Your Desert Island CD

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Given the circumstances, the most thematically-obvious choice has nothing to do with islands and is probably my favorite one-CD compilation: the soundtrack to Until the End of the World.

Otherwise...

Boxed Set: Easy. The Complete Stax-Volt Singles, 1959-1968.

Single CD: Much, much harder. Definitely jazz. Probably Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by monolith94
What is it with you and Jamaica???

Ah, I can see you have never been there...

[monolith94]

Well, I like Jamaican music and all, and I can understand the influence it has had (although sometimes Reggae can get a little tiring), but often it seems as though Jamaica stuff is ALL that snapcase is interested in!

[Bas]

Lateralus by Tool. A long, long album that ages very well, so far.

[Dis]

What's the running time by that? I like Undertow too because that seems long and has several excellent songs. Never checked the display time though. Aenima has my favourite songs though.

[Bas]

It fills the entire cd, so somewhere around 78-80 minutes. I think Aenima is about the same length, and Undertow a bit shorter (around 60-65 minutes, probably). Undertow has an extremely long bonus track though.

[Buck Birdseed]

Originally posted by monolith94
Well, I like Jamaican music and all, and I can understand the influence it has had (although sometimes Reggae can get a little tiring), but often it seems as though Jamaica stuff is ALL that snapcase is interested in!

It's a value-for-money thing, I think. Of the American and British genres with similar ratios of really good stuff to bollocks (Soul, British Invasion, Garage Rock, Glam Rock, Proto-Punk, Punk, Old-School Hip Hop, Dance Rap, Recent Garagey rock, and, er, I can't think of any others, possibly Power-Pop, plus outside of B+A Krautrock and current Gothenburg Rock) I've already got most of the supposed "key" material, and much of the obscurer stuff is well expensive. (I just spent over $15 on a single-CD Goldwax Soul compilation, for instance, not a sustainable trend especially as it contained only a handful of great tracks.) Plus much of the stuff I'm interested in is quite hard to find- Can anyone even begin to point me to where I can buy Orchestra Luna's self-titled album? Japan? Thanks.

Whereas the jamaican stuff, and especially the 50-track trojan box sets I buy for a tenner (approximately $15) each are astoundingly cheap, easy to find (the seller visits our university every other week) and contain lots of fresh material from an at least partially paralel tradition. I've probably spent 2-3 times more on Jamaican stuff in the past half-year or so than anything else, and my reporting is thereafter.

I've run out of box sets now though, after having bought all twenty or so, so I'll probably launch head-first into some other genre. I'm thinking Bhangra.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by monolith94
Well, I like Jamaican music and all, and I can understand the influence it has had (although sometimes Reggae can get a little tiring), but often it seems as though Jamaica stuff is ALL that snapcase is interested in!

I listen to classical/opera almost exclusively. So what?

[Buck Birdseed]

Oh, and I simply cannot afford to buy as many CDs now as I could before. So what I recommend is selective.

[Mercator]

If boxsets can also mean limited edition full album collections, I'll take a 20CD Queen collection.
If that's a little too much, I'll take the 4CD woodstock boxset.
If it's gotta be just one... No idea, well, too many ideas... I'll just chime in on the Carmina Burana CD, then.

[Boris Godunov]

I wouldn't take Carmina Burana because, really, you're only getting 20 minutes worth of truly interesting music. A lot of the middle sections are quite dull and repetitive. Orff could have at least varied the verses when he insisted on writing things in tertiary format.

[monolith94]

"I listen to classical/opera almost exclusively. So what?"

I was thinking of Snapcase on a geographical perspective? not from a genre perspective.

Anyways - just curious Snapcase, but what do you think of Supertramp???

[Buck Birdseed]

Started off as yet another crap indie band that then decided to just borrow and neuter loads of 60s and 70s textures, creating bland, remasticated pop for those parts of the audience that haven't heard the originals?

[Drake Tungsten]

The Beatles - Revolver

[Buck Birdseed]

Or is that Supergrass? I can never rembmer the difference.