[Question Of The Week] What is your "desert island" album?

What is the one album you can be trapped on a desert island with for the rest of your life?

Hmmmm................

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Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese

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I'll go with something current. 'The Loveliest Time' by Carly Rae Jepsen. People around me seem to like this album a lot...

For the rest, I'll just bang some coconuts against each other to create sound. This way I'll become the best tribute band for various classic works on the island. Everyone's welcome!

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I can't figure out if I'd want something with vocals to give me a sense of companionship, or something without vocals so it doesn't drive me insane.

With vocals: Grateful Dead - Cornell 5/8/77

Without vocals: John Coltrane - Live at Village Vanguard

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- I'm torn on if I want a "favorite album" or a compilation/best of?
  
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Counting crows august and everything

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- Oh dang! Classic.
  
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Neko Case, Middle Cyclone.

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- oh dang! Great album. It's also a sonically diverse album. Great call!
  
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  Her voice! Knocks me out every time.
  
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Hunky Dory - David Bowie

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Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Gardens (definitely a Carbon Based album, but it's a tough choice)

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The one that immediately comes to mind is Wolfgang Amadeus, by Phoenix.

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- Oh dang!!
  
  I’m still struggling to pick one. Lol
  
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- What immediately comes to my mind is my “super party mix” mix tape so good on you
  
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22, A Million

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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco

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- Such a good album.
  
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Off the top of my head, Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

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really hard to say, but the first one that jumped to mind is Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro

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- I always appreciated Davis, but never got into his work. Love jazz, but jazz-jazz? Tough one for me.
  
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  If you're coming from a rock background you could check out In a Silent Way or A Tribute to Jack Johnson, and if you like those, go to Bitches Brew.
  
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Distinguishing Marks by Fingerprintz. I've been listening to that album since 1985 and it never got old.

...even though apparently I did

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I'd have to go with the album that's verbal instructions for how to build a two way radio out of a coconut and seaweed.

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Incubus - Morning View

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The Wind at Four to Fly, by The Disco Biscuits

But I'd have that Basis on repeat

https://open.spotify.com/album/4etr7gvpwHOeN7EJTEjZrT?si=VfHmT3WPT2qZzk3pzQHgIA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4etr7gvpwHOeN7EJTEjZrT

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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins

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I think you have an error in your question. My first thought when you said "desert album" album was to take that literally and say Mdou Moctar - Ilana: The Creator.

But I suppose you mean "desert island" album so I'll say Sigur Rós - Takk...

I also thought about The Avalanches - Since I Left You but I fear that Frontier Psychiatrist will drive me insane.

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- welp, that's what I get for posting first thing in the morning DURING coffee and not after....
  
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  At least you can edit the title! Unlike that other place
  
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Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

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The Clash - London Calling honestly has everything

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- could never get into them… frustratingly so…
  
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a-ha - Scoundrel Days

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The Duran Duran Tribute album (1997)

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