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Okay, you are alone on a desert island...

Choose 8 pieces of music, one book (excluding the Bible or another religious book of your choice, and the works of Shakespeare, which will already be there.) And one luxury item, which must be inanimate and of no practical use.

Can't make my choice now because I'm off to bed in about 5 minutes.

theia;772402 wrote: Okay, you are alone on a desert island...



Choose 8 pieces of music, one book (excluding the Bible or another religious book of your choice, and the works of Shakespeare, which will already be there.) And one luxury item, which must be inanimate and of no practical use.



Can't make my choice now because I'm off to bed in about 5 minutes.




Define pieces...song, album, concerto etc.

The bible will be there or just Shakespeare ? This seems unclear.

If the bible is there which version ?

Is the Koran there ?

Is everything in English ?

Why is the Bible and Shakespeare there but not Tolstoy or Michener ?

What do the two of them have in common ?

Is it some kind of cult island ?

How did we end up on this island and where is it ?

Latitude and longitude ?

Are there ship or boat remnants ?

What is the nearest speaking language ?

Is there any hope of rescue ?

What types of wildlife inhabiting this island should be considered ?

Types of vegetation ?

Nomad;772405 wrote: Define pieces...song, album, concerto etc.

The bible will be there or just Shakespeare ? This seems unclear.

If the bible is there which version ?

Is the Koran there ?

Is everything in English ?

Why is the Bible and Shakespeare there but not Tolstoy or Michener ?

What do the two of them have in common ?

Is it some kind of cult island ?

How did we end up on this island and where is it ?

Latitude and longitude ?

Are there ship or boat remnants ?

What is the nearest speaking language ?

Is there any hope of rescue ?

What types of wildlife inhabiting this island should be considered ?

Types of vegetation ?


Just read my sig, Nomad

Okay music wise

Chopin's preludes

Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin

Eine Kleine Nachtmusic

Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Any of Bach, any

Abbey Road by the Beatles

Kind of Blue Miles Davis

Planxty's After the Break Album

The book I would take would probably be the Rodger Penrose one called "The Road to Reality" simply because its an up to date summation of physics, logic, and mathematics that is so over my head, and is packed with so many things that someone on a desert Island could spend their time working out, I would probably actually start understanding it after a couple of years, and then I feel a lot cleverer than I do right now. So once I was rescued I would have learned something with my time.

The one luxury item, its an inanimate object? Hmmmn, probably a telescope to look at the stars, as that would keep me occupied sometimes, and the stars would be nice on a desert island.

Take me Home

Take the Long Way Home

Come Sail Away

Home

Don’t Rock the Boat

The Sinking of the Edmond Fitzgerald

Alone Again Naturally

All By Myself

Book: 100 easy steps on how to build your own boat.

Luxury item: MP3 Player and lots of batteries

Galbally took Chopin's Preludes, I will take his Etudes and Nocturnes.

Vivialdi Four Seasons

Concertos for violin

Mozart-Sonatas

Rachmaninoff Concertos

Bach Two and Three Part Inventions

Fugues too with their extra goodies

Mendelssohn Songs Without Words

You said pieces of music, so the instruments have to go along with them, a nice baby grand piano and violin, a concetina or accordian, a recorder, and whatever else is handy.

Book-the Iliad.

One luxury item: If you won't give me the instruments, give me one for a luxury item. Music is not a luxury, it is a necessity of life. But for luxury, I'll take my kitty along for company.

I was thinking of this one sleepless night!



Life on Mars - David Bowie



Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie



Rule the World - Take That



Barbers Adagio



Higland Cathedral played by the massed bands at the Edinburgh Tattoo



Into the West by Annie Lennox



Already There by Lonestar



Yellow by Coldplay





For a book I'd like the complete works of Tolkein and for a luxury my quilt and pillows.

chonsigirl;772443 wrote: Galbally took Chopin's Preludes, I will take his Etudes and Nocturnes.

Vivialdi Four Seasons

Concertos for violin

Mozart-Sonatas

Rachmaninoff Concertos

Bach Two and Three Part Inventions

Fugues too with their extra goodies

Mendelssohn Songs Without Words

You said pieces of music, so the instruments have to go along with them, a nice baby grand piano and violin, a concetina or accordian, a recorder, and whatever else is handy.

Book-the Iliad.

One luxury item: If you won't give me the instruments, give me one for a luxury item. Music is not a luxury, it is a necessity of life. But for luxury, I'll take my kitty along for company.




Oh bugger, can I stay on the desert Island with CG, we can share the music and she can teach me to play the piano properly?? Oh go on, please!

chonsigirl;772443 wrote: But for luxury, I'll take my kitty along for company.


Supplemental rations aren't allowed! So that's technically an excluded item.

I think it should be a FG desert island so we can all hear each other's music and play with chonsi's cat.

Demitri Shostakovich, Babi Yar

Gustav Mahler, Kindertotenlieder

Anton Webern, Quartet opus 22

Arnold Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht

David Fanshawe, African Sanctus

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Licht

Alban Berg, Wozzeck

and I've another Stockhausen that I've played quite a lot since I was at school, with Microphonie I on one side and Microphonie II on the other, and I'd not like to be without it so that has to come as well.

I'd better have The Golden Bough as a practical guide to my behaviour, and a permanently-in-tune violin with unbreakable strings and a bow that won't wear out for a luxury.

for music, I'll just go with all Elvis including his gospel music. I would never tire of his voice! :-4

only one book??!! I'll pick the dictionary then.

and I have to have my tub of vaseline!

Been thinking about this at work and I still can't make up my mind on the music or the book...

but, like Immy, I would take my pillow and duvet (it's a set, so counts as one item) for my luxury.