A quick take on the old classic
You have an Iphone. (the phone cant get a signal of course so you are left with the Ipod) You ripped each one at very high quality of course, being hifi donuts, so you can only have 10 albums.
Whats it to be? (2 compilations allowed but NOT home brewed ones= - commercial ones only - you got them through I-Tunes remember)
Mine
1/ Supertramp - Crime of the century.
2/ ELO - out of the Blue
3/ Eagles - best of
4/ Alison Moyet - Alf
5/ Carole King - tapestry
6/ Don Mclean - American Pie
7/ Al Stewart - Year of the cat
8/ Sade - Diamond Life
9/ Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
10/ Bill Withers - greatest Hits,
If you choose more then ten your battery goes flat and you are doomed. - Strict rules apply in this post.
Last edited by: VxFan on Thu 6 Jan 11 at 20:54
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Some good 'uns there, Z.
A quick stab at mine:
1) David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
2) Joni Mitchell - Blue
3) Elgar - Cello Concerto Du Pré / Barbirolli
4) Kathleen Ferrier - Bach & Handel arias
5) The Doors - The Doors
6) Howlin' Wolf - some Chess compilation
7) Otis Redding - Otis Blue
8) Pink Floyd - Wish You were Here
9) Abba - Abba Gold
10) Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
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Johannes Brahms.........A German Requiem.......1941 Mengelberg recording.
Gustav Mahler.......Das Lied von der Erde........Kathleen Ferrier version.
Rickard Strauss.......Four last songs.
Giacomo Puccini.....La Boheme......opers
Marty Robbins.....El Paso.
Erich Korngold.......Die Tote Stadt....opera.
Dayey Arthur..........The Green fields of France
Gabriel Faure....Requiem.
George Formby.....Thanks Mr Roosevelt
Groucho Marx.....Lydia the tattooed lady..
So much to choose from.....but these would keep me entertained.
( I'd swim over and listen to your American Pie, Rob ! )
Ted
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1 Oasis - Defintley Maybe
2 The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
3 Guns And Roses - Use Your Illusion 1
4 Guns And Roses - Use Your Illusion 2
5 The Wildhearts - PHUQ
6 The Wildhearts - Earth vs The Wildhearts
7 The Prodigy - Experience
8 The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation.
9 The Subways - The Subways
10 The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
Ive got loads more I would have but I can only have 10 so it would be these
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A Beethoven symphony CD and a Mozart piano concerto CD.
If I'm still allowed two compilations, The Immaculate Collection by Madonna and a Style Council CD.
Only six to go.
1. This Year's Model by Elvis Costello.
2. Sgt Peppers by The Beatles.
3. Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin.
4. Bad by Michael Jackson.
5. Electric Warrior by T Rex.
6. Silk Degrees by Boz Scaggs.
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1. Beethoven - 9th Symphony
2. Sibelius - 2nd Symphony
3. 10cc - Sheet Music
4. Robert Palmer - Riptide
5. Blondie - Parallel Lines
6. Rossini - Overtures
7. ELO - Out of the Blue
8. Mozart - Marriage of Figaro
9. Beatles - Revolver
10. Queen Greatest Hits
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But if I was cheating like Iffy, I too would have all of Beethoven's and Sibelius's Symphonies and on second thoughts replace Queen's Greatest Hits with the soundtrack to Mamma Mia!
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>>you got them through I-Tunes remember) <<
Well, I'm going to have a hissy fit now.
I don't use I-Tunes, so I can't do it.
>>stomps off in disgust<<
Pat
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Do you have an MP3 player?
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Of course not, why would I want one of those?
I have a CD player in the house and one in the car, when I'm in the greenhouse I have a little radio and when I'm in the garden I listen to the birdsong and the waterfall.
MP3 Player.
I have an I Pod docking station thingy on the stereo and wondered what it was for.
Pat
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>> Of course not, why would I want one of those?
Just for you, and only you, I will assume that someone will rip your ten best cd's to Mp3 and present you with a cheap player before we dispatch you off to your desert island.
(mutter mutter, worse than my mother - blody luddite mumble mumble)
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...just for you...
Block your ears everybody - Def Leppard, AC/DC, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Saxon, Black Sabbath, Whitesnake, etc here we come. :)
Last edited by: Iffy on Thu 6 Jan 11 at 18:50
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...you forgot ZZ top...
I like ZZ Top, and I could go a bit of Sabbo as well.
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List exactly to OP spec... my 10 albums to take to a desert island in Ipod form... not 100% my 10 best albums of all time.
David Bowie - Bowie Live (1974 version not remaster)
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
The Who - Live at Leeds
Steeleye Span - Now we are six (1974 version not remaster)
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
White Stripes - Elephant
Stranglers - No more heroes
Candy Dulfer - Saxuality
Babe Ruth - First Base
Marina & the Diamonds - The family jewels
Otherwise essentials like Led Zep and Sabbath left out as they need meaty amps and speakers really.
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Hot Rats - Frank Zappa
Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
Lady in Satin – Billie Holiday
Petite Messe Solonnelle – c. Rossini, Lausanne Vocal Ensemble & Soloists
Liege and Lief – Fairport Convention
The Nightfly – Donald Fagen
Live in Concert with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra – Bic Runga
A Warlock Centenary Album (in. Capriol Suite) – c. Peter Warlock, various artists
Live Performance – Jake Thackray
When in Rome – Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Too difficult - no room for Handel, Grainger, Haydn, Talking Heads, Art Blakey, Steely Dan, Carole King (Tapestry nearly made it Z), Jethro Tull, Ian Dury, Jimi Hendrix, Dylan...
I'm fairly happy I could live with the 10 I've chosen though.
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I'm with Spads on the Sibelius symphonies, plus all the tone poems ! I like the Beethovens but I'd probably have to leave them and take the Vaughan-Williams set instead.
Piano....OK...Chopin, Stenhammer, Hummel and Mendelsohn....and add Shostakovich 2 to the compilation.
Ted
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Not sure about albums as such but I would certainly have:-
Joy Division - Substance or Unkown Pleasures
Stone Roses - Stone Roses (so I can feel at home)
Rancid - Greatest Hits
The Clash - The Clash
Guns and Roses - Greatest Hits
Some sort of brummy collection of Judas Preist/Black Sabeth etc tracks
Blondie - Parrerel Lines
The Bee Gees - Great Hits
Simon and Garfunkel - Greatest hits (the 3 CD version)
The Klinks - Greatest Hits
New Order - Substance
Ramones - Ramones
Journey - The Essential Journey
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (album)
The Cure - Greatest Hits
The Buzzcocks - Greatest Hits
Sex Pistols - Never mind the........
The Killers - Hot Fus - To remind of the great times of my earlier youth.
I could go on for ever but that would be against the rules. I have tried to keep this diverse.
Looking at Fen's list I have to have the Strangers and Bowie in there too.
Last edited by: RattleandSmoke on Thu 6 Jan 11 at 22:55
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Rats thats 17 it wont fit you have to dump 7
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Edit rats - you have a 3 cd set, that makes 20
you have to dump 10
Last edited by: Zero on Thu 6 Jan 11 at 23:06
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Nice list Z but was there an album Fleetwood Mac by the band Rumours!
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Thu 6 Jan 11 at 23:01
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Now you know why my mp3 collection needs sorting out.
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>> Now you know why my mp3 collection needs sorting out.
And then try getting classical music into the Band/Album/Track paradigm.
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>> And then try getting classical music into the Band/Album/Track paradigm.
Oh thats easy, trouble is none of the on-line databases uses the same format, or even the same separator!
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News Flash.....
An hour after hitting the beach, Rattle's batteries ran out !
Ted
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Don't worry I will take a solar powered CD player with rechargable batteries. I have to dump ten I will probably just make my own compilation of ten CDs then, or is that also cheating?
I suppose I would dump the Killers and Sex Pistols without any hesitation.
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yes thats cheating- read the rules at the top
NO home brew albums, and only TWO compliations.
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Are compilations artist mixes of the 'Now That's What I Call Hot Hits' genre or track mixes such as the Blue/Red Beatles compilations?
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compliations are nows, best ofs, platinums, greatest's, or even whites reds or blues.
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So by compilations I assume you mean great hits too. Ok damn.
1 Joy Division - Unkown Pleasures
2 Stone Roses - Stone Roses (so I can feel at home)
3 The Clash - The Clash
4 Guns and Roses - Appetite for Descruction
5 Blondie - Parrerel Lines
6 The Bee Gees - Horizontal
7 Simon and Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
8 Ramones - Ramones
9 The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (album)
10 The Buzzcocks - Greatest Hits
I think that works quite well really, everything from early 60's stuff to err late 80's. I think I have just realised I don't like much modern music!
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>> I think I have just realised I don't like much modern music!
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Well you're more up to date than I am Rats! I share the Simon & Garfunkel and the Blondie - ignoring the Bee Gees, as I do, the rest are a closed book to me except for the Joy Division song on the Donnie Darko soundtrack album.
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Rattle. Bee Gees. Good songwriters and all that, but honestly, have a word.
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A lot of their early stuff is actually very good, I am talking pre Night Fever etc.
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Pity I can't post my favourite albums on this thread.
2 reasons;
1/ I would never have an iphone or ipod.
2/ itunes will never get loaded on any PC of mine.
Not after what happened when I did.
Blue screen after blue screen, followed by a corrupted Windows, requiring a total wipe and reinstall (thank goodness I keep my data on a separate partition) means I will NEVER try itunes again.....
(yes I do have backups of most of my data, but separate partitions meant I was up and running a lot quicker...... )
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You can have the same dispensation as me Tony, otherwise Z is guilty of discrimination!
Iffy nearly got it right....
Highway To Hell AC/DC
Against The Wind Bob Seger
Hotel California Eagles
Come An’ Get It Whitesnake
Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi
Best Of Def Leppard
Precious Metal Various
Cuts Like A knife Bryan Adams
The Very Best of Aerosmith Aerosmith
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow Rainbow
Pat
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"...means I will NEVER try itunes again"
It's odd how a bad experience can put one off for life. I am the same with Sophos AV (does it still exist?) - wouldn't touch it again - but that's based on one experience maybe 7 or more years ago, so not only is it probably quite a different product now, but it also is a massively popular piece of software in use without issue on millions of PCs every day.
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Stone Roses - Stone Roses
My Way - Ian Brown
Nancy & Lee - Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
Best of Cowboy Junkies - Cowboy Junkies
From the Secret Laboratory - Lee Scratch Perry
The Whole Story - Kate Bush
Three Sides Live - Genesis
Abbey Road - The Beatles
It Takes a Nation of Millions - Public Enemy
Short Sharp Shocked - Michelle Shocked
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The Verve - Urban Hymns
David Gray- White Ladder
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
ELO - Face the Music
Eagles - Hotel California
Robbie Williams - Escapology
Billy Joel - Greatest
The Doors - Best of
Diana Ross - Touch Me in the Morning
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
It'll be different tomorrow though ...
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Appetite For Destruction - Guns n' Roses
Music For The Jilted Generation - The Prodigy
Nevermind - Nirvana
MTV Unplugged - Nirvana
Greatest Hits II - Queen
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Fallen - Evanescence
Live: Right Here, Right Now - Van Halen
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
Automatic For The People - R.E.M
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Les Miserables Double CD
Proclaimers Greatest Hits
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
Eagles - Greatest Hits
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Cold Play - Parachutes
Queen - A Night at The Opera
Simon & Garfunkel Greatest Hits (if allowed)
Eva Cassidy - Songbird
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And which luxury of no practical value would you take with you?
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RSS feed to car4play of course :-)
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You haven't got a signal.
Nothing on line is available.
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ok, headphones to go with the ipod???
Reminds me of the time my b-i-l who does hill walking, travelled 200 miles in his car to do his next Munro. Parked up, pulled the bike out the back to cycle to the start point and realised he had left the front wheel in his garage!
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Yes why not, should cook up nicely served with coconut milk
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>> Yes why not, should cook up nicely served with coconut milk
Oh, you can be much more adventurous than that.
tinyurl.com/o5fgh
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My started for 10:
The Killers – Hot Fuss
Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
Eric Clapton – Unplugged
Led Zeppellin – II
Muse – HAARP
Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley Shoals
The Parlour Mob – And You Were A Crow
Paul Simon – Graceland
Pink Floyd – Delicate Sound of Thunder
Queen – A Day at the Races
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Some more good albums coming. I thought about adding Graceland to it and will probably swap that for the Bee Gees.
I would miss the Killers Hot Fuss too but only because of the history behind them and how I discovered them. First gig in front of 150 people, I missed it as I was in hospital having an operation :(, second gig I did see but by then they were crap, they played in front of about 2500. Now they play in stadiums. However the indie scene in the mid naughties was very exciting with lots of new bands, I remember every single week going to see a new band nearly all of them made it big.
Then I discovered Punk and I am now happy just seeing the Damnned once a year!.
Oh damn that is another album I need it in my list. Basically I think my top 10 albums would just depend on the mode I am when I right the list!
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In no particular order:
Buddy Guy - Can't Quit The Blues
David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
The Beatles - White Album
The Stones - Exile On Main Street (or Shine A Light if I'm allowed a double)
Tab Benoit - Wetlands
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Human League - Dare/Love And Dancing
B.B. King - Deuces Wild
Memphis Slim & Canned Heat - Memphis Heat
Rich Harper - Standard Musician Time (bit dubious about this one)
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Can't do it - not possible to choose only 10.
But how come no mention of Pink Floyd - Pulse, and Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed?
And, of course, I would give up a whole CD, or even more, for just one track - Gary Moore and BB King, Thrill is Gone,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqAuuIDU2sw
So, semi hijacking a thread (sorry!), if you had to choose one track what would it be??
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And, he said, taking another swig of the red stuff, where are Everly Brothers Greatest Hits, and Chuck Berry, The Anthology??
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Bizarrely, Angels by Robbie Williams
Pat
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well to get best listening time, it would be a toss up between track one side 1, or track side 2 of
jethro tull - thick as a brick.
track 1 Side one is longer so its that, all 22 minutes and 44 seconds of it.
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Rolling Stones' Stripped was a contender for me, which features Let It Bleed, but if I had to chose only one track, then right now it would be Pink Floyd - Sorrow from DSOT. Rediscovered it recently, and while it's a great track in its own right, it really reminds me of my teenage years as well. Fabulous.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5EDqQtnRrc
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Stripped nearly made my list, not least because I was fortunate enough to see the Stones at the Brixton Academy where a bit of it was recorded. (I also have Stripped Companion which is more of the same, but maybe a bootleg)
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"Rolling Stones' Stripped was a contender for me, which features Let It Bleed,"
I meant the LP - 1969ish
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Bleed#Track_listing
Last edited by: PhilW on Fri 7 Jan 11 at 20:35
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Thought quite hard about this.
1. ELO Out of the Blue
2. George Harrison - Cloud 9
3. Queen - Night at the Opera
4. Mozart - Requiem (Nigel Mariner and St Martin in the Fields..)
5. Handel - Messiah (Probably the Mozart re-write)
6. Only Men Aloud - Band of Brothers
7. Travelling Wilburys - Volume 1
8. Elton John - Yellow Brick Road
9. Eric Clapton - Crossroads
10 - Buddy Guy - Alone and acoustic
The last two as I really should have got around to listening to them...!
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There should also be the option to add a few songs. For example I am not really a Hot Hot Heat fan but I love Bandages because it reminds me so much of my youth. It is a song I grew up with.
I would also miss Whitesnake etc.
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Desert Island Ipod. - Old Sock
