What would your desert island discs be?

Graham,

There have been many threads on this over the years.

Even five/three or just one record.

If you do a search now its working you will find a few hours of reading.

My one and only is still Bob Dylan's All Along The Watch Tower Done by Jimi Hendrix.

I  have a solar powered iTouch with me 24/7 so what ever is on that i will be stuck with unless BT have a open zone on one of the huts on the island.

Stu.

OK Stu - if the desert island disc thing is played out, we can still save the thread with a desert island topic!

For me, I guess it would be:

The Visitor, by British prog band Arena.

Stu,

I'm with you with the Hendrix track, possibly followed a close second by Voodoo Chile. With stereo headphones of course. With music like that you wouldn't need any psychotropic agents to take your mind off the solitude of being on a desert island.

The old hippy.

I'm assuming in the rules that the entire Shirley Collins, Half Man Half Biscuit, Sandy Denny, Beatles and Kinks albums are still there from my previous visits to desert islands so I don't need to take them again .... if you haven't got the entire Shirley Collins catalogue, and if not then why not, I'd suggest starting with Anthems in Eden, then Folk Roots New Roots ... of course, my dessert island has Eldorado by ELO in every know format and so let me try to be a bit more left field .... 

Are we doing songs rather than entire albums?

• Louie Louie by the Kingsmen
  (just a great song) 
• Save My Soul by Wimple Winch 
  (probably useful if there are cannibals around - oh and the best 45 ever released) 
• In Search of Amelia Earhart by Plainsong
  (Gotta do something while I'm waiting to be rescued - some hopes I'd just be left there) 
• My Father Was A Lighthouse Keeper by Incredible String Band
  (You need a lighthouse to stop the ships going down)  
• You Sold The Cottage by Martha & the Muffins
  (Just my luck, what with being stranded and all) 
• Song From The Bottom Of a Well - Kevin Ayers & The Whole World
  (quite useful if I fell in)  
• There's No Lights On The Christmas Tree Mama, They're Burning Big Louie Tonight - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. 
  (a song that proves there is a rational explanation for everything) 
• Oh Dear Miss Morse - Tom Rapp & Pearls Before Swine
  (could come in useful, but not sure the word Tom spells out is particularly apt) 
• Eastbourne Ladies - Kevin Coyne 
  (the kind of people I'd find on a dessert island) 
• Happy To Be On An Island Far Away From Demis Roussos by Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias which you can find on Italians From Outer Space from the band that said "Living's just a cliché, it's all been done before". (It'd cheer me up whenever I heard it)

That's the spirit Guido just  'Songs' . However not sure your albums will have survived since your last visit. 

Regards Graham

You got me thinking Graham.

Here is my first draft:

Joy Division - Disorder

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No.3

Faithless - I Want More

This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren

Bob Dylan - Vissions of Joanna (acoustic version).

Ray

Prefab Sprout 'Bonny'

The Smiths 'What Difference Does It Make' (John Peel session version)

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 'Musst Musst'

Billy Bragg 'New England'

Antony + The Johnsons 'Epilepsy is Dancing'

King Creosote and John Hopkin 'Bubble'

Wilco 'Different Germany'

Yo La Tengo 'Night Falls On Hoboken'

Jethro Tull 'Skating Away In The Thin Ice Of a New Day' or 'We Used To Know'

Test Match Special (just a rolling loop taken at random)

Will be totally different next week/month/year apart from the top 4 probably.

Bruce

Some good tunes in there Bruce.

I always really liked Reel Around the Fountain (John Peel version).

Ray