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opinionated ow
03-13-10, 11:23 AM
Imagine yourself cast away on a desert island and choose eight pieces of music to take with you. You must choose the one piece you regard most highly. You can also take one book as well as the automatically given Complete Works of Shakespeare and Bible. Finally you can choose one luxury, which must be inanimate and of no use in escaping the island or allowing communication from outside.

What would you pick?

1. Amazing Grace
Performer: Aretha Franklin
Composer: John Newton/Traditional
Album Title: Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings
Track: 13
Label: Rhino/Atlantic Records
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2. Green Onions
Performer: Booker T. & The MGs
Composer: Steve Cropper/Al Jackson Jr./Booker T. Jones/Lewis Steinberg
Album Title: Green Onions
Track: 1
Label: Stax/Atlantic
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3. Good Vibrations
Performer: The Beach Boys
Composer: Mike Love/Brian Wilson
Album Title: Smiley Smile
Track: 6
Label: Capitol/EMI
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4. Answer Me
Performer: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Composer: James Bignon
Album Title: 100 Days, 100 Nights
Track: 10
Label: Daptone Records
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5. Because I Love You
Performer: Masters Apprentices
Composer: Doug Ford/Jim Keays
Album Title: Choice Cuts
Track:
Label: EMI
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6. Shake
Performer: Otis Redding
Composer: Sam Cooke
Album Title: Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
Track: 6
Label: Volt/Atlantic
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7. You Don't Know What You Mean To Me
Performer: Sam & Dave
Composer: Steve Carpenter/Steve Cropper/Eddie Floyd
Album Title: I Thank You
Track: 6
Label: Atlantic
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8. Nothing Takes The Place Of You
Performer: Toussaint McCall
Composer: Toussaint McCall
Album Title: Nothing Takes The Place Of You
Track: 3
Label: Ronn
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Luxury Item: Hammond B-3 Organ with Leslie Speaker.

Book: My God, It's A Woman! (The autobiography of Nancy-Bird Walton)
Sean Malone
03-13-10, 11:37 AM
Music;

1) The Grays - Roshambo
2) Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
3) Aimee Mann - I'm With Stupid
4) The Beatles - Rubber Soul
5) Metallica - Ride the Lightening
6) Megadeth - Peace Sells...
7) Radiohead - The Bends
8) Aimee Mann - Lost in Space

Item - My acoustic guitar

Book - Lord of the Rings
TrueBrit
03-13-10, 10:05 PM
Hmmm...

1-Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony
2-Beethoven's 7th Symphony
3-Thin Lizzy - The Boys are back in town - Live and dangerous
4-Zepp - Kashmir
5-UFO - Mother Mary - Strangers in the night
6-Bob Marley - Exodus - Exodus
7-Creedence Clearwater Revival - I heard it through the grapevine
8-Pink Floyd - Dogs - Animals

Item - reading glasses...

Book - that's a toughie..probably have to go with Lord of the rings as well..if for no other reason than the page after page of elven poetry will make very handy bog paper..
nrc
03-13-10, 11:43 PM
Wait. Are we talking about individual cuts from an album or the entire album. :confused: The latter is what I've always seen in "Desert Island Disc" lists. Of course "disc" will soon be as anachronistic as "record".
TrueBrit
03-13-10, 11:59 PM
Wait. Are we talking about individual cuts from an album or the entire album. :confused: The latter is what I've always seen in "Desert Island Disc" lists. Of course "disc" will soon be as anachronistic as "record".

I was confused too...that's why I did a sort of mix and match with complete symphonies but individual tracks from the modern era..
Michaelhatesfans
03-14-10, 01:54 AM
Is there WiFi on this island?
opinionated ow
03-14-10, 02:41 AM
Wait. Are we talking about individual cuts from an album or the entire album. :confused: The latter is what I've always seen in "Desert Island Disc" lists. Of course "disc" will soon be as anachronistic as "record".

Eight tracks. I was going to say pretend their 45s or 12" singles or something but there'd be a few who don't know what that means ;)