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I never really got into that album, quite liked Obscured by Clouds, which was one of their weakest really. I was quite obsessed w Piper at the gates of Dawn as a teenager, but nowadays I really like Pigs on the Wing!Foxy said:
Am I a bit weird for actually liking Alan's Psychadelic Breakfast?isam said:
Having a listen now... the only one I remember from that album is Fat old Suneadric said:
Summer '68 from Atom Heart Mother always makes me slightly choke, and I don't quite know whyFoxy said:
Diamond Life is one of those rare perfect albums with no dud tracks.isam said:
My mum used to do the washing up listening to Sade’s Diamond Life album. Interesting track to choose from Floyd. I used to love the early stuff but now prefer The WallFoxy said:
Me and Bobby McGee: Janis Joplinisam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Will You?: Hazel O'Connor
Smooth Operator: Sade
Ring of Fire: Johnny Cash
Back to Black: Amy Whitehouse
Throw Down the Sword: Wishbone Ash
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: Pink Floyd
100 years From Now: The Byrds
The Brothers Karamazov: Dostoevsky
Groundhog Day
Though I would give a different answer most days.
Music is a great trigger of memories, so the songs are more significant at promoting these than the best or greatest.
I love early Floyd and highly recommend Nick Masons "Saucer Full of Secrets" band, touring at the moment. They don't play anything after Atom Heart Mother.
Sounds like a Rick Wright number0 -
https://agapen.com/2020/03/04/african-chinese-marriages-boom-in-guangzhou-but-will-it-be-till-death-do-us-part/
Absolutely fascinating read. Strongly recommended.0 -
The really weird bit about Crime and Punishment is how progressive Czarist Russia was in its treatment of Raskolinikov. In Dickensian England he would be swinging in the breeze at Tyburn.tyson said:
I love the redemption in Crime and Punishment.....Foxy said:
Crime and Punishment gets going rather more quickly than the Brothers, and would be on my shortlist.tyson said:
Wow- I would put D..."Crime and Punishment" as my book.....but definitely Groundhog Day......Foxy said:
Me and Bobby McGee: Janis Joplinisam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Will You?: Hazel O'Connor
Smooth Operator: Sade
Ring of Fire: Johnny Cash
Back to Black: Amy Whitehouse
Throw Down the Sword: Wishbone Ash
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: Pink Floyd
100 years From Now: The Byrds
The Brothers Karamazov: Dostoevsky
Groundhog Day
Though I would give a different answer most days.
Music is a great trigger of memories, so the songs are more significant at promoting these than the best or greatest.
For simplicity...for 8 or so tracks... I would take Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division....or
The Stone Roses (first album)....
Depending on my mood
The Stone Roses is another on my list of perfect albums without a dud track.
Groundhog Day is...what can you say......0 -
I was re-watching Badlands the other day...the pairing of Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek- that's why I love movies so much.....sometimes the sum of the individual parts just excels..AlastairMeeks said:
The brilliance of Rear Window is how the hero and heroine would be utterly unlikeable if they weren’t James Stewart and Grace Kelly. He’s a creep and she’s a snob. But it’s James Stewart and Grace Kelly so they’re adorable.tyson said:
Rear Window just makes me anxious...right from the start to the end....it still amazes me now watching it how a mortal human being could have made such a brilliant film..it reaches into the depth of your mind and fucks with it for 2 hours or so....AlastairMeeks said:
Never mind spotify, I have an iPod. So I don’t need to choose just eight songs.isam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
The book I’d choose is Fernand Braudel’s Structures Of Everyday Life.
The film? Rear Window.
Sadly I wouldn't want it anywhere near me on a Desert Island....
But you are right...the casting of Rear Window..sublime
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John Bercow on the Last Leg says he would most like to self isolate with Gordon Brown and least like to self isolate with David Cameron0
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Vanity Fair, another good choice enjoyable to re-read.Cyclefree said:
Classical musicisam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
1. Messiah
2. Hadyn’s Creation
3. Shostakovich Waltz No 2
4. Elgar’s Salut d’Amour as played by Aldo Ciccolino
5. Mozart’s Requiem
6. Puccini’s Tosca
7. Marriage of Figaro
8. Louis Alvanis playing Brahms Hungarian Dances for piano. The last track on that - Themes and Variations in D minor - is a masterpiece.
Non classical music
Book: Vanity Fair
Film: Cinema Paradiso / The Leopard / Some Like it Hot
I am too much of a peasant though for all that classical music...0 -
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/06/coronavirus-poses-serious-threat-public-health-since-spanish/TGOHF666 said:
PB.com is a hive of bedwetters.Benpointer said:Off topic: the answer to the previous threadheader question appears to be 24 hours.
Looks like the resot of the country is not as obsessed with corvid-19 as we PBers are.
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?0 -
There are other experts who don't think it is as serious as this.IshmaelZ said:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/06/coronavirus-poses-serious-threat-public-health-since-spanish/TGOHF666 said:
PB.com is a hive of bedwetters.Benpointer said:Off topic: the answer to the previous threadheader question appears to be 24 hours.
Looks like the resot of the country is not as obsessed with corvid-19 as we PBers are.
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?2 -
You are right...Foxy said:
The really weird bit about Crime and Punishment is how progressive Czarist Russia was in its treatment of Raskolinikov. In Dickensian England he would be swinging in the breeze at Tyburn.tyson said:
I love the redemption in Crime and Punishment.....Foxy said:
Crime and Punishment gets going rather more quickly than the Brothers, and would be on my shortlist.tyson said:
Wow- I would put D..."Crime and Punishment" as my book.....but definitely Groundhog Day......Foxy said:
Me and Bobby McGee: Janis Joplinisam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Will You?: Hazel O'Connor
Smooth Operator: Sade
Ring of Fire: Johnny Cash
Back to Black: Amy Whitehouse
Throw Down the Sword: Wishbone Ash
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: Pink Floyd
100 years From Now: The Byrds
The Brothers Karamazov: Dostoevsky
Groundhog Day
Though I would give a different answer most days.
Music is a great trigger of memories, so the songs are more significant at promoting these than the best or greatest.
For simplicity...for 8 or so tracks... I would take Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division....or
The Stone Roses (first album)....
Depending on my mood
The Stone Roses is another on my list of perfect albums without a dud track.
Groundhog Day is...what can you say......
Dostoevsky was put through a false execution by the Tsar...everything was orchestrated..notably a firing squad.....I think that experience obviously profoundly changed his life and made him into some who transcended....
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I find Grace Kelly a rather wooden actress. Rear Window is just creepy.tyson said:
I was re-watching Badlands the other day...the pairing of Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek- that's why I love movies so much.....sometimes the sum of the individual parts just excels..AlastairMeeks said:
The brilliance of Rear Window is how the hero and heroine would be utterly unlikeable if they weren’t James Stewart and Grace Kelly. He’s a creep and she’s a snob. But it’s James Stewart and Grace Kelly so they’re adorable.tyson said:
Rear Window just makes me anxious...right from the start to the end....it still amazes me now watching it how a mortal human being could have made such a brilliant film..it reaches into the depth of your mind and fucks with it for 2 hours or so....AlastairMeeks said:
Never mind spotify, I have an iPod. So I don’t need to choose just eight songs.isam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
The book I’d choose is Fernand Braudel’s Structures Of Everyday Life.
The film? Rear Window.
Sadly I wouldn't want it anywhere near me on a Desert Island....
But you are right...the casting of Rear Window..sublime0 -
I'll defer to your knowledge of movies Cycle.....I remember a thread some years ago with Roger...and you shamed the both of us with your forensic knowledge of Italian cinema....Cyclefree said:
I find Grace Kelly a rather wooden actress. Rear Window is just creepy.tyson said:
I was re-watching Badlands the other day...the pairing of Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek- that's why I love movies so much.....sometimes the sum of the individual parts just excels..AlastairMeeks said:
The brilliance of Rear Window is how the hero and heroine would be utterly unlikeable if they weren’t James Stewart and Grace Kelly. He’s a creep and she’s a snob. But it’s James Stewart and Grace Kelly so they’re adorable.tyson said:
Rear Window just makes me anxious...right from the start to the end....it still amazes me now watching it how a mortal human being could have made such a brilliant film..it reaches into the depth of your mind and fucks with it for 2 hours or so....AlastairMeeks said:
Never mind spotify, I have an iPod. So I don’t need to choose just eight songs.isam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
The book I’d choose is Fernand Braudel’s Structures Of Everyday Life.
The film? Rear Window.
Sadly I wouldn't want it anywhere near me on a Desert Island....
But you are right...the casting of Rear Window..sublime
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Link.Andy_JS said:
There are other experts who don't think it is as serious as this.IshmaelZ said:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/06/coronavirus-poses-serious-threat-public-health-since-spanish/TGOHF666 said:
PB.com is a hive of bedwetters.Benpointer said:Off topic: the answer to the previous threadheader question appears to be 24 hours.
Looks like the resot of the country is not as obsessed with corvid-19 as we PBers are.
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?0 -
Bercow also backed Bernie Sanders to be the next US President.stjohn said:
I think I would self isolate with Stephanie Flanders, (now on Newsnight).HYUFD said:John Bercow on the Last Leg says he would most like to self isolate with Gordon Brown and least like to self isolate with David Cameron
:-)
Easy to forget he was once a Conservative MP, he is now firmly on the left0 -
I still do - The Cranberries
The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel
When you’re Young - The Jam
Speak Like A Child - The Style Council
Sunflower - Paul Weller
Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary
The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others0 -
For those who caught it though Ebola was clearly more serious and with a higher death rate than coronavirus hasIshmaelZ said:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/06/coronavirus-poses-serious-threat-public-health-since-spanish/TGOHF666 said:
PB.com is a hive of bedwetters.Benpointer said:Off topic: the answer to the previous threadheader question appears to be 24 hours.
Looks like the resot of the country is not as obsessed with corvid-19 as we PBers are.
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?0 -
Really? Haven't seen her for a while, but thought she looked like she was on five bottles of gin a day.stjohn said:
I think I would self isolate with Stephanie Flanders, (now on Newsnight).HYUFD said:John Bercow on the Last Leg says he would most like to self isolate with Gordon Brown and least like to self isolate with David Cameron
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The same Stephanie Flanders who had a fling with Ed Millibandstjohn said:
I think I would self isolate with Stephanie Flanders, (now on Newsnight).HYUFD said:John Bercow on the Last Leg says he would most like to self isolate with Gordon Brown and least like to self isolate with David Cameron
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Middlemarch and Anna Karenina would also be on my books list as would The Complete Short Stories of William Trevor.Foxy said:
Vanity Fair, another good choice enjoyable to re-read.Cyclefree said:
Classical musicisam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
1. Messiah
2. Hadyn’s Creation
3. Shostakovich Waltz No 2
4. Elgar’s Salut d’Amour as played by Aldo Ciccolino
5. Mozart’s Requiem
6. Puccini’s Tosca
7. Marriage of Figaro
8. Louis Alvanis playing Brahms Hungarian Dances for piano. The last track on that - Themes and Variations in D minor - is a masterpiece.
Non classical music
Book: Vanity Fair
Film: Cinema Paradiso / The Leopard / Some Like it Hot
I am too much of a peasant though for all that classical music...
Other music:
- Tom Waits
- Pink Floyd
- The Jam
- The Smiths
- Don Giovanni
- La Traviata
- Verdi’s Requiem
- Oscar Peterson
- Cesaria Evoria0 -
A slightly deadly disease that almost everyone catches is much more serious than a very deadly disease hardly anyone gets.HYUFD said:
For those who caught it though Ebola was clearly more serious and with a higher death rate than coronavirus hasIshmaelZ said:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/06/coronavirus-poses-serious-threat-public-health-since-spanish/TGOHF666 said:
PB.com is a hive of bedwetters.Benpointer said:Off topic: the answer to the previous threadheader question appears to be 24 hours.
Looks like the resot of the country is not as obsessed with corvid-19 as we PBers are.
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?0 -
This desert island thing - why do so many people want to take a book they've already read? Are you all expecting there to be a charity shop on the island where it can be donated?
I have an unread copy of War and Peace. That ought to keep me occupied for a while.
I won't give a full music listing, but of course Maggie Maggie Maggie by The Larks has to be there.
Film - perhaps something with a plot featuring a Stepmom and Stepdaughter?0 -
I think the 5% of Italians dying of this disease....and almost a half of those infected (approx 1500 or so) might not think so.....HYUFD said:
For those who caught it though Ebola was clearly more serious and with a higher death rate than coronavirus hasIshmaelZ said:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/06/coronavirus-poses-serious-threat-public-health-since-spanish/TGOHF666 said:
PB.com is a hive of bedwetters.Benpointer said:Off topic: the answer to the previous threadheader question appears to be 24 hours.
Looks like the resot of the country is not as obsessed with corvid-19 as we PBers are.
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?
My view from the outset is that this is the Spanish flu of our times....but...the impact will depend on how the countries respond to it....
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Ah yes - I remember that thread. Francesco Rosi’s Three Brothers and Illustrious Corpses are unmissable.tyson said:
I'll defer to your knowledge of movies Cycle.....I remember a thread some years ago with Roger...and you shamed the both of us with your forensic knowledge of Italian cinema....Cyclefree said:
I find Grace Kelly a rather wooden actress. Rear Window is just creepy.tyson said:
I was re-watching Badlands the other day...the pairing of Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek- that's why I love movies so much.....sometimes the sum of the individual parts just excels..AlastairMeeks said:
The brilliance of Rear Window is how the hero and heroine would be utterly unlikeable if they weren’t James Stewart and Grace Kelly. He’s a creep and she’s a snob. But it’s James Stewart and Grace Kelly so they’re adorable.tyson said:
Rear Window just makes me anxious...right from the start to the end....it still amazes me now watching it how a mortal human being could have made such a brilliant film..it reaches into the depth of your mind and fucks with it for 2 hours or so....AlastairMeeks said:
Never mind spotify, I have an iPod. So I don’t need to choose just eight songs.isam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
The book I’d choose is Fernand Braudel’s Structures Of Everyday Life.
The film? Rear Window.
Sadly I wouldn't want it anywhere near me on a Desert Island....
But you are right...the casting of Rear Window..sublime1 -
Of course it was. But thankfully not too many got it. Huge numbers of people are likely to get coronavirus. And many, many more will die of coronavirus than of Ebola.HYUFD said:
For those who caught it though Ebola was clearly more serious and with a higher death rate than coronavirus hasIshmaelZ said:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/06/coronavirus-poses-serious-threat-public-health-since-spanish/TGOHF666 said:
PB.com is a hive of bedwetters.Benpointer said:Off topic: the answer to the previous threadheader question appears to be 24 hours.
Looks like the resot of the country is not as obsessed with corvid-19 as we PBers are.
Coronavirus poses the most serious threat to public health since Spanish flu a century ago, the man leading the fight to find a vaccine said last night after a second death was confirmed in Britain.
Dr Richard Hatchett said the new virus was "the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career".
...
Dr Hatchett, who heads up the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a body set up by governments and industry to combat global health crises, told Channel 4 News said the disease was more frightening than Ebola, which although it has a far higher mortality rate did not "have the potential to explode and spread globally".
Look at the source of that. I haven't cherrypicked it. I haven't seen any credible expert saying anything which contradicts it. Have you?
Had you considered the very remote possibility that you might be making a bit of a dick of yourself?0 -
Oh! I didn't know.Big_G_NorthWales said:0 -
Some books are worth rereading: Pride and Prejudice for instance or Jane Eyre.SandyRentool said:This desert island thing - why do so many people want to take a book they've already read? Are you all expecting there to be a charity shop on the island where it can be donated?
I have an unread copy of War and Peace. That ought to keep me occupied for a while.
I won't give a full music listing, but of course Maggie Maggie Maggie by The Larks has to be there.
Film - perhaps something with a plot featuring a Stepmom and Stepdaughter?0 -
Brave choosing a slapstick comedy, but a good brave choice.isam said:I still do - The Cranberries
The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel
When you’re Young - The Jam
Speak Like A Child - The Style Council
Sunflower - Paul Weller
Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary
The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others1 -
Jane Eyre?!? I read that 3 times at school for English Lit O Level - got an E.Cyclefree said:
Some books are worth rereading: Pride and Prejudice for instance or Jane Eyre.SandyRentool said:This desert island thing - why do so many people want to take a book they've already read? Are you all expecting there to be a charity shop on the island where it can be donated?
I have an unread copy of War and Peace. That ought to keep me occupied for a while.
I won't give a full music listing, but of course Maggie Maggie Maggie by The Larks has to be there.
Film - perhaps something with a plot featuring a Stepmom and Stepdaughter?0 -
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And EdBalls too!stjohn said:
Oh! I didn't know.Big_G_NorthWales said:0 -
There you go again Cycle....re-traumatising and rubbing it in again.....good night...Cyclefree said:
Ah yes - I remember that thread. Francesco Rosi’s Three Brothers and Illustrious Corpses are unmissable.tyson said:
I'll defer to your knowledge of movies Cycle.....I remember a thread some years ago with Roger...and you shamed the both of us with your forensic knowledge of Italian cinema....Cyclefree said:
I find Grace Kelly a rather wooden actress. Rear Window is just creepy.tyson said:
I was re-watching Badlands the other day...the pairing of Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek- that's why I love movies so much.....sometimes the sum of the individual parts just excels..AlastairMeeks said:
The brilliance of Rear Window is how the hero and heroine would be utterly unlikeable if they weren’t James Stewart and Grace Kelly. He’s a creep and she’s a snob. But it’s James Stewart and Grace Kelly so they’re adorable.tyson said:
Rear Window just makes me anxious...right from the start to the end....it still amazes me now watching it how a mortal human being could have made such a brilliant film..it reaches into the depth of your mind and fucks with it for 2 hours or so....AlastairMeeks said:
Never mind spotify, I have an iPod. So I don’t need to choose just eight songs.isam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
The book I’d choose is Fernand Braudel’s Structures Of Everyday Life.
The film? Rear Window.
Sadly I wouldn't want it anywhere near me on a Desert Island....
But you are right...the casting of Rear Window..sublime
I'm off to catch up on the 6 music festival with a glass of red....
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Also I’d like a book of complete English Poetry, please, the complete George Orwell, a piano so that I could really learn - preferably with accompanying piano teacher - and a spade and trowel for gardening. Then I’d be pretty happy self-isolating myself for years on end.Cyclefree said:
Some books are worth rereading: Pride and Prejudice for instance or Jane Eyre.SandyRentool said:This desert island thing - why do so many people want to take a book they've already read? Are you all expecting there to be a charity shop on the island where it can be donated?
I have an unread copy of War and Peace. That ought to keep me occupied for a while.
I won't give a full music listing, but of course Maggie Maggie Maggie by The Larks has to be there.
Film - perhaps something with a plot featuring a Stepmom and Stepdaughter?
In fact that’s sort of what I’m close to doing up here.2 -
Really ?!SandyRentool said:
And EdBalls too!stjohn said:
Oh! I didn't know.Big_G_NorthWales said:0 -
Yes, The Jam need to be in there.Cyclefree said:
Middlemarch and Anna Karenina would also be on my books list as would The Complete Short Stories of William Trevor.Foxy said:
Vanity Fair, another good choice enjoyable to re-read.Cyclefree said:
Classical musicisam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
1. Messiah
2. Hadyn’s Creation
3. Shostakovich Waltz No 2
4. Elgar’s Salut d’Amour as played by Aldo Ciccolino
5. Mozart’s Requiem
6. Puccini’s Tosca
7. Marriage of Figaro
8. Louis Alvanis playing Brahms Hungarian Dances for piano. The last track on that - Themes and Variations in D minor - is a masterpiece.
Non classical music
Book: Vanity Fair
Film: Cinema Paradiso / The Leopard / Some Like it Hot
I am too much of a peasant though for all that classical music...
Other music:
- Tom Waits
- Pink Floyd
- The Jam
- The Smiths
- Don Giovanni
- La Traviata
- Verdi’s Requiem
- Oscar Peterson
- Cesaria Evoria
My choice would be The Bitterist Pill, but plenty of good alternatives.0 -
Top choices - I haven't listened to I still do for years. Such a classic. Thanks for the memory.isam said:I still do - The Cranberries
The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel
When you’re Young - The Jam
Speak Like A Child - The Style Council
Sunflower - Paul Weller
Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary
The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others1 -
I was trying to be helpful..... Rosi’s Carmen is also wonderful.tyson said:
There you go again Cycle....re-traumatising and rubbing it in again.....good night...Cyclefree said:
Ah yes - I remember that thread. Francesco Rosi’s Three Brothers and Illustrious Corpses are unmissable.tyson said:
I'll defer to your knowledge of movies Cycle.....I remember a thread some years ago with Roger...and you shamed the both of us with your forensic knowledge of Italian cinema....Cyclefree said:
I find Grace Kelly a rather wooden actress. Rear Window is just creepy.tyson said:
I was re-watching Badlands the other day...the pairing of Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek- that's why I love movies so much.....sometimes the sum of the individual parts just excels..AlastairMeeks said:
The brilliance of Rear Window is how the hero and heroine would be utterly unlikeable if they weren’t James Stewart and Grace Kelly. He’s a creep and she’s a snob. But it’s James Stewart and Grace Kelly so they’re adorable.tyson said:
Rear Window just makes me anxious...right from the start to the end....it still amazes me now watching it how a mortal human being could have made such a brilliant film..it reaches into the depth of your mind and fucks with it for 2 hours or so....AlastairMeeks said:
Never mind spotify, I have an iPod. So I don’t need to choose just eight songs.isam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
The book I’d choose is Fernand Braudel’s Structures Of Everyday Life.
The film? Rear Window.
Sadly I wouldn't want it anywhere near me on a Desert Island....
But you are right...the casting of Rear Window..sublime
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It makes me cry with laughter every time I watch it, which must be over fifty by now. The end scene, when you see how much of an overwhelming thing it is for Ted to get with Mary, actually makes me well up, and also contains a great garden path gag. (I assume you don’t think Le Comte was the slapstick!)AlastairMeeks said:
Brave choosing a slapstick comedy, but a good brave choice.isam said:I still do - The Cranberries
The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel
When you’re Young - The Jam
Speak Like A Child - The Style Council
Sunflower - Paul Weller
Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary
The Count of Monte Cristo
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Really ?!SandyRentool said:
And EdBalls too!stjohn said:
Oh! I didn't know.Big_G_NorthWales said:0 -
I have seen Borat a dozen times but it always has me in stitches. It may well be the funniest film ever.AlastairMeeks said:
Brave choosing a slapstick comedy, but a good brave choice.isam said:I still do - The Cranberries
The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel
When you’re Young - The Jam
Speak Like A Child - The Style Council
Sunflower - Paul Weller
Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary
The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others0 -
Ah, I see we are still predicting Trump's pivot to the centre.1
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I listen to it every night to help me get to sleep, on so quietly I can barely hear it! So I’d have to have it on a desert islandMortimer said:
Top choices - I haven't listened to I still do for years. Such a classic. Thanks for the memory.isam said:I still do - The Cranberries
The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel
When you’re Young - The Jam
Speak Like A Child - The Style Council
Sunflower - Paul Weller
Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary
The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others0 -
The scene at the beginning brings back childhood memories. Not good ones.isam said:
It makes me cry with laughter every time I watch it, which must be over fifty by now. The end scene, when you see how much of an overwhelming thing it is for Ted to get with Mary, actually makes me well up, and also contains a great garden path gag. (I assume you don’t think Le Comte was the slapstick!)AlastairMeeks said:
Brave choosing a slapstick comedy, but a good brave choice.isam said:I still do - The Cranberries
The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel
When you’re Young - The Jam
Speak Like A Child - The Style Council
Sunflower - Paul Weller
Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary
The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others0 -
To date one Labour luminary called Ed may be regarded as a misfortune; to date both looks like carelessness.Big_G_NorthWales said:
Yesstjohn said:
Really ?!SandyRentool said:
And EdBalls too!stjohn said:
Oh! I didn't know.Big_G_NorthWales said:0 -
The first time you read it as a 14 year old girl you focus on the love story. Reread it as a woman and it strikes you as one of the first feminist stories.SandyRentool said:
Jane Eyre?!? I read that 3 times at school for English Lit O Level - got an E.Cyclefree said:
Some books are worth rereading: Pride and Prejudice for instance or Jane Eyre.SandyRentool said:This desert island thing - why do so many people want to take a book they've already read? Are you all expecting there to be a charity shop on the island where it can be donated?
I have an unread copy of War and Peace. That ought to keep me occupied for a while.
I won't give a full music listing, but of course Maggie Maggie Maggie by The Larks has to be there.
Film - perhaps something with a plot featuring a Stepmom and Stepdaughter?0 -
Funny how we get set in our ways isn't it. I am in hotels a lot, and now can't sleep unless I can hear crashing waves in the background. Most of the time, spotify is required!isam said:
I listen to it every night to help me get to sleep, on so quietly I can barely hear it! So I’d have to have it on a desert islandMortimer said:
Top choices - I haven't listened to I still do for years. Such a classic. Thanks for the memory.isam said:I still do - The Cranberries
The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel
When you’re Young - The Jam
Speak Like A Child - The Style Council
Sunflower - Paul Weller
Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary
The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others0 -
Fascinating documentary about Dubai and the princesses who were kidnapped by their father on BBC2 right now.0
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Good night all, off to the Smoke tommorow to meet an old friend in public health.0
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Indie bias incoming:isam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Made of Stone - Stone Roses
Spaniard - Boo Radleys (but Lazarus would do equally well)
There She Goes - The Las
Shangri La - The Kinks
Certe Notti - Ligabue (a soft rock longing love song to his local bar when it was undergoing renovation)
Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani (cannot hear withot a massive grin)
The Carnival Is Over - The Seekers
For Tomorrow - Blur
something of my own properly scored up and recorded, since I never learned to play an instrument and so they only exist on paper and in my head. A ditty called "Shimmy" I think.
The Usual Suspects
Three Musketeers
Like most, the book and half the songs are set - the film is the toughee for me.
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I think that's spot on.another_richard said:
The after effects of the dreadful Hilary perhaps.Cyclefree said:God Almighty!
Please can we talk about something else, even if briefly.
Why Warren - despite being about the only person campaigning who knew how her sentences were going to end when she started them - ended up failing so miserably? For instance.
Was she too sharp? Misogyny? Particular policies? Am curious.
Or maybe not extreme enough to appeal to the Sanders supporters but not mainstream enough to appeal to the establishment.0 -
Constant Craving is excellent - saw her do that album tour in London, many years back now.isam said:I still do - The Cranberries
The only living boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel
When you’re Young - The Jam
Speak Like A Child - The Style Council
Sunflower - Paul Weller
Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Constant Craving - KD Lang
There’s Something About Mary
The Count of Monte Cristo
The book and film are certainties, the songs are almost impossible. Three of those are definites, you could perm any five from about fifty others1 -
Looks like blindness more like.stjohn said:
To date one Labour luminary called Ed may be regarded as a misfortune; to date both looks like carelessness.Big_G_NorthWales said:
Yesstjohn said:
Really ?!SandyRentool said:
And EdBalls too!stjohn said:
Oh! I didn't know.Big_G_NorthWales said:0 -
Music (in no particular order)isam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
1.Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.2 (Donohoe, Kennedy & Isserlis version)
2. Mozart’s Requiem - (Han Welser Most version)
3. Fleetwood Mac - Live Album
4. Supertramp - It was the best of times
5. Chopin - Nocturnes (Op. 9)
6. Rush - Hold your fire
7. Bach - Violin Sonatas
8. Abba - complete collection
Book: War & Peace (Large coffee table edition printed on soft paper)
Book for reading: Ken Croswell - Alchemy of the Heavens
Film: The Fifth Element1 -
Trump: "the tests are beautiful"Foxy said:
Even if Biden is so demented that he can't put a straw in his mouth, the US would still be better run.2 -
Except more than 50% of Dem voters wanted her to be president.rcs1000 said:
I think that's spot on.another_richard said:
The after effects of the dreadful Hilary perhaps.Cyclefree said:God Almighty!
Please can we talk about something else, even if briefly.
Why Warren - despite being about the only person campaigning who knew how her sentences were going to end when she started them - ended up failing so miserably? For instance.
Was she too sharp? Misogyny? Particular policies? Am curious.
Or maybe not extreme enough to appeal to the Sanders supporters but not mainstream enough to appeal to the establishment.0 -
Eight tracks that remind me of awesome live gigs:
Rather Go Blind - Ruby Turner (Dominion, Tottenham Court Road)
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman (Wembley, Mandela Birthday Concert)
Bottle of Smoke - (The Pogues, Digbeth)
Fight for your Right to Party - (Beastie Boys with RUN DMC, Birmingham)
Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear (Tower Ballroom, Edgbaston)
Ghost Town - The Specials (Rock Against Racism, Potternewton Park, Leeds)
Ant Music - Adam and the Ants (Dunelm, Durham)
Damn Right I Got the Blues - Buddy Guy
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Multi-Pass!Beibheirli_C said:
Music (in no particular order)isam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
1.Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.2 (Donohoe, Kennedy & Isserlis version)
2. Mozart’s Requiem - (Han Welser Most version)
3. Fleetwood Mac - Live Album
4. Supertramp - It was the best of times
5. Chopin - Nocturnes (Op. 9)
6. Rush - Hold your fire
7. Bach - Violin Sonatas
8. Abba - complete collection
Book: War & Peace (Large coffee table edition printed on soft paper)
Book for reading: Ken Croswell - Alchemy of the Heavens
Film: The Fifth Element2 -
1. Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos - Public Enemyisam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
2. This Charming Man - The Smiths
3. Europa Endlos - Kraftwerk
4. I am the Black Gold of the Sun - NuYorican Soul
5. Transmission - Joy Division
6. Nuthin But a G Thang - Dre
7. Dimanche à Bamako - Amadou & Mariam
8. Paid in Full- Eric B & Rakim
Book: Gravity's Rainbow
Film: Fearless Vampire Killers (even though it's Polanski)
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Musicisam said:To change the mood a little... what would be your Desert island (or home quarantine) discs?
8 songs, a book and a film
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Angel of the Morning - PP Arnold
Rainbow Sleeves - Rickie Lee Jones from Girl at Her Volcano EP
Scherzo from Dvorak’s Seventh Symphony
Les Chemins de l’amour (Poulenc) sung by Felicity Lott
Lipstick Sunset -John Hiatt
Hobart Paving - St Etienne
Dignity - Deacon Blue
Book: Rocks and Minerals in Colour (1st prize for primary 6a, 1969-70 session - thanks, Mrs Rayner!)
Film: Lone Star, written and directed by John Sayles0
