A little adjustment from the previous scenario where you get the full catalog of 5 bands/musicians. Now, you get 10 albums, but you can't have multiple from the same act. You could, however, have a Clapton album and a Derek and the Dominoes or Cream album, for example. Also, no greatest hits or compilation albums.

This one is going to take some thought. 

posted by justincredible

A little adjustment from the previous scenario where you get the full catalog of 5 bands/musicians. Now, you get 10 albums, but you can't have multiple from the same act. You could, however, have a Clapton album and a Derek and the Dominoes or Cream album, for example. Also, no greatest hits or compilation albums.

This one is going to take some thought. 

Live albums fair game?

I kinda view them as Greatest Hits albums, so I'm going to say no. Studio albums only. What album were you thinking?

1. John Prine - John Prine
2. Steely Dan - Aja
3. Dire Straits - Dire Straits
4. Metallica - Ride the Lightning (Master of Puppets might've been the pick on a different day)
5. Supertramp - Crime of the Century
6. Shooter Jennings - Put the O Back in Country
7. Pink Floyd - Meddle (considered The Wall due to length of album, but it's probably not in my top 5 PF albums)
8. Arlo McKinley - Die Midwestern
9. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
10. Led Zeppelin - IV

That's my list for now.

posted by justincredible

I kinda view them as Greatest Hits albums, so I'm going to say no. Studio albums only. What album were you thinking?

Eagles, Hell Freezes Over.

But as I think about it, Clapton - One More Car, One More Rider would also crack it haha.

• Eagles - Hell Freezes Over

• Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales
• Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
• Eric Clapton - One More Car, One More Rider
• Michael Jackson - Bad
• Eminem - The Marshal Mathers LP
• Nelly - Country Grammar
• Adele - 21
• Van Morrison - Moondance
• Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman

Until Justin tells me my list is invalid, there it is. 

• White Album - Beatles
• Exile on Main Street - Stones
• Throwing Copper - Live
• New York - Lou Reed
• Dark Side - Pink Floyd
• Hwy 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
• Highway to Hell - AC/DC
• Divenire - Ludovico Einauldi
• Jagged Little Pill -Alanis Morrisette
• American Idiot - Green Day

Throwing Copper would be on my list if it were 20 albums.

posted by justincredible

Throwing Copper would be on my list if it were 20 albums.

My favorite grunge era record.  

Iron Maiden -- A Matter of Life and Death

Ratt -- Dancing Undercover

Dream Theater -- Images and Words

Led Zeppelin -- III

Suicidal Tendencies -- Lights...Cameras...Revolution

Queensryche -- Operation Mindcrime

Megadeth -- Rust in Peace

The Cult -- Sonic Temple

Pink Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon

Monster Magnet -- Dopes to Infinity

For this one I need songs that I always enjoy and a bit upbeat if on a deserted island. I’m going mostly pop.

For each one I’m simply going with whichever album of theirs I like the most of their songs. Cheesy or not you have to keep sanity as long as possible.

Billy Joel “Glass Houses”

George Michael “Faith”

Whitney Houston “Whitney”

MJ “Bad”

Bon Jovi “New Jersey”

Shania Twain “The Woman In Me”

Def Leppard “Hysteria”

Keith Urban “Golden Road”

Tim McGraw “All I Want”

Bruno Mars “Doo Wops and Hooligans”

Next up: Poison “Open Up and Say Aaah”

Inb4 Spock dishonors the thread and desert islands in general by including Limp Bizkit in his list. 

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

Inb4 Spock dishonors the thread and desert islands in general by including Limp Bizkit in his list. 

I'm actually curious which Limp Bizkit album he includes.

Pearl Jam - Ten

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Garth Brooks - No Fences

Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell

Michael Jackson - Thriller 

Zac Brown Band - You Get What You Give

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill

Billy Joel- The Stranger

George Strait - Strait From the Heart

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction 

posted by brutus161

Pearl Jam - Ten

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Garth Brooks - No Fences

Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell

Michael Jackson - Thriller 

Zac Brown Band - You Get What You Give

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill

Billy Joel- The Stranger

George Strait - Strait From the Heart

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction 

Nice list

posted by justincredible

Pink Floyd - Meddle (considered The Wall due to length of album, but it's probably not in my top 5 PF albums)

That's my list for now.

Meddle is an awesome album.  I could listen to “Fearless” on loop on the desert island.

posted by justincredible

1. John Prine - John Prine
2. Steely Dan - Aja
3. Dire Straits - Dire Straits
4. Metallica - Ride the Lightning (Master of Puppets might've been the pick on a different day)
5. Supertramp - Crime of the Century
6. Shooter Jennings - Put the O Back in Country
7. Pink Floyd - Meddle (considered The Wall due to length of album, but it's probably not in my top 5 PF albums)
8. Arlo McKinley - Die Midwestern
9. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
10. Led Zeppelin - IV

That's my list for now.

Replace Aja with Gaucho and replace Zeppelin IV with Iris DeMent - Infamous Angel.

posted by justincredible

Replace Aja with Gaucho and replace Zeppelin IV with Iris DeMent - Infamous Angel.

Good call on Zep IV.  A decent album that is wwwwwwaaaaaayyyyyy overrated due to decades of being completely overplayed.