[Misc] What would be YOUR desert island disc choices?

[AmexRuislip]

On a theme of the BBC Radio 4 programme, what would be your choice of eight recordings?

Mine:
1. Van Morrison - Moondance
2. Diana Krall - The look of love
3. Marvin Gaye - Lets Get it On
4. Jam - A town called malice
5. Jools Holland - Hop the Wag
6. Gary Byrd & the GB Experience - the crown
7. Soft Cell - Bedsitter
8. Heaven 17 - Crushed by the wheels of industry


There are more.............

 

[jevs]

1) ELO Mr blue sky
2) Snow Patrol Chasing Cars
3) Beethoven's piano concerto in E flat major
4) Pink Floyd Comfortably numb
5) Dire Straits Telegraph Road
6) Duran Duran Save a prayer
7) George Michael Praying for time
8) Beatles Here comes the sun

 

[wallyback]

Sweet Thing - David Bowie
Gimmie Shelter - Rolling Stones
Hey Jude - Beatles
Superwoman - Stevie Wonder
It - Genesis
I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra (Live Basie version)
This Woman's work - Kate Bush (Director's Cut)
The Ballad of Frankie Lee & Judas Priest - Bob Dylan

 

[BN9 BHA]

1) Clash- White Man In The Hammersmith Palais.
2) Specials - Friday Night, Saturday Morning.
3) Stone Roses- Fools Gold
4) Ruts - Babylons Burning.
5) New Order- Bizarre Love Triangle.
6) Stranglers- Walk On By.
7) Jam- Going Underground.
8) Clash- Police & Thieves.

 

[studio150]

1) Burning Sky - The Jam
2) Wild Wood - Paul Weller
3) Echoes - Pink Floyd
4) Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
5) The Call Up - The Clash
6) Pump It Up - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
7) Mary's Place - Bruce Springsteen
8) Played It Right - Meanstreak

 

[Mackenzie]

1. Toccata and Fugue in D minor, JS Bach
2. Stranger on the Shore, Acker Bilk
3. New World Symphony, Antonin Dvorak
4. He who would valiant be, John Bunyon
5. Lollipop, Dada (Ft. Sandy Rivers)
6. What planet you on, Bodyrox ft Luciana
7. The Flumps theme tune, George Chisholm
8. I'm a believer, Monkees

 

[Southcoast Corsair]

1. Every breath you take...The Police.
2. Portobello belle...Dire Straits.
3. Some girls are bigger than others...The Smiths.
4. 925...Global communications.
5. Computer love...Kraftwerk.
6. Who's gonna take the weight...Gang Starr
7. Fairy of the lake...Yonderboi.
8. Cassation in b flat major...Mozart.

 

[lawros left foot]

1. Queen Bitch - David Bowie
2.Rosalita(come out tonight) - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band
3.Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
4.Vincent - Don Mclean
5.Viva La Vida - Coldplay
6.Papa was a Rolling Stone - The Temptations
7.Sebastian - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
8.Down in a Tube Station at Midnight - The Jam


Luxury, an endless supply of sushi

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Really sorry, I can't do 8. These are all classics for me:

Danse Society – Red Light
Doctors of Madness - Waiting
Front Line Assembly – Provision
Heimataerde - Vater
Kraftwerk – Computer love
Opposition – From the heart
Redbeat – Machines in motion
Theatre of Tragedy – And when he falleth
Ulrich Schnauss – Shine
Velvet Acid Christ – Dial 8
VNV Nation – Kingdom (Live)
Wishbone Ash – The King will Come (Live)

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Shine - Space Brothers
Fuel to Fire - Agnes Obel
Find the River - R.E.M.
Says - Nils Frahm
To Know Him Is To Love Him - Teddy Bears
Thick as Thieves - The Jam
Dusty Skies - The Wainwright Sisters
Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil

 

[Guinness Boy]

Useless - Depeche Mode (Kruder and Dorfmeister sessions mix) - DM were in the pile of first singles I bought and this is my favourite from them. The remix is unbelievably good.
Loaded - Primal Scream- got me in to raving
Feeling Good - Nina Simone - I could listen to her voice all day, perfect for being on a desert island and keeping your spirits up
Love Is Lost - David Bowie (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy) - the track that I'm playing non stop currently
I Wanna go to Marz - John Grant - because it makes me drool and feel good all over
Fools Gold - The Stone Roses - to dance to
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings - to chill to
You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry - to remind me of my favourite film and dance some more to.

 

[Dave the OAP]

1-la crimosa - mozart's requiem
2-valley of the kings - steve Hackett
3- riders of the storm - the doors
4- the lark ascending- Vaughan-Williams
5- lady( acoustic) - modjo.
6-cinema show - Genesis
7-one night in Paris - 10cc
8- smoke on the water - deep purple live at montreux

Book - Ovid Metaphormosis

One luxury item. - iPad with wifi

 

[Garage_Doors]

God save the queen Sex Pistols
Ramones 53 and 1/3
Jam Going Underground
Undertones My Perfect Cousin
Buzzcocks Boredom
Mud Rocket
Sweet Blockbuster
Bay City Rollers Shang a Lang

 

[crasher]

More than a dozen posts and no one has chosen Sussex By the Sea as one of their records. WTF?

 

[Guinness Boy]

More than a dozen posts and no one has chosen Sussex By the Sea as one of their records. WTF?

i can't speak for the others but I'd want music to take me to listening or dancing nirvana and temporary oblivion. Not remind me of the fact I was never going to see my favourite football team in the flesh again.

 

[crasher]

i can't speak for the others but I'd want music to take me to listening or dancing nirvana and temporary oblivion. Not remind me of the fact I was never going to see my favourite football team in the flesh again.

It would keep you going until you were rescued seven years later and told that you'd missed six consecutive Champions League titles

 

[studio150]

More than a dozen posts and no one has chosen Sussex By the Sea as one of their records. WTF?

This is because the luxury item would be a musical instrument so that we can all play Sussex by the Sea

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

Walk On By
Down In The Sewer
Hanging Around
No More Heroes
Nice n Sleazy
Toiler On The Sea
The Raven
Genetix

non Stranglers

How Many More Times-Led Zep
Who Knows-Hendrix
Perfect Strangers-Deep Purple
2 Minutes To Midnight-Maiden
Holidays In The Sun-Pistols
Janie Jones-Clash
Rocket Queen-Guns n Roses
Without You-Nilsson

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

The Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
The Beta Band - The Three EPs
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Mogwai - Young Team
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Slint - Spiderland
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang

Songs are impossible.

 

[BadFish]

The boy with the arab strap - Belle and Sebastian
Trip II the moon - Acen
Waterfall - Stone Roses
Disintegration - The Cure
Town Called Malice - The jam
La Woman - The Doors
The Bends - Radiohead
Dear Prudence - The Beatles

luxury item - a guitar

Book - Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela