Desert Island Discs - What Would Your 8 Tracks Be, Then You

[Iluvspikey]

have to pick just one, your book along with the bible (or religious book of your religion) and Shakespeare, which you are already given, and your non practical luxury

[factor-fiction]

Something by Stone Roses- Made of Stone maybe
Dean Parrish- I'm om my Way
Something by Pink Floyd
Mia- Paper Plane
Led Zep- Trampled Underfoot
Libertines- Up the Bracket
Something by the Sex Pistols -maybe Pretty Vacant
Something by Love Affair- maybe Rainbow Valley
Timi Yuro- Hurt

I'd struggle to pick just one, though.

Best book- Guinness Book of Hit Singles- I never tire of dipping in and remembering songs.

I'm not sure of a non-practical luxury. Does a laptop with access to AB count?

[factor-fiction]

I can't count- that's 9, so maybe I'd drop Mia

[factor-fiction]

Missed out Undertones- Teenage Kicks.
I give up- I'd never be able to keep the list down to 8

[echokilo]

Nimrod without a doubt, a massive book of quotations to dip in and out of and no idea about a luxury!

[erin-x]

Piece of My Heart - Janis Joplin
Gimme Stitches - Foo Fighters
Machines - Biffy Clyro
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Alive - Pearl Jam
Come Together - Beatles
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Best of You - Foo Fighters

Book would be..... Not a clue actually. Something useful! Lol!

A camera would be my luxury... I take photos when I get bored :)

[Iluvspikey]

my list changes daily!
here are four definite ones
1. Walking on hot coals - Rory Galagher
2. Child of Babylon Whitesnake
3. My time of dying Led Zep
4. Opera Lucia di Lammermor
then it varies - rolling stones, beatles, stone roses, bryan ferry, black sabbath, deep purple, stevie-ray vaughn.....
My luxury would be a big four poster bed with loads of pillows and my book would be.....possibly a big compendium of Tom Sharpe novels.

[EcclesCake]

It would take me forever to choose individual works for all but my starter for ten is....

Mozart - Clarinet Concerto
Gregorian Chant
Leonard Cohen
Madness - It must be love
Blondie - Maria
Simon & Garfunkel
Amy Wineglass - Valerie
Undertones - Teenage kicks

Book, mmm, Chronicles of Narnia, if disallowed then The Lion, the witch & the wardrobe.

Luxury, fresh linen sheets every night.

[nungate]

Let's see:
Prince: When Doves Cry
Jimmie Rogers: Bright Lights Big City
Debussy: Clair de lune
Bessie Smith: Gimme a Pig foot and a bottle of beer
Undertones: Teenage Kicks
Beethoven's 6th Symphony
Queen: It's a kind of Magic
Beatles: You got to hide your love away
That was hard I really need more than 8!
Book? 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith or Jane Austen's Persuasion I can't really in all truth just settle on one book either
Luxury? TV and dvd player with my dvd collection and my entire stash of crafting things
Sorry just can't seem to do just one or eight of anything...

[Northernpopquiz]

I couldn't even narrow it down to 8 from each year or even 8 by The Beatles. Totally impossible for me to pick from a collection of over 100,000 tracks and still collecting and discovering more great music.

[Iluvspikey]

I think the only way to narrow it down to eight is pick a song/tune whatever that was around at a significant time - or 8 blues tracks, 8 rock tracks, but then it's hard!

[adrianben]

Stephen Fry chose a suicide pill for his luxury. Rowan Atkinson chose an Aston Martin that he could polish. I would take a guitar. (with an endless supply of strings!)

[adrianben]

The thing about taking a guitar is that you can keep changing the 8 songs !

[DTCwordfan]

Mmmmmm

Saint-Saens - Organ Concerto (organ piece)
Morton Lauridsen - O Magnum Mysterium
Purcell - Ode to St Cecilia
Mozart - Magic Flute (perhaps the Overture)
Soundtrack to Gladiator - Now We are Free
Katie Melua - Nine Million Bicycles
Mark Knopfler - Local Hero Soundtrack - Going Home
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall

Book Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game
Drawing Pens (Copics) and Paper (and lots of them/it)

[Iluvspikey]

see there you go DT - you mentioning Mark Knopfler I'd forgotten I love Private Investigator by Dire Straits....

[Iluvspikey]

Ambermae you are allowed to pick eight tracks, then just one - so what are your 7 other favourite songs/tunes?

[Iluvspikey]

I heard a snatch of Missing, by everything but the girl this morning - see now I forgot how much I liked that track!