Thursday, August 04, 2005

And 100 desert island discs, although it pains me to think of what I left off. In fact, I should probably scrap this list and start over. But that would take a lot of time.

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs - 2004
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - 1966
Beach Boys - Sunflower / Surf's Up - 1971
Beatles - Revolver - 1966
Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City - 1972/1974
Big Star - Third-Sister Lovers - 1975
Black Sabbath - Paranoid - 1971
Dock Boggs - Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings - 1997
Richard Buckner - Devotion & Doubt - 1997
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady - 1979
John Cage - Indeterminacy - 1959
Calexico - Hot Rail - 1998
Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart - 1988
Can - Ege Bamyasi - 1972
Can - Future Days - 1973
Cardinal - Cardinal - 1994
Ray Charles - Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music - 1963
Gene Clark - White Light - 1972
Clash - London Calling - 1979
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come - 1972
Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come - 1959
John Coltrane - Live At Birdland - 1963
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme - 1964
Congos - Heart of the Congos - 1977
Richard Davies - Barbarians - 2000
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way - 1969
Miles Davis - Tribute to Jack Johnson - 1970
Nick Drake - Pink Moon - 1972
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline - 1969
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour - 1982
The Feelies - The Good Earth - 1986
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat - 2004
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain - 1971
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson - 1971
Galaxie 500 - On Fire - 1989
Gang Of Four - Entertainment! & Yellow EP - 1979
Geraldine Fibbers - Lost Somewhere Between the Earth & My Home - 1995
Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express - 1986
Go-Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane- 1988
Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes - 1995
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul - 1969
Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra - Fairy Tales & Fantasies: The Best of Lee and Nancy - 1989
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising - 1985
George Jones - The Essential George Jones: The Spirit Of Country - 2001
Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - 1968
Peter Laughner - Take The Guitar Player For A Ride - 1995
Louvin Brothers - When I Stop Dreaming: Best Of - 1995
Love - Forever Changes - 1969
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Vol. 1 - 1999
Meat Puppets - II - 1984
Mekons - Original Sin - 1985
Mekons - Rock N' Roll - 1989
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady - 1963
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime - 1984
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls And Marches - 1981
Mission of Burma - Vs. - 1982
Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers - 1976
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Trio - 1952
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners - 1957
Neu! - Neu! - 1972
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - 1998
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes - 1968
Gram Parsons - G.P. / Grievous Angel - 1973
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain - 2004
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance - 1978
Pixies - Surfer Rosa - 1988
Ramones - Rocket To Russia (expanded) - 1977
Replacements - Let It Be - 1984
Charlie Rich - Feel Like Going Home: The Essential Charlie Rich - 1997
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation - 1977
Roky Erickson - I Have Always Been Here Before: The Anthology - 2005
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street - 1972
Slits - Cut - 1979
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation - 1988
Spoon - Girls Can Tell - 2000
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements - 1993
Stooges - Fun House (expanded) - 1970
Television - Marquee Moon (expanded) - 1977
Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight - 1974
Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights - 1982
Richard Thompson - Rumor and Sigh - 1991
Townes Van Zandt - High, Low, and In Between/The Late Great Townes Van Zandt - 1972
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat - 1967
Velvet Underground - Loaded - 1970
Velvet Underground - Quine Tapes Disc Three - 1969
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs - 1985
Scott Walker - Scott 4 - 1969
Speedy West & Bryant, Jimmy - Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming Guitars of - 1995
The Who - Sell Out - 1967
The Who - Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy - 1971
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - 2002
Wilco - A Ghost is Born - 2004
Hank Williams - 24 of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits - 1984
Bob Wills - The Essential Bob Wills 1935-1947 - 1992
Wire - Pink Flag - 1977
Wire - Chairs Missing - 1978
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One - 1997
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps - 1979
Neil Young - Dead Man - 1996
Zombies - Odessey & Oracle - 1968

Update (9/30)!
The original rule (to the extent that it existed) was one disc, one slot, so I generally went with one disc from multi-disc compilations. But that rule annoyed me, so I have scrapped it in favor of No Compilations With More Than Two Discs And Keep Those To A Minimum. Here's what's different:

+ Congos - Heart of the Congos - 1977
+ Funkadelic - Maggot Brain - 1971
+ Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Trio - 1952
+ Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners - 1957
+ Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes - 1968
+ Townes Van Zandt - High, Low, and In Between/The Late Great Townes Van Zandt - 1972
+ Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits - 1978

- Emerson String Quartet - Bartók: 6 String Quartets, Disc One (captures Quartets 1, 3, and 5) - 1988
- James Brown - Star Time Disc Three - 1991
- Flying Burrito Brothers - Hot Burritos! - The Flying Burrito Brothers Anthology 1969-1972 Disc One (captures the first two FBB albums) - 2000
- Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream - 1962
- Os Mutantes - Best Of Os Mutantes -- Everything Is Possible! - 1999
- Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Arkology Disc Two - 1997
- Hank Williams - The Original Singles Collection...Plus, Disc Two - 1992

1 comments:

Anonymous 6:03 PM, March 23, 2008  

Interesting list. I'm not sure how I got here from Fireplug's blog on "Carry on", but you have some interesting blogs and I like lists like this. If the author has intelligent things to say in other areas I'm always interested in finding new treasures among the lists. From you I found the 33-1/3 series and then these lists.
It's odd that no one has commented; usually lists evoke a storm. Personally I'm a little surprised that someone of your education doesn't have a few entries from the classical genre (oops, just noticed the Bartok quartets: amen!), well Cage scarely counts... There are many great modern classical works that deserve a listen. Try, for example, Kronos Quartet's "Pieces of Africa". Then there's always Bach's Cello Suites. Your jazz is good but better than "A Love Supreme" is his "Stellar Regions" or the live Village Vanguard recording of "My Favorite Things" and "Naima".
I wonder if you've found Eva Cassidy yet -- she deserves to be on everyone's list, RIP.
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