Next week's themes...
I know it's a wee bit premature but I thought I would get next week's themes up online tonight. Normally I do it from home on a Friday but this weekend I'm off to Manchester to watch the fastest man in the world run through the middle of town. I also have the best job in Scotland this week...hosting the Scottish Curry Awards. Dream gig or what?
Vic Galloway will be doing the show on Monday night and I'll be back on Tuesday -hopefully with some award winning onion bajhis as a carry out!
Monday:
As part of BBC Radio Scotland's Conan Doyle season, tonight's show is all about mysteries, whodunits and the people who solve them...
Tuesday:
Angel Of The Morning or Wake Up Boo? Tonight's Get It On is all about the hours before noon. What are your AM anthems? Get in touch and get them on...
Wednesday:
It's the Get It On bring and buy sale. What were your best charity shop finds and what were the albums that were so bad you gave them away? Why not leave a comment on the blog with your second-hand songs...
Thursday:
There will be no short of reading material on tonight's show. From Mirror,Mirror to Hello we'll be featuring the printed press. Newspapers and magazines in song is the theme. Get on the email with your suggestions...
© MMIX~RS~q~RS~~RS~z~RS~14~RS~)
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Monday
Will there be a man travelling up and down Baker Street making nightly broadcasts?
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I'm seeing double
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It would be appalingly remiss of me not get a shout in early for:
Iris DeMent - Let the Mystery Be
and it must be played
Toyah - It's A Mystery
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I'm going to state the obvious for Monday but, I don't care because it's one of my favourites - 'Whodunnit' by Tavares (and it mentions Ellery Queen...another favourite). Anything by Rebus McEntire too?
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Monday
Bhaji - Cream - Featuring L'Angelo Mysterioso
Searchin' - The Coasters
Peter Gunn Theme - Duane Eddy
Tuesday
Morning Dew - Tim Rose
Morning Glory - Blood Sweat and Tears
Wednesday
If We Never Meet Again - Roger McGuinn - Back From Rio - Bought on cassette in St. Andrews - a classic
Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye - I gave What's Going On away - I think it was a mistake
Thursday
The Daily Planet - Love
Like A Rolling Stone - The Rolling Stones
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you beat me to the blindingly obvious julie but a great track.
For monday
Back stabbers / O'Jays
Didn't I blow your Mind out / Delfonics
Change / River Detectives
Lookin for clues / Robert Palmer
Crime of the Century / supertramp
Sneakin Suspicion / Dr Feelgood
Would be happy with any of the above
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Paolo seeing double! Dont worry its only Thursday, triple by Sat. River Detetives! Great.
Peter Gunn Theme ' Every Breath You take - Henry Mancini / Police
Evidence - Boo Hewerdine and Darden Smith
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MONDAY
'Strange Phenomena' - Kate Bush
'Sister Josephine' - Jake Thackray
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TUESDAY
'First Thing In The Morning' - Kiki Dee
'Wake Up and Make Love With Me' - Ian Dury
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WEDNESDAY
'Bargain Store' - Dolly Parton
'Coming Around Again' - Carly Simon
Not sure if these songs match the theme, but it doesn't matter.
They've stopped playing my requests anyway.
melancholy git
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THURSDAY
'The Vatican Rag' - Tom Lehrer
>8-D
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#5 it was
#10 I'm on a barren run myself. Well not strictly true. They've been played but other folk get the credit for them.
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Watson, that cloud looks massive.
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#10. I do hope they play Bargain Store...or anything by Jake Thackray...or Burlesque by Family...which I'm sure I bought in an Oxfam shop ;0)
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Re: Photie
Is Sherlock trying to ignite his pipe wi' yon magnifying glass?
He should consult a matchmaker. After he's married, his wife will insist he gives up smoking.
Problem solved.
Pure elementary, by the way.
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#14
Aw, thanks Julie!
Gotta go. There's something in my eye...........................
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#15 My name is Julie from Edinburgh and I have been smoke-free for 12 days...and I am now even more grumpy than SG.
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#17
Julie,
This time tomorrow I'll hit sixteen weeks. Hang tough, it's worth it.
P.S. Grumpy is good. Avoid sanctimony. No-one likes lectures from an ex-smoker.
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Monday:
Anything by The Who
Preferably 'Baba O'Reilly'
Much better themes for this week by the way. Bryan is bhoona earn his bhaji of honour for this.
DC in Cellardyke
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Tuesday
Behind Blues - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
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#19
DC, you're not currying favour, perchance? ;-)
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DC - Who Are You would be good as it is also theme for CSI.
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Just checked in to see what's happening and haven't really thought about tracks for next week, but agree that It'th a Mythstery must be played - and besides MissBabs worried about me. Suddenly the sun is shining in my world. Roll on the weekend, last game of the season for the Locos. What am i going to do for the summer? I am being threatened by the two 'G's' of ageing, gardening and golf. Take me back to the days when a "mature woman" was in her late twenties, early thirties.
A good weekend to all.
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TUESDAY
Need cheering up? Determined to begin the day in a positive frame of mind?
You need ABBA in the morning! In the shower, singalongaABBA!
Listening to ABBA in the morning is not yet compulsory; but it should be!!
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#24
That's that bit near the end of Dante's Inferno, isn't it?
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#24 Now Agnetha and Anni-Frid in their prime, in the shower, now that would be singalongaABBA.
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Anni-Frid sings backing vocals on Adam Ants single Strip - great track.
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#25
The Can Can? Nah! That was Suzi Quatro.......................
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#26 Hoppo - what happened to self moderation??!!
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#29
S'ok. It was a cold shower!
>8-D
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#29 Temporary loss of control. I must self moderate, I must self moderate......
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#26
Wearing St Trinians uniforms?
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Monday
Rockwell - Somebody's watchin' me... LOL
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Monday
Barry Gray Orchestra - Mysterons Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV8YbLvGrb0&feature=PlayList&p=DAABE5E22366B1B4&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=19
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#32 Self moderate, self moderate...
On more mundane subjects,for Monday how about
Magical Mystery Tour - Beatles
Watching the detectives - Elvis Costello
Ocean Club - Yello (which if I recall correctly - and I really should have checked - had a sort of Sam Spade type talkig over the track)
and something by the Pigeon Detectives
slf moderate, self moderate.....St Trinians...self moderate, self moderate, I really mustbe going.
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Madmac - how about this one!
? and the mysterians - 96 Tears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkvK638yKuY
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#36
Norrie, that's going back a bit - I barely remember that one! I was thinking more along the lines of:
Private Investigations - Dire Straits
Witness - Cyndi Lauper
Ricky You Shouldn't Be Spying On Me - The Chubbies
Mysterious Ways - Toto
Mysterious Days - Sarah Brightman
False Evidence - Gregory Isaacs
Spying - Kris Jensen
:-)
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'Take me bak Holmes' - Slade....?
(It's that Friday afternoon thing)
DC
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#38
Or...
Watson's Blues - Doc Watson (it's a real tune!)
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Monday
"You Aint Seen Nothing Yet" - Bachman Turner Overdrive
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MONDAY
The Rockford Files (theme) - Mike Post and Pete Carpenter
Who Dunnit - Genesis
Hey Mr Policeman - Family
Call me a liar, or Officer Dan - Edgar Broughton Band
Night of the Pigs - Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come
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Monday whodunnit song:
'Let it bleed' - The Rolling Stones
Ian Rankine's great crime thriller is worthy of the same name as a classic Stones track. Of course there are others, but this is the one to play, so GET IT ON Vic!
DC in Cellardyke
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#36
Yip... The Stranglers cover got me cryin' at their long suffering demise >8-(
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Another shout for Monday:
Jack FROST & The Hooded Crow - Jethro Tull
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Of course Thompson Twins - We Are Detective qualifies twice.
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Monday
Hidden Ways - Idlewild
Meninblack - T.Stranglers
Cold Wars or Mystery Action - T.Rezillos
I Spy For the F.B.I. - T.Untouchables
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Anybody reckon we could get to 200 posts on the blog BEFORE Monday???!!!
Looks like a popular theme, and we haven't started on Tuesday etc yet!
Have a good weekend
DC in (wet n windy) Cellardyke
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DC is that 200 just me or collectively? ;o)
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Actually it is a really good theme because once you clever people started on the clever suggestions it opens up your mind to lots of others.
You Aint seen Nothing Yet, Rankin etc etc
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Never try lighting a pipe with a magnifying glass.
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#49 - Wasn't trying to be clever Norrie. I always request You Aint Seen Nothing Yet when Vic Smash & Nicey is on.
Does anyone remember a Barron Knights type of record where various 70s TV detectives are impersonated? I remember McCloud, Frank Cannon, Kojak, Colombo and Steve McGarrett were done on it.
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Adam - of course! Thats a double a side straight in at number one! Nice!
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"Pass me the violin, Watson.
The Stones want me on Sister Morphine and Jim's busy."
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#53 "As i fall to the floor Gimme more Gimme more".
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#53
Elimentar, Watson!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2emcWHVULE
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Poliiiiiiiiiiiice release me, let me go.................
DC
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I used to think Humperdink was a choice between two really brilliant things until I discovered Smirnoff.
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Was there a Maggie Bell track as theme to Taggart or something like that?
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#58
Yes, it's called No Mean City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfigat_jnBE
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#58, "No Mean City" Norrie, I remember being slightly disappointed by the single because it didn't sound exactly like the version from the show at the time (which I really liked).
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#51. Adam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlcfEBHUtzI
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#60
Maggie moved to Holland for many years after recording both the single and the cut-down version for the TV show. Since then she has produced a couple of different versions but they are hard to find. I am hoping she will play live in Scotland soon as it would be good to hear her again. I do know she is back in the business and still has a superb voice.
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Thanks guys - I do remember the song and it would be very fitting for the theme.
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Julie did you actually remember that episode??
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#63
You could also go for Hold Me - BA Robertson and Maggie Bell
after all - what do you do with the crims once you've caught them? ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHf1izCZ_Fs
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#64. Googles great innit...Midge Ure is so baby-faced too isn't he.
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Oh Julie I've never used it!! Aye right!
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Maggie Bell
Spooky..Half an hour ago I was listening to her belt out 'Wishing Well' with the Hamburg Blues Band,,,Nice .
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#62 Jim etc, check this:
http://www.mundellmusic.com/events.php?id=660
This is a wee Inn less than seven miles up the road from here and absolutely nothing around it other than fields. The guy who owns it has done a lot to promote music over the years, indeed the late great John Martyn had agreed to play at Lathones and then came the news of John's untimely departure.
I tried to get tickets for Maggie Bell(the audience is about forty or less!) but they had gone within seconds of going on sale.
Maggie performs still, but not in any Mean City!!
DC in Cellardyke
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DC that place has pure hunners of outstanding gigs - I have been looking at its listings since the hotel which escapes me at the moment stopped but its just that wee bit further. My brother lives not that far away but.....nah! Glenfarg! Thats it Glenfarg Hotel.
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#69. Has the venue taken over from The Bein Inn? Same acts. Nine Below Zero would be grrreat...next GIOgettogether?
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Beinn Inn thats it......its late. Well done Julie. Saw a few people there Rod Picott was particularly memorable.
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#69 Dunfermline, ah kain
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#70. I hadn't even seen that post when I wrote mine...snap!
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#73... where?????
That's near your side o' the country?
The whole Inn at Lathones is so small that you could fit it inside the front foyer of the SECC. And as I said, there's nothing there other than an Inn.
Glenfarg has a similar reputation. My brother went to see Nazareth there & booked in for the night. It ended up my bro & Dan McCafferty in the bar chewing the fat until 6 am. I'm really jelous caws I was the Nazareth fan in the family!!!
Lathones could be a good idea for a GIO get together but there's a wee bit walk to the next campsite!
DC
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I worked with Dan's sister in law and have also met the Band, so what!
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WOW!!!!
;-)
DC
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What was Robbie Robertson like?
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Nah Glen you would not want to meet him he is crazy. I saw him somewhere down by the white cart.
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#77
Knew you'd be impressed, GTG
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#80 Still can't beliieve it....
;-)
DC
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#78
Dunno? Jaime
BCNU
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Another one for monday in honour of the greatest detective who ever lived
Just one more thing....Sarah Groves
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why is it detectives in hollywood movies can only solve murders when they've been taken off the case or suspended from duty?
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#81
Not every Fifer keeps to the Kingdom... some have the inclination & or temerity to leave during their life time.
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#84 it is because they are not bogged down with filing paperwork you see. Oh and they can bend the rules break in to places, drink whisky from a bottle in a brown paper bag, have bruce blasting from the stereo. And have girls ~ Hoppo will confirm the benefit of this last point.
But mostly the paperwork.
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Mysteries:
'Sinking' by Alabama 3 mentions the Mary Celeste.
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#86 Ah but they don't get to eat doughnuts on a stakeout.. How can they think straight without their doughnuts.
Someone once told me the best thing about working for the Polis is that the customer is always wrong.
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There is a hole in your argument about the doughnuts but I just cant put my finger on it....
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#83
yet another for the greatest detective who ever lived
An old raincoat won't ever let you down / Rod Stewart
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#84 & #86, and why when they stp their big gas guzzlin cars, do the vehicles always take a wee lurch forward? (Someone will no doubt have a sensible answer...)
Unlike
#85 missin you already...
:-0
DC
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Monday:
Watching the Detectives' - Elvis Costello
DC
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#91
and when chasing criminals in their big gas guzzlers, do they get extra points for turning down a back alley and taking out a pile of cardboard boxes
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#89
Not too good with women then... ;-)
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Oh Jim! Tsk tsk!!
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Best cop chase ever on foot. TJ Hooker giving a fit youth a hundred yards start and chasing him across roads over fences down embankments and across bridges and catching him without a hair on his toupe out of place. At least Frank Cannon had the good grace to mop his brow when he ran.
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#93..... which had been chucked out of dodgy Italian bars, owned by small, balding, fat guys with moustaches, wearing white aprons and speaking loudly about mamma, whilst surrounded by their 'minders' toting Armani suits and Versace shades.
The good guys (who were really corrupt) dived over the bonnet of their cars (the hood if you're Rich in NC or Danielle in Canada) and into the car, as somneone sounded 'Dixie' on the horn, to be served a huge pepperoni pizza with fries and a side salad 'to go' by Daisy Duke in hotpants (cue Hoppo...) whilst Boss Hogg uttered 'Enos you dipstick!'
Jeez, my whole life just flashed before my eyes just now....
DC
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Yes but Ironside would have sorted it without even having to leave his apartment!
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#that's cos the lift was out of order
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and that's 100 posts and it's not properly saturday yet so I'm off to bed.....gonna creep through the house without turning any lights on so that if there's any bad people I won't be able to see them.
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#97
I like that bit when David Soul 'bottoms' onto the hood of the car when running out of a building chasing a perp...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SS3b9coJ2M
Apparently he really did do homself a mischief when he landed. Makes my eyes water severely every time I see it!
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#98
But he was secretly Perry Mason all along!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCaCXXCM42Y&feature=related
MUAH HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
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Some people! Honestly, not bad enough that he got shot in the spine and now you are trying to make out he was someone else.
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Yes and he also had the best music....Quincy Jones no less!
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#104
Not forgetting Lalo Schifrin's amazing score for Bullitt as well - the now famous 'chase' theme, Shifting Gears, is brilliant.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAGL8C9y8bg
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#103 but you'd instantly recognise the brrrrnnnnnnnngggg of the San Fransisco phone, which the coloured guy with the mop-top would answer, while his wife was silently dusting in the background. Meanwhile, his partner (who had been secretly sleeping with the voluptuous blond) (cue Hoppo) (who was actually the villain pimp's mistress) would slide down the drainpipe of the cedar-fronted semi on the street at the top of the hills in that town.
You can hear the growl of the Mustang from eight blocks away as Pop Idol Popye Doyle dons his hat and climbs in beside Steve McQueen.....
The chase ensues.(TBC)
'Dancing in the Dark' by the Boss comes on the wireless, aka radio.
Some coincidence, because that's what I'm listening to just now....
:-0
DC
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#107
Cedar-fronted semi? Cue Hoppo again...
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'There's been a murdir'.
Cue Maggie Bell
Hoppo might be on the fringes; we should be telt....
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Morning all.
Thoughts for the coming week:
Mystery
Happy to endorse:
Watching the detectives - Elvis Costello
Let the mystery be - Iris DeMent
Sweet Mysteries - Kim Richey
Sweet Little Mystery - Wet Wet Wet
The meaning of life - Gretchen Peters
Suspicious minds - Dwight Yoakum
One way or another - Blondie
Mornings
Wake Up - Arcade Fire
If I had words - Scott Fitzgerald/ Yvonne Keeley
It's just another morning here - Nanci Griffiths
When the morning comes - Hall and Oates
Morningtown ride - Seekers (for intro-mix)
Mornings eleven - Magic Numbers
Morning sunshine - Cerys Matthews
Morning has broken - Cat Stevens
Bring and buy sale
Struggled with this................
Baby I'm a fool - Melody Gardot (which I encountered as a free download of the week from iTunes - does this count?)
Have a liittle faith in me - Jewel (loved this version from the Phenomenon sountrack, but when I bought one of her CDs it was dire)
Newspaper and magazines
Don't let the SUN go down on me - George Michael/Elton John
RED dirt girl - Emmylou Harris
PRIVATE EYEs - Hall and Oates
PEOPLE help the people - Cherry Ghost
Don't believe a WORD - Thin Lizzy
Miss Grace - The TIMES
Knock three TIMES - Tony Orlando and Dawn (for into-mix)
The Story - Brandi Carlile
Writing to reach you - Travis
Have a good weekend.
Joe
Linlithgow
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#107
Always a great pub quiz question...who won an oscar playing popeye?
Folk usually start throwing things when you remind them it was Gene Hackman.
Just got up and in keeping with the thread, went into the kitchen opened the fridge door , looked inside closed it and walked away.
.
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#108 I really did laugh out loud, not something I do often!
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#85
The correct answer is Ian Anderson. Or flute. Maybe, Jethro Tull. Black Russian?!?
What was the question?
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Monday - Mystery/Whodunnits/Detectives:
Whodunnit - The Reindeer Section
Looking For Clues - Robert Palmer
Private Investigations - Dire Straits
A Clue - Boz Scaggs
Everybody's Got To Be Tried - Blind Joe TAGGART
Witness - Cyndi Lauper
Ricky You Shouldn't Be Spying On Me - The Chubbies
Mysterious Ways - Toto
Jack FROST & The Hooded Crow - Jethro Tull
False Evidence - Gregory Isaacs
Spying - Kris Jensen
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Tuesday - AM Anthems:
I Hate Getting Up In The Morning - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates (start the show with this!)
Get Up - Mike & The Mechanics
Somewhere Between Waking And Sleeping - Air
Fear Of Sleep - The Strokes
Woke Up This Morning - Gary Moore
Tired Of Sleeping - Suzanne Vega
Delta Dawn - Helen Reddy
Get Up - R.E.M.
Woke Up New - The Mountain Goats
I'll Arise - Nils Lofgren
Insomnia - Wishbone Ash
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Thursday - Newspapers & Magazines:
Mr. Reporter - The Kinks
Turn The Page - Terence Trent D'Arby
News - Dire Straits
Black And White - Todd Rundgren
People's Friend - Magna Carta
Headline News - Edwin Starr
Yesterday's Newspaper - Eddie Rambeau
Funny Papers - Dean Friedman
Here's Where The Story Ends - The Sundays
Paparazzi On Mopeds - The Cranberries
Classifieds - The Academy Is...
We Are The People - Empire Of The Sun
Jackie - Scott Walker
Digest Myself - The Jersey Line
Just For The Record - Marillion
Dangerous Times - Cher
Death To The Printed World - Gerry Goffin
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#112
Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood
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Thursday
Hustler's story. Notorious Big
Playboy. Lloyd Banks
Dear Penthouse. Rodney Carrington
Razzle Dazzle Rose. Camera Obscura
Mayfair Song. Air
Escort You. Craig David
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Determined to get the Jayhawks played !
Monday - Broken harpoon or I'd run away
Tuesday - Bad time, I'd run away or waiting for the sun
Wed - All the right reasons or You look so young
Thurs - Standing in the sun all day
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Johnny maybe they could play Behind Bars from the first album which I certainly have never heard (the album) as I think it was deleted pretty quickly?
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THURSDAY
'Razzle in my Pocket' - Ian Dury & The Blockheads
A quirky wee song, perfect for this theme.
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Scotch!! - I was thinking more along the lines of News of the World by The Jam but there seems to be a theme all of its own developing! That is a great early Jam track.
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'EXPRESS Yourself' - NWA, 'Sunday Papers' - Joe Jackson, 'If you buy this RECORD your life will be better' - Tampera, 'Just One LOOK' - The Hollies, 'Even the bad TIMES are good' - The Tremeloes, 'Movie STAR' - Harpo...I feel a long list coming on.
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Monday
Mystery Song - Status Quo
One of their better hooks.
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#61 - That was it Julie! Awful.
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#125
I was digging it! :-)
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For Monday:
Obviously Radio Scotland can't do a Sherlock Holmes themed night without Gerry Rafferty and "Baker Street", but how about some other sleuthing suggestions?
Private Investigations- Dire Straits
Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello
Theme from Shaft - Issac Hayes (another must have)
Did She Fall or Was She Pushed? - Richard and Linda Thomson
State Trooper - Bruce Springsteen or Steve Earle cover
I Shot the Sheriff - Bob Marley
King of the Cops - can't remember who did it, but it was an impressionist who managed to cram in every US early 1970s TV 'tec: McCloud, Columbo, Frank Cannon, Kojak and Steve McGarret from Hawaii 5-O (there's another theme you should play, by the way), who got the best line: "I've come in from Hawaii." "Honolulu?" "No, on a surfboard" Priceless.
(Mike)Hammer to Fall- (Ellery) Queen
Cocaine - Eric Clapton or JJ Cale (after Holmes' favourite tipple)
Finally, if you are dealing with Holmes, how about a shout out for the second greatest Edinburgh connected detective with "The Haunting of John Rebus (John Rebus' Blues) to be found on the album "Jackie Levin Said" by Jackie Leven and Ian Rankin - it's OK. Ian, doesn't actually sing.
PS: It might fit in with the theme, but on NO account are you to play Telly Savalas' verision of "If"
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#127
I will second said banning of the Telly. After all, this is radio.
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State Trooper is a brilliant suggestion. Love the Cowboy Junkies version of this too.
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#129
Norrie - What about Steve Earle's version? I like that one.
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Good call Jim - Steve Earle does do a brillaint version of this and of course Nebraska.
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How about ABBA Super Trouper? LOL
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Now we are talking Jan!
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TUESDAY
'Sun Arise' - Rolf Harris
Amazed no-one has asked for this. Perhaps it's just too obvious.
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THURSDAY
'Gimme Back My Bullets' - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Ronnie Van Zant has a wee rant! (at journalists).
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MYSTERIOUS MONDAY THEME
the headlines read that a boy disappeared. was the mystery from the song
"Angie Baby" by Helen Reddy
Had there been a murdur?
Dont think so, but the thing that mystified me was just what exactly Angie did to the bloke next door? Did she use her supernatural powers to reduce the poor chap down to the size of an insect, as in Honey, I shrunk the kids and then hide him inside the radio?
If so, how was he then able to satisfy her?
Ah think we need to be tellt.
PH
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#136. That's spooky Paul. I'd been composing a post, including 'Angie Baby' - not having seen your post. I hit the backspace button by mistake, losing what I'd typed then discovered you'd posted about the same track in the meantime...cue twighlight zone music :0)
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#136
Paul,
Just put it down to artistic licence, or mind altering substances.
Also, don't be so obsessed with size. Women don't care. Really. I have been told this many times, along with 'Oh, this happens to every guy occasionally' and 'Honestly, it's not a big deal. I only wanted a cuddle anyway'
Don't worry so much. Ah'll keep ye right!
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#137, Julie it can be very frustrating, I had the same experience when replying to Norrie's question about Taggart. I previewed it and all was fine, but by the time I hit the post comment button JFE had got the answer in first!
#138, Scotch that's a great comfort! Always good to know that GIO bloggers have the answers!
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It's a mystery where Bryan Burnett will really be on Monday...he's not hosting the curry awards at all...some bloke from London is doing it instead http://www.ilovecurry.info/09/news.html
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So he's feeding us a pack o' ra lies? Maybe he's away to see a chap at is house...
:-0
DC
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Imagine them making a typo - ridiculous.
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Monady's mysteries
Who knows what evil lies in the hearts of men. According to The Coasters The Shadow knows.
The Shadows recorded "Man of Mystery"
Tuesday AM songs
Aztec Cameron sing Faron Young Four in the morning which refers to faron Young's song Four in the morning.
Either will Do
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And FBI.
Do you think the curries are rehearsing acceptance speeches tonight?
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Tuesday
Early in the morning. Bottle Rockets
Rise up like the Sun. Robin Trower
Tell me where you stayed last night. Mance Lipscomb
Gridlock. Warren Zevon
Many are called,But few get up. Man
As long as I can see the light. Creedence Clearwater Revival
I'm so tired. The Beatles
Here comes the Sun. The Beatles
No cause for alarm. Dick Gaughan
11 O'Clock Tick Tock. U2
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#144
KORMAwn now, that would be PERI PERI difficult to believe... Maybe some of the shy ones will send their NAAN to collect their prize. However, it will be a long night - I just hope Bryan doesn't start to SAAG. He will need to keep his energy levels up - we can't have the MC for the evening DOPIAZA Real Radio presenter! If he's also the DJ for the evening's festivities after the awards, might I suggest PASANDA Dutchie Down De Left Hand Side?
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Tikka Breath - David Gilmour
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Johnnynearduns check out this very exciting news!!
http://www.jayhawksfanpage.com/news/news.html
http://addictedtovinyl.com/blog/2009/05/17/catalog-reissues-anthology-due-from-the-jayhawks/
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Gosht! Bryan isn't presenting the show after all? I widnae aloo that! Gie him the saag!
DC
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Some more for tonight
DIRTY HARRY / Gorillas
Start Talking Love / MAGNUM
Have you seen her / MC HAMMER
Him / Rupert HOLMES
Hey Big SPENDER / Shirley Bassey
CANNON ball / Damien Rice
the FLETCHER memorial home / Pink Floyd
Only one woman / the MARPLES (sorry)
the wheels on REBUS go round n round / Singing Kettle (Even more sorry)
off the wall / miKOJAKson (aye awright then i'll get ma coat)
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IT'S A MYSTERY....................
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson went camping. Having hiked all day, they pitched camp, had a late supper, then fell asleep.
Some hours later, Holmes awoke and nudged his faithful friend.
"Watson, look up and tell me what you see."
Watson gazed upwards. "I see millions and millions of stars."
"And what does that tell you?" asked Holmes.
Watson gathered his thoughts. "Well, astronomically it tells me that there are many galaxies and, potentially, many planets capable of supporting life. Astrologically I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Chronographically, I deduce that the time is 20 past 3, give or take a minute. Cosmologically, I recognise our insignificance. Meteorologically, I suspect that we will enjoy a beautiful day after sunrise. What does it tell you, Holmes?"
Holmes was silent for a moment, then sighed.
"Watson, you numpty! Some git has stolen our tent!!"
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#91
DC,
I shall attempt to answer your question, despite my tendency towards sciolistic rambling.
In the U.S. almost every car is fitted with an automatic gearbox. The gear-selector has a 'Park' option, which means the handbrake is almost never used. In fact they,(North Americans), refer to the handbrake as the 'Emergency Brake.'
Now, imagine parking your car without utilising the handbrake, i.e. leave it in gear. You too will experience the wee lurch of which you speak.
That is my theory. No doubt Rich or Danielle will correct me in due course.
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A farmer sees three guys breaking into one of his outhouses and phones the police who tell him they may be awhile as they don't have a patrol in his area. The farmer hangs up waits 5 minutes and phones back. Forget it it's ok I've shot them all. Within minutes there's a helicopter a SWAT team and 4 police cars and they catch the burglars red handed. One of the police approaches the farmer and says ''I thought you said you shot them''. 'Well' said the farmer, 'And I thought you said there was noone available'
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#151, Not necessarily stolen Scotch, they might have been on a sunny island in the Atlantic where the disappearance of their tent could be explained by....
Barry Manilow in "Bermuda Triangle"
#153 Nice one Paulo, that's the way to get some attention!
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oh just one more thing.....
Police are called to a murder scene on a golf course and see a man brandishing a bloody golf club beside the body of a woman.
'Is this your wife' asked the detective
'Yes ' answered the guy
'And did you kill her with this golf club'
'yes I'm afraid so' says the guy wiping away a tear.
'How many times did you hit her'
'Dunno' said the golfer 'five maybe six. Put me down for a five'.
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If police and crimes count then
The Clash - Somebody Got Murdered
The Clash - Police & Thieves
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#156 Agreed, if we are just having police and crime then along with State Trooper I think we should have Johnny 99 and Nebraska from Bruce, but not really msteries are they.
And for info self moderation is working well so far this week.
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#157
Hoppo - check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rmoyN-zIVk
Still self-moderating? ;-)
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No doubt Toyah's "Its a Mystery" will get played this evening and quite rightly so. Curiously that song was released on an EP along with 3 others, one being "Angels and Demons" which is kind of topical and also fits tonights theme.
Toyah of course raged and rebelled through the 80s with lines like...
I'm going to turn this world inside out
I'm going to turn suburbia upside down
I'm going to walk the streets, scream and shout
I'm going to crawl through the alleyways, being very loud
...before becoming a Teletubbie in the 90s.
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#158
Coping well, is it me or there something about 70's american shows like that where there are good looking women wearing skimpy clothes and all the ingredients are there, but it just doesn't quite work. They are trying a bit too hard and at the same time still trying to meet a family audience. The likes of HBO with the Sopranos etc., was a long way off. I better stop as I can tell where this will lead.
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#160
I didn't even know that 'police-sploitation' was a movie genre until I discovered Smirnoff.
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To solve my mystery I would bring in the Police(every breath you take)
Gordon,Kirrie
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#161
did you know if you text the word smirnoff in a predictive texting phone it comes out as poisoned. I only found out after texting someone thanking them for the bottle of poisoned they left me after a petit soiree at mine
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Working on mysteries without any clues
Working on the Night Moves
A bit of Bob Seger would go be nice.
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#164 brilliant hoppo. I've got a Bob Seger one myself for thu which I'll post later
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Hoppo an inspiring suggestion,
The Mystery - Van Morrison, great track.
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#154
Paul,
Barry Manilow, wee Caribbean triangles, I sense deep trauma.
Was her name Lola?
Was she a showgirl?
In my opinion, you must undergo a period of self moderation.
Self moderation is not my department, therefore you must consult Dr. Hoppo.
N.B. Nurse Babs is not to be mentioned.
(This prohibition includes Babs Windsor and Babs Wallace).
Worry not, young Paul. Dr. Hoppo is very thorough.
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TUESDAY MORNING THEME
#167, Scotch your right Im deeply troubled, the first thing that came into my head for tomorrows prog was
Wondrous Stories Yes (I awoke this morning love laid me down by the river)
very beguiling thought that! Have we ever had a YES track played on GIO?
And then..
One morning I woke up and I knew you were really gone Carry On - CSNY
Dunno what Hoppo would make of all this!
My other problem is that I have too many suggestions, but what the heck
Meet me in the Morning Bob Dylan ..great bluesy number from Blood on the Tracks(never heard it on radio!)
Star of Bethlehem Neil Young ..aint it funny when you wake up in the morning(never heard it on the wireless!)
Say a little prayer Aretha Franklin ( the moment I wake up) .. OK its tenuous but its a track that should be played whenever possible.
Daylight Katy Gordon Lightfoot (.. have we ever had Gordon?)
Sunday Shining - Finlay Quaye (as the morning gathers a rainbow) Have we ever etc.?
ALSO on the subject of Babs, Im thinking Babs Eden I Dream of Jeannie !!
PH
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also, I see copy & pasting causes some problems... must do better
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OK, I'll ask for it, but I can see the PCPC's moving in....
If Bryan has been adjudicating at the Curry Show, will the first song he thinks of Tuesday morning be 'Ring of Fire' by Johnny Cash?
I think we should NOT be telt.....
DC
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#168. Diana King's reggae version of 'Say a little prayer' is worth a listen. Like your suggestions for Gordon Lightfoot and Finlay Quaye.
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#170
'All Things Must Pass' - George Harrison
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#170 - could play 'Run For Home' again.
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Run: Snow Patrol
Run: Pink Floyd
Run run away: Slade
Right, thats us all got the runs....
DC
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#170, #174
Montezuma's Revenge - The Shadows
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Shadows/_/Montezuma%27s+Revenge
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Angel of The Morning - pp arnold, wonderful version
When My Morning Comes Around - Iris DeMent
Morning Is My Destination - Tift Merrit, love this track and great artist
The Last Thing I Needed, The First Thing This Morning - Willie Nelson
It's Just Anither Morning here - Nanci Griffith
That is a seriously good list of songs and I have not even said the obviosu Cowboy Junkies one as it was played a few weeks ago.
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Did Chip Taylor ever record 'Angel of the Morning' ?
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Ah young Scotch he did and If i am not mistaken he has only released i=a version much later but ....you will like this....with Carrie Rodreguiz. They have an ep simply called Angel of The Morning, dont have it unfortunately.
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Scotch - this is the best I could come up with...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCquybBGwpI
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But I wanna know for sure.
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Glen you are a wildthing!
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4387440182588574675
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Thanks, Norrie. I'd never heard Chip perform the song before.
Is it my imagination, or did that remind you of Carrie on stage with Mary Gauthier?
Spooky!
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#182
Glen,
You couldn't find The Goodies?!?
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>8-D
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#182
That was goodie.
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#167 Nurse Babs!!!!!! My self moderation is being stretched to breaking point.
Mornings:
Angel of the Morning - Bettye Swan
Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judie Tzuke
Good Morning / I'm Only Sleeping - Beatles
New Morning / Hey Mr Tamborine Man / Meet Me in the Morning - Bob Dylan
Tequile Sunrise - Eagles
I will abandon my desk and now pop downstairs to have a very cold shower.
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Well it IS the morning and I'm completely devoid of new ideas, probably just as well, maybe an early rise is the cure!
#187 Hoppo, I like Judie Tzuke, haven't heard that in years.
#171 Julie, thanks for your comments, I'm up for hearing Diana King , I don't know it but it's always good to hear another version on frequently played songs.
PH
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Some suggestions for 'Morning' tunes:
From the Morning: Nick Drake
Morning has Broken: Cat Stevens
This Side of the Morning: Del Amitri
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Morning Bryan
Remains of a cold curry for breakfast was it?
Aah the good old student days!
Some morning songs for tonight
Wake Up Everybody / Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes
Teddy Pendergrast's smooth vocals with a message for the world
Morning Glory / James & Bobby Purify
A joyous wee song especially when the sun's shining (he blogs as the rain trickles down the window pain)
Gone Forever / Cry Before Dawn
Big radio hit from 87 from a much underrated Irish band. Unfortunately this was the time that Stock Aitken & Watermelon strangled the quality out of the charts and this was one of the ones that got away.
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TUESDAY (Morning tunes)
Mr 'AM' himself Andy Mackay has a track called "Hour Before Dawn" on his album "In Search Of Eddie Riff"
J.O'B.
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Get the vurry jokes out on the table. The top 35 in fact
35. Poppadum Preach - Madonna
34. Korma Chameleon - Culture Club
33. Bhaji Trousers - Madness
32. King Prawn Massala Drinks Are Free - Wham
31. Dansak Queen - Abba
30. Korma People - Pulp
29. Tikka Chance On Me - Abba
28. When I Phall in Love - Nat King Cole
27. You Can't Curry Love - Diana Ross and the Supremes
26. Korma Police - Radiohead
25. Things Can Only Get Bhuna - D:Ream
24. Tears On My Pilau - Kylie Minogue
23. It's Bhuna Hard Days Night - The Beatles
22. Brothers in Naans - Dire Straits
21. Girlfriend in a Korma - The Smiths
20. Pilau Talk - Doris Day
19. It's My Chapati and I Cry If I Want To - Dave Stewart/Barbara Gaskin
18. I'm a Bhaji Girl - Aqua
17. Sag Aloo - Black lace
16. Take That and Chapati - Take That
15. Bhuna Round The World and I Can't Find My Bhaji - Lisa Stansfield
14. I Don't Want To Dansak - Eddie Grant
13. Dansak on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie
12. We Are Jalfrezi - Sister Sledge
11. Vindaloo - Abba
10. I Don't Want to Go to Chutney - Elvis Costello
9. Rice Rice Baby - Vanilla Rice
8. Jalfrezi Jalfrezi Nights - Kiss
7. Tandoori Deliver - Adam and the Ants
6. Love me Tandoor -- Elvis Presley
5. We Don't Have to Tikka Clothes Off - Jermaine Jackson
4. Bye Bye Balti - Bay City Rollers
3. Bhuna to be Wild - Steppenwolf
2. Livin' Dhal - Cliff Richard
1. Raita Here, Raita Now - Fatboy Slim
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That should of course be 'curry' jokes
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#192
Vurry good
:-0
DC
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#193
Yeah. You'll have to type it all again. Bummer.
>8-D
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Not my favourite genre, but there must be hunners of Blues songs which begin
"Well, I Woke Up This Mornin', The Curry Was Mingin', So I Ate It For Brekkie, Washed Doon Wi' A Lager............"
sorry, got a wee bit carried away.......................................
......................................Ah'll get mah coat.................
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Neil Diamond,Chelsea Morning
Gordon,Kirrie
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BRING ME THE NAAN BREAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA!
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I think the esteemed presenter will have been pretty impressed with the performance of Mr Bolt (Usain not Berniethe) in mancheseter. Crikey that boy can shift.
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#196, 'I got the curry blues'
Away to a meeting but I'll use my time at said meeting constructively...
DC
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Well I woke up this morning, I knew what I had to do
When I woke up this morning, I knew what I had to do
When I got outa my bed
Id head straight for the loo
See last night was, a real big occasion
No workin for me, at the radio station
Handin out awards, for me that was the deal.
And then I gotta eat.. a graayyyyt curry meal
Madras and Pilau, Dhansak and Vindaloo,
Jalfreizi with Yogurt, try out something new
Lamb Rogan Josh, is mah favourite curry,
I need a fourth helping, so Id better hurry
But overnight came, that feared Deil o Dheli
Theres a fire in mah body, right here in mah belly
It aint no problem, I have no doubt,
Whats inside aint good, I gotta let it out
Well I woke up this mornin, I really couldnt think
Twelve pints of lager, in each pub I had a drink
That bomb inside just gotta be defused
Caws last night has given me.
The twelve bar loos..
:-)
DC
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#201
Brilliant! BB and tonight's producer - PLEASE read this out on the show!
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Anything by The Four Cops.
Baby I Need your Lovin'
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Girlfriend in a Korma - brilliant but no need to provide BB any more excuses to play more Smiths.
Rest of the list is tremendous.
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A quick clarification of tonight's theme and Thursday's would be helpful. Vic put a different spin on them last night.
My shouts for Thursday:
WOMAN - John Lennon
JACKIE Wilson Says - Dexys
Dont LOOK Back IN Anger - Oasis
Carry On My Wayward SUN - Kansas
Power To All Our PEOPLE'S FRIENDS - Cliff
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Looking forward to tonights show but wonder why there have been a lack of second hand suggestions? Are we all waiting till Wed or is there a general lack of enthusiasm?
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#206
Wednesday - Charity Shop Finds:
I had to think about that theme for a while as I have bought SO MANY CD's and records from second hand shops over the years from Oxfam to Lost In Music in Glasgow that it is almost impossible to pick one out! So I am going to go for the very first CD mini single that I ever came across - Peaches En Regalia by Frank Zappa. Brilliant track - starts with a bang after the energetic drum intro and drives hard all the way to the end with a level of 60's joyous enthusiasm that cannot be matched! It is also perhaps his most radio friendly and accessible track. Let's get it on!
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#206 Ach nobody wants Second Hand News.....
:-)
DC
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we all like to dream and second hand news comes before dreams
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For Tuesday
After Midnight ............J J Cale
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Emdy remember ten to eight by David Castle. there's a morning song
'Brush your hair to the rhythm of the music playin on the radio
paint your face while you listen to the talking of the jockey on the early morning show'
Total cheese but a guilty pleasure.
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Well there you go. All that work Hoppo, and neither of us got a mention.
Hope Bryan plays 'Second Hand News' by Fleetwood Mac Wednesday night to make up
DC in Cellardyke
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#212, Good shout DC, they might need that one if I'm anything to go by because it's basically Sales 2 : Buys 1. Yes not much to talk about - Norrie #206.
Ironically after the last song tonight one of only two albums I got rid of was by Supertramp, it was the one with "Monday" on it. Can't remember any of the other tracks, which might explain why I ditched it.
The place was Edinburgh Record Exchange in the early 80s ( I think that's what it was called). The other was a Barclay Jame Harvest thing with an Owl on the front.
Just needed the cash as I was a poor student stranded in the Capital.
Had to wait a few decades before buying anything and the only one was a single by Prince - "Money Don't Matter Tonight"
Got it bizarrely at Culzean Castle book shop for about 20p. Just as well my old Garrard deck still works. It's the same on I played the aforementioned albums on!
PH
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#212 Can't see why DC. It has nothing to do with the theme. (Unless you bought Rumours at the WRI Bring & Buy in Anster Toon Hall).
Then again given the reponse they might have to.
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#213
Paul - is that the wee record shop that was kinda on the corner of Princes Street near Haymarket? I used to always visit that shop every time I went to Edinburgh. It was always the best way to be, err... 'getting off at Haymarket...' ;-)
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#214 Adam, I quote from above...
"Why not leave a comment on the blog with your second-hand songs...", hence 'Second hand news'. OK, if we look at the first part of the theme, you're right (unusually...).
I bought five cassette tapes for my first albums and these were quite a mixed bunch:
'Me and Bobby McGee' - Kris Kristofferson
'After the gold rush' - Neil Young
'Billion Dollar Babies' - Alice Cooper
'Stones' - Neil Diamond
and an instantly forgettable album by John Denver (OK, I was only twelve at the time...)
I sold them all (apart from JD) to a pal who had a love for fast cars and music and I went on to buy vinyl LPs for the next fifteen years or so. I eventually entered the digital age with CDs and subsequently via internet downloads courtesy of iChoons.
However, I missed four of the original five albums so much so that I eventually bought these in vinyl and then later in digital form.
My serious request for Wednesday is for the title tracks from each of these to be played. Any one (or all four!) would be good
DC in Cellardyke
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I have shopped in second hand music stores as much as probably the new hand ones over the years and certainly Lost In Music in the Arcade at the back of Byres Rd got me through Uni! So I have lots but really what we are looking for is rarities, curios or just dear to your hear. Here are what I think are a few good ones:
NME 7" EP Fourplay with exclusive tracks by Elvis Costello and a "NME Version" of Honey I'm A Big Boy Now by Billy Bragg
RSO Primecuts, 10" single with an exclusive live Clapton track (not that he is my favourite)and (at that time) an unreleased Yvonne Elloman Track. Fun sleeve with a cheery butcher.
The River lp Springsteen marked as promotional and with a listed track (Held Up Without A Gun) which was not actually on the album. However put that in at £2.99 made a big mistake.
Honourable mention for a sleeve shocker!
Rodney Crowell - 1981 self titled album. Check that sleeve out if you dare!
A search for years which finally paid off
Gene Clark's legendary lp "No Other" pristine copy and with the poster!! I have never seen another copy and dont know of anyone else who has this (with poster that is I guess you could pick up the lp without for about £25 maybe less these days on ebay).
The one that I had to let go?
I had the rarest Springsteen promo cd a double set called 70's to 80's, Japanese, still wrapped. Could afford to hold on to it for a week! Wish I could have kept it but it is worth over £1K at todays prices.
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Ah! So.................................................................
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Oh and me any my pal searched for I think about 15years for the We Are The World lp as it had a Bruce live track, a great cover of Jimmy Cliff's Trapped. We found a copy seperately (I am not kidding) in the same week. One in the States one in the UK! Bizarre in fact I dont even believe it myself. Now very easily found on The Essential CD.
Trapped - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
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#216
Billion Dollar Babies is one of my all-time favourite albums.
If I were forced to choose one track, it would be 'Unfinished Sweet' with the James Bondish thing going on. 'Mary Ann' is short and sweet, but I'm waiting for an appropriate theme. Maybe songs with a twist in the tail. (No pun intended).
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Mines was from the Barras, ex jukebox stock...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh8BS4KctIw&feature=related
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#212 DC...Hoppo...what do you mean? One of Hoppo's tracks made it on, and we mentioned your great postings on the show a couple of times including suggesting that the poem make it to the BBC's poetry season. Add to that we circulated the curry top 30 around the office today to make sure everyone saw just what a wonderfully creative bunch you are!
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#222 yeh, the POSTS got a mention.
We don't actually listen to any of the show, all we're interested in are the namechecks....
(only kiddin)
:-0
I thought the show was good tonight by the way
DC
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#215, I don't think so Jim, it's all a bit hazy (can't think why!) but I recall it being in the Edinburgh Uni area between Teviot Row and the Mound.
By the way, in Ayr it's known as getting off at Paisley.....!
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#224
Co-incidentous interruptus.
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#213, 215 & 224, I seem to remember it being more mid town than west end. Adam should know since that was is stomping ground before he was banished to the colonies
DC
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#225 Vatican Roulette
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Too many vindaloos?
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&ChannelID=154282488
:-)
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Thursday - Newspapers & Magazines:
It's Only A Paper Moon - Ella Fitzgerald, it has the line 'just as phoney as it can be' - like certain newspapers!
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Here Is The News - ELO
Tabloid Junkie - Michael Jackson
Set The Record Straight - Reef
Big Ten Inch Record - Aerosmith
or
how about Just 'Joan of Arc' - OMD
Good Times Roll - The Cars
Good Times - Yazoo
Times Change - New Order
Dangerous Times - Cher
Here Come The Sun - The Beatles
Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks
Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson
Mirror Man - Human League
PRIMA (a woman's glossy mag, should be NINA)Pretty Ballerina - ABBA
TODAY - ZERO7 (Today was a newspaper which folded in the 80's)
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oops, #229 Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
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#228
LOL is that BB's evil twin brother? It's country, Jim, but not as we know it...
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I never had as much money as you guys. My £1 a week pocket money got me 4 ex chart singles from Menzies or Boots until they put them up to 30p each which really p****d me off as I was a single down every week. So it's 1975, I'm 13 years old in a caravan in Ayr and my mum takes us to a jumble sale where there's a stall selling ex jukebox records, no centre, no sleeves for 2p each. I bought enough to make my own ex chart and couldn't wait for the holiday to finish so I could get home and play them. It was the start of a 7 inch collection that eventually ran to about 4000.
Two I always remember from that find were Smokie 'If you think you know how to love me' cos it was still in the charts and I'd got it for 2p and George McCrae's Rock your Baby which I made the first No.1 of my own imaginary chart. Either would be good.
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Not one I bought or sold but seen as an amused bystander. Whilst browsing in Fiesta records at the bottom of Sauchiehall St about 79, a woman returned a Copy of Blondie's Parallel lines because it had a white wavy line through the vinyl presumably a fault in the pressing. ''It plays ok but doesn't look right'' she said as the assistant refunded her £4.99.
Next day it was in the window....Parallel Lines, rare pressing £25
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#206. Norrie. Can't comment on why not so many blogs but, in my case, the daughter is revising for standard grades and is hogging the computer at home. Since the change in the blog I have been unable to blog from work (probably quite rightly so) so I've tended to e-mail requests instead.
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I don't think I have bought that much second hand, but a couple that do stand out in my memory are the album Just a Stones Throw Away by Valerie Carter which I bought in a market in Kingston on Thames on strength of other people she had worked with and it was a great favourite of mine until it went the way of so much vinyl (which is why bought so little second hand). The tracks I particularly recall are Face of Appalachia and Heartache, the latter is a duet with Linda Ronstadt. Remembering about this I think I might go and buy a copy on new technology oh buggles.)
Also remember Dont Know Why I Love You by Clarence Frogman Henry. I bought this from a stall in York when I was on holiday, I think I was about 12. I think I was taken more by the name as I had never heard of him nor the song, and when I first played it I was disappointed (where were the frogs?), but then I couldnt get it out of my head. Over the years of course the story has been recounted to others as being a sign of my incredible musical taste and knowledge even at such a young age.
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How odd, having posted no 235 I see that the post above is now showing as #200. Somebody raise a service desk request.
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#236, That's what you get for posting before Aunty Beeb has woken up properly! Looks like she's up and running now though.
#234, The PC Hog is an annoying beast, we have one of these at large in our house too. I get to dive in for a quick surf when it's away raiding the pantry.
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#234 Of my two pc hogs one is now in Glasgow using the university web connection and the other now has her own laptop which means that she only comes out of her bedroom for food and money. I can force her out at any time by switching off the wireless connection, but now without additional support, such as nets and tranquliser darts, being available.
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Thought I'd get my Thursday request in early
'Fat old sun' by David Gilmour from his 'Live in Gdansk' album. This has a play-out which rivals Hotel California and Comfortably Numb. If anyone hasn't heard it, I'd thoroughly recommend this album
Come on Babs, you will enjoy it if you give it a chance!
DC in Cellardyke
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Last week I found two singles by Kenickie in the local British Heart Foundation. Nightlife and Punka. Couldn't believe my luck.
It's getting harder to find vinyl now in charity shops but people are handing in their CD collections. The fools!!
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WEDNESDAY
'Burlesque' - Family
Julie bought a copy from Oxfam. (see #14)
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#229
Jan fae Ruglin,
Izzat 'Joan of Arc' song about Joan Burnie?
of the RECORD?!?
>8-D
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#228 Jim, Superb!
I salute your dicoverability!
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#238 That's spooky Hoppo, one of my ex-PC Hogs is also at Uni in Glasgow and has just upgraded her old big laptop to a new pocket sized one. No sign of the old one coming to Pops as a "second-hand" gift yet!
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#228, #229, #243
I think someone needs to buy BB a mug or a t-shirt!
http://www.zazzle.com/bryanburnett
:-)
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Glen Miller I am truly your friend - check your last.fm inbox.
Cheers
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#239 Just noticed that post and..
"Come on Babs, you will enjoy it if you give it a chance!"
Ah, how many times has that line been used. But, back to self moderation.
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#247
Just read what I posted and it is not that I am impugning MissBabs reputation as I am sure that line has been used with almost any name you care to mention.
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#248 blacklisted for the week now Hoppo!
DC
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Hopefully just the one week. However, I will post an apology and BBC Scotland will note this and decide that little or no action need be taken as I am showing penitence, no sorry that's the SFA and Greg Louganis Lafferty
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Meanwhile Babs falls to the ground, hand over her eye claiming that he 'Hit me with his rhythm stick'.....
DC
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#251
That's one for the juke box Dury then.
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#248
I have a nice new shiny shovel if you want it
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242# Well Scotch the song ain't actually about JB lol but...yes off the record
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It's no good sweet talkin' me boys....it's Mandi you need to flatter tonight. x
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Jeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzz.....
Now you tell us!
(Still want 'Fat Old Sun' from Live in Gdansk for Thursday though!)
DC
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#245
Jim,
Forget mugs and t-shirts, Bryan needs a pair of thae boots!
Good show this evening, BTW
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Well I have to say I am seriously happy to have heard Gene Clark on GIO -totally disproves any theorys on artists that will not be played etc etc.
So I should do the decent thing, for once, and restrict myself to one song for Thursday. But a cracker from undeplayed Jam era:
The Jam - News of The World
Just a great New Wave single.
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Thursday
BRING ME THE HEADLINE OF ALFREDO GARCIA!
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BRING ME THE ED OF ALFREDO GARCIA! :-)
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I do not understand this running gag but hey ho...
BRING ME THE RED(top) OF ALFREDO GARCIA
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I used to buy Rolling Stone magazine from a paper shop in Belmont Street in Aberdeen. In those days it was only really available from the more 'dodgy' kind of paper shops you certainly couldn't get it in RS McColls. I eventually sucribed to it. Anyway - I'm really greatly indebted to 'Rolling Stone' for broadening my musical taste at a formative age. They would write serious reveiws of Johnny Cash, Flatt and Scruggs, Miles Davis and just about every other kind of music under the sun at a time when Sounds, NME and Melody Maker would have probably have just poked fun or not reviewed at all. It was also interesting to get the US perspective on UK bands too. In it's time it was a trailblazer and I think was the first publication to print Annie Leibovitz pictures regularly. I also remember reading Hunter Thompson's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' originally published in Rolling Stone in two parts ( I've still got those issues).
Plenty music to choose from to pay tribute to this mag.
Anything by the Stones - but would favour 'rip this joint' or 'rocks off' or 'Gimme Shelter'
or of course their version of Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone or Dylan himself or the Muddy Waters original from which all these other 'Rolling Stones' came.
Have a good show - hope to listen in the car travelling from Aberdeen to Edinburgh
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Bring me the bed of Alfredo Garcia
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Thursday:
'EXPRESS Yourself' - NWA
'Sunday Papers' - Joe Jackson
'If you buy this RECORD your life will be better' - Tampera,
'Just One LOOK' - The Hollies
'Even the bad TIMES are good' - The Tremeloes
'Movie STAR' - Harpo
'INDEPENDENT Woman' - Destiny's Child
'THE SPORTING LIFE' - The Decemberists
'EMPIRE Road' - Matumbi
'We Are the PEOPLE' - EMPIRE Of The SUN (triple whammy)
'One MORE Try' - George Michael
'VOGUE' - Madonna
'Move CLOSER' - Phyllis Nelson
'Jump Jive an' Wail' - Louis PRIMA
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Newspapers & Comics and in song...
Metro - System of a Down
Staring @ the Sun - T.Offspring
Times like these - Foo Fighters
Jungle Telegraph - Eels
Paper Boy - Naked Raven
Bunty V's Beano - Help she can't swim 'Ah, DC's finest'
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#262
See #5
Bring Me The Black And White And Read All Over Of Alfredo Garcia
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It's Bryan with a Y
Not Brian with an I
'Cos Brian with an I
Goes Aye not Why?
>8-D
with apologies to Liza Minnelli
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Aye, sook up, how daen't ye! ;-)
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#247 -253 I have consulted with the SFA, the supreme arbiters of justice and whilst my offence may have been this week my ban will be served some other week when it doesn't matter eg when I'm on holiday. Therefore how about
Headline New - Edwin Starr
It Says In Here - Billy Bragg
Ballad of John and Yoko - Beatles
You Never See a Nipple in the Daily Express (that's two weeks holidays where I will not be posting)
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THURSDAY - NEWS
Wishbone Ash - Front Page News
Have we ever had this group on GIO? I wasn't mad about this track when it first came out because the band had gone all laid back and I really wanted more Argus type stuff. Looking back though it's quite a decent song and worth another listen.
PH
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Soem quote son newspapers
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
Marshall McLuhan
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.
Robbie Fowler
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
Bette Davis
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#262 BRING ME THE WELL-SAID OF ALFREDO GARCIA
#261It's some sort of Radio 4 on-going joke Norrie. Don't worrie about it, I had to look it up also. Not for us young types...
(cue bringing the NED of etc)
#269 I heard Bryan reluctantly give you a mention last night Hoppo. No doubt Babs will reprimand him for that today :-)
I see they've even banned comics for tonight. Well that puts me right to the back of the queue...
DC (Thompson or Comics) in Cellardyke
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Reprimanded by MissBabs.....I must self moderate, I must self moderate..
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tonight
Turn the Page / Bob seger
Homely Girl / Chi lites (Eugene RECORD on vocals)
HELLO / Evanescence
A place in the SUN / Stevie wonder
(soundtrack to a holiday video we have from the south of France)
It's OK / Delirious
Every WHICH way but loose / Eddie Rabbitt
Sorrento Moon /Tina ARENA
Good thing going / SUGAR Minott
Good TIMES / Edie Brickell
and more than happy to second
Movie Star / Harpo
We are the People / Empire of the Sun
Disappointed that comics are banned today. I quite like Glen's posts.
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After a dwarf psychic escaped from police custody the local papers headline read...Small medium at large
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Some genuine classic headlines......
Deaf mute gets new hearing in killing
Drunk gets nine months in violin case
Eye drops off shelf
Grandmother of eight makes hole in one
Hospitals sued by seven foot doctors
Iraqi head seeks arms
Is there a ring of debris around Uranus
Kids make nutritious snacks
Local high school dropouts cut in half
Milk drinkers are turning to powder
Miners refuse to work after death
Panda mating fails. Vet takes over
Plane too close to ground, crash probe told
Queen Mary having bottom scraped
Red tape holds up new bridge
Squad helps dog bite victim
William Kelly was Fed Secretary
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Apparently there was a headline during the seoond world war which read "Eighth Army Push Bottles Up Germans" which must be banned by the Geneva convention.
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# 276, Paulo we are most amused! A couple more which allegedly appeared:-
Book Lack in Ongar
Nut Screws Washer and Bolts
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#268
Jim,
I was trying to make the point that no-one seems to be called 'Brian' these days. Those named 'Bryan' are taking over. Like the grey squirrels. Unless action is taken NOW Brians will be an endangered species.
#276
Paolo,
Sandi Toksvig has consulted lawyers representing 'The News Quiz'
Be warned!
>8-D
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Some excellent headlines
http://humor-world.blogspot.com/2008/08/20-funniest-newspaper-headlines-ever.html
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the current single Knock You down by Kanye west & Ne-Yo namechecks Joe Jackson in the rap lyrics. Thought I was hearing things but it's definitely him.
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#275
A little known fact.
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#276, one of our local drapers ran the advert 'Duncan's trousers down this week' in the late sixties
DC
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Anything by Scoop Doggy Dog.
It's all going online now so anything by the Dixie Clicks.
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Sign outside local church... "If you're tired of sin come in", someone added " If not call 0141 *** **** ".
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If you don't love Jesus you can go to hell.
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#286
Why not just cut out the middle man.
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Don't Mess With Mr. In Between
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Has Purgatory been decommissioned?
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Last I heard it was in Limbo.
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Bring me the dead of Alfredo Garcia
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Bring me the dead of Jerry Garcia
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Bring me the sched(ule)... of next weeks themes
Stuck in here working until late and no access to GiO Thursday
DC
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Mon Themeless AGAIN. Not happy.
Tue Ageing
Wed The nighttime
Thu Songs all your family like.
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#294
So...
Same
Old
Evening
Sing-a-long
for next week?
DC
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#294, #295 - Monday.
Bring me the dread of Alfredo garcia...
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Stuck inside yer motor with the themeless blues again - Rab Beelin
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Bring Me The Tread Of Alfredo Garcia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8VQq1F6c7Q
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Or
Quiero La RAP De Alfredo Garcia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAAowOR17HM
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Great shows this week, but need to catch up with 2nd hour of Thursday so thanks for the themes pointer.
Will I get suspended for saying anything bad about the Alfredo Garcia thing?
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#300
Bring Me The Gen On Alfredo Garcia!
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#300, you reckon there's a problem with the street cred of Alfredo Garcia?
DC
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#294
Paolo,
Think of it as an opportunity to re-request songs that didn't get played first time around.
I feel compelled to compile a list.......................................
>8-D
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Why don't we make it exciting and do all our requests in rhyme / limerick?
I have another meeting this morning...
DC
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Paolo...sorry to disappoint but DC is right, use it as a chance to ask for things we've missed! Or give us a shout on Monday and tell us what will brighten your day!
DC...you are certainly taking the poetry season to heart!
thanks all for all your suggestions this week - really enjoyed the stories for Bring and Buy. Apart from Paolo's reservations about themeless Monday - I think next week fun - looking forward to family stories on Thursday.
Enjoy the weekend ....MissBabs x
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#303
LOL I could probably compile your list for you....but I can't think what rhymes with Thackray
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#305
What will brighten my day? Hmmm is it only songs you do? :-)
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#305
Why is DC receiving credit for my wisdom and foresight?
I think we should be telt!
>8-D
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#306
Eh? Bay, cay, day, fey, gay, hay, jay, lay, may, nay, ole, pay, que?, ray, say, tray, underlay, Oy vey, weigh, x-ray, yea, Zimbabwe.
>8-D
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sorry Scotch. Lack of attention to detail as a result of too much attention to lovely red wine last night.
BBC rules (I'm sure there is one somewhere) permit me from offering anything other than tunes.
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So for the third time of tryin',
I appeal to Miss Babs and Bryan,
My request is just one,
Dave Gilmour's 'Fat Old Sun'
If you don't play that I'll be cryin....
DC
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#309
Mockery? :-)
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Mockery, shmockery.
Paolo, I apologise. That was silly and childish.
#304, DC, If it was a competition, Julie would win. If nothing else it should be a giggle.
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#313 (#304). Why thank you SG...that's awfully kind of you. I had in fact put me thinkin' 'ead on re the poetry 'challenge'. Unfortunately, all I'd come up with so far was...ahem..."I think that I shall never see, the day they play Jake Thack-a-ray". Not one of my finest and not what you want to hear I suppose. Public holiday weekend for me...I shall mull it over during gardening, housework, shopping and wine.
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#314
This is my favourite Thakray song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaSKICzeTaE
Loving the bit about the scabby cat!
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Julie thinks she'll never see
The day they play Jake Thackarey
But on Monday's playlist will it be
Given a belt?
Should we listen on Monday after tea?
We should be telt!
DC
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Unattractive Jake Thackray
The proverbial Minstrel's Very Last Lay
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He does tend to draw Cowardly comments.
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