HDD Desert Island Discs - post your favourite music! (Page 1 of 13)

Good Choice Tim.
Ash

Tim,

Excellent start. Actually, you have done it a bit different to how I anticipated but actually what you are doing is better. You have selected an album (well actually two, but we will let you get away with that) and are doing one at a time. Good move, let's do that. We make our selections one at a time and can either select albums or songs up to a cumulative total of 8 selections.

OK, here is my first and I think you, for one, Tim will like it (although it will not be a new discovery). It is the album "Into the Music" by Van Morrison and for Van it is an upbeat album. Side 2 is seamless with the standout track being "And the healing has begun"...."put on your easter bonnet and all the rest" - a wonderful song.

Phil

P.S. Off to Amazon now to check out deals on the RO CDs!

Last edited by Phil Bishop (2009-12-15 14:33:02)

Into The Music is definitely one of my top 5 Van albums. Sometimes it's my favorite, period. Good that you took one, so when my other choices come around I won't have so much to wring my hands over. The two Roy albums wasn't really 2 selections, it's an either-or. And I'll take #2, In Dreams.

Tim

Depends on which six.

Tim

Hmmm so difficult. Hundreds of albums, let alone songs! Roger Water's Amused To Death (album) is something I always come back.  to. I have many albums that I still listen to after 10 + years but wouldn't say were absolute favourites but I guess the fact i'm still listening to them shows I have a deep love for them.
That long term list includes Rage Against The Machine first album from 1992 is still a classic for me of my youth.
Pearl Jam's 10 album also.
Pink Floyd's The Wall, DSOTM, Meddle etc
Counting Crow's August and Everything After. Infact all of the albums!
Gun's and Rose's Use your Illusion 1+2
Smashing Pumpkin's Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Suede

These albums dont show much into my change over the recent years as I have got heavily into blues rock. So many artists like Joe Bonamassa, Gary Moore and Stevie Ray Vaughan are being played but they haven't reached the cult status for me yet. Maybe in 10 years if i'm still listening. I've got a huge love of all LIVE's albums too.
God what a hard question!

edit: God this selection makes me seem a like a long haired rocker! Quite the opposite, unlike some musics fan i certainly don't reflect the scene I listen to. Short back and sides!

Last edited by davemartin01 (2009-12-10 21:44:05)

It's gathering momentum - excellent. A few points for various folk:

Tim - can you provide an Amazon or similar link to the RO album as there seem to be several with that name

Minty - you are only a Van fan if you like them! Astral Weeks and Moondance are classics.

Dave - not sure if they are your selections or you are just musing? On your recommendation from another thread, I have ordered the Roger Waters

Cornishmanc - good 'un - I'll try it out

A tip although this will not be new to many. If you rip, the cheapest option is often to buy from the new and used section at Amazon - even the most scratched CDs generally rip fine and once they are on the HD who cares?

Phil

This is the one I had in mind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Dreams: … atest_Hits

Tim

Common One, Veedon Fleece, St. Dominic's Preview, No Guru, No Method, No Teacher....

Tim

I just found it on a HDD full of music a mate gave me, but I do like, so I might consider filling those gaps..

I'm still finding music I didn't realise I had.

Anyone else here like Zero 7 ??

I was introduced to them by a mate at work who asked me to digitise a couple of their albums. I never thought I'd like music labelled as "trip-hop" or "downbeat" - but this stuff's really got to me. Great songs, arrangements and production. A lot of their stuff is used on TV - I've heard it in shows as diverse as CSI and Maestro (that celebrity conductor reality show).

Simple Things, the first album is my favourite (if I had to choose), but When It Falls and The Garden are great too. On the strength of these I pre-ordered their latest album Yeah Ghost - the first time I'd done that since A Hard Days Night in 1964! What a let down. Not only is the distinctive voice of Sia Furler missing, but musically it's moved on (and left me behind). But the first three albums are some of my most played (according to Last.FM, at least).

Bob

Sia has her own album if you are interested.

In the same very general genre I can recommend Cinematic Orchestra, a bit more jazz-tinged and dark but the album Motion is superb.

Last edited by cornishmanc (2009-12-11 09:59:34)