Your 5 "Can't live without…" albums

[CaptainQuark]

You've seen it all before, I'm sure, but I think we need such a thread here:

Desert island, marooned, iPod etc. Which 5 albums would you absolutely have to have on your iPod to maintain your sanity?

1. Blackwater Park – Opeth
2. Damnation – Opeth
3. Viva Emptiness – Katatonia
4. Abducted – Hypocrisy
5. Pulse – Pink Floyd

[Esquilinho]

That's difficult, selecting just 5... let's see...

In no particular order:
Mandylion, The Gathering
How to Measure a Planet, The Gathering
Mutter, Rammstein
OK Computer, Radiohead
Boys for Pele, Tori Amos

[Robn Kester]

Geesh... not an easy one...

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Ladytron - 604
Beastie Boys - Check your Head (can I say anthology?)
Devo - New Traditionalists
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
*Portishead - Dummy
*Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
*Slayer - Reign in Blood

*=Bonus alternatives, jic

Ask me again in 1 year, I am sure this will change some.

[Esquilinho]

Ask me again in 1 year, I am sure this will change some.

My feeling exactly

[Timmargh]

Erm, let's see ...

The Blue Album by Orbital
Brothers Gonna Work It Out by The Chemical Brothers
Heavy Horses by Jethro Tull
Angel Dust by Faith No More
The Return Of The King by Howard Shore

[fryke]

Hmm...

Meat Loaf's "Bat out of Hell II"
Republica's "Republica"
Robbie Williams' "Sing when you're winning"
Billy Idol's "Charmed Life"
Fryke's Choice "Various songs taken out of their context"

But actually, I don't really listen to whole albums anymore. I've got so much music... When I buy a new album, I'll listen to it two or three times, then I start to put tracks I really like into playlists that they fit into. My car's got a CD changer, so I put together "mood"-based CDs for it in iTunes.

[CaptainQuark]

Originally Posted by fryke

But actually, I don't really listen to whole albums anymore. I've got so much music… [edited] …so I put together "mood"-based CDs for it in iTunes.

I suspect that all of us do that. iTunes has certainly transformed the way I listen to music, but I thought that 5 albums would be less taxing on the brain than, say your top 20 tracks. Or maybe not…

[fryke]

For those who still _do_ buy albums and _do_ remember the times of albums, I guess it's less taxing, yes... But at the fifth already, I thought that I'd actually put one together. And then remembered that I do so for the first four, too. I'm a TV child, I zap.