Hey folks. . .here is the question that is a great icebreaker with a new musician (or on a first date) for that matter. . .

If you were trapped on a desert island with a CD player and only 10 cd's, what would they be. . .

Let's, just for the sake of argument, that you could not have any "Greatest Hits" albums. . .we are looking at an album as a unit. . .

Live Albums are included, and this is NOT columbia house. . ."The Wall" does not count as two slots.

Thomas J.

Well, these aren't ranked, just numbered so as to keep some order here...

1. The Pilfers - S/T
2. The Pilfers - Chawalaleng
3. Ani DiFranco - Living In Clip
4. Dispatch - Silent Steeples
5. Dispatch - Bang Bang
6. G. Love and Special Sauce - Philadelphonic
7. Dave Matthews Band - Live at Red Rocks
8. Minor Threat - Complete Discography
9. H20 - F.T.T.W.
10. John Coltrane - Giant Steps

I had to rul eout a lot, because they were greatest hits type dealys...such as Bob Marley and the Wailers - Legend...and Experience Hendrix...I let Minor Threat stay in because it isn't a greatest hit collection, it's ALL of their stuff on one cd.

-Dave

MC5 "Kick Out The Jams"
Stones "Exile On Main Street"
Joe Satriani "Live in San Fran"
The Who ""Who's Next"
Yes "The Yes Album"
Sonic's Rendezvous "Sweet Nothings"
Guided By Voices "Alien Lanes"
A solo piano version of "Rhapsody in Blue"
King Crimson "Lark's Tongue in Aspic"
Beatles "White Album"

Sheesh...Hmn

I guess I'd just have 10 custom mixed CDs filled with stuff by a bunch of artists.

of course, I'd be a little cheat, and take a Nomad Jukebox and some passive speaker...you can wire those things to 120 gigs of memory. THAT, my friends, is a LOT of music.

Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Pronounced Leh-nerd Skeh-nerd
Pantera-Far Beyond Driven
Brujeria-Brujerizmo
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Fear Factory-Concrete
Slayer-Raining Blood
Mudvayne-LD50 ...or The End of All Things to Come (if it's out by then)
Tool-Undertow
A J. S. Bach compilation (any orchestra/conductor)

Sailing the seas of cheese-primus
Dirt- Alice in chains
Evil empire - RATM
Live form Mars - Ben harper
Disraeli gears -Cream
Blood sex sugar - RHCP
School Days -Stanley clarke
A change of seasons - Dream Theater
anything with jerry jemmott on it (i cant pick)

and Jaco just to remind me what i cant do

dude, this goes in recordings!


(unless you are asking "which bassist would you take to a desert island?")

btw: i take Melissa Auf DerMaur (sp?)

Hmm.. Only 10 cd's..
Primus - Tales From The Punchbowl
The Doors - Strange Days
311 - Grassroots
Tom Waits - Alice
Air - Moon Safari
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Tool - Lateralus
Ozomatli - Embrace The Chaos
Jagúar - Jagúar (Icelandic funk band)
Blues Traveler - Four

in no particular order...

1. Maggots: The Album / Plasmatics
2. Alive! / KISS
3. Escape From New York soundtrack / John Carpenter
4. Destroy All Astro-Men!!! / Man Or Astroman
5. Speak English Or Die / S. O. D.
6. Join The Army / Suicidal Tendencies
7. Just Another Band From L.A. / Mothers Of Invention
8. Switched-On Bach / Walter Carlos
9. Fly By Night / Rush
10. Animals / Pink Floyd

-72

Originally posted by Dave Castelo
dude, this goes in recordings!

yes it does.

- "Road Tested" by Bonnie Raitt.
- Talking Books "Raft building for Dummies", part 1-5
- Talking Books "Navigation for Dummies", part 1-4

:)

1 Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
2. Brad Mahldau: Art of the Trio, (any)
3. Stevie Ray Vaughan: In Step
4. Blues Brothers 2000
5: Allman Brothers: Fillmore East
6. Ahmad Jamal: Digital Works
7. Pat Metheny: Secret Story
8. Metallica: The Black Album
9. Stan Getz and Gerry Muligan: Bossa Nova
10. Annie Lennox: Diva

Originally posted by cassanova


yes it does.

LOL @ your signature :D

I'd take 10 random cds from the music store from artists I've never heard of.
I've listened to al lmy music a zillion times, and don't need to be stuck with them for a zillion times more.
even if what I pick up sucks, it beats knowing every song so well its hard to enjoy.

Originally posted by phreaky
Air - Moon Safari

Sweet. :D

Originally posted by greypilgrim77

Live Albums are included, and this is NOT columbia house. . ."The Wall" does not count as two slots.

Thomas J.

Given that rule - the "Complete Ring Cycle" - Wagner, has to be one choice - that's over 14 hours of music!! ;)

Well, is it 10 CDs or is it 10 albums? An MP3 capable CD player would let you have 100+ hours of music on 10 CDs... :)

But as I said, I'm not gonna sit listening to music, I'm getting off that island! :D

In no particular order:

The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
Sting - Brand New Day
The Police - Synchronicity
Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Steely Dan - Aja
Jamiroquai - Return Of The Space Cowboy
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

EDIT: And if possible I'd bring Sarah Michelle Gellar too :D

You can keep your albums, I'll take an iPod with my entire CD library... OK seriously let's see...

Achtung Baby - U2
If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian
OK Computer - Radiohead
Out Come The Wolves - Rancid
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy - Sarah McLachlan
Agaetis byrjun - Sigur Ros
Exodus - Bob Marley
Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World
The Question - The Slackers

Okay...


Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Nick Cave - Murder Ballads
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Bubbi - Fingraför
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Led Zeppelin - IV
The Who - Tommy
HAM - Skert Flog
Muse - Showbiz
Týr - How Far to Asgaard


...yeah, those I guess.

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=7926&highlight=Proverbial+Desert

Oracle -KiTTiE
Dirt -Alice In Chains
Paranoid -Black Sabbath
Master of Puppets -Metalica
Dracula 2000 soundtrack (some good stuff, sound tracks are ok right?)
A sides -Soundgarden (if that counts as greatest hits then Super Unknown)
Undertow -tool
My Own Prison -Creed
a CD of some nice calming music, maybe Chinise
and (after figuring out how to make a raft) as mentioned before navigation for Dummies.:D

(if what bassist, then Talena Atfield. I think she is the sexiest woman ever a hot awesome and wears sexy clothes)

mr. bungle-disco volante
naked city-(cant' remeber the album title)
fantomas-self titled
herbie hancock-headhunters
straviski-rights of spring
magma-mdk
chompomicrodexall-self titled
exo3-self titled
theory of ruin-self titled
hot pink life-self titled

the last four are demo's of local bands i dig.

How to make a raft and paddles using nothing but sand-?

How to find your way to land and off of an Island-?

How to build a motor using nothing but wood-?


uh.. i don't know about the rest

This is crazy, but I'll limit myself to 10 + 1:

0. "Live at Leeds Deluxe Edition": The Who
1. "Sailing the Seas of Cheese": Primus
2. "Star Time": James Brown
3. "Collected Works": Painkiller
4. "Torture Garden": Naked City
5. "Motown: Hitsville USA": various
6. "Live In Seattle": John Coltrane
7. "Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2": Aphex Twin
8. "Tougher Than Tough: History of Jamaican Music": various
9. "In On The Killtaker": Fugazi
10. "Decksanddrumsandrockandroll": Propellerheads

1. Op Ivy - Energy(I listen to this one every night)
2. Social Distortion - Mommy's little monster (or mailiner/wrekege from the past but not both for i want variety.)
3. Rancid - And out come the wolves
4. Pennywise - one full circle
5. Chopin (anything full of his piano peices)
6. Sublime - Sublime
7. Claptin - I dont know
8-10 something other than punk that I cant think of any particular albums right now but Maybee one more.

How many batteries do i get or is there a place to plug my boombox in. Cause if I only get a few minutes of music then I got to pick by cool looking covers. O and does my boombox got radio.

If it happened right now...

Led Zeppelin's "II"
Pearl Jam's "Versus"
Grateful Dead's "Live Dead"
John Coltrane's "My Favourite Things"
John Coltrane's "Giant Steps"
Bob Marley's "Exodus"
Metheny, Haden and Higging's "Rejoicing"
REM's "Green"
Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Are you Experienced?"
Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Electric Ladyland"

Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
The Godfather Original Soundtrack
Mr. Bungle - California
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
B.B King - Live at the Regal
Radiohead - Kid A
Fima Ephron - Soul Machine
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly

hmmmmm..... let me see......

DMB- "Crash"
Godsmack- "Awake"
Tool- "Undertow"
Jamiroquai- "Return of the Space Cowboy"
Metallica- "And Justice.."
Paul Colman Trio- "Live Electric"
RATM- selftitled
John Mayer- "Room For Squares"
Bon Jovi- "ONe Wild Night live)
Phil Collins-"Serious live"

1. Thursday - Full Colapse
2. Deftones - Around the Fur
3. Weezer - Blue album
4. Weezer - Pinkerton
5. Our Lady Peace - Naveed
6. Far - Water & Solutions
7. Poison the Well - Opposite of December
8. Smashing Pumpkins - Siemese Dream
9. The Revolution Smile - We are in this Alone
10. Snot - Get Some

Makes interesting reading with some of those lists.... not many repeats between them and classical music has a good showing.

Anyway, my picks :-

1. Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales
2. The Blues Brothers (OST)
3. Sublime - Sublime
4. Less Than Jake - Between Borders and Boundaries
5. Weezer - Green Album
6. Catch 22 - Keasby Nights
7. Counting Crows - August and Everything After
8. RATM - RATM
9. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
10. Radiohead - The Bends

although I'd be gutted to leave G Love, John Lee Hooker, Norah Jones and Atomic Fireballs.

It's tough to cover all musical needs in just 10 albums.... When I'm just sunbathing I've only really got Jack Johnson and Counting Crows to sleep to......

All Fugazi+Embrace *ok, so Im in an Ian Mackaye mood*:D

in no specific order, and i'm probably forgetting the most important ones...

1. primus-pork soda
2. frank zappa-hot rats
3. nirvana-bleach
4. nirvana-in utero
5. smashing pumpkins-meloncoly and the infinite sadness, or maybe gish
6. doors-my live 2-cd set
7. rush-moving pictures
8. sublime-self titled
9. slayer-undisputed attitude or reign in blood
10. misfits-self titled

Okay, so this offtopic, but...
Jazzbo, I clicked on your link and what do I see but Gladys Knight and the Pips' "Midnight Train to Georgia" listed as your #2 fav song of all time, as of two years ago... is this still the case? Damn I love that song... almost gives me chills every time I hear it, it's SO powerful...

As for my desert island albums... eh screw it, maybe I'll try to figure that out sometime when I have a couple hours to kill, which is certainly not now. :cool:

1 Living Colour: Vivid
2 Little Feat: Waiting for Columbus
3 RUSH: First Album
4 Lynyrd Skynyrd: Gimme Back My Bullets
5 Atlanta Rhythm Section: Best of
6 Blues Bros: Briefcase full of blues
7 Tower Of Power: Souled Out
8 Led Zeppelin: Presence
9 Jethro Tull: Heavy Horses
10 Rossington/Collins Band: Anytime Anyplace Anywhere

This isn't going to be easy, but:


Radiohead - OK Computer
Alice In Chains - Live
Pink Floyd - Pulse
Ocean Colour Scene - Songs For The Front Row
Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun
Metallica - Ride The Lightening (very hard choice between this and MoP)
QOTSA - Rated R
RATM - RATM
Mansun - Attack Of The Grey Lantern
Metallica - Master Of Puppets (stuff it, i'll take them both)

Kyuss - Blues For A Red Sun
Kyuss - Sky Valley
Kyuss - ...And The Circus Leaves Town
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Primus - Frizzle Fry
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Faith No More - King For a Day
Pink Floyd - The Wall