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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, 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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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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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!"
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Jan 3 2006, 01:16 AM
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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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SkyeLab Desert Planet Discs Dec 16 2005, 10:27 AM
Toma B Beautiful topic SkyeLab
For that 8 - records (CD... Dec 16 2005, 12:20 PM
ljk4-1 QUOTE (Toma B @ Dec 16 2005, 07:20 AM)Beautif... Dec 16 2005, 02:44 PM SkyeLab Great Choices Toma!
I wouldnt mind having a g... Dec 16 2005, 12:46 PM djellison Hmm...
1) Lamb-Gorecki
2) Riot Act - California S... Dec 16 2005, 01:54 PM odave Hmmmm....
1) Altan - Island Angel
2) The Who - Qu... Dec 16 2005, 03:07 PM Bob Shaw Might I suggest any (or all) of the output of Wend... Jan 3 2006, 02:08 AM ustrax QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 3 2006, 01:16 AM)Tho... Jan 3 2006, 11:20 AM hugh QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 3 2006, 01:16 AM)AC ... Jan 3 2006, 02:01 PM Bob Shaw Hugh:
I remember well the first time I walked dow... Jan 3 2006, 04:00 PM hugh Bob, good to see at least one other person listeni... Jan 5 2006, 09:42 AM ljk4-1 Here is some real classic space music to take alon... Jan 20 2006, 06:17 PM |
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