If you were stuck on an island which 5 albums would you take

[RoundTheBend]

[HarryLuke]

1# Bob Dylan live at royal albert hall
2# Elton John 1970 - 2002
3# Beatles number 1's
4# Talon of the hawk
5# Paul Kelly Songs from the south

[Fischman]

Impossible task . . . but here goes

1. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers -- Moanin'
2. Dream Theater -- Images and Words
3. Brahms -- Symphonies 3 & 4
4. Black Sabbath -- Heaven and Hell
5. Rush -- Moving Pictures

[albumceleste]

Mmmm...

Beethoven:
- the 9th symphony, because despite of having listened to it literally hundred of times on different versions both live and recorded it still has parts that make me shivers on all 4th movements. Prefered version of Karajan with the BPO.
- the last two string quartets, n15 and n16, one in minor key and the other in major one. All emotions covered. Can't go wrong with that one. Prefered version of the Alban Berg Quartet,.

JS Bach
- The Goldberg variations by Glenn Gould. The '55 version.

The Beatles
-Sgt. Pepper's , because I have yet to find an album as colourful and uplifting while at the same time deep as this one.

Horacio Guarany
- Por darme el gusto, argentinean folklore. The voice of a man singing from the heart.

[AfterHours]

Symphony No. 9 in D Minor "Choral" - Ludwig van Beethoven (1824)
Symphony No. 9 in D Major - Gustav Mahler (1909)
Mass in B Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach (1749)
Requiem - Guisseppe Verdi (1874)
Symphony No. 15 in A Major - Dmitri Shostakovich (1971)

My preferred recordings are listed on my "Best Recorded Performances" list

-Wagner's Tristan and Isolde might get in there instead of Shostakovich's 15th
-Also Charles Mingus' Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

-Among so many albums it would be nearly impossible to go without, it would be very very hard not to take Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas (and I probably would over Shostakovich's 15th) if an artist's complete recordings of those could be considered "one" album. Perhaps Paul Lewis' cycle is the best overall, or Annie Fischer's, or one of Brendel's, or or...
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Best Classical
Best Films
Best Paintings

[RoundTheBend]

5 copies of this on vinyl. The covers would be good kindling. The vinyl itself probably would reflect the sun well, so I'd use it for SOS type activities.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis

[CA Dreamin]

I'm not stuck on an island. I will never be stuck on an island. And if my life was forcibly reduced to five albums, I'd kill myself.
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on such a winter's day

[rliberty]

For the sake of variety I didn't repeat any artists.
#1 Pink Floyd - The Wall
#2 Radiohead - OK Computer
#3 King Crimson - Red
#4 Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
#5 Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica

[murmur]

Basic Channel's BCD to satisfy my techno cravings
Bach's Goldberg Variations as performed by Richard Egarr to satisfy my polite classical cravings
Webern's Complete Works Opp 1-31 as conducted by Pierre Boulez to satisfy my impolite classical cravings
The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground & Nico to satisfy my rock cravings
Freestyle Fellowship's Innercity Griots to satisfy my hip hop cravings

cravings that would eventually drive me mad: lack of access to metal, jazz, anything too contemporary, literally every form of music native to a non-Western culture

i don't envy those in the difficult position of having to plan ahead for desert island strandings

[HazeyTwilight]