Going to Mars, what music do you take?

[ungawd]

I figured this would be an interesting hypothetical situation. You're heading to Mars on a 5 year mission with a crew of 12. For whatever reason the onboard data systems will only allow each crewmember to store a music collection of 10 artists each. Each artist collection may contain an unlimited amount of songs, but you're still limited to just the 10 artists. Personal electronic devices are not allowed, so you will be limited to listening to 120 collections. Which 10 artists would you choose if you had the first choice and didn't know what anyone else would choose?

My choices would most likely be:
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Offspring
Pink Floyd
Bob Dylan
Iron Maiden
Nirvana
Led Zeppelin
The Doors
Jimi Hendrix
Ozzy Osborne

 

[slitzell]

Pantera
Sabbath
Down
Alice n chains

A tribe called quest
Wu tang clan

 

[Swordsmith]

Weird Al
Johnny Cash
Chet Atkins
Paul Simon
Pink Floyd
B.B. King
Louis Armstrong
Aerosmith
Van Halen
Queen

My hope is that someone else brings Elton John, because how can you go to Mars without Rocketman? But if he gets left home, well, I wouldn't give up any of the above for him.

 

[ThatTmoGuy]

I'd be the guy that waited for everyone else to pick so I can choose mine by a process of elimination, but FFS you can't go to mars without the king of rock and the king of pop.

 

[Swordsmith]

Nah, I could do without either.

I was thinking Prince, ZZtop, a few others like that but on reflection they only really had a couple good albums, we're talking about whole careers worth. Even Paul Simon, I dunno, does that include his work with Art? Dunno if it's enough otherwise. Bump him for Sting but same problem, no Art means no Police.

 

[AdorableKaren]

(not in any order) I would take:
evanescence, skillet, rascal flatts, jason aldean, ellie goulding, breaking benjamin, mgk, luke bryan, selena, and mj

ha looking at my list, I'm so young

 

[Maddog2020]

Emerson Lake and Palmer
Yes
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Bob Dylan
CSNY
Led Zepplin
Moody Blues
The Rolling Stones
The Who

Sorry, I'm old!

 

[$ub$onic]

What about palmer?

 

[ThatTmoGuy]

What about palmer?

you would need to make sure your GF is always there huh?

 

[$ub$onic]

My last name is palmer........ I'm not joking.....

 

[ThatTmoGuy]

Did you have a sister named Rosie?

 

[$ub$onic]

I will destroy u

 

[ungawd]

I'd be the guy that waited for everyone else to pick so I can choose mine by a process of elimination, but FFS you can't go to mars without the king of rock and the king of pop.

To me, I feel that if I had the last choices the pressure would be greatest. I would assume that the first 6-8 of the 12 would pick at least 3 or 4 safe choices. By those I would imagine it would at a bare minimum include; Dylan, Floyd, Beatles, Cash, RHCP, Evenescence, Zeppelin, Skynyrd, MJ, Nirvana, Elvis, etc. There are many safe picks; so many they could fill the entire 120 allotment. If only 30-40 wind up being safe picks it would be really difficult for me to submit just 10. By the end I may wind up trying to choose between the Who, Soundgarden, and Jim Croce for example, and solid repetoires like Stone Temple Pilots and 311 may be left out.

 

[stimpy2301]

Sammy Hagar's 'Marching to Mars', duh...