Next week's themes...
The themes for next week presented in all their widescreen glory can be found on the Get It On homepage, but here are they are in good old fashioned black and white.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed theme ideas in the past, but if you've never had a go at coming up with a theme then why not have a bash. Email them in to the usual address and who knows, your idea could be enthralling the nation for two hours one night.
Oh, and if you've never even had a song played, then Thursday's show is just for you.
Monday
A new survey reveals that top tunes that wake us up in winter include Eye of the Tiger, Walking on Sunshine and Beautiful Day. I find it hard to believe that Captain Sensible has made it into the top ten but somebody out there wants to wake up to happy talk! What gets you out of bed on a cold, dark morning - that's Monday's theme...
Tuesday
Anarchy in the UK by the Sex Pistols, Elvis doing That's Alright Mama or maybe Take It Easy by The Eagles. Regular blogger, Mike from Shropshire has come up with debut singles as a theme. Who were the acts whose first singles made a big impact on you?
Wednesday
30 years after Gary Numan first appeared on TOTP, synth pop is the theme. The D-50, the DX 7, the Jupiter 8 and the people who played them. The best synthesiser songs of all time is the theme. From Vince Clarke to Calvin Harris, the kings of the keyboards take centre stage.
Thursday
A different kind of debut singles tonight - It's a first time requester special! if you've never had a song played or always been too sacred to get in touch then tonight is just for you. You can call or text during the show, send in an email, post a comment on the blog our check out 'Get It On with Bryan Burnett' on Facebook.
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Tuesday:
Bruce Springsteen's first song on British soil was at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1975. "Thunder Road" remains one of my favourite tracks of all time
DC
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MONDAY
When you wake up in the dark, go to work in the dark, come home after work in the dark, when this situation seems to last forever, there is only one song to play when every day feels like Groundhog Day.
'I Got You, Babe' - Sonny & Cher
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I can't stand music in the morning.
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#3
You prefer the smell of napalm?
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TUESDAY
'Song for Jeffrey' - Jethro Tull
They'll never play this!
Following in the footsteps of Norrie and DC
Desperate times...
>8-D
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First thoughts for the week ahead:
Monday
Wake up - Arcade Fire
Chin up, cheer up or Desire - Ryan Adams
Until the night - Billy Joel
Bad things - Jace Everett
Happier times - Joe Bonamassa
Holding back the night - Findlay Brown
Tuesday...thinking
Wednesday
Together in electric dreams - Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakley
Tainted love - Soft Cell
Johnny & Mary - Robert Palmer
Fanfare for the common man - ELP
Thursday - not eligible
Joe
Linlithgow
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Monday
Silence
Tuesday
Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
Wednesday
Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
Thursday
Silence
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#7
Hello darkness my old friend....
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Van Halen after David Lee Roth walked away in his sensible shoes.
I saw Fleetwood Mac in 1970. They were never the same after Jeremy Spencer left.
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Surely no one is too sacred to get in touch?
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Well they will not play it etc. etc. but an absolute classic has to be:
Suicide - Dream Baby Dream
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#11
How was the gig?
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Glen - thanks for asking absolutely superb. Cannot complain in the slightest, great set 100% effort and got pretty clsoe to the band. Very happy.
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Wednesday:
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene part IV
or....
Chariots of Fire - Vangelis (I still whistle this any time I walk along the West Sands at St Andrews...!!)
I'd prefer JMJ though
DC
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#13, so how was Ms Nicks? Horseshoe Bar to her liking?
;-)
DC
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Monday Alarm Calls
Plutonium. That's the name of the tune on my phone alarm apparently.
If I was cheatin it would be nice to wake up to
Al Jarreau's Mornin
Tuesday Debut Singles
Every Kinda people / Robert Palmer
Keep Yourselves Alive / Queen
Ballpark Incident / Wizzard
You send Me / Sam Cooke
Cannonball / Damien Rice
My Declaration / Tom Baxter
Blinded by the light / Bruce Springsteen
Longview / Green day
Wed Synth
Take a moog, a clavinet and come up with a song it's just impossible to stay still to
Superstition / Stevie wonder
Thu
Washing my hair
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#13
Did she do gypsy and Sara the finest fleetwood mac (part two) songs on the planet.
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#13
I've grown to appreciate Lindsay Buckingham's understated style. I used to think it was a bit spare.
#15
Did you treat her to a pie and beans?
#16
From the drum intro to the brass fade-out, the arrangement on Superstition is near-perfect and the clavinet's almost a percussion instrument.
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whose picture is this?
I like it.
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#15
More to the point, did she win the karaoke competition?
>8-D
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It really was a greatest hits set. Included Gypsy, Sara, Rhiannon, Second Hands News, Tusk, Dreams, Big Love, Oh Well etc etc. Stevie enjoyed her pint but said she will pass on the pie next time.
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#18
I remember watching one of these 50 greatest something or others on tv presented by Isaac Hayes where it was claimed that when Stevie Wonder was introduced to the clavinet he said 'ok leave it with me and I'll see what i can do'' and a fortnight later had written Superstition.
Just hope it's not disqualified for having a lot more than the synths on it. Also hope we get warning when the Pet Shop Boys are gettin played so I can go and do something useful :-)
Why is superstition so hard to play
http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/stevie-wonders-superstition-clavinet-parts-revealed/
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Wednesday is a dream theme for the Zappa fans.
Cannae wait...
>8-D
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Oh dear, if ever there was a theme made for me, it's Synths...
Hope it's going to go a long way beyond just plain pop...
Long list of artistes follows, to be short-leeted later in the week:
* Beatles
* ELP
* Kraftwerk
* Jean Michel Jarre (please, not Oxygene *again* - something from Concerts in China)
* Joy Division/New Order
* Human League (wonder if we'll get something from The League Unlimited Orchestra..?)
* Thomas Dolby
* Eurythmics
* Ultravox/Visage
* Bronski Beat
* ABC
* OMD
* Thompson Twins
* Howard Jones
* Depeche Mode/Yazoo/Erasure
* Depeche Mode (post Vince Clarke)
* Japan
* Nik Kershaw
* Frankie Goes to Hollywood (and Trevor Horn's Fairlight)
* Art of Noise (and Trevor Horn's Fairlight)
...and that's even avoiding the one(ish)-hit wonders like King, Alphaville, Paul Hardcastle, Heaven 17, Lotus Eaters...
A big shout out to the Prophet 5 btw, in amongst yer Rolands, Yamahas and Korgs.
Wondering if we can get Bill Bailey's Das Hokey-Kokey played..?
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A big shout to a machine! I can see this being as a exciting as norriemaclean list of mathematical formula.
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#25
I can see your point when we're moving onto digital synths, and the tinkly cool sound of additive synthesis (per the Yamaha DX series).
But there's something very different about the old analogue ones, with *real* knobs and sliders that controlled *real* oscillators, filters and amplifiers. That you could build yourself with a soldering iron. With their organic sounds.
The ARP, the Moog...
(Alright, I'll give you that Sequential's products such as the Prophet 5 were microprocessor controlled, so not really in this vein. But it felt like they were)
Fairlight trivium btw: part of the reason for Martin Hannett's departure from Factory was because Factory wouldn't spring for a Fairlight like the one Trevor Horn had. A couple of months later, Relax was released...
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#26, you forgot the Stylophone.....
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Long list above stupidly missed out:
* Genesis
* Peter Gabriel
* Vangelis
* Tangerine Dream
* Toto
* Enya
* Tomita
* Laurie Anderson
* Tears for Fears
* Brian Eno
* Walter/Wendy Carlos
* Rick Wakeman
* Jeff Wayne
* Pink Floyd (on Wish You Were Here in particular)
* Herbie Hancock
* Stevie Wonder
And I wonder whether My Perfect Cousin will get a related nod...
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You forgot Suicide, Bowie, Pete Townsend, Giorgio Moroder, YMO.......
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#26
Alright ...hands up who got to the end of this post....i made it to line 4 :0)
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#28
WOOHOO! Somebody else that rates Tomita! :-)
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For Wed...
Ultravox (with John Foxx) ..... Slow Motion..... i Wonder what Mr Numan was listening to in 1978?
http://www.last.fm/music/Ultravox/Systems+Of+Romance/Slow+Motion
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#21
I saw Fleetwood Mac's picture in the paper and thought the interviews for Santas had started early.
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Facts about synthesisers
The word comes from the Latin syn meaning bad and thesis meaning idea.
They sound sterile or, at best, almost like a musical instrument (see Wilfred/Wilma Carlos).
The players don't move much - apart from those spangly people with inflated Melodicas.
They are generally played by people with the all the charisma of an ironing board (when did you last hear a joke from Vangelis?)
They don't require much skill and can play themselves, often sounding better.
There are no synthesists with the musicianship of Nicky Hopkins or Steve Nieve or the energy and excitement of Jerry Lee Lewis or Little Richard
They are popular with Germans.
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Laods of vangelis joeks on the inretent
Dylesixa rlues KO btw
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Monday:
found this whole concept a wee bit difficult because what gets me out of bed is an alarm clock, which either rings or (if you have a modern version) beeps.
I suppose if I knew how to set my clock to play music I'd prefer to be woken up by the Moody Blues "New Horizons".
Please show me how...
DC
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Any of you youngsters know what's going on here?
I don't get it.
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Yes, we do. :-)
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#27
I deduce that DC will be requesting 'Space Oddity' on Wednesday.
Pure elementary, btw
>8-D
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#38
Jim,
I was addressing the kiddywinks. Dinnae forget, your age is in the public domain.
>8-D
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#25
Do you mean formulae?
I'm bored and pedantic. An unhealthy combination.
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#41
Spot the deliberate mistake.
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Mon. I agree with glenmiller at #3
Tues. Don't get confused. LADY ELEANOR was the first hit. The first single was
CLEAR WHITE LIGHT - Lindisfarne
Wed. Rolf Harris plays an Australian didgeridoo. Kate Bush plays an Australian Fairlight CMI
THE DREAMING - Kate Bush
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#39
Take your protein pills and put yer helmet on....
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Difficult themes this week
Monday; difficult because I don't like gettin up to any music in winter particularly, unless... maybe a motown-y Christmas song, maybe
Springsteen - Santa Claus is Comin to Town - or similar
Tuesday; difficult because often the songs that made an impact on me were a bands 2nd or 3rd single, eg Police's Roxanne or Coldplay's Yellow. Managed to think of some that made my "ears open my eyes" though
Stray Cats - Runaway Boys
Madness - The Prince
The Jam - In The City
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
The Smiths - Hand in Glove
Pogue Mahone (the Pogues) - Dark Streets of London
The Cult - Spiritwalker
Rage Against the Machine - Killing In The Name Of
Wednesday; difficult to know what NOT to ask for
Depeche Mode - Just Cant Get Enough, New Life, Enjoy the Silence
China Crisis - Wishful Thinking
O M D - Joan of Arc, Talking Loud and Clear, Souvenir
Visage - Fade to Grey
Furniture - Brilliant Mind
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric
New Order - Regret
Groove Armada - Purple Haze (not a Hendrix cover)
Thursday; difficult because I cannae join in :(
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#44
Take the pills, but leave the capsule.
If you dare!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juD3nWpUunU
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#34
"Facts about synthesisers
The word comes from the Latin syn meaning bad and thesis meaning idea."
I am not sure about that, I always thought it was the use of the word synthetic to make synthetic sounds.
J.O'B.
(Just back from most of October in sunnier climates)
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#48
Welcome back RJ. Like DC disappearing when they played Floyd, what an october you've missed so far. Roxy must have been played about 18 times. One night we even had roxy music Phil Manzanera and Bryan ferry all played. In fact we thought you'd joined the production team. i'm sure it was in the first week for which the playlists are no longer available :-)
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#34
I admit making that up - but I did pick Roxy Music.
Are you going for Eno's Music For Airports?
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#50 good on you for VP.
I will go for Roxy's 'South Downs' the b-side to Oh Yeah. It is a 5 minute atmospheric synth piece by Ferry. The track is so weird that when they put it on a box set called The Thrill Of It All, they laced the master tape on backwards and no one noticed. (until the fans heard it after it was released)
Trash 2 is a good synth track (B-side to Trash)
Simple Minds 'Theme For Great Cities', another cracker too
J.O'B.
P.S. what Manzanera track was played and what was the theme.
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Synth tracks
David Sylvian - - Bamboo Music
Japan - - Cantonese Boy
Japan - - Ghosts
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Inverurie Locos 2, Stranraer 1
Hoppo will be fu' the nicht!
>8-D
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Inverurie's doin' a brand new dance now
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
I know you'll get to like it
If you give it a chance now
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
The boys ower at Gierie can do it with ease
It's easier than learning oor DC's
So Inverurie, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me
You gotta swing your hips now
Come on Garioch, jump up, hmmm lets get foo
Caws it's Stranraer one an us lot two..
Now that you can do it
Let's make a chain now
(C'mon gierie do the loco-motion)
Chug-a chug-a motion like a railway train now
(C'mon gierie do the loco-motion)
Do it nice and easy now don't lose control
A little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul
So come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me
You gotta swing your hips now
Come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me
(apologies to little eva..)
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#48 you should kain better than listen to Glen......
Hope you enjoyed your holiday & that the weather was as kind to you as it was to me.
Welcome back
DC
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#51
Virginia Plain is one one of only half a dozen or so singles I have bought, believing them to offer poor value for money compared with LPs.
And talking of value, I bought the re-mastered Please Please Me today for the stereo mixes. Be warned that some fool threw out the master tapes of Love Me Do and PS I Love You. I remember hearing Love Me Do in stereo on a BBC test broadcast when they put one channel through TV and one through Radio. It never caught on.
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A wee prezzy fae the Boss. (Jeff, that is).
For the benefit of our bloggers who reside outwith the U.K.
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When I get up in the morning I always play
David Gilmour - Breathe, from Live In Gdansk
just to remind me
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#51
Was only kidding. But Floyd was played when DC was on holiday.
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MONDAY
When I wake up
In the morning light
I leave my jeans
On the chair
Roll over, and
Pull the duvet ower mah heid.
If you MUST play David Dundas again at least namecheck Paolo.
Gotta 'ave a larf, ain'tcha!
>8-D
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Woke up this morning
Got yourself a gun - Alabama 3
Woke up this morning
My dog was dead
Someone disliked him
And shot him through the head - Nazareth
You know I woke up in the mornin', now, I had them Statesboro Blues
I woke up this morning now, I had them Statesboro Blues
I looked over in the corner, grandma and grandpa had 'em too - Taj Mahal
I woke up this morning, just before the break of day
I woke up this morning, just before the break of day
I looked at the pillow where my good girl used to lay - Fleetwood Mac
Woke up this morning
Had a shave
Did the Times crossword
Had another shave - Roger McGough
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"Woke up this mornin' - that was my first mistake." (Billy Connolly)
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Can I request the Breakfast Blues please?
You give me hard eggs in the morning. Cheese omelet you go.
You give me such hard eggs in the morning. Cheese omelet you go.
You hot butter grit your teeth and bare it. I donut love you anymore.
(Get that glazed look off'a your face).
Ham bacon you to leave me. I never sausage misery.
Ham bacon you to leave me. I never sausage misery.
You treated me so ungrapefruitly. You gave me raisin to be free.
(Orange juice ashamed of yourself?)
What do you eggs benedict me to do girl? I got muffin left to say
(You butter come up with somethin'.)
What do you eggs benedict me to do girl? I got muffin left to say.
You left such a waffle toast in my mouth. You biscuit out of town today.
(Ain't gonna leave the home fries burning for ya.)
[Repeat the first verse changing the last line:]
"Ain't gonna quiche you anymore"
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#63
Was that stolen from Rich Hall?
>8-D
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'Woke up this afternoon'
from the classic 'Alarm Clock Blues'
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#60
When I wake up in the morning light
i think to myself what day is it, come on Paul what day is it,
do I need to get up, goddamnit why can't I remember what day it is.....
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#64 made it up myself
0:-I
OK, I lied....
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Breakfast_Blues.htm
DC
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#63
Interesting! It reminds me of this.
>8-D
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Monday Wake Ups
68 Guns - The Alarm
What wakens me every week day is the alarm clock. At weekends it is Scooby Doo, Phineas & Ferb etc or the dulcet tones of my 2 wonderful children LOL. But how about this? The Beatles Good Day Sunshine, used as the wake up call on a NASA space mission :-)
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/releases/J05-057.html
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Actually there were hunners of songs used on the space missions, ranging from "City of New Orleans" (for its line "Good Morning America, how are you") to "Scotland the Brave (because a Scot was on board the shuttle).
http://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf
Good shout though!
DC
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Alarming Monday:
I was going to go for the early Bill Bailey short blues number:
Weeellll, I didn't wake up this morning [FIN]
or Fat and Frantic's Blues (Back to Sleep) cos no self-respecting blues guy actually wakes up in the morning.
While a student, I had This Mortal Coil's Filigree and Shadow as my wakeup music - waking up to Velvet Belly segueing into The Jeweller is a particularly mellow way to start the day.
Current alarm clock is provided by the dulcet tones of Mr Stephen Fry.
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Monday - Wake Up Tunes:
I'm using some new software on my phone to use tunes from the old poddy as the alarm sound rather than the cursed built-in sounds - this is my actual playlist!
Busy Doin' Nothin' - The Beach Boys (no it's NOT the song you think!)
Cool In The Pool - Holger Czukay
8 Miles High - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin
Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes
Lovely Day - Bill Withers
Valerie - Steve Winwood
Ocean Drive - Lighthouse Family
We Got The Beat - The Go-Go's
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Here! Maybe we should have Space as a theme.
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#74
Can we have Stars Across the Moon for it?
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Clouds Across The Moon, actually.
Mazzy
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Monday -
Here Comes the Summer by The Undertones
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Plunged to new depths....
Uptown top ranking??????
(oooooh!)
DC
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#78
Explain.
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Bring me the moderation of Alfredo Garcia!
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Tuesday - Debut Singles:
Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd
My Sharona - The Knack (awesome single cover photy!)
Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols
Sexy Boy - Air
Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman
Psycho KIller - Talking Heads
Rock Lobster - The B-52's
Have I The Right? - The Honeycombs
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
A Horse With No Name - America
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#82
BRING ME THE TALKING HEADS OF ALFREDO GARCIA!
BRING ME THE TALKING HEADS OF ALFREDO GARCIA!
>8-D
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#80 (Muttley) Shehehehehe....
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Tuesday:
One of the most important singles must be:
Elvis Presley - That's Allright Mama
would love to hear that.
Most of the singles that I really loved were not a debut single but I remeber really loving
The Jags - Back of My Hand
Toyah - Victims of the Riddle
The Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing
and
Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked
when they came out.
As an aside and I am not requesting this - but the first debut single to chart at no 1 was Vanilla Ice, please do no play it.
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There is only be one contender for best debut single. A Whiter Shade of Pale.
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#96
I think I've got pirate flu.
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#97
After the show's finished, probably - with a cup of tea.
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#98
The Completion Backward Principle
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All you need is:
Bryan Ferry, Peter Gabriel, Sharon Corr, Cara Dillon, Midge Ure, Brian May, Bill Wyman, Paloma Faith, Hayley Westenra, Clare Teal, Cara Dillon, Bailey Tzuke, Beth Rowley, Heather Small, Nick Mason.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBsXOKvi3Ss
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Tuesday: Debut Singles
Surely the hallmark of a great debut single is the one you hear for the first time and you think 'this artist is going to be BIG... and then years later, you still very much associate the artist with that single'...
so on that basis, a few suggestions:
Dignity: Deacon Blue
Hey Joe: Jimi Hendrix
New England: Billy Bragg
Gangsters: The Specials
Fast Car: Tracy Chapman
Marlene On The Wall: Suzanne Vega
Green Onions: Booker T and the MGs
Sultans of Swing: Dire Straits
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#86 also contender for the best spoonerism...
DC
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A wee thought for a theme:
'Over-shadowed singles"
You know the singles off an album that where over-shadowed by the more famous hit that gets played all the time. Usually the second or third single release from an album that doesn't sell as well because the first single was released before the album.
Roxy Music's 'Both Ends Burning' get forgotton about due to it more famous sibling 'Love Is The Drug' both from the 'Siren' album.
Good idea for a theme?
J.O'B.
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Sorry to be pedantic but Physco Killer was about the 3rd single for Talking Heads.
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good idea RJ and also the album onlyt track woulds be a great theme. I am aslo still promo9ting my suggestion of b side theme and 2:59 as a theme!
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TUESDAY (Debut Singles):
E.L.O - '10538 Overture'
Human League - 'Being Boiled'
Pluto Shervington - 'Dat'
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#87
You okay, Glen?
You're looking a bit peelie-wally.
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DRAT, DRAT and DOUBLE DRAT!
Julie has scuppered my cunning plan...
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#94
Did they release it twice?
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#92
Explain.
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#100 the moderator would be involved if I did
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#101
Feartie! Why would anyone object to a Whale and/or Shale?
>8-D
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#93
Nice theme indeed J.O'B.
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For tuesday
The Clash - White Riot.
Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols.
Both had a big impact on me.
For Wednesday
Wrok Rock - Ultravox ( with Jon Fox )
Beat the Clock - Sparks
Good Grief Christina - Chickory Tip
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Tues - Debuts
Roxanne - The Police
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Planet Earth - Duran Duran
Electricity - OMD
Big In Japan - Alphaville
How Bizarre - OMC
X-Offender - Blondie
Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
How Do You Do It? - Gerry and the Pacemakers
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A set of double suggestions for tonight:
Smiths - Hand In Glove / Morrissey - Suedehead
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Tuesday Debut Singles
* Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
* Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne
* Billy Bragg - Between the Wars
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#91
Mike - New England wasn't the debut single... it wasn't a single at all for Billy in fact; only for Kirsty MacColl in 1985 plus of course being on Life's A Riot. Which you *could* argue as being a single cos it was cut at 45RPM (and famously played at the wrong speed by John Peel in return for a Mushroom Biryani)
See the official discography.
I was surprised as well.
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Oh dear, Oasis. Just about the most overrated band in the entire history of overratedness.
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Don't wanna Fall Out with anyone but Roxanne Wizny the first Police Single
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I don't think Black Horse & Cherry Tree is KT Tunstall's first single either..
Sloppy research methinks..
:-)
DC
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Not the Proclaimers again
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WEDNESDAY
Synthesisers? No' got a Scooby!
'The Dreaming' - Kate Bush
In support of CannyMarra (see #43)
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Some suggestions, all which I think are great tracks and features some sort of synth backing at least for a good bit of the track, though I may be corrected on that!:
Giorgio Moroder / David Bowie - Cat People
Human League - Only After Dark (cover of the Ronson classic)
Robert Palmer - Looking for Clues
Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia or real wee gem Janey Don't You Lose Heart
my final suggestion falls into the unlikely but classic from a very influential band:
Suicide - Dream Baby Dream
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Either BB didnae read my post #45 or he wanted to play Roxanne that much that he just made out he didnae ken any better! Ragin'!!
He'll better play Visage tomorrow night to make it up to me
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#115
What Jan fae Ruglin wants, Jan fae Ruglin gets. Don't even think about dissing Jan fae Ruglin.
You are confronting forces beyond your ken...
>8-D
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#116
BRING ME THE CHEEKY GIT OF ALFREDO GARCIA! :-)LOL
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Wednesday - Synths:
Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime - The Korgis
Fanfare For The Common Man - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Il Fait Beau - Casiokids (Hey Vic, you KNOW you wanna!)
Guilty - Mike Oldfield
Robot Rock - Daft Punk
Showroom Dummies - Senor coconut (excellent Kraftwerk cover)
Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb
Real Man - Todd Rundgren
Cherry Blossom Girl or Sexy Boy - Air
Uprising - Muse
I'll Find My Way Home - Jon & Vangelis
Souvenir Of China - Jean Michel Jarre (Concerts In China album)
Temptation - Heaven 17
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WENESDAY - synths:
Fireside Favourite - Fad Gadget (does it help if he's referred to as the "late" Fad Gadget?)
Lawnchairs - Our Daughter's Wedding
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Wed Synths
Looking forward to a Victastic show, so diverging from the QI obvious a little here:
Early Doors
* The Beatles - Because
That's one of the earliest major recordings to feature a true synthesiser (I'm excluding Mellotrons here): a Moog
Artful 70s Experimentation
* Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man
Probably one of the most blistering synth solos consigned to vinyl. And a great song too.
* Genesis - Blood on the Rooftops
* Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator
* Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part VI
Featuring Rick Wright's ARP String Ensemble and MiniMoog synths.
I *was* going to suggest
* The Who - Baba O'Riley
as that opening riff was certainly based on a demo of the ARP modular synth, but in the end, it was played on a Lowrey home organ.
Poptastic 80s
* OMD - Souvenir
* Visage - Fade to Grey
* Herbie Hancock - Rockit
* The Human League - Fascination
* Stephen 'TinTin' Duffy - Kiss Me
Not to be confused with Radio Scotland's jazz lord
* Alphaville - Big In Japan
* Jan Hammer - Crockett's Theme
The only bloke who can make a synth sing like a guitar
The Dark(er) side of the 80s
* New Order - Blue Monday
Was going to suggest Joy Division: Atmosphere, but we had it the other week
* The Cure - The Walk
* Cocteau Twins - Donimo
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Great list Capn, I hovered over the Who as well and had meant to include the following:
Won't Get Fooled Again
Eminence Front
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If "Shine on you crazy diamond" gets played, I will donate £50 to Children in Need
DC
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#122
I'll match that.
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#122/#123
I'll go further: I'll pledge £100 to Children in Need to be allowed to produce a show, on the condition that at least 5 other listeners do the same.
http://www.pledgebank.com/gio-cin2009
(PIN is 80295)
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#124
By 'produce', of course, that means you'd be firing back and forth ninja-style bringing CD's and phone call requests to Babs, dodging jaikies - errr... the footie blokes... whilst balancing BB's cup of split pea soup on your head!
Nevertheless - if they go for the idea, I'm in with my £100 readies! :-)
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Oh, and make sure you don't forget to bring your Tull and Bragg collections with you.
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WEDNESDAY Synthesisers:
'I'm Blue' - Eiffel 65
'Louise' - Human League (for a change from the usual)
Would 'Show Me The Way' by Peter Frampton be allowed?
'Follow You Follow Me' - Genesis.
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#127
Nice call with 'Louise' - had forgotten about it. It's got a good synth solo too.
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#126
First hour is 2 Floyd Tracks... :-)
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How much do I need to pay to make sure you lot don't get anywhere near the studio?
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#129
Todd's Initiation side 2 in the second half - so time for two more long songs after that! :-)
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#129, make it Shine On (all parts, with a smooth run through) followed by Gilmour's live version of Echoes. Time you play the Fred Macauley bit & do the shipping forecast, the hour's up!
Sounds a graaayyyyttt idea!
Back to Vic's show tonight though, my £50 still stands
:-)
DC
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#130
Pay yer £100 and join us as a moderating influence. We'll even slip in a Springsteen track for ya.
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Well Vic, what a STOOSHIE you created by playing FRANK ZAPPA last time you were on this show!
How about another STOOSHIE tonight!
LONESOME ELECTRIC TURKEY from FILLMORE EAST - JUNE 1971 by THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION featuring DON PRESTON on MINIMOOG.
Get it On with Vic Galloway!
I checked the blog and all the other suggestions are rubbish anyway.
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Wed
We Live So Fast - Heaven 17
Black Hit of Space - Human League
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bowie - space oddity for that wee bit of stylophone,
or
bowie - warszawa
that will cheer the public up!
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Thursday:
Guide For First Time Bloggers
- Choose a call sign that begins with the letter "J". You have 216% more chance of getting a request played.
- Ask for songs by - Blondie, Proclaimers, Smiths, Johnny Cash or Queen.
- Use Bold type.
- "Bet you wont play this" doesn't work anymore.
- Comment on the producer's giggle (there is only one that giggles)
- Google lists are acceptable, in fact appear to be desirable.
- Dont bother putting your requests for the week in early - they'll be forgotten. Day before is time enough.
- Be nice to Norrie and dont say anything about DC going to work dressed like a 70's Nasa Mission Control worker (White short sleeved shirt and a tie) coz you'll get Moderated.
can be continued........
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Be nice to Norrie!! Since when has that been a requirement!? :o) Anyway it is post blog on day of show - not day before. In fact the closer to showtime the better!
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Haven't heard 'Voyage, Voyage' by Desireless for ages. Any chance?
Has there been a foreign language theme before?
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#134
I'd rather hear Down In France
#137
Take some quinine and lie down in a darkened room.
#139
Yes
h
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#137, a bitter man indeed....
Been away too long
:-)
DC
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#137
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39f_vkViOpI
;-)
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Mah wee ears are bleedin', man.
Bryan and Babs got offski, left Vic and Rick tae take the blame.
Perra wide-o's, by the way...
>8-D
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#10
Norrie,
I get it! And it only took me six days!!
As tomorrow is the seventh day I must be entitled to a wee rest.
>8-D
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Some poor kids are going to go without fresh water because of the bronsky beat and yazooo...
BTW #137, you still wearing your white jacket with shoulder pads & rolled up sleeves?
;-)
DC
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Wouldnae dream of dissin J from R, especially seein as how she seconded my Hong Kong Garden shout.
Nae Visage the night though but nae BB either. Cannae enter tomorrow night and I'm off to sunny climes on Tuesday so that just leaves Monday to get a song in. Pressure's on!
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#145
Are you confusing Adam with Alexis Carrington?
#146
Wise man. Don't forget the postcards.
>8-D
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#144 Well done SG! Rest well.
#147 Alexis Carrington! Good one!
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#110 You are indeed correct Paulo, as soon as I read/heard your blog, I thought, I KNOW that !(brass neck)...LOL as it turns out the theme was expanded a little on the night so Roxanne still qualified and was still a great track :-)
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Alexis fae Rio....
Now we'll all know who that is if a request is played tonight.
In the meantime...................
Ho Hum...............
Twiddle fingers, watch tumbleweed blow past....................
DC
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#140
Are you a Peter Green fan?
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# 145 - Pale blue actually, but yes still got it. Dont do the designer stubble anymore though.
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#152
If Glen Miller were here he would make a joke about Brazilians.
I'm not that childish.
>8-D
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#153 Brilliant....
:-0
DC
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#151
The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus FRANK ZAPPA
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Well this blog is exciting today, isn't it?
Was that a pin I heard dropping?
Perhaps we need a more appropriate theme for next week. Hows about regular bloggers only for Monday?
;-)
DC
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How about Tull, Bragg, Rundgren and Floyd fans only? ;-)
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#156
There'll be some cheating tonight I daresay.
We haven't done a "year" as a theme for a while. I reckon 1972 would be a good shout.
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I would say that would be a good theme and to start with Frank Zappa, which Bryan Burnett will still NOT play, and little does he realise a lot of Frank Zappa are very radio friendly, so why oh why oh why!
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Last time we did a year, there were a lot of mistakes. If we kept it to "regulars" only we might be able to iron out this sort of thing.
Good list JtE, but add the Stones to it
So Miss Babs, what about it? Monday for our bloggers only?
DC
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#159
Valley Girl was played not that long ago...
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Next weeks themes include SG's Double - barreled names on Monday.
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NOT by Bryan, by VIC AND what a STOOSHIE that created
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New to this. Can I have primal scream's 'country girl' pleeze
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#151
I like Peter Green and his father Hughie, too.
#153
Are you this Childish?
#159
Are we witnessing the birth of Zappajohn?
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I don't recall having anything played. Can you play:
Thin Lizzy - emerald
or any Lizzy for my friend over there Mario in Elderslee
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Success! Great show 2nite.
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The intial buzz soon wears off and you find yourself needing more and more and stronger and stronger requests until only Frank Zappa will feed your craving. Stop now while you still can.
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So does David Gil-Mour qualify for Monday?
DC
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Would have thought so DC! Mind you Andy Fairweather Low might give you a good "in"!
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Double-barrelled means it has to have a hyphen surely?
Andy Firweather Low doesn't count?
We need to be telt!
D-C
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Good point DC. How about this fella then:
Andy Fairweather-Low
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Joking aside:
Space Invader by the Pretenders (James Honeyman-Scott on guitar) would be a wonderful change from Brass In Pocket.
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Good suggestion Norrie, if only to hear the sound of one of the best pub games ever playing as background throughout the track
D-C in Cellar-dyke
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#173 #174
Good track, good suggestion. I was goin to suggest that song for the sound effects theme night a couple of months back but still wasn't on the blog then, one of those nights that made me wish i was.
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I was thinking about David Clayton-Thomas of Blood Sweat and Tears, who have now had 130 members - is this a record? It's certainly a challenge to autograph hunters.
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#165
BILLY CHILDISH - also on my list of requested but never played.
However, only FRANK ZAPPA will feed my craving - help!
NULLIS PRETII (NO COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL)
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#171
DC,
When I suggested this theme I asked that hyphenated surnames not be included.
I was thinking more Tony Joe, Mary Chapin, Billy Ray etc.
How the team chooses to interpret 'double-barreled' remains to be seen.
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#171
Don't call me Shirley.
>8-D
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#164 & #167 DC, is Capella not the name of your yacht???
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#181 Aye
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