Desert Island Albums…

[rjfp1962]

Simple format.

1) 8 albums
2) 1 luxury item (cars included!) Burt remember you'll be in the desert..!
3) If you could save one album being washed away to sea - Which would it be?
4) I'll offer you The Bible & The Complete Works of Shakespeare, or a book of your choice.

(I will have to give this some thought before adding mine...!

Edited by rjfp1962 on Tuesday 10th May 21:25

[rjfp1962]

rjfp1962 said:

Simple format.

1) 8 albums
2) 1 luxury item (cars included!) Burt remember you'll be in the desert..!
3) If you could save one album being washed away to sea - Which would it be?


(I will have to give this some though before adding mine...!

My 8 albums are.... (today!)
1) Queen - A Night At The Opera (My first Lp)
2) Mozart - Clarinet Concerto
3) Joy Division - Closer
4) Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
5) Carpenters - Gold
6) Cream - Disraeli Gears
7) Tanita Tikarem - Ancient Heart
8) Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Luxury item.
Honda TL150 trial bike like the one I had when I was 18...!

The album I'd save from the waves is.....
Cream - Disraeli Gears

My book choice.
So This Is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics & Notebooks - Ian Curtis (Edited by Deborah Curtis & Jon Savage)

Edited by rjfp1962 on Tuesday 10th May 21:30

[Regbuser]

Albums
1 - Pink Floyd - wish you were here
2 - John Adams - harmonium
3 - Roy Budd - get carter soundtrack
4 - Curtis Mayfield - Curtis/live!
5 - The Fall - bend sinister
6 - Fabric Live - 07 John Peel
7 - James Holden - at the controls
8 - Cinematic Orchestra - everyday

Luxury item
As per John Cooper Clarke - a ball of heroin the size of my head

One item to save
Larry Young's Fuel - turn out the lights (cheated and smuggled in an extra record, hey ho..)

[slopes]

Hmmm

Albums:
1: Culutra De Club - Miscellaneous artists
2: Ceremony and Devotion - Ghost
3: Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath
4: Rodrigo y Gabriella
5: Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
6: War of The Worlds - Jeff Wayne
7: Tattoo You - Rolling Stones
8: Ultimate Collection - Eurthmics

Luxury Item: Working military grade GPS

Book: Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka

Album to save: Probably Heaven and Hell

Edited by slopes on Sunday 15th May 18:48

[cherryowen]

Go on, I'll have a go.

Albums

Megadeth : Rust In Peace
Kruder & Dorfmeister : The K & D Sessions
Soundgarden : Superunknown
Soundgarden : Down On The Upside
Pearl Jam : Ten
Paul Oakenfold : Radio 1 Essential Mix May 2000
Marillion : Clutching At Straws
Genesis : Trespass

Luxury Item

A fully stocked fishing box with rods, lines and lures

One Album to Save

Kruder & Dorfmeister

[Kinky]

Albums
- Accept - Breaker
- Bob Dylan - Infidels
- Cactus World News - Urban Beaches
- Mama's Boys - Plug It In
- Metallica - Kill 'Em All
- Motorhead - No Sleep
- UB40 - Present Arms
- Venom - Black Metal

Luxury Item
- Bob Mortimer

Album to save
- Mama's Boys - Plug It In

[Roofless Toothless]

Although this topic ‘puts a date’ on every respondent, and mine will be obvious, I ready to have a go.

Songs For A Tailor - Jack Bruce
St Matthew Passion - J S Bach (Klemperer)
Revolver - The Beatles
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis
Four Last Songs - Richard Strauss (Schwarzkopf)
The Best Of Little Walter - Little Walter Jacobs (1958)

I would have to save the Bach, but mainly because it is about three hours long!

Luxury item - a Swiss Army Knife

And although the OP left this out, my book (apart from the Bible and Shakespeare) would be Dickens’ Pickwick Papers.

[Boringvolvodriver]

This is something I often think about whilst lying in the sun and it is rather difficult as the list can change from day to day!

There is one album that always features so that is number 1 - Wish you were Here - Pink Floyd

The next 7 May take me a while

[rjfp1962]

Roofless Toothless said:

Although this topic ‘puts a date’ on every respondent, and mine will be obvious, I ready to have a go.

And although the OP left this out, my book (apart from the Bible and Shakespeare) would be Dickens’ Pickwick Papers.

I'll amend my original post to include the book theme I missed... Good to see the thinking ofPher's as this thread slowly builds.....

[Super Sonic]

Albums
Sons & Fascination/ Sister Feelings call
New Gold Dream (Simple Minds)
The Sky's Gone Out
In the Flat Field (Bauhaus)
Incunabula
Tri Repeta (Autechre)

Luxury Item
Smartphone w solar charger

Book / (Greg Bear)

Rescued album, the first on in the above list

[cherryowen]

OK, to add to my choices from yesterday and as requested by the OP

Book

[Boringvolvodriver]

Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Tchaikovsky 6th Symphony
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Live at Drury Lane - Monty Python
Hotel California- The Eagles

Would save the first one

Luxury item would be a piano - can’t play it but would have plenty of time to learn

Book - Complete set of Wisdens

Now when do I go!

[P5BNij]

1. Scott 4 - Scott Walker
2. Revolver - The Beatles
3. Beggars Banquet - The Stones
4. Buddism - Roy Budd
5. Mondo Morricone - Ennio Morricone
6. Fun House - Iggy & The Stooges
7. Soundtrack For Living - The Gentle People
8. Dirty Harry Film Soundtrack - Lalo Schifrin
9. Themology - John Barry
10. La Piscine Film Soundtrack - Michel Legrande

The one to keep - Scott 4

Luxury item - my 1967 Vox Teardrop guitar if I still had it

Book - Lamborghini Miura by Pete Coltrin & Jean - Francois Marchet

Edited by P5BNij on Wednesday 11th May 12:20

Edited by P5BNij on Wednesday 11th May 12:20

[Roofless Toothless]

‘Ow come he gets ten?

[rjfp1962]

Roofless Toothless said:

‘Ow come he gets ten?

He doesn't - needs to be eight.!

[P5BNij]

Oops apologies, I didn't go back to the OP before posting

Remove 6 and 10!

[fizzwheel]

Albums

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Verve - A Northern Soul
Radiohead - Kid A
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
Dark Star - Twenty Twenty Sound

If I had to save one of them it'd be A Northern Soul

Book - Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan

Luxury Item - My Road bike

[Walter Sobchak]

Rumours-Fleetwood Mac

Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd

Unknown Pleasures- Joy Division

Ok Computer- Radiohead

Heaven or Las Vegas- Cocteau Twins

The Empyrean- John Frusciante

In Rainbows- Radiohead

Electric Ladyland- Jimi Hendrix

I’d take the complete works of Shakespeare over the Bible and for a luxury item I’d go for an electric mx bike with a solar charger.

[angusfaldo]

Roofless Toothless said:

Although this topic ‘puts a date’ on every respondent, and mine will be obvious, I ready to have a go.

Four Last Songs - Richard Strauss (Schwarzkopf)

So much yes! But for me Kirsten Flagstad in original 1950 recording. Hard to keep a dry eye to be honest.

[Roofless Toothless]

angusfaldo said:

Roofless Toothless said:

Although this topic ‘puts a date’ on every respondent, and mine will be obvious, I ready to have a go.

Four Last Songs - Richard Strauss (Schwarzkopf)

So much yes! But for me Kirsten Flagstad in original 1950 recording. Hard to keep a dry eye to be honest.

But of course Schwarzkopf famously came on the real Desert Island Discs and chose eight of her own records!