Desert Island Discs

Pogue Mahone said:
The entire archive is online as podcasts and I've been digging in a lot these last few weeks. It's great radio. Plus it's hard not to fall a little bit in love with Kirsty Young.

BBC - Desert Island Discs - Home

There's a handy search function where you can choose specific tracks and search to see who chose them.

So far, I'd particularly recommend Morrisey, Steve Coogan and Frank Skinner but I've barely scratched the surface at this stage.

Regarding my own list, I'd go with:

Pearl Jam - Black
Reminds me of not long after I learned to drive and used to tool around with a tape (oh yes) of this in the car stereo, turned up ridiculously loud.
Janes Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
Because it's a brilliant tune.
Pixies - Monkey's Gone to Heaven
Used to throw shapes to this at indie kid discos, when I was a lot younger and skinnier.
Velvet Underground - Sunday Mornings
An ex introduced me to the brilliance of Velvet Underground and we used to listen to this on, well, Sunday mornings.
Portishead - Mysterons
Used to play this album to death after a night out clubbing. The key change early on in the tune still gives me goose-bumps.
Leftfield - Inspection (Check One)
For more or less the same reasons as the Portishead track.
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Losing a bit of street cred by not going with the original but I once drove for 16 hours across the Australian outback with Grace as the only album in my car. This has stayed with me ever since.
Walkmen - The Rat
Randomly discovered this song on MTV one night. Of all the new music I've discovered in recent years, this is the one I keep coming back to.
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Excellet choice of music, especially Black and Sunday Morning (it doesn't have an S on the end ;) )
 
Listened to the Martin Sheen one recently - comes across (as with many other appearances I've seen of him) as a really great man.
 
I've been rooting back a few years, and David Davis was a really interesting listen. Janet Street-Porter as well was an eye-opener. I listened to the latest Danny Baker one at the weekend, and found him to be a bit boring, but admittedly quite candid. Not the best one I've heard. Frank Skinner is also worth a listen.
 
My discs:

1. You Raise Me Up - Brian Kennedy
2. Intermezzo from Cavaleria Rusticana by Mascagni
3. Sweet Child of Mine - Guns and Roses
4. Wednesday Morning, 3am - Simon and Garfunkle
5. Grace - Shamrog
6. Run to You - Bryan Adams
7. Never Forget - Take That
8. You Light Up My Life - Westlife

Book - Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett

Movie - LOTR trilogy. (Cheating, I know).

And my luxury item would be pen and paper.
 
I think the last time we did this I picked Songs in the Key of Life. This I'm going to be careful to pick stuff I know I'll never get bored of.

Book:
Dr. Zhivago. I've read it several times and enjoyed it every time so it seems like an obvious pick.

Movie:
It's got to be a comedy. I dont think anything else makes sense. This is really hard. Can't decide. I'll pick a random movie I like. Almost picked Chaplin but that's silent so no way.
The Apartment - No. No. That would make me way too lonely.
The Sting. - Yep, lets go with that.

Albums:
Promises - Clapton
Your Latest Trick - Dire Straits
Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam
Zero Chance - Soundgarden
Immigrant Song - Led Zep
Melissa - Allman Brothers
Nutshell - Alice in Chains
Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
 
Desert Island mixtape:

1) Janis Joplin - Summertime
2) Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
3) Pixies - Hey
4) Pink Floyd: Echoes
5) Stranglers - Golden Brown
6) Neil Young - After the Goldrush
7) The Doors - Riders on the Storm
8) Frank Zappa - Uncle Remus

9) Film: Empire Strikes Back

10) Book: Lord of the Rings

11) Luxury: Home brew kit, assuming supply of relevant crop plants available
 
Music

Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song - A perfect song to listen to as the sun sets.

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part One) - The build up is immense and opens one of the finest albums in rock.

Guns N' Roses - Coma - The first time I listened to this it blew me away. It still does.

Clutch - Burning Beard - Hard driven rift with fantastical and mythological lyrics to show us the ills of the world. "Swan-diving off the tongues of crippled giants" to describe the effects of the Wall Street Crash is Shakespearean.

Roxy Music - Beauty Queen - Love Ferry's vocals and lyrics.

Mozart - Clarinet Concerto II. Adagio - If I'm to while away many hours alone this will keep me company time and time again. Simple, delicate, and beautiful.

Ennio Morricone - The Ecstacy of Gold - A stunning piece of music. To be played on rescue.

David Bowie - Soul Love - I remember my mum playing the Rise and Fall... album one evening when there was nowt on telly. This song sold me the Bowie thing.

Book

Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina- The way he exposes his characters thoughts and relays this to the style of his narration as you read each "part" of the book shows Tolstoy's talent as a writer and story teller. "A flawless work of art" was Dostoevsky's description of this novel. I can't disagree.

Luxury

A chess computer - I'll beat it eventually.
 
Just picked up Anna Karenina and Dr Zhivago...a lot of love for russian literature going on!

This is very very difficult but here goes:

Music -

The Smiths - This Charming Man (Peel Sessions version). Saying that I'm in tangible pain choosing which smiths album to put in a cd player, never mind taking one song to a desert island!

Neil Young - Like a Hurricane - toss up between this and Ohio, but LAH prevails purely because of song length.

PJ Harvey - The Last Living Rose - her new album's up there with some of her best work, and the lyrics from this would help remind me of England and keep me sane whilst rescue parties are on their way.

New Order - Ceremony - My favourite track by Joy Division/New Order, which is a bold call. The guitar licks in this are :drool:

My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow - Whenever I've been high this is THE song. So textured, so many different layers of instruments.

The Libertines - Death On The Stairs - (Re-recorded version off their best of compilation).

Pixies - Velouria.

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - A Lark Rising

Film - V for Vendetta. A very marmite choice, but I enjoy it very much, it's very British. Sod going bald, Natalie Portman would still get a length even if she had to amputate a limb for a role in the film.

Book - Bloody tough one this. However cliched a choice, the Great Gatsby is just an utter marvel but I'm going to leave that out. Trainspotting was hard to leave out, and some of Iain Banks' work as well, but I'm going to plump for Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre. Often described as a modern day Catcher in the Rye, it's only real similarity is the style in which it is written, and for my money it is far better.

Luxury - Tea. Lots and lots of tea
 
Very difficult to trim a list of 1600 songs on my iPhone to 8

Cyndi Lauper -Time after time

Simple Minds - Don't you forget about me

Abba - Dancing Queen ( purely because it's my dads favourite song ever, and it would always remind me of him )

Wishbone Ash - Blowing free

Barbara Streisand - The way we were

Blind Melon - No Rain

The Beatles - Penny Lane

Robin S - Show me love


Book - Gone With The Wind


And luxury, if not my Jack Russell, then endless supplies of Demi sec Billecart & Salmon champagne
 
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