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Desert Island Discs [Music]
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Oh no, your ship has sunk and you've found yourself marooned on a desert island! During the sinking you were able to save your 8 favourite pieces of music, a single book (the island contains a copy of an appropriate religious text and the complete works of Shakespeare) and a luxury (that can't help you escape or communicate with the outside).
What I ask, is which 8 pieces of music, book and luxury would you choose and why?
Obviously inspired by the long-running BBC radio series of the same name
My music choices would be:
Empire of the Sun I would choose purely because I much associate them with my time at university, and the memories it conjures up when I hear it. In a similar vein, I'd choose 'Rule Britannia', nothing to do with patriotism, but instead it's a song my step-dad would blast out on the stereo on a Sunday morning to get us all out of bed. Another song I don't particularly enjoy per se is Phantom of the Opera. On long car journeys to France or Italy for holiday a tape/CD that would frequently be played by my parents was a musical compilation.
And the rest:
The book I would take is 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff', by no means the greatest book I have ever read, but I just love it and frequently return to dip in, with my copy being the most battered and dog-eared book in my collection.
The luxury I would take would probably be a DVD player and boxsets of the Wire
What I ask, is which 8 pieces of music, book and luxury would you choose and why?
Obviously inspired by the long-running BBC radio series of the same name
My music choices would be:
Empire of the Sun I would choose purely because I much associate them with my time at university, and the memories it conjures up when I hear it. In a similar vein, I'd choose 'Rule Britannia', nothing to do with patriotism, but instead it's a song my step-dad would blast out on the stereo on a Sunday morning to get us all out of bed. Another song I don't particularly enjoy per se is Phantom of the Opera. On long car journeys to France or Italy for holiday a tape/CD that would frequently be played by my parents was a musical compilation.
And the rest:
The book I would take is 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff', by no means the greatest book I have ever read, but I just love it and frequently return to dip in, with my copy being the most battered and dog-eared book in my collection.
The luxury I would take would probably be a DVD player and boxsets of the Wire
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Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden
Hemispheres - Rush
Ytzak Ribin doing Paganini
Black Sabbath -Black Sabbath
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Animals - Pink Floyd
The Great Radio Controversy -Tesla
Rust In Peace - Megadeth
Book;
This is difficult, but I suppose I'd choose an encyclopedia or a history book.
luxury item;
A guitar
Edit- I see you meant individual pieces of music, not entire albums. I was thinking I'd be grabbing CDs during the sinking though, not making a mix.
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
T Rex - Electric Warrior
Ghost - Snuffbox Immanence
Acid Mothers Temple - Univers Zen ou de zéro à zéro
The Band - The Band
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Toumani Diabaté - The Mandé Variations
Choice Cuts:
Book - Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
It's dense. It's Russian so you get to know all the characters very well. It's a lonely book. Fitting for a desert island.
Luxury - A guitar, of course.
Curtis Mayfield - Blue Monday People
Joanna Newsom - Emily
OutKast - B.O.B.
Sam Cooke - Bring It On Home To Me (Live)
Animal Collective - Banshee Beat
TV on the Radio - Stork & Owl (GGD remix)
The Books - There Is No There
Tom Waits - All The World Is Green
Book: Whatever the biggest encyclopedia is. Failing that, some sort of Carl Sagan omnibus.
Luxury: Some sort of radio that couldn't be altered to communicate with the outside world. Or a guitar.
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For the Young
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Neo Geo
David Bowie - Station to Station
King Crimson - Heavy Construkction
Wire - Pink Flag
Unkle - End Titles... Stories For Film
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Mastodon - Leviathan
Book: Grant Morrison's Batman Omnibus (A giant, imaginary tome of his entire Batman run)
Luxury Item: Five sturdy boxes filled with resealable containers of various shapes and sizes.
Honestly, all I need's the third disc. That's the only one I ever take out anyway.
Nirvana- In Utero
Against Me!- Reinventing Axl Rose
Lucero- Tennessee
Murder by Death- Red of Tooth and Claw
Murder by Death- In Bocca al Lupo
Ceremony- Violence, Violence
The Adolescents- s/t
Pissed Jeans- King of Jeans
Book: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Luxury: DVD player and all the Lord of the Rings movies