I went to a friends for dinner recently. All 8 of us had to send him mp3s of our 5 desert island discs, and he played them all in a random order. At which point we all had to try and guess who had suggested which track, and they explained why. It made for a surprisingly entertaining night.Cracking food too.
As for Lush and other shoegazing tunes, I had Chelsea Girl by Ride on my longlist. But it didn't make the cut...
I am a friend of miss annie and decided to play along so....
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Portishead - Glory Box
Led Zepplin - Kashmir
The Stone Roses - I Am The Ressarection
The Stone Roses - Made Of Stone
Status Quo - Pictures Of Matchstick Men
New Order - Blue Monday
Kate Bush - The Man With The Child In His Eyes
The book took some thinking about,
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Ensemble PAN –Johannes Ciconia: Secular Music
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Little Feat – Waiting for Columbus
Horovitz plays Mozart (cheapo DG compilation, c.1990, gold cover)
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Olivier Messiaen – Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jesus (P.L. Aimard)
Christophe Rousset plays D. Scarlatti
Like You Do: The best of the Lightning Seeds
Talk Talk – Laughing Stock
Mala Punica – D’Amor Ragionando
I am aware there's no proper rock in there which I'm sometimes in the mood for. Perhaps I should slip in Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade into one of the CD cases. No orchestral music as I just can't imagine the sound on a desert island.
As a book I'd take some very difficult maths that would help me pass the years. Open to suggestions. However in that case I'd also need a good pocket calculator.
Bob Mould - Workbook Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden Portishead - Portishead Philip Glass - Solo Piano Gotan Project - La Revancha de la Tango Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense The Velvet Underground - ... & Nico Massive Attack - Mezzanine Tindersticks - #2 Doves - Lost Souls Stone Roses - Stone Roses Vampiros Lesbos - Soundtrack Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X David Holmes - Let's Get Killed FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes
Looks like I'll be representing a slightly urban side of things on my desert island, seeing as most people appear to be majorly into their rock/indie/folk...
1. Flying Lotus: Breathe/Something Stellar
2. Diplo: Summer's Gonna Hurt You
3. Brand New Heavies: Sometimes (J Dilla Remix)
4. RJD2: The Rain
5. A Tribe Called Quest: Jam
6. Prefuse 73: Uprock & Invigorate
7. Mayer Hawthorne: A Strange Arrangement
8. Chicago: Street Player
Luxury Item first, a solar powered gadget to play the following:
The Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson
The Needle and the Damage Done: Neil Young
Paintbox: Pink Floyd
Waterloo Sunset: The Kinks
That's Entertainment: The Jam
Duel: Propaganda
Wild World: Cat Stevens
Paris Match: Style Council
Unfinished Sympathy: Massive attack
Anything by Tom Lehrer to make me laugh!
As for a book: Is there a book that gives 1001 recipes for Coconuts?
No, thought not, so a survival guide by Bear Grills would do.
Haven't heard it, probably just as well by the sound of it!
Never mind tableturn, there are a lot of us fans of the original out there. The first time that I heard it, was when I was on holiday in Devon in the 70's. The DJ Alan (Fluff) Freeman, played it on his afternoon Radio 1 show. Now THERE was a DJ!! Happy Days.
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As for Lush and other shoegazing tunes, I had Chelsea Girl by Ride on my longlist. But it didn't make the cut...
2. Jean Genie - David Bowie
3. Rock N' Roll - Led Zeppelin
3. Tie Your Mother Down - Queen
4. The Sixteens - Sweet
5. Revolution - The Beatles
6. Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones
7. Like A Hurricane - Neil Young
8. Changing of the Guards - Bob Dylan
9. All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
10. Don't Believe a Word - Thin Lizzy
Ensemble PAN –Johannes Ciconia: Secular Music
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Little Feat – Waiting for Columbus
Horovitz plays Mozart (cheapo DG compilation, c.1990, gold cover)
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Olivier Messiaen – Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jesus (P.L. Aimard)
Christophe Rousset plays D. Scarlatti
Like You Do: The best of the Lightning Seeds
Talk Talk – Laughing Stock
Mala Punica – D’Amor Ragionando
I am aware there's no proper rock in there which I'm sometimes in the mood for. Perhaps I should slip in Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade into one of the CD cases. No orchestral music as I just can't imagine the sound on a desert island.
As a book I'd take some very difficult maths that would help me pass the years. Open to suggestions. However in that case I'd also need a good pocket calculator.
Bob Mould - Workbook
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Portishead - Portishead
Philip Glass - Solo Piano
Gotan Project - La Revancha de la Tango
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
The Velvet Underground - ... & Nico
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Tindersticks - #2
Doves - Lost Souls
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Vampiros Lesbos - Soundtrack
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
David Holmes - Let's Get Killed
FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes
1. Flying Lotus: Breathe/Something Stellar
2. Diplo: Summer's Gonna Hurt You
3. Brand New Heavies: Sometimes (J Dilla Remix)
4. RJD2: The Rain
5. A Tribe Called Quest: Jam
6. Prefuse 73: Uprock & Invigorate
7. Mayer Hawthorne: A Strange Arrangement
8. Chicago: Street Player
Book would have to be The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami.
Luxury item.....erm.....the entire Frasier box set on DVD...?
The Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson
The Needle and the Damage Done: Neil Young
Paintbox: Pink Floyd
Waterloo Sunset: The Kinks
That's Entertainment: The Jam
Duel: Propaganda
Wild World: Cat Stevens
Paris Match: Style Council
Unfinished Sympathy: Massive attack
Anything by Tom Lehrer to make me laugh!
As for a book: Is there a book that gives 1001 recipes for Coconuts?
No, thought not, so a survival guide by Bear Grills would do.
Never mind tableturn, there are a lot of us fans of the original out there. The first time that I heard it, was when I was on holiday in Devon in the 70's. The DJ Alan (Fluff) Freeman, played it on his afternoon Radio 1 show. Now THERE was a DJ!! Happy Days.