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Title: Top 10 music/books
Post by: Beetzart on May 22, 2012, 11:49:20 AM
Sort of a distraction for me to take my minds of things, but mildly interested I hope.

Sort of similar to Desert Island Discs, but if you could only ever listen to 10 pieces of music (can be a whole album) and read 10 books again, what would they be?

Mine would be-

Music:

1.  Beethoven's 9th symphony

2.  Radiohead Ok Computer

3.  Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony

4.  Schubert String quintet in C major

5.  Mozart Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor

6.  Beatles White Album

7.  Michael Nyman Chasing Sheep is best left to Shepherds

8.  JS Bach Prelude No 1 in C major

9.  Our Mutual Friend Divine Comedy

10.  Vivaldi Four Seasons

Books:

1.  Origin of the Species Darwin

2.  The Road to Reality Roger Penrose

3.  Burmese Days Orwell

4.  Catch-22 Heller

5.  The Trial Kafka

6.  Slaughterhouse 5 Vonnegut

7.  Papillon Henri Charriere

8.  The God Delusion Dawkins

9.  Probablilty 1 Amir Aczel

10.  Down and Out in Paris and London Orwell

Title: Re: Top 10 music/books
Post by: Zaf on May 22, 2012, 02:01:35 PM
Hmmm, I shall have to think about that a bit
Title: Re: Top 10 music/books
Post by: Ezel on May 22, 2012, 03:40:30 PM
Music:
1.  George Benson - The George Benson Collection
2.  Queen - Greatest Hits
3.  Beatles -  Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
4.  Vivaldi - Four Seasons
5.  Mozart - Requiem
6.  Elton John - Yellow Brick Road
7.  Pink Floyd - The Wall
8.  Phil Collins - But Seriously
9.  Gladys Knight and the Pips - I Feel a Song
10.  Everly Brothers - The Everly Brothers Best

Books:
1:  The Hobbit - Tolkien
2.  Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
3.  Misery - Stephen King
4.  Carrie - Stephen King
5.  The Shining - Stephen king
6.  Christine - Stephen King
7.  The Killing Kind - John Connolly
8.  Dracula - Bram Stoker
9.  The Face - Dean Koontz
10.  Icebound - Dean Koontz   
Title: Re: Top 10 music/books
Post by: whiteadder on May 22, 2012, 08:24:37 PM
Lots in both your lists I can identify with, and a few I must go and aquaint myself with...

Today my answers would be:

Music:

1. Pink floyd - Wish you were Here
2. Levellers - Maid of the River
3. Mozart - Laudate Dominum
4. Burt Bacharach - The Look of Love
5. Madonna - Ray of Light
6. Neds Atomimc Dustbin - Nothing Like
7. Dahm the Bard - The Greenwood Grove
8. Tchaikovsky (sp?) - violin concertto
9. Iron Maiden - Live after Death
10. System of a Down - Toxicity

Books:

1. Logical Chess, Chernov (to keep busy)
2. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
3. The Little Vampire goes to the Farm, Angela Sommer Bodenburg
4. Is there LIfe after death? Anthony Peake
5. The Power of Now, Echart Tolle
6. The Belgariad, David Eddings
7. AD&D 2nd Edition, players' Guide, Gary Gygax
8. Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
9. Tess of the D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
10. Philip Larkin, complete works

Title: Re: Top 10 music/books
Post by: SteveW on May 23, 2012, 04:14:04 AM
Thought I’d add my favourite music and books.

Music

Love                                       Forever Changes
Quicksilver Messenger Service  Happy Trails
Pink Floyd                               Dark Side of the Moon
Little Feat                                Feets Don’t Fail Me Now
Doobie Bothers             What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
Tom Waits                  Rain Dogs
Beach Boys                  Pet Sounds
Jesus & Mary Chain          Psychocandy
PJ Harvey Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Chemical Bothers             Dig Your Own Hole

Books

Ulysses                                             James Joyce
Brave New World                               Aldous Huxley
The Atman Project                            Ken Wilber
The Collector                                    John Fowles
Nineteen Eighty-Four                            George Orwell
The Glass Bead Game                    Herman Hesse
The Magus                               John Fowles
Nausea                                  Jean-Paul Satre
The Plague                               Albert Camus
The Electric Kool –Aid Acid Test       Tom Wolfe
Title: Re: Top 10 music/books
Post by: CaptainMustard on July 23, 2012, 01:17:53 PM
MUSIC

Blue -                            Joni Mitchell
Wish you were here -        Pink Floyd
Heart-Shaped Box -          Nirvana
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Songs of Love and Hate -  Leonard Cohen
Parallax -                        Atlas Sound
A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
Album 3 -                        Loudon Wainwright
Night of Hunters -            Tori Amos
Paris 1919 -                      John Cale

BOOKS

Hollywood -                 Charles Bukowski
The Hours -                 Michael Cunningham
American on Purpose -  Craig Ferguson
Ham on Rye -              Charles Bukowski
Tropic of Capricorn -      Henry Miller
Beloved -                     Toni Morrison
The Collected Works -     D.H.Lawrence
On the Road -               Jack Kerouac
Just Kids -                   Patti Smith
A portrait of the artist -  James Joyce
Title: Re: Top 10 music/books
Post by: Sir STRESSHEaD on July 23, 2012, 02:09:05 PM
Wow, these ones always take a lot of thought!

Music (in no particular order)

1)The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
2)Ten - Pearl Jam
3)Superunknown - Soundgarden
4)Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
5)Hysteria - Def Leppard
6)Parachutes - Coldplay
7)Nevermind - Nirvana
8)Frames - Oceansize
9)The Color and the Shape - Foo Fighters
10)Plans - Death Cab for Cutie

Books (I really don't read a lot... so this is basically a list of what I've read! haha)

1) The Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
2) I am Legend - Richard Matheson
3) Seven Troop - Andy McNab
4) Idlewild - Nick Sagan
5) American Gods - Neil Gaiman
6) Firewall - Andy McNab
7) Slash - Slash/Anthony Bozza
8) Killing for Company - Brian Masters
9)The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
Title: Re: Top 10 music/books
Post by: TomCrick on August 02, 2012, 02:57:15 PM
Music -

American Beauty OST - Thomas Newman
Beethoven Piano Sonatas (played by Willhelm Kempff)
The Complete Peel Sessions - The Fall
Cupid Is A Drunkard - Philip Jeays
Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths
Keb Darge Legendary Deep Funk
Little Voice - Sara Bareilles
Oblivion With Bells - Underworld
Oscar Peterson 75th Birthday Celebration
Powder Burns - The Twilight Singers

Books -

Waterland - Graham Swift
Let The Great World Spin - Colum McCann
The Fat Man In History - Peter Carey
The Brain That Changes Itself - Norman Doidge
What To Look For In Winter: A Memoir In Blindness - Candia McWilliam
Anything by Sue Townsend, Nigel Williams and Jilly Cooper (the latter is my big vice)
The Maytrees - Annie Dillard
The Pale King - David Foster Wallace
London Fields - Martin Amis
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
White Teeth - Zadie Smith