Top 10 Albums to be Stranded on a Desert Island With
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Someone intelligent just came up with one of those eternal questions, "Top 10 albums to be stranded on a desert island with?". I thought a little bit, went to a grocery store, and then I wrote this hub. Here are my top albums to be stranded with on a desert island:
1. Legend - Bob Marley. First, you find yourself enjoying the exotic and think that "everything's going to be alright." Why, there're still plenty of supplies.
2. Endless Summer - The Beach Boys. That's when you realize with horror that you're going to have an endless summer!!!
3. The Great Escape - Blur. Maudlin nostalgia paralyzes you. You think of the good old England, your country house and Sally Lunn that you may never see again. Um.. you can replace it with Bruce Springsteen's "Born In USA" or Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express".
4. Thriller - Michael Jackson. No food left, you're starting to experiment with grass... One morning, the bones incidentally found behind the bushes send you a chill in the spine. The island may be not that deserted after all. Unless it's your precursors, lucky travellers like you. And then you see bare foot imprints on the sand. There cannot be a better soundtrack to your discoveries than 'Thriller'.
5. The Greatest Hits - The Police. This is where you get the idea to send a message in a bottle .
6. London Calling - The Clash. But it's too late: London has been calling in vain. The last koka-kola bottle is emptied.
7. The White Album - The Beatles. There's nothing else left but to meditate upon the meaning of the Universe... You come to the conclusion that everything is not as simple as it seems and that life is too damn complex to compherend it.
8. Vienna - Ultravox. You're getting desperate and curse your heritage and your upbringing that did not prepare you to face the Nature at its raw. You sing along to "Is the European legacy a culture for today?" and laugh like a lunatic. Not a good sign.
9. Public Image - Public Image Ltd. That's really sad. You're starving to death and all sounds become just one noise and someone keeps whimpering "I just wanna die"...
10. Closer - Joy Division. ...And then you commit suicide, or peacefully die, whichever you prefer.
And the moral of the hub? Whenever you go on vacation, make sure you have these albums in your iPod or mp3 player and also have plenty of batteries, long enough to last 3 weeks, just in case! Good luck.
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RedTimbre, thanks, after all I owe this hub to your wonderful question!!
Good advice and great choice of music.
Great selection for the wind-up/solar powered disc player :-)
Great hub - well written and humorous. I've got a few additions you might like to consider:
1) The Smiths - The Very Best of The Smiths
Just when you think things cannot get any worse, there goes Morrissey with depressing lines such as "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Know" and "Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head". This would come towards the end of your list with the aim of compounding your misery and guaranteeing suicide.
2) Rolling Stones - Forty Licks
Great for when you find the secret stash of rum left behind by the last castaways.
Once again, super hub.
Great hub! You're reasoning about these albums made me even consider the Beach Boys. Nice work man! Peace!! Tom
Nice choices. If I were on that island I think my list would definitely have some of the same entries.
@breakfastpop, thanks!
@Rob Hanlon, I'm sure Cyrus Smith from Verne's "Mysterious Island" woud come up with a wind-powered player in our age. Thanks.
@DanielCook, your choices are good definitely towards the end :) Thanks.
@justom, your slip-of-the-tongue about the Beach Boys is very interesting :) Thanks for stopping.
@OrlandoC, glad, we share some of the likes. Thank you!
Hi I wonder how many people it would take before someone came up with the same top ten as yours. Not that there's anything wrong with it of course. I'll put my top ten together and once you have stopped laughing you will realise the maths involved to answer the equation.
Now i don't mind Bob Marley but i'm not a great fan.
Love the Beach Boys, who doesn't?
Haven't followed Public image.
I love Blur, great choice.
Yes he was wacky but Thriller is an unbelievable album. I loved the Jackson five too.
Haven't got into the Clash, but i must now.
Picking one Beatles album is scary, in fact too scary to contemplate.
Vienna, yes my wife has the vinyl, in mint condition. Thriller too plus many others.
Loved Joy Division, what a sad outcome. My mate from Manchester who lives here in Oz has a son who sings in a band called Sadhana. It's similar music, full of that raw energy. Cheers mate interesting stuff.
attemptedhumour, bring it on! I know what you mean about picking one Beatles album, so I picked a two-LP one. Appreciate your reply. Cheers.
Hiya moncrieff, good picks and great advice about the batteries, just in case. I will sure miss the internet.
Have a nice day,
Rosie
Rosie2010, thanka a lot! You too, have a nice warm day.
Man its just as well you had the Beatles in there because as much as I like ya yer musical taste is up yer ass !
TattoGuy, it's only rock'n'roll.
Wow !! this list is absolutely amazing, ultravox, joy division, bob marley ! what a legend.
CharlotteVernon, thank you! Yes, those are truly legends.
Great choices - some of my favorite albums here - be hard not be jammin' along to Bob Marley - Country House - now there is some memories - I think listening to Ian Curtis without a break may indeed bring the desert Island experience to a sad, vulnerable end.
billyaustindillon, thank you. Yes, especially country house with a charmless doorman :) And Ian Curtis... on my second thought, maybe one should not bring this to a desert island after all, as not to give up so early...
Moncrieff you did get me pulling out my old Joy Division records though - genius stuff but much easier to listen to in your living room :)
billyaustindillon, very true! Once in a while one has to feel the sounds of the other world, and Joy Division were best at that.
The White Album is on my Top 10, too. Nicely done.
Randomcreative, thanks for stopping by. Yes, the White Album is not the easiest Beatles LP, it should though forever attract people by its edgy eclectics.
I like your list, but after seeing the picture at the start, I was surprised Gorillaz wasn't on the list. All three studio albums are amazing, and different from one another (I haven't heard the "iPad album" yet). But, I like the list, and cool story.
joawmeens, maybe we need more of a historical perspective when it comes to albums? But I agree, all their albums were innovative and pleasant. Thank you!!
RedTimbre 16 months ago
Ha. Interesting how you built a narrative around this forever-provocative question and various in-album puns in lieu of offering commentary on why you chose each album. Quite a diverse list. And oh look you've conveniently provided the means to purchase each mentioned album (wink).