Your 10 Desert Island Discs: 2025 edit

[Jark]

by no means your all time top ten but the songs that right now you'd choose to soundtrack the impending apocalypse.

go!

 

[Jark]

Kehlani - Altar
BANKS - Beggin' for Thread
Sugababes - Push the Button
Marina - Blue
Father John Misty - Goodbye Mr. Blue
Lana Del Rey - Buddy's Rendezvous
Goldfrapp - Fly Me Away
Gwen Stefani - Cool
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Neither One of Us
Jessie Ware - Pale Blue Light

more of a melancholy vibe overall as befitting exile and eventual/sudden death on an island

 

[AGinAg (37)]

This season's sounds are...

Enigma - Gravity of Love
Roy Davis Jr - Gabriel
Robin S - Show Me Love
Daft Punk - Instant Crush
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Sinead O Connor - This Is To Mother You
Charli xcx - Club Classics
Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire
Pulp - Common People
Disturbed - Sound of Silence

 

[funky]

So many different ways to play this but let's go for the ultimate laid back island vibes


Erykah Badu - Didn't Cha Know
Rose Royce - Wishing On A Star
Kaytranada, Charlotte Day Wilson - What You Need
Jessie Ware - Tough Love
Zhané - Hey Mr DJ
Janet Jackson - That's The Way Love Goes
Jungle - House In LA
Groove Theory - Tell Me
Everything But The Girl - No Difference
A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation

 

[Marina Salty]

Abba - Mama mia
Bangles - Eternal flame
Chris Isaak - Wicked game
Eleni Dimou - De me niazi
Jason Donovan - Sealed with a kiss
Haris Alexiou - Gia ena tango
Marina Satti - Anatoli
Phil Collins - Another day in paradise
Sabrina - Boys boys boys
Spagna - Call me
Tanita Tikaram - Twist in my sobriety

 

[Jark]

that's 11

 

[Marina Salty]

Sorry I was in a taxi and driver was chatty.
I'll take out Wicked game.

 

[hyperwoof]

Thomas Dolby - Screen Kiss
ABBA - Lay All Your Love On Me
Tears For Fears - The Working Hour
Dubstar - Disgraceful
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Inbetweenies
The Bee Gees - Spirits Having Flown
Kylie - Fever
Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
Hall & Oates - Method Of Modern Love
Girls Aloud - It’s Magic

 

[VV]

Madonna - La Isla Bonita
Belinda Carlisle - Circle in the sand
Bob Marley - Is this love
Cher - One by one
Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy
Kate Bush - The big sky
ABBA - Our last summer
Kylie Minogue - Hand on your heart
Lotus Eaters - First picture of you
Carly Simon - Coming around again

 

[hyperwoof]

Lotus Eaters such a good pick.

 

[Agneeta]

No Diddy, R Kelly or Gary Glitter?

 

[octophone]

In roughly chronological order, as at right now:

The Cure - The Figurehead
Nurse With Wound - The Schmurz
The Fall - Eat Y'Self Fitter
The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make?
Talk Talk - I Believe In You
Bjork - Hyperballad
R.E.M. - You're In The Air
Scott Walker - Jesse
claire rousay - it was always worth it
Geese - Au Pays Du Cocaine

 

[funky]

Off the top of my head, more of a “must have these songs with me” list than a definitive top ten ever


Prince - Diamonds & Pearls
Jessie Ware - Remember Where You Are
Soul II Soul - Keep On Movin’
Erykah Badu - Soldier
Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy
Paper Kites - Electric Indigo
Sam Fender - All Is On My Side
Sheryl Crow - The Difficult Kind
A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation
The Beatles - Something

 

[hyperwoof]

In roughly chronological order, as at right now:

The Cure - The Figurehead
Nurse With Wound - The Schmurz
The Fall - Eat Y'Self Fitter
The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make?
Talk Talk - I Believe In You
Bjork - Hyperballad
R.E.M. - You're In The Air
Scott Walker - Jesse
claire rousay - it was always worth it
Geese - Au Pays Du Cocaine

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