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Tuesday: 'Something in the Air' by Thunderclap Newman please - it was Number One in the charts when Apollo 11 touched down on the moon. Speaking of which Bryan, the 40th anniversary of the moon landing is this July. Get the theme pencilled in!

DC in Cellardyke, Planet Earth

TUESDAY

'Against the Wind' - Maire Brennan


My cousins in Gweedore, Co. Donegal went to school with the Brennans.

Got to have Adam and the Ants' Goody Two Shoes on Monday: "Don't Drink, Don't Smoke - what do you do? It must be something inside"

#2: Is that trivia, or celeb connections?

Very fine track, though.

Aha! A challenge, S-G!

Well, the Beatstalkers stayed with us in the mid sixties when they needed a break from the pressures of being Scotland's top boy band (my mum ran a boarding house). The guys took a shot of my dad's wee creel boat and the engine broke down outside Cellardyke harbour. The Beatstalkers had to row themselves ashore. Word got about the town and we had queues of girls outside the front door asking for autographs of the Beatles!

Anything by the Beatstalkers Bryan?

DC in Cellardyke

#4, #5

I find the trivialisation of my trivia most upsetting.

Is it too trivial for you? Or not trivial enough?

I am shocked that two grown men could indulge in such trivialism!



'TUESDAY'

'In eadan na gaoithe' - Maire Brennan

trivia:- If you play it backwards, you get the same song in Irish.




"It's Gaelic, Jim. But not as we know it."

#1 Agh! No DC, don't encourage them to do Space as a theme again! You'll get Maria requesting Clouds Across the Moon and everything! (Where is Maria these days anyway? I guess she might be gettin her hair done for Saturday.)

#5 -Of course, we all know why the Beatstalkers got their name......

Adam #7, I have not suggested 'Space' at all! The very tune I have mentioned in this blog would have nothing to do in a programme about Space, nor would 'Summer of 69' or indeed 'Wonderful World' by Louis Armstrong. Each of these have their place in my suggested theme though!

Do you think Maria will be sporting an Amy Winehouse hairdo this weekend?

Scotch #6, please don't take it too seriously. I personally find you the most trivial of the bloggers

DC in Cellardyke

Vices - an earlier post got moderated!!! I possibly should have left out Dead Kennedy and Dropkick Murphys.

The choice is which vices to include and which to leave out so I'll start with the obvious Scottishs one;

Red, Red Wine - Tony Tribe / Neil Diamond
Bottle of Wine - Tom Paxton
This Piano has Been Drinking (Not Me) - Tom Waits
Beer for Breakfast - The Replacements
Streams of Whisky - The Pogues (possibly could include their entire output)
Only When I’m Drunk - The Alkoholiks
Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash / Kris Kristofferson
The Last Shot - Lou Reed
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer / I Drink Alone - George Thorogood
Milk and Alcohol - Dr Feelgood
Happy Hour / There Stands a Glass - Ted Hawkins
Tequila - The Champs
Rum and Coke – Professor Longhair
The Wild Rover / Seven Drunken Nights - The Dubliners
Closing Time - Semisonic
Have a Drink on Me - AC/DC
Tequila Sunrise - Eagles
Tears in my Beer - Hank Williams
Drinking in LA - Bran 3000
Old Red Eyes is Back - Beautiful South
Whisky in the Jar - Thin Lizzy

Now have to think if there are any of my other vices that I might be happy to share, and that the moderator will accept!

Monday 'Vice' night.

Roxy Music
'In Every Dreamhome A Heartache'

This is Bryan Ferry's ode to an inflatable doll, .... honest!!!! Check out the lyrics from the second verse:-

I bought you mail order
My plain wrapper baby
Your skin is like vinyl
The perfect companion
You float my new pool
De luxe and delightful
Inflatable doll
My role is to serve you
Disposable darling
Can´t throw you away now
Immortal and life size
My breath is inside you
I´ll dress you up daily
And keep you till death sighs
Inflatable doll
Lover ungrateful
I blew up your body
But you blew my mind

DC #8 LOL

I'm not really upset, I just want to pick a fight with someone.




It is, after all, a triviality! :-D

Support for RoxyJohn #10

This song has been requested on at least two previous themes.

It's time has come! >8-D

#8 - Amy Turtle, mair like.

#13

Another brilliant idea!

Julie could dress up as Wee Shuggy the Chef.

>8-D

~#7, 8 , 13

And you wonder why I am quiet?!

Wino or Turtle indeed...would have to be Turtle for me these days. Maybe this can be confirmed after Saturday ;-)

AFR, Clouds Across The Moon is a classic and of that there is no doubt but to add to the trivia of the blog theme it wasnae me who asked for it on the first Space theme night back in 2007 (which was my theme BTW)....

Trivial, moi?

Any volunteers for Benny?

All you'll need are dungarees and a tammy knitted by yir mammy.

Here's the question, who knows the answer?

Elvis only once ever did an encore at a show. Which song did he sing?

Give me the answer & I'll request it for Tuesday's show...

DC in Cellardyke

Oliver's Army

#17 Show Me the Way to Go Home?

#9 The theme is almost made for '2D2F' by the Kennedys but I don't think there's much chance of it being played! Or 'F the Pain Away' by Peaches either. I think it's Bran Van 3000, by the way - wouldn't mind hearing that again.

#10 Thanks very much for giving me the title of that one. Love the track but I never knew the name. It's got a great pause at the end of that verse before the band kick in again. Definitely worth a play.

Norrie – re the Rezillos being big in Brazil or not. Well it turns out that they are highly thought of in certain circles over here.
They have played a couple of times in Sao Paulo (Nov 06 and Mar 08).
The link is an interview with Eugene in 2006. The interviewer is very gushing and goes on about how important and influential the band were. (Its in Portuguese, but you’ll get the gist – maybe El Capitano will help you translate it).



More trivia – did Kurt Cobain really say you cant trust anyone who doesn’t like The Rezillos?

#10

I'll see your Dream Home and raise you "I started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff"


#17

Stuck on Loo

#17, Big Mack The Knife

Salt 'n' sauce? Ah-ha-ha...

(works down the chip shop accordin tae Kirsty)

Goodbit of trivia to know though!

DC

Monday - Vices:

Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer (great shout to open the show!)
Morning Glory - Oasis
Have A Cigar - Foo Fighters Featuring Brian May
Drugs Don't Kill People, Rappers Do - Goldie Looking Chain
Whisky In The Jar - Thin Lizzy
The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine - Johnny Cash and Tom T. Hall
Cocaine - Eric Clapton

Jim,
I don't think Bryan likes Eric Clapton.
He wouldn't play Layla on Thursday. :-D

That's why I have it at the bottom of the list... LOL

#24/25 or White Room by Cornwell & Williams... maybe see you tomorrow afternoon.

MONDAY

'Cigareets, Whuskey and Wild Wild Women' - Red Ingle and the Natural Seven

#20

I'll see you "Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues" and raise you "You Go To My Head, just like a sparkling Burgundy"

MONDAY

other Roxy Music stuff:

Bitters End
In Every Dreamhome A Heartache
Casanova
Love Is The Drug (maybe you could play Kylie's version)
Just Another High
To Turn You On

and Ferry

Smoke Dreams (Of you)
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
You Go To My Head

I heard a great cover of Rose Royce's 'Car Wash' on the radio, but didn't catch the name of the band.
Brassy, Jazzy, reminiscent of the Bonzos.

Anyone familiar with this?

#9

Fantastic shout on Tom Waits, Hoppo. Beats my idea of A Little Drop of Poison. Tom Paxton also good.

More Tuesday tracks

Owen Paul: My Favourite Waste of Time anyone? Just me then ;-)

Pogues: Old Main Drag
Pogues & Dubliners: 7 Drunken Nights
Pink Floyd: One of My Turns
Springsteen: Thunder Road
Sammy Davis Jr: One for my Baby, One More for the Road
Richard Thompson: Dimming of the Day (Dave Gilmour version also great)
Marillion: Slainte Mhath or Torch Song

Monday:

Gamblin Bar Room Blues - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Junkie & Juicehead - Kris Kristofferson
Pinball Wizard - The Who
Full Fat - Newton Faulkener
One more cup of coffee - Bob Dylan

Now, if you want a song about someone becoming drunk....

Lilac Wine - Elkie Brooks

Then follow it with a song about someone going through complete regret upon sobering up...


Its the little things we do - The Zutons

DC in Cellardyke

Monday - Vices

Candy - Iggy Pop and Kate Pierson (This would be my first choice - it's a fantastic song!)
Alcohol - CSS
Television, Television - OK Go
Cigarettes and Alcohol - Oasis

And I'd like to third Bran Van. It would really be great to hear them (and not just because they're Canadian)!

Monday

The Masochism Tango - Tom Lehrer - No pain No Gain

I Can't Turn You Loose - Otis Redding - You've Been Bad Again

#2, #6

It gets very windy in Gweedore.

It's an anagram of greed woe.

Are you still awake Scotch? How did the GIO swally go?

Last cigarette - any version, my preference Boo Hewerdine. He wrote it.

Lou Reed does Burns with Underneath The Bottle from his peerless Blue Mask lp.

I doubt there will be any suggestions that beat those for relevance.

In honest Bacon’s Ingle neuk
Here maun I sit and think,
Sick o’ the warld and warld’s folk,
An’ sick—damned sick—o’ drink !

Norrie, did you see #20?

Adam I missed that but thanks for the up pointer. I am glad that I it would appear that I am not as mental as i thought....on any level its bizzare that they could even be mentioned in Bsazil,

I hope things are all ok witn you in 2009 ~ noy shure of time zones but hope you are having a goo weekend?

RE #41 I could re-post that with actual words! Like not,good and insert a the!

#37

Re: ewe dog

>8-D

Jan, #38

A certain wee lassie from the Royal Burgh was conspicuous by her absence!

I'd like to apologise for pretending to be Julie from Edinburgh.

I salute your disguisability!

........my suspicions regarding the conspicuous absence of a moustache have been vindicated.................

Then the surgery was worth it.

Glenda is a lovely name. It really suits you!

Monday

The Ramones "Pinhead", which features a Freak on the play-out saying something like "Does anyone here wanna see me pick my nose?", one of the more common and nasty vices;
Half Man Half Biscuit "Dickie Davies Eyes" - again it has the narrator wiping snot on the arm of someone else' chair. Nasty nasty nasty;
The Dead Kennedy's version of "Viva Las Vegas" - gambling and another couple of vices thrown in.

Guys whae was at the Get It Ontogether - what's the name of the Last.fm group? Can't seem to locate it... Nice to meet you all. :-)

HarryFaeGatehoose: The lastfm GiO group can be found here:
See you there!

WEDNESDAY

'Why Haven't I Heard From You?' - Reba McEntire

Can't think of any trivia.

Wednesday

Grand Coulee Dam - Lonnie Donegan
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire

Monday's vices

Lust for Life - Iggy Pop (Trainspotting Theme) has to count for a few vices
Your so Vain - Carly Simon

Wednesday
Have to suggest Video kiled the radio star by The Buggles

Monday:

"Vicious" (dictionary definition - having the nature of vice) - Lou Reed

"Roll Your Own" - Fabulous Poodles

"2 More Bottles Of Wine" - Emmylou Harris

"Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine" - Harry (The Hipster) Gibson.

Monday again -

The Pop Group "We Are All Prostitutes" (strictly speaking one of the things investigated by the Vice Squad, so it should qualify, as opposed to lust, etc which are sins rather than vices?). Bryan, despite the title I don't think there's anything to alarm the censor...

Monday -

Vices -
Running up that hill - Kate Bush (or in my case on Saturday, falling down that hill. Ankle still badly swollen, is it supposed to "crack" when you twist it?)
Bicycle Race - Queen
What made Milwaukee famous - Rod Stewart.

Hope your night out on Saturday went well.

MONDAY

'Sister Josephine' - Jake Thackray

A wee bit like 'Nuns On The Run' but much funnier.

WEDNESDAY

'Who's Next?' - Tom Lehrer

The downside of atom splitting.

#32
D'oh, I meant Monday, of course!

#58
Speaking of Tom Lehrer, would Poisoning Pigeons in the Park be a vice?

Sorry I could not make the GIO swally, been laid up in bed all weekend with a lousy cold.
EC keep off that ankle hope it clears up soon.

#60

More of a hobby.

#61

We forgive you. Get well soon!

#61 Jan - running in a relay race around the lomond hills next weekend so it needs to get itself fixed quickly.

EC, That sounds like exercise to me, not a word used in my vocabulary LOL.
Plenty of hot and cold wraps on it. Hope it mends in time for the race. Good luck with your relay, hope you win.

MONDAY

'Alcohol' - The Kinks

Taken from the criminally neglected album 'Muswell Hillbillies'

Vices

Smoking in the Boys Room, Motley Crue

2 Pints of Lager, Splodgenessabounds

Turning Japanese, The Vapours

Centrefold, J Geils Band

Does your mother know?, Abba

Chocolate Girl, Deacon Blue

Sweet Like Chocolate, Shanks and Bigfoot

Beginning to feel sorry for old Capt Biscuit Tin on his Tuesday theme suggestion. I would have bet buckets that a trivia theme on this blog would have rendered loads of stuff. Monday`s on the otherhand has been pretty unimaginative.

So, lets try and get Tuesday underway......

Somebody told me once that Marc Bolan played lead guitar on `Nutbush City Limits`, but Ive never been able to confirm this. Anybody know if this is true or not?

When Queen`s Bohemian Rhapsody was finally knocked off the number one spot, the song that did it (the title) featured in BR`s lyrics. What was it?

Oh, and btw, interesting discussion on Tik and Tok about producers......

Vices

System of a Down's.. Chop Suey
Johnny Thunders and the Heart Breakers with Chinese Rocks
Smile Empty Soul, bottom of a bottle
Depeche Mode, Never let me down again
John Lee Hooker, One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Lily Allen, Everyones at it

And how could I forget,

Alcohol, Barenaked Ladies.

#67
Mama Mia ?

And the pianist on 'Morning Has Broken' was.............?

Evening all

Golden Brown/Stranglers
There She Goes/Las
Out Of My Mind on Dope and Speed/Julian Cope
The Drugs Don't Work/Verve
Red Red Wine/Neil Diamond
Heroin/Velvet Underground

These aren't our vices you understand, just tracks we would like to hear ;-)

Maria and Donald

p.s. hope you are feeling better Jan!

MONDAY

'Soul in Chains' - SAHB

As good as it gets :-D

I am tonight thanks, the hot toddy's worked wonders!

Jan,
You have a hot teddy?!?

TUESDAY

'The Dreaming' - Kate Bush

trivia:- Rolf Harris plays with his didgeridoo. :-D

Lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually I do have a teddy bear in my bed. I received him when I was christened all those years ago... lol

Trivia Theme:

A Space Oddity - David Bowie
- Prominently features the good old classic Stylophone throughout the track, as famously demonstrated by Rolf Harris!

Twisted Logic - Coldplay
- The album cover design features a stack of coloured blocks. The blocks are arranged in a code developed in 1874 by Emile Baudot. The code uses visual representations of 1's and 0's in a 5 digit sequence corresponding with particular letters of the alphabet and typographic symbols. It is considered by many to be the first truly digital form of communication and was a primary language used for telegraphy until it was replaced by Morse Code in the 20th Century. I checked, and it actually means nothing...

Five Miles Out - Mike Oldfield
- Mike was actually flying to a gig in Europe one night and he encountered a massive thunderstorm and almost crashed the plane. He then wrote this song about the experience.

The Trivial Paroxysm - Becoming The Archetype
- One of the best heavy rock tracks you will ever hear! Interestingly, though, it has the softest and most gentle piano section about a minute in, and I challenge anyone to work out ANY of the words...

#71

Yesl

Thursday

Island - Woman - Free

Track - Pictures of Lily - Who

Deram - I Can Hear The Grass Grow - The Move

Charisma - Theme One - Van der Graaf Generator

Vertigo - Who Do You Love? - Juicy Lucy

Elektra - 7 And 7 Is - Love

Harvest - Apache Dropout - Edgar Broughton Band

Stiff - Less Than Zero - Elvis Costello

Verve - Walk On The Wild Side - Jimmy Smith

Regal Zonophone - Homburg - Procol Harum

Kama Sutra - Bounce in Your Buggy - Sha Na Na

RAK - Motorbikin' - Chris Spedding

Major Minor - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' - Crazy Elephant

Rocket - Capture Your Heart - Blue

Immediate - Tin Soldier - Small Faces

Sue - You Can't Sit Down - Phil Upchurch Combo

Sire - Slow Death - Flamin' Groovies

Hmm this vice stuff is getting a bit edgy for GiO, remembering Teenage-DirtbagGate ;-)

Worth a go anyway; Placebo: Nancy Boy

Alright then, I'll give you a start for Tuesday:

Billy Bragg's Sexuality was transformed when Johnny Marr took it away and added that juicy guitar line to it. Your Brucie Bonus for that track is that the video was directed by (and features) Phill Jupitus, who BB discovered gigging as Porky the Poet, and got him (Phill) a job working for BB's record company.

Our Lips Are Sealed was a co-write between Terry Hall and Jane Wiedlin, which is why it was recorded by both Fun Boy Three and The Go-Go's.

The Sawdoctors' All the Way from Tuam was written because their previous tour had a bunch of left-over T-shirts with that motto on it, and they had to think of a way to shift them.

The Strawbs' Part of the Union is a half-rewrite of Pete Seeger's Union Maid, very much twisting the meaning in the rewrite.

Dream Academy's Life in a Northern Town is a tribute to Nick Drake.

Most people listening to Sinead O'Connor's magical track Stretched On Your Grave will recognise the fiddle solo as quoting the Waterboys' When Will We Be Married. But less obvious is that it's Waterboys' fiddler Steve Wickham playing it.

Good to be back on the blog again after having dug out from the last 4 weeks of snowy weather here..for Monday's vice theme, the too-rarely-heard "Bad" by the late lamented Kirsty McColl...pretty well sums up my alter ego (maybe not so alter at that...).
Also, in the Tom Lehrer vein ( and I thought I was the only one!) how about the Masochism Tango ...but it might be a bit too rude for radio.

It was nice to meet you all on Saturday.

J.O'B.

TUESDAY TRIVIA:

The video of Cindy Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" features a fresh-faced Steve Forbert playing the role of her date.

Trivial Tuesday:

Carly Simon's 'You're so vain' has an uncredited Mick Jagger singing backing vocals. This song was written about some of the men in Carly's life at that time.

DC in Cellardyke

Re: #82
That must be why I confuse Billy Bragg and Graham Norton.

Is a transformer similar to a transvestite?

I think I'm confusing Graham Norton with Eddie Izzard.



A confused git.

#82 & #87: I agree, it sounds a painful experience getting a juicy guitar line added to your sexuality...

DC in Cellardyke

Hoppo,
Go to the Boss's blog and click on
'´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland on YouTube'

You're looking for 'JeffBlog 3'

Enjoy!

Re: #84

RoxyJohn, Reciprocated!

It's always a pleasure to learn from a maven.

Scotch re #89 I have had a quick shuftie and will be watching later today / tonight when I can devote my full attention to this gem.


Trivia: Somehting off 'Bop Till You Drop by Ry Cooder, the first all digital recording to be released. I'd plump for 'Little Sister'

Monday - Vices

The Gambler - Kenny Rogers

I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow

SG - Mamma Mia it was.

# 91 Hoppo, I always thought it was Brothers In Arms. Or am I thinking of something else?

Adam - first all digital lp was Bop Till You Drop but there is something about Brothers In Arms - I think it was the first recording made specifically for the CD format i.e DDD. So both are right as CD did not exist when Bop Til You Drop came out. Some boffins will know the technicalities! Someone told me that Born In The USA was the first CD released but I dont know if that is true.

Another suggestion for Vice night

Gram Parson or Cowboy Junkies - Ooh Las Vegas, the latter getting two vices for the price of one

Tina Turner - Private Dancer

Re #94 Born In the USA was the first CD pressed for commercial release - whatver that means? Other trivia

Stoned Love – Supremes (featuring Jeannie Terrell on vocals, sister of Ernie Terrell famous for getting battered by Muhammad Ali and being asked at the same time ‘what’s ma name’). Also could fit for Thursday and I will request it!

The lead vocal of the Beach Boys hit, "Barbara Ann" was actually sung by Dean Torrence of Jan and Dean apparently there is a 'thanks Dean' at the end of the record.

Telma Hopkins of Tony Orlando and Dawn fame (?), is the voice you hear on Issac Hayes' song "Shaft", that tells him, "Shut your mouth".

More than 2,500 cover versions of The Beatles' "Yesterday" exist, making it the most recorded song in history

The title of Phil Spector's song by The Teddy Bears, 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' was taken from the inscription on Spector's father's tombstone

Thursday - Record Labels

Something from one of the Pillows & Prayers compilations on the Cherry Red label.

I remember these as a sort of "Now That's What I Call Music" for John Peel listeners. I think that the USP was that the album was the same price as a single.

My suggestion would be "Plain Sailing" by Tracey Thorn, but any track would do.

Bowie trivia

His Song Move On, from the Lodger album, is All the Young Dudes backwards, obviously with new lyrics. The song Red Money is a re-write of Sister Midnight which appeared on the Iggy Pop album The Idiot.

His single Modern Love was the first single to have the same song as a live version on the b-side.

Heroes was recorde on German and French (Helden / Heros) for single releases. Helden works, Heros is terrible.

Re #98 Helden is an excellent track, it wa used in the film Secret Diary of Christiane F (or somethign like that).

#83

See #35 - It takes two to tango.


Lehrer's Old Dope Peddlar may be more appropriate.