CaB Desert Island Discs

[Ferris]

Was thinking about this today, and couldn't find an equivalent thread on CaB which I thought was odd.so, without further ado - here it is:

The format is simple – a guest is invited to choose eight discs, a book and a luxury to take with them as they're castaway on a mythical desert island. They're given the complete works of Shakespeare and the Bible. During the interview they explain their choices and discuss key moments in their lives, people and events that have influenced and inspired them and brought them to where they are today.

I will moderate. If you pick a luxury that's out of bounds, you'll be kicked off the island. 8 records. 1 book. 1 luxury. Please keep discussions of key moments of your life to a minimum.

I'll go first.

Records
Tallahasee by the Mountain Goats
Are You Experienced by Jimi Hendrix
Kid A by Radiohead
Hex Enduction Hour by the Fall
Three by Joel Plaskett
Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
Goo by Sonic Youth

Book
Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore

Luxury
My guitars & electric piano.

[touchingcloth]

You can't take albums to a desert island dick head.

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

1 luxury.

Luxury
My guitars & electric piano.

I'm afraid you've just been fired from the island.

[Ferris]

Fuck. Well if I'm booted off, then who's going to run the island?

[Ferris]

You only get 8 songs total? Can that be right?

[idunnosomename]

Painkiller
Hell Patrol
All Guns Blazing
Leather Rebel
Metal Meltdown
Between the Hammer & the Anvil
A Touch of Evil
One Shot at Glory

Summa Theologica

Guitars

To be honest though, if I was on DiD I'd chose songs to represent albums and also have specific recordings of classical works.

At the moment I only aspire to be on Private Passions, though.

[DrGreggles]

Fuck. Well if I'm booted off, then who's going to run the island?

Hurley?

Anyway, fuck the 8 songs bullshit. My luxury item is my 160GB ipod.

[bgmnts]

2112
Caress of Steel
Moving Pictures
Gordon
Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory
The Stranger
Tea for the Tillerman
Master of Puppets.

This would change every other week I'm sure but that's a strong list.

[touchingcloth]

You only get 8 songs total? Can that be right?

Yes. A better format for radio, and I imagine they wanted to avoid situations where people chose "the best of the 50s to 90s" in Partridge fashion.

[grassbath]

8 songs is well hard isn't it? Have a crack at it:

O Superman by Laurie Anderson
Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell
My Favorite Things by Coltrane
Ziggomatic v17 by Aphex
Mr Tambourine Man by Dylan
Peg by Steely Dan
If I Could Only Fly by Blaze Foley
Stars/Feelings live '76 by Nina Simone

Book: Ulysses. If I've got the complete works of Shakespeare as well I can finally find the time to get to grips with the stupid Hamlet chapter in the library.

Luxury: a grand piano

[chveik]

songs: do classical music pieces count as songs? if they do: sibelius' violin concerto performed by itzhak perlman
& bach's violin sonata #3
helpless child by swans (swans are dead live version)
cosmic love by joe mcphee
pen expers by autechre
night of the assassins by les rallizes dénudés ('77 live version)
at les by carl craig
track ten by juan atkins

book: in search of lost time

luxury : some sort of wanking apparatus. never tried it but what else is there to do on an desert island? or anywhere, come to think of it

[H-O-W-L]

Ahh fuck I wrote under the albums pretense but I can honestly not narrow it down to eight songs. Assume I deafen myself with a hot pin right as they load me onto the boat.

Book I'd pick is probably a collection of HG Wells' most famous stories, or perhaps just War of the Worlds.

Luxury I'd take would probably be a lifetime supply of chilled grape juice.

[Dex Sawash]

Lorde- Tennis Court (x8)


Luxitem- a tennis court


Book- something from Alfred Lord Tennis Court

[Jasha]

luxury : some sort of wanking apparatus. never tried it but what else is there to do on an desert island? or anywhere, come to think of it

NWS
https://i.ibb.co/hddkdFp/IMG-20190818-105546.jpg

[Johnny Yesno]

My luxury item would be a 'RIP OSCILLATIONS' branding iron.

[NoSleep]

Luxury
My guitars & electric piano.

Pity you have no electricity supply.

[touchingcloth]

My luxury item would be a 'RIP OSCILLATIONS' branding iron.

It crosses into Shelf Abuse as well and also, on the strength of the thread so far, self abuse.

[shiftwork2]

Fuck. Well if I'm booted off, then who's going to run the island?

Roy Plomley's quivering anus.

[Small Man Big Horse]

Music
The best 8 songs from Billy The Kid vs The Green Baize Vampire

Book
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clark

Luxury
Some kind of solar power generator thing, and a laptop with a 2 terrabyte hard drive packed with tv and films that I haven't seen.

[Johnny Yesno]

Luxury
Some kind of solar power generator thing, and a laptop with a 2 terrabyte hard drive packed with tv and films that I haven't seen.

'Films', eh...

Are you sure 2TB will be enough?

[Small Man Big Horse]

'Films', eh...

Are you sure 2TB will be enough?

Probably not but I'm not made of money. And if I stuck to 700mb I could probably survive for a good few years before I needed to rewatch things I'd already seen.