Interested in PDQ Bach? - The place to start is Gabriel's Yahoo Club: PDQ Bach
Dear Musical Moose:
Thanks for joining my PDQ Bach club at Yahoo. Thought I'd reciprocate
by giving you a list of my 30
Desert Island Discs. I might be cheating a bit since I bought the Beethoven
and Bach collections a volume
at a time but if you have the money on hand you can purchase these
2 as a complete set. It might have
taken me 12 months or so to collect each of these collections but I
do own them all and if I'd had the
money I would have bought them as one collection with one purchase.
You can never have too
much of a good thing.
Here is the list in alphabetical order:
1) Bach, PDQ --- The Dreaded PDQ Bach Collection Vol 1 (4
CDs of the first 5 albums) What more
could you ask for except all the other PDQ Bach albums as one collection.
2) Bach, JS --- Bach 2000 Edition - The complete works (about 153 CD's in total).
3) Beethoven --- Deutsche Gramophons Complete Beethoven Edition. ---
Another complete works set of
my favorite classical composer. About 97 or so CD's in total
4) The Beatles --- Either the Anthology Collection (6 CD's) or Past Master Vol 1 & 2 (2 CD's)
5) Bonzo Dog Band --- Cornology --- 3 CD boxed set of all
their albums - 60's British comic rock & pop
music.
6) David Bowie --- Sound + Vision (3 CD collection).
7) Elvis Costello --- Girls, Girls, Girls (2 CD collection).
8) John Cale --- Either Fragments of a Rainy Season or the Collected
works CD set. I saw John Cale live
and he played most of the Fragments of a Rainy Season songs in the
same order as on the album. Best live
concert of a solo artist I've been to.
9) Leonard Cohen --- Greatest Hits (1 CD).
10) The Clash --- London Calling (1 CD)
11) Bob Dylan --- Biograph (3 CD collection).
12) Ray Davies --- The Storyteller (1 CD).
13) Flanders & Swann --- The Complete Flanders & Swann (3 CD's).
14) Glenn Gould --- 32 short films about Glenn Gould motion picture soundtrack (1 CD)
15) Bernard Herrmann --- Hitchcock film scores (1 CD).
16) Spike Jones --- The Musical Depreciation Review Anthology (2 CDs).
17) The Kinks --- The Village Green Preservation Society (1 CD).
18) Tom Lehrer --- Songs and More Songs by Tom Lehrer (1 CD).
19) Monty Python --- Monty Pythons Sings! (1 CD) --- their best songs from all their other albums.
20) Randy Newman --- Guilty 30 Years (4 CD compilation).
21) Harry Nilsson --- Personal Best (2 CD compilation).
22) Pink Floyd --- Dark Side of the Moon (1 CD).
23) Rolling Stones --- The London Years (3 CD compilation) - Most of their early singles.
24) Lou Reed --- Between Thought and Expression (3 CD compilation).
25) The Rutles --- Archaeology (1 CD).
26) Richard Thompson --- Watching the Dark (3 CD compilation).
27) Talking Heads --- Compilation CD (1 CD).
28) Travelling Wilburys --- Vol 1 (1 CD).
29) Velvet Underground --- 5 LP boxed set of all their studio albums.
(Or one of the various CD
collections that collect all their albums) --- One of the last LP collections
I bought before CD's started to
be marketed.
30) Roger Waters --- Amused to Death (1 CD).
Apart from Bach and Beethoven, I bought all of these as single collections or just single CD's.