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Hi all a couple of suggestions:

Monday

Iggy Pops Version of China Girl, though I am a huge Bowie fan this version is way superior, though I suspect we might get the Bowie hit!

Kim Richey - Chinese Boxes from her fantastic new album

Joni Mitchell - Chinese Cafe - brilliant song.

Pete Thownsend - The Sea Refuses no River from his All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes lp

Thursday

Its got to be the haunting use of bagpipes from Peter Gabriels Biko.

Cheers

Norrie MacLean, Renfrew

Hi all a couple of suggestions:

Monday

Iggy Pops Version of China Girl, though I am a huge Bowie fan this version is way superior, though I suspect we might get the Bowie hit!

Kim Richey - Chinese Boxes from her fantastic new album

Joni Mitchell - Chinese Cafe - brilliant song.

Pete Thownsend - The Sea Refuses no River from his All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes lp

Thursday

Its got to be the haunting use of bagpipes from Peter Gabriels Biko.

Cheers

For Monday
Storm in a Teacup by the Fortunes
Flying Saucer Attack by the Rezillos
Smoke gets in your Eyes by The Platters

Adam in Rio

And in case someone beats me to it....

Little Village - Van Morrison

We all have our view on Van especially in regard to his live shows but this is a fairly recent and absolutely tremendous track with Mick Green, formerly one of Johnny Kidd's Pirates!!, on guitar .

Cheers

Norrie

ps total aside but Joan Rivers at the fringe festival was really really good. Interesting lady!!

ppps Rezillos always welcome ~ Adam are they still absolutelly massive in brazil??

My earlier blog may have missed the point of the theme for Tuesday. Great tracks, well worth a play, but....

Monday -

China Grove - Dobbie Brother
Black Man Ray - China Crisis
Walking on the chinese wall - Philip Bailey

Tuesday -

You could mention, but not play, the Bay City Rollers and the Village People
Atlantic City/My city of ruins - Springsteen
City to city - Gerry Rafferty
The Boy from New York City - The Darts
Crescent City - Emmylou Harris
NYC - Steve Earle

Wednesday

J'ai deux amours - Madeleine Peyroux

Thursday

Copperhead Road - Steve Earle

Hong Kong Garden by Siouxie and the Banshees has got to feature somewhere on Monday.

For Tuesday, how about Cities by Talking Head's, maybe Summer in the City by The Lovin Spoonful, Theme of the Cities (?) by Simple Minds...

Monday: Sketches of China - Paul Kantner and Grace Slick (also named their daughter China )
Tuesday: Do You Want My Job 鈥� Little Village (鈥淚 take the cash so my kids can wear Adidas)
Baltimore 鈥� Randy Newman (now singing 鈥淭he rich get richer 鈥� I should know鈥�)
Wednesday: I Want You 鈥� Elvis Costello (before he became important like Sting and Bono)
Thursday: Pipes
Epic(No.38) 鈥� Grace Slick (Pipe Major Iain MacDonald Murray and his pals )
鈥淣o.鈥� is actually a hash symbol but it might crash the system.
Party Doll 鈥� Mick Jagger
Drums
The End 鈥� The Beatles (only Beatles drums recorded in stereo)
Diamonds 鈥� Jet Harris and Tony Meehan (who needs Hank?)

Am I alone in preferring toothache to Cerys Matthews?

Monday- Howzitgaun Chinas?
Anything by Francie and Josie.

Tuesday- T-O-B-E-R-M-O-R-Y, I love you!
Michael Marra's Tobermory

'Grimsby' by Elton John

Wednesday- 'Paradise by the dashboard
light' Meatloaf

'Steamy Windows' Tony Joe
White, or Tina if you prefer

Thursday- 'Against the Wind' by Maire
Brennan. Not a drum solo as
such, but a constant, heavy
backbeat. Gets the blood
pounding!

Monday -
Wishful Thinking - China Crisis
China Girl - David Bowie
Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung
Ying Tong Song - The Goons

Tuesday -
Raintown - Deacon Blue
Inner Crail to Outer Space - King Creosote
In the Navy - Village People
Nutbush City Limits - Tina Turner
Living for the city - Stevie Wonder
Union City Blues - Blondie

Glenn Miller - I prefer Cerys Matthews

Nearly forgot Marshall Haynes - Dancing in the city.

For Monday's show - Ultravox/Hiroshima Mon Amour.

This was Ultravox at their best with John Foxx on vocals, before they became a pop parody with Midge Ure at the helm.

Unfortunatley the band will forever be remembered for the truly dreadful 'Vienna' and not good stuff like this.

Cheers.

Raymie in Consett.


P.S. The Rezillos big in Brazil? How bizarre!

Re Thursday: I really need to get Boney M's Night Flight to Venus out of my head!!

Hi Bryan

Just a few suggestions for this week -

Monday
China Crisis King in a Catholic Style
a real 80's song

Dr Feelgood Hong Kong Money

Tuesday

Dancing in Kyle
oh go on you know you want to play it and please all us westcoasters who actually went to the dancing in Kyle and could tell a few stories about them!

Oh Atlanta Alison Krauss

Wednesday

Sade Your Love is King
such a smoochy song perfect for romancing to!

George Benson If I had to live my life without you near me
Just love the words and the memories of winching (a good west coast word) with my now husband of 20yrs to this song!

Paul Young and Zucherro Sensa Una Dona
that voice of Zucherro just puts wee shivers down my spine it is pure sex on a plate!

Thursday

Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Dances with Wolves and or Last of the Mohicans
from their Spirit of the Glen Album both special songs and played beautifully -

Anything from the Red Hot Chilli Pipers!

Thanks

Suzi, Inverness

A few further thoughts...

Tuesday

Road to Ensenada - Lyell Lovett
Downtown - Petula Clark
Morningtown Ride - the Seekers
Road to Aberdeen - Nanci Griffith
Village Ghetto Land - Stevie Wonder

Wednesday

Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye

Thursday

Dance with the Devil - Cozy Powell

The last two were suggested by my sister and brother-in-law Anne and Derek (from EK) - so please mention them if they are played.

Joe
Linlithgow

I missed an important "-". Last sentence should have read "...my sister- and brother-in-law...".

Apologies for being pedantic (nothing new there).

Joe

ConsettKebab - can I be a git and point out that Hiroshima's in Japan?

Monday -
I second or third or whatever Iggy Pop's version of China Girl over DB's
Chinese Rocks by Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
Millions by XTC (from Drums and Wires lp)
Yellow River by Christie???

Second attempt blogging...

Would be happy with either version of China Girl and how about Queen, Bicycle Race?

Happy monday to the team and fellow bloggers

Maria in Stirling

HI Bryan how about for tonight:

China in Your Hands - T'Pau or
The Chinese Way - Level 42 and of course

Kung Fu Fighting by Karl Douglas
classic Chinese tune!

Martin in Dunfermline

Tuesday

For the main part, and in the spirit of my Boss avoidance week, I am going y'allternative for tonights towns, villages, citys... with loads of my favourite artists!

Mary Chapin Carpenter - haley Came to Jackson

Lyle Lovett - Road to Ensanada

Nanci Griffith - san Diego serenade (Tom Waits original of course fantastic).

Trishia Yearwood - The Wrong Side of Memphis

Lucinda Willams - Bus to Baton Rouge

Ryan Adams - Dear Chicago

Shawn Colvin - Whicita Skyline

Gram Parsons - Streets of Baltimore

Gene Clark and Carla Olson - Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)

Indigo Girls - Nashville

Alison Krauss - Oh, Atlanta

Willie Nelson - City of New Orleans

Iris DeMent - Our Town

Cheers everyone!

Norrie MacLean, Renfrew
Gram Parsons - Streets of Baltimore

Aaargh cancel all of above! Most don't count!

So in actual keeping with actual theme...

Little Village - Van Morrison

Our Town - Iris De Ment

A Town called Blue - Boo Hewerdien and Darden Smith

Stevie Wonder - Livin For the City

In The City - The Jam

Lou reed - New York City Man

Willie Nelson - City of New Orleans.

Eh.....cheers everyone again!

Norrie Maclean

OMG I am working at nights most of this week and I have to listen again I am in shock !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have just heard that China Crisis were in Plockton in the 80s !!!!

I went to school there in the (early) 80s and I never saw them

I left in 1983 and moved to the metropolis of Inverness! I must have just missed them!

I loved them in the 80's

PS Bryan
when I asked for the dancing in Kyle I was also at lots of dances in Plockton, and Dornie and Kintail (and my mum and dad always went to the ghillies ball in Kilillan -that was THE society west coast event of the year when I was a wee girl!
oh happy days!

Suzi, Inverness

but the Kyles ones were always the best!

Where's my post from yesterday and Norrie's reply?????

The one about Kate Bush The Sensual World, and a few Ferry and Roxy tunes

John
Inverness

Tuesday -
San Fransisco - Village People
Hello City - Bareneked Ladies

Wednesday -

What about ABBA's heavy breathing 'Honey Honey' or the odd 'When I kissed the Teacher'. What an innocent time it was!

Thursday -
Crazy - Barenaked Ladies (pipes at the end)
Bang Bang - BA Robertson (drums, obviously!)

TUEASDAY TOWNS

Bryan Ferry New Town
Bryan Ferry Carrickfergus
Bryan Ferry The Lambton Worm
Bryan Ferry This Island Earth

WEDNESDAY

Roxy Music Avalon (one of my least favourite Roxy tracks)
Roxy Music True To Life
Bryan Ferry Slave To Love (another non favourite Ferry track of mine)
Bryan Ferry Windswept
Kate Bush The Sensual World
Kate Bush This Womans Work
just about anything from Sade
Jerry Burns This Love

THURSDAY

Roxy Music Remake Remodel (had to write that without back slashes and hyphons) has 2 drum solos.

John Inverness

For Tuesday's show how about 'It's Grim Up North' by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu?

Surely there can't be a song with more towns, cities and villages listed than this. Can there?


Cheers.

Raymie in Consett.


P.S. Whatever happened to Bill Drummond?

I waited in vain for China Grove last night - but thanks for playing "Walking on the chinese wall".

Apologies for frequent posts. I'm sure it would be better for you to get one albeit long list...but my memory tends not to work that way (and like others I keep slipping into the trap of place names). A few more thoughts for tonight:

Taneytown - Steve Earle
In The City - Joe Walsh
Suffragette City - David Bowie
New Kid in Town - The Eagles
Sin City - AC/DC
When love comes to town - U2/BB King.
Darkness on the edge of town - Springsteen

Also, I've heard of - but never found/heard - a Radiohead version of Blondie's Union City Blues. Is this an urban myth?


Joe
Linlithgow

Joe - its never been released though they have recorded this track and played it live. It has surfaced on bootlegs though.

I am sure it was recorded during the Pablo Honey sessions......but I'm not by any stretch that knbowledgeable on Radiohead so ready for the corrections!!!

Tuesday

Motorway City, Hawkwind
Kill City, Iggy Pop and James Williamson
Sugar Town, Nancy Sinatra
Our Little Village, Paddy Roberts (check it out if you can!)
Cities on Flame (With Rock and Roll), Blue Oyster Cult

I had an ampersand after Iggy, so this is my fourth attempt!

For Tuesday what about Croy Hill by the late great Will Starr. A legend of the White Heather Club and a cousin of my father wrote this tune about his (and mine) home village. There are 3 Croys in Scotland one in Ayrshire, one near Inverness and this one between Cumbernaul and Kilsyth where I was brought up.

John
Inverness

Norrie

Thanks. Good to know I'm not too gullible!

Joe

Hi Bryan,

Hi Bryan and team, was busy with dinner earlier (homemade steak bridies in case you're wondering!) so here's our suggestions for tonight:

City of the dead - The Clash
Dead Cities(not 2 cities) - Exploited
City Baby Attacked by Rats - GBH
English Towns - The Stranglers
Sattelite - Sex Pistols (as in sattelite towns)
Dirty Old Town - The Pogues
Smalltown England - New Model Army

That's our punky places playlist.

Ta.

Hi all not sure that the Get It On with Get It On theme will be my best attempt but here are the ones that I like....

Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself

kd Lang - Save Me or Wash Me Clean

Prince - Cream

and I know I undertook not to nominate Brooooce this week but honestly even if you hate him this is really good and fits with theme

Bruce Springsteen - Secret Garden

Cheers everyone

Norrie Maclean

Wednesday - a few Last Chance Saloon tunes

Please Stay - The Crying Shames
Private Dancer - Tina Turner
Midnight at the Oasis - Maria McKee
Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues
Tonights the Night - Rod Stewart

Wednesday: some GIOWGIO suggestions-

Roy Harper - Forever (from Valentine), going for a third appearance by the wrinkley lothario
Led Zeppelin - Gallows Pole (from Led Zep III). No comment on why this appears!
Nick Cave with PJ Harvey - Henry Lee. not so much for the song itself (which would be a bit - but only a bit - warped), but for the extent to which Nick and Polly were clearly "into" each other when recording the song and more so the video for it.

Wednesday - The Look of Love - Dusty Springfield. Still the best.
Oh and Roxy John - Glad to see the nickname stuck!!

Adam, thats a great track would love to hear that and Diana Krall does a wonderful version as well.

Cassandra Wilson does a fantastic and very sultry version of Time after Time

Dave Mason and Cass Elliot - Pleasing You has the lyric "get it on with you" which is appropriate!

Cheers

Norrie

Surely one of the most sensual tracks of all time is Syreeta's 'Your Kiss Is Sweet'.

A big hit from the 1970's (although rarely heard on the radio nowadays) its sure to get the goosebumps going.

Syreeta at one time was considered for Diana Ross's replacement in The Supremes and she was also married to Stevie Wonder (for 18 months).


Cheers.

Raymie in Consett.

Afternoon all

A few thoughts for tonight, which inexplicably have only just dawned on me:

Love to love you baby - Donna Summer
Je t'aime..moi non plus - Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg


Joe
Linlithgow

Thursday.
.John Farnham 'You're The Voice'
got what sounds like pipes but it's probably the ex pat version of pipes.I suppose it could qualify for both themes as it's got a decent drum intro.

Joni Mitchel's The Jungle Line from 'Hissing Of Summer Lawns.
Adam Ant had a penchant for drums. In fact I think they pretended to play with two)but Ant Rap's is probably the best of a bad lot.
Finally,a classic.Wipe Out by The Surfaris.A Californian band of the surf music era circa 1962.This was the drum intro all us aspiring drummers tried to master.I never did!

I could not possibly explain why but Ruben Blades suddenly decided that a salsa / celtic fusin was where it was it in 2002 and his album feataures bagpipes and celtic sounds throughout, even a version of Danny Boy! Primogenio is the track that workd best on the album and is a real uplifting mix of panamian drums and bagpipes.

For straight bagpipes, possibly sampled, but used to brilliant effect I would love to hear Biko by Peter Gabriel . Really haunting track.

Sticking with Gabriel and though I am not a Phil Collins fan as such his drumming on Gabriels Intruder from Gabriel 3 is brilliant. Sets the scary tone for the song.

Finally, for now, about that Boney M reference in my earlier post. I am sure I had the nightflight to Venus album by Boney M and was sure that Cozey Powell played the drum intro to the lead track. I dont have the album anymore so not sure and it could have been a straight lift of his Dance ith The Devil or maybe an early sample? Anyway that would be bizarre to hear!

We got to have some Keith Moon! How about Daltreys tribute Under a Raging Moon as well which has at least 6 or 7 drummers including Stewart Copeland, Carl Palmer, Cozy Powell, Roger Taylor.

Been another great week of music!

Cheers


Norrie MacLean, Renfrew

oops meant say Ruben Blades album is called Mundo

Rufus Harley played Jazz bagpipes. Check out Feeling Good from his Scotch and Soul album on Atlantic.

Ron Wilson of The Surfaris has recorded a version of Louie Louie on bagpipes on Lost it in the Surf

Dexter

For Thursday's pipe theme...

How about Iona by The Skids from 1981.

Not usually what you'd expect from Dunfermline's finest but a stirring anthem none the less.

Plenty of pipes going on here as well.


Cheers.

Raymie in Consett.

Not sure you are really serious about doing an hour of drum solos tonight Bryan. I mean I cant really see you putting on Ian Paice's solo from Deep Purple's The Mule, but you never know.
There is a natty wee bit of drumming on Dire Straits' Twisting by the Pool which is maybe more in line with what you're thinking of.
Oh, and given the brouhaha about the vest last night, could we not have Male Undergarments as a theme?
As The Real Thing sang,
"So now you've got the best of me
Come on and take the vest off me"

Just a thought..


Adam in Rio

Pipes -
Something by Martyn Bennet would have to be included - Harry's in Heaven?
The Associates' Logan Time has a wee pipey outro
Roby Roy's Nightmare, the b-side of Wizzard's I Wish it could be Christmas Everyday

Drums -
Lord save us from an hour of skin-bashing...
Kissing the Pink's Last Film depends heavily on its drum-riff (if there's such a thing), and is one of the great lost 80s tracks
Gary Gimore's Eyes by the Adverts builds up from a great tom intro
Wipeout by The Surfaris (NOT the Fat Boys), again loads of drums in it
Oh, go on then ... Moby Dick by Led Zep or Toad by Cream. Play them both and you'll have no show left!

One of the versions of "Driven By You" by Brian May featured the late, great Cozy Powell on drums. Any chance of hearing that or, alternatively, "Resurrection" by the same pair.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for playing Martyn Bennet's Chanter. The volume is up high, here in Rutherglen..this guy's music is awesome. I am rocking here just now!