Desert Island Discs
 

This is a thread that someone has probably started before, somewhere along the line but here goes anyway. Choosing cd's to take with us on our recce trip to NS it occurred to me that I would have difficulty choosing my all-time favourite piece of music if I was going to be stranded on a desert island for a while. I need to think about this myself, but what would be your choice of music and luxury item(excluding OH's and rugrats):confused:

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Decisions, decisions - too many for me to choose - I'd put 'em all on my iPod...

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Music: Levi Stubbs' Tears.

Luxury Item: A wire wheel, painted not chromed, with a knock on hub.

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:confused: :confused:

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Maybe he lost one?:blink:

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Lost the plot me thinks. ;)

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It's an expression of man's higher instincts, the peak of artistic endeavour. No man hath wrought an object more beautiful than the Austin-Healey 100/4 but to ask for the whole car seemed greedy and verging on the practical.

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But what would you do with it?

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The same as I do now, caress it, admire it, allow it provoke reverie of all things pure and worthwhile, let it symbolize the hope for a better humanity. It is to me, perhaps, as Proust's madeleines were to him (though less soluble).

Besides, it's a luxury item, innit? I don't have to do things with it.

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Music.... some sort of ipod compilation:confused:


Luxury Item: Selmer Mk VI tenor sax.

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I'Pod's is cheating.....:frown:

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Gerry Rafferty "City to City" then, but I reserve the right to change my mind at any time!

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Okay - my Zen full o' heavy rock tunes then.

Luxury item: A jar of Illy espresso coffee (and the paraphenalia to brew it)

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Because?

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I believe you have to select one song from eight to take with you if you are staying true to the original format. Which of course you don't have to.....

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Mine would be........

Music - anything by Enigma - not my favourite, but calming in times of stress & also up lifting.

Luxury item - my dobermann (he'd be my guard & companion & help hunt for food)

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music - 'King of the Monsters' - Man or Astro-man?

luxury item - a yacht

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Music Chet Atkins, Sails the whole CD, I can't pick just one. Definitely music to relax by.;)

Luxury item: A fridge to keep my drinks cool. :p:rofl::rofl:

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When you have a selmer mk VI, everythings cool daddyo;)

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Luxury Item: A wire wheel, painted not chromed, with a knock on hub

A haiku for you

City, After Dark, by KR Copeland

The night's a black sedan
the moon its single hubcap,
last of four, unstolen.

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I'll have no sedans on my island, thank you very much.

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I'm a girl. Wadda I know about cars!!!! Looks great where you are. Where are you?

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Just NW of Toronto, at the limit of commutability. It is great, in a middle of nowhere sort of way.

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It's the 21st Century chickie... we all now know men know SFA about cars as well. ;)

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More than cool.

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chickie?
:confused:

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"Chickie" seems to be an acceptable term amongst Canadians, I hear it often and one of my daughters uses it. It sets my teeth on edge and, given that most Canadian speech is desperately PC, its survival surprises me somewhat. I guess women in Canada just haven't achieved the status of people of colour.

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I'm sorry. I keep forgetting that Canadians don't do irony.

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OK - I'd take any Madeleine Peyroux CD, and my luxury item would be my survival kit, which comprises:

(Full) iPod
Telescope
Torch & batteries
Sharp knife
String
Box of matches
Mirror....even a stranded girl likes to look good when using morse code
Notebook and pen
2 huge flags
Inflatable dinghy....with pump, obviously
Choccie bars -several of course
3 Books: my photo album; "The Time Traveller's Wife" by Audrey Niffeneger and Collins "Skywatching"

:) :)

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Slap, slap, slap Jood. 1 item only:frown:

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I actually thought you might be a Geordie she said with some irony.:lol:

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How ironic :p

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Used to quite like DIDs when Sue Lawley did it... the sound of lazy Sunday mornings before the Archers omnibus spurred me into action to turn the radio off and get on with something more useful. So I'm a sad enough git to have my list ready...

1. Mozart's Requiem - specifically, the Tuba Mirum sung by Robert Lloyd with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields under Neville Mariner - moves me to tears nearly every time I hear it
2. Chopin - any compilation of Etudes, Nocturnes and Polonaises played by Maurizio Pollini
3. Ben Folds Five - Kate (from Whatever And Ever Amen)
4. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Unsquare Dance (from Time Out: Time Further Out)
5. Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges - Basin St Blues (from Back to Back)
6. Ella Fitzgerald - One for my Baby... (from The Intimate Ella)
7. Handel - Dixit Dominus
8. Mahler - symphony number 5

Of those, I'd keep the Ben Folds Five - for sentimental reasons and in case OH (whose name you may be able to guess...) ever reads this post

For my book, I'd have Proust - if only because it's got lots of pages that I could use to write messages on if I ever found a stash of bottles...

Luxury item I think would have to be a piano with a decent supply of sheet music - I can't cope with more than one line of music at a time (singer/trumpeter) but could probably teach myself given enough time, though never to the brilliance of Pollini.

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Any Status Quo track :huh:

and a wilson ball, didn't do Tom any harm :p

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You're really Les Battersby aren't ya? ;)

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Due to the way your original question question was phrased I will Take (almost) my entire CD collection which is diverse, eclectic and sitting in a VERY LARGE CD autochanger
AND
for my luxury item .....................................
Sunshine Ski Resort.

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Judas Priest it's like herding a swarm of eels. If out of your huge eclectic collection you had to select 1 piece of music WHAT WOULD IT BE?

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Meg Ryan.

And I'll exchange the music for a bottle of baby oil.

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Damn the cover is blown.
Call my agent!!

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My survival kit IS only one item - it just happens to contain many others. My house is one item - it just happens to contains many others......;)