# What are your top 10 CDs? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 24, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265 "2001-03-24T02:41:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/1 "2001-03-24T02:41:46Z")
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), 1. Radiohead - The Bends 2. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City … 3. Foo Fighters - There is nothing left to lose 4. Aimee Mann - Bachelor Number 2 5. REM - Automatic for the People 6. U2 - Greatest Hits 7. Bjork - Homogenic 8. Jimi Hendrix - The Ultimate Experience 9. The Beatles - Rubber Soul 10. Bob Dylan - The Essential Bob Dylan Damn, this was harder than I thought. So many on the bubble that I hated to leave off. Your turn … ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/2 "2001-03-24T03:29:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/3 "2001-03-24T03:41:50Z")
Any cds that you currently possess. Be it bought or not. ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/4 "2001-03-24T04:37:33Z")
In no particular order, my current list: **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 Now, off to listen… ---
**Author:** ![A\_Friend\_of\_the\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@A\_Friend\_of\_the\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Friend_of_the_Devil)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/5 "2001-03-24T04:44:28Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/6 "2001-03-24T05:19:29Z")
Nevermind by Nirvana Achtung Baby by U2 Grace by Jeff Buckley Bitches Brew by Miles Davis What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye Celebrity Skin by Hole Cd’s I’ve burned: Best of the Beatles Rolling Stones Pearl Jam Nirvana ---
**Author:** ![wolfseyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/97f17d/32.png) [@wolfseyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfseyn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/7 "2001-03-24T05:26:39Z")
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 (I_Y_RC): Really Cared (not remember correctly) IANAL, but that stuff I said about Britney is just BS… ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@Bad\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_Hat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/8 "2001-03-24T05:41:43Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/9 "2001-03-24T05:46:23Z")
My answers change regularly, but at the moment… 1. Beatles - Revolver 2. Dire Straits - Making Movies 3. Small Faces - Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake 4. Black Sabbath - Volume 4 5. The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society 6. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 7. Enya - Watermark 8. Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers 9. Bob Dylan - Desire 10. Smithereens - 11 ---
**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/10 "2001-03-24T06:04:59Z")
Here they are in order 1. Radiohead - OK Computer 2. Green Day - Dookie 3. Green Day - Warning 4. Radiohead - Kid A 5. Radiohead - The Bends 6. Live - Secret Samadhi 7. Live - The Distance To Here 8. Blink 182 - Cheshire Cate 9. Prodigy - Fat of the Land 10. Blink 182 - The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/11 "2001-03-24T06:35:54Z")
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** ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/12 "2001-03-24T07:54:39Z")
Only ten? 1. Robert Johnson boxed set. 2. Ry Cooder - Get Rythym 3. John Lennon Collection 4. Collective Soul - Hints, Allegations… 5. John Kilzer - Busman’s Holiday 6. Jeff Healy Band - See the Light 7. Chet Atkins / Mark Knopfler - Neck and Neck 8. Led Zeppelin 4 (nuff said) 9. Lyle Lovett and His Large band. 10. Frampton Comes Alive John Kilzer’s Busman’s Holiday is a demo copy Lola obtained and to my knowledge is the only copy in existance. I would like to think otherwise. She loaned me the CD almost six years ago and I refused to give it back until she consented to be my love slave. It worked. Now If I could only get her to like Lyle Lovett… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![padabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@padabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/padabe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/13 "2001-03-24T08:25:02Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/14 "2001-03-24T08:25:10Z")
This is subject to change without notice: 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 ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/15 "2001-03-24T12:41:16Z")
I’m going to cheat a little: 1. The entire recorded output of Led Zeppelin 2. **The Bends** - Radiohead 3. **Abbey Road** - The Beatles 4. **Beethoven: Ode To Freedom : Symphony No. 9** -Leonard Bernstein in Berlin 5. **Live at Newport '56** - Duke Ellington 6. **Live at the El Macombo** - Stevie Ray Vaughn 7. **Mule Variations** - Tom Waits 8. **Mingus Ah Um** - Charles Mingus 9. **Stop Making Sense** - Talking Heads 10. **Dummy** - Portishead Ask me again in an hour & I’ll have a totally different list. Hodge ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/16 "2001-03-24T13:46:33Z")
1)How many 2)albums 3)did 4)the 5)doors 6)make? Oh, yeah, 6. 7)Oops, forgot “An American Prayer”, music by the doors. 8)“Vulgar Display of Power”-Pantera 9)“Time’s Up”-Living Colour 10)“Phantom of the Opera”-Original Broadway Cast Recording I’d need more than 10 choices to chronicle my whole list, so I just gave you the highlights. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/17 "2001-03-24T13:49:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Pies\_R\_Squared](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Pies\_R\_Squared](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pies_R_Squared)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/18 "2001-03-24T14:06:08Z")
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_ [sub]BTW, did I mention I really like DHC?[/sub]😃 Squirrel Nut Zippers - _Bedlam Ballroom_ Squirrel Nut Zippers - _Hot_ Now the ones I listen to at home: Gong - _Angel’s Egg: Radio Gnome Invisible, Part II_ Shonen Knife - _Let’s Knife_ Beethoven - his ninth symphony ---
**Author:** ![Jenericho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Jenericho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenericho)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/19 "2001-03-24T15:34:27Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265/20 "2001-03-24T15:50:35Z")
In no order: 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 Dr. J [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-cds/59265.md?page=2)