Desert Island Albums

Rules/Guidelines:

• Can only choose five.
• No compilation albums.
• One album per band.
• It’s not really the albums you would take with you onto an actual desert island. It’s: if you could only listen to five albums for the rest of your (otherwise normal) life, what would they be?

Mine (alpha by artist):

DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 / You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine

EASY STAR ALL STARS / Radiodread

MODEST MOUSE / The Lonesome, Crowded West

NIRVANA / Nevermind

THE PIXIES / Surfer Rosa

I actually like OK Computer better than Easy Star All Stars’ version, but everything else on the list was already in that vein (i.e., they’re all rock albums), so I needed something to switch things up. Also regret that there’s nothing from my new wave era on there, but New Order would’ve been the band I’d have wanted to include and I don’t think they ever made a complete-enough album. It was also tough picking between Surfer Rosa and Doolittle. And DFA79 is a pretty short album, so I might not be getting as much value as I ought to out of it. And somewhere my 17-year-old self is crying that I didn’t even consider including an REM album on here.

It’s okay — my 17-year-old self is gone now anyway and he’s never coming back.

bkd

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