Saturday, December 8, 2007

Desert Island Discs

I was reading something and it reminded me about that one radio show Desert Island Discs. (longest-running music program since 1942 to the present). Essentially it's a show where famous guests are asked to choose eight pieces of music they'd bring with them if they were to become island castaways. And I was thinking how ANNOYING that must be to hear those same eight songs for the rest of your life. Just imagine listening to A Bay Bay and Crank That for the rest of your life. I'd kill myself within a day.

BUT after much consideration and thought I DID think of one song that I wouldn't mind. It was released back in 2001 by the supergroup (it's a real term) A Perfect Circle. The song's called 3 Libras and it was released on the album Mer de Noms (Latin for "Sea of Names" mysterious isn't it?). The funny thing is I don't even like APC very much, but I'd have to name this song one of my favorites of all time. Apparently the songs of the album are dedicated to people that the lead singer knew; and 3 Libras was dedicated to 9 people with birthdays around that time and is about "being overlooked". Anyways it's a wonderful song and anyone that appreciates rock at all should definately check it out if they haven't already. *EDIT* listen to the last bit starting at 2:45 cuz it's the best part!



By the way, the most requested song in the show's history was the Fourth Movement of Beethoven's Ninth (for the woefully ignorant, that's Ode to Joy) which gets ridiculously SICK at around 4:15.

1 comment:

dahippo said...

i don't know if it's just me, but does his voice sound kind of muffled?