5 CD's to take to a Deserted Island
 

Ok everyone has heard this saying... asuming batteries and a playing device wernt a problem... what 5 Albums or CD's would you take with you to a deserted island...

Mine would be...

Dark Side of the Moon... Pink Floyd
The Wall.... Pink Floyd
Nirvana... Unplugged
10.... Pearl Jam
Grand Illusion.. Styx

Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
Queen - Greatest Hits Volume 1
Led Zeppelin - IV
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power

Tough choices to leave out alot of stuff, but I think I did OK for me.

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
The Allman Brothers - Greatest Hits
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
John Denver - Back Home Again
Grateful Dead - American Beauty

Fear Factory-Demanufactured
Nin-Downward Spiral
Dave Matthews Band-Under The Table and Dreaming
Dieselboy-The DungeonMaster's Guide
Dj Dara-Future Perfect

Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
Stew - Something Deeper Than These Changes
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Honorable Mention/Possible Alternate: Tom Petty - Wildflowers

CD#1 - How to Build Fire
CD#2 - How to Build Shelter
CD#3 - How to Make Tools
CD#4 - How to Hunt Wild Animals
CD#5 - How to Build a Boat

Only five?! How will I LIVE?!

1. Floater--Burning Sosobra
2. U2--Achtung Baby
3. Travis--The Man Who
4. Placebo--Without You I'm Nothing
5. Oasis--(What's the Story) Morning Glory?

I'd really rather opt to take my iPod instead.

I wanna be shipwrecked near warrrreagl, to get use out of CDs, but then have the ability to listen to my own music... (i'll bring along a Beatles CD if it'll help)

1. Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
2. Belladonna - Stevie Nicks
3. Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf
4. A Night at the Opera - Queen
5. War -- U2

To only have 5 cd's would be tough, but:

Brown Sugar: D'Angelo
Reasonable Doubt: Jay-z
Urban Hangout Suite: Maxwell
Greatest hits: Mowtown
Loud Records Rocks

Surfer Rosa - Pixies
I'm With Stupid - Aimee Mann
Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
The Best of Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey


This list would probably be different if you asked me tomorrow...

Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Train a Comin' - Steve Earle
Ocean Beach - Red House Painters
Things We Lost in the Fire - Low
Famous Anonymous Wilderness - Graham Lindsey

Listening to those records all day every day, almost makes me wish I was stuck on a deserted island...

-Paul Winter's "Wintersong"
-Mozart's Requiem
-Devo's Greatest Hits
-Ella Fitzgerald sings the best of Cole Porter
-Pink Floyd, "Dark Side of the Moon"

sigur ros - Agaetis byrjun
the smiths - hatful of hollow
converge - jane doe
coldplay - a rush of blood to the head
jamiroquai - traveling without moving

hmm
Nine inch nails- And all that could of been
Nebula - To the Center
Monster Magnet - Superjudge
Bad Religion - All Ages
How to Speak Spanish

it depends on what kind of naturally occuring hallucinogens/drugs are on this island.

Oh man this is hard....this list is not a solid one..it may change for me completely later.

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Pearl Jam - Ten
Counting Crows - August And Everything After
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever Disc 1
Silverchair - Diorama

Asta!!

But disc 2 has ODB saying "i'm not the first dog who shitted on your lawn!" Do you want to rethink your choice of disc?

It also has Triumph but Disc one has

For Heavens Sake
Cash Rules/Scary Hours
Visionz
Older Gods
It's Yourz
and A Better Tommorow (My fave Wu track)

The choice is easy for me really.

Asta!!

Zac Maloy -- Life
Pearl Jam -- Vs.
Goo Goo Dolls -- A Boy Named Goo
Hooters -- Nervous Night
Loverboy -- Lovin Every Minute of It

this is a great topic

pink floyd-dark side of the moon
The strokes- is this it
The Buddy Rich Tribute Album
and 2 Mixed Cd's if that counts

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
KMFDM - Nihil
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James
Santana - Greatest Hits
Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom

Wu Tang Clan - Wu Tang Forever (It's only 1 disc..Honest :rolleyes: )
Dead Prez - RBG
Nirvana - Best of
Jedi Mind Tricks - Psycho Social
The Roots - illadelph halflife

how about 5 mp3 mix cds... or is that cheating?

This is always so hard.

If I had to pick RIGHT NOW:

Pearl Jam "Ten"
Massive Attack "Mezzanine"
Talking Heads "Remain in Light"
Beethoven's 9th
and a Creed one so I have something to smash and use as something to kill small animals with

Man I forgot about Illadelph...choices :(

Asta!!

1. Tool - Aemina
2. NIN - The Downward Spiral (10th anivarsary ediition. I get an extra cd of b-sides:p)
3. Interpol - Antics
4. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head.
5. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

Pearl Jam - Ten
The Tragically Hip - Live Between Us
Radiohead - The Bends
Pink Floyd - PULSE (haha, a two disc set!)
The Police - Greatest Hits

Hi everyone!
I'm a newbie here, but, not a newbie to music. Here's my 5.
Guns N Roses, Appetite For Destruction
AC/DC Live
Rush, Chronicles
Black Sabbath, Live Evil
CD #5, How to Build a Boat, as quoted earlier!
if not available, Pink Floyd The Wall

Now, where is the outlet for my boombox? I've only got 2 hours of battery life at most!!!
Dave

Dookie - Green Day

1-5
grinspoon - easy
the distillers - coral fang
the killers - hot fuss
sarah blasko - overture and the underscore
the doors - the doors

6-10
queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf
the offspring - americana
unwritten law - unwritten law
elvis costello - my aim is true
the buzzcocks - a different kind of tension

Great Choices... made me think about revising my list... so on second thought...

Remove Nirvana and add Tool... Anemia

I like Alenja's idea about the Creed cd being used as a weapon... but I think if we played it really loudly all the animals would just kill them selves so we wouldnt have to hunt them down to kill them.

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (remastered, both discs)
Opeth - Still Life
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
Carcass - Heartwork
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours

I always wondered why it was only 5 cds anyone could bring with them. Am I on a plane hurtling towards the sea and I only have time to grab 5 things, and out of everything else I just happened to choose 5 albums that I would want to listen to until I get rescued?

...my friends hate me sometimes. :D

pandit pran nath-midnight
elaine radigue:adnos
art ensemble of chicago: 1967/68
various: austral voices
dj/rupture: minesweeper suite

pop treat: animal collective sung tongs (though if the Scenario unfolded in a week, all these woudl be different, except the first three)

I think that I would take one specific CD for the different moods I may be in:
1. Nirvana (Any)
2. Pearl Jam (Vitalogy)
3. Green Day (Dookie)
4. Mudvayne (LD50)
5. CKY (IDR)

only five?!?! jeez. i've made a list of the 12 CD's i can't live without. i don't know if i'd be able to narrow it down to five. okay, lets see....

Vangelis - Blade Runner Soundtrack
U2 - Pop
Nirvana - Greatest Hits
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (i'm cheating by counting this as one CD)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

well, that's my list, for now. it could change at a moments notice.

Beatles - Anthology
Ray Charles - Anthology
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra Reprise, The Very Good Years
Various - Beg, Scream and Shout ('60s Soul)
Various - Can You Dig It ('70s Soul)

Hold on, I smell a rat...are these your actual favorite 5 albums ever or are you just trying to cheat the "You-can-only-bring-5-cds-to-your-island" rule by listing Best Of albums? :p

Lit - A place in the sun.
Greenday - American idiot.
Rage againste the machine - Rage Rage.
Metallica - S&M.
Nightwish - Wishmaster

I figure I'll be on that island for a while so of course I'm trying to interpret the rules (cheat) as much as possible. :)

I see lots of cheating here... lol... so if we can bring multi-disc's or "best of's" let me redo my list...

The New Floyd box set...
The Smashing Pumpkins box set...
and 3 discs full of MP3's....

Cheating isnt wrong... untill u get get caught.

What new box set?

[/the only floyd fan within a bajillion kilometers]

Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
yankee hotel foxtrot - Wilco
unplugged in new york - Nirvana
Closer - Josh Groban
Mandylion - The Gathering

Ugh hello! Huge Floyd fan right here!

Asta!!

Iced Earth - The Blessed and the damned
Children of Bodom - Bestbreeder
In flames - Whoracle
Iron Maiden - Best of the beast
Firewind - Forged by Fire

Sign of the Times - Prince
The Beatles (White Album) - The Beatles
Miles Ahead - Miles Davis
Secret World Live - Peter Gabriel
Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson

Marillion - Recital of the Script
John Foxx - Metamatic
The Doors - Morison Hotel
Tom Petty - Into the Great Wide Open
Yes - Going for the One

But lucky me, I have a small folder of 24 cds that I take with me everywhere

Great thread! :thumbsup:

I knew I'd posted this stuff before.....

NIN - The Downward Spiral
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Nirvana - Nevermind
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Tool - Aenima (very hard to pick between that and Lateralus)

Skinny Puppy - Singles Collections
The Cure- The wish
The Cure- Distentigration
New ORder- Power and Corruption
Depeche Mode- Violator

I will get back to you on that. It was about 5 disc's of stuff someone from work had downloaded. I personally havent seen it yet but fully intend to purchase it.

Damien Jurado and Gathered in Song - I Break Chairs
Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
Failure - Fantastic Planet
The Joggers - The Joggers
Kaki King - Legs to Make Us Longer

Without cheating:

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Beatles - Abbey Road
Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Step
Mozart - Violin Concertos 3 & 5 (Itzhak Perlman and James Levine)
Beethoven- Emperor Piano Concerto (Murray Perahia & Bernard Haitink)

John Cougar Mellencamp---Scarecrow
The Samples---No Room
Singles---Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
King's X---Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
Dr. Dre---The Chronic

U2 - WAR
The Clash - London calling
Sprung monkey-Mr Funny Face
Beat Farmers - van go
Black Flag- Who's got the 10 1/2

1.Christopher Hogwood conducting The Academy of Ancient Music - Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Period instruments and well conducted.)
2. Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds (Favorite Floyd)
3. Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties (Gotta stay cool.)
4. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (and weird)
5. Iron Maiden - Powerslave (because, well, Maiden Rulez!)

Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Tool - Lateralus
James - Laid
R.E.M. - Out of Time

Runner ups:
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
311 - Music
Lords of Acid - Lust
Tool - Aenema

Misfits-American Psycho
Flogging Molly-Drunken Lullabies
Bad Religion-All Ages
Descendents-Everything Sucks
Rancid-And Out Come the Wolves

Nirvana - In Utero
Evanescence - Origin
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
H.I.M. - Razorblade Romance
H.I.M. - Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights

Devin Townsend - Terria
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Tool - Lateralus
VAST - V.A.S.T.

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Cowboys from Hell -Pantera
Master of Puppets- Metallica
The jimi hendrix experience-Jimi Hendrix
Ride the Lightning-Metallica