Desert Island Discs - Music

10 feet, are women never happy?

I said "Moby Dick's" not "Moby's D..." - Gah! Whatevs :)

But in answer to your question, no, never happy.

Can I take my Kindle?

List of albums please, the other thread is wide open for objects.

^^Because 77 is a charming, original record full of wonderfully skewed songs. There's a great description of their early sound - 'haute banal'. It's really true - Byrne is at his most nervous/agitated on their début, while singing about the most ordinary things imaginable, yet making them elegant. It's a well thought through album, which I don't think Remain In Light is, despite its obviously good tracks.

Remain In Light is not so much a story, but more a groovy, aimless day.

The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma

That is all.

Dust Bowl Ballads - Woody Guthrie
Nightclubbing - Grace Jones
Embrace - Embrace
Heart of - The Congos
Callin' All Cats - Lou Donaldson
Major Malfuction - Keith Leblanc
Faith - The Cure
Everything is Fucking Shit - 3hostwomexicansandatinofspanners

Book: Ray Bradbury Shorts
Luxury: Seeds
CWoS & Bagavad Gita instead of the bible, please.

With thanks to Roy Plomley

Nirvana - Bleach
Deftones - White Pony
QOTSA - Songs for the deaf
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Prodigy - Fat of the land
Rammstein - Mutter
Death in Vegas - Dead elvis

Not sure if Plomley would've had more of a cardiac arrest at a white person asking for the Bhagavad Gita or a band called 'Everything Is Fucking Shit'.

too hard, can't do it

Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C
Wire - 154
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
The Clash - London Calling
Jeff The Brotherhood - Heavy Days
Parts and Labor - Mapmaker
Radiohead - The Bends
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

Couldn't keep it to 8 so here's 14 instead. Ask me again tomorrow and it will probably be very different! Made me sad actually because I imagined only having access to these albums and thinking how cut up I'd be about what they in turn remind me of.

Luxury item: A bicycle.

Bought Surfer Rosa when I was younger and dumber, got rid rid of it within weeks.
I'm still not completely sold on The Pixies, but maybe I need to revisit them.

You do. If I could take only one album, that would be it.

Pixies are amazing. And Throwing Muses. Nice list Wrongcog, I too would pick Fuzzy Logic

It's difficult though isn't it! I just went for the albums I associate with different times in my life. Not very eclectic as a result and possibly lacking critical depth, but there's some fun music and nice memories in there.

Book: Moby Dick

certainly put this above that pretentious recherche du temps perdu twaddle, it gives so much

Not sure if Plomley would've had more of a cardiac arrest at a white person asking for the Bhagavad Gita or a band called 'Everything Is Fucking Shit'.

I reject your label as a 'white person'.

Just sayin'

this isn't going to devolve into a ferdinand / cole debacle is it?

Wedding Present - Sea Monster
Bjork - Homogenic
Kosheen - Resist
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Massive Attack - Heligoland
De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep
K'NAAN - The Dusty Foot Philosopher
Amadou and Miriam - Dimanche a Bamako
Ludacrous - Word Of Mouth
New Fast Automatic Dafodils - PigeonHole
Scroobius Pip and Dan Le Sac - Angles
Scroobius Pip and Dan Le Sac - Logic Of Chance

Top 8 in no particular odour - ask me again tomorrow might all change

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
David Bowie - Lodger
Kraftwerk - Man Machine
Small Faces - Small Faces
KLF - Chill Out
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

Alright, I'll have a stab
Am I allowed the entire Radiohead back catalogue, including remixes...?
Shut up, yes I am.
Plus,
Gil Scot Heron - Ghetto Style
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Martyn - Solid Air
Nick Drake - A Treasury
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Paul Simon - Graceland
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Burial - Untrue
Braintax - Biro Funk
Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
Cinematic Orchestra - The Motion LP
Jeff Buckley - Grace
John Scofield (&MMW) - A Go Go
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Two years ago I got it down to these albums, feeling a bit more definative.
My 8 tracks (there's actually 9)

I don't think i could ever do this. I got as far as 7 most of my most all time favourite beady white guy folk-rock faves then went "Gah! no jazz... no soul... no classical... no BEATLES or DYLAN wtf?"

Nope. I could never do this.

Oh you could, just apply yourself

There are loads of different approaches. That's what paralysed me.

One from each genre?
Just songs you never tire of...
Song that mean something to you
etc

I just picked my 8 favourite artists then one track from each that I would never get bored of.

Here's my top 40 (for now) that I can't do without, and that's just the old ones.
No particular order, one of each
Patti Smith Group - Horses
Pop Group Y
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Wire - Pink Flag
Gang of Four - Entertainment
V/A - Nuggets
Alternative TV - The Image has Cracked
Buzzcocks - Another Music from a different Kitchen
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are a-Changin'
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Television - Marquee Moon
Roland Kirk - Rip Rig and Panic
Au Pairs - Playing with a Different Sex
Albert Ayler - New Grass
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Al Green - Green is Blues
Sun Ra - Strange Celestial Road
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
Miles Davis - Agharta
Dollar Brand - Banyana
The Saints - Prehistoric Sounds
Birthday Party - Junkyard
Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music
Gun Club - Fire of Love
Mintuemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Scientist meets the Space invaders
Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig
Motorhead - Moterhead
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
The Fall - Perverted by Language
Justin Warfield - My Field Trip To Planet 9
De La Soul - 3 feet high and rising
Cymande - Cymande
Earth Wind & Fire - Greatest Hits
James Brown - In the Jungle Groove
Gil Scott Heron - It's Your World
Motown Chartbusters - Volume 3, Volume 5.