Desert Island discs

[Wacky Racer]

Here's your chance to nominate your essential favourite twenty songs of all time, not necessarily in any order:-

I'll go for:-

Since I've been loving you...Led Zeppelin

She loves you...The Beatles

Shine on you crazy Diamond...Pink Floyd

Stars...Simply Red

In a broken dream...Python Lee Jackson (featuring Rod Stewart)

Yellow River...Christie

Highway Star...Deep Purple

The closest thing to crazy...Katie Melua

A day in the life...The Beatles

Reflections of my life...The Marmalade

Rainbow...The Marmalade

Moon River...Audrey Hepburn

For no one...Barclay James Harvest

When you are a king...White Plains

Burn...Deep Purple

Blowin'Free...Wishbone Ash

Year of the cat...Al Stewart

Do you like tennis?...Chris Rea

Blackbird...The Beatles

Living Proof...Wishbone Ash

[Simes205]

Too many for the length of programme!

[Wacky Racer]

Simes205 said:

Too many for the length of programme!

It's a special extended edition....

[Patch1875]

Tough but at the moment...

Geno - Dexys
No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley
Golden Touch - Razorlight
Fascinating Rhythm- Bassomatic
Alright - Cast
1979 - The Smashing Pumkins
Time To Pretend - MGMT
Dr Feelgood - Motley Crue
Sugar Kane -Sonic Youth
Remedy - The Black Crowes
Lounge Act - Nirvana
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Sex Type Thing - Stone Temple Pilots
20th Century Boy - T-Rex
My Way -Frank Sinatra
Party Fears Two - The Associates
Taste It - Inxs
Live Forever - Oasis
Pride - U2
Dog Eat Dog - Adam & The Ants
Every Day Should Be A Holiday - The Dandy Warhols

[daphantom]

Patch1875 said:

Tough but at the moment...

Geno - Dexys
No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley
Golden Touch - Razorlight
Fascinating Rhythm- Bassomatic
Alright - Cast
1979 - The Smashing Pumkins
Time To Pretend - MGMT
Dr Feelgood - Motley Crue
Sugar Kane -Sonic Youth
Remedy - The Black Crowes
Lounge Act - Nirvana
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Sex Type Thing - Stone Temple Pilots
20th Century Boy - T-Rex
My Way -Frank Sinatra
Party Fears Two - The Associates
Taste It - Inxs
Live Forever - Oasis
Pride - U2
Dog Eat Dog - Adam & The Ants
Every Day Should Be A Holiday - The Dandy Warhols

a few of my own faves in there

[SantaBarbara]

Up the wooden hills to Bedfordshire by Vera Lynn

[Wacky Racer]

Patch1875 said:

Live Forever - Oasis

Good choice..

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Wacky Racer said:

Here's your chance to nominate your essential favourite twenty songs of all time, not necessarily in any order:-

I'll go for:-



Stars...Simply Red

The closest thing to crazy...Katie Melua

Christ, if i had to pick the 10 worst songs ever, those 2 would make my list.

[vournikas]

I'll have to think on this one, but just 20?

It's a big ask

[Wacky Racer]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Wacky Racer said:

Here's your chance to nominate your essential favourite twenty songs of all time, not necessarily in any order:-

I'll go for:-



Stars...Simply Red

Christ, if i had to pick the 10 worst songs ever, those 2 would make my list.

I am a huge Simply Red fan, having never missed a tour in twenty five years.

Mick Hucknall's a grade one tt but a great singer...

[vournikas]

Right.

During ciggie breaks at the office today, many crossed my mind and the immediate 20 inclusions would be:-

Deep Purple : Child In Time
Black Sabbath : Warning
Led Zep : Your Time Is Gonna Come
Led Zep : What Is And What Should Never Be
Led Zep : No Quarter (Live at Madison Square Garden)
Taste : Sugar Mama
Pink Floyd : Shine On
Pink Floyd : Breathe
Pink Floyd : Comfortably Numb
Soundgarden : Superunknown
Soundgarden : Rhinosaur
Soundgarden : Burden In My Hand
Soundgarden : Overfloater
Megadeth : Holy Wars
Underworld : Juanita / Kiteless
Underworld : Banstyle / Sappy's Curry
Underworld : Winja
Ralph Vaughan-Williams : The Thomas Tallis Fantasia (conducted by Sir Andrew Davis at Gloucester cathedral)
Chopin : Nocturne No.1 (played by Maria Joao Pires)
J.S. Bach : The St. Matthew Passion

With a heavy heart, I've left out all Trance stuff / Marillion / Genesis / Pearl Jam / Mozart / Scriabin / Leftfield, but certainly the above covers most bases.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Wacky Racer said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Wacky Racer said:

Here's your chance to nominate your essential favourite twenty songs of all time, not necessarily in any order:-

I'll go for:-



Stars...Simply Red

Christ, if i had to pick the 10 worst songs ever, those 2 would make my list.

I am a huge Simply Red fan, having never missed a tour in twenty five years.

Mick Hucknall's a grade one tt but a great singer...

I agree he's a great singer, I just think Stars is a dreadful song.

[Wacky Racer]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I agree he's a great singer, I just think Stars is a dreadful song.

That's fair enough then......

[Wiccan of Darkness]

Few ones I'd pick already mentioned so far are

Patch1875 said:

Time To Pretend - MGMT

Grossly under rated band. Time to pretend and also Kids, awesome songs, really deep lyrics.

vournikas said:

Pink Floyd
Ralph Vaughan-Williams : The Thomas Tallis Fantasia (conducted by Sir Andrew Davis at Gloucester cathedral).

Any Pink Floyd, so I'll leave them out of my list; RVW is great, and the fantasia probably my best loved of his.

However, mine would be (subject to alterations)

Ron Goodwin - The trap
Lark Ascending
Shostakovich 2nd Waltz/Jazz Suite #2
Bizet's Carmen All of it. And loud.
Huge selection of Jarre, Oxygene and Equinoxe aside, probably plump for Chronologie 4 But frankly any Jarre.

Giorgio Moroder - Evolution Though bla bla diddly might sneak in there. However, Racer Needs a mention. If you're feeling brave, open a second window in chrome, and start racer again exactly 14 seconds later. Might need to stop/start briefly to get it to match but oh boy, you realise what a genius Moroder is when that works. Might add 'Machines' from the Metropolis soundtrack.

Patrick Hernandez - Born to be alive

Charisma - Magnifique(best taken with poppers and babycham)

ABBA - Pretty much anything, but On and On and On, The Visitors, Day before you came and Arrival top the list.

My Morning Jacket - If you touch me (I'll scream) (part 2), also Wax Fang - Majestic (who tour with MMJ)

Sash - Ecuador|. Loved that song. (If you want to go back to the 90's) Then again, any '90s trance music suits me fine. Sunchyme though is a stand out The video is awesome.

A decent selection from Vangelis. Alpha (That's a good vid, lots of pics from ISS as it glides silently through space) or Voices. First time I heard Voices I was a sprogget and I dreamt I was an Egyptian building the pyramids. Have a listen, close your eyes and see where it takes you. Voices

He did more than Chariots of fire, and that wouldn't make the list...

More 'regular' songs....
Strolling Bones - Gimme shelter/sympathy for the devil/paint it black
Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
Simple minds - Don't you (forget about me)
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere. Oh and Tusk.
U2 Where the streets have no name
Frankie - 2 tribes
Al Stewart - Immelman Turn
Johnny Cash - The Wanderer


Jeez... this is hard. M&H band's version of popcorn, always an uplifter; Allegro's Miserare as a downer. Aqua Dr. Jones as an inside-outer

This is a LOT harder than it seems. Probably because I have an utterly bonkers range of musical taste.

Tomorrow, the list will be all wrong, too. But I think the above list gives an idea of the range of musical tastes.

The only thing I don't do is Jazz music, especially freestyle Jazz. Where individuality is taken to such an extreme that each and every note played is totally unique, and therefore bears no correspondence to either the preceding, following or in any respect, any of the notes in the song. Oh, and folk music, where the pain and suffering of people of bygone era is captured in words, channeled through music and reflected on the faces of those listening.

Oh and kudos to moi for managing to embed links in the text. I am a GOD!!!

[anonymous-user]

Hmmmm.... in no especial order.

The Cinema Show - Genesis
A Day In The Life - The Beatles
Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
Glory Box - Portishead
Exit Music (For A Film) - Radiohead
Memphis Soul Stew - King Curtis
In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins
Story Of The Blues - Gary Moore
The Show Must Go On - Queen
Soul With A Capital S - Tower Of Power
National Express - The Divine Comedy
Keep It Greasy - Frank Zappa
Bachelorette - Bjork
Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos
Mysteries - Beth Gibbons
Better Things - Massive Attack
Talkin' Loud - Incognito
Soul Serenade - David Sanborn
Hounds Of Winter - Sting
Two Minutes To Midnight - Iron Maiden