Most people residing in the few wee bits of rock jutting out of the sea just to the West of Europe will know the rules of Desert Island Discs.
However for those who don't the story is this ...
You're washed up on a Desert Island for God knows how long.
What ten albums would you like to have with you to while away the time and what 2 books?
(The original assumes that the Bible and The Complete Works Of Shakespeare will already be there, so you get to choose two others. On our imaginary Desert Island you get Breatnach's Complete Works and O'Neill's 1850 ...)
I'll start ye off ...
1. The Bothy Band - 1975
2. Mick O'Brien & Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh - Kitty Lie Over
3. Dolores Keane & John Faulkner - Sail Og Rua
4. Boys Of The Lough - Farewell & Remember Me
5. Paddy Keenan - The N
1 The Bothy Band -1975
2 The Bothy Band -Old Hag..
3 Arcady Many- happy returns
4 Na Connery's- The session
5 Dervish- Boys of Sligo
4 Dervish -Misdummer's..
5 Dervish- Playing with fire
6 Mulcahy Family
7 Teada
8 Chieftains- Bonaparte's retreat
9 Chieftains Boil the breakfast..
10 Kelly/O'Brien/Sproule
and 2 books by William Golding. maybe Pincher Martin and the Spire..
Paul
So, this is a desert island with electricity and a working CD player, is it? *grin* Not to mention time to choose the discs and books as the ship goes down and assuming you brought the entire collection and your library with you?
I'll have to think about it for a bit, my list has changed since last time I played this game...
"The original assumes that the Bible and The Complete Works Of Shakespeare will already be there"
So the Bible is put there by the Gideons (God bless them), but what I really want to know is: Who are the mysterious organisation that goes round placing copies of Shakespeare for the weary traveller?
I've just notice that O'neills big yellow is free, so can I take some whiskey in place of the other book?
What's currently in the rotation... I'd like to add about 20 more:
1) Paul McGrattan - The Frost is all Over
2) O'Donoghue, Barry, McCarthy - Late... In the Night
3) John Carty - At it Again
4) Micheal O'Raghallaigh - The Nervous Man
5) Various - Maiden Voyage
6) Cathal McConnell - Long Expectant Comes at Last
7) The Mountain Road - Tunes Popular in South Sligo
8) Kevin Crawford - In Good Company
9) Seamus Tansey - The Best of Seamus Tansey
10) Packie Duignan & Seamus Horan - Music from County Leitrim
Most needed Irish themed books would be LAST NIGHT'S FUN and THE SNAPPER.
Aren't you supposed to reveal your life story to the presenter in between playing the records? Mysteriously, the running time of extracts from the records plus the discussion time exactly equals the time allocated for the programme.
Trevor
I would never take all 10 CDs from the same genre unless forced at gunpoint, but this is what would be in the bag if that ever happened:
Pierre Schryer & Ian Clark - In the Heat of the Moment
Kevin Burke/Open House - Third Story
Gerald Trimble - First Flight
Martin Hayes - Under the Moon
Roger Landes - Dragon Reels
Matt Molloy - eponymous
John Williams - Steam
Cherish the Ladies - Best of...
Brian Pickell - Fresh Canadian Fiddle Tunes
Barachois - Party Acadien
Needless to say the lesser known albums are well worth searching out, especially the first one on my list. I've got a new pile of CD goodies that I'm digesting, so this list will probably change a bit in the future.
I'd like to see more than just bare lists... ('cos there are a lot of choices above that I've not heard of). What do people like about the albums they've selected?! I dunno whether I can think of ten I'd *really* be happy with on a desert island. Let's see: |----- Rodney Miller - Airdance. For me this guy has everything I aspire to on the fiddle. Effortless variations, great tunes and fabulous rhythm and dancability. |----- Liz Carroll - Lost in the Loop. I was blown away by this album when I first heard it. Despite many, many listenings, I still can't get enough of it. |----- Catriona Macdonald & Ian Lowthian - Opus Blue. I've had this album for ages, and I never tire of it. Fiddle, squeezebox and double-bass, a magic combination when sensitively put together. Makes me feel happy! |----- Shooglenifty - Venus in Tweeds. I'm assuming we've got big thumping speakers on this desert island! Fantastic to jump around to; non-trad by folks that love trad. |----- The Kathryn Tickell Band - eponymous Best album they ever did. Great sound, great tunes. |----- Lunasa - Otherworld. It's dangerous to play this while driving, 'cos the speedo rapidly reaches 110. I love their arrangements. |----- Cliar - Gunh Tamh. Arthur Cormack on those gaelic songs makes me homesick. |----- Jerry Holland - Fiddler's Choice. I wanna learn all his tunes. |----- Shooglenifty - The Arms Dealer's Daughter. I want to learn all the tunes off this too; I couldn't leave it behind! |----- Flook - Flatfish. Another one I can't get tired of listening to. [Sorry about the single paragraph, this website ignores my carriage-returns!]
Rog - your notes have inspired me, hear are mine -
Flook, Flatfish and Rubai, great tunes, great arrangements and you get John Joe Kelly to boot.
Liz Carrol, Lost In The Loop - one fiddle many moods.
Altan, Red Crow - Love the variety with stonking sets at the beginning and end.
Four Men And A Dog, Dr A's Secret Remedies - Another great mix of stuff with Gino Lupari playing fantastic bodhran - not a good one for the car, just too hard to stay legal.
Deaf Shepherd, Even In The Rain - Scottish group, highland pipes, two fiddlers, zouk, guitar, whistles the lot and Mark Macguire does great bodhran.
Battle Field Band - Happy Daze, Mike Katz on pipes, small and large, real strength and rythm.
Cantrip, Silver - new Edinburgh band, play anything from 100 mile an hour reels, to pipe sets to a yiddish wedding reel and tunes from Finnland and Cape Breton. Not only a great album but a reminder of the night I thought was an open session and asked to join (certainly - no probs was the reply) and found out at the end twas a paid gig!!!
Slainte Mhah - more scottish stuff at light speed.
Kevin Macloed - Springwell. Mandolin, zouk, and resophonic guitar. Lots of stuff I've never heard before with stuff I had but never on CD - and Frankie Gavin accompanying.
I know that most of the stuff is Scottish but thats where I live and so most of who I get to see live. Will definately get some of the albums that crop up frequently on other peoples lists, at
Ah..another closet Radio4 listener...or bunch of them! I thought it was just 10 tracks, not 10 albums...oh well, what the hell, we're musos after all, what with the enlarged Brocca's area in the brain to keep amused.
But I started a thread like this a wee while ago...like this, I said, not the same. Mine was yer 10 favourite albums. This is the 10 ye want to take to a desert island. To me that means 10 albums, ie about 120 tracks ie about 360 tunes...ok, between 3-400 tunes.
If yer stuck on a desert island, you must surely have yer instrument, so you can practice all these learnable tunes. So for me it's 10 albums I want to get the tunes off, or, some of the style of the player off of, not necessarily the 10 prettiest sounding productions...sounds very reductionist and mercenary, but I'd be kept amused.
1. The Best of Seamus Tansey - Traditional Flute Music of Ireland
2. Paddy Carty/Connor Tully - Traditional Music of Ireland (there'll be a few with that title!)
3. Paddy Carty/Mick O'Connor - Traditional Music of Ireland. (these guys obviously don't feel the need to impress the buyer with fancy titles that will shift sales.)
4. Frankie Gavin/Alec Finn - (I'll let you guess...yep, it's...) Traditional Music of Ireland.
5. Shaskeen - Back to the Glen.
6. The Thatch Ceili Band - The Legacy.
7. Paddy O'Brien(Tipp.)/Seamus Connolly - The Banks of the Shannon.
8.Matt Molloy - Stoney Steps.
9. Altan - Blackwater.
10 James Kelly/Paddy O'Brien (Offaly) - Is it Yourself?
These would be 10 great albums to get the tunes off of. it might be fun comparing the present list to the January one:
About a year ago I submitted a tune "Tame Her When Da Snaw Comes" as a direct result of hearing it on Desert Island Discs. The castaway on that occasion was Robin Cook, a former British Foreign Secretary.
Trevor
clunk: thanks for reminding me of Slainte Mhah... I heard the album (assuming there's only one) and
really liked it, on an amusing evening in Lochinver
(some way north of Ullapool, NW Scotland) a few weeks ago. I was with a couple of mates (we'd
been doing a gig near Aberdeen) spending a week
camping wild, climbing, walking, moving where the
whim took us. That day we'd been climbing on the cliffs of Reiff and ended up in a local's bar in Lochinver.
No idea where we're going to stay, it's getting dark.
Ach, we'll just have another pint. Or two. Or three. One way or another the fiddles came out, to general approval.
"Come and stay at mine", says this young guy
(complete with scary army mate).
We didn't need a load of persuading.
Just one of those magical evenings where everything
falls into place. His mate was a great piper (and gaelic singer but didn't sing anything) but hadn't brought
any instrument along. A chanter was duly stolen from
the house next door, tunes struck up, didn't stop
for a long time. Slainte Mhah was the soundtrack to a
part of that evening. I must get hold of a copy!
1. Oisin,Fitzy and Michael Rooney
2.Teada
3.Flook-Rubai
4.kevin Crawford-In Good Company
5.Micheal O'Rathallaigh-the nervous man
6.Pink Floyd-The Dark side of the moon
7.Gomez-Bring it on
8.Stravinsky-The Rite of Spring
9.Lunasa-Otherworld
10.At the Racket-the first 1(cant mind the name)
and the two books would have to be Flann O'Briens 'The third Policeman', one of the funniest books iv ever read and a good old boring predictable choice,'The Lord of the Rings' cos it would keep u going for weeks if u wanted it to!!!
This is uncanny. I was just about to ask this question in preparation for a weekend in the city, pawing through the used CD bins. (Hey, I'm THRIFTY)
Thanks all, got my shopping list.
I was always nonplussed, listening to the show, that its victims chose songs, rather than whole albums; I mean, it's desert island discs, not 45's. So why not take the whole album, be it black vinyl or CD? But these days I take it to mean whole recordings, whether or not they take up more than one disc, at least ever since the day the precedent was set when John Thaw was allowed to take the whole of Bach's St Matthew Passion.
There are a few rules I see not being observed here; the rules strictly provide only one book in addition to the two standard works left so conveniently on the island, and not two, as so generously provided by the initiator of this thread; they allow one luxury item, as long as it's of no use in a rescue attempt (soft toilet rolls, anyone, like Magnus Pyke? a grand piano, or some other instrument, way out of your financial league, that you've long lusted after?); and what about the second storm which sweeps away nine of the recordings whose selection you've sweated blood over, leaving you only one? Which one of the ten would you save?
And don't forget to plug your latest project: after all, that's why you're on the show to start with!
Personally, I've been trying to get my ten together for .... oooh .... thirty years or more, and I'm still no closer to a final selection. I'd most likely go down with the ship trying to lug a last few hundred on deck!
There was a good one on recently with Sue Lawley interviewing Linton Kwesi Johnston, the reggae poet, based in Brixton. She was ever so patronising to this nice young black chap....who turned every one of her patronising comments back on her, with such subtle humour that I'm sure she completely failed to notice it even once. It was hilarious! Linton of course had a very good selection, including Roy Richards playing "Contact" on the harmonica.
Still to work out my favourite ten albums. I'll get back to you.
In the Radio 4 program, you are also allowed to take one luxury item. This would have to be a musical instrument, probably my Vanden mandolin or a fiddle. Alteratively, a PC with modem so that I could download tunes, communicate with all my friends on The Session, beg to be rescued etc.
John
PS Any of you old enough to remember Roy Plombley?
John - the luxury item is only allowed on the condition that it doesn't facilitate escape. And I hope there's a few more than me, thee, and treabhar old enough to remember Roy P.
David - Wasn't "nice young black chap" meant to reflect the undeniably ghastly Lawley's condescending mindset? Although since Danny's young yet, technically, that would make LKJ young, too.
Here is a selection but I might submit an alternative in a day or two.
I want to see the bright lights tonight- Richard and Linda Thompson
Handful of earth- Dick Gaughan
Bop till you drop- Ry Cooder
Revolver - the Beatles
Strings attached- Mick Moloney
Bothy Band 1975
De Danaan Star spangled Molly
Steeleye Span Please to see the King
Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball
Catriona McDonald Bold
This is general selection from almost 3,000 albums in my collection. I didn't wish to stick to the one genre. I might put an all Irish selection together in a day or two.
rog - sounds like a great time was had by all - where was the gig, lemon tree?
octogreg - cheers for the nod re Va, will look for that when I get my next pocket money.
Bart - Wainwright (he of the Lake District walking books) wanted to take his wife as his luxury item, but Lawley put her foot down, so it's official, I'm afraid. No ladies, even if you're married to them.
I would bring along:
Bob Dylan: Desire
The Who: My generation
Cansever: Seviyorum
And so on......
Then I would make a fiddle out of something and play..(any suggestions how to make a fiddel and a bow on Desert Island? especially the strings are a challege)
clunk: the gig was the "Donside Ball", held in a marquee
outside some renovated castle in the middle of nowhere,
about 20 miles nw of aberdeen. Reels from 10 till 4,
hard work but fun! It has to be said we had an
absolutely fantastic week, sessions in remote bothies,
lock-ins at the Ceilidh Place + great clarsach player,
enormous wild mushroom stews, amazing weather,
swimming in the sea, the lochs, the rivers...
what the hell am I doing sitting in this office?!
Who needs a desert island- my family made fun of me when the first thing packed in our self- imposed hurricane evacuation were my CD's and mini discs -Trian 1 and II, Lake Effect, Fiddle Sticks,Fonnchai and the ones I thought I couldn't replace easily.
Dessert Island Discs is compulsive listening for me. difficult to pick a top 10 as it's always changing but here goes:
Doublin, Paddy Glacken and Paddy Keenan
If the cap fits, Kevin Burke
The High Part of the Road, Tommy Peoples
Songs of the Scottish Miners, Dick Gaughan
McGlynn's Fancy, Arty McGlinn
Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
Astral Weeks, Van the miserable man,
Ravel Piano music
Beethoven Late String Quartets
Paul Brady and Andy Irvine.
Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs
Most people residing in the few wee bits of rock jutting out of the sea just to the West of Europe will know the rules of Desert Island Discs.
However for those who don't the story is this ...
You're washed up on a Desert Island for God knows how long.
What ten albums would you like to have with you to while away the time and what 2 books?
(The original assumes that the Bible and The Complete Works Of Shakespeare will already be there, so you get to choose two others. On our imaginary Desert Island you get Breatnach's Complete Works and O'Neill's 1850 ...)
I'll start ye off ...
1. The Bothy Band - 1975
2. Mick O'Brien & Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh - Kitty Lie Over
3. Dolores Keane & John Faulkner - Sail Og Rua
4. Boys Of The Lough - Farewell & Remember Me
5. Paddy Keenan - The N
# Posted on October 8th 2003 by Aidan Crossey
Re: Desert Island Discs
1 The Bothy Band -1975
2 The Bothy Band -Old Hag..
3 Arcady Many- happy returns
4 Na Connery's- The session
5 Dervish- Boys of Sligo
4 Dervish -Misdummer's..
5 Dervish- Playing with fire
6 Mulcahy Family
7 Teada
8 Chieftains- Bonaparte's retreat
9 Chieftains Boil the breakfast..
10 Kelly/O'Brien/Sproule
and 2 books by William Golding. maybe Pincher Martin and the Spire..
Paul
# Posted on October 8th 2003 by paul95
Re: Desert Island Discs
Can I have O'neills big yellow book, and Joshua Jacksons 1798 manuscript for the books.
Why would I want any CDs?
# Posted on October 8th 2003 by showaddydadito
Re: Desert Island Discs
So, this is a desert island with electricity and a working CD player, is it? *grin* Not to mention time to choose the discs and books as the ship goes down and assuming you brought the entire collection and your library with you?
I'll have to think about it for a bit, my list has changed since last time I played this game...
zls
# Posted on October 8th 2003 by Zina Lee
"The original assumes that the Bible and The Complete Works Of Shakespeare will already be there"
So the Bible is put there by the Gideons (God bless them), but what I really want to know is: Who are the mysterious organisation that goes round placing copies of Shakespeare for the weary traveller?
I've just notice that O'neills big yellow is free, so can I take some whiskey in place of the other book?
# Posted on October 8th 2003 by showaddydadito
Re: Desert Island Discs
What's currently in the rotation... I'd like to add about 20 more:
1) Paul McGrattan - The Frost is all Over
2) O'Donoghue, Barry, McCarthy - Late... In the Night
3) John Carty - At it Again
4) Micheal O'Raghallaigh - The Nervous Man
5) Various - Maiden Voyage
6) Cathal McConnell - Long Expectant Comes at Last
7) The Mountain Road - Tunes Popular in South Sligo
8) Kevin Crawford - In Good Company
9) Seamus Tansey - The Best of Seamus Tansey
10) Packie Duignan & Seamus Horan - Music from County Leitrim
Most needed Irish themed books would be LAST NIGHT'S FUN and THE SNAPPER.
# Posted on October 8th 2003 by jerball
Re: Desert Island Discs
Aren't you supposed to reveal your life story to the presenter in between playing the records? Mysteriously, the running time of extracts from the records plus the discussion time exactly equals the time allocated for the programme.
Trevor
# Posted on October 8th 2003 by Trevor Jennings
Re: Desert Island Discs
I would never take all 10 CDs from the same genre unless forced at gunpoint, but this is what would be in the bag if that ever happened:
Pierre Schryer & Ian Clark - In the Heat of the Moment
Kevin Burke/Open House - Third Story
Gerald Trimble - First Flight
Martin Hayes - Under the Moon
Roger Landes - Dragon Reels
Matt Molloy - eponymous
John Williams - Steam
Cherish the Ladies - Best of...
Brian Pickell - Fresh Canadian Fiddle Tunes
Barachois - Party Acadien
Needless to say the lesser known albums are well worth searching out, especially the first one on my list. I've got a new pile of CD goodies that I'm digesting, so this list will probably change a bit in the future.
Greg
# Posted on October 8th 2003 by octogreg
Re: Desert Island Discs
I'd like to see more than just bare lists... ('cos there are a lot of choices above that I've not heard of). What do people like about the albums they've selected?! I dunno whether I can think of ten I'd *really* be happy with on a desert island. Let's see: |----- Rodney Miller - Airdance. For me this guy has everything I aspire to on the fiddle. Effortless variations, great tunes and fabulous rhythm and dancability. |----- Liz Carroll - Lost in the Loop. I was blown away by this album when I first heard it. Despite many, many listenings, I still can't get enough of it. |----- Catriona Macdonald & Ian Lowthian - Opus Blue. I've had this album for ages, and I never tire of it. Fiddle, squeezebox and double-bass, a magic combination when sensitively put together. Makes me feel happy! |----- Shooglenifty - Venus in Tweeds. I'm assuming we've got big thumping speakers on this desert island! Fantastic to jump around to; non-trad by folks that love trad. |----- The Kathryn Tickell Band - eponymous Best album they ever did. Great sound, great tunes. |----- Lunasa - Otherworld. It's dangerous to play this while driving, 'cos the speedo rapidly reaches 110. I love their arrangements. |----- Cliar - Gunh Tamh. Arthur Cormack on those gaelic songs makes me homesick. |----- Jerry Holland - Fiddler's Choice. I wanna learn all his tunes. |----- Shooglenifty - The Arms Dealer's Daughter. I want to learn all the tunes off this too; I couldn't leave it behind! |----- Flook - Flatfish. Another one I can't get tired of listening to. [Sorry about the single paragraph, this website ignores my carriage-returns!]
# Posted on October 8th 2003 by rog
Re: Desert Island Discs
Rog - your notes have inspired me, hear are mine -
Flook, Flatfish and Rubai, great tunes, great arrangements and you get John Joe Kelly to boot.
Liz Carrol, Lost In The Loop - one fiddle many moods.
Altan, Red Crow - Love the variety with stonking sets at the beginning and end.
Four Men And A Dog, Dr A's Secret Remedies - Another great mix of stuff with Gino Lupari playing fantastic bodhran - not a good one for the car, just too hard to stay legal.
Deaf Shepherd, Even In The Rain - Scottish group, highland pipes, two fiddlers, zouk, guitar, whistles the lot and Mark Macguire does great bodhran.
Battle Field Band - Happy Daze, Mike Katz on pipes, small and large, real strength and rythm.
Cantrip, Silver - new Edinburgh band, play anything from 100 mile an hour reels, to pipe sets to a yiddish wedding reel and tunes from Finnland and Cape Breton. Not only a great album but a reminder of the night I thought was an open session and asked to join (certainly - no probs was the reply) and found out at the end twas a paid gig!!!
Slainte Mhah - more scottish stuff at light speed.
Kevin Macloed - Springwell. Mandolin, zouk, and resophonic guitar. Lots of stuff I've never heard before with stuff I had but never on CD - and Frankie Gavin accompanying.
I know that most of the stuff is Scottish but thats where I live and so most of who I get to see live. Will definately get some of the albums that crop up frequently on other peoples lists, at
# Posted on October 8th 2003 by clunk999
Re: Desert Island Discs
Ah..another closet Radio4 listener...or bunch of them! I thought it was just 10 tracks, not 10 albums...oh well, what the hell, we're musos after all, what with the enlarged Brocca's area in the brain to keep amused.
But I started a thread like this a wee while ago...like this, I said, not the same. Mine was yer 10 favourite albums. This is the 10 ye want to take to a desert island. To me that means 10 albums, ie about 120 tracks ie about 360 tunes...ok, between 3-400 tunes.
If yer stuck on a desert island, you must surely have yer instrument, so you can practice all these learnable tunes. So for me it's 10 albums I want to get the tunes off, or, some of the style of the player off of, not necessarily the 10 prettiest sounding productions...sounds very reductionist and mercenary, but I'd be kept amused.
1. The Best of Seamus Tansey - Traditional Flute Music of Ireland
2. Paddy Carty/Connor Tully - Traditional Music of Ireland (there'll be a few with that title!)
3. Paddy Carty/Mick O'Connor - Traditional Music of Ireland. (these guys obviously don't feel the need to impress the buyer with fancy titles that will shift sales.)
4. Frankie Gavin/Alec Finn - (I'll let you guess...yep, it's...) Traditional Music of Ireland.
5. Shaskeen - Back to the Glen.
6. The Thatch Ceili Band - The Legacy.
7. Paddy O'Brien(Tipp.)/Seamus Connolly - The Banks of the Shannon.
8.Matt Molloy - Stoney Steps.
9. Altan - Blackwater.
10 James Kelly/Paddy O'Brien (Offaly) - Is it Yourself?
These would be 10 great albums to get the tunes off of. it might be fun comparing the present list to the January one:
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/1345
I've got a few the same - yet the question asked is slightly different! I must be a borng bastard after all....
Danny.
# Posted on October 8th 2003 by Rudall the time
Re: Desert Island Discs
About a year ago I submitted a tune "Tame Her When Da Snaw Comes" as a direct result of hearing it on Desert Island Discs. The castaway on that occasion was Robin Cook, a former British Foreign Secretary.
Trevor
# Posted on October 8th 2003 by Trevor Jennings
Re: Desert Island Discs
clunk: thanks for reminding me of Slainte Mhah... I heard the album (assuming there's only one) and really liked it, on an amusing evening in Lochinver (some way north of Ullapool, NW Scotland) a few weeks ago. I was with a couple of mates (we'd been doing a gig near Aberdeen) spending a week camping wild, climbing, walking, moving where the whim took us. That day we'd been climbing on the cliffs of Reiff and ended up in a local's bar in Lochinver. No idea where we're going to stay, it's getting dark. Ach, we'll just have another pint. Or two. Or three. One way or another the fiddles came out, to general approval. "Come and stay at mine", says this young guy (complete with scary army mate). We didn't need a load of persuading. Just one of those magical evenings where everything falls into place. His mate was a great piper (and gaelic singer but didn't sing anything) but hadn't brought any instrument along. A chanter was duly stolen from the house next door, tunes struck up, didn't stop for a long time. Slainte Mhah was the soundtrack to a part of that evening. I must get hold of a copy!
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by rog
Re: Desert Island Discs
1. Oisin,Fitzy and Michael Rooney
2.Teada
3.Flook-Rubai
4.kevin Crawford-In Good Company
5.Micheal O'Rathallaigh-the nervous man
6.Pink Floyd-The Dark side of the moon
7.Gomez-Bring it on
8.Stravinsky-The Rite of Spring
9.Lunasa-Otherworld
10.At the Racket-the first 1(cant mind the name)
and the two books would have to be Flann O'Briens 'The third Policeman', one of the funniest books iv ever read and a good old boring predictable choice,'The Lord of the Rings' cos it would keep u going for weeks if u wanted it to!!!
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by needaliver
Re: Desert Island Discs
This is uncanny. I was just about to ask this question in preparation for a weekend in the city, pawing through the used CD bins. (Hey, I'm THRIFTY)
Thanks all, got my shopping list.
Batlady (Off to civilisation!)
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by Michele Sims
Re: Desert Island Discs
I was always nonplussed, listening to the show, that its victims chose songs, rather than whole albums; I mean, it's desert island discs, not 45's. So why not take the whole album, be it black vinyl or CD? But these days I take it to mean whole recordings, whether or not they take up more than one disc, at least ever since the day the precedent was set when John Thaw was allowed to take the whole of Bach's St Matthew Passion.
There are a few rules I see not being observed here; the rules strictly provide only one book in addition to the two standard works left so conveniently on the island, and not two, as so generously provided by the initiator of this thread; they allow one luxury item, as long as it's of no use in a rescue attempt (soft toilet rolls, anyone, like Magnus Pyke? a grand piano, or some other instrument, way out of your financial league, that you've long lusted after?); and what about the second storm which sweeps away nine of the recordings whose selection you've sweated blood over, leaving you only one? Which one of the ten would you save?
And don't forget to plug your latest project: after all, that's why you're on the show to start with!
Personally, I've been trying to get my ten together for .... oooh .... thirty years or more, and I'm still no closer to a final selection. I'd most likely go down with the ship trying to lug a last few hundred on deck!
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by nastyweegirl
Re: Desert Island Discs
I thought it was *8* records? Have we accidentally decimalised?
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by Nell
Re: Desert Island Discs
There was a good one on recently with Sue Lawley interviewing Linton Kwesi Johnston, the reggae poet, based in Brixton. She was ever so patronising to this nice young black chap....who turned every one of her patronising comments back on her, with such subtle humour that I'm sure she completely failed to notice it even once. It was hilarious! Linton of course had a very good selection, including Roy Richards playing "Contact" on the harmonica.
Danny.
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by Rudall the time
Top 8
By George, I think you're right Helen! That makes the job even harder ...
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by nastyweegirl
Re: Desert Island Discs
Still to work out my favourite ten albums. I'll get back to you.
In the Radio 4 program, you are also allowed to take one luxury item. This would have to be a musical instrument, probably my Vanden mandolin or a fiddle. Alteratively, a PC with modem so that I could download tunes, communicate with all my friends on The Session, beg to be rescued etc.
John
PS Any of you old enough to remember Roy Plombley?
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by Johnny Jay
Re: Desert Island Discs
Yes,
Trevor
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by Trevor Jennings
Slainte Mhath
Slainte Mhath put out a new album called "Va" late last year and it's very good. I think it's their best so far.
Greg
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by octogreg
Re: Desert Island Discs
John - the luxury item is only allowed on the condition that it doesn't facilitate escape. And I hope there's a few more than me, thee, and treabhar old enough to remember Roy P.
David - Wasn't "nice young black chap" meant to reflect the undeniably ghastly Lawley's condescending mindset? Although since Danny's young yet, technically, that would make LKJ young, too.
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by nastyweegirl
....although nobody can legislate against the luxury item facilitating "transport", as in Will's recent interpretation! ...
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by nastyweegirl
Re: Desert Island Discs
Whoopie, I'd agree with all those albums mentioned above.
So I'd miss Nozze di Figaro, Jaques Brel and David Bowie.
Hmmm... no albums for me to take along, I'd take the flute with me and play on my own.
(There wasn't a nice lady involved, was there?)
Bart
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by Bart
Re: Desert Island Discs
No Bart, this is the BBC we're talking about. You can read, and listen to records, and that's it. It's a daytime-schedules, *family* island...
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by Nell
Re: Desert Island Discs
Would box sets be cheating? Probably.
Here is a selection but I might submit an alternative in a day or two.
I want to see the bright lights tonight- Richard and Linda Thompson
Handful of earth- Dick Gaughan
Bop till you drop- Ry Cooder
Revolver - the Beatles
Strings attached- Mick Moloney
Bothy Band 1975
De Danaan Star spangled Molly
Steeleye Span Please to see the King
Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball
Catriona McDonald Bold
This is general selection from almost 3,000 albums in my collection. I didn't wish to stick to the one genre. I might put an all Irish selection together in a day or two.
John
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by Johnny Jay
Re: Desert Island Discs
rog - sounds like a great time was had by all - where was the gig, lemon tree?
octogreg - cheers for the nod re Va, will look for that when I get my next pocket money.
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by clunk999
Re: Desert Island Discs
Bart - Wainwright (he of the Lake District walking books) wanted to take his wife as his luxury item, but Lawley put her foot down, so it's official, I'm afraid. No ladies, even if you're married to them.
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by nastyweegirl
Re: Desert Island Discs
I would bring along:
Bob Dylan: Desire
The Who: My generation
Cansever: Seviyorum
And so on......
Then I would make a fiddle out of something and play..(any suggestions how to make a fiddel and a bow on Desert Island? especially the strings are a challege)
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by fiel
Re: Desert Island Discs
clunk: the gig was the "Donside Ball", held in a marquee outside some renovated castle in the middle of nowhere, about 20 miles nw of aberdeen. Reels from 10 till 4, hard work but fun! It has to be said we had an absolutely fantastic week, sessions in remote bothies, lock-ins at the Ceilidh Place + great clarsach player, enormous wild mushroom stews, amazing weather, swimming in the sea, the lochs, the rivers... what the hell am I doing sitting in this office?!
# Posted on October 9th 2003 by rog
Re: Desert Island Discs
Who needs a desert island- my family made fun of me when the first thing packed in our self- imposed hurricane evacuation were my CD's and mini discs -Trian 1 and II, Lake Effect, Fiddle Sticks,Fonnchai and the ones I thought I couldn't replace easily.
The trees stayed in place by the way.
Jennifer
# Posted on October 10th 2003 by Jenthur
Re: Desert Island Discs
Dessert Island Discs is compulsive listening for me. difficult to pick a top 10 as it's always changing but here goes:
Doublin, Paddy Glacken and Paddy Keenan
If the cap fits, Kevin Burke
The High Part of the Road, Tommy Peoples
Songs of the Scottish Miners, Dick Gaughan
McGlynn's Fancy, Arty McGlinn
Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
Astral Weeks, Van the miserable man,
Ravel Piano music
Beethoven Late String Quartets
Paul Brady and Andy Irvine.
# Posted on October 12th 2003 by Niall L