Desert Island Music Draft Thread *** draft is over ***
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Taking another rock album before they are all used up 
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Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Quite the hit producer, with two #1, a #7, and a #28 single, and it was the #1 album for 8 weeks, a record for a hard rock album. "Livin' on a Prayer" was the #1 song of 1987. It was also the first hard rock album with 3 top 10 hits. Also in a hard rock first, it had the #1 song and was the #1 album at the same time.
"Raise Your Hands" and was one of my favorite songs at the time and was in Spaceballs as well.
You Give Love a Bad Name, Wanted Dead or Alive, Never Say Goodbye, Livin' on a Prayer, Raise Your Hand - all good stuff. Fun to listen to and doesn't get old.
Edit - pm sent to J.
:Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Quite the hit producer, with two #1, a #7, and a #28 single, and it was the #1 album for 8 weeks, a record for a hard rock album. "Livin' on a Prayer" was the #1 song of 1987. It was also the first hard rock album with 3 top 10 hits. Also in a hard rock first, it had the #1 song and was the #1 album at the same time.
"Raise Your Hands" and was one of my favorite songs at the time and was in Spaceballs as well.
You Give Love a Bad Name, Wanted Dead or Alive, Never Say Goodbye, Livin' on a Prayer, Raise Your Hand - all good stuff. Fun to listen to and doesn't get old.
Edit - pm sent to J.
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For my fourth pick:
Sublime -- 40 oz. to Freedom (1992) -- Great songs, beginning to end, and remains one of the most frequently played CDs in my collection. Over the top lyrics, songs with titles as naughty as "Date Rape" and "Smoke Two Joints," but also really, REALLY good music, made by really, REALLY good musicians. My island is very happy no one beat me to this album.
Sublime -- 40 oz. to Freedom (1992) -- Great songs, beginning to end, and remains one of the most frequently played CDs in my collection. Over the top lyrics, songs with titles as naughty as "Date Rape" and "Smoke Two Joints," but also really, REALLY good music, made by really, REALLY good musicians. My island is very happy no one beat me to this album.
And here goes the first of the three picks I plan to take from the nineties:
Erykah Badu - Baduizm
Badu is a soulful singer who has drawn favorable comparison to Blues legends Nina Simone and Billie Holliday, and this is by far her most successful album: triple platinum, #2 on the Billboard Top 200, #1 on the Billboard Hip-Hop/R&B chart, 2x Grammy winner in 1997 (Best R&B Album, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance).
Next, stop, the seventies.
Erykah Badu - Baduizm
Badu is a soulful singer who has drawn favorable comparison to Blues legends Nina Simone and Billie Holliday, and this is by far her most successful album: triple platinum, #2 on the Billboard Top 200, #1 on the Billboard Hip-Hop/R&B chart, 2x Grammy winner in 1997 (Best R&B Album, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance).
Next, stop, the seventies.
Well damn. Recent incursions into a number of areas I considered safe for later rounds have forced me to scratch my well thought out plan, endanger multi-platinum albums of all kinds, and pick up some of my quirks before anybody else stumbles across them. So this pick:
Mighty Mighty Bosstones -- Let's Face It (1997)
I had to get my ska in. Even if its more of a ska hybrid. What desert island would be complete without a little island music? Even if the Bosstones particular take on the genre would scare the bejesus out of most of its Caribbean practitioners. This was the Bosstones at their peak, no longer as fierce as when they first emerged on the scene as a "ska core" band mixing metal and ska, but still able to explode into raucous chorses. This album featured the all around nifty "Impression That I Get", which shot all the way to #1 and propelled the album into platinum territory. But its got a load of other fun songs, perhaps my fav being "Another Drinking Song" which ambles along sounding very much like a hangover until blowing up into an incredibly catchy final minute which leaves you going, wow.
Mighty Mighty Bosstones -- Let's Face It (1997)
I had to get my ska in. Even if its more of a ska hybrid. What desert island would be complete without a little island music? Even if the Bosstones particular take on the genre would scare the bejesus out of most of its Caribbean practitioners. This was the Bosstones at their peak, no longer as fierce as when they first emerged on the scene as a "ska core" band mixing metal and ska, but still able to explode into raucous chorses. This album featured the all around nifty "Impression That I Get", which shot all the way to #1 and propelled the album into platinum territory. But its got a load of other fun songs, perhaps my fav being "Another Drinking Song" which ambles along sounding very much like a hangover until blowing up into an incredibly catchy final minute which leaves you going, wow.
Kingzrool's fourth round pick, via PM:
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly - 1972
And, for the record, this pick is the precise reason why, in the future, you all will need to PM your picks to VF21 if you're not going to be here... I was going to take this album in the fourth round and, of course, my pick came before Kingzrool. However, since he PM'd his picks to me, it would have looked really shady if I'd gone ahead and taken it. So, in the future, VF21 has agreed to handle all future absentee picks, in order to avoid a potential conflict of interest.
Now that that's off my chest, on to the fifth round...
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly - 1972
And, for the record, this pick is the precise reason why, in the future, you all will need to PM your picks to VF21 if you're not going to be here... I was going to take this album in the fourth round and, of course, my pick came before Kingzrool. However, since he PM'd his picks to me, it would have looked really shady if I'd gone ahead and taken it. So, in the future, VF21 has agreed to handle all future absentee picks, in order to avoid a potential conflict of interest.
Now that that's off my chest, on to the fifth round...
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10,000 Manicas -- 10,000 Maniacs, MTV Unplugged (1993)
Well this was going to be a late round special, but with people suddenly remembering the Unplugged series, as well as encroaching on indie rock (Pixies), I decided that I had better fire this one up before somebody remembered it. This might have been the best of the entire unplugged series IMO. And a major part of that was because the Maniacs sounded like, well, the Maniacs. Which is to say a sophisticated indie rock band that was actually, you know, listenable. Lacking pretension, they actually deigned to write hooks and had one hell of a lead singer. For this show they brought all their instruments and hired about a dozen outside muscians for the show, and had violas, cellos, slide guitars, mandolins, organs, multiple drumsets, and everything else that they needed to duplicate their lush, complex sound on the live stage. And then of course there was Natalie Merchant, who always had a tremendously rich and powerful voice, and sounded every bit as good live as she did in studio. In any case, this live acoustic album was immensely successful, charted up into the Top 20, and contained versions of all of their best songs (Trouble Me, These Are the Days etc. -- in fact the best versions of most of them), as well as a great cover of the old Springsteen song "Because the Night" that became the biggest hit in the band's history. It was their peak performance, and also their swan song, as Natalie left the next year to pursue a solo career. Funny that this is the first album with a female lead singer to make my list -- I generally prefer them to men, and I played this album incessantly back in my college days.
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