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In reply to the discussion: You're stranded on an desert island: What 10 albums do you want with you? [View all]malthaussen
(17,250 posts)How does a desert island get a power grid, anyway? Do I have the Professor make a generator that runs on Gilligan-power?
I'd need a variety of genres.
Beethoven's 9th by Solti/Chicago, still my favorite of this old chestnut.
The "Complete Massey Hall Recordings" of the Quintet: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, and Bud Powell, Massey Hall, Toronto, 15 May 1953. One of the best gigs ever, even with Diz leaving the stage periodically to check out the fight between Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott and Bird playing a cheap plastic sax he picked up just before the gig started.
"Meet the Beatles" by the Rolling Stones.
"Rubber Soul" by the Beatles
"Abbey Road," by you know who (actually, I'd like to squeeze in all their albums, but you did say ten)
"Court and Spark," Joni Mitchell
"Tapestry," Carole King
"4 Way Street," CSNY
"Led Zep IV," by some band whose name eludes me.
"Days of Future Passed," Moody Blues
"Rory Gallagher Live at Montreux" which contains the video of his "Shadow Play" encore in 1979, which everybody should watch.
Mind you, I could pick another ten just from those mentioned by other people in this topic that didn't make the cut for me.
That's ten.
-- Mal