<p>Hey dudes and dudettes -</p>
<p>Referencing post #29 by Cricket in the “Listening Now” post, what are the five not so easy pieces you would have with you on your tropical island? – </p>
<p>My Girl - Temptations
San Francisco - Tony Bennett
Here’s to Life - Shirley Horn
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
Since I Don’t Have You - Skyliners</p>
<p>Gimme Shelter- Rolling Stones
The Great Curve - Talking Heads
A Case of You - Joni Mitchell
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Dixie Chicken - Little Feat</p>
<p>“A Case of You.” Love it! May I visit your tropical island?!?</p>
<p>U2 – Beautiful Day
Billy Idol – Dancing with Myself
The Pretenders – Back on the Chain Gang
REM – I Believe
Springsteen – Born to Run</p>
<p>(the last was the hardest; there’d definitely be Bruce, but it could be Promised Land, Candy’s Room, Thunder Road, etc.–hard to choose).</p>
<p>any time :)</p>
<p>OK, these are my revisions for the tropical isle:</p>
<p>Ella Fizgerald (Summertime)
Vaughan Williams (Thomas Tallis)
Van Morrison (Moondance)
Clapton (Layla)
Coltrane (My Favorite Things)</p>
<p>Will our islands be in the same archipelago? Because a change of tunes might be nice now and then, and I could especially use some Skyliners, Talking Heads, Stones, U2, Pretenders, and more Coltrane would be great. Garland, I love REM’s “Everybody Hurts” if you’d have that on your REM cd.</p>
<p>lol so this is what the parents do on their on separate forum!!!</p>
<p>I like REM’s “Shiny Happy People.” And cricket, I might have to canoe over for a little dose of Layla.</p>
<p>SBmom</p>
<p>Ditto on Gimmie Shelter. What a complete rock and roll anthem! The opening guitar riff by Keith Richards and the backing vocals by Mary Clayton add such a haunting quality to the song. Nicky Hopkin’s piano adds punctuation to the tune as well.</p>
<p>Topical isle, so - </p>
<p>Everything by Bob Marley</p>
<p>And the best of: Mighty Gabby, Jimmy Cliff, Toots & the Maytals, Clash (ska tunes), Ziggy Marley, Ras Iley</p>
<p>SBmom, you’re welcome to canoe over any time. But, when Layla’s playing I imagine you’ll be able to hear it over at your island!</p>
<p>Yulsie, of course! (<em>slaps forehead</em>)</p>
<p>What??! :eek: Why do you think Wanda was the first person voted off Palau? If she’d been able to hum a decent version of Margaritaville into a coconut, maybe…</p>
<p>No, no tunes. Real survivors are too busy plotting, foraging, and competing for cars.</p>
<p>Oh.</p>
<p>I guess I wasn’t thinking of the TV show. More Robinson Crusoe, only on my island it’s just me and the flora and fauna, and a few wet but prized books and the five tunes. (And of course there are my good neighbors in the archipelago, and there’s UMDAD who sends a much-anticipated monthly music review as a message in a bottle to my bit of beach front.)</p>
<p>Forget the plotting and cars, but can’t I listen to tunes while foraging?</p>
<p>But, of course, fellow bug! 
I would help SBmom paddle her canoe if you have that cutie pie, Bobby Jon, on your island. Any chance of that happening? Or, are we talking books and iPods only?</p>
<p>Layla
Light My Fire
You Keep Me Hanging On (the Vanilla Fudge version, not the Diana Ross version)
Beds are Burning (Midnight Oil)
Satisfaction
Good Vibrations
Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane)
Rock Around the Clock
American Pie</p>
<p>How many albums can we have?</p>
<p>OKay, if people are going to go beyond five, then add to my list:</p>
<p>Waterloo Sunset, The Kinks
Touch of Gray, Grateful Dead</p>