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Desert Island Discussion
Apr. 15th, 2004 05:27 pm(Or, Davids latest vain attempt to create a meme.)
‘Desert Island Discs’ presents you with the situation that you are trapped upon a desert island with eight records (and something to play them on), a copy of the Bible and Shakespeare, and one luxury to keep you going.
How you came to be in this position is never explained. Perhaps you are a religious playgoing cruiseship DJ, or maybe you were in an aeroplane crash with Billy Graham, John Peel, and Kenneth Branagh and had to eat them to stay alive. Whatever the reason, you get to decide on the records you want stranded with.
So what are your records? The rules are: singles and albums are OK, as are single artist/composer compilations, but no multiple artist compilations (so the best of Bach is OK but Now 55 isn’t, for example).
Mine, in no particular order:
1) Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony. Worth it for the third movement alone. Sheer brilliance.
2) Faith No More: Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Hits. A difficult choice this one; I could easily have chosen Angel Dust or King for a Day, and even then I’m still missing As The Worm Turns.
3) Rammstein: Seinsucht. A close call between this and Mutter, but the title track clinches it.
4) Handel: Ombra Mai Fu: The Largo. Not many pieces of music can ‘get’ to me. This is one of them.
5) The Pretenders: Greatest Hits. Let’s be honest now: The Pretenders are just plain great
6) AC/DC: Back in Back. 60% of this album is dross. A good thing then that the remaining 40% is fantastic.
7) Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words.
8) DubWar: Wrong side of Beautiful. Sufficiently odd that I have never got bored of it, which, if I’m going to be on my island for a long time, might well be a very good thing.
‘Desert Island Discs’ presents you with the situation that you are trapped upon a desert island with eight records (and something to play them on), a copy of the Bible and Shakespeare, and one luxury to keep you going.
How you came to be in this position is never explained. Perhaps you are a religious playgoing cruiseship DJ, or maybe you were in an aeroplane crash with Billy Graham, John Peel, and Kenneth Branagh and had to eat them to stay alive. Whatever the reason, you get to decide on the records you want stranded with.
So what are your records? The rules are: singles and albums are OK, as are single artist/composer compilations, but no multiple artist compilations (so the best of Bach is OK but Now 55 isn’t, for example).
Mine, in no particular order:
1) Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony. Worth it for the third movement alone. Sheer brilliance.
2) Faith No More: Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Hits. A difficult choice this one; I could easily have chosen Angel Dust or King for a Day, and even then I’m still missing As The Worm Turns.
3) Rammstein: Seinsucht. A close call between this and Mutter, but the title track clinches it.
4) Handel: Ombra Mai Fu: The Largo. Not many pieces of music can ‘get’ to me. This is one of them.
5) The Pretenders: Greatest Hits. Let’s be honest now: The Pretenders are just plain great
6) AC/DC: Back in Back. 60% of this album is dross. A good thing then that the remaining 40% is fantastic.
7) Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words.
8) DubWar: Wrong side of Beautiful. Sufficiently odd that I have never got bored of it, which, if I’m going to be on my island for a long time, might well be a very good thing.
