Desert Island Music Draft Thread *** draft is over ***

Deset Island Music Draft Finals *** Who Ya Got? ***

  • D-Mass

    Votes: 16 55.2%

  • bozzwell

    Votes: 13 44.8%
  • Total voters
    29
  • Poll closed .
Status
Not open for further replies.
Kingzrool

Kingzrool

Starter
#631
#631
OK, go ahead and dis this one, I wonder if anyone else has even heard this record? I cannot imagine that it is on anyone else's list but here goes....

Sean Paul - Dutty Rock - 2002
The uncensored version

Sean Paul was born in Jamaica and this album has Sly and Robbie in the production crew, it is legitimate. Technically considered Dancehall, Sean Paul has his own original "Dutty" brand of rock/reggae/hiphop that has just the right flavor for me. He sings a lot of duets with hot female vocalists, like Rihanna and Beyonce'. His third album, "The Trinity", was much more popular in the US and managed to get some critical acclaim, but this album has a raw and original sound. Tracks like Get Busy, I'm Still in Love With You, You Can Do the Work, Punkie and Concrete will get tons of play on my island. It will be up so loud that you may be able to hear it from yours - or did we only have headphones?
 

Attachments

Last edited:
Spike

Spike

Subsidiary Intermediary
Staff member
#633
#633
Bricklayer said:
Now those were obscure. :p
But I can hardly dis what I do not know.
Click to expand...
Elton John, obscure? Come on, now. :D

With my next pick in the draft, I select -

Alice in Chains - Dirt (1992)



One of my favorites of all time (duh.) It's hard and heavy with plenty of darkness to go around. I had to look back at the draft board to make sure this wasn't taken.
This is what I call a timeless album, it'll sound good 30 years from now. You heard me correctly, and I stand by my bold statement. Them Bones, Angry Chair, Would?, Down in a Hole, Rooster...all great tunes.
 
tradepeja

tradepeja

Starter
#635
#635
Bricklayer said:
Now those were obscure. :p

But I can hardly dis what I do not know.
Click to expand...
The lead single of Dutty Rock ("Get Busy") was actually a huge hit in 2002. Only even more popularized when it was featured in an episode of the most popular cable show at the time ("The Osbournes") when Ozzy Osbourne complains that HE can't understand what Paul is saying. Talk about irony.

No, but really, that song was huge. I guess it was on the radio stations you weren't tuned to though.
 
Bricklayer

Bricklayer

Don't Make Me Use The Bat
#637
#637


The Cars -- The Cars (1978)

I've had this one sitting in my pocket for a number of rounds now, but with nobody hitting anything terribly close for a long spell there, figured I could wait it out. However last round the walls started closing in a bit, so I am goign to snag it while the snagging is good. This also displays my newfound island focus -- I turned my back on my strategic pick, which was a bit of a downer, and instead I take The Cars' 6x platinum debut. The songs are about nothing in particular, but my lord could these guys write a pop hook. Song after song after song went shooting up the charts there for about 10 years, and it seemed like they could write a top 10 hit while singing in the shower every morning. Their debut features such songs as My Best Friend's Girl (a personal fave), Just What I Needed, Good Times Roll, Bye Bye Love, You've All I've Got Tonight etc. and checked in at #282 on Rolling Stones list of best ever albums. There were darker picks here, more strategic ones perhaps, but you know what? If I'm stuck on an island for the rest of my life its going to be a happy island. A fun island. So you guys go on with the draft -- me and the crabs are going to be down on the beach dancing to something light and catchy.
 
Kingzrool

Kingzrool

Starter
#639
#639
tradepeja said:
The lead single of Dutty Rock ("Get Busy") was actually a huge hit in 2002. Only even more popularized when it was featured in an episode of the most popular cable show at the time ("The Osbournes") when Ozzy Osbourne complains that HE can't understand what Paul is saying. Talk about irony.

No, but really, that song was huge. I guess it was on the radio stations you weren't tuned to though.
Click to expand...
That is hilarious about Ozzy, I totally missed that. I still hear "I'm Still In Love With You" on Serius from time to time.
 
Mr. S£im Citrus

Mr. S£im Citrus

Doryphore of KingsFans.com
Staff member
#642
#642
I tell you what, for my money, it seems sometimes like most of the best music ever produced, in pretty much every genre, was made in the seventies...





James Brown - The Payback - 1973

The title track hit #1 on the R&B charts, and the album was as high as #34. Honestly? I would have picked this album just for the title track, but since I've had a chance to listen to the whole album, I was very impressed with the songs here. Interestingly enough, the wiki page on this album said that it was originally intended to be used as the sound track for the Blaxploitation film Hell Up in Harlem, but the director rejected it for not being "James Brown enough."
 
D-Mass

D-Mass

Starter
#645
#645
Brit pop!

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)



Another British band with the "we're the greatest band in the world" complex, but this album was huge in the mid-90's. The heir apparent to the Beatles (mostly self-proclaimed) never really panned out in the long run due to some wild egos and sibling rivalries, but this album is just plain great. There's a lot of variety in this album, and I never seem to get bored of it.
 
GoGoGadget

GoGoGadget

All-Star
#647
#647
I've got a few albums on my list that are probably in bigger danger of being taken than this one, but I've been enjoying the more obscure picks that we've been seeing so I will continue that trend. After all, if the more popular ones I've still got in the wings haven't been taken yet, maybe they aren't going to be.


My 9th pick:



Southern Culture on the Skids -- Dirt Track Date (1996) -- As far as I'm concerned, it's pretty hard not to like an album that contains a song ("Camel Walk") that manages to sexualize pointy boots and Little Debbie snack cakes. As for the band itself... I've spent a few moments trying to figure out how to classify them and came up blank, so I'll let allmusic.com do it for me:
"SCOTS' music is a quintessentially Southern-fried amalgam of rockabilly, boogie, country, blues, swamp pop, and chitlin circuit R&B, plus a liberal dose of California surf guitar, a hint of punk attitude, and the occasional mariachi horns. Following an early incarnation as a relatively straightforward roots rock outfit, they morphed into a raucous, sleazy, tongue-in-cheek party band obsessed with sex and food;"
​
If you like good music with a bit of humor, they're well worth checking out.
 
D-Mass

D-Mass

Starter
#648
#648
Well, I've heard of everything in this thread...



...until now.

EDIT: I've liked all of your picks thusfar, so I'm sure it's good...
 
Last edited:
Jerryaki

Jerryaki

Starter
#653
#653
was all set to take oasis (which i should've done before les mis), and then realize it's gone. booooooo.

duran duran - duran duran (aka the wedding album) 1993



yet another british band from the 80's. this album is older and has a different sound from their earlier, more well-known works, but it has "come undone" which is the best of their songs IMO.
 
Warhawk

Warhawk

Give blood and save a life!
Staff member
#654
#654
And stepping over in a different direction for a bit:

The Corrs - Forgiven, Not Forgotten (1995)

wiki sums them up nicely:

The Corrs are a Celtic folk rock group from Dundalk, Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea (vocals, tin whistle); Sharon (violin, vocals); Caroline (drums, percussion, bodhrán, vocals); and Jim (guitar, keyboards, vocals).

Forgiven, Not Forgotten featured six instrumental selections among its Celtic-influenced tracks. The album sold well in Ireland, Australia, Japan, Norway and Spain. Major success in the US and the UK however was not immediately forthcoming. Eventually, the album reached platinum status in the UK[17] and Australia,[18] and quadruple platinum in Ireland,[13] making it one of the most successful debuts by an Irish group.[14]

When asked to describe their genre, Caroline Corr said it was a "blend of modern rhythms and technology with acoustic instruments, violin, tin whistle, drums, and of course the voices, the marrying of these instruments is our sound".[74] The Corrs' music is typically categorised as folk rock.
Click to expand...
Although some of their later albums were more popular, I think this is my favorite of the couple I own. The instumental selections in particular add a Celtic feel to the otherwise somewhat "normal" folk rock songs on the album. Very smooth and easy to get into, at least for me. Another great CD for me in the car - just cruise along and enjoy the tunes. :D Another one that many probably never heard of, but I didn't want to have to pack for the trip and leave this behind.
 

Attachments

Last edited:
Prophetess

Prophetess

Gallifrayain
#655
#655
and at number 9 to remind me of my beautiful daughter.... :D

Alan Jackson - EVERYTHING I LOVE.
Particular track: Little Bitty - She loves it.

"Chorus:
Well it's alright to be little bitty
Little hometown or a big ol' city
Might as well share, might as well smile
life goes on for a little bitty while"


And a bit about the man...
Awards

ASCAP
  • Country Song of the Year, "Don't Rock The Jukebox" 1992
  • Country Songwriter of the Year 1993
Academy of Country Music
  • Top New Male Vocalist 1990
  • Single Record of the Year, "Don't Rock the Jukebox" 1991
  • Album of the Year, Don't Rock the Jukebox 1991
  • Single Record of the Year, "Chattahoochee" 1993; "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" 2002
  • Album of the Year, A Lot About Livin' (And A Little 'Bout Love) 1993
  • Male Vocalist of the Year 1994 and 1995
  • All time winner: Single of the Year 2005
Country Music Association
  • Music Video of the Year, "Midnight In Montgomery" 1992
  • Music Video of the Year, "Chattahoochee" 1993
  • Single of the Year, "Chattahoochee" 1993
  • Single of the Year, "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)" 2002
  • Vocal Event of the Year, "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair" (with George Jones) 1993
  • Vocal Event of the Year, "Murder On Music Row" (with George Strait) 2000
  • Vocal Event of the Year, "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" (with Jimmy Buffett) 2003
  • Song of the Year, "Chattahoochee" 1994
  • Song of the Year, "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" 2002
  • Album of the Year, Common Threads: The Songs of the Eagles 1994
  • Album of the Year, Drive 2002
  • Male Vocalist of the Year 2002, 2003
  • Entertainer of the Year 1995, 2002, 2003

ps. bleepity, bleep, bleep Warhawk- i figured for sure with Hndsm Celt not picking most of the Celtic stuff would be safe, while I haven't heard the Corrs I'm seriously going to have to rearrange my second half picks....
 
Last edited:
C Diddy

C Diddy

Starter
#657
#657
Still bitter that I missed out on that Oasis disc. With my 9th pick...

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral - 1994



As I mentioned before, I really begun to explore music in the early 90's. My tastes were all over the map. I enjoyed the emerging grunge scene of Nirvana and Pearl Jam, I fell in love with the soulful, introspective, personal lyrics of DMB and Counting Crows, and to cap it all off, I really like NIN too. How's that for eclectic?

The first song I ever heard off this disc was "Closer", which sparked the controversy that became associated with its explicit lyrics and vulgar overtones. But, along with many of the other tracks on this album, there are varying levels of metaphors and multitudes of interpretations as to what exactly Trent Reznor meant. My favorites on this disc are "Closer", "Eraser", "Hurt", "Piggy" and "A Warm Place", which incidentally enough, is my favorite instrumental musical track of all time.
 
atxrocker

atxrocker

Starter
#658
#658
i like that duran duran album. was gonna use it when i didn't have a list but once i finally put one together it didn't make the cut. and i always liked come undone the best too.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.