The Old "You're Stranded on a Desert Island Thread"

[Davalillo]

Records

Superfly-Curtis Mayfield
What's Goin' On-Marvin Gaye
Aja-Steely Dan
Can't Buy a Thrill-Steely Dan
Brother Josephus and the Love Revolution Revival Orchestra-First CD

Movies

Animal House
Caddyshack
LA Confidential
Godfather
Debbie Does Dallas

You gotta laugh on the island and you gotta have at least one movie with beautiful women.....not that I'm recommending DDD

[barrysloate]

I like Jimmy's choices... North by Northwest is certainly one of the all-time greats.


Jim C.- Superfly and Debbie Does Dallas?? We need to talk.

[judsonhamlin]

Movies:

Star Wars
Animal House
Big Sleep
Lawrence of Arabia
Duck Soup or Horse Feathers

Leaving out Blade Runner, Once Upon a Time in the West, Metropolitan, Richard III (McKellan) and The Thin Man


Albums:
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Revolver - The Beatles
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
New World Symphony - Dvorak
Tenor Madness or Sax Colossus - Sonny Rollins

Leaving out The Kinks, Clash, Parliament, Nick Lowe, Dire Straits (Making Movies) and Don Dixon

[familytoad]

Guys these change so frequently, but if I was en route today...here they are

CD's

1. Peter Frampton -Comes Alive
2. David Gray-White Ladder
3. Jethro Tull- Stormwatch
4. Counting Crows- Recovering the Satellites
5. Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here

Hard not to take some Steely Dan on the trip though...

Movies

1. North by Northwest
2. Midnight Run
3. The Great Escape
4. Papillon
5. True Grit (w/Jeff Bridges... too new for DVD!)

[Anthony S.]

CDs:

1) The Clash "London Calling"
2) Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense"
3) Dire Straits "Making Movies" or "Alchemy"
4) Debbie Gibson Johnny Cash singing anything he wants
5) A burned CD (hey, it's my island) with some combination of: The Smiths, REM, Iggy Pop, Tom Petty, The Who, Neutral Milk Hotel, Antonin Dvorak, etc.


Movies:

1) "Raising Arizona"
2) "The Godfather"
3) "The Great Escape"
4) "Animal House" and "Slap Shot" and "Blazing Saddles" and "Flirting with Disaster" and "Nobody's Fool" (1994 version) (It's an extended play DVD)
5) "The Philadelphia Story" and "Bringing Up Baby" and "Double Indemnity" and "Red River" and "Rear Window" and "Vertigo" and "North by Northwest" (ditto)

[judsonhamlin]

Well played, Anthony - always good to see another Neutral Milk Hotel fan.

Good movie list, too - although I left out Kelly's Heroes, Battle of Algiers and Slap Shot

[sbfinley]

Albums

White Album
OK Computer
Transatlanticism
ZOSO
Ágætis byrjun

Movies

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Great Escape
Christmas Vacation
Fear and Loathing
Rhinestone (Yes, seriously. It's so bad it's good.)