response 1 of 57:

Apr 18 23:22 UTC 1994

Apparently there's a radio programme in Britain that does
the same thing with various and sundry celebrities.  In
Stephen Hawking's most recent book, he includes the transcript
from when he was on.  Interesting stuff.

I haven't given it much thought, but...

(1)  Kate Bush, _The_Dreaming_.  I'll go crazy without this one.

(2)  They Might Be Giants, _Lincoln_.  I'll go crazy *with*
     this one.  >8)

(3)  "Weird Al" Yankovic, _Dare_to_be_Stupid_.  Say what you
     will, I still laugh at Al's songs, especially this one.

(4)  Tori Amos, _Little_Earthquakes_.

(5)  The Beatles, _Sgt._Pepper's_...  Sure, why not?

response 3 of 57:

Apr 19 03:42 UTC 1994

_Lincoln_ is the ultimate in weird.  I love it.

response 5 of 57:

Apr 19 05:01 UTC 1994

The list could be endless (esp. if you saw my husband and my collections!)
but if forced I'd have to select:

1.  "Wish You Were Here"...Pink Floyd   It brings out so many emotions and
        memories that if stranded, I'd need to have those memories.
2.  "Songs You Know By Heart (Greatest Hits)"...Jimmy Buffett   Come on, if
        I'm gonna be on an island, I *must* have tropical party tunes!!!!!!!
        (and hopefully a bottle of rum will float by to add to that coconut
        juice!)
3.  "DuranDuran...compilation"  Ok, they are one of the few groups that hasn't
        sold out into the "let's all make a box set" but if they did make a
        compilation of all their stuff, I'd have to have it!
4.  "Misplaced Childhood"...Marillion   I have to agree on this one. 
Absolutel       brilliant band, brilliant music and again, great memories. 5. 
"Pop!"...Erasure  If I'm stuck I'm going to enjoy myself, so I'll just
        keep dancing and playing the tunes loud enough for a passing cruise
        ship     to hear me!  (or at least send company!)

**Interesting choice of music people...LOVE it!**

response 7 of 57:

Apr 21 12:15 UTC 1994

Only five, eh?  Well then there should be some contrast and balance.

1. Mahler - Symphony No. 9, Karajan conducting the Berliner 
   Philharmoniker
2. Bach - The Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6, Neville Marriner
   conducting the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
3. Bach - 6 Suites for Solo Cello, Janos Starker
4. Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, The Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
5. New Age Zen - The Sounds of the Sea, Mother Earth, Inc.

But after a few years I'd probably kick myself for the Vivaldi and
and grieve over never again hearing:

6. Mendelssohn - Songs Without Words, Daniel Barenboim
7. Mozart - The Double Violin Concerto, Pinchas Zukerman and the 
   St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
8. Anything from Beethoven

response 9 of 57:

Apr 22 22:49 UTC 1994

I don't sing with music now, so no, probably wouldn't.

I hope you guys don't think I was serious about bringing a 
CD of ocean sounds along with me to a deserted island.

response 11 of 57:

Apr 24 22:32 UTC 1994

i feel kinda funny cuz most people are classical or 'contemporary' fans, but
here it is:
(i included a few records)
1)Butthole Surfers-"independant worm saloon" ijust got it and it rocks
hard!
2)Wig-"lying next to you" short but totally awesome, now with new singer, old
one in mule
3)Jaks-"fivenine" the best 4 songs in the world, wee sort of.  can i have them
live insteaD???
4)MUDHONEY-"every good boy deserved fudge" one of the all time greatest (like
the others arent' but still.
5)fugazi-the latest one, untitled-the best figazi albumm i have!  the best 
album vy nyone in the genra.  

response 13 of 57:

May 5 21:53 UTC 1994

Doesn't ANYONE ELSE have some favourites they couldn't do w/out?

response 15 of 57:

May 6 13:21 UTC 1994

Barber: EVERYTHING. Special favorites:
 Adagio for Strings
 Capricorn Concerto
 Fadograph of a Yestern Scene*
 Knoxville: Summer of 1915
 Music for a Scene from Shelley
 Piano Concerto
 Piano Sonata
 Second Essay for Orchestra
 Symphony #1
 Toccata Festiva*
 Vanessa*
 Violin Concerto*

Bartok: EVERYTHING. Special favorites: 
 3rd & 4th Quartets*
 Concerto for Orchestra*
 Piano Concerto #2*
 Piano music (Mikrokosmos, etc.)
 Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
 Violin Concerto #2
 Violin Sonata

Beethoven: EVERYTHING. Special favorites:
 Piano Concerto #1
 Piano Concerto #5*
 String Quartets & Piano sonatas
 Symphony #6
 Symphony #7*
 
Berg:
 Violin Concerto

Bernstein:
 Dybbuk
 Symphony #2 ("The Age of Anxiety")
 
Brahms: EVERYTHING. Special favorites: 
 German Requiem
 Haydn Variations
 Piano Concerto #2*
 Symphony #3
 Symphony #4*
 Tragic Overture
 Violin Concerto*

Britten:
 Cello Suites
 Peter Grimes
 Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge*

Carter: EVERYTHING. Special favorites:
 Cello sonata
 Concerto for Orchestra*
 String Quartets
 Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord
 Sonata for Piano and Harpsichord with Two Chamber Orchestras

Copland:
 Appalachian Spring*
 Billy the Kid
 El Salon Mexico
 Piano Variations
 Rodeo
 Symphony #3

Debussy: EVERYTHING. Special favorites: 
 Iberia
 Jeux
 La Mer
 Nuages
 Pelleas et Melisande
 Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faun*
 Piano music (esp Preludes Book 1)

Elgar:
 Cello Concerto
 Enigma Variations
 Symphony #2
 Violin Concerto

Falla:
 The Three-Cornered Hat

Harris:
 Symphony #3
 Symphony #7

Hindemith:
 Mathis der Maler Symphony

Holst:
 Egdon Heath
 Hammersmith
 The Planets

Mendelssohn: EVERYTHING. Special favorites: 
 Hebrides Overture
 Italian Symphony*
 A Midsummer Night's Dream*
 Violin Concerto

Moussorgsy:
 Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel's orchestration)

Neilsen:
 Symphony #3
 Symphony #4
 Symphony #5*

Prokofiev:
 "Classical" Symphony
 Piano Concerto #3

Ravel: EVERYTHING. Special favorites: 
 Concerto for Left Hand
 Daphnis et Chloe*
 Ma Mere L'Oye (both piano & orchestra versions)
 Le tombeau de Couperin (both piano & orchestra versions)
 La valse

Schubert: 
 "Death and the Maiden" Quartet
 "Great" Symphony in C major*

Schuman:
 New England Triptych
 Symphony #3
 Symphony #6

Schumann: 
 Piano Concerto*
 Symphony #3

Shostakovich:
 Symphony #5 (first movement)
 Symphony #10*

Sibelius: 
 Symphony #2
 Symphony #5*
 Symphony #6
 Tapiola*

Stravinsky: EVERYTHING. Special favorites: 
 Agon
 Apollo
 The Firebird
 L'histoire du soldat*
 Les Noces
 Octet*
 Petrouchka
 Pulcinella
 Le sacre du printemps*
 Symphonies of Wind Instruments
 Symphony of Psalms*

Tchaikovsky:
 Symphony #4
 Symphony #5
 Symphony #6
 Violin Concerto

Vaughan Williams: EVERYTHING. Special favorites: 
 Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis*
 The Lark Ascending*
 Oxford Elegy*
 Serenade to Music
 Symphony #3*
 Symphony #4
 Symphony #5
 Symphony #6 (last movement)

(line noise.)  I'm sure you could fit all of that
I'm sure you could fit it all on 5 CDs.

response 17 of 57:

May 6 14:30 UTC 1994

Btw, sorry to interrupt the lovefest ("spring is the mischief in 
me," to quote someone you've never heard of), but...

Anyone who takes the music of Blondie, DuranDuran, Pink Floyd, 
Tori Amos, etc, to a desert island -- where he or she might be 
limited to that music, and only that music, for the rest of his 
or her life -- is a pathetic, tragic character who is either 
insane to begin with or else would quickly become insane.  

The idea that this kind of music is as interesting and as 
valuable as any other kind of music, and that you needn't make 
the effort to elevate your taste since the reward for doing so 
will be no greater than the reward for listening to whatever type 
of pop music you like -- all of that is bullshit.  If you listen 
only to pop music (and I include "classic" rock, heavy metal, 
country, punk, alternative, New Age, disco, industrial...you name 
it), then the kindest thing I can say about you is that you 
probably don't know any better.

Anyone care to dispute that?  Huh?  Huh?

response 19 of 57:

May 6 18:04 UTC 1994

 Not really carson. There is something to be said for Mozart, and Beethovan
and all the so-called long hair music. It has lasted for centuries whils
Blondie, et al will be as dead as the dinosaurs in the next millenia.
  
  It is easy to start liking Classical. I used to despise Mozart. Then
I listened to the simplest piece he wrote, Eine Kleine Nactmuzik, which
is very popular and easy on the ears; I decided in the end that this
wasnt bad, and I went and bought a Mozart Cd. 

  Id take Grofes Grand Canyon Suite to a desert island.

response 21 of 57:

May 6 23:14 UTC 1994

Oh High and Mighty MD, I will support Carson 100% on this!  This is supposed
to be _fun_!  Just because I would choose to take non-classical music w/me
in most situations, does NOT mean I (or anyone else for that matter) does not
have respect or love for classical.  (do not, excuse my typo)  FYI, I was a 
music minor in college and studied classical piano for 15 years!  I own quite
a bit of classical music, and even some African Tribal music Carson mentioned!
I do not limit myself to one specific type of music.  I like some of everything
from Classical to Opera to Country to Pop.  It seems you are the bigoted,
closed-minded fool here, for you cannot see beyond ONE type of music.  You
probably are the same type of person who believes that Shakespeare (and the
like) are the only type of literature that deams that title.  I feel sorry
for you that you cannot accept that some people are more broad-minded than you,
and that maybe we just like to have fun!  (Bottom line is, though I love
classical, I'd prefer something memory provoking and fun.)

re#18:  Read the opening comments, a player is included in this daydream!:)

response 23 of 57:

May 6 23:53 UTC 1994

md, I start by suggesting that next time that you get to an OK: prompt
that you type the words "HELP ETIQUETTE" (sp?) and read about the GREX's
non FLAMING policy that you agreed to when you set up your account.
Secondly, I began the conference stating that all types of music were 
welcomed and encouraged.  If you wish to go on for pages extolling the 
virtues of classical music while claiming that ANY other type of music
is inferior (smacks of musical nazi-ism) then feel free to create your
own little Classical Corner Conference and more power to you!
Thirdly, you are completly mistaken in the look-without-leaping assumption
that because people select current pop type selections that that is the
ONLY thing that gives them pleasure.  Personally, I am a Theater major
with a lot of experience with the works of Gilbert and Sullivan (Ruddigore
is a personal favorite) I have been in a number of madrigal and chorus
groups (Aint the Carmina Burana a bitch?) and own a wide collection od
OF (sorry) classical CD's (although why ANYONE would willingly subject 
themselves to Stravinski's particular brand of atonal music is beyond me!)
I am quite partial the Beethoven's Appasionata and Patetique (please
forgive the spelling, I'm just a poor dumb heathen you see!)  
I feel absolutely no need to justify my choices to any person on ANY 
conference as it is music that _ I _ find enjoyable to ME! If you 
don't care for it, you don't have to force feed it to your cd player.
Though, is there something missing from limiting yourself to only one
type of music, I guess that you'll never know, will you?