The Old "You're Stranded on a Desert Island Thread"

[barrysloate]

Jason- Mingus Ah Um is a terrific album. Trivia question: the song Goodbye Pork Pie Hat is a tribute to what musician?

David- I remember walking around high school carrying a copy of Love's Forever Changes and thinking I was really cool for doing so. One of the really great albums that is long forgotten.

[Jason Carota]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Jason- Mingus Ah Um is a terrific album. Trivia question: the song Goodbye Pork Pie Hat is a tribute to what musician?

Lester Young.

Mingus is one of my top 5 favorite bassists (I play, as well.) I highly recommend his biography, "Charles Mingus: Myself When I Am Real."

[barrysloate]

That would be correct.

The only bio of Mingus I read was Beneath the Underdog, which I know is grossly inaccurate (although entertaining). My wife and I own a home in eastern Long Island, and our neighbor a few doors down is Sue Graham Mingus. But we never saw her, she is kind of reclusive. Now we rent the house so we are hardly ever there.

[pgellis]

CDs:

Mark Knopfler: Shangri-La
David Gray: White Ladder
Pink Floyd: Echoes, Best of Pink Floyd
Traveling Wilburys: Volume 1
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours

Movies:

Jaws (probably not best movie for an island)
Caddy Shack
Goodfellas
Private Parts
Big

[carrigansghost]

CD's

Jim Carroll-Catholic Boy
Guns and Roses-Appetite For Destruction
Johnny Cash-Essential Cash
AC/DC-Back in Black
Jethro Tull-Original Masters

Movies

Animal House
Caddy Shack
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Field of Dreams
Baseball-Ken Burns

[Griffins]

CD's
Stills Young Band- Long May You Run
Neil Young- Harvest
Bob Marley & The Wailers- Rastaman Vibration
Dick Dale's Greatest Hits
The Smiths- Louder than Bombs

I'd try and trade the 5 dvds for 5 more cd's - you can play music over and over much easier than watch the same movie. I'd take:
The Beach Boys - Holland
Dave Brubeck- Take Five
Dire Straights - On Every Street
REM- Out of time
Led Zepplin- Physical Graffiti

But if not-
Gandhi
Baraka
The Natural
Nate and Hayes
The African Queen

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

David- I remember walking around high school carrying a copy of Love's Forever Changes and thinking I was really cool for doing so. One of the really great albums that is long forgotten.

I understand it was Lyle Alzado's favorite album, too.

[barrysloate]

If Lyle saw me carrying that album he would have punched me out. He was one scary dude.

Now that I think of it, he graduated in 1967 so by the time Forever Changes came out he was already gone...and not missed!

[rhettyeakley]

Movies:
-Braveheart
-Star Wars or Empire Strikes Back (a toss up between the two but leaning towards Empire)
-Gladiator
-Half Baked
-Tommy Boy or Almost Heroes (two of my favorite Chris Farley movies)

Albums:
-Metallica (Black album)
-STP (Core)
-Pearl Jam (Ten)
-The Pixies (Best of the Pixies)
-Toadies (Rubberneck)
honorable mention is Nirvana Unplugged in NY & GNR (greatest hits)

I am such a product of my times--there is little doubt as to when I grew up!
-Rhett

[slidekellyslide]

Movies
National Lampoon's Vacation
The Right Stuff
Sixteen Candles
The Natural
Castaway (For inspiration)


CD's
Sugar - File Under Easy Listening
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
The Who -Who's Next
The Lightning Seeds -Sense (Probably wouldn't make the cut if there wasn't a beach I could relax on)
Morrissey -Vauxhall and I

[Robextend]

Sugar - File Under Easy Listening is an incredible album. Copper Blue is almost just as good IMO.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by Robextend

Sugar - File Under Easy Listening is an incredible album. Copper Blue is almost just as good IMO.

Bob Mould may be the most underrated musician of all time.

[alanu]

Movies
Caddyshack
The Great Escape
The Professionals (the western with Lee Marvin)
The Godfather Part 2
Lord of the Rings-Return of the King

CD's
Neil Young Harvest
The Essential Bruce Springsteen
Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
AC/DC Back in Black
The Cars