Desert Island Discs - Music

This thread is a request for albums that are keepers for you.
No such thing as a guilty pleasure, because you're being honest about your choices, k?
I get that this may seem kind of close-ended, in that you post once and that's it, however, I'm starting this thread to find albums that I may want to have in my collection; my thread, my parameters.
You're free to modify your list over time, and the number of albums is up to you, but let's try to keep it under 50.
As evidenced by my own list, greatest hits packages and compilations are allowed.

I'll start with (in no particular order) this list of 26 albums.

Wilco - Being There
Rockpile - Seconds Of Pleasure
Vic Chesnutt - About To Choke
Toots and the Maytals - Time Tough
Elvis Costello - Get Happy!
The Band - Best Of
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Rheostatics - Whale Music
Clash - London Calling
Bob Marley - Island Fever
Cornershop - Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast
Gourds - Dems Good Beeble
Blue Rodeo - Diamond Mine
Joe Strummer - Earthquake Weather
Stones - Exile On Main Street
Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullaby
Paul Simon - Graceland
Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Nirvana - Incesticide
John Prine - The Missing Years
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Ron Sexsmith - Ron Sexsmith
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass
Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun

The Auteurs - After Murder Park
Big Star - Radio City
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
Leonard Cohen - Greatest Hits
Bobby Conn - Rise Up
Cotton Mather - Kontiki
Denim - Back in Denim
Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
Mickey Newbury - Heaven Help the Child
Giant Sand - proVISIONS
Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle
John Phillips - John, the Wolf King of L.A.
Pulp - Different Class
Silver Jews - American Water
Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
Sparks - Kimono My House
Vivian Stanshall - Teddy Boys Don't Knit

Alright, I'll have a stab

Am I allowed the entire Radiohead back catalogue, including remixes...?
Shut up, yes I am.

Plus,
Gil Scot Heron - Ghetto Style
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Martyn - Solid Air
Nick Drake - A Treasury
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Paul Simon - Graceland
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Burial - Untrue
Braintax - Biro Funk
Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
Cinematic Orchestra - The Motion LP
Jeff Buckley - Grace
John Scofield (&MMW) - A Go Go
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

I may well come back and edit this list

hey WJ whats that nick drake album
i thought he'd only done three and that doesn't seem like one of them ?
solid air good too

Wedding Present - Sea Monster
Bjork - Homogenic
Kosheen - Resist
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Massive Attack - Heligoland
De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep
K'NAAN - The Dusty Foot Philosopher
Amadou and Miriam - Dimanche a Bamako
Ludacrous - Word Of Mouth

[ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nick-Drake-Treasury-HYBRID-SACD/dp/B0002TW732"]It's a retrospective type thing[/ame]
I was torn between that one and Way to Blue, another retrospective.

new tracks ?
i bought the 3 CD box set of his original albums myself so think i've got most of the tracks
late night chill out music of the highest order

Kreyshawn - Somethin' Bout Kreay
Liberace - As Time Goes By
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying

Excellent response thus far, much appreciated.

Joy Division - Substance
Niel Young - After the Gold Rush
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
The Clash - The Clash
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Belle and Sebastian - If you're feeling Sinister

Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# (Infinity)
Elliott Smith - self titled
Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Joanna Newsom - Walnut Whales
Slayer - Reign In Blood

I look forward to weekly list changes from Xander.

In no special order and subject to change:

Yo La Tengo - Fakebook
Tindersticks - Curtains
The Pastels - Truckload of Trouble
Pavement - Watery Domestic
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Fridge - Happiness
Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
Shellac - 1000 Hurts
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
The Delgados - Peloton
Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
Lambchop - How I Quit Smoking
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Silver Jews - Bright Flight
Stereolab - Serene Velocity (anthology)
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
Herman Düne - Not On Top
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Arab Strap - The Week Never Stars Around Here
BMX Bandits - Serious Drugs
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Neil Young - Decade

In the spirit of authenticity I will keep it to eight, which tbh is sort of like picking my favourite child but makes me dig deep for what I really must have. My list is constantly changing and depends on what I am listening to at the moment, but here is what it looks like now.

Velvet Undergound, Live 1969
Pharoah Sanders, Karma
Guided by Voices, Isolation Drills
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
The Meters
Peek-a-Boo, Best of NRBQ 1969-1989
Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, 1963
Vampires, Cowboys, Spacemen and Spooks, the Very Best of Joe Meek Instrumentals

Keeping it to eight means leaving out rap/punk/garage favourites, but thems the breaks. I get to bring a book to my island, so I chose

Sorry OP my musical evolution ended in 2001 and there aren't many revelations here, but there you have it.

1. Led Zeppelin (1969)
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_II (1969)
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_III (1970)
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV (1971)
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houses_of_the_Holy (1973)
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Graffiti (1975)
7. Presence (1976)
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Through_the_Out_Door (1979)

Book.

luxury. Liftime supply of Lavazza and a Gaggia coffee machine.

all set.

1 - Curtis Mayfield - Curtis/Live!
2 - Janis Joplin - Pearl
3 - John Adams - Harmonium
4 - June of 44 - Four great points
5 - Leftfield - Leftism
6 - Roy Budd - Get Carter original soundtrack
7 - Stetsasonic - In full gear
8 - The Fall - This nation's saving grace

I was wondering if this would happen.
Was this thread automatically melded with the other or was it moved by the man?
I guess I should have used some other title, but as far as I know Desert Island Discs refers to music, not to what one would take to survive (apparently anything can make that list) on a deserted isle.
Oh well, there has been a fantastic response regardless, thanks to all who have added their lists to the mix. There is much research for me to do...

The Lester Bangs book is a a fine collection of gonzo journalism/music criticism if you are into that kind of thing.

WORST MERGE EVAR
ffs mergatron
have you read the threads at all before you merged

indeed mr dicki; one wonders when

disc wheels
favourite desserts

will be amalgamated with it..

Get fucked. Why was it in General? Same shit, different 'object on an island'.

There you go whinging bitches. Get it right next time.

beautifully unmerged
10/10

I've been working on my 100 best albums of all time list for a month or two now... so far the top 40 or so is (descending order)...

Makes me think of high fidelity

Nice list jeez, surprised there's no jamc in there

Yes, Jeez that's right up my strasse, good list