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

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Prophetess' pick, via PM:

Shakespear's Sister - Hormonally Yours - 1991


Warhawk is on the clock.

 

[Warhawk]

Taking another rock album before they are all used up :

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.

 

[Spike]

I'm back, and it looks like my picks are still safe. Phew.

Although I now realize Slim knows my next five picks.

 

[Jerryaki]

taking this earlier than expected, since the fray has been taken and i didn't think anyone would even take that at all:

maroon 5 - songs about jane (2002)

lots of good tunes before the band got sort of weird and full of themselves. "harder to breathe" is just a great song to get you pumped.

 

[tradepeja]

Not to stir something up, but Maroon 5? I mean, we'd been like almost 5 rounds without a crappy band till then


Oh and did I hear Bon Jovi get called "hard rock" on the last page?

Okay, maybe I am trying to stir something up.

 

[Jerryaki]

my island, my music. and whatever you want to call bon jovi, they're classics.

 

[GoGoGadget]

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.

 

[tradepeja]

Oh, unique Sublime pick for the first one in the draft. Not the one I had down.

 

[atxrocker]

and g3 continues her impressive streak of trying to make my island as miserable as possible. just joshin ya. great pick though.

 

[GoGoGadget]

and g3 continues her impressive streak of trying to make my island as miserable as possible.

You're REALLY going to hate my next one.

 

[Warhawk]

Oh and did I hear Bon Jovi get called "hard rock" on the last page?

Talk to wiki if you are arguing that one. I wouldn't call it "hard" rock myself, but apparently that is how they (Billboard, whoever) classified it.

 

[Spike]

Pfft. I wouldn't count on Wikipedia as a source of legit information.

In all seriousness, many of us here DO remember a time when Bon Jovi rocked. Hard rock? I dunno, Ritchie Sambora laid down some mean licks, but if Jethro Tull can win a Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Grammy, anything is possible.

 

[Bricklayer]

Uhoh -- D-Mass on the clock. And he's on vacation until Weds. (as we found out in the other thread). He didn't happen to hit you up with a list did he Slim?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

D-Mass's pick via PM:

Pearl Jam - Vs. - 1993

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

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.

 

[Monty'sBiggestFan]

Damnit slim...I thought I said something about snagging stuff off my list.....

Most excellent choice, that was a HEELLLAVA debut from Erykah....

 

[atxrocker]

You're REALLY going to hate my next one.

 

[Bricklayer]

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.

 

[GoGoGadget]

I saw the Bosstones for $10 around the time "Impression That I Get" was a big hit. Fun show.

 

[tradepeja]

Can either of you two enlighten me on the meaning of that song?

I mean, I'm pretty sure he could've knocked on wood if he had to.

Have you guys ever knocked on wood? Oh crap, now I'm thinking like he is.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Spike's fourth round pick, via PM:

Van Halen - Van Halen - 1978

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Kingzrool's fourth round pick, via PM:

Curtis Mayfield - Superfly - 1972

What can I say about Superfly that has not already been said? This album was an instant classic that actually out-grossed the film that it accompanied. This is one of those albums that are more than the music, this album is pure culture. Here are some stats from Wiki. In 2003, VH1 named Superfly the 63rd greatest album of all time. Pusherman, has been selected among The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that shaped Rock and Roll. In 2003, the album was ranked number 69 on Rolling Stone’s magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

This album will get a lot of play on my island, I can listen to it over and over again.

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...

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Kingzrool's fifth round pick, via PM:

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising - 1989

EDIT - to add Kingzrool's comments:

3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul is the last standing of the infamous Native Tongues Posse. This album introduced a smooth jazzy sound that sent hip hop down a new path. A Rolling Stones Magazine review stated that it was "one of the most original rap records ever to come down the pike, the inventive, playful 3 Feet High and Rising stands staid rap conventions on their def ear". And that it did.

The Turtles won a lawsuit against De La Soul over the unauthorized sampling of "You Showed Me" on "Transmitting Live from Mars" which set the standard for groups having to get permission to use samples and note such in the credits. The title 3 Feet High and Rising comes from a Johnny Cash song called "Five Feet High and Rising", "How high's the water, Mama? Its three feet high and rising", which was sampled on the album.

Simply put, this album redefined hip hop. Life on my island just would not be the same without it.

 

[GoGoGadget]

Once again, my decision to leave something off my list has been justified. Phew.

EDIT: x2

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Spike's fifth round pick, via PM:

Black Sabbath - Paranoid - 1970

And, back to Bricklayer...

 

[Monty'sBiggestFan]

Huh...I liked that de la soul album...and was thinking about it the other day ....as I tried to remember the hand movements for me myself and I lol...

 

[Bricklayer]

Heh -- I knew Spike would get around to Sabbath sooner or later. Kind of tentaitvely had that as a late round pick, but Spikey is a metalhead, so there was no chance.

 

[Bricklayer]

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.

 

[Monty'sBiggestFan]

Man...yet another CD I had in my hand the other day....when apparently I was ordaining albums to be drafted soon.... Let me go touch that stack of discs again to see if I can continue to steer people to picks I decided not to add to my list....

 

[GoGoGadget]

Another pick that almost made my list. I always liked 10,000 Maniacs, and have several of their CDs, but that's the one I reach for most often.