# Music and Time Travel

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-and-time-travel/67354>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 2, 2001, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-and-time-travel/67354 "2001-06-02T19:52:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![aoty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9e8a1a/32.png) [@aoty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aoty)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2001, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-and-time-travel/67354/1 "2001-06-02T19:52:34Z")

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Here’s a silly question:  
If you could travel back in time to 1985 and take one CD (or tape…whatever) back with you to share with your 80’s pals, which would you take and why?

I thought about this as I listened to Radiohead’s Kid A, and thought how I would have reacted if I’d heard it fifteen years ago.

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**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2001, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-and-time-travel/67354/2 "2001-06-02T20:13:34Z")

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Kid A is a good choice. OK Computer would be probably be better received, with lots of comparisons to Pink Floyd.

Play by Moby would be a good one, or some Fatboy Slim. Or some wild Psy-trance style electronica.

My number one pick though would be White Trash Heroes by Archers Of Loaf. This CD along with the aforementioned Kid A would have totally changed, or at least speeded up, my music appreciation evolution.

Amnesiac by Radiohead is coming out this coming Tuesday by the way.

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**Author:** ![aoty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9e8a1a/32.png) [@aoty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aoty)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-and-time-travel/67354/3 "2001-06-03T00:48:56Z")

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> Amnesiac by Radiohead is coming out this coming Tuesday by the way. \*\*

Yes, I know. But, I’ve had Anmesiac for a couple of months now (ahhhh… the internet). It’s maintained a regular spot in my listening rotation. Good stuff.

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**Author:** ![PerfectDark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@PerfectDark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PerfectDark)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-and-time-travel/67354/4 "2001-06-03T01:10:50Z")

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I’d take back Fatboy Slim - Praise You.

But because I am only 17 if I went back to '85 I’d be only 1 year old.

PerfectDark

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**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2001, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-and-time-travel/67354/5 "2001-06-03T19:58:26Z")

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Better yet, for which performance would you travel back in time to record (with today’s superior technology) and bring back for posterity?

Gotta pick: Louis Armstrong, “Bird” Parker, the Beatles in the German nightclubs, Jimmie Hendrix just practicing …