Wade
  • Wade
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13 years ago
Okay, this is a completely impossible task, I know. But I still think it's worth exploring.

You're going to be stranded on a desert island for the rest of your life. Fortunately, you have an unlimited supply food and water. And you are not alone, but stranded with the one person of your dreams (Jessica Biel, say, or perhaps your spouse. Rourke gets both Kat 1 an Kat 2.

You also have a top of the line video/audio system that magically needs to worry about electricity or power. The only problem is that you must choose no more than 10 songs, audios, or videos to play on said system. You can pick an entire album or DVD (multi-disc collections can be counted as a single item on this list, but only when the discs have been sold together: you may not choose the "collected work" of an artist unless the work is available in its entirety.

Which ten do you choose?

Here's my ten. Okay, 11. (I'm using the OP privilege to break his own rules. 😁

(Don't feel you have to rank them -- that's just piling impossibility upon. Mine are simply the 1011 that I would (tonight, anyway) take over options #12-infinity.

1. Guns "N Roses, "November Rain," Video. I've never been a particular fan of either GNR or Axl Rose. But whatever thec quality of their lives or the rest of their work, this song to me is transcendent.

2. Prince. Purple Rain. Album.This to my mind is one of the greatest albums ever. IF I were limiting this to individual songs, I'd choose the title tune. But it's my rules, so I pick the entire album.

3. Carole King, Tapestry. Album. I can go a couple years without ever hearing a track from this album. But then I need to listen to the whole thing. Over and over. Again and again.

4. Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. Album. For a lot of Floyd, drugs probably help a lot to see it all. (Or so I conjecture. Ahem.) But DSM is in a class of one. I suppose most would put it in "rock" somehow, but reducing it to fit any genre label is like saying Stilton is a blue cheese.

5. Nightwish, End of an Era. DVD. The last concert with Tarja. But it's here for me partly because this version "Ghost Love Score" was the first Nightwish song I ever listened to and it was transforming. (Thanks, Porforis, for posting it here.) This is the DVD that made me realize not only that metal was genre I had unfairly dismissed, but that it was a genre capable of major, major greatness, right up there with my hitherto favorite genre, bebop and cool jazz from the 1950s. And it has to be up there in the list of the greatest live albums ever.

6. Elvis, The 1968 "Comeback Special.". Elvis to me is the only artist that must be on this list because of his overall stature as an "music" icon. Picking a single song is absolutely impossible. "How Great Thou Art," "Are You Lonesome Tonight," "Jailhouse Rock," "Kentucky Rain," "Heartbreak Hotel," and a dozen others were possibles. My personal favorite might be either "Can't Help Falling in Love" or "In the Ghetto." But I go with the Comeback special because....well, just because. If you haven't watched it (its like separate 15 videos on YouTube), you have to. And then remember -- it was done in the frickin' 1960s, well over a decade before the original IBM PC and well over a decade before MTV was a glimmer of an idea in Robert Pittman's mind.

7. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. The Message. Song/video. All by itself, this song (video here ) showed this rural white middle class boy that rap/hip hop is a genre worth paying attention to. Had Run DMC, Ice T, Public Enemy, P Diddy, and all the rest had never existed, this song along would still be in the top 10 because.. well, just listen.

8. Miles Davis and John Coltrane, "So What." Video. This video.  Two giants from the 1950s and 1960s, the period in American jazz that defines the ultimate of "cool."

9. Dexter Gordon, "Cheese Cake."  Audio with slideshow. If 50s/60s jazz does anything for you, you'll hear a lot of great tenor players. The combination of racism and his own heroin addiction meant he spent most of his best years on Rock's side of the pond; but IMO Gordon was the best tenor ever.

10. Alan Dawa Dolma, "Theme from Red Cliff, part 2, YouTube video here.  Video. Conclusive proof that you don't need to know the language spoken to be moved and changed by music. (Thanks to Foster for introducing her to us.) I have long considered "Casablanca" to be the greatest movie ever made, and it has never been particularly close. But John Woo's Red Cliff, in all 288 minutes of its spendor, gives Bogie and company's classic a run for its money. Tony Leung may be the greatest actor alive. As the clips in Alan's "Shin Shen" video makes clear -- assuming you can stop fantasies about this Tibetan beauty and her amazing voice-- you aren't going to need to worry about not speaking Chinese to be enthralled by the movie. But even if you are scared away by 288 minutes of subtitles, Alan's voice is magical.

11. John Newton, "Amazing Grace." Song. This hymn has been recorded thousands of times, and there are a dozen or more versions that are simply great. So many that picking the best version is as much of an impossibility as picking the "best Elvis song." I was tempted to go with this "Celtic Woman" version, especially since it has the requisite bagpipes, a seriously cool setting, and multiple extremely seriously gorgeous women with seriously gorgeous voices. But in the end, I had to go with pipes and drums without words. Unfortunately, to get the full visual+audio effect, you'll have to buy the DVD for the Amazing Grace movie. The best available on YouTube is audio only (here ).
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)
dfosterf
13 years ago
I like waiting about a month and then re-watching her vid.

My heart smiles every time I do it.

Thanks for the link so I could get my monthly fix w/o looking for the "correct" version, which your link is. 😇

Alan Dawa Dolma is the absolute shit.

Wade
  • Wade
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13 years ago

I like waiting about a month and then re-watching her vid.

My heart smiles every time I do it.

Thanks for the link so I could get my monthly fix w/o looking for the "correct" version, which your link is. 😇

Alan Dawa Dolma is the absolute shit.

Originally Posted by: dfosterf 



Foster,
Have you ever watched the movie? I can't find anyone who isn't scared away by the length, the subtitles, or both.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)
dfosterf
13 years ago

Foster,
Have you ever watched the movie? I can't find anyone who isn't scared away by the length, the subtitles, or both.

Originally Posted by: Wade 




I'm "saving" it, in the sense that I'm waiting for it to hit FIOS "On Demand". I'll give 'em another 6 months before I rent it.

I will see that movie, trust me.

zombieslayer
13 years ago
Funny Wade. You and I have some overlap. Floyd's DSOTM and Prince's PR are two. Nightwish's Once would be another.

I'm going to cheat here. I'm gonna have to. I also have a tape player and one tape has Judas Priest's Screaming for Vengeance and the other side has Defenders of the Faith. That would be 4.

5 - another tape. It has Ozzy's two Randy Rhoads albums (one on each side). If you don't know Randy Rhoads, you're not cool.

6 - Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony, the greatest piece of music ever written.

7 - once again cheating. Has Brahms' 1st on one side and Brahms' 4th on the second side.

8 - once again cheating. A tape with Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto and the other side has Tchaikovsky's violin concerto. Those are two of the greatest pieces of music ever written as well.

9 - another tape - Bruch's violin concerto on one side and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings (most romantic piece of music ever written).

10 - HIM's Deep Shadows & Brilliant Highlights. My wife's and my guilty pleasure album.

Videos? Nah. I wouldn't be upset if I never saw another television again. Seriously.

There's no way I could cut this down to 10 without cheating.
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Cheesey
13 years ago
I'd have to have a bunch of karaoke CD's, so i could sing all i wanted to.
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zombieslayer
13 years ago

I'd have to have a bunch of karaoke CD's, so i could sing all i wanted to.

Originally Posted by: Cheesey 



Alright amigo. You're breaking the rules more than I did.

Bad thing happens. Your plane catches on fire. You only have time to save 10 karaoke CDs. Which 10 do you save?
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Rockmolder
13 years ago
What's with all the doublesided stuff here? Bunch of cheaters.

Erm, I'll start out Zombiestyle, going double sided.

1. Muse - Origin of Symmetry on one side, Black Holes and Revelations on the other. It's with pain in my heart that I won't be taking Absolution and The Resistance with me to that island.

2. Reel Big Fish - Favorite Noise. It'll get you back on your feet when you're feeling down.

3. The Wombats - A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation... And I'll pull the doubleside crap again, as well... This Modern Glitch will be on the other side.

4. Arctic Monkeys - Live at the Apollo (DVD)

5. Hollywood Undead - American Tragedy. It absolutely blows Swan Songs out of the water.

6. De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - Parels voor de Zwijnen, met aan de andere kant van dat tapeje, De Lachende Derde. ;)

All music albums so far... As someone who's a TV addict, I guess I'd need some DVDs, as well...

7. America's Game - The Complete Collection. I think this one speaks for itsself.

8. The Office US - Season 5. That show gets me cracking up every single time.

9. If I'm allowed to bring just 10, I really wouldn't bring a lot of movies if they'd take up the same space as an entire bundled DVD-collection.... But I'd have to bring this bundled up collection off BASEketball, South Park the Movie and Team America: World Police. Really not a fan of Team America and I've just about had it with the South Park movie, but it should be good for some laughs.

10. I'd go for some variety here... Borderline chick-flick, maybe some action movie, but I'm drawing blanks right now.

That was quite hard...
Pack93z
13 years ago
10 of the largest box sets I can find.. so that I can configure one big ass reflector to draw as much attention as I can get from those passing by or overhead.



Second thought.. stranded on a desert island with no taxes or what not to worry about.. no mortgage to worry about.. screw it I am staying.



Can I trade all the above for just one working radio with a sports feed since it has no need for power or whatnot?



If not.. I am going to have to ponder harder.. lol.
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Zero2Cool
13 years ago
Rockmolder gets a thumby for liking Hollywood Undead. I didn't like it when I heard Deuce was replaced by former American Idol dropout Danny Murillo. But I'm liking the album more and more.

10 songs, audios, or videos, or albums...

I'm glad we don't have to pick the person too... I'd be here for hours thinking.


1) Album: Queen - Greatest Hits collection

2) Album: Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best of

3) Video: The Count of Monte Cristo

4) Album: Eminem - Recovery

5) Album: Evanescence - Fallen

6) Video: The Bourne Trilogy

7) Album: Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide

8) Video: Sweet Home Alabama

9) Album: Collective Soul - Collective Soul

10) Video: Keiana riding her bike with no training wheels months after her grandma passed away


Each item carries something special for me personally. Choosing 10 was difficult.


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