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  • Your desert island discs?
  • GiantJaunt
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    If you had to go to a desert island, other than your bike, what albums would you take with you and why?

    I’d go for:

    Dire Straits- ‘Brothers in Arms’ because it’s my first memories of great music.
    Stone Roses- ‘Stone Roses’
    Radiohead- ‘The Bends’
    Bob Dylan- Any one of about 5 albums
    Small Faces-‘Ogdens Nut Gone Flake’

    (Because they’re all great)

    MrWoppit
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    You’re only allowed single tunes, not albums…

    Kevevs
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    that’s an impossible no-choice situatiuon until you are in it. Imagine being stuck on an island say, at the age of 21 with all your knowledge and interest in music. and then being stuck there for the rest of your life listening to what you were into when you were shipwrecked with no chance or choice of developing your interests. even the good stuff would end up driving you mad. 40 years of the stone roses. no thanks!

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    Junkyard
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    dont be silly radiohead will help lift that mood 🙄

    GiantJaunt
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    Well that’s a typically un-constructive response which seems to be increasingly common here these days. Why post a response if you have nothing useful to say?

    Mr Woppit – Member
    You’re only allowed single tunes, not albums…

    Who started this thread?

    I’m just trying to get an idea of what people are listening to and we might even introduce each other to some new great music. I should have added in ‘constructive responses only please’

    SaxonRider
    Full Member

    Leonard Cohen – Last Year’s Man (But really, I would take the whole 1975 ‘Best of’ album, as well as ‘Ten New Songs’ and probably not listen to much else)

    Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
    Bob Dylan – Shelter From the Storm
    Bruce Springsteen – Streets of Philadelphia
    Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
    Neil Young – Heart of Gold
    Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane (as well as the original)
    Tom Petty – Mary Jane’s Last Dance
    Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
    Bruce Cockburn – Lovers in a Dangerous Time

    SaxonRider
    Full Member

    Come on! We can pass 245+ posts fighting about religion, but we can’t be arsed to fight about people’s choice in music? What’s with this forum?!?
    😡

    mastiles_fanylion
    Free Member

    Undertones – Teenage Kicks
    Ozzy – Over the Mountain
    Scissor Sisters – Comfortably Numb
    Elvis Costello – She
    Radiohead – Fade Out (Street Spirit)
    Iron Maiden – Hallowed Be Thy Name
    Prince – Sign o the Times
    Cypress Hill – Insane in the Membrane

    emma82
    Free Member

    I did this recently, I chose:
    5ive if ya gettin down
    Robbie Williams angels
    Whitney Houston wanna dance with somebody
    Erasure star
    Boyzone don’t love me for fun

    God, can’t remember the rest though….
    they probably didn’t get much better tbh.

    Edit: vanilla ice – ice ice baby 🙂

    montylikesbeer
    Full Member

    Comfortably numb , pink floyd

    This charming man , the smiths

    Just like a woman , bob Dylan

    California , Joni Mitchell

    Love will tear us apart , joy division

    Satellite of love , lou reed

    Mohamed Ali , faithless

    Rose of tralee , christy Moore

    Queen bitch , Bowie

    mintimperial
    Full Member

    Ok, I don’t think I could ever choose my eight favourite pieces ever, but here’s my top 8 from the stuff I’ve bought in the last six months:

    Amiina – What Are We Waiting For?
    Cut Copy – Need You Now
    Decemberists – January Hymn
    Richard Hawley – Naked In Pitsmoor
    P J Harvey – Hanging In The Wire
    Gruff Rhys – If We Were Words (We Would Rhyme)
    Flying Lotus – Infinitum
    Thao and Mirha – Eleven

    djc1245
    Free Member

    Hallelujah-Jeff Buckley.
    Bodies-Sex Pistols.
    I Fought the Law-The Clash.
    Surfin Bird-The Ramones.
    CID-UK Subs.
    I’ve been everywhere-Johnny Cash.
    In the flesh-Blondie.
    Queen Bitch-David Bowie.
    Might sneek in some ska reggae without anyone noticing

    GiantJaunt
    Free Member

    Nice 🙂

    theotherjonv
    Full Member

    Smiths – How soon is now
    Joy Division – Atmosphere (must be the original, not the Russ Abbott cover version)
    Elgar – Nimrod
    Lamb – Gorecki
    Wedding Present – A million miles
    Beatles – Hey Jude
    Sandy Shaw – Jeane
    Pulp – Something changed

    nicky
    Free Member

    Band of Horses-Everything All The Time
    Kasabian-all their albums
    Bruno Mars- Doo-Waps and Hooligans
    Biffy Clyro-Only Revolutions
    Athlete-Vehicles and Animals
    Madonna-Hard Candy or any other albums
    Timberland-Shock Value 1 and 2
    Paolo Nuttini-both his albums
    Eminem-Curtain Call

    nicky
    Free Member

    Whoops I’ve done albums and I have done 9. I like them all
    I couldn’t do 9 songs I like too many. 😆
    And it is albums I was right, sorry about the 9th one.
    Theres just so much great music around and some isn’t heard of.
    I only heard Band of Horses by watching the amazing Danny Macaskill on You Tube and they have been around for yonks. Good old You Tube. 😆

    MrWoppit
    Free Member

    Beeethoven’s 6th.
    Led Zeppellin “4”
    The Sound “Thunder Up”
    Enya “Watermark”
    Miles Davis “Bitches Brew” (“Kind of Blue” is a classic, but I might want something challenging occasionally)
    Billy Cobham/Ron Carter/Kenny Barron “The Art of Three”
    “Bjork”
    John McLaughlin Trio “Live at the Royal Festival Hall”

    This really difficult – what about… then there’s… and so on. That’s the 8 for now I guess.

    I’ll need a NAIM hifi with proper suspended directional cables and a clean power supply of course. 😉

    MrWoppit
    Free Member

    GiantJaunt – Member

    Small Faces-‘Ogdens Nut Gone Flake’

    BLESS!!

    (Stay cool now, won’t you…)

    Kevevs
    Free Member

    as much as I love and understand Atmosphere, or How Soon is now. doon’t want to be stuck on an island for ever with those fabulous pieces of music.

    DezB
    Free Member

    Can’t I just take my iPod? It would take up far less space.

    mastiles_fanylion
    Free Member

    Of course you can.

    No space for headphones though.

    😉

    DezB
    Free Member

    😥

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