You're right, I missed it.

I DON'T LIKE LED ZEPPELIN THAT MUCH SO I WOULDN'T BRING ONE OF THEIRS TO THE ISLAND, DIG?

yes and trampled under foot.

I put this together pretty fast, so I probably forgot some things that should have beaten out a few of these.  Maybe I'll update it later.  Albums without an artist listed are eponymous.

1. Abbey Road (The Beatles)
2. Eat a Peach (The Allman Brothers)
3. Led Zeppelin II
4. The Joshua Tree (U2)
5. Who's Next (The Who)
6. Disraeli Gears (Cream)
7. Led Zeppelin IV
8. Boston
9. Blood on the Tracks (Bob Dylan)
10. Texas Flood (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
11. Blind Faith
12. Graceland (Paul Simon)
13. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
14. Sticky Fingers (The Rolling Stones)
15. The Marshall Tucker Band

Everybody has an opinion.  Gotta get in on this.  In no particular order, these are the artists I listen to daily, so of course would take with me to a desert isle.  Picking the 15 albums from these guys would require more deliberation.

Harry Smith, The Anthology of American Folk Music
Bob Dylan and the Band, The Basement Tapes
The Band, Music from Big Pink
Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life
Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks
Jimi Hendrix, Experience Hendrix
Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings
Levon Helm, Dirt Farmer
Carol King, Tapestry
The Beatles, One (collection of number one songs)
Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks, 1964-1971
Rolling Stones, Some Girls
Bob Dylan, Bringing it All Back Home
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks
Neil Young, Living with War
The Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way

Desert Island books:

JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings
Will and Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization 11 volumes
Stingfellow Barr, The Will of Zeus, The Mask of Jove
Bill James, The Historical Baseball Abstract
Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, 3 volumes
The Bible, King James Version and New American Bible version
George RR Martin, All 5 books (to now) of Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones)
Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars
Ray Ginger, The Bending Cross (biography of Eugene Debs)
Collected Works of William Shakespeare
Nicolò Machiavelli, The Discourses
Toni Negri, Insurgencies: On Constituent Power 
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
William Blake, Complete Writings
Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems 
Greil Marcus, Mystery Train, Invisible Repubilc: Bob Dylan and the Basement Tapes, Like a Rolling Stone
Thomas Boswell, Why Time Begins on Opening Day, Why Life Imitates the World Series
David Halberstam, The Reckoning, Summer of '49, October 1964
William Morris, The Political Writings

great stuff everyone..im happy to see the clash at the top of a list....im happy to see will Durant at the head of a list but italyprof..what will you do with the baseball abstract on a desert island.

Posted by italyprof on 2/2/2016 9:04:00 AM (view original):
Harry Smith, The Anthology of American Folk Music
Bob Dylan and the Band, The Basement Tapes
The Band, Music from Big Pink
Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life
Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks
Jimi Hendrix, Experience Hendrix
Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings
Levon Helm, Dirt Farmer
Carol King, Tapestry
The Beatles, One (collection of number one songs)
Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks, 1964-1971
Rolling Stones, Some Girls
Bob Dylan, Bringing it All Back Home
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks
Neil Young, Living with War
The Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way

HEY, I THOUGHT IT WAS NO GREATEST HITS ALLOWED!

TV SHOWS

ALL IN THE FAMILY
THE WALTONS
SEINFELD
CHEERS
BREAKING BAD
THE WIRE
IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY
MARRIED WITH CHILDREN
NOVA
WILD AMERICA
THE OFFICE

MOVIES:

COOL HAND LUKE
JEREMIAH JOHNSON
GOODFELLAS
DONNIE BRASCO
LITTLE BIG MAN
BULL DURHAM
DOG DAY AFTERNOON
ROCKY
JAWS
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3RD KIND
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUKOOS NEST
THE OTHERS

wtf..a flood this morning.

BOOKS:
 
THE FLASHMAN SERIES
BIBLE
KORAN
RISE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH
BIOGRAPHY OF CHURCHILL
BIOGRAPHY OF JEFFERSON
THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
LONESOME DOVE
BLOOD MERIDIAN