Desert Island Discs

[cydermaster]

Dunno if theres a show like this over the pond, but over here we've got an incledibally long running radio show called "Desert Island Discs". The idea is that a famous person has to decide on what 10 songs/tunes would take with them, if they were stranded on a desert island.

So ... what 10 tunes would you take with you, if you were stranded on a Desert Island?

Mine:

• The Specials - Ghost Town (12")
• The Clash - (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
• Dr Alimantado - Born for a purpose
• The Who - I can see for miles
• Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves
• The Small Faces - Lazy Sunday Afternoon
• Joe Strummer & Johnny Cash - Redemtion Song
• Stiff Little Fingers - Johnny Was
• Adge Cutler and The Wurzels - Vertute et Industrial
• John Otway - Beware of the Flowers ('cos I'm sure they're gonna get you - yeah)

 

[WiK]

Couldnt I just take a 20gb MP3 player with me instead?


The Offspring:
- The Noose
- Americana
Linkin Park:
- Lying From You
- Breaking The Habbit
- Crawling
Billy Talent:
- The River Below
Sum 41:
- Still Waiting
- Over My Head (Better Off Dead)
Foo Fighters:
- Ain't It The Life
Tenacious D:
- Karate

Phil

 

[Juaru]

Just off the top of my head:

Rush - 2112 (it's 20 minutes long!)
Supertramp - The Logical Song
Rush - The Razor's Edge
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Thin Lizzy - The Cowboy Song
Rush - La Villa Stratinago
Rush - Totem
Rush - The Spirit of Radio (live version from Different Stages)
Roger Waters - 4:50 A.M. Go Fishing
Birdland - Buddy Rich Band version

This list would look completley different tomorrow.

By the way, What is the point in having all these songs if you've nothing to play them on?

John (not Jon) Arthur

www.JonRocket.com

 

[cydermaster]

Originally posted by Juaru
By the way, What is the point in having all these songs if you've nothing to play them on?

Good point!

I forgot to mention that you have one of those old wind-up gramophones to play them on. You also get a copy of the Bible, and a book of your choice, in the radio prog.

 

[seo]

Interesting Topic

1. Grateful Dead - I know you rider
2. BB King - The thrill is gone
3. The Clash - Death or Glory
4. Violent Femmes - Add it up
5. Iz - Somewhere over the Rainbow/What a wonderful world
6. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
7. Buck Owens and the Buckaroos - Streets of Bakersfield
8. Jonathon Richman - Road runner
9. Robert Johnson - Crossroads
10. Albert Collins - COld feeling

 

[Juaru]

Originally posted by cydermaster
You also get a copy of the Bible, and a book of your choice, in the radio prog.

For my book, I'm taking The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. Lotsa good stuff about survival and getting off of islands!

John (not Jon) Arthur

www.JonRocket.com

 

[cls]

Juaru - I am with you on the Rush!!!! if I had to winnow it down I would take everything from 2112 to Presto. although I would have to take some Saga along too.

ok - rocketry content - hopefully everyone here has heard Rush's "Countdown"?

 

[Elapid]

the music is in my head keeping the voices calm...

 

[qMaxx]

Originally posted by cls
Juaru - I am with you on the Rush!!!! if I had to winnow it down I would take everything from 2112 to Presto. although I would have to take some Saga along too.

ok - rocketry content - hopefully everyone here has heard Rush's "Countdown"?

See my sig.

 

[Mike]

Ok then, lots of music threads today!

- Chili Peppers, Dosed
- Chili Peppers, Scar Tissue
- Chili Peppers, Otherside
- Coldplay, The Scientist
- Coldplay, Rush of Blood
- Coldplay, Amsterdam
- REM, Nightswimming
- Stereophonics, Suprise
- Safri Duo, Played Alive
- Safri Duo, Samb Adagio

 

[loopy]

Dream Theater - Metropolis Part I, The Miracle and the Sleeper
Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused
Evanescence - Haunted
Faith No More - MidLife Crisis
Korn - Freak on a Leash
Queensryche - The Promised Land
Queensryche - Anybody Listening?
Primus - Jerry Was A Race Car Driver
Carl Orff - Fortuna imperatrix mundi
Golden Earring - Radar Love

Loopy

 

[jetra2]

Hmmm....

• Linkin Park - Lying from you
• Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
• ACDC - Shoot to Thrill (crank it up!!!)
• ACDC - Back in Black
• ACDC - Thunderstruck
• Some sort of looooonnnnnnnnngggggggg(uh) techno/dance song
• Modest Mouse - Float On
• The Killers - Somebody Told Me
• The Killers - Jenny was a Friend of Mine
• The Killers - Mr. Brightside

 

[Fore Check]

Hmmmmm.......

Only 10 songs?

"End of the Line" - Travelling Wilburys
"Pigs (3 different ones)" - Pink Floyd
"Remedy" - The Black Crowes
"Back on the Train" - Phish
"Bridge of Sighs" - Robin Trower
"Fearless" - Pink Floyd
"Mother" - Pink Floyd
"All Down the Line" - The Rolling Stones
"Dance Little Sister" - The Rolling Stones
"Margarita" - Travelling Wilburys



That sure is a tough question. Those 10 come to mind. I might change my mind later.

 

[graylensman]

Lou Reed - "The Blue Mask"
The Velvet Underground - "Sunday Morning"
Patti Smith - "Break It Up"
Wire - "Ex- Lion Tamer"
Sex Pistols - "Bodies"
Sparklehorse - "Maria's Little Elbows"
Modern Lovers - "Dignified and Old"
Joy Division - "Ceremony"
The Clash - "Safe European Home"
Afghan Whigs - "Rebirth of Cool"

Book: "Neuromancer" by William Gibson
Bible: "Handbook of Model Rocketry" by G. Harry Stine

And like everybody else, this list will be different yesterday and tomorrow.