Desert Island Discs

[Leanne]

Robbed from the Shawn Michaels forum I go on:

You imagine yourself cast on a desert island.
You have to pick 8 pieces of music to take with you (add links for this, if you can). You should describe why it's important to you or the meaning it has in your life. There's no significance in the order, except the last one should be the most highly regarded.
You are also allowed one book to take with you but you automatically given the Complete Works of Shakespeare and either the Bible or another appropriate religious or philosophical work.
You are also allowed one luxury item but it can't be anything that can help you escape the island or to communicate with others.

[Leanne]

Well this was hard! My eight songs ( I've put the titles as the links to the songs) :


8: My girl - The Temptations

This song makes me think of my friends.  I made a video for them once using pictures and videos from our last summer of sixth form before we all went off to university using this song and it just makes me think of all the fun I had with them, and still do. So yes this would definitely go with me to the desert island.


7: I want you back - The Jackson 5

I love the bounciness of The Jackson 5 and this has always been my favourite song of theirs. One that makes me think of summer and practising all the dance moves in my room.  Even now if the song comes on somewhere I have to do the dance at the start. It's the routine damnit! I could dance on the desert and keep myself active ;D


6: Stolen - Dashboard Confessional

One of my favourite Dashboard Confessional songs. Could very well be the first song I heard by them. I'd take this with me to the island because it's damnright cheerful in comparison to some of the other stuff in the list. Plus I want someone to love me like the lyrics suggest Dashboard confessional love someone   " You have stolen my..... heaaaaaaart! I watch you spin around in your highest heels, you are the best one of the best ones."  :sigh: That's being played if I ever get married. That or "Heaven Sent" by Hinder.


5: Everything you want - Vertical Horizon

This song is me. I don't mean that egotistically I mean the lyrics such as " Now you're here and you don't know why" and " You're waiting for someone to put you together, you're waiting for someone to push you away" as well as "You never did notice but you still hide away" make me think of myself. Call it low self esteem or something. Plus I love the beat and the fact that the chorus changes at the end from "he" to "I".


4: You are not alone - Michael Jackson

I would take this song with me because to me it's how far I've come. This is the song that as a teenager I used to put on repeat in my room when I sat in the dark so I could pretend I was anywhere but my house when my parents fought. Michael Jackson was my escapism and even though I don't really listen to the song any more I'd still take it with me, because it was an important song to me. It literally told me "You. are. not. alone." and I that's why it has to go on the list.


3: It only hurts - Default

I identify with the songs some people would probably class as "emo" or depressing I guess, though I usually latch on to the lyrics that I feel are inspirational. For example " I swore that I'd be strong, now the next time has come and gone, well maybe you're wrong" I always identified with because I interpreted it as someone failing to maintain composure under pressure/turmoil but that just because a person stumbles a few times doesn't mean they're automatically weak. I also identified with "It only hurts when that door gets opened". Plus it's just one of those songs I could listen to on repeat for hours...which is handy stuck on an island.

2: Savin' me - Nickelback

Quite possibly my favourite song in the entire world. Ironically the song that got me through my second year teaching placement. I'd been told from the teacher who was mentoring me that my university had actually told the school " yeah we don't think she'll even pass". At the time I was just starting to be indecisive over my career path and the fact that people said I couldn't do it, made me all the more determined to do it, even if it wasn't actually what I wanted to do. I'm stubborn that way. Anyway I played this song on my MP3 player on the bus every day going there and coming back with the lyric "I'll show you what I can be" as my mantra for that placement. Even if I ended up not being a teacher I proved I could do it if I wanted to.

1: Everything - Lifehouse

I deliberately chose the video with the Knoxville TN. skit. I associate this song so strongly with that skit. This is one of those songs that makes me feel at peace, religious and makes me cry all at once because I just know I can do so much better in every aspect of my life. Listening to it makes me want to go straight to church and get closer to God...but I haven't been there in so long I never go . It also makes me think of my family. I can remember walking home in the dark once during the second year teaching placement (see Savin' me ) and it was such a hard placement, and I felt so alone and just wanted to go home, and this song came on my MP3 player and I walked home in tears. Mainly as a result of " Find me here and speak to me, I want to feel you, I need to hear you." I don't know quite why I'd want all those feelings stranded on a desert island but the feeling of peace and faith would probably be a blessing. Sometimes I listen to this song and it helps me sleep. I know if I listened to it and read the Bible I'd have with me it'd keep hope alive  


My luxury item would be my MP3 player.