7 best albums of 7 genres of music - for a hotel

too late to suggest It's Tomorrow Already by Irresistible Force for chill out? far prefer it over K & D Sessions or Ulrich Schnauss

"Incidentally, do hotels have to pay for the use of music like this, or is it covered by PRS?"

good question! i'll try to surreptitiosly find out ;) they're buying the cd's at full price anyway - they coulda asked me to go down to the pirate markets in kuta (i would've said no)

so which one is tomorrow already? if it's the one i heard on mushrooms that one time years back, it's probably a bit trippy for the great unwashed. though i guess that could be the shrooms talking.

PRS should cover it, from when I worked in a pub.

yeah it's trippy, but so is No Protection! there is a drug-themed song in It's Tomorrow Already, now that I think about it, so scratch it.

ok, here's what i finally decided on:

rock:

1. elvis - love, elvis 
2. surfin hits - va (rhino) 
3. beatles - sgt. pepper 
4. led zepplin I
5. Raising Sand - Alison Krauss, Robert Plant
6. highway to hell - ac/dc 
7. jack johnson - in between dreams

country:
1. the louvin brothers: tragic songs of life
2. lonesome fugative/branded man - merle haggard
3. honky tonk heroes - waylon jennings
4. luxury liner - emmylou harris
5. desperado - the eagles
6. the grass is blue - dolly parton
7. gillian welch - time (the revelator)

r&b:
1. sam cooke - night beat 
2. motown cassics: gold
3. issac hayes: black moses
4. roberta flack - first take 
5. stevie wonder - hotter than july 
6. prince - sign of the times 
7. solange - sol-angel and the hadley st. dreams

pop:
1. beach boys - pet sounds
2. michael jackson - off the wall
3. pure 80's - va
4. sade - love deluxe
5. madonna - music 
6. amy winehouse - back to black
7. justin timberlake - futuresex/lovesounds

chill out:
1. no protection - massive attack vs. mad professor
2. ulrich schnauss - far away trains passing buy
3. costes 2
4. orbital 2
5. moon safari - air
6. eno - music for airports
7. bargrooves - summer sessions

classical:
1. john williams - j.s. bach lute suites
2. lucia di lammermoor - highlights
3. debussy - preludes, images, children's corner
4. rodrigo - concierto de aranjuez
5. italian harp music brahms
6. brahms piano quartet #1 in g minor
7. bobby mcferrin / yo yo ma - hush

jazz:
1. duke ellington - far east suite
2. night and day: the cole porter songbook - va
3. nova bossa - red hot on verve - va
4. oliver nelson - the blues and the abstract truth
5. julie london - time for love
6. frank sinatra - sinatra-basie
7. miles - in a silent way

thanks for all the great input, i think with all the tips n tricks i've made a halfway decent desert-island collection with super broad appeal here :)

Good thing I take my iPod with me when I travel.

Sexiest album I own is Cassidy by Bows, which could be either rock / r'n'b or probably something else.

Wow!! Another Bows fan. I'm delighted. They're criminally underrated. I'd say they're trip-hop with hints of DnB. I don't have the Cassidy but Blush is also one of the sexiest records I own.

"Good thing I take my iPod with me when I travel."

don't leave home without it!

It is possible that your pop list may as well consist of:

- A good 50s hits compilation
- A good 60s hits compilation
- A good 70s hits compilation
- A good 80s hits compilation
- A good 90s hits compilation
- Some recent compilation that needs to be replaced quite often by another one
- "1" by The Beatles

lol. "1" is the worst comp i've ever purchased.