Desert Island Disk

[germdoc]

If you were marooned on a desert island with a solar-powered CD player and just ONE CD, what would it be? Any genre, can be a multi-CD album like Hendrix' Electric Ladyland but not a compilation boxed set.

My vote: Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. I've heard it a million times and still enjoy it and find something new in it each and every time.

[crokett]

A mix CD I made myself. It has Eric Johnson, Wynton Marsalis, Van Halen, Keb Mo and a few others on it. If I can't take that then Van Halen's live album 'Right Here Right Now'.

[LinuxRandal]

I could go with a mix, everything from Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Charles, and Fats Domino, doing Jambalaya, to David Gilmores, on an Island.

[twistsol]

One with an audio book onhow to get off a desert island!

[tribalwind]

how about a data-cd with coconut recipes and boat-building PDF's

[BobSch]

My vote: Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. I've heard it a million times and still enjoy it and find something new in it each and every time.

I'll go with Miles, too. Of course, I'd like it to be a disk full of MP3s. Miles, Coltraine, Bird, Monk, the Duke, the Count and the King, Sarah Vaughan, Kenny Burrell, Diana Krall, Oscar Peterson, Carmen and Ella...

[Ed62]

Not sure I could pick one right now, but it sounds like we have some jazz and blues lovers here. Sounds good to me.

Ed

[Uncle Cracker]

I'm gonna have to go with Shania's "UP!" album (complete with life-size blowup doll... )

[Richard in Smithville]

Is anyone familiar with the "Wow Hits" CD's? It's a mix of modern Christian music. When it's my turn for the car pool, the other guys always like to have a comment or two.....so I turn up the volume.

[germdoc]

Twistsol, I was up in your neck of the woods last week--my girlfriend's mother and sister live in Northfield, MN. Man was it cold up there!

You guys are not playing by the rules. No mix tapes, no Mp3's, no blowup dolls. These are original issue albums. Obviously, this would have to be an album that could change someone's life. Like the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's, or Willie Nelson's Red-Headed Stranger. What I'm interested in is 40-80 minutes of music as it originally came out that you could live with for the rest of your life...

Or at least until FedEx rescued you...

[twistsol]

Alright, if I have to play by the rules, B.B. King, Blues on the Bayou.

[bthorne]

For me it would have to be Dave Brubeck's Time Out or Time Further Out. I can get Unsquare Dance from Time Further Out stuck in my head for weeks and still enjoy it.

[BearPipes-1]

Okay, first a side anecdote. When my wife was a teenager, her lousy little car had a lousy little tape deck that would not eject the Howard Jones tape somebody put in. So for 10 months, apparently, she listened to Howard Jones. <shudder> Music by which to swim away from the island.

Kind of Blue is a great choice, but for me is very non-desert-island. So maybe that'd be my solitary confinement album.

I think for a desert island I'd go with a good recording of Handel's Messiah.

Runners Up: Model Engine's The Lean Years Tradition, Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms, Jethro Tull's Heavy Horses, Kansas' Vinyl Confessions, or Randy Stonehill's Welcome to Paradise.

Albums I treated this way some time in the past: Beatles' White Album, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Animals, and Wish You Were Here, Kansas' Leftoverture, Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs, Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, John Coltrane's Blue Train.

[iceman61]

I would have to take Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975

I'm gonna have to go with Shania's "UP!" album (complete with life-size blowup doll... )

UC, you better take a "patch kit" with you.

[LinuxRandal]

UC, you better take a "patch kit" with you.

That sounds like a needled**k comment if ever I heard one.