The Desert Island Selection, Fall 1999: Ann & Stan's
Top CDs
Ann
If you would have asked me five years ago
what would be my top choices for music to take along with me
on a desert island,  I probably would have come up with
Nirvana, Hole, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave and Nick-related bands,  and maybe The Doors. Ask me 10 years ago I would've
said nothing...I don't listen to music. Ask me 15 years ago I
would've said The Damned, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus and The Dead Kennedys. Nothing against any of
the above-mentioned artists, but lately my choices have gone
a little back into my past and resuscitated pre-punk faves from
the 70s that I discovered when I was a college student in the
early 80s, plus I've expanded my horizons horizontally rather
than vertically. These selections go from the years 1967-1977,
and many are from the centre of that era, circa 1972-73. If you
ever for one moment thought the 70s sucked (I did when I was
in them), think again! This music is not the 60s or 70s we have
come to learn to hate. This will change your life!
 I have them listed alphabetically
so that no one can in essence be "#1" (although it's
ironic that Eno takes the top  3 spots anyway, no?)
I don't much like making lists, but I love telling people about
the music I love in hopes I can get a convert, so a list was
essential. Ask me next year and the list will change again undoubtedly,
but I hope not. This is great stuff. Please take time to click
on the links below and read the reviews given by third parties...one
thing I'll never be is a great critic in terms of using knowledgable
lingo to describe art and genres, so other viewpoints are helpful.
 Another Green World, Brian Eno.
Before and After Science, Brian Eno.
Here Come the Warm Jets, Brian Eno.
Low, David Bowie.
 Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
The Stooges, The Stooges.
Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy), Brian
Eno.
Transformer, Lou Reed.
 The Velvet Underground &
Nico, The Velvet Underground.
 Ziggy Stardust, David
Bowie.
Runners Up: Berlin, Lou Reed; For Your Pleasure, Roxy Music; Diamond Dogs, David Bowie.
Stan
The first time hearing music stunned me so
much that I couldn't believe the sound of it was while drawing
late at night in the Colorado State University art building.
 It was the song Moss
Garden by David Bowie and Brian Eno and the shock for me
was that I couldn't believe anyone was creating music that sounded
that incredible. Of course I also wondered why radio stations
didn't play more music like Moss Garden, but the reality of radio
is that I was lucky to hear the song at all, over the air, on
a late night program in the fall of 1979.  Outside of a few exceptions like
this incident I've learned about the music I like over the course
of many years from Ann and a few of my friends who are part of
Biota.
 In contemplating the
idea of picking 10 CDs I couldn't live without, I have three
possibilities that I feel horribly guilty for leaving out because
there have been many times in listening to them that I've felt
I couldn't live without hearing them. Please indulge me to mention
them here before I move on to the ten that I know, at least up
to now in my life, that I really couldn't live without: Lou Reed's
Berlin, Joy Division's Closer, and Roxy Music's Country Life, all of which I used to have
in vinyl before I foolishly sold off the records. Of the following ten I
had six on vinyl and one of them I just couldn't part with because
it is such a unique art object. Even if I can't play it again
it's well worthwhile as a purely visual experience, and of course
from these ten choices it can only be PIL's original Metal Box
version of their Second Edition. Anyway, here is the music I
would rather be dead than live without in alphabetical order
according to title:
 On Land, Brian Eno.
Bone Machine, Tom Waits.
Cluster & Eno, Cluster and Eno
Fun House, The Stooges.
 More Songs About Buildings
and Food, The Talking Heads.
Music for Films, Brian Eno.
Second Edition, Public Image Ltd..
Spinner, Brian Eno and Jah Wobble
 Station to Station,
David Bowie
Strange Days, The Doors.
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