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Ok not as difficult or as clever as DC's RIP quiz but as a mild form of revenge 10 questions on songs or groups that would qualify for Monday's Medical matters programme
1 Which band released an album called Dark Side of the Moon in 1972 a year before Floyd album of the same name?
2 Who borrowed a poetic title and namechecked Keats Wordsworth and Browning in the lyric?
3 Which band dropped Easy from their name before finding success?
4 Which Band's logo consisted of their name on a raffle ticket?
5 Which No.! single was released the day after Diana died?
6 Which Weird Al Yankovic parody of a Madonna song was suggested to Al by Madonna herself?
7 Elvis Costello had a hit with which song under the name of the Imposter
8 Which ELP album was named after a Dr John Lyric?
9 What was the only Police Single not to have an accompanying video
10 Dr Hook were one of 4 chart topping acts to include an eyepatch wearing member. Who were the other 3? (Adam Ant only ever wore his in a live show)

MONDAY

'Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)'

Kenny Rogers & The First Edition

Allow me to get the ball rolling:

David Gray - hospital food

The Who - Doctor Jimmy

Southside Johhny - The Fever

The Beatles - Dr Robert

If repairs are counted I would like to request

Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground - Willie Nelson

Great themes this week and thoroughly enjoyed last weeks shows.

1. Voices on The Dark side

#4
Norrie it was 1972 before the Floyd album.
In saying that I've not heard Voices Acapella album. Any good?

Happy to second "Hospital food". Other options for Monday are:

Rave on - M Ward
Back in the night - Dr Feelgood
Fix you - Coldplay
Another one bites the dust - Queen
How to save a life - The Fray
Bad case of loving you (Doctor, Doctor) - Robert Palmer
Live like you were dying - Tim McGraw
Breathe - Faith Hill
Cold cold heart - Norah Jones
Doctor Wu - Steely Dan
Doctor pressure - Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine
The first cut is the deepest - PP Arnold or Rod Stewart
Blood bank - Bon Iver

More to come.........

Joe
Linlithgow

Monday

Rockin Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu - Huey 'Piano' Smith

Tuesday

Needles and Pins - The Searchers

Wednesday

Lovers' Concerto - The Toys

Thursday

Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles

Ouch, all three of those keychange songs are Trucker Driver's Changes, where the songwriter thinks "Hmmm run out of ideas... I know, I'll just shift it up a gear."

Dull dull dull.

As the FAQ says:
"it is in fact an utterly appalling and unimaginative admission that you've run out of inspiration and the song should have ended one minute ago; but you're under pressure to make something which can be stretched out to the length of a single"

Joe K - well happy to second PP arnold, we shall triumph at some point!

And your list made me think of:


Springsteen - Blood Brothers

Pete Townshend with David Gilmour - Give Blood.

#5 Like all of thes ethings it gets annoying quite quickly, especially on Money. Lead vocalist is good though.

#8 Eh? What 3 suggestions?

1 Medicine Head
2 Clifford T Ward
3 The Cure
4 999
5 The Drugs Don't Work
6 Like A Surgeon
7 Pills and Soap
8 Brain Salad Surgery
9 King Of Pain
10 Johnny Kidd Pete Burns Gabrielle

Monday. Some reasons to visit the doctor:

'Nervous Breakdown' - Eddie Cochrane

'Plea For a Good Night's Rest' - Devon Sproule.

'Every Day I Have The Blues' - B B King

'Heat Treatment' - Graham Parker and the Rumour.

'Everything is Broken' - Bob Dylan

'Almost Blue' - Chet Baker's version.

MONDAY

'Nursie' - Jethro Tull

Short and sweet, just like Dolly Parton, who does not deserve to be traduced by the 'LastFMCrew' or anyone else.

TUESDAY

'Silly Love' - 10cc

'I'm Gonna Be Strong' - Gene Pitney

#12
Spot on Glen. Well done and from that list my suggestion for
monday would be One and One is One by Medicine Head.

Tue
I'd Really Love to see you Tonight / England Dan & John Ford Coley ( a real guilty pleasure)

Wed
There's a ghost in my House / R Dean Taylor

Thu
Drive / The Cars ( I'm sure I'm not the only parent who can relate to these lyrics).

Julie - great lists! Great Bob track.

Monday:
* Barclay James Harvest: Medicine Man
* The Cure: Boys Don't Cry or Lovecats
* Hendrix: Manic Depression
* Louis Armstrong (or indeed the White Stripes): St James Infirmary
* Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb
* Runrig: Healer in your Heart
* Got to have some Sawdoctors - Galway and Mayo for preference. Actually, that works for Thursday as well.
* paolopablo's Medicine Head shout is good.

Don't suppose there's any chance of getting Dr Graham Chapman and the rest of the Python's crew singing Medical Love Song (takes a listen to the lyrics... perfect for the theme, but nope, no chance)

TUESDAY

'Big Big Love' - kd lang

'Fifteen Minutes' - Kirsty MacColl

'Guys Do It All The Time' - Mindy McCready

A wee message for all of our Gearjammin' Trucker Driver listeners;

I salute your changeability!

My Generation by the Who runs out of gears.

#21

I salute your comprehensibility!

Mr. Anwood also cites 5 Beatles songs, which is as bad as Barry Manilow (5), worse than Stevie Wonder (3), but not quite as bad as Westlife (8)

Also mentioned are Led Zeppelin and, for this Mr. Anwood will surely burn in hell, Mel Brooks!

I can't see what the problem is - no one can say Penny Lane or Good Day Sunshine lack invention (and he's missed out Mr. Kite).

A lot of Beatles songs were recorded in different keys, anyway, and varispeeded. Does this count?

And to me, More Than A Feeling is a song with three sections in three different keys not a song with a key change.

I wouldn`t have tinkered with madmac`s suggestion. We`ve had all the `doctor` songs on several occasions.

Still. There is no such thing as too many plays of Dr. Kiss Kiss.

Monday.
Complications-Steve Forbert,Jump Around-House Of Pain.Speechless-Michael Jackson
Busted-Ray Charles(reference to the 'flu')

Tuesday-No idea!

Wednesday-Rock this town-Stray Cats
Fields of Fire-Big Country
Pop Musik-M,Be Bop 'N'Holla-Andy Fairweather Low,What Is Soul-Ben E.King.

Thursday It's got to be Fall At Your Feet-Crowded House.My son Joe used to harmonise with me when I was taking him to school.He was only about 10 at the time.He's 22 now but we can still belt it out.

#16

An ingenious quiz Paulo with its medical theme.

I suppose, following the relay principle, I should devise something.

As the other owner of a Medicine Head LP I second your suggestion.

#18 Ooops, that was me! Apologies all round.

#23
Re Penny Lane/Good Day Sunshine, you're right, they don't lack invention; both already have pretty neat keychanges between verse and chorus without the entirely superfluous gearchanges.

MONDAY:
Three suggestions for 'Medical Monday':

"Hayfever" - Trash Can Sinatras
We'll all be at the doctor's office in a couple of months seeking treatment for it ... (the condition, not the song)

"Sick Of It" - The Primitives
A non-specific medical diagnosis, but a great old song that always makes me wish I could play the guitar (and reminds us they did something other than "Crash")

"Goodbye Earl" - Dixie Chicks
Which features not one but TWO characters with serious medical ailments, including a fatal case of food poisoning.

Rich in North Carolina

#26

You now have the baton Glen, let's hope the themes are compatible with your creative juices.

#24, A.F.R. I'd concur.

When you cough - Cheer Accident

The Easy Blues - John Martyn

Rawhide - Frankie Laine

Sweet Pain - Blues Traveller

Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell

Bleeding heart - Jimi Hendrix

Hot an' Cold - Ray Condo and his Hardrock Goners

Achin’ to sneeze - Crash Test Dummies

Lovesick Blues - Ryan Adams

Chill Out - Black Uhuru

Dry cough - Degree

Cat’s got the Measles and the Dog's got the Whooping Cough - The New Lost City Ramblers

Piles of Trouble - Ivor Biggun

Your final choice, Mad Mac, reminds me that anything by Steve Earle and the Dukes would be appropriate.

Weezer's Island in the Sun

St james infirmary by either louis Armstrong, SAHB or White stripes. A real blues classic.

First time of blogging..not too difficult!! Love the show . The family sit around at dinner and come up with (in)appropriate suggestions!!

welcome mizzladygodiva. We're only here for the banter as someone once said

Wednesday,

Punky reggae party, Bob Marley
This is ska, Bad Manners
D.I.S.C.O. , Ottawan
Hail! Hail! Rock n Roll, Chuck Berry
Sultans of Swing, Dire Straits
U Don't Dans 2 Tekno, Alabama 3
Gospel Plow, Bob Dylan
Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold. Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
Alexanders Ragtime Band, The Andrew Sisters
Going up the country, Canned Heat
Rockabilly Rebel, Matchbox
Mambo No 5, Lou Bega

Monday

We C Diff erently - Benjamin Keith
MRSA - Village People
I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water - Spencer Davis Group
We Will All Go Together When We Go - Tom Lehrer

Mondoy - absolutely HAS to be Doctor! Doctor! by The Thomson Twins! A song so good that they actually named it twice! Can't you see it's brilliant brilliant?

There is also a small joke I could crack about Snowy - a VERY small joke, I add...

I meant Monday, of course... LOL

Tintin was also named twice - in a way... I love chocolate - did I mention that?

Paolo, great questions but I fear too short a timescale to do it justice (I've been out of circulation for much of the weekend, latterly witnessing that cr*p performance at Murrayfield yesterday)

Monday (surely this has to be ailments / medical matters rather than just a mention of the word 'Doctor'?):

Doctor my eyes - Jackson Browne
Still Crazy - Paul Simon
Gimme stiches - Foo Fighters
Every beat of my heart - Rod Stewart
A whiter shade of pale - Procol Harum
I wish I were blind - Springsteen (dedicated to Jeremy Clarkson)
What becomes of the broken hearted - Jimmy Ruffin
Let it bleed - The Rolling Stones
Fever - Elvis
Brain Damage - Pink Floyd

DC in Cellardyke

Carol Thatcher.... I blame the parents!

Bad cover versions again anyone.

U have to hear Celine Dione & Anastacia covering you shook me all night Long... Pure comedy Gold.
"C`mon girlfriend.. Oh yeah!"

almost as bad as Motley Crue doin` Anarchy in the UK.

Cannae beat a guid bellylaff tae beat the credit crunch blues

Mon. 'Rockin' pneumonia and the boogie-woogie flu' Johnnie Rivers

Tues 'Hold on tight' E.L.O.

Thurs. 'Wasn't born to follow' Byrds

#40 Must echo Jeremy Hardy on the News Quiz: One might forgive her because of her childhood, but in the context of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ being the home of knee jerk reactions, it's nice to see one going the right way.

As well as my suggestions #3 a couple of really great tracks sprung to mind

Maria McKee - I'm Going to Soothe You

Van Morrsion - The Healing Game

The Maria McKee track is a cracker imo and from a really terrific album.

There have been some really great suggestions on the blog, I am sure it will be a great show.

Hello,

My morbid Monday list:

Needle of Death - Bert Jansch (I dunno if death counts as an ailment...possibly not)

19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones

Girlfriend in a Coma - The Smiths

Cheers,
Mr Chops

Monday: Just remembered
Primal Scream: (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind

Yellow Fever...Christie
For Your Rabies.....Simply Red
Catarrh Man.....Elvis
Lipstick on your Cholera...Connie Francis
We Got To Get Outta This Plague..Animals
London Colic...Clash
You Drive Me Crazy..Distemperence seven
I Can Feel Your Heartburn...Chris Rea
Move Closer....Syphillus Nelson
Begin the Beguine...Polio Iglesias
The Gangrene Grass of Home...Tom Jones
Crazy...Palsy Cline
Black Coughing In Bed...Squeeze

I did have a crackin Beatles one but I don't want to be Glenned

#47

Glenned? Golly!
Is that a euphonium?







malapropian git >8-D

paolopablo

FANTASTIC. Would love to know Beatles one!!!!

Chlamydia-Dean Freeman

#40 GardenPartyPaul

Well said - perhaps someone from auntie could explain why so much moderation is needed, especially on the political threads, where in fact very few comments actually get removed.

Post or reactive moderation for all except the CBeebies, please!

Does GG singing 'I should have changed my stupid lock' count for Tuesday night?

MrChops,

Sorted. Thank you!

#47, you forgot Bonnie Tyler's Doctor's diagnosis: 'It's a Heart Attack'

DC

Monday - ailments

Love Burns - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (heartburn?)
Chicken Pox - I'm From Barcelona (also references German Measles and Scarlet Fever)
Walk Around In Circles - Soul Coughing
Bird Flu (radio edit) - M.I.A.

Monday

The Velvet Underground "Lady Godiva's Operation"
John Cale "Sudden Death"
Tom Waits "Heart Attack & Vine"
ELP "Brain Salad Surgery"

#12, glenmiller

Picky, I know, but re your answer to paolopablo's Q10:

The question asked for chart-topping ACTS - Peter Burns didn't have a No.1; Dead Or Alive did!

(Truth be told, that was one of only three questions that I managed to answer - without, that is, the aid of Google, Yahoo!, Ask, Live Search, and indeed ´óÏó´«Ã½ Search - with the others being the Weird Al and Police questions.

Sorry, for avoidance of doubt: I only managed to answer three of the questions CORRECTLY without the assistance of various search engines...

Tonight's theme reminds me of the Amateur Transplants who are basically Dr Sunam Biswas and Dr Adam Kay. They do hilarious parodies on other peoples songs mostly but not exclusively in a medical theme, none of which could ever get aired on national radio but for those minds of the broad variety they're definitely worth checking out.

Karine Polwart: 'Hole in the Heart' would fit tonight's theme rather well...

#57

I salute your bridiability.

#'s 36 - 38, so you like your doubles Jim?

DC

Ailments

I Drink - Mary Gauthier
Subterranean Home Sick Blues - Dylan
Call the Doctor - JJ Cale
Heartattack and Vine - Tom Waits
Blue Lips - Regina Spektor

#61 - I salute my own doubleability.

Mon. Heartbreak Hotel- Elvis
or Doctor Doctor -Thompson twins

Gordon Christie,Kirrie

Jim, DC,

Check out Graham Stewart's blog.

It's richt up yir street, BTW!!

Gold Medal tonight Dc

Johnny Cash........hurt

Honest...Thats all i can come up with that hasnt been suggested ...... or has it?

Tuesday....

Kinks -- You really got me

Key change in the middle of every verse

re ailments...my husband once went for a minor, out-paitient, operation (to remove a small cyst behind his ear). Upon arrival at the hospital, he was taken to a room and told to put on a gown, hat and clogs. He thought it was a bit OTT but...hey, he'd bow to their specialist knowledge. When he went back to where the nurses were, they apologised and told him he'd have to wait a wee while because...you've guessed it...his first patient hadn't turned up yet. I'd have loved to have seen their faces when he told them he WAS the first patient.

Re 'Fix You' and 'I Wanna Be Sedated'...The documentary about the Octoganerian Choir 'Young@Heart' includes their versions of both these songs. 'Fix You' in particular is made even more poignant because of the man singing it being hooked up to an oxygen bottle at the time (he had a lovely rich voice and great phrasing). It probably sound quite funny when I describe it but it's a very uplifting film shows how singing in the chorus gives a group of old folk great enjoyment and a purpose in life.

Witch Doctor - there are older ones by Sha Na Nna and that bloke who does The Chipmunks stuff.

Monday: [Ailments]

My Favourite Diseases - Monty Python
Paddy's Sicknote - The Dubliners
I See Bones - Allan Sherman
Don't Let It Bother You - Thomas "Fats" Waller
Winkle Picker Shoes Blues - Bernard Cribbins
I Got It From Agnes - Tom Lehrer

Sorry - A bit late in the day

@ puaolopablo...

1 yes i got 1 question correct....damn it ...i thought i was good at quizes

#65 S-G, canny understawn hoo ah'm the only lawd whoas postet!

#66 (pits on posh wey o' spikkin), Paulo, just in and not heard the show yet.

Have I been put in the same class of people as Andrew Sachs and Gordon Brown? Or is the gold star for something else???

>;-0

DC

Tuesday Key Changes

Tuesday Key Changes

Sorry - wrong key(!)....

Pink Floyd "The Nile Song", has about 456 key changes in it

It's early Floyd so less than 4 minutes, and it's not particularly depressing. Give them a chance, Bryan, they still knock the Scissor Sisters into a cocked hat (to coin a phrase).

Tuesday...

Genesis ....invisible touch


(every song i listen to i'm looking for key change...how very sad) :o(

I am not sure I have totally got the grip of Tuesday's theme and I know someone will correct me if I am wrong with these....

Beatles - Life In a Day (the complete change of pace in the middle with Pauls bit and then back to Lennon)

Bowie - Rock n Roll suicide (the bit changing to cause your wonderful etc etc)

and what I would just love to hear if it counts

Skids - Arena from the absolute game, completey changes when they go into the All The Boys Are Innocent, Lonely etc. refrain. Absolutely briliant track.

Regards all

Norrie

#78 - Hi Norrie. Can't remember much of the Beatles track... Never been a massive fan really, apart from the mega hits everybody cannot fail to like. The Bowie track you mention does not actually have a key change in it - or a modulation, as musicians call it. It does, however, have a fairly complex set of chord changes which might count, depending on how the producers are defining the theme. But it genuinely starts in D and ends in D without a shift in the key centre of the tune.

The Skids track, however, I think does qualify, as the key centre does shift from B minor to E during the song. Go for it!

JFE thanks for that! The Skids it is and Arena. All that chord change stuff sounds complicated! CaptR tried to explain this to me as well.....2 out of 3 aint bad. Eh not that I am suggesting that song!!

Tuesday:
'Don't Let it Bring You Down' - Neil Young

One classic that my dad and I both agree on.

Tuesday:
"No Salt On Her Tail" - The Mamas & The Papas

I'm not positive, but I think the bit at about 1:37 where everything shifts upwards is a key change. This isn't one of their most famous songs, but I do think it's one of their very best.

Rich in North Carolina

Key Changes:

I'm no expert so I am quite prepared to be proved to be mistaken (I can't be doin' with all this minor, major, middle 8 etc malarky) so I'm just going to say that I reckon Cheap Trick's 'Surrender' has a key change just after a wee instrumental break. Also, I don't care how corny it is but I'm very fond of the version of 'Oh Happy Day' from the soundtrack of Sister Act 2...incredible high note in this song. Failing that, I would think The Edwin Hawkins Singers change key as well.

Right, now I'm logged in as me (sorry everyone - #8 was also me getting it spectacularly wrong and upsetting people in the process; sorry sorry sorry), Tuesday songs. And if JFE's gaunnae get technical, I'll start waving my BMus about and talking about Mixolydian modes, and *nobody* wants that :-)

* Del Shannon: Runaway (stays with the same tonal centre, just goes between minor and major)

* U2: One (relative minor/major fun)
* Andy M Stewart: Take her in your arms (the same)

* Thelma Houston: Don't Leave Me This Way (like the relative minor/major, but while the tonal centre shifts, we stay in the major key). The Communards' version grinds the gears too...

* Billie Holiday (and others): Night and Day (shifts up a minor third very unexpectedly into the bridge; actually, the whole song is a study in rich harmony under a fairly static melody)

* Stone Roses: Almost all the tracks on their eponymous debut album have strong modal keychanges. But the one to go for is Made of Stone, which enhances a strong yet simple relative minor/major change with tinkering between straight E minor and E Aeolian mode.

WHAT??? Oh rats rats rats. So much for "You are logged in as CaptRamius"...

OK, try again, having to swap computers...

Right, now I'm logged in as me (sorry everyone - #8 was also me getting it spectacularly wrong and upsetting people in the process; sorry sorry sorry), Tuesday songs. And if JFE's gaunnae get technical, I'll start waving my BMus about and talking about Mixolydian modes, and *nobody* wants that :-)

* Del Shannon: Runaway (stays with the same tonal centre, just goes between minor and major)

* U2: One (relative minor/major fun)
* Andy M Stewart: Take her in your arms (the same)

* Thelma Houston: Don't Leave Me This Way (like the relative minor/major, but while the tonal centre shifts, we stay in the major key). The Communards' version grinds the gears too...

* Billie Holiday (and others): Night and Day (shifts up a minor third very unexpectedly into the bridge; actually, the whole song is a study in rich harmony under a fairly static melody)

* Stone Roses: Almost all the tracks on their eponymous debut album have strong modal keychanges. But the one to go for is Made of Stone, which enhances a strong yet simple relative minor/major change with tinkering between straight E minor and E Aeolian mode.

#84 - Man that was funny! Good shouts though, all.

#82 Rich - as I say, I am not sure how the GIO people have defined this theme exactly... The key centre of this song starts and ends in G major but there is a clever mixing of modes in the middle section... So I am open to persuasion! It's not an actual 'key change' but it's a great track and I would like to hear it played no problem.

Hi everybody!

OK - If we are all agreed that 'modal mixups' are allowed as well as actual 'once and for all' key centre shifts then here is my list of suggested tracks:

More Than A Feeling - Boston
Let's Get Rocked - Def Leppard
Man In The Mirror - Stevie Wonder
Livin On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
I Will Always LOve You - Whitney Houston
Please Forgive Me - Bryan Adams
Invisible Touch - Genesis
Do You Realise? - Flaming Lips
I Just Called To Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Chain Reaction - Diana Ross

See what you all think!

Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet, must have one of those change things, but unfortuantely I suspect the Indigo Girls version does not.

Hmmmm....tricky theme.

Hi Norrie.

I was about to say no t Romeo and Juliet, but towards the end it goes into ma section where the key centre is suspended between C and D apart from the regular G - I would argue for it's inclusion! Well spotted!

Not sure where hitting a high note becomes a change of key but there might be some in the following:-

Lovin You - Minnie Riperton
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush

Paul from Ayr

#72
re Alan Sherman my dad had the album 'My Son the Nut' which as a 5 year old I loved without havin a clue that they were all parodies. Even now I'll occasionally hear something and think THAT was what that song was. I See Bones was C'est ce Bon but the best on the LP was the French Revolution Ditty You Went The Wrong Way Old King Louie which was a take off of You Came a Long Way From St Louie

#74
Gold Medal was for the first record of the week. I've had two themes played and many requests but never made the podium.

Re tonights theme , like others on here who perhaps like myself don't play instruments, I am finding the theme a little tricky. Stay online JFE. Think you could be useful.

Hello,

My key change suggestions:

I walk the line - Johnny Cash. The key changes before each verse with Johnny humming the root note (supposedly to get his tuning right). This is pretty unusual but I think it really makes the song.

Dizzy - Tommy Roe

And a real cracker of a gear change:

I don't want control of you - Teenage fanclub. It used to be funny when they played this live as Norman Blake used a capo on his guitar (apologies to non-guitary people). When the key change came everything would stop for a couple of seconds while he tried to shunt his capo up a fret. The last time I saw them play it he didn't use a capo, resulting in a much smoother gear change. I think there's enough cleverness in the harmonies and odd bar lengths in this song to make up for it...

#82, yeah Del Shannon is great!

Regards,
Mr Chops

#93 Paolo,

I just wondered if perhaps Bryan had looked at the rear of Breakfast in America and that there had been a statement made...

>;-)

DC

#94

I Walk The Line nails what the man in the street would understand by key changes.
There is nothing morally wrong with going up a semitone to add a little interest.
So let's have no more nonsense about Schubertian sub-mediant key switches and aeolian cadences. It's only rock'n'roll.

Aye, but Ah like it!

This whole key change thing eludes me. I however noticed that The Flaming Lips - 'Do You Realize??' was on the The Truck Driver's Gear Change Hall of Shame list that Capt. posted earlier. Not fair, I say! I'll second Jim's suggestion for it tonight. (And yes, I realize that they're not a band for everyone...)

Danielle,

I don't know much about them, but I loved 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots' from the technology theme night.

PDB, BTW >8-D

The Walker Brothers..My Ship is coming in.

Again though not sure if it was a quay change.