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

[Spike]

Based on Bricky's assumption, I'm going in another direction, since I think my next pick will be very safe. So here goes:

Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry (1984)

Although this album was the most commercially successful, I had a tough choice choosing between this one and Under the Blade (yeah, yeah, I think it'll be picked up as a FA.) The Dimmu Borgir cover is only OK. Here's some info:

Stay Hungry, released on May 10, 1984, was the third album released by the heavy metal[1] band Twisted Sister. This album featured the band's two biggest hits, "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock", as well as the power ballad "The Price".
Twisted Sister performed the song "Burn In Hell" during a cameo appearance in the 1985 film Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. The song "Burn In Hell" has also been covered by Dimmu Borgir on Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia. We're Not Gonna Take It was also covered by Bif Naked on the Ready to Rumble soundtrack. The two songs that comprise the Horror-Teria segment became the basis of Twisted Sister lead-singer Dee Snider's 1999 film Strangeland, in which Captain Howdy was played by Dee himself.

 

[Bricklayer]

In an absolutely shocking development, that was not it Spike.

 

[Bricklayer]

David Gray -- White Ladder (1999)

And to complete my folk twosome, I pair Chapman's American angsty urban folk with some brit pop folk. This was Gray's big score, on this side of the pond anyway, and included fave crossover hits Babylon and the beautiful This Year's Love. It was a bigger hit in the U.K., where it went on to hit #1 (did in Ireland as well), but then again, he is a Brit. Not everything can be thumping beats and screaming guitars when you are stuck out on an island all by yourself -- sometimes you need something a little more intimate.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Okay, this will probably be my last pick from the seventies... at least, for a little while:

Kool & The Gang – Ladies’ Night – 1979

Ladies’ Night marked the beginning of Kool & The Gang’s transition from funk to mainstream pop. I don’t have a lot to say about this album, other than the fact that I like it… Ladies’ Night and Too Hot are classics.

 

[GoGoGadget]

Okie doke... D-Mass is out of town for a few days and contacted me with his pick:

Sarah McLachlan -- Surfacing (1997)

 

[GoGoGadget]

And, now for my own pick (apologies in advance to Slim -- the title of this one is going to wonkify the draft board):

Bow Wow Wow -- See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! (1981) -- Considering the extreme one-hit-wonder status of this band, that title might be longer than their whole career as hit makers. And the title becomes plain silly, when you consider that their one hit isn't even on this album (the actual cover of which I couldn't find any larger than avatar size, by the way, so the picture is from one of its singles). Due to their one big hit, I think that Bow Wow Wow gets tossed aside as being just a silly 80s band, and maybe that's all they are, but I've always liked the sound of some of their more obscure tracks. Fun and poppy production and vocals, 50s inspired surf guitar, and tribal/jungle inspired drums will go well on my island -- "Elimination Dancing," "Golly! Golly! Go Buddy!," "Chihuahua," and "Go Wild in the Country" are all songs that will come in handy when lonely island nights inspire me to unleash my inner 80s dance queen.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

They had a hit?

 

[GoGoGadget]

They had a hit?

They did, though it's not on the album I selected.

 

[GoGoGadget]

Bow Wow Wow's one hit.

 

[Bricklayer]

Okie doke... D-Mass is out of town for a few days and contacted me with his pick:

Sarah McLachlan -- Surfacing (1997)

Minor doh -- I was actually just starting to consider that one to fill a remaining niche. I'll live, but she had a few gorgeous songs from that era.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Bow Wow Wow's one hit.

Ah. I'd heard that; didn't know who it was.

 

[Bricklayer]

Bow Wow Wow's one hit.

Oh, now I remember them -- yeah, fairly famous song. Was going to say that I lived through the 80's and didn't even knew who they were. But guess I did...at least for a couple of weeks while that song was on the charts.

 

[Bricklayer]

(the actual cover of which I couldn't find any larger than avatar size, by the way, so the picture is from one of its singles).

 

[Jerryaki]

if i can sneak my wife onto my movie island to watch zoolander, i can sneak her onto my music island to listen to this:

sade - lovers rock (2000)

from wiki:
Lovers Rock is the fifth studio album (sixth overall) by the English group Sade, released in 2000 (see 2000 in music) on Epic Records.
Lovers Rock reached number eighteen on the UK Albums Chart and number three on the U.S. Billboard 200—it has since been certified three times platinum by the RIAA.[2] On 27 February 2002, the album earned Sade the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album.
According to the booklet, the track "The Sweetest Gift" is dedicated to the Rainbow Trust Children's Charity caring for children who have a life-threatening or terminal illness and their families, both in their own homes and at the Trust's two UK family respite centres.

 

[Spike]

Bow Wow Wow's one hit.

Oh. I just thought it was a Snickers ad. Go figure.

 

[Warhawk]

Like GGG's selection, my band was also a one-hit wonder in the US:

SOHO - Goddess (1991)

Their only hit song was Hippychick, however I like many of the songs here, including Love Generation, Out of My Mind, and Goddess. Yes, they are a guilty pop pleasure, but I find myself playing several of these songs periodically because they are so much fun.

From wiki, because I didn't know this either :

The group is known for their 1990 hit song "Hippy Chick" (composed by Timothy London), which was a Top 20 Billboard Hot 100 chart hit in the U.S. and a Top 10 hit single in the UK Singles Chart. The song featured a sample from The Smiths' recording "How Soon Is Now?" sequenced over a Soul II Soul rhythm. The lyrics told the story of a woman confronting her policeman ex-lover after being arrested.

 

[tradepeja]

This is definitely the obscure section of the draft now.

 

[Heuge]

This is definitely the obscure section of the draft now.

Alas, and the album I would have picked 2nd round would still be out there...whoops

 

[Kingzrool]

I am hoping to set a trend with this post, but I am forever before my time so we will see. I would love to know which bands are unheard of and which are merely obscure. I have gone through the draft board and listed in order the bands that I have not heard of. I would love to see others' lists.

Dream Theater, David Gray, The Boxmasters, Southern Culture on the Skids, Queens of the Stone Age, The Presidents of the United States of America, Single Gun Theory, Shakespear's Sister, Green Jellö, Alan Jackson, Josh Turner, Cause and Effect, Warp 11, The Starting Line, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Rezillos, Stone Sour, Arctic Monkeys, Lupe Fiasco, Susan Tedeschi.

 

[tradepeja]

You haven't heard of Stone Sour? blech

I tried to start a trend earlier, no one complied. I'll help you out though. Here's mine:

Funkadelic, Talking Heads, Spearhead, Boogie Down Productions, Erika Badu, Jeff Beck, John Michael Jarre, Queensryche, 10,000 Maniacs, Rancid, David Grey, Teddy Pendergrass, Parliament (heard their songs didn't know name ), The Samples, The Boxmasters, Stray Cats, A Tribe Called Quest, Devo, Southern Culture on the Skids, Portishead, X, Bow Wow Wows, Claude-Michael Somethingberg, Erasure, The Corrs, Single Gun Theory (JFK reference?), Young American Primitive, Shakespear's Sister, Kate Bush, Green Jello, Alan Jackson, Josh Turner, Richard Seals, Cause and Effect, Warp 11, The Starting Line, The Blasters, The Sonics, Black Flag, Me First andthe Gimme Gimmes, The Rezillos, The Smiths, Stone Roses, Arctic Monkeys, Teena Marie, Robert Palmer, Susan Tedeschi, Human's Lib, Terents Trent D'Arby.

Wow, a lot more than I realized..

 

[C Diddy]

Alright, how is it that both of you have heard of Senses Fail but not The Startine Line?

Guitar Hero III?

 

[GoGoGadget]

I would love to see others' lists.

Young American Primitive and Cause & Effect.

 

[Bricklayer]

My list would have to be heavily annotated -- maybe a dozen I had not heard of at all, but several dozen more where I knew the name but little or nothing about them unitl investigating when they were picked.

 

[tradepeja]

Alright, how is it that both of you have heard of Senses Fail but not The Startine Line?

Guitar Hero III?

You got it. I really don't like them though, so if Starting Line is similar, I probably wouldn't like them either.

 

[Kingzrool]

Alright, how is it that both of you have heard of Senses Fail but not The Startine Line?

Guitar Hero III?

Guilty as charged.

 

[C Diddy]

My List of artists that I've never heard of:

Kingzrool - Spearhead, Boogie Down Productions, Jean Michel Jarre

Spike - None

Bricklayer - David Gray

Slim - Teddy Pendergrass, Parliament

D-Mass - The Samples, The Boxmasters

G3 - Southern Culture on the Skids, Portishead, X, Bow Wow Wow

Jerriyaki - Claude-Michel Schonberg, erasure

Warhawk - Single Gun Theory, erasure, Young American Primitive

Prophetess - Shakespeare's Sister, Green Jello, Richard Searles, Cause and Effect, Warp 11

Pdx - The Blasters, The Sonics, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Rezillos

tradepeja - Stone Sour

bozzwell - Stone Roses

Dime Dropper - Arctic Monkeys

atxrocker - None

MBF - Susan Tedeschi, Human's Lib, Terence Trent D'Arby

 

[C Diddy]

You got it. I really don't like them though, so if Starting Line is similar, I probably wouldn't like them either.

They aren't too similar, but both tend to be on the same types of tours, so if you've heard of one, chances are you've heard of both.

Guitar Hero III exposed Senses Fail a little bit, which I think is great. They are my favorite band right now. The guitar work on Can't Be Saved is really good and is tons of fun to play on GH.

 

[Warhawk]

Never heard of:

Spearhead
Boogie Down Productions
Jeff Beck
Jean Michel Jarre
Dream Theater
David Gray
The Samples
The Boxmasters
Southern Culture on the Skids
Queens of the Stone Age
The Presidents of the United States of America
Claude-Michel Schönberg
Green Jellö
Richard Searles
Warp 11
Senses Fail
The Starting Line
The Blasters
The Sonics
Dropkick Murphy's
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
The Rezillos
Kaiser Chiefs
Stone Sour
The Roots
Stone Roses
The Fray
Snow Patrol
The Killers
Arctic Monkeys
Lupe Fiasco
Susan Tedeschi
Human's Lib

Some of the rest I don't know much about but have heard of the artist name or know least one song.

 

[Warhawk]

I find it difficult to believe there are folks out there not familiar with Alan Jackson, erasure, 10,000 Maniacs / Natlie Merchant, Devo, and maybe a few others. I would think everyone would have heard of them....

Interesting!

Edit - just for reference, C Diddy and tradepeja - are you guys young? Maybe that is why, as many of these groups are 80's/90's.

And GGG - how can you live anywhere in northern CA and have the musical exposure you do and have not heard of Cause & Effect???? Wow!

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I almost feel that it would be easier to list whom I had heard of; like I said before, the only person in this draft whom I've heard of everybody on their list is... me...