Desert Island Discs.
 

An old idea, but a good one.

You choose eight songs (not albums) that you would take with you on a desert island. You also choose one book (you already have the Encyclopeadia Brittanica and the Bible - according to the rules) and an object (that can operate without electricity). You already have a stereo that's battery powered or something.

Question : without electricity how could you listen to the songs/records??
I'll post a decent list as soon as I can think about something good for me...

Joanna Newsome: Ys.
Cat Power: You are Free
Outkast: ATLiens
Medeski Martin and Wood: Friday Afternoon in the Universe
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Phish: Live Phish 10/31/96
Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
The Infesticons: Gun Hill Road

I suppose it'd be a wind-up record player or something. I dunno. I don't make the rules.:confused:

Read the rules - songs, not albums!

songs:

EITS - first breath after coma
Three second kiss - honey dew
mogwai - kappa
VU - venus in furs
blonde redhead - water
cream - the tale of brave ulysses (? I'm going mad)
13th floor elevators - you're gonna miss me
sonic youth - schizophrenia

object - a lot of paper and pens, if it's too much probably a guitar.

Sonic Youth: Teenage Riot
Dan Bern: Jerusalem
Medeski Martin and Wood: Chubb Sub
Oasis: Wonderwall
Cat Power: Colors and the Kids
Coldplay: The Scientist
Outkast: ATLiens
Tori Amos: Cornflake Girl

Book: The Norton Anthology of American Literature
Object: Basketball Goal and Basketball

i forgot the book : Alice in wonderland/through the looking glass

Songs:
The Fall - Athlete Cured (Peel session version)
Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin
Mackenzies - Gobstopper (Peel Session version)
Henry Purcell - Hear Our Prayer, O Lord
Horace Silver - Blowin Away the Blues
Les Pirates - Le trois mâts blanc
Sonic Youth - Beauty Lies in the Eye
Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy Song


Book:
Carlyle's Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell

Object:
A Victorinox Swiss Army knife ('Explorer' model)



(Some very important things had to be excluded from the selection of songs)

SONGS

1) Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
Song - 'I Went To The Mirror'

2) Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer lawns
Song - 'Sweet Bird'

3) Sonic Youth - Sister
Song - 'Cotton Crown'

4) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Song - 'Trilogy'

5) Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Song - 'Washing Machine'

6) Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Song - 'Karen Revisited'

7) Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
Song - 'A distorted reality is now a necessity to be free'

8) Grateful Dead - Skull & Roses
Song - 'Playing in The Band'

BOOK
Ghost World By Daniel Clowes

OBJECT
A Lighter to start fires with

Records:

5 classic tunes by George Melly

Book:

One of the George Melly autobiographies

Object:

A wooden cane (so I can do the Melly strut on the island)

My pick.

Songs:

Sonic Youth - Skip Tracer
Terre Thaemlitz - Facilitator
Mogwai - Take Me Somewhere Nice
Robbie Basho - Tassaraja
My Bloody Valentine - Loomer
A Silver Mt.Zion - Take These Hands and Throw them in the River
Cat Power - Cross Bones Style
Feist - My Moon My Man (to make me cheer up when I'd feel like drinking salty water)

Book: Herrmann Hesse - Siddharta

Object: Guitar

SONGS

DIAMOND SEA - sonic youth
TEENAGE RIOT - sonic youth
THUMB - dinosaur jr
PARFUM V - pavement
DAVID BOWIE - phish
ZIMBABWE - Bob Marley & The Wailers
3 DAYS - jane's addiction
DIE DIE MY DARLING - misfits


Book:

ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY - Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea

Object:

manual crank turntable

Well, if I'm only going to get 8 songs, I'm going to shoot for loooong mostly (though no "Close to the Edge"...)

Sun Ra - "Atlantis"
Sonic Youth - "Diamond Sea"
Autechre - "Drone" (from the Peel Session)
Can - "Oh Yeah!"
Lou Reed - "Metal Machine Music" (arguably a single "song", but if I have to look at it as 4 songs, then, I'll pick side 4)
Velvet Underground - "Sister Ray"

Then a couple short gems to round it out, that I could play over and over and still love:

Brian Eno - "Everything Merges with the Night"
Yo La Tengo - "You Can Have It All"

I don't read books over very often so the book part is hard...

Now Wait for Last Year by Phillip K. Dick

Object: Nitrus Tank

i approve this choice, a lot.

I hate hypotheticals. How could I ever pick just 8 songs? I'd die listening to only 8 songs, no matter how fantastically awesome they were.

I was thinking of starting this exact thread idea the other day.

Records.

Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
The Fall - Leave The Capital
Youthmovies - A Little Late He Staggered Home And Into Her Eyes
Mogwai - New Paths to Helicon, pt 2
Animal Collective - Bees
Growing - Onement
Kode9 And The Spaceape - Curious
Low - Over The Ocean

Book: Selected Works - Alan Bennett
Object: Skateboard

Songs:

Tim Buckley - Sing a song for you
Tim Buckley - Song to the siren
Radiohead - Lucky
Television - Marquee moon
Jeff Buckley - Lover, you should've come over
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Led Zeppelin - Since I've been loving you
Sonic Youth - The sprawl

Book:

No idea, I'm not much into reading books any more

Object:

My acoustic guitar

Records:

captain beefheart - ten thousandth and tenth day of the human totem poll
harry partch - and on the elventh day...
polvo - fractured like chandeliers
boredoms - super going
roy orbison - in dreams
shellac - crow
glenn branca - bad smells
mr bungle - mah skeez mow skaz

Book:
naked lunch

Object:
super metroid with super nintendo


oh.. props for mentioning that autechre song.. one of my fav. autechre tracks

I'm bored, so I thought I'd give this a jump start again.

Remember you get to choose eight songs, a book of your choice (the bible is, according to convention, already provided) and any object you like. Issues of electricity should be conveniently ignored.

Good thread. I'm off out now, but will return presently.

Songs:

Jockey Full Of Bourbon, Tom Waits
Lord Only Knows, Beck
Chinese Translation, M. Ward
At The Bottom Of Everything, Bright Eyes
Newark Wilder, Pavement
The Diamond Sea, Sonic Youth
Waiting For The Bus, Violent Femmes
Last Nite, The Strokes

Book:
A2Z And More Signs, Rothenstein/Gooding

Object:
Trumpet

1. Karen revisited - yoof
2. Gyroscope - Boc
3. Trilogy - yoof
4. Date with a Night- YYYs
5. Erics Trip - yoof
6. Shakin Hand - Women (yes I am at that point)
7. Rifle Eyes - Clouddead
8. I need to let that open

Book: Naked Lunch

Object: Guitar/Amp or Gamecube/Killer7 (cant really decide)

1. Laughing Clowns - Winter's Way
2. Haunted Henschel - Deep Inside Her Bathrooms
3. The Verlaines - CD, Jimmy Jazz & Me
4. Television - Marquee Moon (live)
5. The Saints - Know Your Product
6. Einstuerzende Neubauten - Haus der Luge/Fiat Lux (I can't decide)
7. Ed Kuepper - Sometimes/Messin' Pt II (again I can't decide)
8. Sonic Youth - Death Valley '69

Book: Nineteen Eighty Four(?)

Object: probably guitar, maybe keyboard

sonic youth - shaking hell (live)
sonic youth - early american
percee p - lung collapsing lyrics
king geedorah - next levels
funky 4 +1 - rapping and rocking the house
grandmaster flash and the furious five - superrappin
spacemen 3 - suicide
fushitsusha - my precious thing

Songs:

Miles Davis - So What?
Stones - Wild Horses
Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Stones - Let It Loose
Patti Smith - Land of 1,000 Dances/Horses
Patti Smith - Birdland
Captain Beefheart - Electricity
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow

Book:

Lolita

Object:

My Talyor 710 acoustic with two sets of replacement strings

only two?
I would be scared of the day where theay will be all broken

Oh yeah, the other rule is that whatever you take will be replaced if it's ever broken. I'm making that bit up but anyway.

My solution: these 8 songs are in an invisible loop in the air. You say a command, like "Songs on," and the music begins. Say "Video," and you get either the MTV video or the full cover (back, front, innersleeve, gatefold) of the original LP.

The guitar is stored, in its case, in a climate-controlled, weather-proof bunker.

I have two copies of the book, but FedEx implanted a chip in both to detect when either becomes damaged, in which case they overnight, at no expense to me, fresh new copies.

Hey, it's my fantasy island, right?

That's the spirit!

Can I have pieces as well as songs, or is that cheating?

Beethoven's 3rd (Karajan)
Heifetz's rendition of Bach's Chaccone from sonatas & partitas (blah)
Carter Family - Chewing gum
Special D - Come with me
The Fall - Winter (Peel session vers)
Mahler's 3rd
Atari Teenage Riot - Start the Riot!!!
Rolf Harris - two little boys

Book - Augustine's confessions

Object - 1x violin + bow, rosin and infinite spare strings please.

Rob Instigator's Desert Picks

Songs

"Diamond Sea" (24 minute version) - Sonic Youth
"Concierto de Aranjuez" - Miles Davis (from Sketches of Spain)
"Like a Hurricane" - Neil Young (the live version from Live Rust)
"David Bowie" - Phish
"Alone" - Dinosaur Jr
"Teenage Riot" - Sonic Youth
"Psychedelic" - Butthole Surfers
"Hoarfrost" - Sonic Youth


BOOK

The Collected Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (sp?)



ITEM

Fleshlight

The Time Is Nigh

Confusion-Feka Kuti
Hey Joni-Sonic Youth
They-U-men
That's Wild About Jack-U-men
Optomistic-Radiohead
Eric's Trip-Sonic Youth
Betray-Minor Threat
We Are Time-the Pop Group

Book: Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke

Object: A bigass sketch book (with a pen that has infinite ink)

as of now:
the fall-the man whos head expanded
the velvet underground-sister ray
capatin beefheart-dachau blues
albert ayler-ghosts: second variation
sonic youth-brother james
pil-albatross
john fahey-i am the resurecction
suicide-frankie teardrop

book:
phillip k. dick-flow my tears the policeman said

object:
porno mag (a desert island cmon for chrissakes)

Songs:

Hybrid Moments - Misfits
Mellow Mood - Bob Marley
Jungle Cat - Tiger Army
Space Cowboy - Steve Miller Band
Fucked Reality - Choking Victim
You've got Big Hands - Crass
City Baby Attacked by Rats - GBH
Helter Skelter - Siouxsie and the Banshees

Book:

Hunters of Cherokee Country (retitled Where the Red Fern Grows) by Wilson Rawls.

So I pretend I have dogs with me.

Object:

A blanket. I can't sleep unless I'm covered.

I plan to make cave drawings.

songs,

Aphex Twins - Come to Daddy (pappy mix)
Sonic Youth - Diamond Sea
Miles Davis - Shhh / Peaceful
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme part 1 - Acknowledgement
Jim O'Rourke - Prelude To 110 Or 220
Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet - Song For Che (from Tail Out)
Naked City - Batman
Nirvana - Smell Like Teen Spirit

(what, is alreay 8 songs?)

Book:
The Catcher in the Rye

Object:
Sand Clock

btw, can i trade the bible for more songs or books?