Our Desert Island Eight Discs!

I carry the player.
Who takes the speakers?

Who is going to carry the records!? Fredrik

That's too hard Fred.
ONLY 8 records?

I love this game! Eight's easier than ten somehow.

The Faerie Queene, Henry Purcell
Odessey & Oracle, the Zombies
Laughing Stock, Talk Talk
Waking Hours, Del Amitri
Brandenburg Concertos, J.S. Bach
A Dream, Hopkinson Smith (lute music of John Dowland)
My Funny Valentine, Chet Baker
Shadows Are Go!, the Shadows

Cheers,
Bruce

Dear Bruce,

Grand fun!

Dear Gianluigi,

I give you permission to cheat! First post one lot of eight, then wait a page and post another. Like this.

Another Eight from Fredrik!

Bach Ich Habe genug, Hotter.

Haydn Quartet opuss 77 no 2 Mosaiques Quartet.

Beethoven First Piano Concerto, Schnabel.

Nothing Else Matters, Apolytica cover of the Metalica song.

Everytime you say goodbye,Ella Fitzgerald.

Elgar Cello Concerto, Navarra

Handel Concerto grosso opus 6 no 12 in B Minor, Adolf Busch Chamber Orchestra.

Schubert Symphony No 5 in B Flat, RPO Beecham.

Kindest regards from Fredrik

Well here's my first eight:

Count Basie / Ella Fitzgerald - Sunny side of the street
Ben Webster - Soulville
Joe Cocker - Night Calls
Flora Purim - Nos Dois
Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess
Yello - The Eye
Oscar Peterson - The way I really play Vol III
Peter Gabriel - Us

Geoff

God this is a hard one....oh well I'll have a try.

1. Led Zep- IV
2. Rush- hemipheres
3. Tool- Lateralus
4. Gomez- Liquid Skin
5. Ryan Adams- Love is Hell (parts 1 & 20 on vinyl it comes as a double)
6. Black Sabbath- Masters of Reality
7. PJ Harvey- Dry + Demonstration (again on vinyl as a double)
8. Pearl Jam- Live at the Gorge (this is my cheat as its a 7 disc boxset)

There are so many others that should be on there......

Ryan

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Thomas Tallis: Lamentations Of Jeremiah

I bet you've requested that at a few wedding evening do's ROTF

Jonathan

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Originally posted by Shayman:

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Thomas Tallis: Lamentations Of Jeremiah

I bet you've requested that at a few wedding evening do's ROTF

Jonathan

Hi Jonathan



If I Went To A Wedding then I'd always have great respect for any DJ who played a Saucy Haulage Ballad and go up to him and say Have you got any Dowland?.

ATB Rotf

1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

2. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town

3. Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Hearts of Stone

4. The Who - Who's Next

5. Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming

6. Dave Matthews Band - Busted Stuff

7. Steely Dan - Aja

8. Bad Company - Bad Company

I've left out double albums, live albums, greatest hits albums, etc., to keep in the spirit of the exercise. Also, while I think choices #1-5 would be on any desert island list of mine, there probably are about 20 albums that could find their way into choices #6-8 depending on my mood at that moment in time.

Mike

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Dear Bruce,

Grand fun!

Dear Gianluigi,

I give you permission to cheat! First post one lot of eight, then wait a page and post another. Like this.

Another Eight from Fredrik!

Bach Ich Habe genug, Hotter.

Haydn Quartet opuss 77 no 2 Mosaiques Quartet.

Beethoven First Piano Concerto, Schnabel.

Nothing Else Matters, Apolytica cover of the Metalica song.

Everytime you say goodbye,Ella Fitzgerald.

Elgar Cello Concerto, Navarra

Handel Concerto grosso opus 6 no 12 in B Minor, Adolf Busch Chamber Orchestra.

Schubert Symphony No 5 in B Flat, RPO Beecham.

Kindest regards from Fredrik

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
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

Well, last sunday Felix Dennis, of Oz trial fame, selected 8 tracks, with no reference to the albums they came from, so presumably you would get your selection of 8 burnt onto a BBC CD. I seem to recall the Jeremy Irons picked a a number of tracks that he actually sang on, I'm guessing, but he is probably right up there with Sarah B when it comes to vocal ability. He did pick something from the Local Hero soundtrack, so it wasn't all bad news.

Whiskeytown – Faithless Street
Richmond Fontaine – Winnemucca
Brian Eno – Music For Airports
Rory Gallagher – Irish Tour
Jane’s Addiction – Strays
Robert Johnson – The Complete Collection
King Crimson – Red
Smashing Pumpkins – Judas O

Dear Diode,

I could hardly care less what are the details of the rules in the long running BBC programme in their application to individual cases!

This is a thread where I am asking people to specifically whittle their choice down to eight indispesible pieces of music. Most people seem to have made nice posts doing just that.

Thanks to those who have posted their favourites. ATB from Fredrik

Pure Pop For Now People

Magical Mystery Tour, the Beatles
Woodface, Crowded House
20 Golden Greats. the Hollies
In Search Of The Lost Chord, the Moody Blues
Essential ELO, Electric Light Orchestra
From Monday To Sunday, Nick Heyward
Goodbye Jumbo, World Party
Shazam, the Move

Cheers,
Bruce

Chuck Berry: The Great Twenty-Eight

Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street

Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blue vol 1

Muddy Waters: Sail On

Delaney and Bonnie: Motel Shot

Niel Young: Rust Never Sleeps

Temptations: All The Million Sellers

Janis Joplin: I Got Dem Ol Cozmic Blues Again Mamma

Not to put a damper on things but anyone listen to 21st century or even music from the last two decades .



Dean...

Well, I included Talk Talk and Joanna Newsom in my eight, so don't look at me!

Dear Dean,,

Gary, Diode and now your good self! Let's try tp spoil a bit of fun shall we?

There is something going horribly wrong on the Forum at the moment among old members and new. There was a time when a Thread like this would have been plain good fun, without issue, at least in the Music Room, which used to be known for politeness and easy difference. No longer apparently.

Nowadays, people seem to have to "put a damper on things," to use your phrase.

I am away for a few days now, and will be reviewing if it is worthwhile to continue posting here. It is becoming a rather spikey, brittle, narrow little place, IMO.

I shall not be the first person interested in music, who has lost interst because of the is trend. Any read anything from pe-zulu [for one example], here in recent months. I know why, but that is how the Forum is going, and as was said elsewhere, the Forum is only as good as it contributors' postings...

Fredrik

This is all very High Fidelity (btw it's always a 'Top 5' not a 'Top 8' )

Here are mine in no particular order:

Beck - Sea Change
Ryan Adams - 29
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
Rachmaninov - Vespers
Natalie Merchant - Ophelia
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs

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Not to put a damper on things but anyone listen to 21st century or even music from the last two decades .

See above!

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Originally posted by Whizzkid:
Not to put a damper on things but anyone listen to 21st century or even music from the last two decades .

Dean...

Hi Dean

Great music is great music - it can be folk, classical or modern plus thanks to the forum I've found jazz and soul music that I can appreciate. I'll never understand dance and club music, but that maybe because I can't dance and don't like high volumes.

I wouldn't like to stop the flow of new music. I'd need to go back to the late 60s to see as much emerging talent as we have today and I could easily be restricted to 21st century music (I'd survive in most perpetual decades, but not the 80s please). So if I'm only allowed 21st century music then

Oh My Darling by Basia Bulat
10 by Kate Rusby
Boys From The Abattoir by Waking The Witch
Burlesque by Bellowhead
Cruel Sister by Rachel Unthank & The Winterset
Faultlines by Karine Polwart
Sweet Liberty by Cara Dillon
The Drift by Scott Walker

and there so many more I could include as I left out Laura Cantrill, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Eliza Carthy, Lisa Knapp, Mamma-Ra, Angie Palmer, Candie Payne, Emily Smith, Martha Tilston, Tiny Tin Ladies, Kate Walsh, Lucinda Williams and so on ... I'm still taking it that I have Cammel Laird Social Club and Achtung Bono as part of my HMHB collection as two finer 21st century albums would be hard to find .....

ATB Rotf

Now where've my Bonzo Dog Band albums gone ......

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Originally posted by Whizzkid:
Not to put a damper on things but anyone listen to 21st century or even music from the last two decades .



Dean...

Plenty of new stuff would be on my list but knowing the tastes of forum members I don't want to piss anyone off with my choices. Records I listed are some nearly all members have heard so I thought it would be more fun that way.


Unstoppable

Hi Unstoppable

I think we'd like to know what the new stuff you'd take is .... you never know we must like some of it.

ATB Rotf

I like Fredrik's idea of rules...here's eight more.

Ten Years After - Shhhhh
Mozart - Figaro/Solti
SAHB - Next
Jackson Browne - Late For the Sky.
Joni - Blue
Beethoven 5 - C Kleiber
BB King - Cook Co Jail
Rush - Moving Pics

Steve