Our Desert Island Eight Discs!

Can I assume the complete works of Half Man Half Biscuit (and The Beatles) are already on my island? Please say yes - in which case I'd take

Anthems In Eden - Shirley and Dolly Collins with The Early Music Consort of London, directed by David Munrow.

Leos Janácek: Sinfonietta - Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras

Thomas Tallis: Lamentations Of Jeremiah - The Tallis Scholars

Edgard Varese: Ionisation - Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez

Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations for Orchestra - London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult

Sibelius: Symphony No 2 - Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeoman of the Guard - Chorus and Orchestra of the D'Oyly Carte Opera conducted by John Owen Edwards

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter) - Academy of Ancient Music with Jaap Schröder and Christopher Hogwood

ATB Rotf

Dear ROTF,

In Roy Plomley's programme the Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare are also included so I reckon that passes!

In that case I will also take the complete keyboard works of Bach, and the 16 String Quartets of Beethoven, and add to the individual pieces, Haydn's 88th in G, BPO, Furtwangler, and Sibelius Symphony No 3 in E falt, LSO, Robert Kajanus as the complete bits are represented in the list of eight! Realy I did not want to leave them out! And you gave me an excuse!

ATB from Fredrik

Dear ROTF,

If you enjoy G&S, you should seek out some of the Mackerras recordings with Welsh National Opera on Telarc, which are very fine indeed (and the individual discs can be had quite cheaply from the Amazon marketplace).

regards, Tam

Here we go!!



Contemporary Albums


Talk Talk - Colour Of Spring

Sabres Of Paradise - Sabresonic

The Cure - Disintegration

Squarepusher - Ultravisitor

Primal Scream - Screamadelica

Depeche Mode - Violator

Newcleus - Jam On Revenge

Metamatics - MindMushingGit


12"


Derrick May - Strings Of Life

Todd Terry - Dreams Of Santa Anna

Charles B - Lack Of Love

Marshall Jefferson - The House Music Anthem

Fingers Inc - Can You Feel It

Afrika Bambaataa - Looking For the Perfect Beat/ Planet Rock

Newclues - Jam On Revenge (the Wikki Wikki Song)

Electra - Autumn Love



8 is to small a number I just want to take my whole collection.



Dean..

Only eight? Oh heck.

I think the spirit of the programme is that the music has significance to you, not that it's necessarily what you consider to be the best (I think, anyway).

On that basis.

Revolver - Beatles.
Mozart Clarinet Concerto - RPO Beecham.
Fire & Water - Free.
Machine Head - Deep Purple.
Argus - Wishbone Ash.
Brahms 3 - Walter.
Moontan - Golden Earring.
Mahler 9 - Barbirolli.

Steve

Impossible, of course, but here's my best guess:

Bach, Goldberg Variations - Angela Hewitt
Bach, Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin - Rachel Podger
Steely Dan, Show Biz Kids (impossible to choose one album, so this double CD best of will have to do)
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Jimmy Giuffre Trio, 1961 (reissue, by ECM, of two albums from that year)
Beethoven, Late Piano Sonatas - Pollini
Joanna Newsom, Ys
Eliane Radigue - Trilogie de la Mort

Last two were the hardest to pick!

1. Phil Collins: Hello, I Must Be Going!

2. Phil Collins: Serious Hits...Live!

3. Phil Collins: No Jacket Required

4. Phil Collins: Dance into the Light

5. Phil Collins: But Seriously

6. Phil Collins : Face Value

7. Phil Collins: Both Sides

8. Phil Collins: Testify



This insures I will not waste time listening to music so I can figure out how to GET OFF THE BLOODY ISLAND so I'm not stuck with eight discs !



Unstoppable

Hey Unstoppable,

What about Sarah Brightman?

She can tag along......

Let's accentuate the positive,
...

Kindest regards from Fredrik

I love this game!

Abbey Road, the Beatles
Days Of Future Passed, the Moody Blues
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, Pink Floyd
Grand Hotel, Procol Harum
Complete Collection, the Kinks
Very Best Of, the Stone Roses
Skylarking, XTC
Recurring Dream, Crowded House

Cheers,
Bruce

quote:

Originally posted by Tam:
Dear ROTF,

If you enjoy G&S, you should seek out some of the Mackerras recordings with Welsh National Opera on Telarc, which are very fine indeed (and the individual discs can be had quite cheaply from the Amazon marketplace).

regards, Tam

Dear Tam

Thank you - I will do that. I've been looking to build a G&S collection for some time - it's pure entertainment IMHO.

ATB Rotf

ok what the hell:

1. son house, "the original delta blues"
2. stones, either "exile" "beggar's" or "goat's head"
3. L7, the one w/ "goodbye sister" on it
4. mozart, "mass in c" not sure of definitive version (tam?)
5. mahler, 5th sym (maybe abbado's version); no, instead, joseph spence "happy all the time"
6. mahler, 6th (inbal?)
7. mahler, 9th (not bernstein's, but??)
8. bach, inventions and sinfonias, wolfgang rubsam

as they say, "eight is not enough." I really need to take all beethoven's late string quartets, but that's a couple discs right there; and more blues (robert pete williams, guitar slim, lowell fulson, t-bone walker, junior wells ...); and recordings of my son's high school orchestra; and some drone, maybe tomorrowland; and, of course, all bach's harpsichord catalog transcribed for piano, and all his violin partitas, and the unaccompanied cello suites (several versions), not to mention capt. beefheart, the chantays, some balinese gamelan, some manitas da plata, david hykes doing throatsinging ....

BTW desert island disks, the participants choose 8 tracks by different artists.

Fredrick needs to go again, as do a lot of you.

Pink Floyd. Echoes
Yes, Revealing Science of God
Orbital, Impact USA
Frank Zappa, Waka Jawaka
David Bowie, Thursdays Child
Cinematic Orchestra, Work it!
Cliff Martinez, First Sleep
Deadly Avenger, Deep Red

Dear Gary,

It ain't necessarily so!

There were no rules on that. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, for one example, chose eight records of her own singing, though with different composers writing the music. I chose eight different performing artisis and not more than three works from one composer! I could easily have chosen eight pieces by Bach!

Sir Adrian Boult appeared more than once and chose music performed by different musicians but more than one piece by one composer on each occasion!

Kindest regards from Fredrik

Come on Fredrik! Play the game. OK so two additions of DID did not follow the unwritten rule, but there it is.

Or is your preference so constricted all you can hear is Bach?

quote:

Originally posted by garyi
Or is your preference so constricted all you can hear is Bach?

Clearly not, though with Haydn, Bach is my favourite!

If I were forced to choose one composer, then it would be Bach, but that does not mean that parting with the others would not be quite difficult!

ATB from Fredrik

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Propaganda - 1234
Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum
Shawn Colvin - These Four Walls
Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell Part 1
David Sylvian - Everything And Nothing
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Radiohead - Amnesiac

In no particular order.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu
Chicago II
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Ben Webster - At the Renaissance
Tony Joe White - The Best of
Queen II
Rigmor Gustafsson (Swedish Jazz singer) - In the Light of Day
Van Morrison - Moon Dance (or some other of the early stuff, but not Astral Weeks)
Anything with Jonathan Richman
Beatles - Abbey Road

JohanR

Dear Fredrik

I'm confused by the rules on Desert Island Discs are you restricted to songs or pieces of music or are you allowed complete albums (or sets of albums).

I see most have interpreted it as taking an album rather than selecting the song or piece they would like to take.

Not that it matters

ATB Rotf

Just thinking if one would be allowed to take



The Symphonies (Nos 1-41 & 27 other symphonic works)

as listening to that could keep me happy for a good while.

Dear ROTF,

In 1942 when ythe programme started, I think it was eight shellec discs! With LPs and CDs came along I think it became the whole work...

Later the Bible and complete Shakespeare were added, plus a chosen book and an inanimimate and useless luxury item.

I think we can safely ignore the non-musical parts! It is only a game for fun, and there are some nice lists coming up.

Thanks for all the contributions! Fredrik

No way Fred, every one I have heard has been a single tune as a choice not Whole works or 'albums'

Of course you classical boys have an advantage of such long 'tunes'

If you hear more contemporary guests they get a tune not an album.

OK! From the BBC Radio 4 website.

Desert Island Discs is one of Radio 4's most popular and enduring programmes. Created by Roy Plomley in 1942, the format is simple: each week a guest is invited by Kirsty Young to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island.


So whole albums (on a single disc) seems to be OK, complete works though I think not.



Dean...

Dear Gary,

I think you have missed the point of the Thread. I am not asking more than for a list of eight records people regard as significant to them personally.

Whatever the rules are for choosing the records on the BBC Radio programme is entirely not the point of this thread. I have already suggested this earlier in the thread, and that it is supposed to be a fun game, only restricting the choice to eight records as far as the parallel goes with the Radio. We are not choosing a luxury item, or a book either!

Please accept the spirit that I started this thread in, and please don't spoil the fun for those who saw what it was about without the need for an exhaustive explanation of my intention, and which appears to have been clear to most respondents.

I am not going to split hairs over what you think the thread is about, particularly in the Music Room where the standard of debate does not normally require such a simple idea as a thread concerning lists of favourite music to be explained...

Please respect what the thread was initiated to do, and let people play a nice little game, and consider what possible eight records/CDs/albums/songs/symphonies [etc] they are very fond of ...

Kindest regards from Fredrik