Desert Island Vinyl Collection

You are stranded on a desert island, but you had time to pack your five essential albums before you didn’t know you’d be stranded. What are they?

It’s a question we’ve all been asked at some point. But our generation is all like “but I can fit wayyyy more than five albums on my ipod!” I’m a classic example. I compulsively collect music throughout the year, and pair it down so it can all fit on my ipod about once every 6 months. My current iTunes count tells me I have: 12757 Items, 39 Days, and 65 GB worth of music. Excessive? My first PC  back in the nineties was less than one gig. Yes, it’s excessive.

Anyway, I decided I want to narrow it all down further (without deleting anything) to what I consider my essential albums. What are the ones that have withstood the test of time, influenced me creatively, and could never be melodramatically parted with. If I had to repurchase my entire collection on vinyl to win the hipsters’ approval, which albums would I pick?

It’s hard to narrow it down to five in this day and age, so I decided to take the entire year of roughly 52 weeks and name one album for each of them. It’ll end up being more of a top 50 by the end of the world 2012, but the number isn’t all that important. The contents of the collection are where it counts. People always do top ten lists for their new albums at the end of the year - this list is more about endurance, and I’m not trying to do it all at once. I already know a few of the albums that will make the cut, but I honestly don’t know the bulk of it. I will be finding it out as I go along. I’ll be following two simple rules that each album needs to meet.

  • Needs to be a generally solid album from start to finish.
  • Needs to have been at least one year in my possession, preferably longer.

I don’t know if anyone else would be interested in doing this with me, but I think it would be fun year long project to start now and forget about by April. I’m using the tag #desert island vinyl collection and starting this week.

NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY