Oh geez... so many questions.
Do we still have radio or is this a "desert island" scenario where this is all the music we get ?
Can we include "best of" albums ? If not, and assuming no radio etc, here's a list to kick off the action :
1. Tangerine Dream - Cyclone
2. Curved Air - Air Cut
3. Curved Air - Airborne
4. Supertramp - Crime of the Century
5. Pink Floyd - Meddle
6. Heart - Dreamboat Annie
7. B B Gabor - first album
8. B-52s - first album
9. Pictures at an Expedition (can't find the LP and CDs seem to be a different performance, but it was an old solo piano recording by Vladimir Ashkenazy)
10. Schubert's Symphony No. 8 (whatever recording JohnK recommends ;))
You mentioned CDs to bring with you (implying car & work) so there's a bit of a car bias here. Haven't figured out why I would be driving to work on a desert island but that's a topic for the "ask me anything" thread.
EDIT - I have the following recording of Pictures at an Exhibition (among others) and this is definitely *not* the Ashkenazy performance I am talking about... and given my inability to find the correct performance I'm starting to wonder if it was performed by Ashkenazy after all.
these aren't the droids you're looking for 
