Castaway CDs

[Bluenose]

You have will be marooned on a desert island for a year with ample shelter, food and water, a CD player (with excellent speakers, amp etc) a fully autonomous powersupply with sufficent capacity to last the full year, but you can only take three CDs with you.  Double CDs count as one, but compilations are not allowed.

Which one's do you take?

I'll kick it off with my choices:

1. Pink Floyd - Wish Your Were Here

2. Eva Cassidy - Songbird

3. Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene

Sibling Bluenose

[The Meromorph]

1. Pink FLoyd - Umma Gumma
2. Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
3. The Bangles - Greatest Hits

[DaveL]

YArrrr...

1. Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_hendrix#Are_You_Experienced
2. Power Corruption and Lies - New Order
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%2C_Corruption_%26_Lies

3. The Joshua Tree U2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joshua_Tree

[goat starer]

1. Dubstar - Disgraceful
2. ladytron - The Witching Hour
3. Radiohead - OK Computer

do I get a luxury, a book and copies of the bible and complete works of shakespeare as well? It is traditional you can find out what a lot of famous people would have taken here.

I was thinking of taking the talking book of - "how to build a really good boat"

[Sibling Kephra (Tansy)]

Pretty Hate Machine - NIN
The Best of - Depeche Mode
Cross of Changes - Enigma

[beagle]

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

LSO/Barbirolli/Du Pre - Elgar Cello Concerto

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

This SO depends on my mood at the time of choosing. 

My tastes in music run the gamut from modern to classic rock to soul to jazz to contemporary sounds to oldies to classical to folk to ...

Seriously, if I had time, I'd make 3 CDs of song-by-song pick-and-choose from my own collection of MP3's (ALL of which I own the album.  Some of which are still on vynal LP's! )

But, if I had to pick physical CD's today, it would be:

• Roger Waters:  Amused to Death
• Elias: The Prayer Cycle
• Aimee Mann: The Ultimate Collection

Tomorrow, the list would be different!

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Mmm, hard one, perhaps

1. J.S.Bach - Cello suites

2. Dimitri Shostakovich - 24 Preludes & Fuges

3. I'm thorn about this, possibly

• Ten Summoner Tales - Sting

or

• any CD from Led Zeppelin

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Hmm...

1. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God (I've been listening to it so much lately, the laser's probably burned grooves in the disc)

2. Junior Brown - 12 Shades of Brown

3. Eric Clapton - From the Cradle

Tomorrow I may have a completely different list.