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

[Kingzrool]

I'd like to know if ANYONE has heard of this album before:

Young American Primitive - Young American Primitive (1993)

I have a cousin that lived in SF for a while and picked this up through a friend of a friend situation (the CD is from a local SF label, ZoëMagik). This is the only album they (he) put out. And it is a shame no more were made. It is excellent early 90's trance techno, and I love it. And to tie into the previous CD just taken, it uses samples from some sci-fi films, but not excessively.

I like the entire CD, but in particular "Trance Formation", "Young American Primitive", and "Monolith Part II" are very good. If you like trance music at all, give this a shot if you can find it.

Finding it would be the hard part, though....

From allmusic:

You totaly suck. How could that pick not be safe? It was on the bottom of my list for just that reason. I had a great friend that was on the same label, his band is called Single Cell Orchestra. I was pretty involved in the SF 90's house scene and that was the album that I was going to have to represent that whole period of my life. Just a great album from beginning to end. "These Waves" is the best house track ever, period.

You know he was signed to a major label and made a whole album and video and was dropped before it was ever released.

It will take me a bit to forgive you, but I have an alternative in mind. I still cannot believe that you picked that. Damn!

 

[Warhawk]

How could that pick not be safe? It was on the bottom of my list for just that reason.

Just a great album from beginning to end. "These Waves" is the best house track ever, period.

I still cannot believe that you picked that. Damn!

Wow, I can't believe someone else even knows who YAP is, much less had them on their list! Actually, I was going to use it at #20 as well, but figured it would be just my luck that someone else would, somehow, also have it there. And here you are. Sorry to snag it from you, but I needed it on my island.

Funny part is, I've met you at a couple HPL events and had no idea you would like that CD, and you would probably think the same thing about me. Just strange how that works, huh?

 

[Kingzrool]

Funny part is, I've met you at a couple HPL events and had no idea you would like that CD, and you would probably think the same thing about me. Just strange how that works, huh?

Most def. If you are interested, I have a lot of underground house from that era, that is great. The main reason that I had this one is that it is accepted in this draft. Most of the best stuff is mixed up or not even officially/legaly published.

 

[Warhawk]

Most def. If you are interested, I have a lot of underground house from that era, that is great. The main reason that I had this one is that it is accepted in this draft. Most of the best stuff is mixed up or not even officially/legaly published.

Sure, thanks. Don't go to any trouble, but a mix CD of some stuff you think I might like would be great - I assume you have something like that already and can just make a copy. Maybe next year at a HPL?

Thanks again!

 

[Kingzrool]

Sure, thanks. Don't go to any trouble, but a mix CD of some stuff you think I might like would be great - I assume you have something like that already and can just make a copy. Maybe next year at a HPL?

Thanks again!

I'll set you up with a Jeno and Garth Mix, they were my fav DJ's from that scene. IIRC, it was Jeno that used to spin YAP most often.

 

[Spike]

sorry for the delay everyone

Soundgarden- Superunknown 1994

Shenanigans! I declare shenanigans! I love this album; it was my next pick. Oh well, such is life.

 

[Dime Dropper]

dime dropper is from Scotland, hence the occasional time lapses.

dime dropper is from Ireland, not Scotland.

 

[tradepeja]

dime dropper is from Ireland, not Scotland.

psh, how would you know for sure?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Jerryaki has fifty minutes to make his pick, before it defaults to G³.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

GoGoGadget is on the clock. Jerryaki can make his pick at any time.

 

[GoGoGadget]

My 14th pick:

X -- Wild Gift (1981) -- Well, this is my consolation pick after pdx took X's debut album off the table, but I'm still quite happy with this choice. In fact, while "Los Angeles" has my two very favorite X songs (the title track and their cover of The Doors' "Soul Kitchen"), this album is probably my favorite all around collection of songs -- "The Once Over Twice," "We're Desperate," "I'm Coming Over," "In This House That I Call Home," and "White Girl" are all great songs. Ultimately, X is a band that I grew up listening to (though it's now hilarious to think of my mother as punk), and will be a good soundtrack for the many FTW moments that I'll no doubt be faced with on my lonely island.

 

[D-Mass]

OK...I'll come right out and admit that this pick is as much a cheap promotion as it is one of my favorite albums....but there are no rules against that, right??

The Boxmasters - The Boxmasters (2008)

The image below is not the actual cover of the album...I couldn't find it.

I have a friend in the band (he's on the right) named J.D. Andrew. He's a music producer in LA and I am very good friends with his fiance...we taught at the same school in Santa Monica. But, you might recognize the guy in the middle...none other than Billy Bob Thornton. He was actually a musician long before he was an actor and he has a number of solo albums to his credit. These guys got together as a group of musicians who all grew up in rural America where country music is huge....but they're also fans of the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks, etc....natural to merge the two genres, right? Their music is described as "mod-billy"...rock/hillbilly, I suppose. This is a two-CD set, the first being original Boxmasters tunes, the second being covers of groups such as the Beatles and The Who. I saw them play at the Big Room at the Sierra Nevada Brewery here in Chico and they sound GREAT live. Give them a listen...they really are unique...and a lot of fun, too.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

You mean this?

 

[D-Mass]

Yep...that's the one...

but then my friend would be on the LEFT.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

My next pick:

Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome - 1977

If I'm going to be stuck on a desert island, there must be Flashlight; one of the greatest party tracks of all time.

 

[GoGoGadget]

My next pick:


Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome - 1977

If I'm going to be stuck on a desert island, there must be Flashlight; one of the greatest party tracks of all time.

This album was almost on my list for the very same reason. Good pick.

 

[GoGoGadget]

Brick's 14th pick is:

Tracy Champan -- Tracy Chapman (1988) -- I don't have any kind of write up from Brick on this one, but can tell you why it very nearly made my own list: it's brilliant, and Tracy Chapman has an amazing voice. 'Nuff said.

 

[Spike]

All right, it's time to break into the music that influenced my youth.

Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls (1987)

Wild Side and the title track are my two favorite Crüe songs, although I had a tough time figuring which album to take.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

G³'s pick on behalf of Bricklayer has been deleted for integrity's sake, on account of it's still the 14th round, and Kingzrool's pick hasn't expired yet... she seemed not to notice that that was Spike's fourteenth round pick, and not his fifteenth round pick...

 

[GoGoGadget]

G³'s pick on behalf of Bricklayer has been deleted for integrity's sake, on account of it's still the 14th round, and Kingzrool's pick hasn't expired yet... she seemed not to notice that that was Spike's fourteenth round pick, and not his fifteenth round pick...

Oops.

And... I blame an errant PM.

 

[Bricklayer]

Brick's 14th pick is:

Tracy Champan -- Tracy Chapman (1988) -- I don't have any kind of write up from Brick on this one, but can tell you why it very nearly made my own list: it's brilliant, and Tracy Chapman has an amazing voice. 'Nuff said.

Indeed, I came to this one some years later when I purchased a different Chapman album and worked backward. At the time it came out my tastes and playlist would have more closely resembled Spike's, so I did my best to ignore urban folk. But Fast Car was completely brilliant, and up there with the likes of Born to Run as a coming of age epic, and despite my studious ignorance of it while it was selling millions, the album went 11x platinum and completely revitalized folk/urban folk.

 

[Monty'sBiggestFan]

wowza..this round went from the obscure to stuff I'd heard of relatively quickly. Nice pick on Parliment Slim..."Flashlight" is indeed the ultimate dance party song...and boy if Parliment didn't have their own world and we were just guests in it.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

If Kingzrool happened to forward his picks to anybody, now would be a good time to post those. Otherwise, since he's got back-to-back picks, and hasn't been on the board since Friday night, we could all be waiting a while.

 

[tradepeja]

while everyone's waiting...here's an awesome music website i found

www.musicovery.com

set the settings up and go...its amazing how accurate it is

 

[Spike]

It was my fault everyone, I PM'd the wrong person. The correct person has been PM'd. And now, I've been pwnd.

 

[Kingzrool]

I PM'd my pix to VF, but now that I am back, I am going to change them a little. I'll be right back.

 

[Kingzrool]

After my last second shuffle, I have come up with,

Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow - 1975

This is replacing Herbie Hancock (Manchild) because over the weekend I was listening to this album and decided that it was a much better choice for my jazz fusion album. All insrumental, the musicianship is spot on and really allowed to breath at times. The grooves are infectious with just enough, but not too much jazz influence. Oh yeah and did I mention that Jeff Beck is a kick *** guitar player?

 

[Kingzrool]

Here is one that I wonder if anyone has heard of.

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène - 1976

Listening to Jean Michel Jarre is like being "experienced". This music takes you places. This album was recorded in his kitchen that was modified into a recording studio. This quote from Wiki shows how truly unique Jean is.

In 1964, he formed a band called Mystère IV. He spent so much time in the group that his mother confiscated his instruments.

Here is another one.

Oxygène is considered by some to be the most important and influential electronic music album ever.

I wore through several copies of this on vinyl and still have it to this day.If you like relaxing, sophisticated music and have not heard this album, check it out.

 

[Bricklayer]

Well as the odds of Spikey stealing my next pick are somewhere around -100% I might as well just skip him here and cue it up.

 

[Jerryaki]

wow, i'm really late on this thread. sorry, all.

jack johnson - in between dreams (2005)

jack johnson is a hawaiian surfer turned singer, and this is his third album. very soulful and mellow, his voice is perfectly complemented by his acoustic guitar strumming. this album has a ton of great songs (i listen to it straight through, except for one track), and the first song ("better together") will be my first dance song at my wedding this fall.