My Ten Desert Island Discs

[wonderboynj]

1. Erasure - The Innocents. A guilty pleasure from my early days.
2. Dusty Springfield - Can I pick the 4 cd Simply Dusty set? If not, then Id have to choose Dusty in Memphis.
3. Billie Holiday - Last Recordings.
4. Annie Lennox - Medusa. Sublime.
5. NO LAUGHING. Judy Garland - Judy In Love. Those Nelson Riddle arrangements are just wonderful.
6. Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington - The Stockholm Concerts
7. Pet Shop Boys - Discography
8. Gypsy - Original Broadwah Cast Recording
9. Sarah Vaughn - Ken Burn Jazz Collection.
10. Thompson twins - Here's To Future Days.

The end.

Comments

[lfkbear.livejournal.com]

Only one Dusty disc? I'm speechless. hehehe...

"The Innocents" almost made my list... so did "Circus," which I kinda like more. Love "Ship of Fools" and "Victim of Love" from "The Innocents."

[wonderboynj.livejournal.com]

Well notice the comment "Can I bring my Simply Dusty box set" that has EVERYTHING : ) Including Nothing Has Been Proved and in Private and Roll away. Which are the 3 songs I would miss the most of hers if I could ONLY have Dusty in Memphis.

I also love the Circus CD, especially hideaway. i could swear andy wrote that song JUST about me.

[sohipithurts.livejournal.com]

OMG! *sings* Here's to future days. Here's to future ways. Ohhhh oh. Freakin' LOVE that album. "King For A Day" is fantastic. Nice selection. However, you're not allowed to include greatest hits collections on your DID list. :) Just throw "Very" or "Behavior" in the place of "Discography".

[wonderboynj.livejournal.com]

That album is DEFINATELY one of the top 80s albums, from a synthpop standpoint. And the tour supporting the album was brilliant. If only they hadnt done Close To The Bone (which actually had a few nice songs on it) and Queer which waas just well, Queer, they could have ended on a great note. I think the album was also a commercial success for them. Mr Flick could verify that for us.

I would love to see them work together again as The Thompson Twins, even if it was just Alannah and Tom. Who knows it could happen, I never in a million years thought soft cell would ever work together again.

[wonderboynj.livejournal.com]

if I can't have a greatest hits collection, then I would choose either Behaviour or Release. Neil has an uncanny ability to write an album about exactly whats going on in my life at the present time. Release being no different. On Behaviour, there was Being Boring, which doesnt need an explanation, but there was also This Must Be The place. which told me I could get out of the religious fanatacism Id gotten dredged into.

Release has Love is a catastrophe, which describes my lifee right now. As well as Here, which talks about a home being any place someone is accepted.