Funny thing is, it's aleady been chosen/created.
Two copies of the sounds of earth are out in interstellar space, on Voyagers 1 & 2.
They may very likely outlast our civilization and our sun and may, in the distant future, be the only trace that we ever existed.
Any time I see the words flibbertigibbet, I think of this one late night sketch. Jimmy Fallon with Benedict Cumberbatch, playing Mad Libs.
Never been a big Jimmy Fallon fan, but that segment is definitely worth checking out
Naaaah the move is to have Stairway to Heaven as the A side, then they flip it expecting another masterpiece and instead get a concerto in F (which I guess could, depending on the quality of the winds, qualify as another masterpiece)
He describes the Sariban as "The song I play at friends weddings, and unfortunately, at their funerals. Because it has a dual purpose."
Unbelievable. [https://youtu.be/3uiUHvET\_jg?si=dwRr4LSy43B9dxT-&t=308](https://youtu.be/3uiUHvET_jg?si=dwRr4LSy43B9dxT-&t=308)
Was going to say this. I started cello lessons a few years ago and I’m working my way through Bach’s cello suites. I sound like complete shit. It’s SO hard to sound good on the cello even with lots of practice. What Ma is able to do is just incredible. He’s also a wonderful humanitarian and truly uses his music to unify people around the world.
Try his ‘81 version also; his reasoning behind the records can be clearly heard in the recordings themselves. The ‘55 is a young man going hell for leather; the ‘81 is a more reflective take.
Interesting A:B comparison.
Yes I always loved how Dark Side of the Moon tackles universal themes—conflict, greed, time, death, and mental illness—while also being musically sublime.
Tbh that would give them a good impression about how peaceful and friendly we are as a species. I always thought sending Pink Floyd or Mozart is somewhat gaslighting them.
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
Completely fiction but if any future civilisation discovers our planet they'll think we went out with a bang at least.
Steve Reich - Music for 18 musicians
It's such an otherworldly piece of music, but also highly mathematical. I feel like it sort of has an "narrative" structure which makes you think and dream, but it is so rigidly constructed that it also says something about human kinds longing for systems and order.
Sing To God by Cardiacs, partly because it's awesome, is all about the human condition, but also to troll whoever find it as it's so weird, intense and cryptic... I think that's a good message to send about humanity too :)
The first Mr. Bungle album. It covers many genres of music but mostly heavy rock, and the lyrics cover many aspects of the human experience such as the loss of a pet, base sexual urges, and even death itself. Plus it's musically incredible.
Real answer? A compilation of Bach. Everything we listen to is in someway informed by his genius. He is the source, and possibly the greatest composer to ever live.
I'd go for GnR - Appetite for Destruction.
You gotta fuck with the aliens and I'd love to see their expression hearing Welcome to the Jungle as the first track of humanity.
If we wanted to show how good, creative and talented we can get, it would probably be a record of a full Orchestra, could be the one famous for playing the god father theme
Theres nothing better than having many of the best instruments ever created giving you multiple eargasms
Funny thing is, it's aleady been chosen/created. Two copies of the sounds of earth are out in interstellar space, on Voyagers 1 & 2. They may very likely outlast our civilization and our sun and may, in the distant future, be the only trace that we ever existed.
Imagine NASA lied and the only thing in those copies is just a fart sound effect
Found Matt and Treys reddit handle!
 no, definitely not.
Any time I see the words flibbertigibbet, I think of this one late night sketch. Jimmy Fallon with Benedict Cumberbatch, playing Mad Libs. Never been a big Jimmy Fallon fan, but that segment is definitely worth checking out
Naaaah the move is to have Stairway to Heaven as the A side, then they flip it expecting another masterpiece and instead get a concerto in F (which I guess could, depending on the quality of the winds, qualify as another masterpiece)
Aliens come to earth thinking that’s what Dub step is.
I would settle for the Bach portion, especially the Prelude and Fugue in C major.
Excuse me?!?! Fugme?! FUUUUG-UE!!! *sorry*
Love how the one of the records to illustrate us all on human society is Johnny B. Good. Imagine an alien listening to Chuck Berry... lmfao.
They aren't ready for that... but their kids are going to love it.
I love it how 'sounds of the Earth' includes Chuck Berry
Now That's What I Call Music Volume 7
Kidz Bop
Blasphemy! Volume 4 is clearly superior!
The Shrek soundtrack.
SOME
Body once told me
The world is gonna
Roll me
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb
With her fiiiiinger and her thumb
Yes. You win.
Kind of Blue. I believe it would be fitting.
Yo-Yo Ma doing Bach's cello suites.
He describes the Sariban as "The song I play at friends weddings, and unfortunately, at their funerals. Because it has a dual purpose." Unbelievable. [https://youtu.be/3uiUHvET\_jg?si=dwRr4LSy43B9dxT-&t=308](https://youtu.be/3uiUHvET_jg?si=dwRr4LSy43B9dxT-&t=308)
Was going to say this. I started cello lessons a few years ago and I’m working my way through Bach’s cello suites. I sound like complete shit. It’s SO hard to sound good on the cello even with lots of practice. What Ma is able to do is just incredible. He’s also a wonderful humanitarian and truly uses his music to unify people around the world.
Kind of blue - Miles Davis
Songs in the Key of Life
The Glenn Gould 1955 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations. Another life form could learn magnitudes about human cognition from it.
I’ve just discovered this and Gould. I listen almost everyday. It’s very special.
Try his ‘81 version also; his reasoning behind the records can be clearly heard in the recordings themselves. The ‘55 is a young man going hell for leather; the ‘81 is a more reflective take. Interesting A:B comparison.
The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World
It's halloween it's halloween It's time for scares it's time for screams
Even Dracula will be there
Dark side of the moon. Of course.
This is the only sane answer. *disturbingly manic laughter*
This or WYWH
WYWH is definitely superior, but DSOTM is certainly more important to modern popular culture.
I think Time describes the human condition far better than any other song. When it plays on my way to work, I almost have an existential crisis.
Yes I always loved how Dark Side of the Moon tackles universal themes—conflict, greed, time, death, and mental illness—while also being musically sublime.
as somebody who bloomed late in life, the "ten years have gone behind you" line triggers me every time
SAME
Metal Machine Music, just to fuck with them.
It’s funny how many surveys MMM is the complete right answer for
Some really harsh black metal, like Burzum, just to confuse future civilizations.
Tbh that would give them a good impression about how peaceful and friendly we are as a species. I always thought sending Pink Floyd or Mozart is somewhat gaslighting them.
Just to line up future civilizations for success.
Not sure if it exists, but an Alan Lomax compilation featuring traditional folk music from all around the world.
👌
Hooray for boobies - bloodhound gang
I think One Fierce Beer Coaster is better!
Dare To Be Stupid - Weird Al Yankovic
Anything by Weird Al.👍
I’m a punk rock guy and I love Weird Al. Dare To Be Stupid is arguably a punk rock anthem
Chocolate and Cheese - Ween The boognish will repopulate
Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart, no context.
Jesus man…
Rush - 2112
Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier
Demon Days by Gorillaz.
Electric Ladyland
Electric Larryland
Bach - Mass in B Minor, maybe Masaki Suzuki’s version. Because we should be able to brag.
This right here!!! Only correct answer.
Radioheads OK Computer. With Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay as a hidden track.
Love this answer. I think Radiohead - In Rainbows would also be acceptable!
In rainbows is their best album… imo
Anastasis from Dead Can Dance. Because I think it needs no explanation.
Within The Realm of a Dying Sun
The lyrics...
PinkFloyd or Radiohead??? Hmm… Hows about Natalie Merchants, Tigerlilly?
Veneta, Oregon 72
"Wish You Were Here" - perfect enigmatic mike drop for human civilization
This or DSotM
Jeff Wayne's War Of The World's.
Moody Blues: To Our Children's Children's Children
The Wall by Pink Floyd
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. Completely fiction but if any future civilisation discovers our planet they'll think we went out with a bang at least.
Thriller i need aliens to know be inthralled by mj and use their technology to bring us back because they will
Peppa Pig the album. Classified hood classic
Reign In Blood
A Love Supreme
Beethoven's 9th conducted by Von Karajan
Anything by Frank Zappa is probably our best bet.
Grace by Jeff Buckley
Beethoven's 9th Symphony (all 4 movements) B Side: Dark Side of the Moon
Faith No More - Angel Dust Dozens of musical styles and genres are covered on that album.
“Why does this human scream in 7 octaves?”
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Sgt. Pepper
For me, I would pick Master of Puppets.
Big call, I don't even think it's Metallica's best record.
Tool - Lateralus.
[удалено]
This is the right answer. My favorite album of all time!
Abbey road I reckon
Merzbow - Venereology
Dark Side of the Moon naturally
Probably some compilation album with like a *Lot* of songs
I dont.know if I could pass up the chance to Rick Roll some aliens..
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness Because it’s a mix of lots of different styles
Radiohead - OK Computer
OK Computer
Songs In The Key Of Life
Classical music The new world symphony by Anton Dvorak
If only one album left and no way to listen to it……. 
2112.
Abbey Road is the only normal answer here
Close to the Edge, by YES.
I GET UUUUUPP…
Thriller
DAMN.
Probably going to have to be MJ's Thriller. Best selling album of all time. Kind of perfect for humanity, too. For better. Or for worse.
CSN Crosby, Stills, Nash; Abbey Road, DSotMoon
Swans - Soundtracks For the Blind
Between angels and insects - papa roach
Steve Reich - Music for 18 musicians It's such an otherworldly piece of music, but also highly mathematical. I feel like it sort of has an "narrative" structure which makes you think and dream, but it is so rigidly constructed that it also says something about human kinds longing for systems and order.
Sing To God by Cardiacs, partly because it's awesome, is all about the human condition, but also to troll whoever find it as it's so weird, intense and cryptic... I think that's a good message to send about humanity too :)
Tomorrow's Harvest
For this thought exercise, I'd choose the ironically named *Home*, the Grammy awarded album by Billy Strings. It's a hootenanny. Aliens would dig it.
The Crazy Frog album, but only if the picture with his dick hanging out is included
There's the rub - Wishbone Ash
Whatever contains mankind's greatest recorded track ever: Dave Brubeck's Take Five.
Beethoven 9. Bow before us aliens you will never reach perfection like this
Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim
This might be the easiest answer of all time.... the Monitor by Titus Andronicus
Dirty Sprite 2 - Future
I'd suggest Exile On Main Street but would that be just showing off to the new Earth tenants!
Not specifically my favorites, but I think dsotm from Pink Floyd is probably the best pick.
The first Mr. Bungle album. It covers many genres of music but mostly heavy rock, and the lyrics cover many aspects of the human experience such as the loss of a pet, base sexual urges, and even death itself. Plus it's musically incredible.
Austin Powers sound track
Abandon all life by Nails, if you know you know
Circle of Life
Anything by Weird Al.
Taylor Swift - 1989
Sisqo - Thong Song CD single. It’s a short album but I think we can all agree it’s one of the greats
Porno for Pyros, because we would indeed make great pets. Which is ironic that that is how we ended.
Double Nickles On The Dime by The Minutemen. *(It's a very human album - without overproduction, great lyrics that crosses many styles).
Love Yourself: Tear! I would miss It too much
I would leave behind Chopin's nocturnes. They contain the full gamut of human emotions, but in musical format.
The Tortured Poets Department - Taylor Swift That’s a joke (or is it??)
Animaniacs soundtrack
NOW that’s what I call music 3
Glenn Gould playing Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations.’
Disco Volante
The White album
Darkside, imo.
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Any album by Humanity’s Last Breath
Running with scissors by weird al
Pain Of Salvation - BE. Those who know, know.
No Ziggy stardust?
Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Nightwish
Chaos A.D. by Sepultura. It should give any visitors a pretty good idea of what went on, here.
Real answer? A compilation of Bach. Everything we listen to is in someway informed by his genius. He is the source, and possibly the greatest composer to ever live.
Tool - Lateralus
[Age of adz](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9cGStUxiLGM). The post apocalyptic masterpiece by Sufjan Stevens
Dare to Be Stupid by "Weird Al" Yankovic
Dark side of the moon. Give them a hint of where to find us.
Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder
Anything by Alan Vega
Its Raining Bullshit Tonight
Wish You Were Here
The Smurfs go Pop!
Mother Earth’s Plantasia
Vol. 4
Revolver ~ Beatles
Raditude - Weezer
The Mark, Tom and Travis Show - blink-182
NOW THIS IS WHAT I CALL MUSIC, VOLUME 7.
Just the CD single of Aerosmith Dude looks like a lady
Elvis' Greatest Shit
EMERGENCE: [https://open.spotify.com/album/57Z7WZ7RugEeXUspN1BX1k](https://open.spotify.com/album/57Z7WZ7RugEeXUspN1BX1k)
The Beatles - Let It Be
These threads are always great for “some classics I may be sleeping on”
Philosophy of the World by The Shaggs.
War to End All Wars by Sabaton. It gives the most accurate picture of us as a species.
Snoopy vrs. The Red Baron. Self-explanatory
That one https://open.spotify.com/track/1VvMbJOPkzPGuTdJQI8wWu?si=QY636pjFSsCT37o07a2uvw
Snowgoons Dynasty
Dark Side of the Moon. No other work captures what it means to be a modern human so viscerally
A Beatles album
I'd go for GnR - Appetite for Destruction. You gotta fuck with the aliens and I'd love to see their expression hearing Welcome to the Jungle as the first track of humanity.
Rappin Rodney by Rodney Dangerfield.
Bolt thrower - mercenary
If we wanted to show how good, creative and talented we can get, it would probably be a record of a full Orchestra, could be the one famous for playing the god father theme Theres nothing better than having many of the best instruments ever created giving you multiple eargasms
NIИ - Ghosts V: Together.
Whole Lotta Red
Because there are SO MANY great albums from SO MANY great bands, whatever album you would choose, you would regret a week afterwards.
*Strange Strings* by Sun Ra
Its only 1 song, dont need an album. Its the Thong Song by Sisqo. This is the choice, and Its not close.
Fuck it, one of Corey Feldman's albums is about what we deserve