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Top 10 Desert Island Downloads

by bhoughton on October 29th, 2007

My fellow music bloggers and I at the b5media Music Channel took up the the age-old challenge. “If you were stuck on a deserted island, which 10 albums would you wish you had with you? In no particular order, here are mine.

  1. Leonard Cohen - “Essential”
  2. Leon Russell - “Retrospective”
  3. Ray Lamontagne - “Trouble”
  4. The Band - “The Last Waltz”
  5. Solomon Burke - “Don’t Give Up On Me”
  6. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - “Deja Vu”
  7. Barry White - “Greatest Hits”
  8. Cat Stevens - “Tea For The Tillerman”
  9. Bill Wither’s “Lean On Me - The Best Of”
  10. Led Zeppelin- “II

We’d like to hear the 10 discs that you’d want to have.And here are 10 Desert Island Discs from my girlfriend Katy plus a few favorites we had to leave behind. You can see why we’re so compatible…From Katy Cates -

  1. Ray LaMontagne - “Trouble”
  2. Annie Lennox - “Bare”
  3. Cat Stevens - “Greatest Hits”
  4. Aretha Franklin - “Greatest Hits”
  5. Leonard Cohen - “Essential”
  6. Leon Russell - “Greatest Hits”
  7. Bill Withers - “Lean On Me - The Best Of”
  8. Janis Joplin - “Pearl”
  9. Willie Nelson “Always on my mind”
  10. David Bowie - “Station To Station”

A few of the artists that we sadly had to leave back on the mainland that deserve honorable mention:

  • Bonnie Raitt
  • Joe Cocker
  • Queen
  • Macy Grey
  • Van Morrison
  • Motion Picture Sound Track “Jesus Christ Superstar”
  • Al Green

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