If you could only listen to 3 CD's forever, what would they be?

Pachelbel Canon and Other Baroque Hits

Disc One of this set: Queen – Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 &2

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses

Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds

These Are The Breaks – Mixed By Krafty Kuts or As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 by 2 Many DJs

I know I cheated there but I couldn’t decide between the last two, I would just have to flip a coin at the time.

Give up- The Postal Service
New Skin for the Old Ceremony-Leonard Cohen
Flamingos-Enrique Bunbury
and one more because it’s been on repeat on my computer since it came out…
Oracular Spectacular-MGMT
oh, i can’t just have three…
Memo Rex Commander y el Corazon Atomico de la Vía Lactea – Zoe
@RareDenver it’s ok, i more than cheated. i’m just a very indecisive person…

Abbey Road – The Beatles
Jimmy Cliff – Jimmy Cliff
The Turn of a Friendly Card -The Alan Parsons Project

Damn. I hate leaving out A New World Record by ELO, but you said only three. God you’re cruel!

London Conversation – John Martyn
Slowhand – Eric Clapton
New Moon Rising – James Taylor

Tough question!

This question is too difficult. I edited my three choices so many times that I realized I can’t choose just three.

Joshua Tree – U2
Hell Freezes Over – The Eagles
Greatest Hits – Bruce Springsteen

very tough but good question.

@drdoombot- Exactly! Three are just too damn few to pick from. It’s obvious to me that @PerryDolia is evil!

@AstroChuck
I try not to be. But, every now and then…

Beethoven’s 9 Symphonies
Bach’s 6 Brandenburg Concerti
Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Ben Folds- Rockin’ the Suburbs
Neil Diamond’s Greatest Hits
and I’m stressing out over this last one, but I’ll have to go with the LOST soundtrack if they ever come out with one, or if I ever compile one.

In Rainbows – Radiohead
The Hazards of Love – The Decemberists
Music from Amelie -Yann Tiersen

Nirvana – Nevermind
The Specials – Specials
David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Who’s Next The Who
Hot Fuss The Killers
The Magic Flute Mozart

Supernatural-Carlos Santana
Experience the Divine-Bette Midler
Los Canciones de Mis Padres-Linda Ronstadt

@SuperMouse – I was torn about Hot fuss for my list instead of Hell freezes over.

@galileogirl – Nice choice with Supernatural! That gave me pause to think again as well!

@rebbel- Great call with Ziggy.

@jmah
I’ll have to check out Music from Amile. Loved that movie.

Iron Maiden-Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Bathory-Blood on Ice
Queen-Queen II

@AstroChuck Thank you.
Agree with you that it’s a tough deal though, to pick only three.
I think tomorrow someone should ask for our top 4, 5, and 6 cd’s.

The White Stripes- Get Behind Me Satan
Old Crow Medicine Show- O.C.M.S.
Neil Young- Live Rust

I need one more so I can add Jane’s Addiction- Nothing’s Shocking You are evil @PerryDolia !

Nirvana: MTV Unplugged in NYC

Are you Experienced?: The Best of the Jimi Hendrix Experience

Led Zepplin IV

honorable mention to The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan

and Buckethead: Crime Slunk Scene

small note: links are also my favorite songs from those albums. ;)

Here another three I would choose
Horrific-Your worst nightmare
Slayer-Show no Mercy
Exhorder- Slaughter in the vatican
And another three
Hellhammer-Satanic Rites
Celtic Frost-Monotheist
Electric Wizard- Witchcult Today
And another…
Pink Floyd-The Wall
Metallica-Live shit
Sigh-Scorn defeat

I always cheat and use double/triple CD’s, but this time I won’t.

The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
DMB (ahh…too hard!!) Crash
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow

Storyhill – Live
U2 – Joshua Tree
James Taylor – Greatest Hits

But James Taylor could be switched out for some Crosby, Stills & Nash, or some CCR, or some Simon and Garfunkel, or… Okay, I give up – this is too hard!

Clarity – Jimmy Eat World
More Adventurous – Rilo Kiley
Naked Baby Photos – Ben Folds

Abbey Road – The Beatles
English Settlement – XTC
Amazing Grace – Aretha Franklin with James Cleveland and The Southern California Community Choir

The Presidents of the United States of America’s first album
Gustav Holst’s The Planets
Who’s Next – The Who

Once by Nightwish
Beethoven’s Last Night by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
The Human Equation by Ayreon

OK, there’s only one way I could do this….first I would have to select the albums I know by heart, the ones where I sing along (if only in my head) to every single song, every single note, every single word…the albums that essentially define my taste in music. Then I’d have to take some artists (the Beatles come immediately to mind) and say that their musical legacy was so abundant, wide and varied that the only way I could get the essence of them in one album would be to pick a greatest hits album (even though I generally despise GH albums because I already have all the material elsewhere). Then I would have to narrow the list down to one album from each artist….some artists might have several entries, but I’d have to pick my favorite among them. If I do that, I’m going to end up with a list that’s 10 times as big as I need. So, let’s do that…shall we?

1 AC/DC – Back in Black
2 Anthrax – The Sound of White Noise
3 The Beastie Boys – Check Your Head
4 The Beatles – 1
5 Black Sabbath – We Sold Our Soul for Rock and Roll
6 Elvis Costello – The Very Best of Elvis Costello & The Attractions
7 Cypress Hill – Black Sunday
8 Danko Jones – We Sweat Blood
9 The Donnas – Bitchin’
10 Enuff Z’Nuff – Strength
11 Faith No More – The Real Thing
12 Guns N Roses – Appetite for Destruction
13 House of Pain – Same As It Ever Was
14 INXS – Kick
15 Led Zeppelin – In Through The Out Door
16 Living Colour – Stain
17 Ludacris – Back for the First Time
18 Megadeth – Rust in Peace
19 Nirvana – In Utero
20 Pantera – A Vulgar Display of Power
21 Prince – Symbol Album
22 Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magic
23 The Smithereens – Green Thoughts
24 Queen – A Night At the Opera
25 Skid Row – Slave to the Grind
26 They Might Be Giants – Apollo 18
27 Tom Waits – Beautiful Maladies
28 Urge Overkill – Saturation
29 White Stripes – Elephant

OK, so that’s 29 albums I’d have a hard time living without ever hearing again, but just for the sake of argument, I’ll create a random number generator in a spreadsheet and pick 3 numbers at random. So, let’s do that, shall we?

OK, I get:

INXS – Kick
Megadeth – Rust in Peace
The Smithereens – Green Thoughts

I’m happy with that.

@dalepetrie – hehehe. You kill me. Your answer made me smile.

@Bri_L – gotta love a smiling lemur!

Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album)
Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life

Of course if I had to listen to only three CDs non-stop forever I think i might have to take a bullet.

I’m wondering about swapping one of mine for Born To Run By Bruce Springsteen

this makes me nervous. haha.

okay.
um.
i’m wide awake it’s morning – bright eyes
sixes & sevens – adam green
elliott smith – elliott smith

or wait. maybe replace elliott smith with conor oberst – conor oberst. one self titled for another? or.
i can’t do this. |: