Desert Island Disks

[Alloroc]

Hi all,

I suppose this kind of thing has been done plenty 'round here, but as I'm quite new, I thought I might pop this one up.

You're a castaway. You have can 10 records and whatever equipment you want to play them back with. Now, just forget reality and electricity for a moment! You can assume it's all there, in plentiful supply, along with all the coconuts ...

Here's mine...

"Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley's version

"Dear God" - XTC

"Alternative Ulster" - Stiff Little Fingers

"The Weight" - The Band
"I Will" - The Beatles (the song played at my wedding for my first dance with my wife!)

"Hurt" - Jonny Cash's version

"Dazed and Confused" - Led Zeppelin (the live version from 'The Song Remains The Same')

"Life On Mars" - David Bowie

"Sinnerman" - Nina Simone

"Living In The Past" - Jethro Tull

Peace.

[David Meek]

JUST 10!!!!! 8O

Much thought to this question I must give. Hmmm. . . . (in best Yoda voice)

[Bob]

I love these kinds of threads. One thing is for sure, what 10 would change each time I thought about it again, except "Mercy Now". It will take awhile before it got knocked off the list. I will be seeing her Saturday.

Mary Gauthier: "Mercy Now", even if I could only have one album

Pink Floyd: "Echoes", if I can only have 10, then I want box sets!!!

Various Artist: "Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival"

George Harrison: "All Things Must Pass"

Bob Dylan: "Love and Theft"
Bob Dylan: "Masked and Anonymous"

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee: "Sonny and Brownie"

Santan: "Abraxas"

Prokofiev: "Scythian Suite & Love for Three Oranges"

Ben Webster: "Soul"

[Alloroc]

I love these kinds of threads. One thing is for sure, what 10 would change each time I thought about it again, except "Mercy Now". It will take awhile before it got knocked off the list. I will be seeing her Saturday.

Bob, you're so right. It's so hard to pin one's collar to the mast with this kind of thing..... Part of the sport of it really.

For for those of you who don't know, and perhaps there was an American equivalent, but for years and years Desert Island Disks remains a BBC Radio institution.... It is said by the Guinness Book of Records to be the longest running music programme in the history of radio.

Here's a link to to the BBC's website and you can review the choices of various personalities from the side of the pond. You will more than likely recognise some names...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs.shtml

[David Meek]

Just 10 SONGS??????? 8O 8O I really don't know if I can do this without hyper-ventilating. How about a Desert Island list by genre? If that suffices, I'll try one from rock - in no particular order. . . .



Linda Ronstadt - "Someone To Lay Down Beside Me" from Hasten Down The Wind

Led Zeppelin - "Thank You" from Led Zeppelin II

Ambrosia - "Holdin' On To All My Yesterdays" from Ambrosia

The Beatles - "Come Together" from Abbey Road

Cream - "Sunshine Of Your Love" from Disraeli Gears

Don Henley - "New York Minute" from The End Of The Innocence

The Doobie Brothers - "I Cheat The Hangman" from Stampede

Eagles - "Try And Love Again" from Hotel California

Grand Funk - "The Railroad" from We're An American Band

Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Riviera Paradise" from In Step

[Burke Strickland]

Just 10 SONGS???????

Not unless they're "singles". The original "rules" were:

You have can 10 records and whatever equipment you want to play them back with.

Of course, if your favorite songs are each on albums where you only like the one song.... maybe you should start doing compilation discs. :>)

Burke

[Alloroc]

Just 10 SONGS??????? 8O 8O I really don't know if I can do this without hyper-ventilating. How about a Desert Island list by genre? If that suffices, I'll try one from rock - in no particular order. . . .

Note that the BBC only give you eight songs, and probably a windy up old gramophone to deal with.

I thought I was being quite reasonable!