# Rhetorical question **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 30, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178 "2000-09-30T20:17:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/41 "2000-10-07T23:19:45Z")
**Scotticher** said: > [@](#): > > I LOVE Gordon Lightfoot, and Jackson Browne! (And you even spelled Browne correctly, what a guy!) I like Stevie Nicks, too. Your musical taste is superb, ma’am. (One of these days I’ll have to tell you about my novel. It’s serious, mostly…but I have a character called “Cotton Jenny.” She grew up in a house on a hill by a worn-down weathered old mill…and sometimes it seems her life is like a paperback novel, the kind the drugstores sell…) > [@](#): > > I have seen Gordon twice in concert, and Jackson once. I’ve never seen GL in concert, but I did get to see JB at Penn State. I almost saw SN at the New York State Fair once, but she got sick and cancelled. > [@](#): > > Where in North Dakota did you say we should meet? > > Now that you have seen fit to correct your stance on the Mariners, that is. I need a map… Go Ms! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/42 "2000-10-08T01:09:33Z")
Rachmaninoff: Symphony #2 (Ashkenazy/Concertgebouw Orch.) Verdi: Requiem (2 disks) (Solti/Vienna Philharmonic) And I’d smuggle in Beatles: Sgt. Pepper ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/43 "2000-10-08T03:38:10Z")
Well, the thought of listening to **one** CD from beginning to end bores me so the thought of listening to _ **three** _ CDs over and over again makes me want to explode my eardrums. I would select whichever CDs I can find that are the shiniest for use as signalling mirrors and the CD player which has the best chance of being turned into a satellite phone with the judicious use of palm fronds and octopus ink. ---
**Author:** ![JuanDeCuba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a87d85/32.png) [@JuanDeCuba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuanDeCuba)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/44 "2000-10-08T05:42:29Z")
I would have to take at least one that I had never heard before, maybe Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain but there is so much I would hate to end up stranded on an island without ever hearing. ☹ As far as albums I’ve already heard are concerned, Mardi Gras Mambo by Cubanismo is incredible, I just got it Friday night and haven’t gotten tired of listening to it yet. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/45 "2000-10-08T13:32:29Z")
If I am ever on a boat that sinks near a deserted island, and I am among the group of survivors who makes it to the island, I hope you will be there too. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/46 "2000-10-08T20:40:34Z")
K. This be hard, but… 1. AEnima, TOOL 2. Through the Past Darkly, Rolling Stones 3. Dark Side of the Moon, (If you don’t know who this is by…!) Really though, i feel i’m the only one who didn’t put on anything classical. (Well not the ONLY one.) Too hard to limit it to three. But this is the best I could do. ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/47 "2000-10-08T22:30:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoggie \* > \*\*K. This be hard, but… > > 1. AEnima, TOOL > > 2. Through the Past Darkly, Rolling Stones > > 3. Dark Side of the Moon, (If you don’t know who this is by…!) > > Really though, i feel i’m the only one who didn’t put on anything classical. (Well not the ONLY one.)\*\* That’s Ok, you included Dark Side of the Moon, so you’re redeemed ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/48 "2000-10-09T00:32:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Malarky \* > That’s Ok, you included Dark Side of the Moon, so you’re redeemed > > \*\* Would anyone have thrown potato skins at me if I had included the Monkees’ Greatest Hits? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/49 "2000-10-09T00:44:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoggie \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Malarky \* > > That’s Ok, you included Dark Side of the Moon, so you’re redeemed > > > > \*\* > > Would anyone have thrown potato skins at me if I had included the Monkees’ Greatest Hits? 😃 \*\* As long as i didn’t have to listen to it, no, I wouldn’t feed you to the sharks!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/50 "2000-10-09T02:14:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Malarky \* > \*\*As long as i didn’t have to listen to it, no, I wouldn’t feed you to the sharks!😃 \*\* Hey its pretty good! Very good in fact. Am I the only one who believes as such? And supposing I had brought it along, and played it really loudly supposing your island was floating a few feet from mine and you were loudly blasted w/ the sounds of “Daydream Believer”- would you fire monkey asses and bull testicles at me? (I’m kind of hoping you’ll say yes.) ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2000, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/51 "2000-10-10T23:54:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoggie \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Malarky \* > > \*\*As long as i didn’t have to listen to it, no, I wouldn’t feed you to the sharks!😃 \*\* > > Hey its pretty good! Very good in fact. Am I the only one who believes as such? > > And supposing I had brought it along, and played it really loudly supposing your island was floating a few feet from mine and you were loudly blasted w/ the sounds of “Daydream Believer”- would you fire monkey asses and bull testicles at me? (I’m kind of hoping you’ll say yes.) \*\* Maybe monkey asses. But not bull testicals. That’s just silly. ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/52 "2000-10-11T02:04:18Z")
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin I Black Sabbath: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Tangerine Dream: Pergamon ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/53 "2000-10-11T02:29:53Z")
[li]_Jazz Sebastien Bach_ - the Swingle Singers (since the limit is 3 CDs, I thought I’d combine Bach with jazz.)[/li] _Ravel: The Complete Piano Music_, played by Robert Casadesus (2 CDs). ---
**Author:** ![Renton\_lvr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Renton\_lvr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renton_lvr)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/54 "2000-10-11T06:19:14Z")
The Smiths: Louder Than Bombs (I only choose that one because it has the most songs per single CD as compared to the rest of their albums) The Cure: Disintegration The Beatles: Abbey Road Honorable Mentions- (if one of the above is not available) The Pixies: Doolittle The Stone Roses: Second Coming Creedence Clearwater Revival: Best Of… Natural Born Killers: The Soundtrack ---
**Author:** ![BrothaTJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@BrothaTJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrothaTJ)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/55 "2000-10-11T07:40:36Z")
Pearl Jam- Yield Nirvana- In Utero Chevelle- Point #1 ---
**Author:** ![xanadu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c4cdca/32.png) [@xanadu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanadu)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/56 "2000-10-11T23:39:54Z")
I would bring 3 blank CDs and a laptop computer (with the internet, of course) so that I can download stuff from Napster! Yeah, yeah I know that this would be cheating. But you did say that this was a rhetorical …um, er… hypothetical question, didn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/57 "2000-10-12T03:29:18Z")
My runner up CD’s would be: Pulp Fiction Soundtrack Best of Janis Joplin Possibly, Appetite for Destruction Though I admit, it would get boring listening to the same 3 over and over. Couldn’t we just rotate? ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/58 "2000-10-12T04:11:14Z")
Well, 3 is certainly easier than 1 (but not by much): - Velvet Underground - Disc 2 of Peel Slowly and See Box (contains first LP + a few nice extras) - The Stooges - Funhouse - Gram Parsons - GP/Return of the Grievous Angel HenrySpencer ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178/59 "2000-10-12T04:47:56Z")
Hokay, [ul][li]Bizet, L’Arlesienne Suites 1 & 2; Carmen Suites 1 & 2, Dutoit, Orchestre symphonie de Montreal.[/li][li]Miles Davis, Kind of Blue.[/li][li]Cream, The Very Best of Cream.[/li][/ul] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhetorical-question/35178.md?page=2)