Desert Island Music Draft Thread *** draft is over ***
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Maybe you did not understand. I just saw that yesterday. And I gave you the courtesy today. It changed nothing on my list, and I am still confused as to what my next picks will be. Pick as you may, really. At this point, I am not taking either of those this round or next. But, to quote my PM to you
, you did not have to peek. But to be honest, I am glad you did, because I would have been unhappy without Superfly on my island.
Hey, an idea that I saw while I was snooping sounds good to me. After this is over, we should do a Jukebox version of individual tracks only. With the IPOD and download age in full force, it would be fun.
Hey, an idea that I saw while I was snooping sounds good to me. After this is over, we should do a Jukebox version of individual tracks only. With the IPOD and download age in full force, it would be fun.
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Since Jerryaki has been on the clock for over 24 hours, I am going to go ahead and proceed with my pick to keep things rolling.
So, without further ado, in the 6th round of the Desert Island Music Draft, GoGoGadget selects:
Prince & The Revolution -- Around the World in a Day (1985) -- With "Purple Rain" already taken, sigh, its follow up album was my immediate choice for a replacement. Not as well known an album as some of his others, it has its share of hits in "Raspberry Beret," "Pop Life," and "Paisley Park." From start to finish (with the exception of one of my very least favorite songs ever), however, it captures Prince with his best band when they were still at their peak. "Tamborine" and the title track are especially good, and help make this my second favorite of Prince's catalog. And, as if that's not enough, in the last track Prince actually has an overwrought and unintentionally hilarious conversation with God after which he is flung, screaming, into hell. If that's not enjoyable, I don't know what is.
So, without further ado, in the 6th round of the Desert Island Music Draft, GoGoGadget selects:
Prince & The Revolution -- Around the World in a Day (1985) -- With "Purple Rain" already taken, sigh, its follow up album was my immediate choice for a replacement. Not as well known an album as some of his others, it has its share of hits in "Raspberry Beret," "Pop Life," and "Paisley Park." From start to finish (with the exception of one of my very least favorite songs ever), however, it captures Prince with his best band when they were still at their peak. "Tamborine" and the title track are especially good, and help make this my second favorite of Prince's catalog. And, as if that's not enough, in the last track Prince actually has an overwrought and unintentionally hilarious conversation with God after which he is flung, screaming, into hell. If that's not enjoyable, I don't know what is.
Well, since we're rolling and I'm online, I might as well keep it going.
The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993)
I remember hearing "Linger" for the first time as a college freshman and being completely infatuated by Dolores O'Riordan simply because of her voice. I had no idea what she looked like and I really didn't care. I still love this album and will listen to it whenever I need to relax.
The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993)
I remember hearing "Linger" for the first time as a college freshman and being completely infatuated by Dolores O'Riordan simply because of her voice. I had no idea what she looked like and I really didn't care. I still love this album and will listen to it whenever I need to relax.
Since Jerryaki has been on the clock for over 24 hours, I am going to go ahead and proceed with my pick to keep things rolling.
So, without further ado, in the 6th round of the Desert Island Music Draft, GoGoGadget selects:
Prince & The Revolution -- Around the World in a Day (1985) -- With "Purple Rain" already taken, sigh, its follow up album was my immediate choice for a replacement. Not as well known an album as some of his others, it has its share of hits in "Raspberry Beret," "Pop Life," and "Paisley Park." From start to finish (with the exception of one of my very least favorite songs ever), however, it captures Prince with his best band when they were still at their peak. "Tamborine" and the title track are especially good, and help make this my second favorite of Prince's catalog. And, as if that's not enough, in the last track Prince actually has an overwrought and unintentionally hilarious conversation with God after which he is flung, screaming, into hell. If that's not enjoyable, I don't know what is.
So, without further ado, in the 6th round of the Desert Island Music Draft, GoGoGadget selects:
Prince & The Revolution -- Around the World in a Day (1985) -- With "Purple Rain" already taken, sigh, its follow up album was my immediate choice for a replacement. Not as well known an album as some of his others, it has its share of hits in "Raspberry Beret," "Pop Life," and "Paisley Park." From start to finish (with the exception of one of my very least favorite songs ever), however, it captures Prince with his best band when they were still at their peak. "Tamborine" and the title track are especially good, and help make this my second favorite of Prince's catalog. And, as if that's not enough, in the last track Prince actually has an overwrought and unintentionally hilarious conversation with God after which he is flung, screaming, into hell. If that's not enjoyable, I don't know what is.
If I didn't get Sign...I was soooooooooooooooo going here, this album was freaking awesome, not to mention was released on my birthday. My younger sister the Prince-O-Phile had done something and had gotten put on restriction. Being the upstanding older sister that I am, I bought this album, made a copy of it for myself and snuck the vinyl to her ala a scene out of Shawshank (I may get over my movie island draft trauma verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry soon
Silly kid lost her mind one day and blared the damn thing and got us both busted lol...ahhh, good times. [and thus concludes another trip down MBF's childhood memory lane....
]When itunes FINALLY got his library of stuff, this and the sound track from Graffitti Bridge were must haves (that I didn't already have in digital form)...The title track and Tamborine...awesome. GGG, what was your least favorite song ever?
Well damn... my heads all ****ed up now; I'm not sure if I should pick what I wanted to pick, or something that I would have picked later if I weren't worried about somebody else knowing what it was.
Oh well, there's nothing for it; here goes:
The Isley Brothers - The Heat is On - 1975
When I hear the term "baby making music," I think of two artists/groups: this is the first of those two. The Heat is On was one of the Isley's biggest hits (#1 on the Billboard Top 40), and spawned two hit singles: Fight the Power (#4 Billboard Top 40) and For the Love of You (#23 Top 40). This was one of my mom's favorite albums when I was a kid, and it's grown on me as well.
Oh well, there's nothing for it; here goes:
The Isley Brothers - The Heat is On - 1975
When I hear the term "baby making music," I think of two artists/groups: this is the first of those two. The Heat is On was one of the Isley's biggest hits (#1 on the Billboard Top 40), and spawned two hit singles: Fight the Power (#4 Billboard Top 40) and For the Love of You (#23 Top 40). This was one of my mom's favorite albums when I was a kid, and it's grown on me as well.
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"Conditions of the Heart." Thanks to the digital era, I have now been able to make a few simple clicks and remove it completely from my iPod. Back when I had it on cassette, however, I actually got good enough to learn exactly how long to hold down the fast forward button on my walkman to avoid listening to it.
Okay...hmmm...and all that.
I am a strategist. First, foremost, nearly all the time. At work, at play, does not matter whether I am playing chess, playing cards, or playing basketball, I am a strategist. Those are the games that hold greatest appeal to me, and I normally find a way to incorporate strategy into all but the most mind numbingly simplistic games. And I have to say this particular game, which looks so simple on the outside, has actually been all sorts of fun from a strategic standpoint. This time for instance I have four possible choices, in four different genres. I consider all 4 to be under some level of threat. Furthermore I consider my little metalhead friend Spike a direct threat to one of them, and he gets two picks before me. I have no idea what the hell Kingzrool is up to, and he gets two as well. Throw in that 2 of the 4 are in genres that I may very well have no other representatives in, bt my favorite is in a genre I already have covered and...well I'm having fun. Just so long, of course, that none of you jerks runs away with any of those 4 before I can nab them.
Anyway:
The Fugees -- The Score (1996)
I am not generally a hip hop guy. Just am not. My normal complaint would be that I find many/most hip hop to be melodically challenged. Not all. But most. And then there was this monster of a mid-90s album. It hit #1, went 6x platinum in the U.S., and sold 18 millions albums worldwide. And quite out of character, I was part of that.Because this was a crew who did understand melody, and while many of their biggest (and my favorite) hits from the album featured them borrowing melodies writeen by others (the worldwide #1 smash cover of Killing Me Softly, a strong cover of No Woman No Cry letting me slip some Marley onto my island through the back door, and the absolutely haunting Ready or Not, which stole its melody wholesale from an Enya song), their reggae influenced grooves work well throughout the album, cover or not. And in an era when every idiot who could rhyme "ho" with "yo" seemed to be running around waving guns at each other to prove their street cred, this coed crew had sophistication and a worldly touch -- smart people (one of them ended up picking up an Ivy League degree) aware of their roots, and while I certainly did not agree with them on everything, people with something to say. And then of course there was the Lauryn Hill factor -- few hip hop groups have ever been blessed with a weapon of that caliber, and this was the album where they really unleashed her and became superstars in the process.
I am a strategist. First, foremost, nearly all the time. At work, at play, does not matter whether I am playing chess, playing cards, or playing basketball, I am a strategist. Those are the games that hold greatest appeal to me, and I normally find a way to incorporate strategy into all but the most mind numbingly simplistic games. And I have to say this particular game, which looks so simple on the outside, has actually been all sorts of fun from a strategic standpoint. This time for instance I have four possible choices, in four different genres. I consider all 4 to be under some level of threat. Furthermore I consider my little metalhead friend Spike a direct threat to one of them, and he gets two picks before me. I have no idea what the hell Kingzrool is up to, and he gets two as well. Throw in that 2 of the 4 are in genres that I may very well have no other representatives in, bt my favorite is in a genre I already have covered and...well I'm having fun. Just so long, of course, that none of you jerks runs away with any of those 4 before I can nab them.
Anyway:
The Fugees -- The Score (1996)
I am not generally a hip hop guy. Just am not. My normal complaint would be that I find many/most hip hop to be melodically challenged. Not all. But most. And then there was this monster of a mid-90s album. It hit #1, went 6x platinum in the U.S., and sold 18 millions albums worldwide. And quite out of character, I was part of that.Because this was a crew who did understand melody, and while many of their biggest (and my favorite) hits from the album featured them borrowing melodies writeen by others (the worldwide #1 smash cover of Killing Me Softly, a strong cover of No Woman No Cry letting me slip some Marley onto my island through the back door, and the absolutely haunting Ready or Not, which stole its melody wholesale from an Enya song), their reggae influenced grooves work well throughout the album, cover or not. And in an era when every idiot who could rhyme "ho" with "yo" seemed to be running around waving guns at each other to prove their street cred, this coed crew had sophistication and a worldly touch -- smart people (one of them ended up picking up an Ivy League degree) aware of their roots, and while I certainly did not agree with them on everything, people with something to say. And then of course there was the Lauryn Hill factor -- few hip hop groups have ever been blessed with a weapon of that caliber, and this was the album where they really unleashed her and became superstars in the process.
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This was very nearly on my list, and certainly would have been in consideration when and if I start doubling up in genres (as would two of the solo efforts from members of the threesome). Great pick, and a fantastic album.
Sadly, my copy of this CD was in my ex-friend/roomate's car when it got repossessed. I've still got the empty jewel case in my collection because I can't bear to throw it away.
Sadly, my copy of this CD was in my ex-friend/roomate's car when it got repossessed. I've still got the empty jewel case in my collection because I can't bear to throw it away.
my hesitation kills me once again. i seriously had the score as my last pick. even began writing my post for it but changed my mind at the last second thinking it would be overlooked and decided to use it on my next go round. obviously, i regret that. one of my favorite hip hop albums of the time. that whole album is excellent. a cousin of mine has their greatest hits album and 7 of the 10 songs on there are off of this album. great stuff.
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