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Work has a quarterly newsletter and last year started a desert islands disks feature with staff members - same thing as radio 4 but no Kirsty Young 🙁
I've been asked to do the next one. So 8 tracks, one book, one luxury.
Luxury is easy - a sand bike! Just trying to sort the music. What would you have?
So far on the island is the chief exec and the H&S manager so not sure it'll be a holiday.
Book = The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
luxury, big ktm enduro bike
book, lord of the rings trilogy
tunes,
dignity, deacon blue
rock n roll suicide, bowie
summer wind, sinatra
hurt, johnny cash
days of pearly spencer, marc almond
perfect day, the compilation one
all along the watchtower, hendrix
if i can dream, elvis
Can the disks be DVDs? Box set of Lost 🙂
Music? Off the top of my head:
Iron Maiden - The Clairvoyant
Neurosis - Stones from the Sky
The Allman Brothers - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Crippled Black Phoenix - Burnt Reynolds
Metallica - Master of Puppets
CCR - Lodi
Down - Bury me in Smoke
Mastodon - The Last Baron
Book: American Gods by Neil Gaiman (or possibly Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy)
Luxury: A boat
This Charming Man: The Smiths
Lay lady lay: Bob Dylan
Blue Monday: New Order
Firestarter: The Prodigy
Comfortably Numb: Pink Floyd
Jerusalem: Dob Cross Silver Band
Wednesday morning 3am: Simon and Garfunkel
Teenage Kicks: The Undertones
Book: of mice and men
Luxury: Gaggia Classic and a ruck of coffee (and electric and fresh water)
Ahh we were supposed to do all of it ..... in which case
Luxury - Fender Stratocaster Master Build with a maple fret board and a soft v neck profile
Book - The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Tunes
Wish you were Here - Pink Floyd
Wonderwall - Oasis
Mama We're all crazy now - Slade
Lucky Man - The verve
Oh Mio Babbino Caro - Puccini
Lady of the Sea - Seth Lakeman
Tocatta and Fuge in D Minor - J. S. Bach
Babylons Burning - The Ruts
Book - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Luxury - DAB radio
Music-
Polaroid - Richmond Fontaine
Country Honk - Rolling Stones
South Central Rain - REM
Find the River - REM
The Revolution Starts Now - Steve Earle
Celebrated Summer - Husker Du
Judas Cradle - Sugar
Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin
Luxury - 59' Les paul
Book - Ender's Game
Tunes
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Jeff wayne's the war of the worlds - Pt1
" - Pt2
Welcome to the jungle - G'n'R
Stairway - Led Zeppelin (C'mon people how did you forget?)
Rush - 2112
Hotel california - the eagles (See stairway)
Sharp dressed man - ZZ top
my choices:
1. Van Morrison – Sweet thing -
2. Calexico – Two Silver Trees -
3. Laurent Garnier - The man with the red face - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJkoBH68njQ (NSFW?) or alternatively: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UDzAv-twYA
4. Croft no 5 - Party in the arc - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ni7r0X7M-o&feature=relmfu
5. Max Romeo - One step forward - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWGxeLLvkCk&feature=related
6. Dawn Penn - You don't love me - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_LKYyXFFrU
7. David Bowie – Heroes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZlTrFcoHn0
8. Johnny Cash - Boy named Sue (Folsom prison version) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcQKtl3MGCE&feature=related
Laurent Garnier man with the red face might be a bit nsfw - parisian ravers having had one too many pastis
Luxury- my Ragley. Since presumably I wouldn't be allowed a computer with a copy of Civ 4 on it.
Book- there was a collected Mars Trilogy (Kim Stanley Robinson) in a single mighty tome, I'll have that even though it's clearly cheating.
Music-
Stravinsky's Finale from the Firebird Suite- the Minnesota Orchestra/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski recording with the distortion, sounds incredible.
****ed Up- One More Night
Mogwai- New Paths To Helicon
Regina Spektor- Us
Metallica- Master Of Puppets
And So I Watch You From Afar- Set Guitars To Kill
Frank Turner- The District Sleeps Tonight (yes it's a cover)
Counting Crows- Round Here (the live version from Across A Wire)