Shall we have a desert island discs thread?

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What would you choose - you get 8.

Mine would be

Graffiti on the train - Stereophonics
Respect - Erasure
Pump it up - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Young Americans - David Bowie
Jerusalema - Master KG
Yes - McAlmont & Butler
Should've Been You - Imelda May
Islands In The Stream - Dolly and Kenny

Unashamedly mainstream pop and showing my age here. But that's what I would choose today anyway.

Great idea
My baby just cares for me Nina Simone
7 seconds Neneh Cherry
Here there everywhere Beatles
Can't Get You Out of My Head Kylie Minogue
Sunshine on leith Proclaimers
Walk this way Run DMC
Carrickfergus Dubliners
Flower of Scotland carries

I would have:
Born to run - Bruce Springsteen
Just another girl - the Killers
The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel
Runaround Sue - Dion & The Belmonts
Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
Into the Groove - Madonna
Me and Julio down by the schoolyard - Paul Simon

SO hard to choose though!

What about your books and luxuries?

I'm aethist so no religious text, they offer a philosophy book I believe
Luxury a goose down box construction duvet for shelter,modesty,sleep,tent
Book Ulysses, by James Joyce. I’ve never mastered it yet. So I suppose being on my Todd I’ll have the time

Song I’d save Flower of Scotland. Sung it at parties, graduations,baptisms,wakes,football

For my book it would have to be a long, meaty novel that I haven't read yet. Maybe Anna Karenina.

My luxury would be a toothbrush and a suitcase full of toothpaste.

Book would be East of Eden and luxury item a guitar (I don't play but I'd have time to learn)

Mines are -
Soul Coaxing - Raymond Lafevre Orchestra
Both Sides Now - Judy Collins
Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle
Harry Nilsson Without You
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
Terry Jacks - seasons in the sun
Annie's song - John Denver
Cat Stevens - Morning Has Broken

If You Were The Only Girl In The World by Al Jolson
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac
Mr Blue Sky by ELO
Starman by David Bowie
Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen
Nimrod by Elgar
Clair de Lune by Debussy
Into My Arms by Nick Cave

I’d take The Oxford Book of English Verse.
My luxury would be a pallet full of suncream.

All In One Night - Stereophonics
The River - Bruce Springsteen
Heroes - David Bowie
Don't Leave Me This Way - Communards
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - George Michael
She - Elvis Costello
Real Gone Kid - Deacon Blue
Give Me Shelter - Rolling Stones

Taking heads road to nowhere
Proclaimers 500 miles
Tiffany I think were alone now
New order blue Monday
Martha and the muffins echo beach
Ronald binge sailing by

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