What are your Desert Island Discs?

5)Hurt- Johnny Cash Although I like Johnny Cash a lot, picking one from him is not hard.  Very emotional song, and even if it is a cover, it feels like it's his song.

Lovely...but I'd have picked "It Ain't Me Babe"

Eight songs? Gad. I don't know if I can do it.

Octopus's Garden - The Beatles   It's the first song I really remember being 'aware' of and reminds me of all the cool LPs my Dad had.

Annie's Song - John Denver   I think it's the first time, when listening to this, that I really understood the emotion that people can put into their songs. I was furious when Denver got divorced! 

If You Were Here - The Thompson Twins   These guys were sort of my intro to 'new wave', British music.

Ball of Confusion - Love and Rockets   What can I say? I'm a child of the 80s.

Heroes - David Bowie   Because Bowie is God.

Time After Time - Eva Cassidy version    A defining song for me in terms of the early days of my life in the UK.

You're the Best Thing - Style Council version   Because I'm a hopeless romantic and one of these days I'll have someone I want to sing this song about.

Lully Lullay (The Conventry Carol)   Because I sing it for my boys.


I dunno. It's an ok list.

Lovely...but I'd have picked "It Ain't Me Babe"

Then you should have picked it for your list.

Balmerhon,

You're right about Bowie.  I think that that is what's so hard about this list.  What you leave out is almost as important as what you leave in.  I tried to pick things that were something I could listen to death, but how would I feel to never be able to hear Bowie again.  Or so many other singers or artists.

As for the loneliness people mentioned upthread, personally, I would miss my husband terribly.  He would be my luxury item if I would be allowed.  But I am so unsocial in a lot of ways, I don't think the "desert island" in other contexts would be quite as hellish for me as it seems to others.  I wouldn't willingly isolate myself like that, but given enough books and media and tools for survival, I'd be okay mentally.  Add my husband and I'd probably be even more okay.  I guess that's why my favourite Twilight Zone is the one with the guy with the books after the nuclear war.  I could totally relate to the protagonist's ability to see the total destruction of society and most people as being bearable because then he had time to read all the books he wanted to read. 

Then you should have picked it for your list.

Quite right What that should have said was, "If I had picked a Johnny Cash song, this is the one I would have picked." Love the man in black!

I could never never pick 8 songs.  I though it was 8 albums / Cds!  I like looking at everyone's lists and being reminded of music I really loved at one stage or another but have almost forgotten about!

As far as introvert / extrovert and being able to survive mentally and emotionally on a desert island--no way!  I sometimes think introvert and extrovert are too simple and that we as human beings are much more complex than that.  I think I am, anyway!  I love loads and loads of me time, (alone, reading or whatever), but who we are and the richness of our lives (my life anyway) is so wrapped up in relationships with others from the day we are born til the day we die.

 I sometimes think introvert and extrovert are too simple and that we as human beings are much more complex than that.

Oh, I don't think I am an introvert or an extrovert.  I would miss my family and friends, but I've also spent long periods of time fairly isolated to know that I can handle it far more than is probably seen as healthy.  I envy people who have large social networks, support systems, and the ability to handle social situations without a load of stress both before and after social interaction, but everyone is different with different strengths and weaknesses.  Being social is definitely not in my strength column, but I wish it was.

The survey says:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/about/your-desert-island-discs