Desert Island discs`

Book- War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Luxury - High Powered Sattelite Phone to get off there ASAP, failing that a radio.

Pernice Brothers - Overcome By Happiness Brian Eno/Daniel Lanois - An Ending (Ascent) MbV - You Made Me Realise Sonic Youth - Expressway to Yr. Skull VU - What Goes On (Live) Flaming Lips - Waiting For Superman Low - July Love - And More Again

Book: The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky Luxury: Fender Jazz Bass

The Chiffons: Tonight I'm Going To Dream

Pharcyde: Otha Fish

Flying Burrito Bros: Sin City

Gravediggaz: 1-800-000 Suicide

Jesus And Mary Chain: Never Understand

Culture: I'm Alone In The Wilderness

LL Cool J: Goin Back To Cali

Chet Baker: My Funny Valentine

Catch-22 and a typewriter (with paper and ribbons)

I've actually thought about my own picks in the past - this is from the perspective of "what would I like to submit Radio 4 listeners to". Lots of noise, atonal music and swearing of course (childish? me?), but main thing is I would insist on a clause in my contract saying the station would have to play my picks in their entirety and not fade them out after 45 seconds like they usualyy do.

Is that Tove Janson?

We have desert Island discs on the radio here too- but only five. so you people are going to have to be a little more restrained...

1. So What - Miles Davis 2. Ramblin' Man - Hank Williams 3. Treats Your Daughter Mean - Ruth Brown 4. Travellin' Blues - Lefty Frizell 5. St. Louis Blues - Bessie Smith 6. What Condition my Condition is In - Kenny Rogers and the First Edition 7. B-Boy Bouillbaisse - Beastie Boys 8. My Window Faces the South - Bob Wills

What were the others, book and luxury item? Hmm, Ulysesses b/c it would keep me busy and a lifetime supply of cold Lone Star beer. yum.

Slayer - Dead Skin Mask
Bon Jovi - Saturday Night
Elfpower - The Sun is Forever or Circular Malevolance
Beach Boys - All I Wanna Do
Dinosaur Jr - Freakscene
Masters of the Hemisphere - The New Commotion
Mike Hanle y - ILE song
Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight

Book..."How to get of Desert Islands in Five Easy Steps"

Luxury Item: A large fully staffed hotel complex with all mod cons!

He wanted to take William Shatner doing Lucy in the sky with Diamonds because 'If you heard this record you'd hollow out your own leg to make a canoe to get off the island' and war and peace because 'there'd be no toilet paper on the island and its a big book'.

He has gone up somewhat in my estimation.

2 Jimi Hendrix - "Drifting"

3 Ornette Coleman - "Theme from a Symphony (Var 1)" (from Dancing In Your Head)

4 Steve Reich - Tehillim

5 Led Zeppelin - "Dancing Days"

6 Joy Division - "Insight"

7 the first piece from MS Subbulakshmi's 1983 UN concert

8 Django Reinhardt - "Solitude"

Ursula LeGuin - The Left Hand of Darkness

computer with Internet connection

Book: Ulysses - would finally be able to spend the time at it...
Luxury: Internet connection
Music: Aaarrrgghh - too much though required!

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For rights reasons Desert Island Discs is not available as a listen again item.

Darn you rights reasons

so who's been the best castaway ever on DID, in terms of their music choices?

Ian Rankin must come fairly close: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20060716.shtml

And he chooses A Dance to the Music of Time as his book :-)

Thrilled that this is now available as a podcast and Doesn't seem to matter that the songs are even more truncated than on the broadcast version. Morrissey even managed to come across as not too mental and/or racist.

Ma nu favourite podcast <3333. Michael Caine offered a curious selection::

Coldplay — Viva La Vida
Elbow — One Day Like This
Elgar's Nimrod
Chicane — No Ordinary Morning
Bent — Swollen
Phyllis Nelson — Move Closer
Frank Sinatra — My Way
John Lennon & Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band — Happy Xmas (War is Over)

Caine was hilarious introducing his "chill" choices.

Looking forward to Sunday's: David Tennant appears to be sharing his love of The Housemartins with an eager nation.

David Tennant OTM

Dave going with "Me and the Farmer" so a) good choice, and b) I really really love David Tennant beyond all reason or measure.

Oh but he is now playing Kaiser Chiefs (I was inoculated against the Deacon Blue selection) but he is very lovable innee?

I know, I nearly broke off the bromance when he described ver Kaisers as "the cool kids" but hell I have no critical faculties re: Tennant.

Well, I laughed because a Northern ILXor (not naming names) is also friends w/Kaiser Chiefs and it's the one thing that saves me screaming at the radio when their songs come on, purely because a good person has vouched for them as OK people.

Good old Davie, he is proper good people. Also, there's not enough Housemartins love in the world.

Absolutely, altho I would always and forever choose "Build", meself.

Not a bad selection really, except for the Kaiser Chiefs. Not that I have a problem with the Kaiser Chiefs, but that is one really tedious song.

(also props for his luxury item being the box set of the West Wing, which would pretty much sustain me through long periods of boredom)

Somebody should give him a bunch of McCarthy albums (if he doesn't already have them).

Haha it'd be great to go on DID and have them play "God Made the Virus" or "The Vision of Peregrine Worsthorne".

If I ever went on it (very unlikely) I think I'd just have 8 death metal tracks for a laugh.

would be v. tempted to get some Merzbow or NWW on there.

and have a bunch of stories about how they reminded you of poignant life events

actually did a mini-version of this on Radio Humberside once where you got 1 pick, they wouldn't let me have "God Save the Queen" so I went with Frank Ifield's "I Remember You".

Absolutely, altho I would always and forever choose "Build", meself.

― Domnesty International (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 December 2009 12:50 (3 hours ago)

Same here. I thought Me and The Farmer was a nice but, for me, wrong choice. And though it's clear he's the same age, and was listening to much the same music in his late teens as me (my personal DIDs would probably lean a bit to heavily in favour of late '80s UK jangly indie as well), he seems to have lost interest in music around about 1989.
Kaiser Chiefs as token 'what's cool nowaydays' choice, even though he probably doesn't know anything about them, and the Tim Minchin as token track that has caught his ear and genuinely loves as a grown-up.

I watched Hamlet last night, and though some of his repertoire of faces and little noises he uses in Doctor Who made their way into his performance, I thought he was pretty good in the role.

70th anniversary - tomorrow

would be v. tempted to get some Merzbow or NWW on there.

Some admirable choices here:

Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Kontrapunkte" (Warren Mitchell(!), 13 Nov 1967)

Iannis Xenakis, "Herma" (Oleg Gordievsky(!!), 10 Feb 2008)

Pierre Boulez, "Le marteau sans maître", (John Bird, 29 Jan 1968)
Pierre Boulez, "Répons" (John Bird (again), 28 May 2000 (his choice for favourite))

Giacinto Scelsi, "Pfhat" (Daniel Libeskind, 29 Jun 2003)

Charlie Brooker's just been on. Favourite piece of music: "The New Potatoes" by Denim. Excellent choice.

So my office have been playing this game where people give their 6 'Desert Island Discs' and everyone has to guess who it is based on the music.

If I just submitted 6 Kraftwerk songs, would that be hilariously funny and VMIC, or would I just be an insufferable cnut?

Just be yourself imo

My self *is* an insufferable cnut.

6 Kraftwerk songs it is, then!

Lol that is not meant to be a double-edged answer

Beat me to it

I would pick 6 kraftwerk songs, but all from the first 3 albums

not sure how long i'd last listening to kraftwerk on a desert island, imagine i'd just get crushed by the melancholia of hopefulness

I've gone right off Sharon Horgan after listening to her DIDs last week.

I'd tell the BBC that I couldn't care less that the Cecil Taylor track I've picked runs longer than the entire program slot, either play it in its entirity or go fuck yourselves.

They had a PD James vintage on earlier, never got as far as the tracks, needed to stop listening.

When I think about this what I am most sure of is that my luxury item would be a certain brand of chai teabags.

So that and six remixes of Expo 2000 it is.

She's not someone I knew anything much about before, but I happened to catch Samantha Morton's appearance just now and it was very good - an interesting, candid, emotional interview and solid musical choices. I need to listen to some more Molly Drake, that track was beautiful.