I'm so lazy I'm stealing someone else's list that's close enough that I'd be happy to have on the island. Except instead of Fables, I'd take Murmur.

Is this island like the one of The Prisoner?

20 discs? damn that requires much thought. I was expecting 7...

but see, 5, 7....even 10 ... not enough.
i've done those.
and everyone ends up editing over and over....

whereas, with 20.
you could essentially live and be happy with 20 on the island.

(of course, i did forget the white album and abbey road on my list and have been fighting the urge to edit....)

Beatles---Abbey Road
Slint---Spiderland
My Bloody Valentine---Loveless
Kinks---The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
The Who---Who's Next
Johnny Cash---At Folsom Prison
Lee Hazlewood---These Boots Are Made For Walkin': The Complete MGM Recordings
Oscar Peterson---At Zardi's
Flaming Lips---The Soft Bulletin
Jeff Buckley---Live At Sin-e
Swervedriver---Mezcal Head
Modest Mouse---The Moon & Antartica
Velvet Underground---Loaded
Radiohead---Kid A
Joy Division---Closer
Bob Dylan---Blonde On Blonde
Neutral Milk Hotel---In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
The Notwist---Neon Golden
Brian Eno---Here Come The Warm Jets
Portishead---Dummy

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis:Bold as Love
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Tyranny of Distance
Built to Spill - Perfect from now on
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
The Talking Heads - Speaking in Tounges
GZA - Liquid Swords
Eric B. and Rakim - Follow the Leader
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pearl Jam - No Code
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Sonic Youth - Evol
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Nas - Illmatic

these were tough to leave off.

Nice

np: Bryan MacLean "Ifyoubelievein"

i'm too crazy with work and my new greeting card idea (don't ask) to think one up proper. I'll post one in a few hours when i get home.

The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - '67-'70
The Clash - London Calling
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Love - Forever Changes
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Pavement - Brighten the Corners
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
The Pixies - Doolittle
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
The Smiths - The Very Best of the Smiths
The Strokes - Is This It?
Brian Wilson - SMiLE
X - Los Angeles/Wild Gift (1 disc)
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Zombies - Zombie Heaven

Here's something like my current top 20:

1. Can - Ege Bamyasi
2. Neil Young - On the Beach
3. The Kinks - Are the Village Green Preservation Society
4. Wire - Pink Flag
5. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

6. Velvet Underground - s/t
7. Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain
8. Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
9. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
10. Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
11. Slint - Spiderland
12. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
13. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
14. Public Image Limited - Metal Box
15. David Bowie - Low
16. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
17. Radiohead - OK Computer
18. Boredoms - Super Ae
19. The Stooges - Funhouse
20. T. Rex - Electric Warrior

I can easily stand by my top 5 if I was limited to just those, but it was really hard to decide what to cut and what to leave in the bottom portion.

ok - after some real thought, here goes, 20 albums in no order...choosing albums based on listenabilty over the long term and trying not to repeat any artists (except Dylan)

Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City
The Replacements - Tim
The Clash - London Calling
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
New Order - Power, Corruption, and Lies
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
The Band - Music from Big Pink
The Cure - The Head on the Door
Gram Parsons - GP/Grievous Angel
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Townes Van Zandt - High, Low, and In Between
U2 - Achtung Baby
Elliot Smith - XO
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear...
Radiohead - The Bends

Yeah. The more I listen to Hazlewood, the more I like. Thanks for pointing him out to me BG.

I would have nothing but illegally downloaded music so the RIAA lawyers would come and find me so I could get off the island.

Cool, I get company on my island!

If this were the case, I'm going for a good mix of things I like so that my chances of boredom are lessened and I can meet any mood with the right music. This may not be an all-time top 20, but it's a sampling of 20 albums I rarely, if ever, tire of.

01 Willie Nelson :: Phases & Stages
02 Public Enemy :: It Takes A Nation Of Millions
03 Rugburns :: Taking The World By Donkey
04 Warren Zevon :: Warren Zevon
05 Rolling Stones :: Sticky Fingers
06 Replacements :: Tim
07 Ramones :: Ramones
08 Lucinda Williams :: Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
09 Outkast :: Aquemini
10 Stevie Wonder :: Songs In The Key of Life (Innervisions if the former counts as two)
11 Television :: Marquee Moon
12 Ry Cooder :: Paradise And Lunch
13 Wu-Tang Clan :: 36 Chambers
14 Morphine :: Cure For Pain
15 Steve Earle :: I Feel Alright
16 Social Distortion :: Social Distortion
17 Neil Young :: On The Beach
18 Black Sheep :: A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
19 Some best of the Temptations comp
20 NWA :: Straight Outta Compton

we could sell them in the online store that i'm working on!

Apparently, Damien Rice - O was on Hurley's list.
(That was a Lost reference, for those not into Lost).

I'll do mine later, when I'm not, ya know, at work.

And if I had time to collect my thoughts for another 15, today's list (in no particular order):

After Murder Park
Dusty in Memphis
Music For A New Society (or that island years double someone else had earlier)
Dummy
You Are Free
Seventeen Seconds
Mclusky Do Dallas
Nina Simone: Finest Hour (or any good comp, really)
Grotesque
Blue Kentucky Girl
The Man Machine
Fear and Whiskey
My Aim is True (or Armed Forces, yeah, for sure)
Pills and Thrills and Bellyaches
Grace

But these are much more subject to change. Like, if I actually had my collection in front of me, I am sure at least half of them would change.

Someone else who's an Auteurs fan. Yeaaaaay.
I bet Dalen was listening to them before they even decided to start a band.

I have no doubt.

When do we hear more from Mr Haines, anyhow?

Tomorrow, obviously, would see a different list.

1. David Bowie – Low
2. Eno – Another Green World
3. Roxy Music – Avalon
4. Kinks – Something Else
5. Jackson Browne – Late for the Sky
6. Cure – Disintegration
7. U2 – Unforgettable Fire
8. Lou Reed - Transformer
9. Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
10. Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
11. Big Star - #1 record
12. Replacements – Tim
13. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
14. Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
15. Velvet Underground – white light, white heat
16. Neil Young - Zuma
17. Pixies – Surfer Rosa
18. Stones - Exile
19. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
20. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

I was going back and forth between this and On The Beach.

ok. i HAD to do it. i had to edit.
i couldn't go without the beatles.

dude you should see the ones I got today:
"I'm all eye for you. babe!"
"Seasons Greetings from Ichi the Killer" (you knopw the scene where he takes those pins out?)
"Still waiting for you to pick my brain!"

i'm telling you these are pure gold!

so here's my liszt:
Live At Leeds - The Who
The Payback - James Brown
The Mollusk - Ween
Otis! - Otis Redding
Mclusky Do Dallas - Mclusky
Ode To Joy - The Deadly Snakes
Take Me To Your Leader - King Geedorah
Anthology - Chuck Berry
Raising Hell - Run DMC
Jazz Samba - Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd
Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
London Calling - The Clash
S/T - Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers
Slanted & Enchanted Redux - Pavement
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted - Ice Cube
What's Up Matador? - Various Artists
Dead & Gone #1: Trauermärsche - Funeral Marches - Various Artists
Ska Authentic - The Skatalites
Let It Be The Replacements
Brainfreeze - Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow - if only because i haven't listened to it in years and miss it suddenly as i type this.

Chuck Berry and Otis should boot out some on my list..

King Geedorah? That's probably my least favorite Doom project

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and Rasing Hell are unfuckwithable

The Mollusk would be my choice for a Ween album