Because there is nothing i like to do more...
than picture myself stranded on a desert island. And write lists about music. And bore you to death.
Inspired by Kester and Grainer and my entire life.
Edited and in order since I posted it as a comment. So if you think I should only get five or ten or eighteen, you can just trim them from the bottom. Sexy!
Twenty Five Albums for me and my island:
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
2. Paul Simon - Graceland
3. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
4. Joni Mitchell - Blue
5. Bright Eyes - Lifted Or The Story's In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
6. The Beatles - Abbey Road
7. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
8. Okkervil River - Down The River Of Golden Dreams
9. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
10. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
11. Rilo Kiley - The Execution Of All Things
12. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
13. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
14. Nanci Griffith - The Flyer
15. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
16. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
17. One Kiss Can Lead To Another box set of girl groups (I'm now counting this as one, even though it's four discs, because I love cheating)
18. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
19. The Beatles - White Album
20. Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
21. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
22. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
23. Nirvana - Nevermind
24. Cat Power - Moon Pix
25. Mazzy Star - Among My Swan
Albums I feel really weird and overly sad about leaving out even though 25 seems like a lot:
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
Tilly And The Wall - Bottoms of Barrels
M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent
Micah P. Hinson - And The Opera Circuit
Willie Nelson - Redhead Stranger
All the other Bright Eyes, Wilco, and Okkervil albums.
Several other Bob Dylan and Beatles and Paul Simon albums.
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
Shearwater - Winged Life
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Mirah - You Think It's Like This But It's Really Like This
Bjork - Debut
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
Beck - Sea Change
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Inspired by Kester and Grainer and my entire life.
Edited and in order since I posted it as a comment. So if you think I should only get five or ten or eighteen, you can just trim them from the bottom. Sexy!
Twenty Five Albums for me and my island:
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
2. Paul Simon - Graceland
3. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
4. Joni Mitchell - Blue
5. Bright Eyes - Lifted Or The Story's In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
6. The Beatles - Abbey Road
7. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
8. Okkervil River - Down The River Of Golden Dreams
9. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
10. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
11. Rilo Kiley - The Execution Of All Things
12. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
13. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
14. Nanci Griffith - The Flyer
15. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
16. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
17. One Kiss Can Lead To Another box set of girl groups (I'm now counting this as one, even though it's four discs, because I love cheating)
18. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
19. The Beatles - White Album
20. Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
21. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
22. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
23. Nirvana - Nevermind
24. Cat Power - Moon Pix
25. Mazzy Star - Among My Swan
Albums I feel really weird and overly sad about leaving out even though 25 seems like a lot:
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
Tilly And The Wall - Bottoms of Barrels
M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent
Micah P. Hinson - And The Opera Circuit
Willie Nelson - Redhead Stranger
All the other Bright Eyes, Wilco, and Okkervil albums.
Several other Bob Dylan and Beatles and Paul Simon albums.
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
Shearwater - Winged Life
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Mirah - You Think It's Like This But It's Really Like This
Bjork - Debut
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
Beck - Sea Change
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
posted by summer anne burton at
9:40 PM
3 Comments:
I appreciate your bonus picks. My list was initially 10, then 15, then 25. I could list 100 and still have albums that deserved listing. This is why lists are usually so much more specific than mine. Like "songs for breaking up at the end of summer".
I'm pretty glad that post-high school, the only two people who have called me Grainer on a regular basis are you and Mark Finn.
Graceland is my desert island album, with Hanson's Middle of Nowhere as a close second.
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