - of course by The Who
Hi Infidelity by REO Speedwagon

 

[Tony]

I like the first two off of Wendy's list, though I may lean towards Gish from the Smashing Pumpkins.

Let me see.... yeah, about to date myself as well.....

Sublime - 40oz to Freedom
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Outkast - Southernplayalisticcadillacmusic

Two alternates...

Pearl Jam - Ten
Bjork - Telegram

If it weren't for the non-compilation rule, I would include Michael Jackson - HIStory in my 5. Yeah, he was a nutcase, but he cranked out some of the defining music of my childhood.

 

[DiscusnAfricans]

Albums huh? I'm not that old, but I know what they are. I have a few CDs I'd bring. I haven't bought any in years though, so most of these are from middle school or high school days.

Sublime - Sublime
Greenday - Dookie
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
311-311
Ludacris - Word of Mouf (need a little variety)

 

[Tony]

Albums huh? I'm not that old, but I know what they are. I have a few CDs I'd bring. I haven't bought any in years though, so most of these are from middle school or high school days.

Sublime - Sublime
Greenday - Dookie
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
311-311
Ludacris - Word of Mouf (need a little variety)

Dude - I hate to break it to you, but 40oz is the superior Sublime album.

 

[DiscusnAfricans]

Dude - I hate to break it to you, but 40oz is the superior Sublime album.

My choice went 5 times platinum by 1999. I couldn't follow you up with the same CD, so I had to go with the next solid selection. I had another Beasties CD I was going to add too, but our lists would have looked too similar. You can't tell me there aren't some awesome songs on there though; Caress me Down, Wrong Way, and Doin' Time.

 

[Reel Addiction]

Metallica-- Kill Em All
Rush-- Spirit of Radio
Suicidal Tendancies-- Lights Camera Revolution
Motley Crue-- Shout at the Devil
Steve Miller-- Book of Dreams

 

[minifoot77]

metallica - black album
korn- follow the leader
pantera- cowboys from hell
dr. dre- the cronic
cypress hill-black sunday or temples of boom can't decide which....

 

[danger_chicken]

Rules:
It has to be a STUDIO album. NOT a live album or compilation (compilation is for example a greatest hits album).

That's just mean, it's bad enough being stuck on a island, but no best of's!

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Army or Anyone - Army of Anyone
Queensrÿche - The Warning
Rush - 2112
Dio - Holy Diver

5 just isn't enough, I want half of the one's listed by others.

Wendy Fish - Checkout Army of Anyone, it's the guys from STP. I just discovered their CD last month and my first thought was "this would have been a great follow-up to Purple" I'd go as far as saying it's better.

 

[rsretep]

in no particular order

Led Zeppelin Physical Graffitti
Judas Priest Painkiller
Godsmack (first one)
Metallica In Justice For All
Black Sabbath Paranoid

 

[dogofwar]

Belle and sebastian - boy with the Arab strap
Ben folds 5 - unauthorized biography of reinhold messner
led zep - physical graffiti
public enemy - fear of a black planet
Neil young - harvest

I'd love to also bring bob Marley legend...

Matt

 

[YSS]

Pink Floyd: The Wall
Jimmy Buffett: Songs you know by heart
Def Leppard: Hysteria
Dire Straits: Brothers in Arm
NWA: Straight outta Compton

 

[Cartel]

Tool- Aenima
TRVSDJAM- Fix Your Face vl 2
Linkin Park- Reanimation
Pendulum- In Silico
Limp Bizkit- The Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water


But I'm greedy and would sneak by some 311, Incubus, Muse, Sublime, A Perfect Circle, Jimmy Eat World, Dave Matthews Band, and System Of A Down.

 

[emartin]

If you were on an island (Cast Away style) and had to pick 5 albums to be able to listen to for the rest of your life which albums would they be?

Rules:
It has to be a STUDIO album. NOT a live album or compilation (compilation is for example a greatest hits album).


Here's my list:
Back in Black by AC/DC
LOVE (remix album, NOT a compilation) by the folks that do the Cirque du Soleil music and The Beatles
11:11 by Rodrigo y Gabriela
1984 by Van Halen
Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses


I had to leave out Led Zeppelin unfortunately, but I'm happy with my list.


So in your stranded-on-an-island or post-apocalyptic world scenario, which 5 albums would you want to keep to be able to listen to?

I'm going to listen to every single one of those albums on my way to and from North Carolina on Saturday