Desert island 3 albums

I was gonna say

Wire - 154
Bad Brains: I Against I
Santigold: Santogold

... but if I only get a few hours of battery life, it's got to be

Residents: God in 3 Persons
Savage Republic: Tragic Figures
Diamanda Galas: Diamanda Galas
 
Jeez, I need at least three albums per subgenre if I wouldn't go out of my mind. So I am gonna cheat with:
Don't hunt what you can't kill (3CD noise / power electronics compilation)
One of those early 2CD Cold Meat Industries samplers for dark ambient / industrial needs
And some tribute or label showcase album that has a good range of metal bands on them.

Rather have a 200 single tracks than just 3 bands.

Then again, got 12TB of music on an external drive, so there's that.

Also, hauling in Alarmist as we speak.
 
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Here’s my (weird) selection:

Bach Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (Andras Schiff)
Television Marquee Moon
Steve Tibbetts Northern Song

Quoting from Steve’s interview yesterday regarding Ralph Towner (MHDSRIP): ‘Well, first of all, can we establish that musicians are weird to begin with?’
 
I took the albums of my youth.

Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Rufio - 1985
Slipknot - Iowa

The second and third choice could be changed, if you asked me in a week, but Enema of the State will always be my number one. I hear it still today and when I was younger I started with it when I brushed my teeth, when I drove to school, when I came back from school, when I practice drums and when I go to bed.
 
This is tough because you have to think ahead, imagine the scenarios you’d be in by yourself for however long you’d be stranded. Moods, motivation, stress relief, relaxation, etc.

Will I still like this after 1,000 listens, or will it turn into a frisbee?

I’ll need an instrumental, predictable, background-type album to fill the lonely nights and mellow days. Jazz, acid-jazz come to mind.

Then I’ll need something a bit more emotionally driven and personally meaningful, like listening to a friend or loved one perform to me or with me.

So then I think that it shouldn’t be my favorite albums, but rather ones I could exist with indefinitely

So here’s my list:

Charlie Parker with Strings

Brian Eno- Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Jawbreaker- 24 Hour Revenge Therapy

Never truly thought about it in this way before. Fun thought experiment
 
Am I hacking the game if I choose the best hits compilations? What about albums of live shows?
Let's assume those are out...

1. Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
2. Fair to Midland - Fables from a Mayfly
3. Porcupine Tree - In absentia
...or maybe Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase
 
Oh god. An impossible task.

At the moment I’ll go with:

  1. Todd Rundgren- Something/Anything (while AWATS is my all time favorite album, I’m limiting myself to one per artist, and Something/Anything being a double LP is too tempting for a desert island scenario)
  2. Joni Mitchell- Court & Spark
  3. Big Star- Radio City OR Blondie- Parallel Lines
 
If I was to think about longevity - which I think I already did! - I might consider a Billie Holiday album. Actually I have a 3-disc collection of her songs which I never tire of. Especially when she sings Gershwin. I just LOVE Billie Holiday! I seriously doubt I could ever get sick of listening to her. The way she sings Gloomy Monday or The Man I love... Just so beautiful.
 
HamishR said:
If I was to think about longevity - which I think I already did! - I might consider a Billie Holiday album. Actually I have a 3-disc collection of her songs which I never tire of. Especially when she sings Gershwin. I just LOVE Billie Holiday! I seriously doubt I could ever get sick of listening to her. The way she sings Gloomy Monday or The Man I love... Just so beautiful.
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Yea the albums i picked i have listened to on occasion for the last 30 years and never really got sick of them. I never don’t want to hear so what or wait until tomorrow or dogs
 
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