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General => The Lounge => Topic started by: Beetzart on May 22, 2012, 11:49:20 AM
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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
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Hmmm, I shall have to think about that a bit
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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