Next week's themes...
We're all swept up in the sixties celebration that's going around Radio Scotland at the moment. We're featuring the cultural revolution that was the Swinging sixties, with ten days of shows leading up to the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing by man on Monday, July 20. There are some great programmes in the season including Vic Galloway's underground sixties show, some special editions of MacAulay and Co and in Sex, Drugs and Wooly Semmets, former pirate radio DJ Jack McLaughlin meets some survivors of the 1960's music scene in Scotland. Details of the shows and lots of other bits and pieces are on the website. In the meantime, we'll be running some sixties inspired themes on Get It On. Have a think and see what you can come up with for this lot...
Monday 6th July:
1961: Beatles play first gig at the Cavern Club - But who did you 'discover' before they were famous?
Tuesday 7th July:
1962: Marilyn Monroe found dead - chronicled in Candle in the Wind - so tonight it's songs that name check celebs...
Wednesday 8th July:
1963: It was the year of Martin Luther's "I have a dream" speech - so tonight we feature the songs with a powerful message...
Thursday 9th July:
1964: Pirate Radio Caroline launches - so tonight it's songs all about radio...
© MMIX~RS~q~RS~~RS~z~RS~07~RS~)
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TUESDAY
'Gossip' - Michael Marra
Elton John, Lionel Blair, H.M. The Queen, Dorothy Paul, Frankie Howerd, the Beatles, David Bowie. (In that order).
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Tuesday
What a name check list... Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Hitler, Mussolini
Powerman - T.Kinks
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Monday
Red Shoes - Elvis Costello - I brought this song to a band I played in at the time. He eventually made it, unlike the band
Tuesday
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way? - Waylons Jennings - Ungrammatical classic
Wednesday
Come Away Melinda - Tim Rose - Unintentionally hilarious anti-war song eclipsed by Morning Dew
Thursday
Far Away Eyes - Rolling Stones - Mick pretends he's Dwight Yoakam in this tale of a US gospel station.
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Monday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FFAmI5V9fs
Tuesday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XZE8y0zles 'For Jethro l.o.l.'
Wednesday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK6KhR7meqQ
Thursday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdpllAHo0ng
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"The first moon landing by man." As opposed to what?
Was this prepared by the team who brought us "outdoor" weather forecast
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Mary Ann Kennedy's Global Gathering...
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Brilliant! We have a pirate theme.....
THURSDAY
'There's A Ghost In My House' - Arrrrrrrrr Dean Taylor
>8-D
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TUESDAY
'England's Glory' - Ian Dury and the Blockheads
I would need a lyric sheet to mention them all. Includes 'Muffin the Mule'
'nuff said!
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Monday Discoveries
I was at the Sex Pistols in Manchester along with Mark E Smith, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Morrissey, Paul Morley, Mick Hucknall... no, wait. I've confused my life with the script of 24 Hour Party People. Tony Wilson had the same problem, so I don't feel so bad.
Hmm - I'm clearly no talent scout, as I either get into bands long post-hype whose music is really good *despite* the hype (Fratellis for example) or find small bands who deserve to be bigger, but don't get there because they concentrate on the music, not the being famous (see Oasis for the opposite approach).
However, I did spend a lot of evenings in the Royal Oak in Edinburgh singing with Karine Polwart, before she joined up with a couple of mates of mine to form Malinky. I'm not requesting her cos I never thought she was the stand out talented one (that would be Steve Byrne).
What else... I first heard They Might Be Giants while working in the US in 1990; not particularly early in their career, but before they'd really got any airplay here, so perhaps that counts? If so, Istanbul (Not Constantinople) please.
I heard (and instantly loved - it's still one of my Desert Island Discs) Capercaillie: Ma theid mise tuilleadh (If I Ever Go Again) in about 1989, which was pretty early for them.
Finally, I was a big John Peel fan throughout the 80s, but the only only track I remember hearing and thinking at the time "this lot are going to be big" was Duran Duran: Planet Earth.
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Mon
I was once dragged along to the QM halls of residence by my Benbeculean,
Benbeculite, Benbeculonian, by a date who came from Benbecula to see a band called Runrig from 'the islands'. There were 12 people watching and they did an encore before coming out to chat to us about how they were trying to get a gig in Tiffany's in Sauchiehall st. A couple of years later I saw them again at the Barraland amidst a heaving mass of sweaty dancing bodies. So howsabout Nightfall on Marsco or Hearts of Olden Glory.
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Tues ah good theme and hunners to choose from
She's so high / Tal Bachman.....Cleopatra joan of arc and aphrodite
On and On / Stephen Bishop.......Sinatra
The Future / Leonard Cohen....Stalin, Charles manson, St Paul
Home Thoughts From Abroad / Clifford T Ward...Browning Keats Wordsworth
Werewolves of London / Warren Zevon / Lon Chaney
and not forgetting
Life is a Rock but the radio rolled me / Reunion
which mentions everyone and could also do Thursday's theme too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16kh-AP4OCU
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Wed
Eve of Destruction / Barry McGuire
Be thankful for what you got / William De Vaughn
Let's Clean up the ghetto / Philadelphia International allstars
There'll never be peace till god is seated at the conference table /Chi- Lites
Let Em In / Billy Paul
White Lines / Grandmaster flash
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Thu
Ten to Eight / David Castle (for my not so wee sis who used to brush her hair to the rhythm of the music playin on the radio)
Radio Africa / Latin Quarter
Listen to the Radio / Tom Robinson
Spirit of Radio / Rush
FM / Steely Dan
Or one for the old Pirate Radio ships
Rock the Boat / Hues Corporation
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#10
Didn't have that early privilege, but *did* manage to get previews of vocal lines for songs that ended up on The Big Wheel, as a certain singer was standing for Edin Uni Rector during the recording sessions, and I was on his campaign team[1]. Not in a "here, listen to this" way, but a walking along between hustings, practising and trying to get right way.
Many of that campaign team ended up on the Loch Lomond footage far too often for it to be co-incidence too - we reckoned it was revenge :-)
[1] A good friend of mine was campaign manager - hi Lindsay!
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Tuesday namechecks:
If you avoid Billy Bragg: Levi Stubbs' Tears then there's something very, very far wrong.
You also get
Norman Whitfield and Barratt Strong
Are here to make everything right that's wrong
Holland and Holland and Lamont Dozier too
Are here to make it all okay with you
on that track.
However, I might forgive substituting that for Billy Bragg: Ingrid Bergman.
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...advanced warning: I'm going to have a longish list for Wednesday. And that's just the Billy Bragg subsection :-)
It may involve a little bit of politics (as Ben Elton put it).
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Thursday Radio
Another *huge* selection of songs to pick from (including Scissor Sisters, Monty Python, The Selecter & Slade), but I'm going to plump for Roger Waters: Radiowaves. You could, of course, play the whole album Radio K.A.O.S. as it's pretty much all on-topic.
There's also a compilation or two of tracks played on Radio Caroline (there's at least one other regular blogger who has it), with classic 70s tracks and original jingles - it'd be great if you could play a few of those as idents (say going into the Fred Macaulay trail) just to confuse the casual listener :-)
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Has Lulu stood on something?
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Monday
I bought an LP having heard this group on Radio Luxembourg. This group was fronted by a gorgeous blonde who sang punk in 1978 and I tried to get my fish-merchant pal to listen to a few of their tracks en route to Peterhead market at half past three one Saturday morning in July of that year.
"Aye, no bad", says he, " but they'll never make it big"
Thirty years later, "Always touched by your presence dear" is still one of my Blondie favourites.
DC in Cellardyke
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THURSDAY (Pirate theme)
'Harrrrbor Lights' - Boz Scaggs - for DC
>8-D
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#18
I think that mike is live........
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Before they were famous.....
There are a couple of tremendous Whistle Test compilation DVD's around which read like a Who's Who of rock and feature early or first Tv performances of loads of Legends. Everything from Marley to U2 to Skynyrd to Roxy to Alice Cooper etc. Great stories as well from the presenters about their memories of the performances and meeting these future stars for the first time.
Best one was Bob Harris's story of Focus and how they realised for the first time that they were actually affecting music sales. Noone knew of them before they appeared on the programme and within a fortnight the band had both Sylvia and Hocus Pocus the two tracks played on the programme, in the charts simultaneously.
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#22
Lots of play on Caroline too - good reason to get Hocus Pocus on for Thursday if you ask me.
I've just remembered too - Runrig: Hearthammer namechecks Radio Caroline as part of imagery from childhood. But then again, Runrig are on the GiO banned list (along with Tull, Fratellis etc)
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Before David Gilmour became a famous solo artist, he played with a little known band called Pink Floyd....
DC
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Mon 'Them' came to St Convals chapel hall.The lead singer (Van somebody or other) never looked up.They never looked back.
Tue Chip Taylors 'It Don't Get Better Than This' name checks Springstein,Tiger woods,the Yankees,and even the boy they were taking back to Cuba.Great song.
Wed The title track from the same album,Chip Taylors Black And Blue America.A nostalgic look back at liberal America in the sixties features Martin Luther Kings 'I Have A Dream'speech.Check it out if you haven't heard the track.
Thurs Jamiroquai 'Radio'
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#9 - agree re John Peel.
Most Saturday lunchtimes would see me tootling along from my Saturday job to a record shop in Frederick (or was it Hanover ) Street to buy, quite often from 'Big John out of The Exploited', some of the records I'd heard on the John Peel show and had read about in The NME...stuff that was non-mainstream at the time but then mostly made it into the charts a while later...I'd be a mixture of pleased and disappointed if they got into the charts....funnily enough, The Daughter 'discovered' Taylor Swift about a year ago...I quite understood how she felt when La Swift finally hit the charts here and The Daughter was really irked to hear 'neds' singing her songs on the bus (as they do). Sometimes music's like your own little secret...you know fine well it's not really just for you but it's fun to imagine you're the only one with your (good?)taste.
Records I bought by bands that were successful later include:
UB40's first single - double A side 'King'/'Food For Thought' (I liked 'Food For Thought' better).
Ian Dury and the Blockheads - 'Clevor Trever' from 'New Boots and Panties - bought in 1977.
The Specials' first single - 'Gangsters' ...which was, I thought, always a dead-cert to be successful...there was so much hype about them.
Madness's first single - 'The Prince'.
Echo and the Bunnymen - 'Rescue' - saw them in 1980 in Valentino's disco in Edinburgh...they didn't reach the top twenty of the charts till 1982.
When I saw The Police in 1979, I remember them singing 'Message In A Bottle' before it had been released. They'd already had a song in the top ten by that time but their global success came later. That concert was more of a success than a previous gig in Edinburgh where, as support band to Albertos Y los Trios Paranois, they had bottles thrown at them.
I do have a real soft-spot for 'Rowche Rumble' and 'how I Wrote Elastic Man' by The Fall, but they're still very much a cult band, even after 30 years and acres of newsprint in serious music journals and the arts sections of the Sunday supplements.
I heard Billy Bragg on John Peel's show and bought 'Life's A Riot With Spy vs Spy' in 1983 - I like 'The Milkman Of Human Kindness' but his fame isn't really comparable with Sting's is it?
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#26...oops! got a bit carried away there...sorry folks.
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#26, #27
I'm not much of a Sting fan (although I do like the Police stuff) and I am a Bragg fan, but I'd have to agree with you. Bragg is underrated, and perhaps, according to your theory, that's not SUCH a bad thing, as we fans can feel like he's just for us! :-)
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#26
Julie,
When Sting and his playmates were having Bottles hurled in their direction, why didn't they get the Message?
>8-D
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#29
Perhaps they weren't standing Close enough.
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#30
Must have had a Deathwish.
BOMBS AWAY.................
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Max B Gold advises that when he was a student busybody and entertainment something or other he signed up Wet, Wet, Wet, Goodbye Mr McKenzie and Deacon Blue on the same bill for a paltry £1,200.
I'm just telling you that because none of them went on to be any good but they were "discovered" soon after.
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My friend (and now neighbour) Colin booked Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath and Alex Harvey in 1970 when none of them were household names. People generally went because there was a late bar.
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Was Colin a policeman?
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This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules.
Now, if I do THAT joke, I'll be severely moderated!
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Tuesday - Songs That Namecheck Celebs:
Bette Davies Eyes - Kim Carnes
Diana - Prefab Sprout (Princess Diana)
End Of The World As We Know It - R.E.M. (Lenny Bruce)
Absent Friends - The Divine Comedy (Steve McQueen)
Taxman - The Beatles (Mr Wilson, Mr Heath...)
I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher - Notsensibles
John Kettley Is A Weatherman - A Tribe Of Toffs
Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
(she runs an excellent chain of cafes across America - I frequented them often when driving between Nevada and California when I worked in the States)
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Thursday - Radio Songs:
Don't Listen To The Radio - The Vines (a pure belter!)
Calling All Stations - Genesis
Last Request - Paulo Nutini
Radio, Radio - Elvis Costello
Midnight In A Perfect World - DJ Shadow
Radio Musicola - Nick Kershaw
W*O*L*D* - Harry Chapin
Transmission - Japan
Let The Record Play - Wait For Green
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Tue: 'A Simple Desultory Philippic' - Simon and Garfunkel, from 'Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme' (mentions Norman Mailer, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Lou Adler, Phil Spector, Dylan Thomas, Art Garfunkel...and more). It's a track I've always liked...it's clever, amusing...and short.
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Wednesday - Songs With A Powerful Message:
Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello
This Land Is Your Land - Billy Bragg
Ellis Unit One - Steve Earle
Bag Lady - Todd Rundgren
Weary Whaling Grounds - Jack The Lad
Drive - The Cars (took on a whole new meaning after Live Aid)
I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister - Pete Seeger
Imagine - John Lennon
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MONDAY
I used to work with a cousin of Deacon Blue's Ricky Ross. The cousin Colin used to play in a band called Those French Girls. I jammed a wee bit here and there with Colin at his house and he told me about his cousin's band. I remember him playing me a demo of Dignity then eventualy told me they got signed by CBS. I bought Raintown the day it was released but it was about a year later before it became a hit after all the singles had been re-released.
I saw Lloyd Cole at the Hammersmith Odeon when I was in London around October 2004 and the support act was the then unknown James Blunt.
And as it seems I am almost obliged to Give Roxy Music a mention so here goes, Bryan Ferry played in a band called The Banshees in the 60's in Newcastle. (This was the inspiration behind Souxsie naming her band as they all met at a Roxy gig and where big fans)
Ferry also played in a band called The Gas Board with film director Mike Figgis when they where at college.
J.O'B.
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Monday:
1986, Aberdeen University, and a friend has managed to get hold of a copy of a demo tape made by two lads from Auchtermuchty... it all sounds a bit raw, but wonderfully colloquial. The Proclaimers are booked to play Ritzy's nightclub, so we go along and are treated to the most inspirational and energetic performance you can imagine. They have a short set, only 10 or 12 numbers, but the crowd are so enthused and insistent that the duo play virtually the whole set again... what a night!
How about 'Throw the R Away' or "Over and Done With"' to remind me of that night?
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For Monday
I Saw the Thompson Twins at the Sword Hotel in Stirling in either late 79 or early 80 after buying their first single 'Perfect Game' see if you can find it. It's very good and quite different to the later stuff they recorded...
Frankindennyinspain
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#35 ?!?
So Colin had a magic wand. So does Sooty.
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Is anyone keeping a league table of how often they have their posts removed?
If my memory serves me right:
Glenn 4
Scotch 2
Paolo 1
DC 1
The rest 0
However, I may be wrong so need to be telt
DC
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Thursday:
'The days before rock and roll' by Van the Man lists a whole lot of wireless stations which were around in the 60s, Athlone, AFN, Hilversum, Luxembourg, Budapest, Helvetia etc
I can't say I ever listened to Radio Caroline, preferring the original Radio Scotland which was anchored not far from where I stay
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DC I suggested that one before without any luck and certainly hope it gets played this time. It would also fit namecheck night very well indeed with references to Elvis, Jerry lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Little Richard and of course Lester Piggot and Van's goldfish!
Great track.
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#43
That was The Thompson Twins as a 7-piece? I wasn't a fan at the time (too young), but my big sis was. She had In The Name of Love and played it to death in the house, so when it was referenced in Love On Your Side in the trio days (a few years later, when I was a fan), I got it straight Away.
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Monday - Before They Were Famous:
I'm going for two bands both of which I knew before they went on to bigger and better things.
The first is Runrig. In the 80's, before many of their massive hits, I was in a band called The Sheep Worriers! We got the job of supporting the boys around the colleges and uni halls. Great fun! We'd turn up, get to hear Runrig do their setup/sound check, do our own sound check, and then have the extremely easy job of warming up an already buoyant crowd! Hanging out backstage with the boys was fun - the then drummer was going out with my cousin and at one point I almost expected us to be welcoming him into the family! Alas, that did not happen... Which brings me to my second choice:
The Liberties. My aforementioned cousin Alison was front woman in the excellent Edinburgh country band, so naturally I got to hear their material before release. They were a great wee band and it was a shame that they didn't ultimately make it - their first album was great!
So my choices are:
Hearthammer - Runrig
Colour Of My Car - The Liberties
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#45
2 for adam and one for Jim methinks
#46 and #47
I'll third it but won't bother repeating the story of my Daddy's radiogram again
#48
Would that have been after the QM hall of Residence gig then?
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oops I meant #49 not #48
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A wee hand / cheat, call it what you like, for anyone wondering if their favourite artist has ever namechecked a celeb.
http://www.amiright.com/real/celebartist/
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Eh, I didnae suggest Duran duran. That's the first signs Bryan. Drink lots of coffee, that'll reverse the process :-)
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For some folk to check when/where gigs were:
http://www.edinburghgigarchive.com/
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#50 #51
It might have been! I was NOT driving that night! ;-)
There were others too, including Napier around the same time. It's all a wee bit hazy nowadays, you understand...
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#53 HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
DC
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#49, "The Sheep Worriers", eh?
Where did you say you originated from Jim?
;-)
DC
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A Wooly Bully
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#57
It wasn't my band - I just rode shotgun ;-)
And my lot come from the North East, basically - your neck of the woods.
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#59
DC and JFE....Separated at birth ...and found each other again on the GIO Blog. How good are stories with a happy ending :-)
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It's time to reclaim your rightful inheritance - The Menie Estate.
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now that would be a trump card to play.
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#59, so geography isn't your strong point...
Last time I looked, Cellardyke was only thirty miles north of the border, so hardly my neck of the woods at all!!!!
DC in the south east
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#63
We've already had this discussion - I was shorthanding it assuming you might remember, but no matter.
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Good show tonight. Nice to see the blog well represented.
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;-0
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#49
Jim,
Was yon a 'Dolly' tribute band?
>8-D
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#64 shorthanding the map of Scotland. Have you run that one by Ecky Redfish?
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TUESDAY
When Smokey Sings - ABC
Mentions, Luther Vandross, Sly and the Family Stone, James Brown and Marvin Gaye
Dont Phunk With My Heart - Black Eyed Peas
Mentions, Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston
The Jean Genie - David Bowie
Mentions, Marilyn Monroe, Snow White
Mr. D.J. - Charlie Daniels
Mentions, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Jr., Oak Ridge Boys, Ricky Skaggs, Alabama (the country group), George Jones, Mickey Gilley
Brimful Of Asha - Corner Shop
Mentions, Asha Bohsle
Sunny South Kensington - Donovan
Mentions, Alan Ginsburg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mary Quant
Radioactivity - Kraftwerk
Mentions, Madame Marie Curie
Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk
Mentions, Iggy Pop, David Bowie
All The Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
Mentions, Beatles, Stones, T Rex
Behind the Wall of Sleep - The Smithereens
Mentions, Jeannie Shrimpton, Bill Wyman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hERot7SrVYo GET IT ON!
From Hank to Hendrix - Neil Young
Mentions, Hank Williams, Jimi Hendrix
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No, and no.
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#69
Charlie Daniels Band; guid yin!
I was considering a request for it on Thursday...
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Trying to avoid musicians as we had that recently:
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
David Bowie - Andy Warhol
Indigo Girls - Gallileo, he says somewhat desperately by now
Springsteen - Jesus Was An Only Son
Iggy Pop - China Gitrl (Brando reference)
Lou Reed - The Day John Kennedy Died
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But if we were to have musicians
Mary Chapin Carpenter - I Feel Lucky (Lyle Lovett and Dwight Yoakam)
The Who - Mirror Door (great great track with an absolute who's who of influential musicians)
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So Lonely - The Police (Sue Lawley)
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72# Good shout David Bowie - Andy Warhol, Hunky Dory a great album
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#72
Sorry Norrie...
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#67
Bah humbug?
DC
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Not at all MMFC that is a great list you have, everyone a winner!
I thought about Jonathon Richman and The Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso I guess that would fall foul of the timeslot. Bowie does a good version too.
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#77
'Suck it and See' - Sweet
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#80 Mott The Hoople - Sucker.......sorry!
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TUESDAY - CELEB MENTIONS
Brian Protheroe - Pinball " ....read about Monroe, and I wonder was she really what they say..." Haven't heard it since the seventies, it's an unusual song with lyrics that I always enjoyed.
Neil Young - Campaigner "... even Richard Nixon has got soul...."
Bob Dylan - Lennie Bruce
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TUESDAY
You Were Right: Badly Drawn Boy (Namechecks The Queen, Madonna, Sinatra, Jeff Buckley, Kurt Cobain and John Lennon)
WEDNESDAY
Surely you can't let the night pass without some Billy Bragg? Let me add to to the long list promised by CaptRamius (#16): Would love to hear "DAYS LIKE THESE".... I think it could be BBs finest moment. Alternatively, if you can find another song with the word 'dogma' in the lyrics, play that instead.
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Wednesday - OMG, just one night! There's enough from the civil rights movement to fill GIO for many,many more. How about "Abraham, Martin and John" from Marvin Gaye or "A Change is gonna come" from Sam Cooke. Or "Mississippi Goddamn" - Nina Simone. A bit older Billie Holliday's "Strange Fruit" is just haunting. And a (wee) bit newer - Neil Young's "Southern Man". Change the subject a bit - "Woman in chains" - Tears for Fears or "Sisters are doin' it for themselves" - Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin. And what about Eric Bogle's "No man's land". Does anyone believe a war will end wars?
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Good show last night. In tribute to the man who brought us all so many undiscovered bands, pray a minute's noise for John Peel.
(now if we're talking knowing *comedians* before they were famous, I've known Mitch Benn since our Freshers' Week)
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#83
I started mentally listing tracks while in the shower this morning, and came to the conclusion I'm going to have to have subcategories, likely to include:
* Civil Rights in various countries
* Gender Politics/Domestic Violence
* Trade Unionism
* Civil wars in various countries
* Gay Rights
* Rise of Fascism
* General pacifism
* Positive Thinking
* Dissatisfaction with standard popular culture
Can you tell I grew up in the 80s, and always preferred a track with a lyric that *meant* something..?
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# 85
How about a Bragg special (on 20th Dec the bards birthday)?... after all we have had Dylan and Springsteen specials!
OK... I'll fetch my coat.
Look forward to the list though.
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For Wed
Stevie Wonder............ Heaven help us All
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TUESDAY: name checks
Bryan Ferry 'Cruel'
the line "James Bond, Jackie O, Johny Ray and Garbo"
J.O'B.
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#85
I've just discovered I can't come to your party after all.
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#81
great shout for pinball.
Had a bizarre experience driving back from work there. Several vinyl albums strewn across the carriageway in and out of their sleeves. Neil Young Crosby Stills Etc CCR amongst others. Emdy out there upset their missus lately?
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Did you stop and get any?
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#90
Regularly - it's a daily hazard :-S
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#91
Na but I think I halved a copy of Harvest.
#92
Don't think any of them were yours Jim. No tull or Dolce from what I could see :-)
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Mr. MacLean,
You kept that very quiet! When do you find time to sleep?
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Kept what quiet SG?
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Think I just heard someone doin the hoovering in the studio
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That sucks!
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Great track Scotch!!
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#98
Lots of Michael's songs namecheck folk. Dr. John, Grace Kelly,Frida Kahlo, General Grant, Bob Dylan, Hamish McAlpine, etc. etc.
I'm a wee bit surprised there weren't more Michael Marra requests this evening.
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And the Parkhead fox!
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I mean in his lyrics not requests for the fox, who must be a former fox by now. Did he ever score any of those kicks from the penalty mark? Mcalpine that is.
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#101
I think I'm correct in saying Hamish scored against Hibs, Hearts and Rangers. '76 or '77 or thereabouts.
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POWERFUL MESSAGE No.1 - It's good to be alive!
Even when life is not brilliant, it is much more attractive than the alternative!
POWERFUL MESSAGE No.2 - Love is an incurable disease!
Without love, life is ultimately meaningless. It becomes only a struggle for survival.
WEDNESDAY
'It's Rare T'Be Alehv' - Saint Andrew
'Ain't No Cure For Love' - Mary Coughlan
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Wednesday obviously...
The Message - GrandMaster Flash & the Furious Five
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Scotch great songs and very well put sentiments.
I am back with a couple of Springsteen suggestions as Joe seems to be on Holiday
Springsteen - Long Walk Home
Springsteen - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
both very direct criticisms of American internal and foreign policy and actions. Long Walk Home I think is one of his best ever songs. American Skin (41 Shots) would be another one and very controversial at the time.
But there is more to life than the Boss and I think the following are worthy of consideration:
Peter Gabriel - Biko
Pete Townsend - Give Blood
Elvis - Walk A Mile In My Shoes
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Oh and
Prince - Sign O The Times
Clash - The Call Up
Clash - Know Your Rights
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Wednesday
Dear Uncle Sam - Loretta Lynn
I Hung My Head - Johnny Cash
Okie from Muskogee - Merle Haggard
At The First Fall of Snow - Hank Williams
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WEDNESDAY -
'Young Gifted and Black'...did you know it was written by Nina Simone, in memory of her friend Lorraine Hansberry (who wrote the play 'A Raisin In The Sun')? Nina's version is very different from the cover by Bob and Marcia. Would make a change from the other Simone songs that are usually played on the show (not that they're not good too).
Antony and the Johnsons' beautiful song 'Another World'.
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Did not know that Julie, great suggestion.
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Caught the show late tonight & couldn't get access to PC/mobile to submit suggestions. Checked playlist & you missed Done too Soon by Neil Diamond & also Life is a Rock, by Reunion, a song I remember well from my days at university when I and some friends tried to identify the artists mentioned for a competition run by Johnny Walker on Radio 1. As for tomorrow night, what about Harry Chapin's Cat's In the Cradle, Marc Cohn's True Companion or CSN&Y's Ohio or Chicago from the 4 Way Street album, while for Thursday night there is Harry Chapin's W.O.L.D or Mark Germino's Rex Bob Lowenstein. You could also throw in Life is a Rock in view of the tenuous link with Johnny Walker's radio beginnings on the pirate radio ships of the 60s.
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#110. Yes, the Reunion song would be good for Thursday wouldn't it.
'Mexican Radio' - Wall Of Voodoo.
'Schenectady calling Peerie Willie Johnson' - Michael Marra again.
'The '59 Sound' - the Gaslight Anthem (mentions Grandmama's radio).
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Hi there
Just thinking about your topic for Wednesday and I've come up with 3 songs I love that are powerful
"Turning Point" as sung by Nina Simone on her Silk & Soul album is amazing. Just so simple about racism but also about how parents condition children.
"Strange Fruit" either sung by Billie Holiday or Nina Simone always has a chilling effect on me
"Ship Building" by Elvis Costello & Clive Langer as sung by Robert Wyatt (can still remember him doing this on the Old Grey Whistle Test) might have been written about the Falklands War but is powerful for any time.
Julie
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#111 Good yin, Julie!
Support for Julie's 'Michael Marra' request on Thursday.
http://www.tradmusichall.com/PeerieWJohnson.htm
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#90 Thanks Paolo, thought it sounded great too.
WEDNESDAY - POWERFUL STUFF
#108, #109 Agreed Julie & Norrie, Young Gifted & Black, excellent!
I'm also gonnae suggest the following:-
Saltwater - Julian Lennon, There haven't been too many songs talking about the depletion of the ozone layer!
Breathe - Pink Floyd, You could pick numerous examples from "Dark Side.." but this might have been prophetic about reaching too far, in the light of Jacko's death
Blowing in the Wind - There must be loads of Dylan possibilities so let Peter,Paul and Mary speak the anti-war words instead.
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Wednesday:
'The Island' - Paul Brady
Strong yet romantic lyrics about the Irish situation.
And a great song to boot
DC in Cellardyke.
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#110
emoffat. i posted a link to the reunion song above at #11. Would have been good for last night but maybe he's saving it for radio night.
We're surely gonna get shipbuilding tonight but which version? It would be Declan everytime for me.
Think tonight's show could be a cracker. Lots of good stuff being suggested. If I'd to add one more to my own picks at #12 it would be Green Day's American Idiot or Billy Joel's goodnight saigon. Different conflicts same message.
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Another couple (sorry!)
Malcolm Middleton - One of Us (great cover of the Joan Osborne track)
Richard Hawley - Troublesome Waters (great cover of the Mother Maybelle Carter classic)
Martyn Jospeh - He Never Said (version I have has Tom Robinson on vocals as well)
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Wednesday:
#114: Was going to suggest Time, but will withdraw in favour of Breathe.
#115: Paul Brady - great shout. He got such a kicking over that song that it's ironic that a few years later, Christy Moore, (one of the kickers) co-wrote North and South of the River with Bono & the Edge.
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Wednesday
OK, here is the promised list. This is very much a shortleet, as I've stripped out a lot of the political ones, and replaced with a much smaller number of other types of message. But even so...
* Beatles: Her Majesty
* Billy Bragg: Between The Wars
* Billy Bragg: All You Fascists Bound to Lose
* Billy Bragg: Levi Stubbs' Tears
* Billy Bragg: waiting for the Great Leap Forward
(avoiding The Boss cos I assume Norrie's got that covered)
* Bronski Beat: Tell Me Why
* Bronski Beat: Smalltown Boy
* Buffalo Springfield: For What It's Worth
* Capercaille: Four Stone Walls
* Capercaille: Waiting for the Wheel to Turn
* Capercaille: Outlaws
* Cat Stevens: Wild World
* Christy Moore: Missing You
* Depeche Mode: People are People
* Donovan: Universal Soldier
(also avoiding Elvis Costello as I think he'll also be well covered)
* Eric Bogle: The Contract
* Hooters: Satellite
* Howard Jones: Things Can Only Get Better
* The Human League: The Lebanon
* Incredible String Band: The Hedgehog Song
* The Jam: That's Entertainment
* Judy Small: Mothers Daughters Wives (wonderfully powerful anti-war song from a different perspective )
* Lennon: Mother
* Madness: One Better Day
* Madness: Johnny The Horse
* Marillion: Punch and Judy
* Marillion: White Russians
* Marillion: Warm Wet Circles
* Matt McGinn: 3 Nights and a Sunday
* The Men They Couldn't Hang: The Colours
* Mika: Big Girls You Are Beautiful
* Mike Oldfield: On Horseback
* Neil Young: Alabama
* Oysterband: Deserters
* Peter Gabriel: Don't Give Up
* Peter Gabriel: We Do What We're Told (milgram's 37)
* Pink Floyd: Breathe (was going to be Time, but Paul from Ayr's suggestion is better)
* Pink Floyd: Sheep
* Pink Floyd: The Happiest Days of our Lives
* Pink Floyd: On the Turning Away
* Pink Floyd: Us and Them
* The Pogues: The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
(Skipping Runrig as we had our annual allocation last night)
* Sandy Denny: John the Gun
* Sawdoctors: Sing A Powerful Song
* Sawdoctors: I Hope We Meet Again
(skipping the Smiths as it'll be well covered)
* Specials: Ghost Town
* Specials: Tell Me Why
* Squeeze: Up the Junction (linked to the powerful film of the same name)
* The Strawbs: Part of the Union (although the song it's based on: Woody Guthrie's Union Maid is very, very good)
* The Streets: Your Song (the cover of the Elton John. oh all right then, you can have the Ewan McGregor version from Moulin Rouge)
* They Might Be Giants: Your Racist Friend
* Tom Paxton: What Did You Learn in School Today?
* Tom Petty: Don't Come Around Here No more
* Tom Waits: I Hope That I don't Fall In Love with You
* Traveling Wilburies: Congratulations
* U2: North and South of the River (co-written with Christy Moore, whose version is better I think)
* U2: God Part II
* U2: Peace on Earth
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Did I scare everyone else off?
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Right from the opening bars of Edwin Starr it's been an outstanding show so far
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#111
Hey Julie, See #4... heres hoping L.O.L.
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woohoo! some Bragg got played tonight! Excellent! :-)
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Inevitably the appalling Imagine.
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I wouldnt believe your radio T. Stereophonics
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Yeah, and another four songs on the playlist were almost as bad...
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Radio Nine T. Buzzcocks (very short)
The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) T. Doors
Radio Song R.E.M. Feat. KRS-One
Radio Head Talking Heads
Do you remember R&R Radio OR We want the Airwaves T. Ramones
D J David Bowie
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Pirate Radio... The Crystal Ship - T. Doors
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MMFC - how did you miss ~
Capital Radio - The Clash?
This Is radio Clash - The Clash?
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Nanci Griffith - Listen To The Radio
Jesse Malin - Broken Radio (please it's great)
Rush - Spirit Of The Radio
DC's Van suggestion is surely surely a must! But if not...
Van Morrison - caravan
"Turn up your radio and let me hear the song
Turn it up, turn it up, little bit higher radio
Turn it up, turn it up, so you know, radio"
I reckon the performance of this on It's Too Late To Stop Now is one of the greatest ever live performances.
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Sorry in my enthusiasm I missed
Josh Ritter - Golden Age Of Radio
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#129 L.O.L.
Thought you'd covered them @ #106... Auld age an' aw that!
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He he us youngsters are looking out for you don't worry!
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Thursday:
Anyone remember 'Nervous Wreck' by Radio Stars, from 1977?
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#134
Yup! Just dug it out and played it. Good solid punk.
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#135. Was the B side really written by Marc Bolan?
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#136
I have the CD - never got it on vinyl - what was the B side track called?
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#137. 'Horrible Breath'.
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#138
Yes - it was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Stars
:-)
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For Thursday
Rex Bob Lowenstein by Mark Germino
Song about a dj who plays the tunes his listeners and he want to hear.
Now there's a neat idea. :o)
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RADIO TUNES
Yesterday Once More - Carpenters, (...When I was young I listened to the radio...
On the Radio - Donna Summer
Bad Sneakers - Steely Dan (... by Radio City with a transistor....)
My Oh My - Sad Cafe (...radio's always on by my side...)
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#141
Your comment being moderated away in 5... 4... 3...
(can't say I disagree with you, mind)
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I agree with Hoppo but he better copy his list of good songs so he can re-post them...................another legendary Hoppo post!
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After last night's monster, I'm only requesting one track for tonight - as above, it's Roger Waters: Radiowaves from the excellent Radio K.A.O.S. album (which is all in the style of a radio show with listener contributions, as was the accompanying concert tour. Hmmm, reminds me of something...)
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#144
I've taken a copy just in case :-)
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Interestingly I have received an e-mail telling me my post has been moderated / removed, so here it is again minus what I must assume was offending.
Been away pretending to be a businessman for a few days eg eating and drinking too much and having meetings in other people's offices. I am still reeling from logging in and seeing "Mr Keeler", not good for you at this time of the morning. Gutted I missed out on the protest / message songs though I did manage to hear some of the show. However, radio, a nice little theme here and..
Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen
Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
Radio Cure - Wilco
On My Radio - Selecter
On My Radio - Regina Spektor
H.A.P.P.Y Radio - Edwin Starr
Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo
W.O.L.D - Harry Chapin
Radio Radio - Elvis Cosello
Life is a Rock (but the radio rolled me) - Reunion
Listen to the Radio - Nanci Griffiths
Mohammed's Radio - Warren Zevob
and no twaddle in sight though I have no doubt it will be played!
Also corrected some spelling.
NB I'd like to know how my comment breached the guidelines. Or possibly I'm wrong it's the reference to twaddle and there is a queen fan doing the moderating
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NB In celebration of my being moderated I would like to make Radio Radio by Elvis Costello my number one request.
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Superb show last night. A must for a repeat theme, even if just to squeeze in Karine Polwart.
THURSDAY:
Radio Africa: Latin Quarter
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It's so infuriating when a regular gets moderated and you haven't had a chance to read it first. Still glad to see Reunion on Hoppos list. A wee head of steam building up for this one, I reckon that's 5 different folk listing it.
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Have GIO not bothered reading the blog today? Paul from Ayr asked for Donna Summer, I asked for Nanci Griffith!
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Hi Bryan,
Great Show.
I have a suggestion for the radio theme...
What about "You Cant Change That" by Raydio.
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play misty for me
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Ah well no reunion after all
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#151, Thanks for pointing that out Norrie, in fact I ALSO asked for "Yesterday once More" and failed to hear any mention. Johnny near Duns isn't the only one feeling left out! With all the stuff I've had played this week I can't complain, but sometimes I still do (J.Walsh)!!
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Paul listen again. You did get credited with yesterday once more but not the Donna Summer one. I also had a few played this week with no credit. One of the hazards of posting early I presume.
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I'm really surprissed that none of you wits out there picked up on 2 classic "name checks"
Prince Charming - Adam & The Ants (Rita Coolidge is nothing too be scared of)
Chain Reaction - Diana Ross (I'm on a journey for the inspiration, To Eddie Wearing there ain't no salvation)
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