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Topic: desert island discs
Posted By: yoel?
Subject: desert island discs
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 07:13
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you mustve heard of the extremely long running radio show 'desert island discs', if not heres the idea if you were stranded on a desert by yourself, and were only allowed 8 [or 10-i cant remember] songs, which songs would you choose and why?
I can never think of just 8, becuase i try to think of a song thatll remind me of each of my siblings and my mum, thats 6 already taken, then I also want a few that remind me of certain times in my life, and songs thtave helped me through bad times etc
the definite songs I would take are
castles made of sand-jimi hendrix experience [i wont say why]
fragile-nine inch nails-makes me think of my sister
karma police-radiohead [again i wont say why, tis a private reason]
make you feel better-chili peppers-reminds me of my family as a whole, especially my brother
the next 4 or 6 fluctuate all the time
could anyone decide a definitive 8 [or 10 lol]?
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 08:34
The whole problem with the desert island disc concept is you got the discs, but how you gonna play them? Unless you have an everlasting power source, eventually the battery or batteries are gonna run out and then you're screwed. 
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Posted By: cynthiasmallet
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 08:41
You raise a good point, so if this was the case then you'd naturally go for the albums with the best artwork. In which case... 1. King Crimson-ITCOTCK 2. Yes-Relayer 3. Genesis- Nursery Cryme 4. Pantera- A Vulgar Display of Power 5. Frank Zappa- Weasels Ripped My Flesh 6. Hawkwind- Hall of The Mountain Grill 7. Led Zeppelin- Houses of The Holy 8. Pink Floyd- Animals ------------- Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat? |
Slartibartfast wrote:Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 08:51
Now it I had a perpetual power source, I guess I'd just take my digital music player along and have it all.  Seriously, I have such a huge collection, I could not pick. I used to have a hard enough problem figuring out which CDs I wanted to take with me when I went on vacation. It was a rough life in the pre-digital music player era. That's my two cents for what it's worthless. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 09:08
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Magma - 1001 Centigrades Magma - MDK Magma - Khontarkosz Magma - Wurdah Itah Magma - Live/Hhai Magma - Khontarkosz Anteria Pat Metheny Group - Speaking of Now Dun - Eros Anglagard - Epilog Genesis - Foxtrot But seriously, who packs just in case they get deserted on a desert island? |
Posted By: cynthiasmallet
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 09:09
Well, you can never be to careful when holidaying in the North of Scotland ------------- Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat? |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 09:51
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8 songs? I'll give it a try. Jimi Hendrix - Freedom Dinosaur Jr. - Pick Me Up Van der Graaf Generator - Meurglys III (The Songwriter's Guild) Univers Zéro - Dense My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar Kayo Dot - The Manifold Curiosity Indian Summer - Angry Son (the 16 minute version from Live Blue Universe) This list is in no way definitive. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 10:36
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8 songs, chosen pretty much randomly: King Crimson - Starless Yes - Heart of the Sunrise Rush - Jacob's Ladder Genesis - The Musical Box The Smiths - I Know It's Over David Sylvian - I Surrender Nick Cave - As I Sat Sadly by Her Side Leonard Cohen - Dance Me to the End of Love |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 11:26
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OK this hurts. For the desert island scenario you are allowed 10 items, if I'm not mistaken. Not in any particular order: 1. Genesis - Supper's Ready - Foxtrot 2. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick 3. Steve Roach - Darkest Before Dawn 4. Philip Glass - Music With Changing Parts 5. Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon 6. Mike Oldfield - Amarok 7. Miles Davis - Gondwana - Pangea 8. Todd Rundgren/Utopia - The Ikon - Utopia 9. ELP - Karn Evil 9 - Brain Salad Surgery 10. Jeffrey Fayman & Robert Fripp - A Temple In the Clouds And if I may be allowed a bonus: 11. Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways [Alternate Version] Bonus points for anyone who gets how these are related. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 12:14
| ^They are all very long? |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 12:23
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I would only need one CD, but it wouldn't have any songs on it. The title of this disk?
How to Build a Boat.  ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 13:49
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Tarkus - ELP The Musical Box - Genesis Telegraph Road - Dire Straits Shine On You Crazy Diamond (pts 1-7) - Pink Floyd Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull Islands - King Crimson 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson Fountain Of Lamneth - Rush And You And I - Yes and finally, and most importantly, Starless - King Crimson I think Schizoid Man at 6 or so minutes is the only track there under 10 minutes. |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: October 29 2007 at 00:14
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A plague of lighthouse keepers - VdGG
Nine feet Underground - Caravan
Karn Evil 9 - ELP
Tubullar bells - Mike Oldfield
The reaveling Science of god - Yes
Starless - KC
Winter wine - Caravan
Facelift - Soft Machine
Force Majeure - Tangerine Dream
Ace of spades - Motörhead
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Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: October 29 2007 at 15:07
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Yes - Close to the Edge
Yes - Relayer Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons Pink Floyd - Shine on you Crazy Diamond Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways Porcupine Tree - A Smart Kid Riverside - Second Life Syndrome King Crimson - Starless Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element Pain of Salvation - Beyond the Pale |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 29 2007 at 15:37
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Suppers Ready - Genesis
Awaken - Yes Starless - KC Summer - The Enid Ashes are Burning - Renaissance Watching and Waiting - Moody Blues Trains - Porcupine Tree Dogs - Pink Floyd Lunar Sea - Camel Xanadu - Rush I could think of another 50 or so, and then of course there's all the other types of music..
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 29 2007 at 15:41
ding ding ding  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: October 29 2007 at 16:02
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I've already answered a topic like this, but things could be different. So, let me try again:
1 - Popol Vuh: Hosianna Mantra
2 - Le Orme: Contrappunti
3 - Riccardo Zappa: Celestion
4 - Jeff Buckley: Grace
5 - Yes: Fragile
6 - Tangerine Dream: Rubycon
7 - King Diamond: Abigail
8 - Rush: Caress of Steel
and if I could bring 10:
9 - Brian Eno: Another Green World
10 - Bjork: Post ------------- 
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: October 29 2007 at 18:47
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Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 08:54
| The only one I know I'd include for sure is Frank Zappa's Watermelon in Easter Hay. Other than that, I'd probably just pick my favourite long songs from each of my favourite bands, stuff like This Strange Engine by Marillion and The Last Man on Earth by Pendragon. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 09:30
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Curious to know what happened to the original Desert Island Discs thread - did it disappear with the reformating of the main threads page.
While finding extreme difficulty coming up with tthe prescribed 8 discs (as per the BBC radio show), I find I have a list of essential relatively quirky tracks to play at least once a year on my radio show. So not in any particular order:
Richard Thompson: MGBT GT (ex. Mirror Blue ), a delightful folksong about a special motor driven down the UK's A3 road between London and Portsmouth.
P.I.L.: Ease (ex Compact) - the album John Lyden disowned but my favourite. When you have Steve Vai, Ginger Baker, Jonas Hellborg etc. backing Johnnie Rotten Lyden and produced by Bill Laswell, expected something spectacular. here you have Gamlan, classic Rotten and then a Vai stunt guitar solo, underpinned by Baker Anglo-Nigerian percussives.
Babe Ruth: Wells Fargo (ex. First Base). Tamla Motown meets heavy rock - with a wonderful faux-Junior Walker funk sax solo.
Lenny White: Kashmir (ex. Edge) - so different from the original, heavy groove and a lot a soul from the start - ending with a sax solo that remind of of Paul +Desmiond with teh Brubeck Quartet.
Theo Travis: 21st Century Schizoid Man (ex. Ether To Ether). Done in the style of the Dave Brubeck Quartet , reminds me how much ealry prog was influenced by the 60's modern jazz movement.
Soft Machine: Hope For Happiness (ex. BBC Vol 1)
(A slight cheat) Plant and Page: Kasmir (ex. No Quarter), with a full Egyptian orchestra, giving the tune a hydrid heavy rock/middle eastern feel.
(Talking middle eastern) Great Society: White Rabbit (ex. Great Society with Grace Slick) - long Arabic influenced opening duo on sax and guitar leading up to adaption of Lewis Carroll's words; one of the cleverest psychedlic songs and so much superior to the Jefferson Airplane curtailed single version(s).
13th Floor Elevators: Step Inside This House (most 13th Floor compilations) - another classic psychedelic tune.
That's the first 9 that come to mind - more perhaps later?
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Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 11:12
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I guess I'd have to go with my favourite bands and albums, and pick the longest songs from there!(naturally, the songs have to be awesome as well, and not just long!)
Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers Yes - Gates of Delirium Symphony X - The Odyssey Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick Genesis - Supper's Ready(or perhaps The Musical Box, The Fountain of Salmacis, Firth of Fifth or The Cinema Show) Meshuggah - I Pink Floyd - Dogs(alternatively Crazy Diamond or Echoes) Opeth - The Leper Affinity(or The Drapery Falls or The Baying of the Hounds if I could pick two more songs, I think I possibly would choose: Metallica - Master of Puppets Gentle Giant - Excerpts from Octopus(live) ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: October 31 2007 at 09:52
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1. Symphony X: V-The New Mythology
2. Dream Theater: Systematic Chaos
3. Flower Kings: Flower Power
4. Clepsydra: Alone (how appropriate)
5. Skeem: Skeem
6. Ice Age: The great divide
7. Collage: Moonshine
8. Vandenplas: Christ0
9. Shadow Gallery: Room V
10. Enchant: Juggling 9 or dropping 10
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 01 2007 at 13:25
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ELP - Tarkus
Yes - And You And I
Genesis - Suppers Ready
Iron Maiden - Phantom Of The Opera
IQ - The Last Human Gateway
Muse - Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist
Mansun - Wide Open Space
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
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Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: November 02 2007 at 23:29
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As Magnus said earlier - since you're only allowed 8 to listen to, presumably for the rest of your life, then it might be worth going for length.
Genesis - Supper's Ready
ELP - Karn Evil 9 (or maybe Pictures is allowed as one track)
Focus - Anonymous Two
Jethro Tull - Passion Play
Yes - The Revealing Science of God
Amazing Blondel - Fantasia Lindum
VDGG - Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
Deep Purple - Gemini Suite
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Posted By: kenmartree
Date Posted: December 11 2007 at 03:15
| I thought the idea of desert island discs was to bring LPs not songs, by doing songs (as you can see from this thread) you just get people picking their fav LONG songs, of which in prog we have many to choose from. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: December 13 2007 at 11:50
As a point of information, 8 records -as per the instructions of the originators of this game, the BBC - this web page gives you lists compiled by guests on the programme for the last few months:
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: December 13 2007 at 16:10
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Right. 8 albums then! At the Drive-In - In/Casino/Out The Hal al Shedad - Textures of Tomorrow My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Pale Saints - In Ribbons Yes - Fragile Dinosaur Jr. - Bug Indian Summer - Science 1994 Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye |