EWB's Desert Island Discs

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Radio 4 in the UK does something about what albums you'd take if you were stuck on a desert island. I never listen but apparantly they do books and stuff too. I dunno.

Still, EWB has it's own version now (whoo). Why not show your love for certain products but these are the rules:

1) This desert island has power (I dunno, people just left the island in a hurry) and has every gaming console and computer new and old on it. It also has TV's, CD players and record players. You've got an ipod.

2) Your choices aren't neccearily your favourites but more which ones you'd get most use and pleasure out of (sometimes favourites are more of a special "every now and then" thing.

3) You're gonna be stuck for an indeterminable amount of time. There's no internet connection, no mobile phone signal, no NUFFINK!

So, bearing all that in mind...

If you were to be stuck on the desert island which of the following would you ake with you....

1) Five complete musical albums.

2) Five books (fiction or non-fiction).

3) Three video games (remember you can't play multiplayer).

4) Also, there's one takeaway on the island for food. What would it be or which country's cuisine would it serve?

[fourstarfizzle]

CDS

'The Ugly Organ' by Cursive

'Casanova' by The Divine Comedy

'f#a#infinity' by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

'You're a Woman, I'm a Machine' by Death From Above 1979

'Blood Mountain' by Mastodon

BOOKS

'Way of the Peaceful Warrior' by Dan Millman

'Flights From Deathrow' by Harry Hill

'Pulp: A Novel' by Charles Bukowski

'Naked Lunch' by William Burroughs

'Moab Is My Washpot' by Stephen Fry

GAMES

Spore

Maniac Mansion

EWR

TAKEAWAY

4) Domino's Pizza will do me, as long as they still do Meltdown Level 3 pizzas. Which they now don't due to the stupid Nikki pizza.

Edited March 9, 2007 by fourstarfizzle

[Skummy]

Albums:

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

The Lucksmiths - Warmer Corners

The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God

Yann Tierssen - Amelie OST

Books:

"Ulysses" by James Joyce

"Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World" by Haruki Murakami

"Big Sur" by Jack Kerouac

"The Great Shark Hunt" by Hunter S. Thompson

"The Picture Of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

Games:

Final Fantasy VII

Alex Kidd In Miracle World

We Love Katamari

Takeaway:

God knows. Some kind of pasta place.

As an aside, my favourite Desert Island Discs moment was when Terry Pratchett was asked to name his luxury item and he answered "the Chrysler Building".

[VerbalPuke]

1) Five complete musical albums.

1. Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.

2. Nomeansno - Wrong

3. Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power

4. No Alternative - Johnny Got His Gun 1978-1982

5. G.G. Allin and the Jabbers - Banned in Boston

2) Five books (fiction or non-fiction).

1. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

3. Choir Boys - Joseph Wimbaugh

4. Please Kill Me!: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk - Legs McNeil

5. We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk - Brendan Mullen and Marc Spitz

3) Three video games (remember you can't play multiplayer).

1. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

2. The Warriors

3. Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater

4) Also, there's one takeaway on the island for food. What would it be or which country's cuisine would it serve?

Some sort of deep dish pizza place would work.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Ok then...

Albums:

"Homogenic" by Bjork (introspective times)

"Polysics Or Die!!!" By Polysics (happy happy fun times)

"Melody A.M." by Royksopp (chill out times)

"Absolution" by Muse (guitar times)

"Takk" by Sigur Ros (magnificent times)

Books:

The Bible (I know it's included in the Radio 4 version but I'm listing it here)

"Hardboiled Wonderland and the End Of The World" by Haruki Murakami

"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

"White Noise" by Don DeLillo

"War And Peace" by Leo Tolstoy

Games:

Football Manager, cos it can fill a helluva lot of time.

Metal Gear Solid (either 3 or Portable Ops, undecided)

So a management game, an adventure game, probably need a race game like Toca Race Driver 3 or Gran Turismo. Hardly my favourite games but they'd get more play than some others I prefer in such a situation. Either that or Pro Cycling Manager which is greatness.

Food:

Chinese Takeaway. Fills you up and then five minutes later you're hungry again...So more delicious Chinese! And if I'm not in the mood for Chinese, the takeaway I used to work in served chips, steak, pork chop, omelettes, all kinda cool stuff....

[Jook]

1) Five complete musical albums.

The Dears- No Cities Left

Goldfrapp- Felt Mountain

Sigur Ros- Von

Bjork- Debut

Radiohead- Amnesiac

2) Five books (fiction or non-fiction).

Dave Gorman- Googlewhack Adventure

Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace- Are You Dave Gorman?

Danny Wallace- Join Me

Danny Wallace- Yes Man

Philip Pullman- His Dark Materials

3) Three video games (remember you can't play multiplayer).

Final Fantasy VII

Grand Theft Auto SA

Football Manager 2007

4) Also, there's one takeaway on the island for food. What would it be or which country's cuisine would it serve?

Chippy

Edited March 9, 2007 by Jook

[John Stones' Paint Trophy]

1) Five complete musical albums.

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

2) Five books (fiction or non-fiction).

Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

Have a Nice Day - Mick Foley

Malcolm X - Autobiography

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Animal Farm - George Orwell

3) Three video games (remember you can't play multiplayer).

Football Manager 2007

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas

Gran Turismo 4

4) Also, there's one takeaway on the island for food. What would it be or which country's cuisine would it serve?

The multi-service place around here. Does rice, curry, pasta, almost anything you can think of. Bloody nice too.

[Farmer Reil]

Albums:

Edguy - Rocket Ride (Rocking out times)

Sonata Arctica - Silence (Chilling out times)

Stephen Lynch - The Craig Machine (For when I need cheering up)

VNV Nation - Advance And Follow (For gaming)

Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory (For epic times)

Books:

Terry Pratchett - A random Discworld book.

JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings (because on a desert island I might actually get to read it all).

Dan Abnett - The Saint

William Shakespeare - Hamlet

Charles Dickens - A Tale Of Two Cities

Games:

Football Manager 2007

PES6

Flatout 2

Takeaway:

Subway

[Steeb]

Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun

Edited March 15, 2007 by Steebur Rós

[Number of the Breast]

Power, every type of games console, a takeaway? What is this, Lost?

Albums:

Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time (this changes all the time, that's my current Maiden album though)

Shinedown - Us and Them

Scorpions - Crazy World

Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid

Edguy - Rocket Ride

Damn, that was hard picking a fifth.

Books:

Mick Foley - Have A Nice Day

Terry Brooks - The Word and the Void (assuming you can get all three books in one)

Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

William Shakespeare - Hamlet

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Video Games:

Football Manager 2007

Sonic 3 & Knuckles

Total Extreme Wrestling 2005

Takeaway:

Mexican

Edited March 9, 2007 by Aaron Maiden

[thuganomic]

Albums:

The Beatles - White Album

Queen - A Night At the Opera

The Shins - Oh Inverted World

Rufus Wainwright - Want One

Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

Books:

William Diehl - Primal Fear

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Jerry Spinnelli - Crash

David Halberstam - Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle

Video Games:

Tekken Tag Tournament

Total Annihilation

Extreme Warfare Revenge

Takeaway:

Wendy's

[TMM]

Five complete musical albums.

The Who - Tommy

The Who - Then And Now

Green Day - American Idiot

Queen - Live At Wembley

Audioslave - Out Of Exile

Five books (fiction or non-fiction).

Timothy Zahn - Thrawn Trilogy (it's not cheating!)

Mick Foley - Have A Nice Day

Ewan McGregor & Charlie Borman - The Long Way Round

The Age Of Apocalypse Epic (comics count as books right? ¬_¬)

...is it bad I had trouble thinking of five books?

Three video games (remember you can't play multiplayer).

Football Manager (that's about 18 hours of every day sorted out there

Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic

EWR

Also, there's one takeaway on the island for food. What would it be or which country's cuisine would it serve?

Papa John's

[METALMAN]

1) Five complete musical albums.

Synchronicity - The Police

Up The Bracket - The Libertines

Rubber Soul - The Beatles

Back In The World - Paul McCartney

In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth - Coheed And Cambria

2) Five books (fiction or non-fiction).

A Season With Verona - Tim Parks

Doherty - William McIllvanney

The World According To Clarkson - Jeremy Clarkson

Empire Of The Sun - J.G. Ballard

Junk - Melvin Burgess

3) Three video games (remember you can't play multiplayer).

Championship Manager 01/02

Civilisation IV

Timesplitters 3

4) Also, there's one takeaway on the island for food. What would it be or which country's cuisine would it serve?

Chippy

[Benji]

1) Five complete musical albums.

"One Hot Minute" by Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Take Off Your Pants and Jacket" by blink-182

"Billy Talent" by Billy Talent

"Songs for the Deaf" by Queens of the Stone Age

"Out of Exile" by Audioslave (oh the irony)

2) Five books (fiction or non-fiction).

Marvels

Dark Knight Returns

LICD: Three Years (3 Books)

3) Three video games (remember you can't play multiplayer).

Final Fantasy VII (may be replaced by XII in the near future)

Final Fantasy IX

Final Fantasy X

4) Also, there's one takeaway on the island for food. What would it be or which country's cuisine would it serve?

Italian or Chinese.. uhm... Italinese?

[Fanku Kaibutsu]

CDs:

Tommy by The Who

American Idiot by Green Day

The Sounds of Science by The Beastie Boys

Lily of The Valley by Dragon Ash

Tales From The Lotus Pod by Dark Lotus

Books:

Musashi by Eiji Ezaki

The Stand by Stephen King

Shogun by James Clavell

Neuromancer by William Gibson

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft

Games:

The Sims 2

Civilization IV

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas

Food:

Pizza. preferably Pizza Hut. They got the best crusts.

[Lord Nibbler]

Surely DVDs should be in there too?

Anyway,

CDS

Rip The Jacker by Canibus

Dookie by Green Day

White Blood Cells by The White Stripes

The Crane Wife by The Decemberists

Nevermind by Nirvana

BOOKS

Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks by Mick Foley

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Haven't read the last two yet, the other three are old favourites.

GAMES

Football Manager 2007

EWR

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

TAKEAWAY

It'd have to be a pizza place, at least they'd have a little variety.

[PkmnTrainerJ]

Have I gotten stuck on the LOST Island perchance? No? No? Aw...

If you were to be stuck on the desert island which of the following would you ake with you....

Five complete musical albums.

1. Final Fantasy VII OST (Love the music)

2. Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory

3. Lord Of The Ring's Themes by Big Movie Orchestra

4. Sum 41's All Killer No Filler

5. LOST OST

Five books (fiction or non-fiction)

1. Bible

2. Red Dwarf by Grant Naylor

3. Bad Twin by Gary Troup

4. Pawn Of Prophecy by David Eddings

5. Of Mice And Men

Three video games

1. Pokemon Diamond/Pearl

2. Final Fantasy X-2

3. Final Fantasy VII

Takeaway

A chinese easily!

Edited March 12, 2007 by Exposé

[Liam]

Albums:

REM - Automatic For The People

David Gray - White Ladder

Deftones- White Pony

In Flames - Clayman

Depeche Mode - Singles 86>98 (yeah, so its a greatest hits,so what? >_>)

Books:

Sons And Lovers

Cider House Rules

The Complete Works Of Shakespeare (they are allowed that in the actual thing, so I'm throwing it in >_>)

Meh, I love loads of crappy crime stuff, so yeah....I'll leave it at 3.

Games:

Final Fantasy VII

Football Manager 2007

Guitar Hero 2

Takeaway:

Chinese

[jayden]

CDs:

Kyuss - Sky Valley

Pearl Jam - Ten

Portishead - Dummy

Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog

Bad Company - Inside the Machine

Books:

Queen of the Damned - Ann Rice

the Bible

A little light on Angels - Diana Cooper

The Vampire Lestat - Ann Rice

Merrick - Ann Rice

Games:

Football Manager 2007

World Championship Poker (i think it's called that, it's not even very good but if I can't play actual people I need something to pretend with, badly)

They'd do, don't play anything else

Food:

Pizza, Domino's probably

[DFF]

1) Five complete musical albums.

Either "Crimson Thunder" or "Glory To The Brave" by Hammerfall

"Rock In Rio" by Iron Maiden

"Whatever You Want: The Best of Status Quo" by Status Quo

"Greatest Hits" by Queen

"Sing The Sorrow" by AFI

2) Five books (fiction or non-fiction).

The History of the Runestaff by Michael Moorcock

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Nail Gaiman

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Mort by Terry Pratchett

They Think It's All Over by Kenneth Wholstenholme

3) Three video games (remember you can't play multiplayer).

Final Fantasy VIII

Championship Manager 97-98

Devil May Cry

4) Also, there's one takeaway on the island for food. What would it be or which country's cuisine would it serve?

Pizza

Edited March 14, 2007 by Dragon-F'n-Force!