If you were the only person on a desert island?

Question

and you could only take seven records with you what would they be? (You would have a good supply of batteries and a turntable too before anyone says anything)

Answer 1

1) we are the diddy me...ken dodd
2) kungfu fighting
3) im only a poor little sparrow
4) granma we love you
5) agadoo
6) faith
7) pump up the jam

i have bad taste...but the 1st 4 are the 1st 4 i ever bought...memories.

Answer 2

1. Kate Bush - "Hounds Of Love" (1985)
2. Cyndi Lauper - "She's So Unusual" (1983)
3. France Gall - "Babacar" (1987)
4. The Beatles - "With The Beatles" (1965)
5. Status Quo - "Whatever You Want" (1979) (which incl, the song "Living On An Island", a must for anyone stranded on a desert island)
6. Cilla Black" - "Images" (1970)
7. Sandie Shaw - "Reviewing The Situation" (1969)

Answer 3

Modern Jazz Quartet

Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits

Johnny Mathis' Chances Are

Chopin

Julie Christie - Round Midnight

Arthur Prysock - Dearly Beloved

Motown's Greatest Hits

Answer 4

1) Chris Ledoux-'20 Greatest Hits'
2) Tracy Lawrence-'Lesson Learned'
3) Bruce Springsteen-'Greatest Hits'
4) Sam Cooke-'Best of Sam Cooke'
5) Grease-movie soundtrack
6) Marty Robbin-'The Drifter'
7) REO Speedwagon-'Hi Infidelity'

Answer 5

I wouldn't last very long.
Besides, alone on an island, would probably be a tremendous relief to get away from all the obnoxious, never ending, constant, over-bearing, untalented music that we hear everywhere we go in the U.S. And I mean everywhere: all stores, including HARDWARE stores, gas stations (even outside by the pumps), cafes, bars, malls, airports, bus stations, streets(passing cars) and TOILETS. Yes, toilets; can you believe it, speakers right over the urinals. So no records, no music would be great - the silence would be golden.

Haaaaahhh - I'm all out of breath.

Answer 6

Gene Pitney
Gillbert O'Sulluvan
John Lennon
Tony Chistie
Michel Ball
Evita
The Shadows

Answer 7

I would bring the Beatles Abbey Road and
The White Album
the Eagles greatest hits,
Aerosmith's greatest hits,
Louis Armstrong's greatest hits,
Bruce Springsteen's greatest hits,
The Guess Who's greatest hits
- thats 7
and a double good supply of batteries and a couple of needles for the turntable.

Answer 8

Crooked rain - Pavement
Tri-Danielson - Danielson Famile
Space Ritual - Hawkwind
American Water - Silver Jews
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Reproduction - The Human League
Little man & a house & the whole world window - Cardiacs
Thy is a word and feet need lamps - Half-Handed Cloud

Answer 9

Never travel without my ipod, but if it were washed away

Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (not sure which recording)
Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley)
Stranger Song (Leonard Cohen)
Elvira Madigan (Mozart Symphony, can't remember the number)
Imagine (john Lennon)
Come On (Rolling Stones)
Teenage Dirtbag (Wheatus)

but why only seven ? The BBC tradition is eight

Answer 10

Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
Lou Reed - Transformer
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Radiohead - The Bends
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Led Zeppelin - ZoSo (IV)
Pulp - Different Class (don't ask!)

Answer 11

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony Number Eight;
Jean Sibelius - Symphony Number Seven;
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra;
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony Number Thirteen;
Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique;
Prokofiev - Symphony Number Three;
Stravinsky - Dumbarton Oaks.

Try them yourself - they're all tremendous!