Desert Island Disks

[Bubbs]

If you're not aware, each week there is a Radio 4 programme called 'Desert Island Disks' where a celebrity is called a castaway and is asked to choose eight recordings (usually, but not always, music), a book and one luxury, which must be inanimate and of no use in escaping the island or allowing communication from outside.

This is the theme for my wife's birthday. Currently compiling mine and will add to the thread...

What would yours be?
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[Poseidon]

Discs...

Ocean Colour Scene - Marchin' Already
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Journey - Greatest Hits

(couldn't be bothered picking 8 tracks, so went with 4 albums instead... Pick any two songs from each of those albums and you're guaranteed a winner)

Book...

Jerome K Jerome - 3 Men in a Boat

Luxury...

My fishing gear. I could happily live out my days casting a line. Added bonus is that you can catch your dinner too.
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1977 Honda CG125
2002 Ducati Monster S4 (currently restoring)

[The Artist]

Tool - Opiate
Tool - 10000 Days
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Alice in Chains - Facelift
Queens of the Stoneage - S/T
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Mad Season - Above
Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4

Book - Encyclopedia Britannica

Luxury - Comfortable bed


*Wait is 8 recordings 8 albums or 8 songs? If it is 8 songs, I think I would prefer not to go to this island.

[dydey90]

[Big Jock]

Albums in no particular order

Freewheelin - Bob Dylan
Appetite for destruction - Guns N Roses
Hysteria - Def Leopard
The Last men on earth - Five horse Johnson
Straight Shooter - Bad Company
Sloe Gin - Joe Bonomassa
Thickfreakness - Black keys
Morrison Hotel - doors

The only book I bothered reading more than once is Donnie Brasco so I guess I'd take that.

Luxury would be my guitar or beer.

[MCN]

It would be a book on how to make a boat out of a load of CDs
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[-Matt-]

Disc's
(Assuming compilation albums are allowed)
Faithless - Forever Faithless
FFDP - Got Your Six
Oasis - Time Flies
Placebo - One More With Feeling
Prodigy - Fat Of The Land
Rammstein - Made In Germany
Slipknot - Subliminal Verses
The Smiths - Very Best Of The Smiths

Book
SAS survival handbook.

Luxury item
Dynamo/solar powered CD player - or all those disc's aren't going to be much use .

[pinkyfloyd]

Disc type things.

Rammstein: In Amerika (good live mix of stuff)
Pink Floyd: The Wall
The Beatles: Sgt Peppers
The Clash: London Calling
Massive Attack: Blue Lines
Linkin Park: Hybrid Theory
Guns N Roses: Appitite
Nirvana: Nevermind

Book

Joe Abercrombie First law box set (cheating because its technically 3 books but bite me!)

Luxury:
A decent acoustic guitar.
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illuminateTHEmind wrote: I am just more evolved than most of you guys... this allows me to pick of things quickly which would have normally taken the common man years to master
Hockeystorm65:.well there are childish arguments...there are very childish arguments.....there are really stupid childish arguments and now there are......Pinkfloyd arguments!
Teflon-Mike:I think I agree with just about all Pinky has said.

[Gone but not forgotten]

My luxury would be a hyper market which makes all the other "wants" irrelevant because l can get whatever l want whenever l want!
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[thx1138]

I swear the majority of the celebs on that show just make pretentious playlists up in an effort to sound interesting.

[M.C]

Surely the luxury item should be a solar powered CD player (assuming they exist... if not patent pending), otherwise you're going to be reading a lot of album art. I'd want a book on bushcraft, by Ray Mears or whoever is the go to survivalist now.

8 songs (doing this properly):
New Order - Blue Monday
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Nina Simone - Sinnerman
Dr Dre - Still D.R.E.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack
Ocean Colour Scene - Hundred Mile High City
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

No room for any Queen, Iron Maiden, or MJ... this is actually difficult when you do it properly

[Bubbs]

Yeah it's supposed to be individual songs, not albums. The game assumes access to this music whenever you want, so solar power CD player is redundant.
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[Gone but not forgotten]

[M.C]

[The Artist]

[Gone but not forgotten]

[Dave70]

Tunes

Raindogs - Tom Waits.

Cosmic Slop - Funkadelic.

100 miles and Runnin' - NWA

Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix.

Chinese Rocks - Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers.

Country Death Song - Violent Femmes.

Watermelon in Easter Hay - Frank Zappa.

Little Child Runnin' Wild - Curtis Mayfield.

Luxury Item

A Status Bass Guitar.

Book

How to Build a Boat When Stranded on a Desert Island.
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[M.C]

[dodsi]

Discs

Steps - Steptacular

Steven Segal & Thunderbox - Mojo Priest

Micheal Bolton - Time, Love and Tenderness

Messendger - "Back"

David Hasselhoff - The Night before Christmas

Babylon Zoo - The Boy with Xray Eyes

Billy Ray Cyrus - Some Gave All

Vanilla Ice - The best of

Luxury Item

Rain pal

Book:

Sonya Allison - Microwave for one.

[DrDonnyBrago]

[Monkeywrenche...]

[Gone but not forgotten]

[andyscooter]

songs (as per the rules)

November rain, guns n roses
summer in the city, loving spoonful
here I go again, whitesnake
whiter shade of pale, procol harem
had enough, the who
trooper, iron maiden
London calling, the clash
baggy trousers, madness

book would be

an observers guide to aircraft (have two versions and I can sit watching planes for hours)

and luxery would be fishing gear for amusment and food
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[Saraya]

Songs:
Phantom of the opera – Iron Maiden
Nothing else matters – Metallica
Far from home – Five Finger Death Punch
Christmas Eve/Sarajevo – Trans-Siberian Orchestra
The Unforgiven – Apocalyptica
Poison – Alice Cooper (Lost my cherry to this. T’is sentimental.)
Sultans of Swing – Dire Straits (Long Alchemy version)
One wild night – Bon Jovi

Books: A survival guide.

Luxury: Fags.

[Llama-Farmer]

1 - Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
2 - Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
3 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
4 - Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
5 - Iron Maiden - Fear of The Dark
6 - Postmodern Jukebox - Creep (Radiohead cover)
7 - Placebo - Every You Every Me
8 - O Mio Babbino Caro, from Gianni Schicchi by Puccini.


The Bible & The Complete Works of Shakespeare... as per standard DID rules...
...plus, To Kill A Mockingbird, it was my favourite book we had to read during school.

Luxury item -
a plane and an unlimited supply of fuel... to fly around the island but not escape it. Perhaps one with fuel tanks that can only fit 1hr of fuel. (Such practical things have been allowed on DID in the past, if they're not used for practical or escape purposes)
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