I just got back from watching Rush - Beyond the Lighted Stage
In one of the scenes, Alex Lifeson is reading God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
It makes me happy when well-known people like musicians, artists, actors etc try and use some of their fame to promote worthwhile causes. Also when they come out as skeptics. Seeing the lead guitarist from one of my favorite bands reading this book made for a happyfuntime moment.
If you had to pick eight albums to take with you to a desert island, which ones would you pick? (Since I’m not likely to be invited onto the BBC show, this is it I guess)
Self-made compilations are not allowed, for purposes of this exercise. I tried to avoid best-ofs, compilations and anthologies as well. But I found I just couldn’t.
My Desert Island Discs are:
Pulse
by Pink Floyd
Not because its my favorite album, but because it has most of their best songs, as well as the entire Dark Side of the Moon album, performed live.
Mothership
by Led Zeppelin
Swan Song
by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
This doesn’t have my favorite song by the Nusrat. (Halka Halka Suroor) But I guess thats the point. Eight Albums, what do you leave behind?
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Bernstein conducting. 1989.
Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
John Denver Live at the Sydney Opera House
One
by The Beatles
Hits
by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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What are your Desert Island Discs?
by Gaddis
by Harris
by Sachs