As it seems sleep will elude me completely tonight, instead of the 2 and 3 hour chunks it's been visiting me in since the op, I thought I'd take a crack at "Desert Island Discs" as invited by one D.Pelusey.
"Desert Island Discs has been running on BBC radio for 75 years, and works like this...
Each week a guest, called a 'castaway' during the programme, is asked to choose eight recordings (usually, but not always, music), a book and a luxury item that they would take if they were to be cast away on a desert island, whilst discussing their lives and the reasons for their choices. (we don’t need the discussing our lives bit, but the reasons for the musical choices is good.)
So, I thought we could, one by one (whoever’s keen to go first) post the 8 musical tracks you would take to a desert Island (no more than 8!) and why, with a link to the song so everyone can listen to it. Usually the songs people choose mean something to them, for some personal reason, or it can be as simple as it’s a rocking number."
1. Time - Pink Floyd
Not necessarily my favourite Pink Floyd song but probably the cause of one of my very first existential crises. The lyric "No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun" just blew my mind. Of course it leads into one of the great vocal solos in "The Great Gig in the Sky" with no discernible break, so I'd try and sneak them in as one.
2. Ants Invasion - Adam and the Ants
Much like my first choice this one gets a guernsey based on my love for the album. And the riff.
3. Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
https://open.spotify.com/album/0kDFjyfGFtiIMXlxJ120Ok?highlight=spotify:track:6vZZtivPrtpggT5SSXsYTy
One of my all time favourite songs to play, complete with messed up timing signatures. Impossible to sing while playing but why would you when you have Gabriel pouring his heart out, agonising over sticking with Genesis or following his creative dream and going solo.
4. Beasley Street - John Cooper Clarke
https://open.spotify.com/album/4VVoqHgftTRB0ymXkSsO6x?highlight=spotify:track:4399aYf8zUs5bj23TioBD3
Britain's Punk Poet.
Another lyrical pick "Sleep is a luxury, they don't need a sneak preview of death"
5. Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MMXjunSx80
My first introduction to Buckley I was mesmerised by his voice and, as someone that "plays guitar" this album led me to the realisation I would never be a "guitarist". His connection with the instrument is something to look at, even in this funky open tuning
6. Follow the Sun - Xavier Rudd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1bNmyPWww
Love this bloke and his music. Changed a flight to Bali in 2017 just to see him perform a gig on the Uluwatu cliffs. Money well pent
7. Bella - Angus and Julia Stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggvwJ_g1aAI
I love this duo and especially this song
8. Hey You - Dope Lemon
https://open.spotify.com/track/1yYpw3DuEPBO6Cv7ejBwsq
And somehow that leads me here. Angus' side hustle
Not necessarily my favourite 8 songs ever but a mix I'd be happy to be stranded with
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