What would your personal "Golden Record" have on it?
 

Okay, I'm guessing you've heard of the Voyager Spacecraft. On Voyager, there is a golden record that has sounds of wind, the sea and people talking, and is meant to be recieved by aliens and to be played back. If you want to read more, look at this page for more information.

Now, let's pretend you have your own Voyager spacecraft, and your own golden record. This golden record is meant to represent your tastes in music if an extra-terrestrial ever finds it. So, naturally, you would want to choose some of the songs that represent you the most. So, if you had to choose ten songs to put on the golden record, what would they be? what images would be engraved on the gold case?

Korn - Thoughtless
Blue Oyster Cult - Flaming Telepaths
Tool - Jambi
Tool - Schism
Mushroomhead - Sun Doesn't Rise
Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy
Winds - Under The Stars
Strapping Young Lad - Wrong Side
Devin Townsend - Voices In The Fan
Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral

Now that's a ****in golden record!

I would want 2 tracks.

1: The entirety of Pulse Demon spliced together into one track
2: "Ruthless Babysitting" by Whitehouse

If those aliens come here they'll enslave us all. I don't want them here.

1.) Band Of Horses - Is There a Ghost?
2.) Tim Buckley - Hallucinations
3.) Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
4.) Soft Machine - All White
5.) The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
6.) Phish - A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing (Live: 2004.06.19)
7.) CocoRosie - Good Friday
8.) Hawkwind - D-Rider
9.) Elliott Smith - Twilight
10.) Queen - The Prophet's Song

I'd probably have engravings of the comedy / tragedy theatre masks, a guitar and some music notes, the moon and stars, and a very faint NYC skyline. That'd pretty much sum it up, I think.

That's a great tracklist. Famous Blue Raincoat is an outstanding song.

Sigur Rós - Saeglopur
Ef - Sons of Ghosts
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm
Callisto - The Fugitive
Cult of Luna - Dark City, Dead Man
The Knife - Heartbeats
Two Gallants - Waves of Grain
Halo of Pendor - Papercuts
Wolf Parade - Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts
Suffocate for Fuck Sake - Twenty Six and Full of Plans

Soulmate - Natasha Beddingfield
Atlas - Battles
Riot - Three Days Grace
Breaking the Habit - Linkin Park
Dayvan Cowboy - Boards of Canada
Happiness - The Fray
The Truth - Kris Allen ft Pat Monahan
Psycho - 50 Cent ft Eminem
Angels on the Moon - Thriving Ivory
Love the Way You Lie - Eminem ft Rihanna

I'd probly have a skull and crossbones, a broken heart, and angel wings.

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Modest Mouse - Doin' the Cockroach
Yes - Sound Chaser
The Unicorns - Child Star
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
Genesis - The Battle of Epping Forest
Can - Paperhouse
Slint - Breadcrumb Trail
Comus - The Bite
Mr. Bungle - Girls of Porn

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So, I think it's time that I do my own:

A Silver Mt. Zion - Movie (Never Made)
VHS Head - Remote Control
Don Caballero - Room Temperature Suite
Galaxie 500 - Snowstorm
Mogwai - Tracy
Boards Of Canada - Gyroscope
Animal Collective - Grass
Boris - Farewell
Autechre - Nine
Battles - Tij

on the golden case, there will be a child's drawing engraved on it, and it would bear a misspelled variation of my name.

The Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Pavement - Rattled By The Rush
Soundgarden - Dusty
The Pixies - Space (I Believe In)
Phish - Undermind
Radiohead - You And Whose Army?
The Doors - Touch Me
Nirvana - Very Ape
Talking Heads - Born Under Punches
The Stooges - I Need Somebody

There would be an image of a hand with its thumb up.