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Desert Island Album Draft - 15th Anniversary Edition - 50 Rounds in the books, sign up now for KP's listening program (1 Viewer)

zamboni said:
@Hov34 had a good idea with music video draft, but that might only resonate with folks who grew up in the MTV era. 
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I grew up in the era but likely would not be interested in a video draft - even though I spent a large part of my day watching MTV there was always something about the video medium that bothered me.

 
48.29 The Sonics, !!!Here Are The Sonics!!! (1965)

Psycho
Boss Hoss

Hinted at it way earlier in the draft. 29 minutes of magic. Glorious rockin' and insane screams. Those "!!!"s in the title ain't no joke. Will make for a fine pairing on my island with the Exploding Hearts record.

Strychnine is killer too, as are all the covers on the record, like Roll Over Beethoven.

 
49/24

Hopefully this counts as a live album and not a greatest hits as it contains possibly the best Beatles cover ever. 

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live Vol8- Various Artists (2004)

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

My City Was Gone

 
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finding the last three will be hard..  just too many left.. oh well..

gonna grab this one to share with a great night of memories seeing Kacey with two of my daughters at Radio City last year... just a beauty voice.. great record

Pick 48: Kacey Musgraves ‎– Golden Hour 2018

Notes:

2019 Grammy for: Album Of The Year
2019 Grammy for: Best Country Album

Tracklist

  • Slow Burn4:06
  • Lonely Weekend3:46
  • Butterflies3:39
  • Oh, What A World4:01
  • Mother1:18
  • Love Is A Wild Thing4:16
  • Space Cowboy3:36
  • Happy & Sad4:03
  • Velvet Elvis 2:34
  • Wonder Woman4:00
  • High Horse3:33
  • Golden Hour3:18
  • Rainbow
 
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I first heard this album in a Borders store. I was looking at books and heard it playing, and I asked an employee what they were playing from their music section and he told me. I bought the cd, and still love it to this today to relax to. It is a duo called Secret Garden that is made up of Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry and Norwegian pianist/keyboardist Rolf Lovland. They have several albums, but this is my go to. It brings me peace.

Round 49

Songs from A Secret Garden - Secret Garden (1995)

Songs From a Secret Garden

Serenade to Spring

 
I've got one more to go, but I just wanted to say thanks to "The Staff" for running this. It's been fun. 🎶🎵

 
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Abrantes said:
48.29 The Sonics, !!!Here Are The Sonics!!! (1965)

Psycho
Boss Hoss

Hinted at it way earlier in the draft. 29 minutes of magic. Glorious rockin' and insane screams. Those "!!!"s in the title ain't no joke. Will make for a fine pairing on my island with the Exploding Hearts record.

Strychnine is killer too, as are all the covers on the record, like Roll Over Beethoven.
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Heh. I remember that. That's some boss slang that dude was using. 

 
I assumed this went in round 6 with all their other albums. It's my second favourite of their albums and contains my favourite song of theirs, which probably ranks somewhere near my top 20 or so songs ever (Don't Change), so I am very happy I double checked and that it it still on the board. I'm calling it a steal but maybe no one likes this one. In any case, it's early enough in their career that it still has a nice mix of post-punk and new wave.

48.32 - INXS - Shabooh Shoobah (1982)

1.    "The One Thing"    3:24
2.    "To Look at You"   3:55
3.    "Spy of Love"    3:58
4.    "Soul Mistake"    2:57
5.    "Here Comes"   3:00
6.    "Black and White"    3:40
7.    "Golden Playpen"    3:03
8.    "Jan's Song"    3:18
9.    "Old World New World"   3:38
10.    "Don't Change"    4:24

 
Northern Voice said:
I guess this is the last official day of the draft. We've covered most of the spring. Who has the next excuse for us to talk about music all summer? I assume this thread will stay pretty active with the playlist, make up picks etc... and as always I'm open to new/continuation ideas. 
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Random thoughts I had this am:

1.  Take Eephus' shtick to draft-level to keep the thread/album talk going.   Somehow randomize #s and assign participants an album or two to sit down with.  

2.  I wouldn't have the knowledge to participate, but I would love for there to be a jazz and/or classical music draft.    A few have said those selections take away from the flow of this playlist, so we could move those picks over and add on with selections from a draft like this.   

 
Northern Voice said:
KarmaPolice said:
One of the many surprises for me in this draft was the # of INXS picks.  
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I'm a bit surprised. I don't think anyone would be surprised I really like them, I think there's a pretty clear through line from them to The Killers. 
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The first year at Wayhome Festival, Brandon Flowers was there solo and they got to a point in the concert where he said, "we're going to play a cover song now, and we're going to let you choose which one... either "Don't Change" by INXS (tepid applause) or "Simply Irresistible" by Robert Palmer (crowd goes nuts)". One of my more disappointing concert moments for about ten seconds because the Simply Irresistible cover was pretty great.

 
KarmaPolice said:
Random thoughts I had this am:

1.  Take Eephus' shtick to draft-level to keep the thread/album talk going.   Somehow randomize #s and assign participants an album or two to sit down with.  
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Yeah, I haven't quite followed how he's doing it but it seems like a 4-sided dice? I was thinking a 50 sided dice for round and 40 sided dice for pick and then you listen to whatever you get. 

 
Northern Voice said:
Yeah, I haven't quite followed how he's doing it but it seems like a 4-sided dice? I was thinking a 50 sided dice for round and 40 sided dice for pick and then you listen to whatever you get. 
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Follow up thought I had that make it easier- you get randomly assigned another drafter's island of albums and have to listen to some of them? Make the drafter gets to assign 1 or 2?  :shrug:

 
Northern Voice said:
48.32 - INXS - Shabooh Shoobah (1982)

1.    "The One Thing"    3:24
 
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Since we're talking videos above, "The One Thing" has one of the more memorable videos from back in the day. For some reason (read: suggestiveness), food fights/slob fests at dinner tables were not uncommon themes. 

 
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We had some ideas in a few of the other recent drafts that might be worth digging up.

One idea was an opening album song draft - that way, if you don't like - or know - the full album but like the first song, it opens up more possibilities. Also less subjectivity in picking out songs from an album.

 
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zamboni said:
We had some ideas in a few of the other recent drafts that might be worth digging up.

One idea was an opening album song draft - that way, if you don't like the full album but like the first song, it opens up more possibilities. Also less subjectivity in picking out songs from an album.
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We could also do a palooza type draft and combine a bunch of ideas/categories. But that's @Eephus shtick.

 
Charlie Steiner said:
49.14: How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All - The Firesign Theater (1969)

The only way I'll stay sane is to have a constant supply of insanity.

For the playlist: only 1 one track, The Further Adventures of Nick Danger. **Warning: this track is 28 minutes, 11 seconds in length and incalculable in depth.**
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There was a time when i had every word of Firesign Theater memorized. Surprisingly, this was during my teenage acid phase. Got to a point where i'd drop a tab and listen to Hendrix just to get me in the right head for Don't Crush the Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers. I wanted a special way to be funny since my nona would pinch my cheek for my Jimmy Durante impressions when i was three, and this was it. Catching on to the fact everyone is hiding something perfectly ridiculous from the world and that showing the mouse in all of us scurry when the light comes on became how i could sell jokes @ 15yo, have a syndicated radio comedy show @ 22yo, SNL audition @ 25 etc. Even my poker mentor, Treetop Straus, commented that he never saw anyone who could make friends with an opponent while making fun of him in everyone else's eyes. "None of us wanna get caught playing with ourself, Jack", was my reply. And i learned it all from Porgy Tirebiter and Nick Danger, Third Eye. 

 
Round 49 Faith - George Michael (1987)

I was too cool* to listen to pop music like this back in the day. Now I realize this guy was a talent and the music is really good. He has a great voice and has some terrific arrangements for his songs.

Faith

Father Figure

* I was not cool at all

 
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wikkidpissah said:
There was a time when i had every word of Firesign Theater memorized. Surprisingly, this was during my teenage acid phase. Got to a point where i'd drop a tab and listen to Hendrix just to get me in the right head for Don't Crush the Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers. I wanted a special way to be funny since my nona would pinch my cheek for my Jimmy Durante impressions when i was three, and this was it. Catching on to the fact everyone is hiding something perfectly ridiculous from the world and that showing the mouse in all of us scurry when the light comes on became how i could sell jokes @ 15yo, have a syndicated radio comedy show @ 22yo, SNL audition @ 25 etc. Even my poker mentor, Treetop Straus, commented that he never saw anyone who could make friends with an opponent while making fun of him in everyone else's eyes. "None of us wanna get caught playing with ourself, Jack", was my reply. And i learned it all from Porgy Tirebiter and Nick Danger, Third Eye. 
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One last time I have to credit my old friend who worked as a radio DJ during his freshman year at Vanderbilt. He had such a massive record collection when he came home that I asked him to make some mix tapes.  He obliged and also secretly added Firesign snippets between every few songs. One of them had multiple Nick Danger segments. One of the other snippets was Porgy making the bed. These guys are reason #53454652 that I think I was born 10 years too late.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
Round 49 Faith - George Michael (1987)

I was too cool* to listen to pop music like this back in the day. Now I realize this guy was a talent and the music is really good. He has a great voice and has some terrific arrangements for his songs.

Faith

Father Figure
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This is a high quality album, no doubt. As you say, it wasn't cool back in the day to be into artists like George Michael and Duran Duran, but being old and uncool now makes you realize how good they actually were. 

 
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mphtrilogy said:
I'm game for anything to be honest, not a big fan of trashing other folks selections though, I just don't find that too cool... but that's just me...
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I get where you are coming from.   I THINK most of us take the ribbing in stride and know it come from a place of love since most have done dozens of these together.   

That said, it is a reason why I like the idea that I posted a little better - where you are assigned a drafter's island and pick a few albums.  That way there is probably less bashing if I am not randomly assigned a twangy country or reggae album.  

 
heading back to the 1983 well...

RD 49 Huey Lewis And The News ‎– Sports - 1983

Tracklist

  • The Heart Of Rock & Roll5:01
  • Heart And Soul4:10
  • Bad Is Bad3:46
  • I Want A New Drug4:46
  • Walking On A Thin Line5:08
  • Finally Found A Home3:42
  • If This Is It3:46
  • You Crack Me Up3:39
  • Honky Tonk Blues3:16

 
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KarmaPolice said:
I thought that was the one you were talking about when you said you usually take another of her albums, but switched for this draft.  
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Yeah, I think Strange Mercy is probably her best album.  "Northern Lights" is probably her single best live song, it usually gets real weird when she plays it, borderline seizure-inducing with the lights and wall of noise.  Even the back half of the album is great.  "Dilettante" is probably my favorite song on the album, maybe my favorite song of hers, period.

 
48.35 Quintet in C, Franz Schubert, Cleveland Quartet and Yo Yo Ma

I dare ye to plumb the depths of perhaps the greatest musical genius of all time, Franz Schubert. Bach hunted out music, Mozart found The Celestial Choir in his head, Beethoven conquered it but, perhaps more than even these, Schubert mastered music. 1500 compositions in 30 years of life. His lieder (songs) alone would be worthy of a lifetime of study, capturing so many themes and folkways as they did, becoming the inspiration for many of the criminally melodic Romantic Era composers.

And that is all captured in this quintet. I like comforting art, i like challenging art. When i get both from one source, i am in love. Let the maestro excite and ease you, over & over, with this piece. It is the making of love for the ears, mind, soul.

 
mphtrilogy said:
heading back to the 1983 well...

RD 49 Huey Lewis And The News ‎– Sports - 1983

Tracklist

  • The Heart Of Rock & Roll5:01
  • Heart And Soul4:10
  • Bad Is Bad3:46
  • I Want A New Drug4:46
  • Walking On A Thin Line5:08
  • Finally Found A Home3:42
  • If This Is It3:46
  • You Crack Me Up3:39
  • Honky Tonk Blues3:16
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Hell yeah.  

ETA:  I was actually looking at that one. 

 
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Rd 49: HurryUp, We'reDreaming by M83 (2011)

One of those albums that wasn't on my radar because I assumed it would go in the first 20 rounds or so. Is this album not cool anymore or is just a little too electronic for the board?

Midnight City

New Map

 
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Ilov80s said:
Rd 49: HurryUp, We'reDreaming by M83 (2011)

One of those albums that wasn't on my radar because I assumed it would go in the first 20 rounds or so. Is this album not cool anymore or is just a little too electronic for the board?

Midnight City

New Map
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I love it. Tasker took their earlier album which I also slightly prefer in terms of front to back listen but the highs on this are untouchable.

 
mphtrilogy said:
I'm game for anything to be honest, not a big fan of trashing other folks selections though, I just don't find that too cool... but that's just me...
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That's just shtick though.  Please don't take anything I saw personally.   I haven't left the house in six months pretty much.  I'm the FBG version of Desmond Hume (Lost)

 
Rd 48 

? and the Mysterians - 96 Tears (1966)

irresistible sounds for me ... the "Nuggets" garage rock ethos punched up by that popping electric organ ... as unique sounding a band as we've ever heard - everyone knows the title track and it's infectious nihilism, but the rest of this platter stacks up fairly well, to boot - Bobbly Balderrama lays some slick and chunky/funky chords behind to accentuate it all - this is the kinda stuff that merits "punk godfathers" in spades ... ? (Rudy Martinez) is absolute frontman royalty, one of the coolest cats to ever come down the pike - guy deserves a ton of love.

we're gonna be rockin' this first night on the eyeluhnd, i assure you.  

Up Side

96 Tears

 
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We really should be doing another ten or twenty rounds.  The stuff still on the board as available is nuts imo.

 
A Plea For These Strays:

Hanoi Rocks- "Malibu Beach Nightmare"  "Tooting Bec Wreck"

Death - "Politicians in my Eyes"  "Freakin' Out"

Mazzy Star - "Flowers in December"  "Look on Down From the Bridge"

Hüsker Dü - "Deadly Skies"  "Out on a Limb"

? and the Mysterians - "Up Side"  "96 Tears" 

... all need a home on the Spotty playlist - appreciate the effort in finding these terrific 10 tunes their forever home - TIA ✌

 
As of now (and how updated the spreadsheet is) here is the unofficial numbers (5 or more) on Artists chosen:

5: Arcade Fire, Ben Folds, Black Sabbath, Elton John, INXS, Iron Maiden, Miles Davis, Steely Dan, The Kinks, The Police, The Smithereens*, Wilco, Yes

6: Elvis Costello, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Rush, Stevie Wonder, The Cure, Tom Petty, U2, Willie Nelson

7: Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Spoon, Talking Heads

8: Beck, David Bowie, Neil Young, Prince, Queen

9: Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, R.E.M.

13: The Rolling Stones

14: The Beatles

I may have missed someone in the 5s, also very surprised at Beck and Spoon being so high.

*Smithereens all taken by one drafter (I think)

 
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