20 Desert Island Albums List

So here it goes.
The definitive 20 Albums you would bring to a desert island to make due with for possibly the rest of your life. I chose to make it 20 albums as the list stays poignant enough but still not too hard to make, i hope.
Double albums count as one.


The Beatles -           Abbey Road
                                Sgt. Pepper
Pink Floyd -              Dark Side of the Moon
Yes -                        Fragile
                                Close to the Edge
Genesis -                 Foxtrot
                                Selling England By The Pound
Bob Dylan -              Highway 61 Revisited
Beach Boys -            Pet Sounds
Roxy Music -             Country Life
Van Morrison -         Astral Weeks
                                Moondance
Miles Davis -             Kind of Blue
Sam Cooke -            Night Beat
Jethro Tull -              Aqualung
                                Thick as a Brick
Rolling Stones -        Sticky Fingers
Elton John -              Tumbleweed Connection
Nick Drake -              Five Leaves Left
                                 Bryter Layter



Surely I've forgotten about an album or two that I would have put on here but that's inevitable I guess. Now I'm looking forward to reading all of your lists!


Cheers!
Johan


Edited by suede - 16 Nov 2012 at 4:46pm

Thanks for sharing your list Jon. Reminds me I haven't listened to Ogden's Nut Gone Flake for a good while , it's great fun! Good point to add your criteria too! Mine was mainly albums I never seem to tire of even though I've heard them so many times I know them like the back of my hand.

You've got me re-thinking my list Hotmog, especially the John Mayall Beano album! Good choice. I nearly put Muddy Waters at Newport in my list, the AAM Brandenburg Concertos, and Back in Black... I sense another mix tape list coming.

For what it's worth, here's 20 I could happily live with, without the need for any more: