Forum:Ten desert island discs

So between Heavy metal, Yoko Ono and Bob Dylan, plus the stuff about the 80's on WIGO-CP, we've been talking music lately. What do you listen to, Rat-wikians? If you could only own ten CD titles, what would they be?

TheoryOfPractice

 * 1) Miles Davis The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965
 * 2) Ornette Coleman Beauty is a Rare Thing
 * 3) Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
 * 4) Frank Zappa Shut Up and Play Your Guitar
 * 5) Bill Evans  The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961
 * 6) Charlie Parker the Complete Savoy Sessions
 * 7) John Coltrane The Heavyweight Champion
 * 8) Glen Gould Bach Preludes, Fughettas and Fugues
 * 9) Clifford Brown The Complete Blue Note-Pacific Jazz Recordings
 * 10) Duke Ellington Live at Newport 1958

carptrash
In no particular order, and with minimal thought


 * Catch-a-Fire -Bob Marley and the Wailers
 * Rubber Soul - the Beatles
 * Working Man's Dead -Grateful Dead
 * Little Richard's Greatest Hits
 * Best of the Everly Brothers (2 CD set)
 * Hitsville USA (best of Motown), vol 1
 * the Complete Stax-Volt vol 2 or 3 (depending on the phase of the moon)
 * the Do-Wop Box set - probably vol. 2, but . . ....
 * Essential Willie Nelson (2 CDs)
 * the Paul Butterfield Blues Band

Irrational Atheist

 * The Afghan Whigs Black Love
 * Bôa The Race of a Thousand Camels
 * Faith No More The Real Thing
 * Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
 * Nirvana Nirvana
 * Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
 * Pearl Jam Ten
 * Possum Dixon Possum Dixon
 * R.E.M. In Time
 * Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park

ListenerX
I would retain a box-set of the works of G.F. Handel, viz.:


 * 1) Alexander's Feast
 * 2) Israel in Egypt
 * 3) Judas Maccabaeus
 * 4) Messiah
 * 5) Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
 * 6) The Choice of Hercules

Toast
I misread this :thought it was fave tracks, still, leave it as it is for now.

Very Difficult but out of about 5000, allowing only one per artist:
 * (in order of pretentiousness)


 * 1) Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt, In the Hall of the Mountain King
 * 2) JSB: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
 * 3) KT Tunstall: Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
 * 4) The Rolling Stones: Paint It Black or Little Red Rooster
 * 5) The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl: Fairytale of New York
 * 6) The Lovin' Spoonful: Summer in the City
 * 7) The Beatles: Norwegian Wood
 * 8) Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven
 * 9) Lou Reed: Walk on the Wild Side 
 * 10) Beach Boys: Anything from Pet Sounds but if pressed: Wouldn't it Be Nice

But I'd ditch 'em all for:
 * Sinéad O'Connor: Nothing Compares 2 U

ConservapediaUndergroundResistor
Don't know the names, but here are the sounds I'd like to here:
 * 1) wolves howling with a bit of Bach mixed in
 * 2) the sound of a meadow at night
 * 3) the sound of a rainforest at night
 * 4) tree frog calls
 * 5) the sound of dolphins and whales
 * 6) the sound of songbirds in a temperate forest with some ambience
 * 7) the sound of savannah songbirds mixed with African drum music
 * 8) rapidly, osscilating, high freqeuncy rythems
 * 9) the sound of cats purring
 * 10) the sound of the Colbert Report

But I'd give them all up for an infinite number of Scientific American magazines, a two-way radio, and the New York Times. With a Danish. Or, a cat.

Weaseloid
These were easier to pick than I expected (favourite songs would be way harder to whittle down to a finite number). In approximate chronological order:


 * 1) Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
 * 2) Carl Perkins - The Essential Sun Collection
 * 3) Howlin' Wolf - The Genuine Article
 * 4) Simon & Garfunkel - The Essential Simon & Garfunkel
 * 5) Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will the Circle Be Unbroken
 * 6) Bob Dylan - Desire
 * 7) Whiskeytown - Faithless Street (with bonus tracks)
 * 8) The Handsome Family - Singing Bones
 * 9) Willard Grant Conspiracy - There But For The Grace Of God
 * 10) Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways

Nate River
The Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace

AC/DC - Greatest Hits

Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

A CD of classical piano

A CD of classical violin

Flight of the Conchords - Folk the World

A mix tape of various punk albums

Mortal Kombat Motion Picture Soundtract

A CD by Maximum the Hormone

The Offspring- Greatest hits

Totnesmartin
My original list ran to 38 albums, but somehow I got it down to these, which just about represent my musical tastes.


 * 1) The Beatles - 1967-1970
 * 2) Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
 * 3) John Coltrane - Ascension
 * 4) Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Very Best of Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful
 * 5) Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)
 * 6) Aretha Franklin - 20 Greatest Hits
 * 7) Fela Kuti - Best of the Black President
 * 8) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture and Morality
 * 9) Erik Satie - Piano Works
 * 10) Talking Heads - Remain in Light

And if I could still have my Fortean times and the Wire subscriptions, that'd be fine. Oh and a chest of organic single estate Assam.

Z3ro

 * 1) Metallica - Master of Puppets
 * 2) Deftones - My Own Summer
 * 3) Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
 * 4) Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
 * 5) Stabbing Westward - The Darkest Days
 * 6) Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
 * 7) Beethoven - 9th Symphony
 * 8) Joshua Bell - Voices of the Violin
 * 9) Vanessa Mae - Best of Album
 * 10) Hilary Hahn - Beethoven Violin Concerto

Yossarian
Just discovered this. In no particular order:


 * 1) The Beatles - The Beatles
 * 2) The Beatles - Abbey Road
 * 3) Philip Glass - Dracula
 * 4) Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
 * 5) By the Fireside - The Great Hartford Fire
 * 6) The Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop
 * 7) David Bowie - Let's Dance
 * 8) Yann Tiersen - Good Bye, Lenin!
 * 9) Tosca Tango Orchestra - Waking Life
 * 10) Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand