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Desert Island Album Draft - 15th Anniversary Edition - 50 Rounds in the books, sign up now for KP's listening program (2 Viewers)

PIK95 said:
30.34 the Go-Go's Beauty and the Beat 1981

Getting this record and Duran Duran Rio so late makes me very happy.

Our Lips Are Sealed

We Got the Beat

80's party!!
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Damn was on my radar like 10 rounds ago and totally forgot about it. Lust to Love is my jam.

 
So this is an album I would have taken in my first 10 rounds if was just on Spotify. This was probably in my top 3 most-played hip hop albums (along with Low End Theory and Paul’s Boutique). It’s just a masterpiece of sampling and production. I had so much fun listening to this again on YouTube - such a shame it’s not on Spotify. I won’t put any of the crappy remixes out there on the playlist. We’ll all just have to enjoy the YouTube links. Yo Mama selects:

33.19 - De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)

1 - Intro

2 - The Magic Number

3 - Change in Speak

4 - Cool Breeze on the Rocks

5 - Can U Keep a Secret

6 - Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin's Revenge)

7 - Ghetto Thang

8 - Transmitting Live from Mars

9 - Eye Know

10 - Take It Off

11 - A Little Bit of Soap

12 - Tread Water

13 - Potholes in My Lawn

14 - Say No Go

15 - Do as De La Does

16 - Plug Tunin' (Last Chance to Comprehend)

17 - De La Orgee

18 - Buddy

19 - Description

20 - Me Myself and I

21 - This Is a Recording 4 Living in a Fulltime Era (L.I.F.E.)

22 - I Can Do Anything (Delacratic)

23 - D.A.I.S.Y. Age

24 - Plug Tunin'

Such a hard time picking songs, but it won’t go on the playlist anyway (sob). 

 
31.13

THE ROOTS - ILLADELPH HALFLIFE

(1996)

Would have preferred Things Fall Apart, but after that, this is my favorite Roots album top to bottom (though there are several individual songs on other albums that I probably like better).  This is probably their most "studio" album and I'm not exactly sure why they did that, but I do like the production and Malik being more prominent.

Respond/React

Push Up Ya Lighter

added to playlist

 
I gave both Dirt and Facelift a spin last week. The others not drafted yet either. Just too many skips on them. Some of their songs can't be done well if they went light (We Die Young is a legendary cut), but I think the versatile ones are better when the mood is turned to somber. It was unreasonably deflating deleting this band from my list.

 
this is the third leg for me with my 3 favorite jazz records, with kind of blue and time out already gone... I better grab it now, I do have a lot of other favorites and am getting very deep into Jazz now, but this a long time favorite and I play this most often...

rd 33 - bill evans - sunday at the village vanguard - 1961

  • my man's gone now
  • all of you


AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek  [-]

Sunday at the Village Vanguard is the initial volume of a mammoth recording session by the Bill Evans Trio, from June 25, 1961 at New York's Village Vanguard documenting Evans' first trio with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian. Its companion volume is Waltz for Debby. This trio is still widely regarded as his finest, largely because of the symbiotic interplay between its members. Tragically, LaFaro was killed in an automobile accident ten days after this session was recorded, and Evans assembled the two packages a few months afterward. While "Waltz for Debby" -- in retrospect -- is seemingly a showcase for Evans' brilliant, subtle, and wide-ranging pianism, this volume becomes an homage, largely, to the genius and contribution of LaFaro. That said, however, this were never the point. According to Motian, when Evans built this trio based on live gigs at the Basin Street East, the intention was always to develop a complete interactive trio experience. At the time, this was an unheard of notion, since piano trios were largely designed to showcase the prowess of the front line soloist with rhythmic accompaniment. Here, one need listen no further than the elegant and haunting, graceful modal reading of "My Man's Gone Now" from Porgy & Bess to know that there is something completely balanced and indescribably beautiful in their approach. Motian's brushes whisper along the ride cymbals and both Evans and LaFaro enter into a dialogue that emerges from a darkly hued minor mode, into the melody and somehow beyond it, into a form of seamless dialogic improvisation to know that in the act of one musician slipping over and under another -- as happens with all three in an aural basket weave -- is something utterly new and different, often imitated but never replicated. But in a sense it happens before this, on LaFaro's "Gloria's Step," which opens the recording. His thematic statement includes the briefest intro, hesitant and spacious before he and pianist enter into a harmonic and contrapuntal conversation underscored by the hushed dynamics of Motian's snare, and the lightning-fast interlocutions of single string and chorded playing of LaFaro. The shapshifting reading of Miles Davis' "Solar," is a place where angularity, counterpoint, and early modalism all come together in a knotty and insistent, yet utterly seamless blend of post-bop aesthetics and expanded harmonic intercourse with Motian, whose work, while indispensable in the balance of the trio, comes more into play here, and is more assertive with his half-time accents to frame the counterpoint playing of Evans and LaFaro. This is a great place to begin with Evans.
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I hate when I've settled on my next 2 when I'm so far from the chamber. It's been much less stressful the last few days finding out I'm up before I was ready.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
PICK 33.22

CHRIS ISAAK - HEART-SHAPED WORLD (1989)

This is another big album for me, it stays in the rotation of CDs when I want to mellow out.  This has so many good songs on it ...

Songs

- Wicked Game

- Wrong To Love You

and that doesn't even include

- Heart Shaped World

- Don't Make Me Dream About You
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I need to familiarize myself with more of his work. Love Wicked Game - and really everything else I've heard from him. Just never gotten into my library. Gonna fix that.

 
32.21 N.E.R.D. - In Search of...

(2001)

I still like late 90s Neptunes beats and even though lyrically this is kind of a mess on some cuts, this was kind of Pharrell taking a bigger step out of the producer shadows. Guy looks like he hasn't aged since this dropped either btw. Played this a lot when it came out. some guitars on the disc and a diss track to the Limp Bizkits of the world. Bonus points for the unassuming album cover.

songs:

Am I High

Provider

 
mphtrilogy said:
this is the third leg for me with my 3 favorite jazz records, with kind of blue and time out already gone... I better grab it now, I do have a lot of other favorites and am getting very deep into Jazz now, but this a long time favorite and I play this most often...

rd 33 - bill evans - sunday at the village vanguard - 1961

  • my man's gone now
  • all of you
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a mammoth. i would not be a songwriter without having followed his ability to find notes, and i would not have found so many of the words which y'all find entertaining without him in my ear. the most important media figure in my life. a full half of my daily listen is taken up by he (tho i prefer his solo stuff, this is his best combo album) & Django Reinhardt

 
MAC_32 said:
I gave both Dirt and Facelift a spin last week. The others not drafted yet either. Just too many skips on them. Some of their songs can't be done well if they went light (We Die Young is a legendary cut), but I think the versatile ones are better when the mood is turned to somber. It was unreasonably deflating deleting this band from my list.
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Very few skips for me but my mental state is pretty shaky at times.  I love the doom and gloom.   I’m not a total downer though.  I can switch over to the Go-Gos and be just as happy with the bouncy, smiley tunes too.   

 
wikkidpissah said:
a mammoth. i would not be a songwriter without having followed his ability to find notes, and i would not have found so many of the words which y'all find entertaining without him in my ear. the most important media figure in my life. a full half of my daily listen is taken up by he (tho i prefer his solo stuff, this is his best combo album) & Django Reinhardt
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I kept waiting for Bonzai to take it, but he didn't. Maybe he wanted to be greedy and take the complete recordings.

 
wikkidpissah said:
a mammoth. i would not be a songwriter without having followed his ability to find notes, and i would not have found so many of the words which y'all find entertaining without him in my ear. the most important media figure in my life. a full half of my daily listen is taken up by he (tho i prefer his solo stuff, this is his best combo album) & Django Reinhardt
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he is my Sunday go to, always reach for a record most weekends 👍

 
DocHolliday said:
Very few skips for me but my mental state is pretty shaky at times.  I love the doom and gloom.   I’m not a total downer though.  I can switch over to the Go-Gos and be just as happy with the bouncy, smiley tunes too.   
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I've been trimming doom & gloom from my library. Not overtly. It's probably just a product of getting older. It's still apparent in my library and it's quite evident in several of my selections so far, but I've been shedding some of its fat over the years and don't recall replacing it. i.e. I never thought about why I removed Down In A Hole and Would? from my library I don't remember how long ago. But then this exercise made me realize that I did it because I preferred the somber unplugged version more. 

 
Rd 33

Yellow Submarine- The Beatles (1968)

how does the most universally slagged album by the group merit inclusion on a list such as this?

... when it includes 2 of my personal top 10 Beatles songs, that's how ...

matter of fact, i dig all of the tracks, even Fauxl's (yes, Fauxl) "All Together Now" nursery rhyme shtick (still 10x better than "Good Day Sunshine").

i'll spin Martin's orchestral side 2 when i'm out spelunking  😎

It's All Too Much  best thing Harrison ever did, imo - trippy, heavy psychedelia ... that opening hit is religion. 

Hey Bulldog  vitriolic/nasty John is the John i love ('til i put on "Julia" or "Across the Universe", that is) ... meh, this is some rockin' and rollin' stoned #### that grabs yer throat latch - wish they did more of this. 

 
otb_lifer said:
Rd 33

Yellow Submarine- The Beatles (1968)

how does the most universally slagged album by the group merit inclusion on a list such as this?

... when it includes 2 of my personal top 10 Beatles songs, that's how ...

matter of fact, i dig all of the tracks, even Fauxl's (yes, Fauxl) "All Together Now" nursery rhyme shtick (still 10x better than "Good Day Sunshine").

i'll spin Martin's orchestral side 2 when i'm out spelunking  😎

It's All Too Much  best thing Harrison ever did, imo - trippy, heavy psychedelia ... that opening hit is religion. 

Hey Bulldog  vitriolic/nasty John is the John i love ('til i put on "Julia" or "Across the Universe", that is) ... meh, this is some rockin' and rollin' stoned #### that grabs yer throat latch - wish they did more of this. 
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insane value for Bulldog alone

 
otb_lifer said:
Rd 33

Yellow Submarine- The Beatles (1968)

how does the most universally slagged album by the group merit inclusion on a list such as this?

... when it includes 2 of my personal top 10 Beatles songs, that's how ...

matter of fact, i dig all of the tracks, even Fauxl's (yes, Fauxl) "All Together Now" nursery rhyme shtick (still 10x better than "Good Day Sunshine").

i'll spin Martin's orchestral side 2 when i'm out spelunking  😎

It's All Too Much  best thing Harrison ever did, imo - trippy, heavy psychedelia ... that opening hit is religion. 

Hey Bulldog  vitriolic/nasty John is the John i love ('til i put on "Julia" or "Across the Universe", that is) ... meh, this is some rockin' and rollin' stoned #### that grabs yer throat latch - wish they did more of this. 
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No shame at all in having this on your island.  If I didn't already have a "late Beatles" album, I'd have taken it, too.  

 
33.20 Glass Animals - Zaba

(2014)

this kind of floored me the first time I heard it. the bass lines throughout are pretty on point and the grooves are somewhere in between head nod and let's dance. jazzy, jungley percussion and animal noises (?), darkish toned synths and Dave Bayley's vocals floating in the midst of all of it. some darker aesop's fable stuff throughout the album, there's a lot of jungle animal references, a cut obviously referencing some island of dr. moreau situation, etc...this came out and then they changed their game up a bit after this album.

songs:

Hazey

Gooey

 
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33.23 - Live at the Olympia - R.E.M. (recorded 2007, released 2009)

Artist drafted at 8.2 by @simey (Reckoning) and 8.8 by @Dr. Octopus (Life's Rich Pageant)

R.E.M. was four years short of the end of the line when they performed a five show residency in Dublin.  The setlists spanned their career and included a lot of deeper cuts.  I love it for that because they were never about the hits.  The other thing that strikes me is how comfortable they (mostly Stipe) seem in their skin.  They play fast and loose and rock more than they have in years.

Circus Envy

Wolves, Lower

 
Eephus said:
33.23 - Live at the Olympia - R.E.M. (recorded 2007, released 2009)

Artist drafted at 8.2 by @simey (Reckoning) and 8.8 by @Dr. Octopus (Life's Rich Pageant)

R.E.M. was four years short of the end of the line when they performed a five show residency in Dublin.  The setlists spanned their career and included a lot of deeper cuts.  I love it for that because they were never about the hits.  The other thing that strikes me is how comfortable they (mostly Stipe) seem in their skin.  They play fast and loose and rock more than they have in years.

Circus Envy

Wolves, Lower
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How did the protest go?  I see you are alive, which is good.

 
Yo Mama said:
So this is an album I would have taken in my first 10 rounds if was just on Spotify. This was probably in my top 3 most-played hip hop albums (along with Low End Theory and Paul’s Boutique). It’s just a masterpiece of sampling and production. I had so much fun listening to this again on YouTube - such a shame it’s not on Spotify. I won’t put any of the crappy remixes out there on the playlist. We’ll all just have to enjoy the YouTube links. Yo Mama selects:

Such a hard time picking songs, but it won’t go on the playlist anyway (sob). 
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Was going to take this several rounds ago if it was on Spotify.  :sadbanana:

:kicksrock:

 
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