Random Friday Top 10: Desert Island Discs Edition

Well, it’s been quite a week, hasn’t it?

• The Giants won the Super Bowl. Has there ever been a greater Super Bowl win for The Big Apple? I think not.
• Hillary and Barack dueled their way through Super Tuesday, while McCain came out on top for the Republicans and some dude named Huckabee (as in “I Heart…”?) improbably played spoiler.
• Mitt Romney thankfully dropped out of the Presidential race (okay, maybe I do “heart” Huckabee).
• Shaquille O’Neal was traded to the Phoenix Suns - a shocking move by the Miami Heat that garnered them no less than Shawn Marion (a good move for both teams, I think).
• Chris Webber made an unexpected return to the Golden State Warriors, reuniting with this old nemesis, head coach Don Nelson, no less. I think Hell just froze over.
• My newest show, 3800 Elizabeth, opened at The Battle Ranch.

See what I mean? Quite a week.

So, with that in mind, I thought we’d take things easy today here at the ol’ blog and jump straight to this week’s Random Friday Top 10, which has a special theme today: Desert Island Discs. As in: which 10 albums would you want to have with you if you were stranded on a desert island? A tough question, I know, but one that’s always fun to answer. After much sweat-inducing contemplation, I selected 10 albums I would be perfectly happy to listen to over and over (as I’ve already been doing for many years now). Here they are:

• The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
• The Who - Who’s Next
• The Beatles - Abbey Road
• The Band - The Band
• John Coltrane - Giant Steps
• Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
• Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
• Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
• Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
• Neil Young - Tonight’s the Night 

Mind you those are just my choices for today. Ask me again tomorrow and they might all be different. That’s the fun of this game: you can just keep playing and changing the list in a neverending quest for the perfect combination.

What would your Desert Island Discs be, dear reader? I would love to know. Leave me a comment or shoot me an email. Let’s see if we can get a good discussion going on this. My good buddy, Kevin Doyle - a known music maven in his own right - already weighed in with his picks. Check it:

• The National - The Boxer
• Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
• Neil Young - Freedom
• Yo La Tengo - Night Falls Over Hoboken
• Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
• Roger Waters - Amusing Ourselves to Death
• U2 - The Joshua Tree
• Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space
• Slumber Party - Slumber Party
• The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

I’m not familiar with most of these, except for the really obvious ones. The Neil Young record is excellent, The Joshua Tree is a sentimental favorite (harking back to my junior year of high school), and obviously I like the Dylan album. 

That’s all I got right now, people. Happy Friday and have a good weekend. And don’t forget to come see Episode 2 of my show this Sunday night.

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