Desert Island Music Album Draft 2013 - draft complete

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

With the two hundred seventy-eighth pick of the draft, Mr. Slim Citrus selects:

Scarface, The Fix (2002)

The last of the albums on my actual draft board, the rest of my picks will either be re-peats from my first island, or "wild card" selections. The Fix is my favorite Scarface album from beginning to end: it doesn't have as many of my favorite songs, but it doesn't pancake like some of his other albums do. This is actually my go-to album for when Pops and I go to Atlanta Dream home games, and the team is undefeated when I'm able to play it in the first half, although it only seems to work when I'm actually at the arena. Face wrote and performed every track, and also collaborated with some of the more well-known producers in hip-hop.

It's also a part of my PT rotation, on my non-cardio days.

The Fix was somewhat less than commercially: while it did debut at Number Four on the Billboard 200 (and Number One on Billboard's Hip-Hop/R&B chart), and sold 159,000 copies in its first week, it disappeared from the charts almost immediately, not even earning a gold certification, the first album by Face to fail to do so. Still, it did receive a good deal of positive critical acclaim, and earned "five mics" in The Source, the only album to do so between 2002 and 2005 (cite: Wikipedia).

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

well apparently i have to pick or they are forfeited (i personally think waiting for my pick makes more sense but whatev's..)

I can't speak to what you may or may not have been told in private but, IIRC, nobody has said anything about your picks being forfeited, at least not in the sense that you don't get to make them, ever. Also, I don't believe that anyone said that you're not allowed to wait, it's simply not in your best interests to wait: the longer you wait to make up picks after your turn has passed, the more people have the opportunity to "steal" your picks. Unless you don't plan to take anything but Tuvan throat singing, the chances increase, the longer you wait, no matter how unlikely you may think that is.

Going into this draft, there were a bunch of people here, both participants and simply observing, who would have bet a dollar that I wouldn't have anything like Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow or Soundgarden on my island, and you personally have at least six albums that I would have picked, had they fallen a round or two lower (in particular, I had A Night at the Opera queued up for the eleventh round) so, if I were you, and I miss my turn because of other commitments, I would make my picks as soon as I got back, and minimize the risk of getting got.

 

[VF21]

I can't speak to what you may or may not have been told in private but, IIRC, nobody has said anything about your picks being forfeited, at least not in the sense that you don't get to make them, ever. Also, I don't believe that anyone said that you're not allowed to wait, it's simply not in your best interests to wait: the longer you wait to make up picks after your turn has passed, the more people have the opportunity to "steal" your picks. Unless you don't plan to take anything but Tuvan throat singing, the chances increase, the longer you wait, no matter how unlikely you may think that is.

Going into this draft, there were a bunch of people here, both participants and simply observing, who would have bet a dollar that I wouldn't have anything like Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow or Soundgarden on my island, and you personally have at least six albums that I would have picked, had they fallen a round or two lower (in particular, I had A Night at the Opera queued up for the eleventh round) so, if I were you, and I miss my turn because of other commitments, I would make my picks as soon as I got back, and minimize the risk of getting got.

I sent him a PM stating that he needed to make up the missing picks before his next turn or those picks would be forfeited.

- If the pick gets back to you before you make your pick from the previous round, you forfeit your pick from the round you missed.

I relaxed that rule because his picks were so close together and didn't forfeit his #16 when #17 timed out, but didn't feel I could stretch it any longer.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Hence, the IIRC; I didn't want to "speak" for you, and couldn't very well testify to what I didn't "hear."

The underlying point still stands, though: in an activity such as this, where the only "dibs" comes in the form of making your picks on time, it simply does not pay for you to wait any longer than you have to to make your picks. He seemed to be trying to make the case that he would be better off waiting until his next scheduled pick, and I was trying to point out that that just would have made it possible for ten more people to "steal" his picks.

 

[Bricklayer]

All right, at 20 picks I was going to forego a true ska album, and in fact that was one of the reasons I took Rancid last round -- I was going to rely on their smattering of ska tracks as my forever island ska selection. But now that we are 25, ska is back in, and if this pick is lacking in originality, at least its honest as I played it more than any other ska album (actually, any other commercial ska album -- a Penn college band of the era called the Lidds was a fav at the time) during the peak of ska's third wave in the states:

Let's Face It - Mighty Mighty Bosstones - 1997

I arrived on the East Coast not knowing who these guys were, inspiring some disbelief from a skafanatic girl during orientation night that inspired me to quickly bone up on what I had been missing. This was their peak album commerically, featuring one of the biggest hits from the 90s ska era in The Impression That I Get, and featuring a string of fun ska tunes that stepped back a bit from their "ska core" origins, when they had often followed a fairly simple ska verse/headbanging metal chorus pattern. They were still a lot heavier than the light irreverent pop ska groups of the era with heavy guitars and Dicky Barrett growling out lyrics, but let's put it this way as to how serious they were: two of my favorite songs off the album are called That Bug Bit Me and Another Drinking Song.

Another Drinking Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YDmDWTaXc0

 

[Padrino]

with the eighth pick in the eighteenth round of the 2013 Desert Island Music Draft, i select...

Battles - Mirrored (05/14/07):

01 Race : In
02 Atlas
03 Ddiamondd
04 Tonto
05 Leyendecker
06 Rainbow
07 Bad Trails
08 Prismism
09 Snare Hanger
10 Tig
11 Race : Out

Genre: experimental rock, noise rock, post-rock, math rock

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

as a bonus, here's a trippy music video for "Atlas," with its equally-trippy acid-soaked chipmunk vocals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGp-22t0lU

now that we've extended the draft to 25 rounds, and the pressure's off for a bit longer, i can keep having good fun with my picks. so here's something from the future. well, technically it's from 2007, but it sure as **** sounds like it's being beamed in from 2077. Battles are one strange, forward-thinking group of musicians. they twist and morph traditional instruments (guitar, bass, drums, keys, vocals) into unrecognizable noisemakers. it's thrilling to hear such familiar sounds constructed in all new ways. it's also occasionally unsettling. yet, for all of their future-shock, Battles manages to stay rooted in the earthly realm thanks to John Stanier, my third-favorite drummer of all-time. while the rest of the band is busy defamiliarizing rock music as a form, John Stanier's propulsive sense of groove keeps the listener's ears grounded. it's important to me that i can practically hear the air itself being pushed around by Stanier's kick pedal, that i'm not alienated from the experience of listening to their songs, that Battles aren't completely lost at the edge of space...

 

[NoBonus]

from pdxKingsfan:

No Bonus's next pick is Badfinger's - Straight Up.

I gots nothing on this one. Nice band portrait on the cover though.

Wiki

from NoBonus:

Make-up write up from round 18:

Badfinger - Straight Up - 1971

I am a huge Badfinger fan... something about them has always really appealed to me; maybe it is their classic rock chops or maybe it is their story of doom and misery or maybe it is the incredible songs they wrote... not sure, some combination of that makes having a Badfinger on my island an absolute requirement.
Straight up features my favorite Badfinger tracks like "Day After Day", "Take It All", "Baby Blue", and "Flying"...

When the drums come in on "Day After Day", for some reason, I am then forced to play air drums for the rest of the song... not sure what it is, but it is awesome.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I guess not obvious but I did link the wiki in the artist/album title.

 

[VF21]

I guess not obvious but I did link the wiki in the artist/album title.

Oops. I missed it.

 

[Jespher]

I'll keep the volume up with this next selection. This came under my radar after the original ipod singles draft when It's A Long Way to The Top (If You Want to Rock 'n' Roll) was drafted with a 1st round pick. I've been a fringe AC/DC fan for a while, but I've eventually come around to their fun, raucous style, especially when I feel like letting off some steam. With my 18th selection, I choose:

AC/DC - High Voltage (International Album) - 1976

Track List:

1. It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll) - 5:01
2. Rock 'n' Roll Singer - 5:04
3. The Jack - 5:52
4. Live Wire - 5:50
5. T.N.T. - 3:34
6. Can I Sit Next To You Girl - 4:12
7. Little Lover - 5:37
8. She's Got Balls - 4:51
9. High Voltage - 4:03

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Voltage_(1976_album)

 

[kingsnation]

There's no easier way to vote for a winner than to cast your ballot the day after the election!

Truer words have never been spoken!

 

[EndGame]

I will do a write up later, sorry for the holdup
my selection is:

Run DMC - Raising Hell - 1986

Wiki

 

[GoGoGadget]

In celebration of the added rounds, a bonus track.

Wanted to post the album version of "Kalopsia" way back forever ago when I took the new QotSA album in the third round, but as the release was only two weeks old at the time only the live version was available. The live version I posted earlier is good, but the studio version includes Joshua Homme and Trent Reznor sharing vocals on the first chorus, which just might be my favorite thing ever.

 

[GoGoGadget]

Run DMC - Raising Hell - 1986

Great pick. Still sore I missed out on that one in the first draft.

 

[dukeswh]

For my 18th pick of the draft, i'm going to select an album from my favorite guitarist of all time. I've always liked Steve Vai more than any other guitarist out there because, for me, he brings not only amazing technique but also great showmanship and emotion to his every song. And I believe that no other album showcased that better than this pick:


Alien Love Secrets - Steve Vai (1995)

WIKI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6JYXiXio74 - Yayo Gakk - With a special participation by his son Julian. (very cute)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5BrE1Pi5cU - Bad Horsie - My favorite song in this album.

 

[Turgenev]

I'm going to go with-

Blowout comb. Digable Planets. 1994.



As a teenager, trying to develop my own style and identity, this was the direction I followed. Laid back and cool. Smart. I don't think I ever quite reached those ideals- but that may differ depending who you ask (if only!!)

Here is the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowout_Comb

Borough check

 

[Bricklayer]

I'm going to go with-

Blowout comb. Digable Planets. 1994.

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As a teenager, trying to develop my own style and identity, this was the direction I followed. Laid back and cool. Smart. I don't think I ever quite reached those ideals- but that may differ depending who you ask (if only!!)

Well you certainly developed your own musical identity.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I'm going to go with-

Blowout comb. Digable Planets. 1994.

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As a teenager, trying to develop my own style and identity, this was the direction I followed. Laid back and cool. Smart. I don't think I ever quite reached those ideals- but that may differ depending who you ask (if only!!)

Here is the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowout_Comb

Borough check

I have this album. And Borough Check is my favorite track. A lot of "pancake" tracks, though.

 

[Uk kings fan]

Right ok

Im going to pick a band from the country I was born in, some of you might know (as i have talked to you in the past about it!) that my heart lies in New Zealand but the music scene for years hasnt been up to much.... untill these guys came along with a fantastic debut album

The Naked And Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You

Full Album - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIZJFSMnQq0&list=PLCC64E2710DC86B8F


And the hit single

Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_Me,_Aggressive_You

fantastic album check it out!!

 

[VF21]

For my next pick, I had to decide between two albums by the same artist. I finally went with the one I bought first.

Teaser and the Firecat - Cat Stevens - 1971

If you didn't live the 70s, it's hard to explain the 70s. So many different styles of music, so many new voices vying for your attention. There were voices of protest, voices urging for peace and voices just wanting to be part of the cacaphony of sound. In the midst of all this, there were those few who you knew were speaking solely from the heart. Cat Stevens is one of them. I figured this album would be safe, although a part of me was hoping that his early works had garnered some interest from the younger generation.

Stevens converted to Islam in December 1977 and adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all his guitars for charity and left his music career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. He has been given several awards for his work in promoting peace in the world, including the 2003 World Award, the 2004 Man for Peace Award, and the 2007 Mediterranean Prize for Peace.

- From Wikipedia

He has returned to music, but I still prefer his earlier works. If you get a chance, read the Wiki article about him. He's one of the more complex people from a very complex period in time.

Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGNxKnLmOH4 (Moonshadow}

Side one
"The Wind" – 1:42
"Rubylove" – 2:37
"If I Laugh" – 3:20
"Changes IV" – 3:32
"How Can I Tell You" – 4:24
Side two
"Tuesday's Dead" – 3:36
"Morning Has Broken" – 3:20
"Bitterblue" – 3:12
"Moonshadow" – 2:52
"Peace Train" – 4:04

 

[kingsnation]

Sorry for the delay all, just got off work. Picks coming.

 

[kingsnation]

With the last pick of Round 18,



The Roots - Things Fall Apart

This is one of those artists that have such a complete and extensive catalog, it almost makes it difficult to select just one album. But "Things Fall Apart," takes the cake for a couple reasons for me. This was the first album that allowed me to "discover" The Roots. I wasn't familiar with them until then. On top of that, this album just flows from beginning to end and that's important for any album, but especially in hip hop. Add in the social commentary and appearances from Mos Def, Common and Erykah Badu among others, this is the cream of the crop. During a time when "mainstream" hip hop was beginning to look different, The Roots remained true.

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[kingsnation]

With the first pick of Round 19,



Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow

The 25 rounds format allowed me to change around a few things and move the Airplane up to 19. "Surrealistic Pillow" is an adventure for your ears and one of those albums that has truly stood the test of time and generations. Back in 2003, I took a music class at the local college and when this album was discussed, the 18-20 year olds in the class were just as fond of the album, especially "White Rabbit," as the older students.

"White Rabbit," naturally is my top song of the album but the others are right there for me. "Somebody to Love" is a classic and "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds" is another standout. Of course, Grace's voice is amazing.

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[VF21]

With the first pick of Round 19,

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Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow

The 25 rounds format allowed me to change around a few things and move the Airplane up to 19. "Surrealistic Pillow" is an adventure for your ears and one of those albums that has truly stood the test of time and generations. Back in 2003, I took a music class at the local college and when this album was discussed, the 18-20 year olds in the class were just as fond of the album, especially "White Rabbit," as the older students.

"White Rabbit," naturally is my top song of the album but the others are right there for me. "Somebody to Love" is a classic and "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds" is another standout. Of course, Grace's voice is amazing.

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Excellent, excellent pick that I mistakenly thought would be safe from all you young whipper-snappers. I should have made another rule - that you can't pick albums that came out before you were born.

 

[VF21]

Okay, since my list took a direct hit I had to shuffle things around a bit.

My Head is an Animal - Of Monsters and Men - 2012

The first time I heard this group, I was immediately reminded of The Lumineers. And since Brickie took that album, this one will fit the bill.

I absolutely love this album. It's fun and it's upbeat and it's different enough from everything else on my island that I don't think I'll ever get tired of it. As a debut album, they've set the bar very high for themselves.

1. "Dirty Paws"
2. "King and Lionheart"
3. "Numb Bears"
4. "Sloom"
5. "Little Talks"
6. "From Finner"
7. "Six Weeks"
8. "Love Love Love"
9. "Your Bones"
10. "Lakehouse"
11. "Yellow Light" with hidden song "Sinking Man"

 

[Bricklayer]

An Icelandic band? Excellent. Iceland has fewer people in it than Sacramento does. Throw in a language barrier and too much teeth chattering to sing and numb fingers to play instruments, and what are the odds a band was ever going to escape that island and make a splash?

Edit: someone has pointed out to me a couple of other Icelandic bands, one of which I did not know was Icelandic, and one of which I somehow did not know, but should have really.

 

[Turgenev]

Hi.

UK Kings Fan is out of town and has sent me his pick.

Life For Rent - Dido - 2003

Here is the wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_for_Rent

No doubt a description on the way. My pick coming up soon.

 

[Turgenev]

I really wasn't sure what direction to go with for this pick. Now that the draft has been extended there is a bit more freedom re what to select. Freedom though can be difficult...

Janis Joplin. Pearl. 1971.



This is more of a sentimental pick than anything else. As a child, I lived with my mother in a small flat. We were seperated from family and had not much. My mother had a work ethic and a chip on her shoulder. However, little in the way of company or friendship. I think music gave her company and support. She played this often on Sunday evenings while doing her ironing for the week. I dont doubt that my musical preferences where influenced strongly by the music I heard so much growing up.

Wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_(album)

Mercedes Benz

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[Turgenev]

I have this album. And Borough Check is my favorite track. A lot of "pancake" tracks, though.

By 'pancake' tracks do you mean fillers or flat tracks? You're probably not wrong. I loved these guys when I was in high school though.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

By 'pancake' tracks do you mean fillers or flat tracks? You're probably not wrong. I loved these guys when I was in high school though.

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