Dirty suggested we play a game. I thought it was a good idea because everybody likes games. Especially me. That's why I have "Scategories" tattooed across my stomach.

Imagine you're about to be stranded on a desert island. I'm not sure exactly what kind of circumstances have lead to you knowing ahead of time that you'll be stranded but that's beside the point. Imagine also that you're going to have a cd player/iPod/record player/tape deck/whatever on the island with you. In your napsack along with some survival gear, pictures of me, some toilet paper, and some pornography, you have room for five albums. What albums do you choose to take, knowing that they're the only albums you'll ever hear for the rest of your life. One may be a double disc set

My answers follow (but as kingbigwang of blog mountain, I reserve the right to change my mind whenever I want):

1: Counting Crows - Across A Wire: Live In New York City (Best way to get a lot of the songs from my favorite band on the island. Plus, they're great live - usually)
2: Ben Folds Five - Forever And Ever Amen (It was a toss up between this and the self-titled album. I'm not sure why this one won out. Musical acumen?)
3: Okkervil River - Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You Meet (Just barely beats out Black Sheep Boy)
4: Chris Whitley - Living With The Law (Love this album above just about everything)
5: Blues Traveler - Travelers And Thieves (Shut up, this album has a lot of sentimental value to me)

Now you go. And this means everybody. Even usual lurkers.


Look if you're not going to give in to the fictional conceits of the game you can just go to hell, okay?  


Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams (if I'm on an island, I need some island music)
Jimmy Buffett - Songs You Know By Heart (more island music, but this will go better with the coconut cocktails)
Liz Phair - Whip-Smart (Alone, on an island, lots of time to kill, need somebody to whisper sweet nothings in my ear, who better than Liz Phair?)
Dave Matthews Band - Live at the Red Rocks 8.15.95 (Best Double Album they got, and I can't NOT bring a DMB album)
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power (for when Wilson pisses me off)  


Thanks for playing D-Sizzle. And thanks for proving lengthy answers in a contrast to Aquaman'a inability to even write out complete band or album names.  


Rules don't apply to the Colonel. Besides, I always carry these 10 albums with me everywhere I go just in case I ever accidentally get stuck on a desert island.

1. Surfer Rosa - Pixies
2. OK Computer - Radiohead
3. The Joshua Tree - U2
4. Life's Rich Pageant - REM
5. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
6. Alien Lanes - Guided By Voices
7. Fun House - The Stooges
8. 1984 - Van Halen
9. Appetite For Destruction - Guns n' Roses
10.Paul's Boutique - The Beastie Boys  


Just so you know, we're going to be narrowing the list down in parts two and three, so you might as well just get to work now.  


1. REM- Murmur
(This album was before all of Rem's crap like "Stand".)
2. Pink Floyd- The Wall
(To calm the nerves when on the island.)
3. Widespread Panic- Everyday
(Incredible)
4. Weezer- Blue
(Aquaman already beat me to this one.)
5. Shane & Shane- Clean
(You probably aren't going to see this one on anyone else's list.)  


Not in any order and I picked 7:

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abbatoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus
2. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spider Monkeys from Mars
3. Brian Eno - Another Green World
4. Portishead - Dummy
5. Tool - Lateralus
6. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
7. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile(Left)  


1. Incubus - Morning View (Everytime I listen to it I hear something I didn't before. And it's all around good)
2. Led Zeppelin - IV (I want to pick 'How The West Was Won' triple disc, but that's greedy)
3. The Beatles - White Album [Double Disc] (It's solid. Yer Blues may be the perfect stranded on a deserted island song)
4. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (In the past 8 months, this has been the only CD in my car 98% of the time)
5. Jimi Hendrix - The Ultimate Experience  


This is great. Keep going!  


ok, i've looked at everyone else's lists.

so, what do i win?

and kudos to d-sizzle on the liz phair choice, and the reasoning behind it. i wish i had thought of that. d - i'm gonna need a copy of that cd, by the way.  


Aquaman, you win second place....far behind my superior list.

Also, for you guys that are crushin’ on Liz Phair....take away the guitar and she is nothing but a pointy nosed tramp that I would ignore at the bar. You got indie rock chick goggles, brother.  


colonel,

don't you ever take away that guitar. ever!

and that's the same reason i love lisa germano and hope sandoval. is that so wrong?  


Both of your list rank towards the bottom. Aquaman's because he couldn't be bothered to type out full names and The Colonel's because he didn't narrow it down to five (the whole point!).

On the Liz Phair issue, I rule that for an Indie music chick, she's pretty hot, but nowhere near the top of the lustable celebrities list.

Any other questions?

We'll let part one run a little while longer so that other folks can play. Then - on to part two!  


just to clarify... Liz Phair hotness or not hotness was not the important thing... she's the Queen when it comes to "stuff you wish you're girlfriend would say"... I don't want to be hearing Adam Duritz, Bono, or David Lee Roth when I'm trying to... you know what I mean....  


Yes. Yes, I do.  


1. Emmet Swimming - Wake
2. Okkervil River - Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You Meet
3. Violent Femmes - Add It Up (1981-1993)
4. DMB - Under the Table and Dreaming
5. Belly - Star  


my god.

here's my revised list, with full names.

weezer - blue
ben folds - rockin' the damn suburbs
okkervil stinkin' river - black sheep f'in' boy
violent frickin' femmes - violent frickin' femmes
at the motha f'in' drive-in - in/casino/out  


That's it. Lash out at the people who care about you. Maybe one day we'll all be gone and then you won't have anyone pushing you to be a better person.  


sorry. forgive my outburst. i'm just really scared, and when i'm scared, i don't know what to do.

please forgive me.  


Hey, hey... You're in a safe place. It's okay.  


-Aerosmith - Big Ones
-Jimmy Buffet - Songs You Know by Heart
-Reel Big Fish - Why Do They Rock so Hard
-Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.1
-Butterfly Boucher - Flutterby  


I'm really suprised to see the Aerosmith on your list Scotty. Didn't take you for an Aerosmith fan.  


Scott said, "Big Ones"!

Bring on Part Two so I can despense more knowledge!  


Here's some knowledge: "dispense."  


I'm scared to put mine. I don't want to be judged.  


Look, we're gonna judge you either way. At least make it worth our while.  


You got a point.

My 5 would be:

1) Coldplay - X&Y
2) Counting Crows - August and Everything After
3) DMB - Under the Table and Dreaming
4) Linkin Park - Meteora
5) R.E.M. - Eponymous  


speechless.  


Why are you speechless?  


I'm a closet Aerosmith fan. Y'know, like aquaman is a closet heterosexual.

"Big Ones" is a great disc.. really rocks. Sometimes you just gotta rock.

There's a lot of music I listen to that you might be "surprised" about. But I could only list 5 options here... I didn't want you to yell at me like you did Colonel.  


1) Spoon-- Girls Can Tell
2) Strokes-- Is This It
3) Sean Lennon-- Into the Sun
4) Smiths-- Louder Than Bombs
5) Sarah McLachlan-- Fumbling Towards Ecstacy

I really didn't try to stay with all "S's", but this is my real list. I'm all about the S.  


so as i sit here reading these lists eating an apple like LL Cool J eats peaches, i notice a couple of things: 1. JC, no Kelly Clarkson! and Coldplay... i guess if you want the most out of your music you pick the band that always sounds the same. 2. Aquaman tried hard... but once again was unsuccesful at being funny. 3. Aerosmith, Buffet, and Billy Joel? Granted I do have all three of those albums, let's hope we are never alone together on an island Scott. 4. If I really felt like it I would go all 'Yo Momma' on the Colonel, but since we can't be friends based on my inadvertent attempt to find something cool to read on the internet and happened on his blog... and since I have been to a concert of a former member Mickey Mouse club member, I will hold my tongue. 5. Strokes! bold choice Sgirl... but i think i like it.  


Biting commentary from P.dirty!  


Thanks for contributing Sgirl.  


Hey, I figured if I'm on this island by myself, I'm gonna listen to what I like.  


That's what you were supposed to do. Don't let the haters get you down.  


jc, i was speechless 'cause of you linkin park choice. the others were a'ight.

scott, nice closet hetersexual joke. a new spin on an old favorite. but now you will die.

dirty, you never cease to amaze me. except that one time i caught you and patricia making out in the dimly lit corner of kitty's. i was totally expecting that one.

and i stick by my list. however, i think i'd also like to take rem's automatic for the people and the killers. both assome cd's.  


I've decided we're gonna hold off on part two til next week. Then part three the week after that. See how that works?  


Hoo hoo!



God...  


I tried to pick music for every occasion. You never know how the mood swings will grip you during your stranding.  


question? how many different occasions are there alone on an island? i guess you would have pics of patch and some toilet paper... ... .  


See, you started kind of funny then you just went disgusting.  


i think he started off funny and then went uncomfortably REAL.  


You would think that.  


both the pics and the toilet paper would be used to wipe my ass.  


Gak!  


Yeah, I kind of felt like it was the only natural reaction. Doesn't make it hurt any less.  


sorry dude.  


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