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As of today my 10 desert island CDs would be (in no order because on a desert island there are no rules):

Marc Cohn's first

Crash Test Dummies first

Abbey Road

Sgt. Peppers

Revolver

Bare Naked Ladies 'Gordon'

Zep II

Zappa's Zoot Allures

Jeff Beck Blow By Blow

Cream Goodbye

 

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1 hour ago, DeeringAmps said:

Didn't Zep release exactly 10 LP's?

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Nope: 
 

Led Zeppelin (1969)

Led Zeppelin II (1969)

Led Zeppelin III (1970)

Untitled album (1971) (de facto Led Zeppelin IV)

Houses of the Holy (1973)

Physical Graffiti (1975)

Presence (1976)

In Through the Out Door (1979)

Coda (1982)

I saw them on their first US tour and they even played Heartbreaker and Moby Dick and Zep II wasn't even released yet.

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26 minutes ago, Bapu said:

As of today my 10 desert island CDs would be (in no order because on a desert island there are no rules):

. . .

Zappa's Zoot Allures

There's something "poetic" about listening to a version of this song repeatedly on a desert island:

On the other hand there's a version of this:

 

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to make it clear that these are not clips of the Zoot Allures version
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10 hours ago, Bapu said:

Led Zeppelin (1969)

Led Zeppelin II (1969)

Led Zeppelin III (1970)

Untitled album (1971) (de facto Led Zeppelin IV)

Houses of the Holy (1973)

Physical Graffiti (1975)

Presence (1976)

In Through the Out Door (1979)

Coda (1982)

On review of my box set, Physical Graffiti is discs #7 & #8
I just looked at #10 Coda. (I knew it was a 10 CD box set, mybad ?)
Since that puts me at nine, I'll add Just Another Band From LA, recorded Live at the Pauley Pavilion; just so happens I was there that night...

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for some reason I never caught Zep live

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1 hour ago, DeeringAmps said:

Since that puts me at nine, I'll add Just Another Band From LA, recorded Live at the Pauley Pavilion; just so happens I was there that night...

+ 1,000,000 for comedy music!!!  True Story:  I remembered Billy The Mountain from one of the Fillmore East Concerts I went to (the night before Zappa met and played with John  Lennon).  But it wasn't on the Mothers at the Fillmore East. I had to wait until the Just Another Band album and of course all the local flavoring was very different from what I remembered (California-based instead of East Coast-based).  

So finally, this year, the 50th anniversary edition of the Fillmore East album came out.  The set lists confirmed my memory!  ? 

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14 hours ago, Bapu said:

As of today my 10 desert island CDs would be (in no order because on a desert island there are no rules):

Marc Cohn's first

Crash Test Dummies first

Abbey Road

Sgt. Peppers

Revolver

Bare Naked Ladies 'Gordon'

Zep II

Zappa's Zoot Allures

Jeff Beck Blow By Blow

Cream Goodbye

 

Suske Quartett - Beethoven Complete String Quartets.

Unlucky Morpheus - Vampir EP

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Rush - 2112

KISS - Creatures of the Night

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Elvis Presley - That's the Way it is

Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion

David Bowie - Low

Alice Cooper - School's Out

 

Of course, that's today - the list would be different next week, or even later tonight. The one thing that would not change is that there would always at the very least be some version of Beethoven's late string quartets. 

I'm also taking these as a special holiday bonus. Can't imagine a life without them.

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Mine:

Abbey Road

Can't decide, Dark Side or The Wall. Just one of these.

Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues

Level 42 World Machine

Dire Straits Love Over Gold

Roxy Music Avalon

Van Morrison Poetic Champions Compose

Oingo Boingo Only A Lad

crap only two left

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Thomas Dolby Astronauts and Heretics

and finally

Stereo MC's Connected

 

Wait! No jazz, no country? No western swing? No downtempo electronic chill?

 

Forget it. I quit. A pointless exercise. ?

 

 

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Hey . . . this got me thinking, what about, in no particular order:

Paul McCartney - RAM
Blue Rodeo - Tremolo
Genesis - Wind and Wuthering
Supertramp - Crisis? What Crisis ?
Beatles - Abbey Road
Led Zeppelin IV
Elton John - GoodBye Yellow Brick Road
Bruno Mars - 24K Magic
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill
Paul Simon - Graceland
FleetWood Mac - Rumours
 . . . oops, that's 12

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There's NO chance I'm going to try this one!  I like too many genres (except the bulk of Country and Rap which I combine into the genre "CRap" though, to be fair, there are even small bits of each that I still like).  Although I've spent MANY hours just distilling genres and subgenres down so I could categorize my music (over 360,000 tracks currently), I think I would find it hard just to reduce things down to my favorite ten genres let alone albums! ?

Heck, even whittling down the over 160 Tangerine Dream albums down to my ten favorites would be tough!  I just did a quick check on a TD playlist I have of my favorite albums and it has 14...

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I posted this list and went downstairs to prepare tea. I wasn't even out of the room yet that it hit me like a ton of bricks.

I forgot Cheap Trick's Heaven Tonight. My most listened to album these last 12 months.

No sane individual can really accomplish such a feat as listing only 10 records. 

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