20 Desert Island Albums List

BAK wrote: James Gang  really good harmonica and guitar

Ah... Joe Walsh! Almost prophetic and a real treasure.

morris_minor wrote: Am watching History of the Eagles at the moment, recorded off BBC4 a while back, since you mentioned Joe Walsh...

I'm not much of an Eagles fan but I thought that was a very lucid and interesting programme; rather better than the usual offerings from rock music talking heads.

Perhaps it's time for a small revision of my own list. But this time I've decided to narrow it down to just 12 discs for a neater list.
In no particular order.

Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (First album that really "blew my mind" and showed me the real potential of music, when I was maybe 12 or 13)
Beatles - Abbey Road (Never gets old)
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (Hard pick as each and every one of his three albums are brilliant but this is somewhat cheerier than the others so it might be a better pick for a desert island)
Steely Dan - Greatest Hits (Some days are just Steely Dan days when nothing else cuts it)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (I'm with everyone else on this, it is the greatest Jazz album I've heard so far)
Sam Cooke - Night Beat (The perfect blend of Blues and Soul, heartfelt stuff)
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (It doesn't have Supper's Ready but it's the album that got me into Genesis)
Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits (Life would be just a little bit tougher without some S&G every once in a while)
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle (The soundtrack to some very fine days in my life, which reminds me I really should have made room for Rubber Soul somewhere in there)
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (Simply genius pop music, the lyrics and melodies are so simple yet strikingly evocative)
Peter Gabriel - So (Something 80's as well, it was either this or Graceland)



Edited by suede - 19 Mar 2014 at 7:07pm

Drewan77 wrote: Ah, the Zombies - an absolute classic album (I could never tire of 'Time of the Season'). They tour regularly and Colin Blunstone still has the voice of a 20 year old Everything on Johans list is

Thanks Andrew! Yes Colin's still got a great voice, I saw them live a few years ago. It's a real shame they split up after only two albums, Odessey is such a fine record. And on the remastered CD version of Odessey you get a bunch of bonus tracks consisting of odd singles and b-sides and there sure are a lot of real gems among them as well.


Edited by suede - 19 Mar 2014 at 6:37pm