lastdecember said:

Well I'd take Prince but he has too much "spotty" work way too many albums that I skip tracks. At least 8 of their 9 albums I can listen too straight anytime, the one that's mediocre is ironically the one David Z produced at Paisley Park, must be something in the water up there.

If by 'mediocre' you mean the second best album they ever did then I agree.

funkaholic1972 said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

And how are any of you going to play your chosen music?

Obviously solar panels will be installed on the island, no worries there!

I see.

Too hard to choose just one artist.

I would have to have some:

Rolling Stones

Beatles

Dylan

Prince

George Michael

These 5 for sure!

Empress said:

Too hard to choose just one artist.

Rolling Stones

Beatles

Dylan

If you pick Billy Preston, then at least you can have the albums of theirs he played on.

Not very original but Prince.

He's the only one I can think of who's records and songs are so different from eachother...for every mood there's a different song....rock, jazz, r&b, funk, pop you name it.

Whitney or Prince.

theAudience said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

Miles Davis

^ I could be quite satisfied with that pick.

A large quality catalog (a major plus).

Definitely wouldn't get bored cause with Miles you get...

Art Blakey

Stan Getz

Roy Haynes

J.J. Jackson

Jackie McLean

Max Roach

Sonny Rollins

John Lewis

Horace Silver

Percy Heath

Paul Chambers

Kenny Clarke

John Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

Red Garland

Thelonious Monk

Milt Jackson

Philly Joe Jones

Wynton Kelly

Charles Mingus

Cannonball Adderley

Gil Evans

Herbie Hancock

Tony Williams

Wayne Shorter

Ron Carter

Chick Corea

John McLaughlin

Joe Zawinul

Sam Rivers

Jack DeJohnette

Larry Young

Bennie Maupin

Lenny White

Billy Cobham

Mike Stern

Marcus Miller

John Scofield

Kenny Garrett

Joey DeFrancesco

Foley

...Just to name a little more than a few.

Talk about gettin' your moments worth.

Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

[Edited 10/3/12 20:40pm]

Precisely!

funkaholic1972 said:

duccichucka said:

M M

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Z N

A K

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It's a toss up.

You get the prize for the most elite/sophisticated taste!

Both great musicians, that's for sure.

Thanks. And yes, they are. But I thought about this last night and I'm going

with Mozart. Monk wrote about 60+ songs; Mozart's operas alone, nevermind the

piano concertos, violin concertos, horn concertos, symphonies, octets, quintets,

quartets, piano music, oratorios, etc, are enough to warrant his inclusion on this

shitty, deserted island that somehow has just enough electricity to play music.

Monk is my favorite Jazz composer and pianist; and if the question was "choose

only one album to bring on a deserted island" I would choose Brilliant Corners.

I hope this island has some island hoes on it.

funkaholic1972 said:

dancerella said:

You do realize how cruel this is just making us pickone artsit right??

Ok it'seither gonna be Madonna or The System!! There, I said it!

Thanks for mentioning The System! They are amazing IMO.

Did you know Madonna and David Frank once shared an appartment en had plans to make some music together? I just heard about that recently...

They System are as close to perfection musically as it gets. They're stuff incorporates rock, new wave, electro, funk & r&b! Love them and can't wait for that new album to drop.

I never knew that about Madge and David Frank. That's really cool but what a shame it never happened.

Probably a classical artist. I'd have lots of time, and probably any one person's voice would drive me nuts after a while. If I chose Beethoven, his discography would include hundreds of versions of different orchestras playing each symphony, each concerto, etc.

It would include vocal music, instrumental music--music that I could take some time to get to know.

If I need a beat, hopefully there are some coconuts around.

Queen.

funkycat00 said:

Queen.

You'd have to put up with the crap they did after Freddy. Well, at lest you'd get some George Michael in the mix

Since classical composers like Mozart didn't do any recording, wouldn't you just have cover albums by other people, and not by the actual person? So you can have an album by Cecilia Bartoli singing Mozart tunes, but not a "Mozart" album. If that's the case, then you can pick The Beatles and include Beatles tribute albums and acts who remade their songs. Since it's been said Yesterday has been remade over 2000 times, you can have all of those records. Unless you're talking about modern composers who lived after recording studios were invented.

MickyDolenz said:

Since it's been said Yesterday has been remade over 2000 times, you can have all of those records.

I'd be depressed as hell if I had to listen to Yesterday 2000 times

Cloudbuster said:

lastdecember said:

Well I'd take Prince but he has too much "spotty" work way too many albums that I skip tracks. At least 8 of their 9 albums I can listen too straight anytime, the one that's mediocre is ironically the one David Z produced at Paisley Park, must be something in the water up there.

If by 'mediocre' you mean the second best album they ever did then I agree.

Thats the one album of theirs that i actually have to really be in the mood to hear it and then i will still skip tracks. In their recent bio book they are not too fond of the record though they do say that it contains two of their best songs in their catalog, as a whole they werent too happy with the experience, plus it came is they were disbanding and not digging each other. However if you ask Morten "Lifelines" is a "bloated" record, he says "no record should have 14 songs" and that he hated everything that Paul (guitarist/writer? brought to the table and didnt want to sing any of it, though he says as a 9 track album it works, plus he says "Lifelines" the song is one of the best ever, though as he said "its trapped on this record" , Paul states " too many producers on this record"

lastdecember said:

Cloudbuster said:

If by 'mediocre' you mean the second best album they ever did then I agree.

Thats the one album of theirs that i actually have to really be in the mood to hear it and then i will still skip tracks. In their recent bio book they are not too fond of the record though they do say that it contains two of their best songs in their catalog, as a whole they werent too happy with the experience, plus it came is they were disbanding and not digging each other. However if you ask Morten "Lifelines" is a "bloated" record, he says "no record should have 14 songs" and that he hated everything that Paul (guitarist/writer? brought to the table and didnt want to sing any of it, though he says as a 9 track album it works, plus he says "Lifelines" the song is one of the best ever, though as he said "its trapped on this record" , Paul states " too many producers on this record"

Well, horses for courses I guess. I love Memorial Beach even if the band themselves aren't fond of it.

I agree about Lifelines though, that album just doesn't hang together very well. And while Paul may not have brought his 'A' game I don't think his songs are too bad, not great but not appalling either.

And let's face it, he'll always be a much better songwriter than Morten.

Cloudbuster said:

lastdecember said:

Thats the one album of theirs that i actually have to really be in the mood to hear it and then i will still skip tracks. In their recent bio book they are not too fond of the record though they do say that it contains two of their best songs in their catalog, as a whole they werent too happy with the experience, plus it came is they were disbanding and not digging each other. However if you ask Morten "Lifelines" is a "bloated" record, he says "no record should have 14 songs" and that he hated everything that Paul (guitarist/writer? brought to the table and didnt want to sing any of it, though he says as a 9 track album it works, plus he says "Lifelines" the song is one of the best ever, though as he said "its trapped on this record" , Paul states " too many producers on this record"

Well, horses for courses I guess. I love Memorial Beach even if the band themselves aren't fond of it.

I agree about Lifelines though, that album just doesn't hang together very well. And while Paul may not have brought his 'A' game I don't think his songs are too bad, not great but not appalling either.

And let's face it, he'll always be a much better songwriter than Morten.

True "Lifelines" though i love that record became the "Paul and Mags" war, and Mags proved better at the craft, but alot of their issues, started here, tension from the previous album, and paul writing almost the whole thing, but all in all despite them really not getting along alot of their career, their battles and differences were thier strongest quality.

lastdecember said:

True "Lifelines" though i love that record became the "Paul and Mags" war, and Mags proved better at the craft, but alot of their issues, started here, tension from the previous album, and paul writing almost the whole thing, but all in all despite them really not getting along alot of their career, their battles and differences were thier strongest quality.

That band friction certainly led to some great music over the years.

And Mags proved himself a songwriter of worth on both Lifelines and Analogue. Great work indeed.

MickyDolenz said:

Since classical composers like Mozart didn't do any recording, wouldn't you just have cover albums by other people, and not by the actual person? So you can have an album by Cecilia Bartoli singing Mozart tunes, but not a "Mozart" album. If that's the case, then you can pick The Beatles and include Beatles tribute albums and acts who remade their songs. Since it's been said Yesterday has been remade over 2000 times, you can have all of those records. Unless you're talking about modern composers who lived after recording studios were invented.

That's cool, I will just bring the sheet music and look the hell out of it!

The Honorable Robert Nesta Marley.

Probally Miles Davis for his extended catalogue

motownlover said:

Probally Miles Davis for his extended catalogue

This is probably my second of two possible choices. The variety and volume, as well as quality and density (ie long term listening value) is nearly unmatched.

The only thing that Miles is missing is vocals! I guess I could sing over it myself. Oh, wait no... Doo Bop!!!

Are you serious, just one artist?

Let me see, Mother Washington or Sarah Vaughan.

Dinah Washington by a hair

NDRU said:

motownlover said:

Probally Miles Davis for his extended catalogue

This is probably my second of two possible choices. The variety and volume, as well as quality and density (ie long term listening value) is nearly unmatched.

The only thing that Miles is missing is vocals! I guess I could sing over it myself. Oh, wait no... Doo Bop!!!

With Miles, you can have it all...

[img:$uid]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b59/jbodine/Covers%20II/MI0001892586jpgpartnerallrovi.jpg[/img:$uid]

......Complete Vocalists Sessions

Someone else I might consider for the breadth of his catalog, variety and quality material...

[img:$uid]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b59/jbodine/Music%20II/frank_zappa.jpg[/img:$uid]

...Frank Zappa

Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

duccichucka said:

funkaholic1972 said:

You get the prize for the most elite/sophisticated taste!

Both great musicians, that's for sure.

Thanks. And yes, they are. But I thought about this last night and I'm going

with Mozart. Monk wrote about 60+ songs; Mozart's operas alone, nevermind the

piano concertos, violin concertos, horn concertos, symphonies, octets, quintets,

quartets, piano music, oratorios, etc, are enough to warrant his inclusion on this

shitty, deserted island that somehow has just enough electricity to play music.

Monk is my favorite Jazz composer and pianist; and if the question was "choose

only one album to bring on a deserted island" I would choose Brilliant Corners.

I hope this island has some island hoes on it.

Your deserted island discography will include this song:

mjscarousal said:

easy..... MJ.

I agree. As a previous poster said, with Michael's solo albums, his music with the Jackson 5 and the Jacksons AND with the new releases and upcoming releases, I would be perfectly fine with having only Michael's music on a deserted island; since Michael's music covers EVERY emotion. I wouldn't get bored or have to skip over tracks.

Cocteau Twins--- you cannot get bored from this great band You have to be constantly re listening to hear all the little nuances this great band used to have. I always go back to them and Siouxsie!

Marvin Pentz Gaye, Jr.