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Desert Island Discs

Left to right from the top, and in no particular order:

 

U2 - Achtung Baby

Ivy - Apartment Life

Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Beck - Midnite Vultures

 

Monty Python - Live at Drury Lane

John Lee Hooker - Live at Cafe Au Go GO

The Velvet Underground & Nico

Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By

 

The Cure - Galore

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Live!

U2 - The Joshua Tree

 

Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies

Louis Prima - Capitol Collector's Series

Detroit Cobras - Life, Love & Leaving

B.B. King - Live at the Regal

 

Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba

U2 - Zoo Europa (bootleg from 1993)

Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky is Crying

Frank Sinatra - Come Dance With Me!

 

Oingo Boingo - Farewell

James Brown - 20 All Time Greatest Hits

T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Blues

The Dirtbombs - Ultraglide In Black

 

Pretty obvious who my favorite band is. I had to leave Zooropa off the list just for the sake of diversity. But if this were a desert island top 25 it would be on there for sure.

 

Couple of notes:

Picked the Sinatra/Jobim album over Getz/Gilberto, mostly because I am a huge Sinatra fan and a lot of the songs overlap. Plus it is a completely different style of Sinatra than any other album he'd done before, and the uniqueness is what really makes it a great album.

 

John Lee Hooker Live at Cafe Au Go Go: Just an incredible live set. JLH is backed by The Muddy Waters Band! Yes, Muddy Waters is on this album playing guitar but he never even sings! Also there is Otis Spann on piano.

 

U2 Zoo Europa: From the August 1993 show in Dublin Ireland. In my opinion it features the best version of "One" out there.

 

Oingo Boingo Farewell: I was at those shows!

 

B.B. King: If you want to know what the blues is all about, get this album.

 

Also, forgot Led Zeppelin II! Not sure what I'd take out though...

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