General / Off-Topic Space Island Disks

[Listeri69]

After listening to desert island disks with hugh laurie got me thinking

What if you were stranded for this purpose in deep space you have all the stuff to last a lifetime. What 8 records (Not Albums just Single songs) would you choose and if you could only have 1 of them which one would it be.

You also get one book

And one luxury Item that can be any object.....

As I've just thought of this I need to go and have a think about my own list, but thought I would put it up here for a bit of fun that you could all have a go at

 

[Frank]

After listening to desert island disks with hugh laurie got me thinking

Wow talk about name dropping! When you see Mr. Laurie again tell him I'm a big fan. Who was the guest on Desert Island Disks?

 

[Minti2]

This is impossible! hehe to many ive forgotten, but off the top of my head these below, but number one would be RADIOHEAD...love Fake plastic trees.

The Cramps-Garbageman
Undertones-Teenage kicks through the night
Sisters of Mercy- Marian
Joy division-Shadow play
The cult -Here comes the Rain
The cure-17 Seconds
Radiohead- fake plastic trees
Iggy pop and the stooges- Punkrocker


Luxury item a kindle tablet full of books! ..edit changed my mind, my Tablet with a kindle app(i can still play candy crush!)

but one real book, got to be for me something like the TIMES World history encyclopaedia, or a novel The Lord of the Rings...i cant choose!

 

[Listeri69]

Wow talk about name dropping! When you see Mr. Laurie again tell him I'm a big fan. Who was the guest on Desert Island Disks?

the guest was Billy connolly

Ok my list

1 ac dc- whole lotta rosie
2 joy division - transmission
3 stone roses - she bangs the drum
4 rolling stones - sympathy for the devil
5 the music - getaway
6 new order - true faith
7 mendelssohn - hebrides overture (fingles cave)
8 fleetwood mac - the chain

Hard to choose just one but would pick joy division - transmission at a push. I have a varied taste in music......

A book even harder I read so much, I too would go for a huge world history tomb, fiction though has to be the complete hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - douglas adams

Luxury item would have to be (if I can't have a pc pre loaded with elite dangerous) a piano.

 

[Sir.Tj]

Good post there Lister.

Ok for what its worth....

Songs:

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (best song ever)
Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven (2nd best song ever)
AC/DC - You shook me all night long (something to headbang to )
John Lennon - Yesterday (Daughter has a toy pink elephant from birth that plays this and its still a stunning song)
Queen - Save me (highly underated song)
Queen - Don't stop me now (ultimate feel good song)
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (great intro)
Carmina Burana - O fortuna (unbelivable)

If I could only have one.....Bohemian Rhapsody you may have guessed I'm a bit of a Queen fan

Book:

David Niven - The moons a balloon. It's his autobiography and I thing one of the most fascinating and funny books I've ever read, or the same as Lister the Hitchhikers books (the best books ever.)

Luxury item:

A Matter transporter and Holly Willoby's co-ordinates (well I can dream can't I?)

 

[Frank]

Roxy Music - Lets stick together
Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
David Bowie - Red Sails
Iggy Pop - Lust for life
Alice Cooper - Under My Wheels
Jem - Just a Ride
Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb
Brian Eno - Baby's on Fire

I think this is going to be a popular choice for luxury on this website... A Laptop.
I'd have Unity on it. Maybe I'd be able to develop the skill to write a game.

I guess the book I'd go for is "Robinson Crusoe". Someone whose predicament I could Identify.

Deciding on the singles to take onto a deserted planet is a very hard thing to decide. Here's an easy question... What was the last song you listed to that you choose yourself? So not the last song you heard on the radio, one that you had cued on your mp3 player, or whatever.

The last one for me was Johnny Cash's version of Personal Jesus.

 

[Listeri69]

The very last song I listened to was wolfstone - gillies I listen to it last a lot of times before I goto sleep its an instrumental piece by a scottish group I first heard on the radio at my grandmothers house in scotland and I was blown away with it's folk rock style.it's on youtube and I would.recommend a listen if you have 7/8 mins to spare it just l
Takes me home really. And I completely forgot about comfortably numb I love that song lol

 

[Caribou]

The last one for me was Johnny Cash's version of Personal Jesus.

Excellent choice and prompted me to put on "Hurt", but the last song I cued up was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6m39FeFaRI

Arcade Fire - Rococo

 

[jabokai]

Pearl Jam - Even Flow
Soundgarden - Hands All Over
Faith No More - Ashes to Ashes
Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
Pixies - Where is my Mind
Foo Fighters - Hey, Johnny Park!
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - East Hastings
Mark Lanegan Band - Harborview Hospital

Impossible to actually pick 8 favourites so these are a random selection... there are too many songs I'd miss if limited to 8.

Book - Some sort of survival book probably... ever the practical one!

Luxury Item - solar powered laptop of course.

 

[Frank]

the guest was Billy connolly

Hee hee hee! I'm lauging coz it's the first time I heard it as well

4 rolling stones - sympathy for the devil

Good call. The Stones are doing well on these planets. I would've liked the space to bring Something by the Beatles.

 

[Geraldine]

Great thread! Will certainly contribute later

 

[DrBaggy]

Good thread Listeri69!

As a long-time listener to this (Roy Plomley anyone?) I have played at this over the years.

However *Oldy Alert* some of these choices may reflect antiquity and be deeply unfashionable, but I know this is a forgiving (and mature!) forum:

1. Beethoven's Violin Concerto. From my parents, listened to as a child, a piece of great nobility, sadness and courage
2. The Long and Winding Road. There had to be a Beatles: Paul's plaintive voice and the simple tune and wonderful words
3. The Great Gig in the Sky from Dark Side of the Moon. That orgasmic wailing, one of the albums from my prog rock days that still stands up today
4. Dream of Gerontius by Elgar. I was lucky enough to sing in the choir at Uni with Dame Janet Baker as soloist. It's the music I want to die to.
5. Why can't it wait till morning by Phil Collins. I was a huge Genesis fan, but this from his first solo album was so personal, and so sad
6. Here comes the rain by Peter Gabriel. Another ex-genesis solo effort. Peter's voice is unique. The first time I heard this I had to pull in the car and just...stop
7. The above are a time warp: I think we often love the songs we here as teenagers. But there is some great stuff still around. The current singer who still moves me is Adele, so Make you feel my love is number 7
8. So many great artists still left. How could this list not include Queen? Deep Purple? Coldplay (sometimes!) Carole King? But there's a world of classical out there too. More Elgar/Beethoven? Mendelsohnn/Bruch's violin concertos? But for nostalgia's sake (the Death in Venice film) I'll go with Mahler's adagietto from his 5th

Book: an early Le Carre, or possibly one of Roger Penrose. Luxury: oil paints or an endless supply of Laphroig please!

So there it is. Judge me (old, sentimental). We are fortunate to live in a time when we have access to wonderful music that moves us and touches us. Respect to others who have opened their hearts on this thread. Some great choices there too.

Tread softly, for you tread on our dreams

 

[DrBaggy]

Good post there Lister.

Ok for what its worth....

Songs:

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (best song ever)
Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven (2nd best song ever)
AC/DC - You shook me all night long (something to headbang to )
John Lennon - Yesterday (Daughter has a toy pink elephant from birth that plays this and its still a stunning song)
Queen - Save me (highly underated song)
Queen - Don't stop me now (ultimate feel good song)
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (great intro)
Carmina Burana - O fortuna (unbelivable)

If I could only have one.....Bohemian Rhapsody you may have guessed I'm a bit of a Queen fan

Book:

David Niven - The moons a balloon. It's his autobiography and I thing one of the most fascinating and funny books I've ever read, or the same as Lister the Hitchhikers books (the best books ever.)

Luxury item:

A Matter transporter and Holly Willoby's co-ordinates (well I can dream can't I?)

Some great choices there TJ! Might have to rethink mine. How could it not have Queen, Led Zep or John Lennon in? (everyone talks about where they were when they heard JFK died: for me, it was hearing about Lennon being shot, and hearing Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time. "Bring on the Empty Horses" was good too!

 

[Sir.Tj]

Some great choices there TJ! Might have to rethink mine. How could it not have Queen, Led Zep or John Lennon in? (everyone talks about where they were when they heard JFK died: for me, it was hearing about Lennon being shot, and hearing Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time. "Bring on the Empty Horses" was good too!

I love Bring on the Empty orses as well, but as it was only one book

Being a unashamed Queen fan It was hearing that Freddie had died, another massive loss to the music world along with Lennon.

If I couldn't have a matter transporte, a fully loaded Ipad would be next choice (held by Holly Willoby )

 

[Caribou]

I've listened to R4 for years now...

RadioHead - Reckoner
Pixies - Where is my Mind
R.E.M - End of the world
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Bob Dylan - Boots of spanish leather
The Doors - The End
Velvet Underground - Heroin

Sooooo many bands and artists - I've been refining this as I work and remember things. Basically every artist here I could happily listen to the whole back catalog endlessly and nothing else. To restrict it to only this songs would be hell! (Especially RadioHead/R.E.M/Pixies) - Nods to all the live music I ever saw : U2, OMD, The Mission, Pogues, Meteors, The Fields of the Nephilim, The Highliners, New Order, Nirvana, King Kurt(!) and many many more. R.E.M were the only band I followed religiously but never saw and never will now

Book: A collection of Clive Barkers Works (or just weaveworld)

Luxury: A Water dispensing (magic/Solar) Fridge

 

[Caribou]

Being a unashamed Queen fan It was hearing that Freddie had died, another massive loss to the music world along with Lennon.

and Marc Bolan....

I Completely forgot about him. And I forgot Bowie in my list!!

 

[Caribou]

This is impossible! hehe to many ive forgotten, but off the top of my head these below, but number one would be RADIOHEAD...love Fake plastic trees.

Undertones-Teenage kicks through the night
Sisters of Mercy- Marian
Joy division-Shadow play
The cult -Here comes the Rain
The cure-17 Seconds
Radiohead- fake plastic trees
Iggy pop and the stooges- Punkrocker
Blondie-Union city blues

The Cult (Sanctuary), The Cure (A forest)- forgot those as well, Sisters of Mercy , Pop Will Eat Its Self, Stump (Charlton Heston).... Must stop posting...

 

[Cody]

Some interesting lists, but it does require serious thought. Later...

 

[Minti2]

The Cult (Sanctuary), The Cure (A forest)- forgot those as well, Sisters of Mercy , Pop Will Eat Its Self, Stump (Charlton Heston).... Must stop posting...

i know its hard to stop, and some on my org list were just off the top of my head, funny almost put Marc Bolan myself "Children of the Revolution" was on the juke box over and over when i was a goth(strange song i know for a goth)

OMD, Chamelons, Bahaus, Alien sex fiend, (S,G,Children, you will know that one i think) now am thinking punk Crass, Exploited, G.B.H very addictive this!

OMG! the CRAMPS! how could i forget.....revise org list later

 

[DrBaggy]

and Marc Bolan....

I Completely forgot about him. And I forgot Bowie in my list!!

Marc was a god....and BOWIE! YES! Did you go to the V+A exhibition? Haven't been able to get Major Tom out of my head since...

*sigh* so many great songs and artists