I don’t like playing the “desert island” game. It is fair and it certainly it isn’t nice to play favorites especially in the case of choosing the absolute, definitive list of albums that would accompany me to a secluded island never to be heard from again. Thankfully my iPod (assuming that I could rig it for solar power) has all these albums and then-some already in a pre-selected-ready-for-the-plane-to-crash desert island mix. Like always, there is no particular order to this list. The only real criteria is that I like 90% or more of each album and that I can listen to each of these albums from start to finish. Enjoy and feel free to leave your desert island mix in the comments section.

1) August and Everything After, Counting Crows
2) Fumbling Toward Ecstasy, Sarah McLachlan
3) Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
4) Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
5) In Between Dreams, Jack Johnson
6) Live at Luther/Live at Radio City, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
7) O, Damien Rice
8) Offerings, Third Day
9) The Blue Album, Weezer
10) All That You Can’t Leave behind, U2

Bonus:
Jars of Clay, Jars of Clay
Unearthed Box Set, Johnny Cash
Achtung Baby, U2
Boy, U2
S&M, Metallica
Garden State Soundtrack, Various
Trouble, Ray LaMontagne