Next week's themes...
As this week has been exceptionally busy (and due to the fact there's no Get It On... at the weekend on Saturday) I thought I would get the themes up nice and early. Summer in the sixties continues with some brilliant shows on air and lots of sixties content on the website. Music fans should check out Sex Drugs and Woolly Semmits our look at the music scene in Scotland in the sixties. This week find out why everyone wanted to be Cliff and the Shadows, why The Drumchapel Café Club and the Springboig YMCA were the top places to play and how Dean Ford and The Gaylords became the Marmalade. It sounded like great days. As always leave your suggestions on the blog, send an email or why not join up to our new Facebook page...
Monday
1966 - It was the year that the beach Boys released Pet Sounds - but what are the albums and artists you consider innovative? Pioneering pop on tonight's GIO...
Tuesday
1967 - It's the sounds of the Summer of Love that feature on tonight's programme....Get It On and get it groovy maaan....
Wednesday
1968 - Barbra Streisand wins an Oscar for Funny Girl. On tonight's show we job swap it's job swap with the actors who sung and the pop stars who acted in the movies....
Thursday
It's the climax of summer in the sixties and 1969 - what else but space! Join me as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon. It's a theme that will be truly out of this world.....
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They'd rather watch Big Brother
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... and they don't know the past tense of sing.
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1966 the year the Beach Boys released Pet Sounds. That's it!!! I KNEW there was something else happened in '66.
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Pretty good themes though? But paolo someone one day is going to explain the Beach Boys to me and I am going to get them.....but so far nope! And I have tried many many times. God Only Knows what I'll do if I hear that song one more time la la la tra la la etc etc to fade overdubbed 50times.
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#5
There are only three voices on God Only Knows and the song, arrangement and performance still impress me after 43 years.
One man's Meat Loaf is another man's Poison.
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Monday:
There can be only one album for me, 'Dark Side of the Moon' by Pink Floyd.
Given that Producer Babs will veto any Floyd track proposed, I have to appeal to Bryan tae pit his fit doon here. 'Brain Damage' will do if you can't persuade PB to allow 'Money', 'Time' or 'The Great Gig in the Sky'.
This album experimented in new techniques and was so successful that others tried to follow in the footsteps of the group. None came close.
By the way, the loonie's laughter on 'Brain Damage' sounds just like my brother-in-law....
DC in Cellardyke
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At the risk of posting early and being forgotten about next week
Monday
A landmark album which was a noted change of direction for the artist in question. An album he had to fight with the labels hierarchy to get released due to it's marked departure from the labels usual radio friendly output. The first popular soul album with heavy political and social content, a concept album whose songs worked in a cycle ending with a reprise of the opening title track. An outstanding album that has never dated..........What's Goin on / Marvin Gaye
And from it, it has to be the classic Inner City Blues (Makes me wanna holler)
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Tuesday 1967
A listen again job tonight but from the summer of love, at under two minutes, the greatest short song ever recorded
The Letter / Box Tops
Wed Singing Actors
Mr Bojangles / Sammy Davis Junior
Classic recording
Thu Space
A bitter song about a girl who goes off to 'find herself' before
returning to her lover. He uses the analogy that she might as well have been in outer space.
Drops of Jupiter / Train
''Tell me did you sail across the sun
Did you make it to the milky way to see the lights all faded
and that heaven is overrated
tell me did you fall for a shooting star
one without a permanent scar
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there''
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Glen you are absolutely right and I am going to have to try harder to tune in to the Beach Boys.
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MONDAY
'The Kick Inside' - Kate Bush - from her debut album 'The Kick Inside'
Talented, enigmatic, total babe. I've been smitten since seeing her dance around a tree singing 'Wuthering Heights'
I do not expect to recover.
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#10
Norrie,
You were right the first time. When it comes to the Beach Boys, if it isn't 'Californian Girls' it's mince. If it's 'Sloop John B' it's total mince.
>8-D
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#11
The first time I ever heard Wuthering Heights on the radio was a real WTF moment. Had never heard anything like it but agree, it was a great album.
Come to think of it, had you asked for wuthering heights DC would have got to hear Dave Gilmour on GIO.
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Mondays theme is really difficult, so many great albums and artists to chose from. My first thought is the Beratles and Revolver which really was pioneering (and much better than Sgt. Pepper). Will need to think about that theme some more!
For Tuesday believe me I have never been described or thought of as groovy! However here are a couple of suggestions:
Danny Wilson - Second Summer of Love
Springsteen - Girls In Their Summer Clothes, for all those enjoying some sun at Hampden!
Tremeloes - Here Comes My Baby
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You're right about Revolver.
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Except it was by the Beatles!
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#14, #15
Indeed Revolver is the better album. I've always thought that the whole 'best album in history' label that Pepper seems to be given is just nonsense; yes, it's a good album - but it's not a GREAT album. The Beatles are not even largely responsible for the good things about it! In those days it was the PRODUCER who essentially dictated what went on the records, the sequencing of the tracks (CRUCIALLY important to albums like Pepper!) and in George Martin's case, he was actually adding material himself, especially in post-production. It's a telling fact about Sgt Pepper's that McCartney actually went off on holiday after he had finished recording all his bits and didn't even know what the whole thing sounded like until Martin finished the job!
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I had suggested a theme on producers but does not seem to have been of interest but I think could be a good one. Along with textures.
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Cue Sandy Shaw! :-)
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Excellent - a night for album tracks... I do feel a Pink Floyd phase coming on. And there's got to be some Roxy Music/Eno too.
Abrupt changes of direction for artistes I think are fair game too - The Unforgettable Fire for instance.
And Babs, Bryan and team - if you can track down some tracks by Smashup Derby, that would be wonderful; they're the only band I know who play mashups live (ie really playing the backing to Smells Like Teen Spirit to the vocals of Billy Jean in a live gig)
You're all right, btw, Revolver by *far* the better album.
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#14
I was under the impression that Tuesday's theme restricted us to requests from 1967
Bryan, please remove this ambiguity.
Ta.
confused git
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#18
Brilliant! Bags I Don Was.....
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#21 I think you are right Scotch! Strike #14.
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Given that a few of us regular bloggers will be in Glasgow on Tuesday, do you think we should offer to produce the show? We could all meet up at the BBC and wave at Babs through the window!
We'll have to be finished by 7pm to allow us time to get out to Hampden though...
DC
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Risky strategy - Bryan could be doing some pose?
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Chair man of the bored.
Monday
How High The Moon - Les Paul and Mary Ford - More voices than the Beach Boys and a decade before them.
Seven and Seven Is - Love - More energy than the Sex Pistols and a decade before them
Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone - What's Going On? - a riot.
Tuesday
Young Girl Sunday Blues - Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxters is 1967 on a record
Along Comes Mary - The Association - First band on at Monterey
98.6 - Keith - Down the foggy ruins of time
You Keep Me Hanging On - Vanilla Fudge - Much Sturm und Drang about very little
Wednesday
It Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr - That'll Be The Day
Memo From Turner - Mick Jagger - And a great Performance by Ry Cooder
Thursday
Outa Space - Billy Preston - On the line between The Band's Cripple Creek and Superstition
Hava Nagila - The Spotnicks - For S Git by the forerunners of ABBA
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Thursday:
Bryan might like to consider a study of this...
http://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf
I think "City of New Orleans" by Arlo Guthrie is a good selection from this mega list to beat all lists
DC
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For Thursday before I forget
N.A.S.A - The People Tree from the outstanding The Spirit of Apollo lp
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or Spacious Thoughts.
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Actors:
Harry Dean Stanton does a fantastic vocal performance on Ry Cooders across the Borderline.
Steve Martin - The Crow from his new banjo album.
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MON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n2NXuQ5ako&feature=related
TUES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJzcF0v1eOE
WED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYQgCqr2mVE
THURS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03cy86u6Wi4
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#26
Why thank you, Mr. Miller!
Speaking of Abba.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz96OZDBqKw
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Monday - Albums
Hunky Dory - David Bowie, right at the start of the seventies and there's an edge, drive & sophistication that was missing from happy, clappy sixties stuff. We must have heard about five tracks from this album on GIO, says it all.
Tuesday - 1967
Penny Lane - Beatles, great, carefree, happy song that that's typical of the sixties and a bit of a historical document as well.
Wednesday - Actors
Atered Images - I could be happy, Clare Grogan mmm....
Thursday - Space
Cosmic Girl - Jamiroquai
I'm on holiday abroad next week, hence the milleresque posting, sorry Glen!
Can't believe I'm missing the Springsteen concert, hope it's a good night for all you lucky ones that are going.
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Is it like pinteresque without the pauses?
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Are your Andes on the ends of your Wristies?
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Somebody call for a Caretaker whilst awa' on holiday?
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TUESDAY:
'Groovin'' - The Young Rascals.
'Incense and Peppermints' - Strawberry Alarm Clock
'Magic Carpet Ride' - Steppenwolf
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I forgot...1967 was actually a very good year for The Monkees. What about 'Randy Scouse Git ( or its UK title of 'Alternate Title')...the 'why don't you cut your hair' one.
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Aw Julie...'Groovin'' - Ya Wee Rascal yae! Top shout!
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#39 (and #37)...and it's from 1967.
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24# DC, whats special about this Tuesday, anyone interesting playing at Hampden?
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No sure, I'll hae tae ask the boss....
DC
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#41
Jan,
Some Channel Island chappie. From Jersey, I believe. Probably bilingual...
Dunno why he wants to celebrate Bastille Day in Glasgow. Perhaps he swallowed all that 'Auld Alliance' cobblers.
>8-D
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#43, Bergerac??????
DC
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If John Nettles were Scottish, his nickname would be 'Jaggy'.
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He certainly likes putting people in the docken.
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Tea leafs, and the like.
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Planted evidence...
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Aagh! Not Space as a theme again!!!
I can only presume it has been chosen in order to entice MazzyStar back.
She wont be able to resist requesting `Clouds Across The Moon` and `Calling Occupants....`
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Watch this SPACE :-)
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Groundbreaking albums:
Here after nmuch thought are my mini list of ground breaking albums:
The Crickets - The Chirping Crickets, (Oh Boy!)
Elvis - Elvis Is Back! (Reconsider Baby)
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisisted, (Like A Rolling Stone)
The Beatles - Revolver, (She Said She Said)
The Velvet Underground & Nico (I'm Waiting For The Man)
David Bowie - Low (Be My Wife)
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The ...(God Save The Queen)
I will not bore the blog with one of my posts that goes on for ever but any track from any of these essential albums would be appropriate.
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One for Glen on Wed:
Adam Sandler - Werewolves of London, actually a really good version.
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With Mick Fleetwood and Waddy Wachtel it should be. You could also have Billy Bob Thornton with The Wind. I believe he and Warren struck up a friendship on the basis of their OCD.
I think the turning point for the Beatles was Rain and it has Ringo's best drumming.
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Glen I know I am going to ask a stupid question...OCD? Obsessive Compulisve Disorder?
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Billy Bob observed Warren returning to a post box five times to make sure he had posted his letter and observed, "I see you've got it too."
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Monday - Pioneering Pop:
She Said She Said - The Beatles (from Revolver)
London Calling - The Clash (from London Calling)
Boing Boom Tschak - Kraftwerk (from Electric Cafe)
Rising Runner Missed By Endless Sender - Tangerine Dream (from Cyclone)
Solid Air - John Martyn (from Solid Air)
I Was Made To Love Her - The Beach Boys (from Smiley Smile)
Night Ride Home - Joni Mitchell (from Night Ride Home)
Birdland - Weather Report (from Heavy Weather)
Tutti Frutti - Litle Richard (from Here's Little Richard)
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Tuesday - Summer Of Love/Groovin':
Groove Is On - Groove Armada
Foxey Lady - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Can You Feel The Force - The Real Thing
Let's Groove - Earth, Wind & Fire
Get Down - Gene Chandler
Groove Is In The Heart - Deee-Lite
Somebody Groovy - The Mamas & The Papas
Wild Thing - The Troggs
The Second Summer Of Love - Danny Wilson
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Wednesday - Actors/Singers:
Common People - Joe Jackson/William Shatner (cannot resist it!)
China Girl - David Bowie
The Year 2000 Minus 25 - Kris Kristofferson
I Am... I Said - Neil Diamond (great song)
The Rose - Bette Midler
Borderline - Madonna (err... yes, she IS an actress, I think...)
No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Donna Summer/Barbra Streisand
Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Doris Day (top version of this one)
Flying Down To Rio - Fred Astaire
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Jim I thought from an earlier post in this thread it was songs from 67 for Tuesday? See #14 and #21.
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#59
AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH! OK ignore #57 and I will re-submit.
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I dont know - hopefully they will clarify.
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Actually it's a lot easier to pick just from 1967 - there a ton of stuff in my MP3's alone when I search on date.
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Tuesday (strictly 1967 only) - Summer Of Love/Groovin':
Light My Fire - The Doors
On A Carousel - The Hollies
A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Soul Man - Sam & Dave
Alfie - Dionne Warwick
To Sir With Love - Lulu
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Thursday - Space:
The Moon's A Harsh Mistress - Jimmy Webb (stonkingly beautiful)
St. Judy's Comet - Paul Simon (Simon at his most 'McCartney-like')
Lost Horizon - Todd Rundgren
Subterranean Homesick Alien - Radiohead
Not To Touch The Earth - The Doors
The Black Hit Of Space - The Human League
Apollo 9 - Adam & The Ants
Ticket To The Moon - Electric Light Orchestra
Cosmos (Outer Space) - t.A.T.u
Doctor? - Orbital (amazing version of the Doctor Who theme)
Star Trekkin' - The Firm ;-)
Galaxy Song - Monty Python (end the show with this one?)
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Just back from holiday and still in the wrong time-zone. My initial thoughts for the week ahead are below.
Monday - innovative artists
Not much to add to the excellent suggestions already lited above:-
I'm Free - The Who (from Tommy)
Born to run - Springtsteen
Tuesday - 1967
San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Light my Fire - the Doors
I was made to love her - Stevie Wonder
I'm a believer - the Monkees
Reflections - Diana Ross and the Supremes
Higher and higher - Jackie Wilson
Wednesday
Singers in the movies:-
America or Hello again - Neil Diamond (both from The Jazz Singer)
(You want to) Make a memory - Jon Bon Jovi (U571/Pay it forward)
Don't get a round much anymore - Harry Connick Jnr (Memphis Belle)
You make me feels so young - Sinatra (lots of films, including High Society and On the Town)
That's Amore - Dean Martin (lots of films with Jerry Lewis)
Road to Ensenada - Lyle Lovett (The opposite of sex)
Martha - Tom Waits (The Fisher King)
On and on - Stephen Bishop (The Blues Brothers, The Twilight Zone movie)
Moon over Bourboun Street - Sting (Dune)
Actors who sing:
This is not a test - She & Him (singer is Zooey Deschanel (from Elf))
Hungry Heart - Minnie Driver
Under the boardwalk - Bruce Willis
How can I be sure - David Cassidy
Smile - Robert Downey Jnr
Torn or Shiver - Natalie Imbruglia
Thursday - Space
Fly me to the moon - Sinatra
More to follow
Joe
Linlithgow
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TUESDAY
'To Sir With Love' - Lulu - Gaun yersel', hen! Wan singer, wan song....
In support of JimFraeErskine (see #63)
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Monday (Innovative artists).
As I understand the theme, its artists who dared to be different in their style and approach, without too much consideration of whether or not it would be a hit with the listening public?
GENESIS: Misunderstanding
BILLY BRAGG: The Man in the Iron Mask
LEONARD COHEN: Suzanne
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MIKE OLDFIELD: Arrival
QUEEN: Spread Your Wings
SEX PISTOLS: Silly Thing
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Lots of seconds for Monday: Innovation night.
But I'm going to have to nominate 3 people for weaving other musical traditions into popular music:
Peter Gabriel for his WOMAD work, sponsorship of non-Western artistes via Real World Records and his encouragement of people to get involved in musical creativity using strong source material via RealWorldRemixed. The track I'd like to nominate is Tiger Phone Card by Dengue Fever which crosses all three of those threads.
Paul Simon for Gracelands. The track I'd like to nominate is Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes.
The Imagined Village as a whole for mixing traditional English and Indian music with contemporary music, and keeping authenticity with all three traditions. And the track (which I've requested many, many times here without success - let tonight be the night) is Cold, Hailey, Rainy Night. Which as a Brucie-Bonus linking us to the start, was available on RealWorldRemixed, and I remixed.
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Correction: final version of my remix of Cold, Hailey, Rainy Night.
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MONDAY: Innovative Artists and Albums
Roxy Music's eponymous debut album released in June 1972 is undoubtedly an influential album that changed a lot in the way musicians approached writing, recording and presenting their music. This album was presented as a complete package to the record company, sleeve 'n' all. Bryan Ferry's art school training is seen in the lavish album sleeve inside and out. The music sounds like everything you have heard before and nothing you have heard before all in the same album sometimes in the one song. Ferry's Elivisesque pastiche coupled with Mackay's rock sax and classical oboe, Manzanera's psychedelic guitar all treated by Eno to create the manic synthesized soundscapes that backdrop the entire album. The album didn't even have a single released and still hit the top 10. Virginia Plain was recorded and released after the album was released. When that came out Top Of The Pops now knew why it was invented 8 years after the first show.
The debut album has in some ways not stood the test of time. The vibrancy of the band can be heard in their first offering but at the expense of their recording inexperience and small budget. The second album 'For Your Pleasure' recorded with the benifit of experiance and budget and knowing they now have a place in modern music is a much more assured offering and confirms how influential this band will go on and become.
To choose a track to display the versatility on the album would be 'Ladytron'. The opening lunar landscape created by Eno with Mackay's haunting oboe floating over the top before the song begins in earnest. The passage between verse 1 and 2 has probably the first ever rock oboe sole (yess!!!! rock oboe) the track transends in to a cacophonic gallop at the end with Manzanera's guitar sounding as unlike a guitar could be. This album was released in the beard and denims era and stuck its two fingers up to the muso blues based guitar rock of the recent era.
This album sub-consciously started the whole punk ethos and the DNA of this album and band can be heard on many bands since. In recent times, Franz Ferdinand, Scissor Sisters, Coldplay all claim this band as a huge influence.
J.O'B.
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Great post RJ.
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Max B Gold was only thinking that too. You can never tire of endlessly reading about Roxy/Eno/Ferry/McKay et al.
However, Max is of the firm belief that care is required as things like this can sometimes develop into an obsession.
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Innovation is a much misused word in music and in life generally. Max B Gold is steadfast in his opinion that there is nothing new under the sun.
However, if pushed to make a choice in the field of popular music Max B Gold chooses anything by Wilco.
"I'm the man who loves you", "Muzzle of bees" or "Spiders (kidsmoke)" would be good to hear on the radio tonight.
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Noooooo - Sledgehammer's a great track, but one of the least innovative on 'So'. If you want to showcase the stuff I was alluding to, then go for Red Rain, which used a Brazilian township rhythm called Forro.
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I was intending to ask for Shaking The Tree which Peter Gabriel did with the stunning Youssou N'Dour - absolutely demonstrates how he brought together musical influences from all over and created something genuinely new. And it's a stonking track! But for some reason it didn't end up on my final list...
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#71
Truly innovative. The first rock oboe sole - half woodwind, half fish.
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#77
I'll listen to it again, but it sounded like it was a Mellotron and not an oboe to me...
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#75 - Are you sure about that Capt?
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#79
I thought it was based on the Slosh
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#78 Jim you are kidding?
On 2 points
1. Roxy John would not be wrong on that
2. Why use a mellotron when Andy McKay is in your band!!
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He was wrong about the sole music.
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#81
The attack on the notes is a bit of a give away... It can't be emulated by a human. And the 'sound' is very much like a Mellotron - which was very fashionable back in the day! Also, when you key a monophonic series of notes on a Mellotron, there is a small amount of cross-modulation between the notes which also is 'very keyboardy'. In fact, bands are starting to use them again today (or at least samples from them).
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Is Roxyjohn in the next bed?
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Checkout Andy Mackay blowing into an oboe shaped Mellotron on Ladytron here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVeEBMJt8vs
Eno treated a lot of the instruments hence the sounds being unique at the time.
J.O'B.
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RJ - one that always made me chuckle is his credit for playing "cricket menace" on Lodger, I think African Nightflight. Eno that is.
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That was a fantastic show.
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#85
Very cool - Thanks Roxy.
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No Wendy Carlos, bah!
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Will need to listen again as only caught the odd snippet. Must admit though, Kraftwerk and Exciting in the same sentence made me laugh.
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#14, #21, #23 OOPS!!
Norrie,
I'm wrong
You're right
Blame Bryan
>8-D
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#89
I liked her better when she was Walter. More Switched On, I think ;-)
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Now that TUesday is clarified a wee bit my suggestions re:
Danny Wilson - Second Summer of Love
Springsteen - Girls In Their Summer Clothes,
Tremeloes - Here Comes My Baby
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I see Pink Floyd got the usual airing tonight.....
Think it's about time the boys went round to Bryan's place for a wee word. In fact, there might be an opperchancity Tuesday evening! The new BBC place is down by the Clyde, isn't it?
;-)
DC on the way tae Glesgy
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Right across from your Hotel I think!
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Well either I'll hang out a banner, or I might just have a wee walk across the road.
Anyway, I won't be able to hear all of Tuesday's show because I, like many of the other regular bloggers, will be heading for the Springsteen concert at Hampden. Bryan, can you please play us a 1967 track which sums up Get It On for Tuesday?
'Out of time' by Chris Farlowe
DC
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DC that is one of my all time favourite tracks. Fantastic record from a great artist.
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Max B Gold is thinking that "Love you madly" by the groovilicious CAKE would be the type of song that would fit well with the Tuesday night theme.
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More suggestions for Thursday:
Home to Houston - Steve Earle (for the Houston reference)
Space Cowboy - Steve Miller
Walking On The Moon - The Police
The final countdown - Europe
Saturn - Stevie Wonder
Shining Star - Earth, Wind and Fire
Joe
Linlithgow
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Tuesday grooviness (and jealousy of all those going to see The Boss cos I've got to work late and can't go):
* Traffic: Hole in my Shoe (ultimate hippiness, if not 1967ness: released 1971)
* Focus: Hocus Pocus (also 1971)
* Nirvana: Rainbow Chaser (a close miss at 1968. Oh, and it's not that Nirvana)
* Incredible String Band: The Hedgehog Song (1967)
* Tomorrow: My White Bicycle (1967)
You *have* to do something from Pink Floyd's Piper At the Gates of Dawn, released August 7 1967. My preference would be Bike, although the US release also had See Emily Play which would also be OK (released in June 67).
And it wouldn't be the Summer of Love without referencing The City on the Bay:
* Eric Burdon: San Franciscan Nights
complete with groovy hep talk about saving up all your bread.
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Wednesday:
Will suggest more tomorrow if I can, but I really, really want to push for the only actor who can *really* sing: Jimmy Nail.
If you can possibly get hold of the soundtrack to Still Crazy, then his performance on The Flame Still Burns is up there with any full-time, top-notch singer you care to mention.
Oh, and I think that's him playing the bass too.
(Incidentally: Billy Connolly's in that too, and he's also got a track on the OST)
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I'll second Jimmy Nail, much underrated. I never tire of hearing Big river. It tells a great story and is really well sung.
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#79
Apologies - it was Mercy Street, not Red Rain that had the Forro rhythm.
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Tonight (and sticking to summer 67)
The Letter / Box Tops
Waterloo Sunset / Kinks
Paper Sun / Traffic
Creeque Alley / Mamas and the Papas
Wind Cries Mary / Hendrix
and seconds for young rascals and whiter shade of pale.
But given the choice from above...the Box Tops. What a Voice.
Keep meaning to seek out some more of their stuff.
Got a train to catch into town now. Lunch shopping drinking Springsteen...just the usual run of the mill tuesday :-)
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#105
Great call on Traffic, Paolo.
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I second (or is that third) JIMMY NAIL but I'd prefer Love Don't Live Here Anymore - a wonderfully powerful voice
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A cracker from 1967
For What It's Worth............................ Buffalo Springfield
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WEDNESDAY -
Great...I see Sarah Harding frae Girls Aloud's on the telly trying her hand at acting this week...there's an excuse to play 'Biology' or 'I Don't Speak French' (which is topical for me, one week before my holiday in the Charente-Maritime...better get my revision books out quick eh?). P.S. I don't care...I like them :0)
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#109 - sorry...it's called 'Can't Speak French'.
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#92 'intonation' a theme possibly?
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To MazzyStar:
Hi darlin' ! How are you doing ?
Hey baby, where're your sleeping ?
Oh I'm sorry, but I've been really missing you !
Hi darlin' ! How's the weather?
Say baby, is that cold better now ?
Oh I'm sorry, is there someone there with you??
Cway! You`re running out of time. Thursday is almost upon us!
Don`t prove me wrong (#49).
Adam_currently_in_his_interplanetary_most_extraordinary_craft
:)
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SINGERS IN THE FILLUMS.
Dolly Parton, with fellow thespians Billy Ray Cyrus, (film, TV), Pam Tillis, (Broadway stage, TV), Tanya Tucker, (TV)
Kathy Mattea and Mary Chapin Carpenter also contribute.
WEDNESDAY
'Romeo' - Dolly Parton
Check Check Check Check Check It Out!
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As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Aldrin and Armstrong walking on the Moon, let us also remember the man in the Mother-Ship. L.E.M., pronounced lem, is an acronym for Lunar Excursion Module, the craft in which Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed on the lunar surface.
THURSDAY
'For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me' - Jethro Tull
I'm with you L.E.M.
though it's a shame that it had to be you.
The Mother-Ship is just a blip
from your trip made for two.
I'm with you boys, so please employ
just a little extra care.
It's on my mind I'm left behind
when I should have been there.
Walking with you.
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Surely Wednesday is a chance to play that track by Victoria Principal and the Bee Geem that didn't make the band track!! Or there's always the Eastenders theme by Angie Watts (the one who lives with Den on the telly but with the chap in Queen in real life). Can you tell I've lost my focus while on holiday?? Hope all you bloggers are well.
Miss Babs returns soon...so be warned!!
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Why do we require a warning? You took your Ford Focus on holiday? Have you contacted the polis? Who or what is a Bee Geem? Any photies to share with us? How no'?
We should be telt!
P.S. Don't call me Shirley......
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Speaking of Still Crazy (wonderful movie btw), I think we should also recognise the vocal talents of Bill Nighy, playing pretty much the same louche 70s has-been as he reprised in Love Actually. If you're digging out the Still Crazy OST, then All Over the World Tonight is a brilliantly rocking track.
I think I mentioned the Big Yin above - his creds as an actor are undisputed since Mrs Brown - so some Humblebums would work.
Did we do a theme for movie soundtracks btw? Those films you remember for the music as much as the action... so Tarantino's oevre, as well as classical musical movies like O Brother Where Art Thou would all qualify.
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#115
I'd settle for any national radio music producer who knew who CSNY were.
It's not as if they haven't performed within the last few days at Glastonbury and Edinburgh Castle.
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Even though I tend to avoid stadium gigs like the plague, I have to say that Springsteen was brilliant last night. Played a superb set. We met a young couple there on honeymoon from Seattle. She'd seen him 5 times and never heard him sing ''their tune'' thunder road. When he did it in his encore she bubbled like a wean
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#118
I thought it was that New York thingy where they play 'Baba O'Reilly'
>8-D
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Listened again to last night show. Very good.
By the way is noone gonna suggest Pierce Brosnan from the soundtrack of Mamma Mia for tonight?
For tomorrow SPACE:-
Drops of Jupiter / Train
The Space Between / Dave Matthews Band
Keep Talkin / Pink Floyd & Stephen Hawkins
Shooting Star / Bad Company
Mars Bars / Undertones
Goddess on a highway / Marcury Rev
Saturn / Stevie wonder
Rocket to the Moon / Runrig
Satellite / Hooters
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#119, just home from Glesgy. I have to agree that was some gig at Hampden last night!
Wednesday:
'Me and Bobby McGee' - Kris Kristofferson
DC back in Cellardyke
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#121
"What's that? Is it the Queen Mary docking?"
"No, it's Pierce Brosnan singing on Mamma Mia"
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Re the guy that texted the show from Hampden last night about umbrellas being confiscated on entry, I thought my better half was gonna blow a fuse when she had hers taken off her. Having found it most useful as we'd queued in the p###ing rain for an hour on the train and facing the prospect of the same home, it was a brave steward that separated her from the neatly rolled Brolly at the bottom of her bag. Considering we had seats under cover I'm a bit bemused as to what he thought we were gonna use it for. Ironically it was only about ''Out in the streets'' before she calmed down.
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oops one more I meant to mention for space night
Joybringer / Mannfred Mann's Earthband
Based on Jupiter from Holst's Planet suite.
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Singing Actors / Acting Singers
Singers who acted:
David Bowie Absolute Beginners
Mick Jagger Old Habits Die Hard (really like this song done with David A stewart)
Roger Daltrey Giving It All Away (written by leo sayer I think)
Actors wot sung:
Ry Cooder featuring Harry Dean Stanton Across The Borderline (brilliant vocal from HDS)
Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie On Fanin Street (could this be Bowies last ever recording as he appears to have retired sadly?)
And it would be good to hear Little Steven aka Miami Steve Van Zandt aka Silvio Dante
Lost Boys Affection (from Sopranos second soundtrack and a good track)
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#126
would be good to hear bitter fruit again
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Wednesday:
How Can I Be Sure - David Cassidy
Silver Lady - David Soul
Grandad - Clive Dunn (Curiosity: Having played old blokes throughout his career, not many people know that Clive was only 49 when he recorded this song).
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#127 Great call and from memory the song features latin american superstar Ruben Blades who has certainly been in a lot of films.
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#128
Ok if I borrow that bit of info for my pub quiz this week? I'll give you it back when I'm finished.
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#131 Thats one answer we will know if we go.......
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Wednesday:
STING: "The Shape of my Heart" (Sting played 'Ace Face' in Quadrophenia)
JOHN MELLENCAMP: "You've Got to Stand for Something".
JM has acted in (and directed) more than one movie in his time... (Falling from Grace/Madison)... not blockbusters I'll admit...
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Oh thats a thought
Toyah (Jubilee, Quadrophenia and of course Shoestring episode xcalled Find The lady I think her character was Toola and Toola and her band played some live tracks I am sure Ieya was one of them) - Ieya or Angel and Demons.
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#128 #131
or I could ask what Grandad space oddity walk on the wildside and CCS's version of whole lotta love have in common
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Bragg/Tull Nexus members - alert!
Iain Anderson of Jethro Tull has acted in some TV shows, includig an episode of the Sopranos back in 2006, so there is EVERY reason to get a Tull track played tonight! Any suggestions? :-)
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#135
Have i missed something Jim. When did Todd Rundgren get dropped from the Nexus. I mean at least billy Bragg got an airing on 'message' night.
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OOPS! Todd is still there!
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For Wed
singer and actor
Kris Kristofferson.............Help me make it through the night....or Me and Bobby McGee
Glen Campbell (True Grit)............... Times Like These or Galveston
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#130
Paolo,
Here's a guid yin.
Q. Are Robson and Jerome actors who cannae sing, or singers who cannae act?
>8-D
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#134
They've all got Herbie Flowers on bass and are £"^& (a word used by Scrapgold)
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#130: Paulo, you should have said "Permission to use that in my next pub quiz, Sir?"
Anyway, I was just joking. However, when I checked it out, the song was released in November 1970 when Dunn was just 50. So he might have recorded it when he was 49.
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Tonight's lesson is that some singers can act but very few actors can sing.
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Tonight's chat has been brought to you by the letter 'C'.
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What JFE? Don't understand?
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Set phasers tae malky!
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How on Earth!! Could I have forgotten about Elvis!!! Crikey old age does not come alone!
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#145
Superb!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoBk8bxU1rs
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#146
Because he was not an actor
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#139
That's too hard a question. Anoraks would start throwing things.. . unless there's more than one correct answer.
#140
and he wrote Grandad as well as forming Blue Mink
#141
49 sounds better, I suspect I'll get away with it unless Norrie shows up and corrects me
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Oh thats its Glen thanks for reminding me. Charro was ok.
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#143
At least I know my ARP from my oboe.
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Ha the Boss is on! Must be for the wooden walk on for High Fidelity!
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You'll have had your Lost Boys
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someone's just hoovered the studio again
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Mores the pity. Ah well....whats this about letter C? Confused!
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My mores the pity was about Lost Boys, I like Dylan a lot.
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So do I.
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#155
There you go! ;-)
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Eh?
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Credit to Cap'n for the first to suggest Jimmy Nail even if his shout has gone awol
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Love it or hate it how many of you are singin wanderin star to see if you can get low enough
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#124
Oh oh-oh-oh-oh oh.....
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I'd completely and utterly forgotten Leonard Nimoy, until you mentioned Shatner. And then this masterwork came to mind. Groovy baby!
Oh, and can we have a shout out for John Simm playing Barney in 24 Hour Party People?
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#141
Don't tell him Pike!
#161
Being able to sing Wandrin Star on key is my main diagnostic for having enough of a cold to take a sickie.
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#114, #115
I wonder if Miss Babs is back at work tonight?
I suspect she will put her foot down and demand that Jethro Tull be played.
That'll show Bryan what happens when he ignores her requests.
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Thursday Space (..ace...ace...ace)
I'm away en la belle France early doors tomorrow, so unless I can get WiFi at 19:10 local time, I won't be listening for 2 weeks (or able to make requests). So, let's have a Tull-Bragg-Floyd special tonight, eh?
No?
Oh well. Let's stick to the theme then.
* Billy Bragg: My Flying Saucer (from the Woody Guthrie tribute album he did with Wilco)
* Moby: We Are All Made of Stars
and, thinking laterally about Space:
* Gene Autry: Don't Fence Me In (The David Byrne version is great too, but very different)
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#121
Nice shouts for
Mars Bars, Rocket to the Moon & Satellite
The more obvious Floyd songs are perhaps
* Interstellar Overdrive (probability of being played: 0%)
* Brain Damage (for the I'll see you on the Dark Side of the Moon line. Probability of being played: under 20%)
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Another Girl Another Planet - The Only Ones
Across the Universe - Beatles
After the Goldrush - Neil Young (spaceships etc.,)
And now too tired having returned to work after being in Glesga to see Bruce, who was magnificent, but at Hampden where crowds of over forty should be banned due to the appalling transport links. Only the SFA could have thought that was a good place to have a "national stadium". Having struggled to get there ended up in the Asda car park, like many others, and didn't get out of there until 0015, and then back to central Glasgow for 0100. Unfortunately I then had to suffer shopping yesterday and so I now need a day off and I have to wait until Saturday, but the Locos are playing Tayport so a good excuse to slope off to the pub.
NB It wasn't any of you out there wearing a blue t-shirt who was touched by Bruce and went into as severe 'moment'. It looked like true love to me.
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#168, I think you should report that incident to the Social Work Department Hoppo.
DC
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Thursday
'Pink Marshmallow Moon' - Big Country
'Two suns in the sunset' - Pink Floyd
Before Bryan 'n' Babs dismisses the latter request because of the group who perform this track, can I PLEASE ask you to at least have a listen first? It's a beautiful song and is definitely worth playing this evening. This could be one small step for B&B, one great leap for mankind
DC in Cellardyke
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#169 It's okay he looked well into in his twenties so Bruce is safe from such allegations, which I will not mention as I might be moderated again
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Phew well into 20's - not me then.
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He was probably dressed provocatively. Bruce is only human.
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Did anyone else see Bruce and the Band winding their way to the stage on golf buggies?! Me and my hubbie were sitting right by the tunnel as they came out - have to admit to being totally starstruck!
BTW bloggers, Producer Richard mans the expedition into space tonight and GIO is on FM only due to golf then footie on MW.
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Yes Mandi and I got a photo of them zooming past it is a bit of a blur.
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#174
Does Richard like Pink Floyd? We need to be telt!
DC
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Mr Bowie goes mad on space night! My favourite would be the 30th anniversary remix of Moonage daydream which is just stunning and brings Mick Ronsons guitar playing to the fore. It is brilliant.
You could also select any of the following:
Space Oddity
Starman
Life on Mars
Planet of Dreams
Star (great track)
Loving The Alien
Hallo spaceboy
Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
New Killer Star
I Took A Trip on A Gemini Spacecraft
For other artists
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Haley Came To Jackson
Mary Black & Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Moon and St Christopher
Adam Ant - Apollo 9 (not his best in fairness)
Black (Colin Vearncombe) with Sam Brown - Fly Up To The Moon.
Andy White - Me The Moon My Car and You
If Joe K reads this well worth checking out, nice Springsteen reference and the refrain from Racing In the Street in the song. Sung by a really nice guy as well.
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#170 & #176 - Gie it a rest DC! We had Pink Floyd on Tuesday night when you were at Hampden.
Try the listen again feature. You're on holiday efter aw.
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#178, so the Steerio Player is awake after all!
Nothin wrong wi askin for Pink Floyd every nicht. I've listened again this very afternoon in between cleanin cars, grass cuttin and catchin up wi the Tour de France and was impressed by the very mention of the band on Get It On.
I see tonight's theme is right up your street what wi you bein the very image o' Bowie in his Space Oddity phase
DC
;-)
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#166
Living in the past was in the chart the very day the moon hoax was perpetrated 40 years ago today. Interesting that Tom Morton mentioned that all the original footage was wiped by NASA. Thankfully we still have this amusing little gem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mouUUWpEec0
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In my earlier posts I never mentioned any moon songs but there's enough of them to have filled a theme of their own. So in addition
Blame it on the Moon / Bob Seger
Moonlight Feels Right / Starbuck
Harvest Moon / Neil young
Moondance / Van the Man
Blue Moon / Danny williams
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#180, I've always wondered why there's a couple of seconds gap in reply when an interviewer is speaking to someone on the other side of the Atlantic and yet the interaction between capcom & Apollo didn't have that.
No doubt someone will know why......
DC
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#182
It was a stupid stupid oversight. Had they bounced the signal between houston and Nevada off a satellite no one would be any the wiser.
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#182, #183
There is a perfectly straightforward explanation for that, but I'm not going to bore the bloggers with it! But actually there was a bit of a lag in comms when they got closer to the moon.
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Kaint it......
DC
:-)
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Bragg on Get It On!!!!!!
When the cat's away......
DC
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Mon the Richmeister! :-)
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for Thursday
Carl Perkins.......Blue Suede Shoes
Roy Orbison...........Ooby Dooby
Jerry Lee Lewis........Whole Lot Of Shakin Goin On
???????
They were all recorded for SUN Records :o)
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#188
Ooby Dooby was also played on a jukebox in the movie 'Star Trek: First Contact' by the character Zephram Cochrane who invented warp drive!
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Cheers for the Hooters.. . someone else will have to ask for drops of Jupiter now.
bryan if you're gonna play Rocket Man how about Kate Bush's wonderful version from the Elton John tribute album which was out a few years back.
It's been a good fortnight for themes :-)
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#190 Paolo, was that album the one with Sinead O'Connor singing Sacrifice?
Perhaps it's time for another covers theme
DC
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....and Toploaders dancin in the moonlight isn't as good as the King Harvest original.....and neither are as good as the Thin Lizzy song of the same name
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#191
It was indeed. The album was Two Rooms. the 7 inch single of Rocket Man had Candle in the Wind on the b side but her Version of Rocket Man was far better
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Bryan's havin a beach party on thursday. everyone's invited. It's on the bbc terrace at the quay. Starts at 6.10pm.
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I'm having a beach party that night too! You're all invited to Saunton Sands, North Devon. Beer's on me
DC
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#195
Ha You might regret that! Bryan's was a Bring your own.
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#195
You might do better with sun block... ;-)
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Could be a black and tan....
(:-0
DC
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Ah kain, certainly following the Torrey Canyon Disaster...
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which happened in the summer of love
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Hmmmmm....... Never known it so quiet.
Urri aww awaw furri Ferr?
DC
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It's a rerr terr. Or so I'm telt.
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