"I never travel far / without a little..."

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What records do you ALWAYS bring with you on trips? Anything on an iPod or such related device doesn't count...I'm talking CD or cassette.

This isn't a desert island list, but has to do with the act of travel and bringing a part of home or the past with you.

These are the discs I put into my years-old CD wallet, beginning with those ones I first started taking with me as a kid and still do to this day even though I know there's no way I'll listen to it. But there's always that chance that, in some far off city, interstate, airplane, etc, you will NEED to hear it....

-Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
-Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream
-Smashing Pumpkins, Live at Reading bootleg
-Bruce Springsteen, Live 1975/85
-Cannonball Adderley, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
-Verve, A Storm in Heaven
-Sam Cooke, Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
-Talk Talk, Laughing Stock

― PB, Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Vulgar Boatmen

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Not because I always might need to hear them but because they've spent so long in the car:

Saint Etienne Foxbase Alpha
Ghostface Ironman
Basehead Play With Toys
Greensleeves Sampler Volume 4

― Flower King of Flies (noodle vague), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I have the Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique" always in my car in case I am stuck in the south with nothing but religious radio shows to listen to.

― Todd Pontius (tee pee), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I used to religiously bring a cassette with Sly & the Family Stone's "Somebody's Watching You" every time I flew -- inexplicable superstition. Lately I've taken an Orpheus best-of comp and Elton John's Captain Fantastic on every bus or plane trip. And I always bring my New Order comp with "Touched By the Hand of God" every time I go to visit an old flame in DC.

― Joe McCombs, Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand the difference between this and desert island, seems like the same thing to me. But to answer the question, I love to travel w/ something I'm completely unfamiliar with - I like using travel as a way to get to know something I've been neglecting.

― TRG (TRG), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

i like the title of this thread alone and wanted to just add
...bag of weed and pipe
but u seem to be discussing different matter here, so heres the list of tapes in my car:
coldcut´make some noise
miles davis kind of blue
basement jaxx remedy
ed rush optical wormhole
smashing pumpkins machine of gods
fugees the score
radiohead kid a

― karl76 (karl76), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Heh emergency music? You never know when something comes up, and you really need some Led Zep just in case?

― Stephen C (ihope), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Physical Graffiti
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Anodyne
All Shook Down
Puddin' E.P.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

A shortwave radio

Joni Mitchell, everything from Blue to Don Juan, plus Travelogue

Cocteau Twins, everything from Love's Easy Tears to Milk and Kisses, plus BBC Sessions and a few live bootlegs

The Conet Project

At least one mix for running and/or working out, if circumstances allow

At least one mix for sleeping

Tori Amos, Scarlet's Walk

At least one record each by Stina Nordenstam, Boards of Canada, Freedy Johnston

Whatever I might want to play for the people I'm going to see

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

"I never travel far / without a little..."

Car.

Right, now I've read the question, there are a nunmber of albums that always seem to be around in the car.

Clash : Sandinista
Mutantes : Mutantes (either first or second)
Orange Juice: The Glasgow School
The Fall : Peel Sessions
1981: Box Set
Monks: Black Monk Time
Super Furry Animals: Singles album

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 13 January 2006 09:32 (twenty years ago)

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