Hmm, this is gonna take some thought. Do you wanna make it a Pulp Desert Island Discs? Choose 8 Pulp/Jarvis songs instead of 8 different artists or 5 Pulp 3 others? Or no Pulp songs in the 8! That would be interesting.

Let's assume like your actually on the show.

Well I'd be disappointed if you put no thought into it. Notice I haven't posted my own yet. You might want to pick some songs that have been favourites at different stages but might not be favourites now. First single you bought etc.

I don't think I could ever choose my first single for DID. I like to think it was Don't You Want Me by The Human League but it is just as possible that it was actually Mama Used To Say by Junior! I still have my copies of both. I wonder where they were bought from? Probably one of the markets in Sheffield. What worries me most is that I can clearly remember loving the Junior song and wanting it more than I can remember wanting Don't You Want Me. I was only 6 years old. However, just watched the vid of Junior and I actually still think it's a pretty good song.

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Right I dunno, this is hard. Here goes...

Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'

The Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat

Blur - This Is A Low

Neil Young - On The Beach

Low - Tomorrow One

Pink Floyd - Echoes

Slowdive - When The Sun Hits

Blondie: Sunday Girl
Played at my 14th birthday disco in Hedge End village hall. That weekend my father left home and didn't come back - me, my mum & my sister were very relieved.

Fairport Convention: Who Know Where the Time Goes
I used to babysit for a friend of my mums who had an amazing collection of vinyl that was propped up on the wall if her living room, running the entire length. She'd inherited the collection from her brother who'd committed suicide. I used to put the kids to bed and then sitting in her rocking chair with headphones on, picking records at random. One day I put on Unhalfbricking and I thought Sandy Denny's voice was the most beautiful one I'd ever heard. WKWTTG has such amazing words that mean even more to me now after having survived cancer. She was already dead when I discovered her and most Fairport stuff was unavailable so I spent a lot if my time while I was in the 6th form trawling through second hand record shops.

Portishead: Glory Box
Where do I start? Spine tinglingly sensuous and incredibly powerful. It was the soundtrack to the beginning of my relationship with my husband. Never fails to move me. I played Portishead continuously through both my children's births.

Pulp: Disco 2000
Because my name is Deborah (never Debbie) and my house really was very small with woodchip on the wall. And I might have been a bit like Deborah in the song (who I always think is a teenage mother) if I hadn't left home and gone to university (the first person in my family to do so).

Roxy Music: Beauty Queen
An amazing song that makes me think about ageing and that feeling of invisibility that strikes in middle age. It also reminds me of when I lived in Belfast when I really got into Roxy Music. I used to put a tape of Eno era Roxy Music on my Walkman and go for long walks through the Belfast streets.

Liza Minelli: Maybe this time
I adore musicals and show tunes and Cabaret is my favourite. I think that's why I like Pulp so much because of the storytelling. This song is all about fucking it up but being a survivor.

Lhasa de Sela: Soon this space will be too small
A beautiful song from an amazing album that I played over and over again during my illness. Coincidentally, I discovered recently that she'd been diagnosed with breast cancer around the same time as me 4 years ago. Very sadly she didn't make it. A huge loss. The words of this song are so poignant.

Kirsty MacColl: In these shoes
The song I want played at my funeral. For my love of very high heels. And because it makes me want to dance. And because I really was once sitting in a bar in Guadalajara.

Book: Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle
Brilliant book by the author of 101 Dalmations told from the point if view of an adolescent girl, with the wonderful opening line: "I write this sitting on the kitchen sink".

Luxury: coffee beans (preferably from the Gorilla Co from Whole Foods in New York - the best coffee I've ever tasted) a grinder and a cafetiere and my large bone china Tintin cup
Because I'm not human without coffee

Everyone's humbling me with the quality of their posts recently. And I've only thought of two songs... YHF: don't suppose you could explain the relevance of each song? Deborah: watch your language, your on radio remember.

Pokemon...crikey you are young.

I'll have Singstar for PS3. I sing very badly but enthusiastically. Current favourite is Divine Comedy's My Lovely Horse. Common People and Disco 2000 are bloody difficult.

I decided to go for the 'story of my life' approach as opposed to the 'that's a really cool song' approach.

Kinky Afro -Happy Mondays

I must admit to a brief dalliance with Heavy Metal in the late 80's. My first gig was Iron Maiden! But I had a real breakthrough moment while on a school residential in what must have been 1990, or perhaps '91. We were in the main hall set up for badminton in a hostel in Derbyshire and this came on the radio. It truly was a watershed moment in my life, from that moment I became baggy, for a bit.

Country Feedback-REM

An important moment in my life was soundtracked by REM. I'd finally found a group of friends who understood me and who I had some great, and probably pretty pretentious, times with. It couldn't last (and didn't),  I hadn't listened to this song for probably 16-17 years but my subconscious recognised it's importance and reminded me of it; astonishing lyrics.

Higher Than The Sun-Primal Scream

Screamadelica was the watershed album when I was a lad in '91. Up until this point I'd been listening to Jesus Jones, Carter USM, Wonder Stuff etc.  This took me way beyond those earthbound dullards. It sounds dated now but still amazing and this is the best, and most poignant, track. I've recently been getting back into that early 90's indie due to an almost unbearable nostalgia for that time. Good job I never chucked away any of my music papers, clippings and other crap. J'accuse, hoarder!

Seasick, Yet Still Docked-Morrissey

Simply beautiful and heartbreaking. One of the best songs I've ever seen performed live: Sheffield City Hall, 1992. My first Morrissey concert, a truly awesome experience. I'm down at the front somewhere, can you see me?

 

2 of Us-Suede

Suede could possibly be held responsible for my later interest in Pulp as I became obsessed with English music rather than that Grunge stuff that most of my peers were enjoying. I have never seen the appeal of Pearl Jam or Mudhoney. This song is majestic  and I think Brett Anderson is sorely underestimated as a lyricist and vocalist.

Kentucky Avenue-Tom Waits

It just never fails to make me cry. If you are ever in Sheffield and see a tall, ginger bloke crying while listening to his iPod it'll be me. And I'll be listening to this.

Hard On For Love-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

I'm a big fan of Cave and love all his work. However, his EP Your FuneralMy Trial is my favourite.. at a pinch. I could have chosen either this or the title track but this just edges it for its dizzying use of biblical language and metaphor. I also absolutely love Blixa's chiming/clanging guitar in the background. They played this live on the Bad Seeds 2008 tour and it was a giant, filthy erotic beast of a song.

Wickerman-Pulp

If I was truly stranded on a desert Island then this song would remind me of home and of all the Pulp songs that mention Sheffield this is the most evocative. It has that wonderful sense of bittersweet nostalgia.

Complete Works of JG Ballard would do me as a book choice. The most important English author of the 20^th Century. From his sci-fi short stories to his dystopian 70's masterpieces (Crash, High Rise & Concrete Island in case you wanna check em out and you really owe it to yourself to read them) to his classic of experimental literature The Atrocity Exhibition, no one sums up the late 20^th century Human condition like him.

Yes that did inspire Joy Division and my real name is Stephen.

Nice to meet you Stephen (virtual handshake), Dominic.