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Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: Regulator on 27 May, 2011, 02:09:17 pm

Title: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Regulator on 27 May, 2011, 02:09:17 pm: Following on from Wow's thread on Beethoven's 9th...

...what would your Desert Island Discs selection be? You're allowed 8 single tracks.

I'll kick off with my current DDI list:

Allegri’s Miserere mei (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh31j6L95Ok) – in my personal opinion the greatest piece of music ever written.

Barber’s Adagio for Strings Op.11 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV3SHBFyDZM)

Po Kare Kare Ana (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgRVK2ge1ys&feature=fvst) – NZ’s unofficial national anthem

Annie Lennox No More I Love You’s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS1jAvCycCY)

The Marc Almond version of What Makes a Man a Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y36x3YKH7gY)

John Taverner Song for Athene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va-vvHTZmv0) (without the mawkish attachment to Princess Di...)

William Croft’s Burial Service (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sthH9pBy0ZQ)

Tallis Spem in Alium (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtJvtk6EHZE)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: ScumOfTheRoad on 27 May, 2011, 02:12:27 pm: I read that as Sperm in Alium.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: clarion on 27 May, 2011, 02:17:29 pm: Pollinating the onions?
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: border-rider on 27 May, 2011, 02:20:23 pm: Magazine's Shot by both sides - in my personal opinion the greatest piece of music ever written ;)
Kirsty McColl's Free World
Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker
Culture's Too long in Slavery
James' Laid
Sisters of Mercy's Alice
Wu Tang Clan's Gravel Pit
Stone Roses' Love Spreads (that's my religious one ;))
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Tewdric on 27 May, 2011, 02:27:09 pm: Something like:

Mahler's 2nd Symphony
Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Bach, St Matthew Passion
AC/DC, You Shook Me All Night Long
Pink Floyd, Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Sibelius' 2nd Symphony
Mozart Requiem
Deep Purple, Speed King
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: marcusjb on 27 May, 2011, 02:33:16 pm: Aphex Twin - Pulsewidth
Milltown Brothers - Sally Ann
Boards Of Canada - Aquarius
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
Green Velvet - Flash
Kings Of Convenience - The Build Up
Kraftwerk - The Robots
Chris Clark - Bricks

Probably.

I'd look deeply uncultured with no classical pieces - but they're the ones that mean the most to me.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Woofage on 27 May, 2011, 02:42:16 pm: Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
Reasons to be Cheerful pt3 - Ian Dury & the Blockheads
This Charming Man - The Smiths
Lover, You Should've Come Over - Jeff Buckley
Overture to The Barber of Seville - Rossini
Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin
The Dancer - PJ Harvey
Piano Concerto No. 2 - Shostakovich
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: clarion on 27 May, 2011, 02:44:00 pm: I've done this a few times, and it changes from day to day. I tend to write down about a dozen, whittle it down, then remember a bunch of other tracks that have to be included :-[
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Woofage on 27 May, 2011, 02:51:10 pm: Quote from: clarion on 27 May, 2011, 02:44:00 pm
I've done this a few times, and it changes from day to day.

Aye. Ask me tomorrow and the list may be very different.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: L CC on 27 May, 2011, 03:11:13 pm: In no particular order:
Let It Be Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LWpw3CMCEg)
River (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpFudDAYqxY)
Let's Get Clinical (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HR7nA2CL08)
Gravel Pit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ORN1Ren-Y)
Funky Like A Train (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwQHBOII8ss)
Bit o Handel- though I wouldn't pick this bit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS3vpAWW2Zc)
Bit of The Faure (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmolrId_4)
The Boxer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hqdZ4AWSaI)

Well, that was a fun half hour for me, anyway.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: mike on 27 May, 2011, 03:13:35 pm: the current 8:
Clash - should I stay
ELO - mr blue sky
EMF - unbelivable
Johnny Cash - hurt
Mozart - requiem
Polyphonic spree - light and day
Prince - purple rain
~~the drinking song from La Traviata~~ fkit, changed my mind already. bizet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Ult8x-doE) instead.

but I have a terrible memory..
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Regulator on 27 May, 2011, 03:14:46 pm: I may have some tweaks from time to time - but there are certains tracks that will always make the list. Allegri's Miserere mei is one of them, Taverner's Song for Athene is another and Barber's Adagio is the other.

I have one track, which is the most fantastic version of a Kyrie, but it is a traditional setting and I can't find a link to it anywhere on the internet. I may have to load it up to YouTube and then link it. It will be part of my requiem music.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Riggers on 27 May, 2011, 03:20:36 pm: D'you mean Kyrie, as in Mr. Mister? :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNKbHJ3PTu4
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Riggers on 27 May, 2011, 03:21:48 pm: Quote from: mike on 27 May, 2011, 03:13:35 pm
the current 8:
Clash - should I stay
ELO - mr blue sky
EMF - unbelivable
Johnny Cash - hurt
Mozart - requiem
Polyphonic spree - light and day
Prince - purple rain
~~the drinking song from La Traviata~~ fkit, changed my mind already. bizet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Ult8x-doE) instead.

but I have a terrible memory..

Hurt… nice "And you can have it all, my empire of dirt"
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Regulator on 27 May, 2011, 03:31:43 pm: Quote from: Riggers on 27 May, 2011, 03:20:36 pm
D'you mean Kyrie, as in Mr. Mister? :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNKbHJ3PTu4

I do actually like the Mr. Mister Kyrie - but the one I particularly like is an Arabic Kyrie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhNsxrJsQa4) that comes from Lebanon.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: clarion on 27 May, 2011, 03:36:46 pm: Quote from: Regulator on 27 May, 2011, 03:31:43 pm
I do actually like the Mr. Mister Kyrie ...

Regulator outed in bad taste shock horror.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Regulator on 27 May, 2011, 03:42:33 pm: Quote from: clarion on 27 May, 2011, 03:36:46 pm
Quote from: Regulator on 27 May, 2011, 03:31:43 pm
I do actually like the Mr. Mister Kyrie ...

Regulator outed in bad taste shock horror.

It was an 80s classic :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: LEE on 27 May, 2011, 03:43:39 pm: Quote from: Mal Volio on 27 May, 2011, 02:20:23 pm
Magazine's Shot by both sides - in my personal opinion the greatest piece of music ever written ;)
Kirsty McColl's Free World
Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker
Culture's Too long in Slavery
James' Laid
Sisters of Mercy's Alice
Wu Tang Clan's Gravel Pit
Stone Roses' Love Spreads (that's my religious one ;))

Ah MV you give away your Madchester heritage.

"Shot by both sides" was a fantastic way to follow up the move away from the Buzzcocks
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: clarion on 27 May, 2011, 03:45:39 pm: Images pass through my head of a moptopped Mal Volio attempting to cycle wearing Joe Bloggs baggy jeans from Affleck's Palace... ;D
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: LEE on 27 May, 2011, 03:47:00 pm: Quote from: road-runner on 27 May, 2011, 03:36:18 pm
If I was on a desert island I would hope not to be there with 8 discs. At worst, an MP3 player with thousands on songs, or even better, I'd have a guitar or piano where I would not be limited to a finite number of songs.

Now, how does one go about planning to be shipwrecked near enough to a desert island that the sea water does not ruin a set of discs, an MP3 player or a musical instrument?

(http://www.qwipster.net/piano.jpg)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: border-rider on 27 May, 2011, 03:49:40 pm: I'm probably still influenced by watching "Classic albums: the making of Screamadelica" last week

Littleknownfax: Andrew Weatherall looks remarkably like Iddu these days
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: LEE on 27 May, 2011, 03:53:04 pm: Quote from: clarion on 27 May, 2011, 03:45:39 pm
Images pass through my head of a moptopped Mal Volio attempting to cycle wearing Joe Bloggs baggy jeans from Affleck's Palace... ;D

I suspect he was more of a Plaza Curry House man myself.

I know Salvatore has found himself in said classy Rusholme establishment ("Ring-Stinger", " Japanese Flag" and "Suicide Biryani", being just some of the menu choices). "Rush home" was what one usually did after eating there.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: microphonie on 27 May, 2011, 05:38:33 pm: Too difficult to select for certain but these'd be there or thereabouts (or at least an alternative track by the named artists)

Kraftwerk - Autobahn (but only if full album version was allowed - isn't there a time limit?)
Lamb - Gorecki
This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag
Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Coil - Are You Shivering?
Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
Shriekback - Sway
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 27 May, 2011, 07:21:14 pm: Bohemian Rhapsody, Imagine, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Good Vibrations, Baker Street, American Pie, Teenage Kicks, Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Not so much a personal top 8, but I'd hate to have a Man Friday come along, look at my idiosyncratic choices and sigh a long sigh.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Von Broad on 27 May, 2011, 07:49:22 pm: God, I've always thought this to be so difficult to pin down..

But one list would be [as opposed to tomorrows]...

Sex Pistols - Problems
John Cage - Sonatas and Interludes
Jam - Butterfly Collector
Vaughan Williams - Fantasy on Theme by Thomas Tallis
The Whispers - When the Beat Goes On
Peter Gabirel & Kate Bush - Don't Give Up
Tubby Hayes Big Band - In the Night [BBC seession]
Frank Sinatra - All or Nothing at All [Nelson Ridddle version]
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: perpetual dan on 27 May, 2011, 08:10:02 pm: Quote from: Mal Volio on 27 May, 2011, 03:49:40 pm
I'm probably still influenced by watching "Classic albums: the making of Screamadelica" last week

That did prompt a digging out of rarely listened to music ... and I was rather fond of Afflecks too.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: perpetual dan on 27 May, 2011, 08:27:14 pm: Mine, the first few are easy...

Perpetual dawn - The Orb
Ten story love song - Stone Roses
For her light - Fields of the Nephilim
Victoria - The Fall

Then it gets harder, today probably...
Soon - My bloody valentine
Papua new guniea - Future sound of London (or maybe cascade)
Copper Beach - John Metcalfe
Peace in the valley - Alabama 3

but tomorrow it might well be different, depends how I feel.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 27 May, 2011, 08:51:48 pm: I quite like the swing era, it strikes me that one of my favourites has very apt lyrics.

YouTube
- ‪Bobby Darin-Beyond The Sea‬&rlm;
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZoCrD88RP4&feature=related)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: redshift on 27 May, 2011, 09:55:48 pm: Quote from: LEE on 27 May, 2011, 03:53:04 pm
Quote from: clarion on 27 May, 2011, 03:45:39 pm
Images pass through my head of a moptopped Mal Volio attempting to cycle wearing Joe Bloggs baggy jeans from Affleck's Palace... ;D

I suspect he was more of a Plaza Curry House man myself.

I know Salvatore has found himself in said classy Rusholme establishment ("Ring-Stinger", " Japanese Flag" and "Suicide Biryani", being just some of the menu choices). "Rush home" was what one usually did after eating there.

Plaza Special. If you can eat a whole one without dying, you can have another. Free. :o
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Torslanda on 27 May, 2011, 11:00:28 pm: Is it still there?

Can we get Monsieur Shread to visit before he has to returna France?

Was it a feature of a Mac Lads song?

Enquiring minds need to know.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Biggsy on 31 July, 2011, 03:14:42 pm: (I haven't decided on my discs yet).

Danny Baker (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012wcl4/Desert_Island_Discs_Danny_Baker/) was on R4's DID this morning. Good chat, disappointing choice of music.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 July, 2011, 09:47:27 pm: A Change Is Gonna Come (or maybe You Send Me) - Sam Cooke
Something by Queen but I have no idea what
A Different Corner - George Michael
Can't Hold Us Down - Christina Aguilera
Love Is A Losing Game - Amy Winehouse
Something by Aretha Franklin, don't know what
Girl of Your Dreams - Dear Janes
Something by Elvis, don't know what

I'm very specific. ;D And if you asked me tomorrow I'd probably change half of them.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Redlight on 01 August, 2011, 03:59:36 pm: Whittling down from 100+.... Boy this is hard. Somedays I want to rock, somedays I want to be cossetted in three-part harmonies and somedays I just want to listen to triangle and metronome duets.

She's a woman - Beatles
Over the Rainbow - Eva Cassidy
J'Y suis Jamais Alle - Yann Tiersen
Wheels - Cake
Mr Sellack - The Roches
San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Sambanessa - Steve Newman
Southern man - Neil Young

It'll be a different selection tomorrow....
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: onb on 01 August, 2011, 10:49:02 pm: Underneath the Stars Kate Rusby
Isnt she Lovely Stevie Wonder It reminds me of when my daughters were born
Sloe Gin Bellowhead ,as I would be able to dance as there would be no one to see me
The Blond in the Bleachers as I need at least one Joni track
Fast Car Tracy Chapman ,it reminds me of a dark time in my life and that things do get better
Livin Lovin Maid As I need at least one Led Zep track
The Gallant Hussar Eliza Carthy Possibly the best rendition of a traditional english folk song Ive ever heard.
Samba Pati Santana .One of first singles I bought and still listen to albeit in a diferent form.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: RJ on 02 August, 2011, 01:24:20 pm: In no particular order (and for today only):

Variations on a theme by Thomas Tallis - Vaughan Williams (Academy St Martin in the Fields/Mariner)
So What - Miles Davis
Bé Mankan - Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté
Für Immer - Neu!
Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb
The Green Linnet - Dick Gaughan
Jurassic Shift - Ozric Tentacles
Thieves Like Us - New Order

Book: Song of the Dodo - David Quammen

Luxury: guitar and endless supply of strings (D'Addario phosphor-bronze 12s)
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Biggsy on 02 August, 2011, 01:31:08 pm: I've decided that I don't want to decide. I think it will jinx something deep in the universe.

Edit: Maybe I will one day after all.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Biggsy on 22 November, 2011, 09:17:34 am: John Peel's DID online:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/did

Quote
Sue Lawley's castaway is broadcaster John Peel. This episode has been made available to mark the broadcast of the first John Peel Lecture on 6 Music
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Paul on 21 March, 2016, 10:13:21 pm: Catching up recently I spotted that - on DIDs at least - (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rl9s5) the volume goes up to eleven.
Title: Re: Desert Island Discs
Post by: Redlight on 23 March, 2016, 02:07:25 pm: Quote from: Paul on 21 March, 2016, 10:13:21 pm
Catching up recently I spotted that - on DIDs at least - (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rl9s5) the volume goes up to eleven.

Heard that when it was broadcast - I thought she came across rather well.

(I admit thought that I would listen to anyone on DID just for the pleasure of hearing Kirsty Young.)