Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits
Sweet and sour. Unique instrumentation. I remember walking into the old Listening Booth record shop in the Richland Mall and hearing “Underground” over the store’s stereo system. I thought it was possibly the Residents? Why on earth is the Listening Booth playing the Residents? The clerk told me it was the new Tom Waits album. I bought it on cassette.

English Settlement - XTC
Some consider this to be thee XTC album—I’d be one of them.

XO - Elliott Smith
Some beautiful music—it’s sad that we won’t hear more. Turns out that the Elliott’s old band Heatmiser opened for the Milkmen way back when at the Caberet Metro in Chicago.

Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins
It’s rare that I like a CD from start to finish—this happens to be one of them.

Ballads - Dexter Gordon
I love the cover photo too.

Let It Be - The Replacements
A time traveling disc for me. This takes me back to West Philly in the mid-eighties.

Double Nickels On The Dime - Minute Men
Not bad for a couple of corn dogs from Pedro.

Love Songs - Jean Paul Sartre Experience
A kiwi classic. Great songs for both sunny and rainy days.

Bach: Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites - Yo-Yo Ma
For lazy Sunday mornings while drinking coffee and reading the NYTimes (dead tree edition).

Better Can’t Make Your Life Better - The Lilys
Not a dud song in the bunch here.

My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello
Contains one of my top 10 songs of all time—"Watching the Detectives". This one takes me back to my early punk and new-wave days.

Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
Beach Boys - Today
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Bill Cosby - Wonderfullness
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Van Morrisson - Moondance
Dave Mason - Alone Together
The Feelies - Only Life
REM - Fables of the Reconstruction

Stuck on a desert island? It's all about comfort, and these albums make me feel good. I'll bet most of the listers (if they are honest) will pick music that came into their lives around ages 12-18, with a scattering of newer and older picks for variety. Me, I'm just a folk-rockin' kinda guy.

Another Green World: Eno (EG) - An album that will help you get your head back on no matter where you left it. After 28 years or so, I still hear things in there I've never noticed.

Bach: Suites for solo (Pablo Casals) - Yes, Dean, they are just the thing often. My wife said long before we were married of Bach's solo violin (but it fits here, too) "no matter what mood you're in this music validates it and backs it up.

Billie Holiday: Great American Songbook (Verve) - Mostly early fifties, fantastic small groups. Killer.

1969: Velvet Underground - Definitive versions of "Heroin" "The Ocean" "Waiting For My Man" &c. Lo-fi for sure, but worth it.

The Complete Mercury Recordings: the Stanley Brothers (Mercury) - OK, I mightn't reach for this one too often on the island, but it might help inspire me to build a still.

Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde: Ludwig/Klemperer (EMI) - This will help any castaway remember the rest of the planet in a somberly-positive way.

I forget the title, if it has one, but the Butthole Surfers record from '84 with "Lady Sniff" on it. As Miles Davis once said, "Sometimes, you just gotta deal with it."

Portrait in Jazz: Bill Evans Trio - At their best, before La Faro died. I had to bump off "Al Green Is Love" to fit it on, but it would last a lot longer.

Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Penguin Cafe Orchestra (EG) - Their 3d album, with "Numbers 1-4" and "Pythagoras' Trousers". Will draw you back from the brink of suicide.

Music for 18 Musicians: Steve Reich - 60 minutes of acoustic trance minimalism. Presumably on the island there is no one to say, "Can you turn this shit OFF?!"

Braggin' In Brass: Duke Ellington (Columbia) - Classic arrangements and feel - 1938 he and his band were at their best.

Five of these are double CDs, but you need all the padding you can get! A lot of my favorite pop, I can't see wanting to hear so often, but who knows? I generally listen to, say, the White Album a lot more than the Buttholes record, but with only so many spaces, the noise might be more useful than the pop songs.

I’ve been listening to most of the albums on this list for 25 years and more. It’s the musical equivalent of continuing to wear that beehive hairdo that you first wore decades ago, back when you were pretty. I like to believe that it’s because I found what I was looking for, pop-wise, early on, lest you think I’m stuck in some kind of nostalgia warp. It’s not that I haven’t bought a record in 25 years (they still call them records, right?), but I haven’t been able to come up with anything that holds up like this stuff. For me, anyway.

Rubber Soul, the Beatles
A perfect balance of John and Paul, with a little George thrown in for good measure. Hey, there’s Ringo on Hammond organ! Aw. If I was only allowed one desert island disc, this might be the one.

Aftermath, The Rolling Stones
The anti-Beatles. When I discovered Keith Richards, I dropped cuddly moptop Paul like a hot potato. Thank God my Mrs. Keith Richards fantasies never came true. I never thought I’d live to see the day when Charlie Watts was the best-looking Rolling Stone, but here we are.

My Aim is True, Elvis Costello
Such a great first album, and still my favorite. It’s bitter, it’s sarcastic, it’s pure melodic genius.

Pretenders, Pretenders
This album spawned one of my mom’s all-time greatest lines: “Did she just say the f-word?” Yes, Mom, she did. Now please get out of my room.

Accordeon Musette/Swing/Paris 1913-1941, various
The definitive collection of Paris cafe accordion music-- kind of a hobby for me. I love this stuff. I like to take this music apart, piece by piece, and then put it back together again.

The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers
I understand Jonathan Richman, and he understands me.

Velvet Underground and Nico
You know, the one with the banana on it.

Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
This record kicks off with a sharp drumbeat and an Al Cooper organ chord that sends chills up my spine every time I hear it. What a perfect opener. What a great album.

Iggy Pop, Lust for Life
It’s a little more cleaned up and contained than the earlier Iggy stuff, but its rhythms are highly infectious. Hard-core Iggy fans criticize it as being too Bowie-fied, which is hardly a drawback for me. I can still hear the raw pop energy breaking through. I like my Iggy with a little soda.

London Calling, the Clash
When I first heard this, I was filled with teenage indignation. I was furious with the Clash for selling out, but it really stands the test of time. I must have listened to the album a lot, anyway, because now when I play the cd version, muscle memory makes me get up and change the record after “Guns of Brixton”.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, David Bowie
I defy you to listen to this album and not to sing along. Go ahead, try it. I’m telling you, it’s impossible, even if you don’t know the words. In fact, you’re singing Starman in your head right now, aren’t you? So am I.

Is that eleven? Good. I just thought of 5 or 6 more that I left out, dammit. I gotta go build a signal fire now.

Well, Kitty62, on your word I just listened to "Highway 61" doing the dishes, while my wife bathed the baby. That's as close as we get to a desert island around here. It does kick ass, but it made me realize the great "out" in the set-up. I would definitely bring 11 mix CDs. From Dylan, I would take "Visions of Johanna" and "To Ramona" and leave the rest of those albums. And "You're a Big Girl Now" from Biograph, not the album version. It reminded me how seldom I listen to whole albums anymore. I have probably a hundred mix CDs already, not yet being mp3 compatible, and giving them to people similarly challenged. Thanks to everyone for the listening suggestions of things I haven't heard yet...

Miss Fidget Here with My Eclectic and Poorly Spelled Picks. Guess what? No Beatles. No Stones! No Dylan or Nico. Keep you're tired overexposed sell-outs. Bring me your weirdos! Honorable mentions to Bongwater, Marine Gilrs, Moog Cookbook, Turbonegro and the Re:Search Cds . Special thanks to WKDU.

1. Dukes of Stratosphere- Psonic Sunspot:
near perfect pyschedelic joyride that NEVER gets stale, and it was a creepy-sneaky-shhh-secret release.

2. Quintron-Satan is Dead, These Hands of Mine:  
stomp-able organ driven honky tonk grind by the anti Harry Connick of NOLA, his new record is dance club music and makes me soo sad-I blame Miss Pussycat! Damn you Miss Pussycat and your flipping puppets! (at least there's still the Low Budgets dirty organ)

3. Shonen Knife 712:  
The perky trio at their most naive and ebuilliant. My favorite town is Osaka too and I've never even been. So sorry about the earthquake. How can you write so well in English and speak it so poorly? How can I can I speak so well and spell so bad?

4.Ethel Merman-Merman Sings Merman:  
maybe on an island I'd find time to listen to this autographed double album I've had for years, and the art.

5. Atom & his Package-society of people named elihu:
found this gem when I was feeling jaded about manufactured music. A real Philadelphia Love Letter. First time I met Atom on the street I was on lunch from my office job - he just didn't believe I was a fan. (except the meatball song-hated the meatball song)

6. the Clash-Black Market Clash:
perfect sunny day, windows open, happy day cd, when I listen to this I am underage and gleefully running to/from trouble in a red sports car. Whats' the use to wanna comb your hair when it's grey and thinning?

7. mermen-krill slipping:  
ambient-dreamy-desire filled instrumental recording, powerful and smooth, don't know how I found it. Like 712 it's practically an ep but it's most excellent, and a much needed change of tempo. Almost a fluke the rest of their stuff stinks

8. Best Beach Music Compilation Never Made
Tracks would include at least: Poison Ivy, Nip Sip, Showdown, Give me Just a little more Time, Double Shot of My Baby's Love, Rainy Day Bells, Thank You John, the mind bending LaVern Baker doing You're the Boss (one of the best songs in the world), 39-21-46 Shape, Stagger Lee, Hey-Baby, Cool Jerk, Back Field in Motion, Just a Gigilo, Girlwatcher, and Build Me a Buttercup. It would NOT include: I Love Beach Music, With This Ring, In a Moment, What Kind of Fool, Grapevine, and Under the Boardwalk (unless I was plastered, in which case I'd sing the hell out Boardwalk)

9. William Shatner-Has Been:  
Best release of 2004. The first song will SLAY you, the liner notes actually say something, and "You're Gonna Die" will make a hell of funeral procesion.. DESPISED Ben Folds til I heard this. Another release I heard first on KDU, like Atom and Quintron.

10. Repo man sountrack:
yeah, why didn't anyone else think of a soundtrack? Ha Ha hA! And this THIS iS A HELL OF A Record.

i've always felt a true list is impossible. but here goes nothin'

1) kind of blue, miles davis:
i don't suppose you'd need much help feeling blue on a deserted island but after a long day of fending off wild boors this might ease the mind.

2) bee thousand, guided by voices:
for all your lo-fi island jamming needs. hum through a palm frond and play along.

3) the best of roy ayers, roy ayers:
for all your groove fueled lord of the flies fire dancing.

4) whatever you love, you are, dirty three:
you're alone, you'll never be found, weep tears of woe or joy, either way.

5) astral weeks, van morrison:
hey, it's not all bad. no more wage slavery. every ounce of sweat goes directly toward your own survival, no abstractions needed. celebrate.

6) niandra lades and usually just a t-shirt, john frusciante:
scare the crap out of those filthy baboons moving ever further into your territory.

7) relentless, bill hicks:
don't let your memory play tricks on you! civilization was hit or miss at best.

8) the complete hot five and hot seven recordings, vol. 3, louis armstrong:
preemptively hijack your rampant nostalgia and by-pass your own lifetime completely, going back to the time when men were men who wept at the sound of a brilliant trumpet player.

9) closing time, tom waits:
at the end of your rope? you're volleyball no longer speaking to you? feeling like just walking into the sea but too much of a wussie? this is the next best thing.

10) paul's boutique, beastie boys:
prescription for staving off island depression syndrome? get f-o-u-n-k-a-y.

11) talking book, stevie wonder:
because cursing god for forsaking you can turn you into a twisted sub-human. stevie has the remedy for your sickness.

alternately i'd be willing to give up one of these selections fore a random selection slipped into my luggage by the airport baggage handlers. something i'd never heard, a wild card of sorts.

Hey, hey, no fair with the mix discs! Save that for a "Program an 80 Minute Desert Island Mix Disc" challenge. Which would be pretty interesting, come to think of it. It's definitely true that the album-centric D.I.D. concept seems to be fading fast in relevance, with the computer/internet/file-compression/pod combination making pretty fast work of atomizing the album. A more up-to-date hypothetical challenge would probably be: "Your hard drive is running out of space, what 40 songs will you refuse to delete?" But I wanted to get in a simple old D.I.D. round here in the twilight (and thanks for playing along, keep 'em coming).

I've been trying for years to find the BEST beach music CD, Rare Soul, comes close, so does Preppie Deluxe, so shoot me. I also listed TWO cds by Quintron AND I have a typo-the Mermen SHOULD be SONGS OF THE COWS (not krill slipping which stank-p.U.)

1) White Pepper, Ween
Not one of their more popular ones, but definitely one of their catchier ones, me thinks.
2) What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
For obvious reasons
3) Heavy Weather, Weather Report
The rest of the album excuses the somewhat mundane 'Birdland'.
4) Joe's Garage, Frank Zappa
Particularly Side 4/Disc 2
5) Abbey Road, Beatles
Again, obvious reasons
6) Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder
Possibly the best collection of songs by any Motown artist, save Marvin Gaye(see earlier entry)
7) Rocket to Russia, Ramones
Best punk band ever, period!
8) Headhunters, Herbie Hancock
Funky as!
9) Miles Smiles, Miles Davis
The second quintet with Herbie, Wayne, Tony and Ron was possibly the pinnacle of post-bop jazz.
10) II, Led Zeppelin
Great collection of tunes.
11) Trompe Le Monde, The Pixies
Absolutely wicked album.

btw-Lady sniff is on the great album Psychic ... Powerless ... Another Mans Sac

I've played these "desert island" games before, in fact I remember arguing with (and mocking) some silly deadhead in college for choosing nothing but Grateful Dead, Beatles, and Jethro Tull (yeesh, whatta combo) for his top ten. I love a lot of the records already mentioned (BTW-- that Buttholes Surfers record with "Lady Sniff" is called "Psychic, Powerless, Another Man's Sack" and ironically it's the LP I used to play to drive the aforementioned deadhead out of my dorm room), but ultimately this is pointless: If we were stranded on a desert island we wouldn't get to choose what records to bring beforehand, we'd need a record/cd player and the juice to run it, and after several years we'd be sick of even our most favorite recordings. Besides, who has time to listen to music when there are fish to be caught and huts to be thatched. So I guess this is really about defining who we are by our record collections. I don't know if I could whittle it down to just 11 albums, and anyway it would take a lot of time and hand-wringing to get it "just right", so instead I closed my eyes and picked at random, disallowing 12" singles, and a large number of thrift store purchases I haven't even listened to yet.

1. Kip Hanrahan "tenderness"
2. Sandy Bull "Fantasias for Guitar and banjo"
3. This Heat "Deceit"
4. Modern Jazz Quartet "Django"
5. Curtis Mayfield "Superfly"
6. Geroge Russell Sextet "Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature"
7. Fairport Convention "Leige & Lief"
8. King Crimson "In the Wake of Poseidon"
9. Donny Hathaway "live"
10. The Who "the Kids are Alright"
11. Flaming Lips "Zaireeka" (actually, I've never listened to this: always been one cd player short of achieving the "octophonic stereo" of 4 simultaneous cd players, so I guess substitute any of the last several Lips albums.)

So I guess that's how I will let myself be defined, though it's not really accurate-- my random method didn't snag any country, reggae, classical, or rap (well, except for the 12" singles I had decided to disallow). Fair enough.

Ok, I'll bite. Subject to change in five minutes (but I'll refrain). There's an awful lot in other lists above that I would put on my list on another day. So leave 'em behind for me.

Hank Williams (Sr.) - Just Me and My Guitar.
Demos with no overdubs. His voice stands out.

Charlie Parker
Which set? I'll grab one as I head out the door.

Willem Breuker Kollektief - In Holland
Inside and Outside. Great arrangements and great playing.

Yo La Tengo - Fakebook
Calms me down for some reason.

Jerry Douglas and Peter Rowan - Yonder
Chamber music.

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
To signal ships at sea.

Jean and Robert Casadesus -- EMI Classics collection
Nice mix of concerti and some priceless little Scarlatti solo pieces. They don't play piano like that anymore.

A Feather on the Breath of God - Hildegard of Bingen performed by Gothic Voices
If I can't find God, maybe He'll find me.

Eugene Chadbourne - There'll Be No Tears Tonight
Don't laugh.

A Goon Show compilation
Laugh.

riffle

In addition to all the damn replacement batteries for my discman I would be sure to bring the following albums (in no particular order):

The Pixies: Doolittle
-One of the most awesome albums EVER! Nuff said.

Beastie Boys: Check Your Head
-for 'rockin out'

Pink Floyd: Animals
-I get to bring some Ganga too right?

The Beatles: The White Album
-If I can only choose one Beatles album it would have to be a double CD.

The Ethiopians: (any album will do)
-Sorry Bob, I still dig your shit, but these guys have really grown on me.

The Pharcyde: Bizzare Ride
Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes
Deltron: 3030
Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Dave Brubeck: Time Out!
Ween: The Pod
Yes: Classic Yes

Good times would be had by all on the island with this mix..... what? I am the only person? Shitty........

Technically I've got your system beat here since I rip all my CD's to mp3 and stuff a bunch of them onto one mp3 CD for my portable, but I'll play nice...

In no particular order:

Rush - A Show of Hands. The best live album from one of the best studio bands. This album (I think) best showcases their experimental edge and their sense of fun.

Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell. Who of my generation has not worn out at least one copy of this on vinyl? I've done three myself.

Metallica- The Black Album. If I'm stuck on a desert island, I'm going to need to play air guitar sometime, and this is the album that does it for me. Ego and legal foolishness aside, these guys can rock.

Billy Joel - Piano Man. For when I'm feeling maudlin.

Johnny Cash - American IV, The Man Comes Around. The man in black at his blackest and best.

Tom Waits - Blood Money. I think I could listen to this one alone for years and still not pick up on everything.

Spiked! The Music of Spike Jones. I defy anyone not to get a grin from Spike's frantic music.

Good Morning Vietnam: Soundtrack. I feel good!

B. B. King - Greatest Hits. 'Cause even on a desert island, the blues is a healin'!

Stephen King - Blood and Smoke. I've got to get my fiction fix!

Evanescence - Fallen. Actually, this one is sort of cheating, since shortly after starting to play this one, passing ships, planes, spacecraft and whales would pick up on the piercing sonar-like qualities of Amy Lee's voice and I would be rescued in short order, removing all need for the other discs on the list. And while I'm waiting, the liner notes can be used to start a campfire.

Subject to change

X--Wild Gift; You said it well.

Stones--Exile on Main Street; Who'd of thought the best American rock album would have been cut by some British louts?

Nirvana--Nevermind; Speaks to me, and for me of a place and time in my life.

Coltrane--A Love Supreme; Proof that man can be touched by God

Bruce Springsteen--Nebraska; For me, the ultimate comment on the huge, broken expanse that ismy country.

Dock Boggs--Folkways recordings; I hope I'm this cool when I'm this old

Marvin Gaye--What's Going On; Inner City Blues might be my favorite song ever

Clash--London Calling; "You grow up and you calm down." When I hear the lyric I remember not to.

Eminem--Marshall Mathers; I know, I'm betraying my white trash roots.

Funkadelic--"I was in a place called Keep Running Mississippi." Still raises the hair on my neck.

Here's a bunch. The moment I submit it, I'll want to modify.

Elevator Drops - Pop Bus
John Cale - Paris 1919 (or Vintage Violence)
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Love - Forever Changes
Paul Bley - Footloose!
Walt Dickerson & Sun Ra - Visions
Archie Shepp and Horace Parlan - Trouble in Mind
Robert Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders - Chasin' Rainbows
Cliff Edwards - Singing in the Rain
The Blasters - Collection

Various Artists - High Atmosphere
This album made me want to learn clawhammer banjo. Fred Cockerham doing "Little Satchel," Wade Ward doing "Half Shaved," Frank Proffitt doing "Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down," E.C. Ball doing "Warfare," Lloyd Chandler singing "A Converation with Death," and the list goes on. Goosebumps time.

Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
I got Meat Puppets II on the advice of my very cool English teacher, Mr. Robinson. I loved it, but I Up on the Sun was even better. When driving cross country a few years later I realized I had to hear it before we got to the desert so I bought a copy on cassette at a used record store in Austin. I later bought the CD. I think this is the only album I've ever owned in 3 formats. Actually I bought the CD twice b/c Ryko reissued it with extra tracks a few years back. So yes, I bought this album 4 times. It's that good. Probably my favorite album cover of all time (don't you miss 12" album covers?).

Rolling Stones - Rolling Stones, Now!
Aftermath comes close but this one gets the nod for "Down the Road Apiece" which was my "#1 song to learn on guitar" for about 3 years (I finally learned to play it, but it never sounded half as good as Keef's version) and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love." These were the lead tracks on sides B and A, respectively. You lose the effect with the CD. They should really put albums like this on 2 discs so you have to get up and change them.

Talking Heads - The Name of this Band is Talking Heads
I turned 14 the summer this came out. I wanted to be David Byrne. He was the first guy other than my dad who I'd ever seen wear dress shirts with the top button buttoned and no tie. "Hey, my dad is cool!"

Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Overrated? I don't think so. Lived in my Walkman throughout the Summer of 1992 and probably pretty well into the Fall/Winter/Spring. Another one I had to re-buy when the bonus tracks edition came out. I'm a sucker, I know.

Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie
Didn't like it as much as their earlier stuff when it came out, but it stood the test of time. Lowery got pretty annoying later, but "Sweethearts," "All Her Favorite Fruit" and several others on here show that the guy was pretty much a lyrical genius.

Silver Jews - The Natural Bridge
Their earlier stuff was largely unlistenable. This marked the beginning of their "mature" period. One of the best road albums ever.

Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
Endurance like the Liberty Bell. Shit yeah, it's cool.

David Bowie - The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
Natch.

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bringing it All Back Home and Blood on the Tracks are mighty close runners-up but this one noses them out. Poor Mr. Jones.

Various Artists - The Bristol Sessions
A sneaky way of getting both Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family onto the island inside a single (well, double) jewel box. (I wonder if Jewel will ever put out a box set and if it will be called "Jewel Box". You heard it here first.)

Hmm. I've got slightly different tastes than most of you, but here goes:

Greatest Hits: Patsy Cline (If I can't do a mix album, I can pull in a cheesy compilation)
Threshold of a Dream: Moody Blues
Out Of the Valley: John Gorka
Live at Palma: Dervish (2 discs, 1 album)
Great Big CD: Great Big Sea
The Globe: B.A.D. II
Lulu: Trip Shakespeare
Live and Well: Dolly Parton
Tommy: The Who
Live in Belfast: The Chieftans

I like live albums. :)

1. Velvet Underground - Their self titled third album has always been my favorite VU album. "Candy Says" and "Pale Blue Eyes" break my heart everytime I hear them.

2. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks - Dylan's best album by far.

3. Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight - A Collection of all of Chuck Berry's classic Chess singles. If you don't love this CD you don't love rock n' roll.

4. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. The greatest rap record ever made.

5. Suicide - Their self-titled first album will always be one of the most original, compelling influental and down right listenable records to come out of the New York punk scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

6. Patti Smith - Horses - Every song contains so many levels of information there is always something new there to discover. "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine" is one of the classic rock n' roll statements.

7. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue - The greatest of all jazz records. Has there ever been such great group of musicians coming together to play such great songs? The coolest of the cool.

8. Modern Lovers - Their self-titled first album summed up what it was like to be an intelligent teenager in the 1970s. All the joy, pain, doubts, egotism, and cockiness of 1970s youth is bottled up in this record. "Roadrunner, Roadrunner, go a thousand miles an hour, with the radio on!"

9.Van Morrison - Astral Weeks - I never tire of listening to this touching, beautiful record.

10. Louis Armstrong and his Hot 5 and Hot 7. - There are several collections of this music. The JSP box set is the best. This music is one of mankind's greatest musical achievements by one of the greatest musicians to ever walk the earth. All jazz that came afterwards must be measured against these records and few records come close to matching the instrumental brillance, heart and soul, and influential singing contained in this collection.

I guess this would be my list. Not nearly as sophisticated as some up there, and it's subject to change depending on my mood when I ship off (Motown is painfully missing in this list). I really enjoy singer-songwriter style music. Here you go:

The Beatles - Abbey Road: Ever since I heard the Beegees cover in that bad tv show as a kid, i was fascinated by Come Together. I got this album and was transfixed. There's so much going on with the orchestration and I just love how it builds.

The Smiths - Louder than Bombs: GREAT b-sides collection from a terrific band. Who here doesn't want to hang the dj? ;-)

REM - Automatic for the People: This album has much sentimental value to me, and it deals with love, pain, loss, redemption. It just hits an emotional chord in me.

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks: GOD this album rules. I love how lazy it is, how the songs just sort of bleed into each other in this warm sound.

The Eagles - Greatest Hits: Classic Country rock band with some great tracks. It reminds me of growing up in South Carolina and having their songs blasting in my mom's car stereo.

Ryan Adams - Gold: A terrific singer-songwriter who seems to have fallen off the track in the interests of following current music trends (his last album was...disappointing). This is a great blend of many styles but still come back to Ryan's amazing voice.

Elton John - Greatest Hits (1974): Who can't have Sir Elton in their collection? Classic classic stuff.

Pet Shop Boys - Behavior: Another emotional chord album. I believe this was their true "coming out" album and has a very Autumn feel to it.

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry: Much more of a punk album i feel than a classic goth album. I have many favorites from their catalogue, but this one stands out.

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral: I'm pissed off I ended up on this abandoned album and I need to bang heads. VERY angry album, but done in a way that's quite sophisticated.

Depeche Mode - Violator: EXTREMELY underappreciated album by a very talented group. This album's about sex, redemption, losing yourself in someone else. Love it.

Bjork - Vespertine

Aretha Franklin - Sparkle

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Mean old Frisco
[simple blues]

Jay Z and the Roots - Unplugged

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Roger Waters - Amused to Death
[the perfect overproduced concept album]

Dujeous? - City Limits
[amazing nyc all-live-instruments hip hop band]

Youssou N'Dour - Egypt
[any album by youssou]

indigo girls - come on now social
[their best, least whiny album]

Four Tet - Pause
[simple, perfect electronic music]

PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
[actually, i hate the first 2 tracks, but the rest is gold]

In artists' alphabetical order, with the disclaimer that, as with probably everybody, some of these are of personal historic significance (they remind me of my yout'). Also I'm at work and my CDs are home, so I have disremembered some of the artists on the classical records (which term should date me - I'm a year younger than Jackson Browne).

St. John Passion, Bach - a double-CD set

The Beatles (White Album), The Beatles - another; also, despite what all the critics have said, _my_favorite_Beatles_album_.

Symphonie Fantastique, Berlioz, one of my first classical records, which I bought at the age of eighteen, as the jacket said it had to do with opium. The waltz section alone is worth it.

Sweetheart of the Rodeo, The Byrds. Really a Gram Parsons album; if I could add a Byrds album it would be 5D.

A Love Supreme, John Coltrane. If it was a 2-record list, this would be number 2. Anything by J.S. Bach would be number one. (I do have an mp3 CD I made with 12 Coltrane albums on it - would that count as one disc?)

Electric Ladyland, Jimi Hendrix - so much great music from an artist at the top of his form.

Bluesbreakers, John Mayall with Eric Clapton. Clapton _was_ a 19-year-old god when he recorded these guitar parts. Stupefying.

Procol Harum, Procol Harum. Bach pastiches with Robin Trower. No other classical rock or art rock (with the exception of some King Crimson) can compare.

The Power and the Glory, Paul Robeson. Amazing gospel by one of my favorite singers.

Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished), Schubert. A copy was given to me at age 18.

Till Eulenspiegel, Metamorposis, Death & Transfiguration, Richard Strauss. My current favorite Strauss CD has these three pieces on it, but almost any Strauss will do (Ein Heldenleben, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Alpensinfonie etc.)

1. Natch'l Blues; Taj Mahal. Relaxed, fun, musical blues.

2. Ballad of the Fallen; Charlie Haden. Powerful reconstitution of Spanish Civil War folk songs as jazz. Moving and fine.

3. Blues and the Abstract Truth; Oliver Nelson. Heady and grounded ensemble jazz.

4. Uncle Meat; Frank Zappa. Biting ensemble rock, with some beautiful melodies interspersed - esp. Dog Breath Variations.

5. Time After Time; Eva Cassidy. A lovely voice coupled with true commitment to the material.

6. Yellow Moon; Neville Brothers. Aaron's golden tones singing the light and the dark of Nawlins.

7. Kind of Blue; Miles Davis. Never stops giving.

8. Gift from a Flower to a Garden; Donovan. Moody, musical, calming.

9. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots; Flaming Lips. Rocking and delight filled.

10. Help; Beatles. For the joy of it.

1. Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography, by far the best girl punk CD ever ghost written.

2. Good Charlotte - Young And The Hopeless, at the forefront of the current punk movement.

3. Blink 182 - Dude Ranch, with out these guys Good Charlotte would not be here. Truly the founding fathers of Neo-Punk Rock!

4. New Kids on the Block - Hanging Tough, for the gangsta in you. When you are cruising down the street in your Toyota Tercel with one of the house stereo speakers in your trunk, what better album to bump than this!

5. O-Town - Self Titled, the best MTV created group of pretty boys this side of heaven.

6. Menudo - Any Album by these guys is pure gold. Even after Ricky Martin cruised onto the scene they were still churning out the hits!

7. Wham - Make it Big, wake me up before you go go! Need I say more?

8. The Jets - The best of the Jets, when I was into my 3rd year of being a junior in high school, these guys helped me persevere. When I wanted to give up, I popped in this CD and knew I could do it.

9. Hanson - Middle of Nowhere, when this band first came out I was hooked. One time I went to the concert and was asked to go back stage, how lucky of me to get to have sex with the girl from Hanson!

10. Milli Vanilli - Girl You know it's True, I know it wasn't them singing, but was them dancing! And that was my favorite part anyway!

11. Linkin Park - When my parents yell at me to not come out of the basement until I've learned to stop setting fires and peeping through windows at the old folks home, I put this bad boy on and it makes me feel like there are other 32 year olds who live in their parents basement who feel the way I do.

That's my 11 guys thanks for listening!

I would pick nothing but Grateful Dead, Beatles, and Jethro Tull albums.
Thanks to Illich for the tip.

Oooo, this is all so SUBJECTIVE, innit? One man's VU is another man's Tragically Hip, and so on. But we're on a deserted (or is desert?) island right, so we got to set the mood. To that end:

1. Martin Denny - Exotica Vol. 1 & 2

Best known for the bird calls, Denny really took the music somewhere sonically, using ethnic instruments, and pioneering unusual studio techniques a decade before they occurred to anybody in the rock world. Yes, it takes a left turn into corny-ville in spots. But it comes from the pre-irony world - when you could just have a good time - without the cognesenti pointing and laughing.

2. Brian Wilson - Smile

Finally, realized, and HOW! What can you say about genius except - WOW!

3. Herbie Mann - At the Village Gate

Speaking of genius - here's one who got precious little credit. This record, partially recorded "live" in Brazil with a local drum-line that happen by the gig, is a pure joy. No, he didn't brood and act out like Miles Davis. That's probably why Miles gets the all attention. Sweetness and light ain't hip - is it, Chester?

4. Peter Gabriel - Passion

I don't think Gabriel has ever equaled this record in ambition and scope. After all these years, I still send shivers down my spine when I hear certain tracks. I wonder who Mel Gibson got for HIS Jesus movie? Probably Jerry Goldsmith.

5. Hedwig & the Angry Inch - Original Cast Recording

Perhaps the BEST rock record EVER recorded! (No, not really... But close! Damn close!) From the stellar songwriting to the blistering performances turned in by EVERY PLAYER on this record - "Hedwig" stands head (er, sorry) and shoulders above most of the tripe turned in by "real" bands these days. Mainly because - IT ROCKS!

6. The Residents - Commercial Album

I was actually thinking "Third Reich and Roll" which is also brilliant. But "Commercial" is a virtual "how to" of songwriting, arranging and performing - containing 40 one-minute gems. All different. All great. All the RESIDENTS!

7. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

I see everybody has their favorite Waits record. There are SO many to choose from. This one, however, is where Waits began his "decontruction" period and although I love each and every record since, I am not sure he ever equaled this one. Subjective opinions are like a**holes. Everybody has one.

8. Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings

The title says it all. It's Robert Johnson. It's his complete recordings. What ELSE do you need?

9. The Beatles - White

Well, you gotta have some Beatles right? I was tempted to say the "Live at the BBC" record, which show the Beatles as a real band that can really play and really sing - but the "White" ranges around from proto-punk to dancehall to freak-outs to orchestral Ringos - that if I only got one - it'd be have to be this one. BTW, the best track on this record is "Long, Long, Long" by George Harrison - just in case you were wondering.

10. Anonymous 4 - The Legends of St. Nicolas

No, this has nothing to do with Santa Claus. This is, perhaps, some of the most exquisite vocal music ever recorded. "Early" music is not everybody's cup of tea, but this record is a total "bliss-out." It makes weak in the knees just thinking about it.

And if I got an eleven, it would be:

11. James Brown - Cold Sweat and Other Soul Classics, Vol. 2

Make. It. Funky.

Now, where's Ginger and Mary Ann? We got some coconuts to pick!

1. Pink Floyd - Echoes: Good, incredible shtuff.

2. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam: Great jazz/rock/pop sound.

3. The Postal Service - Give Up: I could listen to this for hours and not get bored.

4. Flogging Molly - Swagger: Terrific folk punk.

5. The Beatles - White Album: 'nuff said.

6. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street: ditto.

7. The Velvet Underground and Nico

8. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

9. Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet

10. Devo - Greatest Hits

11. Venus Hum - Big Blue Sky: Absolutely incredible.

Typo: That last album should be called "Big Beautiful Sky," not "Big Blue Sky." Sorry, kids.

Hmm. Hard to add something that's not already there. I'll get rid of the suggestions I agree with first:

Beatles - Help!
My dad brought this back from a trip to London when I was in preschool and we used to dance around the living room listening to this on the gramophone.

Patti Smith - Wave
Anything from the early days of Patti, but I'll give Wave the nod because it features a song with my name. Plus, it's one of the two record covers visible in iSight when I'm iChatting (the other is The Jam).

Yo-Yo Ma - Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suites
I bought volume one on vinyl and they never issued volume two (!@#$). So I bought the double CD. I love CRANKING this in the ol' car stereo when stuck next to some tasteless boombox in traffic: provided you've got a muscular stereo and open windows (I drive a convertible) the long sustained cello notes will cut through any on/off/on/off deep beats and inevitably enrage the perpetrator. Just try driving through the rockies on a moonlit night with this playing: you'll never forget it.

The Clash - London Calling
Possibly the best album released in the '70's -- and it's made the cut on every top 10 list I've ever created.

Johnny Cash - American IV, The Man Comes Around
The first album I paid for with my own money was Live At Folsom Prison and I've been a huge Johnny Cash fan ever since. This is a record made by a man with nothing left to prove, and as a result he proves everything. A towering talent and I'm still bitter that his death was overshadowed by the death of some no-talent sitcom hack actor on the same day. (I'd actually take the American Boxed Set, but at 4 discs it breaks the rules.)

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Bluesbreakers
I had no idea who Jeff Beck was and to this day only own one of his records, but John Mayall was the man who introduced me to the blues. I started with this record and plunged back into time, discovering Muddy Waters, Heddy Ledbetter and, yes, Robert Johnson, along the way. Mayall's voice is embedded in my subconscious, however: he had a radio show on BBC Radio One for a while before his demise, and I would tune in just to hear him talk.

That's, what? six? So here we go:

The Modernettes - Teen City EP
IMNSHO the very best record ever to come out of Vancouver, BC. Perfect sparkling jewels of punk pop that make me want to learn guitar every time I listen to them. Only six tracks, but every one worth 100 other pop songs. And it always makes my top ten lists, too.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Good Son
This fills in for my Einsturzende Neubauten and Birthday Party fetishes, but stands tall on its own. When I feel really down I slap this on and it ironically perks me right up. If I'm trapped on a desert island I'll probably be be feeling down every time I see smoke on the horizon, so I better bring along a fix-me-up, eh?

Peter Himmelman - From Strength to Strength
I can't resist this LP. In fact, I'm going to go put it on right now while I finish this post. This is an album by an adult for adults: no boy-meets-girl stuff here, it's all man-faces-world. Woman With The Strength Of 10,000 Men brings me near to tears every time, and Mission Of My Soul on side two strikes to the heart. A perfect complement to The Modernettes.

Eberhard Weber - Works
ECM's sparse production is perfect for this ethereal yet muscular jazz bassist. Sometimes after a hectic night out I come home, throw this on the old turntable, and sit in the dark letting it wash through me. The Coltrane and Satchmo suggestions above are valid, but this is my jazz record of choice (today). And it's a good way to tell if you've got your subwoofers turned up too high...

The Three Mustaphas Three - Bam! Mustaphas Play Stereo
This never got distribution on this side of the pond, although I did hear a track on CBC's late-night show about six years after it was released. Wrapping ethnic gypsy and tongue-in-cheek humour into a seamless Balkan/London blend this stands in for my world music affliction.

Well, that's eleven, and somehow Parliament/Funkadelic missed the cut, I see, which surprises me. And I sing along with every song by The Proclaimers, even the creepy ones, but they're not there. I can't believe Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain missed out. What, no Mingus!? Or Two Sevens Clash? King Tubby? US3? James Brown? Damn... good thing there's tomorrow, and a whole new set of choices.

This has been fun. Thanks.

Just jumping in here a moment to say thanks to everyone for your lists, great stuff and many picks I would have liked to have made myself.

And extra thanks to Mark for linking this on BoingBoing and lighting the big fuse.

Thanks for playing along and keep 'em rolling.

1. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
2. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlantacism
3. The French Suites - Bach - Glenn Gould
4. The Sundays - Reading, Writing & Arithmitic
5. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
6. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
7. Pink Floyd - Meddle
8. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
9. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
10. Peter Murphy - Wild Birds
11. The Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art of Surfacing

What a great idea! :)

Wire - 154 (I have to agree with most of the previous posts, no desert island should be without Bowie/Eno/VU. Wire's accomplished art-pop of 154 fits right in.)

Cluster/Eno - After the Heat (When the sun goes down, and you see stars in the still blue sky...)

1/2 Japanese - 1/2 Gentlemen, Not Beasts (Music to build your grass hut by)

Eno/Ayers/Cale/Nico - June 1, 1974 (Seeing as how all Bowie/Eno/VU fans are destined to live out their days alone on a deserted island, here's the ultimate colaboration with Soft Machine sad-sack Kevin Ayers, not to mention "This is the end, beautiful friend, the end..")

Bowie - Low (Could only have been more satisfying had there been a contribution from John Cale.)

John Cale - Guts (His Island years greatest hits, could only have been more satisfying had there been a contribution from David Bowie. Songs for pirates with parrots on their shoulders.)

Ultravox - Systems of Romance (When you've dressed up a volleyball, given him a name, and designated him as your imaginary friend, you can play him this record, and sing along. At midnite.)

Negativland - The letter Two and the Numeral U (Legend has it that the Residents took a two-week trip in a VW minibus to Mexico with only one Beatles eight-track tape. By the end of the trip, they had grown to hate The Beatles and everything they stood for. Today, you could do the same with a U2 CD. This is why.)

The Residents - Third Reich and Roll (This narrowly edged Eskimo, with its twin themes of isolation and sensory deprivation, but if you are dead set on a deserted island life, Third Reich and Roll is the perfect blend of intellectual curiousity and cynical misanthropy.)

12 DIDs (in no particular order)

Public Image Limited - Metal Box
Television - Marquee Moon
Wire - Pink Flag
Capt. Beefheart - Safe as Milk
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
SuperFly OST - Curtis Mayfield
Royal Trux - Thank You
The Kinks - Kinks Size
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs / Barrett
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
The Velvet Underground - Loaded
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

bucking the trend a wee bit..pals of mine go for the traditional 8 tracks rather than the whole album...much harder, but still fun.plus, theres more leeway to change later, as long as you stick with the original artists...here's my 8 of the month....

1. Unknown Legend – Neil Young
mostly when I was little I would either shout, cry or sulk when me and my dad were in the same place. but on Sundays we would go swimming and on the way home we would listen to Neil Young’s Harvest Moon album, and sing along together.

2. Paint It Black – Rolling Stones
once my mum thought it was alright to go to a rolling stones gig and wear just some stupid big pink glasses. And it was funny.

3. I Spy Dogs – James Yorkston
you people have to hear these guys!!!

4. Days Like This – Van Morrison
this song just is Sunday on a stick. Just a simple day, and the happiest you have ever been. (‘when all the parts of the puzzle, start to look like they fit, well my momma told me, there’d be days like this’)

5. Concerto for Harpsichord in F Minor - J.S. Bach
because it is on Hannah and her sisters which was my favourite woody allen film when I was younger and because it is beautiful. And because whatever mood you’re in when you put this on, listening to it reaffirms that mood.

6. Wake Up - Malcolm Middleton
cos malxol middelton sings things like‘black and white movies make me happy, so would climbing a hill with you next Tuesday.’ and he has a sexy scottish twang

7. Ms Fat Booty – Mos Def
‘ass so fat that you could see it from the front’. classic

8. Aint got...I got life – Nina Simone
She says ‘my boobs’! this is one of the best songs I have ever heard and I LOVE it. Its so great and I don’t think it could ever fail to make me happy (recent fame due to appearance on Muller Light advert)

GREEN DAY! Because they are sooo good and they rule!

This is so hard to resist! I've sliced through some of my early albums, through a significant period in my life as it turns out. OK here goes.
Taste: On the boards.
My pal Charlie and myself standing on the seats in the Ulster Hall in Belfast watching Rory Gallagher being magnificent with battered Stratocaster and AC30.
Pete Atkin: Beware of the beautiful stranger.
Poignant, funny, literate lyrics by the mighty Clive James. Did Clive sleep with Ms Greer? Or was that John Peel. Or both?
Vaughn Williams: fantasia on a theme from Greensleeves.
I'm not English, but this makes me feel what it might be like to be English.
Steeleye Span: Hark the village wait.
Their first album and half the band being Irish! How wonderfulfully perfect.
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner mounting flame.
When I first heard this it made me scared. Not just a tingling of the spine excited, but truly scared. Even today, with the lights out, it could still take me to a strange place.
Third Ear Band: Alchemy.
This entire album is a strange place.
Quintessense: Quintessense.
A bunch of western hippies trying to be Hindu. If these guys had knocked on my door and said "Come with us" I would have been gone in a flash. Drown me deep in the sea of your love. Indeed!
John Renbourn: The lady and the unicorn.
Altered tunings meets Henry VIII. Sublime.
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust.
My pal Jim Hall and I, Dansette blasting in his bedroom, strange smoke swirling around the room. Jim's dad shouting from downstairs "what's that funny smell"! Applies also to Quintessense.
Frank Zappa: Hot Rats.
My life was never going to be the same after hearing "Peaches en regalia". I didn't stand a chance.
Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll: Streetnoise.
Now it would be called Acid Jazz. Then it was Julie Driscoll and a Hammond organ. As good as it gets.
The Beatles: Abbey Road.
A bit of a swiz, this one. How can one choose a Beatles album? Answer: One can't. I'll spend my entire time on this desert island playing "Rain" again and again instead.
The Bothy Band: Bothy Band.
The Ulster Hall again. 1976 and the best tradional Irish musicians are on stage and six years after Gallagher I'm standing on the seats again!
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers:with Eric Clapton.
This sounded even then old and new and the same time. The electric guitar was never meant to sound like this. White coated technicians running around trying to FIX it.
Van Morrison: Beautiful Vision.
From Alice A. Bailey to the back streets of Belfast. The smell of the bakery across the street got in my nose. I can still taste my Granny's paris buns.

This is a desert island none of us will want to leave. Great selections from everyone.

I've only got the one:

Minutemen "The Punch Line"

It's quite simply the greatest piece of recorded music ever made. I will never grow tired of it.

The Police - Synchronicity

I lived in Berlin when I started to listen to the Police all the time, and it was the best time of my life, and I just think this album stands out as the best....

Tom Waits - Closing Time

Proof that despite how awful he can sometimes sound, and how popular he has become through the pretention of others, he is one of the best songwriters out there.

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father to the Man

I'm sadly uneducated about the world in which this album was made, and my father always complains that when they got a new singer and made Spinning Wheel they really sucked, but this is one of the most consistent and amazingly well-written albums ever.

Ella Fitzgerald - The Complete Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife

An amazing voice, live from the greatest city in the world. When she makes up the words to Mack the Knife after forgetting them, it's hilarious and wonderful.

Pearl Jam - Live (pick your favorite, mine's from Mexico City)

Pearl Jam is the best band of my generation, without a doubt. I can't pick one album, because each album is so full of amazing songs, from the hits to the slow acoustic songs. So, I picked one of the hundreds of live albums they put out.

Beck - Odelay!

I can't believe this is not on other lists. This is the best album of the 90s. I can't reccommend everything he's done, but this album is absolutely flawless.

Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Not always perfect, not always enjoyable, and often annoying, she has more passion than anyone out there, and it makes what she does worth it. Rip that pope picture!

Fiona Apple - When the Pawn......

If you just saw the video for Criminal, you're missing out. I just wish I could hear the new album that will not come out because Sony can't find a "single" on it. it's supposed to top this one.

Nirvana - Unplugged

This album takes care of Leadbelly and the Meat Puppets. I won't have to include them, because although I like Leadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" better, I don't know of any well-put-together albums, and the Meat Puppets (FROM MY HOME-TOWN OF PHOENIX! (well, from Tempe, but still)) are actually featured on this amazing collection, one that gives Kurt Cobain validity after all.

Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads

Amazing songs, amazing concept, amazing quality (for the time), amazing history lesson, amazing passion. Makes you wanna be proud of America for it's amazing art, despite the Texecutioner.

Enanitos Verdes - En Vivo

The best songwriters I'm aware of. They can almost make me bleed with pain. Makes you wanna perfect your Spanish, and cry over lost love. Live from Hermosillo, and Phoenix. Listen to Luz de Dia.... Makes me cry.

(Honorable Mention to)
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience

If you've ever been a young adult who wallowed in alcohol, missing that person you can't have, and needing someone who understands, look no further than Tempe, AZ's Gin Blossoms. A lot of people don't give them much credit, but prior to the suicide that robbed them of their most talented songwriter Doug Hopkins (R.I.P.), they couldn't be topped. "Drink enough of anything to make myself/my girl/this world look again/I'm drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves" Give 'em a chance, I swear you will not be disappointed. (Oh, and lastly, if I were to include a VU album, it would definitely be the third one).

Opeth - Blackwater Park
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Dark Tranquility - Damage Done
The Cure - Disintegration
Tool - Aenima
John Denver - Greatest Hits
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Pink Floyd - The Wall