Sunday, June 12, 2011

I haven't got round to the Listener's Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 but I did bother to send in my eight.

Should anyone be interested, here they are:

  • Frank Zappa 'Watermelon in Easter Hay' (off Joe's Garage)
  • Beatles 'A Day in the Life' (off Sgt. Pepper)
  • Keith Jarrett The Koln Concert
  • Mahler Symphony no. 5
  • Life Without Buildings 'The Leanover' (off the live album for preference)
  • Syd Barrett 'It Is Obvious' (off Barrett)
  • Miles Davis 'Flamenco Sketches' (off Kind of Blue)
  • Stravinsky 'Petrushka'
& the Zappa would be the if-you-could-choose-only-one item

(so if you've never heard it - do & give your ears a treat)

Normal provisos apply: for any one band/artist there could be another six ... twelve ... tracks; on another day another eight favourites would suggest themselves; are we going by intrinsic musical merit or epiphanic moments or personal/sentimental attachment? Blah-blah-blah.

Why not send your eight via Comments?

3 comments:

Geofhuth said...

Sorry, Jonathan, I don't have eight. For decades, I've had only one, but it's on your list:

Keith Jarrett's "Köln Concert"

I sometimes wonder what we'd think of it if he'd called it "The Cologne Concert."

Geof

walrus said...

OK, here are mine, for what it's worth:

- Miles Davis, ‘Mademoiselle Mabry’ (Filles de Kilimanjaro)

- Franz Schubert ‘Nacht und Traume’

- The Congos ‘Don’t Blame on I’

- Leos Janacek ‘The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away’ (On an Overgrown Path)

- Bob Dylan ‘Visions of Johanna’

- Robert Johnson ‘Come on in My Kitchen’

- Anton Karas ‘The Harry Lime Theme’

- Muddy Waters ‘Honey Bee’ or T-Bone Walker ‘I’m in a Awful mood’

and if forced to choose: Janacek – I’d like it played at my funeral!

Walrus

walrus said...

OK, here goes:

- Miles Davis, ‘Mademoiselle Mabry’ (Filles de Kilimanjaro)

- Franz Schubert ‘Nacht und Traume’

- The Congos ‘Don’t Blame on I’

- Leos Janacek ‘The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away’ (On an Overgrown Path)

- Bob Dylan ‘Visions of Johanna’

- Robert Johnson ‘Come on in My Kitchen’

- Anton Karas ‘The Harry Lime Theme’

- Muddy Waters ‘Honey Bee’ or T-Bone Walker ‘I’m in a Awful mood’

and if forced to choose: Janacek – I’d like it played at my funeral!

Walrus

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