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Post #1 · Posted at 2019-08-30 07:57:55am 4.5 years ago

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Gonna instill some damn culture in this forum.

In the UK, there is a record-breaking radio show called Desert Island Discs, a show that has been ongoing since 1942. The format is simple, which means it works great in a forum:

- Imagine you are stranded on a desert island. This may be the hardest step.
- The desert island contains a CD/stereo/vinyl player. Try not to think about the implications of how you get electricity there.
- Now, you only have the following things to hand to stop you from going insane:
-- Eight recordings, either of music or other pieces. These recordings only contain single songs, you can't cheat this with an album.
-- You are automatically given the complete works of Shakespeare and either the Bible or an equivalent religious/philosophical work. You get to choose one additional book with you.
-- You get one luxury item, however, the item cannot be something to help you get off the island or communicate with the outside world, and it has to be inanimate.

The question is, what would you take, and why? Be as descriptive as you please, it's meant to be descriptive, and if you provide YT links for songs, please for the love of God don't embed all of the them.
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Post #2 · Posted at 2019-08-30 01:57:40pm 4.5 years ago

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Songs I'd go with vary a lot from mood to mood, which I think would be really important if you were stranded on an island. Just eight rock songs and I'd go crazy after a while.

1. Porcelain / Moby: This one is really easy on the ears, wouldn't get sick of it for a long time.
2. Nightcall / London Grammar: Same as above. Kinda a piano ballad-type song.
3. Nico and the Niners / Twenty One Pilots: Again, same as above, very relaxing to me.
4. Rime of the Ancient Mariner / Iron Maiden: A bloody long song with lots of varying melodies and a cool interlude.
5. Plasticworld / Pendulum: A really nice drum'n'bass song that'd probably keep me energized.
6. Hallelujah / Rurutia: This song's really dark and mysterious, I think it'd get my imagination going while listening to.
7. Still D.R.E. / Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg: Yeah, but you weren't expecting a fucking hip-hop song in there. This is really good to vibe to.
8. Tokyo Vice (Audiobook) / Jake Adelstein: Bet you thought I was gonna have 8 songs. Nah, I'd like to throw on an audiobook to fall asleep too sometimes. This is a yakuza novel so it's right in touch with what I like.

The book I'd go with would probably be something dystopian, because that's the theme that most captures my imagination and I can speak from experience that having a vivid imagination is something VERY important when you're doing nothing for a ridiculously long time. I'd most likely go with a classic that I haven't read yet like Fahrenheit 451. Wouldn't bring something I've already read before like some people might.

What other item I'd bring might actually surprise you, but I'd bring a fuckin MASSIVE stack of notebooks and pens. Writing stuff keeps me sane even at home, so I'd definitely need it when stranded all alone for god knows how long. While keeping a journal would help, I'd also probably end up writing a ton of stories while listening to the songs I brought with me. Hell, I already do that, so... I was debating on something like "oh i'd bring a 3DS lol" but I think something that's mostly imagination would actually be more helpful to me than playing video games. This was actually pretty fun to write up, and I think I got some surprises in there.
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Post #3 · Posted at 2019-09-03 10:14:03am 4.5 years ago

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Oh yeah, I need to do this.

1 - Unity - Shinedown | We start off with the here and now. It's fairly common knowledge that I'm currently engaged, and this song we plan to use as our first dance. I've not hidden that it's been a rocky as hell road to get to where we are now, and the idea of the song being lost in the dark and finally found? Yeah, I can totally get behind that. I won't be this wet throughout here, don't worry.

2 - Les Clés de Fort Boyard (2003-15) - Paul Koulak | Are you surprised that the Fort Boyard theme is going in there? Of course you aren't. It's a phenomenal theme to argubaly one of the most quietly important TV shows of the last 30 years, and the absolute corker of a theme is testament to that. I've sided for the full version of the third reincarnation, where it developed a dark background to match the evolution of the show.

3 - City Never Sleeps (Extended) - Dirty Androids | I figured that we needed at least one Bemani track given the site...and what a track. It takes the original D&B banger and turns it into a six minute blast of jazz brass. The piano breaking in at 2:38 is intensely uplifting, it screams "you're going to punch today in the dick and it's gonna feel so damn good".

4 - Yes - McAlmont & Butler | The single greatest 'fuck you' song in history. Bernard Butler wrote it when he was mercilessly yeeted from Suede, and instead of being angry, it's a solid block of pure Wall of Sound-era glorious smugness. It's rare to hear an 'I never needed you anyway' song, and it actually sounds like they really do mean it. If you get to the key change and you aren't raising the middle finger at someone you hate whilst laughing in their stupid little face, then you aren't doing it right.

5 - Si j'avais au moins (live) - Mylène Farmer | Mylène Farmer's best song. A beautiful, haunting ballad, which gets cranked up to 11 when it's done live as the last song of the night. The ending is goosebump-fuel, even 10 years after I heard it for the first time.

6 - Tonight We Fly - The Divine Comedy | I've always been a big fan of The Divine Comedy. Their greatest hits album took on so many genres in one go, which just shows how good Neil Hannon is at pretty much every genre he tries his hand at. I could put eight Divine Comedy songs in here, but this one gets the nod, though. Why? The final lyrics. "And when we die, oh, will we be that dissapointed or sad, if heaven doesn't exist, what will we have missed? This life is the best we've ever had!"

7 - Das Gesetz - Eisbrecher | Some days I just wanna thunder Jack Daniels and thrash to German hard rock.

8 - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Op.43) - Sergei Rachmaninoff | Told you we were getting culture in here. I think my favourite period of classical music is the Russian Romantic period, and this is my favourite of them all. Based on that theme that you'll remember as either the theme from The South Bank Show or more likely as the classical piece used for DIAVOLO, within 25 minutes it goes through every single emotion in one go. The greatest of these is the 18th variation, one of the most beautiful, yet heartbreaking things I've ever heard. You'll know when you get there.

Book - Battle Royale by Koushun Takami. It's a big thick book that became my favourite movie ever and I've never made the time to properly dive into it.

Luxury item - The obvious choice is a games console, innit? I'm not obvious, though. I'm looking at this thought experiment with the idea of "what do I really, really want to learn how to do, but don't have the time"? And now I have infinite time, which means I'd take a Yamaha DX7. I've always been fascinated with how FM modulation works and never really had the time made to learn how to do it properly, and the DX7 is the poster boy for this sort of thing. I've seen Brian Cox on Twitter upload the original user manual and the entire thing's like Antic Greek to me. Of course I'd want one of those massive switchboardy-looking things they used in the 1970s to properly experiment. That'd be my idea of heaven, right there.
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