Share Your Desert Island Discs
At 45 RPM Lousa, we want to encourage music lovers from across the world to share their favourite desert island disc selections. This is a platform where you can curate and present your musical treasures for friends and family to appreciate. Join us in celebrating the songs that define your life!
How we can help
Album Cover Art Customisation
We can help you transform your favorite album covers into custom artwork that tells your musical story. Celebrate your love for music with unique designs that reflect your taste.
Collating Desert Island Discs
We can help you curate your ultimate desert island disc selection (including your favourite movie, book, luxury and word) and share it with loved ones in a personalized audio experience. Let your friends and family discover your musical tastes and stories behind each choice.
Music Memory Mapping
Create a visual map of your musical journey, highlighting significant songs and albums that shaped your life. Share this unique representation with friends and celebrate your shared memories.
The choice is yours

45 RPM Lousa 2025 selections (Part 1)
Alison
Handbags And Gladrags - Rod Stewart
Don't Leave Me This Way - Communards
Angels - Robbie Williams
Over The Rainbow - Eva Cassidy
Film: Moulin Rouge
Book: Winnie The Pooh
Word: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Luxury: Photo montage
Andy
Film: Inception
Book: The Captain's Verses
Word: Penetration
Luxury: A bottle of signatory collection non chill filtered caol isla single malt whisky
Anita
Film: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Book: The Fabric Of Reality
Word: Try
Luxury: Candy crush saga and something to play it on!!!
Annette
Film: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Book: Midnight's Children
Word: Yet
Luxury: Storm proof habitable dwelling
Brooke
Film: A Room With A View
Book: Persuasion
Word: Halcyon
Luxury: Paper/pens
Conchita
Film: Tomates Verdes Fritos (Fried Green Tomatoes)
Book: Don Quixote
Word: Love
Luxury: My body milk and eyeliner
Cristina
Film: Only Lovers Left Alive
Book: -
Word: Lekker
Luxury: Stuff because there's a lot of stuff in stuff. Otherwise a luxury yacht to have my luxuries
Dave
Film: As Good As It Gets
Book: A book about the cosmos
Word: Contrafibularities
Luxury: A really good comfortable reclining chair.
Geoff
Film: Jean de Florette
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse
Word: Possible
Luxury: Water colour paints,brushes and paper
Gina
Film: Airplane
Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Word: Petrichor
Luxury: A permanently stocked Waitrose
Jake
Film: An American Werewolf in London
Book: Boy Wonder
Word: Fun
Luxury: Plantation Grande Réserve 5 years Rum
Jan
One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong (Live At The Isle of Wight Festival) - Leonard Cohen
Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts - Tom Russell & Eliza Gilkyson
Recuerdos De La Alhambra (Tarrega) see 2 mins in - John Williams
Film: Life Of Brian
Book: A complete flora and fauna of the island
Word: Stuff
Luxury: An inexhaustible supply of every variety of wine, so that I could become a wine connoisseur

45 RPM Lousa 2025 selections (Part 2)
John
Film: V For Vendetta
Book: A Brief History Of Seven Killings
Word: Scallywag
Luxury: Sex doll (NB. due to the risk of the sex doll being used as a means of escape from the island it will be embedded with shark attracting and antagonising technology
Jonathan
Film: Le Chien Andalou
Book: Fortean Times, airdropped by ninjas
Word: Frigorifico
Luxury: Margaret Thatcher's corpse
Lee
Film: Star Wars
Book: Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
Word: ruibarbo
Luxury: Nepal (NB. Due to the fact that visiting Nepal would clearly require getting off the desert island Lee is only allowed to access a virtual simulation of the locations of his choice within Nepal)
Mark
Film: Seven Samurai
Book: My Folder Of Guitar Tablature Taken From The Internet
Word: Snuggle
Luxury: A high quality acoustic guitar
Martin
Film: Some Like It Hot
Book: Complete poems of Seamus Heaney
Word: Harvest
Luxury: An acoustic guitar (with spare strings and a chord book/tutor, please)
Matthew
Film: Princess Bride
Book: -
Word: Onomatopoeia
Luxury: -
Paul
Trois Gnossienne - Camarata Contemporary Chamber Group
Film: Closely Observed Trains
Book: A book of Guardian crosswords
Word: Hippopotamus
Luxury: My photo collection
Peter
Film: The Wicker Man
Book: The complete works of PG Wodehouse
Word: Shed
Luxury: A radio
Pixie
Film: Kes
Book: Capital
Word: Cinnamon
Luxury: iPad
Rosamund
Film: Dog Day Afternoon
Book: The Land Of Green Ginger
Word: Barking
Luxury: Norwegian Formula Lip Balm, SPF 20
Sally
Film: O Brother Where Art Thou
Book: As complete a works of Charles Dickens as I am allowed
Word: Sunshine
Luxury: A large supply of hand cream
Susana
Film: Once Upon A Time In The West
Book: O Livro do Desassossego
Word: Foda-se!
Luxury: Something to play all that music on

45 RPM Lousa 2025 selections (Part 3)
Toby
Film: Apocalypse Now
Book: Alice in Wonderland
Word: Void
Luxury: -
Tom
I Think I'm In Love (Live At The Royal Albert Hall) - Spiritualized
(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) - The Beastie Boys
Film: Barbarella
Book: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Word: -
Luxury: Guitar
Vanessa
Film: -
Book: Desert Island for Dummies
Word: -
Luxury: Endless supply of toilet rolls
Music can connect us, even when we are stuck on a desert island.
Share your favorite tracks today!