Aung San's Desert Island first: Burmese opposition leader chooses a record she’s never heard before Read more: Aung San's Desert Island first: Burmese opposition leader chooses a record she¿s never heard before | Mail Online
Aung San's Desert Island first: Burmese opposition leader chooses a record she’s never heard before Read more: Aung San's Desert Island first: Burmese opposition leader chooses a record she¿s never heard before | Mail Online I read this today too.
The Collected Sherlock Holmes I don't agree with your music or your inanimate object but the book is bloody spot-on.
A lot of thought indeed. My present choices (this might change) are: 1. Handel, Messiah 2. Warren Zevon, Excitable Boy 3. The Beatles, Hard Day's Night 4. Johnny Cash at San Quentin 5. Soundtrack album, Oh Brother Where Art Thou? 6. Devo, Are We Not Men? 7. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Greatest Hits 8. Blondie, Parallel Lines Book: Really tough for a voracious reader like me, but if I'm on a desert island then it has to be the Bible. Luxury: My own beer brewing kit.
Book: Really tough for a voracious reader like me, but if I'm on a desert island then it has to be the Bible. As you are already given a copy of the Bible why would you need 2 copies of it? see post #1 1 book (other than the Bible and complete works of Shakespeare which are already there, never been sure why, they just are)
As you are already given a copy of the Bible why would you need 2 copies of it? see post #1 Woops, shows what a careful reader I am! I am tempted to vote for Mark Twain's Autobiography (the recent unedited one), but in the end I'll go with The Midnight Raymond Chandler.
8 pieces of music NOT 8 albums. and playable on an old gramaphone not a stereo, cd player, dansette or anything older. No music - I can live without it The Belgariad, Mallorean, Ellenium and the Tamuli series of books by David Eddings Scourge of the Swastika Knights of Bushido Large Telescope
Ever tried searching for "The The" on the internet? One of the great ungooglable things. oooh! Fluffy clouds... No, but have searched for the excellent 1970's jazz/rock band 'If'. Found the buggers eventually and got some CDs. (I had no idea this thread existed)
Music 1 Dire Straits - Money For Nothing 2 Nina Simone - House of the Rising Sun 3 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 4 The Zombies - She's Not There 5 Marianne Faithfull - Working Class Hero (Fav) 6 Leonard Cohen - Stories of the Street 7 George Thorogood - Who Do You Love 8 Talking Heads - Life During Wartime Book - Enc Brittanica Luxury A Case of Glenlivet
Vinyl lives on, weirdly. Or maybe it's a very tiny MP3 player... TTH, much as I applaud your choices overall - entire albums aren't allowed. Just single tracks. And you thought it was hard before! (Intrigued what you'd pick from the O Brother where Art Thou soundtrack - think I'd go for Down to the River to Pray.) BBC - Desert Island Discs - Find a castaway (Anyone else think it's been a bit 'aggressive' in it's interviews of late? It's supposed to be a small honour, not a grilling.)
Hey Jude - sung by Bing Crosby Eleanor Rigby - the Beatles Le Boeuf sur le toit - Darius Milhaud Tempus est iocundum - from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana We Will Rock You - Queen Flaming Youth - KISS Closer to the Heart - RUSH Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! - Vaughn Monroe Book : Overland Red Luxury: a notebook & pencil that never runs out
Beethoven's Violin Concerto Tebaldi singing Ebban from La Wally Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5 Emperor Vienna Phil with "Ode to Joy " Schwartskopf singing Lieder Cortrubas as Mimi Sissel singing Christmas Carols Pavarotti singing Dvorak's Panis Angelicus Alanbrooke by Gen. David Fraser endless Battery powered IMac Cheers
hate to nitpick folks but the correct spelling is GRAMOPHONE my record choice would include AL BOWLLY 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'
While I consider which 10 tunes I would use for my own Desert Island Disks I thought I'd remind you all about that wonderful free program known as Spotify. Back in 2008 I posted the following: What piece of music sets you remembering? Before you all start sending in your most evocative tune, let me tell you about mine, a song entitled “Strada nel Bosco”. In December ’44 I was at Rieti, in Central Italy, being re-trained by the Royal Armoured Corps. Evening entertainment was at a premium and the local fleapit cinema used to do a roaring trade despite the fact that most of the films were Italian speaking and therefore not readily understood by the mainly British audience. One night I saw a film that included a haunting song entitled “Strada nel Bosco” and, for whatever reason, the tune stuck in my head for the next sixty odd years. In October 2006 I came across an Italian website (and that’s another story) called “a Trieste” http://www.atrieste.org/viewforum.php?f=34 and once I’d settled in and persuaded Peter G to also join, I started to try and trace the tune. I have to thank Peter for finally finding me the definitive version and now, through the wonder of the internet and my new toy, the I-Pod Touch, I can listen once again to this haunting tune that conjures up for me the all the magic of being a callow youth in wartime Italy. So that's my tune ...... what’s yours, and why? Ron Back to Spotify........... It struck me that there might still be a few of you folk out there who have yet to discover the delights of spotify.com I confess to being an un-ashamed devotee of the site. It has yet to let me down when it comes to finding an obscure piece of music or an individual song and whenever I want a taste of nostalgia it is my first port of call. If you don't already use the site, humour me, give it a try then come back here and thank me Ron ps I've added some pics to show you how easy it is to use
Impossible to do with just 8, but today's list is: Ball and Chain - Janis Joplin (Monterey) Octet - Igor Stravinsky Gibsom Street - Laura Nyro Goin' Out West - Tom Waits Prelude and Fugue in E flat Maj. (24/Well Tempered Clavier) - Bach, Must be Glenn Gould (strictly this is two pieces, but I'll try and sneak it past the old bird) La Belle Dame Sans Merci - Read by Dame Peggy Ashcroft (is this allowed?) Tax Free - Jimi Hendrix Nymrod - Sir Edward Elgar (but not by a Mil band, it makes me cry) Tragically missing is Sandy Denny. Fave piece? - cannot really say. I'd rather just play them in my head than have just one. Book - Complete works, John Keats. Luxury item - Radio to pick up any BBC broadcast
