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'One of us' - Celebrities with proper taste inusic - Bradley Wiggins on desert island discs

creakyknees [Edit] [Delete] 58 replies 09:45, 15 May '15

apart from blotting his copybook with chas n dave
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tbsqb worth checking out
Top tunes from
The Smiths
David Bowie
Ian Dury
T Rex
Oasis
Rolling stones
and a proper nice bloke who has a normal real uncosseted life just like one of us (apart from the excelling at sport)

One of the best desert island discs

What is your favourate Island discs? (Chris Packham just edges it over Bradley for me)

What other celebs are 'one of us'

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  • anyone who likes Paul Weller that much is probably a bit of a cock

    aggressively_passive | 15 May '15, 09:49 | X
    alcxxk, Royter-Hatfood, littlebirds, funkycow, ThirstyDog, and aactv this'd this
  • Particularly anyone

    who tries to look like Paul Weller too

    ThirstyDog @aggressively_passive | 15 May '15, 09:58 | X
  • I'd rather listen to Chas n Dave

    than the Smiths.

    thewarn | 15 May '15, 09:58 | X
  • well I didn't mention Paul Weller in the list

    we can just put it down to 'guilty pleasures'

    Although the Jam were a fucking brilliant band a lot of the time.
    And even some of the style councils songs arnt as bad as I though they were at the time.

    Like I say Chris Packham is in the lead.

    creakyknees @aggressively_passive | 15 May '15, 10:00 | X
    toffeedaz and Gorkys_Forever this'd this
  • Ah I see from that link

    that he has stopped looking like Paul Weller & started looking like a member of every single fucking indie band in the world at the moment

    ThirstyDog @ThirstyDog | 15 May '15, 10:00 | X
  • that's because you are 'one of them'

    creakyknees @thewarn | 15 May '15, 10:00 | X
  • I guess

    thewarn @creakyknees | 15 May '15, 10:08 | X
  • I'm guessing he'd listen to Kasabian also

    if it wouldn't blow his cycling helmet off.

    midnightpunk @ThirstyDog | 15 May '15, 10:12 | X
  • ^^excels at sport

    umlaut_ampersand @thewarn | 15 May '15, 10:12 | X
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  • wow the snobbery on this board sometimes is astounding!

    ethricdouble | 15 May '15, 10:12 | X
  • POW!!

    http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/announcements/4463136

    umlaut_ampersand @ethricdouble | 15 May '15, 10:13 | X
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  • Great DID, great music

    I thought it was a bit weird that only one of his musical choices was released after his 5th birthday. He's got similar musical taste to me and he's more than 10 years younger than me.

    bornin69 | 15 May '15, 10:15 | X
  • That's interesting...

    Out of curiosity, how old are you bornin69?

    Pentago @bornin69 | 15 May '15, 10:17 | X
  • all white

    all men
    hmmmmmm

    aggressively_passive | 15 May '15, 10:21 | X
  • clues in the name

    midnightpunk @Pentago | 15 May '15, 10:22 | X
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  • :(

    for a change I make a normal disish post rather than a bizarre creaky post and this is what I get :(

    I also did ask other people their opinion of what they thought were good desert island discs......

    I was just stating my opinion, with reference to what I thought might be a bit of a demographic on this, an indie website.....I wasnt saying ot was the only opinion, otherwise why wouldnt I invite other suggestions? I was after any celeb that had a proper (rather than a MOR taste)

    Just because no one has chosen to engage with my invite for other suggestions (rather than just fixating on paul weller becoming a bit naff now) is not snobbery on my behalf, it is probably perhaps because I misjudged and most people do not listen to desert island discs ever

    creakyknees @ethricdouble | 15 May '15, 10:25 | X
  • :D

    thewarn @Pentago | 15 May '15, 10:28 | X
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  • Perhaps.....birds of a feather flocking together

    but the musicians chosen do not scream rampant homophobic racist ablist mysogany to me.....apart from Morrisey

    creakyknees @aggressively_passive | 15 May '15, 10:30 | X
  • :D

    you're too easy, creaky

    ethricdouble @creakyknees | 15 May '15, 10:32 | X
  • Thank god you're here to point that out...

    Pentago @midnightpunk | 15 May '15, 10:34 | X
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  • not really, I merely made that post to bring you out of the closet to admit that

    you didn't mean it ;)

    I am far wilier that people think......sometimes.....at other times my niavity is astounding and genuine

    creakyknees @ethricdouble | 15 May '15, 10:35 | X
  • anyway, I would still welcome other great DID subjects.

    creakyknees @creakyknees | 15 May '15, 10:35 | X
  • Proper taste in music

    Proper sideburns
    Proper hydraulic disc brakes

    JohnM | 15 May '15, 10:36 | X
  • Le Tour de Bants

    aggressively_passive | 15 May '15, 10:36 | X
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  • so.....What celebs do you remember on DID as being great?

    creakyknees | 15 May '15, 10:37 | X
  • I've never heard a DID ever to be honest

    midnightpunk @creakyknees | 15 May '15, 10:39 | X
  • creaks nobody listens to this show m8

    nobody below the age of 50 anyway

    ethricdouble | 15 May '15, 10:41 | X
  • ^ fair point

    Yet everyone knows the show and it does have an iconic name and concept. It really could / should be targeted at a different age range.

    midnightpunk @ethricdouble | 15 May '15, 10:47 | X
    creakyknees this'd this
  • David 'Cool Water' Cameron

    JohnM @creakyknees | 15 May '15, 10:48 | X
    littlebirds this'd this
  • Bants Armstrong

    ThirstyDog @aggressively_passive | 15 May '15, 10:48 | X
  • Marco Bantani

    ThirstyDog @ThirstyDog | 15 May '15, 10:49 | X
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  • Desert Island Discs is actually a pretty good concept for a show

    ruined by the fact that 99.9% of the music chosen is absolutely awful.

    umlaut_ampersand | 15 May '15, 10:57 | X
  • but Tony Blair chose Ezio and Booga!!!!

    thewarn @umlaut_ampersand | 15 May '15, 10:58 | X
  • WHAT IF GOD WAS ONE OF US?

    chadders | 15 May '15, 11:00 | X
  • Got it

    BBC2 after some 'Buzzcocks' style program. 'Desert Island Dicks', 1st episode - Richard Ashcroft.

    midnightpunk @umlaut_ampersand | 15 May '15, 11:01 | X
  • :D

    creakyknees @midnightpunk | 15 May '15, 11:10 | X
  • Read that as Tony Blair chose Mr. Oizo at first

    Now that I'd have enjoyed listening to!

    umlaut_ampersand @thewarn | 15 May '15, 11:11 | X
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  • OK, now this is a criticism I can understand....perhaps you are right

    but in that case take it as an encouragement to listen to desert island discs.....its a recommendation. Radio 4 may be seemed to be aimed at people older than you, but a bit of it is actually quite good quality.

    'Im sorry I havnt a clue' is still the most consistant good intelligently silly comedy, far more charming than NMTB or HIGNFY or MTW
    (it has more of the charm of 'Would I lie to you' and '8 out 10 cats does countdown')

    Take this as a 50+ old codger telling you kids to listen to R4 more.

    creakyknees @ethricdouble | 15 May '15, 11:15 | X
  • John Lee Hooker's is well worth trawling the Sue Lawley archives for.

    Oh and Tom Jones' if only for Kirsty Young fawning over him like a giggly schoolgirl. She's great!

    Jeremys_Iron @creakyknees | 15 May '15, 11:16 | X
  • not UCI approved for road bikes

    bornin69 @JohnM | 15 May '15, 11:28 | X
  • The brakes that is

    I think the sideburns are ok

    bornin69 @bornin69 | 15 May '15, 11:29 | X
  • Looks like he doesn't even have the sideburns anymore

    I'm having a bit of a nightmare here.

    JohnM @bornin69 | 15 May '15, 12:07 | X
  • Jarvis Cocker

    One of his picks was the music from the Shipping Forceast (not the band, the actual shipping forecast). And a Joy Divison track, and some other shite.

    steinbolt | 15 May '15, 12:11 | X
  • Vic Reeves chose 'Bucephalus Bouncing Ball'

    by the old Aphex Twin

    ohgood | 15 May '15, 13:15 | X
  • David Walliams chose a Bjork b-side

    what a ledge

    ohgood | 15 May '15, 13:16 | X
  • its not the same

    but the drummer out of Fall Out Boy has really good tastes

    dunno why hes bothering with that American Psycho shite

    TheKennedyCurse | 15 May '15, 13:21 | X
  • Kat Dennings likes the Electric Six

    i don't think she's been on desert island discs though

    cowcow | 15 May '15, 14:21 | X
  • Those are all crap artists though

    apart from Bowie obviously.

    OvertakenByTractors | 15 May '15, 17:54 | X
  • usual twats dissing the mighty Jam upthread...

    Gorkys_Forever @creakyknees | 15 May '15, 18:34 | X
  • JK Rowling

    Konichiwa_Bitches @creakyknees | 15 May '15, 18:42 | X
  • Not listened to "that American Psycho shite" as of yet

    but FOB are amazing, it surprises me they've not been picked up by the Inverse Snobbery movement yet

    Konichiwa_Bitches @TheKennedyCurse | 15 May '15, 18:45 | X
  • Ant and Dec's one is really great

    Can't even remember what music they chose other than Inspiral Carpets, but their enthusiasm over their choices was so infectious

    orangejuice | 15 May '15, 19:09 | X
  • Kathy Burke's is brilliant - she's got great taste in music and she's dead nice and her luxury item is a life-size laminated photo of James Caan from Dragons' Den.

    Morrissey's is great (if you like Morrissey)

    Seems to have gone off the boil a bit recently, although the one with Bryan Stevenson was really good.

    In terms of music, Colin Montgomerie probably has the best taste, he's one of us. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0094b3t

    badcustard | 16 May '15, 08:43 | X
  • Two fun-sounding ones from the archives...

    1) When asked what luxury she would take to her desert island, the actress and Sixties sex symbol Brigitte Bardot replied, in a thick French accent: “A peeniss.” Her host, Plomley, displaying commendable sang-froid replied: “Most interesting. Why, may I ask?” Bardot shrugged prettily and replied: “Because that is what ze world needs most – ’appiness.”

    2) In 1989, Lawley interviewed Lady Diana Mosley. The widow of the fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley was reminiscing about her friend Hitler, whom she described as “fascinating”, when Lawley asked: “What about the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis?”

    “Oh no, I don’t think it was as many as that. I know it was much, much less,” protested Lady Mosley.

    After a long, chilly silence, Lawley said crisply: “Tell us about your fifth record, Lady Mosley.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/11218144/Desert-Island-Discs-racks-up-a-milestone-of-delights.html

    umlaut_ampersand | 16 May '15, 09:11 | X
  • I hate him so much

    ma0sm @midnightpunk | 16 May '15, 09:30 | X
  • Kathy Burke is a national treasure

    Great music choices - Joy Division, Sex Pistols, Missy Elliot, T Rex, Specials. I'd still like her even if she chose rubbish though.

    bornin69 @badcustard | 16 May '15, 10:42 | X
  • Dawn French chose This Mortal Coil

    she went up in my estimation after that. I realise that is pathetic, but if you don't like decent music you are a dick.

    shimmetry | 16 May '15, 11:35 | X
  • amazing>?

    theyre fucking rubbish mate

    TheKennedyCurse @Konichiwa_Bitches | 16 May '15, 16:33 | X
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