OT: Desert island CDs -- what would you take?

jnk · Post by **jnk** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:54 pm

I think I like Zoot's list better than mine! Can I trade?

Marsha, didn't you promise us your list if we got it started?

Echo, don't we get a full list from you too? C'mon, eight more!

Songbird · Post by **Songbird** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:20 pm

jnk wrote:Marsha, didn't you promise us your list if we got it started?

JEFF, did I say when?

I'm thinking.....

Marsha

rested gal · Post by **rested gal** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:27 pm

Boxed sets of Mozart and Beethoven.
Boxed set of as much Rock beginning in the 60's as could be crammed into it.

jnk · Post by **jnk** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:53 pm

Songbird wrote:
jnk wrote:Marsha, didn't you promise us your list if we got it started?
JEFF, did I say when?

I'm thinking.....

Marsha

While you are thinking, may I stand on a soapbox in the middle of your thread, in case it helps you make up your list?

My list doesn't necessarily represent my all-time-most-listened-to albums (CDs), my favorite songs, or even my favorite music. My list is of albums that, as stand-alone works of art, I occasionally need to hear, all the way through, because they capture something.

As posts here show, the album is becoming a lost concept. People now collect individual songs or buy complete boxed sets of artists' works. So I zeroed in on the idea of the album itself, the statement of the artist in presenting a collection of songs that go together. And in my case, the CDs I listed I may not listen to often, but when I do, it is because I need to--the listening is an event, it is for a reason, and I listen to the songs in order in one sitting.

But, hey, that's just me.

(Steps off soapbox, looks around embarrassed, wonders just how much he went off, slinks over in corner.)

carbonman · Post by **carbonman** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:34 pm

jnk wrote:
My list doesn't necessarily represent my all-time-most-listened-to albums (CDs), my favorite songs, or even my favorite music. My list is of albums that, as stand-alone works of art, I occasionally need to hear, all the way through, because they capture something.

As posts here show, the album is becoming a lost concept.

But, hey, that's just me.
looks around embarrassed, wonders just how much he went off, slinks over in corner.)

JNK, I'm right there with you.
They will always be albums......
and you are correct, sometimes they need to be listened to
all the way through.
No need to be embarrassed or slinking anywhere.

jnk · Post by **jnk** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:51 pm

carbonman wrote:No need to be embarrassed or slinking anywhere.

Thanks, carbonman. I wasn't sure if I was "whining" or "complaining," so I decided to "quit" then slink into a corner in case there were some 2x4s coming.

I just didn't want to ruin a fun thread by inserting a big chunk of opinion. But I sometimes wonder if the kids being born today will even know what an album is. I'm still hoping Marsha gets some good lists!

-SWS · Post by **-SWS** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:12 pm

In the vein of jnk's soapbox sentiments & selecting alphabetically from my present collection:

Beethoven's Choral Symphony
Creed- Greatest Hits
Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg- Twin Sons of Different Mothers
Eagles- Hotel California
Inkuyo- Music of the Andes: The Double-Headed Serpent
Led Zeppelin- The Complete Led Zeppelin (remastered)
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Stevie Ray Vaughan- Soul to Soul
U2- Joshua Tree
Waylon Jennings- Greatest Hits
The Who- Who's Next

I chose eleven CD's, simply because I've been accused in very tiny print of having ADD and not following instructions. So I'm packing eleven.

Babette · Post by **Babette** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:15 pm

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm currently singing the theme song to "The Munsters" in my head.
http://www.munsters.com/

Interspersed with Rob Zombie's "Dragula".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1MQW5e6KcE

And every now and then Arthur Brown's "Fire".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY1APSk0SS0

LOL,
B.

Babette · Post by **Babette** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:32 pm

Better Munsters Theme file: http://www.classictvhits.com/munsters/s ... unsters.au

LOL,
B.

psikes · Post by **psikes** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:41 pm

Nine copies of Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" and the Wes Montgomery Box Set. Without the jazz there is no reason for CPAP!!

Phil

goose · Post by **goose** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:50 pm

Hmmmmm.....10?? That's tough. As a former Disc Jockey, I don't really listen to albums -- I listen to mixes, so bringing my MP3's would work pretty well, but here's a list of what came to mind spur of the moment (yeah I know it's 11 or 12 or..., but who's counting?? ):

Beatles: Abby Road, Sgt. Peppers, White
Pink Floyd: Dark side of the Moon, The Wall
Peter Gabriel: So, Shaking the Tree
Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin, On the Threashold of a Dream
Santana: Abraxas
Who: Tommy, Who's Next
Traffic: Traffic, Shootout at the Fantasy Factory

I could have added sooooooo many more - Cream; Steve Miller; Crosby, Still, and Nash; Big Brother; Jefferson Airplane; Enya; and on, and on, and on.............

ADHD ain't a bad thing.......

cheers
goose

CorgiGirl · Post by **CorgiGirl** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:16 pm

Oh, Babs, now I have an ear worm!!!! Now I'll never stop replaying the Munsters in my head!!!!!!! You owe me! I don't know what but I'm sure I'll think of something!

As for my list, well, they're all box sets, of course:

Boxed set of all the shows from The Christmas Revels and The Spring Revels (http://www.revels.org)
Boxed set of Nightnoise (Celtic, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightnoise)
Boxed set of Broadway musicals from Rogers and Hammerstein (Oklahoma) through today
Boxed set of Forbidden Broadway (Broadway musical parodies, http://www.forbiddenbroadway.com/)
Boxed set of Big Band Jazz (including Frank Sinatra, Stan Kenton, etc.)
Boxed set of Indigo Girls
Boxed set of John Denver
Boxed set of George Winston
Boxed set of 60s folk
Boxed set of 70s rock

And a solar powered CD player...unless I can bring my solar powered Ipod which would hold everything....

jnk · Post by **jnk** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:24 pm

Babette · Post by **Babette** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:25 pm

Oh sorry!

Here, let me fix that....

http://www.televisiontunes.com/Addams_Family.html

LOL,
B.

-SWS · Post by **-SWS** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:36 pm

This thread reminds me so much of that other thread I was just getting ready to start: "If you could pack only one Chinese entree for permanent exile on a desert island... what entree would it be?"

Dinner-for-ten selections off the menu are allowed.

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