"If you were stuck on a desert island and had to choose which *book, music, person, sunglasses, kitchen utencil, terminal disease, etc* to have with you, what would it be?"
Well, i was specifically asking myself about the music i'd choose. I was noticing while i tend to ingest new music all the time, there are some albums that just refuse to retire themselves from my ipod no matter what mood i've been in or how long its been since the release. Anyway. I totally couldn't make a decision or narrow it down to one - yep - i'm a Gemini.
So the best i could do was narrow it down to 2 each in a genre:
Indie
Codeseven: The Rescue - Quite possibly my favorite album of all time. Too bad they broke up... fucking tragic.
Tie - Cursive: The Ugly Organ - They kicked ass in poughkeepsie last sunday! Such a complete effort, front to back it goes angry to somber and back with a complete menagerie of musical instruments.
Or
Fugazi: 13 Songs: 'Nuff said.
Hip Hop
A Tribe Called Quest: Midnight Marauders - What i have to explain myself? Maybe i just like the idea of kickin it under a palm tree with a few coconuts and some native honey while i bump "Electric Relaxation".
Quasimoto: The Unseen - Just in case there's some good herb growing on this island.
Folk
Postal Service: Give Up - You know, in case i got so bored that i needed to persuade myself into suicide.
The One AM Radio: The Hum of Electric Air - Hurley took Joe Purdy with him to the Lost island, but after watching that new KIA spot with his song in it, i'm thoroughly turned off. The One AM Radio is a gorgeous blend of gitz and violins that i don't ever tire of.
Rock
Faith No More: Angel Dust - I just think this album is the apex of Mike Pattons early music career, every goddam song is sick. Midnight Cowboy at the very end would be excellent background for getting horizontal and stargazing.
The Police: Synchronicity* - Ok, so its a copy of Synchronicity that also has "Message in a Bottle" on it for some reason. Just for, you know, irony.
Jazz
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue - Out of all the albums, i think this is the one that i'd have the easiest time listening to, over and over again, without getting sick of it... ever.
Billie Holiday - If i could lug along an old Victrola player to listen to her on old shitty, warped, scratched vinyl - i'd be totally content.
Classic
Bach: Cello Suites - If i had to build shelter or a boat or something, or if i had decided to write some "Treatise on the Anarchistic Inclinations of Desert Island Culture", i'd be rocking the Cello suites on the regs - total thinking mans music.
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf - i'm just a sucker for Russian composers and Peter and the Wolf just draws me back to my childhood i guess...
Oh... right, theres no metal or hardcore up there... hey i dunno, i love me some HC but you're alone on a desert island and THATS what you want to listen to? I've got no car to drive fast, no fight to have, and no show to go to... i guess i'd just have to live without it. I'll give this category honerable mentions: Pelican: City of Echoes and my homies Dead Unicorn, just cuz of the End 'o the World implications of surviving on a deserted island.
Other honorable mentions throughout would come from the likes of Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Deftones (White Pony), MF Doom, Madvillian, Portishead, Radiohead, Failure, Dredg, The Beatles (Revolver, Sgt Peppers), The Cure (Disintegration), Hendrix (In the West)
You know, this deserted island thing doesn't sound all that bad after thinking about this so much - actually sounds pretty sweet... More ideal than any other situation i can think of - particularly if the population of this island was 2 and she liked "Electric Relaxation".
I'm gonna start booking risky flights...
Hip Hop
A Tribe Called Quest: Midnight Marauders - What i have to explain myself? Maybe i just like the idea of kickin it under a palm tree with a few coconuts and some native honey while i bump "Electric Relaxation".
Quasimoto: The Unseen - Just in case there's some good herb growing on this island.
Folk
Postal Service: Give Up - You know, in case i got so bored that i needed to persuade myself into suicide.
The One AM Radio: The Hum of Electric Air - Hurley took Joe Purdy with him to the Lost island, but after watching that new KIA spot with his song in it, i'm thoroughly turned off. The One AM Radio is a gorgeous blend of gitz and violins that i don't ever tire of.
Rock
Faith No More: Angel Dust - I just think this album is the apex of Mike Pattons early music career, every goddam song is sick. Midnight Cowboy at the very end would be excellent background for getting horizontal and stargazing.
The Police: Synchronicity* - Ok, so its a copy of Synchronicity that also has "Message in a Bottle" on it for some reason. Just for, you know, irony.
Jazz
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue - Out of all the albums, i think this is the one that i'd have the easiest time listening to, over and over again, without getting sick of it... ever.
Billie Holiday - If i could lug along an old Victrola player to listen to her on old shitty, warped, scratched vinyl - i'd be totally content.
Classic
Bach: Cello Suites - If i had to build shelter or a boat or something, or if i had decided to write some "Treatise on the Anarchistic Inclinations of Desert Island Culture", i'd be rocking the Cello suites on the regs - total thinking mans music.
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf - i'm just a sucker for Russian composers and Peter and the Wolf just draws me back to my childhood i guess...
Oh... right, theres no metal or hardcore up there... hey i dunno, i love me some HC but you're alone on a desert island and THATS what you want to listen to? I've got no car to drive fast, no fight to have, and no show to go to... i guess i'd just have to live without it. I'll give this category honerable mentions: Pelican: City of Echoes and my homies Dead Unicorn, just cuz of the End 'o the World implications of surviving on a deserted island.
Other honorable mentions throughout would come from the likes of Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Deftones (White Pony), MF Doom, Madvillian, Portishead, Radiohead, Failure, Dredg, The Beatles (Revolver, Sgt Peppers), The Cure (Disintegration), Hendrix (In the West)
You know, this deserted island thing doesn't sound all that bad after thinking about this so much - actually sounds pretty sweet... More ideal than any other situation i can think of - particularly if the population of this island was 2 and she liked "Electric Relaxation".
I'm gonna start booking risky flights...
