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

[Songbird]

Seeing the movie thread resurface reminded me that a couple of us had mentioned doing a similar thread about music. So here's the question:

You have been deemed by your insurance company to be NONCOMPLIANT. Not because you wouldn't use your xpap machine. Oh, no! It's because you refused to leave it at the brilliant setting of 4-20 cm/H20, loaded your computer with EncoreViewer and James Skinner's EncoreAnalyzer, hooked up a card reader and adjusted the setting until you consistently achieved an AHI of <1.0. As punishment for your sins, the company has decreed that you will be taken to a desert island, where you will live for the rest of your life. However, you won't be stuck there with just Wilson; this one has a lovely little hurricane-resistant cottage, solar power, indoor plumbing and any other comfort you'd like. (I know... I can't find the punishment in that, either. But who ever said insurance companies were smart?)

One requirement the company's imposed is that you may only take ten CDs with you. Which ones would you pack? Try HARD to keep it to ten; that's part of the challenge. Boxed sets count as one CD.

I need to think about this one. Somebody else can start.

Marsha

[Wulfman]

Seeing the movie thread resurface reminded me that a couple of us had mentioned doing a similar thread about music. So here's the question:

You have been deemed by your insurance company to be NONCOMPLIANT. Not because you wouldn't use your xpap machine. Oh, no! It's because you refused to leave it at the brilliant setting of 4-20 cm/H20, loaded your computer with EncoreViewer and James Skinner's EncoreAnalyzer, hooked up a card reader and adjusted the setting until you consistently achieved an AHI of <1.0. As punishment for your sins, the company has decreed that you will be taken to a desert island, where you will live for the rest of your life. However, you won't be stuck there with just Wilson; this one has a lovely little hurricane-resistant cottage, solar power, indoor plumbing and any other comfort you'd like. (I know... I can't find the punishment in that, either. But who ever said insurance companies were smart?)

One requirement the company's imposed is that you may only take ten CDs with you. Which ones would you pack? Try HARD to keep it to ten; that's part of the challenge. Boxed sets count as one CD.

I need to think about this one. Somebody else can start.

Marsha

You call this PUNISHMENT???
Will there be a woman there to complain about my choice of music (or anything else)? (that could be the punishment)

Den

[ractar28]

Boxed sets count as one CD.

10 boxed sets, for sure.

Groups would include (only because I know they have some big sets):
Garth Brooks
Eagles
Pink Floyd and/or Led Zeppelin
Beatles (assuming they did a box set)
George Straight

Anyway, you've really thrown my reasoning off because I'd be looking for lots of music from artists with lots of hits. Why pick a CD with 10 songs when you can pick a box set with hundreds?

[Songbird]

You call this PUNISHMENT???
Will there be a woman there to complain about my choice of music (or anything else)? (that could be the punishment)

Den.

Try to keep up.

Your INSURANCE COMPANY calls it punishment. I call it perfect.

Your choice of companionship -- or not -- but (1) only one to a customer; and (2) your chosen companion must agree to it without any coersion involved. No whiners, complainers or quitters allowed.


Marsha

[jnk]

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[echo]

I'd take Nine Inch Nails (the original one not the remixes), Leonard Cohen (uhhh, greatest hits??) ..... and ractar and jnk

[jnk]

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[Goofproof]

My ten CD's would be filled with 7,000 MB's of MP3's, That wouldn't be enough to carry my collection, but it would cover 1962 to 1967, the best years, if we had any room left, some country. I'd have to leave my Video Collection here, about 5 TB. of processed video. Jim

[-SWS]

My ten CD's would be filled with 7,000 MB's of MP3's, That wouldn't be enough to carry my collection, but it would cover 1962 to 1967, the best years, if we had any room left, some country. I'd have to leave my Video Collection here, about 5 TB. of processed video. Jim

Well, now that you mention it my 16 gig Nano stores my entire collection.

Marsha, may I pack my iPod Nano instead?

Jnk, I don't see any John Denver in that micro-collection...

[jnk]

We certainly are an unruly crowd, aren't we, Marsha?

Fun thread, whether anyone else actually answers your question or not!

[jnk]

. . . Jnk, I don't see any John Denver in that micro-collection...

I've got all of Denver's stuff memorized, so it plays in my head all day without needing the CDs. And at 5:00 pm every day, I pick up my Blueridge 140 and strum and sing a few. Drives my office-neighbors batty!

[Songbird]

I'd have to leave my Video Collection here, about 5 TB. of processed video.

Well, you wouldn't need to leave the video collection behind if you didn't want to, Goofproof. It's not our fault if the insurance company forgot to limit them.
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PM Person, you've made some good points. Soooooooo.....

Only one human and as many from the rest of the animal/bird/fish kingdom as you'd like.

Okay, friendly coersion is allowed. Just no strongarming.

And no, blowup dolls are not people, so taking Baby along is fine. Have at it (so to speak).

Any provisions you want or need will be delivered by helicopter. Order by Tuesday; deliveries on Friday. Controlled substances not allowed. (The insurance company tried that once and got into a heap of trouble with ATF.... told me it's nonegotiable.)
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Marsha, may I pack my iPod Nano instead?

(sigh) Sure, -SWS, iPod's fine. But the POINT was to see what everyone's favorite music is. (Why waste your breath, Marsh? You know those ADD types are incapable of following the rules. Just let it go.)
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We certainly are an unruly crowd, aren't we, Marsha?

Yes, Jeff, definitely unruly. But wouldn't life be reduced to tones of gray without some unruliness?


Marsha

[Zoot]

Bob Marley and the Wailers - Legend
Peter Gabriel - Shaking the tree
Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Sister Sweetly
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Depeche Mode 101
Handels Water Music
The Essential John Coltrane
REM Eponymous
Hank William Jrs Greatest Hits
De La Soul Three Feet High and Rising

[carbonman]

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PM Person, you've made some good points. Soooooooo.....

Only one human and as many from the rest of the animal/bird/fish kingdom as you'd like.

Okay, friendly coersion is okay. Just no strongarming.

And no, blowup dolls are not people, so taking Baby along is fine. Have at it (so to speak).

Any provisions you want or need will be delivered by helicopter. Order by Tuesday; deliveries on Friday. Controlled substances not allowed. (The insurance company tried that once and got into a heap of trouble with ATF.... told me it's nonegotiable.)
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Marsha

.....careful, this is starting to look like the typical insc., fine print contract.

[GuyK]

real life scenario:
My oldest brother, who didn't have much in the way of material goods or a music collection, but did have a DVD player that played CDs, asked me to make a CD for him, to listen to in his "end stage" of pancreatic cancer.

He asked me for these recordings on the CD:
Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game
Leonard Cohen - The Story of Isaac
Peter, Paul and Mary - The Wedding Song (this particular live version, because of the guitar work)

I asked him, "why these?" and he answered that at certain points of his life they held special meaning for him, but he didn't elaborate.

He passed away at age 50, and OSA is one of the few problems he didn't have.