Let's play Desert Island Discs

Gassage

8 songs.

1 Book

1 Luxury item
 
Here's mine (I only listen to live recordings really)

Comfortably Numb, Live at Albert Hall Version
Echoes ditto
High Hopes ditto
Don't Dream It's Over (Sydney live)
You Do Something To Me (Live Wood version)
(Don't Fear) The Reaper (Live)
Go Your Own Way (live off the Dance)
Silence- Delirium

Book
The Complete Fall and RIse of Reginald Perrin

Item
Lowden LSE1 Acoustic and endless strings.

Over to you....

Phil_aka_Pip

8 songs (I stuck to the rules and thought of "songs" or at least LP tracks. Though I'd rather think of whole LPs, or of larger works such as Messiah, or Mass in B minor ... 

1 Lady Fantasy (Camel)

2 Eruption (Focus)

3 Gaia (James Taylor)

4 Long and winding road (Beatles, Spector production)

5 Child in time (Deep Purple)

6 Throw down the sword (Wishbone Ash)

7 Layla (Clapton, Unplugged)

8 Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum)

1 Book

Gödel Escher Bach - Douglas Hofstadter

1 Luxury item

Acoustic guitar & strings OR piano (with magic stay-in-tune feature) haven't decided which yet

Substitute the complete works of Douglas Adams for the complete works of Shakespeare 

not_the_dj

Songs:

Springsteen - Jungleland

Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

Pink Floyd - Shine on...

Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues

SRV - Little Wing

Def Leppard - Gods of War

Richard Thompson - Vincent Black Lightning

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watch Tower

Book: 

The Playboy Playmates Book - 6 Decades of Centerfolds by Hugh Hefner

Luxury Item:

Guitar and strings. 

Hootsmon

fuck the music,i'm takin' tarts and penicillin

book "how tae build a raft"

luxury item (labourer) raft builder

Nunogilberto

Songs:

Boston - Peace of Mind
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Waiting
Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums
Extreme - Colour Me Blind
Mr Big - Green Tinted Sixties Mind
Queen - Tie Your Mother Down
David Lee Roth - Ladies' Night in Buffalo

Book - Catcher in the Rye

Luxury Item - Gordon Smith Graf

In fairness, I would probably trade all that for Linsey Dawn McKenzie in her prime

richardhomer

One World - John Martyn (1990 live version with David Gilmour)

Let's Go Out Tonight - The Blue Nile

Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd

Free Fallin' - Tom Petty

Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel

Mozart Clarinet Concerto (2nd movement)

With God on Our Side - Bob Dylan

Al Bowlly's in Heaven - Richard Thompson

All with the inevitable caveat that in might be different tomorrow.

The book would be some kind of lavish collection of paintings.

Luxury - a guitar....

jd0272

Songs:

Not fussed, just bloody noise anyway.

Book:

Pepys Diaries/Letters

Luxury item:

Sod guitar, distillery that also manufactured cigarettes/lighters, and possibly guitars. The Chinese are diverse.

Axe_meister

Book. LOTRs
Item: Guitar
Songs.
Don't eat the yellow snow Zappa
Voodoo Chile slight return. SRV version
All along the watch tower - Hendrix
Layla - Clapton
Comfortably numb pink Floyd
Are you the one - Beth hart
Rhapsody in blue - Gershwin
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Gassage

jd0272 said:

Songs:

Not fussed, just bloody noise anyway.

Book:

Pepys Diaries/Letters

Luxury item:

Sod guitar, distillery that also manufactured cigarettes/lighters, and possibly guitars. The Chinese are diverse.

A lifetime supply of proper American Marlb Lights...Oh yes...

Axe_meister

Gassage;351382" said:

jd0272 said:

Songs:

Not fussed, just bloody noise anyway.

Book:

Pepys Diaries/Letters

Luxury item:

Sod guitar, distillery that also manufactured cigarettes/lighters, and possibly guitars. The Chinese are diverse.









A lifetime supply of proper American Marlb Lights...Oh yes...

Short life mind.

bigjon

Book - The Belgariad by David Eddings

Item - Computer to program on

Songs

1. Kinder Eye by Level 42 (with Allan Holdsworth outro solo)

2. Low Levels High Stakes by Allan Holdsworth

3. Scuttle Buttin' by Stevie Ray Vaughan

4. Venus Isle by Eric Johnson

5. Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty

6. No Air by Jordin Sparks feat. Chris Brown

7. Lovers and Friends by The Communards

8. Hallelujah Chorus by Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration

jd0272

Axe_meister said:

Gassage;351382" said:

jd0272 said:

Songs:

Not fussed, just bloody noise anyway.

Book:

Pepys Diaries/Letters

Luxury item:

Sod guitar, distillery that also manufactured cigarettes/lighters, and possibly guitars. The Chinese are diverse.









A lifetime supply of proper American Marlb Lights...Oh yes...

Short life mind.

The sunburn'd get ya anyhoo. Then there's obv' the cannibals. And the pirates. And all of the shite that went on in Lost. And coconuts falling out of trees. Think I'll stay at home.

JPS Black for moi, tho not for much longer, happily and sadly all at once. Going for a brandy and a smoke.

Gassage

@bigjon

I wouldn't have taken Scuttle Buttin' purely as I've elected to take one acoustic and I don't want to smash it on a palm tree cos I can't play the intro lick....

viz

1) Rachmaninov - Etude Tableau op39 no.3


2) Rachmaninov - Etude Tableau op39 no. 5


3) Allegri - Miserere Mei Deus


4) Steve Vai - For the Love of God


5) Tchaikowsky - 6th symphony 4th movement


6) Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto no.3, final movement


7) Barber Agnus Dei (Adagio choral version)


8) David Lee Roth - Big Trouble


Book: Ursula LeGuin - Earthsea

Luxury item - wife

ThePrettyDamned

Okay, songs: 

Shine on you crazy diamond (both of them)

Imperium - Machinehead

Yellow Teeth - Protest the Hero

Bloodmeat - Protest the Hero

Buried Alive - Alter Bridge

Dogs - Pink Floyd

Hungarian Rhapsody (Listz). This version:

Book: If series' are allowed, the Malazan Book of the Fallen.  If not, then 1984. 

Luxury item - internetz to access to access this forum and buy guitar pedals

thecolourbox

Ooh good thread

Ok, Music I'll say:

1. Screwdriver, the White Stripes

2. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself, also the White Stripes

3. Mama You've Been on my Mind, Jeff Buckley

4. Piano Sonata in C Minor "Pathetique", Beethoven

5. Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield

6. Within you Without you, The Beatles

7. Liebestraum (I think number two, the well known one), Liszt

8. Wayfaring Stranger, Jack White's Cold Mountain version

Book has to be Lord of the Rings

Luxury item...erm...Debbie Harry from the Heart of Glass video

Philly_Q

Without thinking about it too much, I'll say:

Songs

Power of Love - King's X

Memory's Garden - Trouble

Guild of Mute Assassins - Clutch

Daydream - Robin Trower

The King Will Come - Wishbone Ash

Nantucket Sleighride - Mountain

Put the Blame on Me - The Mother Station

A National Acrobat - Black Sabbath

Book

The Compleet Molesworth - Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle

Luxury Item

Can I have a film (and some means of watching it)?..... M. Hulot's Holiday.

thecolourbox

viz said:

3) Allegri - Miserere

Such a hauntingly beautiful music, was almost in my list too. So wonderfully represents the exact opposite of a religious sentiment for me. Wonderful texture to it

viz

thecolourbox said:

viz said:

3) Allegri - Miserere

Such a hauntingly beautiful music, was almost in my list too. So wonderfully represents the exact opposite of a religious sentiment for me. Wonderful texture to it

Yep it's sick - and New College Choir under Higginbottom were the greatest ever.

EricTheWeary

Top of head:- 1) Boy named Sue - Johnny Cash. 2) Chatanooga Choo Choo - Glenn Miller. 3) Love is All Around - WetWetWet. 4) Agadoo -Black Lace. 5) Should I Stay or Should I go - The Clash. 6) 54-46 - Toots and the Maytalls. 7) Am I Evil - Diamond Head. 8) Ghosts - Japan. Book - Blues All Around Me by BB King. Luxury - access to TheFB ( failing that a lifetime supply of garlic pickle). :o3

Hootsmon

 ^ aga fuckin' doo?