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  • First off, IMO, Greatest Hits CDs (and compilations of any sort) are cop-outs.  If you're going to choose a greatest hits CD in your "Top 5 CDs", why not just make it a top 50 songs?

    Personal opinions aside I'll stick to complete original albums and not compilations.

    In no particular order:

    Queen - Queen II

    REM - Reckoning

    Pink Floyd - The Wall

    Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Beethoven's Last Night

    For Squirrels - Example

     

     

    Doug

  • This is very tough, I don't have album names in my head, but I would bring 5 CDs worth of my favorite songs from these artists

    Louis Armstrong

    Tom Petty

    Pink Floyd

    Pat Benatar

    Cake

    Beatles

    Big Head Todd & the Monsters

    Billie Holiday

    Bob Seger

  • this isn't easy...

    I'd sneak extra discs

    Social Distortion - Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll

    Beatles - "white album"

    Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around

    Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground

    Pink Floyd - the Wall

    Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part

    AC/DC - Back in Black

    Aerosmith - Rocks

  • This is rather a short set of music from 5 Icons of music history!!!

    Miles Davis - In A Silent Way

    Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

    John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

    Steely Dan - Royal Scam

    Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners

     

     

     

  • Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)

    Airbag (RadioHead)

    Depeche Mode (101) (double live album)

    Alice in Chains (Dirt)

    Tie between Best of Crowded House, or latest albums by The Shins, The Fray, or Death Cab for Cutie (Plans)

     

     

  • I'm going to cheat here on two fronts:

    First, as far as CD's I'd have to take the ones where the artist are personally known to me.  Since John Obetz has three out that leaves two to go.  Paulette Votava-Resch (my wife's voice teacher) has a solo CD out, so that leaves one to go.  Last weekend I found out that Jan Krabill has a couple out.  Then there all the CD's by the groups of the William Baker foundations.  Bill is one heck of a conductor and teacher.

    Second, why are we talking about CD's?  Move everything to MP3 and cut to multi-layer DVD's.  CD's are so last century.

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • I'd have to pick ( a second nod to Nick Cave here )..

    Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture

    Roky Erickson - I Have Always Been Here Before (Anthology)

    Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

    Nick Cave - The Best of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

    Hawkwind - Space Ritual

  • Here's a mixed bag for you:

    Green Day -- Bullet in a Bible

    Elton John -- Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

    Glenn Gould -- Goldberg Variations

    Beethoven's 6th Symphony (many good recordings available)

    Disney Classics Collection

    I'd also bring my guitars and sheet music for all of the above.  And, yes, some of those Disney songs are deceptively challenging for a guitarist!

  • AC/DC - pick any,  but Back in Black #1

    Metalica - Master of Puppets

    Dixie Chicks - either one, like the new one the best

    Gretchen Wilson - either

    Helsinki Philarmonic playing Grieg

     

    (yes I go everything from Classical to punk)

  • The Project Hate - Armageddon March Eternal

    Ulver - Blood Inside

    Soilent Green - Sewn Mouth Secrets

    Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

    At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

  • I'd have to look at my CD colletion also (and I'd definitely cheat with MP3), but here goes by artist (these are mostly folk artist):

    The Cutters (any album)

    Lorena McKenna (Secrets or Elemental)

    William Pint and Felicia Dale (White Horses is current fav, but any will do)

    Alan Parsons Project (Robot, but Vulture Culture is good too)

    Kat Eggleston (can't remember the album name, but again any would do)


    Here there be dragons...,

    Steph Brown

  • Robert Johnson - there are only 29 songs and 41 different recordings

    Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

    Steely Dan - Aja

    Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

    Santana - Santana

    RegardsRudy KomacsarSenior Database Administrator"Ave Caesar! - Morituri te salutamus."

  • Nirvana - Nevermind

    Neil Young - Live Rust

    U2 - Boy

    REM - Document

    Albert King - Baby, I'm in a Phone Booth

    Greg

  • That's a hard one. Right now I think I'd have to take:

    Matrix 5 - Krzysztof Penderecki (At least for the Capriccio and "The Dream of Jacob" alone)

    Orchestral Works and Chamber Works - Iannis Xenakis

    St. Luke Passion - Krzysztof Penderecki

    "1905" Symphony (conducted by Mariss Jansons) - Shostakovich

    Quintets and Voices - Elliott Carter

  • Carmina Burana - Carl Orff

    Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

    Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder

    Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Soundtrack - Tan Dun

    Led Zepplin Box set (I know this is cheating but I have got to have my Zepplin)

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