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Great thread but heaven knows how I’ll select 8
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Great thread but heaven knows how I’ll select 8
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[Music] NSC Desert Island Discs
- Thread starter Lush
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Funnily enough I typed bass first of all, it is really my true love.
I just thought my acoustic would be more practical...... I mean do I get to take an amp? How long would the lead last?
Yup, I over thought it
Gibson EB2 . . .semi acoustic
I think an orange stack would be permitted as well, we are talking luxury.
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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I've always thought that there is a bias on D.I.D. in favour of those who prefer longer form music. If you choose Beethoven you get a whole 40 minute+ album, but if you choose 'The Letter' by The Box Tops, you get a minute and a half. Given that the rules just say eight discs, I'd ask for albums. I'd also want to exchange the Bible. It was presumably put in because too many guests would have picked it when the show began. They should change it to 'you can take your bible' in the same vein as Dave Allen wished for 'your god to go with you.'
Good thread [MENTION=46]Lush[/MENTION]
I have vague memories of doing this before on NSC but, if I did, my answers will be different.
"Discs"
1. The Smiths - How Soon is Now? - my first "teenage" song
2. Primal Scream - Come Together (Andrew Weatherall remix) - the first time I realised it was ok to listen to Indie and House
3. Blur - There's No Other Way - indie drunken nights out at the Gloucester with work mates and my mate Toby claiming it was really called "there's no other hay" and was about a horse
4. Green Velvet - Flash - Friday all nighters at The Zap
5. Marvin Gaye - How Sweet it is to be Loved by You - wedding song
6. Match of the Day theme song - my son popped out of my wife the second MotD came on the telly in the hospital ward. He's been football obsessed since and is a Palace hating WSU STH with away games under his belt. Also this is good for silly dancing if I need to use the whisky (see below)
7. The Notorious BIG - Hypnotize - had to have some hip hop in there - was this or the Beasties
8. Prince Fatty - Shimmy Shimmy Ya - the last song I danced to in the kitchen with my daughter whilst cooking up various goodies from Wickies and Quaff.
Book - Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres. I could finish this and start it straight back over again, multiple times, and I'd need to.
Luxury - if I'm allowed to be fit again then SIS Isotonic Orange Energy Gels so I could run numerous times round the island every morning. If I'm in my current decrepit state then a never ending bottle (or at least a case) of Talisker Single Malt Whisky.
I have vague memories of doing this before on NSC but, if I did, my answers will be different.
"Discs"
1. The Smiths - How Soon is Now? - my first "teenage" song
2. Primal Scream - Come Together (Andrew Weatherall remix) - the first time I realised it was ok to listen to Indie and House
3. Blur - There's No Other Way - indie drunken nights out at the Gloucester with work mates and my mate Toby claiming it was really called "there's no other hay" and was about a horse
4. Green Velvet - Flash - Friday all nighters at The Zap
5. Marvin Gaye - How Sweet it is to be Loved by You - wedding song
6. Match of the Day theme song - my son popped out of my wife the second MotD came on the telly in the hospital ward. He's been football obsessed since and is a Palace hating WSU STH with away games under his belt. Also this is good for silly dancing if I need to use the whisky (see below)
7. The Notorious BIG - Hypnotize - had to have some hip hop in there - was this or the Beasties
8. Prince Fatty - Shimmy Shimmy Ya - the last song I danced to in the kitchen with my daughter whilst cooking up various goodies from Wickies and Quaff.
Book - Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres. I could finish this and start it straight back over again, multiple times, and I'd need to.
Luxury - if I'm allowed to be fit again then SIS Isotonic Orange Energy Gels so I could run numerous times round the island every morning. If I'm in my current decrepit state then a never ending bottle (or at least a case) of Talisker Single Malt Whisky.
I thought that was a great idea when I read it and wondered about changing my answer. Then I realised you'd need a cue or two, some chalk and some balls as well
Mmmmmm.....no. Can't do it. With so few tracks I'd be dead in a couple of days.
Luxury item: my iPOD
Book: the final book in the Dark Materials series (the one not yet published).
Luxury item: my iPOD
Book: the final book in the Dark Materials series (the one not yet published).
Weststander
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Mmmmmm.....no. Can't do it. With so few tracks I'd be dead in a couple of days.
Luxury item: my iPOD
Book: the final book in the Dark Materials series (the one not yet published).
If it was 800 albums I could just about manage. probably.
I suppose if your luxury item is 'the rest of the band' you can just make your own music.
jakarta
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Amazingly, there is only one Krautrock Track! Although one of the other tracks was recorded in Berlin and is clearly influenced...
No Hendrix, No Pink Floyd, no Classical, Nothing from the 1950's or 1980's, no Glenn Miller or any other USA stuff, No Brian Eno, no Shoegaze, I'll bet tomorrow I'll come up with a different list (except for one):
1. The Moon in June - The Soft Machine (live at BBC Version - 1969). Started as a Pop Group, evolved into a pretentious jazz rock outfit but on the journey did some quite wonderful songs. This was the last time Robert Wyatt sang, everything following was instrumental. The live lyrics are improvised and quite batty compared with the Album version, which this completely kicks into touch. Completely English, you can't imagine anyone else doing this sort of stuff.
2. Day is Done - Nick Drake (also 1969). I was very late onto Nick Drake but have now got pretty much everything he did. For obvious reasons this is not a difficult task. Wonderful, wistful and almost pointing you towards what was likely to happen to him.
3. Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin 1970. What is all this nonsense about Stairway to Heaven? It's not even the best track on Led Zeppelin 4 (that would be When the Levee Breaks which almost snuck in due to THAT Drum intro). Percy and Jimmy giving it the full treatment here.
4. Hallogallo - Nue! 1972 Wonderful, hypnotic minimalist stuff, was tempted by Can, Cluster, Kraftwerk or the Tangs but thought 8 Krautrock tracks might be a bit unfair on everyone else!
5. You Shouldn't Do That - Hawkwind -1972 This is the live version which somehow didn't get onto the original version of Space Ritual but is there on the re-released version. The album version is about half the speed of this, I wonder if that had anything to do with Lemmy playing bass this time around?
6. Subterraneans - David Bowie -1977 Well I SAID there was no Brian Eno but of course the whole of Low has his fingerprints all over it. No vocals as such, just a feeling of profound sadness. China Girl it aint...
7. Sketch for Summer - The Durutti Column -1979 Start of over 40 years of wonderous underachievement. First Band that Tony Wilson signed to Factory Records. My favourite guitarist - mind you he can't sing so best stick with the instrumentals!
8. Champagne Supernova - Oasis 1995 The year I moved down to Sussex to be with Mrs Jakarta so this is a really sentimental choice.
As I said could have chosen 7 different tracks quite easily but The Moon In June stays forever.
Book would be The Most Dangerous Enemy by far the best account of the Battle of Britain ever written.
Luxury Item would be my CBR600, I'm assuming they would have some empty roads to ride it on and plenty of petrol stations!
That nearly made my list - it was a track I listend to over and over again (the album version, I've not heard the live one - but I intend to now) in the hot summer of 76.
I agree with you about Since I've Loving You as the best Zep song too (I actually think STH is a bit dull, wouldn't make my top 20 LZ songs)
I need to explore more early SM . . . more of a Caravan man myself . . . . we suopported whats left of Soft machine a few years ago, some extremely off piste noodling, I have a reasonable graft of music but struggled to follow what they were doing!
As for Zep, good blues band . . . . I have a swinging pig BLue vinyl live gig, early, old Top GEar gig for the BBC . . .travelling riverside blues is very good. STH is horribly overblown mediocrity IMO
jakarta
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As I said the live version is far, far better due to Wyatts musings about playing BBC Maida Vale where they could play almost long and loud as the jazz groups and orchestras on Radio 3
Not forgetting the extra facilities such as the Tea Machine, just along the corridor
Oh what the hell, I'm sure I have posted it before on NSC but here it is in all it's eccentric glory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JrPnep5Aw
pearl
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Brilliant thread! My brain is too fried atm
Luxury item would be a harmonica
Book - Learn to play harmonica for dummies stuck on a desert island
Songs - to follow
perhaps put Groovin with Mr Bloe on the list ?
Shropshire Seagull
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A bit disappointed [nay shocked] that thus far just one of you has selected this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKtBSVFqWC4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKtBSVFqWC4
Insel affe
HellBilly
1: One hand loose - Charlie Feathers. The first real rockabilly song I heard from the 50s being played at a youth club, with slightly older cooler kids bopping to it, they looked so different from the mods, skins and townies, the beat was primitive and just grabbed me.
2: John I’m only Dancing - The Polecats. Yes it’s a cover but it is stomping and epitomised British Neo Rockabilly, encompassing 70s glam with A fresh feel that was ours, a real feel good song.
3: Maniac Rockers From Hell - The Meteors. Psychobilly started with this, it was too fast for rockabilly, they weren’t punk, what were they ? The press thought they were dangerous, fights broke out at every gig, danger was in the air, they were non political, they started a whole genre that’s swept the underground world, students would rush off the dance floor when the wreckin started, excellent memories...
4: Dinosaurs - The Stingrays. Garage/Psychobilly about the rockabilly scene being boring and elitist, this also has the best double bass break ever. It opened my mind beyond the rockin world & into the 60s garage/surf world and beyond, fantastic live band in their day.
5: What difference does it make 12” - The Smiths - game changer in indie music, a flawed poet with a crisp clear guitar that would obviously appeal to me, living in Manchester at the time it just encompassed that period of life, especially the indie/student nightlife....
6: The Loop - Morrissey. I moved to London at the same time as mozza, then Morrissey hooking up with Boz from the Polecats on guitar and Gary Day from The Frantic Flintstones roughly the same period, he just had produce a sublime mix of indie with that epic rockabilly intro.... saw him perform this at Battersea Power Station and it blew my mind away, and so proud members of psychobilly bands we’re getting recognition, then better still having a drink with him and one of the founders of the Meteors Nigel Lewis the next day in Camden.... more great memories.
7: A Forest - The Cure, it’s a great song, I admired the goths, as they were the bottom of the sub culture food chain, even if they were a bigger group, they got picked on by nearly every other subculture and townies....
8: Rebel Heart - First Aid Kit, Great band and guilty pleasure, this song reminds me of my daughter, we both love it.
Book: The complete Darwin Awards collection....
Luxury: Good cigars, Good Rum, & a rocking chair....
2: John I’m only Dancing - The Polecats. Yes it’s a cover but it is stomping and epitomised British Neo Rockabilly, encompassing 70s glam with A fresh feel that was ours, a real feel good song.
3: Maniac Rockers From Hell - The Meteors. Psychobilly started with this, it was too fast for rockabilly, they weren’t punk, what were they ? The press thought they were dangerous, fights broke out at every gig, danger was in the air, they were non political, they started a whole genre that’s swept the underground world, students would rush off the dance floor when the wreckin started, excellent memories...
4: Dinosaurs - The Stingrays. Garage/Psychobilly about the rockabilly scene being boring and elitist, this also has the best double bass break ever. It opened my mind beyond the rockin world & into the 60s garage/surf world and beyond, fantastic live band in their day.
5: What difference does it make 12” - The Smiths - game changer in indie music, a flawed poet with a crisp clear guitar that would obviously appeal to me, living in Manchester at the time it just encompassed that period of life, especially the indie/student nightlife....
6: The Loop - Morrissey. I moved to London at the same time as mozza, then Morrissey hooking up with Boz from the Polecats on guitar and Gary Day from The Frantic Flintstones roughly the same period, he just had produce a sublime mix of indie with that epic rockabilly intro.... saw him perform this at Battersea Power Station and it blew my mind away, and so proud members of psychobilly bands we’re getting recognition, then better still having a drink with him and one of the founders of the Meteors Nigel Lewis the next day in Camden.... more great memories.
7: A Forest - The Cure, it’s a great song, I admired the goths, as they were the bottom of the sub culture food chain, even if they were a bigger group, they got picked on by nearly every other subculture and townies....
8: Rebel Heart - First Aid Kit, Great band and guilty pleasure, this song reminds me of my daughter, we both love it.
Book: The complete Darwin Awards collection....
Luxury: Good cigars, Good Rum, & a rocking chair....
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Ooh it’s a corner
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Agree with @ Stato that it would make sense to choose 8 albums as you’d get more bangs for your buck but the OP said 8 tracks so I’m sticking with that. I’m also assuming your luxury item can’t be an iPad/mobile etc so accessing playlists etc is ruled out too.
Stevie Wonder - Love’s In Need Of Love Today
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
Elvis Costello - Heart-Shaped Bruise
Alison Krauss/James Taylor - How’s The World Treating You
Emmylou Harris - Boulder To Birmingham
Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness
Frank Wilson - Do I Love You(Indeed I Do)
Don McLean - American Pie
The task is actually impossible - need to fit Billy Bragg - Between The Wars in somewhere - as others have said could do this 10 times and have many variations - would even struggle to confirm favourite 8 Motown/Soul/Country/Rock etc - the Emmylou track would probably be my banker
My book rather worryingly is Douglas Adams - Watership Down
Luxury item - new striker!
Stevie Wonder - Love’s In Need Of Love Today
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
Elvis Costello - Heart-Shaped Bruise
Alison Krauss/James Taylor - How’s The World Treating You
Emmylou Harris - Boulder To Birmingham
Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness
Frank Wilson - Do I Love You(Indeed I Do)
Don McLean - American Pie
The task is actually impossible - need to fit Billy Bragg - Between The Wars in somewhere - as others have said could do this 10 times and have many variations - would even struggle to confirm favourite 8 Motown/Soul/Country/Rock etc - the Emmylou track would probably be my banker
My book rather worryingly is Douglas Adams - Watership Down
Luxury item - new striker!
kevo
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- Mar 8, 2008
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Good job you're the only person there.