Desert Island Discs

[David Bean]

I'm sure this has been done before, but it bears repeating.

In the style of the popular Radio 4 programme 'Desert Island Discs', you are asked to imagine yourself on a desert island, alone and isolated from the rest of the world. You are asked to select the eight single musical recordings - tracks, not records - that you would most like to have with you.

In addition, you are asked to select one full record (on which one of your eight tracks appears), one book and one luxury item. You are allowed the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare for free, and your luxury item must not have anything to do with survival (you are to be provided with all basic necessities) or attempting to get off the island.

I'll post my own when it isn't 3:00 in the morning.

[hr]"Fiat justicia ruat colelum (Let justice be done though the heavens may fall)" - Judge James Horton (family motto)

[Campbell]

i'm fucking bored so probably

music tracks -


alphabet soup - bell x-1
metarie - brendan benson
in other words - ben kweller
loaded - primal scream
bled white - elliott smith
Tiny Vessels- Death cab for a cutie
come and find me - josh ritter
nehemiah - hope of the states

Album - brendan benson - lapalco

book - 100 years of solitude, gabriel garcia marquez

luxury item - guitar

[alw6]

music tracks -

Nancy Boy - Placebo
I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones
I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sister
Free Bird - Lynard Skynard
Hersham Boys - Sham 69
Pain - Four Star Mary
Big Sur - The Thrills
Pheobe - Fenix*TX

Album -

The Bets of Arethra Franklin

Book-

The Green Mile by Stephen King

Luxury item-

i guess a cd player would help

[David]

Music

Overture 1928 - Dream theater
A change of seasons - Dream theater (23 min long song)
Learning to live - Dream theater
little wing - (a live version which I can no longer find by joe stariani, steve vai and john petrucci)
Free Bird - Lynrd Skynrd (full version with solo)
No Boundaries ( speed kills) - Michael Angelo Batio
Under the bridge - RHCP
Layla (live not unplugged)- Eric clapton

Album -

Dream Theater - Metropilis part 2 - scenes from a memory

Book -

The complete Red dwarf series of books

Luxury Item

Guitar (my 7 string)

[KateBush]

music:

*Kate Bush--the fog
*Kate Bush--cloudbusting
*Kate Bush--this woman's work
*Kate Bush--hounds of love
*Annie Lennox--stay by me
*Tori Amos--tear in your hand
*Rachmaninov--Opus on a theme of Paganini
*Vaughan-Williams--Lark Ascending

book:
*O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
*A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
*or Lanark by Alsadair Gray
*or The Iliad by homer
*or The Mercat anthology of Early Scottish Literature
*or Beowulf
*or a collection of Dream vision poems to break the boredom...
*or Wuthering Heights

ok, ok...so I can't restrict myself on books (shame!)

luxury item:
karma or ginger perfume from lush, OR 100 bath bombs in a box, so it would count as one item?

[Manic23]

Tracks

Massive Attack - Black Milk
Muse - Stockholm Syndrome
Damien Rice - Delicate
The White Stripes - Black Math
The Pogues - Streams of Whiskey
The Fugees - Cowboys
The Furey Brothers - Green Fields of France
Dr. Dre - Stranded on Death Row

Album

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Book

The Adrian Mole Diaries - Sue Townsend (okay, this is a collection of 5 books but I'm sure one huge anthology exists somewhere)

Luxury Item

Guitar, preferably electric with Amp(I'm absolutely shite at playing, but figuring as I'd be sitting on my arse all day on a desert island with nothing else to do, I'd use my time to master the beast)

[Raindance]

Hmmm... let's see...

Aaron Copeland - Fanfare to the Common Man
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Jimi Hendrix - Castles Made of Sand
J.S. Bach - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Green Day - Sassafras Roots
Elbow - Newborn (E.P. Version)
The Music - What's It For
Jebediah - La Di Da Da

Should be varied enough not to get boring.

Album: Green Day - Dookie (This album never gets old, even after ten years!)

Book: Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

Luxury: My guitar (what a cliche this is becoming)



[hr]I love this mess

[quarterstaff]

8 singles -

"the end has no end", by The Strokes
"Little Acorns" by The White Stripes
"Railroad" by The Zutons
"Appassionata Sonata" by Beethoven
"Flat Beat" by Flat Eric
"Aladdin Sane" by David Bowie
"Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" by David Bowie
"Street Spirit (Fade Out)" by Radiohead


Album -

"The Bends" by Radiohead


Book -

"N-Space" by Larry Niven


Luxury item -

are companion's illegal? i suppose they probably are, though a beautiful wonderful woman would be my first choice, i may have to settle for a grand piano... and none of your cheap shite now!

[Haunted]

Tracks

1.AFI - ...but home is nowhere
2.Soil - Halo
3.Muse - Bliss
4.Metallica - Fade to black
5.Rammstein - Sonne
6.Iron Maiden - Wicker man
7.SOAD - Chop suey
8.AHC - just so you know

Album

AFI - Sing the sorrow

Book

Olaf Stapledon - Star maker

Luxury Item

1050/10xx Steel Katana

[ds255]

hmmmm....

tracks:
the strokes – 12:51
the killers – all these things that ive done
david bowie – space oddity
iron and wine – such great heights
the doors – the end
led zeppelin - babe im gunna leave you
the shins – new slang
IZ – somewhere over the rainbow
postal service – sleeping in

album:
The doors – legacy

book(s):
the perks of being a wallflower / fear and loathing in las vegas.

luxary item: guitar… as much as I don’t want to follow the cliché... and in that case, id have to say my 2 puppies.

[David Bean]

Here's my own list - for now, at least (ask me again tomorrow and it could be entirely different).

Zadoc the Priest - G. F. Handel
I Was Glad - C. H. Parry
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits (Live from the Concert for Mandela, featuring Eric Clapton)
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite - REM
The Rock's 'Hollywood' theme (incl. long intro) - WWE in-house
Mission Impossible 2 theme - Limp Bizkit
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants (Live from the 'Live on Penn' concert, summer 2004)
...and just for fun: the infamous Brian Johnstone/Jonathan Agnew 'Leg Over' incident - Test Match Special, 1991

Album: I'll take 'Automatic for the People' by REM.

Book: Hmm... I think at the moment I'm leaning towards the Cantebury Tales by Chaucer (although that really ought to be a freebie as well).

Luxury item: it'd have to be my notebook, assuming a power source was available.

By the way, non-guitar players are allowed to post too, you know!

[hr]"Fiat justicia ruat colelum (Let justice be done though the heavens may fall)" - Judge James Horton (family motto)

[November Rain]

Tracks:

1. November Rain - Guns 'n' Roses
2. Love In An Elevator - Aerosmith
3. Man! I Feel Like A Woman! - Shania Twain
4. Jive Talkin' - Bee Gees
5. Whatever You Want - Status Quo
6. Don't Stop The Music - Lionel Richie
7. Back To The Future theme
8. Star Trek: Generations theme

Album:

Either - "Greatest Hits" - Guns 'n' Roses

Or - a CD with as many albums in mp3 format as possible, including 3 Guns 'n' Roses albums (Greatest Hits, Appetite For Destruction, Use Your Illusion 1); 2 Shania Twain albums (Come On Over and Up!); "Young Lust: The Aerosmith Anthology"; 3 Van Halen albums.

Book:

Star Trek encyclopedia

Luxury Item:

If I can have an infinite supply of batteries or an electricity generator, then a laptop.

If not, my entire collection of Star Trek Fact Files

[Fugaziboy]

Tracks:

Nervous Breakdown - Black Flag
The power of independent Trucking - Big Black
Oven - The Melvins
I wanna be Adored - Stone Roses
Girlfriend in a coma - The Smiths
Fascist Pig - Suicidal Tendencies
Ether - Gang of Four
12 x U - Wire

Album

X - Los Angeles

Book - Women - Charles Buchowski

Luxery Item - Laptop

[KateBush]

[s]David Bean wrote on 01:13, 8th Nov 2004:[/s]


Book: Hmm... I think at the moment I'm leaning towards the Cantebury Tales by Chaucer (although that really ought to be a freebie as well).

[hr]"[i]Fiat justicia ruat colelum (Let justice be done though the heavens may fall)" - Judge James Horton (family motto)
[/i]

A fellow Chaucerian, eh? chaucer is WICKED!

And by the way, my choices for today are totally different. today I would choose:

Songs:
1) Unfinished Sympathy, Massive Attack
2) Divinity, BT
3) Handbags and Gladrags, Rod Stewart
4) Diana Ross, ain't No Mountain high enough
5) Helen Reddy, I am woman
6)Gabrielle, walk on By
7) Lost Witness, 7 colours
8) Puccini, O Mio Babbino Caro

Album: forgot this last time, didn't I? It has to be Annie Lennox, Diva. My Gran bought me that Cd when I was ten and I've NEVER stopped loving it. It was my first ever CD, and is still the best by MILES!

Books:
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. all my choices from yesterday should of course be freebies, as I'm an English student.

luxury Item: New circulatory system, regular blood pressure, a faint free existence!

[Cain]

A very quick and rough selection of Tracks:

The Lifting - R.E.M.
Hanging around the day part 2 - The Polyphonic Spree
End of the World News (dose me up)- Tom McRae
Always - U2
Lux Aeterna - Clint Mansell
You drove me to it - Hell is for heroes
Coming in from the cold - The delgados
Bruxellisation - Electric Soft Parade

Album

Tom McRae - Tom McRae
I first heard this about four years ago, and nothing since has changed my conviction that this album is the best that i have ever heard. It's completely musically and lyrically perfect, nothing can be done to it to make it better. everything, right down to the album art, and the order of the tracks is perfect. and its a debut album as well.

Book - Ajax Barcelona Cruyff by Fritz Barend & Henk Van Dorp
or
The Selected Verses of Lewis Carroll

Luxury Item - my "life" folder./ every photo, every yearbook, every newspaper cutting, every concert ticket, every journal entry in there.

[hr]
It's not who you know, it's who who you know knows

[Spiryt]

music tracks -

Fever, Fever, Fever - Kult
Przegrana Generacja - Wilki
The Unforgiven - Metallica
The Kids Aren't Alright- The Offspring
I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sister
Amerika - Rammstein
Breaking The Habit- Linkin Park
Let Go With The Flow - The Beautiful South

Album -

"The Black Album" by Metallica

Book-

"1984" by George Orwell

Luxury item-

A solar powered CD player

[tenacious e]

Tracks
Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin
America - Simon & Gafunkel
New Kid in Town - The Eagles
At Seventeen - Janis Ian
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
The Guitar Man - Bread
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits

Book
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Luxury item
Moisturiser

[Mr_Biffo]

Tracks
True Faith - New Order
First it giveth - Queens of the Stone Age
Spit on a stranger - Pavement
Minerva - Deftones
Judge yrself - Manics
Shatter - Liz Phair
Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan
Building steam with a grain of salt - DJ Shadow

Album
Citizen Steely Dan - Steely Dan

Book
A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell

Luxury item
frisbee

[Guest]

Ok, so not got round to answering the questions, but with so many guitarists and so many influences, are any of you guys in bands? I'm a guitarist/singer/songwriter, would be cool to start a band? Sorry, dont want to change the thread, just thought I'd make the most of this opportunity!
Let me know!

[Guest]

atomic kitten - whole again
the venga boys - ibiza
take that - could you be magic
barry manilow - could you be magic
celine dion - titanic theme
cheeky girls - cheeky song
anal cunt - your pregnant so i kicked you in the stomach

Album - Micheal bolton - timeless

Book - the real beckhams