The record i would bring to a desert island would have to be
Gentlemen, with Afghan Whigs.

The album was released in october 93, but i heard the band live the first time 1994. I bought the album at the concert.

I have never gotten so floored by any other record.
I do not know what it is that makes it so beautiful,
it's like it has everything, from the cover to the fantastic songs inside. Awesome vocals and playing, before Dulli got stuck on the myth of himself (i think).

In other peoples ears, the album probably can seem a bit outdated, and, sure, it has the sound of the nineties, but for me it is an album that has opened many doors, and it still does.

I would like to mention a couple of the songs for the still uninitiated, but i can't :)
All songs fits together as one. The album should be listened to from the beginning to the end. Preferably extremely loud in headphones on the way home from a bad party.

At the end of 2008 the genial bookseries 33 1/3 issued a small pocket about the record (gentlemen 33 1/3), written by Bob Gendron. Nothing i would take to a desert island, but a very funny reading, though.

/Kristoffer Ragnstam


Todays guestpost was written for us by Kristoffer Ragnstam, a very talented singer/songwriter from Kungälv, Sweden. Kristoffer fronts the band The Electric-4.
Regular readers of this blog, knows him from our favourites of 2006-list, with his EP "Do you want a piece of me". After that came the full album "Sweet Bills" (2007), a tour (u.s) with the legendary Deborah Harry from Blondie, and in the autumn of 2008, the excellent album "Wrong Side of the Room" was released (Recommended). This spring, the band attended SXSW2009. Listen to Swing_that_Tambourine.mp3