hypothetical stuck on an island question regarding music

[Eja117]

So you're stuck on an island and you catch a fish. The fish says "I'll grant you one wish, but the wish is restricted to having a huge box of every cd of one musical genre wash up on shore. I'm a reasonable fish so I'll let you strech it, but not too far. You can't get Blondie in the rap genre just because she made the first rap music video, for example"

So naturally you say "I also need a musical system and batteries that never die or something"

He says "Granted. You have 5 minutes to think about this so pick well. Also I need you to rank it just in case there a CD shortage back at the ranch"

What do you pick?

[Eja117]

1. Alternative/Grunge - Nodd Morris, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, REM, Cranberries, RHCP, Beck, Radio Head, No Doubt, Weezer

2. Classic Rock, Beatles, Stones, Elvis, Queen, Hendrix, Led Zep, Mama's and Papas

3. Classical - Beethoven, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Wagner

4. Rap - Eminem, Dre, Snoop, Beastie Boys, D12, Wu Tang Clan

5. Top 40/Pop  Michael Jackson, Madonna, Lady Gaga, various one hit wonders, etc

6. Soft Rock - Jack Johnson, Elton John, Simon and Garfunkel, Jewel, Lisa Loeb, Clapton, Sheryl Crow

7. Latina - Shakira, Santana, Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin

8. Motown - Four Tops, Boys II Men, Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Barry White

9. 80s hairbands - Guns and Roses, Metallica, Kiss, Alice Cooper

10. Jazz/Blues. I know almost nothing about this music, but am very willing to try it. Vince Guaraldi. Harry Connick

11. Disco

12. Country - this is the point where I start bargaining with the fish to maybe send books and comics or maybe comedy CDs or instruments and teach yourself books so I can make my own music

13. Reggae

14. Anything by Yoko Ono.  My theory is I'll just put it in a safe place so that if I ever get rescued I can be like "And look at the only music I had to listen to!" so people will be like "Oh my God! How did you not kill yourself?" and feel extra sorry for me and let me go on the talk show circuit.

[wiley]

I would choose blues.  From the list above I get jazz as well (big jazz fan), but I'd pick blues regardless....

I do love something that is sort of its own genre, which is Brazilian pop (MPB), but I wouldn't know how to choose that...

[Lucky17]

Jazz, preferably instrumental.

Everything ever done by John Coltrane would probably be enough for me.

[Roy Hobbs]

Alternative / grunge / punk. 

[LarBrd33]

hmm... too bad massive boxes of cds probably don't float.  You'd be better off asking the fish for cassette tapes.  You can probably use them for creating rope and whatnots...  will come in handy when you're sick of hallucinating from starvation about magical talking fish and want to just hang yourself and get it over with.

[Eja117]

hmm... too bad massive boxes of cds probably don't float.  You'd be better off asking the fish for cassette tapes.  You can probably use them for creating rope and whatnots...  will come in handy when you're sick of hallucinating from starvation about magical talking fish and want to just hang yourself and get it over with.

Just because you've never met a magical fish that grants musical wishes doesn't mean there could never be one.

[LarBrd33]

hmm... too bad massive boxes of cds probably don't float.  You'd be better off asking the fish for cassette tapes.  You can probably use them for creating rope and whatnots...  will come in handy when you're sick of hallucinating from starvation about magical talking fish and want to just hang yourself and get it over with.

Just because you've never met a magical fish that grants musical wishes doesn't mean there could never be one.

That's basically the same thing the crazy fat roleplaying guy told me on a bus once in regards to vampires when I asked, "Wait a second... so you're telling me you ACTUALLY believe vampires exist??"... then the whole thing turned into a discussion about religion, but I'm not going there.

Ask the fish for whatever kind of music can lure more fish.  Kinda like the pied piper

[Eja117]

hmm... too bad massive boxes of cds probably don't float.  You'd be better off asking the fish for cassette tapes.  You can probably use them for creating rope and whatnots...  will come in handy when you're sick of hallucinating from starvation about magical talking fish and want to just hang yourself and get it over with.

Just because you've never met a magical fish that grants musical wishes doesn't mean there could never be one.

That's basically the same thing the crazy fat roleplaying guy told me on a bus once in regards to vampires when I asked, "Wait a second... so you're telling me you ACTUALLY believe vampires exist??"... then the whole thing turned into a discussion about religion, but I'm not going there.

Ask the fish for whatever kind of music can lure more fish.  Kinda like the pied piper. 

I had assumed that the fish wouldn't cooperate in such a venture for many reasons, but if he'd go all traitor on me then you have a point

[LarBrd33]

hmm... too bad massive boxes of cds probably don't float.  You'd be better off asking the fish for cassette tapes.  You can probably use them for creating rope and whatnots...  will come in handy when you're sick of hallucinating from starvation about magical talking fish and want to just hang yourself and get it over with.

Just because you've never met a magical fish that grants musical wishes doesn't mean there could never be one.

That's basically the same thing the crazy fat roleplaying guy told me on a bus once in regards to vampires when I asked, "Wait a second... so you're telling me you ACTUALLY believe vampires exist??"... then the whole thing turned into a discussion about religion, but I'm not going there.

Ask the fish for whatever kind of music can lure more fish.  Kinda like the pied piper. 

I had assumed that the fish wouldn't cooperate in such a venture for many reasons, but if he'd go all traitor on me then you have a point

Well if that becomes an issue you tell the fish that he/she has it all wrong... you just want to lure more magical fish that might have the ability to grant wishes that are less trivial than music... like maybe a magical steak-granting fish... or a magical woman-granting fish.   And then when the magical music-granting fish and you come to an understanding and he/she grants you the fish-luring music.... eat said fish.   Suckahhh!

In my experience, talking magical music-granting fish fall for that one every time.

[Eja117]

hmm... too bad massive boxes of cds probably don't float.  You'd be better off asking the fish for cassette tapes.  You can probably use them for creating rope and whatnots...  will come in handy when you're sick of hallucinating from starvation about magical talking fish and want to just hang yourself and get it over with.

Just because you've never met a magical fish that grants musical wishes doesn't mean there could never be one.

That's basically the same thing the crazy fat roleplaying guy told me on a bus once in regards to vampires when I asked, "Wait a second... so you're telling me you ACTUALLY believe vampires exist??"... then the whole thing turned into a discussion about religion, but I'm not going there.

Ask the fish for whatever kind of music can lure more fish.  Kinda like the pied piper. 

I had assumed that the fish wouldn't cooperate in such a venture for many reasons, but if he'd go all traitor on me then you have a point

Well if that becomes an issue you tell the fish that he/she has it all wrong... you just want to lure more magical fish that might have the ability to grant wishes that are less trivial than music... like maybe a magical steak-granting fish... or a magical woman-granting fish.   And then when the magical music-granting fish and you come to an understanding and he/she grants you the fish-luring music.... eat said fish.   Suckahhh!

Well yeah, but what if he predictably says "What's in it for me? I mean I come here and offer you music free of charge to make your stay easier, and you ask for more fish? Are my wishes not good enough for you? Why should I do this?"

I mean realistically what do I have to offer the fish? A cut of my hopeful future wishes?

[LarBrd33]

hmm... too bad massive boxes of cds probably don't float.  You'd be better off asking the fish for cassette tapes.  You can probably use them for creating rope and whatnots...  will come in handy when you're sick of hallucinating from starvation about magical talking fish and want to just hang yourself and get it over with.

Just because you've never met a magical fish that grants musical wishes doesn't mean there could never be one.

That's basically the same thing the crazy fat roleplaying guy told me on a bus once in regards to vampires when I asked, "Wait a second... so you're telling me you ACTUALLY believe vampires exist??"... then the whole thing turned into a discussion about religion, but I'm not going there.

Ask the fish for whatever kind of music can lure more fish.  Kinda like the pied piper. 

I had assumed that the fish wouldn't cooperate in such a venture for many reasons, but if he'd go all traitor on me then you have a point

Well if that becomes an issue you tell the fish that he/she has it all wrong... you just want to lure more magical fish that might have the ability to grant wishes that are less trivial than music... like maybe a magical steak-granting fish... or a magical woman-granting fish.   And then when the magical music-granting fish and you come to an understanding and he/she grants you the fish-luring music.... eat said fish.   Suckahhh!

Well yeah, but what if he predictably says "What's in it for me? I mean I come here and offer you music free of charge to make your stay easier, and you ask for more fish? Are my wishes not good enough for you? Why should I do this?"

I mean realistically what do I have to offer the fish? A cut of my hopeful future wishes?

but you caught the fish.  He's clearly granting the wish in return for his safe return to the ocean.  But magical talking fish are very susceptible to persuasion... get him to grant your wish and then make a chowder out of him... he basically has no choice.

[pearljammer10]

Pearl Jam... They have enough in their catalouge between studio and live shows that Id be a perfectly happy man... If I was able to pick more I'd go with the Grunge Rock in general.

[Eja117]

hmm... too bad massive boxes of cds probably don't float.  You'd be better off asking the fish for cassette tapes.  You can probably use them for creating rope and whatnots...  will come in handy when you're sick of hallucinating from starvation about magical talking fish and want to just hang yourself and get it over with.

Just because you've never met a magical fish that grants musical wishes doesn't mean there could never be one.

That's basically the same thing the crazy fat roleplaying guy told me on a bus once in regards to vampires when I asked, "Wait a second... so you're telling me you ACTUALLY believe vampires exist??"... then the whole thing turned into a discussion about religion, but I'm not going there.

Ask the fish for whatever kind of music can lure more fish.  Kinda like the pied piper. 

I had assumed that the fish wouldn't cooperate in such a venture for many reasons, but if he'd go all traitor on me then you have a point

Well if that becomes an issue you tell the fish that he/she has it all wrong... you just want to lure more magical fish that might have the ability to grant wishes that are less trivial than music... like maybe a magical steak-granting fish... or a magical woman-granting fish.   And then when the magical music-granting fish and you come to an understanding and he/she grants you the fish-luring music.... eat said fish.   Suckahhh!

Well yeah, but what if he predictably says "What's in it for me? I mean I come here and offer you music free of charge to make your stay easier, and you ask for more fish? Are my wishes not good enough for you? Why should I do this?"

I mean realistically what do I have to offer the fish? A cut of my hopeful future wishes?

but you caught the fish.  He's clearly granting the wish in return for his safe return to the ocean.  But magical talking fish are very susceptible to persuasion... get him to grant your wish and then make a chowder out of him... he basically has no choice.

That's a very good point. The fish might just be pretending to grant wishes anyway. I need to build a make-shift fish tank is what I need. Clearly if he has the ability to grant wishes then he either wouldn't have gotten caught or he'd defend himself so at this point he's screwed. I'm glad we talked this through.

[GreenFaith1819]

Gospel Jazz (Ben Tankard, Angela Christie), and some smooth Jazz (Gerald Albright, Kirk Whalum, Najee).