2008
they took a picture, and from this cold lightning
maura @ 7:45 pm
Are you tired of thinking about Spitzer? Me too! Let’s think about music instead.
Last week at work I was talking with a friend about wearing blue mascara in the 80s and then listened to Aladdin Sane on the (delayed) subway home which got me thinking about desert island discs. Remember that? When 80s music magazines used to ask famous people to name the 10 records they’d want if they were stranded on a desert island? I thought you did.
(in alphabetical order, all librarian-like)
1. Bjork: Vespertine
2. David Bowie: I’d have to flip a coin to decide between Aladdin Sane and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
3. Cocteau Twins: Treasure
4. Even in Blackouts: Myths and Imaginary Magicians
5. Everything But the Girl: Amplified Heart
5.5. Lilys: A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns (This is only an EP, so I should get a bonus EP because they are short.)
6. New Order: Low Life
6.5 Pipas: Bitter Club (Another EP)
7. Pixies: Do Surfer Rosa and Come on Pilgrim count as one record or two? They are on the same CD. If the answer is two, then I pick Doolittle.
8. The Shins: Ditto coin flip between Chutes Too Narrow and Wincing the Night Away
9. Shuggie Otis: Inspiration Information
10. Throwing Muses: Ditto coin flip between Throwing Muses and House Tornado. Except if it’s the British CD of House Tornado which also has The Fat Skier so I’d pick that.
That was much harder than I thought it would be.
4 comments on “they took a picture, and from this cold lightning”
Yay for the old country!
Frankly, they probably have them still here, too, but I don’t really read music media anymore so I wouldn’t know. Too much library reading to do!
I remember when we first met, I thought all the bands you listened to or went to see live had names that were descriptive of a post-apocalyptic society.
And now we live in that society! :) Join me…
We still have desert island discs in the old country. Mostly British people: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs.shtml