Doing something different with Desert Island Discs

18 thoughts on “Doing something different with Desert Island Discs”

1. Any particular reason you settled on 1971?

   As for people being obsessed with music from a certain period in time, it’s interesting that it’s not always from the same or even a similar point in life. Like teens or twenties Etc. FWIW I seem to listen to music mostly from 1977 to 1985 – back from when I was 2 to 10 years old. I remember hearing a lot of Motown in the house, some Ian Dury, Floyd and The Smiths via the slightly gothic girl from next door who babysat. I guess it sowed the seeds.

   Incidentally meddle is one of my favourite Floyd albums, for Fearless and San Tropez – great tracks.

2. It was random. I was listening to Aqualung by Jethro Tull, one thing led to another, I knew it had come out in 1971, and it all started unravelling then.

3. I remember being pretty disinterested in pop and rock until 1977. Funny that.

   Of the list you compile, 3 albums stand out for me – Tapestry, What’s Going On, Songs of Love and Hate.

   I think Imagine is the worst popular recorded track. Ever.

4. Thanks for this …. I was a teenager, and 1971 was astounding … Four Way St, and Madman!!!

5. How do you have time to pull this together? Did you write a little program to compare your music collection to wikipedia page titles? Surely you didn’t do this by hand…

6. Yikes! That reads kind of accusative. I mean it in wonder.

7. Lovely sojourn down memory lane. Thanks for reminding me of Stevie Winwood and Traffic then his brief association with Clapton & Blind Faith. 1971 was my first full year in the Navy and music helped alot. On the other hand, and for laffs, 1971 airwaves were consumed by The Carpenters which might breed a list of bottom 10 worst albums. Ugh. And then came leisure suits. cheers, perrien

8. JP – agreed, that was a stunning year. I was 4 at the time :-)

9. You are omitting the immortal “chirp chirpy cheep cheep” from the Middle of the Road – shame on you :)

10. ..and Master of Reality from Black Sabbath

11. Wow…Lot of good music there…Led Zepp, Pink Floyd…Just thinking about that music makes me want to have a drink :-)

12. Yup, you found me out. I edited the list. Made sure there was no space for Middle Of The Road or Sweet or early Jackson 5. Did not mention Black Sabbath. Even though I had them, they did not make my top 50.

    I think I have over 400 albums from that year.

13. JP, see from your playlist you dug up Beck’s Truth. It’s a shame that iTunes doesn’t include liner notes. Absolutely priceless on that one.

14. Yup, you found me out. I edited the list.

    List? What list? Oh, there’s a list…

    I am just as dumb as a bucket of rocks. As my grandmother used to say, “There’s no point being stupid if you can’t show it.” [/german_accent]

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17. My favourite year for interesting popular culture. I think it was one of those zeitgeist hot spots on the cusp of a cultural shift.

18. I would add Genesis’ Nursery Cryme.
    Although I preferred both their previous (Trespass) and next (Foxtrot) albums, I wanted to have a Peter Gabriel record matching JP’s criteria.
    Now what was Brian Eno doing in 1971?

    Another fascinating year is 1976, with hard rock near its peak, glam-rock fully decadent, soul dissolving into disco and punk coming up.
    The beginning of a dark dark era for the synthesizer.

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