What are you going to do on your desert island
By p1kef1sh
@p1kef1sh (45681)
April 19, 2008 2:31pm CST
In the UK there is a long running radio show called "Desert Island Discs". A well know personality is invited on and over half an hour or so they are asked to choose some music to accompany them if they were to be stranded on a desert island. Which five songs/records and one book (you already have the Bible and complete works of Shakespeare) would you take. Personally I would choose Beethoven's Pastorale, Vivaldi's Four seasons, Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run, Barclay James Harvest's Mocking Bird and Alice Cooper's Welcome to my Nightmare. My book would be a well know children's story, The Wind in the Willows. What would be your choices?
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@dorypanda (1601)
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21 Apr 08
Hmmm, let me think...........*sound of cogs whirring*....yes, right, well, after a lot of thought and deliberation (hey look, I used a BIG word!) I've decided on 'Bat Out Of Hell' by Meatloaf, 'Don't Stop Me Now' by Queen, 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' by Bobbie McFerrin, 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life' by some Monty Pythons and 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen, that way I'll be really happy and have some brilliant upbeat tunes to listen to. The book would be............errrrm, hmmm, well, I don't think it's been written yet but a book on 'how to survive on a desert island' would be a good idea, failing that any funny book would be quite good, possibly 'The World According To Karl Pilkington' by Karl Pilkington, that's good and he seems to live in my head, so that's good. I also don't think I'd ever be lonely on a desert island as I'd have the voices in my head to listen and talk to. Oh but, I am a fish so I wouldn't get stuck on a desert island in the first place as I'd just swim back to wherever I wanted to go to.
@dorypanda (1601)
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21 Apr 08
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4ntts2Rk2PU
This is Karl Pilkington (podcast on the Ricky Gervais Show) discussing Heaven. :)
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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21 Apr 08
I am impressed with your big word there Dory. I have taken it in to consideration (another humongous word) and think that you choice is excellent. I am a late convert to Queen - not The Queen. She hasn't made any records that I know of. Karl Pilkington I had to look up. I shall have to believe you until I get a chance to read some of his stuff myself. Fish get washed up you know. Perhaps you might have been left in a lagoon at high tide.
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@Angelwhispers (8978)
• United States
21 Apr 08
Great music choices Dory... I would have a hard time leaving behind Meatloaf of any kind. Ahhh and what can I say about Queen... But I suppose if all I could take with me were just a few Choices, I had to choose Pink Floyd... BTW I love that song Don't worry Be Happy.... My middle son when he was little use to go around singing it all of the time.
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@Angelwhispers (8978)
• United States
21 Apr 08
Good Morning Pike :))) I got to hear a downloaded episode of the Desert island discs last year with Stephen King. What a great Show and concept.
For me I would want Anne Rices complete vampire chronicles, Nova stole my copy of a Child's garden of verse Dang her.... She knows what that book means to me :)) little thieving hussy!
Anyway, my music would be, Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and Echoes. Can I bring my headphones with that?
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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21 Apr 08
I don't hear it as often as I used to. But it is a fun idea. You know I feel that I know a lot about Ann Rice, but I don't think that I have ever read a word she has written. Superb selection of music, bring your headphones by all means. I too toyed with a Child's Garden of Verse, but WITW just pipped it to the post. My copy of Verse is at my parent's. My Dad asked me if I wanted to bring it home last week but I feel that it belongs there, at least until the time comes and I have to remove it.
@skinnychick (6905)
• United States
20 Apr 08
Hey my dear, this is a good question:
Songs/Records:
Van Morrison- Astral Weeks
U2- The Unforgettable Fire
Falling Slowly- Glen Hansard
In the Ghetto/Elvis Greatest Hits
Beatles Greatest Hits
My book would be: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
19 Apr 08
Music: Wagner's Die Walkure for those periods of high emotion at being stranded on a desert island.
Beethoven's Ninth Symphoney with the fourth movement sung (Ode to Joy) for love of classical music and musicality and pleasure at being alive.
The Beatles White Album for the memories associated with it to keep me amused.
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Album for the times I'm smoking palm fronds and getting high.
Diana Krull's Album to relax with around the night fire.
Barclay James Harvest's Mocking Bird too, to remind me I'd rather be in England.
Favorite book: Watership Down by Richard Adams because you just can't beat a good story about British rabbits! LOL
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
19 Apr 08
Yep Wagner. I hated him for years. Such an angry man. I had to learn a piece of his for my Piano Graducation (8 years of lessons) Recital. It was torture. But later years and Morse, just Morse, changed my attitude and now he thrills me rather than makes me want to take a sledge hammer to my piano! LOL
@ellie333 (21016)
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19 Apr 08
As I already have the Bible I would probably choose to take 'The Complete Mysteries Of The Bible' by Lionel Fanthorpe to give a different persective on it. Music is a difficult one but 1. Vincent by Don Mclean 2. Missing by Everything but the Girl. 3. Rebel Yell by Billy Idol. 4 Grace by U2. 5. Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin.
Ellie :D
@ellie333 (21016)
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19 Apr 08
Lionel Fanthorpe is better know for writing the most Sci-fi and horror books in the 1960's. These days he is a reverend and many people know him as the Harley riding leather jacketed man on Channel four Fortean programme. Richard Hawkins I think is maybe more scientific in his views whereas Lionel investigates all forms of supernatural or paranormal whilst having his own strong beliefs in God which makes him quite a character. He writes a lot of books with his wife Patricia now also. Ellie :D
@ella1bella (839)
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20 Apr 08
I would take music by chris de burgh and Mick Hucknall.I would take a book by James herbert
@youless (112164)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Apr 08
Since I am in the desert, be sure I need more encouragement to go out of it. I will choose the song called "Hero". I will pick the book Robinson Crusoe with me. As it's a book which can give me more hopes. I shall know how to survive it by myself. It's like a mental faith.
@motorheadbanger (441)
• United States
19 Apr 08
Book: Angels & Demons By Dan Brown
Songs:
1. One By Metallica
2. Burning Angel By Arch Enemy
3. Starbreaker By Arch Enemy
4. Revolution Is My Name By Pantera
5. Feed The Gods By White Zombie
I guess that covers everything on the list for being stranded.
@novataylor (6570)
• United States
19 Apr 08
This is a tough one, p1ke. Hmmm. Okay, 1. Harold and Maude Soundtrack by Cat Stevens 2. Emerson, Lake & Palmer Works Volume I 3. Camelot Soundtrack 4. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd 5. Wavelength by Van Morrison. ANd the book? Oh my, that's the hardest one. Wow, too hard. But maybe 'A Prayer For Owen Meany' by John Irving, or maybe 'Tales of Burning Love' by Louise Erdrich or 'A Child's Garden of Verses' by RL Stevenson. I can't choose just one book, no fair, p1ke. Gotta let me take at least three, ok?
