Desert Island Discs

[Miz Manda]

Songs
Dire Straits- Brothers In Arms
Aqualung- Strange and Beautiful
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush- Don't Give Up
Maroon 5- She Will Be Loved
Coldplay- A Rush of Blood to the Head
Joni Mitchell- Both Sides Now
Barber- Adagio for Strings
Snow Patrol- Ways & Means

Album
Snow Patrol- Final Straw

Book (if forced to choose just one)
Complete Works of Jane Austen

Luxury Item
Do we get power? If so my laptop.
If not moisturiser.


[hr]Any act of anti-social insanity is immediately sanctified by the magic word 'charity'. As someone once said, if Hitler had invaded Poland 'for Spina Bifida' then everyone would have just let him get on with it.

[David Bean]

Ah, Brothers in Arms! I was sorely tempted to take that one. There are so many great live versions of it, too! I love the hawaiian guitar solo on the 'On The Night' version.

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

[Eliot Wilson]

Like everyone else, I think that my choices would change by the hour, but:

1) Elgar's Cello Concerto (Jacqueline du Pre/Sir John Barbirolli)
2) Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez (Julian Bream)
3) God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
4) Take It Easy/Our Lady Of The Well - Jackson Browne
5) Arthur McBride & The Sergeant - Paul Brady
6) Mozart's Requiem (whole thing, if possible - Lacrimosa, if I'm forced to choose)
7) Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
8) Bright College Days - Tom Lehrer

Album, from which one of the above has to be taken, you say? Last time I listened, it wasn't an option Sue Lawley gave you (you did, however, have to pick your favourite of the eight choices), but I'd go for An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer.

Book. Hmmm. The Secret History by Donna Tartt, probably.

Luxury. Well, I'm tempted to emulate Enoch Powell and say a fish smoker, but could I have a small port house? My own quinta would give me something to do of an evening.

[hr]Bill and Ted beat the Grim Reaper at Twister

Bill: "You played very well, Death, especially with your totally heavy Death robes."

Death: "Don't patronise me."

[David Bean]

It seems our musical tastes are rather similar, Mr. Wilson. Ever hear the live 'God Only Knows' from 'Live In London'? I'll send you an MP3 if you like.

I haven't listened to it for some time either, but when I checked the Desert Island Discs web site, they seemed to be listing that as one of the things the guests had been allowed to choose. Henry Blofeld took the TMS highlights in addition to the Johnston/Agnew 'leg over' incident, for instance.

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

[Miz Manda]

[s]Eliot Wilson wrote on 01:19, 9th Nov 2004:
Like everyone else, I think that my choices would change by the hour, but:

3) God Only Knows - The Beach Boys


OK my choices have changed. I would take God Only Knows instead of the Maroon 5 and New York Minute by the Eagles instead of Coldplay. I would also change my album to Hell Freezes Over by the Eagles.

My book has also changed, today it would be Jane Eyre.


[hr]
Any act of anti-social insanity is immediately sanctified by the magic word 'charity'. As someone once said, if Hitler had invaded Poland 'for Spina Bifida' then everyone would have just let him get on with it.

[Gaz]

8 songs:

Sexy Sadie - the beatles
Slide Away - oasis
Bittersweet Symphany - the verve
All Things Must Pass - george harrison
Like a Rolling Stone - bob dylan
Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Teenage Kicks - Undertones

Album:

Urban Hymns - the verve

Book:

a music book of some kind

Luxury Item:

acoustic guitar

(edited cos i didnt read the rules!)

[Chain Mailer]

[l]
[li] Untouchable Face: Ani De Franco
[li] Pachabels Canon
[li] Basket Case: Greenday
[li] Dreams: Gabriel
[li] I am the Eggman: ? (beatles?)
[li] Drops of Jupiter: Train
[li] Achilles Heel: Toploader
[li] 8 Easy Steps: Alanis Morissette
[/l]

My Album would have to be:
Affirmation: Savage Garden

Book? Ah! So many! Er:
All the Red Dwarf books in a special bumper book by Grant and Naylor
or
The Shining by Stephen King

Luxury Item:
(assuming a stereo is supplied)
My Dog, Finn

[hr]
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious

[Bread Roll]

Tracks:

1. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
2. She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
3. Back For Good - Take That (Yay!)
4. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
5. Tribute - Tenacious D
6. Eric the Half A Bee - Monty Python
7. Ordinary World - Duran Duran
8. Good Riddance - Green Day

Album:International Superhits -Green Day

Book: Pride and Prejudice (I know....)

Luxury item : suncream - I burn like a rasher of bacon in a hot frying pan.

(edited for having a better idea re track one having read someone elses and I forgot a book)

[Lady_Xanax]

Tracks:
I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown rats
Walk Unafraid - REM
Drive in Saturday - David Bowie
Do You Believe in Shame? - Duran Duran
Come Undone - Duran Duran
Don't Talk Much - John Taylor
Don't stand so close to me - The Police
Crazy Little thing called love - Queen

Album:

Greatest - Duran Duran

Book:

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

Luxury Item:

Computer.

[Ashley]

This would take me too long to do right now. But "I am the Eggman" I imagine to answer a perhaps previous rhetorical question is presumably "I am the Walrus".

[fainpathe]

Hallelujah – rufus wainwright
Good riddance – greenday
Secretly – skunk anansie
For you – the calling
What a good boy – barenaked ladies
Pure morning - placebo
Uninvited - alanis morrisette
Untouchable face – ani difranco (thank you, Chain Mailer, for reminding me about that one!)

Album: Cruel Intentions soundtrack

Book: Lord of the rings (hey, you can buy it in one fuck-off-huge book, I’m so not cheating )or Red Dwarf:Better Than Life

Luxury item: oooh, it’s tough. Either a self-recharging laptop or sunscreen or my dog, Seffie.

[jennyo]

This was tough! But I would have to go with:

Tracks:
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (I can't listen to it without wanting to go conquer something, waving a sword)
U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)
Stones - Paint it Black
Puccini - Nessun Dorma
Zero 7 - Destiny
REM - The One I Love
The Who - Behind Blue Eyes

Album:
Eric Clapton - The Cream of Clapton

Book:
Irving Stone - The Agony and the Ecstasy

Luxury:
Drawing pad & pencils

[hr]When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink - Rabelais