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Desert Island Album Draft - 15th Anniversary Edition - 50 Rounds in the books, sign up now for KP's listening program (5 Viewers)

KarmaPolice said:
Plus a lot are odd albums that I have on CD-R from my heavier downloading and pirating days.  
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:lmao:   Also remember when you couldn't say this out loud. I have books upon books of CD-R's. Anything I drafted in here that's pre-90s, I discovered through a draft here or The Hoof or Pitchfork in that 5-10 year era where you could get any album you want on mp3 that coincided with when I decided I'd learn the entire history of (at the time basically old man white person) rock music.

 
Northern Voice said:
:lmao:   Also remember when you couldn't say this out loud. I have books upon books of CD-R's. Anything I drafted in here that's pre-90s, I discovered through a draft here or The Hoof or Pitchfork in that 5-10 year era where you could get any album you want on mp3 that coincided with when I decided I'd learn the entire history of (at the time basically old man white person) rock music.
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Yep, like mentioned to Abrantes - a big handful of these CD-Rs are of old drafts of ours as well.   I know a few from the Summertime draft are in there, and I also think a bunch form the 70s draft.  

 
Northern Voice said:
ANNOUNCE - EXECUTIVE DECISION

ANY OWED ROUND 40 PICKS (AND PICKS OWED FROM PRIOR ROUNDS) CAN BE MADE BETWEEN NOW AND 9 PM EASTERN.

AT 9 PM EASTERN, ROUND 41 IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS. ALSO, AT 9 PM EASTERN, I PLAN ON DRINKING ALCOHOL, ALL ARE WELCOME TO JOIN

THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S DESERT ISLAND AFTER DARK!##! :banned: :banned:
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So we're good for 41?  KP and I are wondering.

 
I've done some preliminary work on the spreadsheet as well to move to 1 AM, 1 PM pick. I guess I'll give some time and determine if tomorrow morning should be round 41, if not too many people pick tonight, or round 42, if a decent number do. 

 
Can anyone help me out here.  

Early to mid-90s.  Singer with a higher than normal pitch.  Album cover was lavender and gray hues.  I think they were from Minnesota, or somewhere ridiculously far north. If I had to classify it, it was pretty hard rock - as in hard rock that is pretty.

My brother had the CD.  I'll ask him too.

If we solve this mystery, it may turn out that the album was not so good.

:EncryptedMemories:

ETA: not the ### Ponys, but good guess, if that is your guess.

 
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KarmaPolice said:
Yep, like mentioned to Abrantes - a big handful of these CD-Rs are of old drafts of ours as well.   I know a few from the Summertime draft are in there, and I also think a bunch form the 70s draft.  
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Yeah, filled up more than a few iPods with those old mp3 files - good times.

 
Mister CIA said:
Can anyone help me out here.  

Early to mid-90s.  Singer with a higher than normal pitch.  Album cover was lavender and gray hues.  I think they were from Minnesota, or somewhere ridiculously far north. If I had to classify it, it was pretty hard rock - as in hard rock that is pretty.

My brother had the CD.  I'll ask him too.

If we solve this mystery, it may turn out that the album was not so good.

:EncryptedMemories:
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Soul Asylum?

 
Mister CIA said:
Can anyone help me out here.  

Early to mid-90s.  Singer with a higher than normal pitch.  Album cover was lavender and gray hues.  I think they were from Minnesota, or somewhere ridiculously far north. If I had to classify it, it was pretty hard rock - as in hard rock that is pretty.

My brother had the CD.  I'll ask him too.

If we solve this mystery, it may turn out that the album was not so good.

:EncryptedMemories:
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I think the period of Rush you’re thinking of was more late-80s than early-90s. 

 
zamboni said:
Soul Asylum?
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No Senor.  I've seen Soul Asylum live.  

Screaming Trees, then Soul Asylum, and then we walked out on the Spin Doctors.  September 1993, San Antonio.  It was 100 degrees.  Mark Lanegan will back me up.

It was an obscure band (Fabulous Poodles, Steve Forbert level obscure)

 
KarmaPolice said:
Digging a little deeper into the CD pile and pulling this one out.  Only 2 albums of theirs on Spotify, but the debuts is currently, as NT so delicately puts it, rocking my taint so we will go with it:

41.01:  BUDGIE - BUDGIE (1971)

Guts

Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman

If my poor memory serves me correctly, @krista4 - this also gets the Mr. Krista seal of approval?
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Dayum - didn’t think this would be on anyone else’s radar. Drafted one of their songs in one of the recent song drafts.

 
Mister CIA said:
No Senor.  I've seen Soul Asylum live.  

Screaming Trees, then Soul Asylum, and then we walked out on the Spin Doctors.  September 1993, San Antonio.  It was 100 degrees.  Mark Lanegan will back me up.

It was an obscure band (Fabulous Poodles, Steve Forbert level obscure)
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Figured it wasn’t that easy. The Minneapolis/early 90s/lavender-ish album made me think it might be Grave Dancer’s Union.

 
KarmaPolice said:
Digging a little deeper into the CD pile and pulling this one out.  Only 2 albums of theirs on Spotify, but the debuts is currently, as NT so delicately puts it, rocking my taint so we will go with it:

41.01:  BUDGIE - BUDGIE (1971)

Guts

Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman

If my poor memory serves me correctly, @krista4 - this also gets the Mr. Krista seal of approval?
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Speaking of San Antonio, this band was huge among the locals back in the La Semana days.

ETA: I mean huge!  They were revered.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=San+Antonio+la+semana+budgie

 
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Los Kjarkas - Phuru Runas - I'm not sure what I'm listening to, but I'm into it.

Muse - Stockholm Syndrome - I used to love this album.  Haven't listened to it in ages.  Nice throwback.  Harkens me back to a summer vacation at Sherkston.

John Lennon - God - eh

Was (Not Was) - Spy in the House of Love - now this is a jam right here

 
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Lisbon - Wolf Alice - I have drafted this album before and love this band. This is not one of the songs on my regular shuffle playlists, so nice to get it in the rotation here. 

I'm Coming Out - Diana Ross - I appreciate Diana more and more every week it seems (thanks RuPaul). Love this song. Absolute all-time. 

Gloria - The White Animals - Am I listening to a 60s inspired cover of a 70s song or something here? Are those the right eras? I'm enjoying whatever it is.

Papa Was A Rolling Stone - The Temptations - It takes a lot for me to get behind an 11 minute song.... but this one fits the bill and earns every second.

Highway Star - Deep Purple - This was pretty good. Not something I'll listen to every day but I get it. Lots of energy, no doubt had an impact on a lot of future bands.

 
So, my wife likes musicals. I like music but not musicals (the closest I get to liking musicals is if they have Oompa Loompas). I think they remind me too much of the days I wasted in church choir. My 7 year old also likes musicals. I got them front row tickets for Wicked - which they talked about for weeks afterwards.  They were/are both pumped about Disney showing Hamilton. My wife saw Hamilton but she really isn't one to remember/pay attention to lyrics and I have no interest so I don't know the songs/lyrics either. But, to prep for the show, they have been issuing non-stop commands to Alexa to play Hamilton music.

Mind you, I get the evil eye from the wife if I let the kid shoot bots in a video game or if I leave world news on and it starts talking about war/murder etc. etc. Lately though, my son is now rapping about whores, sex, and damn fools that shot him. Whatever - he is repeating the lyrics with no real comprehension of what the words mean but I have been giving my wife #### about it (even though I literally don't care at all). However, my son is also really liking the idea of rapping/rhyming words now. At dinner I am getting questions like are you a fork or New York? Are you a stork or a bork? (with the one I don't choose being my wife). Many times he is just switching out consonants of some word - often times leading to some random nonsense word. However, at dinner tonight, he got the word trucker in his head. So, the first question was:

Are you a trucker or a bucker? 

Me: trucker

Are you a clucker or a ducker? 

Me: Ducker

Are you a ####er or a sucker?

Me (deadpanning): Oh, I'm the ####er but your mom is definitely the sucker.

I think I am sleeping on the sofa tonight.

 
System of a Down - Needles - #### yeah let's break some stuff.  I know they've got their shtick, but I always enjoy their music.

Ted Nugent - Stormtroopin' - not really particularly a fan of Ted Nugent, for miscellaneous reasons.

The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs - yes indeed.  I should probably really dive into their music.

LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations - everybody makes mistakes.  This song and album selection are not mistakes.

 
rcam said:
Are you a trucker or a bucker? 

Me: trucker

Are you a clucker or a ducker? 

Me: Ducker

Are you a ####er or a sucker?

Me (deadpanning): Oh, I'm the ####er but your mom is definitely the sucker.

I think I am sleeping on the sofa tonight.
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Hilarious. Either your kid just roasted your ### or he asked you a very personal question. 

 
Steve Tasker said:
System of a Down - Needles - #### yeah let's break some stuff.  I know they've got their shtick, but I always enjoy their music.

Ted Nugent - Stormtroopin' - not really particularly a fan of Ted Nugent, for miscellaneous reasons.

The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs - yes indeed.  I should probably really dive into their music.

LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations - everybody makes mistakes.  This song and album selection are not mistakes.
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I saw on the news today SOAD are fighting today because the one guy is very much not on the same page politically as the main guy (Serj). And Velvet Underground are pretty great and Tribulations is :wub:  (and also my pick).

 
RADIOHEAD - STOP WHISPERING    ok, I give Pik ####, but I do like this song and the solo

JIMI - BOLD AS LOVE    oh, #### yeah.   who couldn't love this??

DUMPSTAPHUNK - I WISH YOU WOULD     I wish you would sing during this song.   Yes - I get it's weird that the person who constantly says they don't pay attention to lyrics doesn't really like instrumentals, but it's the case.   I dug it otherwise.  

COCTEAU TWINS - FOTZEPOLITIC   :oldunsure:

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - GO WITH THE FLOW     real nice.   I was strongly considering this album and song.  

 
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Comin' Back To Me - Jefferson Airplane - Not familiar with it, like it. Obviously decades before they built that city.

Tumbling Dice - The Rolling Stones - Love it, as I said, considered this at #9 overall.

Wish I Hadn't Stayed So Long - Hayes Carll - Know the name, maybe has even been at a festival I've been at but never really listened to him. Starts out describing my typical Sunday morning, I like it, will explore further. 

Tales of Brave Ulysses - Cream - A band that I've never really gotten. I like this though, though I feel like there's probably an alternate version somewhere that is 27 minutes long.

Dust Radio - Chris Whitley - Spotify wants me to listen to some country tonight. I can get behind this one, nice little build  and then back to the start.

 
41.06 The Art of Fugue, Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (1974)

The quantum theory upon which everything since is based. If Pythagoras, the first man to postulate that music is the math of consciousness, had heard the perpetual engine that is the musical fugue, his head would have exploded. As a descendant in thought, i see more in it than any other thing.

JSBach wanted to conquer the sound of life for the greater glory of God, so he collected and catalogued every fractal of tone he could produce. Like the greats in any field of study, he could see it in 3D, observe it from all angles, the all of the parts as well as the parts of the all. And he found a basis for it to run as of itself a thing, powered not by a running stream or spun wheel, but by the essence of the human spirit. In conquering the orders of sound for God's glory, he captured them so we might each feel that glory for ourselves. Praise be.

 
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We had a cop near us (about an hour away), who on the weekend was at his (closed due to covid) trailer, flying the Confederate flag, wearing a "south shall rise again" shirt and a Trump hat. So... if you're wearing all that in ####### CANADA, there's really only one reason. It became a news story, and I can understand the "off-duty, in his own space" comments... kind of, I guess? But so many comments (on the Facebook account of the local newspaper), who "don't see anything wrong with it", "makes me think of Dukes of Hazzard, nothing else", etc... I couldn't not comment myself. God I hate Facebook.

 
Northern Voice said:
Tales of Brave Ulysses - Cream - A band that I've never really gotten. I like this though, though I feel like there's probably an alternate version somewhere that is 27 minutes long.
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I've said before that songs have weird connotations to movies and TV shows to me  This will forever be a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference for me. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
Northern Voice said:
Tales of Brave Ulysses - Cream - A band that I've never really gotten. I like this though, though I feel like there's probably an alternate version somewhere that is 27 minutes long.
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I've said before that songs have weird connotations to movies and TV shows to me  This will forever be a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference for me. 
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Interesting, I've watched and like Buffy but don't remember it.

 
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