Dersert island "song" ?

**Rick Schmidlin** · May-01-2008, 2:02pm

Yankee Lady....Jesse Winchester

Remember one song only, and you don't have to explain, let the song do that

**Dan Cole** · May-01-2008, 2:09pm

Dawg's Rag - DGQ

**JEStanek** · May-01-2008, 2:11pm

I really don't like the question. Imagine having only one song to hear for eternity... within a few days I may hate it! I guess I could always hear many songs in my head... for a desert island to play only when needed? Cornfed Dames off A Date With Elvis.

Jamie

**Tighthead** · May-01-2008, 2:13pm

Love Never Dies...Martin Simpson

**Milan Christi** · May-01-2008, 2:14pm

The Weight

**Bob Wiegers** · May-01-2008, 2:14pm

Short Trip Home - Edgar Meyer

**Frank Russell** · May-01-2008, 2:22pm

Dancing With Tears in My Eyes - by X. Haven't gotten tired of it in over twenty years so far. Frank

**fwoompf** · May-01-2008, 2:25pm

I'd write a song with instructions on how to escape desert islands.

"Desert Island Breakdown"?

**Jim MacDaniel** · May-01-2008, 2:32pm

Wow -- I could hang with listening to only one desert island CD as long as I could play anything I want, but if I could only play one song while stranded, I would come down with a hard-core case of island fever.

That said, put me down for Thile's Song for a Young Queen anyway, since I've been wanting to learn that one for years.

**Snakebeard Jackson** · May-01-2008, 2:37pm

John Jacobjinglehimershimdt.

**JEStanek** · May-01-2008, 2:39pm

My answer was if listening to one song... to play one... J.S. Bach: Cello Suite #1 In G, BWV 1007 - 1. Prélude It may take me many years on the island to get it right.

Jamie

**Chris Biorkman** · May-01-2008, 2:42pm

Playing one song repetitively is very annoying. My fraternity played "Who Let the Dogs Out" 24 hours a day for the entire 6 days of he'll week. By the last day, sanity was only a faint memory.

**Ken Olmstead** · May-01-2008, 2:45pm

I am with Jamie. Except mine would be Bach's Chaconne. It is about 15 minutes long and easily would take the rest of my life to master. But, I could spend the rest of my life just listening to Mike Marshall play it like at Wintergrass...out of this universe!!

**Jim MacDaniel** · May-01-2008, 2:50pm

Originally Posted by (biorkman @ May 01 2008, 12:42)

Playing one song repetitively is very annoying. My fraternity played "Who Let the Dogs Out" 24 hours a day for the entire 6 days of he'll week. By the last day, sanity was only a faint memory.

LOL (not to mention that one was annoying on first listen)

**mandocaster** · May-01-2008, 2:51pm

Could you play variations? Change the time signature?

If not, yow. It sounds like hell. Literally.

Bach's prelude in D from the Cello Suites

**Eddie Sheehy** · May-01-2008, 3:45pm

It'd have to be a song for a Blarge bouzouki - which I'd then chop up and make a raft and paddles out of it, using the sheet music for sails and trailing the strings to catch fish. So "Twinkle, twinkle, Little Star", which is nice and short, would do fine and get me started on the raft sooner. Or even better, "Danny Boy" which I detest and would probably skip.

**Tillmanator** · May-01-2008, 4:34pm

If it's something I have to listen to then that's easy:

"Are You Going with Me?" Pat Metheny

If it's something I have to play....that's tougher... maybe "I Will" Beatles.... That seems kinda dumb but I like it.

**Gutbucket** · May-01-2008, 5:14pm

100 bottles of beer on the wall. nuff said.

**Jim Kasperson** · May-01-2008, 5:24pm

If it's to listen to it would clearly be Keith Jarret's Koln Concert. I heard it first in 1975 and when I get stressed anywhere I let it start to go through my head. I wore out the record and then wore out two cassette tapes. I now have the DVD . It's still fine.

If it is one song to play-- Don't tell. I would cheat. It is a desert island after all.
Kasper

**Jason Nagati** · May-01-2008, 6:09pm

O sole mio. If I ever return to civilization I will be able to serenade someone with a well practiced performance.

**Rick Schmidlin** · May-01-2008, 11:08pm

Originally Posted by (frussell @ May 01 2008, 15:22)

Dancing With Tears in My Eyes - by X. #Haven't gotten tired of it in over twenty years so far. #Frank

That cool, I was X' s lighting director from1980-85.

**Ivan Kelsall** · May-02-2008, 3:39am

Any one of the Concerto Grossi either opus.3 or opus 6 by George Freidrich Handel - they are all astoundingly beautiful. All strings,no brass, percussion etc. No more elegant,graceful music has ever been written IMHO,
Saska

**Mike Snyder** · May-02-2008, 5:04am

Bela Fleck- Whitewater- And a shovel.
I'll dig my way out.

**devilstone_the_bard** · May-02-2008, 6:47am

Dylan's 'With God on our Side'

or a recording of my 2.5 year old singing his version of Springsteen's version of Reed's 'How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live'

**fishdawg40** · May-02-2008, 6:48am

Originally Posted by (Tke878 @ May 01 2008, 15:09)

Dawg's Rag - DGQ

Love that choice!

I might have to go with the Steam Powered Aeroplane. Hartford's voice is very comforting. And that would be good if I were stuck on a desert island.