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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)

Right about the time the C19 started closing things down, I went and bought four new canvases to paint on. I already had three. I bought new paints too, although I have a lot. I figured I would do some painting during this, and it would let me focus on that instead health crap. It's therapeutic and something I enjoy, and I always listen to music while doing it. Well, I haven't touched it. I just haven't had the spark in me. Every day I look at a canvas, and think come on, let's do it. It's another rainy day, and a good day to work on it somewhat.  Maybe I'll mess with it this weekend. Maybe.

 
Round 25.38 - M.I.A. - Kala

Another sort of cross-genre pick, this one sees international beats and music coming to the fore while M.I.A. raps over tracks like “Paper Planes” and “Bird Flu,” goes straight-up disco with “Jimmy,” and even in-references with “20 Dollar,” the follow up to her [redacted’s] “10 Dollar.” "Paper Planes" is of course a selection here for the playlist.

Paper Planes

Boyz

 
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Round 26.03 – Busta Rhymes – Extinction Level Event (The Final World Front)

Probably Busta’s most accessible album for those not attuned nor in love with his style. He starts with the fire of “Everybody Rise,” one of the worthier introduction songs to a hip hop album I can think of, and then delivers underground exceptionalism after underground exceptionalism after hit with the rest of the album. I’ll take two selections that sort of embody the rest of the work, leaving the title track off, even though it is pure fire for the heads that hip hop. Production is top-notch here, everything from strings to piano to low-end bass, which mitigates problems with the style and delivery of the polarizing figure (polarizing for that reason) that Busta is.   

Everybody Rise

Gimme Some More

 
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  As I told some of you I have spent the last six months or so putting together and old school audiophile stereo system.  I haven't played any vinyl on the Thorens yet, but I have streamed a lot from google play.  I also have flac files on my phone I play often.  Spotify for the play list. It has sounded pretty good so far, but I expected more out of the setup honestly.  

  Today I decided to fire up the California Audio HDCD player.  It was the first time I have used it, and I wanted to check out an artist that hasn't been drafted yet, that I had on CD.  I didn't know what to expect sound wise, but expected it would be decent.

   I was BLOWN AWAY at how good my system finally sounded.  I am so excited right now.  I have read how great my setup is supposed to sound, and today I finally got to experience that.  My ears have never heard anything so pleasant.  Time to dig out the old CD bin.  Had to share, so excited.

  Apparently an HDCD player is as good as it gets sound wise.  I never would have believed it.  Thanks for listening.

  CD's are worth $$ because of this by the way.

 
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This album came out during my college years. They were a bunch of med students at Vanderbilt that formed a band. They toured a lot in the South/Southeast, and were quite popular. They still play together sometimes to this day. The album is not on Spotify, but there is a compilation album that has the songs on it. They wrote all their songs except for their cool cover of Gloria, which was always fun crowd pleaser. Fun band.

Round 26

Ecstasy - White Animals (1984)

Ecstasy

Gloria

 
I imagine I could probably draft this in the final round, or pick it up as an Undrafted Free Agent. :lmao:

But @otb_lifer's recent pick of the Cramps album got me hankering for some psychobilly.

25.35 Tiger Army – Tiger Army (1999)

I discovered this band a couple years back and found they have a pretty large catalog and a devoted, if small, following. They play straight-forward three piece rockabilly with some very dark, creepy lyrical themes. All of their albums are pretty good, but their debut is my favorite. The songs I have chosen include one that is an absolute scorcher and a second that is a bit more Western Swing in style. Both seem to be about love (or obsession) gone wrong.

Songs:

True Romance

Outlaw Heart

 
simey said:
It does like right nice. I see you have a Scooby (Subaru). One of my good friends always drives a Subaru. Her grandfather did, and she has kept the tradition alive. 
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I've had nine ten Subarus in a row (all named Francesca), going back to my time in Chicago.  Now I live where every car is a Subaru; it's like I've found my people.

 
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RedmondLonghorn said:
I imagine I could probably draft this in the final round, or pick it up as an Undrafted Free Agent. :lmao:

But @otb_lifer's recent pick of the Cramps album got me hankering for some psychobilly.

25.35 Tiger Army – Tiger Army (1999)

I discovered this band a couple years back and found they have a pretty large catalog and a devoted, if small, following. They play straight-forward three piece rockabilly with some very dark, creepy lyrical themes. All of their albums are pretty good, but their debut is my favorite. The songs I have chosen include one that is an absolute scorcher and a second that is a bit more Western Swing in style. Both seem to be about love (or obsession) gone wrong.

Songs:

True Romance

Outlaw Heart
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oh, #### yeah 🤠  kick some more of that swampy goodness up in here ... the shuffle needs this ...

it's a Psychobilly run, y'all!

 
There is one reason and one reason only I went to see this artist on July 31, 2004. Sex. The ticket was free. I didn't have to drive. We had piles of booze and food leftover from a party from the night before. I just needed to deal with a couple hours of lousy music. Seemed like a good price to pay. Then I was enlightened.

Round 25 - John Mayer, Where The Light Is: Live in LA (2007)

So apparently this guy really isn't the pop-knock off of Dave Matthews that just does a dozen different renditions of Bigger Than My Body and Your Body Is A Wonderland. At the beginning of that day that's who I thought he was. I learned better that night. He's more modern day blues-jazz than pop-adult contemporary. So I chose this because of that first exposure, live actual Mayer isn't anything like the radio version I knew prior. But more than that, those two abominations of music are nowhere to be seen. That acoustic guitar may have been his vehicle into the industry, but it isn't who he really is.

Vultures

Slow Dancing in a Burning Room

 
simey said:
This album came out during my college years. They were a bunch of med students at Vanderbilt that formed a band. They toured a lot in the South/Southeast, and were quite popular. They still play together sometimes to this day. The album is not on Spotify, but there is a compilation album that has the songs on it. They wrote all their songs except for their cool cover of Gloria, which was always fun crowd pleaser. Fun band.

Round 26

Ecstasy - White Animals (1984)

Ecstasy

Gloria
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never heard of them ...catchy

 
rockaction said:
Round 25.38 - M.I.A. - Kala

Another sort of cross-genre pick, this one sees international beats and music coming to the fore while M.I.A. raps over tracks like “Paper Planes” and “Bird Flu,” goes straight-up disco with “Jimmy,” and even in-references with “20 Dollar,” the follow up to her [redacted’s] “10 Dollar.” "Paper Planes" is of course a selection here for the playlist.

Paper Planes

Boyz
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Was going to take this before it ended... love her, this album especially.

 
MAC_32 said:
There is one reason and one reason only I went to see this artist on July 31, 2004. Sex. The ticket was free. I didn't have to drive. We had piles of booze and food leftover from a party from the night before. I just needed to deal with a couple hours of lousy music. Seemed like a good price to pay. Then I was enlightened.

Round 25 - John Mayer, Where The Light Is: Live in LA (2007)

So apparently this guy really isn't the pop-knock off of Dave Matthews that just does a dozen different renditions of Bigger Than My Body and Your Body Is A Wonderland. At the beginning of that day that's who I thought he was. I learned better that night. He's more modern day blues-jazz than pop-adult contemporary. So I chose this because of that first exposure, live actual Mayer isn't anything like the radio version I knew prior. But more than that, those two abominations of music are nowhere to be seen. That acoustic guitar may have been his vehicle into the industry, but it isn't who he really is.

Vultures

Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
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I was going to take Slow Dancing later.  I just played it actually.  

 
25.25 - The Beatles - With The Beatles (1963)

People?!?!  I read a few people say they had "missed out on the Beatles," but there have been two great early Beatles records hanging out here for the taking for too long.  I kept waiting because I couldn't decide which one I wanted and hoped someone would make the decision for me, but nooooooo.  I decided on this one because (1) those first three songs are knock-outs, (2) it has two of the three best covers they recorded, and (3) it does not have my 202nd favorite (of 204) Beatles song, as the other does.  

Yep, I'm doubling up on them, but getting early Beatles vs. 1967 Beatles is definitely like having two different bands.

All My Loving (my 12th favorite in 2019 rankings)

All I've Got To Do (sexy sexy sexy John vocal)

 
I intended to wait for a couple of obvious albums to be plucked before firing this bullet, but it appears as though this crop’s got a thing against this Americana bastardized Rolling Stones-knock off. I think this pick is driven by drenched nostalgia for me, but I’m curious how others feel about it.

Round 26 - Aerosmith, Permanent Vacation (1987)

This was the first cassette tape I ever bought. It was summer 93 and I heard them over the loud speakers at the city pool (Livin On The Edge). I asked a friend’s parent who was there with us who it was then I set out to the record store that day to make the purchase. Only I didn’t consider that an artist could have multiple different albums. The brain of a 10 year old, huh. So I couldn’t tell you why I bought this one, but I did, and while waiting for that song that never came I was too busy rocking out to the rest to realize this wasn’t the right one until some time during the final instrumental.

It isn’t a once-a-monther, but it still gets dialed up front-to-back at least a few times per year. Sometimes I even listen to Angel. And I’ve tried their others, some good/some not, but since I keep coming back to this I’m taking this one with me.

Heart's Done Time

Hangman Jury

 
krista4 said:
25.25 - The Beatles - With The Beatles (1963)

People?!?!  I read a few people say they had "missed out on the Beatles," but there have been two great early Beatles records hanging out here for the taking for too long.  I kept waiting because I couldn't decide which one I wanted and hoped someone would make the decision for me, but nooooooo.  I decided on this one because (1) those first three songs are knock-outs, (2) it has two of the three best covers they recorded, and (3) it does not have my 202nd favorite (of 204) Beatles song, as the other does.  

Yep, I'm doubling up on them, but getting early Beatles vs. 1967 Beatles is definitely like having two different bands.

All My Loving (my 12th favorite in 2019 rankings)

All I've Got To Do (sexy sexy sexy John vocal)
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Damn, pissed that I missed this🤬 I thought all that was left was Yellow Submarine.

 
Okay, hear me out. This band made some great music until they went completely off the rails with their fourth album. Of course, doing so brought them commercial success. It also gave us one of the most putrid songs of the 80s (Everybody Have Fun Tonight).

26.06 To Live & Die in LA (soundtrack) - Wang Chung (1985)

Great movie with a great soundtrack. The album features one side of mostly new regular songs for the movie (though one track was plucked from an earlier album) and the second side is all instrumental/electronic original compositions that were part of the movie's scoring. 

Songs:

To Live and Die in L.A.

Wake Up, Stop Dreaming

 
Bonzai said:
Willie Nelson - Stardust (1978)

Doing this draft I realized that most of my consumption of Willie (which is considerable) is via playlists or compilations. Red Headed Stranger and Stardust are really the only albums that I tend to play of his. So I'll take this here, but I need to start digging into more of his albums.

Stardust

All Of Me
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great record, nice choice

 
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