Bob-Dubery
Y'all know this? It's a show that's been running on BBC radio since before the rinderpest. You have to nominate 8 pieces of music (not albums) that you would ideally have with you if you were cast away all by your lonesome on a notional desert island. You may also nominate a book. You get included free, gratis and for nothing the scriptures of whatever faith you belong to and the complete works of Shakespeare. So your book nomination has to be something other than those (this being a secular forum we don't need to go into discussion of what scriptures we would take, why, whose are better and why you might not want to take any at all).
"Pieces of music", not CDs, Lps or whatever. So you can have "Sexy Sadie" but you cannot have The White Album. \
Oh you may also nominate a single luxury item which must be inanimate and no use for escaping the island or for communicating beyond the island.
Bob-Dubery
OK... here goes. I am confining myself to one track per artist so as to spready myself and my choices.
1: Moonlight Sonata: Beethoven. (There's lots of versions and arrangements, I want one for piano only)
2: Beeswing: Richard Thompson. There's something of universal human experience about this song. The same sort of thing that you find in many of Shakespeare's plays.
3: The Granemore Hare: Martin Simpson.
4: River Man: Nick Drake. For the mystery - and I'd have plenty of time to try to resovle that.
5: Terry Lee Hale: Forget About Love.
6: Brilliant Disguise: Bruce Springsteen.
7: Weeping: Bright Blue.
8: 'Cos We Ended As Lovers: Jeff Beck (the original from the "Blow By Blow" album, not that wankery that's splashed all over youtube).
Book: Has to be something that I haven't read yet but would like to. Ahmmm..... errr.... I'll plump for "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac. If it turns out to be dross then I've got plenty of Shakespears.
Luxury Item: A telescope, that I may better behold the sky, the birds, the stars and the planets.
PS: I might come up with a different list tomorrow. But (1) (2) and (4) are pretty likely to be there tomorrow or on any other day.
It occurs to me that nobody ever says they want an I-Pod or a record player or whatever, so presumably this is included in the items that will be washed ashore with you.
Jack-Flash-Jr
1. When The Levee Breaks - Zep
2. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - Jimi
3. Gimme Shelter - Stones
4. Can't You Hear Me Knocking - Stones
5. Hellhound On My Trail - RJ
6. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists, Like Antennas to Heaven... - Godspeed You Black Emperor
7. Thunderkiss '65 - White Zombie
8. Oops I did it again - Britney Spears (cause I gotta have something to rail against)
Book: Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Luxury item: laptop with high speed satellite net access
Jack-Flash-Jr
No wait.... damn this is too difficult. As soon as I started thinking about hundred candidates came to mind.
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Okay, so here I go.
1) Mozart's Requiem (for if I'm feeling close to death)
2) Obsession - Army of Lovers (for when I eventually start obsessing about things)
3) Lay me low - Nick Cave (for the melancholy)
4) I don't mind the sun sometimes - Butthole Surfers (cos it's a desert island - or was that deserted?)
5) Consolation in D flat - Liszt (for when I need some consolation)
6) Live and let die - Beatles (for the hardcoreness after the consolation)
7) Girls just wanna have fun - Cindy Lauper (because that's all I really want)
8) The show must go on - Queen (cos it does, and Queen rocks)
Book...hm, an art book with big pictures, maybe Klimt.
Novelty item, well why not a guitar? I could get some practicing done for once.
lindsmuse
For the music:
I would not take anything I've ever heard before for fear of overkill. I would get someone in the know to select 7 classical pieces - symphonies probably (see I don't even know what they're called) that in themselves will give me a taste of each era. In other words that eternal stuff! Then something that rocks so I hear it less like Voodoo Chile Stevie Rae
For the book - something I haven't got round to but that won't be too boring - don't want to kill my favourite writers ... maybe James Joyce or Willliam Faulkner or Dostoyevsky.
Either a guitar or something to draw with - this is tricky ... Think I'll toss a coin just as I'm leaving ...
singemonkey
8 Pieces by orchestral composers, all brilliant, complicated, and, more especially, long. I'd get bored of any pop or rock song in this kind of time frame.
Book: The Encyclopedia Britannica
Internet wouldn't cut it. It would be trivial to get off the island with that kind of communication.
Luxury item: I was going to say a brilliant, witty, female doctor/engineer/poet, but I notice that there's an "inanimate" clause ☹
So then I'd say a great acoustic guitar with a lifetimes supply of strings and tuners and whatnot. I think I'd get pretty good with just about nothing else to do.
