Albums? Discs? Isn't This All Hopelessly Old School?

So Pajiba.com has started doing fun once-a-week, waste time at your desk questions like “the first three sonds that pop up on your “shuffled” iPod. Today’s was five “Desert Island Discs” – the five albums you, personally, would want with you if you were stranded on a desert island. It’s not a “best of list,” just your own wishes.

Here’s what I wrote (and by the way, the preview function on their page made it look like I’d put in no spacing, so instead I put in extra and looked like a dork!)

“Wow, this is tough. There's a radio station here that does "desert island discs" but they only let you pick three, so I thought this would be a breeze. I thought wrong.

1. U2 - The Joshua Tree
2. REM - Automatic for the People (this is supposed to be personal "comfort music" so don't hate me for not picking Murmur or Fables of the Reconstruction or something)
3. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
4. Van Morrison - Moondance
5. Paul Simon - Graceland

Ooh, that last choice was tough. Sorry Aretha Franklin, Kate Bush, and David Bowie!”

Upon further review, I wish I’d added some Queen.
And the only reason Kate Bush's Hounds of Love didn't make the cut is that I figured the same moods could be covered with the Tori Amos.
Also, I do listen to new stuff, I swear!

On the off chance someone’s starting reading this yet, what’s your five?

btw. excellent movie reviews over at Pajiba. I'm hanging out a bit there while Television Without Pity works out some weird intermittent connectivity issues (I'm going into TWoP withdrawal, people!)