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As we move from one lockdown into another, it still feels like a life on hold, a life in the waiting room.
For me, 2020 has (so far) been the Year of Standing Still.
I have listened to many episodes of Desert Island Discs, and read a fair chunk of books.
For some of us, 2020 has perhaps been the Year of Reading, Year of Listening or the Year of Watching.

Our mortality has been omnipresent, and as a personal experience for some of us, both family and neighbour,
In recognition of our quasi desert island state, I invite you consider your personal LOCKDOWN (DESERT) ISLAND DISCS.
Here are mine (top of the list is the single record you would save if they were in all in danger of being dashed on the rocks):

Enigma Variations, Edward Elgar
Close to the Edge, Yes
Les Ajones d’Or, from 25 Etude Equisses for Guitar, Gerald Garcia
The Deadwood Stage, Doris Day
Dawn, Mahvishnu Orchestra
Mr Blue Sky, ELO
Tumba, Angelique Kidjo
Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin

O Mio Babbino Caro, Maria Callas
Locomotive Breath, Jethrow Tull
Paranoid, Sabbath (some days you just need to head bang)
Heard it through the Grapevine, Marvin Gaye
Anything by Ella Fitzgerald
Ying Tong Song, The Goons (because some days I just need it)
Comfortably Numb, David Gilmore version at the Royal Albert Hall with David Bowie
Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield

Something for every mood ;-)

BR
Colin

I've just completed a lot more projects on car and home than I might have done otherwise. Work in the garden has kept me moderately fit and I've not drunk quite as much. Every cloud etc.

For music I have a favourites play list (mainly 60/70's) on my phone that bluetooths to car radio in preference to DAB.

My lock down tunes vary dependant on the weather but will always include some of the following:-
Beach Boys----Pet Sounds
John Mayall-----Beno Album or A Sense of Place ( quite apt that one )
Rolling Stones----pretty much any of their albums
Mike Oldfield----- Omadawn or Incantations
Coldplay------Mylo Xyloto or A Head Full of Dreams

and any one of my large collection of Chicago Blues albums

I've often thought about which 10 albums I'd take with me (never been a singles person other than a few 'pop' songs that I liked). Best of and compilations excluded.

The Who - Who's Next
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Yes - Yessongs
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Springsteen - Born in the USA
Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute
Steely Dan - AJA
Donald Fagin - The Nightfly
Led Zep - 4
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

set in a certain period of time aren't I?

Here's Pritti Patel's playlist....

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell
Murray The K's Greatest Holiday Show Live From The Brooklyn Fox
The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Return Of The Durutti Column
Back To The World - Curtis Mayfield
The Greatest - Arthur Alexander
Dragnet - The Fall
Marquee Moon - Television
Caught Up - Millie Jackson
Electrif Lycanthrope - Little Feat

Crikey. That's quite hard, to narrow it down to 10, and would very much depend on my mood at the time.

Anyhoo, here's a selection of 10 of my faves. Toots and the Maytals Sweet and Dandy is unquestionably my all-time favourite song.

Squeeze - up the junction
The Jam - Down in a tube station at midnight
Stiff little fingers - Suspect device
Prince - Sign of the times
Amy Winehouse - Back to black
Toots and the Maytals - Sweet and Dandy
Desmond Dekker - Israelites
Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers to Cross
Bob Marley - War
Tyrone Taylor - Cottage in Negril

Hmm. Not an easy task to pick 10 albums.

I think I'd have to go for:

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia
John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett
Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
Gillian Welch - Hell Among the Yearlings
Eurythmics - Love is a Stranger
David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk
Anouar Brahem - The Astounding Eyes of Rita
Colter Wall - Colter Wall

But there's probably another 10 that could easily be swapped in for most of these.

I am extraordinarily lucky as my wife is a violinist who plays for the Colorado Symphony orchestra and other smaller set ups, during lockdown there have been online rehearsals and recordings nearly everyday. The list has covered some of the great master pieces through jazz to classic pop hits (especially the Beatles), very entertaining.