Desert Island Music Album Draft 2013 - draft complete

[VF21]

UK kings fan has timed out. I hope he's feeling okay as I know he mentioned a stay in the hospital recently...

Anyway, I'm going to post my pick and then (because I'm going to be gone for the day) send my next pick to Bricklayer to post for me. If UK kings fan hasn't checked in by the time he's up again, Turgenev will be back on the clock. I'm gonna stretch the rules a bit, however, and say that UK kings fan can make up both picks when he gets back with us.

My next pick is in response to those who said I needed some heavy metal. I actually had Paranoid on my list, but never got a chance to grab it. So, I'm going with another group that got a lot of play at parties back in the day...

School's Out - Alice Cooper - 1972

Everybody, I'm sure knows the title track so I'm going to share a different track off the album:

 

[kingsnation]

Sorry for the wait all.

Final pick of Round 16:



Wailing Souls - All Over the World

After Marley, these guys are about even with another singer as my next choice for Reggae and I'm glad to have them on my island. Honestly, this album is just fun. I just can't help but to be in a good mood when I listen to it. This was the first album I discovered by them, so for me it's the best of theirs. My favorites are "Love You Want," and "Shark Attack." But every song is a "can't miss," for me. Also of note is the remake of "Sweet Black Angel."

More.. (note: A wiki link couldn't be found for the album, so allmusic had to do.)

 

[kingsnation]

For the 1st pick of Round 17,



The Beatles - Let It Be

All the Beatles albums that have been taken so far are awesome and honestly I'd be happy with any of them on my island. That is partially why I've waited until Round 17 to grab one of them. IMO, you just can't go wrong with them. Every album is just phenomenal in it's own way. Thus, I'm drafting "Let It Be."

"Get Back" and "I Me Mine," are two of my favorite Beatles songs ever. Of course, the title track and "The Long and Winding Road" are natural standouts as well. "Dig A Pony" is fun. In the end, you have 12 songs of classic Beatles. I'm very pleased to be adding any Beatles album to my island and "Let It Be," is among the very best.

More..

 

[kingsnation]

pm(s) sent to VF/Brick.

 

[VF21]

For my 17th pick in this draft, I'm going with one of my all-time favorite artists. I've liked Rod Stewart for a very long time. I've followed his career spanning 5 decades and still find him to be entertaining. It was tough for me to decide on which album I'd want to have on my island, but the decision was finally made because of one particular song...Mandolin Wind.

Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart - 1971

Here's a link to the title song - Every Picture Tells A Story

Here's the song I was talking about:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbx-6XqiQjY[/video]

The other songs on the album:

1. "Every Picture Tells a Story" (Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood) - 6:01
2. "Seems Like a Long Time" (Theodore Anderson) - 4:02
3. "That's All Right" (Arthur Crudup) - 3:59
4. "Amazing Grace" (Traditional, arranged by Stewart) - 2:03
5. "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" (Bob Dylan) - 3:43
6. "Henry" (Martin Quittenton) - 0:32
7. "Maggie May" (Stewart, Quittenton) - 5:16
8. "Mandolin Wind" (Stewart) - 5:33
9. "(I Know) I'm Losing You" (Norman Whitfield, Eddie Holland, Cornelius Grant) - 5:23
10. "Reason to Believe" (Tim Hardin) - 4:06

 

[Turgenev]

Frank. Amy Winehouse. 2003.



Amy had many talents. Was disappointed to miss out on 'back to black' but happy to grab this album.

Here is the wiki page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_(Amy_Winehouse_album)

A story by Questlove re Amy at the dry cleaner (def worth the read)
http://www.hypnagogics.com/questo/#!/amy-winehouse

The song stronger than me
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[dukeswh]

This artist is a very talented songwriter and possesses one of the best voices of his generation. I still have a hard time figuring out on which genre his music belongs.

For my 17th selection of the draft, I pick:

Unorthodox Jukebox - Bruno Mars (2012)

WIKI

 

[VF21]

EndGame has timed out. Jespher is on the clock. PM has been sent.

 

[Bricklayer]

To keep with the up-beat theme I'll add some more rebellious flavor. I love many works by Green Day, but this album brought both some radio hits with up tempo b-side anthems. This album plays well as background fare, gym track-lists, or sing along camp fire fare.

While I was deeply involved in music throughout elementary and high school, I didn't begin to play the guitar until November, 2000. My father taught me some chords, and we put some music books together to strum. They were primarily comprised of his early folk influences of the 60s and 70s, but I was also able to find some songs in more current genres. In 2004, I gave him a binder stuffed full of music for a Christmas present, and we continue to add to it currently as time goes by. I was as surprised as his 5th grade students when I found him picking up Green Day tracks, including the radio hits off of this album.

With my 17th selection, I choose:

Green Day - American Idiot - 2004

Track List:

1. American Idiot - 2:54
2. Jesus of Suburbia - 9:08
3. Holiday - 3:52
4. Boulevard of Broken Dreams - 4:20
5. Are We the Waiting - 2:42
6. St. Jimmy - 2:56
7. Give Me Novacaine - 3:25
8. She's a Rebel - 2:00
9. Extraordinary Girl - 3:33
10. Letterbomb - 4:05
11. Wake Me Up When September Ends - 4:45
12. Homecoming - 9:18
13. Whatsername - 4:14

More: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idiot

Somebody already took that one I'm afraid. UK Kings fan. And the fight over it this time further cements my very good taste in taking it last time.

 

[Jespher]

D'oh

 

[VF21]

Somebody already took that one I'm afraid. UK Kings fan. And the fight over it this time further cements my very good taste in taking it last time.

I thought sure someone had picked it but couldn't find it. Thanks for the back-up.

 

[Jespher]

Sorry for the mix-up. I made the pick from my phone without checking...I triple checked this one, so...With my 17th selection, I choose:

Sublime - Sublime - 1996

Summer ska with plenty of nostalgia here. Radio hits include Santaria, What I got, and Doin' Time (among countless others). This album remains a guilty pleasure upon warm summer afternoons.

Track List:

1. Garden Grove - 4:21
2. What I Got - 2:51
3. Wrong Way - 2:16
4. Same in the End - 2:36
5. April 29, 1992 (Miami) - 3:53
6. Santeria - 3:03
7. Seed - 2:10
8. Jailhouse - 4:53
9. Pawn Shop - 6:06
10. Paddle Out - 1:15
11. The Ballad of Johnny Butt - 2:11
12. Burritos - 3:55
13. Under My Voodoo - 3:25
14. Get Ready - 4:50
15. Caress Me Down - 3:31
16. What I Got (Reprise) - 3:01
17. Doin' Time - 4:12

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(album)

 

[EndGame]

sorry bout the holdup, I got 2 kids under 3 and its a madhouse. Anyway, I am sure I will not take this off anyone else's list. Most of you probably think this is a silly pick, but I have to say, it was a great introduction to an amazing artist that will probably still be making hit albums when I die.

Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift

Wiki

 

[pdxKingsFan]

No Bonus sent me his picks. He is up, no?

 

[VF21]

He is up, yes.

Remember to send a PM to Padrino.

 

[NoBonus]

From pdxKingsfan:

No Bonus gave me his picks for the week, his next pick is INXS - Kick

He provided me with no write up info so I'll just comment freely. Obviously I personally think this is a terrible pick.

No, just kidding. I can't really say I was a huge fan when it came out because the guitars weren't loud enough, but I really grew to appreciate INXS's career during Rockstar:INXS. Go figure, right? It was my favorite become a singer star contest ever. This album doesn't have my favorite INXS song but it has a lot of their best known singles including "New Sensation", "Never Tear Us Apart", "Devil Inside" and "Need You Tonight". The title track is pretty kickin' too.

I won't post a video of any of these since I don't know NB's motivation. I'd probably go with Never Tear Us Apart since I used to sing it to a girlfriend who had a crush on the late Mr. Hutchence. I doubt that's what NB would go for. But who knows? Hopefully he provides an honest write up.

Frpm NoBonus:

Make-up write up: Round 17:
INXS-Kick - 1987


First off, thanks to PDXKingsFan for picking for me. Much appreciated!

INXS - Kick, to me, as a kid, was something of a legendary album; my brother had it on tape and it got played... a lot. I can vividly remember picking "New Sensation" on the jukebox at Round Table Pizza then waddling over to the arcade to play "Shinobi"... great times. It is a great album with some great, great songs like "Never Tear Us Apart" (that is one of my all time favorite slow songs), "New Sensation", "Need you tonight", "Devil Inside" all fantastic tracks... a real 80's gem.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

No Bonus gave me his picks for the week, his next pick is INXS - Kick

Finally somebody starts culling my long list of albums! I've only got four selections left, so hurry up, people! Make this a bit easier on me!

 

[Padrino]

with the ninth pick in the seventeenth round of the 2013 Desert Island Music Draft, i select...

Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (02/08/00):

01 Intro
02 Nutmeg (feat. RZA)
03 One (feat. T.M.F.)
04 Saturday Nite
05 Ghost Deini (feat. Superb)
06 Apollo Kids (feat. Raekwon)
07 The Grain (feat. RZA)
08 Buck 50 (feat. Method Man, Cappadonna, & Redman)
09 Mighty Healthy
10 Woodrow the Basehead (Skit)
11 Stay True (feat. 60 Second Assassin)
12 We Made It (feat. Superb, Chip Banks, & Hell Razah)
13 Stroke of Death (feat. Solomon Childs & RZA)
14 Iron's Theme: Intermission
15 Malcolm
16 Who Would You F***?
17 Child's Play
18 Cherchez la Ghost (feat. Madame Majestic & U-God)
19 Wu Banga 101 (feat. GZA, Raekwon, Cappadonna, & Masta Killa)
20 Iron's Theme: Conclusion

Genre: hip hop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Clientele

well, now i'm starting to feel the pressure. with just a few rounds left, i've still got, i dunno, maybe fifty albums left that deserve a spot on my particular desert island. this has been quite a fun exercise in restraint, though, as i flip through my collection of LP's and scroll through my iTunes library to try and whittle down a list of albums that jumpstart the rush in my bloodflow. diversity is important to me, as is ignoring the scramble for an entire host of "classic rock" albums. the thing is, a great many of those albums simply reach a saturation point in our collective consciousness. we know them backwards and forwards, because those songs appear in television shows, films, car commercials, malls, summer bbq's, etc...

the way i see it, i don't need any music on my desert island that you're likely to find on a classic rock radio station, or that you're likely to hear parodied in an advertising jingle, because i've already got those songs stuck on repeat in my memory. i can recall every lick in "Stairway to Heaven" without racking my brain. i can pin down every vocal cue in "Bohemian Rhapsody" without scratching my head. they come with me wherever i go, whether i want them to or not...

that said, i've been very careful in this draft to select albums that i deem "classic," but that don't necessarily come from a place of consensus. it's my desert island, after all. i'd have no one to sing Beatles tunes with even if i wanted to, no one to play air-guitar alongside my air-drums during Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." so each of my picks is one that thrills me in some way, that hasn't lost its magic, that isn't going to bore on the millionth listen while i repeatedly fail at building a raft to get me back to the mainland, so i can discover something new...

Ghostface Killah is then as good an artist as any to usher in the final few rounds of the draft. he is, in my opinion, the Wu-Tang Clan's most deadly secret weapon, and Supreme Clientele, his second solo album, represents his crowning achievement. this dude manages to rhyme "hippie" with "Poughkeepsie" in the opening bars of "Nutmeg," and that should give you a sense of the boundless creativity at the tip of his tongue. he's as wildly inventive an emcee as hip hop has seen in it's still-young history. his internal rhyme schemes are tightly-woven tapestries, and they were one of the big influences on my early attempts at poetry...

i used to print out makeshift lyric sheets of each song on this album, and color-code every internal rhyme i'd spot in highlighter. what i noticed about Supreme Clientele over time was that Ghostface almost never reached for the easy rhyme, or the obvious image. he's a master of juxtaposing disparate ideas to create hip hop that doesn't stagnate, that doesn't fall victim to cliche even as he makes use of tried-and-true rap formulas. this album is nearly flawless, in my opinion, and it definitely needs to come with me as the 2013 Desert Island Music Draft winds down...

 

[Bricklayer]

...And Out Come the Wolves - Rancid - 1995

I hesitated before taking a third pure punk album, in particular since it was one I took last time we did this. But I've always really liked this album, and its got a lot to recommend it. It came out at a time when pop punk was gearing up with all the snottiness that implies, and then boom, here were these guys charting all over the place as the real deal in 3min or less. Its a huge album too, 19 tracks long, and as an added bonus includes several good ska tracks, as Rancid had several members with ska backgrounds and understood the not always obvious relationship between the genres. Some real credit as well should go to the producer on this one for really getting punk -- the whole album has a wild energy to it, its well produced, but it never makes the mistake of taming the music as it careens right on the border of flying out of control, and that's half the fun.

Old Friend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X4q-PWieSk
Roots Radical: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpzkGQhftMw

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

With the two hundred sixty-seventh pick of the draft, Mr. Slim Citrus selects:

Hikaru Utada, Distance (2001)

I had to have it on my first island, and I still gots'ta have it! Back when I was going through my pro-piracy phase (alternatively referred to as my "**** Lars Ulrich" phase), Utada was one of the musical acts that I discovered, along with her primary rival, countryman Ayumi Hamasaki, that I would have had no knowledge of, were it not for the file-sharing apps I was exploiting at the time*. I got the sense that their "rivalry" was supposed to be the Japanese equivalent of Britney (Ayumi) vs. Christina (Hikaru). As with their American counterparts, I found some of Ayumi's work tolerable, but was blown away by Hikki's voice, and the way that she seemed to put more of her heart into her songs. When I started paying for music again, I went out of my way to find this album, which was quite difficult to do in the U.S., let me tell you!

As an all-Japanese language album (aside from the chorus in a few songs), what I enjoy most about Hikki's music is probably the fact that, as a non-Japanese speaker, I can just get out of my head when I'm listening to it. I'm not thinking about the lyrics, I'm not obsessing over the **** going on in my head, I can just relax, and enjoy the beats, and the sound of her voice.

Distance is the second-most successful album released by the most successful musical artist in Japanese history. Despite trying and failing, on multiple occasions, to break into the American markets (where she holds dual citizenship, having been born in NYC), she continues to be one of the best-selling artists ever, worldwide. To date, the album has sold 4,472,343 copies. It is the fourth-best selling album of all time in Japan, according to Oricon, which appears to be Japan's answer to Billboard; Utada also has Number One and Number Eight on that list, with rock duo B'z (seemingly Japan's answer to U2?) being the only other artist or group with more than one album in the Top 10.

At the peak of her "rivalry" with Ayumi Hamasaki, Hamasaki's label pressured her to release her Greatest Hits collection on the exact same day that Distance was released. Hamasaki's Greatest Hits collection sold 2,874,870 copies in that first week; Distance sold 3,002,720, which still stands as the record for Week One sales in Japan. The singles probably accounted for the albums tremendous success, as she had four hit singles, which spent a combined sixty-one weeks at Number One in Japan, between late-1999 and early-2001, all of which were released before the album finally hit shelves in March of '01. Three of the four singles (Addicted to You, Wait and See and Can You Keep a Secret?) each sold over a million copies, and the fourth (For You/Time Limit) sold just over nine hundred thousand.

While she wrote and composed all her own songs, she collaborated with many producers of consequence, including renowned American R&B producers Flyte Tyme (Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis), and Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. (cite: Wikipedia).




*An amusing sidenote, and followup to all of the Limp Bizkit discussion, the first MP3 I ever downloaded was Nookie.

 

[VF21]

...As an all-Japanese language album (aside from the chorus in a few songs), what I enjoy most about Hikki's music is probably the fact that, as a non-Japanese speaker, I can just get out of my head when I'm listening to it. I'm not thinking about the lyrics, I'm not obsessing over the **** going on in my head, I can just relax, and enjoy the beats, and the sound of her voice...

I just listened to "Can You Keep a Secret" on YouTube and I have to agree. Nice selection, and only the second time I've listened to a song in Japanese that I could enjoy without knowing what it was really about.

 

[William Blake]

The Gories - I Know You Fine, But How You Doin'? (1990)

wiki

I hated the whole schooling part of high school. I just couldn't stand the fact that professors required my undivided attention 5 hours a day, 6 days a week, but I also weren't interested into getting into trouble. Therefore I just faked to be focused for the whole time while I was immersed in my own thoughts or while drawing silly stuff. This whole thing turned to be quite exhausting on my mind, to the point the by the second year I was completely unable to crack the books during the day and the evening because of a mixture of lazyness, lack of interest and/or motivation. The only time in which I could study was a couple of a hours before tests, I would wake up at early hours like 3 or 4 AM and study as hard as I could. Things got worse during my final year: tests became more frequent so I had to wake up at 4 even up to four times at week. So to gear up mentally I had routine, which was basically smoking a cigarette and listening to Early In The Morning by The Gories five or six times in a row, then I would be ready to study. I've probably listened to this song more than 500 times, the rest of the record is fantastic too.
There are at least a dozen 90s garage rock records I could have picked, this made the cut because of nostalgia.

 

[Uk kings fan]

Hi guys!

had a nightmare of a week when it has come to this draft, I was in Paris for the week on holiday but the hotel WIFI was broken (which i didnt expect to happen so i hadnt told anyone my picks) all week and this was coupled with the fact i had left my phone at home because of the exorbitant prices when it comes to using it abroad. So i tried to find a computer all week but couldn't find a single one i could use

So I have to apologize wholeheartedly when it comes to this draft and when it is my turn i will make up my picks. I want to assure you all it isnt because i have lost interest and it was never my intention to hold up the draft

 

[VF21]

Hi guys!

had a nightmare of a week when it has come to this draft, I was in Paris for the week on holiday but the hotel WIFI was broken (which i didnt expect to happen so i hadnt told anyone my picks) all week and this was coupled with the fact i had left my phone at home because of the exorbitant prices when it comes to using it abroad. So i tried to find a computer all week but couldn't find a single one i could use

So I have to apologize wholeheartedly when it comes to this draft and when it is my turn i will make up my picks. I want to assure you all it isnt because i have lost interest and it was never my intention to hold up the draft

You don't have to wait until it is your turn to make up your picks. You can do them right now. Thanks.

 

[Löwenherz]

Using my job as an excuse for a truncated pick again. Fortunately I had a horrible groaner pun stored away in advance for just such an occasion:

I hope my tropical island isn't always sunny, cuz I'm only happy when it rains.

Garbage - Garbage (1995)

Yet another band from my adolescence of which I was only vaguely aware DURING my actual adolescence. And if I'm being forthcoming, I only found them out of stubbornness and spite.

Early into my exploration of the art, my musically inclined friend accused me of being a sonic sexist because my first shortlist of favorite bands/artists wasn't only male dominate, but male exclusive. Rather than simply shrug my shoulders and sigh "I guess that's just how it is" I was determined to prove her wrong.

It wasn't long before I came back to her triumphantly with Shirley Manson and her sexy, alternative edge in tow. To me, Manson exudes strength and confidence that really appeals to me and I don't always get from other female singers. In my opinion, she's the true embodiment of the Girl Power that was so prevalent and so exploited in the 90s. Before I was introduced to Fiona Apple and Karen O and rediscovered Gwen Stefani on Tragic Kingdom, there was only Shirley Manson for me as my musical siren.

I also think Garbage as a whole is rather emblematic of the 90s. A time when experimentation in alternative rock was not only expected but demanded and bands in the mainstream could be weirdly creative to the point of absolute surrealism in the name of artistic vision. It was a strange, fun time and I find that ideal most prevalent in Garbage's music videos. (And that's not even including a few from their second album which I can't talk about)

Milk's video is appropriately haunting and eerily beautiful to match the song. It's also awfully strange and creepy and could easily be parodied in a "Don't question it. It's the 90s" SNL video. They could have easily slapped together a video of Shirley in black-and-white staring longingly from a dock out on the ocean. But it wouldn't have been as memorable and certainly wouldn't have been very Garbage in the 90s. No, no. For that we need to open with a blurry, unfocused strobe light and rave lasers. Agonizingly slow zoom to a ghost-like Shirley emerging from the light who's 2 parts gorgeous and 1 part terrifying as she mugs her close-up. Slow pan around unrecognizable room of smoke and more strobes and rave lasers to unclear and unsettling profiles of the band members with cuts back to ghost-like Shirley. Print it. Cut it. Send it out.

I tease only out of love because it certainly stays with me more than the black-and-white, sad Shirley on the dock idea.

Milk:
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DI5MuRF0Tk

I kinda miss the days I missed out on the first time around. If that even makes sense. Never mind, it doesn't have to make sense. It's the 90s.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_(album)

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Garbage - Garbage (2005)

Great pick. It's 1995, not 2005, though (just for VF's record keeping).

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Van Halen - 1984 (1984) (wiki link)

I think I need a bit more RAWK on my island, so I'm going to dig back into my childhood and pick up an album that has only gone platinum 12 times. I mean, seriously, everybody I knew had this record - apparently it was only prevented from ever being the #1 album in the country by virtue of being released at the same time as a little album known as "Thriller". (It's been taken! I can talk about it!) One of the most famous songs on the album, "Hot For Teacher", is the first song I ever got in trouble for accidentally playing in front of my mom. Let's just say that she didn't like the message in that one. The album also has classics like "Jump" and "Panama", the latter of which has a relatively interesting (if apocryphal) story to its genesis: The story I heard was that a poor review of Van Halen's previous album came out with the reviewer dismissing the record as full of "more songs about sex, drugs, and cars". Upon seeing the review, David Lee Roth said, "Heeeey! We've never written any songs about CARS!" and proceeded to write one. One thing about this album that I love is how it seamlessly integrates the synthesizer trend of the time with the heavy guitars that are the Van Halen trademark. Since everybody knows the songs so well, I'm going to link two of the "deeper" tracks on the album that I still think are great.

(Link to "Drop Dead Legs")
(Link to "I'll Wait")

 

[Bricklayer]

One of the albums I was referencing during my The Cult pick as a go big or go home selection that just feels less fresh to me now.

You really should post the Hot for Teacher video though.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I'll Wait was one of the singles wasn't it? I feel like I played it in band in 5th grade. Not the hugest fan of the keyboard trend and Hot For Teacher has grown stale on me over the years (do post the video) but I have a ton of fond memories for Jump, keyboard solo and all, and then Panama is the last great VH single.

 

[VF21]

Capt. Factorial has trouble with his computer with the embedded links. Therefore, I'll add a link to "Hot for Teacher" here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4GZFbCqx18