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See, this changes from week to week. Or, if you are talking about 10 CDs, you are talking month to month. I'll put up a list shortly, though...is this for life? For a month? For six months? Am I asking too many questions? I have played this, and my interrogators asked what 5 disks I would have in case I was on a desert island...you are most generous, Mr. eyeball! You allow us 10!

dude, awesome topic!
(in no exact order)

1. radiohead, ok computer
2. paul simon, graceland
3. neutral milk hotel, aeroplane over the sea
4. wilco, yankee hotel foxtrot
5. flaming lips, the soft bulletin (or possibly yoshimi battles the pink robots - just got it yesterday so i'm not totally sure which one is better)
6. eminem, marshall mathers lp
7. joni mitchell, blue
8. weezer, pinkerton
9. blur, the great escape
10. modest mouse - the moon & antarctica

I don't have any CDs yet, other than monkey mixes. (I'm waiting to see if they're going to stick around or just be a flash in the pan, like DAT was.)

This list of cassette tapes goes to eleven:

Couldn't Stand the Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Violator - Depeche Mode
Mechanical Resonance - Tesla
Pulp Fiction Soundtrack - Various Artists
Strong Persuader - Robert Cray
Appetite for Destruction - Guns'n'Roses
Metallica (the Black Album) - Metallica
Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Abbey Road - Beatles
Lullabys Legends and Lies - Bobby Bare

Enya's greatest hits, 2nd album put out by Delirious, 2 CDs by Eden's Bridge,Ramsie Shick's live cd...and a few more you never heard of.(not that I expect you have heard of any of this besides Enya.(Something by Vangelis might be nice.)

In no order for me, too:

i. Songs:Ohia - Axxess & Ace
ii. Cat Power - Moon Pix
iii. The Beatles - The Beatles [White Album]
iv. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
v. Radiohead - Kid A
vi. Gomez - Bring it On
vii. REM - Automatic for the People
viii. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
ix. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
and, on a whim,
x. Tom Waits - Alice

I can appreciate the Modest Mouse, Weezer, Joni Mitchell and Wilco sollections, pikachulolita, but the Eminem, I'm afraid, opposes the very core of my being.

Actually, I gotta nix a couple things on that list; we need Getz/Gilberto and the Rostroprovich recording of Bach's cello suites.

sigh.

cos i'm ... just marshall mathers ...

Man, I always change my mind on these from week to week; if I were stranded today, the list would be:

• Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
• My Fair Lady - Original Cast Recording
• Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
• Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
• Beck - Odelay
• Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
• Daniel Lanois - Acadie
• Air - Moon Safari
• Count Basie and Sarah Vaughan - (self titled)
...and any one of my Izzard CD's, 'cause on a desert island, I'd need some laughs.

I picked 15, and you'll just have to deal with it.

Lou Reed - New York
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
David Byrne - David Byrne
Replacements - Tim
Prince - The Hits/B-Sides (yeah, three discs, i'm cheating)
Elvis Presley - The King of Rock 'N' Roll: The Complete 50s Masters (Obviously cheating again. Bite me.)
The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Aimee Mann - Whatever
Massive Attack - Protection
James Brown - 20 All-Time Greatest Hits
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Orbital - In-Sides
Ani Difranco - Not a Pretty Girl
Miles Davis - Porgy & Bess

aw shit. I would need REM's Murmur too. So 16.

oooooo goddamn you, poulos! i forgot about exile in guyville!

Warning: I am a good swimmer and would go back for more.
The soundtrack to Oh Brother Where Art Thou
The Beatles White Album
Elvis Costello Brutal Youth
Ella Fitzgerald Cole Porter Songbook
Over the Rhine Films for Radio
Liz Phair Exile in Guyville
Patsy Cline Heartaches
Hot Tuna Hot Tuna
Paul Simon Graceland
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

10. X - Under the Big Black Sun
Reminds me of L.A., a city I hate and love dearly.
9. Ben Fold Five - Ben Folds Five
Reminds me of my wife, who I love dearly.
8. Moondance - Van Morrison
My favorite Van Morrison.
7. The Very Best of - The Pogues
I can't choose one Pogues album because any with Shane are amazing. This one has Rainy Night in Soho from the impossible to find (and stolen a few years ago from my car), Poguetry in Motion.
6. Source Tags and Codes - And you will know us by the trail of dead
The only recent entry on the list, edging out TMC's Filigree and Shadow. This album is everything I could ever want. Too bad the band is a bunch of egotistical fuckheads.
5. Blues and Roots - Charles Mingus
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4. 24hr Revenge Therapy - Jawbreaker
Jawbreaker is the music I turn to when things aren't going my way and I need to listen to someone who shares my pessimistic/humourous/sarcastic view on life.
3. Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy - The Refreshments
Roger Clyne is king.
2. Black Love - Afghan Whigs
The Whigs are one of rocks most underrated and under-recognized bands. Greg Dulli's music is black and twisted soul. Beautiful and wicked and evil and wrenching songs about Dulli and his demons.
1. Come on Pilgrim / Surfer Rosa [original double cd release] - The Pixies
The greatest album by the greatest band ever. EVER.

just off the list:

• Filigree and Shadow - This Mortal Coil
• I Feel Alright - Steve Earle
• King or Star - Belly
• Living in Clip - AniDiFranco
• Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
• Moon and the Melodies - Cocteau Twins

I was saying to kaf recently that doing a cd swap with him or jpoulos is like making a cd for yourself. your list proves it j.

Bunny: "I could sing of you love forever...."

EBK: Totally agree about the Whigs. (Also, the Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams records.)

hell yes on steve earle.

Cheaters never prosper, nyah nyah nyah!
*hides Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle in her undies while no one is looking*

I know that these lists are pretty fluid. I was just thinking that if you ask me in two years what my top ten was, there's a strong chance that Hem's Rabbit Songs would have snuck in there.

Um.

West Side Story-Original Soundtrack ("Hey, Officer Krupke, krup you!")
Sergei Prokofiev-Romeo and Juliet
Al Green-Greatest Hits
Pixies-Surfer Rosa
Billie Holiday-The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve (If I had to pick one disk off of it, Disk 7)
Peter Gabriel-Passion
David Bowie-Hunky Dory
Nick Drake-Pink Moon
Buena Vista Social Club
And ma husband's old band, Grotus-Slow Motion Apocalypse

Can't I just take my iPod?

*on preview, my choices sure make me look like I'm in my thirties. How about that?*

Hunky Dory - first album I ever bought with my own money, readymade!

What a hip bunch we all are! Fatally cool. Except for you, Crash. Tesla is just such an up-late-with-Ricky-Rachman nightmare!

oh yeah, scribblative... yea on the tigermilk, but i think i'm more partial to Are You Feeling Sinister.

jpoulos, you are such a girl! I mean... Liz Phair!?

Sorry, Aw. I'm just an old Headbanger's Ball alumni, I suppose. The difference is that now a good headbanging session necessitates a week off from work and a visit to the chiropractor.

My ass still looks fabulous in leather, though.

Um, I too was there (I feel like I should be in confessional). Okay, lets see...so much to choose from... Yeah EBK, 24 Hr Revenge Therapy came late, but achieved "classic" status in my mind. High school classic. Even if you'd graduated '93.

This list was compiled on the fly and is changing as you read it. Try not to judge.

-The Faint, "Danse Macabre"
-Fiona Apple, "When the Pawn..."
-"Twin Peaks: TV series soundtrack"
-Tori Amos, "Under the Pink"
-"The Best of Parliament: Give Up the Funk"
-Bjork, "Post"
-Portishead, "Dummy"
-Magnetic Fields, "69 Love Songs"
-Weezer, "Pinkerton"
-Photek, "Form and Function"

Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew
Deftones, Adrenaline
Rubber Room, Architechnology
Big Chief, Mack Avenue Skullgame
Rollins Band, The End of Silence
Run DMC, Raising Hell
Jurrasic 5, self titled
Luscious Jackson, Natural Ingredients
Tricky, Maxinquey (sp?)
Peter Tosh, No Nuclear War
Clutch, self titled

I think.

jpoulos, you are such a girl! I mean... Liz Phair!?

I want to have Liz Phair's babies.

Props for Protection, jpolous

I thought about paring down this list, but sue me:

Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom and San Quentin (The gretest live album ever recorded)
Velvet Underground - 3rd Album (Pale Blue Eyes. Enough said)
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears (As soon as it ends, I need almost pathologically to hear it again)
Einstuerzende Neubauten - Strategies Against Architecture II (Haus Der Luge, Yu-Gung, the Jordache commercial, Sand...everything you need)
Leonard Cohen - Songs (Suzanne, Sisters of Mercy... Cohen's broken voice like something dying)
Tindersticks - 1st Self-Titled (Find this album. It's the red one with the flamenco dancer on the cover.)
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (So nice and tender and sad)
John Cale - Fragments of a Rainy Season (Cohen's Hallelujah, Fear Is a Man's Best Friend, bits of Songs for Drella...all live)
Wings of Desire Soundtrack (this is cheating because I get Nick Cave's The Carny, From Her to Eternity, and Crime The City Solution's Six Bells Chime on the same disc)
Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within (Almost too moving. Surprising too at times with American Dreaming and Don't Fade Away)
The Pogues - If I should Fall from Grace With God (The quintissential Pogues for me, though the first two are close. Brings back seeing this tour live every time)
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (If only for Desolation Row)
Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Sessions (her voice on Sweet Jane)
Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands (good memories. It makes me want to drive into a summer sunset)
Mojave 3 - Excuses for Travelers (Cool and nostalgic)
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim/Surfer Rosa (Matt calls 'em as he sees 'em)
Rolling Stones - The London Years (3 disc set, maybe 2 plonkers in the bunch)
Swans - Omniscience (Overpowering)
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (Just great)
Tom Waits - Small Change (Bad Liver and a Broken Heart to Pasties and a G-String...ahhh)
Underworld - Everything, Everything (A man's got to dance on a desert island too)
Roger Waters - Amused to Death (monkey content. And it makes ya think)
Peter Case - The Man with the Blue, Postmodern, Fragmented, Neotraditionalist Guitar (This is now out of print, but probably one of top three albums I can name. btw, he was the Plimsouls singer)

hmmm

1.Verve Jazz classics: best of Louis Armstrong and Ella Fizgerald

2. Best of Velvet Underground
3. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
4. Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
5. Fugazi - 13 Songs
6. Radiohead - OK Computer
7. Radiohead - Kid A
8. Love & Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
9. Replacements - All for Nothing/Nothing For All
10. Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

I had a big boat, OK?

I Can Hear the Heart Beating as one is my #11.

I *heart* "Autumn Sweater."

I cheated by using a lot of best ofs...

KAF!

Peter FUCKING Case! Sings Like Hell is one of my all-time favorites.

There was a time when I wanted to be buried with a Crime and the City Solution CD in my hands. Yeah, it was a pretty shitty time. :-)

And I couldn't decide between Rain Dogs and Small Change. Small Change was the first Waits album I ever heard. You can actually get cirrhosis of the liver just by listening to that album.

I love that Peter Case record. Two Angels, Entella Hotel, Poor Old Tom (poor old tom, he don't know, why his teeth gotta rattle, shiver and shake. at night tom's free to do whatever he pleases, tom's free to walk til the cold day breaks....). That's one that comes out to play once or twice a year. I didn't realize that it was out of print.

Also, Psychocandy by the Jesus and Mary Chain. is a near perfect work.

TJ: For two years in college, I was awakened every Sunday morning with Stone Roses' "I Wanna Be Adored". I love that album.

And I love this thread.

And *sniff* I love you guys.

Um...I should be late to contribute:

Rum, Sodomy, & the Lash- The Pogues
The Best of...- The Highwaymen
Closer- Joy Division
To Bring You My Love- PJ Harvey
King Yellowman- Yellowman (because Iggy Pop says so too)
Back Home Again- John Denver
Live At The Roxy- Social Distortion
Songs the Lord Taught Us- The Cramps
Big Lizard In My Backyard- The Dead Milkmen

Asha Bolse's Greatest Hits- Asha Bolse (Amazon doesn't carry)

*Anything from Danny Elfman or Oingo Boingo
*Any James Brown

Oh, and there's so much more...

Yo La Tengo!

Shit. You guys are reminding me of all these other awesome albums. I think my desert island is going to have to be near your desert islands so we can make rafts and trade.

I am printing out this thread for my next trip to the record store.

Oh and Brittney, you're the Twin Peaks Freak, right? On Tindersticks' "Curtains" album, the singer does a duet with Isabella Rosselini on "Marriage Made In Heaven".

Ask for it by name.

This was an easy assignment.

1. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
2. The Beatles - Abbey Road
3. Big Audio Dynamite - This is Big Audio Dynamite
4. The Story of the Clash (cheating with a greatest hits collection, and a double CD to boot)
5. Prince - 1999
6. The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith
7. R.E.M. - Eponymous (also cheating)
8. If I Was: The Very Best of Midge Ure and Ultravox (ditto)
9. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
10. The Who - Quadrophenia

The unasked question - do we get a CD player on this desert island, or do we all have a nice set of silver drink coasters?

And Lupo & Eyeball, I emailed Peter Case at vanguardrecords.com, asking him about that disc. Apparently there's some bad mojo with Geffen. He answers his email personally by the way, which is ultra cool.

I mentioned a show I had seen of his in San Jose in 90 or so, when he was quitting smoking and yelling at the sound guy. He laughed about it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

btw, his last disc, Flying Saucer Blues is grrreat. The first one of you that asks can have a gratis copy, too. I had a copy and a pal of mine got me a new signed one.

YHBC.....you're...you're....a fellow Ultravox fan??

I have the rarest Ultravox collectible in history. Worship me!

Free CD, please!

Check your email, Mr. Esque.

Kaf, Ultravox (as well as Midge solo) is one of those bands that I didn't know I liked until the missus brought home the aforementioned CD and I realized I not only knew almost every song on it, but that I liked them all. Hence its inclusion on my list. Make fun of "Vienna" all anyone wants, it's still a beautiful song that I don't think I'll ever get tired of. There's also a lot more songs that most folks either forgot about, or didn't realize who they were by.

And, I'll bite. What's your worship-inducing collectible?

man, readymade and I appear to be the only classical/musical theatre queens here... I almost said "West Side Story", rmd, but I just love the energy and purity of Julie Andrews at her peak, and it's worth the price of admission just hearing Rex Harrison trying to croon.

And Marquis, I also love Are You Feeling Sinister, but Tigermilk has sentimental associations for me, so it won out :)

(BTW, where's jonmc? I thought he'd be on this thread like white on rice)

What? No one has any XTC?

Kafka, I'm buying you another beer for including the Man in Black on the same list as Underworld. I shot a man in Reno, just to see him shake that booty...

1. XTC - Skylarking
2. American Music Club - Mercury ('cause it's gonna be depressing on that island every now and then)
3. Robyn Hitchcock - Eye
4. Dave Brubeck - Time Out
5. Nobuo Uematsu and Marie Braetnach - Celtic Moon
6. Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
7. Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
8. Miles Davis - 'Round Midnight
9. Rollins - Human Butt (just for the Sky King story)
10. Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth

God, I love this game...

Thank god someone put AMC on their list! Mark Eitzel writes such good misery.

1. They Might Be Giants-Lincoln
2. The Mix that Eyeballkid made for me last go around.
3. Bob Dylan-Desire
4. KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 8
5. My Fair Lady (original London recording)
6. The Otis Redding Story (it's a box set)
7. Carl Orff-Carmina Burana
8. Janet Jackson-The Velvet Rope
9. Woody Allen-Standup Comic
10. A second copy of My Fair Lady in case the first one gets scratched.

Oh, and Jimmy Buffet's "Songs You Know By Heart". It's an island, for fuck's sake.

Hey, you can borrow my AMC if I can borrow your Peter Gabriel.

Off the top of my head, and in no particular order:

Spirit "The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus"
Big Star "No. 1 Record/Radio City"
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"
Rolling Stones "Let It Bleed"
Liz Phair "Exile in Guyville" (Yeah, me too.)
Elvis Costello "Imperial Bedroom"
Big Dipper "Heavens" (Never released on CD, which is criminal)
XTC "Black Sea" (Oooh,thanks for the reminder, RakDaddy)
Cheap Trick "Heaven Tonight"
X "Wild Gift"

I reserve the right to change my mind tomorrow. And yes, I am older than dirt, thank you for asking. I remember when dirt first became available; my friends and I laughed. We thought it would never be accepted. Man, if we'd gotten in on the ground floor of that dirt thing we'd be rich, I tells ya, rich!

scribblative: I noticed that too! That either makes us rarified elitists, or incorrigible romantics, or horribly geeky. Maybe all three?

And KGSR rocks. If we could get them and KCRW together, why, we'd have the most powerful force for radio music in the world! Clear Channel would fall under the juggernaught! Goodness and joy for all humanity! Ha HA!

Except during pledge drives.

1. James Taylor's Greatest Hits
2. Prince- The Hits Vol. 2
3. The Otis Redding Story
4. Rod Stewart's Greatest Hits
5. Sting-Hits from the 80's (I think that's what it's called)
6. Aretha Franklin-Greatest Hits
(I'm lame, but I love "greatest hits")
7. Sarah McLachlan-Surfacing
8. Love Song Mix from ColdChef (I love him so)
9. U2- The Joshua Tree
10. Journey-Greatest Hits

Actually, the collectible is...wait for it...

The original pressing of Vienna, with the title "TorquePoint" and the same songs in different order. My sister was living in England and had some tenuous connection to Steve Lillywhite's wife or something. So she sent it as a bday present.

I've felt out the Extreme Voice fanclub for worth...last go round they offered one hundred pounds.

Kafkaesque, I don't remember if I included any Cat Power in my mix, but you definitely need to give her a listen, if you haven't already. I think you'd dig.

Got fishfucker's and coldchef's in the mail today. Reviews tomorrow, hopefully.

I take no responsiblity for her taste in music. But her taste in men is amazing.

Marquis: Glad you finally got it. I'll call off my jihad against the Mountees.

I just can't believe someone who'd put John Denver on a list is giving me shit about Tesla. You might as well've picked John Tesh.

Sheesh.

:)

Now, Chef, Aretha is awesome, Prince, awesome, Otis, awesome, so this whole "taste in men" thing seems a little disingenuous, don't you think?

No, you're right. Anyone who can make me laugh as hard as I did about Yoda's penis as often as you did has GOT to be a catch.

I saw Rod Stewart in concert, as well as the Police (that's the band that Sting was in first, remember?) I also like Prince (see above), Aretha Franklin and James Taylor are both sui generis, but Journey?

Wheel in the sky, keep on turnin'....
Don't know if I have an original thought ....

Oh well, we all have guilty pleasures.

If kevinskomsvold ever shows up, I understand we're likely to have a double helping of Foreigner on his playlist, so you never know.

I question the taste in men, too, though (unless that's just another guilty pleasure).

For RakDaddy and readymade:

I lay all my problems
at Johnny Mathis' feet
I said Johnny, Johnny tell me,
can you tell me how to live

All my hopes are unravelling
And I just lost my lease
For my house without love
Doors, windows, without peace

With a wave his jewel-encrusted hand
Across a glittering Las Vegas scene
He said, "you've gotta learn how to disappear
In the silk and amphetamines..."

Johnny looked at my songs
And he said at first guess
"Never in my life have I seen
such a mess

Why do you say everything
As if you were a thief
Like what you stole has no value
Like what you preach is far from belief?"

With a wave of his wide blue hand
'Cross a glittering Shepherd's Bush scene
He said, "you've gotta learn how to disappear
In the silk and amphetamines..."

Johnny looked at my collection
Of old punk rock posters
Anonymous scenes of disaffection, chaos, torture...
And he said, "well, you were on the right track
But you're a lamb jumping for the knife
A true showman knows how to disappear
In the spotlight,
In the spotlight,
In the spotlight,
In the spotlight,
In the spotlight".

(American Music Club)

God, people just don't know how to write lyrics anymore. I miss good lyrics.

Thanks, jpoulos

Well, I know what I'm going to listen to when I get home tonight, good mood or no:

Lazarus wasn't grateful for his second wind
For another chance
Watch his chances fade like the dawn and leave
I can barely tell you just how pale I get
Without you

I've been a mess since you've been gone

What were the first words that crowd heard him speak
I bet he was cursing at the sky
I bet he wasn't turning no other cheek
And was there still hope and desire left in his heart
For the last word in love

I've been a mess since you've been gone

Your beauty is just a slap in the face
That's gonna bring me back to life
Back to another sky that's blue
It's gonna turn me into another great American zombie

So hungry for you

I've been a mess since you've been gone

Yeah, thanks, jpoulos. Wish I'd gotten into AMC before they broke up, but hey. That's what CDs are for.

Hey, did someone forget to let Miguel out of the basement? Or is he on one of those feckin' monthlong E-euroopeen Vacations?

downward spiral -nine inch nails
kind of blue -miles davis
never mind the bullocks -sex pistols
raw power -iggy & the stooges
dead cities future -sound of London
vorsprung box set -paul van dyk
tin machine II -tin machine
outside -david bowie
this what you want, this is what you get -public image ltd.
everything by the pixies, ever
becuop fish -underworld

beaucoup fish, that is.

here's my brick's worth:

Blood On The Tracks - Dylan*
Mock Tudor - Richard Thompson*
You and Oblivion - Robyn Hitchcock*
I Am The Cosmos - Chris Bell
The Blues - Nina Simone
New Skin for the Old Ceremony - Leonard Cohen
Paris, Texas (soundtrack) - Ry Cooder
Dolman Music - Meredith Monk
Guitar Town - Steve Earle
Roger Manning - Roger Manning
1969: Velvet Underground Live, Vol. 2 - VU
Zuma - Neil Young
Gentleman - Afghan Whigs
Set - Alex Chilton
Bang Masters - Van Morrison
ThirdSister Lovers - Big Star
Rufus Wainright - Rufus Wainright
Candy Apple Grey - Husker Du
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
Time For A Witness - The Feelies
King of America - Elvis Costello
Precice Modern Lovers Order - JR & the Modern Lovers
Let It Be - Replacements
Double Nickels on the Dime - Minutemen
Dusty in Memphis - Dusty Springfield
The Ultimate Collection - Hank Williams
20 Greatest Songs - Roy Acuff
Exile on Main Street - Stones
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, PJ Harvey
*Actually, either I'm taking all of the major discography for these guys, or I'm just not going - not negotiable

and, uh, never mind the bollocks.

typn' is fun!

I'm taking my ten discs...and lilboo.

Ooooh, lilboo reminds me...
I left off Dry by PJ Harvey.

I don't know about the rest of you, but by Friday I'd have a completely different list.

This is the best thread ever. It doesn't even need the periods between each word to be so.

Lots of people have Elvis Costello on their lists, but I notice no one has "The King"... Curious.

(I agree, by the way, yhbc.)

I have the King on my list, scrib.

If I haven't mentioned it before, dong_resin is my personal savior.

Also, I'm a little surprised that I'm on coldchef's list. After Adam's, dME's, and CC's praise, I'm thinking of starting my own little K-Tel.

Speaking of Lyrics:

A Rainy Night in Soho
By Shane MacGowan (1991)

I've been loving you a long time
Down all the years, down all the days
And I've cried for all your troubles
Smiled at your funny little ways
We watched our friends grow up together
And we saw them as they fell
Some of them fell into Heaven
Some of them fell into Hell

I took shelter from a shower
And I stepped into your arms
On a rainy night in Soho
The wind was whistling all its charms
I sang you all my sorrows
You told me all your joys
Whatever happened to that old song
To all those little girls and boys

Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
But there's a light I hold before me
And you're the measure of my dreams
The measure of my dreams

Sometimes I wake up in the morning
The gingerlady by my bed
Covered in a cloak of silence
I hear you in my head
I'm not singing for the future
I'm not dreaming of the past
I'm not talking of the fist time
I never think about the last

Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
Still there's a light I hold before me
You're the measure of my dreams
The measure of my dreams

Frank Sinatra In the Wee Small Hours

Music to drink and snivel by.

la la la
la la la la
la

And what is "fist time?" Sounds dirty.

It was a longer list, but i had to take off lots you guys already mentioned, like the stooges, miles, AMC, neutral, etc. (what's the use in repeatin?) But forgot to add Rum Sodomy and the Lash - Pogues - if it isn't already up there...

"Fist time" is twenty minutes from now.

Oh, and should I go insane on this island, I'll trade all my discs for some Wesley Willis cds to see if they make more sense.

I have a signed copy of Wesley Willis in my collection. Very confusing, very hazy night in The Empty Bottle in Chicago, and I walked away with PURE WESLEY GOLD!

Oh, and ColdChef, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who would bring a comedy CD... I don't have any Woody Allen, but I would probably try and smuggle in some Lenny Bruce in addition to my Izzards...

OK, after much thought and pangs of betrayal, here are my ten, no cheating, no compilations, no boxed-sets (what agony!). I chose the ten records I couldn't live without, rather than those I think are the best or those I most enjoy listening to.

Leonard Cohen - Recent Songs
Morrissey - Viva Hate
Frank Sinatra - At The Sands
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Primal Scream - Xterminator
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Astor Piazolla - Sur
Amália Rodrigues - Com Que Voz

If allowed the Lupo Extra Five Dispensation, I'd also have:

The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and The Lash
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Radiohead - The Bends
Miles Davis - Someday My Prince Will Come
Ella Fitzgerald - Live In Rome( but only because the Duke Ellington Songbook has 3 discs)

I would be very, very miserable though!

That said, I'd love to live on many of the islands so far, except Commish's and Crash's... ;)

OOOooooh. Eddie Izzard. Yeah. The woodman has to stay home. Eddie's coming with me.

Scratch that, Miguel is my new personal savior.

If you're gonna bring up Wesley, we need to dish some lyrics:

Superman thought he was bad
He was messing with my girlfriend
I caught him in my room kissing her
I took a rubber hose and flogged his rump

I whipped Superman's ass
I whipped Superman's ass
I whipped Superman's ass
I whipped Superman's ass

Rock over London
Rock on Chicago

I saw Wesley Willis here at the palace in LA once. Opened for Sublime, I think. He was fun to watch, but I've never been able to get into him on cd.

I enjoy being eyeball kids savior, ceptn' for the fact that it all but guarantees his horrible, spork-induced doom.

no where is jonmc?

"now where" that should be.

Miguel, you can send those CDs right back, you know.

And, I had to scratch Echo and the Bunnymen (the one with "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo") to make the ten requirement. Do I still get a visit? You can bring the Sinatra.

Lyrics from my top ten-er:

If you don't mind why don't you mind
Where is your sense of indignation
You are too kind Much too kind
Where is the madness that you promised me
Where is the dream for which I paid dearly
When things go wrong I sing along
It is the nature of the business
But you're not here
to make my sad songs more sincere
No one will ever love you honestly
No one will ever love you
for your honesty
No one will ever love you honestly
No one will ever
love you for your honesty
-Magnetic Dreams, "No One Will Ever Love You"

oh jeez. i forgot 69 love songs (vols. 1, 2 & 3) by magnetic fields.

Commish - I love the records! Here's a link to the original Desert Island Discs - I chose Rod Steiger's list.

Huh, I didn't realize the original BBC version was eight discs. I went for the more rounded Tower Records Pulse Magazine version using 10.

Shut up n' play yer guitar - Frank Zappa
Hot Rats - Frank Zappa
Stone Crazy - Buddy Guy
The Best Of Freddie King - Freddie King
Booty and The Beast - Poppa Chubby
Country Guitar Thunder - Merle Travis
Weight - Henry Rollins
Ramonesmania - Ramones
Young Loud & Snotty - Dead Boys
Uptighty - Uptighty

Yeah, you'd better want to stay away from my island 'cause you're one of those effete European poofters, always mincing about, drinking tea with your pinkies up, talking about socialism this and fascism that, and how's your vineyard this year, Bruce, while manly, rugged men like myself in long hair and multiple earrings and makeup writhe rhythmically together under hot-pink lights in leather outfits and...uh...oh. Never mind.

I join the Big and Dumb contingent...
in no particular order...

10: Judas Priest, "Screaming For Vengeance"
9. Arc Angels, "Arc Angels"
8. Steely Dan, "Aja"
7. Ian Anderson, "Walk Into Light"
6. Black Sabbath, "Heaven and Hell"
5. Jean Luc Ponty, "A Taste For Passion"
4. "The Commitments" movie soundtrack
3. Led Zeppelin, "Presence"
2. Sass Jordan, "Racine"
1. AC/DC, "If You Want Blood"

and the five additional:

A. ZZ Top, "Deguello"
B. Alan Parsons Project, "I, Robot"
C. Blue Oyster Cult, "Fire of Unknown Origin"
D. Rush, "Moving Pictures"
E. The Outfield, "Play Deep"

So: what does it mean???

Damn Kevin, Ramonesmania nearly made my cut, too.

But, no Apostrophe?

"So: what does it mean???"

It means you had the same auto-shop teacher I did, Fes. No one else in the world would put Ponty and AC/DC on the same list.

Miguel: I dig.

(And it's not the particular albums, it's the vibe. You have taste, my friend, unlike these Wesley Willis liking folks.)

Wesley Willis is actually on the list of artists you would have to pay me to see. I believe the price I quoted my girlfriend was $8. For $8 (including ticket), I'd go to a Wesley Willis concert and pay (some) attention. $5? Nope. $7? Nuh-uh. Give me $8 and a comp, and i'm there - but no less.

He's quirky, sure. And briefly - very briefly - funny. But, I'm sorry, he's also positively atrocious. And this coming from someone who enjoys the entire Gary Davis record.

Yhbc, I was allowed only 10 choices. But say for instance, a stiff wind came along and blew one of my CDs away, and then good ol' Apostrophe' floated by my island. Well I'd welcome it with open arms.

you guys are so fucking cool. we should get an island.

i think i approve of brittney's list the most. good call on the fiona apple - that cd is way too underrated. i don't get why. well, maybe it's the totally ludicrous title. but it's a wonderful cd. also, I HEART THE FAINT and was heartened to see 'em on one of these lists.

rock on.

I'm with Fes on the ZZ Top- Deguello.
Any early Top is gold.

Hey brittney- while we're on the subject of music, did you get my email regarding the MeFi swap?

I join the Big and Dumb contingent...

UncleFes, I resent that. I'm not big at all.
(insert tacky emoticon signifying tongue-in-cheek-good-natured-ribbing essence of post).

C. Blue Oyster Cult, "Fire of Unknown Origin"

I've got a fever, and the prescription is More Cowbell!

also, Dong, that Future Sound of London disc...I've had that for ages and only tried it once...I guess I should give it another go.

Marquis...full agreement on the Willis thing.

Chef, that Woody Allen is my favorite comedy album ever, with the possible exception of the Best of Bill Cosby. I take full credit for reminding you with my "Hemingway punched me in the mouth" crack.

Everyone told me I would dig 69 Love Songs, but it just didn't do it for me. Too annoying. And I tried and tried.

Dead Cities does take a bit to grow on ya.
Even for electronic instrumental music it's multi-layered and dense.
Particularly if you're given to lyrics-based music.

Also, I've-decided-I'm-going-to-hyphenate-more.

Don't hyper-hyphenate, donger. I think the remedy for that is typing into a paper bag.

It's no fun without the spray-paint.

Man, you're right, p-lo - reading through everyone's list, I think we should get an island.

And monkey butlers.

Monkey butlers. Is there anything they can't do?

*de-lurks because this thread is irresistible*

- Astrud Gilberto: any compilation
- The Specials: More Specials
- Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Three Blind Mice
- Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um
- Pink Floyd: Wish you were here
- John Coltrane: Blue Train
- Bach: Goldberg Variations or Passacaglia
- Beatles: White Album
- Astor Piazolla: Sur
- Public Enemy: Fear of a Black planet

11-20:

- Kraftwerk: Autobahn
- Miles Davis: Milestones
- Digable Planets: Reachin'
- Ruben Blades: Live!
- Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
- English Beat: Just Can't Stop It
- XTC: English Settlement
- Kraftwerk: Computer World
- Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks
- Brahms: Piano Sonatas

*lurk cloak re-activate!*

Catatonia - International Velvet
Evita - the original album
Jesus Christ Superstar - the film soundtrack
Steps - Steptacular
John Cale and Lou Reed - Songs for Drella
My Fair Lady - recent London cast recording
Kate Bush - The Hounds of Love
U2 - War
Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and The Lash
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go

See, I told you you didn't want me in your swap thing.

Ah, vacapinta - welcome, my friend!

*signals to the Swami EBK *
"Your plan to entice him out of his lair worked, Master! Leaving the Kraftwerk out was too much for Don Vacapinta to bear!"

And now you can never, ever de-lurk again, bwahahahaha!

P.S. What's this "English Beat" thing? Is it like the "London Times"?

Summer: is that it? No Stiff Kittens, no Feeder, no Small Furry Animals? I'm shocked at the general unwelshness of your list. I didn't expect you to mention that "The Green Green Grass of Jones" box-set you're always listening to on the sly, but still...

I have got the Manic Street Preachers and Catatonia on there Miguel. Very mainstream I know, but I'm a mainstream kind of girl. At least I left off the Stereophonics. I would have included Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and the Super Furry Animals for cred points but I don't actually like them.

Tom Jones, yeuch. The Divine Miss Shirley Bassey. NOW you're talking.

I guess I'm not a mainstream kinda girl, Summer. My earliest memeories of warm squirmy unexplainable urges were from watching Tom Jones on tv. *blush*

Bunny: "I could sing of you love forever...."
Posted by: jpoulos on August 14, 2002 09:42 PM

Is this the song you're talking about?

"Over the mountains and the seas
Your river run with love for me
And I will open up my heart and let the healer set me free.
I'm happy to be in the truth and I will daily lift my hands
for I will always sing of when your love came down. "

That's been part of our worship team repetoire for a long time. Doesn't show off our lead guitarist as much as a lot of the others though.

The cd I have been listening to constantly is a live performance cd recorded in Northern Ireland. Nontraditional worship stuff done in the Celtic sound. It would have to come with me to the desert island for sure.

Too bad I can't mail you each a Ramsie Shick cd. That gal gives Janice Joplin a real run for her money...about as nontraditional as you can get.Let's just say I doubt HER stuff would be sung in church-altho I wouldn't object if it was!

Summer, leave out the Andrew Lloyd Webber and you can swap with me any time.

Geez ... you guys are here all day, then you're here all night. I come in in the morning, and a new thread has 100+ posts. Talk about being late to the party.

In no particular order (other than alphabetical), for what it's worth...

• Beatles, The: Revolver
• Buckley, Jeff: Grace
• Gabriel, Peter: Passion
• Lanois, Daniel: For the Beauty of Wynona
• Marley, Bob: Legend
• Nirvana: Nevermind
• Outkast: Stankonia
• Radiohead: The Bends
• R.E.M.: Automatic for the People
• U2: Achtung Baby
• Wilco: Summer Teeth

On reflection, it's not a very esoteric list. I have a lot of less popular music, but my enjoyment of those CDs tends to burn hot and cold. These 10 11 are probably the most reliable in my collection.

btw, Summer, I love your choice of the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack. Easily the best Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtrack -- and the movie soundtrack is far better than the cast recording (imho)

Pardon me - I have the video. I watch it every Easter to celebrate the resurrection of Our Lord. I think I'd be a Christian if Jesus had a rock opera voice and looked like Ted Neeley.

These cd lists make me feel so OLD. The vast majority of them I have never even heard of...

My son prefers classical, when he even bothers to listen to music, and the girls are into christian contemporary, which-with the exception being Delirious-I haven't usually heard of either.

If any of you are from Great Britain, perhaps you can clear up something-it's my understanding that Delirious plays or has played in bars- in other words, out where folks actually listen to good bands. Anybody out there ever heard of them?

Summer, I could probably vouch for the voice...

This thread makes me cry. Many, many moons ago I left my 250+ CD collection at my sister's house when I left to backpack around Europe. Her f*ckwit of a (now ex) boyfriend sold them all and bought some coke.

I am slowly rebuilding my collection. Extremely slowly. CDs here cost a mint. Which is why God invented CD burners and WinMX *grins*

jpoulos, if you like Ani DiFranco, Living In Clip is the best of all worlds, followed closely by her new release(s) Revelling and Reckoning, IMO. And I am surprised by how much touring that girl does on this continent. 3 shows in the past 2 years.

Really, all I need is:

Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul

Actually, I refuse to play this game anymore. I get too emotional. I can't leave any of my pretty ones behind.

I think I'd be a Christian if Jesus had a rock opera voice and looked like Ted Neeley.

This will make you laugh ... about, oh, 5 years ago a touring show of JCS came to Detroit starring ... Ted Neely and Carl Anderson. It was really cool. Ted's voice was a little shaky, but Carl's was still smooth as silk. The most humerous part was when Ted was lifted up on the cross at the end ... he'd put on a few pounds since the 1970s, and didn't exactly fit the "emaciated Jesus" look. I don't know what it is ... JCS has that kind of kitch/hippie/art vibe that is pretty unique. And I'm not a Christian either. Hey, b****, how come this one wasn't on your list?

Romakimmy: Not that I'm suggesting that anyone here get in the business of bootlegging, but...whaddaya need? You know...right now?

Summer: I meant your list looked very Welsh (John Cale is too)!

Oh no, pm. I can't use the Ted Neeley as Jesus fantasy any more. I'm going to have to fall back on the Robert Powell as Jesus fantasy. Actually Christian Bale was once Jesus in a mini series. Excuse me I just have to leave the room for a second.

BF - I'm from the aforementioned Great Britain but I've never heard of Delirious. But I am a sinful atheist so they might have passed me by.

Yes, I know about John Cale. I love 'The Gift' on 'White Light White Heat'. If you turn down one speaker you can hear just him telling the story in this incongruous Welsh accent. It's great.

oh my god, how could i forget jeff buckley?!

ColdChef- Bootlegging? And risk the wrath of the RIAA? *Perish* the thought. I use WinMX strictly to find mp3s of uh, monkeys farting in the wind.

You're in Louisiana, if I remember correctly? Ever hear of a couple of Austin, TX bands called Breedlove and The Scabs (Scabs also known as The Ugly American when the full horn section was there).

I think the loss of those sucked the most. That and my copy of Minkus' Don Quixote, which took frickin' ages to find.

Hey, b****, how come this one wasn't on your list?

I"M still getting over the fact that Summer had it on HER list.

I am at present banging my head against the wall (metaphorically speaking) because i left out O Brother Where Art Thou.

And is the Moody Blue's Nights in White Satin out on CD?

I finally remembered- it's Vangelis' Heaven and Hell I would like to have..

The jury is still out on the Carmina Burana (o fortuna, verut luna..)

uh, 'The Ugly AmericanS" damn my typing today.

OK. You knew I'd show up for this. Sorry it took so long, and if EBK and the rest can do 15 then so can I

in no particular order:

Exile on Main Street-Rolling Stones: meant as a chronicle of end of the '60s exhaustion but it really can apply to anyone anywhere feeling worn down and beaten. And no record expresses that better

Born to Run-Bruce Springsteen: The opposite end of the spectrum.This man could find the hope in anything, and "Jungleland" may be the best "epic" rock song ever, just for the sax solo.

Let It Be-Replacements: Talk about your vocies crying out in the wilderness. This album let a very confused 15 year old know he was not alone.

Who's Next-The Who: The Best Drummer, the best songwriter all at the top of their game.

Midnight Roads and Stages Seen-Jason and the Scorchers: Double Live album of one of the most criminally underrated bands of all time.

Master of puppets-Metallica: Best. Metal. Album. Ever.

Beg Scream and Shout and Loud Fast and Out of Control: Two amazing box sets covering '60's R&B and 50's Rock(two eras near and dear to my heart)Expertly picked by fans not bean counters, you can tell.

The Band-The Band: the tightest and pound for pound the most musically talented rock band ever. A record you can never completely get to the bottom of.

Rubber Soul-the Beatles: post-yeah,yeah,yeah and pre-acidhead tomfoolery. plus "I'm Looking through You" and "In My Life" are my two fave Fab 4 tunes.

Pet Sounds-Beach Boys: Nobody does male vulnerability like Brian Wilson.

Rocket to Russia-Ramones: Rock and Roll distilled to it's absolute pure essence.

Live 1966-Bob Dylan: Rock and Roll as combat, plus the Band are in fine form backing him up.

Answer the Phone, Dummy-Fast backs:Best pop/punk album ever because it scarifices the purity of neither side of the equation.

24 Hours a Day-Bottle Rockets: the great lost album of the ninties. Smart economical roots rock played from the gut.

There you have it: the master hath spoken.

The Master of Puppets at least.

Romakimmy: I love the Scabs. Let me dig tru my collection and see if I can find a prize for you.

Woo-Hoo! You rock, ColdChef. Ah, the memories of Tuesday nights at Antones, dancing on tables and trying to flirt with the Scab's lead singer...my one and only attempt at becoming a groupie.

Bob Schnider? He's got his own career going now. He's fantastic. I miss Austin.

PLEASE, PLEASE, romakimmy, tell me that boyfriend went to jail. Or at least hauled before one of the many reincarnations of The People's Court...
that was EVIL.
BTW, since you already bought the cds one time, I am inclined to think you should get a pass regarding copies.

B****fire, I tried that argument on a hooker one time. Didn't work.

BF, unfortunately the prat still walks free as far as I know. Never fear, as I have made arrangements for a custom-made pair of concrete shoes and a facial reconstruction with a baseball bat should he ever choose to bother my sister again.

And ColdChef, in the tortilla-less lands of Italy, I have dreamt of a bowl of Magnolia Mud accompanied by a bottle of Patron silver many, many times. Which usually results in a large puddle of drool on my pillow.

What on earth is that Romakimmy?

Tom Waits: One From The Heart (soundtrack)
Stevie Wonder: Fullfillingness First Finale
The Clash: Sandinista
Merle Haggard: Down Every Road (4 cd box set)
Marvin Gaye: Greatest Hits - The '70s
Captain Beefheart: Clear Spot
The Buzzcocks: Singles Going Steady
Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool
Joao Gilberto: The Legendary
Caetano Veloso: Without Handkerchief, Without Document
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Serge Gainsbourg: De Gainsbourg A Gainsbarre
Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music
Lee Perry: Arkology
Lucinda Williams: Essence
Kruder & Dorfmeister: The K&D Sessions

I'm looking forward to Desert Island iPod. My 4000 selections will be posted shortly.

Magnolia Mud: from the Magnolia cafe in Austin:
Mag Mud, CHIPS & HOT SAUCE .........................5.00

Black beans, queso, avocado, pico de gallo.

Magnolia Mud

Liam, I like Sandinista a lot. I've heard it disparaged as a dirty trick The Clash played on their record company, but I dig the three record format.

Washington Bullets is especially great.

So we're allowed to have all our islands together, right? We're all shipwrecked on the same archipelago? 'Cause 10 just isn't near enough.

How 'bout Desert Island 80 gig hard drives?

Fly, my trained seagulls, and snatch the tunes of my monkey brothers!

And sisters of course.

cds i need to buy:

tom waits - alice
low - trust [no, 'snot out yet]
coldplay - rush of blood to the head [well, maybe. i haven't decided yet.]
the beatles - revolver
the beatles - rubber soul
mark hollis - mark hollis
green day - dookie

*builds trebuchet in anticipation of inter-island skirmishes*

I'm squattin' on liam's island, and there's no-one who can stop me.

Hell, I'll de-lurk for this one too (albeit rather late)
No order, other than when they're popping into my head:

1. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
2. Bob Marley - Babylon By Bus (you're on an island for love of pete)
3. Minor Threat - Discography
4. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
5. Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser
6. Sonic Youth - Dirty
7. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
8. Pink Floyd - The Wall (if you're schizo, you won't really be alone)
9. Avail - Live From the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco
10. Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary

bonus 5:
Don Caballero - Singles Breaking Up
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
Ramones - Ramonesmania
At the Drive-In - in/casino/out.

That is all.

::retreats to lurkers gallery::

*looks up trebuchet in lieu of feeling totally ignorant*

Mr Jones, do you honestly prefer Fevers and Mirrors to Letting off the Happiness? Wow. I find the former so much more truthful and fresh - F&M is a little precious.

Conor's playing in Montreal in September. Hooray!

Oh - and if you haven't heard it yet, I found the upcoming album (Lifted) to be rather the disappointment. Certainly no new ground covered - it made me especially frustrated as the recent EP had me so excited.

Pink Floyd's The Wall hits a wee bit too close to home. But i agree it rocks...

Anybody old enough to remember Renaissance with (I think) Annie Haslam?

The Trebuchet Chronicles

Ah, I forgot to put Monk on my list. I have a nice comp called Genius of Modern Music which would be a nice addition.

Agree with vacapinta, a thread too good not to delurk.

I've seen most of my list included in others'; forgive the repetition, for this is something I must get out. A sentimental romp thru the Canyons of My Mind.

Double Nickels, The Minutemen. (Though I like What Makes a Man Start Fires more, Double Nickels is longer, thus better suited for exile.)

Wanted!, The Outlaws. Waylon, Willie, Jessie, Tompaul. One of the best records ever made, IMHO-- the 20th anniversary edition has lots of new tracks, too, making it very, very long. This record was my childhood. Well, that and...

...Equal Rights, Peter Tosh. Envision an 8-y-o toehead intoning, "I'm a stepping razor, don't you watch my size, I'm dangerous." I listen to this record at work when I'm secretly fighting the downpressor man.

Any Buddy Holly collection.

George Best, Wedding Present. Just the best collection ever of poppy, adolescent longing (though if you'd asked me 10 years ago, I would've said Sebadoh's III, another lengthy album, but no longer).

toss-up between Can I Say and Wig Out at Denko's, Dag Nasty. Can I Say was my first-ever punk album, I think. Though it might have been...

...The Clash. Not the British version, though, 'cause I like Clash City Rockers too much.

The Early Year, Scud Mt. Boys. Actually a compilation of their first 2 albums, so this is a cheater. Creepy country plus a straightfaced cover of Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up, Ministry. I haven't heard this album in 10 years, but it was so freaking good when I was a teenager, especially the time I was listening to Stigmata in my friend Julie's car and we came up over a hill and almost bought the farm head-on stylee with a NYSEG cherry-picker truck.

69 Love Songs, Magnetic Fields. Again, a cheater, but in my mind one of the most perfect concept albums ever (with the exception of 1/3 of the 3rd disk--what up with that?).

Runners up:
City Jump vs. Country Jump, various artists. This is actually an illegal bootleg which isn't widely distributed but is indeed the best collection of jump blues classics. (I got mine at Wowsville Records.)

Fear of Music, Talking Heads.

Doc Watson and Son.

Anthology of American Folk Music.

*Whew.*

*stores stockpile of batteries in anticipation of the "Great Island Battery War of Aught Three"*

yeah, Marquis, Fevers and Mirrors just hit me at the exact right time. One of two albums (along with SDRE's Diary)that'll I'll be teary eyed after two songs. Letting Off the Happiness is probably an all-around better album, but I don't have that emotional attachment to it like F&M. And they're playing dallas in October. Haven't heard all of the new one, i'll probably go ahead and buy it before the show, just so i'll know the songs, but what i've heard of it, and what most everyone has said, follows your opinion of it.

*invents generator fueled by monkeys pedalling bicycles*

For the love of God (™ Miguel), why hasn't thomcatspike weighed in yet?

cowboy sally, I saw them on that tour. Nice!

And I am going to have to replace RUN DMC with Sonic Youth's Dirty. No doubt.

George Best, Wedding Present

OMG I used to love that. I saw the Wedding Present at the Cambridge Corn Exchange about half a century ago. I was in the front row being crushed to death by moshers so the lead singer (I forget his name) gave me his plastic glass of water. I kept that for years. He was on the radio the other day. He has another band but I can't remember what they're called.

hey adam -- did SY play any songs off of Dirty when you saw them? I saw 'em in Austin, and not a single one. Pretty much the only old song they played was "Silver Rocket". Just curious

*leaves grilled peanut butter and banana sandwiches on Tizzie's beach to fatten her cycling monkeys*

adampsyche--
who did you see on tour??? I'm preparing myself for my inevitable jealous rage (though if it's ministry, I finally did get to see them, at the stank-ass lollapalooza.)

I just thought of 2 other runners-up...Jungle Brothers-- Down By The Forces of Nature, and Palace-- Viva Last Blues.

Speaking of which, Marquis, what's Songs:Ohia like? I've heard a couple of his songs, and to me they sounded a lot like Palace. Which album would you recommend?)

Summer, David Gedge's new band is called Cinerama

*begins Enron-esque scheme of trading futures stock in monkey-power for more CDs*

I saw them on the Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste tour with the Revolting Cocks. 1990, I think...it was fucking crazy.

Ufez: They did not, until the encore. Karen and I stayed to see if it was a song I wanted to hear, and it wasn't, so we started to leave, and it wasn't until we were damn near close to Central Park West that we heard them playing Drunken Butterfly in the background...one of my favorite songs. Why couldn't they have told me they were going to do a multiple song encore? Bastards...I wanted to hear Orange Rolls, Angels Spit...they did play Kool Thing, though...

*leaks info to IslandBusinessWeekly about "unsound" business practices of Tizzie's WorldCoconutCom*

Don't feel bad, tizzie, the use of the word trebuchet typically indicates a the presence of a now-adult former officer of a high school Dungeon's and Dragons club. Kaf? Sussed!

And anyway, give me a a cadre of orc-manned ballistas any day.

In the meantime, what Romakimmy said in re: Ugly Americans. Extra tooty!

Songs:Ohia is some of the most whinsome, sad and empassioned music ever recorded. It has more energy than Palace - though it's a similar mix of guitar and noise - and the melancholia positively burns.

Songs:Ohia's best album is Axxess & Ace (read my review), but all of Molina's other recordings are pretty acceptable... they sound sort of similar. Which is fine. :)

Palace-- Viva Last Blues

Oh man, great album. I saw Will Oldham at a little record store a few years back, and had him sign my favorite Palace album There Is No-one What Will Take Care of You

*begins distributing payola to leaders of banana republics to prevent enforcement of governmental monkey regulations*

a now-adult former officer of a high school Dungeon's and Dragons club. Kaf? Sussed!

I am not aware of any such operation, and even if I were, I would not be at liberty to discuss such an operation. Sir.

Rubs 8-sided dice comfortingly. "Soon, my pretty one. Soon."

*distracts tizzie's monkeys with shiny objects*

*steals tiny monkeycycles*

*rounds up forces of monkey dissent, grows Che beard, smokes cigars*

*still sitting in the jungle smoking cigars*

*dips into retirement fund of WorldCoconutCom to finance cabana on the beach, stockpiled with CDs and staffed by hottie cabana-boy bartender*

cowboy sally- I agonized long and hard over whether to choose Anthology of American Folk Music(which in true Harry Smith style, I bootlegged from the local public library piecemeal when I was 15, cementing my reputation as the local weirdo) over the soul comp I finally chose, but guess my funky side won out over my folkie side.

Also, I ashamed of myself for not adding this two my list but both Nuggets Boxes would be esssential to maintaining my sanity.

Failing that could we at least start a petition to include a 45 of "I Think I'm Down" or "Moulty" in every plane crash survival kit?

Can we? Huh?

*constructs primitive radio antenna, carrying over its airwaves tunes from CDs "liberated" in nightly raids on unsuspecting monkeys*

Did anyone else picture jonmc sitting up all night and grabbing his 17th cup of coffee at 8am as he finally narrowed his shortlist down to 150 albums?

Oh, and readymade, kickback and make yourself at home. I'll just run to get the menu of desert island cocktails.

Monkey Che?

No.

*experiments with telepathic monkey mind control*

*psychically incites uprising amongst Adam's monkey minions*

*denies involvement*

150? More like 1500.

and stop looking in our window, liam.

*fixes election so that my dim witted son will become leader and fill his cabinet posts with scoundrels and n'erdowells, hellbent on destroying the liberties that Tizzie's monkeys take for granted*

*stabbed in sleep by one of kafka's zombie monkeys named Pogoda*

*is apologized to, a la Gene Hackman in The Royal Tenenbaums*

*starts working as elevator dude at one of tizzie's hotels*

jonmc, I think we should ask the judges if the Nuggets boxset is allowed. It is, like, 50 cds. If so, I may have to amend my list.

And fucking a, how could I forget to include Mekons Rock N Roll?

Mmmm, Revolting Cocks. Beers, Steers and Queers made my sophomore year so much better. I may be one of the few people in possession of Chris Connelly's solo albums. I am willing to relinquish them for pennies on the dollar!

all i want is body talk

*trains legions of monkeys to shuck oysters, but forgets why this is a politically important thing to do*

*eats oysters*

Who was the Lord talking to up there? Has he got Tourette's, or was there something I missed?

Liam, I have the cabanas and the beach chairs ready on the raft. Make me an icy Island Mojito, will you? Lots of mint.

*fears impending doom as WorldCoconutCom stock drops sharply upon rumors of missing monkeycycles*

*starts packing CDs and looking for new island paradise, perhaps with friendly trainable elephants*

ASHTRAY!

*begins to grow peanuts AND train mice, unsure of the future*

*smack*

Dad, this Alzheimers of of yours is getting worse by the day!

So is is my stuttering!

*abandons monkeys, begins training legions of evil capybaras*

Who was the Lord talking to up there? Has he got Tourette's, or was there something I missed?

God only knows.

*opens monkeybar (tm) for readymade. tizzie becomes first of many nefarious regulars*

*begins training legions of evil chupacabras to fight off kaf's cuba libres, or whateverthehell they were*

i like rev cocks' version of do ya think i'm sexy?:

she said i'm sorry but i'm out of KY jelly
don't worry sugar, we can catch the early movie

which reminds me, back in my music store days i got into a "discussion" with a fellow retail employee about do ya think i'm sexy? by rod stewart. she was convinced that the couple in question had NOT had sex the night before. and that the "out of milk and coffee" was clearing stating that.

really. i suppose they conversed about obscure 18th century russian poets all night.

*orders drink at Liam's*

*makes it a nefarious double*

*sews frilly outfits for evil capybaras, in mistaken belief it will make them tougher*

*advises Kafkaesque to tie pointy sticks to Capybara heads for both wound-delivering and monkey-freaking-out effects*

*sits back in heavily fortified and supplies monkey and capybara proof redoubt with Charlies Angels-like troika of bodyguards romakimmy, pips and witchstone and waits for both sides to eliminate each other, at which point he will declare himself Voivod and set up 9622 island paradise with himself as benevolent dictator*

*frightened by vision of this in frilly outfit*

*orders many more nefarious cocktails*

jonmc, I think we should ask the judges if the Nuggets boxset is allowed. It is, like, 50 cds.

Oh, come on...life on a desert island would be kick ass if you just had the beautiful spectacle of 200 monkeys frooging to "Wooly Bully"

and we gotta have something by the Barbarians, rock first band with a one handed drummer, phooey on Rick Allen and his electronic drums, my man Moulty used a hook, yo.

*installs evil Digital Rights Management onto every stereo but his*

Hey! Half my collection won't play anymore! What gives?

*mysteriously gets "letters of transit" (written on banana skins). ponders whether to give them to tizzie as frill-bedecked capibaras pour in*

*delivers all dictatorial power over to troika, advising them to rule "justly and with much smoochability"*

*fishes*

*teaches monkey companions to fish*

*naps*

*quietly plots take over in jungle compound*

*sets minions to work on poop catapult for final climactic battle*

*realizes he has no minions and returns to idle feces sculpture*

*span*

*hsif ot snoinapmoc yeknom sehcaet*

*sehsif*

*"ytilibahcooms hcum htiw dna yltsuh" elur ot meht gnisivda ,akiort ot revo rewop lairotatcid lla sreviled*

*idly wonders what the hell 'frooging' is*
*returns to ruling minions and filing nails*

*starts monkey-underground spy-training facility; uses liam's "monkeybar" as drop-off point for tools of intrigue, and the passing of secret documents.*

*listens to Marlene Dietrich songs on the jukebox while swilling scotch, never with my back to the door*

*says to liam in desperation: Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.*

*snitches gleefully to troika about readymeade*

*froogs as empire crumbles*

cue Farfisa

one, two, un, dos, tres, quatro....

*wakes up, wipes drool from face, boots computer, waits for coffee and IE to start, eyes widen*

Man you monkeys've been busy.

Someone brought up box sets. I think I'd have to go with either Clash on Broadway or Allen Ginsberg's Holy Soul Jelly Roll. If I had to choose, I'd say the Clash box only because Ginsberg is on it.

*squelches underground revolution by hacking Marquis' DRM, much to the delight of island minions*
*smooches abound*
*idly wonders what this tool of intrigue is used for...*

Ooo. Kinky.

*foils UncleFes's plot with double-monkey agents with false plans and red herrings trained in the art of double-cross*

*continues drinking*

*hums "Marlene Dietrich's Favorite Poem" by Peter Murphy, sharpens knife on rock*

*poisons readmade's drink with massive amounts of phenylthaline, aka the active ingredient in ex-lax*

*demonstrates intriguing tool use for ruling troika, including hands-on instruction*

*naps*

*kisses tizzie like it's the last time. lights cigarette. tells readymade that this is the start of a beautiful froogship*

*throws deadly coconut at frilly capybaras' evil monkey overlord*

*seduces liam using tool of intrigue to gain information on underground movement, hands readymade some Immodium, sticks UncleFes' hand in glass of warm water, giggles*

*pees uncontrollably*

*sculpts feces into gigantic monument of Fes peeing uncontrollably*

*wakes up after too many nefarious cocktails*
*wonders where it all went wrong*
*rolls over and begins new dream of monkey-powered world domination, with way cool soundtrack*

*picks lice out of own fur, laments on lonliness*

my god i fucking hate you people. I keep trying to write something appropriately witty and I keep deleting it and then when I come back there is more witty shit.

Shut the fuck up. I'm tired of getting in trouble for alternately crying and laughing and staring at this stupid screen. I'm supposed to be a programmer for god's sakes. I'm not supposed to be an emotional ninny.

*puts Saran Wrap on the toilet and goneill's panties in the freezer*

the above was meant as a compliment.

goneill, we're in the same boat. Just hang in there, it gets better or so I'm told...

oooooh, chilly...

Ninny!

Dear goneill,

It's too late for you. You're in the clutches of an evil cabal bent on making you uncontrollably hysterical, either happy or sad. They don't care which, just as long as you remain here, in their little deceptively peaceful monkey paradise.

You may not be able to save yourself, but send word out. DO NOT TRUST THE MONKEYS.

Yours, readymade

*end of encoded message*

*takes goneill's panties out of freezer, puts in pickling jar*

*gives ColdChef an Atomic wedgie, ensuring that he will be spitting cotton fibers for a week*
*lazily declares public holiday for unveiling of poo statue*

My dearest Goneill, you never have to be "appropriately witty" with us. Your mere presence lends both wit and grace in of itself, and puts a delightful gloss on all proceedings.

jonmc, on the other hand...

*shaves crop circles onto any and all furry brethren, for a mere 8 dollars (ten for layer cut)*

*destroys fecal fes effigy, begins work on craptacular monument to ColdChef*

*wakes up, steals goneill's panties from pickle jar, exchanges them for own peed-on ones, admires poo statue, searches for fishing pole, which simply has to be around here somewhere...*

goneill's frozen panties

by J. Steven Muggs Harmon

Sunlight betrayed goneill's frozen panties' entrance first as the refrigerator door peeled open and the bright inside light pierced the kitchen's low contrasts as the refrigerator door swung open with a creak that spoke of decades of nutritional use. The silhouette of a frozen pair of panties filled the door and then came into room view as the refrigerator door closed by itself behind them, leaving the light off inside.

"These pickles is chewy...wha the fuck? Hanes her way?"

*helps jonmc by producing crap*

* Finds all sorts of bottles washed up on the shore with kind words... *

* Builds enormous bonfires with the following words visible from 3000 feet: *

"But, but, I haven't even sent out my CD!I hate myself!"

*puts on gas mask, goes outside to clean out car*

If I'm not back in half an hour call the paramedics..

Call the paramedics? Should I alert Evanizer as well?

You should always alert evanizer.

Does anyone by me have the sneaking suspicion that Rob the EMT is rolling out of Evanizer's bed right now, wondering "what the hey...?" as Evanizer reaches once again for his mesmerizing glowing Ipod of Power?

Evanizer remains ever vigilant.

btw, I picked up Bright Eyes' "Letting Off the Happiness" at lunch and am giving it a listen right now.

Someone should start "9622.net: the internet radio station". That would be very cool.

"OK, I'll do it!" she lied.

Sorry, that was my evil twin.

*sends in Animal Control gestapo to control order*
*monkeys proclaimed available for adoption*

back from car---I eat most of my nourishment in my old heap, so cleaning it out was like going through sedimentary layers of my junkfood enthusiams, here a Tabasco Slim Jim, there a Dr Pepper bottle, some decaying string cheese wedged here and an abso-fucking-lutely huge pile of gas station coffee cup pull tabs. NTM, empty cigarrette packs and I haven't smoked in 2 months. Some archeaologist could have a blast in there.

*turns green with envy at mention of Dr. Pepper*

*turns green, but for another reason*

Dr. Pepper = monkey pee

Why do I know this "Pull My Hair" song???

Did someone put it on a mix or something?

GET OUT OF MY MIND!!

UncleFes, am I correct in thinking you live in Dallas? Are the Toadies still around?

I was playing it on my 9622.net internet radio broadcast, and you picked it up on your fillings.

St. Louis, sorry. No idea about the Toadies.

Jonmc would know...?

I picked up Bright Eyes' "Letting Off the Happiness" at lunch ...

Uh oh. Someone keep the razor blades and bathtubs away from K for a little while. That thing can kill.

I'm nowhere near Dallas...and I don't listen to music...

the toadies.

i promise you, i will treat you well, my sweet angel, so help me jesus.

Oof. I'm dyslexic. Ufez Jones was who I was thinking of from skimming the MeFi meetup pages. Maybe TCS knows....?

DYSLEXICS UNTIE!

D.A.M. : Mothers Against Dyslexia.

*hoots*

*cries at fact home computer won't display messages till 60 minutes after they've been posted, barring participation in witty conversation*

*cries again at missing first scene of Traffic because didn't realise it's in foreign and has been too busy looking at stupid monkey world domination thread to notice*

9622: It's in Foreign

I speak Foreign!

Well, not fluently, but I can definitely order us drinks.

Complete Topic Switch: On my last New York sojourn, I was in a vintage store on Houston Street and I bought an Iron-On of a Who's Next era Roger Daltrey, upon which his name is misspelled "Daltry." I shall be Iron-Onning it tonite. The only thing cooler than that could be the Welcome Back Kotter tribute folder emblazoned with a picture of Juan Epstein...or of course this monkey which is hanging from the doorknob of the room in which I sit..

*gloats*

romakimmy, the toadies word on the street in Dallas you hear: at this bar tonight, from what I get, they play time to time. Yet when they became popular it was not what some of the band wanted. The chicky bass player of the group said, she was out of here because of it. There from Denton....

Jonmc, no flannel shirts in your car, sure your car you cleaned out?

*golf clap*

Dammit. The butch bass player was *good*.

*ball spike*
*end zone dance*

I am sure you have all heard about the dyslexic agnostic who stayed up all night wondering if there was a dog.

If I"M in trouble, the rest of you are in some VERY DEEP poo.

All right! Coffee break's over, everyone!

Back on your heads!

Hey, Satan, did I tell you could speak? Shut your trap. Don't make me get up.

I've comprised my list a few times, and will be appending it here sometime when I am not paranoid that someone is going to walk by (again, paranoia leads to deletion, deletion leads to frustration, frustration leads to satan...)
but, are we not going to bring along some old cure standbys? Can I be the only one to have celebrated Robert Smith's birthday in high school?

I always got him mixed up with Morrissey.

If she's bringing in Morrisey and Robert Smith then I'm bringing in Metallica and Anthrax to ward them off.

*Begins moshing around room singing "Whiplash" off-key*

Who did you get mixed up with Satan - Morissey or Juan Epstein?

I think we can make a deal jonmc?

Can't we get share with suicidal tendencies?

and i didn't mention morrisey at all.

i would bring the cure's show/paris, if i got like, twenty cds.

Actually I've had "Like Cockatoos" bouncing around my cranium all day. I was a super big huge giant type Cure fan in high school.

Now, I pull out Pornography or Faith and give em a listen every now and then. Oh and The Top. I like that album.

Of course I was a super big huge giant type dork too.

You can get a cream for that.

Ain't no tube o cream big enough for me, mammajamma.

*changes tracks*

Runnin'...on our way...Hidin'...you will pay...Dyin..a thousand deaths....

Searchin...SEEK AND DESTROY!!!!

*makes devil-horn salute, sticks out tongue, begins moshing into walls*

No, I don't really know what that means either.

Standing at the Beach/Staring at the Sea would come to my Island, but this is not my official top ten list - just an indication.

I think we can make a deal jonmc?

Can't we get share with suicidal tendencies?

*clutches bloody head*

I Saw Your Mommy and you Mommy's Dead!! I saw her lying in a pool of red...

I am laughing hard at the idea of Morrissey and Robert Smith fighting Lars and that little poseure from Anthrax, whilst we all sit on sand dunes and laugh.

(Jonmc: I think that a one-on-one fight would be more appropriate...)

On the undercard: Slayer vs. A.R.Kane

Pantera v. Echo and the Bunnymen!

Motorhead v. Haircut 100!

Dead Boys vs. ABBA

Megadeath vs. Dan Hill

no no wait - I take it back:
dead boys vs. bee gees

I'd pay a lot of money to see GWAR beat the snot out of ICP.

But I wouldn't want to clean up afterwards.

I think that GWAR travels with cleaners, so we're ok.

The only one I would add is Luna - Penthouse
If only for Bonnie & Clyde.

*tries to decide which side of this crazy island paradise (rife with intrigue and espionage) I should align with*

Joan Jett and Kelley Johnson(Girlschool) VS. Tori Amos and Sara Maclachlan

...and nobody in Anthrax was a poseur.

*Stomps off singing "I'm the Man"*

Lords of the New Church vs. New Kids on the Block

(BTW, "I'm the Man" was a Joe Jackson song, badly covered by Anthrax. Sounds pretty poseur to me.)

(okay, so it's not the same song. but i had you going there, huh?)

Hmph.

It's plain I'm the sole headbanger here. nevertheless, I shall flick my bic, comb my mullet and display my KISS Destroyer jersey proudly.

*Fishes out copy Cat Scratch Fever, slips into reverie.*

Okay, I can stick up for the metalheads, Jon, but you really can't expect me to back you on Ted Nugent.

I like Motorhead, if that helps. And Elvis Cöstellö. And Thelöniöüs Mönk.

And Emmylöü Härris.

And, of course, Brüce, the heavy, heavy Böss.

It's OK, Jon. Since it's you, I'll go on record as having at one time owned the entire Nugent canon, up to and including Intensities in Ten Cities. I even had a single of the Amboy Dukes' Journey to the Center of Your Mind. Don't know where it is now, though.
*weeps silently into faded Blue Oyster Cult t-shirt*

the day ted nugent killed all the animals is one of my very favoritest songs.

Blue Öyster Cult, göd dammit.

I own and enjoy all five albums Dokken released in the eighties, as well as Lynch Mob's Wicked Sensation.

I also enjoy moonlight walks on the beach, helping the homeless learn new job skills, and leather-clad bimbos with big hair and even bigger hoo-has.

Sorry, liam, but I am umlaut impaired. How do you make it go over the O?

Terrible Ted will find the evil Morissey and the evil Robert Smith, kill them,gut them, barbecue them in a honey mustard glaze, and eat them, all while Molly Hatchet plays in the background. And I will partake of the feast while drinking beer out of the skull of Adam Ant.

Remember the words of Treat Her Right folks--

Models, Critics, wimpy art school punks,
They're killing all the fun in rock and roll,
I just hope it's not too late to save the only thing I ever loved...
I got a gun, know how to use it...

It's funny how people think differently. When y'all were talking about the Cure, the only album I would consider bringing would be Disintegration. But no one mentioned it.

bmarkey, we should never reveal the secrets of the mothertongue (but if you can switch to the German keyboard setup, hit ":"). I'm now going to check into umlauts anonymous.

This is why jonmc has no minions. Following the teachings of the Nuge, he killed all the monkeys and other beasties - not to mention the beastie boys -on his desert island in the first three hours.

Can't we all just get along?

Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
Rupert Holmes

I was tired of my lady
We'd been together too long
Like a worn-out recording
Of a favorite song
So while she lay there sleeping
I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns
There was this letter I read

"If you like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga
If you have half a brain
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes on the Cape
Then I'm the love that you've looked for
Write to me and escape."

I didn't think about my lady
I know that sounds kind of mean
But me and my old lady
Have fallen into the same old dull routine
So I wrote to the paper
Took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet
I thought it wasn't half bad

"Yes I like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
I'm not much into health food
I am into champagne
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon
And cut through all this red-tape
At a bar called O'Malley's
Where we'll plan our escape."

So I waited with high hopes
And she walked in the place
I knew her smile in an instant
I knew the curve of her face
It was my own lovely lady
And she said, "Oh it's you."
Then we laughed for a moment
And I said, "I never knew."

That you like Pina Coladas
Getting caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean
And the taste of champagne
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes of the Cape
You're the lady I've looked for
Come with me and escape

Anymore of that and I swear I'll post the lyrics to Dan Hill's "Sometimes When We Touch", and then you'll all be sörry. Sorry, "sorry".

Thanks a lot, you two. Now I've got both of those songs stuck in my head, alternating back & forth. This must be my Nugent pennance.

*head explodes*

That was eeeeeeee-vil, ebk.

just for jonmc:

Fart the Fart the Farts he Farted,
I pick my nose, but I'm not retarded

PAUL: Havin' my baby
What a lovely way of sayin' how much you love me
Havin' my baby
What a lovely way of sayin' what you're thinkin' of me
I can see it, face is glowin'
I can see in your eyes, I'm happy you know it

BOTH: That you're havin' my baby
PAUL: You're the woman I love and I love what it's doin' to ya
BOTH: Havin' my baby
PAUL: You're a woman in love and I love what's goin' through ya

PAUL: The need inside you, I see it showin'
Whoa, the seed inside ya, baby, do you feel it growin'?
Are you happy you know it? That you're

BOTH: Havin' my baby

ODIA: I'm a woman in love and I love what it's doin' to me
BOTH: Havin' my baby
ODIA: I'm a woman in love and I love what's goin' through me

PAUL: Didn't have to keep it
Wouldn't put ya through it
You could have swept it from your life
But you wouldn't do it, no, you wouldn't do it

BOTH: And you're havin' my baby

ODIA: I'm a woman in love and I love what it's doin' to me
BOTH: Havin' my baby
ODIA: I'm a woman in love and I love what's goin' through me

PAUL: Havin' my baby (havin' my baby)
What a lovely way of sayin' how much you love me

FADE
PAUL: Havin' my baby (havin' my baby)
ODIA: I'm a woman in love and I love what's goin' through me

You can't tell me that short skater kid was for real jonmc, i've seen the rockumentaries...

any minute now someone is gonna break out into Captain and Tennille....

I'm assuming you mean Scott Ian, rhythm guitarist and songwriter, goneill. Scary as it may seem to some, me and my crew considered him the shit back in my high school days. Some of his stuff still kicks ass now. You gotta love a headbanger with the balls to do a duet with Chuck D on PE's "Bring the Noise", right?

yeah - i mean i'm down with chuck d. I just have seen the behind the musics with him, and could only cast the judgement that I casted. But, I considered Olivia Newton John's Greatest Hits Volume 2 to be the inspiration that I would need to become a famous roller skater - so I would understand you and your hessian friends to be somewhere approximating normal.

Oh, whatever with Scott Ian. Anthrax tried to copyright "NYHC." As if Anthrax ever was NYHC. That, and his preference for goofy facial hair, completely overrides any potential for coolness he or the band ever had.

To quote Leeway (who I also dislike, but hold in relative high esteem in comparison to Anthrax), snitches get stitches. Ian, stay away from Greenpoint, yo.

*shrugs*

*hands in hipster membership card, returns to gaggle of stoned freinds hanging outside 7-11*

jonmc, I assure you, I consider your musical taste to be mightily pristine, with the exception of this one blemish. You remain hip in mine eyes.

(incidentally, in HS we held our all-ages shows at a community tennis club. If that's not the pinnacle of unhipness, I don't know what is)

Why wear hipster tags
like armbands on flannel sleeves?
Rock on, brotherman!

You remain hip in mine eyes

*places hipster card back in wallet, resumes posture of moody unimpressedness as per protocol*

*is relieved cowboy_sally is unaware that jonmc at one point in his adolescence wanted to be Johnny Fever from WKRP in Cincinatti and of course, had a raging crush on Bailey Quarters*

Bailey was so much hotter than Jennifer.

(OT: It seems like very few sitcoms are situated in the midwest these days. I realized this last night as a friend was--as unlikely as this may seem--lamenting the death of One Day at a Time. Where was that--Indiana? Someplace like that. I want to see sitcoms set in parts of the country that I have *no idea* how unrealistically huge the characters' apartments really are.)

/me worries that jonmc might discover my autographed program from the ShaNaNa concert.

cowboy_sally: I think you are missing the point of Upstate New York Hardcore. It was *all* about shows in lions clubs and church halls. We went to the building next to the rectory, set up little shops with records and zines, the krsnas arrived with food, some terrible music played, and we alternated between standing with our hands in our pockets and bopping our heads in unison and beating the shit out of each other. It was creepy and wierd, and we must try to forget it. Whatever happened in bars was tangential. The hipsters were all standing under the crucifix in the church basement.

I think the title of my first book will be "I Lived Through New York Hardcore"

I think the title of my first book will be "I Lived Through New York Hardcore"

aka "No, I Will Not Hold Your Skateboard"

or your champion sweatshirt.
or your peta pamphlets.

lamenting the death of One Day at a Time.

Bonnie Franklin on that show=as close to my mom as makes no difference.

Although Schneider was da bombizzity.

two words: Valerie Bertenelli

she's single now, y'know....

I prefer the McKenzie Phillips "5 miles of bad road" crackwhore look.

Or was that a bit harsh?

I've always wondered what the male equivalent of 'crackwhore' would be. Crackgigolo?

Elvis in one thread and Chuck D in another. Beautiful.

(Not to be a totally snit or anything cowboy sally, but I believe Anthrax attempted to trademark "NYHC," copyright would not be appropriate in that instance....whatever, remove wet blanket and release the monkeys once again.)

anathema, what I know of copyright laws could fit into a flying monkey thimble, so I appreciate your making the distinction.

I'm right there with the mighty JMC on the Bailey Quarters fetish.
Woooo-gah.

I've always wondered what the male equivalent of 'crackwhore' would be. Crackgigolo?

junky?

According to LEXIS, the only trademark Anthrax had was for "Anthrax" and that was registered in 87 and interestingly (in my my little world) abandoned the next year.

Anthrax...it sounds like the next new "hip" subcompact.

You've tried the Pontiac Vibe and the Toyota Matrix, now it's time for the Chevy Anthrax...

"How's the your new Anthrax?"
"Well, the engine won't stop making this hacking sound..."

Last halloween, my sister's boyfriend went to a costume party dressed as Anthrax.

The disease, not the band.

How does one dress up like anthrax-the-disease? Dress like an envelope and walk around throwing black confetti?

junky?
Nah. Doesn't have the same sell-sexual-favours-to-support-the-habit type connotation.

junky?
Nah. Doesn't have the same sell-sexual-favours-to-support-the-habit type connotation

Rent boy. Trade.

One street in my city here had to change its name last year because the original name was "anthrax". No fooling.

We also have a small eatery called "Osama's Place" (yep, it was named that BEFORE last fall.)
Special Forces guys eat there a lot-and were very protective of the middle eastern owners during the "troubles".

I just realized I am starting to sound like a stinking tour guide here...

Apparently, he dressed all in white, with white face powder. This was in the midst of the Antrhax scare, so a surprising number of people knew right away what he was supposed to be.

Thank you summer; I was trying to find the words and failing miserably. A gigilo is a happy, maybe gay, guy who scams old ladies out of money. It's just not the same as 'whore'.

Sad but true ...

Walrus Island Discs:
1+2 Kruder Dorfmeister : K&D Sessions
3 DJ Krush : Milight
4 Pink Floyd : Dark Side of the Moon
5 Jimi Hendrix Experience : Are You Experienced?
6: Skunk Anansie : Stoosh!
7: New Model Army : Thunder & Consolation
8: DJ Shadow : The Private Press
9: Quannum : Spectrum
10: Bob Marley & The Wailers : Legend

In no particular order, and it would be a different 10 next week.

See, when you go and list 10 albums that I'm fond of, and then send me no mix disc, it hurts inside, Walrus.
Like when you eat stuff on a dare, or when you smuggle heroin in french tickler-tipped condoms.

döng -- check your mail in a few days, my man and prepare to be happy.

You subscribed me to Oprah's magazine?!
John, you beautiful bastard!

10: Bob Marley & The Wailers : Legend

Chances are one of the seagulls will already own this one.

I *heart* Kafkaesque.

I walk on a carpet every day that has a "looking through a microscope at anthrax" pattern. I am curious about the costume though J-Po.

when did we start calling him j-po? will we get him confused with p-lo? How did I miss this?

I'm spoken for, you hussy.

Don't sweat it, g-po.

(I was so hoping that would happen k-quo

)

that was funny, k-qo

*feels a disturbance in the force*

donger, i got mixamitosis for you babe. I'm sending em soon I swear. Will an mp3 CD in folders be ok, or did u just want one or two boring audio CDs?

A postscript: I have
also been poor at reviews.
I'll listen more first.

Only a few hours until weekend dipsomania!

We're well into our
weekend dipsomania:
tipped glasses to you ...

That J-Po thing just sort of happened unprevoked, sorry to cause any ripples in "the force" whatever the hell that is anyway.

i think it was for the force of good. But I'm not sure. a-po?

I've always referred to the right honorable JPoulos as j'po. Did I miss a memo?

Wouldn't it be K-Que, que?

for døng & jonmc: Jan Smithers, 1966

I took some poetic license there.
a-mo

SOMEONE who shall remain nameless promised to, unsolicited, send me a cd out of the goodness of his own heart.

Either it wasn't as good as I thought or the post office needs to find a fresh pony.

Hint. Hint.

Not sure if you mean me bunny, because I did make an open offer, but I never received your address. Chef and Dong both got one just for asking. If you are addressing this to someone else, but would settle for one of mine drop me a note. There's even a damn JESUS song on mine!

Of course I meant B-Fi.

Now that I think about it, I remember that it was not me. Offer is still good though. One and all.

I'm not sure if the ice cream or the motorcycle is having more fun, James.
Either way, I'm envious.

Walrus, whatever you send will be fine.

Anathema, it wasn't you (the guilty party knows who he is, never fear) but I might just take you up on your offer.

Let me guess-the Jesus song is by the Doobie Brothers, right? I saw them in concert years and years ago.

the disturbance happened when i called kaf k-qo and goneill called him k-quo at practically the same time. monkey minds work alike, and the monkey lord looked upon it, and decided this was a Good Thing.

*scratches*

*sniffs*

*coughs*

*knocks over a liquor store*

*checks off names on his list of those who will be saved once the rapture comes*

*angerly looks about to see what smartass put Anna Nicole Smith on the list*

*snickers as she adjusts her halo, resting on the horns*

*wonders where d.r. got the list in the first place*

Offer dong_resin black coffee or "full contact blowing" and he'll have his minions drive you around in the afterlife.

*brews coffee but worries about minions*

I'll sing a little ditty, in the lonely canyons that are 9622 these past few hours:

"Where have all the monkeys gone?
Long time passing,
Monkeys flinging, every one,
Long time ago....
Where have all the monkeys gone?
The lice have bugged them ev'ry one.
Oh, when will I ever learn?
Oh, when will I ever learn?"

[With assistance from Pete Seeger]