Desert Island Discs

[SUFC_Ross]

David Bowie-Life on Mars
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Sailor- A little of champagne
Sparks - Beat the clock
Roberta Flack-First time
Kenny Logins-Footloose
Herb Albert- This guys in Love
Black Betty-Black Betty

Book- Stonehenge by Ken Follett

Luxury A set of golf clubs and endless supply of golf balls

Would this have anything to do with the masters just starting and maybe watching a few clips of he 16th trick shots?

As for my list, give me a while, this is going to be tricky.

 

[Ricky Otto]

The Dirt is a great book.

I liked the quote after Nikki Sixx wrote Kickstart my heart - "I try and get at least one song out of every overdose."

It's full of great stories, those guys lived a mental life for a few years! Loved the stories of them on tour with Ozzy, trying to out rockstar each other and Ozzy winning.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Do people ever do Desert Island Discs more than once? My choices change on a daily if not hourly basis. For now I'll go something like:

Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
Bedrock - Heaven Scent
Goldie - Innercity Life
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Miles Davis - So What
Nirvana - Teen Spirit
Otis Redding - (Sittin' on the) Dock of the Bay
The Specials - Message to Rudy

Book: Catch22

Luxury item - I'd happily take Cricko's superyacht but assuming that's not allowed if I'm on a desert island I'd want diving kit (which is presumably already on Cricko's yacht).

 

[Ricky Otto]

Do people ever do Desert Island Discs more than once? My choices change on a daily if not hourly basis. For now I'll go something like:

Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
Bedrock - Heaven Scent
Goldie - Innercity Life
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Miles Davis - So What
Nirvana - Teen Spirit
Otis Redding - (Sittin' on the) Dock of the Bay
The Specials - Message to Rudy

Book: Catch22

Luxury item - I'd happily take Cricko's superyacht but assuming that's not allowed if I'm on a desert island I'd want diving kit (which is presumably already on Cricko's yacht).

This is another very strong selection, love all the tracks in bold. Think I will have a listen to the other 2 as you obviously have very good taste :hilarious:

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

This is another very strong selection, love all the tracks in bold. Think I will have a listen to the other 2 as you obviously have very good taste :hilarious:

Ha, go for it. From two great albums and masterpieces of their genres - Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and John Digweed's Bedrock.

 

[blues exile]

Joan Baez - Joe Hill
Byrds - Turn turn turn
Emmylou Harris - Here there and everywhere
Miles Davis - anything from 'Kind of blue'
John Coltrane - My favourite things
Frank Sinatra - One for my baby
Judy Collins - Both sides now
Billie Holiday- For all we know


Book - William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom

Luxury item - endless supply of writing paper and ballpoint pens

 

[Benfleet A1]

After much thought.

Enter Sandman - Metallica
Fugazi - Marillion
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Bullets With Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins
Spirit of Radio - Rush
Songs From The Wood - Jethro Tull
The Welsh National Anthem - Recorded at Cardiff, sung by rugby fans. (I'm not Welsh but it knocks me bandy everytime when they belt that out)

Book....
The Dome - Stephen King

Luxury item...

A ICBM with silo and launch codes....... Dump me on a poxy desert Island will yer!!!

 

[MK Shrimper]

An impossible choice.

Hey Jude - The Beatles
Take Five - Dave Brubeck Quartet
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
La Traviata (Brindsi) - Verdi
Teen Spirit - Nirvana
People Help The People - Cherry Ghost
The Arrival of The Queen of Sheba - Handel
Goodbye (Nothing to Say) - The Javells.

Book - His Dark Materials (Phillip Pullman - yes, I know it's a trilogy but I'm sure there's a version with them all in one).

Luxury Item - Pack of cards.

 

[Mr Plow]

This would probably be different every week but for now -

Smashing Pumpkins - Stand Inside Your Love
Foo Fighters - Ain't it the Life
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
Queen - Radio Ga Ga
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Pearl Jam - Alive
The Midnight - Gloria

Book - Mindwarp by James Follett

Luxury Item - Unlimited supply of sketchbooks and pencils, would be nice to try and actually get good at drawing.

 

[maninasuitcase]

A tough choice:

Starless - King Crimson
Dogs - Pink Floyd
Close to the Edge - Yes
Starship Trooper - Yes
Police Truck - Dead Kennedys
Shine on you Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Uncertain Smile - The The
Aerospace Age Inferno - Robert Calvert

Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books

Luxury item: Cigarettes

 

[Member]

The best of The Beatles

 

[Napster]

Very very hard-

Souls of Mischief -93 til Infinity
Jason Rebello - When Words Fail
Gershwin- Rhapsody in Blue
Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Inbetweenies
Jimi Hendrix - Angel
Bill Withers - Lovely Day
Leroy Hutson- Lucky Fellow
The Natural Four - You Bring out the Best in Me

Book: The Kid Stays in the Picture by Bob Evans

Luxury item: Piano (can't play, always wanted to)

 

[AndyT]

No fuel! A sailing boat might be better.

Wouldn't you just request delivery including fuel, though?

 

[AndyT]

Erykah Badu- Other side of the game

Roberta Flack-First time

Goldie - Innercity Life

James Taylor - Fire and Rain

Leroy Hutson- Lucky Fellow

Just a few nods to the above.

I thought I was the only one who liked that Erykah Badu track! :cool:

The Flack's "First Time" is one of the all time great songs.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Pearl Jam - Alive

Nice

The best of The Beatles

:hilarious:Classic Partridge

Souls of Mischief -93 til Infinity

YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

I thought I was the only one who liked that Erykah Badu track! :cool:

Nope, Baduism is one of my favourite albums, so good!

 

[AndyT]

Nope, Baduism is one of my favourite albums, so good!

It is. Hard to believe it's 20 years old now!

'Rimshot' and 'Apple Tree' are two other goodies from that album.

 

[C C Csiders]

I'll have a pair of Carl Zeiss Jena binoculars please and a copy of The Bounty Mutiny: William Bligh's Firsthand account, whilst I listen to:

Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me: The Smiths
Thank You: The Pale Fountains
When the Levee Breaks: Led Zeppelin
Song to the Siren: This Mortal Coil
If I Could Dream: Elvis Presley
She Sells Sanctuary: The Cult
Adagio of Spartacus: Khatuchurian
Piano Concerto no. 2: Rachmaninov

 

[Mad Cyril]

I'll have a pair of Carl Zeiss Jena binoculars please and a copy of The Bounty Mutiny: William Bligh's Firsthand account, whilst I listen to:

Thank You: The Pale Fountains

I prefer this one:

[video=youtube;jZzKnNABzo8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZzKnNABzo8[/video]

 

[C C Csiders]

I prefer this one:

[video=youtube;jZzKnNABzo8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZzKnNABzo8[/video]

Fabulous song from a fabulous album by a criminally underrated/underappreciated band. Michael Head is one of Britain's great songwriters.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Excellent thread!

The Killers - Mr Brightside
Robert Knight - Love on a Mountain Top
Genesis - Follow You, Follow Me
The Rifles - Tangled up in Love
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's version of Talking Heads' Psycho Killer
The Osmonds - The Proud One
The Four Seasons - Silver Star
Secret Affair - My World

My book choice, well, like MK I'd want to cheat a bit and take one of two trilogies - either Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings or Phillipa Gregory's Wideacre trio, however if it has to be a single book, then I think it would have to be Jilly Cooper's Pandora, my favourite of her books and one that easily stands alone from the rest.

Luxury item, not much point in having a vehicle of some kind to take you away from your island solitude as it defeats the object. I think a bed would be important to me, suffering more with a spot of arthur here and there so a nice comfy bed would be great - or a set of watercolours, paper and brushes to get back to a hobby I used to love.