The 5 CDs you can't live without

[OrionManMatt]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Dave Barnes - Chasing Mississippi
Led Zeppelin - II
Emmylou Harris - Pieces of the Sky

...and an Audio CD of "SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea"

 

[pretaanluxis]

only 5:
Silverchair-Freakshow
RHCP-Californication
KoRn-Follow The Leader
Incubus-Morning View
Nirvana-Unplugged in NY

...these JUST missed the cut:
Smashing Pumpkins-Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
NIN-The Fragile

 

[Fassa Albrecht]

For me it would have to be the following-
Rush- Moving Pictures
Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
Level 42- Running In The Family
The Smiths- Meat Is Murder
OMD- The Singles

 

[SurrenderMonkey]

Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - BSSM
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Radiohead - OK Computer

Damn, that's 5 already... No space for Tool, Jamiroquai, Soundgarden or Yann Tiersen!

 

[Zhalimar]

dream theater - sdoit
meshuggah - d.e.i.
allan holdsworth - wardenclyffe tower
opeth - blackwater park
ff tactics sound track

 

[Sarbecue Boss]

Dream theater-sdoit
opeth-deliverance
opeth-ghost reveries
opeth-blackwater park
necrophagist-epitaph

 

[I-Love-Ratm]

RATM-Evil Empire
RHCP-Bloodsugarsexmagik
Smashing Pumpkins-Mellon Collie
Led Zep-2 or 4 can't decide
Pink Floyd-The Wall

Breaks my heart thinking of the albums I could never hear again!

 

[bassfacekevin]

Dillinger Escape Plan- toss-up between Calculating Infinity and Miss Machine

Spastic Ink- Ink Complete

Mastodon- Blood Mountain

Lamb of god- As The Palaces Burn

Primus- Antipop

Love these albums, i can put them on whenever, and without fail feel better.

~k

 

[Blackbird]

Rubber Soul - Beatles
Gilberto Gil - The Early Years
Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
Love - Forever Changes
Legiao Urbana - Self Titled

 

[jonschaer]

I wouldn't take any. No matter what you take and how good it is, you'll get sick of it all with only 5 discs to listen to. I'd rather live with the memory of all the good music I know than go to the grave having ruined 5 of my favorites for all eternity.

JMS

 

[The Artist]

my five, in no special order

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Frog Brigade - Purple Onion
Carl Orf - Carmina Burana

 

[Philbiker]

* Disc 7 (I think) in my complete Mozart Piano Concertos set (Bilson/Gardiner). The one with #17 and #20 on it.
* Donald Fagan: The Nightfly
* Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue
* Sam Phillips: Martinis and Bikinis
* The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper

 

[ThisGuyBryan]

Pink Floyd - Animals
Tool - Undertow
Beatles - Abbey Road
Pearl Jam - Ten
Sublime - Sublime

 

[JamesM]

At the mo my 5 wud b:

Aenima - Tool
Graceland - Paul Simon
Exodus - Bob Marley
Inside The Dub Plates - Salmonella Dub
Grace - Jeff Buckley

 

[Andrew Jones]

Beatles.Sgt Pepper

Jimi.. Band Of Gypsies

Marley.Babalon By Bus

Oscar Peterson..Night Train

Igor Stavinsky.. The Rite Of Spring

 

[sarcastro83]

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Joy Division - disc one of Heart and Soul.
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
David Bowie - Low

 

[Basshole]

Off the top of my head, in no particular order:

Yellow Jackets - Greenhouse
Steely Dan - Aja
John Scofield - Pick Hits live
Don Grolnick - Hearts and Numbers
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk

 

[FalextheFalex]

Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Rage Against the Machine - self-titled
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Victor Wooten - Show of Hands

 

[Guiseppe]

1. Led Zeppelin II
2. Grand Funk Live Album
3. Santana Moonflower
4. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
5. SRV In Step

 

[j.a.e.r.i.p]

The Birthday Concert-Jaco
Heavy Weather-Weather Report
Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus-Mingus
Milestones-Miles Davis
Flood-Herbie Hancock