Okay, I know this is as hackneyed as it can be, but what 10 CDs would you need if you were marooned on a desert island? What songs wouldn't you mind hearing over and over again until you die?
I'm a child of the Seventies, going from age 7 to 16 in that decade.
Elton John and my family's recent purchase of
Rock Band for the Xbox 360 has gotten me thinking back to my rock-and-roll roots.
Here's my list, in no particular order:
Abbey Road, The Beatles - The Fab Four saved the best for last
Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys - One of the best albums ever with the best song ever
Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd - My seventh-grade Algebra teacher played it during class
Nevermind, Nirvana - The last really good rock album ever made
Appetite for Destruction, Guns-N-Roses - I dare ya to not play air guitar while listening to Sweet Child O' Mine
Get The Knack, The Knack - Yeah, I know it doesn't deserve to be up there with the greats, but to a 16-year old boy sick to death of the Bee Gees and disco, My Sharona was like an oasis in the desert
The Game, Queen - Again, not necessarily an all-time classic, but a favorite from my high school days
Pyromania, Def Leppard - Four words: Gunter Glieben Glotten Globen
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Elton John - At age 12, the first time I really became aware of the "concept" album
Zenyattà Mondatta, The Police - Sting and the lads have made some good ones, but I think this was their best.
What are your "Desert Island Discs?"
8 comments:
Only ten, huh?
Well, here goes.
1) My Fair Lady soundtrack. My all time favorite Broadway musical.
2) Frank Zappa, “The Mothers, Filmore East, June 1971. I wasn’t at the concert, but I saw the Mothers shortly afterword while they were on the same tour.
3) Handel’s “Messiah”
4) The Music Man soundtrack. My all time second favorite Broadway musical.
5) Big Brother and the Holding Company, “Cheap Thrills”
6) Steely Dan, “Aja”
7) Jethro Tull, “Thick as a Brick”
8) Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
9) Cream, “Wheels of Fire”
10) Frank Zappa, “Just Another Band From LA”
I'll play. From over here on the east side of the border:
1. "Toys in the Attic" Aerosmith
2. "Women and Children First" Van Halen
3. "Tejas" ZZ Top
4. "Principle of Moments" Robert Plant
5. "Double Live Gonzo" Ted Nugent (the definitive version of "Great White Buffalo")
6. "Greatest Hits" Hank Williams Jr.
7. "Slowhand" Eric Clapton
8. "4" Led Zeppelin (yeah, I know, predictable)
9. "Diver Down" Van Halen
10. "Weekend Warriors" Ted Nugent (For the album cover, if nothing else!)
My list is in alphabetical order. I also added two wrinkles. 1) I could not choose a "Greatest Hits" album. 2) I could only choose one album per band.
And to the shock of many, the Reverend is nowhere to be found in my top ten...
AC/DC - Back in Black
Alan Jackson - Don't Rock the Jukebox
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Landis - Breakups and Booze
Led Zeppelin - IV
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Offspring - Smash
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Van Halen - Van Halen
1-10. Frank Sinatra
Give me 10 CD's with Frank Sinatra and I would happily banish myself to a desert island. It would be heaven.
I'll cheat and start with a boxed set
10: Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen (Solti)
9: Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
8: The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Best of the Bonzos
7: Jimmy Buffett - Changes in Latituedes, Changes in Atitudes
6: Neil Young - Harvest
5: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
4: Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
3: Jethro Tull - Aqualung
2: Joan Jett - I Love Rock n' Roll
1: The Who - Tommy
I'd probably cheat again and smuggle in The Blues Brothers - Briefcase Full of Blues. Oh, what the heck. I'd have to bring CSNY - So Far and Jefferson Airplane - Worst Of, too.
1. Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss
2. KMFDM - Symbols
3. Metallica - Justice for all (everything after the Black album sucked).
4. Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
5. Coven - Ble$$ed is the Black
6. Star Blazers - 40 song compilation CD
7. KMFDM - Light
8. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
9. Iron Maiden - Number of the beast
10. Godzilla CD - soundtracks to the movies.
Barenjager,
My mother loves Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen". Whenever that opera plays in Seattle, she makes a vacation of it. It takes three days to perform the opera.
My mother also gave the name to my electric car "Grane", the mythical flying horse in the opera.
I'd have to bring my wife so she could bring ten more
10: Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
9: Bee Gees - Greatest Hits
8: Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
7: Heart - Little Queen
6: Grease - Original Soundtrack
5: Bee Gees - Best Of
4: Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
3: Beatles - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2: Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
1: Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Ok, ok. I know she likes all these. They may not be her very favorites but they are the ones she listens to that wouldn't cause me to either sacrifice her to the volcano gods or just make me jump in the ocean and start swimming.
I mean really; have you ever had to listen to The Monkees?
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