Desert Island Discs.
 

An old idea, but a good one.

You choose eight songs (not albums) that you would take with you on a desert island. You also choose one book (you already have the Encyclopeadia Brittanica and the Bible - according to the rules) and an object (that can operate without electricity). You already have a stereo that's battery powered or something.

Question : without electricity how could you listen to the songs/records??
I'll post a decent list as soon as I can think about something good for me...

Joanna Newsome: Ys.
Cat Power: You are Free
Outkast: ATLiens
Medeski Martin and Wood: Friday Afternoon in the Universe
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Phish: Live Phish 10/31/96
Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
The Infesticons: Gun Hill Road

I suppose it'd be a wind-up record player or something. I dunno. I don't make the rules.:confused:

Read the rules - songs, not albums!

songs:

EITS - first breath after coma
Three second kiss - honey dew
mogwai - kappa
VU - venus in furs
blonde redhead - water
cream - the tale of brave ulysses (? I'm going mad)
13th floor elevators - you're gonna miss me
sonic youth - schizophrenia

object - a lot of paper and pens, if it's too much probably a guitar.

Sonic Youth: Teenage Riot
Dan Bern: Jerusalem
Medeski Martin and Wood: Chubb Sub
Oasis: Wonderwall
Cat Power: Colors and the Kids
Coldplay: The Scientist
Outkast: ATLiens
Tori Amos: Cornflake Girl

Book: The Norton Anthology of American Literature
Object: Basketball Goal and Basketball

i forgot the book : Alice in wonderland/through the looking glass

Songs:
The Fall - Athlete Cured (Peel session version)
Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin
Mackenzies - Gobstopper (Peel Session version)
Henry Purcell - Hear Our Prayer, O Lord
Horace Silver - Blowin Away the Blues
Les Pirates - Le trois mâts blanc
Sonic Youth - Beauty Lies in the Eye
Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy Song


Book:
Carlyle's Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell

Object:
A Victorinox Swiss Army knife ('Explorer' model)



(Some very important things had to be excluded from the selection of songs)

SONGS

1) Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
Song - 'I Went To The Mirror'

2) Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer lawns
Song - 'Sweet Bird'

3) Sonic Youth - Sister
Song - 'Cotton Crown'

4) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Song - 'Trilogy'

5) Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Song - 'Washing Machine'

6) Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Song - 'Karen Revisited'

7) Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
Song - 'A distorted reality is now a necessity to be free'

8) Grateful Dead - Skull & Roses
Song - 'Playing in The Band'

BOOK
Ghost World By Daniel Clowes

OBJECT
A Lighter to start fires with

Records:

5 classic tunes by George Melly

Book:

One of the George Melly autobiographies

Object:

A wooden cane (so I can do the Melly strut on the island)

My pick.

Songs:

Sonic Youth - Skip Tracer
Terre Thaemlitz - Facilitator
Mogwai - Take Me Somewhere Nice
Robbie Basho - Tassaraja
My Bloody Valentine - Loomer
A Silver Mt.Zion - Take These Hands and Throw them in the River
Cat Power - Cross Bones Style
Feist - My Moon My Man (to make me cheer up when I'd feel like drinking salty water)

Book: Herrmann Hesse - Siddharta

Object: Guitar

SONGS

DIAMOND SEA - sonic youth
TEENAGE RIOT - sonic youth
THUMB - dinosaur jr
PARFUM V - pavement
DAVID BOWIE - phish
ZIMBABWE - Bob Marley & The Wailers
3 DAYS - jane's addiction
DIE DIE MY DARLING - misfits


Book:

ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY - Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea

Object:

manual crank turntable

Well, if I'm only going to get 8 songs, I'm going to shoot for loooong mostly (though no "Close to the Edge"...)

Sun Ra - "Atlantis"
Sonic Youth - "Diamond Sea"
Autechre - "Drone" (from the Peel Session)
Can - "Oh Yeah!"
Lou Reed - "Metal Machine Music" (arguably a single "song", but if I have to look at it as 4 songs, then, I'll pick side 4)
Velvet Underground - "Sister Ray"

Then a couple short gems to round it out, that I could play over and over and still love:

Brian Eno - "Everything Merges with the Night"
Yo La Tengo - "You Can Have It All"

I don't read books over very often so the book part is hard...

Now Wait for Last Year by Phillip K. Dick

Object: Nitrus Tank

i approve this choice, a lot.

I hate hypotheticals. How could I ever pick just 8 songs? I'd die listening to only 8 songs, no matter how fantastically awesome they were.

I was thinking of starting this exact thread idea the other day.

Records.

Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
The Fall - Leave The Capital
Youthmovies - A Little Late He Staggered Home And Into Her Eyes
Mogwai - New Paths to Helicon, pt 2
Animal Collective - Bees
Growing - Onement
Kode9 And The Spaceape - Curious
Low - Over The Ocean

Book: Selected Works - Alan Bennett
Object: Skateboard

Songs:

Tim Buckley - Sing a song for you
Tim Buckley - Song to the siren
Radiohead - Lucky
Television - Marquee moon
Jeff Buckley - Lover, you should've come over
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Led Zeppelin - Since I've been loving you
Sonic Youth - The sprawl

Book:

No idea, I'm not much into reading books any more

Object:

My acoustic guitar