If you were stranded on an island, what music would you die for?
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Bronze Member Username: OjophileToronto, ON Post Number: 25 Registered: Jun-04 | I was watching a segment of "Outback Jack" a couple of weeks ago, and I started to wonder what if I were stranded in a similar island, and the girls had gone (had backed out, or "Backout"), and all that was left to do was wish for some darn good music to listen to? Well, here's my list of music to die for: Jazz: Any Charlie Parker album - oh yeah! I'll Be Around - Billie Holiday Humpty Dumpty - Chick Corea (from "The Mad Hatter") Violets For Your Furs - Dave Brubeck Quartet (from the ridiculously expensive Japanese CD reissue, "Angel Eyes") Israel - Bill Evans Trio How High The Moon - Diane Schuur Classical: Impromptu in Gb, Op. 90 - Franz Schubert IMHO, I find this the most lyrical piece ever written for the piano. My favourite is the version by Murray Perahia. Symphony nos. 4, 5 and 6 - P. Tchaikovsky Good, old Pyotr certainly pulled a neat trick on all of us when he wrote the rather unorthodox slow (Adagio lamentoso - Andante) finale on the Sixth. How brilliant the concept of the final notes "fading into nothingness" is. Always a moving piece of music, to me, personally. Symphony nos. 1 and 2 - J. Sibelius What gorgeous melody the final movement of Symphony no. 1 contains! On the 2nd symphony, the third movement leading to the final movement attacca* is a fine example of tension-and-release that only a great piece of music can evoke. Everytime I listen to this symphony, I have to stop what I'm doing and eagerly anticipate the triumphant opening notes of the final movement. * attacca - a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause Prelude no. 4 in E minor - Chopin Waltz in Ab, op. 69 No. 1 In A-Flat ('L'Adieu') - Chopin as played by Artur Rubinstein. Arabesque no. 1 - Claude Debussy Classic rock: Communication Breakdown - Led Zep Highway Star - Deep Purple Songs: Danny Boy - a cappella version by John McDermott (wow!) What A Wonderful World - Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong What A Wonderful Forum - John A. and His Chorus (Larry R "Wryter"; My Rantz; Kegger; Landroval; etc. ) Strike up the band! So, what about you? What music pieces would be on your "marooned" list? (Of course, the basic problem is, what if there was no electricity on the island? Then it's up to John A. and His Chorus.) Sects, sects, sects. Is that all you monks ever think about? |
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Silver Member Username: MyrantzPost Number: 521 Registered: Aug-04 | Ojo' My stranded on island music would be: Help Island In the Sun Girls, Girls, Girls Water Here comes the sun I'm so lonely I want someone to love and finally: I think I'm going slightly mad. :-) |
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Silver Member Username: WryterNaples, FL US Post Number: 179 Registered: Jul-04 | Ojo: just back from an opera-week in Santa Fe, I read with interest your island choices. Rather broad, and very sensitive. You obviously know much about the classics - and I must away to my collection to "brush up" on a couple of them. will post reply soon. Just glad to be back, and missed by the hurricane (by 30 miles) More from me on the "OperaNutz" thread later today. Respectfully, Larry R. PS - LOVE My Rantz choices! GRIN!! |
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Bronze Member Username: OjophileToronto, ON Post Number: 30 Registered: Jun-04 | Good choices, My Rantz :-) Here's more: Dream, Dream, Dream Imagine Homeward Bound Another One Bites The Dust See Ya Later, Alligator |
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Gold Member Username: John_aPost Number: 2019 Registered: Dec-03 | There is a really long-running, weekly, BBC radio programme called Desert Island Discs. Each week a new castaway (usually someone fairly famous) chooses eight "gramophone records" plus one book and one luxury item. My provisional list is under constant revision, ready and waiting for the call.... I remember once a fellow said his luxury would be a really good hi-fi system, to play them on. |
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Bronze Member Username: CheapskatePost Number: 45 Registered: Mar-04 | hopefully... i'd at least have a cd/cassette boombox. a turntable for the out of print stuff in my collection would be nice too. not that i have one, i'll pretend that i was stranded with a solar powered MP3 player and had already loaded tracks from all of the various formats in my collection. solex: solex vs. the hitmeister... super catchy electronic music sung by a cutsey voiced female the art of noise: daft... the best sample based music ever made. wierd, funky and fun desmond dekker: the best of desmond dekker... awesome collection of upbeat early ska songs that predate reggae scientist: tribute to king tubby... is a dub album that sounds alot funkier than "purist" dub led zepplin... all of my favorite tracks from their complete studio collection box bernstein's favorites: opera for orchestra... for when i'm in the mood for classical dvorak: new world syphony (9th)... for more serious classical buzzcocks: operator's manual... for those rave up days. marta sebestyen: apocryphia... for days where beauty is needed devo: Q: are we not men? A: we are devo! ... for nostalgia philip glass: glassworks... for total escapism and selected tracks from rhino's "hip hop from the top" and "rock instrumental classics" series. really, i'd rather have a collection of individual favorite tracks than albums. there are very few albums that are totally worth listening to for me. most of my favorite songs are single tracks in an album or compilation. i'd have to have the instrumental b-side to my "beat bop" 12" single for example. i'd rather have a choice of 50 songs than a dozen albums any day. |
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New member Username: Monkey_man_jackPost Number: 8 Registered: Dec-04 | 2PAC!, Lil Jon, Ying Yang Twins and ,and, um...I think thats it. Dont have any songs in particular but all of them would do. All though if I were stranded on an uninhabited island forever with NO WOMEN, I would wish for a 12 gauge shotgun and I would shoot myself. |
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Bronze Member Username: Eskimo3Post Number: 19 Registered: Dec-04 | If I were stranded I would want two CD's,The Yes Album and my Bill Cosby CD for laughs. |
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broken back Unregistered guest | 3 discs: Artist - Title the Durutti Column - Vini Reilly flying saucer attack - Distance Comet - Chandelier Musings is that obscure or what |
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Gold Member Username: RovinTrinidad & T... Post Number: 5177 Registered: Jul-05 | just gimme all the cds with music from the 80s & i'll live happily ........ |
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Gold Member Username: Southern_bassParis, Tennessee U.S. Post Number: 1449 Registered: Dec-05 | well , yall losers will be stranded out there with all those cds...but how ya gonna play them ? lol ya need a portable cd player and like 74873549985 batteries too  |
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Gold Member Username: Project6Post Number: 5115 Registered: Dec-03 | LOL |