Entertainment For Lively Minds
Which letter of the alphabet, musically speaking, could you not do without?
Posted by robram on 31 October 2008 - 1:22pm.
I was sitting looking at my CD shelves the other evening (which are arranged alphabetically, of course) and started wondering which letter of the alphabet I'd want to take with me, if I was going to a desert island.
Now, personally speaking, I tend to categorize by surname for artist (unlike iTunes and last.fm), so Nick Cave is under 'C', Dr John is under 'J' (I know it's not a surname).
After much soul-searching I plumped for B - Bowie, Bragg, Blur, Bacharach, Bjork, Belle & Sebastian, Byrne, Kate Bush, Big Star, Badly Drawn Boy...
Anyone else care want to throw their letter into the ring?
- More from robram.
- Login or register to post comments
-
O
Say no more.
Go on, please say more...
;o)
A
sis
Very good
but couldn't you just take B and listen to the Beatles instead? ;o)
O
is it "NOT do without"? Bugger.
Let it go man!
the lady dost protest too much
And on THAT subject ...
I passed up an offer of a free ticket for the Oasis gig in Belfast on Wednesday night, in favour of paying £15 to see Noah & The Whale. Not the best gig I've ever been to, but somehow I still feel I came out on top.
B for me too...
Couldn't do without Miss Bush, and some Beatles and Bowie in there for good measure.....
This post has been brought to you by the letter S
Sex Pistols, Shack, Sigur Ros, The Smiths, Spiritualized, Stereolab, Stone Roses, Suede, Sugar, Super Furry Animals...
M
Martyn, Morrisey, Mozart, Man, Manfred Mann, Morrison,Marley,
Monkees,Mitchell.
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
The Smiths
The Beatles
The Sex Pistols
The Rolling Stones
The Orb
The Stone Roses
The Happy Mondays
Tne Kinks
The Specials
The Byrds
The Velvets
etc etc
Thats cheating
But T doesn't have to delve to such depths, as Teenage Fanclub, Talking Heads and Trashcan Sinatras not to mention Television and The Triffids give it bragging rights in my book.
"Thats cheating" - I've never heard of them
Are they a new band?
S for me...
Screaming Blue Messiahs
Sex Pistols
Shack
Sham 69
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Sisters of Mercy
Skids
Slade
Small Faces
Smiths
Soundtrack of Our Lives
Sparks
Specials
St. Etienne
Standells
Steel Pulse
Stone Roses
Strands (Michael Head from Shack)
Stranglers
Style Council
Subway Sect
Super Furry Animals
Supremes
Sweet
Matthew Sweet
can't decided
either A or N or L!
D
for 'Dylan' essentially. Ian Dury is a bonus, but that Devendra Banhart CD is simply kindling.
Well come on then
where the heck are the Zappa and Zevon fans??
As nobody else has grabbed it
I'll have C. I can make do with my holy trinity:
Clash
Johnny Cash
Credence
I arrange mine differently.....
....but I also have to go for S!!
Sam Baker
Santana
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Sex Pistols
Steve Earle
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Steve Forbert
Seth Lakeman
Sheryl Crow
Scott Joplin
Sharon Shannon
Slobberbone
Spin Doctors
Smokin' Joe Kubek
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Stacey Earle
Sam Cooke
Saw Doctors
Seasick Steve
Slaid Cleaves
Solomon Burke
Sonny Landreth
Stevie Wonder
Sarah McLachlan
None of the above
But
Stackridge
Spirogyra
Dave Stewart & Barbara GaSkin
Spock's Beard
er
Sesame Street
and also
Springsteen
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
Squeeze
Steely Dan
Streetwalkers
C
Cave
must find one on a desert island !
B
Add in Beach Boys and the Byrds, couldnt do the sixties without a B.
Sex Pistols
etc
dunno why, but there were always more S than any other letter
though none of them are my absolute favourites bar the smiths
so
B
beatles bowie
surely that's enough