Let's play Desert Island Discs

mudslide73

Big Ship - Freddie McGregor
Northern Sky - Nick Drake
I am the resurrection - Stone Roses.
You can't always get what you want - Stones.
Somebody up there likes you - Simple Minds
Game of Hearts - Ryan Adams
All things must pass - George Harrison
Debris - The Faces.

Book - Zen Guitar Philip Toshido Sudo.

Luxury Item - An old Martin D18 with string supply.

Axe_meister

I think there should be an extra category. Who would you take with you. Current muse is Kate bush. We'd make sweet music (both kinds) and be able to have a decent intellectual conversation

HAL9000

Sibelius - Symphony #4 

Mozart - Requiem 

Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful 

Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower 

This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren 

Pink Floyd - Echoes 

Bach - Mass in B minor

Verdi - Requiem

Luxury item - Scarlett Johansson constantly trying out different ways of being nice to me

 

Book - The Name of the Rose

EricTheWeary

hootsmon said:

 ^ aga fuckin' doo?

I always thought with Desert Island Discs the choices would be about memories rather than just favourite bits of music ( or showing off how clever you are). Agadoo has a lot of happy memories for me, same as the Glenn Miller and Cash numbers.

koneguitarist

Music 

 Elvis Presley Paralysed 

Johnny Cash Hurt 

John Hiatt Tennessee plates

 Poco Rose of Cimarron 

Emmylou Harris Luxury liner

Waylon Jennings Revelation

Deep Purple going home 

Ry Cooder little sister 

Luxury item prewar Martin D28H

Book, Hungry as the sea  Wilbur Smith

@eric the weary, I agree ref memories.

RobDavies

Struggling with eight songs.... struggling with a single book....as I've never read a novel more than once and probably never will.

With that in mind....

Songs

The Who - Magic Bus (from Live at Leeds)

AC/DC - Livewire

MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

Armored Saint - Can U Deliver

Faithless - Insomnia

Megadeth - In My Darkest Hour

Black Sabbath - Neon Nights

Iron Maiden - Sanctuary

Book

100 Years Of Brentford

Luxury Item

Audrey Fleurot

TTony

So, do we pick tracks based on memorific significance, or because they're the tracks that we'd want to spend out time listening to?  I think the radio show is usually based on the former, so Kirsty, here we go ...

Quo - Caroline (from any of the decent live recordings) - hear that and you know you've got 90mins of pure fun ahead.

JJ Cale - Mama Don't (Shades) - cassette version of that was originally bought for me by a Gitanes-smoking (naturally) French girlfriend back in schooldays.  Ahhhhhh, schooldays ... Scarily, she'd probably be arrested nowadays.

Joan Armatrading - Love & Affection (from Steppin' Out) - took me a while to settle on that track, and I know it's a bit obvious, but that's because it's one of the lady's best.

Mud - Tiger Feet - this could have been any of the early 70s glam rock stuff from Mud, Glitter, SuziQ, Slade, T-Rex, Sweet, (et al) that were the soundtrack to evenings spent learning to play snooker at a local youth club.  I need to put together a proper Glam playlist.

The Eagles - Hotel California - a long story to this one, but I ended up in a pub in Manchester (and on a school night too) with my head in a very different place (NOT what you're immediately thinking), and this came on the jukebox.

Theme tune from the Sweeney.

Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Undertones - Teenage Kicks - a great track in its own right, and a reminder of all those 10pm-midnight slots listening to John Peel's evening shows - on medium-wave!!

So, NOT the 8 tracks that I'd want to spend endless days listening to, but they probably are the 8 tracks that would bring back most memories.

Book:  Illusions (Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah), Richard Bach.  About as different to the typical "collected works of Shakespeare" as you could get.

Luxury:  My Bailey-built guitar please, and all the Lick Library theory & practice DVDs as I might finally have time to learn to play properly.  Though I'll probably still be putting it off until tomorrow and just chugging out 12bar riffs up to the day I'm rescued.

thecolourbox

Mine are definitely based on memorific value, but also because i like them. I presume the two are linked in both directions.

1. Screwdriver, the White Stripes - first proper song I learnt all the way through on guitar after pissing about with songs from Travis's The Man Who

2. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself, also the White Stripes. Because I remember Kate Moss pole dancing at a time when I was very susceptible to that kind of thing

3. Mama You've Been on my Mind, Jeff Buckley. Made me cry once when missing somebody, always liked it since

4. Piano Sonata in C Minor "Pathetique", Beethoven. Used to get played this as a baby to get me to sleep, 14 years later was given the book of sonatas to play and I more or less sight read it through first time.

5. Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield. Makes me think if my German exchange, the lad was obsessed with it.

6. Within you Without you, The Beatles. My first midi arrangement in A Level Music Tech was this, it was awful but fun

7. Liebestraum (I think number two, the well known one), Liszt. My nans favourite, god rest her soul

8. Wayfaring Stranger, Jack White's Cold Mountain version. Not any particular reason except I used it to argue that religious songs that aren't hymns do not need to be absolute shite in an argument once

Deadman

1. Buzzcocks - Real world
2. The Damned - Curtain call
3. Red hot chili peppers - Soul to squeeze
4. Pearl jam - Cropduster
5. Kate Bush - Feel it
6. The Jam - I got by in time
7. The Clash - Stay free
8. The Who - Bell boy

Book - Something brimming with decent tabs

Luxury item - Obviously the best sounding acoustic out there. I dunno, maybe something by Santa Cruz?

holnrew

This is just a quick and dirty one. If I did it for real I'd be more considered.

Elbow - Powder Blue

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

Monster Magnet - Space Lord

At The Gates - Blinded by Fear

Pink Floyd - Shine On

Beatles - Come Together

Muse - screenager

Michael Jackson - Billy Jean

Book would be some sort of reference thing, OED perhaps.

Luxury item - Might go with Nick Clegg and have some fags, I don't smoke any more, but if I'm stuck on an island I don't really cae about my health.

dogload

right...

Echo Waves by Manuel Göttsching

Damnation Alley by Hawkwind

Working On The Road by Ten Years After

Hannah by The House Of Love

Revolution by Spacemen3

Ether Ships by Steve Hillage

Surgeon's Knife by Here & Now

Cortez The Killer (Live Rust version) Neil Young

Book- Armageddon by Max Hastings

Luxury- Satellite TV

xSkarloey

Whole Lotta Love- Zep Fire Woman- Cult Prelude (from Agharta) Miles Davis Naima (Berlin Live 1962) John Coltrane Schumann- First tune from Scenes from childhood Satie- Gnossiennes no 2 Schumann- Symphony No 1 Debussy- Girl with the Flaxen Hair Book- woah, what a tough call. Perhaps a scrapbook of my kids' drawings. Luxury: A fully stocked branch of Wilkinsons.

littlegreenman

City of Tiny Lights - FZ
Watermelon in Easter Hay - FZ
Great Gig in the Sky - Floyd
Wind in the Trees - Satch
Call it Sleep - Vai
Yo Mama! - FZ
Flying in a Blue Dream - Satch
Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie

Book - Blank one, with a good pen

Luxury - the littlegreenwoman

TheCurefan

Clair De Lune - Debussy

Gymnopedie No3 - Erik Satie

Cry Me A River - Ella Fitzgerald    First proper song I learned on sax

Our Friends Electric - Tubeway Army

Cut Here - The Cure 

Danny Boy - The Pogues

Amazing Grace - Played on Pipes (no Lyrics)  Reminds me of My Dad 

Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Book(s) - Dark Tower Series by Stephen King

Luxury Item - My Alto or Tenor Sax

strumjoughlamps

The Afghan Whigs - My Curse

Public Enemy - Welcome to the Terrordome

INXS - Don't Change

The Afghan Whigs - Congregation

Love Battery - Split in Two

Velocity Girl - Creepy

Jale - Not Happy

Tori Amos - Yes, Anastacia

William Gibson - Burning Chrome

Leatherman MUT

xSkarloey

strumjoughlamps said:

The Afghan Whigs - My Curse

Public Enemy - Welcome to the Terrordome

INXS - Don't Change

The Afghan Whigs - Congregation

Love Battery - Split in Two

Velocity Girl - Creepy

Jale - Not Happy

Tori Amos - Yes, Anastacia

William Gibson - Burning Chrome

Leatherman MUT

Great choice my friend. WTF didn't I think of that? 

bigjon

Here's mine with youtube links added. Edit - meant to save as draft, only post after they were all done! Will repost later!

1. Kinder Eye by Level 42 (with Allan Holdsworth outro solo at 4:30)

bigjon

bigjon said:

Here's mine with youtube links added. Edit - meant to save as draft, only post after they were all done! Will repost later!

1. Kinder Eye by Level 42 (with Allan Holdsworth outro solo at 4:30)

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

chillidoggy

Rock Candy - Montrose

When the Levee Breaks - Zeppelin

War Pigs - Sabbs

Falling of the Edge of the World - Dio

The King Will Come - Wishbone Ash

Leaf and Stream - Wishbone Ash

In My Time of Dying - Zeppelin

Scarborough Fair - Queensryche

Vanilla Queen - Golden Earring

Susan's House - Eels

Book - This Time Next Week by Leslie Thomas

Luxury - Mrs C.