You can take 2 books with you.

1 that you've previously read and 1 that that you always meant to get round too.

Which books and why?

If you could take one Dundee Utd match on video to watch over and over again...what match would you choose?

What one alcoholic drink would you take with you if you could?

And finally as the sun set on the Island for the final time in your life what song would you like to play out?



Fooky,i thank you Sir.

Tek wrote:

Ok our second 'castaway' we are joined by is Foo Kin Twat.

Fooky you have been destined to spend the rest of your days on an isolated island somewhere in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean.

In an extremely lucky quirk of fate however there is big package washed up on shore.......when you open the said package you find a cd walkman,headphones and what would appear to be a 50 year supply of AA batteries.

If you could pick any 8 albums to take with you on the Island...what albums would those be Sir?And can you give a small insight into why you've chosen each one please?

OK folks, amidst all this Tangerine doom and gloom, let's see if I can lighten the mood a little and broaden your minds.  Some of you seem pretty set in your musical ways, so I'm not holding my breath, unless you are prepared to do a little extra work and check out the lyrics, as IMO they are just as important as the tune.  When LAO did his Q&A I ended downloading (which is a relatively new concept to me, as those that looked at my Q&A will see an actual tape Walkman in my sleeping rough pic!) one of his tunes he liked.  I still buy CDs FFS!!!

Hunted, thanks for the nomination and TEK for the questions, here goes......

ALBUM 1

OK up until the age of 12 in 1977, owning an Album by The Wombles was about as rock and roll as it got for a young Fooky growing up in the land of the Smokie.  Then the punk phenomonen hit me straight between the eyes.

How apt having been marooned on a desert island that it opens with, "I don't want a holiday in the sun"   




38 years on I never tire of listening to this LP (just to show my age) and it's defiance, energy and snarling.   

Please look up the lyrics to the songs lads, as I give you "Never Mind The Bollocks" by the Sex Pistols.  Right I'm away to pogo to ty to get some coconuts out of the palm trees!!!

ALBUM 3

As it became apparent that Punk Rock had disappeared up its own arse, by the late 1970s Young Fooky was looking for a new peg to hang his musical hat on and this came in the form of the sound of twin guitars.  I hate the term "Heavy Metal" with a passion, as it is used as a wide brush to tar a whole genre falsely.  Yes there are plenty thrash metal bands (and that does nothing for me and never will) but good Rock Music is definitely my thing.  I made a mistake thinking it was 10 albums I'd to choose, so I had to take AC/DC's live masterpiece "If you want blood (you've got it)" out of the equation, leaving this album and the one that will follow at Album 4.  To me a Band proves it's worth when they can cut it live (as you will see from my choices as they are heavily weighted that way).

So I give you, Thin Lizzy "Live And Dangerous"




One of the first gigs I ever saw was Thin Lizzy at the Cairdy in their Renegade Tour and Phil Lynott blew me away with his intelligence and wit and ability to play the crowd.  Then in October 1984 just before I flew my Arbroath parental address for what has tuned out to be a life in the Granite Shitty I saw him at Dundee Uni with a side project he had called Grand Slam.  About 2 songs in he took this enormous asthma attack and the gig was abandoned for a good while, but being the trooper he was, he came back and blasted through a set with little or no breath only to adly die a couple of years later.  RIP Phil.

 

Could you type any slower?   

Tek wrote:

Could you type any slower?

Touche TEK.  You been waiting all week like a spider to pounce on me with that ane?  

There's no rush is there?  We'd only be moaning about McNamara/Thompson/United otherwise! 

I'm blaming the tightness of my Speedos!!!

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Foo Kin Twat wrote:

Tek wrote:

Could you type any slower?

Touche TEK.  You been waiting all week like a spider to pounce on me with that ane?

 
Yes. 

Tek wrote:

You can take 2 books with you.

1 that you've previously read and 1 that that you always meant to get round too.

Which books and why?

I'm too lazy to read books, as evidenced by the fact that I was given a gift of a book on the Phone Hacking scandal last November.  It was riveting, but it's only half read and I really must finish it.   But as I do a fair bit of driving, I listen to audiobooks, so I'll name these two:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Too-Short-Tragedy-Robert/dp/0224091662

The Black Dog of Depression is a terrible burden for anyone to shoulder.  An alkie or a junkie you will spot a million miles away, but spotting the Black Dog is much harder.  I had tears in my eyes driving my car listening to the preface of that book.

and with apologies to Affshore....

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-Walk-To-Freedom-Autobiography/dp/0349106533/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=17XKQ33EYVNPBS0CHFS7

Mandela - what inner strength and what a man to be able to forgive....

Tek wrote:

If you could take one Dundee Utd match on video to watch over and over again...what match would you choose?

I should I suppose choose winning the League at Dens.  I was in the TC Keay and level with the crossbar ahent the goal dead centre, just as I used to be in the Shed each week, just in front of a crash barrier.  But I'm going to choose this game after what I did to watch it and the end result (after the 2nd leg) pretty much sums up what it takes to be a Dundee United Supporter. and 




We have been truly spoiled by punching way above our weight in a boxing ring that contains two financial heavyweights like the green and blue arse cheeks and dubious referees as judges.

 

Tek wrote:

What one alcoholic drink would you take with you if you could?

I still drink it today, but not sure about how it's going to taste with coconut!!!



Hope that is to the liking of any passing pirates so they don't rape and pillage me!!!