Desert Island Discs

What's your favourite eight records?

The BBC ran a poll and 25,000 people made about 250,000 suggestions and the most popular records look like this -
very middle-aged, middle-class, very Radio 4.

1 Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
2 Elgar - Enigma Variations
3 Beethoven - Symphony No 9 in D minor Choral
4 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
5 Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
6 Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor
7 Handel - The Messiah
8 Holst - The Planets

I wonder how many votes went to Blitzkrieg Bop or Metal Machine Music. ?? or Vicky Leandros.

B-52's - Good Stuff
Sugar - Beaster
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Rush - Exit Stage Left
The Gladiators - Trenchtown Mix-Up
Burning Spear - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon.
Martha and the Muffins - This Is The Ice Age
Ella Fitzgerald - Gold

I'll change my mind in ten minutes............

I've been trying to think of a definitive 8 but like CK says , I'll change my mind 10 minutes later
Mr. Big by Free would have to be there though
and Achilles last stand by Led Zep
I'll be back in 9 and a half mins

in no particular order
& valid for the next 10 mins

The Stooges - Dirt
T. Rex - Mambo Sun
The Shangri-Las - Give Him A Great Big Kiss
Kraftwerk - Ruckzuck
Jimmy Giuffre - Mosquito Dance
Doll by Doll - Butcher Boy
Ezio - Cinderella
The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs

Wow -a "what's your favourite record thread" what a refreshing change

This week I'm into:

Girls Aloud
Dumpy's Rusty Nuts
Chesney Hawkes
Gilbert O Sullivan
Acker Bilk
Lawnmower death

But which Gilbert O'Sullivan?

No you're right, it's a silly idea.

The Lark Ascending, Enigma Variations and Bohemian Rhapsody - the nation has spoken.

Nothing wrong with Bo Rhap

You need to listen to it in the "mirth mobile" with Wayne and Garth to really rock

Am off work with a lower back lock-up. On the Diazepam, so this may have influenced my choices.........

Me and Mrs Jones - Billy Paul
Holidays in the Sun - Sex Pistols
Beethovens 5th
Small Axe- Bob Marley
Hardest Button to Buton - WHite stripes
Human Fly- Cramps
Lovin you is easy cos you're beautiful- Minie Ripperton
Raindrops Keep Fallin on my head - BJ Thomas from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid

You're right, it will be different by thetime It's posted.........
did Gilb OSuliv do " CAt on a hot tin roof" I remember pans people or legs and co dancing to it on tOTP. Bit wierd when they did "You're a bad dog baby"... I think they had real dogs on stage..

Am off work with a lower back lock-up. On the Diazepam, so this may have influenced my choices.........
Me and Mrs Jones - Billy Paul
Holidays in the Sun - Sex Pistols
Beethovens 5th
Small Axe- Bob Marley
Hardest Button to Buton - WHite stripes
Human Fly- Cramps
Lovin you is easy cos you're beautiful- Minie Ripperton
Raindrops Keep Fallin on my head - BJ Thomas from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid

You're right, it will be different by thetime It's posted.........
did Gilb OSuliv do " CAt on a hot tin roof" I remember pans people or legs and co dancing to it on tOTP. Bit wierd when they did "You're a bad dog baby"... I think they had real dogs on stage..

I cant believe what \I just wrote. If I was really stuckona desert island I wouldnt want any of that sentimental crap. I would want Break on through and Five to One by the Doors to remind me of being back in Nam. White Rabbit by Jeff Airplane.

Human fly....... Classic