Your just jealous cause I'm smarter than you.

Just go with RZA instead of Wu-Tang.

Hey if his non-solo stuff counts I'll go with that. Non-RZA produced Wu-Tang doesn't particularly call to me anyway.

John Zorn
Boards of Canada
The Allman Brothers
The Band
King Crimson
Doc Watson
The Black Crowes
Sir Douglas Quintet
Humble Pie
Led Zeppelin

You know what? I'm convinced that there's a lot of people out there who have made a conscience decision to listen to 10 artists for the rest of their life. And it generally seems to be the following:

Metallica
AC/DC
Guns n' Roses
Led Zeppelin
Foo Fighters
Iron Maiden
Thin Lizzy
Alterbridge
Rush
Pearl Jam

Now I like a couple of those bands. But if those are all somebody bangs on about, I have no interest in what they have to say.

This thread has really brings home how little people get from music. Almost everyone choosing music they already know backward and forward instead of music they could grow with.

Look up

Guns and Roses, The Black Crowes???

What books would these people choose? The Cat in the Hat and The Hunger Games?

I don't know about that. I still feel like there's a lot for me to explore in the discographies of the artists I picked. Megadeth is really the only one there where I know every single album like the back of my hand.

Also, wouldn't you want to pick something you feel reasonably assured you're not going to regret? Something that you know you like quite a bit.

My picks are easily the best. If this was real and I had the authority I would do you losers a solid and override your sorry ass picks.

Definitely a good list but Mozart = poseur mate.

John Zorn
Fred Frith
Jaki Liebezeit
Otomo Yoshihide
Keiji Haino
Robert Fripp
Tatsuya Yoshida
Leonid Fedorov
Sergey Kuryokhin
David Thomas

"Beethoven
Mozart
Coltrane
Elliott Carter
Tim Hecker
Bach
Stockhausen
Cecil Taylor
The Ramones
Miles Davis"

That's just a bunch of classical and jazz, isn't it? Outside of Tim Hecker and that rockband for toddlers and other people under the age of 10 (Ramones).

Meh.

01. Buckethead
02. Clutch
03. BÖC
04. Miles Davis
05. J.D. McPherson
06. Rush
07. Prince
08. Ray Charles
09. Dwight Yoakam
10. Shawn Lane or Joe Satriani (coin toss)

Outkast
David Bowie
Prince
Pharrell (counting Neptunes work)
Velvet Underground
Bob Dylan
Stevie Wonder
Kate Bush
The Streets
Black Sabbath

Feel free to come at me.

Good ones, and Kate almost made it on my list too.

ayy my man, the best.

Sick producer.

Clipse >>>
The Clones album >>>

His solo albums aren't bad at all imo.

also, N.E.R.D >>>

his solo stuff is pretty good too, yeah. i remember listening to In My Mind for months on end growing up.

Bowie and Kate Bush made my list too! Prince was a near miss.

If he is already challenging for a top ten spot that's great news.

I keep intending to get into Dylan, but it keeps not happening. He's probably very good and all.

Have you heard Blood On The Tracks?

I need to be in the right mood to listen to him, usually in the evenings after a shower and I'm having a snack and relaxing for a bit.

I remember listening to Blonde on Blonde and not really liking it but H61 & BOTT are two of my favourites. Tempest was pretty good too. I've got to work my way through a lot of his stuff still.

No I don't think I've heard any whole album except Desire. I remember liking it somewhat, but I didn't give it much time.

I would definitely recommend Blood on the Tracks.

I'll put it on my Spotify albums list along with Desire, because I need to give that one another go.

Blood on the Tracks is much better

Uh, ok.

Blood on the Tracks and Desire are Dylan's definitive seventies albums. He's also changed his sound several times from a straight folk artist (I'd recommend Freewheelin), his electric period (Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, etc), and the hit and miss period of the late sixties/early seventies that evolved into Blood on the Tracks. I don't listen to much Dylan after Desire but there are no doubt some gems all the way to today.

Please come suck my adventurous dick.

if i had to pick 10 movies i would pick movies i've already seen as well.

Movies aren't the same as an entire artist's discog. One is 2-3 hours at most, whereas the other can have countless hours. But by all means just tell us what music you like best so we can pat you on the back.

so you're going to an island with artists that you could just as easily hate? i picked 10 artists that i can listen to any day, all day. there's some music that i like but that i just don't feel the need to listen to very frequently, i'm not taking that risk on my last 10.

How long have you been listening to those artists? You're what, 20? You think you're gonna love those artists the same in 40, 50, 60 years? We're all taking a **** of a chance that we're gonna like those artists in all those decades. Might as well take a chance on some **** we aren't familiar with. Otherwise you might well find yourself in twenty years with albums you can't stand cause you weren't willing to admit to yourself that maybe, just maybe, you wouldn't feel about Converge the same way you felt when you were 20.

ok grandpa no need to have a brain aneurysm over a hypothetical scenario

i still think your logic is retarded though, and best case scenario any of us lasts 2-3 months stranded on this island.

Totally. I'm sure we'd all end up hating all that music within five years at most, but I might as well give myself a fighting chance by not picking music I'd probably be sick of in a single year.

^ Well, first you have to read all 700 posts in this thread:- http://www.musicbanter.com/country-f...bob-dylan.html

Then you're ready to take MLM's advice, because Blood on the Tracks is a pretty faultless album. You have to sit and listen though because, you know, it's all in the lyrics man.

EDIT: Yeah, I picked guys I like, but who also have some slack in their discographies that I haven't explored yet. I didn't risk any new names, but I did leave off some favourites, (for e.g. The Allman Brothers) because I could probably sing to myself their entire repertoire, complete with guitar solos, if I got stuck for something to listen to.

I basically agree with this, but it's easily solved by choosing artists with big, varied discographies. At least for me, I don't think my picks will get old for me. I'm 36 years old and doubt my tastes in music are going to radically change at this point. Expand, yes, but I doubt I'll wake up one day and despise my favorite artists.

I'm really bad at paying attention to lyrics. At least that means that I listen to vocals in Peruvian as easily as vocals in a language that I understand, but I'm not sure there's a single song I can sing all the way through without forgetting lines.

Have you been listening to 10 artists the past decade? I highly doubt any 10 artists will be anywhere near as intriguing in a decade if that's all we have to listen to. We will all almost assuredly be ****ing sick and tired of what we're listening to unless we take the chance to branch out, and even then...

Not sure how long these streaks will continue, but I'm coming up on a decade of recognizing the greatness of the greatest album ever made and I'm up two decades on Slayer and Mr. Bungle love.

Some have been with me for a long time, but my personal list of favorite bands is currently 72 bands long (Yes, I have a list. I'm a nerd, I know), so it's not like I'm listening to any artist non stop.

I've been listening to Megadeth since around 2000. Kylie since maybe 2002. Depeche mode about the same amount of time. Tori Amos since 2009, Dir En Grey since 2011.

Of course I would feel like a change if I didn't also listen to all sorts of other things along with those, but I do.

The only bands I've been into in a very, very big way that I hardly ever listen to anymore would be D-A-D, No Doubt and Metallica. Those all date back to my teenage years.

In this type of desert island scenario, there's really no way to guarantee that whatever you choose would hold up. What if you live to be 200 years old? Those better be 10 pretty big and interesting artist discographies then.

1. Dokken
2. Dokken
3. Dokken
4. Dokken
5. Dokken
6. Poison
7. Ratt
8. Cinderella
9. Dokken
10. Dokken