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Your own "Desert Island Disks"?

Okay, for those who don't know, there is a famous radio show called "Desert Island Disks."

It's format is simple, what eight songs (all by different artists) would you take to a desert island. You also have with you The Bible, the complete works of Shakespeare, a book of your own choice and a luxury item.

They also ask if you could only take ONE of the eight songs, which would it be.

So:

Your 8 songs?

Your book?

Your luxury item?

If you could only take one song?

Mine:

Songs:

The Perfect Kiss - New Order

Good Times - Chic

So Long Marianne - Leonard Cohen

Tattooed Love Boys - The Pretenders

Station to Station - David Bowie

Do The Strand - Roxy Music

Where Do You Think You're Going - Dire Straits

Mad Cyrill - Happy Mondays

Book: How to Be Good - Nick Hornby

Luxury item - My bass guitar

Single song: Station to Station

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    The Clash - tommy gun

    ramones- i dont wanna grow up

    The Skids -into the valley

    Ac/ dc-you Shoke me all night long

    Elvis-if i can dream

    Guns and roses - paradise city

    Oasis - cigarettes and alcohol

    Procal harem - whiter shade of pale

    Book Hitler - mein kampf

    Luxury item - kilo of cocaine

    Single song - if i can dream

  • 1 decade ago

    This is gonna be tough.

    For what it's worth, I'd be willing to sell my Shakespeare for a few thousand more songs.

    Songs:

    Heroin - The Velvet Underground

    Everyday People - Sly and the Family Stone

    The Creator Has a Master Plan - Pharaoh Sanders (36 minutes, but it's still a song)

    Isolation - Joy Division

    We Can Get Down - A Tribe Called Quest

    Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan

    (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go - Curtis Mayfield

    (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

    Book: Lolita - Vladmir Nabokov

    Luxury: Assuming movies would be worthless because I couldn't watch them on anything, I'll copy you and choose my bass.

    Single song: Heroin

  • 1 decade ago

    Big Country - We're Not In Kansas

    Allman Brothers - Whipping Post

    Firefall - Some Things Never Change

    Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin

    Heart - Love Alive

    Dan Fogelberg - Ever On

    Fleetwood Mac - The Chain

    Greg Lake - C'est La Vie

    Luxury item: Acoustic guitar - plenty of time to learn these songs

    Book: A Whack On The Side Of the Head by Roger Von Oech

    (Internet printout on how to play guitar included between pages)

    Individual song winner: Firefall

  • 1 decade ago

    Papa Don't Preach - Madonna

    Perfect Day - Lou Reed

    Gangsta Gangsta - NWA

    I Put A Spell On You - Nina Simone

    Little Red Rooster - Sam Cooke

    Treat Me Right - Pat Benatar

    Paisley Park - Prince

    Some longass classical piece like Wagner's Ring Cycle.

    Book: Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

    Luxury Item: Something to play my 8 songs with, otherwise I'm f*cked like Chuck. If this goes without saying than my luxury item would be a girl.

    Single Song: Papa Don't Preach

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  • Songs:

    From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea~ The Cure

    Station to Station~ David Bowie (yay)

    Citizen Erased~ Muse

    Reckoner~ Radiohead

    For Tomorrow~ Blur

    Hummer~ Smashing Pumpkins

    Rocket's Tail~ Kate Bush

    Romeo & Juliet~ Dire Straits

    Book: ARGH I can't choose, Wuthering Heights

    Luxury item: A sketchbook

    Single song: Possibly Reckoner, idk it was hard enough picking 8!

    & yay for Shakespeare :D

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    My 8 songs

    Starship Trooper by Yes

    Brain Damage/Eclipse by Pink Floyd

    Megalomania by Black Sabbath

    Carouselambra by Led Zeppelin

    2112 by Rush

    Hex Omega by Opeth

    Cosmic Messenger by Jean-Luc Ponty

    Assault And Battery by Hawkwind

    My Book

    Red Strom Rising by Tom Clancy

    Luxury item

    Can I have Simone Simons? lol. If not hmmmm, a lot of Jack Daniels

    Only song.....Starship Trooper

  • 1 decade ago

    Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

    The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson

    You took the words right out of my mouth - Meatloaf

    Forever - KISS

    Famous Last Words - My Chemical Romance

    Breakdown - The Stone Gods

    More than a feeling - Boston

    I'm Yours - Jason Mraz

    Book: The collected works of Oscar Wilde.

    Luxury Item: Sunblock (I know, how practical of me...)

    Single song: Killer Queen - Queen (yes, I realise that thats different, but if I could only listen to one song forever, this would be it :D ), but out of that list....hmm.....Forever

    Source(s): Me :)
  • 1 decade ago

    8 songs:

    A Kind of Magic - Queen

    Life on Mars? - David Bowie

    Take on Me - A-ha

    Stop Loving You - TOTO

    Might as Well be on Mars - Alice Cooper

    Ocean Deep - Cliff Richard

    Don't Wish Too Hard - Peter Allen

    In My Defence - Freddie Mercury

    Book - Wuthering Heights - Bronte

    Luxury item - lip gloss

    Single song - A Kind of Magic... I couldn't live without Queen!

  • 1 decade ago

    Eight songs:

    "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" by The Smiths

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INgXzChwipY

    "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV3SHBFyDZM

    "Adagio in G Minor" by Tomaso Albinoni

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5HNMR9elM

    "It is Accomplished" by Peter Gabriel

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EhIfFRPlaI

    (it starts at about 3:30 on the vid, and runs to about 7:00--it's the really energetic joyous part with the bells)

    "The Sea Refuses No River" by Pete Townshend

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ3LzvMqfHw

    "A Forest" by The Cure

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY7wuV_C1oI

    "Love is Stronger Than Death" by The The

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2RtUv_PgGA

    "Shellshock" by New Order

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ckRZUm01CI

    Book:

    "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri

    Luxury Item:

    Swiss Army Knife (toss up between that and lotion, but with a knife, you can get at fruits which you can use as lotions...)

    Single song:

    "Love is Stronger Than Death"

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    my 8 songs...

    let it bleed - rolling stones

    layla- derek and the dominoes

    turn the page- bob seeger

    since i've been lovin' you - led zeppelin

    into the night - benny mardones

    stranger in a strange land- leon russell

    riot in cell block #9- johnny winter

    louisana blues- savoy brown

    book- bury my heart at wounded knee by dee brown

    luxury item: my dog

    single song... 20 minute version of whipping post by allman bros.

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