Desert Island Discs - Your Choice

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Leader: mozzmozz
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Created on: 22 Jul 2010
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Choose your favourite all time top 8 tracks to listen to on your desert island. You also get to choose a luxury and a book. (The Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare are already on the island)

Desert Island Discs is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme first broadcast on 29 January 1942 by Roy Plomley, the inventer of the idea.
Guests are invited to imagine themselves cast away on a desert island, and to choose eight pieces of music to take with them.

At the end of the programme they choose the one piece they regard most highly.
They are then asked which book they would take with them; they are automatically given the Complete Works of Shakespeare and either the Bible or another appropriate religious or philosophical work.
Guests also choose one luxury, which must be inanimate, and of no use in escaping the island or allowing communication from outside.

To select your 8 tracks go here ... Your choice of 8 tracks ... and scroll to the bottom.
View what songs other castaways have chosen ... Desert island Discs ... . . . (for inspiration)
Desert Island Discs is broadcast in the UK on BBC Radio 4 at 11:15am on Sundays. ... Repeated on Fridays at 9am.
Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 ... ... or download the Podcasts
Previous Desert Island Discs are here. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Archives . . . . . . . WikipediaThanks for joining
Thanks for submitting your own desert island discs, and
Thanks for agonising over the difficult challenge of choosing just 8 tracks from the millions available.
... x Mozz

Active Discussions

mozzmozz commented on
“Your Choice of 8 tracks ...” (88) March 2012

Mudduck commented on
“Castaway Population” (7) March 2011

Mudduck commented on
“8 Songs for prayer to say thanks” (1) March 2011

Itterashai commented on
“A Second Desert Island?” (14) January 2011

Tetrinity commented on
“8 Choices Based On Names” (3) November 2010

Recent Journals

My Desert Island Disc Choice by AnarchDarkAngel | 15 Oct 2010
Desert Island Discs and the Agony of Choice. by mozzmozz | 5 Aug 2010 | 3 comments

Weekly Top Artists

Overall Unique to this Group

1	Radiohead	17
2	The Rolling Stones	14
3	The Beatles	14
4	The Who	13
5	Pink Floyd	12
6	David Bowie	12
7	Led Zeppelin	12
8	The Doors	11
9	Muse	11
10	Coldplay	11

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mozzmozz

Happy 70th Birthday to Desert Island Discs.

February 2012
mozzmozz

Happy New Year to all who visit us here. ...

December 2011
mozzmozz

Victor Adebowale's Desert Island Discs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/40871661#b016kgtz ... (you can listen to the whole program)

November 2011
Brutha2

Should we do a selection for albums, as well? When I think of the show I thought it would be albums, not tracks. That'd be an even more interesting choice!

January 2011
HolyWars66

http://www.last.fm/music/Exploding+Ribbons+Of+Pure+White+Light Shameless self-promotion^^^^^^

December 2010
Tetrinity

I ended up writing a LOT more than I had originally planned, but I have made my selection, posted here: http://www.last.fm/group/Desert+Island+Discs+-+Your+Choice/forum/200735/_/637139/3#f13852944 ; now, I will go to bed. Partly because I have a lecture in seven hours, but mostly because I would probably end up changing my selection otherwise. :)

November 2010
Jon_Doyle

8 tracks tagged. So difficult to choose!

November 2010
Sqwubbsy

Mozzmozz. Challenge accepted. Eight tracks tagged. Could easily change by this evening though! Book "Infinite Jest". Item a Guitar to see if I can finally learn.

October 2010
imyourman

Wow mozzy thats some task. My top 8 will always be what I'm listening to at the moment but if there's 8 I would miss then this is them. 1 David Gilmour - There's No Way Out Of Here 2 Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 3 Santana - Samba Pa Ti 4 M83 - Couleurs 5 Younger Brother - Ribbon On A Branch 6 Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike 7 William Orbit - Adagio For Strings 8 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues Dont know is this how I sholuld be giving you my 8 :-)

October 2010
redhotcheebah

mozzmozz....your message in my shoutbox has been haunting me for weeks... XD I've finally surrendered and decided to give it a try....although I don't know how long this will take. ....this is a rather cruel operation you've got going on here, btw. :P

October 2010
leburnhealeyman

Got there at last Mozz, may well do another! For a different mood. :))

October 2010
mozzmozz

We now have 56 artists in "Connected Artists". ... These are all artists selected more than once by our castaways in Desert Island Discs.

August 2010
mozzmozz

or ... Alternatively ... you could listen to the 'Desert Island Discs' Group Radio (Click the link above the New Members list - Up a bit. Stop. Right a bit. Stop.)

August 2010
mozzmozz

How to tag songs with the didyc tag... .... . Go to the song page on last.fm (e.g. http://www.last.fm/music/Pink%2520Floyd/_/Shine%2520on%2520You%2520Crazy%2520Diamond). . ... .. .. . Drop the Save picklist, and select 'Add Tags'. .. . .. . . Enter didyc in the popup box.

August 2010
mozzmozz

42 Connected Artists. All of them have been selected more than once on our castaway's desert island disc selection.

August 2010
DanJorge

how to do that ?

August 2010
BeOrion

I did that too!

August 2010
Scampfarmer

Tagged my tracks with didyc.

August 2010
witch_possessed

ok man im gonna make that disc but not now......i need to think over it with a clear head

August 2010
HolyWars66

Just added "didyc" as a tag to several artists in my library-hope that helps!

August 2010