Music Lovers...If you could only have 10 albums to listen to forever...

[DoctorJ]

OK fellow music lovers, here's one of the toughest questions you can be asked.

"If you could only have 10 albums in your collection to listen to for the rest of your life, what would they be?"

Rules:
--Double albums are OK, but you can have only one. Please denote a double album with an asterisk. For the younger crowd who may not remember "double LP albums", this is the same as a double CD set. If you don't know what a "double CD set" is, then you are too young to play No seriously, give it a shot anyway
--NO "Best of..." albums
--NO duplicate artist (only one artist per list)
--Please only post one list per day. Duplicates on another post is fine, but try to change up at least half of your selections. All other rules still apply.

My list:
1. The Wall--Pink Floyd*
2. Operation: Mindcrime--Queensryche
3. Highway to Hell--AC/DC
4. Tales of Mystery and Imagination--The Alan Parsons Project
5. Paranoid--Black Sabbath
6. Pyromania--Def Leppard
7. Apostrophe--Frank Zappa
8. Godsmack--Godsmack
9. 2112--Rush
10. Who's Next--The Who

 

[Vapenstein]

no order
Gilbert Kaplan's version of Mahler's 2nd symphony
the Decca recording of the Georg Solti version of R. Strauss' Salome with Birgit Nilsson
Close to the Edge - Yes
Jesusatan - Infestdead
Aereo-Plain - John Hartford
Surfer Rosa - Pixies
Sons of Northern Darkness - Immortal
Is This My World? - Jerry's Kids
Raw Power - Iggy and the Stooges
Songs the Lord Taught Us - The Cramps

 

[Mowgli]

No order

Funkadelic ~ Maggot Brain
Deep Purple ~ Made In Japan*
Hendrix ~ Electric Ladyland*
Stones ~ Let It Bleed
Ten Years After ~ SSSSH
Blind Faith
Jethro Tull ~ Thick As A Brick
Zappa ~ Bongo Fury
Black Sabbath ~ Black Sabbath
Hogwood/AAM ~ Beethoven Symphony #9

*I'm not going anywhere without both

 

[DoctorJ]

I just took a look at my iTunes library and thought..."How in Hades could I only pick 10?" I have 2182 albums to choose from just on that library, not to mention a lot I don't have yet. As I was going through, I was like, geesh I missed that one, and that one, etc... I still am so thankful for my iPod and having 114 gigs of music to choose from while I'm on the road. I have 138 gigs in my library now and it's still growing.

 

[GoodNewsEvryone]

Wow, talk about a headscratcher, let me see if I can narrow it down (going through my library in FooBar2000)

1. Grateful Dead - American Beauty
2. Beck - Odelay
3. Miles Davis - .....es Brew
4. Pink Floyd - The Wall*
5. Metallica - Black Album
6. The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
8. Death In June - The Rule of Thirds
9. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money
10. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

I tried to be really eclectic, but looking back, I wish I had included some punk, blues, old country... But, I guess I will stick with that...

 

[Mowgli]

One list per day. It's Sunday here now.

Soundgarden ~ Screaming Life/Fopp EP
The Four Horsemen ~ Nobody Said It Was Easy
RHCP ~ Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Black Crowes ~ The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
White Zombie ~ La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol.1
Metallica ~ Master Of Puppets
Primus ~ Frizzle Fry
Ice-T ~ The Iceberg/Freedom Of Speech
Pantera ~ Cowboys From Hell
Elvis Presley ~ Memories Of Christmas (has the full 7:59 minute Merry Christmas Baby)

No doubles this time unless I can trade The 4 Horsemen for the Tarantura bootleg 10cd Complete Led Zeppelin Studio Outtakes box or the Pink Floyd ~ Tree Full Of Secrets bootleg 17cd outtakes box

 

[DoctorJ]

One list per day. It's Sunday here now.

No doubles this time unless I can trade The 4 Horsemen for the Tarantura bootleg 10cd Complete Led Zeppelin Studio Outtakes box or the Pink Floyd ~ Tree Full Of Secrets bootleg 17cd outtakes box

That would be nice, but for the purpose of this thread it's seeing how hard it is to narrow down your choices to just 10. Also, remember there are no "Best of" compilations allowed.

Today's list, in no particular order:

Pink Floyd--The Wall
The Alan Parsons Project--Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention--Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Black Sabbath--Mob Rules
Ozzy Osbourne--Diary of a Madman
Blue Oyster Cult--On Your Feet On Your Knees
Deep Purple--Stormbringer
Dread Zeppelin--Un-Led-Ed
Judas Priest--Rocka Rolla
Iron Maiden--The Number of the Beast

 

[underwhelmd]

Tough to have only 10, but if I must-

Talking Heads - remain in light
David Byrne and Brian Eno - My life in the bush of ghosts
The Clash - London Calling
The Stooges - The Stooges
Alice Cooper - Love it to death
Clutch - Live in Flint Michigan
The Band - Last Waltz
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
The Doors - The Doors

 

[Racehorse]

Boy, this is hard~

Les McCann, Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement
Led Zepplin - Led Zeppin II
Paco de Lucia - Entre dos Aguas
Van Morrison-Moondance
The Band- The Last Waltz
Bach Violin Concertos - Paris Symphony Orchestra
Rolling Stones-Let It Bleed
Santana- Supernatural
Alice Coltrane - Ptah the El Daoud
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Bob Dylan-Blood on the Tracks

Here's a clip from Swiss Movement....I call this my driving song. It starts out simple, and crescendo's and gets pretty complex, so you have to get to the middle at least before you are in the groove. I can drive cross country w/this playing.

 

[underwhelmd]

Bob Dylan-Blood on the Tracks

OF COURSE! I forgot Bob. One of the best albums ever.

 

[Racehorse]

OF COURSE! I forgot Bob. One of the best albums ever.

Well as you can see, I mixed it up. If you're ONLY going to have 10 albums, I don't just want to listen to rock for rest of my life.

The Paco de Lucia is classical "flemenco" guitar, and you simply have to have some Bach or Beethoven or Vivaldi or something, even if you dont listen to classical orchestral music "a lot" but it has it's place. I would have liked to add one good opera CD as well, like Pavorati or one of the tenors......and also some really good gospel like aretha Amazing Grace or even Edwin Hawkin Singers (Oh Happy Days) for instance . And the folk and jazz is there in the list that I prefer.

I just could not imagine same style music *forever*. On rainy days certain music is better, on romantic days, on sunny days, on days you are not feeling well, etc.

 

[r77r7r]

Edwin Hawkin Singers (Oh Happy Days) for instance .

Oh, that's great!

Mahalia next

 

[DoctorJ]

Well as you can see, I mixed it up. If you're ONLY going to have 10 albums, I don't just want to listen to rock for rest of my life.

I DO

However, I do like other types of music and my iTunes library is very eclectic. I have some Johnny Cash, Celtic Woman, London Symphony Orchestra (well, I have to confess it's the LSO covering Pink Floyd tunes) and a few others that some of my fellow metal heads would shake their head at in disgust. I'll listen to almost anything except Rap, Rap, or Rap and male country singers (they all sound alike to me and sing about the same old crap all the time).

I love following the music threads on here to see what else is out there I may have missed and enjoy seeing what other people listen to. I created this thread because folks tend to list the best of what they like and that kinda narrows down the field for me to see the stuff I'm not familiar with.

 

[underwhelmd]

It's difficult picking only 10! I had to leave off The Wall, in favour of being able to hear Alice do Eighteen for eternity.... tough call but Alice wins.

Any Ramones album could be in my to 10 but didn't make it... so many favs. I had to pick 10 that actually changed my life in a way, so that's how I got to my 10... but had to leave off Dylan because I forgot about Blood on the Tracks. I'm listening to it now to make amends.

Interesting thread. Fun to see what other people think is important music. (to them)

 

[Mowgli]

Interesting thread. Fun to see what other people think is important music. (to them)

750+ rock LPs (only about 5 reissues)
350+ classical LPs mostly Beethoven & Haydn
50+ Jazz LPs mostly Miles Davis or early Benny Goodman & early Louis Armstrong/Bix/etc
50+ Blues LPs mostly Chess Blues & Johnny Winter but some early Mississippi Delta & Texas Blues
30+ Funk LPs mostly Funkadelic/Parliament/James Brown/Curtis Mayfield/Isaac Hayes & Ohio Players
some Hank Williams Jr & Waylon LPs
Most of the Warner Brothers Loss Leaders. I lost interest from their mid-70s on.
Bill Cosby singing Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
I play all 3 Elvis Christmas LPs every X-Mas & have about 10 more pre-1970 Elvis LPs

CD's are another whole BoW. I have ~1350 Live Dead CDRs from 1966-2/1979 for instance

@Racehorse - That Les & Eddie song is cool. I don't know where I recognize it from but

31 FLAVORS LYRICS - SACRED REICH

I cranked Pantera & BLS the other day & rocked early Ohio Players all day today while I mixed ejuice

"variety is the spice of life"

this is fun but no way could I pick 10 and leave the rest.

 

[r77r7r]

The Wall is great but it'd have to be 3rd after DSOTM and Meddle. Gotta have Steppenwolf. Skynyrd. Creedence. Tull. Zepplin'.Animals.

Can't forget Motown.

Make the list for 20??

 

[williebb123]

thanks you guys for reminding me that 769 lp's is just a drop in the bucket for the great music ive yet to collect but its a great list to refer to so here are a few of mine
The Pretenders - II
Pink Floyd- Animals
Led Zepplin The Song Remains The Same
Aerosmith-Toys In The Attic
Bad Company- Desolation Angels
Black Sabbath- Heaven And Hell
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
Foo Fighters-Echoes Silence Patience & Grace
Robin Trower-Bridge of Sighs
ZZ Top-Tres Hombres

 

[Grrrr]

Soooooo hard to pick just 10.

In no particular order, and it would most likely be different tomorrow.

1) Hawkwind - In Search of Space
2) Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
3) The Waterboys - This is the Sea
4) Nirvana - Bleach
5) Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 74 *
6) The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St*
7) Black Sabbath - Vol 4
8) Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1
9) Budgie - Never Turn your back on a friend
10 - David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

 

[Mowgli]

Robin Trower-Bridge of Sighs
ZZ Top-Tres Hombres

Hell yeah

Today's 10

Blodwyn Pig ~ Ahead Rings Out
Jethro Tull ~ Living In The Past*
ELP ~ Tarkus
Yes ~ Fragile
Uriah Heep ~ Magician's Birthday
Foghat ~ Fool For The City (their Terraplane Blues is my favorite RJ cover)
Hendrix ~ Band Of Gypsys
Stones ~ It's Only Rock And Roll
Zappa ~ Hot Rats
Randy California ~ Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds

 

[Mowgli]

That record you were looking for? Got $350K laying around?

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