{"id":1500,"date":"2004-10-26T13:45:26","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T17:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2004-10-26T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T18:17:56","slug":"a-desert-island-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/10\/a-desert-island-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Island CD"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s completely off-topic, but we can use a few excursions to the off-topic every now and then, in between our discussions of abortion, gay marriage, and the evils of Sunstone. Besides, it’s a fun mental exercise, and it’s also fun to see other people’s musical tastes. So here are the rules: You have a CD with 20<\/del> 22 songs, and it’s all that you will have to listen to as you’re stranded on a desert island. What are your song choices?<\/p>\n

Here are my own:<\/p>\n

The Police – Every Breath You Take (the best stalker song ever written)
\nOMD – If You Leave (one of my two or three all-time favorites)
\nSimon and Garfunkel – I Am a Rock (some of the best lyrics ever written — very John Donne)
\nDon McClean – American Pie (just beautiful lyrics, and some great piano as well)
\nU2 – With or Without You (they’ve never topped it)
\nThree Dog Night – Shambala (just a fun song)
\nCeline Dion – To Love You More (stop laughing, everyone!)
\nCure – Just Like Heaven (another of the all-time favorites)
\nBob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue (how can you not like a story like this?)
\nGuns ‘n Roses – Sweet Child o’ Mine (starts out with that really great guitar riff)
\nWhen in Rome – The Promise (I’m not sure why, but I really like this one. It’s high-school music for me)
\nLaura Pausini – La Soledad (her voice is just enchanting, and this one has a great tune too)
\nRicardo Arjona – Jesus, Verbo no Sustantivo (the lyrics are great, and his voice really grows on you. Oh, and as an added bonus, he mocks Mormons just a little)
\nBilly Joel – Always a Woman to Me (with some great lines, just barely edging out a lot of other worthy songs from Joel)
\nCreedence – Cotton Fields (barely edging out lots of worthies here, too)
\nIndigo Girls – Closer to Fine (so I like folksy stuff — is that apparent yet?)
\nEagles – Hotel California (as discussed in a prior thread)
\nSimon and Garfunkel – The Boxer (so I couldn’t just keep one S & G here. Even just two was painful — how do I leave out so many good songs?)
\nJohn Denver – Poems, Prayers and Promises (that seventies mix of guitar and lyrics gets me every time)
\nMadonna – Spanish Lullaby (she has a very pretty voice, and a real musical talent)
\nSixpence None the Richer – Kiss Me (a voice that is impossible to ignore)
\nStyx – Come Sail Away (no one makes songs like this anymore)<\/p>\n

Wow, that was harder than I thought. I left off a lot of songs that surprised me — it’s a lot easier to _say_ “20 songs” than it is to actually choose them.<\/p>\n

This game becomes more fun and interesting as more people join in, so I hope that readers poss their own song choices in the comments. If you want to give a brief explanation, that’s fine as well (though not necessary). Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s completely off-topic, but we can use a few excursions to the off-topic every now and then, in between our discussions of abortion, gay marriage, and the evils of Sunstone. Besides, it’s a fun mental exercise, and it’s also fun to see other people’s musical tastes. So here are the rules: You have a CD with 20 22 songs, and it’s all that you will have to listen to as you’re stranded on a desert island. What are your song choices?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}