Desert Island Discs

[celsis]

Pink Floyd - Pulse
Ute Lemper - Berlin Cabaret Songs
Die Toten Hosen - Der Lied von der Clockwork Orange
Wagner - Ring des Niebel?ngen
Loudon Wainwright III - More Love Songs.
Beatles - Abbey Road.

All a bit eclectic I know, but as George Michael once said, "Listen without Prejudice...."

[linfield100]

Blood on the Tracks - Dylan
Desire - Dylan
Anything by Matt Monro
Leaning on a Lampost - George Formby

A bit diverse I know, but just a few of the songs/artists that lift my spirits.
There are many more.

[nev coss]

Led Zeppelin 2
Bob Seeger best of vol 1
Roxy Music 2
Trojan records reggie best of
Dark Side of the Moon
The Wall

[Puff Scotty]

Yes - Close to the Edge.

[Styler]

Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a memory. (The album that got me into DT, introduced to me by by drumkit teacher)
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings (probably only because it's their most recent album)
Dream Theater (AGAIN!) - Any early album (pre 1994)

Metropolis Pt 2 and Images and Words both nearly made my top 10 but I have fallen out of love with DT in recent years. Metropolis is the last album they made that I can listen to start to finish, they need to get back to writing songs instead of lengthy technical exercises!

[Puff Scotty]

Sorry Robusto, I can't do this
Everytime I think of one album I just get set to type it, then think of another....

ARRRRGH!!!

[cigarboozer]

funky dl - if i had a day to live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9irx7qmZQk&feature=related

prob just put this song on repeat

[ChrisMClark]

Not an easy one to answer this!

After a quick think:

Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a memory. (The album that got me into DT, introduced to me by by drumkit teacher)
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings (probably only because it's their most recent album)
Dream Theater (AGAIN!) - Any early album (pre 1994)

And on the more 'refined' side:
Anything by the following:
Rachmaninov
Shostakovich
Rimsky-Korsakov
Mussorgsky

(Yes, I have a Russian fetish )

[Robusto]

If you've got three hours, Saint Nic, could you explain why you like them, please. It's interesting.

[nicwing]

OK, as no one is working to the 8 disks format, here are my top 20 from 5 years ago, will work on an update in due course.


1 Another Girl another Planet The Only Ones
2 Northern Sky Nick Drake
3 Come on baby lets go down town Neil Young + Crazy Horse
4 Down the Road apiece The Rolling Stones
5 Who know's where the time goes Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny
6 Move it on over George Thorogood and the Destroyers
7 Don't put me on The Flamin Groovies
8 It's all over now baby blue Them
9 Everybody here wants you Jeff Buckley
10 My back pages The Byrds
11 Head and Heart John Martin
12 Crazy Love Van Morrison
13 20 million things Lowell George
14 Find the river REM
15 There she goes The La's
16 Suzanne John Martin
17 Dust my Broom Elmore James
18 Downtown Neil Young and Pearl Jam
19 Cadillac Walk Mink Deville
20 A Fishermans tale John Martin

[Stevieboy]

It's extraordinary how I have avoided bands with weird names 'The Butt Hole Surfers' for example and then hear them on the radio and find them to be quite great.

Aye. Good band but I can see why they'd never become a house-hold name!
"Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to X-Factor:THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS". Can't see it somehow

[Lascaux]

Smoking den records! Love it, what are your favourite records to smoke to then?


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[bigbarneyhotdog]

BBC 6 music is on all the time round here, in the house, car & crash helmet. Not in my man cave though, that's where the record players are

[nicwing]

I was listening to 6 Music last night waiting for a program to come on and heard some truly amazing stuff.

It's extraordinary how I have avoided bands with weird names 'The Butt Hole Surfers' for example and then hear them on the radio and find them to be quite great.

[Robusto]

Absolutely.

I had to "learn" Aretha Franklin's version of Son Of A Preacher Man for a dep job a couple of weeks ago. I had only heard the Dusty Springfield version up to that point.

Bloody hell! What a discovery! I love gospel-y stuff and this version is an absolute joy. It's life-enhancing stuff.

Funny thing is I've been close to angry with myself for not having heard it along the way! (I do love her piano style, and her voice is one of the best).

Having two sons with wide musical tastes means I hear new stuff all the time. I've said on here before I am glued to Radio 4 and rarely listen to music radio so what I hear them listening to is often a revelation.

I'm listening to loads of Eminem currently. I think his stuff - lyrics and music - is class.