Members kayd_mon Posted February 21, 2014 Members Share Posted February 21, 2014 Here's the game: aliens land in your backyard. They came to earth just so that they could find out what good music is, and they require this data in the form of ten albums, no compilations. What do you give them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Surrealistic Posted February 21, 2014 Members Share Posted February 21, 2014 Well I guess if we take your premise seriously we can't just stick to rock, or even just to guitar-based music. In that case, how about:Miles Davis - Kind of BlueMahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of FireElla Fitzgerald - Ella Sings GershwinFrank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' LoversTom Waits - Rain DogsCpt Beefheart and the Magic Band - Lick My Decals OffRolling Stones - Exile on Main StreetBeatles - White album Oh, I haven't started on folk, blues or classical yet ... I'm going to have to come back to this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted February 21, 2014 Members Share Posted February 21, 2014 (Eclectic I know, but if I were on a desert island I'd want these, life has many chapters. I will probably be updating his all day Joni Mitchel Hissing of Summer Lawns Genesis Trespass Miles Davis Kind of Blue Focus Focus3 Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair Dr Feelgood Down by the Jetty Ralph Vaughan Williams , Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Steve Reich - Desert Music Mike Oldfield Ommadawn Rolling Stones Let it Bleed PS +1 for Kind of Blue, I wasn't expecting that to make the first two posts here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BeanoBoy Posted February 21, 2014 Members Share Posted February 21, 2014 Modern Sounds of Country and Western- Ray CharlesRevolver- The BeatlesThe Hot Club Quintet- Django Reinhardt ( I know it's a compilation but I'm not sure if they ever made any "Albums'.American Garage- Pat Methey GroupWho Knows Where the Time Goes- Judy CollinsSweet Baby James- James TaylorLive at the Regal- BB KingFresh Cream- CreamExile on Main Street- The Rolling StonesKing of the Delta Blues- Robert Johnson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Surrealistic Posted February 21, 2014 Members Share Posted February 21, 2014 Okay let's try again.I'm stealing Beatles - Revolver from Beano Boyand Joni - Hissing of Summer Lawns from Chordite 'cos you have to have at least one JoniI'm keeping Miles Davis - Kind of Blue as beforeand I'm keeping Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Loversand Tom Waits - Rain Dogsso that's five, three of which are from (loosely) the world of rock.Okay so let's add:London Philiharmonic - Elgar - Enigma VariationsDaniel Barenboim - Beethoven - Complete Piano Sonatas - is a box set cheating?Kiri Te Kanawa - Verdi & Puccini - I'm not really an opera buff but this is great stuff, the Puccini especiallyTwo more? Hmm, I'm going to have to go back to the rock world, where most of my albums lieTelevision - Marquee MoonCaptain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off I may have cheated a little with the box set, but on the plus side these are all albums I own, or at least have owned at one time (an ex has a couple of the classicals up there and I seem to have lost the Beefheart one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members d_dave_c Posted February 21, 2014 Members Share Posted February 21, 2014 There's really no 'album' for classical music, but you'd have to include Beethoven's 5th, right?Since others have said Kind of Blue, I'll be contrary and say A Love Supreme - John Coltrane. Although if I persoanlly could only have one jazz album, it would be Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um. Mississppi John Hurt - 1928 Sessions - Some of the purest playing blues.Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers) - While The Chonic might be a lot of people's top choice for a hip-hop album, I'm East Coast, so it was either Nas or this. How can you go wrong with Wu-Tang Clan?Michael Jackson - Thriller - I'd hazard a guess that the aliens already know about Jacko, but you'd have to give this a nod, right?Beatles - White Album - This was tough, because it's not my favortite (Let It Be and Revolver, btw), but it's a double album, so you get the two-for-one, plus it shows a wide spectrum of what the Beatles were about.Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction - You'd have to show them something harder, and I considered Master of Puppets or Iron Maiden's Killers (both of which I prefer), but I think the crossover appeal and popularity of Appetite would be of broader cultural significance to our extra-terretrial friends.Ramones - Ramones - 14 songs. 29 minutes. Hey, ho! Let's Go! Johnny Cash - at San Quentin - I almost went with George Jones, and it's tough to go against the Possum, but the Man in Black might do him one better, plus the live inmate audience would give us time to talk social justice and the problems with the American penal system.John Zorn - NakedCity - I went back and forth between Zappa and Zorn, but this album has it all, starting with pop-inspired free-jazz (Batman) devolving into spasmatic noise-rock. We can leave them pondering "what is music?" as they fly away in their saucer.So apparently our alien visitors would leave thinking that only men make music. Might have to trade out a few - Madonna? Dolly Parton? Ella Fitzgerald? Billie Holiday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bucksstudent Posted February 21, 2014 Members Share Posted February 21, 2014 Beach Boys - Petsounds King Crimson - Red Hendrix - Bold as Love Fairport Convention - What We Did on Our Holidays My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technopolis Paul McCartney - McCartney II Masami Tsuchiya - Tokyo Ballet Alan Jackson - Here in the Real World Keith Whitley - L.A. to Miami ...and if they don't like any of that, they can download my music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted February 21, 2014 Author Members Share Posted February 21, 2014 No genre restrictions, really. Just what you think should represent earth's musical accomplishments. Looking at it that way, I would have a really hard time figuring it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Special J Posted February 21, 2014 Members Share Posted February 21, 2014 kayd_mon wrote: No genre restrictions, really. Just what you think should represent earth's musical accomplishments. Looking at it that way, I would have a really hard time figuring it out. Yeah, even though I listen to some world music and appreciate it, I wouldn't know where to begin on what to recommend to the aliens as far as Javanese Gamelan music, or Chinese Opera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted February 22, 2014 Author Members Share Posted February 22, 2014 Unfortunately, you can't unsolve a problem! Haha I was trying to scroll up, and rather than drag up, my finger clicked on accept as solution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted February 22, 2014 Members Share Posted February 22, 2014 Kudo for Birds of Fire...Johnny at his best.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members JTV59 Posted February 22, 2014 Members Share Posted February 22, 2014 In no particular order:Boston - BostonBack in Black - AC/DCVan Halen - Van HalenVoodoo Highway - BadlandsDreamboat Annie - HeartBlizzard of Oz - Ozzy OsbourneLed Zeppelin IV - Led ZeppelinSurfing with the Alien - Joe SatrianiFire Garden - Steve VaiAppetite for Destruction - Guns-n-Roses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Special J Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 It occurs to me that I should have included Bob Marley - Catch A Fire or Exodus in my list. If the Aliens can't appreciate it, there's a good chance we're all not going to get along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Surrealistic Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 Special J wrote: It occurs to me that I should have included Bob Marley - Catch A Fire or Exodus in my list. If the Aliens can't appreciate it, there's a good chance we're all not going to get along. Ah Catch a Fire - great album. Reminds me I only have that on vinyl and don't currently have a deck - I must get a CD/MP3 copy of that, or a record deck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bee3 Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 Pet Sounds - The Beach BoysAbbey Road - The BeatlesThe Koln Concert - Keith JarrettDark Side of the Moon - Pink FloydLong Player, Late Bloomer - Ron SexsmithAshes and Fire - Ryan AdamsBridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and GarfunkelHoochie Coochie Man - Jimmy SmithSea Change - BeckTaproot - Michael Hedges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bee3 Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 ^in no particular order Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 bee3 wrote: ^in no particular order Nice to see Jarrett's Koln Concert and Hedges Taproot in there. Two of my Favourites Like your debut album too can feel influences as diverse as Beatles and Dean Friedman Keep it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted February 24, 2014 Members Share Posted February 24, 2014 kayd_mon wrote: Here's the game: aliens land in your backyard. They came to earth just so that they could find out what good music is, and they require this data in the form of ten albums, no compilations. What do you give them? Ok I've been puzzling over this assignment for days now. For one thing, if they came all the way from, well, hell who knows. I mean the nearest star that has a capability of a solar type system is Alpha Centuari, and it's more than four light years away. So they'd have been listening to our radio broadcasts for as long as we've been using radio waves. So they've heard all the music we've ever broadcast. They've surely figured out what they like by the time they get here, if they like any of it at all. The only enlightment we could give them musically would be to present some music that had never been broadcast, or for that matter put on the internet, because you know if they have cracked the fusion puzzle and figured out how to get here, they probably have seen and heard anything on the internet as well.Best thing we could do would be to take them to some live shows in local venues and bars, because that's where the good stuff is anyway. Maybe then we could get a few beers in 'em and get 'em to turn us on to some of their music and tell us how the hell they got here 'cause all we've done is send a few guys to our lil moon and put a few probes out barely beyond our solar system(almost) and put a few robots on Mars.So, I'm not gonna rack my already stressed brain to try and come up with ten albums when I already have a hard time just deciding what to listen to out of my own collection, much less come up with ten favorites out of the hundreds of albums that I love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted February 24, 2014 Moderators Share Posted February 24, 2014 No particular order: Thin Lizzy - Live and dangerousPink Floyd - Wish You Were HerePink Floyd - Atom Heart MotherPink Floyd - Obscured by CloudsLed Zeppelin - Physical GraffittiLed Zeppelin - IVDeep Purple - Made in JapanRainbow - RisingJethro Tull -AqualungScorpions - Lovedrive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaveAronow Posted February 24, 2014 Members Share Posted February 24, 2014 Iron Maiden, Number of The BeastACDC Back in BlackOzzy Osborne, Blizzard of OzzThe Hellecasters, Return of the HellecastersJudas Priest PainkillerLynyrd Skynyrd Too many great ones to choose oneVH1Rush, All the World's a StageCheap Trick, Live at BoudakonThe Who, Who's NextThere are many many albums I think are way more musically note worthy especially if you want to talk about classical music and jazz, and ALL ten thousand of those records would be mentioned before any I named above , but since this is an electric guitar forum, I mention the records that simply had the most impact on my life, musical career, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted February 24, 2014 Author Members Share Posted February 24, 2014 I would tell the aliens to visit a few more backyards so that way they could get more opinions. Then I would give them: Beatles - Abbey RoadWho - Who's NextJohn Scofield - A Go GoTommy Emmanuel - OnlyKing Crimson - DisciplineKing's X - DogmanRadiohead - In RainbowsThe Decemberists - The Crane WifeKings of Convenience - Riot on Empty StreetSpock's Beard - V ... And then I'd tell them to come back in a week or two, because I will have changed my mind, and I could let them borrow ten more albums! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bee3 Posted February 24, 2014 Members Share Posted February 24, 2014 kayd_mon wrote: I would tell the aliens to visit a few more backyards so that way they could get more opinions. Then I would give them: Beatles - Abbey Road Who - Who's Next John Scofield - A Go Go Tommy Emmanuel - Only King Crimson - Discipline King's X - Dogman Radiohead - In Rainbows The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Kings of Convenience - Riot on Empty Street Spock's Beard - V ... And then I'd tell them to come back in a week or two, because I will have changed my mind, and I could let them borrow ten more albums! I haven't listened to that in a LONG time... Medeski Martin and Wood backing him up if I recall. Excellent album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted February 24, 2014 Author Members Share Posted February 24, 2014 Yes! Scofield sounds great with those guys. His Out Louder album with them is excellent as well (that one billed Medeski, Martin, Scofield, and Wood) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SaintJames Posted February 26, 2014 Members Share Posted February 26, 2014 In no particular order:1) The Beatles - Abbey Road2) Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy3) The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead4) Miles Davis - Kind of Blue5) U2 - The Unforgettable Fire6) The Highwaymen - Highwayman7) Muse - Blackholes and Revelations8) Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory9) Yes - Close to the Edge10) Pink Floyd - Meddle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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