Which 10 albums would you have to have on a cross-country trip?

[hellbound-liberal]

Mine are all pretty old but they are still some of my favorites:

Eagles -On the Border
Bruce Springsteen -Born to Run
Deep Purple -Made in Japan
Led Zeppelin -Physical Graffiti
Blue Oyster Cult -Secret Treaties
Rory Gallagher-Stage Struck
Genesis-Selling England by the Pound
Allman Brothers -Live at Fillmore East
Flogging Molly-Swagger
Eva Cassidy-Live at Blues Alley


What are yours?

[ghostsofgiants]

1. I'd just bring my iPod.

:P

But if I had to pick CDs...

Refused - "The Shape of Punk to Come"
El-P - "I'll Sleep When You're Dead"
Wipers - "Youth of America"
Arctic Monkeys - "Favourite Worst Nightmare"
Bloc Party - "A Weekend in the City"
Desaparecidos - "Read Music, Speak Spanish"
At the Drive-In - "Relationship of Command"
Mission of Burma - "Signals, Calls and Marches"
Husker Du - "Zen Arcade"
These Arms Are Snakes - "Easter"

Those are the ones that came to mind, at least.

[hellbound-liberal]

2. Damn! I must be really out of touch! I've only heard of two on your list

Arctic Monkeys and Husker Du. Guess I need to listen to the radio more often!

[ghostsofgiants]

3. You probably won't hear most of that stuff on the radio.

[BulletproofLandshark]

20. Refused!

:yourock:

[ghostsofgiants]

21. My favourite band.

:thumbsup:

[Iggo]

4. Mine are kinda mersh...

...but ten is not that many.

These would be the discs I'd need to maintain my sanity for a 3000 mile drive.

Nancy Wilson -- Yesterday's Love Songs, Today's Blues
Led Zeppelin -- III
Eagles -- Greates Hits 1971-1975
Black Sabbath -- We Sold Our Souls For Rock And Roll
Judas Priest -- Sin After Sin
Judas Priest -- Stained Class
Iron Maiden -- The Number Of The Beast
Metallica -- Ride The Lightning
Megadeth -- Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Yngwie J. Malmsteen -- Rising Force

[hellbound-liberal]

5. Led Zeppelin III is an interesting choice. That is one of their most underappreciated albums.

Ditto for We Sold Our Soul. I thought of including Black Sabbath or Paranoid but ran out of room.

[Iggo]

6. It was either that or...

...Houses Of The Holy.

The question was, which do I need to hear more? Since I've Been Loving You or The Rain Song?

[leeroysphitz]

7. Sorry irk but this question is dated. We can take ALL of our music with us.

Wherever we go. To the store or to the coast.

Why ask what I would choose if I were horribly limited to pre-digital capacity?

[hellbound-liberal]

8. Yeah, I know, But I don't have and will never own an IPOD.

In fact, the only time I listen to music is when I am in the car or laying out on the deck.

[leeroysphitz]

10. Sorry to be a smart ass. So you are asking what ten albums I couldn't do without.

In no particular order:

The The Soul Mining

Meat Beat Manifesto Actual Sounds + Voices

Orbital The Middle of Nowhere

Aztec Camera High Land Hard Rain

Edie Brickell Ghost of A Dog

a couple Sleater-Kinney albums

a couple of Foo Fighters albums

But I'd still rather just have them all playing on random... :)

[LeftyMom]

9. I have an ipod connector on my car stereo

I could drive cross-country and back without repeating content, thanks to a device the size of my cell phone.

[hellbound-liberal]

12. That sounds really convenient. I may upgrade someday but, like I said, I don't spend a lot of time

listening to music. Love your Dilbert cartoon by the way!:D

[LeftyMom]

23. I mostly use mine in the car and on flights.

I don't know if I'd have spent the money on it, but it was a gift and I'm so glad I got it. Whenever I forget to bring it in the car and I'm stuck with a handful of CDs or worse yet the radio, I'm really, really glad I have the thing.

[begin_within]

11. I would bring:

Nat King Cole - The Very Best of Nat King Cole
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Who - Who's Next
Jim Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
Neil Young - Decade
Cat Stevens - Mona Bone Jakon
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Enya - Watermark

[hellbound-liberal]

14. Stevie Wonder, Neil Young and The Who would definitely help the miles go by!

Enya would be a nice way to wake up, too!

[MorningGlow]

17. Lots of good ones there, Bob

I agree with Beatles, Joni, Neil, Cat, and Enya, most definitely.

I'd throw in the two Northern Exposure soundtrack CDs, the soundtrack CD for Gilmore Girls, a little Van Morrison (probably Moondance), some Dr. John.
:hi:

[skygazer]

13. I drove across the entire country once with nothing but Pink Floyd's The Wall

That was fine. :)

[hellbound-liberal]

15. I can see that but I would probably choose Meddle, my first Pink Ployd album

I mean 8-track!

[XemaSab]

16. I have very limited tastes in music

Folk Implosion: One Part Lullaby

Moby: Play

The rest would probably all be Modest Mouse and Radiohead. :shrug:

[hellbound-liberal]

25. I've heard of three of these, though I am not familiar with their music

You Tube here I come!

[ghostsofgiants]

34. Good call on Modest Mouse and Radiohead.

:thumbsup:

[XemaSab]

46. Fuck yeah dude

:thumbsup:

[Tikki]

18. These:

Here Are The Sonics....The Sonics

KRLA/King of the Wheels....Bobby Fuller Four

Mendocino....Sir Douglas Quintet...http://www.laventure.net/tourist/sdq_hist.htm

Uptight..(Soundtrack)...Booker T. and The MG's

Words and Music....Roger Miller...

Electric Music For the Mind And Body....Country Joe and The Fish

RAMONES....Ramones

Los Angeles....X

Duty Now For The Future....DEVO

Mollusk....Ween

Tikki

[hellbound-liberal]

26. Do you have some connection to Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet?

I've never heard of them.

[Tikki]

31. You might like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxBINQPQGQk

ah...play it Augie...

Tikki

[BulletproofLandshark]

19. My Ten

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Machine Head - The Blackening
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Rush - Moving Pictures
Killing Joke - Pandaemonium
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Judas Priest - British Steel
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

[hellbound-liberal]

27. I should have included All the World's a Stage from Rush. I like Moving Pictures but ATWaS

was my first Rush album. I don't know what I was doing when Judas Priest and Iron Maiden were hot, I probably would have liked their music too.:shrug:

[ZombieNixon]

50. Good call on the Soilwork album.

Most people I know have never even heard of them.

[ZombieNixon]

51. Edit - wrong place

[Guava Jelly]

22. k

1) Pinkerton..Weezer
2) The freewheelin ' Bob Dylan.. Bob
3) Skin and bones...The Foo Fighters
4) In the Wee Small hours..Frank Sinatra
5) Let it be..The Beatles
6) Prolonging the Magic..Cake
7) Best of Bowie..David Bowie
8) The Isle of View..The Pretenders
9) Hypnotize... System of a Down
10) American Idiot..Green Day

[hellbound-liberal]

28. Those are my favorite Sinatra and Beatles albums. Perhaps I should revise my list

to include Frank Sinatra. There are times when no one else will do!

[Guava Jelly]

37. Can't beat ol Frank sometimes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1uFhPTq8c

I like this one too.

[livetohike]

24. Mine

Electric Ladyland - Hendrix
Cheap Thrills - Janis Joplin
Live at the Fillmore East - Allman Brothers
Rockin' the Fillmore - Humble Pie
Beck, Bogart, and Appice Live - Jeff Beck
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Don Quixote - Gordon Lightfoot
L.A. Woman - The Doors
Axis: Bold as Love - Hendrix
Four Way Street - Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young

[hellbound-liberal]

29. Jeff Beck is a great choice for the late night or early morning hours

Blow by Blow still reminds me of an all-night trip that I took with one of my friends from high school when he first got his car. We ended up sleeping on the beach after the No-doz wore off!

[livetohike]

32. Have to watch for those speeding tickets though

:-)

[sniffa]

30. My 11 (I couldn't decide which one to take off)

The Misfits Box Set (4 discs)
The Way Of The Vaselines (So incredible)
The Highwaymen
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
The Youngest In Charge (I had no idea he was just 16 then - 2 years older than me when I wore his tape out)
Cypress Hill I
Toxicity
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Let's Go
The Best Of The Who Collection (2 discs, but only the first)
Wave Of Mutilation

[hellbound-liberal]

35. I can definitely agree with the Highwaymen and The Who

Willie Nelson usually goes with me in one form or another.

[sniffa]

38. It's a good album

I'm hoping some people recognize some of them, or at least google, as I didn't name the bands.

[graywarrior]

33. Not in any particular order...

Blood on the Tracks-Dylan
Transcendental Blues-Steve Earle
Essence-Lucinda Williams
Rolling Thunder Review-Dylan
American Idiot-Green Day
Decade 1 & 2-Neil Young
OK Computer-Radio Head
Legend-John Lennon
Best of Marianne Faithfull
The Patti Smith Masters

[hellbound-liberal]

36. I like this list a lot. I have the Dylan and Lennon albums listed and Steve Earle is

one of my all time favorites. I have Just an American Boy and I really came to like Steve Earle a lot as I listened to it.

[graywarrior]

40. Steve Earle is soul medicine.

I saw him perform in Portland ME in 2002. He is one of the bravest people out there.

[hellbound-liberal]

41. I think he has given a lot of us the courage to speak out. He is one person who has never

compromised himself.

[graywarrior]

43. When I saw him in Maine, he said he was scared shitless but stood by what he believed.

I loved him from that day on.

[yellowdogintexas]

39. can I count boxed set as one?

if so:
Citizen Steely Dan
Creedence Clearwater the Boxed set
Boz Skaggs Silk Degrees
Carole King Tapestry
Fleetwood Mac Rumours
Steppenwolf Gold
Loggins and Messina Best of Friends

[hellbound-liberal]

42. You've got three more choices!

Creedence Clearwater and Carole King are both excellent choices, BTW!

[yellowdogintexas]

54. then the rest of my Boz Scaggs CD's probably. I just couldn't remember the name

of the albums .....

but I never ever take a road trip without Steely Dan

[Angleae]

44. Album?

I haven't used albums/CDs for nearly 10 years since I put the mp3 player in the car. Come to think of it, I don't even remember where I put my CDs after I ripped them onto the computer.

[fudge stripe cookays]

45. I'm with the mp3 people.

Can't live without mine. I love the shuffle!

But let's see...ten albums I have to have loaded up would be:

* Southern Culture on the Skids- Dirt Track Date
* Sex and Food- The Best of the Pursuit of Happiness
* The Sound of Deep Ellum (compilation)
* Afghan Whigs- 1968
* Warren Zevon- Genius, Best Of
* The Posies- Frosting on the Beater
* Cheap Trick- In Color
* Lloyd Cole- The Negatives
* Ned's Atomic Dustbin- God Fodder
* Wonder Stuff- Construction for the Modern Idiot

Honorable mention for "A Few Small Repairs" by Shawn Colvin. It would be perfect to listen to 'Wichita Skyline' while driving across the bleak landscape of Kansas or Nebraska.

[crimsonblue]

47. iphone

[HEyHEY]

48. That list sucks

;-)

[Fire Walk With Me]

49. It depends upon my destination.

I've found that much of Ohio benefits from Cluster's "Curiosum" and the "Liquid Sky" soundtrack, for example. Monolake's "Gravity" and Dimensional Holophonic Sound's first recording are great up the Grapevine out of LA and across the san juaqin. For anyone arriving into Los Angeles, I recommend Red Hot Chili Peppers and Autechre.

I was just north of Seattle and listened to jazz on a tube radio. That seemed to work best.

[ZombieNixon]

52. Most of the albums I'd take I don't even have in CD form.

I'd of course take my iPod, like others. I've got over 5 days worth of music, over a day of movies, and 18 hours of TV shows on it.

If I had to pick 10 albums, in no particular order:

Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
Dark Tranquillity - Haven
Dethklok - The Dethalbum
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Flogging Molly - Within A Mile of Home
In Flames - Whoracle
Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse
Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness
Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
Strung Out - Blackhawks Over Los Angeles

OK, I guess that ended up in alphabetical order. :shrug: :P

[Mr. Blonde]

53. Lately and especially on trips I find myself listening to full albums

on my iPod. Luckily that means I have tons of CDs to listen to.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Cease to Begin - Band of Horses
Rubber Factory - The Black Keys
Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan
London Calling - The Clash
Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon
Elephant - The White Stripes
Consolers of the Lonely - The Raconteurs (Love Jack White)
Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers

[mvd]

55. Some random picks that are great in general, but..

thought of them when your topic came up:

Abba - Gold
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Beatles - 1
Tom Petty - Highway Companion
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
The Corrs - In Blue
Loreena McKennitt - Book Of Secrets (for some night riding)
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
The Dollyrots - Because I'm Awesome
R.E.M. - Automatic For The People

[sakabatou]

56. I have songs from many albums on m iPod

[hobbit709]

57. In no particular order

1. The Doors-Strange Days
2. The Strawbs-Hero and Heroine
3. T Rex-Electric Warrior
4. Paul Kantner-Baron Von Tollbooth and The Chrome Nun
5. New Riders Of The Purple Sage-Best Of
6. The Who-Live At Leeds
7. Fever Tree-Another Time, Another Place
8. Stevie Ray Vaughan-In Session With Albert King
9. Hendrix-Electric Ladyland
10.It's A Beautiful Day-the Marrying Maiden Album

Of course with 48Gb of mp3 files I got lots more

[hellbound-liberal]

59. Strawbs! Very nice!

I also must say I am interested in that Stevie Ray CD. I'll have to check that out.

[6000eliot]

62. "Harp Tree Lament" is one of my favorite songs.

It still gives me chills when I hear it.

[TrogL]

58. Prog Rock

Long drives need long, complicated songs.

1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
   
2. Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
   
3. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
   
4. Emerson Lake and Palmer - Tarkus
   
5. Emerson Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
   
6. Rush - Hemispheres
   
7. Rush - Moving Pictures
   
8. Yes - Relayer
   
9. Yes - 90125
   
10. Yes - Tales of Topopgraphic Oceans
    

[hellbound-liberal]

60. You're right about prog rock being appropriate for the open road, TrogL

Relayer has been one of my favorite Yes CDs since it came out. It never gets old!

[Initech]

61. I'd just take my ipod.

The passengers can choose the music. It holds my entire 430+ album collection.

[LynneSin]

63. oh wow - that's a toughie

Can't I just bring the IPOD - it has everything.

First - I'd have to bring all the Pink Floyd & Led Zeppellin CDs - so let's just make that #1 and #2

#3-10 would be:

#3 - OK Computer by Radiohead
#4 - Purple Rain - Prince
#5 - Night at the Opera by Queen
#6 - Out of the Blue by Electric Light Orchestra
#7 - O by Damien Rice
#8 - Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Alan Parsons Project
#9 - Lovely to See You - The Moody Blues
#10 - Bullet in a Bible - Green Day

But seriously - I have an 80gig Ipod - it all comes with me!

[Broken_Hero]

64. Okay,

Ride the Lightning by Metallica

Master of Puppets by Metallica

And Just for All...by Metallica

The River Runs Red by Life of Agony

Ugly by Life of Agony

Revolutions by ILL Nino

Self Titled Slip Knot

Primitive by Soul Fly

Cuts like a Knife by Bryan Adams

The Wall-Pink Floyd

[EstimatedProphet]

65. I have Sirius