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If I Could Only Take Eight Songs to a Desert Island
With only one by Bruce
They say revenge is a dish best served cold, and Alex Markham clearly kept this challenge in the freezer for a while in retaliation for the numerous prompts I’ve drawn him into. Taking his cue from the BBC Radio show “Desert Island Discs,” he listed the eight songs he would take to a desert island, and implicitly challenged me to do the same. You can see his picks below:
At first I thought this would be a simple task that I could bang out while watching Scooby-Doo reruns on a rainy afternoon; I just finished a series on my favorite albums for every year I’ve been alive, so eight songs would be simple. Except (as I’m sure Alex well knew), not so much.
At first glance I planned to simply take the Born to Run album with me. It is the greatest album ever and has exactly eight songs, a serendipitous sign if ever there was one. But Alex threw in a kicker for his list: an artist can only appear once. It was a self-imposed rule, but one I felt honor bound to follow, so only one Springsteen song. Damn it.
