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

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony No.5 conducted by Herbert Von Karajan with the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchestra.

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Rick Robson wrote:

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony No.5 conducted by Herbert Von Karajan with the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchestra.

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I think I'd take something by Kate Bush and sing along to it continously until all the animals on the said island got together and took me somewhere else.

And if there were no animals on this island, I'd take The Beatles - the only album I can think of with enough diversity to keep me interested in it.

And a solar powered MP3 player to play it on.

Guldbamsen wrote:

I'd probably pick something frightening to fend off dangerous critters or possible pirates.

I'm thinking either Current 93's Dogs Blood Rising or some Celine Dion.

Celine should do the trick.

I'd probably take Islands by King Crimson for the sake of conceptual symmetry. Anything else and I would go mad repeating "why didn't i take islands? why didn't i take islands?"
Also cuz i love that album and it would be prefect on an island

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Dean wrote:

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.

www.bbc.co.uk/archive/great_egg_race/10813.shtml

With a few battery powered CD players and a good stock of the best lithium chloride batteries (and somewhere reasonably cool to store them) it should be possible to keep a means of playing the album for 20 years or so.

However, I might even get fed up with Yessongs if I had nothing else to listen to for 20 years.

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