Gardeners' Corner Desert Island Discs

Which eight discs would you take with you to your desert island?

(For anyone who doesn't know, for about the last 1,000 years R4 has been running a weekly show in which a celeb is invited to choose eight recordings they'd take to their desert island, should they ever be marooned in solitary confinement. They then have to pick one from the eight which they'd save if all else got washed away.)

It's a game we often play in the ClaraLou household. It's just a bit surprising that we've yet to be invited on to the show. Anyway, I think if I only had one recording to which I could listen I probably chuck it off the cliff after a couple of hours, however much I liked it. But at a push, I'd probably choose this.

David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (1970) - YouTube

 

So songs, not full albums?

Songs;
Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
O. Children - Heels
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
The Smiths - Nowhere Fast
Morrissey - Glamorous Glue
Interpol - Leif Erikson
Interpol - Lights

Albums;
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
O. Children - S/T
Morrissey - Years Of Refusal
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Clare Maguire - Light After Dark
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Interpol - S/T
Morrissey - Southpaw Grammar

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I'd go with this

 

Yes, should have said - songs, not albums. but hey! Who cares? This is GC Desert Island Discs! Should you get picked, KyleLeonard, you will probably be encouraged to choose a different artist for each of your eight.

 

I really don't listen to enough different artists to do 8 different ones :( :D

 

have more than 8 .... but here are 8 ... ask me the same question tommorow, and I'd most probbly have a different selection ...

Bob Dylan .... Best Of

Cat Stevens .... Best of

Audience .... House on the Hill

Uriah Heep ... Demons and Wizards

Moody Blues ... Best of

Neil Young ... Decade

The Cars ... Best of

America ... Best of

 

Favourite song of all time I would never get tired of listening to it.

 

Led Zeppelin....Stairway to Heaven.
Lynyrd Skynyrd....Freebird.
Style Council....Long Hot Summer.
Supertramp....Logical Song.
Groove Armada....At the River.
Motorhead....Ace of Spades.
Stranglers....Walk On By.

...and saving the best until last it would have to be...
Pink Floyd....Dark Side of the Moon (can't possibly pick one track, it's all brilliant).
If I had to save one, it would be that one.

 

Nothing Rhymed, Gilbert O'Sulivan

Another Girl, An Other Planet, The only Ones.

I Don't Like Mondays, Boomtown Rats.

Your Love Alone, The Manics.

Umbrella, Rhianna.

Miss Jackson, Outcast.

Autumn Almanac, The Kinks.

Paint it Black, Stones.

 

today, I had a labourious job of pulling weeds and turning flower beds ...

listed to several 'mellow' tracks, and these were a few my favourites (for the day) .... tommorow it will most prob be a different selection and something more 'upbeat' as I'm mowing lawns for most of the day :

Katie Melua - If You Were A Sailboat - YouTube

Diana Krall - Temptation : Montreal Jazz Festival 2004 Live - YouTube

Cat Stevens - Moonshadow - YouTube

Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne - YouTube

Moody Blues - Isn't Life Strange - YouTube

Melody Gardot - Official Video - YouTube

 

I would definitely have The Kinks and The Stones in my list too. I think I'd go for Lola rather than AA, though. Great lyrics. 'Met her in a bar down in old Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola, C-O-L-A cola ......'

 

Bloming enjoyed that, ta

 

Don't know if I can do this! I've been struggling to pick five for my sons wedding at the end of October. I've already had six weeks to pick.

 

Morrissey Nothing Rhymed - YouTube

 

1. David Soul - Leave a Light On
2. Alan Price - Cushie Butterfield
3. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
4. Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
5. Ralph Vaughn Williams - The Lark Ascending
6. Anyone - Bruch Violin Concerto #1
7. Matt Redmond - Facedown
8. Rueben Morgan - My Heart Will Trust

Best one - The Lark Ascending.

 

Could write this list 100 hundred times over but...


Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Mr Bungle - Carousel
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
The Doors - L.A Woman
Anything by Led Zep


and Steve Earle - Copperhead Road - YouTube