Let's play Desert Island Discs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Agathon
I managed it, although it took a while.

Proof you don't love.

Oh come on... He's a great Strauss conductor and his Prokofiev isn't bad either.

Great? No. Great conductors don't have such mushy inner voices. Karajan is superficial--he's very treble and bass, but you lose the inner workings. That's why his Beethoven and Brahms are particularly abhorrent, since any counterpoint will become a mess in his hands. He then goes to ridiculous lengths to be precise with rhythm and notes, but loses the texture and balance of the instruments. And when he's slow, he's sloooooooow.

Karajan lacked nuance, ingenuity and most of all real passion. I've rarely heard anything as shockingly uninspired coming from the magnificent orchestras he conducted.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Uber KruX
if thats a shot at my father, i'll drag you from a truck.

You can't do that, I'm not black!

Anyway, it was a shot at your mother, not your father. Or maybe I should say "in your mother," would be more appropro...

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov

Proof you don't love.

yeah right... I've been working on this list for years. I've actually had to choose among my stuff before - some terrible decisions had to be made.

Great? No. Great conductors don't have such mushy inner voices. Karajan is superficial--he's very treble and bass, but you lose the inner workings. That's why his Beethoven and Brahms are particularly abhorrent, since any counterpoint will become a mess in his hands. He then goes to ridiculous lengths to be precise with rhythm and notes, but loses the texture and balance of the instruments. And when he's slow, he's sloooooooow.

Oh come on. You sound like the anti Richard Osbourne. Thankfully, this opinion is not universal.

Karajan lacked nuance, ingenuity and most of all real passion. I've rarely heard anything as shockingly uninspired coming from the magnificent orchestras he conducted.

I don't think his Metamorphosen can be beat.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I can't believe you don't have Quadrophenia on your list, Imran.

It's probably because I haven't heard it yet

(I know, I know ).

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


You can't do that, I'm not black!

Anyway, it was a shot at your mother, not your father. Or maybe I should say "in your mother," would be more appropro...

i'm not too fond of my mother. although "yo mama" comments are making you slightly more black.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

I can't believe you don't have Quadrophenia on your list, Imran.

It's probably because I haven't heard it yet

(I know, I know ).

Buy it immediately!!!!!!!

[molly bloom]

Harold Budd: The Pavilion of Dreams

Patti Smith: Horses

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: En Concert a Paris

Nick Drake: Bryter Layter

Aretha Franklin: Live at the Fillmore

David Bowie: Low (Rykodisc edn.)

Baaba Maal and Mansour Seck: Djam Leelii

King's College Choir, Cambridge directed by Stephen Cleobury:Thomas Tallis's Spem in Alium

Dickens' Bleak House

Barbara Hepworth's garden.

[Pekka]

1. red hot chilipeppers - blood sugar sex magik
2. rage against the machine - evil empire
3. the prodigy - experience
4. daft punk - daftendirekt
5. miles davis - the best of
6. herbaliser - blow your headphones
7. boogie nights soundtrack
8. Kruder Dorfmeister - the K&D Sessions

Book: I guess LOTR .. it's long enough and can read over and over again.
Or Survival for Dummies

Luxury: Susie Q - if I'm alone on desert island, I can at least defend it . And blow up stuff.

[Soul Survivor]

No double albums, or anything over 1 cd either....

Revolver - Beatles
Goldberg Variations - Bach (Gould)
Sonatas - Beethoven (Horowitz)
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Byrter Layter - Nick Drake
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Something Else by the Kinks - Kinks
Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones

Book: Lord of the Rings (hey I had to cheat somewhere )

Luxury Item: hmmmm no practical use...... canada?

[BustaMike]

Originally posted by Uber KruX
musak:

1. Linkin Park - Meteora (best cd ever made, imho)
2. Spineshank - Strictly Diesel
3. Spineshank - Height of Callousness
4. Mudvayne - L.D. 50

6. NoFx - The Decline
7. NoFx - The War On Errorism

9. Slipknot - Slipknot
10. Slipknot - Iowa

If we were on the same island I would kill you. Note - I've editted the 2 albums I think are acceptable.

My selections (I'm going to try and take a variety... try...)

Soundgarden - Superunknown
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent by Design
Braveheart Soundtrack
NIN - The Fragile (2 discs but I'll be sneaky)
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Book - hmmm, I would get bored of 1 book pretty quickly. 1984 is good I guess.

Luxury item - this may be pushing it, but gimme a basketball court and a ball.

[st_swithin]

0) Bad Religion: No Control
1) Youth Brigade: to sell the truth
2) fat boy slim: essential selection vol. 2
3) cafe del mar volumen seis
4) No Use For A Name: !Leche con Carne!
5) Bee Gees: Greatest Hits d. 1
6) Moby: Everything is Wrong
7) The Pogues: If I should fall from grace with God

Book: Biggest empty journal available
Inanimate Object: Pen with endless amount of ink

[Buck Birdseed]

Can I make each record a box set?

[Ramo]

1. Dead Kennedys - FFFRV
2. The Clash - London Calling
3. CCR - Cosmo's Factory
4. The Stones - Beggar's Banequet
5. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
6. Muddy Waters - The Best of Muddy Waters (first album)
7. Janis Joplin - Pearl
8. Whoever does Beethoven's 9th the best - Beethoven's 9th

Book - There's absolutely no way I could narrow it down to one.

[reds4ever]

Cds

Setting Sons - The Jam
The Stanton Sessions - The Stanton Warriors
Otis Blue - Otis Redding
All eyez on me - Tupac


Book

The Silmarrillion - I may actually finish it if I'm im stuck on a desert island

Luxury

PC with ASDL connection

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Mingus Ah Um - Charles Mingus
Go! - Dexter Gordon
Saxaphone Collosus - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Side Up - Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Rollins/Sonny Stitt
The Blanton-Webster Band - Duke Ellington
Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert - Ella Fitzgerald
A Swingin' Affair - Frank Sinatra
Judy at Carnegie Hall - Judy Garland

Book: Well, given that I'm alone on a desert island, it probably should be a really, really big anthology of erotica. In the spirit of the game, however, I'll say -- without any intended irony -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Luxury Item: I'll second "laptop preloaded with games," assuming it also has some kind of word processing program.