Heh. An interesting exercise. *Much* harder than the $500K 5-car garage. You have to decide whether a selected song (say Magic Carpet Ride) biases toward pulling a whole album (say, Steppenwolf The Second) into the list (it didn't). I felt like my decision process was biased toward more recent material, so I succumbed to the urge to expand to the "Bomb Shelter 20" (more room down there) and it seemed like that made more room for older favorites (but it was still biased toward the new).

Desert Island 10

Chumbawamba - Tubthumper (1997)
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball (1995)
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love (1967)
John Prine - The Missing Years (1991)
Keith Jarrett Quartet - My Song (1977)
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (1969)
Richard and Linda Thompson - Pour Down Like Silver (1975)
School of Fish - School of Fish (1991)
Steve Earle - El Corazon (1997)
Youssou N'Dour - Eyes Open (1992)


Bomb Shelter 20

B-52s - Cosmic Thing (1989)
Bill Evans - The Paris Concert Edition 1 (1984)
Buffalo Springfield - Again (1967)
Butterfield Blues Band - The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw (1967)
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark (1974)
Living Colour - Time's Up (1986)
Peter Gabriel - So (1986)
Sam Phillips - Martinis and Bikinis (1994)
Who - Who's Next (1970)
Youssou N'Dour - JOKO (2000)

I started to put in Al Green's Greatest Hits, but then I decided that "greatest hits" was kind of cheating, desert island-wise, don't you think? If not, I'd have to decide what to do with Al, Etta James Greatest, and Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks....

Jim

(so, how's San Antonio, I wonder?)