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

[Barry Izbak]

It - Genesis

too often overlooked.

My own, for a variety of personal reasons (rather than them being the best songs ever)

1. The Band of HM Royal Marines - Sussex By The Sea
2. Roy Orbison - In Dreams
3. Billy Joel - Leave a Tender Moment Alone
4. Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Islands In The Stream
5. Thin Lizy - Dancing in the Moonlight (Its caught me in its spotlight)
6. Gary Moore - Still got the Blues for you
7. Elvis Manu Presley - Can't Help Falling in Love with you
8. Genesis - Supper's Ready

 

[Guinness Boy]

too often overlooked.

My own, for a variety of personal reasons (rather than them being the best songs ever)

1. The Band of HM Royal Marines - Sussex By The Sea
2. Roy Orbison - In Dreams
3. Billy Joel - Leave a Tender Moment Alone
4. Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Islands In The Stream
5. Thin Lizy - Dancing in the Moonlight (Its caught me in its spotlight)
6. Gary Moore - Still got the Blues for you
7. Elvis Manu Presley - Can't Help Falling in Love with you
8. Genesis - Supper's Ready

Every day at work we have to email what we did yesterday and what we're doing today. I once put a line that said "Here's a random line about a baboon to see if anyone else is reading". It got picked up on by TWO people out of a team of eleven.

For me this is a similar cri de coeur. Well I've seen your Elvis Manu Presley and raise you Sam and Dave Baldock

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

1 God gave rock and roll to you by Argent - The Dome - the reason I have tinnitus.
2 Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd - saw them twice at the Dome before the plane crash.
3 Don't believe a word - Thin Lizzy - saw them loads of times including two at the Brighton Centre.
4 Rock you like a hurricane - Scorpions - saw them at Top Rank Suite on Rock Nights before anyone knew who they were.
5 This Flight Tonight - Nazareth - Dome - mass exodus to the bars when they came on?
6 Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore - Dome - great guitarist
7 Money for nothing - Dire Straits - Dome - bit dodge but I liked them.
8 Caroline - Status Quo - Brighton Centre - I'm as old as they are ffsake !

Sixty this July - you youngsters don't know what you have missed

I could do a dozen btw

 

[cornish seagull]

Love the stranglers, saw them at 'Eden project' last summer and they were superb

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

Love the 'Stranglers' saw them at 'Eden project' last summer and they were superb and still 'edgy'

 

[Dave the OAP]

1 God gave rock and roll to you by Argent - The Dome - the reason I have tinnitus.
2 Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd - saw them twice at the Dome before the plane crash.
3 Don't believe a word - Thin Lizzy - saw them loads of times including two at the Brighton Centre.
4 Rock you like a hurricane - Scorpions - saw them at Top Rank Suite on Rock Nights before anyone knew who they were.
5 This Flight Tonight - Nazareth - Dome - mass exodus to the bars when they came on?
6 Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore - Dome - great guitarist
7 Money for nothing - Dire Straits - Dome - bit dodge but I liked them.
8 Caroline - Status Quo - Brighton Centre - I'm as old as they are ffsake !

Sixty this July - you youngsters don't know what you have missed

I could do a dozen btw

You and I must have passed like ships in the night. I saw all of those concerts!!! Argent was bloody brilliant...hold your head up was loud as hell

 

[scooter1]

In no particular order.
Pulp, do you remember the first time
Stereophonics, Dakota
Small Faces, tin soldier
Massive Attack, unfinished sympathy
EMF, unbelievable
Nick Cave, there she goes
Paul Weller, into tomorrow
Underworld, born slippy

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

1 God gave rock and roll to you by Argent - The Dome - the reason I have tinnitus.
2 Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd - saw them twice at the Dome before the plane crash.
3 Don't believe a word - Thin Lizzy - saw them loads of times including two at the Brighton Centre.

Ditto

Skynyrd: half the audience walked out when 'headliners' Golden Earring played

I'll bid you

Supper's Ready - Genesis (Dome 70p)
Backstreet Love - Curved Air (Dome)
In My Own Time - Family (Dome)
Bridge of Sighs - Robin Trower (Dome)
Conquistador - Procul Harem (Dome)
Abandoned Luncheonette - Hall and Oats (Dome)
Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape - Bebop Deluxe (Dome)
Rubber Bullets - 10CC (Dome)
Don't let me be misunderstood - Andy Fraser Band (Sussex Uni)
Hoedown - Caravan (Brighton Poly)
Mr Wilson - John Cale (Brighton Poly)

 

[McTavish]

Back in the USSR - the Beatles - inherited from my parents
Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo - the first record that I ever ordered to be delivered at WH Smiths
Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC - first gig (I know!) Hammersmith Odeon 1982
Good Technology - The Red Guitars - the world's least appreciated band (almost went with Marimba Jive)
Here Comes the Summer - The Undertones - I miss John Peel but I prefer this to Teenage Kicks - it makes me happy.
Harder Than You Think - Public Enemy - Hip Hop meets Politics meets Sport (although Fight the Power would be an alternate)
Fiesta - The Pogues - the song I sing with my daughter
Toccata from V Symphony - Ch-M Widor - exit music from my marriage to Mrs McTavish

 

[Blazing Apostle]

Strawberry Fields - Those Beatles
Just What I needed - The Cars
Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army
Life on Mars Bowie
Forbiddden Colours - Sylvian & Sakamoto
Playboy Mommy - Tori Amos
Olympian - Gene
Fools Gold - Thin Lizzy
If you tolerate This - Manics

 

[WildWood]

I was asked to do exactly this for a mates blog last year 'deserted island discs' (genius!) Was more about choosing the 5 most influential tracks that got me to the music I play today (I present a Ska, Reggae, Rocksteady radio show). Here's the link to the blog if you fancy a read!

http://desertedislandiscs.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/paul-homer.html?m=1

 

[nicko31]

Does seems a lot of people of NSC are 35+

In no special order..

U2 - With or without you
David Bowie - Lets Dance
New Order - True Faith
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
AC / DC - You shook me all night long
Elgar - Nimrod
Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Kathleen Ferrier - Blow the Wind Southerly. Reminds me of my mother.
A good version of Beethoven's 7th Symphony
Sibelius's Karelia Suite.
Blue Sky - the Allman Brothers Band - always makes me smile, despite the naffest lyrics ever, but the guitar work......
Brown Street (live version) - Weather Report.
It's all over Now - the Rolling Stones.
Crossroads - Cream
What Game Shall We Play Today - Chick Corea and Return to Forever.

And first reserves:
Don't give up - Peter Gabriel
Van Morrison - Cleaning Windows.

Book: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (in French)
Luxury: an endless supply of high quality tea (preferably Char's Earl Grey)

 

[studio150]

As a few posters have linked their selection to gigs, I thought I would provide alternatives based on Brighton venues an the bands I have seen there.

Top Rank

Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
I Fought the Law - The Clash
This Year's Girl - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Cool for Cats - Squeeze
Tattooed Love Boys - Pretenders
Marjorca - John Cooper Clarke
Down in the Sewer - The Stranglers
Lunar Musick Suite - Steve Hillage

The Dome

Crime of the Century - Supertramp
Keith Don't go - Nils Lofgren
Talk to me - Sothside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
Heat Treatment - Graham Parker and the Rumour
Run for Cover - Streetwalkers
Time Was - Wishbone Ash
Gimme Some Lovin' - Steve Winwood
Because the Night - Patti Smith

The Centre

Badlands - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Breakdown - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
Killer Queen - Queen
Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Watcher of the Skies - Steve Hackett
Telegraph Road - Dire Straits
Going Underground - The Jam

 

[NooBHA]

1. There's no one quite like Grandma - St Winfreds School Choir
2. Granddad - Clive Dunn
3. Shaduppa Ya Face - Joe Dolce
4. Barbie Girl - Aqua
5. How much is that Doggie in the Window - Patti Page
6. Ernie - Bennie Hill
7. Mr Blobby - Mr Blobby
8. Can we fix it. Yes we can - Bob the builder


The with that lot I wouldn't be ****in around listening to music and I could get on with building a raft to get off the ****in island

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

You and I must have passed like ships in the night. I saw all of those concerts!!! Argent was bloody brilliant...hold your head up was loud as hell

Apologies only just got back into NSC after yesterdays WIN

Every week I went to concerts either down the dome or top rank suite and then onto the centre when it was put together

All I can remember was the waft of something dodgy being smoked coming up into the dear seats
Lager was 25p a pint or a pint of mild 20p
I sat ten foot from Russ Ballard's see through guitar

Could not hear properly for two days.

 

[atfc village]

1 Soon, Dexys
2Walk on by ,The Stranglers
3 Just got lucky ,Joboxers
4 Duel, Propaganda
5 Closest thing to heaven ,Kane Gang
6 For tomorrow ,Blur
7Broken land ,The Adventurers
8 It's got to be now,The Bureau.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

1. There's no one quite like Grandma - St Winfreds School Choir
2. Granddad - Clive Dunn
3. Shaduppa Ya Face - Joe Dolce
4. Barbie Girl - Aqua
5. How much is that Doggie in the Window - Patti Page
6. Ernie - Bennie Hill
7. Mr Blobby - Mr Blobby
8. Can we fix it. Yes we can - Bob the builder


The with that lot I wouldn't be ****in around listening to music and I could get on with building a raft to get off the ****in island

Your not taking this seriously are you

 

[NooBHA]

Your not taking this seriously are you

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ofcourse I am. And anyhow. No one suggested there would be anything on the island to play the discs anyhow

 

[AmexRuislip]

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ofcourse I am. And anyhow. No one suggested there would be anything on the island to play the discs anyhow

Just for you NooBHA

 

[Dave the OAP]

Apologies only just got back into NSC after yesterdays WIN

Every week I went to concerts either down the dome or top rank suite and then onto the centre when it was put together

All I can remember was the waft of something dodgy being smoked coming up into the dear seats
Lager was 25p a pint or a pint of mild 20p
I sat ten foot from Russ Ballard's see through guitar

Could not hear properly for two days.

I was the same...even the likes of Joan armatrading, the four seasons, Gallagher and lyle, to bee bop delux, all very different but there is something about love music.

Remember seeing the Average white band at the dome supported by inner circle.....inner circle were on the next night at the top rank...brilliant nights both of them.

They days when concerts were actually cheap enough to go on the day!