1) Brian Eno: Another Green World
2) Talk Talk: Laughing Stock
3) Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food
4) Joni Mitchell: Hejiira
5) Miles Davis: In A Silent Way
6) Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom
7) Brian Eno: On Land
8) Keith Jarrett: The Survivors´Suite
9) The Kinks: Best of…
10) Joni Mitchell: Blue
11) Neil Young: After The Goldrush
12) Gustav Mahler: Sechste Symphonie
13) Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth
14) Leonard Cohen: Songs of Love and Hate
15) Ralph Towner: Solstice
16) Scott Walker: The Drift
17) Weather Report: Mysterious Traveller
18) Supersilent: 5
19) Wire: Chairs Missing
20) Ambrose Field / John Potter: Being Dufay
21) Brian Eno and David Byrne: My Life In The Bush of Ghosts
22) The Go-Betweens: Spring Hill Fair
23) Jan Garbarek: Dansere
24) The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album)
25) Television: Marquee Moon
26) Jon Hassell/Brian Eno: Possible Musics
27) Laurie Anderson: Big Science
28) The Books: Lost And Safe
29) Svalastog: Woodwork
30) David Sylvian: Manafon
31) Steve Tibbetts: The Fall Of Us All
32) Miles Davis: On The Corner
33) Serge Gainsbourg: L´histore de Melody Nelson
34) David Bowie: Low
35) Can: Ege Bamyasi
36) Marion Brown: Geechee Reccollections
37) Robert Wyatt: Cuckooland
38) Jacques Brel: Brel (his last one, with clouds on the cover)
39) Oregon: Distant Hills
40) The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
41) Joanna Newsom: Ys
42) Bill Callahan: I Wish We Were An Eagle
43) John Coltrane: Transition
44) Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
45) J.J. Cale: Naturally
46) Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
47) Neu: Neu! (with red letters)
48) Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic
49) The Necks: Drive-By
50) Portishead: Third
You always forget a record. Two, maybe more. But this is not the point. Some people say: hey, man, how come you skip KIND OF BLUE? Or A LOVE SUPREME. Bullshit. You do not make a „common sense“ list. On a desert island (the famous one) you are quite alone. You don´t have to make an exercise in cultural correctness. In this case, KIND OF BLUE is simply No. 51 (in my world). And, with all due respect, Jimi Hendrix simply doesn´t exist as part of this desert island collection. Although he´s great, no doubt about it. And Kraftwerk, good joke – what do you want with „Autobahn“ or „Trans Europa Express“ on a tropical island? Escapism has found its destination:) P.S. Just for fun: somebody asked me about U2; well, if I want to be bored to death, I would choose Bono. Wilco´s A GHOST IS BORN, by contrast, would be No. 56.