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

[Babette]

10 orders of sweet and sour pork, please!

I'll eat anything with sweet and sour sauce on it!

LOL,
B.

[echo]

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.)

Then uncontrolled substances should be no problem We gotta have something for all that 60s rock

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.

Here here!! And I agree with your point on the albums---- I have done that for some artists, and then I feel a bit "lost" because I have no idea which album they came from, i.e. the CONTEXT! On the other hand, many artists don't really do concept albums, seems to be a relic of the past. Which is a real shame, because it's nice to read poetry sometimes but a good novel is always necessary.

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

Methinks you are getting WAY too much air to have noticed this

OK here goes:

NIN - Broken, Pretty Hate Machine, The Fragile
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - I see good spirits I see bad spirits
Madonna - Music, Confessions on a Dance Floor
Leonard Cohen - greatest hits?
Pink Floyd- Meddle, Dark Side of the moon, The Wall, Animals (in that order!)
Soundtrack from Lost Highway
Enigma - album with Mea Culpa
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De lo habitual
Celtas Cortos- Tranquilo majete
Mecano - Descanso Dominical
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Barış Manço - Mançoloji

OK OK That's way more than 10 artists, let alone 10 albums!
These pretty much cover all of my moods...!

OK Happy now???

[Babette]

The Vapors - New Clear Days

I'm Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so!


B.

[echo]

The Vapors - New Clear Days

I'm Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so!


B.

OH MY GOD YOU KNOW THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have that on TAPE from aaaaaaages ago.. I don't even know where the tape is anymore. Do you have it on MP3????

I LOVE YOU!!!

[carbonman]

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.............

goose

.....goose, oh yea, nice list....everyone of'em.
Just reading those titles, can you smell that smell.......

and it ain't pur-sleep.

[echo]

doh!!!! I forgot Beatles. Yup, add all their albums to my list.

[goose]

Hey Carbonman......
yeah -- the smell is in a faint fond memory....gave it up 3 years ago.....
Needed to get my brain back....
So far so good.....now the doc has me on speed for ADHD.......can't win!!!!!

cheers
goose

[Babette]

Nah. I just have an ancient cassette tape. I need to buy a CD so I can burn it to my MP3 player and yet still play it in the car CD player, which is a recent innovation in my life. Up till just a few years ago, I was still playing Cassettes.

Now I'm supposed to buy an Ipod?

Great googly moogly!
B.

[digger101]

Ed finally decides to take a vacation. He books himself on a Caribbean cruise and proceeds to have the time of his life until the boat sank. He found himself swept up on the shore of an island with no other people, no supplies...Nothing. Only bananas and coconuts.

After about four months, he is lying on the beach one day when the most gorgeous woman he has ever seen rows up to him. In disbelief, he asks her, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?"

"I rowed over from the other side of the island," she says. "I landed here when my cruise ship sank."

"Amazing," he says. "You were really lucky to have a rowboat wash up with you."

"Oh, this?" replies the woman. "I made the rowboat out of raw material found on the island. I whittled the oars from gum tree branches; I wove the bottom from palm branches; and the sides and stern came from a Eucalyptus tree."

"But-but, that's impossible," stutters Ed. "You had no tools or hardware." "How did you manage?"

"Oh, that was no problem," replies the woman. "On the South side of the island, there is a very unusual strata of alluvial rock exposed. I found if I fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln, it melted into forge able ductile iron. I used that for tools and used the tools to make the hardware."

Ed is stunned. "Let's row over to my place," she says. After a few minutes of rowing, she docks the boat at a small wharf. As Ed looks onto shore, he nearly falls out of the boat. Before him is a stone walk leading to an exquisite bungalow painted in blue and white. While the woman ties up the rowboat with an expertly woven hemp rope, he could only stare ahead, dumb struck. As they walk into the house, she says casually, "It's not much, but I call it home. Sit down please; would you like to have a drink?"

"No, no thank you," he says, still dazed. "Can't take any more coconut juice."

"It's not coconut juice," the woman replies. "I built a still. How about a Pina Colada?"

Trying to hide his continued amazement, he accepts, and they sit down on her hand-woven couch to talk. After they have exchanged their stories, the woman announces, "I'm going to slip into something more comfortable. Would you like to take a shower and shave? There is a razor upstairs in the cabinet in the bathroom."

No longer questioning anything, Ed goes into the bathroom. There, in the cabinet, is a razor made from a bone handle. Two shells honed to a hollow ground edge are fastened on to its end inside of a swivel mechanism. "WOW! This woman is amazing," he muses, "what next?" When he returns, she greets him wearing 'nothing but vines' strategically positioned, and smelling faintly of gardenias.

She beckons for him to sit down next to her. "Tell me," she begins suggestively, slithering closer to him, "We've been out here for a really long time. I know you've been lonely. There's something I'm sure you really feel like doing right now, something you've been longing for all these months. You know..."

She stares into his eyes. He can't believe what he's hearing: "You mean---," he swallows excitedly, "We can watch WEST VIRGINIA football from here?"

[Limestone]

Frampton comes alive
Back in black
Bat out of hell I & II
Jagged little pill
Elvis Aloha from hawaii

[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

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...

That's ok, but you'll have to use it like a shotgun! You'll have to plug up the ram, so you can't carry more than your limit.

P.S., I'm not legal, I removed the plugs from my Mossburg Getto Blaster, 20 inch barrel, 5 shot. Jim

[Goofproof]

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.

It was good you could do that for him. I understand! Music makes for a escape to better times in our lives. Without it we tend to forget the better times we had, especially when things get tough. Jim

[jnk]

Very nice list, Echo. The only thing that offends me is that you put Animals AFTER The Wall in your preference order. But I won't argue the point.

[echo]

Very nice list, Echo. The only thing that offends me is that you put Animals AFTER The Wall in your preference order. But I won't argue the point.

heh heh heh heh thanks
As for Animals vs. The Wall, I almost nearly had it in reverse order - it IS a tough call!! But because I'm young(er) I grew up listening to both at the same time, and both tell similar stories in my mind. Well you know, about THE MAN, in whatever form he may be. So they get an EQUAL vote in my book

[-SWS]

Speaking of Pink Floyd, where the heck's the "Delicate Sound of Thunder" concert on DVD? Loved that on VHS.

Also, does anyone enjoy Evanescence? Love Amy Lee's voice and that hybrid music style. Refreshingly innovative.