Sitting Here In Limbo - Jamie Mottram
Jul 25th, 2007 by Brinson
Big guest this week, folks, so let’s breeze through the rules and stuff and get to the introduction. Rules: 10 albums, one desert island. No compilations, soundtracks or greatest hits. Live is okay as long as its studio authorized and not a selection from one of those really extensive lines like Dicks’ Pick’s or something.
Our featured guest today is none other than one of the co-hosts of the Blog Show, which appears “on the talking picture box” every Friday on Comcast, Jamie Mottram. Jamie is also an editor over at this little site known as The Fanhouse and does his own blogging at Mr. Irrelevant, where he’s kicked off some pretty cool new site design and brought in his brother Chris to help tag team the blogosphere with DC relevant sports and stuffs. Please give a hearty Brahsome welcome (whatever the hell that is) to Jamie Mottram, whose desert island selections are after the jump.
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1. Tribe Called Quest — Low End Theory: I’d need some danceable, rap-along hip-hop on the island.
2. Strokes — Is This It?: It revitalized my interest in music, which makes it essential.
3. Arcade Fire — Funeral: So I could remember what it was like being awestruck by them at 9:30 Club.
4. Beatles — White Album: It’s hard picking just one Beatles album, so I’ll take the long and sprawling one.
5. Bob Marley — Songs of Freedom: Reggae would be a must and this one takes it from the early days of ska to the bloated late-’70s all in one collection. (Ed. Note - This may not qualify under the rules, but Jamie’s a busy dude, so we’re cutting him some slack and/or giving him his choice of whatever Marley he’d like to use as a non-performance enhancing supplement.)
6. Radiohead — OK Computer: Just in case there are drugs on this island.
7. Operation Ivy — Energy: Someone once told me that the music you love when you’re 17 will be the music you love for your entire life. If that’s true, I’m going to need this.
8. Rolling Stones — Exile on Main St.: See what I said about the White Album and apply it to the Stones.
9. Shins — Chutes Too Narrow: Pure indie pop perfection.
10. Wilco — Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: If I ever was in the mood to be rescued, I think this essential album would be the right fit.
Great choices…Songs of Freedom does perhaps bend the rules, but aside from this posting, it’s worth mentioning that it’s probably the best “Greatest Hits” collection out there.
Though I didn’t choose all of these myself, I actually like all of these myself (unlike, cough, Widespread Panic. I kid! I kid! OK, I don’t kid.)
I think it should be required for the guess bloggers to answer if they will be opening the virgin mary dolls on the island or not (for non-lost fans, they contain some no-no narcotics). So far it’s a unanimous yes I believe.
Ha..great question. Stuck on an island with a plane full of smack, your damn right I pop the top on those Virgin Mary dolls. A little Miles and Herbie…shit, I might end up asking any rescue boats to just swing back by in a few weeks.