The 3 greatest albums of all time…
Forget that my iPod is currently holding over 2000 songs. If you were stuck on an island with a cd player and only 3 cds, which 3 cds would you want them to be?
for me:
3. Willie Nelson: Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be) - Willie can get you through a lot.
2. Jimmy Buffett: Songs You Know by Heart - Hey, you are on an island, put on some Buffett and now it’s a party
1. Bob Marley: Exodus - Well simply the greatest album of all time!
January 10th, 2006 at 9:17 am
Only three???
Mahler, Symphony #5
Joy Division, Substance
Billy Idol, Rebel Yell (need to dance)
January 10th, 2006 at 11:59 am
Dude, three is putting a cramp on my style. It is actually painful cutting away the chaff.
Here goes -
1. Pink Floyd - Animals
2. U2 - The Joshua Tree
3. This last one is the tough one . . . How about RUSH - Moving Pictures . . . I just keep coming back it. Pretty good stuff, if you haven’t listened to it in awhile.
(Sorry Joe, Stevie, Miles, Sting, George and everyone else I had to let go of.)
Ben O.
January 10th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
Oh dear God. This is too tough. Hmmm… can they be soundtracks? Hmmm…. I’ve listened to so many damned Kidz Bop CDs the last six or so years, my brain is fried.
I’m thinking Peter Gabriel Greatest Hits
Dave Matthews
Poi Dog Pondering
10,000 Maniacs
Oh, you only asked for three.
January 11th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
you realize your asking the impossible, right? with that said here we go:
Mr Bungle - Mr. Bungle: I hear something new with every listen.
Beatles - White Album: Something for every mood and island would give you.
Led Zepplin - Box set: Can I do that? Ooops, I just did.
January 11th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
I found you thru Ben’s blog~HELLO!
What a tough question!
Def Leppard ~ Rock of Ages~ The Definitive Collection
Kelly Clarkson~ Breakaway (love every song on that album)
Daryl Hall & John Oates~ The Essential ( I know corny but I love them!) =)
January 11th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Hey Shannon - I can’t agree with ya on the Kelly Clarkson, but I have to admit to being a closet Hall & Oates fan. They have some really good songs, no doubt.
Nice question, Mark. What we really need is 3 albums that are set and then one slot that we can rotate albums in and out as the tastes change throught the day or week. My musical interests are so random and even though I am listening to They Might Be Giants right now, I will totally be in the mood for some Iron Maiden in an hour or so.
Ben O.
January 11th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
I’ll weigh in with three of my favorite blues albums:
Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East
Eric Clapton - From the Cradle
Robben Ford and the Blue Line
Like Ben, I’m all over the place with musical interests.
January 11th, 2006 at 11:18 pm
I also found you through Ben O. Hi! Thanks for giving me something to think about other than work. Seriously.
I definitely agree on Bob Marley Exodus…and I’d have to add Andrew Bird’s The Mysterious Production of Eggs, plus Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief. But I second Ben O: my tastes are random and always changing.
(A character in my book loves Hall & Oates…hilarious!)
January 12th, 2006 at 8:30 am
I know it’s a hard question - my taste are very eclectic too. It’s not uncommon to hear my iPod play Sinatra then skip to Metallica then Willie Nelson then James Brown then John Lee Hooker then Rachmaninoff. But, that’s what you gotta love about the iPod - it’s like my own radio station that plays nothing but the music I like. That, and no radio station could ever get away with that combo of music - worlds would collide.
mark
January 12th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Hey Mark, is Golgotha you? Just curious.
I am having such a blast playing with my iPod (and iTunes incedentally). I used to go with Winamp exclusively. I am not that much of an Apple kind of guy, but ever since getting this little black magic box (it came with iTunes on CD) . . . I am so into making playlists and listening to the Party Shuffle. I’ve always been way, way into music, but this thing has reinvigorated the whole experience for me and I find that I can’t wait to find some time in my day to play with it all.
Such fun . . .
Ben O.
January 12th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
Yeah, Golgotha has been my screen name for the last 7 years now
I agree, the iPod is the best purchase I have made in years!
January 12th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
the only thing hall & oates would be good for, if stuck on a deserted island, would be to drive me insane enough to forget I was there. yikes, i mean i like “man eater” and all, but hall 7 oates as one of the only three cds you could listen to for the rest of your life? if you’re serious, i think you’ve heard too much of them already.
January 13th, 2006 at 2:35 am
Dude, ease up on the H2O a bit. Maneater is their best, but what about Private Eyes, Family Man, You Make My Dreams Come True, Sarah Smiles, Kiss on My List, I Can’t Go For That . . . the list is endless. (Well, almost endless.)
Ben O.
January 13th, 2006 at 8:57 am
I’m with hubs on this one, of all the albums out there - ‘Hall & Oates’?!
We all have our closet favorites, you know those albums where you’re singing along jamming and then your friends come over and you slip in Pearl Jam and hide your BeeGees…
January 13th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Yep, I actually agree with both of you. I would never take Hall & Oates over “The Wall” or “Achtung Baby”, but it is a free country and I can totally see the point in at least mentioning it. They do have some decent songs. I actually did a post way back when about iPod Secret Songs. That song that you have on your pod, but you are a tad ashamed to mention it to anyone.
I guess the only silly song is the one you don’t put on your iPod because you are worried what someone else will think about it. I say go for it. I have Sade all over my pod . . . I like her voice, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.
This whole thread has been a total blast.
Ben O.
January 13th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
Sade is sexy as hell - ain’t nothing to be ashamed of there. Now if you said you had the complete Barry Manilow BBC records - then I would worry.
January 14th, 2006 at 12:39 am
Does he even have a BBC record? That makes my world a little smaller somehow just knowing that there are actual people out there right now listening to Barry belt out a live (and apparently rare BBC-recorded) version of “Copa Cabana”.
I love Sade, actually my iPod secret is more like Enya or that Air Supply song I have on there.
Ben O.