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Gangster BB Desert Island Discs!
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06/02/08 02:23 PM
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Yogi Barrabbas
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BBC radio have had a show running for the last 60 odd years called Desert Island discs,it has become a real British institution.Loads of stars have been on. The gist is you are theoretically stranded on a desert island and allowed to take your favourite 8 songs,one object that is not allowed to be useful(ie. not anything that requires electricity or modern technology) and your favourite all time book (you are also given a Bible and the complete works of shakespeare) My 8 songs? The Boys of Summer - Don Henley Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen Jack & Diane - John Mellencamp Teenage Kicks - The Undertones Tommy Gun - The Clash Tush - ZZ Top Hammer to Fall - Queen Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (air guitaring to the solo would take up at least 3 hours of the day) Un-useful object? A football (soccer ball). Once it went a bit flat i could talk to it like tom Hanks in Castaway  Book? To Kill a Mockingbird!
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees!
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Re: Gangster BB Desert Island Discs!
[Re: Yogi Barrabbas]
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06/02/08 02:27 PM
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J Geoff
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How are you supposed to play the songs?  Radio stations do the same here, but they really mean discs (CDs) not just songs  I'd have to think about it when I get some time...
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Gangster BB Desert Island Discs!
[Re: J Geoff]
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06/02/08 02:48 PM
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How are you supposed to play the songs? Radio stations do the same here, but they really mean discs (CDs) not just songs I'd have to think about it when I get some time... Good point Geoff! You are'nt allowed elecrical gadgets but you are supposed to listen to music on what..???? Stupid game  Stupid BBC
Last edited by Yogi Barrabbas; 06/02/08 02:49 PM.
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Re: Gangster BB Desert Island Discs!
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06/02/08 03:34 PM
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long_lost_corleone
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Eight songs... That's fucking hard. I'll try it with eight albums, as Geoff suggested.
Eight Albums:
1.) Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective
2.) Double Nickels on the Dime - Minutemen
3.) Kid A - Radiohead
4.) Band of Gypsy's - Jimi Hendrix
5.) ( ) - Sigur Rós
6.) Zen Arcade - Hüsker Dü
7.) The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground
8.) Milo Goes to College - The Descendents
Non-useful Item:
A bass guitar. I don't need electricity or amplification to rock out. Although, I see some problems arising if I were to break a string.
Book:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. I've probably read it about 10+ times by now. Never gets old, always makes me laugh.
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"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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Re: Gangster BB Desert Island Discs!
[Re: J Geoff]
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06/02/08 04:09 PM
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With Geary in Fredo's Brothel
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How are you supposed to play the songs? You bring the professor from Gilligan's Island along. 8 Albums Nabucco Rigoletto Beethoven's 9th Sweeney Todd (Broadway Version with Patti Lupone) The White Album Rubber Soul Eat a Peach Bringing It All Back Home Book: Remains of the Day (Is a blow up doll dressed like a nurse useful or useless?) A baseball
"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"
"I stood in the courtroom like a fool."
"I am Constanza: Lord of the idiots."
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Re: Gangster BB Desert Island Discs!
[Re: Don Andrew]
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06/02/08 06:50 PM
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Marquee Moon - Television
Double Nickels on the Dime - Minutemen
In Rainbows - Radiohead !!!
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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Re: Gangster BB Desert Island Discs!
[Re: dontomasso]
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06/02/08 08:19 PM
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How are you supposed to play the songs? You bring the professor from Gilligan's Island along. And bring Mrs. Howell with you so you can change your clothes everyday.
Dylan Matthew Moran born 10/30/12
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Re: Gangster BB Desert Island Discs!
[Re: Sicilian Babe]
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06/03/08 02:29 AM
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"Discs", to me, means discs... so... albums In no particular order, but trying to maximize listening time... 1. Elton John - early Greatest Hits 2. Billy Joel - early Greatest Hits 3. Rush - first or second double live album 4. Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits 5. Weezer - Blue Album (2-CD Deluxe Edition) 6. Hank Williams, Sr. - Greatest Hits 7. Any 80's Pop/Cheese-Metal Compilation 8. Mozart - any decent compilation, incl. Requiem Useless Item: long_lost_corleone Book: The Godfather - cuz I've only read it once (   ) and could read it a few dozen more times to (try and) catch up to Turnbull's knowledge! Edit: Damn! I need Doo-Wop in there! (Mob Hits' 2-CD version would work... but what do I replace? Sorry, Weezer... first loves overpower  ) Edit 2: OMG, no Beatles?? And I need some Replacements! And an old REM album, and Psychedelic Furs, and Husker Du does rawk... Bon Jovi! ....and....... This is WAY too hard! How 'bout Top 20? or 50? 
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I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Gangster BB Desert Island Discs!
[Re: J Geoff]
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06/03/08 04:30 AM
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Edit yet again...!
Rufus Wainwright's voice needs to be in here... his rendition of "Across The Universe" is beyond this plane... damn, what a tough question to answer!
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Gangster BB Desert Island Discs!
[Re: J Geoff]
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06/03/08 04:12 PM
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Useless Item: long_lost_corleone Fine, but you're bottoms, pal.
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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Re: Gangster BB Desert Island Discs!
[Re: Longneck]
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06/03/08 07:37 PM
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Top 8 Desert Island CD's:
Songs for Swingin' Lovers - Frank Sinatra
In The Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
All Or Nothing At All - Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald and the Duke Ellington Orchestra
The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album
Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
Top 8 Songs:
I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra
One for My Baby - Frank Sinatra
The Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind Medley - Frank Sinatra
Soliloquy - Frank Sinatra
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) - Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington
Some Other Time - Tony Bennett and Bill Evans
Lush Life - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
So What - Miles Davis
Book: The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler.
Madness! Madness!
- Major Clipton
The Bridge On The River Kwai
GOLD - GOLD - GOLD - GOLD. Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold, Molten, Graven, Hammered, Rolled, Hard to Get and Light to Hold; Stolen, Borrowed, Squandered - Doled.
- Greed
Nothing Is Written
Lawrence Of Arabia
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Re: Gangster BB Desert Island Discs!
[Re: J Geoff]
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06/03/08 07:39 PM
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Mike Sullivan
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Edit yet again...!
Rufus Wainwright's voice needs to be in here... his rendition of "Across The Universe" is beyond this plane... damn, what a tough question to answer!
I agree. Greatest Beatles cover since Sinatra covered "Something" in the late 1970's. Wainwright is almost other worldly in that performance.
Madness! Madness!
- Major Clipton
The Bridge On The River Kwai
GOLD - GOLD - GOLD - GOLD. Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold, Molten, Graven, Hammered, Rolled, Hard to Get and Light to Hold; Stolen, Borrowed, Squandered - Doled.
- Greed
Nothing Is Written
Lawrence Of Arabia
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