You're familiar with this exercise: "If you were going to be stranded on a desert island, what 10 (15, etc.) albums would you pick to take with you?" I had trouble limiting it to an arbitrary number. But these are the basic set of albums I couldn't live (happily) without.
Pop/Rock/Folk/World: |
Gilbert & Sullivan: | |
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Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes Barenaked Ladies: Stunt The Beatles: Beatles for Sale
Jim Croce: Photographs and Memories John Denver: Greatest Hits (Vol. 1) Duran Duran: Rio Falling August: King of the Western World Buddy Holly: Greatest Hits Indigo Girls: Indigo Girls
Irish Rovers: Greatest Hits The Jackson Five: Greatest Hits Billy Joel: Glass Houses Janis Joplin: Pearl Carole King: Tapestry The Klezmatics: Rhythm & Jews |
Madonna: The Immaculate Collection Don McLean: American Pie Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell Moxy Früvous: Live Noise
Queen: Greatest Hits Vol. 1 The Partridge Family: Greatest Hits (Okay, quit laughing!) R.E.M.: Document Simon & Garfunkel: Greatest Hits Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman
Sting: Dream of the Blue Turtles 10,000 Maniacs: In My Tribe They Might Be Giants: Flood George Winston: December
... Plus any reasonably comprehensive '80s pop collection. |
The Pirates of Penzance |
Broadway soundtracks (show tunes): | ||
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Camelot
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Movie soundtracks: | ||
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The Blues Brothers
Boys on the Side (thanks Jessica!) Footloose Godspell Grease Yentl When Harry Met Sally | ||
Classical: | ||
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Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites
Beethoven: Pathetique Mozart: Requiem | ||
"...and there may be many others but they haven't been disCOVered." — Tom Lehrer | ||