{"id":318,"date":"2008-04-14T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T12:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/318"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:56:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:56:33","slug":"desert-island-discs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/318","title":{"rendered":"Desert Island Discs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of a particularly good meal on Saturday, the talk drifted to concerts we had been to recently and then onto favourite pieces of music. The Brother-in-law said that he had been to (or had organised?) events where a few guests were invited to put their favourite five pieces of music onto a CD and talk up to them in the manner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/factual\/desertislanddiscs.shtml\">Desert Island Discs<\/a>. When asked what my favourites would be I quickly rattled off<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Melanie&mdash;<a href=\"http:\/\/freespace.virgin.net\/robert_ian.smith\/Songindex\/Saddest.htm\">The Saddest Thing<\/a>: from &#8220;The Good Book&#8221;, Buddah, 1971.<\/li>\n<li>Robert Wyatt&mdash;Song for Ch&eacute;: from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leonardslair.co.uk\/ruth.htm\">Ruth is Stranger than Richard<\/a>&#8220;, Virgin, 1975<\/li>\n<li>Elton John&mdash;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstscience.com\/home\/perspectives\/editorials\/life-is-an-arbitrary-thing-or-reflections-on-song-for-guy-by-elton-john_1758.html\">Song for Guy<\/a>: from &#8220;A Single Man&#8221;, Rocket, 1979.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.co.uk\/shop\/ProductDetails.aspx?catalog=HighStDonated&#038;product=95874\">Faur&eacute;&rsquo;s Requiem<\/a> (Pi&eacute; Jesu): The Choir of King&rsquo;s College Cambridge, solo: Robert Chillcot, EMI, 1968.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Missa_Luba\">Missa Luba<\/a> (Sanctus and Benedictus): Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin, Philips, 1965.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Later I realised that these would not do at all. They were chosen because they are the most beautiful pieces of music I know&mdash;but I couldn&#8217;t give any other good reason for choosing them. They don&#8217;t hold any special memories for me so I will have to think again if I am ever to do this. In practice, if stranded on an island, I would prefer a book like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Guinness-World-Records-British-Singles\/dp\/1904994008\">Guinness: British Hit Singles and Albums<\/a> because, for the older ones at least, I can sing them in my head for days, whistle or hum them and it would require no power. I am not so good at remembering words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of a particularly good meal on Saturday, the talk drifted to concerts we had been to recently and then onto favourite pieces of music. The Brother-in-law said that he had been to (or had organised?) events where a few guests were invited to put their favourite five pieces of music onto a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}