Desert Island Discs

[whatmeworry]

I'll just take eight tracks of the Polish metal band Hey, from their "Fire" and "?" albums, eg



You're going to need music that makes you feel like you've still got life and depth

I do like a bit of ex Soviet metal

[tribe125]

Music

On a different day I might choose different records, but these would do:

• Bach - Cello Suite, No. 1
• Beethoven - String Quartet, Op. 131
• Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight
• Stan Getz - Blood Count
• Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
• Kroke - Ajde Jano
• Thelonious Monk - In Walked Bud
• François Rabbath - Ma Mère, Baidja

Book

With Shakespeare provided, I might not need anything else, but maybe something light and frothy - a PG Wodehouse compendium. I wouldn't have any use for the Bible so might try to swap it for something else.


Luxury

Solar-powered radio for the BBC World Service.

[Der Amf]

Can I have a Moser Perpetual Calendar as my luxury item?

[whatmeworry]

Can I have a Moser Perpetual Calendar as my luxury item?

Yes, of course

[Der Amf]

Yes, of course

Phew

[whatmeworry]

Tried to create a playlist of tribe125's tracks but it proved too complicated

[bu11itt]

We've always said albums not single tracks and it was five same as Raza (and greatest hits don't count). My tops are pretty easy but rounding out the five sometimes proves difficult. Anyway, here is my attempt at 5:

1. "Closing Time" - Tom Waits
2. "The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi" - The Receiving End Of Sirens"
3. "Zeppelin (I or IV, can't decide)" - Led Zeppelin
4. "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" - Coheed & Cambria
5. An album that has Rachmaninoff's piano concerto 2 (and preferably something else too), performed by Rachmaninoff or Arthur Rubinstein

For a book, either Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead

[CanadianStraps]

Could I trade Shakespeare's works for something enjoyable to read?

[Nokie]

Anything Sinatra between 1954-1976

Anything John Coltrane

Anything from Johnny Hartman

Most anything from Webb Wilder

Everything from Brian Setzer and the BSO.



Not eight, but more than enough good music to last me on an island for a while.

[scottjc]

Music:
Heroin - The Velvet Underground
People Like Us - Talking Heads
If You Could Read My Mind - Johnny Cash
As - Stevie Wonder
Time - Tom Waits
You and Your Sister - This Mortal Coil
First of the Gang - Morrissey
You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones

Book: Deadline at Dawn by Cornell Woolrich

Luxury item: a non-networked computer to write on.
http://open.spotify.com/user/whatmew...bOmJdwLPoaB1H1
Spotify play list:

Interesting selection, I'm surprised how much our tastes overlap. My selection would almost certainly have some Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash and Rolling Stones but possibly not the same songs.
I will return with my choices...