Your Desert Island music
By John Welford
@indexer (4852)
Leicester, England
February 12, 2018 2:26am CST
The BBC Radio Show Desert Island Discs has been running since 1942. In the show, a guest celebrity is asked for their choice of eight "gramophone records" (I did say it started in 1942!) that they would want to be marooned with. The bulk of the half-hour show consists of excerpts from the pieces of music they have chosen.
In other words, this is a way of asking people: "What is your favourite music?" or "Which pieces could you least bear to be without?"
For me, it would have to include Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, which is surely the greatest piece of music ever composed by anybody, but I am willing to concede that it might not be everyone's cup of tea!
It would also be hard to imagine life without at least something by Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, but the choices to be made are not easy.
So what do you think would find its way into your suitcase when it is washed ashore along with your good self?
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@DesirousDreamer (34783)
• Peoria, Arizona
12 Feb 18
Mine would be Black Veil Bride's album We Stitch These Wounds because it has some of my favorite songs on it and it means so much to me.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
12 Feb 18
But you are only allowed to choose one song at a time! There would be nothing to stop you choosing all eight songs from the same album, but your time on the island might lack variety!
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
13 Feb 18
@DesirousDreamer It's just the name of the game, which has been running since 1942!
@DesirousDreamer (34783)
• Peoria, Arizona
14 Feb 18
@indexer Yeah well, when I play Desert Island it is more about 3 favorite movies or things like that.
@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
12 Feb 18
It would all depend upon my mood at the time I was selecting. If it was right now it would probably be
There is a light that never goes out - The Smiths
Still Life in Mobile Homes - Japan
Complex - Gary Numan
Possibly Maybe - Bjork
Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
Black Cloud - Morrissey
Citizen Erased - Muse
Deeply Concerned - The Associates
Ask me again tomorrow and it will be completely different.
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@acelawrites (19273)
• Philippines
14 Feb 18
It is so nice to listen to such classic masterpieces while lying or sitting on a beautiful shoreline!
@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
12 Feb 18
AC/DC's Thunderstruck, Simple Minds' Don't You Forget About Me, REM's Losing My Religion, Linda Ronstadt's Blue Bayou, Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water, Heart's Barracuda, Blondie's Hanging on a Telephone and Depeche Mode's Just Can't Get Enough.
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