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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
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...
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
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