You can only take 5 albums to a deserted Island...

Once we all get to the Desert Island, this island will be nicely stuffed with music!!!    :-)
DANVIGNAU, thank you for flushing PF fans out of the closet, because I was a bit worried what is happening here. So, while we all On The Island, here is the list of my 5 Must-Haves which I see missing from the collection:
1) Tchaikovsky's 5th under Mravinsky
2) Bruckner's 8th under Celibidache
3) Dead Can Dance box set
4) Cocteau Twins box set
5) Klaus Schulze Mini-LP CD box set
Some other painful (for me) omissions on this thread here are:
6) Porcupine Tree
7) quite a few must have or "We Must Die" from ECM label, starting with "Khmer".  Those who ever loved Miles must give it a listen!
8) Tubular Bells (!!!)

David12, Thank you for sharing! This game had been played zillion times but the initial intent you described here had been, unfortunately, "lost in translation"! The game, in my humble opinion, is about learning something about the person (this point is moot in such anonymous places) or about discovering new music from similar-minded dudes. Thats what I attempted to do in my previous post: absolutely EVERYONE who ever bought Miles Davis albums had the same comment about me playing Khmer album: Wow, something useful can be learned from you, Euros guys! (well, sometimes in less offensive language). Now, thanks to Pops I am getting Robin Trower 5-CD collection (Thank You, Pops!!) and will be waiting for more insights from PF, Porcupine Tree, Marillion and VDGG listeners... ;-)
To update my prev post, I do not see myself living and not ever hearing again:
1) 1st Piano Concerto with Van Cliburn
2) Bruch's or Mendelssohn's Violin concertos
3) 9th (come on, if just to remember Clockwork Orange! But Beethoven is on constant rotation when I'm driving!)
4) Penguin Cafe Orchestra - you don't even have to visit the country of my dreams, just listen and u r there! Joe Dassen and Aznavour do the trick, but the language barrier spoils the mood.
5) David Sylvian for all us PorcupineTree/Wilson fans
6) Elizium by Fields of Nephilim (later just Nefilim) is a Must for PF crazies
7) As I Hide by Witchcraft (their one and only gem, PF fans failed to notice them and they disappeared...)
8) Marillion w/Fish and Fish solo efforts, but not later Marillion for those who dig Genesis.
Now I am going even beyond 8-album limit, but its a good question if I ever want to live w/o ever hearing Duke or Selling England by the Pound!?!
Well, as I said before, getting together on this island will give me a chance to listen to music I totally misunderstand: Justin Bieber, Bob Dylan, ... It will be fun!  Right now (for the last few years, actually) I am trying to get into Mahler, but so far keep downgrading to Stravinsky ;-( when in doubt I go thru my Bible: Leonard Bernstein's "The infinite variety of music" and try again! Unless we all get to the Island, these same efforts for the sake of Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber is too much for me!

Dudes, we are doing it! Repopulating the Island!! And it looks good!!! On my third coming to the island I bring:
Goose Island by Camel
Shamal by Gong (this LP is my lifesaver for those painful hangover mornings!)
The Colour of Spring by Talk Talk for those moments when u need help living on an Island with a bunch of dudes. Very potent downer!!!
1st Brahms Sym under Bohm, on constant roration since I was 10
Minstrel in the Gallery remastered by Steven Wilson

Thank you, MOUNTZ, for bringing KC, I thought you'll never get here!

CHUCK928: thank you for chipping in, how did I forget about The Shutov Assembly, its a Must (and Nerve Net, of course!) 
i got myself a new hobby of restoration/upgrade of the 1st gen of portable CD players (selling them on eBay seems too stressful, so they just pile up!) and London Calling is the CD to check the final results, so its in constant rotation in my den!
i will check Sugar Cubes right away, never heard of them but u sound like my kind of dude. Whats your next 8 records?

I play Uriah Heep "Demons and Wizards" much more often than Led Zeppelin, Yes, or even the Stones. Tie with Deep Purple: given a choice of July Morning or Smoke on the Water I would probably die like Buridan's ass even before getting to the Island

Must admit that after playing "Brothers in Arms" gazillion times, I cannot take it no more! I choose "Love over Gold", it is still in constant rotation on my Sondek.

"Dark Side of the Moog" series by Pete Namlook and KS should look nice next to Lustmord and Steve Roach

Peter Nooten and Michael Brook: "Sleeps with the Fishes" - as stunning as Meddle, even on the millionth listen

Clan of Xymox: 1st s/t album and/or Medusa to be placed next to "Sleeps With the Fishes"

Electric Orange - recommended for Pink Floyd fans by one of HiFi+ editors. Am I glad that I subscribed to this Brits journal (here it disappears from the stands in a day!), otherwise I could have missed this band. Electric Orange self-ttitled and also Cyberdelic or at least Orange Commutation is a Must-Have!!... Their one cover tune, "Careful with that ax, Eugene" is how it should have been done in the first place. Always strange but recognizable electronic/rock. Tough to file, maybe next to Kraftwerk, but since I cannot stand Kraftwerk it goes next to Tangerine Dream, PF, Magma, Gong, Mum, Orb. For those who think that after listening to TD, Klaus Schulze, Lustmord, Namlook and Shonwalder there is no more surprises there, just listen to a 66min drone of "Cows Don't Dream at Night".

Sisters of Mercy: Floodland to wake you up and to get some musical viruses in your brain ;-)

Orb - Live 93    

Boxer12, we should request that amp with tubes the size of a bottle to put together a distillery from fermented coconut milk ;-) 
Cannot find that amp though, i think i saw its photo in Hi-Fi+ once

I concur... I have all early Vangelis albums and 1492 is my favorite also! By the emotional impact it is similar to Jean Michel Jarre "Redez-Vous" which was Jarre's requiem for a friend he lost when Challenger crashed

Anyone to bring something digestible from "Top 30" or "American Idol" to the Island? Anyone, please? I am going thru my second reading of "The Song Machine: Inside The Hit Factory" and still feel like an alien by totally Not getting the music flood coming from The Industry Dudes! Mind you, I still listen to Ace Of Base when working out, but once pop and math gets applied to human psyche, the end result is even creepier than MP3 (MP3 tries to fool our hearing, re-digested Hit-Tune is an abomination to my ears!).  I am in deep hiding in Classical music nowadays, but is there any manageable "mainstream" out there? Hit me!