My Top Ten Desert Island Discs

CDs are perfect for a desert island because of their reflective quality enabling you to signal for help.

For your American viewers, they should be made aware that on DID, you can only take 8 singles/pieces of music, not 5000 tracks on boxed sets 😮

Fantastic review of your top ten box sets 😂😂😂 looking forward to the DID albums, and singles

Great choices. Put a smile on my face 🙂

Very pragmatic. Love it. Nice job Mazzy.

LOL You are industrious, Mazzy!! Box sets, which might not have occurred to some!!!❤

Brilliant. 'My Top 150 desert Island Discs'. I think you over did the concept. 10 discs would be the norm Norm. (Couldn't resist the pun).😁 Meanwhile I'm contemplating what the heck you plan on playing this fine collection on. Surely we'd need a power supply too. And a fridge to keep the wine and beer chilled. Mmmm Great fun all around. Thanks Mazzy. Cheers ✌

A most awesome, perfect, and clever video, Mazzy, ❤ Love it! I’ve always had my 5 DI picks (Dreamboat Annie, Best of the Guess Who, Frampton Comes Alive, All Things Must Pass, and Yessongs) but now you got me thinkin…. Also, have you read the Dharma Bums? I like it better than OTR. Enjoy the trip but don’t take the Minnow 😉🥥

Fun video! I’m so proud to have the Dylan box. Plus, I have the first two Neil Young boxes. Very good choice to take along The Beatles. Now I’m going to go check out The Smiths. Thanks Mazzie.

Mazzy..I love the way you think..not ten pieces of vinyl…CD box sets..That Dylan set for sure…and Procol Harum👍❤I am never in the mood for The Smiths..lol..gotta have some Miles..Beatles!!! Great video..I gotta jump on this when I get home from Florida..❤❤👍glen

"I think the shirt, especially when combined with that hat... But then bringing box sets to the island?" Are you trying to cause a riot? 😅

Me again fantastic collections you have. I like Ella too, also Sarah Vaughans vocals. They were similar in vocal style. I loved Nina Simones singing the most. I think she was the greatest entertainer of all time. I know what you mean by dealing with depression. I've had the black dog bad at times in my life. I saw Miles Davis in concert in the 1980s, here in New Zealand. Good concert.

You‘re fantastic, Mazzy.

Hi 👋 I like your hat and orange colored shirt. I'm in my mid sixties and have a collection of hats. I own a few Pork pie styled ones that were fashionable for men in the 1950s/ 60s. Sometimes i dress in a 1960s style with peg leg trousers and pointed toe shoes similar to winklepickers.

Would love a follow-up where you choose your eight fave tracks, not albums, as per the BBC prog, then select the one track out of the eight you'd save from the waves.

Love that you picked so much great jazz , i have to admit i was surprised you didn't pick Dead 72 or any Airplane , or Kinks for that matter

Yeah, Ella! Cemetery gates is really cheerful❤!

Love the CD idea.. 🎉

I loved tower records pulse magazine that had a reader submitted desert island discs feature.

love desert island disc lists..and i think the island fever has gotten to you beczause i've never seen any lists that allow box sets..(ha)...but more power to you..i often think about a desert island list..i know i would bring leonard cohen's album 'thanks for the dance'... after that, a few spoken word albums (possibly including my own..just to remember...)..then a coltrane, a miles, a dylan..perhaps a lou reed, tracy chapman, john sebastian, rickie lee jones or a paul simon...round it off with some classical as well (it's tough to narrow down)..and for a book, probably one by conan doyle...and since coffee is a necessity, not a luxury, my bonus item would be something i could write with (an ipad or unlimited paper and pens.. something like that...).. then just hang with the monkey...and still wish you peace always..rocky

Yes, Mazzy! I hope that I partly inspired your decision to do this. As you love jazz, I wanted to know how you would compare your favourite jazz albums with your rock, pop and soul favourites!

Love your picks Mazzy! Do you need a Man-Friday? If so, I will come with my own selection of music too! Maybe some Krautrock..... the Neu! Boxset, Popol Vuh Boxset #1, some Chieftains, gotta have some Bowie too, Julian Cope, that Yes Boxset remixed by Steven Wilson, Marillion' Brave Boxset..... 😉 By the way, you get the complete works of William Shakespeare for free on the island and I would take the complete works of Frank Herbert and a fishing rod too 🏝️

Uncle Mazzy! I laughed out loud a few times. The Bob, The Beatles, Miles and Nat! The soul man of music and coffee...

Favorite might be different then Deserted Island Disc. What you would want with Deserted is something that would be good to listen repeatedly over a long period of time. Something you hear a new thing in every time. Plus a wide variety in music types amongst discs.

Love that you love Procol Harum; so underated

Thought I'd add this to clarify what some of the comments are saying about the BBC program. You are allowed 8 "works" or "pieces" of music. While this may mean 8 "tracks" if you are talking about pop music, with classical music, it could be 3 or 4 tracks per work. And, being allowed to select larger single works, e.g. you could take The Who's "Tommy" at 24 tracks or Handel's "Messiah" at 37 tracks. Each work would only count as one selection. For your interest, here's the top 20 pieces as selected in one of the BBC's polls: 1. Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending 2. Sir Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations 3. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 9 in D minor 'Choral' 4. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 5. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb 6. Sir Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor 7. George Frideric Handel - Messiah 8. Gustav Holst - The Planets 9. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis 10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem in D minor 11. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven 12. Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D major 13. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 14. The Beatles - Hey Jude 15. Gustav Mahler - Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor 16. Sir Hubert Parry - Jerusalem 17. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset 18. Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor 19. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter 20. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Of course, when Procol Harum recorded live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (including Salty Dog and Conquistador in the two performances) one could argue that they were in a 'desert island'. Edmonton that is. But I tease my fellow Canadians in Northern Alberta. Great used record store in Edmonton. When you are playing Bill Evans, I'll be outside your palm hut listening.... Moving on to Miles, if we are celebrating Xmas on the desert island, my favorite Miles Davis CD is Live at the Plugged Nickel recorded over Christmas 1965... And for Christmas you could put the Nat King Cole Trio complete box under my palm tree. That looks like an awesome set. Luxury item? A fridge. You make expresso, I'll dole out the freezing cold coconut milk drinks. For a book? My MacBookPro. That way I can write my own book. And play your CDs.

Good call on the Bill Evans box.

A lot of good chuckles from this video Mazzy; and extra points for mentioning that hallmark of American high culture, Gilligan's Island (twice!). I'm sure that Professor Roy Hinkley could invent a laser and other technology required to play CDs. On a side note, I kid glove my albums and CDs and they look like crap. You bash yours around with reckless abandon and they alll look pristine. I guess that's yet another enigma of this universe that I'll never understand.

Im here for this but it would be interesting to know your top 10 sans the box sets. Btw, “Kid A” is also on my list ☺️

Norman this was a really great vid! I was thinking bringing my wife daughter Rachel Sue You and Waxed along with all your selections. With some steaks of course and nice red wine.

Should have called this, "Desert Island Box Sets."😁

Hi,Chris here. The other Chris at the Long Cut got the rules wrong and I have have reprimanded him severely for that ( ah! that wonderful English sense of irony). You obviously know your onions but I did think Roy Plomley would be turning in his grave at the amount of clobber you expect to take with you. And then I thought of your charm and his compliant nature and decided you two would have really liked each other. Always love your videos and you made some great choices here, so much so I'd like to be on that island too.

Maybe someone could help me here. As a little kid in the early 60's I fell in love with NKC from my father's records. I sang along and knew every song. I would entertain guests. Anyway... I have looked high and low for his song "Mares Eat Oats" and apparently it's been taken to Mars! I so loved singing along to this song as a kid. I guess you go through these nostalgia phases as you approach permanent horizontalism! 😎

It's actually supposed to be 8 tracks only. The island is just you with a book, bible, a luxury item and eight songs. This makes the choices more profound and considered. And you need to explain why you made the choices you did. Finally you are asked if you could take just one, which and why.

Hi Mazzy, At the time Desert Island Discs (DID) was introduced the wind-up turntable was still a thing. So a disc (78rpm) could be played where there is no electrical power. I think a song, symphony or even an opera falls into the eligibility criteria along with an album. In many cases the music is chosen because of an association. I feel huge cd boxes of collected albums is not really in the spirit of DID. Sure, pick your favourite box sets but maybe under a different heading. I challenge you to pick your 10 favourite "pieces of music" as actual desert island discs.

Norman,agreed your choice and congratulations your musical taste are Excellent ( bill E vans miles Davis , Neil young ...,❤

For them as don't know Desert island Discs invites guests to choose 8 songs ....that's single songs ....not freakin' box sets ...and asks them which single song they would choose if all the rest were lost .... this should be called Desert Island Boxsets.

Mazzy Are you familiar with the On the Road Oringinal Scroll version.. unedited with all the real names of kerouacs friends?

Nice choice…Scottish viewer here and it’s interesting idea expand the choices

I can't get the picture of Burgess Meredith broken glasses on the steps of the library twilight zone episode except it's Mazzy on the desert Island with a broken CD Transport. At least with CD's instead of records you can bring the espresso machine and not the humming guru

Hopefully I'd be on a nearby desert island to you with a powerful sound system so that I could play you my entire Kinks kollection, 'cos I know that you'd be missing them. I couldn't possibly live without the Kinks.

The shirt and the hat are perfect Mazzy but the BBC would never allow you to take box sets. It's eight recordings, music or spoken word, only.

‘Desert island discs’ would be a good name for a record store

"How do I grind my beans?" ..... quote of the video .... 😅 CMcG, Aberdeen, Scotland ....

Excellent choices, you forgot to tell us 1 more preference: Ginger or Maryann?

Desert Island Complete Collections…interesting take. I think I’ll buy a similar size box and fill it with CDs. Without any packaging or cases I could probably get 2,000 of them in there. :)

I’ll have to check out Bill Evans! My ten DI disks: Beatles complete (no way I can pick just one) Songs For Swinging Lovers: Frank Sinatra Starfish: The Church Murmur: REM This House is Empty Now: Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello The Missing Years: John Prine Tremolo: Blue Rodeo Mr Tambourine Man: The Byrds Wildflowers: Tom Petty Illumination: Paul Weller

I have a theme song for your video: " It's just my imagination running away with me. " Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.🏝

I like this episode of Lost!

Was there not room in the Uber box to smuggle in the Nuggets box set onto the island ? It would be nice to have at least one box set with various artists .

What’s the difference between most played, top 10 and desert island discs

Mazzy, you are becoming more and more like Paul Harvey every day. 😁

It's called "island fever" and it happens when, no matter how nice the island, you start to go stir-crazy because of the small size of the island, not a lot to do, etc. I worked in larger countries of the Middle East for years, but for my colleagues working on the island of Bahrain, they used to get island fever every so often and had to fly out to somewhere else.

Thanks that was fun , now I have a Nat box to dig out

Does the Procol Harum box include Boredom ?

My friends and I do this and agree that no greatest hits allowed. Fun game - we did no more than 7 rock, 2 anything else and 1 guilty pleasure. Only the DJ knows each person's list. When a song comes on everyone has to guess whose list it comes from. Makes a good drinking game too.

island fever

Oh my I would have to think about ten albums I would take….please don’t wait as this exercise might take me sometime….🤣🤣🤣

Ella's voice would see me through the loneliness of the desert island.

If I had to listen to Neil Young on rotation, I'd probably take my own life before I could figure out how to power my espresso machine...

I half agree with your choices, but rather than nit pick, I will say the first Stax/Volt Singles box really should go also. I mean "Bar-b que" by Wendy Rene is a must if your cooking over a fire!

Greil Marcus Stranded and the follow up Marooned show where its at man.

3 of my 5 favorite jazz albums would be by Thelonious Monk.....lol...Yes, I dig Monk.. He's the cat's meow.

Got to be on your own Mazzy, no sharing, only you survives. That is the premise. You can only have singles as well. sorry to disappoint you!

Haha clever bringing box sets lol The Verve Bill Evans is a practical choice as it can be used both as a chopping tool for fruits and wood, and also a weapon against natives who might not be partial to Radiohead 😂

From Radio Times website , 'the first music played was Chopin Etude in C minor, 'Yesterday' is the most requested Beatles track, and 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' was one of the discs chosen by Diana Mosley ( nee Diana Mitford) , so she was a Nazi sympathiser, but she had an ok taste in songs.

I have every Beatles album release including compilations on cd

Gee.....are you coming back it would be a long time you should rate this collection from one to 10 and l bet you won't play everything because it take a long time cheers to you

Almost the (almost) top ten Artists Island

I don't know about albums but my artists would be, 1=elvis presley. 2=gene vincent. 3=duane eddy. 4=buddy holly. 5=eddie cochran. 6=roy orbison. 7=fats domino. 8=connie francis. 9=the biggest sun collection I could find.10=beatles. But I don't know if this would be enough to survive on,haha. Luv the show.

I mean, I actually chose 14 not 10 :). I'm only two minutes in - excited to see your picks.

Island madness 😅

Kate Bush - Remastered Pt 1 or This Woman's Work box set, Complete Billie Holiday on Verve and all the Siouxsie albums feat John McGeoch.

John Cale also chose an espresso machine when he was asked for his desert island picks

I know its your channel yada yada but whats with the box set? sort of missing the idea of the whole thing.

Good list - but I'd sub-out The Smith's for a box set of Van der Graaf Generator. Kinks box replaces Procol Harum. Italian band Banco del Mutuo Soccorso for Bill Evans. Pink Floyd box set instead of Aretha. And Stones box set instead of Miles.

Joni - For the Roses Van - Veedon Fleece Beatles - Revolver Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies Ella and Louis - Ella and Louis Bob - Blood on the Tracks Rod - Gasoline Alley Stones - Get Your Ya Ya' s Out Loudon Wainwright III - History John Prine - The Missing Years Because it goes to 11 - Warren Zevon...

Jeez, when you said top "ten" discs I thought it was literally ten individual LPs or CDs. That crate has more discs than a lot of people own all together, lol.

You’re only allowed 10 songs, Norman. You’ve got about 1,000.

Island fever..

You'll enough CDs there to probably rig-up some sort of solar-powered system to run the espresso machine!

If we can bring movies i would go with the Thin Man collection 🙂

For those who have not heard the UK show, guests actually choose their 8 favourite tracks NOT albums. This is then whittled down to just one choice from the 8 ! How hard is that.

'went Island' = 'Gone troppo' :)

Looking the dogs Maz’

It's not Desert Island Box Sets, Mazzy 😀 Great choices though!

While I am going to be critical - I probably would have went about this the same way too to be honest - but you did cheese it a big bit with CD Box Sets - in essence there is way more than 10 Albums and let's be real with these box sets you nearly have 100 albums to listen to.

Do you think you may have inadvertently done a box set video, instead if a meaningful desert island video. This is a holiday resort video with the nice shirt and hat.

Mazzy, 8 tracks only for the island.

The Archivist 😍🥰😘

Unfortunately Mazzy, the format of Desert Island Discs, allows only one track to take. I’m fairly sure that making the choice would be the end of you. Fun fact! Elizabeth Schwarzkopf chose all her own records 🤣

Jamaica's blue mountain coffee beans. World's best.

Its been mentioned already but its 8 tracks, not box sets, albums etc. I know its the American version but just for once cant you go with quality instead of quantity. 8 tracks 1 book 1 luxury item Go on. Give it a go. PS.....you get to save just one of the eight "tracks" which one is it?

Hi Mazzy. You missed the concept but took the general idea. You are on a ship which is sinking and can only save six records. Good episode though.

Oh and....my book of choice to bring would be Monty Python's Flying Circus 'Just the Words'.

Cabin fever

Oh, so you’re not talking about single albums you’re talking about box sets very clever

CRASS Penis Envy or Best Before 1984, they might even have a set of all their records out now, IMHO the best British punk band ever

The ideal would be to have a bunch of islands with a different selection on each island... hmmm.