Pretty much since I started doing these webcasts of the Melting Pot Radio Hour I’d thought about doing a show like this, a show focused on the records that I can’t live without. When you’ve listened to thousands of records, from all over the world and different time periods, choosing the most essential music you’ve ever heard is a really difficult task. A lot of it, I’ve found, is very much related to where you are at a moment, in addition to how the music has affected you throughout your life. So, what I have for you here are my top 10 Desert Island discs, along with a couple honorable mentions. I hope you enjoy the show and I would love to hear your own Top 10 records that you can’t live without here in the comments section or over e-mail.
Melting Pot Radio Hour: Econo Edition #5: Honorable Mentions
Melting Pot Radio Hour: Econo Edition #5: Desert Island Discs 10 – 6
Melting Pot Radio Hour: Econo Edition #5: Desert Island Discs 5 – 1
Michael Barnes’ Desert Island Discs:
Book: The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats
Luxury item: King Size Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Honorable Mentions:
The Monkees – Headquarters – Colgems (1967)
A Tribe Called Quest – People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm – Jive (1990)
Curtis Mayfield – Curtis – Curtom (1970)
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground – MGM (1969)
Nick Drake – Bryter Layter – Island (1969)
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme – Impulse! (1965)
Top 10 Desert Island Discs:
10. Gal Costa – Gal Costa (Não Identificado) – Phillips (1969)
9. The Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime – SST (1984)
8. Michael Jackson – Off The Wall – Epic (1979)
7. Sly & the Family Stone – Stand! – Epic (1969)
6. Booker Little – Out Front – Candid (1961)
5. Irma Thomas – Down At Muscle Shoals – Chess/Charly (1988)
4. Charles Mingus – Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus – Impulse! (1963)
3. Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland – Reprise (1968)
2. Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden – EMI (1988)
1. Johnny Hartman – Songs From The Heart – Bethlehem (1955)