What the Fuchs? Posted 23 May 2019 Posted 23 May 2019 Since most of us won’t be invited to do the actual show, I’m interested to know what 8 records you’d choose if stranded on a desert island, and which one of those is your favourite. Can be songs that are special to you for sentimental reasons, or simply your 8 favourite songs!
What the Fuchs? Posted 23 May 2019 Author Posted 23 May 2019 Personally I’d choose songs from 8 of my fave artists, just to remind me of all their other songs I loved. The Beatles - Revolution The Smiths - Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now * The Doors - L.A Woman The Everly Brothers - When Will I Be Loved Dean Martin & Line Renaud - Relax-Ay-Voo R.E.M. - Near Wild Heaven The Jam - Absolute Beginners Simon & Garfunkel - Fakin’ It
MrsJohnMurphy Posted 24 May 2019 Posted 24 May 2019 This is impossible but would be something like this Joy Division - No Love Lost The Cure - A Forest Public Enemy - Nighttrain The Orb - Blue Room Gustav Holst - Jupiter Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia Tindersticks - A Night In Louis Prima - Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody Book? Fearless: The Amazing Underdog Story of Leicester City by Jonathan Northcroft Luxury? A nice smelly blue cheese
Crinklyfox Posted 25 May 2019 Posted 25 May 2019 I love my music and so limiting myself to eight songs would be very painful. I'd want these and lots more: The Shadows - Wonderful land Procul Harum - Whiter shade of pale Love Affair - Everlasting love The Kinks - Waterloo sunset Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled water Moody Blues - Nights in white satin Led Zeppelin - Kashmir Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond (Part one)
Dr Marco Posted 25 May 2019 Posted 25 May 2019 The Beach Boys- God Only Knows The La's- There She Goes Oasis - Don't look back in anger Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds- Three Lions Blur - The Universal The Kinks - Autumn Almanac The Clash - I fought the law The Libertines - Time For heroes although....wait....this is the best song ever!
Trav Le Bleu Posted 25 May 2019 Posted 25 May 2019 Gigantic - Pixies Clair De Lune -Debussy The Girl and the Robot - Röyksopp In Between Days - The Cure I See A Darkness - Bonnie Prince Billie (though not sure which version) Cortez The Killer - Neil Young (ugh, just one Neil Young song) Lay It Down Slow - Spiritualized Ice Hockey Hair - Super Furry Animals If @Dr Marco hadn't already put God Only Knows, I might have chosen that too, but I want to avoid duplication. I could have a completely different list tomorrow, though the top too are pretty locked in. When I think of the acts, and even genres, I've omitted from that list, I feel sick to the stomach!
Blueman1967 Posted 26 May 2019 Posted 26 May 2019 The Jam - Eton Rifles Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods The Smiths - How Soon is Now The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again Midnight Oil - Hercules Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army Bob Marley - Jamming Teardrop Explodes - Reward
What the Fuchs? Posted 26 May 2019 Author Posted 26 May 2019 On 24/05/2019 at 17:31, MrsJohnMurphy said: Book? Fearless: The Amazing Underdog Story of Leicester City by Jonathan Northcroft Luxury? A nice smelly blue cheese You’d have to eat that cheese pretty quickly! ? I’d probably be a nerd and choose The Histories of Herodotus as my book, and my luxury as Of Fossils and Foxes. Though if a book as a luxury is stretching it, count me in for a large vat of port ??
What the Fuchs? Posted 26 May 2019 Author Posted 26 May 2019 18 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said: I could have a completely different list tomorrow, though the top too are pretty locked in. When I think of the acts, and even genres, I've omitted from that list, I feel sick to the stomach! I know, I felt bad not having any Bowie or Velvet Underground. Don’t crucify me, but I even considered Republica - Ready To Go just to remind me of going to watch Leicester at the Walkers c.2004
Mark_w Posted 26 May 2019 Posted 26 May 2019 Probably something like, Pixies – Debaser (I probably would just go with eight Pixies songs really, but for the sake of not making this too boring...) R.E.M. – Country Feedback The Cure – Just Like Heaven The Beatles – A Day in the Life Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin’ Slothrust – Magnets Pt. 2 Husker Dü – Chartered Trips Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
Alf Bentley Posted 26 May 2019 Posted 26 May 2019 Roisin Dubh - The Dubliners Heroes/Helden - David Bowie (fave) Hurts so good - Susan Cadogan Badlands - Bruce Springsteen New Rose - The Damned Whole wide world - Wreckless Eric Fantastic voyage - The Mekons The only way is up - Yazz (A good range of emotional impacts for the isolated life there, but could pick 8 others I'd like just as well) Book: "Ulysses" by James Joyce Luxury: My photo albums
Izzy Posted 26 May 2019 Posted 26 May 2019 It's so mood dependent but if I had to choose right here right now, I'd pick these I think.. Boys of Summer - Don Henley Africa - Toto Down Under - Men At Work Chasing Rainbows - Shed Seven Through The Barricades - Spandau Ballet Red Light Spells Danger - Billy Ocean Something About You - Level 42 It's My Life - Talk Talk
Izzy Posted 27 May 2019 Posted 27 May 2019 On 25/05/2019 at 09:17, Crinklyfox said: I love my music and so limiting myself to eight songs would be very painful. I'd want these and lots more: The Shadows - Wonderful land Procul Harum - Whiter shade of pale Love Affair - Everlasting love The Kinks - Waterloo sunset Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled water Moody Blues - Nights in white satin Led Zeppelin - Kashmir Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond (Part one) If I asked my old man to list his favorite eight songs, I reckon it would look exactly like this (you weren't born in '49 by any chance were you Crinkly?) Edit: Just saw your profile mate, you're a few years younger than my Dad but the same great taste in music
Crinklyfox Posted 28 May 2019 Posted 28 May 2019 On 27/05/2019 at 08:16, Izzy said: If I asked my old man to list his favorite eight songs, I reckon it would look exactly like this (you weren't born in '49 by any chance were you Crinkly?) Edit: Just saw your profile mate, you're a few years younger than my Dad but the same great taste in music I bet I'd get on well with your Dad. I love threads like this as I have always been into my music but as I grow older I listen to less and less new music, so no surprise that my favourites are rooted in the past. I look at the favourites from other contributors and then listen to some of them, it gives me an appreciation of good music released after 'my era'.
purpleronnie Posted 28 May 2019 Posted 28 May 2019 2 hours ago, Crinklyfox said: I bet I'd get on well with your Dad. I love threads like this as I have always been into my music but as I grow older I listen to less and less new music, so no surprise that my favourites are rooted in the past. I look at the favourites from other contributors and then listen to some of them, it gives me an appreciation of good music released after 'my era'. I think I listen more to music as I get older and always want to hear something new, be pretty depressing if all I listened to was old music....desert island picks are always likely to be older music though as its rooted in memories or music you grew up with which always means more I think. Pretty embarrassing to admit I've ran through my desert island discs in my head many times over the years....it always changes I'm sure when I choose mine on here i'd probably want to change it soon after.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 28 May 2019 Posted 28 May 2019 2 hours ago, purpleronnie said: I think I listen more to music as I get older and always want to hear something new, be pretty depressing if all I listened to was old music....desert island picks are always likely to be older music though as its rooted in memories or music you grew up with which always means more I think. Pretty embarrassing to admit I've ran through my desert island discs in my head many times over the years....it always changes I'm sure when I choose mine on here i'd probably want to change it soon after. I have old hand written notes from my teenage years with my top 40s in music, books, films, computer games, knocking around somewhere. If I stumble across them, I will post them up for a laugh. I'm pretty certain Vienna by Ultravox will be top, as it was for many years, yet nowadays it's not even my favourite Ultravox song and Ultravox are far from being my favourite band (though Midge Ure solo at the Minack Theatre is still one of the best gigs I've ever been to). How time changes you.
purpleronnie Posted 28 May 2019 Posted 28 May 2019 Just now, Trav Le Bleu said: I have old hand written notes from my teenage years with my top 40s in music, books, films, computer games, knocking around somewhere. If I stumble across them, I will post them up for a laugh. I'm pretty certain Vienna by Ultravox will be top, as it was for many years, yet nowadays it's not even my favourite Ultravox song and Ultravox are far from being my favourite band (though Midge Ure solo at the Minack Theatre is still one of the best gigs I've ever been to). How time changes you. That's great, I don't remember having anything like that myself, apart from a few Leicester scrapbooks I have from back in the day.
RumbleFox Posted 1 June 2019 Posted 1 June 2019 On 24/05/2019 at 17:31, MrsJohnMurphy said: This is impossible but would be something like this Joy Division - No Love Lost The Cure - A Forest Public Enemy - Nighttrain The Orb - Blue Room Gustav Holst - Jupiter Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia Tindersticks - A Night In Louis Prima - Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody Book? Fearless: The Amazing Underdog Story of Leicester City by Jonathan Northcroft Luxury? A nice smelly blue cheese Such a great song from an amazing album. Probably my favourite singing voice ever. X
foxfanazer Posted 3 June 2019 Posted 3 June 2019 This is tough but I'll go for..... The Smiths- There is a light that never goes out Oasis- Slide away Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody Paul Weller- Brand new start The Verve- The drugs don't work Nirvana- Drain you Simple minds- Don't you forget about me 2pac- Troublesome 96/ to live and die in LA
Bellend Sebastian Posted 3 June 2019 Posted 3 June 2019 It changes from day to day, but I reckon I could go with: Lynne Anderson - Rose Garden British Sea Power - Carrion Morrissey - Suedehead Julian Cope - They Were On Hard Drugs Super Furry Animals - Ice Hockey Hair (thanks for reminding me about this, Trav) Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Spanish Dance Troupe The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love The Darkness - Love on The Rocks (with no ice) I feel very dirty picking a Darkness song over Led Zeppelin, The Who, Black Sabbath or whatever but there you go
What the Fuchs? Posted 3 June 2019 Author Posted 3 June 2019 I think I was a bit too hasty in just choosing songs from my favourite artists - I think it may be better to choose songs that transport you back or remind you of a specific point in your life. So: 1. Go Betty Go - C'mon (Playing burnout on the ps2 as a kid with my older brother) 2. Drake Bell - I Found A Way (Kids tv nostalgia watching Drake & Josh) 3. Republica - Ready To Go (Reminds me of my first season going to Leicester games in 2002) 4. Digitalism- Circles (Yes, FIFA was my childhood ?) 5. Michael Palin/Monty Python - The Lumberjack Song (Love Monty Python to bits) * 6. France Gall - Bebe Requin (Beautiful French singer brings me back to studying my French A-Levels, my first musical crush as well) 7. Glenn Miller - Chattanooga Choo Choo (My favourite WW2 era song, also my favourite historical era) 8. Dinah Shore - Buttons And Bows (My grandma's favourite song as a girl, and reminds me of her) I think that's better but once on the island I'd probably go crazy without The Smiths
Simi Posted 3 June 2019 Posted 3 June 2019 The Supremes - Stoned Love Oasis - Slide Away Morrissey - Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself? The Beatles - We Can Work It Out Eric Prydz - Pjanno Arctic Monkeys - Piledriver Waltz The Notorious B.I.G. - Long Kiss Goodnight Elvis Presley - Stuck On You
Fox92 Posted 3 June 2019 Posted 3 June 2019 Blondie - Atomic The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever Oasis - The Importance Of Being Idle The Kinks - Autumn Almanac Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight George Michael - Careless Whisper Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Holy Mountain
Trav Le Bleu Posted 3 June 2019 Posted 3 June 2019 5 hours ago, What the Fuchs? said: I think I was a bit too hasty in just choosing songs from my favourite artists - I think it may be better to choose songs that transport you back or remind you of a specific point in your life. So: 1. Go Betty Go - C'mon (Playing burnout on the ps2 as a kid with my older brother) 2. Drake Bell - I Found A Way (Kids tv nostalgia watching Drake & Josh) 3. Republica - Ready To Go (Reminds me of my first season going to Leicester games in 2002) 4. Digitalism- Circles (Yes, FIFA was my childhood ?) 5. Michael Palin/Monty Python - The Lumberjack Song (Love Monty Python to bits) * 6. France Gall - Bebe Requin (Beautiful French singer brings me back to studying my French A-Levels, my first musical crush as well) 7. Glenn Miller - Chattanooga Choo Choo (My favourite WW2 era song, also my favourite historical era) 8. Dinah Shore - Buttons And Bows (My grandma's favourite song as a girl, and reminds me of her) I think that's better but once on the island I'd probably go crazy without The Smiths Then one day you see a boat in the distance and it's Morrissey rowing towards you, but he's not come to sing, he's here to talk politics. Yay!
Soup Posted 5 June 2019 Posted 5 June 2019 Could easily pick 80 songs for a desert island but 8 is a tough one. . I've sorted 4 nailed on songs so will try and finish the list but may take a while longer haha!
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