Desert Island Discs (1 Viewer)

[nuke terrorist]

Thread is a desperate attempt to get us talking about actual music. It's more or less the format of the radio show...

Pick your 8 favourite pieces of music (not LPs).
Add honourable mentions if you like...

Pick one favourite book.
What would do with the complete works of Shakespeare and the Bible?

What luxury would you choose? (no electricity)

 

[nuke terrorist]

OK - I just picked songs I listened to a huge amount over the years. No theme - just personal to me...

SIEGE - Conform (1984)

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CHRIST ON PARADE - Teach Your Children Well (1987)

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WRETCHED - In Controluce (1987)

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LE SCRAWL - Good Times (1995)

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HAWKWIND - Damnation Alley (1977)

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CONFUSE - Spending Loud Night (probably recorded 1985) can't isolate track on its own. begins @ 4:48.

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PiL - No Birds Do Sing (1979)

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PROJECTILE AFTERBIRTH - Miss Jennifer Jones is Lying Dead on my Floor (1994)
Can't ever find this audio online.
Power electronics cover of Larry Wildman Fischer song from late 60's which features samples of the original. Former members of noise grind band STENCH OF CORPSE did three Fischer covers on their only EP. S.o.C. are on Bandcamp though

Honourable mentions:
Neon Christ - Ashes to Ashes (1984)
Associates - Nude Spoons (1981 Peel Session)
Magma - De Futura (live in studio on French TV 1977)
Miles Davis - Side B of Bitches Brew (1970)
Chic - Good Times (1979)
Steel Harmony - Transmission (the steel drum cover of J.D.)
Voivod - Warriors of Ice (1984)
Iannis Xenakis - Mycenae Alpha (1978)
Paul Dolden - Below the Walls of Jericho (1989)
Arif Sag - Fidayda (1984)
DAF - Die Kebabtraume (1980)
Cluster - any track off Cluster 71 (1971)
Pete Shelley - Homosapien (1981)
+ Lots of other stuff.

Book:
Either Rough Ride by Paul Kimmage or a music reference book with some sociological study stuff of whatever scene it was.
Rough Ride is a bio of a good hearted, working class Dub who has his heart broken in the ranks of pro cycling in the late 80's.
This is what sport - and maybe life - is really like. Brilliant preceptive writer. His account of finishing last on a brutal Alpine stage of the 1986 Tour is worth a hundred regular sports hero stories. The book helped launch a brilliant career in sports journalism.

Shakespeare?
Would probably end up reading it out of boredom and think some of it was better than I expected.
Bible?
If any missionaries ever showed up on me island I'd be well able to use the good book to argue with them.

Luxury?
A bed. Sorry, cliched answer but I have suffered badly with poor sleep in the past.

Finally got this typed up! Was much more of chore than I expected

 

[Kermit McDermott]

This is difficult. I might just take Richie Kavanagh's greatest hits. The complete biographies of Katie Price & a nose hair trimmer as my luxury item.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I'm listening to Nuke's choices.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

These are all songs I first encountered in my childhood or teens and that have stuck with me down the years. If I'm very lucky I might get another 30 out of them

Supergrass - Alright
Reminds me of good times out and about the midlands in a lorry in the summer of 1995 delivering booze. Just finished school, the weather was unbelievably good for months on end - like, helicopters-fighting-wildfires good. I was young and happy and this tune was on the radio all the time.

Roy Harper - Hallucinating Light
Another 95 song for me. It was only 20 years old then, like James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" is now, but Roy's was from before my time and therefore timeless. This is my favorite song, I feel like it has accompanied me all the way.

Marty Robbins - The Strawberry Roan
I went to see a friend having a bad time in the psychiatric hospital and she turned me on Gun Fighter Ballads and Trail Songs. She said it was about the only thing that made her feel better when she was at her worst. It's full of joy, I love it.

Pink Floyd - Dogs
I got into this around 1990. It must have been around the time The Fabulous Baker Boys was showing in the cinema in Mullingar because the two are linked in my mind. I still love it, I haven't heard anything else like it.

Iris Dement - Our Town
Probably not my favorite of her songs but it was the first one I heard when she played it on TV with Emmylou Harris and I was enchanted. It works better with time.

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Free For All
I guess I should bring some jazz and I love this. RTE showed an old Jazz Messengers concert on TV when I was in school and I loved it but I didn't get around to investing in one of his CDs until I went to college in Limerick in 1995.

a-ha - The Sun Always Shines on TV
The first band I was mad into, when I was 8 or 9. I'm not sure which of their songs I'd choose. It feels like people don't appreciate how fucking good side one of Scoundrel Days was.

OMD - Enola Gay
One of the earliest songs I remember loving. My brother had the single and I used to get him to play it all the time (until i was allowed operate the record player myself). Others in this category include I Don't Wanna Dance by Eddy Grant, Maggie's Farm by The Specials, Einstein A Go-Go by Landscape, My Perfect Cousin by The Undertones.

Book:
William Vollmann - A Table For Fortune
This one is a 4-volume 3000 pager that I haven't read yet (not published yet...) so I'd probably bring this. If I had to bring a book I've already read then maybe Vollmann's The Dying Grass or Proust's In Search Of Lost Time, both mainly for their length but also they're great.
The complete works of... feels like cheating when you can only have 8 songs.

Luxury item:
Looking around here I see no one item that seems essential, I think I'd get fed up with a guitar. Maybe unlimited art/painting stuff. I'm not an artist but I'd have time to experiment and decorate any caves on the island. Or a solar powered radio with all the am/fm/sw/lw etc

 

[ann post]

Supergrass - Alright
Reminds me of good times out and about the midlands in a lorry in the summer of 1995 delivering booze. Just finished school, the weather was unbelievably good for months on end - like, helicopters-fighting-wildfires good. I was young and happy and this tune was on the radio all the time.

years ago i was in the dentist and this came on the radio, he hummed along a bit with the song, sang the 'keep our teeth nice and clean' line and then went back to humming. good times.