Blatantly robbed off radio 2 and no doubt already posted somewhere on here. Nonetheless, if you could have only FIVE songs with you on a desert island, what would they be?

PS I tried this is a pub with some mates years ago. By the end of the night we all vowed to go off and make a CD’s worth of desert island tracks. I still listen to that CD today and there’s hardly any of it I’d change

alison, elvis costello
all along the watchtower, hendrix
dignity, deacon blue
sunshine on leith, proclaimers
if i could dream, elvis presley

Mogwai – Fear Satan
Orbital – Belfast
David Lee Roth – Yankee Rose
Joe Satriani – Friends
Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke

hawkwind – master of the universe
toots & the maytals – pressure drop
happy mondays – kuff dam
the stooges – i wanna be your dog
D.O.A feat Jello Biafra – full metal jackoff

Jah Heavy Load – Ijahman Levi
Black – Pearl Jam
Storm 3000 – Leftfield
Roads – Portishead
The Cystal Ship – The Doors

Five? . . . checks itunes for 5 most listened to . . .

Rage Against the Machine – Know Your Enemy
Within Temptation – Final Destination
Nightwish – Dark Chest of Wonders
Rage Against the Machine – Calm Like a Bomb
Gretchen Wilson – Redneck Woman 😳

difficult but…

acdc – highway to hell
hendrix – cross town traffic
libertines – dont look back
ray lamontagne – trouble
rolling stones – sympathy

Sartre was half right. Hell is other people(‘s record collections). 😉

I am sure my indispensable 5 songs would drive anyone else crazy too! I think today they would all be Bowie. In fact, can i just take side A of Ziggy Stardust?

Let’s hope our desert islands aren’t too close to each other, eh? 🙂

Today’s choice, different tomorrow…..

Train kept a rollin’ – Johnny Burnette & The Rock ‘n Roll Trio
I’ve gotta Right – Stooges
Looking at You – MC5
Sure ‘Nuff ‘N Yes I Do – Captain Beefheart
Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan

julianwilson

i have a bowie 5

rock n roll suicide
drive in saturday
kooks
sufferagette city
amsterdam 8)

Only in Dreams – Weezer (The way it builds at the end sends shivers down my spine)
Basket Case – Green Day (Quite literally changed my life)
The House of the Rising Sun – The Animals (Raw, stripped back, classic, never ages)
The Sun Always Shines on TV – Ah-Ha (More shivers)
Stickshifts and Safetybelts – Cake (We cut our Wedding cake to this at my request. I just love it, it makes me happy.)

The The – Helpline Operator
Pearl Jam – Alive
Smashing Pumpkins – Mayonnaise
Smashing Pumpkins – Today
The The – True happiness this way lies.

Hmmmm, 5 Bowie

Moonage Daydream
Lady Grinning Soul
Life on Mars
Heroes
Station to station

ton, we could ask for some kind of tidal causeway between our islands and borrow Bowie from each other. As long as you don’t try any of that Deacon Blue nonsense on me. 😛

Sheesh – how could I forget . . . all my Bowie tracks are on vinyl 🙄 .

Can I swap Redneck Woman for Drive in Saturday please 😉

😯

Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy
Spooky Little Bullet (Dum Dum mix)
Bob Dylan Desolation Row
Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime
Bang Bang Machine Geek Love

fish head song barnes and barnes
Out demons out Edgar broughton band
love plus one haircut 100
Cars gary neumann
Thoth Nik Turner’s Sphynx

you see I’d need some motivation to GET OFF THE ISLAND!!!

I just want to make love to you – Van Morrison.
Texas flood – Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Hotel Chelsea nights – Ryan Adams.
Ball peen hammer – Joe Bonamassa.
Purple haze – Jim Hendrix.

This was really tough but may have to revise later. Ten would be a better number 🙂

this is tricky bordering on impossible

but five charged with memories

wild world – cat stevens
dannys all star joint – rickie lee jones
blind love – tom waits
one bourbon one scotch and one beer- george thorogood
sweet jane – velvet underground

ask me tomorrow and youd get five different ones though

(and if it was a real desert island some mozart and beethoven would probably be a safer bet)

OK perhaps I should do mine. bear in mind I’m picking 5 from my carefully thought out Desert Island Compact Disc (i.e. 15 or so tracks!):

Beach Boys – God Only Knows (easiest of the easy choices. Top of the list every time)
Aretha Franklin – Say A Little Prayer
U2 – Where the Streets Have No Name
Derek & The Dominoes – Layla
Bill Withers – Lean On Me

I may change my mind in a few moments

cinnamon_girl

Ten would be a better number

…and then you’ll want 20, and then 50 and before you know it you’ll have your own “Now That’s What I Call MUsic…” collection 😀

A Tribe Called Quest – God Lives Through
Howlin Wolf – Smokestack lightnin
Iggy Pop – I wanna be your dog
James Brown – Get up offa that thing
How to build canoes the audio book

BTW, DID is a R4 program.

That really is quite difficult

Sikth – Peep Show
Limewax – 1/2lb
Lisa Mitchell – Neopolitan Dreams
A Perfect Circle – The Nurse Who Loved Me
Baron – Squelch (Sub Focus Remix)

chvck – I genuinely have heard of none of them. Must check them out. Got any links you can send me?

erm…sure!

Nurse who loved me
Peep Show
Squelch (sub focus rmx)
Neopolitan dreams
1/2lb

Cheers. I thought this post might give some good suggestions of music to check out. Yours intrigued me ‘cos I knew nothing of them. Liked all but 1/2lb. I think if I had to listen to that whilst waiting to be rescued from a desert island I might go and tie a noose round a coconut tree 😆
*Phew* back to the Lisa MItchell one, that’s better

stilltortoise – a girl can never have too much music 🙂

Ooh, good one, but so hard.

I shall punt for:

Gene – Olympian
Smiths – How Soon Is Now?
Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing (from Alchemy Live)
Steve Earle – Tom Ames’ Prayer
Dreadzone – Little Britain

I reserve the right to change my mind

Gah, Aretha Franklin, Say a Little Prayer! I want that one too!

Anyone who can pick 5 songs and be happy to take just those 5 to a desert island isn’t a fan of music.

Discuss

I find it helps to put the “stuck on a desert island” element into the decision. I have LOADS of fave dance and hip hop music that I love listening too, but perhaps not on a desert island. Hardfloor’s Acperience 1 is prob my fave EVER bit of dance music, but oddly never entered the running in this

nickc

Anyone who can pick 5 songs and be happy to take just those 5 to a desert island isn’t a fan of music.

Who said you had to be happy about it?

Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection
Led Zeppelin – In My Time Of Dying
Neil Young – Like A Hurricane
Waterboys – The Whole Of The Moon
Elbow – One Day Like This(?)

English Rose – The Jam
Masterblaster (Jammin) – Stevie Wonder
My World – Secret Affair
Gangsters – The Specials
She’s Leaving Home – The Beatles

Now guess how old I am.