Next week's themes...
"Let's have some more challenging themes," complained John in Sheildhall who felt the first week back was too easy. I hope this lot give you something to think about. All of the themes this week have been suggested by GIO listeners so please don't be shy about sending in your ideas.
Monday:
Rhythmheid suggested a night of samples. From Funky Drummer to Unfinished Symphony, tonight's theme features the best samples and the most sampled tunes. I'm happy to play the songs that feature them and the original track that was sampled. Send you suggestions to get iton@bbc.co.uk or why not leave a comment on the blog?
Tuesday:
Tonight we are Going Underground - the London underground that is. Both Neil in Edinburgh and Valerie in Shetland have suggested this as a theme. Waterloo, Victoria or baker Street. Choose your stop and e-mail in your suggestion. Mind the gap though....
Wednesday:
1,2,3,4....songs that count themselves in is the theme tonight. Patrick McCafferty has come up with the theme and there are hundreds of great examples. If you've got as suggestion then get it on by emailing, texting or calling during the show...
Thursday:
A night of unexpected cover versions has been asked for several times, so get the thinking caps on and see what you come up with. Can it get any weirder than Leonard Cohen on The X Factor or maybe Richard Thompson doing Britney? You decide...
Coming up soon:
Controversial pop stars, technology, trivia night, vices and classic labels...
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MONDAY
'Girls With Guitars' - Wynonna Judd
A hint of Chuck Berry, a nod to Dire Straits and riffs borrowed from Cream and Deep Purple.
Plus, it was written by Mary Chapin Carpenter, so you have to play it.
Otherwise Norrie will hurl playthings from his perambulator. >8-D
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Sampled Monday:
"La la la la la la la la means I love you" in Billy Bragg's The Saturday Boy
(hmm why did no-one mention that in last week's theme when we were talking about repeated words)
But this sounds like the perfect opportunity to get some Mashups in:
* Rapture Riders, mashing up Riders on the Storm and Blondie's Rapture - did actually get released as a single (and is for sale on iChoons) so is licensed properly like.
* Can we get on some Smash-Up Derby on? They do live mashups (ie play/sing rather than mix recordings) eg Billie Jean with Smells like Teen Spirit or She Sells Sanctuary with White Wedding. Lots of downloads at
http://www.smashupderby.com/
* I've got a *most excellent* mashup of Clocks and Papa Was A Rolling Stone by
http://www.mashups.blogspot.com/
* There's also DJ Earworm's mashup of She's Leaving Home with Scissor Sisters' Take Your Mama
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Oops, my apologies - Papa was a Clock is by Mark Vidler's Go Home Productions. http://www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/
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Still can't beat neeps and tawties though, Captain.
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before I forget...
MON:
Imani Coppola (now recording as Little Jackie) sampled Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" on her song "Legend of a Cowgirl" from the album "Chupacabra".
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Two Twisted Pink Floyd covers get a post all to themselves, as they're album length:
* Easy Star All-Stars' Reggae version of Dark Side of the Moon, called (inevitably): Dub Side of the Moon. Money or Time for preference.
* Luther Wright and the Wrongs' country version of The Wall called Rebuild the Wall (the "Pink isn't well he stayed back at the hotel" track)
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MONDAY:
"I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You A Rose Garden)" -- Kon Kan
A must-play on samples night, not just because of the lengthy sample of Lynn Anderson's "Rose Garden" -- it also has bits of Silver Convention's "Get Up And Boogie (That's Right)" and the theme from "The Magnificent Seven"!
TUESDAY:
"White City" -- The Pogues
WEDNESDAY:
"English Bay" -- Blue Rodeo
"Here Comes My Baby" -- The Mavericks
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Samples night continued:
Kylie's Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head
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Right Rythmheid - you need to guide me as I dont know many samples. Does a mashup of two songs by the same artist count if so:
David Bowie - Rebel never Gets Old
Where an artist incorporates bits of another song would that count, the example I am thinking of is
The Who - Real Good Looking Boy which has an interpolation as they call it of Cant Help Falling In Love.
Need to think about this one, I must know some samples surely!
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Oh another good mashup is The Police / Ennio Morricone and Every Breath You Take / Theme from Peter Gunn
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Of course you do.
Don't call me Shirley. :-D
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11 refers to 9
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I feel we may be straying into the realm of mince.
Musical quotations can be amusing but sampling is basically theft and demonstrates only poverty of imagination.
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I am jumping a bit to Thursday but keen to get these down before I forget, all songs that I have suggested before
Roger Taylor - Racing In The Street (Springsteen)
10,000 Maniacs and David Byrne - Let The Mystery Be (Iris DeMent song)
Susannah Hoffs - Boys Keep Swinging (Bowie)
I think there are lots of really great unexpected cover versions so it could be a great show.
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Norrie: If you're doing a mashup with Every Breath You Take (and neeps), then you have to do it with Stand by Me.
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glen: Tell that to most of hip-hop who use the Funky Drummer sample (hey, there's another one... actually, you could play the Football trail with "GreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeTINGS!" in it too)
Also, the art of a good mashup is that it produces something new, different and better than the sum of the parts. So the She Sells Sanctuary vocal is miles better when it's got the backing track of White Weddings. And if the technology had been there, She's Leaving Home would have surely been written with a backing track something like Kinobe's Slip Into Something More Comfortable.
And it's all no worse than a cover version anyway.
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Capt dont know that one - but as someone who does not like the Police I would say that I do like that mash up with Peter Gunn Theme, the Bowie thing is pretty good too actually.
Its the weekend!!!
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My son used to listen to the Grey Album.
To me this genre is superficially entertaining but lacks creativity and musical invention.
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Since I suggested the theme I thought I'd better come up with a proper list...
Some landmark sample records:
'Rapper's Delight' - Sugarhill Gang (samples 'Good Times' - Chic)
'Adventures on the Wheels of Steel' - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (samples 'Rapture' - Blondie)
'Planet Rock' - Afrika Bambaataa (samples 'Trans-Europe Express' - Kraftwerk)
'Rebel Without a Pause' - Public Enemy (Samples 'The Grunt' - James Brown)
'Paid in Full' - Eric B and Rakim (samples 'Ashley's Roachclip' - The Soul Searchers)
'Say No Go' - De La Soul (samples 'It's the Joint' - Funky Four Plus One)
'Shadrach' - Beastie Boys (samples 'Funky Drummer' - James Brown)
'Voodoo Ray' - A Guy Called Gerald (samples Derek and Clive!)
'Sour Times' - Portishead/'Hell is Around the Corner' - Tricky (samples 'Ike's Rap II' - Isaac Hayes)
Recent(ish) favourites:
'Alphabet Aerobics' - Blackalicious ("Artificial amateurs, aren't at all amazing" goes through whole alphabet getting faster)
'Groovement Pt 1' - Ty (from 'Upwards' Mercury-nominated album)
'Thou Thalt Always Kill' - Dan le Sac And Scroobious Pip (modern 'commandments' including "Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry"!)
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#13/#18 There are good uses of samples and not so good (same as any genre). To me, wholesale use of one song (like in most dance music) or two (like 'cut and shunt' mashups) is the lower end of the scale. It's can be fine but it is a bit lazy. But to tar all sampling artists with that brush is a superficial understanding of the process.
The people who do it best (like DJ Shadow, Coldcut, etc.) piece tracks together from multiple samples to blend them into something new. Often with live instruments alongside the samples (Tricky, Portishead, Massive Attack). If that's not creative then neither is arrangement or production.
I think sampling gets a bad reputation because people notice the obvious, less creative samples and often think more subtle ones are live instruments. The 'Endtroducing.... DJ Shadow' album sounds like he had a whole orchestra at his disposal but every note is made from samples. That's very creative.
I've discovered some great music by tracing the samples. Conversely, I've also found lots of fairly mediocre funk records with one interesting bit that deserved more attention. Sampling gives those forgotten moments their day in the sun (and the sampled artist gets royalties). Glen would surely agree that one man's trash is another man's treasure!
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I think I've wandered through a rent in the Time-Space Continuum.
I shall return to my own dimension now.
God willing, I'll get back before 6 p.m. on Tuesday.
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Which reminds me...
'Atomic Moog' - Coldcut
'Midnight in a Perfect World' - DJ Shadow
'Unfinished Sympathy' - Massive Attack
'Inner City Life' - Goldie
#9 Sampling is a portion of one song that appears in another record so it can include mashups. I don't want to be anal about it and get stuff barred, like happened with 'The Magic Number' this week. There are sample databases out there (like the-breaks.com) if you get stuck.
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Last one for now... Just to say, you find samples everywhere, not just hip hop. Sheryl Crow even uses samples (in 'All I Wanna Do')! And you can suggest originals - Puff Daddy sampled the Police, Eminem sampled Aerosmith. There's plenty from the olden days to choose from!
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Also before I forget - one of the all time great count in has to be
The Clash - White Man (In Hammersmith Palais)
1,2 ah 1, 2, 3, 4
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Does anyone know who suggested Monday`s theme?
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How was your break AFR? I am sure you said you were going to be away for a while over the holiday period - hope you had a good time.
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Monday
Hung Up - Madonna (Great use of Abba, though she might have done better using Brendan`s Gimme Some)
Computer Love - Coldplay (not sure if this counts, better ask Kraftwerk)
Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendes- Black Eyed Peas (not sure if this counts either. Was saving it for the promised southern hemisphere theme which never materialised. More on that later.
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It was fine Norrie, Thanks for asking. The floods didnt affect us so was able to alternate beach and golf quite comfortably.
While you`re there I have a technical question.
Elton John and James Blunt or Radiohead? Both at the Sambodromo (Samba Drome) in the coming weeks, but I am not going to pay the exhorbiant prices to see both gigs. What do you reckon?
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Re: 19 - The De La Soul song 'Say No Go' also samples the Hall and Oates' song, 'I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)' that we heard yesterday!
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#7 Rich, if they dont play that Kon Kan song I may never listen to GIO again. It sounds fascinating.
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#28 Adam, glad to hear all was ok. Dont ask about golf - they are still recovering in the states from my trip! No wonder I wanted to log on to GIO!!
James Blunt is not for me, I have seen Elton once fantastic (Vegas) and twice apalling so I would go for Radiohead - I reckon that will be a show and a half!
Hope it is good whichever gig you see.
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ps Adam - but what would I know!
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I heard Radiohead had been re-scheduled to the Stadio del Bordomo Rigido.
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#20
Yes, one man's Meat Loaf is another man's Poison.
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#32 - Norrie I value your opinion. Saw EJ in Edinburgh in the 80s a couple of times and was well impressed.
#33 - GM, its Portuguese here I`m afraid.
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OK, longer Twisted Covers list (I was one of the people who suggested it)
* Hayseed Dixie: Walk This Way (actually, pretty much any HSD track would do it)
* Vic Reeves and Giorgio Moroder: Black Night
* The Fabba Girls: Can't Buy me Love (Beatles A La Abba)
* White Stripes: Jolene
* The Twang: Don't Look Back in Anger (NB, that's the Country Twang, not the Brummie band)
* The Delgados: Mr Blue Sky
* Gotz Alsmann: People are People (in lovely swing stylee)
* Johnny Cash: Personal Jesus
* The Streets: Your Song (yes, the most wonderful singer's song sung by a near non-singer. But it works, somehow)
Scotch-git mentioned The Big Lebowski over on the last.fm group - there's the Gypsy Kings' Flamenco version of Hotel California on it.
There are a couple of odd versions of Love Will Tear Us Apart again
* Oysterband (with a June Tabor vocal)
* Nouvelle Vague featuring Eloisia
Is it too soon to play The Slits' version of I Heard It Through the Grapevine again?
And of course the wonderful Richard Thompson: Oops! I Did it Again
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#35
There's no need to be afraid of Portuguese.
I saw EJ in 1970 at Strathclyde Universidade
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More non-mashup samples:
*Lots* of bits of the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, but particularly
* Nicole Kidman et al: Sparkling Diamonds
* Elephant Love Medley: Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman
One going the other way - the samplee
Patti Page: Old Cape Cod ("if you're fond of sand dunes and salty air" per Fatboy Slim and Groove Armada)
Where would you place this - sample, or twisted cover?
DNA's extension of Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner
(trivium for Tom's Diner - it was the test track for the team that developed the MP3 format. So you could say that MP3 is uniquely optimised for Tom's Diner - no other track will sound *quite* as good)
And then there's the mashup I've got of Tom's Diner with Private Investigations...
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After an initial reluctance to accept sampling, I now have no problem with it at all (looking forward to putting my list together in fact) but I've been feeling quite uncomfortably old and crotchety reading about mashups. Don't know a great deal about mashups but my first instinct is that what I've heard of them has seldom seemed worth the bother of putting the tracks together. I will however investigate and will possibly be a pleasantly surprised crotchety old besom instead...time will tell :0)
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A few thoughts for the week ahead:
Samples/sampled
Blue moon revisited - Cowboy Junkies
Stainsby Girls by Chris Rea (the guitar riff after he mentions the Rolling Stones owes more to Keith Richards than any portrayal of Capt Sparrow)
Gangsta Paradise samples Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise - play the original
Hung up by Madonna samples Abba
All summer long by Kid Rock is based on Werewolves of London and Sweet Home Alabama - play the originals only!
London underground - to follow
Counting
Goodbye - Emmylou Harris is the one I'd really like to hear.
Other options:
Waitin on on on sunny day or Maria's bed - Springsteen
Two - Ryan Adams
The other side of town - Steve Earle
God's Acre - Kimmie Rhodes and Gillian Welch
Unexpected covers
Hey ya - Will Young
If there's any justice - James Blunt
Girls talk - Linda Ronstadt
Sad Eyes - Trisha Yearwood
Keep the car running - Foo Fighters
With or without you - Keane
For the intro-mix -
Run - Leona Lewis
Hips don't lie - The Fray
Love machine - Artic Monkeys
Joe
Linlithgow
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Joe - I tried that album over and over, esp Sweet Jane and dont think there is a sample. That said! Get It On!!!
sad Eyes - you picked a belter of a cover - pretty soon after tracks was released??
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#40.
Second the shout for The Arctic Monkeys covering Girls Aloud's "Love Machine" - it's just great fun.
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@40
Joe - when they put together All Summer Long, they missed out two other tracks with exactly the same chord sequence: More than a Feeling and Back in Black (although there's a hint of Back in Black power guitar in there if I'm honest)
Stick 'em together, with a bit of Funk Soul Brother rhythm track and you've got a mashup I have (More Werewolves of Alabama, mashed by Audiodile)
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#40 I also second Goodbye, from one of the standout albums, great song to start with taken to an incredible level and with a fantastic count in. Who did the count though? Lanois or Earle himself? Loved the fact that he played on this cover version - just an amazing, fragile self expose.
This theme could grow arms and legs!
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Capt., you know, you should really try and get out more......
On the Count Ins, I want
Vertigo - U2
before anyone else gets in there ( I believe its a Spanish intro GM). Though Joe will probably call it in as a PS.
BTW Joe, what is this intro mix you`re on about?
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AFR - I have asked this on blogs before and it is a serious question (well as serious as I get at this time of night, after this amount of alcohol) - I am sure that the Rezillos are fairly big in Brazil - is that right??
I was also surfing about today and read that Bob seger only jsut did not get out his cover of Tom Waits, Downtown Train before Rod Stewart and so it remains unreleased! I know that you were confused at my nomination of a Seger track for you so that is the even more vague connection to that comment.
I know what I would rather hear.
thank goodness I have some time with friends who are not in to music tomorrow!
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Underground:
Lines:
Blur: Jubilee
Nick Drake: Northern Sky
Marillion: Warm Wet Circles
Bruce Springsteen: Atlantic [Hammersmith and] City
Weezer: Teenage Victor[ia] Song
Stations:
Squeeze: Up the [Watford] Junction (cos Clapham Junction's an overground station, innit)
Thomas Dolby: White City
Blur: Park [Royal] Life
Juice Newton: Angel of the Morning
Erasure: The [Picadilly] Circus
The Selector: James Bond [Street]
All Saints (on the DLR): Pure Shores
Marillion: Kayleigh (mentions Belsize Park)
Fairport Convention: Possibly Parsons Green
And another Sample (a double WIN):
Sinead O'Connor: Stretched Across Your Grave, which uses both the Funky Drummer break, but also The Waterboys' "When will we be married?" played by the WBs' fiddler.
Annoyingly, Hersham's not on the underground network.
Oh, and can we play Mornington Crescent in these suggestions?
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@45 Heh yes I should. But this week has two themes which hit my own musical interests right on the nose. Annoyingly, I'm going to be in India next week, so if I'm listening, it'll be very late at night with the Streaming Thingy on the Interwebs.
Vertigo count-in is in Portuguese btw (anyone with a young daughter like I have watches enough Dora the Explorer to know that it ain't Spanish)
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Count-ins:
About half of the Lennon (as opposed to Ono) tracks on Milk and Honey count in:
Nobody Told Me (damn, we had it last week)
Stepping Out
I Don't Wanna Face It (un, deux, ein, zwei, hickle, hickle)
Forgive Me (My Little Flower Princess)
*More* samples (or are they unexpected covers?):
Groove Armada (with the Quo): Purple Haze
Groove Armada (with Fairport): Remember
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Rhythm Heid, I just can't get my Heid round the Rhythms for Monday. Like Scotch-Git, I'll re-tune Tuesday. Sorry.
Initial suggestions for the Underground (before I start to study the map):
Down in the tube station at midnight - Jam
Going Underground - Jam
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
DC in Cellardyke
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Re: 21 and 50. Scotch-git and DC, don't discount Monday's show, you may actually find something you like!
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Monday - Samples
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock - It Takes Two
Samples Lyn Collins - Think (About It)
Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Samples AC/DC - T.N.T.
Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
Samples Stevie Wonder - Pastime Paradise
M.I.A. - Paper Planes
Samples The Clash - Straight To Hell
Tuesday - London Underground
Gomez - Whippin' PICCADILLY
Johnny Cash - Destination VICTORIA Station
The Postal Service - The DISTRICT Sleeps Tonight
Beth Orton - CENTRAL Reservation
Wednesday - Count Ins
(this was a tough one!)
Prince - Raspberry Beret
Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman
Thursday - Covers
Cat Power - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones)
Cake - Sad Songs and Waltzes (Willie Nelson)
Radiohead - Nobody Does It Better (Carly Simon)
Eels - Get Ur Freak On (Missy Elliott)
William Shatner - Common People (Pulp)
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Monday
Sample example
Roxy Music's 'Amazona' from the Stranded album.
The opening guitar has been used by Ice T for his song 'That's How I'm Living.' (On the Rox Mix)
This is a real funky dude of a riff then the song explodes in the middle, classic Roxy. This track will blow away anyone who thinks Roxy are just Avalon & Dance Away.
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Monday
Sample example
Roxy Music's 'Amazona' from the Stranded album.
The opening guitar has been used by Ice T for his song 'That's How I'm Living.' (On the Rox Mix)
This is a real funky dude of a riff then the song explodes in the middle, classic Roxy. This track will blow away anyone who thinks Roxy are just Avalon and Dance Away.
Bryan Ferry sampled Roxy Music's 'Ladytron' and 'The Bob' and played them on 'Gemini Moon' and 'Chain Reaction'
Bryan Ferry also sampled the rain on Ben Nevis and credited the mountain on the title track to the Taxi album. A sample of John Peel appears during the morse code intro to his version of 'Rescue Me' on the same album.
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Monday:
would most like to hear:
"I'm A Tree" - Imani Coppola. This track samples "Soul Kitchen" by The Doors. Prefer this track to the one I mentioned futher up the blog. Imani Copplola is a violin-playing rapper - is she the only one?
otherwise...
I Monster's "Daydream In Blue"
PM Dawn - "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" ("True" - Spandau Ballet)
Cookie Crew - "Got To Keep On" ("25 Miles" - Edwin Starr).
Garbage - "Stupid Girl" (The Clash - "Train in Vain")
A Tribe Called Quest - "Can I Kick It" (Lou Reed - "Walk on the Wild Side")
But I'd really prefer to hear something by Imani Coppola. When I first heard of her I was sure she'd be more successful than she has been.
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If samples includes those provided by a sampler (sampling keyboard) you could have tracks like Bad Animals by Heart.
At least you have play the damn thing.
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Not really a substantive posting with new ideas, more a set of responses:
Norrie - Re #41 - I adopted a broader definition of sampling! Indeed I forgot to also suggest Russians by Sting and If I had words - the 1977 song performed by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley. The tune was taken from the main theme of the Maestoso from Saint-Saens Symphony No.3 in C minor (Organ Symphony) with an added reggae beat.
Capt R - re #43 - thanks - good to know!
Norrie - re #44 - sorry not sure - but a great track.
AFR - re #45 - apologies, BB uses the phrase theme montage. Happy to endorse Vertigo!
Joe
Linlithgow
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Also When by Shania Twain fits the count-in theme.
Joe
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Monday - Concrete Schoolyard - Jurassic 5 (Ramsay Lewis - Summer Breeze) - My son brainwashed me into liking this.
Tuesday - I Put A Spell On You - Screaming Jay Hawkins - One stop beyond Barking.
Wednesday - Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett - He manages to name six.
Thursday - Werewolves of London - Adam Sandler - Surprisingly good.
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To avoid confusion: When by Shania Twain also fits the count-in theme!
Joe
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Q. Who were the shouty men that covered Kate Bush's 'Hounds of Love' ?
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TUESDAY
'Holloway Jail' - The Kinks
Makes a wee change from 'Waterloo Sunset' and 'Victoria'
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@57 oh if it's *classical* theft we're talking about, then can we please have John O' Dreams (Christy Moore for preference), which is the slow movement of Tchaikovsky 6.
And while I think about it - Simple Minds Belfast Child is a straight melodic steal of the auld traditional song She Moves Through The Fair (but putting new words to old tunes is standard practise in Oral Cultures).
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The theme is samples not quotations.
Since all rail lines are interlinked and London's Underground is ultimately connected to Glasgow's, I suggest Till the End of the Day by the Kinks from their Live at the Kelvin Hall album.
There appear to be strong rumours of a reunion tour although it may assume the traditional Sam and Dave format where the Davies brothers only meet on stage.
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#64 Glen, after a superb solo album and a fantastic box set, with suitable reviews, it is a fgood time for a reunion tour! Fingers etc crossed.
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I'm trying not to hog the thread, after getting chided above, but...
#59 Obviously I like J5. But you've gotta love Screaming Jay Hawkins (and apparently a lot of women did judging by the sheer amount of children!). Could be a great shout for Thursday too. I love his version. The ending almost sounds like they've just injected him with his medication to calm him down!
I also have to point out, a sample is the actual recording of a song played within another record. Another band playing/interpreting/plagiarising a previous artist isn't a sample, it's a cover/homage/rip-off. So Smash-up Derby, entertaining as they are, might qualify for Thursday but not Monday.
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Rythm - dont get too wound up on that. I made the big antmusic mistake last week - take it as the themes being well I suppose themeatic!
In my defence if the theme is such an open one as songs with a title of two words you would think....eh sorry not going there agian!! LOL I am off to search for a life! :o)
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Julie,
Kilburn and the High Roads seems an obvious suggestion for Tuesday, but I have to confess my total ignorance of their material.
Anything suitable for a tea-time radio show?
Also, (said he, saving the best till last), BBC4 TV are repeating 'The High Life' starting next Tuesday at 9 p.m.
Starring Siobhan Redmond.
Be still, my foolish heart.........................
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#68 Does your heart go 'Pif Paf Pof'? ;-)
Sobering up now. Realised #19 should say 'Glory Box' not 'Sour Times'. And apparently Screamin Jay cast the original 'Spell...'
Tuesday teaser:
'Tears Dry on Their Own' - Amy Winehouse - which station does she represent?
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Thursday Covers: 'Goodnight Irene' by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
DC in Cellardyke (busily lookin shroo mah iChoons library)
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#68. Scotch. Yeah, I immediately thought of them but, I don't know any of their music beyond having heard a snippet or two in shows about Ian Dury. Think there's a CD available but I wouldn't know which track to suggest. The songs are likely littered with expletives anyway (as are some of my favourite Blockheads tracks...and then I go out and "tut" on buses at the youth of the nation's inability to utter a sweary-word-free sentence).
and yes, I heard about The High Life being repeated. I have it on DVD but that's great - long overdue. Enjoy your reunion with Shona Spurtle...Goebbels in a Gossard!
#66 Rhythmheid - You stick to your guns - I must confess to getting a tad grumpy when themes widened too much. In this case I think it would be quite unnecessary as there are so many songs containing samples there's no need to broaden it. Just my opinion :0)
#70. Their version of "Cheek to Cheek" is very good too.
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Wossa Gossard ?!?
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Please, no requests for 'Plaistow Patricia' on Tuesday.
We dinna want Bwyan lumped in wi' the likesay Wussel 'n' Woss!
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TUESDAY:
Ian Dury is the first to spring to my mind for this theme:
"My Old Man" (Euston, Victoria) or "London Talking" (with first line "I went and changed a pound for the Underground" and mentioning a couple more stations).
Scotch - been doing a spot of research "UPMINSTER Kid" - KILBURN and the High Roads (think Ian Dury did this one with The Blockheads too). Slightly reminiscent of Sweet Gene Vincent and the lyrics seem OK sweary-word-wise.
"TV is King" - The TUBES
"Pure Shores" - ALL SAINTS
"Broken Down ANGEL" - Nazareth
"Guns of BRIXTON" - The Clash
One for the punners..."Solid Gold East ACTON" - T Rex
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Tuesday - I suppose the Jam and Going Underground / Down In the Tube Station at Midnight are the most obvious tracks and both great songs.
Pete Townsend - Stardom In Acton
The Clash - On (ealing) Broadway and White Man In Hammersmith Palais
David Bowie - Waterloo Sunset
Van Morrison - Cyprus Avenue
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Oops my requests for Tuesday should have included
Tubeway Army - Bombers
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Monday;
Freak Like Me by Sugababes.
I know the Numan purists won't like it but I think its a great track.
Crazy In Love by Beyonce featuring the sample from Chi-Lites "Are you my Woman"
Happy Monday everyone
Maria
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Maria - the Sugababes track is great, and personally I would love to hear Beyonce!
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Sorry I meant watch Beyonce on video.
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Tuesday
Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres - Al Stewart - A bedsitter image
London Bridge - Bread - The buyer thought he was getting Tower Bridge
Limehouse Blues - Django Reinhardt - If only he'd had a full set of fingers
On a lighter note:
Euston - Dean Martin
I'd Rotherhithe You - Earth Wind and Fire
If I were A Richmond - Topol
It's Oval - Roy Orbison
This Land Is Mile End - Woody Guthrie
Loughton Proud - Nazareth
Leyton The Evening - Paul Simon
Holloway Joe - Clancy Brothers
Beckton Normal - John Hiatt
Old New Bow Road and Blue - Slade and finally
Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House - Chorus "Hainault, Hainault"
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Tuesday:
Broken down Angel - Nazareth
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Black Horse and the cherry tree - KT Tunstall
Euston Station - Davey Arthur & the Fureys
Highgate shuffle - Rod Stewart
Kings Cross Blues - Lindisfarne
White City - The Pogues
London Bridge - Bread
Waterloo sunset - The Kinks
Down in the tube station at midnight - Jam
Going Underground - Jam
Victoria - The Fall (as an alternative to the Kinks' version)
Hi Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck (Harry Beck designed the tube map)
DC in Cellardyke
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I'd be surprised if Duffy's Warwick Avenue isn't played on Tuesday. Does it remind anyone else of My Girl?
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Help ma boab ! Its only Sunday Pm n already 80 odd postings. Still not hard enough then.
Monday -Samples
Like toy soldiers - Eminen (If played would it be a first for the real slim shady ?)
Tuesday -London Underground
Anything - Blue Oyester(card) Cult
Ticket to ride - Monkeys
Wed - Count in
Road Runner - Johnathan Richmond and the modern lovers
Thur - Covers/unexpected
Your song - The streets ( V oiginal)
Ticket to ride - The Carpenters
Personal Jesus - Johnny Cash
Anything - Nouvelle Vague
If you dont know me by now - David Brent !!!!!
Toxic - Mark Ronson / Tigger
And my final Thursday cover would be
Angie Baby - The uncle devil show from the "A terrible beauty" album. Just being elitist/pretentious.
Theme sugestions
Subtle Love songs that dont have the word love in the title - You make me feel mighty real - Sylvester
Day songs
This is the day -The The
Everyday - lorna Brookes (Check her out she is scotlands best female singer songwriter without a doubt
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#46 - Norrie, I have never heard the Rezillos being talked about over here. Thats not to say they weren`t big in the late 70`s early 80`s. I`ll ask around.
# Capt R, I dont care if your daughter watches re runs of Manuel on Fawlty Towers, what Bono utters at the start of Vertigo is not Portuguese.
What he says (officially) is Unos, dos, tres, catorce, (1, 2, 3, 14), which sounds like an attempt at least to speak in Spanish (gets the one a bit wrong though).
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Um, dois, três, quatorze is the Portuguese equivalent, by the way.
Just in case Dora the Explorer ever finds herself in Lisbon.
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Oops, doesnt like accents. Tres, the e has a hat on it.
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#83 John - Uncle Devil Show would be fun to hear. I used to follow Lorna Brooks a long time ago but I am off her mailing list now, I am sure that the first time I saw her she was supporting Indigo Girls but could be wrong. I will need to have a google and see what she is currently doing.
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Some count-ins for Wednesday:
(1 and a 2 and a 1234) "Goodnight Vienna" - great song from Ringo Starr. I like the "OK with gusto boys, with gusto" before the count-in too.
(123,223) "Brand New Tennessee Waltz" - Matthews Southern Comfort.
(1234) "Turn It On Again" - Genesis
and, of course, pretty much anything by The Ramones.
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Wed.
You're Dancing On My Heart - Victor Sylvester - Who could forget "Slow Slow Quick Quick Slow" ? I believe the Ramones got the idea from him.
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Ooooh, just thought of another song for the Count Ins theme - Rare Earth - I Just Want To Celebrate. I can't get this song out of my head now!
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#30 -- Yes, Adam, I do hope Bryan & co. play the Kon Kan track on Monday, because it's excellent -- dance music for people who don't like dance music. I've always thought it sounds like the best New Order song that New Order never did....
Rich in North Carolina
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Monday - Sample Songs:
I am very partial to a 'mashup' by Go Home Productions called 02 GHP - Finally, Did You No Wrong which is a mash of the Sex Pistols and Cece Peniston - I know the BBC has a copy of it as it has been played before... ;-)
Another brilliant song with great use of samples is Move by Martyn Bennett from the Grit album. It samples the vocal of Seila Stewart singing in her native Perthshire Cant (after two years I still have not translated all of it as it is her own family dialect) but it is a fantastic song telling of the lives of itinerant farm workers who simply got 'the chuck' when work was scarce and then had to 'move'.
I would also like to recommend the following:
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? [Boilerhouse Mix] (samples Walk On The Wild Side by Lou Reed)
DJ Shadow - In/Flux (samples David Walker's Never Can Say Goodbye)
Eric B and Rakim - I Know You Got Soul (samples Bobby Byrd's I Know You Got Soul)
De La Soul - Say No Go (samples I Can't Go For That by Hall and Oates)
Amerie - 1 Thing (sampled Oh Calcutta! by The Meters)
NWA - Express Yourself (samples Express Yourself by Charles Wright and The Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band)
The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up (samples Give The Drummer Some by Ultramagnetic MCs)
Adam F (son of Alvin Stardust!) - Circles (samples Bob James' Westchester Lady)
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony (samples The Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra's cover of The Last Time by The Rolling Stones
Tricky - Hell Is Round The Corner (samples Ike's Rap II by Isaac Hayes)
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Wednesday count in:
There's a whispered '1,2 - 1,2,3,4' at the start of The Rolling Stones 'New Faces'.
This is one of the best accoustic guitar tracks you'll hear, with no fewer than three being played at the one time. It's a good tune too
DC in Cellardyke
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#61, SG, it was the Futureheads that covered Hounds of Love. Definitely worth consideration for Thursday's show.
On that theme, one of my favourite cover versions is Marc Almond's version of "I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten", which he does as a duet with Sarah Cracknell of Saint Etienne, though it perhaps couldn't be classed as "unexpected". The Killers version of "Romeo and Juliet", is possibly also not in that category (I like it because the only thing I ever disliked about the song was the fact that it was by Dire Straits) but "Careless Whisper" done by Gossip has to be.
For tonight, I suggest Praise You by Fatboy Slim, or the track it samples, Take Yo Praise by Camille Yarborough.
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Tuesday
LONDON UNDERGROUND
Roxy Music's "ANGEL Eyes"
Aldwych station used to be called Strand Station (Roxy Music "Do The Strand")
Wednesday
COUNT INS
Bryan Ferry's version of "It's My Party"
Thursday
Unexpected Cover Versions.
Bryan Ferry was the first male to record "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" a song about female vulnerability.
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Tuesday
Here, mind The Gap Band!
Havent heard Burn Rubber on Me for a while.
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If we mind the gap, do we also have to stay clear of The Doors?
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Aye and beware of pickpockets
The Ponys - Pickpocket Song
The Jam - Thick as Thieves
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MONDAY SAMPLE NIGHT
Far too many to choose from, so one will have to do:
Take Yo Praise - Camille Yarborough
...as used by one Fatboy Slim in Praise You.
That is all.
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Re: #94 Thanks, Jan.
Am I the only blogger who finds the Killers irritating?
That Human/Dancer thing dismaheidin!
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Tuesday - the circle game from Joni M would be good - ok, a line rather than a station. Or if you feel like being sugary how about all my life's a circle - new seekers I think. But the best summary of being in any tube station - or that wretched city - has to be We gotta get outta this place - the Animals. DLTBGYD.
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Hello!
For tonights Sample theme how about:
Remember Me by Blue Boy (sample from Woman of the ghetto by Marlena Shaw)
or
(My Girl's Got) Miraculous Technique by Belle and Sebastian from the recent BBC sessions album. The sample is taken from Love (Can Make You Happy) by Mercy.
Coincidently both the songs these samples are taken from were released in 1969.
Regards
Mr Chops, The Dwarf
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#100 No, I'm fed up with them too. First album has their only decent songs as far as I'm concerned.
#102 Good shout with Blueboy. I didn't know that B+S one.
The years 1968-74 seems to be the motherload for soul and funk samples. I guess you can't go wrong with those kind of records - I never get tired of that sound. But I do like it when someone tries something different - like on Tricky's first album or the jazzy sound in 'Get a Move On' by Mr Scruff.
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Monday
Too much to read through, so I may repeat, but Beats International "Dub Be Good to Me" sampled The Clash's "Guns of Brixton" and brought it back to consciousness nicely.
After 7pm please, Bryan - delights of parents' evening ahead...
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Tuesday
The Seekers "Morningtown (Crescent) Ride"??
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Ok, time for a Smiths sample tonight!
"Hippychic" by SOHO
And for unlikely cover versions, it must be:
"Lost in Music" by the Fall
or
"Satisfaction (Can't get no)" by DEVO
or
""Don't Stop Moving" by Starsailor
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PM Dawn - surely a new low.
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Got time for a quick blog before I serve the dinner!
Freak Like Me - Sugababes (Know I'll get slaggings for this but it was a good sample of Gary Numan anyway)
Paper Planes - MIA (Straight To Hell by The Clash)
Medicine Show - Big Audio Dynamite (Brilliant Sampling of The Good The Bad and The Ugly)
Ali and the Winters
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I really enjoyed the show between 18:30 and 19:00
Paul Merton is such a card!
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TUESDAY
'Angel from Montgomery' - Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie, a candidate for the Distinctive Voices theme, performs a song composed by John Prine, a candidate for the Distinctive Voices theme.
If we must have a song that mentions Waterloo, please let it be Abba's.
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Underground -
More than a Feeling , Boston (Manor)
Warwick Avenue, Duffy
Blackhorse (Road) and the Cherry Tree, KT Turnstile!
Covers -
Smooth Criminal, Alien Ant farm
Video Killed The Radio Star, Presidents of the United States
Make My Heart Fly, Barenaked Ladies
Learning to do without me, Gary Clarke.
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#107 Remember we had the New Seekers and James Blunt played in the last month. They're lying in the gutter staring up at PM Dawn.
It was great to hear 'Tramp', Marlena Shaw and De La Soul. I'm not much of a Tupac fan was but it was funny to hear Bryan introduce it.
The other big surprise was getting through a show about samples without a single James Brown track. So, for the rest of the week...
TUE: 'Night Train' - James Brown
WED: 'Get Up (I Feel Like Being) a Sex Machine' or 'Hot Pants' - James Brown
THU: 'Georgia on My Mind' - James Brown,
'Sex Machine' - Iggy Pop or The Flying Lizards, 'Shout and Shimmy' - The Who
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#110 Scotch
How's about... Stonewall Jackson's Waterloo?
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#109
Just a minute - didn't I hear Warren Zevon?
#112
A singer with a speech impediment covering a song that wasn't worth listening to in the first place takes up valuable air time which could be occupied by any of a thousand other talented and creative musicians who would lift our spirits and raise the temperature of our short lives for a brief glorious moment.
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Glen you did hear Warren Zevon but I did not catch the sampling connection. You are right about Adam Sandler and I think that the Enjoy Every Sandwich album is a great tribute.
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London Underground theme suggestions:
Loads more I could suggest but I like these ones -
London Underground - Julian Cope
Deeper Underground - Jamiroquai
Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
Up The Bakerloo Line With Anne - CAN
Going Underground - The Jam
Inner Tube - Joe Walsh
Elephant Gun - David Lee Roth
Castle Walls - Styx
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
A Northern Soul - The Verve
Steel Rail Blues - Gordon Lightfoot
Jubilee - Blur
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#115
Kid Rock.
It's almost the original line-up with Sandler. There's another interesting album called Hurry Home Early by less famous people.
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#114 ...like that Eminem track that got cut? ;) For the record, I wasn't that shocked that PM Dawn stayed one-hit wonders.
#117 I heard 'Piece of S#!% Car' on US radio with sound effects like screeching brakes and car horns to cover the bad words. It's not half as funny without them and I never found the radio edit.
TUE:
'Tears Dry on Their Own' - Amy Winehouse (Station: High Barnet! Credit to my sister for that one - she was at a London Underground party too. Not sure if it was same one as Bryan?)
'Deadweight' - Beck (BECKton/Harry Beck)
'MILE END' - Pulp
'Only Living Boy in NEW CROSS' - Carter USM
'GRANGE HILL Theme' - Alan Hawkshaw
'Insane in the Brain' - CYPRUS Hill (DocklandsLR station)
'Aquarius' - Boards of Canada (Canada Water)
'Clipper' - Autechre (Cutty Sark)
'District Line II' - SQUAREpusher (Euston Square)
'The Real Thing' - Russell Morris (Russell Square)
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#112. James Brown. for Thursday, Bryan could play Echo & The Bunnymen's live version of "Do It Clean" (B Side of the 12" of The Killing Moon) - not a cover in the strictest sense of the word but it's one of those tracks where the singer rambles through other songs towards the end e.g. "Sex Machine" and "When I Fall In Love (It Will Be Forever)"...great stuff.
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Wednesday count-ins...forgot (56, 5678) "Huddle Formation" by The Go! Team.
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Where is the wee bash on Saturday. I know it is on Queen Street some where but can't remember what bar?
Who are all going from here?
I will be there around 6 after I make my way from Hamilton V Inverness game.
How will I know who is is who?
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Tuesday Night:
The Small Faces - Son of a Baker Street
Ron Sexsmith - Speaking with the Angel
Belle and Sebastian - Mornington Crescent
The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
#118 - High Barnet! That's classic :)
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Who's going on Saturday?
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I'll do this backwards, as it were;
#123 Julie,
Me, Norrie, Maria, RoxyJohn and Jan fae Ruglin are commited. (or soon will be)>8-D
#121 RoxyJohn,
It's the Twisted Wheel at 73, Queen Street
Opposite the Armed Forces recruitment offices.
If Hibs are beaten (again) look for the wee lassie in a flood of tears throwing a tantrum.
#114 Glen,
I passed out and awoke to the dulcet tones of Nicholas Parsons. The Time-Space Continuum thingy must still be wonky.
#113 Madmac,
How could I have forgotten? Yeah, that would work! Keep it Country!!
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I suggested masks for Saturday (think Being John Malcovich) but Norrie and I thought maybe a bit much ;-)
Maybe we should all come with something that represents our favourite artist, Norrie, I bagsy the hearing aid :-)
I am committed Scotch!
Maria
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Addendum #121 RoxyJohn,
Look for the wee lassie wearing a rather impressive moustache.
(she may or may not be in tears).
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Re: #125 Maria,
Brilliant idea!
Now, where did I put that codpiece................
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If we're dressing to represent our musical tastes I'll have to wear at least a flapper dress, leather jacket, one cowboy boot and a Jesus sandal, wear my hair in dreadlocks with an African headwrap on my head, a string of onions around my neck and a safety pin through my cheek!!!
I was rather hoping the moustache had been forgotten.
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#127 - The 'Black Russian', I trust, SG?
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#129 FOTCL
Do you remember way back when Bryan Ferry was going for the Matador look?
A critic described him as resembling a Spanish Traffic-Warden! :-D
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If I had to wear something that reflects the eclectisism of my musical tastes I would have a white tuxedo (Ferry), a lightning bolt on my face (Bowie) thin hair on top and big at the sides (Beethoven), get injections in my lips to pout like Kate Bush, and darken my skin and put flowers in my hair like Billie Holiday & Ella Fitzgerald. I would need a Latin look and pony tale to look like Jaco Pastorius and small round specs like Gustav Mahler covered by bug eye specs like Phil Manzanera and my Andy Mackay pointy sideburns. I don't think I will be hard to spot with this hybrid of looks.
Any Flock of Seagulls fans coming?
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Perhaps Norrie will arrive brandishing a bunch of gladioli :0)
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All Saints terminated by a BBC music lover.
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Ah well prompted GM!
Reminds me of my choice for
Thursday:
River Deep Mountain High - The Saints.
I wonder if still sounds as powerful today.
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You mean the planters down in Santos?
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WEDNESDAY
'Ride My See Saw' - The Moody Blues
'Made in the Shade' - Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Did I miss the Tube? Down in the subway ~ Soft Cell
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#124 - As this is the first ever Get it On Together, I`m surprised at the lack of numbers.
It cant be because its in Glasgow because the Hogmanay party looked pretty stowed out to me. (SG, perhaps you should have said there would be free Buckfast or something?)
Still, I`m sure BB, PM and/or Babs will make an appearance.
Why`s Headboy, JFE not going? Where does Glen Miller bide?
Next one needs tae be in Fife. EC/DC would be fine hosts.
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That you organising another party for someone Adam? No' like yersel! What about an invite tae Rio?
Great show tonight I thought. I'm glad someone pulled the plug on All Saints though caws it was an 88 rpm on my exercise bike job & I was nackered after 30 seconds.
Looking forward to tomorrow night's show. New Faces by the Stones HAS to be played. Bryan please take note - It's ages since you played any Rolling Stones!!!!
DC in Cellardyke
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There`s a standin invite, and well you know it, DC.
Anyway, I`m just sorry I`ll miss the cat fight between, Julie, Jan and Maria over the juke box with Norrie adjudicating, while Roxy John just acts cool at the corner of the bar.
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I wasn't expecting to get Amy Wino played - nice surprise.
WED:
'Blitzkrieg Bop', 'I Wanna Be Sedated', 'Sheena is a Punk Rocker', 'Judy is a Punk', etc. - Ramones (usually exactly the same "1-2-3-4" on every one!)
'Feelgood by Numbers', 'Hold Yr Terror Close' or 'Huddle Formation' - The GO! Team
(If indie bands were TV shows the 'Team would be Sesame St! I know 'Everyone's a VIP to Someone' is your end music but I don't think you've played them as part of the show before. Great fun live.)
'Jesus Don't Want me for a Sunbeam' + 'Dumb' - Nirvana (both have quiet count ins - from 'Unplugged in New York' album.)
'Dog's Got a Bone' - The Beta Band (nice acoustic number)
'Queen Bitch' - David Bowie (has a quiet "1, 2, bah, bah, dah, dah" before it kicks in.)
'The Number Song' - DJ Shadow ("1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - break down baby!". You should play more uptempo stuff, I think.)
#84 Apparently the song was on U2's 14th album so that might be why he jumps to 14. That or Bono needs to watch Dora the Explorer/Calle de Sesame!
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Count-In's Theme:
Going For The One - Yes
Waiting For The Big One - Peter Gabriel
Turn It On Again - Genesis
Black Horse And The Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall
Raspberry Beret - Prince
These are all from memory... fairly sure they all work! I had half a dozen more but eliminated them - these ones I think make the theme!
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Glenmiller - you're certainly not liking my suggestions this week :0) Wonder when I'll next get the Glenmiller seal of approval (if at all)? Must admit I wasn't too keen when I heard PM Dawn again, but I love that All Saints track.
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THURSDAY
'Layla' - Charlie Daniels Band
From the CDB album 'Renegade' this is a perfect song for tonight's theme.
If it doesn't get played, I'll eat my Stetson!
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Julie,
He's partial to brandy and babycham.
It'll cost you a fortune, but he'll be your best pal.
until he sobers up >8-D
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THURSDAY _ Unexpected Covers:
"When Will I See You Again" - Billy Bragg
"The Man In The Iron Mask" - Paul Young
"Sunshine Superman" - Mel Torme
"Comfortably Numb" - Scissor Sisters
I do like the Radio 1 Live Lounge covers:
"Love Machine" - Arctic Monkeys
"That's Not My Name" - Dizzee Rascal
"Push The Button" - Orson
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
PLEASE!!!!
NOT Comfortably Numb by Scissor Sisters!
DC in Cellardyke
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#147. Ha Ha - wondered who would be the first :0)
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THURSDAY:
I forgot to mention Nouvelle Vague's Bossa Nova version of The Cure's "A Forest" which sounds as if they recorded it in a rainforest. Some of their covers don't work that well but this one does.
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#149...though Glenmiller will probably disagree :0)
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#141 - Rhythm, except it was on their eleventh studio album.
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Julie # 148,
Don't do such things to me, my blood pressure can't cope! And I'm mot sure Bryan reads ALL the detail in the blog, so might just take you up on your suggestion!
DC
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Sorry DC - bet there'll be other requests via e-mails and texts for it anyway though. Hope you can stand the stress.
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Again, no doubt these will have come up previously:
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers: "Roadrunner (Twice)" (or Once, but I prefer Twice)
Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs: "Wooly Bully"
The Ramones: "Commando" (or almost everything they've ever done)
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Arrived late to the board this week and don't have time/can't be bothered reading all of the contributions from top to bottom. So sorry if these are repeats of others' suggestions.
Count - ins
Manfred Mann - 5 4 3 2 1
Covers
Liverpool 5 - I'm not your stepping stone
or
Sex Pistols - I'm not your stepping stone.
or
SAHB - Tomorrow belongs to me.
Cheers
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#151 Ah well he just can't count then. He should watch this - rock'n'roll counting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA
Didn't remember Jilted John sounding so like Adrian Mole.
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#149
I haven't heard it of course but your description leads me to believe that it is probably the sort of dispiriting drivel that destroys any vestiges of joy in your soul.
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Julie,
Your magnificent moustache must be bristling with indignation!
Jilted John was a low blow.
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#158 My comment or GIO playing the song?! It was still fair enough, just different to what I had in my head.
THU:
'Hand on Your Heart' - Jose Gonzalez
(he makes it his own so well that it really is a surprise when you twig which Aussie singer did it first!)
'(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' - Cat Power (ballad cover of Stones) or her version of 'Dead Leaves On The Dirty Ground' (White Stripes - see http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/atl/session_specific119485.shtml)
'Cold as Ice' - Sebadoh (acoustic cover of Foreigner)
'Gin and Juice' - The Gourds (indie cover of Snoop Doggy Dogg)
'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy' - RevCo (out-rocking Rod)
'Just' - Mark Ronson (Radiohead, if they'd been on Stax Records)
'I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself' - White Stripes (Dusty)
'Heard it Through the Grapevine' - The Slits (I know it was on girl band night but it's still brilliantly random. Marvin might not have been into it!)
'It's Not Over Yet' - The Klaxons (punk-ish cover of Grace dance track)
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Ava Maria ~ The West India Company
Ring of Fire ~ Wall of Voodoo
In a White Room ~ Hugh Cornwell
Hendrix Medley ~ Soft Cell
Aint no Sunshine ~ Horace Andy
These boots are made for walking ~ Symarip
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Thursday
Still want The Saints, River Deep Mountain High but there`s also
Smells Like A Teen Spirit - Paul Anka
and
Jolene - White Stripes
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#161 Not impressed by Anka - or his tan! Tori Amos's version is much better. Apparently Nirvana played it as their entrance music at some of their gigs! White Stripes would be good though.
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Surely it's more unexpected that the man who wrote My Way would cover Nirvana, regardless of his Tommy Sheridan impression.
Thursday
Dancing Queen - The Yayhoos - Abbamania reaches Georgia
Take a Letter Maria - The Pleasure Barons - The unique voice of C. D. Montana
Apache Drop Out - The Edgar Broughton Band - Particularly apt during this 50th anniversary year.
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Thursday:
Has to be 'Money (That's What I want)' by The Flying Lizards. Totally unexpected (at the time) cover of the Beatles song by the same name. Brilliant cover version. Let's get it on!
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For sure I would second Jim's Flying Lizards suggestion.
I would also like to suggest Jeff Buckley covering Led Zep's Night Flight.
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Totally looking forward to tonight's show - I'll be listening late at night (11:30pm kickoff) in India!
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Julie #153, the only thing that could be worse is Rolf Harris doing 'Stairway to Heaven'.
And NO Bryan, that is NOT a request
DC
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I'm not having a good week. I bet the fitba scores go against me on Saturday too...maybe I should just stay at home :0)
#158 - I hate that song. Liked hearing Brand New Tennessee Waltz though.
#160 - Good shout for the Horace Andy track.
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Re: #159
No, just an expression of solidarity with Julie.
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@169 Luther Wright and the Wrongs cover of Comfortably Numb infinitely better
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#170 Re: #169
You mean #146 ??
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#170. Oh Thank God for that! Bryan - please note :0)
#161. Harry Nilsson does a cover of "River Deep Mountain High" (but I'm scared to say whether or not I like it).
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Been far too busy this week so apologies if I repeat other people's posts, but fro a start I'm not sure what is meant by unusual covers. There are the truly bizarre and mostly garbage covers eg anything off the Pat Boone 'In a Metal Mood, No More Mr Nice Guy' or the Johnny Mathis cover of Nirvana. Then again there are the unexpected covers that actually work. Here memory has to come in as some are no longer seen as unusual. eg
Bryan Ferry - Hard Rain's A'gonna Fall and Bobby's Girl.
Having said all that, apart from Mr Ferry, to cheer up Roxyjohn how about the following which fall iinto either of the above descriptions of 'unusual';
Can't Take My Eyes off You - Muse
Pictures of Matchstick Men - Camper Van Beethoven
Mrs Robinson - Lemonheads
English Civil War - The Clash
Suspicious Minds - Fine Young Cannibals
My Way - Syd Vicious
Making Your Mind Up - Terrorvision
Viva Las vegas - Dead Kennedys
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix (yes it was thought to be unusual at the time)
Tiger Feet - Stiff Little Fingers
Whisky In the Jar - Thin Lizzy
Delilah - SAHB
As above some may not now be seen as that odd or strange, but they were when they came out. Anyway BTW
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COVERS -
I've unsuccessfully suggested Angelique Kidjo tracks a few times and I almost forgot her version of "Voodoo Chile" would fit tonight's theme.
Heard it first on the Janice Forsyth show and bought her The Best Of CD on the strength of it. Not everyone will like African music of course but this is a very listenable track. She also does a good version of "Summertime".
I know I seem to be getting suggestions for tonight in by stealth...not intentional.
I suppose, out of the ones I've suggested so far, my favourites would be the aforementioned "Voodoo Chile" because it just grabs you and has a great rhythm, and "Love Machine - Arctic Monkeys (just for the sheer fun of it).
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The Associates did a couple of weirdly good covers: "Heart of Glass" and "Love Hangover"
XTC's "All Along the Watchtower" - can't remember if this got played on Dylan night?
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Talking of Dylan, he does great versions of:
'Spanish is the loving tongue'
'Big Yellow Taxi'
'Ballad of Ira Hayes'
Hoppo, SAHB 'Delilah' and Sid Vicious 'My Way' excellent suggestions
DC in Cellardyke
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SAHB's version of 'Delilah' is great but has been played on GIO at least 2 or 3 times. SAHB's 'The Penthouse Tapes' album includes covers of 'Crazy Horses', 'Love Story (Jethro Tull), 'School's Out', 'Cheek to Cheek' and a great version Del Shannon's 'Runaway'.
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Julie re #177 agree about the SAHB covers, but my point earler was about the surprise / unusual element. Delilah seemed to come out of nowhere, but thereafter the likes of Runaway etc., were not seen as being unusual covers for SAHB. In my earlier post I referred to Ferry's cover of Hard Rain which again was a surprise at the time, but he has subsequently covered several Dylan songs. Having said all that I could happily second Runaway by SAHB for tonight.
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Mention of XTC reminded me that Love on a Farmboy's wages was covered by Scottish folk band The Poozies.
Well worth a play tonight
Jim
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Another folk cover was The Battlefield Band version of Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jim
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Danny Wilson did a cover of 'Knowing Me Knowing You'. I am sure it was on a CD single.
Def Leppard covered Roxy Music's Street Life and Charlie Hunter Featureing Norah Jones did a cover version of Roxy's More Than This' on an album called 'Songs From The Analouge Playground'. M-People did a version of Avalon (so did Iam MacShane [Lovejoy])
Men Without Hats of 'The Safety Dance' fame did a version of Editions Of You
Jazz veteren Jimmy Scott did a version of Ferry's ' Slave To Love' Bill Murray did 'More Than This' for the movie 'Lost In Translation' Punk Band Spizz Energi did a version of 'Virginia Plain' and Souixse And The Banshees did 'Sea Breezes' Roxy where a big influence on punk, honest!!
Jabe Birkin did a version of Roxy's In Every Dreamhome A Heartache'
Ferry himself has covered everything from 16th century Baroque music, Elvis, The Rolling Stones, Shakespeare, Jim Reeves, Kurt Wiell, The Beatles, Dylan, The Shirelles, Fontella Bass the list goes on. The intriguing thing about most of his covers is that they sound nothing like the original.
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Ideas keep popping into my head
Hue and Cry covered
The man with the child in his eye
Shipbuilding
and Elvis Costello sang She
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Harry, XTC's version of All Along The Watchtower was played on Dylan covers nigth as requested by me and AN Other, and went down like a lead balloon due to the live version being played and not the one off White Music. Andy Partridge played a moothie in the wrong key and it was at the time when he much prefered to employ the broken mike technique when singing! Not their best live performance!
Agree with Mrs Robinson by the Lemonheads, but we MUST have:
Lost in Music by The Fall
It is just outstanding!
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#172
Nae luck, eh?
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A great cover is Dolly Parton's 'Stairway To Heaven'.............. no kidding!!!!!
Roxy John
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Weird Cover Versions:
Virginia Plain - Spizz Energi
Livin' La Vida Loca - Ten Masked Men
Wonderful World - Joey Ramone
California Sun - Ramones
Eve of Destruction or Paranoid - The Dickies
Running Bear - SLF
1969 or Gimme Shelter - Sisters of Mercy.
Ali and the Winters
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I'd love to hear Dolly's Stairway to Heaven
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Dolly has two great covers.....
DC in Cellardyke
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There is absolutely nothing at all wrong with Rolf's version of Stairway To Heaven. I'd like to hear it. Also Cash's version of Personal Jesus is just brilliant. I really enjoyed hearing that!
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#189
Thank goodness for Dolly then
DC
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Would you believe that I've got a mashup involving the Dolly version of Stairway, The Beatles: Because and others?
http://djearworm.com/stairway-to-bootleg-heaven.htm
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I've heard that Flaming Lizards cover of "Money" a thousand times, and it still makes me laugh every time. I'm not sure whether I'm laughing WITH them or AT them, but either way, I'm laughing.
Meanwhile, I thought that version of "Hey Ya!" was fairly terrible. Anyone else?
Rich
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Oops, it would help if I'd typed "Flying Lizards" rather than "Flaming Lizards" (must've combined them w/ the Flaming Lips).
Rich
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How does that make you feel?
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Very, very ashamed, of course. But my excuse is that I was busy being traumatized by the combined awfulness of the "Hey Ya!" thing and the William Shatner thing.
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Tell me about your childhood......................
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Strangely enough, I'm in Glasgow on Saturday anyway so may try to drop in on the Tiwsted Wheel for a pre-wedding reception tincture.
What time were you all thinking of gathering? Anyone......
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Harry,
It's scheduled for 3 p.m. but RoxyJohn won't get there until 6'ish
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Cheers, S-G - hopefully join you for a couple at some point. Will I recognise youse by the moustachioed lady in green, wearing a big smile hopefully following the buddies being given a right doing?
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After all the comments this week I'm too scared to leave the house.
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