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Desert Island Discs

 

Replacing an earlier list of many, many albums, here is a reduced list of CDs SLW could not live without.  (The possibility of moving to Japan, even in this day of MP3s and outboard hard drives, has made thought along these lines particularly relevant.)  This list contains mind-blowing works of genius, plus some personal favourites that might be harder to justify...

 

David Baerwald - Triage

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

The Cocteau Twins - Four Calendar Café

Devo - New Traditionalists

ELO - Discovery

Donald Fagen - Nightfly

Peter Gabriel - Passion

Genesis - Seconds Out

Hoover - A New Sterephonic Sound Spectacular

Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine

Lamb - Lamb

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

MC 900ft Jesus - Welcome To My Dream

Moloko - Do You Like My Tight Sweater?

Morphine - Cure for Pain

Gary Numan - Berserker

The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery & Imagination

Steve Roach - The Magnificent Void & Structures from Silence

Cat Stevens - Teaser & the Firecat

The Sundays - Blind

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day

Tangerine Dream - Rubycon

Terminal Sound System - RH-85B

The The  - Soul Mining

They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18

Vangelis - China

Sasha - airdrawndagger

Steely Dan - Gaucho

Sven Vath - The Harlequin, The Robot & The Ballet Dancer

Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair

Underworld - Second Toughest In the Infants

Yello - One Second

Susumu Yokota - Sakura

Frank Zappa - Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar (the entire box set) & Apostrophe'

 

Various Artists:

 

42 More Things to Do In Zero Gravity

Global Underground: Darren Emerson: Uruguay

Global Underground NuBreed: Sander Kleinenberg

JJJ Hottest 100 Volumes 1 & 2

Ultralounge: Wild, Cool & Swinging Too (a very difficult choice!

 

Soundtracks:

 

Alien (Jerry Goldsmith)

Lost Highway (Various Artists)

Porco Rosso - Joe Hisaishi

Psycho (Bernard Herrmann)

Singing Detective (Various Artists)

Solaris (Cliff Martinez)

The Truth & the Light: Music From The X-Files (Mark Snow)

Xanadu (Olivia Newton-John & ELO)

 

Classical:

Holst - The Planets Suite

Poulenc - Concerto for Two Pianos

Saint-Saëns - Third 'Organ' Symphony

Shostakovich - Chamber Symphony, Op.110a, & Symphony For Strings, Op.118a

 

 

Albums that almost squeaked in:

 

Adiemus - Songs of Sanctuary

Dave Graney & the Coral Snakes - The Soft & Sexy Sound Of

M'Shell Ndegeocello - Peace Beyond Passion

Midnight Oil - 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Pink Floyd - The Division Bell

Talking Heads - Sand in the Vaseline

Tea Party - Edges of Twilight

Tool - Animus

Ultravox - Vienna

Van Halen - 1984

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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