The man has a gun at your head and you have three albums to live...
...which three albums would you want to be the last music you ever hear?
My votes would be:
KIND OF BLUE - Miles Davis
Rich and spicy - close your eyes, breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. Let the warmth fill you and surround you, and then...
YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS - The Flaming Lips
From the off you are thrown into a worling, bleeping, sumptuous percussive feast of melody and riot. A meaty pop-rock fantasy that I need to experience at least once a quarter - just so I feel alive! Of course, in this final scenario, I would be comforted, at last, by Wayne and imagine myself in that balloon...
And finally, before he pull the trigga:
SPIRIT OF EDEN - Talk Talk
An album that has haunted me since it came out late 80s - luscious, soft, thrilling, tentative; a clarion call straight to my soul. Open up those pearly gates, Lord - I'm comin' home...
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Hmm... a nice easy question for 10.32pm (I'm in Italy)...
Arvo Pärt - Alina
Exquisite, beautiful, haunting
Kate Bush - Aerial
Wondrous, magical, ethereal
The Beatles - Abbey Road
It's Abbey Road, innit!
Today it might be
Paul Simon - Still crazy after all these years - reminds me of a rather sensual afternoon I spent with a girl in a park in Manchester.
Steely Dan - Can't buy a thrill - probably the best debut album ever and very sing a long.
Elvis Costello - King of America - has 4 or 5 of his best songs altogether on one album.
Tomorrow it might be different.
Wow!
I thought I was the only person in the world who thought that King of America was his best album, and the Confederates shows his best concerts.
Anyway, OK, I'll play. Today's three would be:
* Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke: Duality
* John Martyn: One World
* Daniel Barenboim & The Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Richard Wagner: Overtures and Preludes
What? No classical? Er...ah, yes, I know: Merle Haggard's I'm a Lonesome Fugitive, which is twangy rather than Wagnerian, admittedly, but a magnificent recording all the same.
Isn't This Easy
Fuzzy Warbles Boxset- Andy Partridge contained within this wonderful package is some of the most beautiful imaginative catchy music ever created.
The White Album-The Beatles what can I say
Out Of The Blue- The Electric LIght Orchestra,the album that defined my adolescence, filled with great songs great production worth it just for Big Wheels, It's Over and Concerto For A Rainy Day. I could also make a space ship out of cardboard.
Yeah right.
Like I'd really want to listen to an album.
I'll just have
Sgt Pepper.
It's got that endless shouty nonsense loop bit at the end.
Although after a couple of hours I might be begging him to pull the trigger.
A plan
How about Joy Division 'Closer', Lou Reed 'Berlin', and Suicide's 'Suicide', then hopefully my attacker will then turn the gun on himself in despair.
Ask him what he wants to hear
Then run away while he's looking through your CDs.
Today I will mainly die listening to....
North Star Grassman and the Ravens/Sandy Denny
Bongos over Balham/Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers
and Hard Station/Paul Brady
I reckon
You need something to get your blood pumping so you had the confidence and bravado to take on this dastardly gunman in a Bond style manly tussle which would end with one person pushing the other one over a cliff before delivering a witty quip, dusting himself off and walking back into the ambassador's cocktail party.
Sooo....
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
right, i've put some thought into this...
The Soft Bulletin by the Flaming Lips
then
TG24 by Throbbing Gristle
followed by
TG+ by Throbbing Gristle
The soft bulletin as it's my favourite album of all time, and if it all went wrong then i'd like to listen to it.
then over 35 hours worth of throbbing gristle.
my theory being that either the gunman would surrender, or fall asleep at some point during the 35 hour period. i just have to stay awake longer (and i think being held at gunpoint would probably make sleep difficult)...
Alternatively
He could turn the gun in on himself: any of the 3 offered would make me feel that the better option would be swift self propel to eternity. (Mind you, as a gun toting would be murderer, turned suicide, it would be hell I would be heading for, and I'm not uncertain that Genesis P and Mr Coyne wouldn't be the houseband there........)
Great (if depressing) thread
End on a suitably sad note, I say:
Arcana - Inner Pale Sun or Abrakt. Some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard. Simply sublime. Should set the mood nicely, and if the maniac was anything like me he would insist on hearing it again and again, buying me a bit of time to think of a Plan B.
Kate Bush - The Hounds of Love. Awe-inspiring, and we could talk about the superb production on The Ninth Wave (although I'd insist we faded out the last song so it ended on the wonderfully atmospheric Hello Earth).
Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal. Dark, ethereal, bleak, jaw-droppingly stunning. Go out on a high.
At this point, I hope I would have turned the killer on to some fabulous music, and we would wander off in peace to discover a whole lot more.