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Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 12:56 pm

You are to be left alone with a CD player in an isolated island; there are no other people than you, just natural food like fruits and vegetables, nothing to drink but water. Nevertheless, you are left with a pile of first class alkaline batteries for your CD player…

Before letting you there, you are given 5 CDs to choose from whatever kind of music you like, in wav format - because the CD player is a bit outdated… - but don’t worry as you have a pair of very good closed studio headphones and an excellent player, in fact, the best of the market!

What a situation, right? Uffffff…

I personally would take:

*Ravel “best collection”
*Classical collection “the best of classical composers”
*The best in “funk”
*The best in “fusion”
*The best in “psychedelic rock”

I think I could live with it…

Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:23 pm

Well... Best Ofs are a bit of a cop out i think - go with your convictions.

Gary Numan - Dance (seriously my favourite album of all time)
Philip Glass - The Photographer
David Bowie - "Heroes"
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Thomas Tallis - Spem in Alium (plus other works)

Post by **hubird** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:29 pm

gimme a woman against that, there's always a chance she can sing, to hear music

Otherwise, Public Ennemy, Burning Spear, King Sunny Adé, one first class lounge cd and one top partymix cd

pseudojazzer · Post by **pseudojazzer** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:42 pm

Nestor, great idea, but unfortuately, we folks in England have had the honor of a radio show that does exactly that - it interviews celebs and asks them their favorite records that they would take to a desert island - its called "desert island disks" - and is probably the most popular radio show on BBC radio 4. Each person is allowed 8 tunes and one album, a book and a luxury. Many choose a religious text for their book, and luxuries are stuff like lifetime chocolate supply, or a grand piano, or a pen that never runs out.. Maybe we could ask for scope?

Check it out -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/des ... iscs.shtml

Personally its such a tough question to answer - i'd have to have some Hendrix i think, some Beethoven definitely - your compliation idea sounds good tho - i'd be happy with a "best of funk" compilation - so long as it had some Jaco on it - preferably live, or Word of mouth.

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samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:42 pm

# Pink Floyd - Piper at the gates of dawn
# Coil - Love's secret domain
# Klaus Schulze - Audientity
# Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
# Future sound of London - Lifeforms

The order is rather random

And Hubird's right, a woman could do miracles

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:15 pm

Beethoven's 6th and 7th Symphonies
Return to Forever's "Where I have known you before"
The Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper"
Spock's Beard's "The light"
My own "Bowed Pianos".

Edit: Nestor, be more specific. The best of whatever style doesn't give us names... hehe

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skwawks · Post by **skwawks** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:43 pm

Sketches of Spain miles davis
Revolver the beatles
Music from big pink the band
Blond on Blond dylan
Fresh sly and the family stone
plus a little compilation of favourite songs illegally burned and secreted up my ass (probably on mini disc );-)

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 4:58 pm

I just wouldn't be able to choose. I'd probably have to burn 5 cd's full of MP3s. I'd be lost without some Hendrix, Herbie Hancock and Alice Coltrane though.

Post by **garyb** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:22 pm

who needs cds on a desert island?

Post by **hubird** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:55 pm

it could be your only dessert...

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:46 am

Hmmm...

Rush - Vapour Trails, Moving Pictures
Frank Zappa - Overnight Sensation
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
ELP - ELP

...and a box of distress flares!

Royston

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:57 am

My taste changes and unlike most people I could not listen to the same music for the rest of my life because after so many listens it would get boring. I would stop listening to music. Even the best music is boring once it is fully absorbed. It's like porn in that way. That's how I feel. It's too bad everyone else isn't the same. There is a lot of stagnation. I can't stand it.

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:38 am

Not sure I agree... if the music is good enough you won't get bored of it. The amount of times I've listened to 'Headhunters' and 'Man-Child' by Herbie Hancock I almost know them backwards. And I still discover something new on each listen.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:39 am

wow - an item I almost comletely agree with you, braincell

I'd refuse old favourites as they'd probably drive me too sentimental anyway.
but I could finally improve my saxophone skills - on a deserted island noone's supposed to kill me, not sure about the animals tho ...

cheers, Tom

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Post by **garyb** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:45 am

yeah, and maybe conch shells and hollow logs and bird noises and the waves and the wind, lots of music around.....(and the sounds in my head....)

can i trade the cds for my wife?

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:14 am

while you mention it - I never missed 'music' in the deserted parts of any island I've visited.
I usually can't wait to get out into remote locations and wilderness, mostely mountains.

it's amazing - you're often just a couple of miles from tourism rush and civilization and NOTHING at all reminds on it anymore.
A wrong step could be your last one - that snake's bite could be deadly poison.
Noone will care for you and noone will find you in time.

But nature around is one big sound built from thousands of elements - even the most marvellous symphonic orchestra would be displaced - let alone a 909 kick...

oops, sorry for ot - seems I qualify for holidays... Tom

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:53 am

garyb wrote:
who needs cds on a desert island?

You could use them to direct the sun's rays towards a passing ship, hence enabling your rescue.

Make a solar cooker using their reflective properties to cook yummy fish.

Glue a stick on the end of one to make a useful fly/bug-swatter.

Use it to reflect the sunlight to scare birds away from your freshly planted desert island crops.

A mirror to shave that Robinson Crusoe beard off with.

Snap them; use their jagged edges as knives.

If "Girl Friday" gets washed ashore, string two together to make a sexy top-half of a bikini.

Break them up into pieces, use the pieces to "feather" your arrows (in a bow & arrow survival stylie).

How could one survive without them on a desert island?

Royston

Post by **garyb** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:58 am

i learn so much here.....

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:11 am

Disclaimer: I was of course referring to the use of AOL CDs, not your treasured musical ones

wayne · Post by **wayne** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:11 am

Yeah, bugger the cd's - which 5 instruments?

You'd need a tuba, of course

, a drumkit, an upright piano, an acoustic guitar and a pedal-powered ASB rig, no?