Like the radio show, can you pick your eight favourite songs EVER, that you'd take with you if stranded on a desert island.
(Or just imagine you have a really crap ipod that only stores 8 songs)

Here are mine (did take me a while!) :

Song To The Siren - This Mortal Coil
Geek Love - Bang Bang Machine
Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
Utopia - Goldfrapp
Love Reign O'er Me - The Who
Skin Deep - The Stranglers
Pearly Dew Drops Drop - Cocteau Twins
Birthday - Sugarcubes

Yikes eight only

Incident On 57th Street - Bruce Springsteen (Barcelona 2002 Version)
Every Breath You Take - The Police
The Last Resort - The Eagles (Hell Freezes Over Version)
Kayleigh - Marillon
The River - Bruce Springsteen (Live 75/85 Version)
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Last Train To London - ELO
Logical Song - Supertramp

Martika - Toy Soldiers
Annie Lennox - No More I Love Yous
Sarah McLachlan - Adia
Sugababes - Too Lost In You
Simply Red - Holding Back The Years
Laura Veirs - Galaxies
Michael Jackson - Speed Demon
Lifehouse - Breathing

Ain't no Sunshine - Bill Withers
Play Dead - Björk
Nothing in my way - Keane
Come fly with me - Michael Bublé version
Moondance - Van Morrison
Breakfast in America - Supertramp
Feeling Good - Muse
She so loose - Supergrass

Phew, that was hard - only 8 songs.

A Good Heart- Fergal Sharkey

Iris- Goo Goo Dolls

Invisible Touch- Genesis

Wonderwall-Oasis

Every Breath You Take- Police

Between The Wars- Billy Bragg

Hi Ho Silver Lining (/Wolverhampton)-Jeff Beck

And Then For My Eighth I Can't Choose Between Any Of The Following-

Days- The Kinks
Walk On By-Dionne Warwick
Golden Brown-Stranglers
Bye Bye Baby-Bay City Rollers
Go Your Own Way-Fleetwood Mac
Jilted John-Jilted John
Lost Weekend-Lloyd Cole
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams-Green Day
Eton Rifles-The Jam
Tubthumping-Chumbawumba
A Boy Called Sue-Johnny Cash
Ring Of Fire-Johhny Cash
A Thing Called Love-Johnny Cash
Hurt-Johnny Cash
Word Of Mounth-Mike & The Mechanics
Pretty In Pink-Psychadelic Furs
Enola Gay-Orchestral Manouevres
When You Say Nothing At All-Ronan Keating
Cum On Feel The Noise-Slade
Reelin' In The Years-Steely Dan
Marlene On The Wall-Suzanne Vega
Don't You Want Me-Human League
Fox On The Run-Sweet
Ballroom Blitz-Sweet
Everybody Wants To Rule The World-Tears For Fears
Going Down-Bruce Springstein
Born In The U.S.A-Bruce Springstein
Born To Run-Bruce Springstein
Darlington County-Bruce Springstein
No More Heroes-Stranglers
Hanging Around-Stranglers
Fast Car-Tracy Chapman
Veronica-Wreckless Eric
My Girl-Madness
Mmmbop-Hanson
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough-Manic Street Preachers
Stan- Eminem
From You- The Beatles
Moondance-Van Morrison
Yesterday-The Beatles

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Iron Maiden - Hallowed be Thy Name
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Porcupine Tree - Trains
Tool - Reflection
Belly - Feed the Tree
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
His Name is Alive - Maybe
Tool - Pushit (Salival Version)

Mine would be a quite modern selection , because of my young age

Remi Nicole - Go Mr Sunshine
Pidegon Detectives - Take Her Back
Foo Fighters - The Pretender
Billy Joel - No man's land (dad's fault )
Arctic Monkeys - When the sun goes down
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Get Cape , Wear Cape , Fly - I spy
Oasis - Morning Glory

Haha your young with a modern selection, i'm young, with ahrdly any modern songs-half of the new stuff isn't music- if only I'd have been around to experience it properly in the 70's/80's

lolness

The Rise and Fall of Fingel Blunt - The Shadows
Marlene - Todd Rundgren
Meet on the Ledge - Fairport Convention
Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
Desolation Row - Bob Dylan
Cloud Busting - Kate Bush
The Count of Tuscany - Dream Theater
No Man's Land - Beverley Knight

ooh - I could choose a different 8 and be just as happy

Difficult choice.

The Smiths- Cemetry Gates
The Cure- Disintegration
David Bowie- Modern Love
Muse- Hysteria
Vivaldi's Summer from The Four Seasons
Queen- The Show Must Go On
Radiohead- How To Disappear Completely
Sigur Ros-Staralfur

Awesome songs

My 8 will always change, but at the moment I'd choose:

- Skunk Anansie - Weak
- Björk - Army of Me (or perhaps Hidden Place, I am unsure)
- Sigur Rós - Untitled 3
- Bat For Lashes - I Saw A Light
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
- TLC - Sumthin' Wicked This Way Comes
- Massive Attack - Group 7
- Goldfrapp - Utopia (or Human... again, unsure)

Oasis - Whatever
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
The Verve - Drugs Don't Work or Sonnet
The Killers - Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Gustav Holst - Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

Big Bill Broonzy - How You Want It Done?
Screamin Jay Hawkins - Move Me
Little Richard - I Keep A-Knockin'
The Beatles - I Feel Fine
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime (Live version)
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
Tanya Donelly - Swoon
Kristin Hersh - Tuesday Night

Phew, that was hard.

Sing Sing Sing - Gene Krupa with the Benny Goodman Orchestra 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert

Once In A while - Louis Armstrong's Hot Five - 1927

Youv'e Been A Good Old Wagon - Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong

Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas - Benny Goodman Quartet - 1937 Airshot

Spooky Drums - Baby Dodds circa 1946

Maple Leaf Rag - Sidney Bechet / Tommy Ladnier New Orleans Feetwarmers - 1932

Two Little Fishes & Five Loaves of Bread - Sr Rosetta Tharpe with the Sammy Price Trio circa 1948

Shimmee-Sha-Wobble - Kenny Davern, Dick Wellstood & Gene Krupa 1972

I really need some Ellington, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Big Bill Broonzy, Red Allen, Wild Bill Davison, Art Hodes, Fats Waller, Slim Gaillard and much, much more.

Ironic- Alanis Morrisette
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out- The Smiths
Heaven Tonight- Hole
Sixteen- No Doubt
Kicking and Screaming- Ashlee Simpson
Call Me- Blondie
Irvine- Kelly Clarkson
Road Rage Catatonia
Apres Moi- Regina Spektor