Pick a decade of music for your island.

sunvalleylaw

sunvalleylaw

Yep.
Your digital streaming device or vinyl collection or combination thereof. And you can combine two time periods.

Mine, 1978-1983, and 1989-1994. Two transitional kinda re-set periods I really enjoy.

(Now would love to add in 1959-1965 jazz, but I will follow my own rules).
 
jp_nyc said:
1970–1975 (The first six Sabbath albums) and 1996–2001 (Gets me October Rust, Evil Empire, Dopesmoker, and a bunch of random cool metal albums.)
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Cool. I am not into metal at all, but it interests me to see why people pick what they pick.
 
I will take 1959-1964, and 1973-1978.

The first will get me from Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads, Howlin' Wolf Moanin' in the Moonlight, Buddy Holly Story 1 +2, The Beach Boys up until All Summer Long and the Xmas album (the classic surf period). It also gets me Roy Orbison up until 'It's Over' and 'Pretty Woman', and kinda ends with the Shangri-las and the Ronettes. Too much great jazz to mention in that period too, and there's also a fuck-ton of exotica like Arthur Lyman, Martin Denny, Les Baxter etc. which should be good for my island vibe.

1973 - 78 give me Innervisions to Songs in the Key of Life, Burnin', to Babylon by Bus, The New York Dolls, all the best Ramones albums, Marquee Moon, Parallel Lines, Roxy from For Your Pleasure thru to Manifesto, Brian Eno's song-based albums, loads of Krautrock (Phaedra, NEU2 and NEU75, Autobahn, Future Days, Aguirre) the bulk of good disco, Herbie Hancock' Headhunters period, Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell, Springsteen's The Wild... thru to Darkness..., Waylon Jennings from 'Lonesome, On'ry and Mean' thru to 'I've Always Been Crazy', and Willie Nelson's Red-Headed Stranger.
 
I'll go 74-84 because it will include the Motorik mentioned time period plus all the great late 70's and early 80's indie from both sides of the pond as well as RUSH and Van halen, The Cars, Dio's first co0uple albums,....The Minutrmen, firehose, New Order, Joy Division....and all the early MTV stuff and other foundations of my "happy place" music of youth
 
Ok, some of the answers have me reconsidering mine. Which is the whole point of conversation, so cool! Not quite giving up on mine yet though.
 
The closest I think I could get would be 11 years..... 1975 to 1986.... Sara Smile to Sign of the Times. I'm sure there's plenty before and After that I would greatly miss, but there would be enough music in there to keep me alive. :)
 
jp_nyc said:
1970–1975 (The first six Sabbath albums) and 1996–2001 (Gets me October Rust, Evil Empire, Dopesmoker, and a bunch of random cool metal albums.)
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October Rust coming out in 1996 surprised me. For some reason I imagined it was a couple of years earlier than that.
 
I gotta go with the 90s, not going to specify the exact years - gets me the best of The Black Crowes, early Foos, some Porcupine Tree, Mother Love Bone, Screaming Trees, Phish...
 
This is really tough. I was going to say 85 to 95 but there is so much in 70 to 75 I love too.
I'll go with 72 to 75 and 88 to 95. No, that won't work.
I need to think on this.
 
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