Winter will soon be here, the snow is 5 feet deep, the power is off and your stranded with one CD and a battery operated…….
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Nah…., lets try this (it’s warmer): Your rich uncle gives you a beautiful, warm, but isolated tropical island (shelter, food and clothing-optional- provided) but you have to promise to stay there for 5 years and you can take a limited amount of possessions. Items you can take? Just 3 albums/CD’s . What are your picks, and what are the best cuts.
FIVE YEARS, THREE ALBUMS. YOU BETTER HOPE YOU LIKE THEM!
I was introduced to Gustav in the 60’s, I still like to listen to him. Light, dark and everything in between.
Mahler: Symphony No. 2
I used to travel form the UP of Michigan to Florida and back and this one I played to start my journeys. So maybe this one to remind me of
Road Trip! If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane!
Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
OH NO! Only one more? Has to be a little dancing and Rock n’Roll!
Chuck Berry – Too Much Monkey Business
HELP! Can you send me more?
(Pina Colada
If I was a FOX news viewer, I’d be scared into preparing for the worst… Which would mean that I’d end up taking a CD with Sounds of the Ocean, one with Sounds of the Rain, and the last… (no doubt) an album with the sounds of artillery shells constantly exploding.
…what’d I win?
You win a lot of laughs! Very funny, AC!
OK since I have more choices…
Miles Davis Kinda Blue
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_1Pa6vE14c
Mahalia Jackson and Duke Ellington
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpb7wZmEUk
Trouble of the World – Mahalia Jackson
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eiI52WluF0&feature=related
Can’t live without my Bach:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYjqnlc7MRw&feature=related
Living, contemporary composer I’ve fallen in love with, Jennifer Higdon…well, her music, not her…not that there would be anything wrong with that…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFa_2ROayCE
But I’d have to have some Robert Johnson, too:
It’s impossible to imagine not getting sick of ANY music if you were limited to only three, unless you forced yourself to only listen to any one thing twice a year or something.
But I know I’d choose the White Album, because I haven’t gotten sick of it yet!
Stravinsky would be inspiring
Rite Of Spring
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader Andrew Haveron
Conductor Valery Gergiev
Barbican Centre London 2007
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uMfXh4OOx8
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwt4DdsFL70&feature=related
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SagTt5F3mY0&feature=related
Anyone recognize what film used this?
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGgznzG5Ygc&feature=related
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H6abSJnTwg&feature=related
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN4li1lVReQ&feature=related
Good, Bad, and Ugly? I have no idea, Patsy.
Alien
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eIpvZsEky4
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6prv9h4bt7Y&playnext=1&list=PLBDC57968B3799EFE&index=3
Bito… this would be a must…. I love the story
I’l have more….
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:
Scheherazade, Symphonic Suite, Opus 35.
I. The Sea and Sinbads Ship
Conductor: Hebrert von Karajan
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmoniker
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR36PRgBFzA&feature=related
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58U1cwPivbM&feature=related
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNAdQpM8TNg&feature=related
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdBmgCXktZQ&feature=related
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBQEpFfVIXQ&feature=related
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ct7S6zGGzs&feature=related
It’s tough to narrow it down to three but here are my choices:
Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d78K4rCEfAo
Rhapsody in Blue/An American in Paris – George Gershwin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QxWxsK8_3s
Aja – Steely Dan
It is hard to pick three! OK, everybody gets three more! I get to make up rules and facts. I watch Faux 😉
And on that island were The Lotus Eaters, by Dead Can Dance:
And my obsession from last year (ie, the song I listened to over and over and over last year) — Maneesh De Moor:
OOOH, I like your picks, e’cat. Can I visit your island?
You are welcome, amigo!
My latest favorite (to an obsessive degree) song. Am I the only person who listens to a song over and over and over?
The ultimate comfort music — the Nutcracker Suite:
Goodness, this is a quiet island.