Kevin's Watch

Syd Barrett : Opel

Throwing Muses : the Real Ramona

Husker Du : the Living End

duchess of malfi wrote:You have a small, portable CD player, a warehouse club sized package of batteries, and a chance to grab 3 cd's out of your collection as you are being summoned to the Land.
Which three would you grab??

These "what if" questions are always fun. I completely missed this one, so thanks to Sarge for bumping this.

Well, first of all I'd either be thrilled or terrified to be going to the Land, depending on whether I was being summoned as observer or as participant. Yes, that would be assuming I had prior knowledge of the Land. Thoughts for another day and another topic.

Secondly, I would grab music that I associate with the Land. So:

Beethoven: Symphony No.3 ("Eroica") - captures the heroism of the Land's defenders of ages past, especially that of Berek, since he symbolizes the heroic idealism of the Land. The Eroica also captures the spirit of "present age" heroes like Mhoram - his passion, indomitable will and humanism. (Besides, Damelon and duchess are already taking Beethoven's Ninth to the Land. )

Wagner: The Ring (highlights) - I'd take the entire 4-opera cycle of Wagner's "music drama" if I could, but I'm adhering to duchess's criteria, so I'll just grab the highlights disc. This is music of love and hate on a grand scale, and so it perfectly expresses the extreme and deranged passions of both the Land's defenders and its enemies.

Mahler: Symphony No.3 - this epic musical ode to Nature befits how I imagine the Land, as a place of splendor and terror. A nostalgic portrait of beautiful Nature paired with a neurotic vision of her frightening capriciousness. Nature as depicted in Mahler's music is not a tame garden, but instead a vast and wild realm, both bountiful and bleak. The complex, contradictory quality of Mahler fits with the paradoxical nature of the Land, its heroes and its fools.

Nice picks, Matrixman. Looking back, I'd take: Abbey Road, Red (by King Crimson), and Bach's Musical Offering. That would do me in for a few centuries, methinks.

I would take the Smiths' The Queen is Dead, Songs of Love and Hate by Leonard Cohen, and some Sinatra. It'd be a sweet deal.

couldden i just grab my mp3 player? it lives in a little cloth bag with extra batteries and foam thingys for my headphones in case i lose one and has 11 hours of all KINDS of music on it...


IF i can't and i can only take my discman and three cd's...shoot,
i'll go with two of Bannor's picks, Abbey Road (or maybe Let It Be), Todd's Something/Anything...and which girl, which girl should i take joni, rickie lee, joni, rickie lee....ok...JONI...now...which joni....Hissing of Summer Lawns or For the Roses....crimeny...i can't pick

Bannor wrote: Abbey Road by the Beatles; Live in Concert with the Edmonton Symphony by Procol Harum; and Something, Anything by Todd Rundgren.

I agonized over this for an hour. I would loved to have put a Top Ten.

Just three? I can't bring my iPod?

Okay, okay...

Blue Öyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus

Just an awesome CD. Will never get tired of listening to it.

Lake of Tears - The Neonai

Ditto for this one. I'm surprised my copy isn't worn transparent for all the times I've listened to it.

Rush - R30

Gotta sneak in at least one two-disc set.

Don't know how I missed this one the first time around.

Led Zeppelin-Physical Graffitti. Led Zeppelin is the only band I can think of that has no bad songs. Some are better than others, but there aren't any bad ones. There's a bunch of really, really good ones on PG.

Blue Oyster Cult-Cultosaurus Erectus. As I said elsewhere, this is about the perfect hard rock/heavy metal album. Powerful vocals and absolutely scathing guitars, this album delivers from end to end. This is one of those odd albums that I like more now than I did when it came out (and I loved it then).

Def Leppard-High N' Dry. This is a really underappreciated album. Before Mutt got ahold of them, Def Leppard was a surprisingly strong hard rock band. This album is a basic blueprint of what hard rock was.....Great fist-in-the-air, singalong, air guitar music. Hard rock pretty much disappeared in the early '90s, but this album is a great look back at it.

Radiohead's OK Computer.
That's really the only one I can say for certain. I can't see myself ever tiring of it.

Much as I love their other albums, and, bar the first two, I like them more than any other band's albums... I'd probably want different artists for the other two.

Number two would, then, probably be Biffy Clyro's Blackened Sky.

I think number three would be a toss-up between Deathspell Omega's Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice and Dissection's Storm Of The Light's Bane. Probably the latter.


But I'd sorely miss a lot of others.

changed my mind...

Throwing Muses : In A Doghouse (the re-release)
Pink Floyd: Pulse
Sugar: Besides