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Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by munificent on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:37PM (#19974017)
Sure, but if you had to winnow all of the world's (or just US's) best music down to only 20 CDs, do you really need to include two Beatles albums and Simon and Garfunkel ones? Is Faith Hill really the best you can do for country?

I would ditch those three and consider replacing them with:

* Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison

* Michael Jackson - Thriller

* Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang

Some punk and metal representation would be good too. And, honestly, Play hasn't held up well over the years. If you want something more representative or influential, maybe Orbital's brown album or Underworld's dubnobywithmyheadman.

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Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by 8draco8 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:11PM (#19974392)
Who said that this was a list o the best 20 CDs? Those was the best CDs for demographic they was targeting. That list was both good music and a marketing tool. That’s why there is no number one pop stars of that time on this list.
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Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by Rebelgecko on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:24PM (#19974526)
Giving everyone a copy of 36 Chambers would be a very un-Jobs thing to do. Imagine, you put your product in the hands of a journalist, they put the earbuds in, and the first thing they hear is a 2 minute description of torture and testicular mutiliation
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Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by cholantesh on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:39PM (#19974707)
The first thing they'd hear is a contextless monologue about rival kung-fu schools.
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Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by Rebelgecko on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:19PM (#19975178)
The scroll wheel demonstration took them down to track 9
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Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by asark on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:21PM (#19975190)
If we're going for a "best" list (rather than "most important") a cheap way to slightly improve it would be to swap Nevermind for In Utero.

Though I thought it was actually a pretty well-curated set of albums. "Best" isn't always the... well, best, thing to aim for in a collection.

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Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by phaus on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:43PM (#19975879)
I'm not a huge Nirvana fan, but I agree. The band ended before it realized its full potential and I think In Utero was a small taste of where they were headed. Heart Shaped Box is so much better than their earlier hits (which are by no means bad)that I never even bother to listen to their older music anymore.
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Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by cholantesh on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:41PM (#19974736)
No Sarcofago, no entry.
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