Desert Island Question: You Get to Bring One Band's Music - Who is it?

U2. And I guess this situation would give me time to figure out if anything they made after 1989 is any good. Even if the answer is “no,” I’m good going Boy through Rattle & Hum.

Rock 

Prince for the variety.  Not an easy choice.

Genre is jazz.

Pink Floyd and either some grunge, or reggae. 

Band Easy - Led Zeppelin!

Genre - 60's Soul. Otis, James Brown. Wilson Pickett, All Motown, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Aretha!, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder.

Bonus - Queen is a great band but so overrated lately.

1.  Gordon Lightfoot

2.  All things Harbaugh

Rock but I could not just listen to one band, I like a mix of songs. But if I had to pick, I would pick a band with a lot of songs I like to listen too but even these would eventually get on my nerves if I was ship wrecked for months. Metallica, Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin might be my choices for a few weeks. I could also see some more classic rock bands like the Eagles or even all of Elton John's songs would work.

Kidz Bop....hear me out.

They have thousands of recordings. I’m stuck on an island for God knows how long. I may go mad, but I’ll have a large library of crappy music to fill my ears.

Pink floyd

Classic rock

1. The Cure.

2. Classic hip hop or New wave 

My choice is Rush, but I didn’t see R.E.M. mentioned. They also have an extensive library of songs. If I didn’t have to bring Shiny Happy People and Stand, I’d consider them. The early alternative stuff still holds up for me (basically everything before Green.)

Impossible and I'll likely want to murder the members of the band within 4 years but...I'm going with:

Radiohead

If I wanted to live, Miles Davis and jazz.

If I wanted to die, Def Leppard/Motley Crue and metal because I'd slit my throat after listening to that crap for 10 minutes.

Pink floyd is the easy answer here:  long career from psychedelic to Gilmour's new acoustic track.   

For Genre I guess I roll with classic rock...  

The only band that matters: The Clash.

Fun question XM -- and neat to see people's responses (and how they match -- or don't match -- with my sense of them through their presence on the board).

I think Simon & Garfunkel and the Beatles make sense, as would Bob Dylan. My favorite genres are old-school hip-hop and alternative rock, but I feel like on a desert island I'd want singer-songwriter-y music that could both hype me up, when needed, or that I could mellow out to. 

I'll go with legendary Michigan songwriter Seth Bernard. Upbeat, reflective, playful, brooding, everything in between. And a lot of great albums to explore. My other answers would be Okkervil River, Rise Against, Public Enemy, Living Colour, Modest Mouse, R.E.M., and Poem Adept.

1.  Widespread Panic

2.  Classics rock/Jam bands

1. Def Leppard

2. Rock and Roll forever man.

Go Blue!!!!

1. Moody Blues

2.  Progressive rock from 60's and 70's - Jethro Tull, ELP, Kansas, Yes, etc.

Depends on how technical the rules get; if I can bring MY library of one of my favorite bands, #1 is The Disco Biscuits. I probably have thousands of hours of live recordings.

If not, then probably an artist/band that strikes many genres as previously mentioned; Queen, LED Zep, Rush, RHCP, The Who, Kool and the Gang, Lettuce, The Motet, Pearl Jam, The Smashing Pumpkins, michael Jackson, Motown. As everyone had mentioned the list goes on obviously.

love the responses with classical/boroque and scores. Being on an island and having access to the scores for Pirates of the Caribbean would be sweet, or select other movies.

2. As someone else mentioned, I’ll just go down with the ship. But, rock/jam band, 80-90s rock and pop, Alt rock, classic rock, classical, rap and hip hop, jazz and funk, blah blah blah 

so basically I didn’t follow any of the rules and am now 300 feet underwater still trying to decide what music to grab

I understand this board a lot better now

Britney Spears

The Seeds

1. Eagles

2. Pink Floyd

Alice in Chains

Nu Metal 

McCoy Tyner

Jazz

AC/DC I know user picture doesn't check out

Rock & Roll

Pink Floyd

80’s music. The whole decade

 Beatles or Green Day

1. the Beatles- because their library is extensive and well rounded and you’d be getting a little bit of basically every band since.
 

2. electronic.   

My Bloody Valentine

Shoegaze

1. Grateful Dead

2. Jam - Dead and Phish would be all I really need to live for the rest of time.