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This is always a difficult choice.Feb 17 '01 (Updated Feb 18 '01) Write an essay on this topic.
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The Bottom Line These lists are absolutely impossible to compile, but they're always fun and interesting. So many brilliant works left out! Oh well.. enjoy.
Life has many moods, and depending on what kind of temperament you're experiencing, you may forget all of the other albums that make you *you*. With this in mind, I am always at a loss to say which music is my *favourite* at any particular time. If I was theoretically stranded on a desert island, I would eventually come to the point of missing out on some of my other discs. Here is my best chance on trying to have a little bit of everything that defines myself, musically, with a very limited choice of selection. (in no particular order, naturally) 1. Heaven or Las Vegas - The Cocteau Twins A very solid album with a fine mixture of joy, darkness, love and loss. Liz's lyrics are even comprehensible in a few tracks of this album, so it's a good one to sing along to to entertain yourself as you stroll the island alone. 2. Transient Random Noisebursts with Announcements - Stereolab Their masterpiece. The perfect blend of drones, beats, cohesion and abstraction. 3. Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair If I'm going to be stranded, at least I can spend it in the company of my "perfect girl"! 4. Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy Being stranded will eventually get tiresome, and I'll need to let out a little aggression. What better to accompany my rage than with Chuck D's gripping philosophy and the Bomb Squad's hypest production ever? Flava Flav's wit will also take the edge off of any tension. 5. Vulvaland - Mouse on Mars A little more abstract beauty to let me daydream and drift off to. 6. Lost Highway Soundtrack - Various Artists Perfect accompaniment to my eventual bouts with delirium whilst stranded. (choosing these albums is harder than actually being stranded, i would imagine!) 7. Blue Buddah (mixtape) - Deadly Buda Gotta bring along my favourite collection of classic acid, experimental and techno with me. I'll no doubt be dancing with myself! 8. The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest I couldn't go anywhere without this in my arsenal. Perhaps one of the top five rap albums ever created. 9. Gentlemen - The Afghan Whigs Understand I'm a gentleman. 10. OK Computer - Radiohead It's gonna get lonely on that island. I guess I gotta roll with that... ;) addendum: God... I gotta put a Ween album in there somewhere...and some Miles Davis or Coltrane oh well, I'll never go to bed if I list everything I'd take with me. My work is done here. Ahh, "favourite" lists always drain me. There are so many other bands and albums I could have listed. I'll be nice and leave it at 10, so I can lessen your reading burden and hasten my entry into my bed tonight. Nite, all.  |
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