It's The End Of The World - You Get To Pick 5 Bands To Save

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The END is nigh - and not unlike Noah, you are burdened with the awesome responsibility of saving some shit. Among the numerous other items, you're tasked with choosing 5 bands/musicians whose works can be saved when your cosmic ark departs for Humankind's new home. What are your choices?

Mine are:

1. Beethoven - Ludwig Van is the man!
2. James Brown - Got to bring the funk to Mars/Venus wherever
3. Rush - Just so I can listen to Cygnus X1 while travelling in space
4. Rolling Stones - I want to play "Satisfaction" for an alien
5. Miles Davis - I can't be without "Kind Of Blue"

― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 00:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Only five??

Neil Young, Albert Ayler, Beefheart, Chet Baker, Vladislav Delay. Imagine the jams.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

mozart, beethoven, duke ellington, holland-dozier-holland, and... umm BOB POLLARD I guess

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 2 April 2003 00:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yep, only 5. It should be a difficult choice. Otherwise someone's gonna choose Hootie and The Blowfish.

― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

britney spears, n'sync, dave matthews, korn and norah jones

― samson without delilah, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

1. My Band. We're friends!
2. Fugazi - they've earned it, and they'll be willing to help create a new community and all.
3. Neil Young - he even SANG about mother nature's silver seed. He's gonna be so damn happy, and lead us all in sing alongs.
4. Kelly Osbourne - cuz we belong together
5. The Donnas - cuz it might not work out with Kelly. Plus the rest of the guys in my band should get to date cool girls too.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh, we're picking their WORKS! fuck it. I don't give a shit about saving anybody's works. Actually, I'd still pick the same five.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

1. The Clash
2. Uncle Tupelo
3. The Velvet Underground
4. Cream
5. Bob Dylan

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

kenickie, slumber party and love of diagrams. that's all i'd need.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 01:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

in alphabetical order

1. George Clinton/the P-Funk Mob
2. Mark Hollis/Talk Talk
3. Pet Shop Boys
4. Jason "Spaceman" Pierce
5. Snoop Dogg

― Evan (Evan), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 02:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

My gut tells me: Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, The Beatles, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Ween sneaks onboard just as the ark is lifting off though, 'cause they're sneaky little fuckers.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, reasons too, my bad:

Hendrix - he was already half-way to outer space, mang; besides "Third Stone from the Sun" might as well be a soundtrack for interplanetary travel

Miles Davis - I swear "Circle in the Round" is an audial galactic star-map, and extra-terrestrials need to hear "Files de Kilmanjaro", they told me so

Fela Kuti - cause god-damn it's funky! (plus rhythm = the first music, so in a roundabout way this is like a roots-of-music thingy)

The Beatles - [this is the "appeasing the canon" answer, I actually would prob'ly send like Ludwig Van or Zappa instead]

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - you've heard his voice, you know why

Ween - 'cause they deserve to live!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Skeeter Davis.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 20:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or am I being too obvious?

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 20:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ly, ny, rd, sky, nrd

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Just as a population of less than 30 is not enough of a genepool to re-perpetuate a species...5 is not even close to enough to re-perpetuate EVERY genre of music.
I'd take cell samples from a long ass list of musicians (exhume a few as needed) and carry the a suitcase full of thousands of test-tubes full of the stored brillance of Earths finest musical minds and souls. Then I shall generate multiple copies of each (of both genders); and thus populate an entire WORLD with the manifold spawn of humanities musical crème-de-la-crème!
BWAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAAHAAAAHAAAA!!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 3 April 2003 18:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

The Velvet Underground
Roxy Music
Joy Division
The Smiths
Talk Talk

― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link

They'd all be symphony orchestras or choirs, cos that way I get to save as many people as possible.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link

You're saving their collected works, not the artists themselves. Please adhere to the ridiculous thread premise!!

― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link

period correct, best 00s revive post ever except you should have put like interpol or the strokes in the list

― Hunt3r, Thursday, 21 June 2018 00:07 (five years ago) link

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