DiD

Someone, somewhen, asked me what my desert island discs would be. (It wasn't Radio 4)

This is either what I sent them, or a Long List to be winnowed down

Actually, inspecting it closer, I appear to have drawn up two lists - absolute faves versus records chosen for  functional reasons, the solace and spiritual-emotional sustenance they'd provide on an actual deserted island. 

List 1: Ab Favs

John's Children, A Midsummer Night Scene

Sex Pistols, No Fun

Roxy Music, beauty queen

Slits, Cut

Michael Jackson, Rock With You

the Smiths, There is a Light that Never Goes Out

My Bloody Valentine, Slow

Orbital, Chime

Omni Trio, Renegade Snares (Foul Play VIP remix)

Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works 1985- 92

Aaliyah, One in a Million versus Groove Chronicles 'Stone Cold' ( second song samples the first)

Future, Fuck Up Some Commas

LIST 2 - therapeutic comfort listening to make desert island bearable

Beethoven, Pastoral Symphony

The Byrds, Younger than Yesterday

Love, Forever Changes

Miles Davis, In a Silent Way

Al Green, 20 Greatest Hits

John Martyn, Solid Air

Robert Wyatt, Rock Bottom

Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Brian Eno, Another Green World

King Tubby's Special (disc two)

The Smiths, Hatful of Hollow

Ultramarine, Every Man and Woman Is A Star 

August 26th 1989

 

A moment in time... juxtaposed with Melody Maker's American albums chart for that week, me and Stubbsy's current obsessive listens that midsummer o' '89. 

Note the soon-to-be Disney-embargoed original title of A.R. Kane's "i".... and, in a relatively lean year compared to '88's bonanza, how the focus of both our listening is increasingly encroached upon by the past (Miles and Blue Orchids, Can offshoots and Love)