Top 10 Songs You Couldn't Live Without on a Desert Island
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A member-supported radio station out if the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia called XPN is hosting top 885 (they are 88.5 FM in philly) "desert island" songs. The premise is simple, people submit the 10 songs that they absolutely could not live without if they were stranded on a desert island for the rest of their life. The premise is a little different than your 10 current favorite songs because your favorites can change over time. This is more of a timeless scenario.
So, since I'm writing up my list for xpn at the moment, I figured I would ask the same question here. What 10 songs could you not live without? They may not be the ten songs that you think are the most artistic or worthy of being in a top 10 list; you'd be listening to them and only them for the rest of your life, so repeat playability is really important.
I'll post mine once it is done. -
1. We Built This City
2. We Built This City
3. We Built This City
4. We Built This City
5. We Built This City
6. We Built This City
7. We Built This City
8. We Built This City
9. We Built This City
10. We Built This City
-dan
p.s. For real, I don't know if I can come up with 10, but here are a couple
In no particular order:
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Dave Matthews Band - Crush
Five for Fighting - 100 Years
Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Incubus - Drive
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Rush - The Trees
Sigur Ros - Hoppipola
I pretty much picked my favorite songs out of my music library.
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Radiohead - Idioteque
Radiohead - Maxymatosis
Modest Mouse - Paper Thin Walls
Rolling Stones - Black
Daft Punk - Voyager
Beatles - Come Together
Dave Matthews Band - Dreaming Tree
Lupe - Daydreamin
Neutral Milk Hotel - Aeroplane Over The Sea
Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?
Quick choice..deff is hard. Gotta spread it out in different moods and genres and there are not enough spots! -
Eminem - Stan
Anthony Green - Miracle Sun
The Mars Volta - Televators
Armor For Sleep - Basement Ghost Singing
Brand New - Okay I Believe You, but My Tommy Gun Don't
Bright Eyes - When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass
Cursive - The Rhyme Scheme
Dance Gavin Dance - People You Know
Devin The Dude - Mo Fa Me
Nas - Life's A Bitch -
Why does it have to be a desert?
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I assure you that with only 10 songs, and no other form of entertainment, that I would be spending most of my time trying to get off of the island, listening to one song and one song only:
The Great Escape Theme.
/I've never been a fan of this line of questioning, as my only real preference in life is variety. -
QUOTE (Governor @ Sep 4 2009, 09:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>A desert island is the same thing as a "destered" island. It isn't an environmental description.
sorry to say i don't really know what a "destered" island is, so i can't really see the parallel/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />
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Nigh impossible for anyone who listens to a lot of music; 10 albums I could see, but songs...I'll give it a shot without access to my library
Deftones - Knife Prty
A Wilhelm Scream - We Built This City! (On Debts and Booze)
Bob Dylan - If You See Her Say Hello
Smashing Pumpkins - Galapagos
Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Portishead - Roads
Violent Femmes - Good Feeling
Oasis - Whatever
Rage Against the Machine - Bullet in the Head
Freebird? too hard =( -
QUOTE (Scabdates @ Sep 4 2009, 02:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Eminem - Stan
Anthony Green - Miracle Sun
The Mars Volta - Televators
Armor For Sleep - Basement Ghost Singing
Brand New - Okay I Believe You, but My Tommy Gun Don't
Bright Eyes - When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass
Cursive - The Rhyme Scheme
Dance Gavin Dance - People You Know
Devin The Dude - Mo Fa Me
Nas - Life's A Bitch
Oh damn, I forgot about Televators. That song is very awesome.
-dan -
1. Reel Big Fish - Beer
2. Reel Big Fish - Come on Eileen (cover)
3. Eagles - Hotel California
4. Temptations - Shout
5. Guns and Roses - Welcome to the jungle
6. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
7. Lupe Fiasco - Streets on fire
8. Johnny Cash - Folsom prison blues
9. Johnny Cash - Ring of fire
10. Elton John - Tiny Dancer
This was extremely hard... and it helped me procrastinate my Theory of Computation reading. -
Bloody tough call.
In no particular order and really am leaving out so many amazing songs, but the ten songs below I could happily have playing whilst trapped on an island and never tire of them.
1. Coldplay - The Scientist
2. Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name
3. Bloc Party - I Still Remember
4. Starsailor - Born Again
5. We Are Scientists - After Hours
6. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
7. The All-American Rejects - Mona Lisa (When the World Comes Down)
8. Guillemots - Clarion
9. Racoon - Love You More
10. Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining -
Ooo!
1. Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
2. Queen - Flash Gordon
3. Nine Inch Nails & Manson - Down in the Park
4. Tupac & Snoop - America's Most Wanted
5. Pink Floyd - Echoes
6. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
7. Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore
8. The Beatles - Across the Universe
9. John Lennon - Imagine
10. Man Man - Poor Jackie
Honorable Mention: Bad Religion - Infected -
I have finally narrowed it down to 10.
Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
Francis Poulenc - O Magnum Mysterium
House of Pain - Jump Around
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Swell Season - Falling Slowly
Swell Season - If You Want Me
The Beatles - Hey Jude
Usher - Yeah -
Hmm...I'll give it a shot....This is in no particular order
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
The Moody Blues - Knights in White Satin
John Lennon - Imagine
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Metallica - The Unforgiven
Michael Jackson - Will You Be There?
O.A.R. - I Feel Home
Sublime - What I Got
Dispatch - Elias
Brand New - I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don't
Hmm....Tougher than I thought.... -
I can't believe some of the shit you guys think you could listen to forever.
My list is as follows in no particular order:
Garth Brooks - The Thunder Rolls
Eagles - Desperado
Gary Jules - Mad World
The Tragically Hip - Fiddler's Green
The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch
Barcelona - Please Don't Go
Coldplay - Trouble
Pearl Jam - Better Man
The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Love the basis for this thread btw, great one. Haven't looked at my list in that way before. -
QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 7 2009, 07:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I can't believe some of the shit you guys think you could listen to forever.
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Garth Brooks - The Thunder Rolls -
QUOTE (Jimmah7 @ Sep 7 2009, 01:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>whats with all the bohemian rhapsody love
It's one of the best songs ever? -
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QUOTE (Alfy @ Sep 7 2009, 12:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Barbie Girl
Look up "Happy Boys and Girls" by that band. It's a better song.
I'll get back to this thread when I'm done listening to my *checks* 27,458 songs... And then I'll um... pick 10! -
QUOTE (coffee @ Sep 8 2009, 01:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Tommy and Brian, I heart you both but Coldplay are indefensibly bad! I'm surprised your anti-virus software hasn't asked for permission to quarantine those files.
Seconded. -
QUOTE (mungo @ Sep 9 2009, 10:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I never realized how emo people were on these forums!!
Just kidding, I knew this a long time ago.
I'm not emo, I just really hate my Dad. -
QUOTE (mungo @ Sep 9 2009, 10:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I never realized how emo people were on these forums!!
Just kidding, I knew this a long time ago.
I just skimmed over this thread again, and I counted only a small handful of emo songs/bands. What in particular caught your eye?
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