If you were stranded on an island - Progressive Rock Music Forum

CPicard wrote:

Hey, just thinking about it... How would one listen to the said record? Is there a CD player, a vinyl player or a cassette player on this island?

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Hmm. We could assume that the requisite player was salvaged from the wreckage of whatever form of transportation stranded you on the island. However, without electrickery all of those things are pretty useless, solar or wind generators would be needed. While the construction of primitive generators and batteries is not impossible in a desert island situation, I suspect there would be more pressing demands on your time such as food and shelter. If we assume that these items were portable and battery operated you could use them for a short time while these critical problems were addressed.

Of course if the salvaged equipment were a cassette player then you'd also need head-cleaner, degausser or demagnetiser and an old-fashioned wooden pencil. For CD player I'd not recommend an external DAC in this situation though a player that is protected against sand and salt-spray would be advisable.

However, you can construct a rudimentary phonograph that would not require the use of electrickery out of bamboo, half a coconut shell and a thorn from a suitable tree such as the acacia (or alternatively a spine from a sea anemone). With a little ingenuity you could even power it from a small treadmill operated by a specially trained island critter, suffice to say: turtles would not be the idea choice here.

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What?

If box sets are allowed: Yesyears (Yes)

If they are not allowed, but a double cd is allowed: Echoes, A Retrospective (Camel)

If only a single cd is allowed: L'Isola Di Niente (Premiata Forneria Marconi)

If I were stranded on an island and I could only have one album it would be Pink Floyd's The Wall. There's so much music there and enough diversity amongst the songs that I would continue to discover one musical layer after another.

“Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov

It doesn't matter what you take because eventually you will become sick of hearing it. For that reason I refuse to take anything I even remotely like.

I think I'd like to pick A Kind Of Blue, it is just possible that given enough time I could grow to like it but even then it is inevitable that I will soon turn back to abject dislike. Either way, I will then take enormous pleasure in warping it into something useful, like a fruit bowl or a hat to shade the sun.

What?

The Who Live at Leeds

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

Yes - Relayer

Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All

Gorguts - Obscura

Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior

Magma – Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogie

Of course this is a live triple cd set. If I only had the option to choose just 1 cd it would be:

Yes - Close to the Edge

Edited by CosmicVibration - August 21 2014 at 14:37

CPicard wrote:

Any complete version of Satie's "Vexations".

No such thing.

My Music

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony Nr.5 conducted by Herbert Von Karajan with the Berliner Philharmoniken Orchestra!!!!

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB

Worn Copy, by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.
I always cite Can's Future Days as my favorite album, but I'd want something I could listen to every day. The Can album is more of a once a month album.

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