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You have enough time to listen to one album before you die. What album is it?

Lets say you have.. an hour maybe 90 minutes left to live and you're going to die as soon as the album finishes. I asked this question on a music board once and got a lot of great answers. This is hypothetical so no answers along the lines of "I'd rather spend my time with my family than listen to a stupid album"

My choice would be Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. It's not my favorite album of all time. It's not my favorite Pink Floyd record... In fact I'd rate it around #2 or #3. I just feel the album has a very dynamic range of emotions and 'Eclipse' would be the perfect song to hear before you die.

by cowboydann
asked 5 months ago

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If it happens around Christmas, Bing Crosby's White Christmas album. Full of good memories from my childhood through now, would be great to hear and relive the times.

If not, I'd have to say the 25th Anniversary Edition of the Blade Runner soundtrack. Vangelis is amazing, and I think this would do right to get me ready to leave this place.

woothulhu
5 months ago

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Beethoven's 9th, or maybe Jar of Flies by Alice In Chains.

rprebel
5 months ago

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Oh, man, that's a hard one. Too hard, in fact. I refuse to answer. Okay, never mind...Radiohead - Kid A.

foonatic
5 months ago

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Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

ohcheri
5 months ago

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@foonatic: Good answer!

woothulhu
5 months ago

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I think I'd rather cheat:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1525792.stm

A 639-year long performance might just do the trick.

omnichad
5 months ago

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@foonatic: Really? Kid A? Try as I might, I can't enjoy that album. Their first three albums were so much better IMO...

benyust2
5 months ago

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Tool AEnima.

benyust2
5 months ago

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Queen-Greatest Hits.

jimeezlady
5 months ago

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Well, @cowboydann , when I read the question, before I clicked or hovered, I immediately thought "Dark Side of the Moon". my next choice would be Portishead: Dummy, or maybe Radiohead, but I'd choose OK Computer.

If I had to choose a single song, from my own collection, it would be Thick as a Brick, Jethro Tull, a whopping 45ish minutes, just to stall.

pickypickypicky
5 months ago

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Rachmoninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor & Paganini Rhapsody played by Arthur Rubenstein. Or maybe Simon & Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence.

gmwhit
5 months ago

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Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights

dpiercy85
5 months ago

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@rprebel: I love how basically opposite those two are. Both good, but not two things you'd think to group together.

captainsuperdawg
5 months ago

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@benyust2: Yepper. I would want to feel alive before I die, and Kid A does just that.

I'll grant you that it is not their most entertaining album; it is their most emotive, though, IMHO.

foonatic
5 months ago

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U2 - Achtung Baby.

ruadork
5 months ago

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Probably either "Songs for Drella" or "Sketches of Spain" or "What's Going On" or maybe I'd just play all three on shuffle and see how long I could hold out.

slydon
5 months ago

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@dpiercy85: good album but definitely not my bucket album.

Man, try as I might I can't choose any one album or even artist.

Maybe the pixies.......?

portezbie
5 months ago

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@captainsuperdawg: If I could, I'd listen to the 9th followed by JoF. A rollercoaster followed by a slow train ride to ease into nothingness.

rprebel
5 months ago

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@omnichad: Is this for real?? Haha

dmaz
5 months ago

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hmmm.. Tough choice. Either the beatles Sgt. Pepper or Zoso by Led Zeppelin

nafsllib
5 months ago

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Tough one.

I started with various Beatles albums but somehow they aren't really satisfying as a whole. Same for Simon and Garfunkel and Depeche Mode.

For now, I'm going with Philip Glass' Koyaanisqatsi.

Hmmm... though the Brandenburg concertos are also tempting (not in order though, 1, 2, 4 - 6, then 3, unless you'll let me have them in order and then have #3 again).

baqui63
5 months ago

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Apparently I'm old, old, old.

American Pie, almost any Simon and Garfunkel, ELO, Moody Blues, Elvis

but then maybe I can do a mix tape?
Get some Johnny Otis / Harlem Nocturne, KD Lang, Sarah Brightman, The Moody Blues / Nights In White Satin, Nora Jones, Simon & Garfunkel: the Boxer+Sounds of Silence and finish with Leonard Cohen doing his "Hallelujah"

tpscan
5 months ago

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"Steady On", Shawn Colvin

brandie346
5 months ago

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While I am a huge Floyd fan - love Animals, Meddle and Dark Side (in that order) hands down my choice is "An Evening with John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess" (I would love to see this performed) and if I had time for 2, the second would be "The Fountain" soundtrack by Clint Mansell and the Kronos Quartet. I listen to those 2 regularly and never tire of them. And considering I have a collection of over 50,000 songs, that's saying a lot.

oscaroni
3 months ago

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