Desert Island Discs

thx to bennyhana22 for this idea. (I think its on radio station as well....)

If you had to go to a desert island and your were given an mp3 player, but were only allowed to choose 5 tracks, which ones would you choose? (doesn't have to be Elbow only )

In that situation I would choose:

1. Monday - Ludovico Einaudi
2. Grounds For Divorce - Elbow (had to include somewhere )
3. Good Times 'Gonna Come - Aqualung
4. Nude - Radiohead
5. City Of Delusion - Muse

It was hard to choose only 5 tracks, but somehow I did it...
I guess that this list will probably change in 2 weeks time


1. Elbow - Red
2. I Am Kloot - Dead Men's Cigarettes
3. Radiohead - Bullet Proof....I Wish I Was
4. Morcheeba - Small Town
5. Okkervil River - Black

Thats why its good, cos it makes you really think about what your favourite tracks really are. btw, good tracks

1. Genesis - Entangled
2. Great Expectations - Elbow
3. Tiger Lily - The Bluetones
4. Giving Up The Ghost - DJ Shadow
5. Hoping Love Will Last - Steve Hackett

There's probably more, but these have the most plays in my iTunes.

hmm I dunno about favorite songs of all time, that's way too hard!, but my five most recently played are (if I pick all different artists)

1. Some Riot - Elbow
2. Last FLowers - Radiohead
3. Cabin Fever - Super Furry Animals
4. Lover Yer Brain (live) - Flaming Lips
5. Sea Songs - Doves

Genesis - Entangled
Elbow - Great Expectations
Elbow - Presuming Ed (Rest Easy)
Interpol - The Lighthouse
John Frusciante - 23 Go In To End

I chose songs I thought would take my mind off such a predicament

I'd cheat and stick every Elbow song ever made in a music editor and render the whole lot as one HUGE file.

Then I'd do the same another four times with the tracks in a different order.

Not allowed you say? Nuts

I'm finding this impossible to answer, actually! I think I'd probably choose some l-o-o-o-ong tracks by The Orb, Underworld and Orbital, just to stop me thinking "oh no, not again!" every 20 minutes.

lol, fair enough

good point, lee! I'm now thinking I might replace Presuming Ed with Eno's 1/1...

Dabamash wrote:

good tracks

thanks...
well, I guess that everyone here likes similar music...after all, we all love Elbow

Hold up a sec...The Desert Island Discs program on BBC Radio 4 gives you 8 tracks, not 5....I call shenanigans! But OK, if we are all doing 5 then here are mine; just like everyone else here it's so hard to choose and these could change at any moment:

1. Tom Waits - Hold On
2. Elbow - Jeez, stuck between Great Expectations/Newborn/Scattered Black & Whites. Prolly Newborn though.
3. Bjork - Joga
4. Massive Attack/Elisabeth Fraser - Teardrop
5. Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas/San Fransisco Symphony)

And if anyone is interested in seeing what Ricky Gervais, Jarvis Cocker and other celebs would choose for their Desert Island Discs, here is the page on the BBC Radio 4 website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs.shtml

Oy, stop complainin u lot. It's 5 tracks, no more no less. (I make the rules cos i'm special )

edit: Ah, ty. wondered what station I heard it on

This hurts my brain.... too many to choose.

lets go;

1. Elbow - My Very Best
2. Oasis - Slide Away
3. Charlatans - One to Another
4. Smiths - How Soon is Now
5. Embrace - All You Good Good People

OR maybe, Club Tropicana - Wham, La Isla Bonita - Madonna, On A Beach - Richard Ashcroft

5? Just 5? Hell! it changes everyday.
Today it's probably

1 Wish You Were Here - PInk Floyd
2 Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
3 I Like Birds - Eels
4 Cello Song - Nick Drake
5 Starlings - Elbow

Too hard!

Oh so very tough to narrow it down to five.

1. Asleep In The Back - Elbow
2. Kid A - Radiohead
3. Paper Tiger - Beck
4. Sister - Sufjan Stevens
5. Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

Did it! *phew* How stressful.

I don't want to be a PITA but that's 5 albums.

Try 5 songs. That's even harder.

It is five songs. Not albums.

Heh, I can see where the misunderstanding was there.

Elbow - Newborn
I Am Kloot - To You
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Oasis - The Masterplan
Stephen Fretwell - New York

Elbow - Great expectations
Flaming Lips - Waiting for Superman (my boyfriend's cover only)
Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date with the Night
Architecture in Helsinki - Debbbbbiieee

Topaz wrote:

It is five songs. Not albums.

B*gg*r!! So it is.

Maybe I should read things a little more closely before jumping in with both feet.

1. Atmosphere - Joy Division
2. Reckoner - Radiohead
3. I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses
4. (Antichrist Television Blues) - Arcade Fire
5. Transmission - Joy Division

Controversial at the lack of Elbow I know! I don't think this list would change hugely but right now that is what I would have.

Ted, did you listen to Radcliffe and Maconie last night? There was a really good interview with Stephen Morris about the new Joy Division documentary. Well worth a listen. You can listen again HERE. Click on the link on the right hand side. It starts about one hour in to the show.

Very difficult to pick five (!) - and it changes. But off the top of my head, now (in no particular order)

Elbow - Newborn
Richard Thompson - Calvary Cross
Roy Harper - Same Old Rock
Pumajaw - Rosemary Lane
The Decemberists - The Island