Can I start a parallel thread to go with the one DexX started? Can I? Please? Ok then.

Imagine your desert island record player is stuck on 45rpm. which ten songs would you take with you (singles or album tracks)? I think I'd be packing . . .

1. Neil Young - Unknown Legend
(I have to listen to this every morning on my way to work, or I won't bother turning up.)

2. Smokey Robinson - Being With You
(Reminds me of my childhood. One of the smoothest tunes I ever heard.)

3. The Beatles - For No One
(Gets me every time.)

4. Otis Redding - Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay
(Those seagulls and that voice.)

5. Michael Jackson - One Day In Your Life
(Beautiful song.)

6. Frank Sinatra - Under My Skin
(My desert island, saturday night karaoke song.)

7. Yes - Starship Trooper
(For when I want to lie back in a pair of flared pants and contemplate never being rescued and not caring.)

8. Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
(For when I want to get down with my bad self in solitude.)

9. Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
(For the bit where Robert Plant says 'babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, baby'n'baby, i'm gonna leave you.')

10. Bob Dylan - Ballad Of A Thin Man
(Bob exerting total authority here. I defy anyone to write a cooler song than this.)

The Pixies, Beefheart, James Brown, Black Sabbath, Nick Drake, Isley Bros, Grandmaster Flash, The Doors, Johnny Cash and Frank Zappa all missed out by the skin of their teeth here. What's your selection?

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Can I start a parallel thread to go with the one DexX started? Can I? Please? Ok then.

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Yeah I know. Sorry about that. I'm hassling Brad to lose the other one for me.

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Yeah I know. Sorry about that. I'm hassling Brad to lose the other one for me.

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You'd do that to yourself, Gabe?

Ten eh? Hmmmmmmmm.....

1. Michael Jackson - ROCK WITH YOU

2. Joe Dolce - Shaddup you face

3. Wings - Silly Love Songs

4.Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

5. Total Coelo - I Eat Cannibals

6. Bob & Doug McKenzie - Take Off Eh!

7. Madness - Our House

8.Adam Ant - Goddy Two Shoes

9. Reunited - Peaches and Herb

10. 1985 Chicago Bears - Super Bowl Shuffle

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8. Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
(For when I want to get down with my bad self in solitude.)

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Crabby, you seem to have forgotten 'Oh Darlin there aint no pleasing you' by Chas & Dave. And a whole host of Barron Knights tunes. I trust this was an accident?

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8. Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
(For when I want to get down with my bad self in solitude.)

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Really? I use Madonna's "Like a Virgin" for this. I also use her wardrobe.

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Crabby, you seem to have forgotten 'Oh Darlin there aint no pleasing you' by Chas & Dave. And a whole host of Barron Knights tunes. I trust this was an accident?

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I'm prepared to allow your top forty if they are of this standard. Knock yourself out Crabby.

Forty eh? Hmmmmmmmm.....

1. Michael Jackson - ROCK WITH YOU
2. Joe Dolce - Shaddup you face
3. Wings - Silly Love Songs
4. Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
5. Total Coelo - I Eat Cannibals
6. Bob & Doug McKenzie - Take Off Eh!
7. Madness - Our House
8. Adam Ant - Goddy Two Shoes
9. Reunited - Peaches and Herb
10. 1985 Chicago Bears - Super Bowl Shuffle
11. The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me
12. Blondie - The Tide is High
13. Air Supply - The One That You Love
14. Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots
15. Commodores - Three Times A Lady
16. Miami Sound Machine - Bad Boys
17. The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
18. The Vapors - Turning Japanese
19. Falco - Amadeus
20. Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights
21. Chicago - Hard To Say I'm Sorry
22. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
23. The Alan Parsons Project - Time
24. Neal Diamond - America
25. Smokey Robinson - Whats In Your Life For Me
26. The J. Geils Band - Centerfold
27. Peter Schilling - Major Tom
28. Coven - One Tin Soldier
29. AC/DC - Back In Black
30. Charlotte Austin and Bill Cunningham - The Busy Buzz ( everyone go download this one now it's a classic)
31. Diana Ross & Lionel Richie - Endless Love
32. Walter Payton - Doin' It Right
33. Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
34. Grover Washington - Just The Two of Us
35. The Who - You Better You Bet
36. Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly
37. Greg Kihn Band - The Breakup Song
38. Michael Jackson - Ben
39. Hollies - He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother
40. John Cougar - Jack & Diane

Now before everyone goes complaing about how could I leave this song off I made this list using only 45's that I own. Also this list is in no particular order at all.

01 - "I Want To Hold Your Hand" - The Beatles (Pure pop and timeless.)

02 - "Wouldn't It Be Good" - Nik Kershaw (A tale of crushing misery you can dance to. Hoowah!)

03 - "There She Goes" - The Las (Perfect jangle pop.)

04 - "In Your Eyes - Live" - Peter Gabriel (A brilliant song about devotion that has yet to be eclipsed.)

05 - "Cuyahoga" - R.E.M. (The best single from their best album ever.)

06 - "Tonight" - The Raspberries (Eric Carmen at his peak. Crap, over-compressed drum mix and all.)

07 - "Look Through Any Window" - The Hollies (The first record I ever bought.)

08 - "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" - the Temptations (This song kicks ass.)

09 - "Sometime In The Morning" - The Monkees (One of the worst production jobs ever. I think it was mixed by a deaf-mute gopher, but it's a killer song.)

10 - "Wouldn't It Be Nice" - The Beach Boys (Just beautiful, man. Beautiful.)

I own all the songs I listed on 45 except Rock with you by Michael Jackson and silly love songs by Wings. The rest are mine though.

I'll take a song by each of my desert island artists from DexX's thread:

Simon and Garfunkel - I am a Rock
Cypress Hill - Illusions
The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
Pantera - Regular People
Mozart - Lachrymosa
The Presidents of the United States of America - Little Puffy Shoes
Rammstein - er...I'll come back to this one
Bill Hicks - Rockers Against Drugs Suck
Vangelis - Rachel's Song
Beach Boys - I'll go with bunner here: Wouldn't it be Nice

Oh yeah, Rammstein - Spieluhr. Just to laugh at, though. I don't actually like it or anything.

Hm. I don't actually think most of these were released as singles. That could impede my plans.

Wait. Forget Rammstein. I'd bring Entropy by MC Hawk-hawk-hawking.

Entropy? How can you deny the dope fly stylings of "Fuck The Creationists?"

My goodness, crabby... I thought I was irrepressibly geeky when I liked a stack of your list in my teens, over a decade ago. Now, here you are at the start of the new millennium, and _you_ like them. Wow... I would take my hat off to you if I ever wore one. It takes some balls to be young, surrounded by peer pressure, but be a fan of what is good, rather than what is new and trendy.

I have to say, though - Paul McCartney solo, I would take Maybe I'm Amazed over No More Lonely Nights any day, and from his Wings period, Band on the Run or Live and Let Die would make it into my collection before Silly Love Songs which, I must admit, I find a bit tiresome.

I will actually contribute to this thread after some thought. I own very few singles, a grand total of one 45 (Paul McCartney, My Brave Face) so it would be a single hypothetical CD-R of burned tracks in my imagination, rather than pile of 45s.

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Entropy? How can you deny the dope fly stylings of "Fuck The Creationists?"

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Ten Singles...

No order

-SwayBic Runga
-Then He Kissed MeThe Crystals
-Festival SongGood Charlotte
-Bad DayFuel (I think I might actually die without this song)
-I'm Leaving On A Jet PlaneAny artist would do, but preferably Jewel.
-FlowerMoby
-American PieDon McLean
-Sweet Child of MineGuns and Roses
-CumbersomeSeven Mary Three
-I Was WrongSocial D

This thread reminded me of a guy in his fifties that used to work in the music department at Borders with me. He had about a 50,000 album collection in his basement. When he mentioned that, all I could think of was the massive hernia he was going to get if he ever moved and had to lift all those fucking boxes.