Alfs 5:28 Mon Jul 18
Desert Island Disc reduc
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One album, no compilations. One book.
Mine would be the Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers, and William Boyd's A Good Man In Africa,
Yours?
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arsene york-hunt
10:01 Fri Jul 22
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A Good an in Africa was one of the funniest things I have ever read, a brilliant book. You can keep your Rolling Stones though.
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Forest Gate Ugly
9:44 Fri Jul 22
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WHO constantly surprises. Feel like I’ve stumbled onto a late night Channel 4 show from the 1980s.
FWIW-
Jailbreak- Thin Lizzy (which includes The Boys are Back in Town along with some sadly neglected gems) Catch 22- Joseph Heller (Interviewer: “You’ve never written anything as good since.” Heller: “Neither has anyone else”)
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Forest Gate Ugly
9:44 Fri Jul 22
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WHO constantly surprises. Feel like I’ve stumbled onto a late night Channel 4 show from the 1980s.
FWIW-
Jailbreak- Thin Lizzy (which includes The Boys are Back in Town along with some sadly neglected gems) Catch 22- Joseph Heller (Interviewer: “You’ve never written anything as good since.” Heller: “Neither has anyone else”)
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zebthecat
10:13 Fri Jul 22
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Cardiacs - Sing to God Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos
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yogib
8:57 Thu Jul 21
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The Specials - Specials
Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers
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mallard
8:08 Thu Jul 21
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Desire - Bob Dylan
A Song of Ice and Fire - George RR Martin
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WHU(Exeter)
7:12 Thu Jul 21
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The Chameleons ~ What does anything mean basically.
John Julius Norwich ~ his Byzantine trilogy.
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violator
1:21 Thu Jul 21
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Violator (Deluxe Edition) - Depeche Mode
Substance - Peter Hook
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philj904
12:50 Thu Jul 21
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Raw Power - The Stooges
Into The Great Wide Open - Kevin Canty
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jfk
1:49 Thu Jul 21
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Club Classics - soul 2 soul
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
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With Kind Regards
5:35 Tue Jul 19
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, 11:15 Mon Jul 18
Travels with Charley? Superb choice, I have read it many times.
Book - Grapes of Wrath Album - What’s Going On
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Lily Hammer
4:57 Tue Jul 19
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“Orphans” by Tom Waits, which blags me a cheeky triple album, subtitled “Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards,” which is a decent effort to try to categorize Waits’ different directions.
Actually, I’ll have to toss a coin to choose between that and “Studio One Presents Sound of the Burning Spear” by Burning Spear.
No, fuck you and your rules. I’m taking both.
For a book, “Earthly Powers” by Anthony Burgess, which blew me away, even though I knew I didn’t get half of it and would need to reread every 20 years or so. Probably due a reread now.
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Alwaysaniron
4:42 Tue Jul 19
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Queen - A Night at the Opera
Jeffery Archer - Kane & Abel
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Nurse Ratched
4:37 Tue Jul 19
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Mezzanine- Massive Attack
This Thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
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chim chim cha boo
4:32 Tue Jul 19
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Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols.
For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway.
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UNIHAMMERED
3:38 Tue Jul 19
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Infinite Jest for me as well, or maybe The Tin Drum. I've never finished either of them
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the aeroplane over the sea
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Bungo
2:12 Tue Jul 19
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Steptacular by Steps (who else?), and Kevin Keegan, My Life In Football.
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Mike Oxsaw
1:40 Tue Jul 19
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Songs in the Key of Life, for the music.
For the read, anything long enough that, by the time I'd got to the end, I'll have forgotten how it started and need to read it again.
Any late 50s/Early 60 copy of the Beano or Dandy would work.
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rubble
6:35 Tue Jul 19
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The Wild, the Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle - Springsteen The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
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BRANDED
1:49 Mon Jul 18
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EW&F I Am
Winston Churchill WW2
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MancIron
1:47 Mon Jul 18
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Forever Changes - Love
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace, completely baffled me last time I attempted to read it but would have plenty of time on the Island to get my noggin around it.
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