There was never going to be any kind of agreement on this: the team members in the RN office have got wildly differing tastes, and to be honest, are completely fickle. However, we’ve compiled a little rundown of our desert island discs, and hopefully there’ll be some undiscovered or long-forgotten gems in there for you:

JS – Admin:

Incubus – Light Grenades
We Are Scientists – With Love and Squalor
System of a Down – System of a Down
Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City
Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
Thom Yorke – The Eraser
Fair to Midland – Fables from a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True
The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute
Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
Tool – 10,000 Days
Radiohead – Amnesiac

DM: Marketing

Beethoven – 3rd Symphony
Cinematic Orchestra – Man With a Movie Camera
Fat Freddy’s Drop – Based on a True Story
Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
Otis Redding – The Dock Of The Bay
John Martyn – Solid Air
Fink – Sort Of Revolution
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Chemical Brothers – Surrender
Nirvana – Nevermind

JB – Tech and Support [note the proper organisation of his list]

1. Kid A – Radiohead
2. Amber – Autechre
3. Treasure – Cocteau Twins
4. Selected Ambient Works 1 – Aphex Twin
5. L’usine – L’usine
6. The Queen is Dead – The Smiths
7. Script Of the Bridge – The Chameleons
8. Dummy – Portishead
9. It’l End in Tears – This Mortal Coil
10. Turn on the Bright Lights – Interpol

SZ: Admin

Rage against the machine – (self-titled)
Thin Lizzy – Wild horses
ACDC – For those about to rock.
Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters
Iron maiden – Edward the great
Jeff Wayne – War Of The Worlds
Kings Of Leon – Youth and young manhood
Dandy Warhols – 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia
Guns and Roses – Appetite for destruction
Jacko – Thriller

There were some non-reports (you know who you are), but you can see what a model of diversity we are… no wonder everyone wears headphones for most of the day.