Desert Island Discs

[substitute]

You know the score: you've gotta spend the rest of your life on a desert island, alone and for some curious reason you have a stereo with you. What 10 songs would you choose to get you through the rest of your life?

Here are mine:

1. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
2. The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
3. Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei performed by King's College Choir
4. Tindersticks - If She's Torn
5. Mull Historical Society - Ugly Buildings
6. Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
7. Led Zeppelin - Your Time Is Gonna Come
8. Pink Floyd - San Tropez
9. Sergei Nikitin - Yesli u vas nietu doma
10. Edith Piaf - Le bleu de tes yeux

Off you go...

edit - it's gotta be individual songs and not albums!! No cheating!!

[YourLocalJesus]

I'd go with:

Dropkick Murphys - the warriors code
Gypsy Kings - inspiration
Gypsy Kings - el mariachi
Fiddlers Green - Westering home
Paddy Reilly - Spancil Hill
Hair of the dog - Back home in Derry
Eddi Reader - Ye Jacobites
Enya - Caribbean Blue
UB40 - Kingston town
Bob Marley - Three little birds

[white]

Originally Posted by substitute

You know the score: you've gotta spend the rest of your life on a desert island, alone and for some curious reason you have a stereo with you. What 10 songs would you choose to get you through the rest of your life?

I was going to be cheeky and say SOS, but here goes:

A Mi Manera - Gipsy Kings
I'd Rather Dance with You (than talk with you) - Kings of Convenience
Minami, Piano Piece by Sena - a piano piece from a Japanese TV serial
Solitaire - Carpenters
Solo por un Beso - Aventura
Somebody - Depeche Mode
Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
Sway - Buble version / original is good too
Windmills of my Mind - Dusty Springfield

This last choice will probably get me stoned but *lol*, it's a beach anyway right?:

Kokomo - Beach Boys


I sang Agnus Dei for a friend's wedding recently.

[substitute]

Ah drat, you reminded me of Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode - I'd want to sneak that one along too. Actually it could probably replace Tindersticks on my list. I also nearly put Wouldn't It Be Nice? by the Beach Boys on there, too.

And YLJ, you also reminded me that I'd want Chant Down Babylon by Bob Marley, too.

Any others that almost made it, but not quite? Y'all can add those too if you like, as an adendum!

[white]

Originally Posted by substitute

Ah drat, you reminded me of Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode - I'd want to sneak that one along too. Actually it could probably replace Tindersticks on my list. I also nearly put Wouldn't It Be Nice? by the Beach Boys on there, too.

And YLJ, you also reminded me that I'd want Chant Down Babylon by Bob Marley, too.

Any others that almost made it, but not quite? Y'all can add those too if you like, as an adendum!

* Found you in my soul - a song written and sung for me by a boy, a long time ago.
* The Blower's Daughter - Damien Rice
* Te Quiero Igual o Mas que Ayer - Monchy y Alexandra

[Maverick]

1. Megadeth - Hangar 18
2. Death - Flattening of Emotions
3. Deep Purple - child in time
4. Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo chile
5. Slayer - Warzone
6. Meshuggah - Future breed machine
7. Steve Vai - Bad horsie
8. Joe Satriani - Surfing with the alien
9. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Rude mood
10. Clawfinger - Do what I say

[substitute]

Love at the Five and Dime and Dance A Little Closer by Nanci Griffith would nearly make the list, too. Actually, one of those could replace Floyd. Heresy, I know, but hey.

I once wrote a song too for someone. I've got a recording of it that I might put onto like, some kinda sound equivalent of photobucket (if I can find one) so y'all can see what you think, if you're interested...?

[white]

Originally Posted by substitute

Love at the Five and Dime and Dance A Little Closer by Nanci Griffith would nearly make the list, too. Actually, one of those could replace Floyd. Heresy, I know, but hey.

I once wrote a song too for someone. I've got a recording of it that I might put onto like, some kinda sound equivalent of photobucket (if I can find one) so y'all can see what you think, if you're interested...?

lyrics? youtube or FB I guess.

[substitute]

Originally Posted by aelan

lyrics? youtube or FB I guess.

Well it's just sound, no video or anything. I recorded it at a friend's sorta amateur home studio. edit - found a place to upload it, it's here if anyone wants to hear it, but be gentle cos I never had lessons or anything

Maverick you remind me of Meshuggah, there's one they did I really love but I can't remember the title of it... argh! It'll come to me though... as long as I can find the CD it's on and the sleeve is still legible!!

[Jen]

What an awesome thread! +100

I love all music but if I were to be stranded on a desert island this morning, these are the songs I would choose (in no particular order).

1) Judas- Depeche Mode
2) My Iron Lung- Radiohead
3) Follow You, Follow Me- Genesis
4) Out of Time- Blur
5) 9 Crimes- Damien Rice
6) Northern Star- Nick Drake
7) Trouble- Ray LaMontagne
8) By My Side- INXS
9) Beautiful Day Without You- Royksopp
10)The Only Living Boy in NY- Simon and Garfunkel