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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
11 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite 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
- Shot GunLv 61 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
- Jimmy JazzLv 71 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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- 1 decade ago
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
- Anonymous1 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!
- BronwenLv 71 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"
- Anonymous1 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.