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Desert Island Album Draft - 15th Anniversary Edition - 50 Rounds in the books, sign up now for KP's listening program (3 Viewers)

30.29 Kate Bush, Hounds of Love (1985)

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Cloudbusting

Wild that this lasted to round 30. She was mentioned way earlier in the context of guest vocals on an unrelated album and I figured someone would wise up and take it not long after. "Running Up That Hill" would be worth a pick by itself, really. It's not for everyone, but I love her vision, her sound and the layers upon layers of production. There's a whole world in there.

It made the rounds and P4K retweets it regularly, but I love Big Boi fanboying over "Running". I could've gone with The Big Sky for the playlist too, but "Cloudbusting" is a personal favorite (I've taken it in at least one past draft, and I got this Daniel Danger print depicting the device in the video).
Wow, surprised this didn't go earlier.

 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VaIRMXFWu5sQ71cKTBtKZ-ubp57VCq-x6Z1bSfLu-Xo/edit#gid=500233826

30.29Abrantes-Kate Bush

30.30El Floppo-10 minute clock-skip request

30.31Steve Tasker-skip until further notice

30.32Northern Voice-skip - owes picks

30.33Uruk-Hai-skip till Monday afternoon

30.34PIK95-skip - owes picks

30.35wikkidpissah-ITC

30.36timschochet-permaskip

30.37wazoo11-skip - owes picks

30.38zamboni-skip - owes picks

30.39Nigel Tufnel-ITC

30.40Karma Police-skip

31.0-

31.1Karma Police-skip

31.2Nigel Tufnel-ITC

31.3zamboni-10 min clock-skip request

31.4Wazoo11-skip - owes picks

31.5timschochet-permaskip

31.6wikkidpissah-ITC

31.7PIK95-skip - owes picks

31.8Uruk-Hai-skip till Monday afternoon

31.9Northern Voice-skip - owes picks

31.10Steve Tasker-skip until further notice

31.11El Floppo-10 minute clock-skip request

31.12Abrantes-ITC

31.13Long Ball Larry-skip until further notice

31.14Charlie Steiner-

31.15Chaos Commish-permaskip

31.16The Dreaded Marco-

31.17shuke-skip

31.18mphtrilogy-

 
congrats, gotta make the best of it in these strange days!
As I was sitting in the parking lot at the HS, and seeing all this kids (and some of the parents) getting out and mingling with each other made me think that an 'event' like this parade should happen every year.  Not as part of the actual ceremony, but maybe the weekend before.  I can't stress enough the amazing sense of community in the air.  Both of my sons graduated from that same school 3 and 4 years ago, so I feel that by comparison, this was on another level.  We couldn't really socialize too much, but again, the fact that the surrounding neighbors who didn't have kids graduating participated made us all feel more connected, which I hope this quarantine/lockdown has demonstrated.

 
30.35 Give It Up, Bonnie Raitt (1972)

I was so pleased when my pal resurrected her dreams past ever what they were that i was torn whether to take an early or later of her albums. Others may be her best, but this is her essence. I first saw her in a coffeehouse in '70 with her faithful bassist Freebo and a junkie harp player they'd prop up at a mikestand for solos. Ballsy and feminine like no white performer i've ever seen, but the key to her magic was her clarity. Honest music rarely stays honest once it's well-received but it has in Bonnie's hands better than any performer of which i'm aware.

Give It Up or Let Me Go

Too Long at the Fair

 
This one has been circling my list for awhile, gonna grab it , hope we go 50 because thats my current core number.  The past few years I've made a big effort to catch up on a lot of lanes, genres and artists and classic lp's  I might have missed along the way.  This record just blows me away and I reach for it often, happy to grab it at pick 30and I get some Clapton thrown in.

rd 30 - John Mayall With Eric Clapton ‎– Blues Breakers - 1966

  • all your love
  • little girl


AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder  [-]

Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton was Eric Clapton's first fully realized album as a blues guitarist -- more than that, it was a seminal blues album of the 1960s, perhaps the best British blues album ever cut, and the best LP ever recorded by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Standing midway between Clapton's stint with the Yardbirds and the formation of Cream, this album featured the new guitar hero on a series of stripped-down blues standards, Mayall pieces, and one Mayall/Clapton composition, all of which had him stretching out in the idiom for the first time in the studio. This album was the culmination of a very successful year of playing with John Mayall, a fully realized blues creation, featuring sounds very close to the group's stage performances, and with no compromises. Credit has to go to producer Mike Vernon for the purity and simplicity of the record; most British producers of that era wouldn't have been able to get it recorded this way, much less released. One can hear the very direct influence of Buddy Guy and a handful of other American bluesmen in the playing. And lest anyone forget the rest of the quartet: future pop/rock superstar John McVie and drummer Hughie Flint provide a rock-hard rhythm section, and Mayall's organ playing, vocalizing, and second guitar are all of a piece with Clapton's work. His guitar naturally dominates most of this record, and he can also be heard taking his first lead vocal, but McVie and Flint are just as intense and give the tracks an extra level of steel-strung tension and power, none of which have diminished across several decades

 
Yo Mama’s Island

Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (1973)

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (1973)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)

David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus (1977)

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AC/DC - Back in Black (1980)

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (1980)

Rush - Permanent Waves (1980)

U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)

Prince - Sign o' the Times (1987)

Depeche Mode - 101 (1989)

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A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)

Metallica - Metallica "The Black Album" (1991)

Ice Cube - The Predator (1992)

Green Day - Dookie (1994)

Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (1994)

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (1994)

Beck - Odelay (1996)

Sublime - Sublime (1996)

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (1997)

Outkast - Aquemini (1998)

Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles (1999)

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System of a Down - Toxicity (2001)

Wolfmother - Wolfmother (2006)

The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (2008)

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)

The Black Keys - El Camino (2011)

Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 (2014)

Spoon - Hot Thoughts (2017)

 
Yin, meet yang. A scrapbook record for me - such a soundtrack of me, Scary Mary, my running buddy Vito, his wife Peggy and his goomah, Fancy, giving Nevada a head start and chasing it down. For a coupla years there, i was as happy and excited as i've ever been.
I love the mental image this gave me.

 
ANNOUNCE:  Re-announcing for anyone who doesn't read every post (why???).  KP indicated last night that he won't be able to enter songs into the playlist anymore, so please either (1) enter them your own damn self, or (2) let one of your friendly neighborhood drafters know that they should enter your picks for you.  I am entering Uruk's and can do anyone, but not everyone, else's, too.

Smaller announce:  Please double-check your picks on the spreadsheet now and then.  Right now I notice that we are missing a 24th round pick from Mister CIA on there, and I'm sure we have other mistakes, too.  @Mister CIA, can you help with this one?

Signed,

The Staff

 
While there have been many snipes, this is really looking like an island I can live on and be very happy.  Ten more to go-------

Radiohead - OK Computer

The Cure - Disintegration

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Pixies - Doolittle

Wilco - Summerteeth

The Kinks - Something Else by the Kinks

Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town

XTC - English Settlement

Joy Division - Closer

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West

The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow

The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows

Pete Yorn - Music for the Morning After

Spoon - Girls Can Tell

Elliott Smith - XO

TV on the Radio - Young Liars e.p.

Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast

Tim Buckley - Happy Sad

Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas

Eels - Electro-Shock Blues

Neko Case - Blacklisted

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance

The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall

Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers

Rufus Wainwright - Poses

Doves - Lost Souls

The Chameleons - Strange Times

Slint - Spiderland

 
ANNOUNCE:  Re-announcing for anyone who doesn't read every post (why???).  KP indicated last night that he won't be able to enter songs into the playlist anymore, so please either (1) enter them your own damn self, or (2) let one of your friendly neighborhood drafters know that they should enter your picks for you.  I am entering Uruk's and can do anyone, but not everyone, else's, too.

Smaller announce:  Please double-check your picks on the spreadsheet now and then.  Right now I notice that we are missing a 24th round pick from Mister CIA on there, and I'm sure we have other mistakes, too.  @Mister CIA, can you help with this one?

Signed,

The Staff
Related Announcement:

Please review the spreadsheet to make sure we have your picks entered correctly and you know how many picks you may or may not have.  

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VaIRMXFWu5sQ71cKTBtKZ-ubp57VCq-x6Z1bSfLu-Xo/edit#gid=500233826

 
30.24 Widspread Panic - Light Fuse Get Away (1998) 

Only a casual fan, but really like this album.

Disc 1:
Porch Song
Disco
Diner
Wondering
Love Tractor
Pilgrims
Space Wrangler
Travelin' Light
Pickin' Up The Pieces
Conrad

Disc 2:
Papa Legba
Rebirtha
Rock
Greta
Barstools And Dreamers
Impossible
Gimme
Pigeons

Songs already added to playlist.

 
Another announcement before I make my next pick: it is with great sadness I admit I do NOT celebrate The Smithereens' entire catalog.  I don't think any of their last few albums will make the cut.

31.14: San Francisco Days - Chris Isaak (1993)

Even though there were no drugs involved, the early 90's was a bit of a haze for me, but this album, along with my last pick, was a sort of light at the end of the tunnel.

For the playlist: Except the New Girl and Solitary Man.

 
ANNOUNCE:  Re-announcing for anyone who doesn't read every post (why???).  KP indicated last night that he won't be able to enter songs into the playlist anymore, so please either (1) enter them your own damn self, or (2) let one of your friendly neighborhood drafters know that they should enter your picks for you.  I am entering Uruk's and can do anyone, but not everyone, else's, too.

Smaller announce:  Please double-check your picks on the spreadsheet now and then.  Right now I notice that we are missing a 24th round pick from Mister CIA on there, and I'm sure we have other mistakes, too.  @Mister CIA, can you help with this one?

Signed,

The Staff
Thanks, I missed that. Is there anywhere to tell whether a certain album's songs were already included in the playlist? I'll get on mine.

 
I love the mental image this gave me.
we were the the gambling equivalent of Bonfire of the Vanities. A World Series of Poker Champion called me & Vito the best psych players of our generation (unfortunately, math was overtaking psych's brief eminence over poker at the time), Scary Mary was a mud-wrestling, punk, psychiatric nurse whom i twice saw beat up men in clubs, Fancy was a Nawlins, nachul-born concubine who worked as a "hostess" on the Hilton's high-roller jet and Peggy was the best human being i've ever known. and we would occasionally consume a higher volume of headache powders than Bobbybrown hisself. it was sumnsumn til Mary got sick.

 
Thanks, I missed that. Is there anywhere to tell whether a certain album's songs were already included in the playlist? I'll get on mine.
You can sort the list to check (I learned about sorting last night) or try to enter a song and it will tell you if it's already on there.  I believe KP said he stopped somewhere around Round 27.

 
Thanks, I missed that. Is there anywhere to tell whether a certain album's songs were already included in the playlist? I'll get on mine.
Mobile version there's three dots on the top right corner of screen and if you select that you can find search function

 
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Thanks, I missed that. Is there anywhere to tell whether a certain album's songs were already included in the playlist? I'll get on mine.
I missed it too, and noticed eight of my last 10 songs I drafted weren't on there.  I wonder if there is even more than that.   :oldunsure:  

 
Thanks, I missed that. Is there anywhere to tell whether a certain album's songs were already included in the playlist? I'll get on mine.
You can sort the list to check (I learned about sorting last night) or try to enter a song and it will tell you if it's already on there.  I believe KP said he stopped somewhere around Round 27.
I keep the spotify list sorted by alphabetical order so 

- you find the band

- check the albums and 2 songs per album for them to see what songs have been taken

 
ANNOUNCE:  Re-announcing for anyone who doesn't read every post (why???).  KP indicated last night that he won't be able to enter songs into the playlist anymore, so please either (1) enter them your own damn self, or (2) let one of your friendly neighborhood drafters know that they should enter your picks for you.  I am entering Uruk's and can do anyone, but not everyone, else's, too.

Smaller announce:  Please double-check your picks on the spreadsheet now and then.  Right now I notice that we are missing a 24th round pick from Mister CIA on there, and I'm sure we have other mistakes, too.  @Mister CIA, can you help with this one?

Signed,

The Staff
yeah, i dont know how to do dat

ETA: and i'm too old to learn ANYTHING

 
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I was struggling last night, and tapped earlier than normal.  

Looks like the top of page 233 with Charlie Steiner's 26.27 pick is where I needed to pick up the entries at.  
This is where KP had left it, so I'd suggest everyone check their picks from Round 26 onward, and earlier rounds, too, if you had been running behind in your picks.

 
Alright - I missed out on the trip hop duo I wanted several rounds ago, but I will just take the same bands but with different albums that are just as good...

30.40:  PORTISHEAD - PORTISHEAD (1997)

Songs:  All Mine, Humming

31.01:  MASSIVE ATTACK - MEZZANINE (1998)

Songs:  Angel, Inertia Creeps

**  SONGS ADDED TO SPOTIFY

 
This is where KP had left it, so I'd suggest everyone check their picks from Round 26 onward, and earlier rounds, too, if you had been running behind in your picks.
The only thing I can think of is if Simey dumped a few picks because she was behind, or I subconsciously skipped over them to avoid more country twang in the playlist.  ;)

To the best of my knowledge I was caught up to that point besides a couple weird ones that weren't on Spotify.  

 
Do you have me on ignore?

I'll put yours in.
*lalala*

Every little pick i make
You will be there
Every little song i take
You'll be my tether

I can't do it right, I toss and turn
Lookin at the Spotify
All them buttons, all them prompts
No matter how hard i try
When krista helps me out, it blows my mind
She does it all so easily
A gal like you is a dream come true
A real life fantasy

Every little pick i make....

ETA: when i sing like this to KP, he reports me, so....

 
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*lalala*

Every little pick i make
You will be there
Every little song i take
You'll be my tether

I can't do it right, I toss and turn
Lookin at the Spotify
All them buttons, all them prompts
No matter how hard i try
When krista helps me out, it blows my mind
She does it all so easily
A gal like you is a dream come true
A real life fantasy

Every little pick i make....
:lol:   Yours are all caught up now.

 
31.12 The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs (1999)

Absolutely Cuckoo
I Don't Believe in the Sun

The Magnetic Fields are essentially cheeky ******* Stephin Merritt and friends, and the triple album delivers on the title's promise. A bit unwieldy to listen to all at once, and I think it works best in smaller doses, but there's so much goodness to find. The first half of the first disc would be perfect by itself.

I chose precisely the first two songs on the album for the playlist, which I feel offer a glimpse into the whole. "Absolutely Cuckoo" is a perfect, circular 1:30 tune that can get stuck in my head in a flash and I end up singing the whole thing to myself once or multiple times. "I Don't Believe in the Sun", at 4:16, is one of the longer songs on the album, and gorgeous. The Book of Love is doubtlessly the most well-known song on the album and has been covered by numerous artists, and is lovely as well, though I didn't pick it for the playlist.

 

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