I was referring to Desert Island Discs choices the other day on the excellent Extreme Listening Mode music blog. The BBC Radio 4 idea is to choose eight pieces of music to spend your days as a castaway listening to. Seeing as the programme has run for over sixty years in that format, I am going to freshen it up a little by seeking five albums instead that you can bring away with you for your new life à la Swiss Family Robinson.
I would want to have a good blend with me to ensure that I have enough music for all my moods. To that end, I would select the following:
Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde
No man is an island unless he forgot to pack some Dylan. Of his many albums that I own, this is the one that I have come back to time and time again.
Regina Spektor – Soviet Kitsch
To remind me that the world is as big, as bold, and as beautiful as I choose to imagine it to be.
Whipping Boy – Heartworm
Could hardly leave it out! An album to cure homesickness with.
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
Okay, perhaps selecting a double CD for my rock’n’rage days is a little bit cheeky. So sue me. I’ll be on my non-extradition treaty island by the time it gets to court.
Jeff Buckley - Adore
For those lonely, melancholic nights. I hope there’ll be a carafe of lilac wine lying around somewhere. So sweet and heady.
So, what would you chose to be marooned with?
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Some belting choices there (and thanks for the Kind Words!)
Blonde on Blonde is one of the greatest albums ever. Dylan has never sounded better.
I’ve spent 30 minutes thinking about this, and frankly, I’m meant to be working and have come no closer to being able to pick 5 albums.
I’m afraid I’m just going to have to avoid being marooned.
There goes my plan to fly solo around the world.
@ELM - I am constantly amazed by how constantly amazed I feel when playing that album.
@WW - To be honest, I decided not to torture myself or to come up with albums that show how “with it” I am (as if…). Instead I chose a scenario and went with the album that came most naturally to mind as a result.
The only hard one was the rock’n'rage choice. Soooooooooooo many!! I copped out a bit in the end. Still think its a terrific album though!
Elliott Smith did run Jeff Buckley quite close too in the wistful stakes!
Plus I never found room for my sackful of 70s/80s garage band gems. Or all of the “guilty pleasure” albums I have…
This is a long shot, but I hope you could help me. I am looking for a music video from 2002 or 2003, but unfortunately I only remember parts of the music video. I think the band consists of maybe 4-5 guys and the singer has black hair and some kind of goatee. The video was frequently shown at muchmusic/MTV in North America during 202/2003
The video:
A young, (dark-haired?) woman is walking down the aisle towards her husband-to-be (outdoors ceremony at a cliff close to the ocean). Along the way she makes out with one or more wedding guests. Suddenly she starts running and jumps of a cliff only to wake up in her bed and discover that it was only a dream. However, her wedding dress is lying on the chair in her bedroom…
Could you maybe give me a clue about the name of the group and the track? Thanks!!
A music video on MTV? Surely you jest!
To be honest, I have no idea whatsoever. Sorry!
Sorry, couldn’t help either sadly.
Okay LO - Top 5 all good quality - I think you’ve earned the right to name another 5!
Still waiting on yours, mind, but seeing as you asked so nicely…
In no particular order:
* Falling Into You - Celine Dion
* Control - Janet Jackson
* Whenever You Need Somebody - Rick Astley
* I’m Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
* A Whole New World - Katie Price and Peter Andre