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Ok, after the "Do you own these classics?" thread...and the god awful, imho, albums that were seen as classics...comes desert island discs. these are the 10 albums/records of any sort you would ideally have on a desert island if by some chance you were stranded there....

and for those of you who actually know the radio programme, you can add your 2 favourite books (plus the bible but i'll let you exchange that for a third book ;) ) as well :D

let the listing begin :D

well this is going down like a lead balloon..... :(

1. Violent Femmes : Violent Femmes
2. Leonard Cohen : The Essential Leonard Cohen
3. Beatles : Anthology 1
4. Carole King : Tapestry
5. Willie Nelson : Stardust
6. Dandy Warhols : Come Down
7. Moody Blues : On the Threshold of a Dream
8. Gomez : Bring It On
9. Portishead : Dummy
10. Bjork : Vespertine

This isn't half what I'd want, but I could be happy with these for a year or two.

1. Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street
2. Coldplay - Rush of Blood to the Head
3. Turin Brakes - Ether Song
4. U2 - Achtung Baby
5. Spiritualised - Let It Come Down
6. The Beatles - Revolver
7. Suede - Dog Man Star
8. Pulp - His 'n' Hers
9. Blur - Think Tank
10. Turin Brakes - Ether Song

That was just what popped into my head, in no particular order.

Books:

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Last Tango in Aberystwyth by (William Pryce? - not sure of name)
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

well this is going down like a lead balloon..... :(

I WAS THINKING!!!

1. Violent Femmes : Violent Femmes
2. Leonard Cohen : The Essential Leonard Cohen
3. Beatles : Anthology 1
4. Carole King : Tapestry
5. Willie Nelson : Stardust
6. Dandy Warhols : Come Down
7. Moody Blues : On the Threshold of a Dream
8. Gomez : Bring It On
9. Portishead : Dummy
10. Bjork : Vespertine

This isn't half what I'd want, but I could be happy with these for a year or two.

Ooh, Gomez! Portishead! Bjork! I want more than ten!

I WAS THINKING!!!

Ditto, baby. I had to think about it.

I WAS THINKING!!!

apologies :D

Well, I gotta hit the bricks. I'll be back to check out other peoples' lists. :)

Hmm.

In no particular order:

1. Rage Against the Machine - Battle of Los Angeles
2. Led Zeppelin I
3. Nirvana - In Utero
4. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
5. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
6. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters + In God We Trust (on one CD)
7. Spiderbait - Ivy and the Big Apples
8. Sonic Youth - Goo
9. Placebo - Selftitled
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Gah, no room for Mudhoney. Bugger. Or the Clash compilation. :( Oh well.

i may as well add my personal choices to the fray...considering this is the first thread i have begun :D

Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin II
Rob Dougan - Furious Angels
Metallica - Master of Puppets
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Coldplay - Live Album 2003
Pink Floyd - Pulse
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Marvin Gaye - Whats Going On
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Elton John - Good bye yellow brick road

i'm still thinkin about my books :)

Or the Clash compilation. :( Oh well.

Yeah, the Clash got squeezed out of mine too.

Yeah, the Clash got squeezed out of mine too.

Yeah, but what can you do. I'm sure if I had to pick 50 albums there would be some i'd regret leaving :)

Yeah, but what can you do. I'm sure if I had to pick 50 albums there would be some i'd regret leaving :)


yeah, on the programme itself you are only allowed 5...argh...think of the stress i am saving you :D

Hmm...well, 5 would probably be easier. I'd feel less guilty about the ones i'm leaving behind.

1. Rob Zombie-Hellbilly deluxe
2. Pink Floyd - The Wall
3. Rammstein- Sensucht
4. Robotech Soundtrack
5. Monty Python SIngs
6. Anthony Miles- Crystal Healing
7.Cream Puff- Sharon Apple
8. Monks of Santo...Chant I
9. Led Zepplin I
10. AC/DC Back in Black

Books:
Either the Man-Kzin Wars, the Bolo series or the Black Company series

Only ten? Jeez, why don't you ask me to cut off me arm?

Hmm...well, 5 would probably be easier. I'd feel less guilty about the ones i'm leaving behind.


very true,

well i chose my books:

A Collection of Poems - William Butler Yeats

Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein

Travels in Small Town America - Bill Bryson

:D

Only ten? Jeez, why don't you ask me to cut off me arm?


well if you do i'll sell it on ebay... :p

I'll bring:

Lord of the Rings
Red Mars (Cause i'm reading it right now and i'd hate to leave an unfinished book behind)
The Bible (Need some toilet paper. Uh, no offence intended to any Christians :D)

Watch me forget something I really love!

1. Queen- Greatest Hits 1
2. Queen- Greatests hits 2
3. Led Zeppelin- Remasters
4. Rammstein- Sehnsucht
5. Norah Jones- Come away with me
6. Cat Stevens- Tea for the Tillerman
7. Live- Throwing Copper
8. Tricky- Blowback
9. REM- Green
10. The White Stripes- White Blood Cells

Books:
1. One of the Vampire Chronicles. (Hey, I want my silly comfort reading if I'm to be stuck on a desert island!). I'll say... Blood Canticle since it's the most recent.
2. Brave New World
3. Cry, The Beloved Country

Making me choose 3 books is a crime! A crime I tells ya!

:p

well if you do i'll sell it on ebay... :p

How much do you think you could get for it?

Books on tape because any song would become repetitve sooner or later.

How much do you think you could get for it?

Might want to check out the import restrictions first :D

Might want to check out the import restrictions first :D

Yeah. Tariffs are a bitch.

1. Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street
2. Coldplay - Rush of Blood to the Head
3. Turin Brakes - Ether Song
4. U2 - Achtung Baby
5. Spiritualised - Let It Come Down
6. The Beatles - Revolver
7. Suede - Dog Man Star
8. Pulp - His 'n' Hers
9. Blur - Think Tank
10. Turin Brakes - Ether Song

That was just what popped into my head, in no particular order.

Books:

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Last Tango in Aberystwyth by (William Pryce? - not sure of name)
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell


he can take 10 CDs and he choses to take the same one twice. wow, he must reallly love it.

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

I read that, good stuff.

My Albums:

1 Tubular Bells/Ommadawn
2 Phillip Glass - Kundun
3 Phillip Glass (libretto by Alan ginsberg) - Hydrogen Jukebox
4 Chumbawumba - Readymades
5 Dave Mathews Band - Crash
6 Eve 6 - Horrorscope
7 Green Day - Dookie
8 Inner Mongolian Music
9 Lemon Jelly - Lemon Jelly
10 Smash Mouth - Fush Yu Mang

possibly others instead.

My Books:

Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea - Illuminatus
Robert Anton Wilson - Schrodinger's Cat
Eiji Yoshikawa - Musashi

bump

sorry its my first post and i want to see it around for a little longer :p

1. Black Sabbath- Technical Ecstacy.
2. Pink Floyd- Meddle.
3. Misfits- Collection 1.
4. Aerosmith- compliation.(early stuff)
5. Corrosion of Conformity- Deliverance.
6. Queens of the Stone Age - Self titled debut.
7. Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin Vol III.
8. Beatles- Abbey Road.
9. Alice Cooper- Killer.
10.Herbie Hancock-Man Child.

As for books..I only get five??

you get two books plus the bible...but you can change that if you want :)

you get two books plus the bible...but you can change that if you want :)


Keep the bible.

If I only get two, and Im gonna be on that damn island for a year, then I'l take War and Peace, and the complete works of Shakespear!

I'll have a lot of time to kill.

The ghost of Pulse magazine lives....

dammit....

I think being stranded with only ten albums would drive me insane. As with everything of this nature, the picks are almost random and would change if you asked me in another five minutes:

1. Sketches of Spain Miles Davis (Sort of an obvious choice, but I wouldn't tire of that one so quick)
2. Ferociously Stoned The Cherry Poppin' Daddies. (shut-up)
3. Howl U.S.A. Kronos Quartet (Unless I could make some sort of hybrid cd between this one and Night Prayers. I like Harry Partch in principle....)
4. Giant Steps John Coltrane. (again, a little obvious, but I'm going to go around humming Sydia's Song Flute anyway....)
5. Last Chance to Dance Medeski Martin and Wood (compilations cheat the system a bit, which explains-
6. This is Jazz 30 Dirty Dozen Brass Band (it's like not having to choose one. Kinda.)
7. Mahler in Tolbach Uri Caine. (hard to describe, except as free/third stream jazz renditions of Mahler pieces...)
8. 6 and 12 String Guitar Leo Kottke.
9. Blues and Ballads World Saxophone Quartet
10. Any Eric Dolphy, preferably with God Bless the Child

The ghost of Pulse magazine lives....

dammit....

I think being stranded with only ten albums would drive me insane. As with everything of this nature, the picks are almost random and would change if you asked me in another five minutes:

1. Sketches of Spain Miles Davis (Sort of an obvious choice, but I wouldn't tire of that one so quick)
2. Ferociously Stoned The Cherry Poppin' Daddies. (shut-up)
3. Howl U.S.A. Kronos Quartet (Unless I could make some sort of hybrid cd between this one and Night Prayers. I like Harry Partch in principle....)
4. Giant Steps John Coltrane. (again, a little obvious, but I'm going to go around humming Sydia's Song Flute anyway....)
5. Last Chance to Dance Medeski Martin and Wood (compilations cheat the system a bit, which explains-
6. This is Jazz 30 Dirty Dozen Brass Band (it's like not having to choose one. Kinda.)
7. Mahler in Tolbach Uri Caine. (hard to describe, except as free/third stream jazz renditions of Mahler pieces...)
8. 6 and 12 String Guitar Leo Kottke.
9. Blues and Ballads World Saxophone Quartet
10. Any Eric Dolphy, preferably with God Bless the Child


i was just nicking the idea of a 40 year old radio show here in the UK, but if pulse magazine did it too then the more the merrier... :D

you get two books plus the bible...but you can change that if you want :)
Basic Shipbuilding and Basic Survival

Thank you, be here all week. Remember to tip your waitress.......

1. Sketches of Spain Miles Davis (Sort of an obvious choice, but I wouldn't tire of that one so quick)

Thats an awesome album, but I prefer "Bitches Brew".

Its even good music for Halloween!

i was just nicking the idea of a 40 year old radio show here in the UK, but if pulse magazine did it too then the more the merrier... :D
There is no way in hell Pulse magazine came up with anything on its own. They just had a monthly section on it, which is how I relate to the question. I worked at Tower way too long.....

Thats an awesome album, but I prefer "Bitches Brew".

Its even good music for Halloween!
Better choice, especially since it's a double so it's almost like cheating. That or Live/Evil

With Miles it's never really a question of 'what I prefer' as it is 'what do I feel like this time,' though that question is rarely answered with Tutu....

Basic Shipbuilding and Basic Survival

Thank you, be here all week. Remember to tip your waitress.......


change the bible for navigation for dummies and your pretty much there...

Better choice, especially since it's a double so it's almost like cheating. That or Live/Evil

With Miles it's never really a question of 'what I prefer' as it is 'what do I feel like this time,' though that question is rarely answered with Tutu....


I hear ya.

I feel the same way about Herbie Hancock, and "Rockit".
But Mwandishi, Man Child, and Thrust are great.

1. The Story of the Clash vol. I
2. Version 2.0 - Garbage [don't laugh, for some reason I love it].
3. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
4. Smash - Offspring.
5. Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson
6. Rated R - Queens Of The Stone Age
7. Transmission - Violent Delight.
8. White Blood Cells - White Stripes
9. Rant in E-Minor - Bill Hicks
10. ???????

Books:

Ice - Anna Kavan
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

I hear ya.

I feel the same way about Herbie Hancock, and "Rockit".
But Mwandishi, Man Child, and Thrust are great.
I got to see The Headhunters with Herbie Hancock at The Filmore a while back. Oh man.....

I got to see The Headhunters with Herbie Hancock at The Filmore a while back. Oh man.....


wow.

You lucky bastard.

Pink Floyd - Animals
U2 - Joshua Tree
Queen - Greatest Hits (I know, I know, but I gotta have something to dance round the palm trees to)
Waterboys - The Waterboys
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Lou Reed and John Cale - songs for Drella
Beethoven - Violin concerto
radiohead - OK Computer
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Pulp - This is Hardcore

I wouldn't bring any CD's because I wouldn't have any electricity :D

But even if I did, I doubt that I would. I get bored with music when played loads of times

wow.

You lucky bastard.
Something good had to come out of working at Tower that long. I got to meet some cool musicians and artificially inflate my collection with promos. My CD collection looks pretty impressive until you start looking at the titles. Most even I wouldn't spend money on but I like having.

That sorta depends..we have the electricity for the cd but no phone to get off the damned island? :) Almost any music seems like it would get real old real fast if it was all you had. Then also my choices would be different if I was stranded alone or with someone, and if with someone, if I love them or hate them :)

1. The Story of the Clash vol. I
2. Version 2.0 - Garbage [don't laugh, for some reason I love it].
3. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
4. Smash - Offspring.
5. Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson
6. Rated R - Queens Of The Stone Age
7. Transmission - Violent Delight.
8. White Blood Cells - White Stripes
9. Rant in E-Minor - Bill Hicks
10. ???????


You sir, have good taste :)

as it turns out i AM going to a desert island next week. thats desert not deserted.
i bought a sony walkman and made a CD with 404 songs on it. all legally done out of my own cd collection of course

turns out the answer is

brooks and dunn greatest hits 1
frank sinatras greatest hits 1
toby keiths greatest hits 1
linda ronstats greatest hits 1
nat king coles greatest hits
hank williams greatest hits 1
pasty clines greatest hits 1
beatles one
dixie chicks greatest hits (as compiled by me)
bob dylans greatest hits 1

all greatest hits collections because why waste my list on songs i dont like?

there are of course more artists on my cd than that but those were the must haves

for books i would have to take lord of the rings (my fav book of all time) and the complete works of sherlock holmes. plus pen and paper to jot down my own rantings. (in real life im only taking books i havent read, paper to jot down my poker winnings, and watercolor painting supplies)

1. Björk - Vespertine
2. The Gathering - Nighttime Birds
3. U2 - Achtung Baby
4. Björk - Post
5. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
6. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
7. The Gathering - Mandylion
8. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
9. U2 - The Joshua Tree
10. Opeth - Still Life

Ok, after the "Do you own these classics?" thread...and the god awful, imho, albums that were seen as classics...comes desert island discs. these are the 10 albums/records of any sort you would ideally have on a desert island if by some chance you were stranded there....

and for those of you who actually know the radio programme, you can add your 2 favourite books (plus the bible but i'll let you exchange that for a third book ;) ) as well :D

let the listing begin :D

Question?

What's the point in taking your favourite CDs if you're on a desert island without a CD player?

Question?

What's the point in taking your favourite CDs if you're on a desert island without a CD player?
you can use the shiny side to signal passing boats

You sir, have good taste :)
Why thank you :D

1. Björk - Vespertine
2. The Gathering - Nighttime Birds
3. U2 - Achtung Baby
4. Björk - Post
5. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
6. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
7. The Gathering - Mandylion
8. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
9. U2 - The Joshua Tree
10. Opeth - Still Life

Good stuff!

Question?

What's the point in taking your favourite CDs if you're on a desert island without a CD player?

it was assumed on the radio show that you had a player with you, after being beached there, or your boat sunk, or whatever, use your imagination... :p

it was assumed on the radio show that you had a player with you, after being beached there, or your boat sunk, or whatever, use your imagination... :p

But...what about batteries!?!?!! :p

But...what about batteries!?!?!! :p


well if you are folically challenged cram the plug up your nose and use your bald spot as a solar panel :D

it was assumed on the radio show that you had a player with you, after being beached there, or your boat sunk, or whatever, use your imagination... :p

I think the assumption was that you had a wind-up gramophone - the show, after all, did begin in 1942...

well if you are folically challenged cram the plug up your nose and use your bald spot as a solar panel :D

Unfortunately, i'm anything but. Me=Cousin It (or close enough) from the Addams Family :)

Hmm, i'll just hope that theres a shipwrecked freighter nearby carrying a million duracells.

I think the assumption was that you had a wind-up gramophone - the show, after all, did begin in 1942...

i know i know, leave me alone and go list your top 10 :p

Unfortunately, i'm anything but. Me=Cousin It (or close enough) from the Addams Family :)

Hmm, i'll just hope that theres a shipwrecked freighter nearby carrying a million duracells.


bet you make a fortune from party appearences.... :p

bet you make a fortune from party appearences.... :p

Well, Its all fun and games until someone trips over my mullet...


(LOL j/k)

In no particular order:

1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

2. Joe Lovano - Quartets

3. Frank Sinatra & Count Basie - Sinatra at the Sands

4. Dave Douglas - A Thousand Evenings

5. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Ella & Louis

6. Mahler's 5th Symphony - can't decide between Bernstein (New York) and Solti (Chicago)... flip a coin

7. Wynton Marsalis & Kathleen Battle - Baroque Duet

8. Miles Davis & Gil Evans - I'll take the box set if I can, if not... Porgy & Bess

9. Wayne Shorter - Footprints Live!

10. Bjork - Greatest Hits (I love all these, even if it's missing Unison)

Wow that's too hard, and the list (or some of it) would change tomorrow... or this afternoon!

Books are even harder to limit to 3... how about:

Goedel, Escher & Bach - can't remember the author...
Foundation - Isaac Asimov (can I take the whole series?) :-)
Visions of Jazz - Gary Giddins

i know i know, leave me alone and go list your top 10 :p

In the interests of histortical accuracy I will do a list of 78 rpm records, although several of them will post-date 1942, how's that? It could take me some time...

it was assumed on the radio show that you had a player with you, after being beached there, or your boat sunk, or whatever, use your imagination... :p

Another question:

What's the point in taking a CD player and CDs if you don't have any electricity?

Another question:

What's the point in taking a CD player and CDs if you don't have any electricity?

Theres a shipwrecked Japanese freighter on the island and watertight cases of batteries (and washed up crowbars) are everywhere. There ya go.

In the interests of histortical accuracy I will do a list of 78 rpm records, although several of them will post-date 1942, how's that? It could take me some time...


well, we'll cyas later then.... :D

I got one to get you started...

Glen Miller's Chatanooga Choo Choo

now that was around at the time...

people!!! why does everybody have to be so literal??? It's a fun game, a mental excercise! None of us are about to be stranded on a deserted island, and even if we were, we wouldn't get to choose what to bring!

Use your imagination!

Theres a shipwrecked Japanese freighter on the island and watertight cases of batteries (and washed up crowbars) are everywhere. There ya go.

What the hell are you talking about?

He's entering the realms of fantasy here.

Theres a shipwrecked Japanese freighter on the island and watertight cases of batteries (and washed up crowbars) are everywhere. There ya go.

thanks for that

for the rest of you USE YOUR IMAGINATION....always helps...

wow...i think i might have scared people off....

What the hell are you talking about?

He's entering the realms of fantasy here.

Umm, what? You seriously believe that being stranded on a desert island and being able to choose 10 cds to take with you constitutes reality to any degree? lol

Umm, what? You seriously believe that being stranded on a desert island and being able to choose 10 cds to take with you constitutes reality to any degree? lol

I agree. Hence my posts.

And another thing:

I thought they'd stopped letting kids use computers at school.

I thought they'd stopped letting kids use computers at school.

Me using a computer at school would be rather strange, actually, for two reasons. Firstly, its 2AM here, and I don't know any school that would let me in its grounds after 6 at the latest. Secondly, I'm all finished school.

Wow, you just love to troll for arguments, don't you? Now I understand it is probably due to some inferiority you percieve in your day-to-day life, but really.

:) <--- smile, bitch.

Me using a computer at school would be rather strange, actually, for two reasons. Firstly, its 2AM here, and I don't know any school that would let me in its grounds after 6 at the latest. Secondly, I'm all finished school.

Wow, you just love to troll for arguments, don't you? Now I understand it is probably due to some inferiority you percieve in your day-to-day life, but really.

:) <--- smile, bitch.

I won't smile just because you tell me to.

I won't smile just because you tell me to.

Well, in that case, go crawl in a hole somewhere and don't come out. Or just stop trolling. Yeah, that'd be sweet.

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
OK Computer - Radiohead
Marquee Moon - Television
Best of Frank Sinatra
Michigan - Sufjan Stevens
Source Tags and Codes - And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Revolver - The Beatles
Stankonia - Outkast
Odelay - Beck
The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse

I'd take War and Peace, A Tale of Two Cities, and use the Bible for kindling.