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

Bonafido commented on
“Your Choice of 8 tracks ...” (91) March 2013

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

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7	Foo Fighters	12
8	Porcupine Tree	12
9	Coldplay	11
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redhotcheebah

I haven't forgotten about this, just....procrastinating XD

22 Sep 2012 Reply
mozzmozz

Happy 70th Birthday to Desert Island Discs.

1 Feb 2012 Reply
mozzmozz

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

31 Dec 2011 Reply
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)

16 Nov 2011 Reply
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!

4 Jan 2011 Reply
HolyWars66

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

31 Dec 2010 Reply
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. :)

11 Nov 2010 Reply
Jon_Doyle

8 tracks tagged. So difficult to choose!

3 Nov 2010 Reply
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.

24 Oct 2010 Reply
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 :-)

20 Oct 2010 Reply
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

16 Oct 2010 Reply
leburnhealeyman

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

10 Oct 2010 Reply
mozzmozz

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

30 Aug 2010 Reply
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.)

19 Aug 2010 Reply
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.

19 Aug 2010 Reply
mozzmozz

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

19 Aug 2010 Reply
DanJorge

how to do that ?

19 Aug 2010 Reply
BeOrion

I did that too!

19 Aug 2010 Reply
Scampfarmer

Tagged my tracks with didyc.

17 Aug 2010 Reply
witch_possessed

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

17 Aug 2010 Reply