Next week's themes...
It's time for me to reveal next week's themes and as usual please don't be shy about getting in touch.Tuesday night's theme will be an interesting one I suspect. What were the tunes that helped you through childbirth! Obviously it's not a theme that everyone can take part in but hopefully in the rest of the week you'll find something you can contribute to.
MONDAY 22 JUNE
We'll play 'anything' and 'everything' tonight. Paul from Ayr has suggested songs with either or both these words in the title. 'You To Me Are Everything' or 'Do Anything You Wanna Do'? Let me know what you want to hear.
TUESDAY 23 JUNE
Tonight's show will be a labour of love as I'm looking for the songs that were playing when your child was born. What was on your maternity ward mixtape?
WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE
Tonight's theme is speed so I could play 'Fast Car', 'Speed of Sound' or 'Slow Hand'. Don't hang about and get your suggestions in for tonight's theme.
THURSDAY 25 JUNE
School's out! Obviously that well known Alice Cooper ditty is a must for tonight's show but why not leave a comment on the blog and let me know the songs that represent freedom and adventure to you.
© MMIX~RS~q~RS~~RS~z~RS~09~RS~)
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Monday
God Gave Me Everything - Mick Jagger
Tuesday
Baby Let Me Take You Home - The Animals
Wednesday
Dead Man's Curve - Jan and Dean
Thursday
Free As A Bird - Beatles
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Tuesday
Labour of Love - Joe Grusheky
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As I can request heehaw on Tuesday, I'm gonna ask for this on
MONDAY
'(Everything I Do) I Do It For You' - Bryan Adams
If I suffer, everyone suffers! >8-D
Mark up another Pyrrhic victory for the Git!
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At least you weren't moderated and it's better than Summer of '69.
Pyrrhic up your ears as Joe Orton would say.
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#3
Go for it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3tXOWfzCuQ
:-)
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Mon
Everything that glitters is not gold / Dan seals
Everything I Own / Ken Booth
Tues
My ex was a barry Marshmallow fan and insisted on his greatest
hits in the maternity ward so moving swiftly on to speed night
Wed
Slow Dancer / Box Scaggs
Ernie / Benny Hill
Nice and Slow / Jesse Green
Speedy Gonzales / Pat Boone
Thu
The Long Road / Mark Knopfler
An appropriate yet wonderful piece of driving music to hit the open road with and escape the rat race for a few hours.
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Monday
Everything - Stereo Mcs
Everything She Wants - Wham
Everything Must Go - T. Manic Street Preachers
Promise Her Anything - Dean Martin
I Cant Give You Anything - T. Ramones
Monday Dont Mean Anything - Alabama 3
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A few first thoughts for the week ahead:
Everything/Anything
You are Everything - Ross/Gaye
Uptight (everything's alright) - Stevie Wonder
Anything for you - Gloria Estefan
Do anything you wanna do - Eddie and the Hot Rods
Labour
Goodnight Girl - Wet Wet Wet (actually it was a boy)
Speed
Life in the fast lane - Eagles
Speed of the sound of lonliness - Nanci Griffith
Slow motion - David Gray
Can't slow down - Lionel Ritchie
If I should fall behind or Racing in the street - Springsteen
Freedom
I'm free - The Who (reminds me of the year I left school (a long long time ago) when I saw them at Parkhead, with Alex Harvey and Little Feat in support)
Have a good weekend
Joe
Linlithgow
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#5
Are you sure that isn't Scott Tracy?
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#9
Not sure, but one things for sure... prohibition doesn't seem to apply in that barn! Maybe he'll get a taste for it if offered!
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Before this it was only a dry sherry before dinner - then he woke up in Shanghai with a beard.
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#11
And we're not talking facial hair...
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An emotional Tuesday for me. No such thing as 'songs that were playing when your child was born' in my number one's case. Indeed, the thought of male presence in the labour ward had only just been passed by the midwyfies at Forth Park Hospital in Kirkcaldy (kain?)
Anyway, the 38 hour labour which preceded the entrance to the world of number one son (I kid you not) was obviously a stressful time for Mrs C but she did well and the arrival of my wee boy was a fantastic experience.
A couple of hours later, I jumped into the car to drive home to tell the world about my wee boy and heard 'Alive and kicking' by Simple Minds come over the radio.
Emotional indeed! Alan is now in his fourth year at Dundee Uni Medical School and about to sit his exams. Please wish him aw the best
DC in Cellardyke
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#5, #9
'Stand By Your Action Man' - Tammy Wynette
or,
'Puppet On A String' - Lady Penelope
#13
Look at DC kvell! Already he is shepping naches from his son, the Doctor.
My daughter has the same effect on me. I'm so proud of her I feel I could burst.
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#11
"We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy,
Like the hippies out in San Francisco do
We still wave Old Glory down at the Courthouse,
And White Lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.."
I still prefer the Kinkster's version.
>8-D
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Scotch, I haven't even started to speak of my daughter or number two son (each with their own special tune!) Happy feth'r's day tae all dads on the blog!
DC
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Yep happy fathers day all the proud dads.
My first wasn't as long a labour as DC's....just 24 hours but still way too long for any poor mum to have to go through. And Barry Manilow was the only tape she took in with her. We didn't have music for the second or third from what I remember but thankfully they were much quicker in making their appearance.
However I do remember playing the following on returning from the labour wards
My son and I / Neil Sedaka for Chris
Isn't she lovely / Stevie Wonder Nats
Marliese / Fischer Z for Marie Elise (well it was close)
Marie Elise was to be called Michaela but when I returned home in the early hours from the hospital I put on the Tv to find The Hit Man And Her with Pete Waterman and a screechin Michaela Strachan. Funny how you can go off a name. I was playin some tunes instead of which Marliese was one and thought that would be nice although the missus subsequently altered it to marie Elise.
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So there we have it.
The trial and tribulation timekeepers have clocked DC at an eye-watering 38 hours but there must be someone out there sitting shyly on a super-40 score on the maternal mission monitor.
Let's hear from you.
Meanwhile, here are Ace posing the musical question How Long Has This Been Going On?
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#18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gxMvb9VrzY
:-)
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Bob Dylan - Everything Is Broken
Jackson Browne - I'd Do Anything
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#18. At 37 hrs I think I'll be second in the 'how many hours' contest...although a consultant did tell me that labour actually can take umpteen (that's a technical term) days more. I was in hospital on a 'false alarm' a few days before and it would have been nice if The Daughter had made an appearance then - my Dad's Birthday - they would've loved to have shared the day (never mind though...she gets to share with Scotch Git instead). I didn't have a birth tape, listened to the radio instead so if there's any commentary from a British Lions rugby match from 26 June 1993...even through the haze of every drug they could put in me I do remember declaring my appreciation of Jeremy Guscott's legs. I don't know anyone who made a birth tape. The Daughter was already a fortnight late, it was a hot June and I was becoming very weary so I may have included The Kinks - 'Tired Of Waiting For You' in a tape had I made one.
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MONDAY:
'Everything I Am' - Plastic Penny
Know it's a bit twee but I have a real soft spot for 'Everything Is Beautiful' by Ray Stevens...there are some songs where little kids singing is naff (Grandad) and others where it's OK (e.g this one, Grocer Jack).
'Almost Anything Goes' - Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
'I Can't Give You Anything But Love Baby' - Fats Domino
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MONDAY
Flippin 'Eck it's mah theme! It's only taken me 2 years to get one accepted but at least I've kept listening. Thanks Bryan and the team.
My suggestion for now is:-
Everything is Everything - Lauryn Hill
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For Monday
EVERYTHING But The Girl............Baby Come Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQOujKgN9SY
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Monday - Anything & Everything:
All The Things She Said - Simple Minds
All These Things - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Every Path - Alela Diane
Everything Must Go - Steely Dan
Anything She Does - Genesis
Every Little Kiss - Bruce Hornsby
Any World - Steely Dan
It Doesn't Really Matter At All - Dave Edmunds
Anything - The Damned
Anything At All - The Soulsteppers
All Kinds Of Everything - Dana (not joking - it's a great song!)
Promise Her Anything - Tom Jones
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Wednesday - Speed:
Fylingdale Flyer - Jethro Tull
Speedway Hero - Billy Bragg
Drive - Todd Rundgren
World's Slowest Elevator - Carbonlifer
Run - Air
1000 Miles Per Hour - OK Go
Slow Dancer - Boz Scaggs
Manuela Run - Toto
Speedy's Coming - Scorpions
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
The Fastest Guitar Alive - Roy Orbison
I'll Come Running - Brian Eno
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I spent five hours today listening to 'Daddy' songs on Country music radio shows, at the end of which I was tripping o'er the snotters. Therefore,
WEDNESDAY
'Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast' - Wayne Newton
If I suffer, everyone suffers! >8-D
sentimental git
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#22 Re: Grocer Jack
Julie,
Apparently when Mark Wirtz played 'Excerpt from a teenage opera' for the approval of EMI executives, they were horrified. The unanimous verdict was "Can the tape, kill the project."
Somehow John Peel, then with Radio Caroline, obtained a recording. When he aired the song, the response was immediate. People demanded to know who, where, why and how could they get their hands on a copy.
The rest is historical history.
EMI also turned down the opportunity to sign the Beatles. Go figure.
>8-D
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I salute your historicalasity.
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#29
I was gonna write an historical history, but the knowledge that Hoppo would regard this as a declaration of war stayed my hand.
>8-D
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An hypothesis indeed...
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#27
Tell me you haven't sunk to Commander Cody's Down To Seeds And Stems Again. It makes Red Sovine's Teddy Bear sound like Agadoo.
#28
Wednesday
My White Bicycle - Tomorrow
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Thursday - Freedom & Adventure:
This Land Is Your Land - Billy Bragg
Fire At Midnight - Jethro Tull
Eternity Road - The Moody Blues
Freedom Train - Lenny Kravitz
Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John
I Want To Break Free - Queen
I Can't Stay - The Killers
Chimes Of Freedom - Youssou N'Dour
Breathe - Prodigy
Love's Great Adventure - Ultravox
The Great Escape - We Are Scientists
Wide Open Space - Cliff Richard
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Just noticed the Thursday comment "Schools Out".
Not in Fife they're no'......
DC in Cellardyke (where the bairns don't return to school after the summer holidays until 19th August 2009)
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Speaking of 'School's Out', howzabout SAHB's cover of the Alice Cooper classic?
WARNING!
You will probably have to remove the reference to what not to do in the water supply! >8-D
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# 29 correct, #30 no I will not rise to the bait.
For tonight;
Everything Must Change - Paul Young
Everything Must Change - Nina Simone
Currently a busy man at work, which is not good for the soul - in fact it brings on the blues
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Can any of you techno guys out there tell me how long it should take to convert WMA files to the itune format. I'm doin about 15000 from my flash drive and so far it's got through 2000 in 14 hours...and slowing the old laptop up considerably. Is this normal? Should I book a holiday in the sun and come back in a fortnight and see if it's finished?
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#37
Paulo - yes it's normal, and does it on install. You can temporarily kill the process if you need to but I'd suggest just letting it chunter on until it's done. It's usually fast enough.
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MONDAY
Anything from the David Sylvian CD 'Everything And Nothing'
J.O'B.
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Monday:
Skipping the 'All' songs that we had last week, I'm pretty thin on the ground for this. But I'm going for:
* Blues Brothers: I got everything I need (almost)
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#38 Chunter! I couldn't have described it better myself. If ever a word suggested one speed only then that's it. Ever been used in a song title that would do for Wed Night?
#39 Not like you to be playin away from home RJ
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Tuesday:
I'm refusing to be disqualified from this, on 2 counts: firstly, Mrs Ramius would very much like me to point out that not everyone goes near a maternity ward: all 3 of ours were homebirths (and, she insists on me telling you, waterbirths).
While I'll give you the listing of CD she put together for CabinBoy #1's birth tomorrow once I've dug it out, I'd also like to propose
* Runrig: News From Heaven
for Tuesday.
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#33
If you're going for the Bragg nexus for Thurs, then you can't look past:
* Billy Bragg: To Have and To Have Not
(which is also an 'end of school' song, that's maybe regrowing into appropriateness in these times)
* Billy Bragg: A Lover Sings
(note to GiO Production Team: that's definitely not one that fits into your Bragg 'one bloke & guitar' assumptions - it's got Hammond Organ & everything)
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#41
Tunes with 'chunter' in the title:
Chunter - Keller Williams, from the album Dance
I can't find it on Youtube, but check this out instead - it's a belter!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHWAzDfZr78
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WEDNESDAY
'I'm A Celerity...Get Me Out Of Here Very Quickly!' - Jennifer Rush
>8-D
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#45
I'm A Celeriac - Get Me Out Of Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmJCKs67M0I
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#38, #41
In future, whenever I'm asked what I drive, I shall reply thus:-
"A Chunter. 2.5 Diesel."
>8-D
N.B. Glen, this is not an anagram!!
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#46
A waste of ten big studs...........
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Monday:
'Don't believe anything I say' - Graham Coxon
'Everything is average nowadays' - Kaiser Chiefs
DC in Cellardyke
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#47
Each turn, slide E 2.5
DC
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#50
Which part of not do you not understand?
>8-D
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ALERT! ALERT! THEME DEVIATION!
That Roy Orbison song is titled 'You Got It'............
........and Bonnie Raitt does it better..................
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#41 David Sylvian is just Bryan Ferry with flat batteries. ;-)
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#51 regarding # 47
You accusin me of being Glenn?
The lucid Seer 2.5? Na
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Dana's horse song:
All kinds of everything remind me of uhu
DC
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#53. Well said.
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Hey JFE you were right that Dana song was not as naff as I remembered - no doubt about that whatsoever.
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I felt a bit nervous listening to the show tonight in case it was light on quality but needn't have worried, even Dana was worth listening to, if no quite up to the memory of it.
Also, thanks to the Team for playing my choon on my theme night.
TUESDAY
Never did mix-tapes so just did a bit of google research to find what was in the charts when my son was born in 1987. I was amazed to find it was "China in Your Hand" by T'Pau, as it it's a big favourite of my wife Cathie. Definitely worth hearing again.
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New here and I'm not sure I like the sound of my posts being "reactively moderated" - sounds a bit nasty.
TUESDAY
Gonna request some Smashing Pumpkins for the maternity mix as we had loads playing at the births of our first two (as well as played to them via a walkman and headphones throughout the preceeding 9 months. 'Today' was a favourite and caused a fair bit of wriggling.
WEDNESDAY
Kiss 'Detriot Rock City', preferably the live version from 'Alive II' but the studio recording from 'Destroyer' would be fine.
THURSDAY
The Guillemots 'We're Here' always gets a play when we're off on our travels, particulalry brilliant when played loudly as we're driving through the highlands.
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'57. Oh Norrie...please don't give me cause to worry about you.
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No Julie it was far far worse than I recalled, presumably kept a reasonable track off air and makes me wonder what JFE's definition of naff is!! ;o)
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Of course I accept that a lot of my stuff people will not like....each to their own!
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#57, #61
Make your mind up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVvz7NA28CM&feature=related
:-)
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#59
wildturkeyandcoke,
Welcome aboard!
You must have the constitution of a grizzly bear. The worst hangover of my life was inflicted by Wild Turkey.
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#47, #51, #54
Ah gi'e in. If yer legs fa' aff, dinnae come runnin' tae me!
>8-D
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#64
Hi scotch-git, thanks for the welcome- any more whisky related posters round here?
I've had my share of "badger in mouth, sledge hammer in skull, WTF did i do last night and where am i?" moments with the fire water myself but damn if it don't taste nice! Through utter lack of imagination (I've only been meaning to register here for ages so I have no excuse) I conjoured up a username based on what I was drinking at the time. I guess it could've been a lot worse.
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welcome to the blog
signed
sodaandlimeforfourweeksanditsmakingmegrumpy!
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welcome from me too
signed
ihavenoboozeleftinthehouseihavedrunkitall...hic!
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Welcome wildturkey.
Hope your press is well stocked. You'll need a good supply to get through this blog experience. (it'd drive anyone to drink)
signed
naeboozeforafortnight!
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Hi wild turkey etc, good to have you aboard
Hope you;re not a Smiths fan......
:-)
DC
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Forerunner of Hot Tuna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgy6AVkZmeo
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Hi WildTurkey - Welcome!
Hope you are a Bragg/Tull/Rundgren fan - if so, you can join the nexus! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
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Did I say that out loud?
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Ah, the mix tape for the birth. We had Springsteen, Ry Cooder, Ted Hawkins plus some soul. The wife was / is a queen fan (her musical taste is a standing joke amongst friends and family, queen is not even half of it) so I compromised and put some Roachford on as she liked 'Cuddly Toy'. So having trawled throguh the memory bank I suppse the highlights would be:
Springsteen - Thunder Road
Ry Cooder - He'll have to Go
Ted Hawkins - Ain't That Pretty
Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue
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#67,68,69- thanks all- some very fine examples of just hw much worse my username choice could've been :) Also, yes, well stocked as in nuclear-winter-end-of-civilisation well stocked. Should just say that's down to an imminent birthday and a generous family. Honestly, I'm not an alchoholic (although that could just be classic denial).
#70 "I hope you're not a Smith's fan"? Actually sounds like something Morrisey could have writen. BTW sorry to disappoint....
#72,73 No and yes, respectively. Actually, Bragg I can take but Tull....spent many years blocking out attempts by "friends" to convert me to Tull. Bit of a shame really as your cult of musical zealots/evil empire sounds kinda fun.
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#75 etc. At this time of the morning it's teaandbanana for me, but not in the same cup!
Happy blogging..
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capuccino and banana for me and now a long day of 'how to work more efficiently' (eg cut costs without saying so) to look forward to.
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Hello Wildturkey.
Jeez you guys are lucky.
I've got the hangover from hell this morning and I only had one pint last night. How did that happen. Maybe I should have gone to sleep at some point. And I've got to stay awake through two meetings today, one of which I'm hosting. Haven't felt like this since I spent 24 hours at a bedside 23 years ago not allowed to nod off. Even with an epidural in her back and doped up to the eyeballs in excruciating pain, she could still muster up enough energy to scream ''Don't Sleep'' if my head moved forward as much as half an inch.
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#78 I increasingly finding that my alcohol consumption and hangover bear no relation to each other. At one point I had to consume copius quantities, and / or strange concotions to get a serious hangover. Now I can do it after pint, or a glass or two of wine. Strangely I still have days where after serious drinking I am fine. Thus I try and avoid drinking on school nights, thoguh even this doesn't work as now if I do get a hangover I can feel crap for two or three days.
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Thursday - school's out! - My first taste of freedom was a work experience placement at a department store in Brisbane, Australia, 1975 just before I left school.
and the song which always takes me back to that 'Big new world' feeling of being out amongst it all - 'Ding a dong' Hollands Eurovision entry for that year ! Dont ask me why, but it must have got quite a bit of airplay in far flung Australia.
Ian in Partick.
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#79
Hoppo,
If I awaken after a richt guid bevvy feeling fine it's because I'm still drunk. The hangover gradually imposes itself during the course of the day. By early evening my options are extremely limited; i.e. go back to the pub or go home to bed.
>8-D
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TUESDAY
Well as I am not equipped to give birth it makes Tuesday hard for me. As I am never stuck for a Roxy/Ferry reference for most themes I thought of a wee bit of word play on 'Virginia Plain'
Plain could miss out the L and become 'pain' and you can do your own wordplay on 'Virginia' for fear of the wrath of the moderator.
J.O'B.
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#82
N.B. Glen, this is not an anagram!!
>8-D
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#83
Correct - it's a monologue.
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#80
Ian,
Welcome! Are you True Blue? Is Buckland a reference to fortified wine? Do you know Zac Savage? He's from Brisbane. Or is it Adelaide?
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#76, 78
Hello
Thanks
Ouch- hosting a lie in bed with a hangover is about my limit, hope your audience were sympathetic.
#77 don't envy you, been to enough of those to know that doing away with meetings about efficiencies is probably the number one way to achieve them.
Loving all the alternative beverage based usernames which got me thinking that mine was perhaps a poor choice; not only does it imply several social and psychological issues it would appear to contravene the BBC's advertising policies. Twice! Which may make a name check/hearing a request v unlikely, which kind of defeats the purpose.
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#83 Ivan grip pailing?
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Baby night -
Push it, Salt and Pepa
The Drugs Don't Work, The Verve
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
Father and Son, Cat Stevens
Speed night -
The Speed of the Beat of My Heart, Horse
Ray of light, Madonna
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#88 well done Kirsty I forgot about that KB song.
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
I hope they take the hint.
J.O'B.
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Tuesday - Baby Night:
Well, as I can't claim any knowledge of the whole baby production thing, I shall just suggest a few nice tunes for consideration!
Newborn Lullaby - Billy Walsh
Welcome - Phil Collins
Be My Baby - Bay City Rollers
Newborn Man - The Dartts
Baby Blue - Nat King Cole
The Fidgety Bairn - Kathleen Ferrier
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...or Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children - Queen Latifah with De La Soul
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#87
Watch out for the peepee, DC.
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WEDNESDAY
'Wall Of Death' - Richard Thompson
'Our Velocity' - Maximo Park
'Leave Them All Behind' - Ride
Or if, you feel really brave- 'Faster Bastard' - Bomb Disneyland
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Comments left on the blog are very often nothing to do with the "blog topic".
There's enough on this thread alone.
It's a free world - or is it?
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There is no 'licence to insult' on public forums, no.
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#95 & 97, Sorry Jim, really didnt mean it as an insult. I was just responding to:
"I can't claim any knowledge of the whole baby production thing".
Must remember and put ;) at the end of my posts.
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There is a great Bowie instrumental called Speed of Life from the Low album well worth a play (oddly not featuring Eno).
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Speedboat
Kim Carnes & Lyle Lovett - Speed of The Sound of Loneliness, from the labum View From The House which also has an outstanding version of Prines If You Dont Want My Love)
Snow Patrol - Velocity Girl
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Norrie - I only know the John Prines version of Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness. I'll look your one out.
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Jim - Nanci Griffith also does a good version, a duet with John Prine...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KmfjWBulic
I am sure you know that one too.
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WEDNESDAY
'Still Is Still Moving To Me' - Willie Nelson
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#101
Great - yes! Check out the Alabama 3 version too. I can't find an online version of their studio recording which I just came across - Youtube only has the dodgy unplugged recordings...
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Jim I've never managed to get into Alabama 3 at all A3 I think for USA but need to add them to my list of artists I need to catch up on....ever expanding list!
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WEDNESDAY:
Paolo Nutini - 'Jenny Don't Be Hasty', or 'Last Request (starts with 'Slow down')
'Groovin' by The Young Rascals doesn't mention speed in particular but it just oozes 'dead-slow-and-stop-ed-ness'.
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#94 Adam, you been writing offensive mail to the blog police again????
Naughty boy!
DC
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Ah well....at least Scotch Git is already in thick with Mr Big so he'll look out for me in the showers.
Wednesday:
Was thinking of going with a Deep Purple triple of:
Fireball
Speed King &
Highway Star
but what I'd really like to hear as my last request is:
Slow Down - John Miles
Great memory jerker for the wonderful summer of 1977.
But I guess I need to phone my lawyer first....
:)
(almost forgot)
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Wednesday:
'Speedy Gonzalez" - Pat Boone
ariba, ariba senor!
DC
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Rock n Roll Train - AC/DC
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Listened to tonights show as I waited on the nice man from the RAC coming to rescue me. Finally home. Thought show was pretty good with some amusing stories especially Jan and her baby in the balloon. That had a passer by give me a funny look. Probably wondering why a guy was sitting in a car by himself laughing.
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#110
I get those looks most mornings. I blame Sir Michael Terence Wogan, K.B.E.
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Paulo
#110 Obviously you are male,it was no laughing matter LOL. No man could give birth, gawd, you lot are bad enough with 'man flu'. LOL LOL :-)
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Can't fight this feeling - REO SPEEDwagon
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oops, sorry Paolo,I mis-spelt your name in #112
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One for Jan fae Ruglin;
'The Boy in the Bubble' - Paul Simon
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Jan you were brave without the medication. It was just such a vivid picture you painted but must have been a magic moment as well.
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#115 I had initally thought of requesting 'Tiny Bubbles' LOL
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#117
That would have been divine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szy8FRhRx2Q
:-)
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Too much bubbling already on the blog.
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#119
Well, they're tiny...
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Not them all!!!
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WEDNESDAY
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - I'm the Urban Spaceman (baby I've got speed..)
Great Title
Brilliant Band Name
Fun Song
What else is there?
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Speed, well how about;
Start me up - Rolling Stones
Locomotion - Little Eva
Racing in the Streets - Springsteen
Baby Driver - Simon and Garfunkel
Wipeout - Surfari's
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WEDNESDAY : SPEED
Roxy Music 'Whirlwind'
Manzanara Mackay 'Built For Speed'
Phil Manzanera 'Initial Speed'
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To #6 above could I also add
Zoom / Fat Larry's Band
Zoom / Commodores
Different songs but both quality.
Also They shoot horses don't they / Racing Cars.
And for a wee giggle...Alan Partridge's Finest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkY4pnxyLk0
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#122
Paul,
You make the Urban Spaceman sound like a dealer.
>8-D
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THURSDAY
'Life Is A Long Song' - Jethro Tull
'Comes From Love' - Yehudit Ravitz and the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra
Both songs proclaim the same message, albeit in different ways. Seize the Day!
Life is there for the taking. Remember, it's all about the love, not the money.
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#127
If you can afford it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhpeXoaxqKw
:-)
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ref: #43
Echo your BB shout for Thursday CptRamius. But will likely be edged-out by Springsteen or Bowie again!
For WEDNESDAY (SPEED), how about:
78 RPM: Stiff Little Fingers
Slow Surprise: Chris Smither
Running to Stand Still: U2
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Just came inot my head - Motorbiking - Chris Spedding?
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My token obscure effort would be 'Something In The Air'- by Thunderclap Newman written by and featuring SPEEDY Keen.
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#126, Scotch, funny that, I'm sure it's about astronauts moving at pace!
I think the Beatles and Dylan would probably agree, after all what else did folk get up to in the Hippy era!!
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Just thought of a couple of good 'uns for Saturday's coverage of Tuesday:
* Lennon: Beautiful Boy
* Loudon Wainwright III: Be Careful There's a Baby in the House
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Wednesday Speed Choons (for Bangin' Bryan Burnett and his tour of Freshers' Weeks):
* The Byrds: Eight Miles High
* Billy Bragg: A13, Trunk Road to the Sea (yes, it *is* an Essex reworking of Route 66)
* Sheryl Crowe: Real Gone (Pixar fans will recognise it as the opening of Cars, over which Lightning McQueen says "I... am Speed")
* Golden Earring: Radar Love
* The Hooters: Satellite (goes round the earth awfy quickly)
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This theme isn't funny, not when your motor broke down during last nights Get It On and is still in the hospital 24 hours later with electronicitis. I even had the pleasure of carrying a bag of messages on a bus today with two broken handles.
So howsabout Broken Down angel / Nazareth
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#135
Buses can have broken handles? ;-)
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SPEED NIGHT
Please play Hawkwind tonight BB, it doesn't have to be Silver Machine. How about Kings of Speed? It fits the theme perfectly and it would make up for me missing out lastnight, as I couldn't get through on the text. I had Hawkwind Live Chronicles and Kate Bush's Sensual World at the birth of our first born, Eve. Kate was playing when she came into the world but I can't remember which track as I was so overcome with emotion at the time!!! I think This Woman's Work would be quite appropriate, though any track from the album would be great Our son didn't hang around long enough for me to get pain relief, never mind music!
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#135
'Who's gonna take you home tonight' (NOT the Cars version obviously)
DC
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Whatever happened to the BACK TO THE TOP button?
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#135
The problem with public transport is that you have to share it with other people.
A Chunter 2.5 Diesel is what you require.
>8-D
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#95... Woooopps!!!!!
# 140, Jeez, you do set an anagramic challenge.......
:-0
DC
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Freedom - well I am getting a bit of freedom over the next week with 3 gigs which I am looking forward to so how about:
AC/DC - Runaway Train
The Boss - Out In The Street (absolutely spot on song for Thursday this would be brilliant to hear on a freedom night)
Malcolm Middleton - Red Travellin' Socks
also
The Clash - Stay Free
Cheers
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#141
I salute your interchangeability!
#94, #95
See what Glen has started? Now it's a competition, like collecting ASBOs
>8-D
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I'm looking for a sail north this year so "New Horizons" by the Moody Blues would suit my aspirations of freedom
DC
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DC
Sail Away - David Gray
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David Gray - Sail Away a great shout Norrie
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BB could probably do an entire show based upon a holiday trip!
Summer Holiday
Ocean Drive
Here comes the rain again
Ship called dignity
Sail Away
New Horizons
Here Comes the Sun
Take the long way home
etc etc
Perhaps a theme for a Saturday Night?
DC
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DC
Far removed from a holiday song but in the theme
Long Walk Home - Springsteen
One of his outstanding recent tracks.
Norrie
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Motorbiking
Running on empty
Take the long walk home.......
Sounds like a theme that could "grow legs"!
DC
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THURSDAY:
Haven't asked for Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version of 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World' for a while. After quite a lot of previous posts was it ever played? Go on Bryan/Producer ?...give it a go. Bryan, you could make the producer introduce it so as not to fall foul of the BBC mispronounciation dept :0)
For a bit of 80s daftness...'Let My People Go Go' - The Rainmakers.
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Rock the boat - Hues Corporation
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Oh...almost forgot...reminder that it's a Happy Shared Birthday to The Daughter (Sweet 16th) and Scotch Git on Friday. The Daughter's going to get another ear piercing done (because she can - freedom eh!)...what you gonna do SG?
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#152
Don't tell them, Pike!
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#145, 146
Sail Away - Neil Young, Different song but equally good and appropriate
If it's mountains rather than oceans how about..
Ballad of the Beacon - Wishbone Ash
Has this band ever graced GIO?
Maybe you're preferred escape is to the city rather than the outdoors so..
Downtown - Petula Clark
And if it's just general freedom...
I Shall Be Released - Bob Dylan
Freedom will of course be enhanced by a warm, sunny weekend, bring it on, and have a nice one folks!
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Thursday: Feedom
Spread Your Wings: Queen (one of their finest and most under-rated moments)
Don't Dream It's Over: Crowded House (There is freedom within, there is freedom without)
THEME SUGGESTION
How about songs about SOCIAL ISSUES? OK, hands-up, its a poorly disguised attempt to get some Billy Bragg played.... but a theme with promise me thinks. And it needn't be all doom and gloom. Some very up-beat tunes deal with social issues, eg:
Luka: Suzanne Vega (Domestic abuse)
Maybe There's a Road: Karine Polwart (Sex Trafficing)
Beds are Burning: Midnight Oil (Indigenous People)
Whats Going On: Marvin Gaye (War)
We Didn't Start The Fire: Billy Joel
M
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Hi Scotch-git ! No, no booze reference there. & i'm afraid I dont know Zac Savage.
Melbourne is where my heart is now.
cheers ! Ian in Partick
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Future Theme:
OK, here's another suggestion... how about DEBUT SINGLES: ie: The first single to be released by a band or artist that are now well established... wide open that one!.. sorry.. it's a slow day for me, putting off a dull job I don't want to start.
M
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#150
Somewhere over the Rainbow particularly appropriate for its use at the end of Life on Mars
#155
Great idea on Social Issues, and nicely avoiding all the BB suggestions you (and I) are going to make for it ;-)
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The two theme suggestions mentioned last night are both Greeeeeeaaayytt.
High & Low Voices - I *dare* you to play Focus: Hocus Pocus... and I always know I've really got a cold when I can sing I was born under a wand'rin' star in the correct key.
Tracks (re)discovered on GiO - I reckon I buy a couple of tracks a week from a leading music download store because I've heard them on GiO. So I've got *loads* of suggestions for this.
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Theme suggestion:
'Start To Finish'
Songs whose endings are as integral a part of the song as the begining. Songs a DJ just couldn't (or shouldn't) talk over the intro or ending. No fade outs etc proper endings with a twist or something as strong as the intro.
'Virginia Plain' is an example of that though I don't think we need to hear that on GIO again.
J.O'B.
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#152
Julie,
I do my best to ignore birthdays. At some point I'll raise a glass to your lassie, and one for masel'. That aside, it's just another working day!
boring git
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#156
Ian,
Don't think we're having a laugh at your expense when we request Rolf Harris. We really like him!
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#159
START to FINISH
'Stay With Me' - The Faces
Best intro. Best finish. And the bit in the middle is not too shabby!!
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#159
Start to Finish... like it alot! Gets the brain cells working, but isn't that what it's all about? Could maybe include songs with the same first and last line (sorry, don't mean to hijack your theme suggestion RoxyJohn!).
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Songs that mean freedom and adventure, well that takes me back to my wouth I think. The songs that I remember playing when I was out and about as a schoolkid, when I probably shouldn't have been out and about. I should have been at school, or at home studying. Then I wouldn't be just another wage slave - I'd be raking in the ill gotten gains as a chief exec or politico - and / or I'd have invested in Microsoft and Google). If only we'd known all those years ago! Anyway, enough of that, songs that I recall from those heady days at Aberdeen beach, Hazlehead and other places when I was young and life held so much promise, girls just got in the way of you playing football and everything was possible;
Everlasting Love - Love Affair (and a thousand curses (and a baseball bat if I ever meet him) upon the dwarf who arsed this up for Bridget Jones))
Happy Together - Turtles (definietly remember this being played over the tannoy system at the beach, when people used to flock there in the thousands0
Gimme Shelter - Stones (things were getting darker)
Israelites - Desmond Dekker (years and years before I had any idea what he was saying - "me ear's are alight" was as good an interpretation as any)
Indiana Wants Me - R Dean Taylor (just a great record)
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Just noticed, that should be my youth, not my wouth. I have no idea what my wouth would be, even if I ever had one. When are we getting spellcheck on this site? And I've just seen some more erros, bad typing I'm afraid.
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Thursday;
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
Ticket to Ride - Beatles
#159 - Start to Finish? No chance RJ! Bryan's old school. He would be in a right tizz if he couldn't talk over the intro. (Yes indeedy).
oops,
;)
nearly
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Freeeeedoooooommmmmmm! Thursday
Billy Bragg: To Have And To Have Not (about leaving school & entering work)
Billy Bragg: A Lover Sings (at that school leaving/young adult age, finding about life and love)
Billy Bragg: Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
Saw Doctors: Me Heart Is Livin' In The Sixties Still
Saw Doctors: Galway and Mayo (very much about looking back to that magical time when the world was so much larger)
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If the day out theme gets the greenlight then I'd suggest anything from Dinosaur Jnr's 'Where You Been' album esp 'Out There' or towards the end of the show 'Going Home'.
As I've never heard them on GIO Dinosaur Jnr are another band that I'm on a mission to get on the show (flushed with my early success with the Pumpkins!), anyone else on here got bands that they're keen to get played for the 1st time?
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Alan watts Blues by Van Morrison is a great "freedom" song.
"Well I'm taking some time with my quiet friend
Well I'm takin' some time on my own.
Well I'm makin' some plans for my getaway
There'll be blue skies shining up above
When I'm cloud hidden
Cloud hidden
Whereabouts unknown"
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#166 Adam, would be happy to hear Ticket to Ride, but that reminded me that "Eight Days a Week" is another song that takes me back to the days of freedom aka no worries on where the money is coming from, what happens tomorrow and that getting older was a good thing!
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Rolf Harris ? How odd !
Nah, he's ok. He was very good on 'Have I got News..."
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Thursday; FREEDOM
The Explorers 'Free Yourself'
Bryan Ferry 'Mamouna' (oh Mamouna Run Mamouna run)
The ultimate song of emancipation has to be Bob Marley 'Redemption Song'
J.O'B.
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Thursday FREEDOM
Roxy Music 'Over You' or 'Cry Cry Cry' where BF sticks his 2 fingers up at Jerry Hall.
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RJ - was Kiss n Tell not a bit of a dig at Ms Hall as well?
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#152
And my mum
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# yes Norrie, it was after she did the book 'Tall Tales'. Over You & Cry Cry Cry are sort of, 'I am over it now, move on' type of songs that where 2-3 years after that split and I think they are more in line with the freedom theme.
J.O'B.
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Got my chunter back after having the software updated which is Car Dealer speak for we don't know what was wrong with it.
Anyway for tonight
Your greatest shade of blue / The Adventures
Not heard it in years and would make a nice change from Broken Land.
Escape / Rupert Holmes
Let this be a lesson to you all. You'll never know whether or not your missus likes drinking cocktails whilst gettin down and dirty in the sand dunes at midnight if you don't ask her.
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#177
Paulo - might be worth giving your PC an overhaul... If iTunes took THIS long to sort your file cache out I'd suggest you have some issues with CPU maxing. If you PVT me on LastFM with your system details I'll try to suggest some fixes for you.
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Jim the chunter was my car see #140. I gave up on the Itunes. Problem was it was importing them from my flash drive onto my limited space hard drive rather than just reading them as Windows media player does.
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'Breakaway' by Gallagher & Lyle would be great as a Thursday tune. But please don't talk over the sound of the waves crashing on the shore at the end...
DC in Cellardyke (where the kids still have another four and a half days of school before they get their FREEDOM!!!)
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#179
Ah - understood! Nevertheless, please get in touch if you have further problems. :-)
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Ah class tune Summer breeze. Album Version is even better
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My youngest son Euan passed his driving test today. He cried 'Freedom!' when he told me.
I cried 'Buy your own petrol' in response...
Give him a mention please!
DC in Cellardyke
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So you didn't say baby you can drive my car then
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#152, #160, #175
We Cancerians don't believe in astrology.
>8-D
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#185
I believe Uranus is in the ascendant.
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#179
You *can* get iTunes to use an external drive btw... (it's what I use for the media server attached to the TV with 200 movies & 400 hours of TV on!)
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Thanks for the suggestions again bloggers! I heard the show at home tonight and it was great to hear so many tunes that captured a lovely balmy Summer evening. Hey DC, it really is going to be a Summer of freedom for your son...if you bung him some petrol money!
Remember if there's anything you think we missed and shouldn't have this week, make sure you post for the Saturday show. And we'll get the themes for next week up on the blog, website and on air between five past six and seven then too.
Miss Babs
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There's somebody interrupting our astrology and computer maintenance blog plugging some radio show - should we complain?
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Too bad about Michael Jackson.
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Oh my god !
I cant believe you played 'Ding a dong' - I thought it may have been a step too far !
Well done !
The reason for it's significance to me is above at 80.
cheers !
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Great track - loved it!
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Singing along to Teach In in the studio last night was definitely one of those 'I love my job' moments! I'm off to a wedding reception tonight - do you think it'll be in the dj's record box? Do they have boxes these days?
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#193 It depends if the DJ is red-haired, wears specs and says 'Graayyytt'. If he is, then I'm sure he'll have it! Enjoy!
#188, aye, right...... He is old enough to earn money as well!
DC
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OK, you might not have let him babysit, but he made a few good records.
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#188
Babs, you forgot Burlesque.......................again.
SATURDAY
'Burlesque' - Family
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He did.... and I'm sure regardless of the circus surrounding his life, most of us enjoyed his music.
If you've a track you want us to play on Saturday let us know - on the blog, on facebook or on the email.
Also good to hear if you've got any memories of seeing Jakko in concert
Miss Babs
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did I Scotch? Gosh my memory is playing terrible tricks these days..... and I thought it was some Bragg chap I'd forgotten!!
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Funny how some artists no matter how successful just leave you cold. Michael jackson's music just didn't do it for me and I don't really know why especially as I loved Skywriter, Show you the way to go and Dreamer which were all group hits, but I can't think of one of his solo hits that I would go to any length to hear. And my phone weighs a ton with all they texts.
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I don't think he ever made a better record than I Want You Back.
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I will not be suggesting any MJ tracks no matter how good they are.
Especially sorry to hear about Sayonara Swells and also Farrah Fawcett Majors.
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I didn't know Sayonara Swells but it has been rather hot.
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The outstanding NME journalist.
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They're dropping like flies.
Are you all right?
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Yeah....it just this persistent grumpiness. I can't seem to shift it!
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#205
Norrie, girls in their summer clothes 14 july. Trust me it will shift
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paolopablo ~ absolutely!
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#199
It would only be fair however to acknowledge that he was a genuine superstar in the 70's and 80's even though he didn't do it for me.
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and yeah forget the red swim suit, my biggest memory of Farrah was in charlies angels when a muscular thug tried to grapple with her on her doorstep and as the struggle ensued she whacked him on the heid with her handbag, sorry purse, and ran off. Brilliant.
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I've kept away from the telly over the past 24 hours because I knew it would be too much to bear. Like Paolo & Norrie, I'm not a Jackson fan.
Changing the subject, I've been making an attempt to anticipate the playlist for 14th July. Go to http://www.brucespringsteen.net/live/2009setlists.html#20090515 for info. Looks like the encore will be pretty much as stated with the possibility that some Scottish choon will be thrown in. The main set looks mostly predictable but with a few differences show by show. Interesting stuff (unless you're a Jacko wacko)
DC
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#199, #210
I'm with Paolo and DC.
Bill Black will be playing songs about Jackson, Mississippi at 6 p.m.
I'll leave GIO to the Jackson 5 fans.
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#210
Suggested playlist;
Meeting Across the River Clyde
Pure Magic
Does This Bus Stop at Hampden?
Scottish Country Dancing in the Dark
Local Hero
Paradise
No Surrender
>8-D
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#188, #198 ...I'll be Ging Gang Goolie-ing at a Scout Group Centenery Celebration this evening so won't hear the show live but, yes Babs, it could be a touching late Birthday gesture from you for SG if you could play 'Burlesque' by Family...it's not really bizarre...it's grrrreat! Go on...play it...once you get that over and out of the way there's only Tull, BB and Hawkwind to go.
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...and David Gilmour!
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#211
I agree. I don't want to request a song by MJ, but think that the Beatles' "Everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey" would be good
;-)
DC
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