In an obvious attempt to avoid posting anything of substance I bring you my half-thought out list of twenty-four must have albums if stranded on a desert island (as inspired by this Flickr pool).
[Reading left to right, top to bottom]
A Band of Bees—Free The Bees
Amon Tobin—Permutation
Arcade Fire—Funeral
Bebel Gilberto—Tanto Tempo
Black Uhuru—Sinsemilla
Boards of Canada—Children Have The Right To Music
Burning Spear—Creation Rebel: The Original Classic Recordings From Studio One
Count Basie—Listen My Children And You Shall Hear
Dave Brubeck—Time Out
DJ Shadow—Entroducing
Don Caballero—American Don
Duke Ellington—Latin American Suite
Fugazi—Repeater + 3 Songs
Jaga Jazzist—What We Must
John Coltrane—Ole Coltrane
Led Zeppelin—Houses of the Holy
Miles Davis—Kind of Blue
Nati Cano’s Mariachi Los Camperos—Llegaron Los Camperos!: Nati Cano’s Mariachi Los Camperos
Nick Drake—Pink Moon
Nitin Sawhney—Beyond Skin
Paris Combo—Motifs
The Future Sound of London—Lifeforms
Yes—Tales from Topographic Oceans
Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern—Shostakovich: Trio, Op.67/Sonata, Op.40
There you have it. From Classical to Mariachi with a little of everything else in between.
Cracking my knuckles and readying myself for the frantic season that is end-of-the-year list making. Surprisingly, there are less albums this year than last. Am I listening less or am I more jaded? Pshaw! I’m listening just as much and prefer to say that I am more sophisticated.