If you had to pare your CD collection down to just 10 what would you keep? If you were told that you would be stuck with only those ten forever, on a desert island perhaps, what would they be? Restricted to CDs that you currently own, of course.
for me (in no particular order),
Radiohead - The Bends
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City …
Foo Fighters - There is nothing left to lose
Aimee Mann - Bachelor Number 2
REM - Automatic for the People
U2 - Greatest Hits
Bjork - Homogenic
Jimi Hendrix - The Ultimate Experience
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Bob Dylan - The Essential Bob Dylan
Damn, this was harder than I thought. So many on the bubble that I hated to leave off.
Just for clarification, are you counting only CDs which are commercially available? Because in the age of Napster and CD burners, three of my favorites are ones that I’ve assembled myself.
Mer de Noms, A Perfect Circle No Angel, Dido Greatest Hits, Bruce Springsteen Laid, James Rock Spectacle, Barenaked Ladies Signals, Rush Rubber Soul, the Beatles Negotiations and Love Songs, Paul Simon Roll the Bones, Rush So Much for the Afterglow, Everclear
I can pick 10, but I can’t number them - the’re all equal:
Savoy Brown - Hellbound Train
Grateful Dead - Hundred Year Hall
Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine
Pink Floyd - Pulse
Led Zepplin - (the untitled first album)
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Mason Proffit - Bareback Rider
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - (the patchwork quilt albm)
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
and a custom mix: Mountain (Nantucket Sleighride), Quicksilver Messenger Service (Who Do You love, Happy Trails), and a couple of other short cuts.
And you know, CDs are convenient and great-sounding, but I still miss the albums. Someday people will start collecting them just for the artwork…
That’s a good question…
I it was a good idea to list these in no particular order. I know I couldn’t put these in order.
However, I can get along just fine with these 4 albums…
A’ight
Here’s my list (in no particular order)
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Local H - As Good as Dead
NIN - The Fragile
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
These 3 artists be handy to have____/ / /
Any Rage Against the Machine album…
Any Local H album
Any Foo Fighters Album
Any Britney Spears Album
Hit me baby one more time…
BTW, FYI, IIRC (IYRC): Really Cared (not remember correctly)
IANAL, but that stuff I said about Britney is just BS…
alright, this’ll be fun, and I reserve the right to change my answers in about a half hour. and every half hour thereafter.
again, no order:
Wu-Tang Clan -Wu-Tang Forever(disc 1)
Afghan Whigs- Gentleman
Bob Marley- Exodus
Miles and Coltrane- Kind of Blue
Radiohead- Kid A
Radiohead- OK Computer
Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense
Jeff Buckley- Grace
Idlewild- 100 Broken Windows
Ghostfaced Killah- Supreme Clientelle
CJ
OK, I’ll do this for the millionth time…
My picks at this very moment, in no order: Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs And Stories The Clash - The Clash The Beatles - Revolver The Replacements - Tim The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane The Divine Comedy - A Secret History (Best Of) Otis Redding - Otis! (Box Set) XTC - Fossil Fuel (Singles 1977-92) Gang Of Four - Entertainment! Marshall Crenshaw - This Is Easy (Best Of)
CD’s I’ve burned (all contain my personal greatest hits picks): The Pogues Belle & Sebastian Moby Robyn Hitchcock R.E.M. (IRS years) Elvis Costello The Feelies John Coltrane Prince Miles Davis
Erasure - (self-titled album)
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
Depeche Mode - Violator
Fury in the Slaughterhouse - Mono
Nine Inch Nails - Broken
The Refreshments - Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy
Live - Throwing Copper
Everclear - So Much for the Afterglow
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell II
New Riot For New Zero Kanada EP - Godspeed You Black Emperor
Agrophobic Nosebleed / Converge - The Poacher Diaries
Coalesce - Funstioning On Impatience
Cave In - Jupiter
The Weakerthans - Fallow
Weezer - S/T
Refused - The Shape of Punk To Come
The Clash - S/T
NOFX - Punk In Drublic
At The Drive In - Vaya
10 Andrew Lloyd Webber cast recordings in 10 languages:
Hebrew Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Russian Jesus Christ Superstar
Czech Evita
English Song&Dance (Sarah Brightman)
Hungarian CATS
Mexican Starlight Express
Latin Requiem
Swedish Phantom of the Opera
Japanese Aspects of Love
German Sunset Boulevard
The 11th would be my CDR of Odd Selections from Andrew LLoyd Webber, including songs in Hindu and Finnish.
The first few would be the ones I always listen to at work:
Dance Hall Crashers - The Live Record
Dance Hall Crashers - The Old Record
Dance Hall Crashers - Honey, I’m Homely
Dance Hall Crashers - Lockjaw
Dance Hall Crashers - Purr
TMBG - John Henry
Beatles - The Beatles (aka the White Album)
Queen - Queen II
Belly - Star
Sarah McLachlan - Solace
Bach - Well Tempered Clavier (Leon Breben’s recording)
Paul Williams - Bugsy Malone soundtrack album
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Mainly Aimee Mann - Magnolia soundtrack album
TMBG - Then
Phish–A Live One
The Beatles–The White Album
Public Enemy–It Takes A Nation of Millions…
Bob Dylan–Blood on the Tracks
Radiohead–OK Computer
John Coltrane–A Love Supreme
Ani DiFranco–Living in Clip
Indigo Girls–1200 Curfews
Bruce Springsteen–Born to Run and Nebraska
