your 5 "Go To" disks - which artist??
 

I circulate a lot of MP3s and disks, but I always have my 5 Go To artists in each car.

1. Radiohead - If I could listen to only one disc for the rest of my life it would be 'The Bends"

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2. Kings of Leon - just plain old kick a$$ rock and roll.

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3. Spoon - Smart and unique. Just a good time.

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4. White Stripes

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5. Viva Voce - kinda Mommas and Poppas surf sound.

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Only five? Geeze...my top 5 "albums" are on vinyl...Yep, I'm old...hoping to get older.

(edit) Trying again:

1. Beatles...pick your favorite
2. Stones..."Through the past, darky"
3. Any album by Chuck Berry...he smashed through the racial barrier
4. The album by Jefferson Airplane with the cut "white rabbit" by Gracie Slick.
5. Any album by the King...he REALLY smashed the racial barrier, along with "The Kiiler",
Jerry Lee Lewis.

All this? Nothing about music that SLO BOB would understand....GAWD I'M OLD!

Cowboy Junkies: THE TRINITY SESSIONS

The Who: WHO'S NEXT

Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead: Dylan & the Dead

Bruce Springsteen: BORN TO RUN

Rolling Stones: REWIND

This was a bit harder than I thought.

Allman Brothers - Live at the Filmore

Genesis - Seconds Out

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison

Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall

Bob Marley - Live at the Roxy

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Tool - Lateralus
Pink Floyd - Animals
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Phish - Lawn Boy

You underestimate me my friend. Even though your picks aren't in my 5 Go Tos, they are in my collection and played often.

-I love Abbey Road and even visited the "zebra crossing" in London.

-Sticky Fingers is one of my all time favorite albums but there are too many great Stones songs to list just one. If I had to pick it would be "Monkey Man".

-Okay - not a Chuck Berry fan since I saw the interview where he admitted he didn't even really like the music and just did it for the $$.

- Apparently I know a little more about your top 5 than you. White Rabbit was from Surrealistic Pillow. Yes - I am old enough to remember playing it on vinyl when it was released. I agree -fantastic.

-If by "smashed the racial barrier" you mean ripped black music off w/o paying royalties or giving due credit, I agree. Yeah, he was cool, and he is the King, but he didn't do black musicians any favors. Favorite Elvis tune - Burnin Love.

Great list! I want to know where you get a turntable that works in your car. :) (Okay - I was vague in my post. I meant top 5 disks in your car)

Legion - Animals is an AWESOME disk. I play that one a LOT too.

Just picked this up today. Long time Neil fan.... this makes me wanna burn in all my old bootleg tapes. What a show.

I have "surrilalstic pillow" on vinyl...bought back in the day...now, if you're so into Jefferson Airplane??? Name the singer who Gracie replaced.../.damn...talk about bad career moves...BTW, I also have, on vinyl.."Jefferson Airplane takes off" The cover art is fantastic. The cuts?
Not so much so...:(

(edit) My old P-car had no capability for turntables...nor discs or tapes. It only had an AM/FM radio that didn't really work all that well. But when I was driving? The radio was usually off. I didn't need tunes. The car made the music..

Gezz, how can you not list David Bowie? He has at least five different styles all by himself.

For me,

Bowie, Stones, Pink Floyd, CS&N, Steely Dan.

My go to list:

1. DJ Tiësto
2. Paul Van Dyk
3. U2
4. Jesus Jones
5. Enigma

Based on #'s 1, 2, and 5, its no stretch to say that lately, I'm into the whole trance-chill-groove-rave-techno stuff... minus the designer drugs...
-Z-man.

my current top 5....in no particular order.

1......rise against....the sufferer and the witness
i've been listening to this album for about 8 months and has really grown on me as one of the best newer bands i listen to. punk roots, but have really found their sound which the album shows.

2......silverchair....frogstomp
was written by the band when they were in their teens, brilliant grunge sound.

3.......janes addiction......nothing's shocking
this cd coincides with some good times when i was doing some soul searching in my early 20's.

4......they might be giants......lincoln
this was the johns' second of 21 albums in 20+ years....not counting the ep's, they are all equaly great but this was the which pulled me into their little cult :)

5......dead kennedys.....Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
this comes from my aggresive bmx days....which was from about 1985 til about a few years ago when i found out i just cant recover from riding like i used too.....listening to it right now.....can still feel the concentration and aggression that it gave when attacking a wall....or grinding down a ledge on a steep flight of stairs......or nosepicking a handrail 4ft above a well built ramp.......sorry...kinda drifted LOL

No particular order:

Pixies - Doolittle
Nine In Nails - Broken
Social Distortion - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
Joy Division - Substance (yeah, it's a 'best of' but who cares)
Cure - Boys Don't Cry

If I could add more:
Sublime - Sublime
New Order - Some of their early stuff

Beatles, Bowie, Stevie Wonder, U2, The Cure

Desert island discs? I'd hope for a few more than five.
Little Feat Waiting for Columbus
Rolling Stones Some Girls
Bonnie Raitt Streetlights
Beatles White Album
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks

Jim

Top 5
 

Stones: "Exile on Mainstreet"
Black Crowes: "Shake Your Money Maker"
The Dead w/ Willie Nelson : Live in St. Louis 7/2/03. My birthday. The Dead sold soundboard recordings of concerts on this tour. Can't figure why more artists don't do that.
Roy Buchanan: "Sweet Dreams"
Tom Petty: "Full Moon Fever"

These are the ones that gets the most time in my CD player.

Jimmy Buffett..... Beaches Boats and Bars

The Who..... Whos next

Tool....... Aenima

Chicago..... Best of

Bob James and David Sanborn...Double vision

Had to slip in an extra one........

Temptations.....Greatest hits

Okay - you got me. I didn't even cheat by Googling it. :) Who was it? I admit I was pretty young when Surrealistic Pillow was released. My older sisters, teenagers then, were the driving force behind my music appreciation back then.

I have a CD player in my 911, but the sound quality is so bad (despite lots of $$ spent) that I listen to the motor mostly. Living in the frozen north puts me behind the wheel of anything but a 911 most times, hence the boredom and need for tunes.

Lots of great stuff listed. In my main car I have a big CD wallet holding a lot of what you guys have listed. Pixies, Bowie, Cure, Jane's Addiction, etc.

In no particular order:

1) Anything by Neil Young 1979 and earlier.
2) Anything by REM
3) Anything by Portishead
4) Anything by Janes Addiction
5) Anything that Eric Clapton played on/in/with...

Very vague but I can't decide on 5 albums only! :confused:

REM: Murmer
Radiohead: OK Computer
Elvis Costello: Imperial Bedroom
U2: Boy
They Might Be Giants: The Else

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and . . .

New Order: Power, Corruption and Lies
The The: Soul Mining
Pavement: Wowee Zowee
Frank Black: Frank Black

stereo in garage is loaded up with:
beatles - abbey road
who - compilation
doors - same
beastie boys - licensed to ill
ll cool j - compilation
might also have janes addiction in there but never seem to get to disc 6 when i'm working in the garage.