- This topic has 10 replies, 9 voices, and was last updated 7 years ago by Northwind.
- Your Desert Island disks
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.
Posted 7 years agoBook = The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Posted 7 years agoluxury, big ktm enduro bike
Posted 7 years ago
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, elvisCan the disks be DVDs? Box set of Lost 🙂
Posted 7 years agoMusic? 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 BaronBook: American Gods by Neil Gaiman (or possibly Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy)
Luxury: A boat
Posted 7 years agoThis 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)
Posted 7 years agoAhh 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
Posted 7 years ago
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 RutsBook – 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
Posted 7 years agoLuxury – 59′ Les paul
Book – Ender’s Game
Tunes
Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
Jeff wayne’s the war of the worlds – Pt1
” – Pt2Welcome 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
Posted 7 years agomy choices:
1. Van Morrison – Sweet thing – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QzDWIOUnM0&feature=related
2. Calexico – Two Silver Trees – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCA0_bNXAao
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
Posted 7 years agoLuxury- 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-
Posted 7 years ago
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)
The topic ‘Your Desert Island disks’ is closed to new replies.