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Subject: Your Desert Island Discs From: GUEST,Dazbo Date: 31 Mar 06 - 11:23 AM FYI, if you don't know Desert Island Discs is a long running radio programme (over 60 years now I think) where celebs pick 8 tracks to take with them if they were marooned on a desert island. The also get the complete works or Shakespeare, the Bible (or equivalent) and a luxury (useful items like boats, sea planes etc are banned). So what are yours? Rather than stick to your current favourites choose those which represent phases of your life, friends, relatives etc. Eight only and ONE luxury (although this is flexible ie you could have a bodhran and a beater but not a guitar and a banjo) and one book (again not the complete works of Catherine Cookson!) Mine are: Sun Arise - Rolf Harris Play with Fire - Rolling Stones Gaudete - Steeleye Span Pretty Vacant - The Sex Pistols Baggy Trousers - Madness Happy Hour - The Housemartins The Caliph of Bagdad - Ecclesfield Handbell Ringers Scan Tester's Country Step Dance/Lemmy Brazil's No.2 Book: Flashman and the Redskins - George MacDonald Fraser Luxury: DG Melodeon - Castagnari |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: cool hand Tom Date: 31 Mar 06 - 08:04 PM OK Hawkwind - Silver Machine Leonard Cohen -Suzanne THE WHO - Mamas got a sqeezbox Luke Kelly -Thank you for the days Luke Kelly - Schooldays over Luke Kelly -Shoals of herring Clancy brothers - Whistling Gypsy Rover Bob Dylan - Jack of Hearts Book Summer with the barchenskys Luxury - OK Banjo needs strings etc so spoons lotsa tunes no maintenence |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: John O'L Date: 01 Apr 06 - 03:07 AM Walking in the Rain - The Ronnettes Like a rolling stone - Bob Dylan Positively 4th St - Bob Dylan Takes a lot to laugh - Bob Dylan Cyprus Ave. - Van Morrison Brain Damage/Eclipse - Pink Floyd (I have always regarded this as a single song) Flight of Earls - Dublin City Ramblers Khe Sanh - Cold Chisel Greatest Dream (or any one of several) by Mary Black All the Great Guns Roar - Rita Connolly (Ten songs are not enough to represent all the identifiable phases.) Book - possibly One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey. (Once again, an impossible choice, but I guess that's the point of the excersise isn't it.) Luxury - Too hard to decide, so I guess I'll make something out of whatever I find when I get there. (Bet you wish you were as confident as that.) |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: GUEST,ifor Date: 01 Apr 06 - 05:57 PM witchita lineman..glen campbell girl from the north country...bob dylan penny lane..the beatles 51st [highland]division's farewell to sicily..dick gaughan i can't remember if we said goodbye....emmylou harris blue murder...alistair hulett sweet thing...van morrison ballad of joe hill...paul robeson ifor |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 02 Apr 06 - 03:29 AM I always give up when I try to work out mine, I would take 8 Louis Armstrong sides before starting on anyone else. The book is easier, one I could re-read for ever: George & Weedon Grossmith's "Diary of a Nobody" always makes me laugh- and it sums me up! RtS |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: Suffolk Miracle Date: 02 Apr 06 - 10:45 AM Dowy Dens of Yarrow Willie Scott McCrimmond's Lament Jeannie Robertson Bonny Labouring Boy Harry Cox Will Watch Sam Larner Molly Vaughan Phoebe Smith Ann of the Loch Royal Elizabeth Cronin Cruel Mother Lucy Stewart And just to show I'm not miserable all the time Benefit Concert Fred Jordan If I were stuck there practising for twenty years I still wouldn't be able to match those performances. Book Fellowship of Song Ginny Dunne Luxury A litre of woodworms in case anyone turned up with a guitar/banjo |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: GUEST,Penguin Egg Date: 02 Apr 06 - 04:02 PM Folks on the Hill-Bing Crosby Summer in the City - Lovin' Spoonful Living in the City - Stevie Wonder [In case you wondered-I'm a city person.] Venus de Milo - Television Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips Jack Orion - Bert Jansch Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Fairport Convention Honey Bee - Muddy Waters Best Book - The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy Luxury item - I suppose an axe, so I can chop trees down to build a hut. |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: GUEST,Dazbo Date: 03 Apr 06 - 04:37 AM Hmmm, I'm having second thoughts. I think I will swap the Sex Pistols for the Ramones's Rockaway Beach. |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: Herga Kitty Date: 03 Apr 06 - 06:47 PM Ah, but, the game rules say your luxury item can't be useful (so no axes, or anything else that might help you build a boat to escape). Also, you have to choose which of your 8 record choices you would take if you could only take one. I was a bit surprised when Sue Lawley allowed a recent guest to choose an I-pod as their luxury item! But I quite liked Ronald Searle's luxury item of a bottle of champagne - when it was empty, he'd put a note in asking for another bottle of champagne... Kitty |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: GUEST,Eleanor C Date: 03 Apr 06 - 10:39 PM Matt Molloy - Garret Barry's Jig Captain Beefheart - Born in the Desert Clive Carroll- March & the Messenger Bob Brozman - Dead cat on the line The Congos - Row fisherman row Zappa - Inca Roads Kenny Process Team - Kenny Process Team Jorma Kaukonen - Keep your lamps trimmed and burning Book - Tlooth by Harry Matthews Luxury - a hurdy gurdy and no neighbours |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: GUEST,Dazbo Date: 04 Apr 06 - 10:20 AM "Luxury - a hurdy gurdy and no neighbours " That made me laugh - the same goes for my melodeon |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: GUEST Date: 09 Apr 06 - 12:15 PM La Mama Morta/Maria Callas Visions of Johana /Bob Dylan Who By Fire/Leonard Cohen King Henry/ Steeleye Span The Bonnie Lass of Angelsy/ Martin Carthy Caledonia/ Norma Waterson One Day I walk/Bruce Cockburn Raglan Road/ The Chieftans The Drunken Piper/ Natalie MacMaster and Cookie Rankin Heart Like A Wheel/ Kate and Anna MaGarrigle Matty Groves/ Fairport Miles Weatherhill and Sara Bell/ Nick Jones Reynardine/June Tabor Oh where to end... Book I would have to take two, Wuthering Heights and The Three Day Roadby Joseph Boyden. Luxury...Drum Tobacco |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: fi_in_nz Date: 09 Apr 06 - 03:09 PM It changes every time I do this exercise, and I have thought about it before! At a party recently we had to put our desert island discs on a bit of paper and then guess who everyone was - interesting exercise. Here goes, my DID's for today: Britten - Young person's guide to the orchestra Mozart - clarinet concerto Bob Dylan - ?????? hmm tricky decision here, Simon and Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning 3am Peggy Lee - Folks who live on the hill Witches of Elswick - I once lived in service The Smiths - What difference does it make My hubby singing John Spillane's All the way's you wander Book - War and Peace or something equally hard and long Luxury - OMG, the first thing I thought of was my teddy bear!!! How sad is that? Still haven't decided what Bob Dylan to take..... |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: jamminfool Date: 09 Apr 06 - 03:10 PM The disks: Anything by Ray Charles -- like Mel Lyman said, Ray contains all music. John Coltrane -- A Love Supreme Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live (with Johnny Winter and Jerry Portnoy) Bill Monroe, best of Rahsaan Roland Kirk -- Dog Years In The Fourth Ring (It's a 3-disk box set -- is that cheating? Miles Davis -- Kind Of Blue Charles Mingus In Europe (live set with Eric Dolphy and Jaki Byard) First demo disk from my current band Book: A field guide to desert island flora and fauna (publisher unknown). At least, it might give me a handle on what is safe to eat around there. Extra points for the field guide that says everything -- including the plants -- taste like chicken. Luxury item: OK, I'll fudge here. Harmonica is not a luxury item. Got it? It's a necessity. In fact, I'll probably be playing it while the ship is breaking to pieces (they did that on the Titanic, right?) I am prepared to take this case to the Desert Island Provisioning Authority. If I lose my case, then my belt loaded with harmonicas will be the luxury item. Should I win, then the luxury item will be an ax. |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: fi_in_nz Date: 11 Apr 06 - 05:57 PM OK, decided on the Bob Dylan.... The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll. F |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: Chris Green Date: 11 Apr 06 - 06:11 PM In no particular order The Lark Ascending - Vaughan Williams Canadee-I-O - Nic Jones Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who The Writing of Tipperary - Bill Caddick Dance To Your Daddy - Nancy Kerr and James Fagan The Chicken - Jaco Pastorius So What? - Miles Davis Echoes - Pink Floyd Luxury Item - A guitar (cliched I know!) Book - East of Eden - John Steinbeck. Ask me again tomorrow and it'll all have have changed! |
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Subject: RE: Your Desert Island Discs From: Mr Fox Date: 12 Apr 06 - 05:19 AM Steeleye Span - Alison Gross Mr Fox - The Gypsy Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Ralph Vaughan Williams - In the Fen Country Arnold Bax - Tintagel Bread, Love and Dreams - The Strange Tale of Captain Shannon and the Hunchback From Gigha Pentangle - Jack O'Ryan Fairport Convention - Matty Groves (the 'Live at the LA Troubador' version) Book - 'A Song of Ice and Fire' by George R R Martin Luxury - Coffee. Lots and lots of coffee. |
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