{"id":4922,"date":"2023-07-04T01:38:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T07:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2023-07-05T16:05:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T22:05:11","slug":"desert-island-discs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/desert-island-discs\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Island Discs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping these in a separate MySQL database back when I was trying to code my own PHP website and WordPress was a new thing. I was using PHPNuke and that site got hacked due to a vulnerability in that platform which pretty much pushed me to no more custom coding and trusting WordPress. So anyway, in the interest of keeping things searchable and in one place, I&#8217;m going to just do this as a blog post. Here&#8217;s the DID list that I made about 20 years ago and to its credit, it hasn&#8217;t changed. I&#8217;d certainly add to it but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d remove any of them. And some of my comments are dated given what happened later. I&#8217;ll add a few footnotes at the end given 20 years of insight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Shape of Punk to Come &#8211; Refused &#8211; 1998 &#8211; This album is the total package. It&#8217;s too bad they broke up before I could see them live. The singer moved on to form International Noise Conspiracy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>California &#8211; Mr Bungle &#8211; 1999 &#8211; I had to have something with Mike Patton on it, so I decided on this one. It has a diverse enough sound that I wouldn&#8217;t get bored over repeated listenings. As with most of my choices, there&#8217;s not a bad song in the bunch.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bone Machine &#8211; Tom Waits &#8211; 1992 &#8211; Again, this was tough. I might have picked Swordfishtrombones or Mule Variations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Low End Theory &#8211; A Tribe Called Quest &#8211; 1991 &#8211; One of the best hip hop albums ever. Like many other albums, it blended jazz with the rhymes and pulled it off the best, in my opinion. I might have picked the Roots &#8211; Do You Want More?!!!??!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blue Train &#8211; John Coltrane &#8211; 1957 &#8211; If I&#8217;m gonna be stuck, I&#8217;m gonna need something mellow. There are several that I might have chosen, but this is my favorite.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spiderland &#8211; Slint &#8211; 1991 &#8211; One of the many musicians that I played with while living in NYC turned me onto this album and Shellac&#8217;s At Action Park. I&#8217;ll be forever grateful.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In On The Kill Taker &#8211; Fugazi &#8211; 1993 &#8211; This was a tough one. I&#8217;d really like to have the entire Fugazi catalog with me. They&#8217;re truly an amazing band. Probably one of my top 3 favorite artists.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I Against I &#8211; Bad Brains &#8211; 1986 &#8211; This one combines hardcore with reggae and other influences. Can&#8217;t compare to anything at the time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Fat Elvis &#8211; Big Boys &#8211; 1993 &#8211; This is a compilation that was released along with The Skinny Elvis. It encompasses three of their later albums. The greatest band to come out of Austin. Ever.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>OK Computer &#8211; Radiohead &#8211; 1997 &#8211; Most people seem to pick The Bends as their favorite. This one is mine. I don&#8217;t particularly care for the earlier stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As I said, a lot has changed since I wrote that list but it still holds up. I&#8217;ll comment on each now that I&#8217;m posting them again in 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I did end up seeing Refused reunite at Fun Fun Fun Fest with Henry. My YouTube channel has video from that show<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mr Bungle is back with Scott Ian and Dave Lombardo in the band. How cool is that? I haven&#8217;t had a chance to see that combo live. Tomahawk was probably happening at that time too but they&#8217;re amazing. And then that Dillinger Escape Plan album with Mike Patton is genius (<em>Irony is a Dead Scene<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not much from Tom Waits lately, but Mary and I drove to Houston to see him on the Glitter and Doom tour. Totally worth it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tribe being my hip hop choice is hard to defend because I&#8217;m only allowed one. <em>Paul&#8217;s Boutique<\/em> might win now. Or one of the Roots albums. Not sure. Or Madvillain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;ll just say that I like <em>The Bends<\/em> better than I did at the time that I wrote this but it&#8217;s still not better than <em>OK Computer<\/em> and they did a bunch of great stuff after that. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I ended up getting a tattoo of the wolf spider from <em>Spiderland<\/em> on my right forearm so that tells you how much I like that album. It was a good sign that the guy that I picked to do the tattoo is also a huge fan of <em>Irony is a Dead Scene<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fanboy related to Fugazi and Slint, I&#8217;ve had social media \/ email interactions with Ian MacKaye and David Pajo. My photo from the last Fugazi show in Austin at Emo&#8217;s on Sixth is the shot that comes up when you google them due to my Creative Commons attribution and wikipedia picking that up. I&#8217;ve also contributed to Fugazi&#8217;s live archive with ticket stubs and photos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping these in a separate MySQL database back when I was trying to code my own PHP website and WordPress was a new thing. 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