Desert Island Music Album Draft 2013 - draft complete

[Turgenev]

Evening.

My next pick is

Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love. By the Sa Ra Creative Partners. Released 2009.



I really like these guys and this is one of my favourite albums. Not sure what genre- maybe intergalactic soul. They are at times, a bit self indulgent, but ... Maybe a good thing.

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

I have to run...will come back to expand soon...

 

[Bricklayer]

Back to back picks about which I know nothing. When the album drafts get interesting.

 

[dukeswh]

Honestly speaking, I bought this album without knowing who the band is. I was just looking around the New Releases section of a record bar, when a particular album cover caught my eye. the name of the band was interesting also, so I bought the cassette tape without no idea what I was getting myself into.

I could hardly wait to get home and start listening to it. And when I finally did, what i heard totally blew me away. From the opening track (video below), right down to the last, I love each one of em.

I believe that this band really bridged the gap between Rock and Rap. And this album introduced them to the world.

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine (1992)

Wiki

 

[EndGame]

For my 5th pick i am going to take my favorite album from what is arguably the best hard rock band of the modern era.
I was blown away when i first heard this album, i liked them before but this album went in a totally different direction and showed that they could alter their style and still rock. From the sampling of Wizard of Oz to creating a song that encumpassed a book most of us read as high school student (Johnny Got His Gun), this album was amazing.

Metallica - ...And Justice for All

Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica

 

[NoBonus]

It's hard to believe it took 5 rounds for someone to get a Metallica album... I expected them to go first round.

 

[Jespher]

For my 5th selection, I choose:

Cake - Fashion Nugget - 1996

What my island needs is more horns! This album rocks, and is deeply influential in my early music tastes. I graduated high school in 2000, so this album played continuously in my car for many long road trips and daily commutes. A local, Sacramento region group, Cake has a distinctive sound mixing brass swagger with alternating electric and acoustic riffs. Love the vocals, and can sing along to the whole album without the album. So of course, this one's coming to my island!

Track List:

1. Frank Sinatra - 4:01
2. The Distance - 3:00
3. Friend is a Four Letter Word - 3:22
4. Open Book - 3:44
5. Daria - 3:44
6. Race Car Ya-Yas - 1:21
7. I Will Survive - 5:10
8. Stick Shifts and Safetybelts - 2:09
9. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps - 2:29
10. It's Coming Down - 3:44
11. Nugget - 3:58
12. She'll Come Back to Me - 2:24
13. Italian Leather Sofa - 5:52
14. Sad Songs and Waltzes - 3:15

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_Nugget

 

[GoGoGadget]

Cake - Fashion Nugget - 1996

Son of a monkey! That was going to be my next pick. Just a killer album by one of my favorite bands.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

It's hard to believe it took 5 rounds for someone to get a Metallica album... I expected them to go first round.

Just glad it was the right album.

 

[NoBonus]

Wow! Time to go back to the 90's! I will take one of my all-time favorite albums from the 1990's (and ever)

Weezer - Weezer - 1994


Song after song, this album rocks. 10 songs and I am a huge fan of every single song. If you haven't heard this album... you are missing out on something really special.

The funniest Weezer video ever

Surf Wax America - Live! = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEiI7bT_DVM

 

[Kingsgirl4]

Don't worry, she's been busy stealing all my picks

who me? Oopsie

 

[Padrino]

Wow! Time to go back to the 90's! I will take one of my all-time favorite albums from the 1990's (and ever)

Weezer - Weezer - 1994
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Song after song, this album rocks. 10 songs and I am a huge fan of every single song. If you haven't heard this album... you are missing out on something really special.

The funniest Weezer video ever

Surf Wax America - Live!

excellent draft choice. this is the first album someone else has snagged that i was genuinely planning on picking. figured i could get by another round or two, but alas, it wasn't to be. i'm on deck. selection forthcoming...

 

[Padrino]

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

Converge - Jane Doe (09/04/01):

01 Concubine
02 Fault and Fracture
03 Distance and Meaning
04 Hell to Pay
05 Homewrecker
06 The Broken Vow
07 Bitter and Then Some
08 Heaven in Her Arms
09 Phoenix in Flight
10 Phoenix in Flames
11 Thaw
12 Jane Doe

Genre: hardcore, hardcore punk, metal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Doe_(album)

this pick is not for the faint of heart, and it doesn't come with one of my more lengthy anecdotal compositions. it is simply an absolutely seminal hardcore album, as important for being as it is for what it would go on to influence. with Jane Doe, Converge cemented themselves as elder statesmen of the scene, never content to rehash the same ideas, never shy about pushing back just when someone was ready to pin them down. this album bludgeons the listener, and it was my introduction to the heaviest ends of the heavy music spectrum...

i love Jane Doe so much, having encountered it at a time when i was very open to diving further into the depths of punk, metal, and hardcore. i was late to the party, of course, catching up to just how great this album is around the winter of 2007. and Jane Doe has since become an album that i would most certainly need with me on a desert island, the kind of 45-minutes-of-fury that thrashes against the frustration, the turmoil, the difficulty, the longing, the loneliness. for all of its complexity and technical wizardry, it is not a careless work. it is not a self-indulgent work, but rather a self-assured statement that it's okay to be short of breath, to heave when others are collapsed by the weight of their own desperation...

 

[SacKings7]

For my 5th pick i am going to take my favorite album from what is arguably the best hard rock band of the modern era.
I was blown away when i first heard this album, i liked them before but this album went in a totally different direction and showed that they could alter their style and still rock. From the sampling of Wizard of Oz to creating a song that encumpassed a book most of us read as high school student (Johnny Got His Gun), this album was amazing.

Metallica - ...And Justice for All

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Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica

My 2nd favorite album by Metallica, but awesome choice nonetheless

 

[Bricklayer]

Wow! Time to go back to the 90's! I will take one of my all-time favorite albums from the 1990's (and ever)

Weezer - Weezer - 1994
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Song after song, this album rocks. 10 songs and I am a huge fan of every single song. If you haven't heard this album... you are missing out on something really special.

The funniest Weezer video ever

Surf Wax America - Live!

having finally put together a list a couple of days ago, figured this was one I would try to sneak in if it slid much further

 

[Bricklayer]

Under the Table and Dreaming - Dave Matthews Band - 1994

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

With the seventy-fifth pick, Mr. Slim Citrus selects:

Stevie Wonder, Innervisions (1973)

I've always wondered who was responsible for designing cover art for Stevie's albums? And who had final approval authority?

Another album that I just love the hell out of, for which I have no personal attachment. It is my second favorite Stevie Wonder album, after Songs... An excellent, non-pancake album, with bonafide hits on both sides. And, even though I didn't really start to appreciate this album until my late twenties, it was true when I took this in the original album draft five years ago, and it's still true today, Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing continues to be one of my five favorite songs of all time.

Innervisions peaked at Number Four on the Billboard Pop Album charts, and spawned three Top Ten singles (Higher Ground, Don't You Worry... and Living for the City). It won two Grammys in 1974, including Best R&B Song (Living for the City) and Best Album (cite: Wikipedia).

 

[kingsnation]

Under the Table and Dreaming - Dave Matthews Band - 1994

Satellite is one of my favorite songs of all time. Fantastic pick.

 

[William Blake]

The Stooges - Raw Power (1973)

Wiki

The title says it all. A 33 minutes long assault to your years by Iggy in his absolute prime, one of the most crude and violent records to come out before 1975. I remember terrifying more than a few people during my final year of high school by blasting this at insane volumes on my pick-up truck stereo.

Search & Destroy is in "best rock song of all times" territory.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Great pick.

 

[NoBonus]

Great pick.

This comment was actually meant for all of my picks and no one else's picks, at all.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

This comment was actually meant for all of my picks and no one else's picks, at all.

I think you have at least two of my favorite picks though I would have gone with a different Weezer album, the blue Weezer is my second fave.

Reminder: Having picks I like is not an indication of success in this draft.

 

[NoBonus]

Reminder: Having picks I like is not an indication of success in this draft.

I disagree. Also, the thing about the other Weezer album (as a Weezer fan, I know which one you mean) is that I am not as big of fan of every song on that one; there are a couple I could skip... Blue is more a solid, complete listen for me. It reminds me of Boston-Boston.. just top to bottom, all knock outs.

 

[Löwenherz]

Sorry for the delay. I'd finished a write-up for a separate but related album when I realized I'd never actually heard THIS one before.

And after listening to it in full, immediately decided I wanted it instead.

MTV Unplugged in New York - Nirvana (1994)

This seems like a glimpse into a future that Nirvana or at least Cobain were heading toward and is simultaneously beautiful and heartbreaking because of it. It's also like reliving possibly the greatest intimate concert one could ever hope to attend in a lifetime. Acoustic versions of Nirvana classics All Apologies, Come as You Are, etc, outstanding covers of songs from a range of musicians I would otherwise have no association: David Bowe, The Vaselines and Lead Belly, three songs by and with The Meat Puppets that Nirvana unintentionally made their own with this performance, and some legitimately funny and entertaining between song stage banter.

Nirvana and Cobain had already become legends before this was released. But this certainly solidified it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Unplugged_in_New_York

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I disagree. Also, the thing about the other Weezer album (as a Weezer fan, I know which one you mean) is that I am not as big of fan of every song on that one; there are a couple I could skip... Blue is more a solid, complete listen for me. It reminds me of Boston-Boston.. just top to bottom, all knock outs.

I think they actually both meet that criteria, just like one block of 4 songs on the other album best.

 

[NoBonus]

I think they actually both meet that criteria, just like one block of 4 songs on the other album best.

I get it, and if it were winter, not spring, I might have gone that direction.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (1967) (wiki link)

Lest it seem like I'm just going after some low-hanging fruit, I'd like to point out that this is one of my "go-to" Beatles albums. Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe on this one. The first half of the album, compiled from the film of the same name, does have a down moment or two (the title song is catchy, but a bit goofy, and Blue Jay Way and the instrumental Flying aren't making any greatest hits albums), but the rest of the album is just amazing. I dare you to sit through "Your Mother Should Know" without singing along, for one. Add to that the sublime psychedelics of I Am The Walrus and Strawberry Fields Forever, and the fact that the rest of the album are all hits (The Fool on the Hill, Hello Goodbye, Penny Lane, Baby You're A Rich Man, All You Need Is Love), and this album is certainly one of their best.

So while you're sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, why not watch this clip?

 

[Bricklayer]

Form my inside knowledge of her tastes, its highly likely this is GGG's forthcoming pick:

You may just want to credit her with it and move on with the draft.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

That would be pretty funny if you hadn't of just picked Dave Matthews Band

 

[VF21]

Form my inside knowledge of her tastes, its highly likely this is GGG's forthcoming pick:

You may just want to credit her with it and move on with the draft.

From my inside knowledge of G3, you may want to change your name and hide before she can get to you.

 

[GoGoGadget]

Sorry for the delay, all. My turn came up while I was at work, and when I got home I still had to force myself to decide between my next artist's two albums. Which was not easy. And was in fact such a daunting task that I think it's why I ended up saying screw it and leaving them off my list altogether last time we did this. In any case, with my fifth pick in the draft I'm selecting:

The Odd Couple -- Gnarls Barkley (2008) http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-odd-couple-mw0000498740
This album didn't have the massive hit their first album did, and it hasn't received their debut's critical praise (the general consensus being that The Odd Couple is more consistent than their first album, but that it lacks the previous effort's ambition and/or that the high points aren't quite so high), which made taking their first album very tempting. Especially since I love them both. But considering the conceit of this draft, consistency starts to become a big plus. The Odd Couple, because it lacks some of the erratic ambition of its predecessor, is one that I can be very happy listening to from start to finish and for a long time. Danger Mouse's production is always interesting, and Cee-Lo has one of my very favorite voices in music.

Other videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TQ4cQDsgeQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4DDXvBpno0

"Open Book"

"Whatever"

"Run (I Am a Natural Disaster)"