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 Dec 16 2005, 10:27 AM
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Folks,
Imagine you are to be a castaway on the Planet Mars and are allowed to take with you eight pieces of music, one book and one luxury item. See the following for more on the concept from the BBC website : http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs.shtml My choices are as follows: Music 1. Whole of the Moon (the Waterboys) 2. Teenage Kicks (The Undertones) 3. The one I love (REM) 4. Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) Cockney Rebel 5. Bohemian Like You (Dandy Worhols) 6. Yellow (Coldplay) 7. Creep (Radiohead) 8. Vienna (Ultravox) 9. Book: Complete works of Robert Burns 10. Luxury Item: Golf clubs (and balls of course) I can just imagine trying to land a golf ball on Home Plate from where Spirit is now (I reckon a 7 iron ought to do it) Who wants to be next with their list? Cheers Brian -------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary code, and those who don't."
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Dec 16 2005, 12:20 PM
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Beautiful topic SkyeLab
For that 8 - records (CD's) my choice is: Vangelis - Antarctica REM – Loosing My Religion Beethoven - 9th Symphony Sade – No Ordinary Love ABBA – I Had I Dream Annie Lennox – Why Metallica – Nothing Else Matters Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire Book: One book of my national poetry...including poem: Santa Maria della Salute - Laza Kostic... you can Google for it...if you are interested... ...and finally that luxury item would be my "Orion" 4.5" short Tube Newton Reflector telescope...I would love to watch Earth, Jupiter, Saturn and everything else from good dark place with no electric lights on the hole planet...  Of course if I would have a choice on that luxury item I would carry a MEADE 16" LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope which I unfortunately don’t have yet...  this one:
-------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Dec 16 2005, 12:46 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 11-October 04 From: Oxford, UK (Glasgow by birth) Member No.: 101 |
Great Choices Toma!
I wouldnt mind having a go at the telescope (you can have a go at hitting homeplate with the 7 iron in return if you like) 
-------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary code, and those who don't."
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Dec 16 2005, 01:54 PM
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Hmm...
1) Lamb-Gorecki 2) Riot Act - California Soul 3) Coldplay - The scientist 4) Faure - Requiem 5) Zero 7 - Destiny 6) Dido - All You Want 7) Into the Red ( Nick Mason ) - Tyrrell 011 ( if someone made a recording of an FF1600 from the pitlane at Castle Combe, I'd have that instead) 8) Oasis - Champaigne Supernova Book ) Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'Beyond the Limits' OR Bill Hartmann's Travellers Guide to Mars Luxury ) This is a hard one. You know, I think I'd take Golf Clubs as well actually. Or perhaps my Camera. |
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Dec 16 2005, 02:44 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (Toma B @ Dec 16 2005, 07:20 AM) Beautiful topic SkyeLab ...and finally that luxury item would be my "Orion" 4.5" short Tube Newton Reflector telescope...I would love to watch Earth, Jupiter, Saturn and everything else from good dark place with no electric lights on the hole planet... Of course if I would have a choice on that luxury item I would carry a MEADE 16" LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope which I unfortunately don’t have yet... this one:
 Doesn't everyone wear a light blue lab coat when observing?  I miss the Sky & Telescope telescope ads from the 1970s and 1980s when they would have an attractive woman of the type who would normally never even get near a telescope pose at the instrument like it's the most wonderful thing in the world. PCness seems to have removed that promotional tactic. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Dec 16 2005, 03:07 PM
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Hmmmm....
1) Altan - Island Angel 2) The Who - Quadrophenia 3) Nanci Griffith - One Fair Summer Evening 4) Jeff Buckley - Grace 5) Gipsy Kings - Cantos de Amor 6) The Commitments movie soundtrack 7) Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience 8) Vivaldi - The Four Seasons Book) Tough one - probably The Riverside Shakespeare. Luxury) I'd have to go with a telescope too. It would be amazingly dark there, but you'd have to have battle the dust. -------------------- --O'Dave
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Dec 16 2005, 03:56 PM
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1. Being With You - Smokey Robinson.
2. Bohemien Rhapsody - Queen. 3. Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue. 4. A Hard Days Night - The Beatles. 5. House of The Rising Sun - The Animals. 6. Tainted Love - Soft Cell. 7. Like A Virgin - Madonna. 8. It Ain't What You Do, It's the Way You Do It - Bananarama. Book - War and Peace. Luxury Item - Single Malt Scotch, where is Robbie the Robot when you need him 
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Dec 17 2005, 12:10 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
QUOTE (MahFL @ Dec 16 2005, 09:56 AM) Luxury Item - Single Malt Scotch, where is Robbie the Robot when you need him "...alcohol compounds with a trace of fusile oil..." -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jan 3 2006, 12:37 AM
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 Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
From the Cantos de Santa Maria to Wagner, from the Stone Roses to Bowie, from Anthems to Placebo, from Joy Division to Amália Rodrigues, from Carlos Paredes (mama!) to Orff, from Sigur Rós to Rammstein, from Mozart to Gallandum Galandaina, from Zeca Afonso to Jeff Buckley (odave...you got me on that one...), from Led Zeppelin to Stevie Nicks' Landslide, from I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane to One to battery passing by the Master of Puppets, from Franz Ferdinand to the 9th Symphony, from the Sétima Legião' Sete Mares to the Mystére de Voix Bulgares, from Madredeus to Bob Dylan's Hurricane, from Cohen's Manhattan to the El Condor que Pasa, from me to you, from you to me...
One sound: Mankind... Now...There is a song following me this days...Square One, Coldplay... A song for this forum? Space Odissey...No doubt about it... Now that I'm listening to the sound of space...we shall be there! Hell! We're already there! Among El Dorado's granules! -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jan 3 2006, 12:42 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (ustrax @ Jan 3 2006, 12:37 AM) From the Cantos de Santa Maria to Wagner, from the Stone Roses to Bowie, from Anthems to Placebo, from Joy Division to Amália Rodrigues, from Carlos Paredes (mama!) to Orff, from Sigur Rós to Rammstein, from Mozart to Gallandum Galandaina, from Zeca Afonso to Jeff Buckley (odave...you got me on that one...), from Led Zeppelin to Stevie Nicks' Landslide, from I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane to One to battery passing by the Master of Puppets, from Franz Ferdinand to the 9th Symphony, from the Sétima Legião' Sete Mares to the Mystére de Voix Bulgares, from Madredeus to Bob Dylan's Hurricane, from Cohen's Manhattan to the El Condor que Pasa, from me to you, from you to me...
One sound: Mankind... Now...There is a song following me this days...Square One, Coldplay... A song for this forum? Space Odissey...No doubt about it... Now that I'm listening to the sound of space...we shall be there! Hell! We're already there! Among El Dorado's granules! -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jan 3 2006, 12:43 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (ustrax @ Jan 3 2006, 12:42 AM)  SMASHING PUMKINS!
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Alan Poe |
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Jan 3 2006, 01:16 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Though I don't have the 2001: A Space Odyssey novel handy at the moment (anyone know if it is online somewhere?), when AC Clarke was describing what kind of music David Bowman liked to listen to during his lonely trek to Saturn (this is of course after HAL 9000 kills Frank Poole - or so we thought; see 3001: The Final Odyssey - and the three hibernating astronauts and Bowman gives HAL a cybernetic lobotomy) he found in the end he could only take Bach all the time (or was it Beethoven?). Can someone help my failing memory here?
Note there are 3 Bach pieces and 2 Beethovens on the Voyager Interstellar Record: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/music.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jan 3 2006, 02:08 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
Might I suggest any (or all) of the output of Wendy (or Walter) Carlos?
And as for Mr Glass... Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jan 3 2006, 11:20 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 3 2006, 01:16 AM) Though I don't have the 2001: A Space Odyssey novel handy at the moment (anyone know if it is online somewhere?), when AC Clarke was describing what kind of music David Bowman liked to listen to during his lonely trek to Saturn (this is of course after HAL 9000 kills Frank Poole - or so we thought; see 3001: The Final Odyssey - and the three hibernating astronauts and Bowman gives HAL a cybernetic lobotomy) he found in the end he could only take Bach all the time (or was it Beethoven?). Can someone help my failing memory here? Note there are 3 Bach pieces and 2 Beethovens on the Voyager Interstellar Record: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/music.html When I wrote Space Odissey, what I meant to say was Bowie's Space Oddity... About 2001... http://kubrickfilms.warnerbros.com/faq/2001_faq.html http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...product-details -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jan 3 2006, 02:01 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Japan Member No.: 283 |
QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 3 2006, 01:16 AM) AC Clarke was describing what kind of music David Bowman liked to listen to during his lonely trek to Saturn - he found in the end he could only take Bach all the time (or was it Beethoven?). Can someone help my failing memory here? Yes, it was Bach- “above all, nothing with human voices”. Apart from Wendy Carlos-which Bob Shaw already suggested- I think these would help pass the time: 1. Blues from Orbit-Duke Ellington: Ellington was very interested in space exploration, this album was recorded in 1958, not long after Sputnik. 2. Space is the Place- Sun Ra : Hard to find this, but Sun Ra was another space nut jazz bandleader. 3. Hank Williams Greatest Hits:- Pete Conrad listened to this on his way to the moon. It sounds pretty good in your car, too. 4. Bach- Toccata and Fugue in D minor Another Arthur C Clarke story, the title of which escapes me, ended with the last survivor of a disastrous Mars mission listening to this as he walks across the Martian landscape to his doom... 5. Jimi Hendrix—Box Set, features "Third Stone from the Sun" 6. Elvis Presley- Sun Sessions 7. Rolling Stones-Exile on Main Street 8. Charlie Parker-Yardbird Suite 9. Book: Anthony Burgess-Time for a Tiger 10. Luxury Item: 1952 Fender Telecaster, with a ‘60s Fender Vibrolux amp . |
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