B4real wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 12:16 am
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Connolly said if he had to choose just one album that he could keep, it would be one by Cohen. "The only difficulty would be which Leonard Cohen album."[/b]
A lot of people have that very same problem of which album to choose
Your comment made me laugh, Bev! My first thought was, "Really? Do a lot of people actually have that problem?". I mean, is there a conceivable reality in which any given person would genuinely be required to choose only one album that they could keep, and, presumably within this scenario, never be able to listen to any other album ever again? I think that it is highly unlikely that that would ever happen to anybody, and therefore, I do not think that it is a "problem" that anyone needs to contemplate, let alone worry about!
Mind you, there may be temporary situations in which one's musical selections may be limited: perhaps if one goes on holiday and does not have one's entire music collection on their MP3 player or phone (this has happened to me in the past, particularly back when all of my music was on CD or cassettes, and I had to choose a few to take along, but with the advent of advanced digital technology, it has been less of an issue); or, if (while on holiday or otherwise away from home), one has no internet access and thus cannot use streaming services, they may have to rely on whatever music they've downloaded to their devices (if they have such devices!). There is also the ever-popular "Desert Island Discs" game ("If you were stranded on a desert island, which music would you take with you...?") -- which I suppose could happen, in the event of a shipwreck or plane crash -- but there will not be any electricity, and so one would not be able to play any of the recorded music they took with them, or not for very long, anyway, once any available batteries are drained (and assuming that the devices on which to play their "discs" were not damaged beyond playability in whatever event stranded them on the island). There is also the possibility that one may commit a crime and be sent to prison, in which there may be some limits on the amount of music available to them, and so such a person may have to make some difficult choices (although depriving an inmate of music may be considered cruel and unusual punishment, and thus it may not actually be an issue in modern prisons...). And, an even worse case scenario, if the earth is about to be obliterated and a few survivors are packed into a spaceship to go find a new planet, then perhaps there might be some limits on how much music can be taken along (although, if humans have the technology to build such a spacecraft, I should hope that it would include enough computer capacity to store every musical recording ever made, so maybe that is not the best example. I'd actually be more concerned about choosing the people who would go on that spaceship...).
