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Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One.

If you somehow got stuck in a situation (lol) and had to spend the rest of your life completely by yourself, all alone, on a desert island ... and, as part of your situation you only got to choose one album to spend the entire rest of your life with.

Let’s say, some weird circumstance, and you also had at your complete disposal the system of your dreams, that you had assembled thru the years. And thank goodness you were a prepper and you thought ahead to install a solar power system, so power would never be a problem either.

Kind of like Tom Hanks on that island, except instead of a just a soccer ball, you had your dream stereo setup and one album only.

One album and that’s it. Got to pick one. Not necesssarily your all time favorite album, just one you could live with for the rest of your life.

Is there any album that just completely does it for ya, on that level?

I’ll kick things off by sharing mine: Steely Dan, Aja

 

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Rolling Stones Exile  Elton John greatest hits 

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The soundtrack to the movie "Phenomenon". It was on rotation in my car's CD changer for almost 10 years. When Jewel starts channeling Janis Joplin halfway through 'Have A Little Faith In Me' is just a remarkable exercise in vocal skills. And the Clapton, the Van Morrison, the Aaron Neville. Just an amazing collection.

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I actually had an experience relative to this question.  In 1972 I was a radioman in the Navy and sent to Diego Garcia in 1972.  It is an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, 27 miles long in a horseshoe shape and no wider than half a mike at any point as well as being close to the equator.

All I could take with me in term of music and audio was a small battery powered cassette player and a small carrier that contained 10 cassettes.  The first one in the box was Live at the Fillmore.  I should also mention I saw them play a few weeks before Duane died in the motorcycle accident.  That box travelled with me for a couple of years until I got out of the Navy.

A couple more points, there were no permanent buildings when I arrived, mostly comprised of seabees building out the island, we had the highest rate of drug and alcohol abuse of any unit in the US military that year.

Bob Hope arrived on the first jet to land on the island and performed on Christmas Day that year.  Temperatures easily got into the mid 110s and no A/C for 98% of the 1,100 men stationed there.

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Probably Delerium - Semantic Spaces

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