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A few thoughts off the top of my head:

Monday

Every breath you take - the Police

Tuesday

Anything by the Counting Crows, Magic Numbers, 3 Degrees or BA Robertson!
Another Police song (set in a school context) - Don't stand so close to me
ABC - the Jackson 5

Wedenesday

Home to Houston - Steve Earle
(and all the others I posted previously)

Thursday

Misguided Angel or Blue Moon - Cowboy Junkies (members include three siblings from the Timmins family)


Joe
Linlithgow

Hi all

I suppose the obvious one is Phil Collins - In The air Tonight, I'm not a huge fan but that certainly fits.

I am a big Van Morrison fan and it makes me chuckle when people assume that Have I Told You Lately that I Love You is a straightforward romantic song when it is actually one of Van's many straightforward eulogy to God.

Norrie Maclean

Tuesday

Rock n Roll High School – The Ramones

High Scholl – The MC5

Headmaster Ritual – The Smiths

Adult Education – Hall and Oates

Closer to Fine – Indigo Girls

To Sir With Love – 10,0000 Maniacs and Michael Stipe

Wonderful World – Sam Cooke

Art School – The Jam

Eton Rifles – the Jam


Norrie Maclean

Apologies, I forgot to say that Home to Houston is set in and mentions Basra (which I guess is unlikely to feature in many other songs on Wednesday!).

Joe
Linlithgow

Monday - I told you this story before, but anyway.......As a wee boy in the 60s growing up in Pittenweem, I used to be amazed at how the women would hang out washing in all weather. In fact it was only years later, after Ah-a did a cover version, that I realised the Everly Brothers hadnt been singing "I'll Do My Drying In the Rain".

Adam in Rio

Bryan,

Monday My weekly request for Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love - this time by The Misunderstood who were misunderstood by record buyers.

Tuesday Learning The Game - Buddy Holly or Be True to Your School The Beach Boys (simpler days - rah rah)

Wednesday I Love LA or Christmas in Capetown by Randy Newman. Baltimore or Birmingham would do. He gets around.

Thursday Lollipop - The Mudlarks or Warpaint - The Brooks Brothers

How about an evening of records we hate called Get It Off?

Monday- "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood was actually based on an enticement ad in the mid seventies for a getaway from it all weekend in Largs.

Adam in Rio

Thursday

Kate and Anna McGarrigle-Heart like a Wheel.

Dexter

Lynyrd Skynyrd's ' Gimme back my bullets '
was a complaint against journalists who would publish quotes, (bullet points), out of context. Nothing to do with firearms.

Can't recall who wrote the song, but
' All I Remember ' from Christy Moore's
album ' The time has come ' would be great for Tuesday. Hilarious.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
'Tobermory'- Michael Marra
'Grimsby'- Elton John

Apart from Craig and Charlie I have no idea. On Thursday I'll just look forward to my fellow listeners' requests!

Aaargh! How could I have forgotten Sparks? The string section version of
'This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us'
please.

Damn the ampersand! Here we go again...

Hi Bryan and Team and Fellow bloggers.

Ideas for Tuesdays show -

Another Brick In The Wall by Pink Floyd
Song For Whoever by The Beautiful South
Wonderful World by Sam Cooke
I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing by The New Seekers
Don't Stand So Close To Me by The Police (double whammy with song theme and as Sting was a teacher)
ABC by Jackson 5
Alphabet Street by Prince
Schools Out by Alice Cooper
Lessons In Love by Level 42

Happy weekend everyone

Maria in Stirling

For Monday's show...

Surely one of the most misunderstood songs is 'Revolution' by The Beatles.

On first (and subsequent) listens it sounds like John Lennon is against revolution.

Except when you listen closely to the lyrics and he sings, 'don't you know that you can count me out...IN!'.

'In' being the important word.

It puts a different slant on the lyrics altogether and leaves them open to interpretation.

Not an anti-war song at all.


Cheers.

Raymie in Consett.

Adam - you know it never rains in Pittenweem.

Monday

The One I love - REM (not as affectionate as the title suggests)
Baba O'Riley - The Who (an early global warming warning)
Born Slippy - Underworld (the iconic "lager, lager, lager" lyrics were not in celebration of the youth drinking culture, more a mickey take)
Golden Brown - The Stranglers (was it about a beautiful woman or a salute to Heroin??)

Wednesday

Native New Yorker - Odyssey
London Calling - The Clash
Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John
Last train to Clarksville - The Monkees

I know this next one isn't a city, more a district of a city but I know the artist is a particular favourite of AdaminRio.
Copacabana - Barry Manilow

Monday:
Randy Newman's "Short People".

Tue:
"One More Try" - George Michael ('Cos teacher, There are things that i don't want to learn)
"Me and Julio down by the schoolyard" - Paul Simon
"Mathematics" - Cherry Ghost

Wed:
Gram Parsons "Streets of Baltimore".
Three Dog Night - "Never Been To Spain" (Las Vegas, Needles, Oklahoma).
Mary Chapin Carpenter - "Halley came to Jackson"
Jackson 5 - "Goin Back to Indiana" (2 for the price of one here)
Glen Campbell - "Galveston
Nilsson - "Nobody cares about the railroads anymore" (Baltimore, Virginia)

Scotch-git...had to laugh when I did actually get lost in France last week!

Monday
Time of You're Life (Good Riddance)- Green Day
Alcohol - Barenaked Ladies

Tuesday
Grade 9 - Barenaked Ladies
When I kissed the teacher - ABBA

Wednesday
Mother Glasgow ( I don't mind which version but other listners might!)

Thursday
Second Summer of Love - Danny Wilson(Gary and Kit Clark)
If I had a $1,000,000 Dollars - Barenaked Ladies (Jim and Andy Creggan)

JuliefromEdinburgh, You must aquire one of them thar GPS thingummybobs. Welcome home.

That's not how you spell acquire.

Monday:

The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet. Similar to Golden Brown, the lyrics "I always flirt with death, I look ill but I don't care about it.... You get under my skin ... I don't need rehabilitating ... Space travel's in my blood" all hint at an infatuation with something a bit more dangerous than an extraterrestrial female.

MONDAY
The Roxy Music track Prairie Rose is a song referring to Texas and a beautiful woman. Many ill informed journalists have made reference to this song that Bryan Ferry wrote this about his one time fiance Texan born Jerry Hall. This song was on 1974s Country Life when in fact he didn't meet miss Hall until the photo shoot for the album sleeve for the next album Siren one year later.

I text this in last week for the Sensual songs night, Grace Jones song Pull Up To My Bumper with your long black limousine, pull up to my bumper baby drive it in between is not about parking a dark posh car.

TUESDAY
Bryan Ferry did a version of the Sam Cooke song What A Wonderful World

WEDNESDAY
Bryan Ferry did a version of Carrickfergus on The Bride Stripped Bare album and also sung it live a lot in the last few tours.

THURSDAY
Colleen and Lisa Fitz-Charles are twin sisters who along with their sister Simone did backing vocals on Bryan Ferry's Boys And Girls album best heard on the singles Slave To Love, Don't Stop The Dance and Windswept

A WEE TIP

Before hitting the POST COMMENT button copy all your text in case you have a rogue symbol or character that won't allow what you have to be written on this blog. I had written the above post and had to re write it all as there was a rouge ampersand in there. If only I had copied it first before posting I could have just paste it back in and edited the offending character.

It's no fun having a 'rouge' ampersand in your blog post.

My eyes are still watering!

For tonight I suggest Carly Simon's "You're so vain" because there were lots of theories about who she was singing about.

For Thursday, please mention but not play the Jackson 5, the Osmonds, the Corrs or the Proclaimers. On a more positive note, I suggest Heart (Anne and Nancy Wilson) and their live acoustic version of "Alone".

More to follow....

Joe
Linlithgow

I have not totally got my thinking cap on for this weeks themes yet. But...

for Thursday I dont like the Beach Boys very much but as I am off on my holidays on Friday the Beach Boys and On A Holiday (unless that is just a Brian wilson track - I am not sure)

Its a good tip from Roxy John and I suspect it was the and in boys and girls! Carrickfergus is a good shout, The Bride Stripped Bare is a great album.

I am away to find my previous list of villages etc and I am still hoping for Little Village by Van Morrison.

Cheers all

Norrie Maclean, Renfrew

No Norrie it was my rather painful rogue ampersand that was in between the twin sisters names. I doubt I would not get a Ferry album title wrong. It went against the grain last week when I had to write Remake Remodel instead of the correct

Re hyphen make back slash Re hyphen model.

Another town city village is one I suggested last week by the late great Will Starr of the White Heather Club fame. He wrote a wee tune called Croy Hill after the Croy I was brought up (Near Kilsyth not the one up here at Inverness) Will Starr was a cousin of my fathers and was a Croy man too.

A wee bit if trivia about the Roxy Music song I mentioned above,

Prairie Rose was covered by Then Jericho and also Big Country. This was a song Stuart Adamson played in one of his prefame bands when doing covers around the pubs and the line A BIG COUNTRY in the lyrics was the inspiration for his bands name and also the song they wrote.

John - that was truly unforgiveable of me!

Unreserved apolgies!

Norrie

Norrie you are forgiven as you seem to know your Ferry tunes well and like you say The Bride Stripped Bare is a great album one of his best solo albums.

I would have put a smiley in after the word forgiven but I am too afraid it is as sore as a rouge ampersand.

Bryan for Wednesday can you dig out Bryan Ferry's The Lambtown Worm from the Northumbrian Anthology.

This is an album of folk songs from the North East of England sung by local famous and not so famous artists (Sting is on the album too)

This recording must have Geordie purists squirming because despite Ferry being born and brought up in the Newcastle area his speaking voice is posher than the Queen. He sings this Northumbrian tale from local folklore with the lyrics in Geordie dialect but his pronunciation is like Prince Charles doing Paul Gascoine, it is a scream.

Bryan for tonights show could you please play the extended 12 inch version of Misheard Lyrics by The Rouge Ampersands


He heee

Good shout John but he will need to check that he drops the needle carefully and does not get the instrumental version!

John - The Rouge Ampersands would be wearing lots of make-up, would they?

Rather than copy your text, if you just hit the Back arrow on internet explorer, it takes you back to the text you had written so painstakingly before.

For Wednesday the list really is endless and stopped at the following

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Haley Came to Jackson

Lyle Lovett - Road to Ensanada

Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska, Youngstown, Streets of Philadelphia

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

Trishia Yearwood - The Wrong Side of Memphis

David Bowie - panic in detroit (not been any Glam for a while)

so.......

Mott The Hoople - all the way From Memphis would be brilliant to hear

Lucinda Williams - Bus to Baton Rouge

Ryan Adams - Dear Chicago

Van Morrison – Little Village, Village Idiot

Michelle Shocked – anchorage

Ray Charles – Georgia on My Mind

The Clash – London’s Burning

Joan Osborne - Pensacola

Tom Waits – I Wish I Was In New Orleans

Merle haggard - Okie From Muskokee

Casandra Wilson – Tupelo honey (wonderful version of van’s song)

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


Emmylou - and the wonderful Boulder to Birmingham

Cheers

Norrie

Whicita come quick.

Down in the cantina they're giving green stamps with tequila.

Can I second Norrie's request for
Boulder to Birmingham by Emmylou Harris and Road to Ensenada by Lyell Lovett

But, if you play Lucinda a Williams or Ryan Adams I'd prefer Greenville New York New York.

For completeness, other I've listed over the last two weeks are:
Home to Houston - Steve Earle
On a bus to St Cloud - Gretchen Peters
From Brighton Beach to Santa Monica - The Clientele
Paris - Tack, the boy disaster
New York State of Mind - but only the Billy Joel/Tony Bennet duet

You really are going to have a tough job deciding what to play!

Joe
Linlithgow

Great list Joe - Tack? Off to research them!

Cheers

Norrie

Got it Tacks, the boy disaster - sounds good on a quick blast of their myspace.

For the Education Show...

'Little Arithmetics' by Deus.

Ah yes...some famous Belgians.

From 1996, this single followed the equally impressive 'Theme From Turnpike'. It's lowly chart postion (44)probably owed much to a lack of airplay at the time.

Can't think of another famous Belgian though.

Failing that...'I Hate School' by The Surburban Studs. A stalwart of Punk compilations through the years.


Cheers.

Raymie in Consett.

Norrie- Thanks - apologies for that important missing "s". It is "Tacks, the boy disaster".

For tonight, my latest thoughts are:

lessons in Love - llevel 42
This is not a test - She and [actually ampersand] Him

This is my second attempt to post this update - and my first experience of the "ampersand triangle".

Great show last night (as ever)- super summer mix.

Joe
Linlithgow

All - apologies for typos. Rushing as I need to start work!

Joe
Linlithgow

THURSDAY:
AC/DC - "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" (how about alliteration for a theme?)

Isley Brothers - "Put Yourself in my Place"

The Corrs - "I Never Loved You Anyway"

Beach Boys - "Surfin Safari" or "Don't Worry Baby" or "Wouldn't It Be nice"

Alisha's Attic (Brian Poole's daughters) - "I Am I Feel".

Yeah Julie - Alishas Attic great shout been ages since I heard that! Didnt Dave Stewart produce them.....more research coming up!

AC/DC would be brilliant as well I dont know the track you suggested but You Shook Me All Night Long has particularly fond memories for me!

Norrrie, Renfrew

Norrie:
I've not heard the Alisha's attic song for years either - wonder if it still sounds good now? Those sort of songs can be a bit hit or miss sometimes.

The AC/DC track is one of the first I heard from them (1976).

No talking at the back...!

Here then are the choices of the lordlucanismissing jury for tonight's education double period.

First up it's The Fall with Hey Student from the Middle Class Revolt long player.

And does anyone remember The Cuban Boys? Well, how about School For Scoundrels from those fun loving popsters.

Yes indeed.

Julie

Your Isley Brothers suggestion (I would have gone for This Old Heart of Mine) got me thinking. Thanks.

A few more more suggestion for Thursday:
the Brothers Johnson - "Strawberry Letter 23".
Earth Wind and Fire (Maurice and Verdine White) - Boogie Wonderland (a double whammy as the Emotions (3 Hutchinson sisters) also feature.)


Joe
Linlithgow

Tuesday:

Suppose Pink Floyd's (much misunderstood) Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2 should feature
Brownsville Station Smokin' in the Boys Room
Hawklords - Psi-Power (starts off with "when I was a kid in school...")
Pete Seeger - "What Did You Learn in School Today?" (my "dear little boy" used to hate this one being sung at him when he came in the door!)
Super Furry Animals - Teacher
Morrissey - The Teachers are afraid of the Pupils
Steely Dan - My Old School
The Boys - I Hate School (from the 70s "Hope and Anchor" live album various artists, at least I think it was The Boys).

Cheeahs

Can I "second" Harry's suggestion that you play My Old School by Steely Dan. It is really great song - and it always reminds me of the Dial Inn (is it still there?) in Glasgow and a super local band called Sneaky Pete who covered it really well. Apologies for early evening nostalgia!



Joe
Linlithgow

Sorry Joe closed early 80's - now Revolution where it once stood.

Dont know if it makes you happy that it is now a vodka bar!

For the Cities theme...

If band names count, how about 'Nothing Can Stop Us' by Saint Etienne?

From 1991, this has to be one of the best singles never to have been a hit.

or...

I'll risk the embarrasment factor here and suggest 'Midnight In Moscow' by Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen. A rip snorter of an instrumental and it could be a first Get It On airing for Kenny Ball? Used to have this track on an instrumental compilation and lent it to my friend Joe in Lochwinnoch and never got it back. Ah well!


Cheers.

Raymie in Consett.

Forgot this one for tonight (Wed) - "Telephone Road" by Steve Earle (Houston, Lafayette).

Julie.....as ever great choice.

From the same album

Christmas in Washington
Taneytown
NYC
The Other Side of Town
Ft Worth Blues

Which reeminded me of his production on the Bible's Eureka album so how about

The Bible Crystal Palace

The Bible Graceland

Paul Simon Graceland

Cheers

Norrie Maclean Renfrew

Wednesday. The Muse single Stockholm Syndrome was pretty good. Absolution must be one of the best albums post 2000?

Kirsty From Killie. I'd go for Mother Glasgow by Hue and Cry.

LLIM

Glasgow Star by Eddie Reader, though I am not a massive fan this is from a really excellent album of hers and I think its about her days living in Glasgow and was busking. The song features at least one of the McColl brothers so might even fit for Thursday, as of course would the Bible tracks!

Cheers

Norrie

Wednesday

Hawkwind - The Aubergine that Ate Rangoon
Dylan - Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (2 for the price of one and one of my favourite Dylan tracks ever until I saw him ruin it absolutely and completely last year)
Dylan - Oxford Town
Bowie - Panic in Detroit
Lou Reed - Berlin
The Clash - London Calling

I noticed that most of the City songs already suggested relate to Eurpe or America - with, I think, only one exception (Christmas in Capetown proposed by glenmiller).

In an attempt improve our global perspective I can suggest cities in South America and Asia:

Rio - Duran Duran
One night in Bangkok - Murray Head.

I can't think of a song or group named after a city in Australia?

I've assumed that there are no proper cities in Antartica or the Artic for people to write songs about!


Joe
Linlithgow

Joe how about

Rivers of bablylon - Steve earle

Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie and the banshees

Tokyo Joe - Bryan Ferry

Little Calcutta - Southside Johhny

and eh.....Sydney Devine??

Joe

John Cale might help you out - "Adelaide" is on the "Vintage Violence" CD/LP, and whilst you're right about the absence of Antarctic towns or cities, there is a track called "Antarctica Starts Here" on his "Paris 1919" album.

(At the risk of more tutting from Kirsty) - Joeky, Rio by Duran Duran isn't about Rio de Janeiro. Its about a girl called Rio, or the river Rio Grande or something... However, Rio by Mike Nesmith is about the city, or at least trying to decide whether to fly there or not.

Mr P. Dantic in Rio

For Cities:

Warren Zevon's 'Werewolves of London', Johnny Cash and June Carter - Jackson, Rodney Crowell - Glasgow Girl, Gram Parsons-ooh Las Vegas, Beautiful South - Rotterdam or anywhere.

For Thursday:

Please play Dire Strait's 'Brothers in Arms'.(Mark and David Knopfler)
or Brothers Johnson - Stomp
or although not brothers:
Doobie Brothers - Long train running

cheers

Stephen, Invergordon

Max B Gold suggests Tijuana Taxi by Herb Alpert .

The Matchday anthem of the Might O's.

Bryan Ferry NYC from the Mamouna album. Having said this, this is well down my list of Ferry favourites.

Good shout Norrie I forgot about Tokyo Joe.

Roxy's Phil Manzanera has a a lot of place names on his solo albums mainly from his Latin roots like Bogota, Brazilia, Cuban Crisis, Fat Lady of Limbourg, Manhatten, Ritmo De Los Angeles, Yukon Rodeo.

Also Roxy's Andy Mackay has Battersea Rise, New York New York, I love Paris, The Loyang Tractor Factory.

John

Tokyo Joe is an absolute Ferry classic and reminds me very much of summer growing up in Dingwall. I think i am maybe leave happy but I seem to remeber a Ryuichi Sakamoto cover of this?

One for next years summer mix.....

Norrie

You are spot on Norrie, Ryuichi Sakamota And Kazumi Watanabe recorded a version of Tokyo Joe for their album Tokyo Joe. They released this in Japan in 1978 one year after Ferry's original.

Ferry drew inspiration for this song like many of his songs from the movies. Humphrey Bogart starred in this 1949 classic.

Thanks to all who responded to my "global" post, particularly Harry (for sorting out Australia) and Adam (what is the point of being right if no one else knows it!).

Norrie - liked the "Sydney" Devine idea - but I hope not to hear him played tonight.


Joe
Linlithgow

Hi Bryan,

I had to blog you when I heard the request for Anti Nowhere League's version of Streets of London. Please play it, it's great. In case that's not happening, here's a few more suggestions:

London Lady - The Stranglers

New York State Police/ Party in Paris - UK Subs

Kyoto Song - The Cure

Rockaway Beach - The Ramones

Istanbul - They Might Be Giants

Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

That'll do!

Ah...Sunshine On Leith...never tire of it...'mon the cabbage!

For Thursday's show...

How about 'Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)' by Prefab Sprout.

Featuring brothers Martin and Paddy McAloon, this was the band's first single release.

If you take the first letter of each word in the title of "Lions..." you end up with "LIMOGES." The story is that Paddy McAloon came up with Limoges first (a place in France where one of his old girlfriends had gone), and then the title.

Cheers.

Raymie in Consett.

Julie - 'mon the Cabbage indeed. Best rendition of SoL ever has to be Hampden 2007!

Thursday

"When Will I be Famous" Bros. Possibly even more of a sin than ELO's "El Dorado"....
David and Richard Sinclair were founders of Caravan - either their "Golf Girl" or "If I Could Do It Again I'd Do It All Over You" would do (there are NO censorship problems!)
The Kinks (of course) "Where Have All the Good Times Gone?"
Heart "Magic Man", featuring Ann and Nancy Wilson
The Allman Bros "Jessica"
The Alexander Bros "Nobody's Child"

Harry - I was there and you're so right. Dunno about you but, even though the Gods seemed to be on our side, I couldn't even start to relax till the 85th minute and even then... What a great party afterwards though.

Here's my suggestions for Thursday.
My sister Rose-10,00 Maniacs
Brothers and Sisters-Coldplay
Shakespeare's Sister-The Smiths
Someday You Will Pay-Miller Sisters
Rock On Bryan! Love Your Show!

Never been as hoarse, Julie - shame about the slight dip in form ever since!

Oops - how could we forget....

Da Brudders Ramone - anything I suppose, but We're a Happy Family would be appropriate (I know, I know they're not really brothers, but...)

Max B Gold notes Harry's continuining disapproval of ELO's Eldorado and concurs that it is a poor song.


As a peace offering Max B Gold suggests: Blitzkreig Bop by The Ramones for tonights show.

Hi Bryan, Brothers and Sisters, I(Ali)have plenty of those!! Please say Hi to Lorn, Emma, Rachel, Isla and Euan for me. Now for our suggestions:

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC

Fell In Love With a Girl - The White Stripes
Not entirely sure if they are siblings as there have been stories in the past about them being man and wife!!

We're a Happy Family - The Ramones
Yeah I know, not strictly brothers but I've got to try.

Bird Dog - The Everley Bros. (for Tommy)

Ali and the Winters
Bonnybridge

Thanks Bryan, you've made my week. Anti Nowhere League lastnight and The Sisters tonight. I am out of breath from dancing round the kitchen to Temple of Love. just can't believe I didn't ask for it on my blog earlier!!

Ali
Bonnybridge

Bryan

Great show again tonight. Thanks for playing Boulder to Birmingham last night. I worry that becuase of that you may not be keen to play another Emmylou Harris track, but when I heard about the Fidelity/Infidelity theme I immediately thought about the opening line from one of her songs:

On our wedding day did you lie....

Fabulous- betrayal in 7 words!. The song is "I had my heart set on you"

More to follow.


Joe
Linlithgow

What happened to the promised Kings Of Leon track on Thursday?
You did let poor little 8 year old Rosie from Maryhill down!
Shame on you.
Still, she'll have been pleased to get yet another Proclaimers track instead.
Ever thought that "Get The Reids and Smiths On" might be a better name?

Adam REID in Rio

ah Adam
Is your bottom lip out as you blog this?!
Maria in Stirling :-)

Last thing you'd want Maria is Adam's bottom lip out.

How could they do that to an eight year old?

I too waited on the KoL track on Thursday. Wasted my time obviously.