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     cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 712 Registered: 05-2005 |
My best friend has just been invited to go on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 and this has prompted lots of bouncing back and forth with me for potential choices , for our foreign contingent who may not be aware the 'castaway' must choose 8 songs, 1 book and 1 luxury. I have been choosing my own which seem to change on a daily basis but currently stand as : Beach Boys- Till I Die Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman Buzzcocks - Harmony in my Head Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice (get John Barry here too) Scott Walker - The Amorous Humphrey Plugg Felt - Primitive Painters Kevin Ayers - Girl on a Swing Nat King Cole - Nature Boy (this was played in the church at my wedding) BOOK F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby LUXURY Tabasco Sauce Any other castaways on the board with a selection to share? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 805 Registered: 10-2006 |
I bet we'd all like to get a chance on DID... come on, CV, who's the famous mate?? off the top of my head: Morrissey - Every day is like Sunday Bob Dylan - Tangled up in blue Alain Bashung - La nuit je mens Van Morrison - Steal my heart away Dave Gilmour - Fat old sun (live) Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah The Velvet Underground - New age (live) Focus - Questions? Answers! Answers? Questions! The book would have to be Proust's Recherche, because on a desert island is the only way I'll ever finish the f***er. Maybe an acoustic guitar, so I might finally learn to play one. Unless I could have an Indian restaurant... | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 713 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, just been checking out some of your choices , do you mean 'Answers? Questions!Questions? Answers!' ? I may have put Tangled Up In Blue or Positively 4th Street or Like a Rolling Stone in on a different day | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 714 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Van Morrison song is gorgeous Stuart, thank you so much for that, I have not bothered with anything after Veldon Fleece up until now, am ordering the album right away | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 806 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, it was off the top of my head! I think my own idea is more logical, however. I know Focus are a minority interest, and indeed, in one of Sebastian Faulks' novels, considered the likely favourite listening of the weak-minded and potentially homicidal, but they still produced a lot of extremely beautiful music. The guitar and flute improvisation on this track is magical - perfect listening for an island sundown as the native women wend their sinuous way towards my hut. Or is it completely deserted?? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 807 Registered: 10-2006 |
Wait, Cosmo, that's the only decent song on the album!! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 808 Registered: 10-2006 |
But if you stopped at Veedon Fleece, then No Guru, No something or other, No teacher would really be worth getting: one of his strongest later albums. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 715 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have to get the song, looks like it's on a best of which I may be able to pick up cheaper. Alas I believe the island to be uninhabited other wise I may have picked some more romantic choices myself | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 809 Registered: 10-2006 |
"Steal your heart.." is me and the old lady's song... shouldn't really let myself be distracted by any hypothetically indigenous females, then, I guess... | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 810 Registered: 10-2006 |
Just in case you missed this one too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhUDmBXuS 4s | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5510 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good thread. Songs: Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill (never fails to make me happy) The Waterboys - Glastonbury Song (also never fails to make me happy) Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime P.I.L. - Rise The Jam - Town Called Malice R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) Jeff Buckley - Grace Scott Walker - Joanna Book: Stephen King's 11/22/63 (because it's brilliant, and long). Luxury: Tabasco (might make me get over my dislike of almost all fish). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5511 Registered: 05-2005 |
And now, thanks to the frightful magick of an iPod playlist, I'm listening to my Desert Island Discs in the order listed above. I can feel my spirits rising already. Whitefish with Tabasco for supper again. Nice bit of coconut milk to wash it down. |