GRcade Desert Island Discs

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1. New Order - Blue Monday 88

As a baby and very young child this video absolutely hypnotised me. I always wanted to watch the video with the dog on the ball. I had no idea what was going on, but I loved the song too. When it came on the radio I'd be silent till it ended, and every time this came on MTV I'd stop what I was doing and be hypnotised by it.

2. Blur - Song 2

I loved Blur and Oasis, but this song always resonated with me more than anything either band brought out. I was bullied a lot as a kid, I was seen as a bit of an oddball for liking different stuff to everyone else. This song made me feel like I didn't really care whatsoever about anything anyone thought about me, and made me carry on being me. I had no idea what the lyrics were, I just loved the beat to it, how quick the song went.

3. Daft Punk - One More Time

I didn't get on well with others too much at secondary school. I was at an all girls school and I hated it. I always got on much better with boys, and I didn't get on too well with girls, but the school I wanted to go to was too far away from where I lived to go to so I ended up at this one. I felt very alienated, the school had a very high muslim count, and I hadn't a clue at the time about muslim culture, their beliefs, and if you'd have asked me at the time what Eid was, I'd have asked you what you were on about. Also, talking about boys, makeup and the usual stuff teenage girls talked about really didn't interest me in the slightest. This song made me feel better about the situation I was in. It made me happy and much less depressed. When I got my first CD player, I had the "Discovery" album in there all the time, and this was always put on repeat.

4. Coldplay - Yellow

When I was 15 my Great Grandad died of a heart attack. Out of all of my family he was the one I always looked up to growing up as he was always so funny and upbeat, always full of good advice and such a massive sweetheart. He was such a great man. The day he died I was in pieces. This song played 3 times that day at different points and it made me think that he was watching over me. When I hear it it always reminds me of him, and how far I've come since then. I was 15 when I was diagnosed with my condition, I've always tried to keep upbeat about it, like he would have done.

5. The Hoosiers - Goodbye Mr A

I had this song as my ringtone when Ella was born. It's always made me feel pretty upbeat and it's one of the songs I just can't help sing along to. Motherhood didn't come naturally to me like I thought it was going to. I was 19 when she was born and I still felt like I was a child myself. Listening to this always made me smile inside when I felt like I wasn't a good enough mum.

6. Goldfish - We come together

I was at a very funny point in my life when my friend introduced me to this band, I was 21, feeling quite lonely and left out by my friends at the time due to some problems going on within the group. I was being left out a lot due to everyone thinking I couldnt come join in just because I was a mother to Ella. I could understand when it came to drinking, but I was being left out of trips during the day when alcohol wasn't involved whatsoever. My friend put the link up to this song on Facebook and I've loved Goldfish ever since. The video makes me feel nostalgic, and though I'd be on a desert island, it'd make me laugh thinking about it

7. OK GO - Get over it

I hadn't listened to these in ages since they'd released "Here it goes Again" and when I first met my partner I was a depressed mess going through a lot of gooseberry fool at home. I felt stuck, not good enough for my partner, really just low in general. This song got me over myself and is still a go to when I'm making myself low for no reason.

8. Goldfish - Take Back Tomorrow

I love this. It's the one song that reminds me what I can do even when I'm a mess. When I feel like I've had a bad, depressive day, it makes me feel like tomorrow will be a better day for me, even if my anxiety is still there, even if my problems are too, I can face them head on and get through it all.

It's taken me a very long time to decide what songs to put up here. I have a long list of songs that mean a lot to me, but these mean the most. It took me even longer to post this, finding the right video to Blue Monday took a good while, I didn't realise I needed the 88 there!


Book: Harry Potter and the prisoner of Askaban - it was my favourite of all the HP books. Either that or one of Frankie Boyles books, he has me in stitches.
Luxury item: Paints. I'm an artist (well I'd like to think so anyway ), it'd be fun to paint the island the colours I wanted to have around me if I ever got bored of the scenery.

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1. Old Jilligers Sings The Blues
This is a recording I took of my neighbour Old Jilligers (I.H.H.H.R.I.P. - I Have His Head, Rest In Pieces). He's singing the blues because one of his neighbours (sources say it's definitely me) kept throwing blue cats into his soup.

2. Flobber Sings The Booze
A thrash metal song, the lyrics consist entirely of Flobber complaining about craft beers, prosecco bars and flavoured gin.

3. Muddles Shrieking
A beautiful ballad performed by my darling cat Muddles. Some people find it so beautiful they have to cover their ears with their hands and cower behind furniture.

4. Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows
A classic.

5. Flobber - No One Knows Except Me
A cover version of the classic. Not as good as the original, but still the second best song of all time.

6. We Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
This reminds me of a failed experiment of mine involving some homeless people I found (they were just milling around on the street), a birdhouse I made (with a loft conversion) and some souls (not pictured).

7. The Rogues - Fairytale of New York
My old band's spin on the much-loved Christmas song. Our version was much-hated - it involved dropping all of the music, expanding the insults section, and pointing directly at audience members whilst delivering them.

8. Flobber Unplugged
A recording of that time I kept unplugging Flobber's router and oven, so he couldn't connect to the internet OR cook a roast chicken. He was not happy.

Book
How To Tempt A Shark Or Multiple Sharks to Sever Your Real Arms With Their Teeth, by Point Handlin

Luxury Item
Super-Human Cyborg Arms construction kit

A wild RogueLeader appears....

Been thinking about this for a while and maybe Moggy is still lurking around to read it. I'm quite surprised by a couple of these and by who has missed the cut (no Pavement, Sebadoh, Faith No More, Prince and hundred other great artists that I've listened to over the last forty odd years).

1. Richard Hawley: Coles Corner



That intro just melts my heart. I don't come from Sheffield and have no particular affiliation to the place so I can't imagine how incredible I'd find this song if I did. I want this played at my funeral.

2. The Stone Roses: She Bangs the Drums



I had a couple of possibilities for a Roses track. I got together with my now wife dancing to Resurrection and I always thought Mersey Paradise was my favourite song by them but ultimately when this kicks in you just can't help but smile and sing along. It's an absolute timeless classic.

3. Bobby Womack: Across 110th Street



I've always loved funk music and it was tricky narrowing this one down. It was really hard to drop One Nation Under a Groove, Express Yourself, Superfly and many others.

4. Deee-Lite: Groove is in the Heart



Soundtrack of a million uni nights out. Being on a deserted island is probably the only place I'd dance these days and therefore I need an absolute banger.

5. The Flaming Lips: Do you Realize



As the end approaches (as it does to us all), is there a better track to spend your final moments with? It's glorious and should have made the Flaming Lips the greatest band in history. But it didn't because the rest of the world has no taste.

6. The National: Fake Empire



The National are probably my favourite band of all time (only above the Roses because of the sparsity of their back catalogue). Difficult to narrow the 7 albums I love down to one track so this one could probably be about 5 or 6 other ones depending on when I was asked (Mr November, Bloodbuzz Ohio, 90-Mile Water Wall, Day I Die, Fireproof, Graceless). But Fake Empire was the first National track I ever heard when I first played Boxer and I've always been a sucker for track 1's. You nail a great track 1 and you've got my attention (Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk by Rufus Wainwright is a fine example of this and nearly made the cut).

7. Tanya Donelly: Divine Sweet Divide



Tanya Donelly has the voice of an angel, simple as that.

8. Sinead O'connor: Ode to Billy Joe



I spent several summers working at a theme park (the American Adventure) where one of the rides had country and western music piped out all day. One of the tracks was the Ballad of Billy Joe, a particularly cheery track about suicide and possibly infanticide, was just the kind of thing you want to hear on a family day out. The Sinead O'connor cover is from a charity album released in the mid 90s (Warchild, I'd recommend everyone checking it out as it's fantastic).

Book: The Scar - China Mieville

This was a tricky one for me to decide. My first thought was LOTR as I read that regularly. I also considered Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon as I've never managed to get past the the first 50 pages and having lots of time on my hands would facilitate that. But I then came back to the book I'm currently reading. It's utterly enthralling, has the world building of LOTR but with interesting twists that haven't be iterated on a hundred times like Tolkien's work has. I was tempted to put the follow up book in as I haven't read that yet but I've a feeling I might be slightly disappointed by the Iron Council as this one is a hard act to follow.

Luxury item: A very large bar of at least 80% cocoa chocolate

Unless it's an island that has chocolate production facilities then I don't think I could live without it.