1. California Dreaming
2. Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
3. Always something there to remind me - Sandie Shaw
4. Stay with me - The Faces (thanks for the prompt Herc)
5. Black Magic Woman - Santana
6. It might as well rain until September - Carole King
7. Somebody told me - the Killers
8. I was made to love her - Stevie Wonder
Book apart from the Bible and Shakespeare) Catch 22.
Luxury item - a solar powered record player.
So it's singles and not albums? That would make it much more difficult.
Quote: DaButt @ 1st June 2021, 7:47 PMSo it's singles and not albums? That would make it much more difficult.
Yes, the radio programme states it must be eight only single records, with one a favourite that you would save if your desert island was flooded by the sea.
You can also take one book of your choice (you get the complete works of Shakespeare and the Bible) and one inanimate luxury..................
The programme has been running since 1942!! and EG from the archive :
If you listen to these on the BBC Sounds, the music is not cut off abruptly like this on YouTube..........
I didn't know that.I'm sure I've heard people pick classical music and Cliff even a hymn.You wouldn't get them on a single.
Personally I wouldn't know where to start to choose just eight.
The book would The Pickwick Papers
It's not strictly'singles' - it's single songs or pieces of music
So classical pieces are ok
Hymns and carols
Anything
I think I've eveN heard people choose tv theme tunes....
Anyway I'd take 8 Coldplay singles
So I would have something to burn when it got cold
This is really hard. I'm guessing the original format outlines the importance of each song during a person's life, rather than 8 songs you won't get bored of listening to over and over again? Either way, my mind is thinking the latter one here.
There's a million songs I'm forgetting about and I can't think of any modern songs because I haven't lived with them for 30 years + like the ones I've selected here.
In no particular order:
1. A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke (I'd choose to save this one)
2. Space Oddity by David Bowie
3. Kashmir by Led Zeppelin
4. I was made to love Her by Stevie Wonder (thanks Chappers!)
5. Perfect Day by Lou Reed
6. Breathe by The Prodigy (Or anything by them)
7. Yesterday by The Beatles
8. Georgia on my Mind by Ray Charles
Honourable mentions go to anything by Johnny Cash or Otis Redding.
Book: I don't read enough books to answer this!
Item: a pencil.
American Pie - Don McLean
Harvest - Neil Young
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
Streets of London - Ralph McTell
Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkin
Ob La Di Ob La Da - The Beatles
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
Where Do Yo Go To My Lovely - Peter Sarstedt
Book: Favourite Racehorses (368 page tome published by Timeform 1997)
Luxury item: one year's collection of Cryptic & Quick crosswords from the Metro newspaper
God! This was difficult to cut down to Eight records
Samba Pa Ti - Santana
Stay With Me - The Faces
Helter Skelter - The Beatles
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
Atomic remix - Blondie
Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue - Jeno Jando and the Budapest Philharmonic. The one I would save.
Light and Shadow - Vangelis
Book - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - Never tire of reading this classic
I think it is a given that you have a wind-up gramophone, so...........
Luxury - A telescope. Not only to look for a rescue boat, but also the heavens on those beautiful dark nights with no light pollution. Perhaps I might spot a UFO that can rescue me.
Short, short list that nearly made it 'Barber's Adagio For Strings' by William Orbit
THIS is what you call a light show!! How I'd loved to have been there!
Quote: lofthouse @ 1st June 2021, 8:51 PMIt's not strictly'singles' - it's single songs or pieces of music
So classical pieces are ok
Hymns and carols
Anything
I think I've eveN heard people choose tv theme tunes....
Anyway I'd take 8 Coldplay singles
So I would have something to burn when it got cold
Thanks,I thought so.
um.....
Beatles .Across the Universe
Stones.Wild Horses
Dylan.Not Dark Yet.
S&G. The Boxer
Gene Clark.Some Misunderstanding.
Neil Young.Like a Hurricane
Rod Stewart. Mandolin Wind.
Don Drummond.Man in the Street.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 1st June 2021, 10:11 PMBook: Favourite Racehorses (368 page tome published by Timeform 1997)
Luxury item: one year's collection of Cryptic & Quick crosswords from the Metro newspaper
I love cryptic crosswords too (do one most days), and was going to make my book a Super Jumbo book of Times/Telegraph/Mail Cryptic Crosswords.
And for my luxury a huge box of pencils or never run out pen. So...................
...............not sure how you were going to fill yours in. 
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 2nd June 2021, 2:29 PMI love cryptic crosswords too (do one most days), and was going to make my book a Super Jumbo book of Times/Telegraph/Mail Cryptic Crosswords.
And for my luxury a huge box of pencils or never run out pen. So...................
...............not sure how you were going to fill yours in.
Blood? Or something worse.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 2nd June 2021, 2:29 PMI love cryptic crosswords too (do one most days), and was going to make my book a Super Jumbo book of Times/Telegraph/Mail Cryptic Crosswords.
And for my luxury a huge box of pencils or never run out pen. So...................
...............not sure how you were going to fill yours in.
I wondered that myself but assumed I would have the clothes I was wearing when I was shipwrecked, in the pockets of which would be clipped the vast array of pens that I had taken on board with me for the very purpose of completing a crossword each day.
Manic street Preachers - motorcycle emptiness
sex pistols - God save the Queen
The Clash - white man in Hammersmith palais
Joy Divison - Transmission
Faith no more - everything's ruined
Stone Roses - made of stone
Gary Numan - Down in the Park
Rage against the machine - Know your enemy
Oh yes, got to have some Rage'.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 2nd June 2021, 7:14 PMI wondered that myself but assumed I would have the clothes I was wearing when I was shipwrecked, in the pockets of which would be clipped the vast array of pens that I had taken on board with me for the very purpose of completing a crossword each day.
I can hear Roy Plomley rattling in his box right now.
I say, you fat owl! That's just not cricket, what?