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    Desert Island Songs

    which TEN pieces of music (not albums) would you choose if you had to be confined to a deserted island?

    I'll start:

    Mandrill – Amani Na Mapenzi
    Premiata Forneria Marconi – Dove… Quando… (parts I-II)
    Return To Forever – Celebration Suite
    Asturias – Missing Piece Of My Life (parts I-II)
    Shylock – Le Cinquième
    Herbie Hancock – Hornets
    Camel – The Snow Goose (entire suite)
    King Crimson – Starless
    Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts I-IX )
    Talking Heads – The Great Curve (cause I gotta have a long song to move and groove to)
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?

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    Ok I'm in... actually thought about something similar recently, if I could only have/make one cd with 80 minutes what would I put on it...

    Genesis Suppers Ready
    Genesis Mad Mad Moon
    Yes Gates of Delirium
    Return to Forever Romantic Warrior
    Jean Luc Ponty Gardens of Babylon
    Camel Never Let Go... from A Live Record
    Supertramp Child of Vision
    Sting The Lazarus Heart
    Marshall Tucker Running Like the Wind
    The Who I Am the Sea/The Real Me/Quadrophenia opening


    Man number 10 was extremely difficult... a tune by Caravan, Stevie Wonder, Elton, Steely Dan, Steve Winwood, Floyd, Sinatra, Talking Heads, Clapton, Beatles, U2, The Beach Boys, Eagles, Billy Joel, Brand X, Bowie, ... More Yes or Genesis!

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    Quote Originally Posted by rich View Post
    Ok I'm in... actually thought about something similar recently, if I could only have/make one cd with 80 minutes what would I put on it...
    heh... I think my list would come in over 3 hours of music
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?

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    80 minutes would not be enough on a desert island
    I remember trying to put together a 100 min cassette tape in 1979 with one song from each of the first 10 years of progressive Rock music and *that* was very difficult
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?

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    Ok, cool idea, but being stuck on that deserted island with Gilligan, the skipper and Mary Ann, gonna need some head phones and no way am I picking 10 Ramones songs, which would equate to 23 minutes, I'm going loonnngggg...

    Upon Which areas May Circles be Drawn? - Spacious Mind (Time = 23:36)
    Echos - Pink Floyd (Time = 23:29)
    Carnage Visors: The Soundtrack - The Cure (Time = 27.52)
    Whipping Post (Live) - Allman Brothers (Time = 23:49)
    Sulpher Valley Dawn - My Brother the Wind (Time = 21:04)
    Bel Air - Can (Time = 19:54)
    Echo Waves - Ash Ra Temple (Time = 17:54)
    Phoenix - Wishbone Ash (Time = 17:53)
    Spirit - Gary Moore (Time = 17:16)
    Nipponjin - Far East Family Band (Time = 16:52)

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    The irony of the whole Desert Island Discs concept is that, due to over-exposure to my favourite music (because that is all I could listen to), I would come to loathe it. Nonetheless, my choices would be:

    A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers – Van Der Graaf Generator
    Mother Sky – Can
    Other Side of the Sky – Gong (from the Roanne 1973 gig)
    Scarred for Life – Slapp Happy
    Papa Was a Rolling Stone – The Temptations
    Law of the Land – Undisputed Truth
    Johnny B. Goode – Hendrix (Berkeley concert)
    Maiysha – Miles Davis (from Agharta, all 45 minutes of it)
    Timeless –John Abercrombie
    Stabat Mater – Arvo Part
    We walked arm in arm with madness, and every little breeze whispered of the secret love we had for our disease

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    Jimi Hendrix 'All Along The Watchtower'
    Neil Young & Crazy Horse 'Cortez The Killer'
    Kate Bush 'Get Out Of My House'
    Procol Harum 'A Salty Dog'
    John Martyn 'Solid Air'
    Nick Drake 'River Man'
    Yes 'Siberian Khatru'
    Pink Floyd 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'
    Jethro Tull "Thick As A Brick'
    Simple Minds 'I Travel'

    Ask me again tomorrow, or in ten minutes time, and you'd get a totally different answer!

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    I think that rather than absolute favourites I'd choose music that would re-connect me to happier times from the past:

    Rose Royce - Wishing on a star
    Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
    ELP - Karn Evil 9
    Van der Graaf Generator - Meurglys III
    Roy Harper - One of those days in England (Parts 1-10 if allowed, otherwise 2-10)
    Jethro Tull - Baker Street Muse
    Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
    Patti Smith - Because the night
    Peter Hammill - Too many of my yesterdays
    Colorblind James Experience - Considering a move to Memphis

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    Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
    Miles Davis: Shhh/Peaceful
    John Coltrane: The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost
    Charles Mingus: Fables of Faubus (Live in Europe version with Eric Dolphy)
    Pharoah Sanders: The Creator Has a Master Plan
    Yes: The Revealing Science of God
    Frank Zappa/Mothers: The Grand Wazoo (Think It Over)
    King Crimson: Fracture
    Jimi Hendrix: 1983…A Merman I Should Turn to Be
    Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever
    Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
    https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
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    So many great songs I have to leave behind

    1) VDGG - Man Erg (Pawn Hearts)
    2) King Crimson - Exiles (USA)
    3) Jethro Tull - Baker St Muse (Minstrel in the Gallery - I wanted A Passion Play as I consider it a single piece of music but it's technically split in half and I couldn't imagine not listening to the whole thing)
    4) Genesis - The Fountain of Salmacis (Nursery Cryme)
    5) Gentle Giant - Excerpts from Octopus (Playing the Fool)
    6) Devil Doll - Mr Doctor (Eliogabalus)
    7) Zappa - Don't Eat the Yellow Snow/St Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast (The Crux of the Biscuit where it's presented as a single "suite")
    8) Ange - Sur La Trace Des Fees
    9) Beatles - I am the Walrus
    10) Black Sabbath - War Pigs
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    Quote Originally Posted by Halmyre View Post
    Jimi Hendrix 'All Along The Watchtower'
    Neil Young & Crazy Horse 'Cortez The Killer'
    Kate Bush 'Get Out Of My House'
    Procol Harum 'A Salty Dog'
    John Martyn 'Solid Air'
    Nick Drake 'River Man'
    Yes 'Siberian Khatru'
    Pink Floyd 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'
    Jethro Tull "Thick As A Brick'
    Simple Minds 'I Travel'

    Ask me again tomorrow, or in ten minutes time, and you'd get a totally different answer!
    I can understand most of those. But “All Along the Watchtower”? How are you not sick of it? So overplayed that I got burnt out on it before
    I even got to high school. And I was born in the 80s.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Le Master View Post
    I can understand most of those. But “All Along the Watchtower”? How are you not sick of it? So overplayed that I got burnt out on it before
    I even got to high school. And I was born in the 80s.
    But is it any more overplayed than Shine On or Cortez?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Halmyre View Post
    But is it any more overplayed than Shine On or Cortez?
    By a long shot. I guarantee at least 500 or even 1000 to 1. Watchtower is a classic rock radio staple. Cortez and Shine On aren’t.

    Cortez is dreadful in my opinion though. And while I can’t enjoy Shine On like I used to, I still consider myself a fan of it.

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    John Coltrane- Transition
    John Coltrane- A Love Supreme
    Magma- Kohntarkosz
    Magma- Ementet-Re
    MC5- Starship
    MC5- Kick Out the Jams
    Jefferson Airplane- Crown of Creation
    Mahavishnu Orchestra- Dance of Maya
    Mahavishnu Orchestra- Birds of Fire
    Soft Machine- Teeth
    I'm not lazy. I just work so fast I'm always done.

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    Family-Larf And Sing
    Guess Who-Undun
    John Mayall-So Hard To Share(The Turning Point)
    John Coltrane-Lonnie's Lament(Live/Berlin 1963)
    Ornette Coleman-Comme Il Faut(Crisis/1969)
    Donald Smith-The Magnetic A(Luv)
    "Blue Gene Tyranny-Sunrise or Sunset In Texas(Free Delivery)
    Jethro Tull-For A Thousand Mothers(Stand Up)
    Nikhil Banerjee-Raga Hemant
    Talk Talk-Life's What You Make It
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    Quote Originally Posted by Munster View Post
    Papa Was a Rolling Stone – The Temptations
    Timeless –John Abercrombie
    Quote Originally Posted by WytchCrypt View Post
    8) Ange - Sur La Trace Des Fees
    Quote Originally Posted by walt View Post
    Ornette Coleman-Comme Il Faut(Crisis/1969)
    Love these choices.
    Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
    https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
    http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx

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    Quote Originally Posted by Le Master View Post
    By a long shot. I guarantee at least 500 or even 1000 to 1. Watchtower is a classic rock radio staple. Cortez and Shine On aren’t.

    Cortez is dreadful in my opinion though. And while I can’t enjoy Shine On like I used to, I still consider myself a fan of it.
    Well, chacun à son goût as they say down our way. But I notice you haven't put up your own list for us to,er, deliberate on...

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