Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs was recently voted the greatest radio show of all time, and so to celebrate I thought I would post my own choices, despite the fact that almost certainly nobody cares.

For any readers who aren’t familiar with the Radio 4 show, each ‘castaway’ is marooned on a desert island, and permitted to only take 8 records, one book (in addition to the complete works of Shakespeare and the Bible) and ony luxury item which cannot be used to aid their escape or allow them any kind of communication with the outside world. The idea is that the songs and items chosen will allow the guest to tell their story, however naturally I don’t have any interesting story, so the choices below don’t really have a coherent message.

Songs

• Twin Size Mattress - The Front Bottoms
• Beach Life-in-Death - Car Seat Headrest
• Your Graduation - Modern Baseball
• The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows - Brand New
• Pulmonary Archery - Alexisonfire
• Pray for Plagues - Bring Me The Horizon
• The Plot to Bomb the Panhandle - A Day To Remember
• Saturday - Fall Out Boy

Book

• The Complete Lord of the Rings trilogy, if that’s allowed

Luxury Item

• A chess set