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Next week's themes...

Bryan Burnett | 09:08 UK time, Friday, 4 September 2009

lessons.jpgAs international literacy day is coming up this week, we thought we'd all go back to school for next week's themes. As always, you can post your suggestions here, get on the email or why not join the community of music lovers on out Facebook site. Just search for 'Get It On with Bryan Burnett'.

Monday
It's education week on Get It On and tonight we kick off with songs about learning. Will it be Lessons in Love or Teach Me Tonight? Get in touch with your education suggestions - class begins at ten past six!

Tuesday
From Wuthering Heights to Romeo and Juliet, literature is the theme tonight. We'll be featuring the works of the great authors who inspired pop classics. From George Orwell (1984) to Jackie Collins ( The Bitch Is Back), tonight's show promises to be a real page turner...

Wednesday
ÌýIt's maths and arithmetic class tonight. Let's have your suggestions of songs featuring addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. Get in touch with your numbers about numbers...

Thursday
Our final subject of the week is history. From Kings and Queens to the events that shaped the world. Start browsing through the history books and let's have the artists who are living in the past...

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  • Comment number 1.


    Wot dos literacy meen?

  • Comment number 2.

    Education night has to include "Remember the days of the old schoolyard!" by Cat Stevens and maybe even "Multiplication" by Bobby Darrin.

    Possible new theme for you could be Miami Vice!
    This year sees the 25th Anniversary of the programme which introduced us to Crockett and Tubbs, Jan Hammer and some very dodgy fashions.
    Music was supplied by everyone from A-HA to ZZ Top with cameo appearences by a variety of artists including Glenn Frey, Frank Zappa and even Sheena Easton. Plenty to choose from there I would think!

  • Comment number 3.

    #1

    It means not very heavy and fast.

    J.O'B.

  • Comment number 4.

    Oops - Multiplication should perhaps be moved to Wednesday!

  • Comment number 5.

    #3 LOL

    RoxyJohn,

    "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

    Thou art more lovely and more temperate:"

    >8-D

  • Comment number 6.

    MONDAY

    "When I was young and they packed me off to school
    and they taught me how not to play the game."

    'Wind-up' - Jethro Tull

    'Teacher' - Jethro Tull

    'To Sir With Love' - Lulu

    'Woodwork Woodwork' - Saint Andrew

    'The Open University' - Clifford T. Ward

  • Comment number 7.

    What about comments on report cards as a theme? One that sticks in the memory is;

    'Thick as a Brick' - Jethro Tull

    >8-D

  • Comment number 8.

    or,

    "This boy's presence in my classroom is depriving his village of its idiot."

  • Comment number 9.

    #5 Compared to a summer's day?

    "Thou art wet and not very bright"?

    DC

  • Comment number 10.

    Monday (A song which sums up many young persons view of their teenage years):

    "Another Brick In The Wall part 2" - Pink Floyd

    Tuesday (A song inspired by John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath):

    "Sorrow" - Pink Floyd

    Wednesday (A song with a title which is in fact a mathematical analysis):

    "Empty Spaces" - Pink Floyd

    Thursday (A song which makes reference to the 1982 Falklands conflict and the futility of war):

    "Southampton Dock" - Pink Floyd

    DC in Cellardyke

  • Comment number 11.

    MONDAY:

    Bryan Ferry's version of (What A) Wonderful World. He also dueted this with Twiggy on the Twiggy show in 1974



    A better version here 3 minutes in:



    J.O'B.

  • Comment number 12.

    #11

    Bryan Ferry looks like Rikki Fulton taking the Mickey out of Bryan Ferry on Smoke Gets In Your Eyes


  • Comment number 13.

    Huckleberry Finn would be a cracking song for Tuesday, as yet unreleased by the Edinburgh based prairie rock band Lincoln City.

    First previews of the band's new albums The Lincoln City Sessions Vols 1,2 and 3 due out late 2010 are at The Lot, Grassmarket, Edinburgh on Thursday October 22nd 2009 at 8pm and 10pm. Tickets Scotland £5. Some of the 33 tracks are posted at www.anyoldfun.com This top band is led by Rutherglen based star guitarist Davie Dunsmuir (Wolfstone/Alyn Cosker band).

  • Comment number 14.

    Good themes this week. Will need to have a wee think. Liked the closing four words of your header Bryan. I don't know if you're teasing the Tull fans or taunting them :-)

  • Comment number 15.

    Good themes indeed.

    Mon. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN - Crosby, Stills and Nash

    Tues. QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING - Warren Zevon
    Back to front. The song came first. Still worth playing.

    Wed. NEW MATH - Tom Lehrer - Why don't Yankees say Maths, like normal people?

    Thurs. BANG BANG - B.A. Robertson
    Nelson, Caeser, Antony and Cleopatra etc. Would also work for Tuesday.

  • Comment number 16.

    For Wednesday, "Nothing from Nothing" by Billy Preston.

    For Thursday, "Galileo" or "Virginia Woolf" by Indigo Girls, or "Marco Polo" by Loreena McKennitt... or "King Tut" by Steve Martin?

    CannyMarra: We say "math" because for most of us, one math is more than enough!

  • Comment number 17.

    Has anyone ever read the book

    'Against the Wind' by Markus Baum.

  • Comment number 18.

    #16

    BruceNesmith, My apologies to your good self and all the other Yankees,
    particularly those fron the Hawkeye State. My wife implores me not to tell jokes as someone is always offended.
    Next time I see Bill Bryson, I'll apologise to him also.

    CM

  • Comment number 19.

    Monday
    Bit of a dilemma here. Submit something I want to hear and go hungry or do what I'm telt and get fed.

    My better half's a language teacher and insists I've got to ask for
    'When I Kissed the teacher' by Abba.

    She's no making the dinner until it's played.



    Anytime between 6 and 6.15 would be good.

  • Comment number 20.

    Tuesday
    Many autobiographies are named after songs and different authors have even been known to use the same title. The autobiographies of both Percussionist Evelyn Glennie and Ann Summer's Boss Jacqueline Gold are called Good Vibrations. Presumably for different reasons.

    Sticking to fiction however

    Ship of Fools / Bob Seger
    Rock Me Gently / Andy KIM
    She / Charles Aznavour
    Exodus / Bob Marley

  • Comment number 21.

    Wednesday Arithmetic

    Baby Come Back / The Equals

  • Comment number 22.

    Monday
    Ain't Gonna Study War No More ~ Nat King Cole
    Learning to Fly ~ Tom Petty & HeartBreakers
    Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III ~ Cornershop
    I'd like to teach Larry, Moe, and Curly to Sing ~ The New Kippers
    Teach Your Children ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Blackboard of my Heart ~ Hank Thompson
    High School ~ MC5
    School Mam ~ The Stranglers
    Bottom of the class ~ Gruppo Sportivo
    The Headmaster Ritual ~ The Smiths
    Pocket Calculator ~ Kraftwerk
    Pencil Full of Lead ~ Paolo Nutini


    Tuesday
    Animal Farm ~ The Kinks 'Orwell'
    Parklife ~ Blur 'Amis'
    Heart of Darkness ~ Pere Ubu 'Conrad'
    Frankenstein ~ Edgar Winter Group 'Shelley'
    Trainspotting ~ Primal Scream 'Welsh'
    Watership Down ~ Art Garfunkel 'Adams'
    You only Live Twice ~ Nancy Sinatra or Soft Cell 'Fleming'
    The Trooper ~ Iron Maiden 'The Charge Of The Light Brigade, Tennyson'
    Ulysses ~ Franz Ferdinand 'Joyce'
    We are the Dead ~ David Bowie 'Orwell'

    Wednesday
    Do the Math ~ Brad Paisley
    Me plus One ~ Kasabian
    Love Me 2 Times ~ The Doors
    Numbers ~ Soft Cell
    Numbers ~ Kraftwerk
    A.D.D. ~ System of a Down
    If Six was Nine ~ The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Thursday
    Funeral of Queen Mary ~ Wendy Carlos
    English Civil War or Spanish Bombs ~ The Clash
    Bonzo Goes to Bitburg ~ The Ramones
    Ira Hayes ~ Johnny Cash
    Buffaloe Soldier ~ Bob Marley
    Waterloo ~ Stonewall Jackson
    Anne Boleyn ~ Rick Wakeman

  • Comment number 23.

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 24.

    #22

    I'll second that Wendy Carlos suggestion (uselessly!) :-)

  • Comment number 25.

    Maths.
    Bach.

  • Comment number 26.

    Great themes this week. My initial thoughts are:

    Monday - learning

    ABC - Jackson 5
    You learn - Alanis Morissette
    My old school - Steely Dan
    When will I see you again - 3 degrees
    Higher love - Steve Winwood

    Tuesday -literature

    The ghost of Tom Joad - Springsteen (the protagonist of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath).
    Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac (inspired by Triad, by Mary Leader)
    Moon over Bourbon Street - Sting (written about a character from Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire)
    Leaving Las Vegas - Sheryl Crow (based on a book by the same name by the late John O'Brien)
    Every Grain Of Sand - Emmylou Harris (Dylan is said to have been inspired by lines from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence
    Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police (reference to Nabakov)
    Are 'Friends' Electric?" - Gary Numan (uses imagery from Philip K. Dick's SF story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    Into the west - Annie Lennox (The Rings trilogy)

    Wednesday - addition, subtraction, division and multiplication

    Je t'aime... moi non plus - Gainsbourg/Birkin
    Less than zero - Elvis Costello
    Across the great divide - Nanci Griffiths
    Miss Grace - the Tymes

    Thursday - history.

    The Rising - Bruce Springsteen (9/11)
    Jerusalem - Steve Earle
    Michelangelo - Emmylou Harris
    Samson - Regina Spektor
    Goonight Siagon - Billy Joel (Vietnam and mass immigration to the US)
    There were roses - Cara Dillon (N.I)
    Shots in the distance - Amityville (rare - I hope you can find this great song about the origins of World War 1)

    Have a good weekend all

    Joe
    Linlithgow

  • Comment number 27.

    Forgot to add a suggestion for Thursday's intro-mix: The battle of New Orleans - Lonnie Donegan!

    Joe
    Linlithgow

  • Comment number 28.

    #26
    Joe, I think you've suggested My Old School before and I think I've seconded it before. I shall do so again. Good shout too for Goodnight Saigon.

  • Comment number 29.

    Monday. 'ELEVEN PLUS Eleven' - Nine Below Zero

  • Comment number 30.

    Thursday (Historical Events)- In 2003, Mars passed closer to Earth than it had in nearly 60,000 years and was photographed by the Hubble Telescopic...wonder if they saw anyone (or thing) doing 'the Martian Hop' - The Ran-Dells?

  • Comment number 31.

    For Monda;

    School Day - Chuck Berry
    High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis
    Wonderful World - Sam Cooke
    Flowers are Red - Harry Chapin
    At Seventeen - Janis Ian
    Jennifer Eccles - Hollies
    Rock and Roll High School - Ramones

    Got to go now and get some things organised so I can be a masochist this afternoon and watch Scotland "play". Will look at the other themes later, but they do look interesting this week.

  • Comment number 32.

    For monday, how about Van Halen's Hot For Teacher, Foo Foghter's Learn To Fly or Higher ground by Stevie Wonder? or possibly Catholic School Girls Rule by the RHCP.

    Enjoy your weekend folks!

  • Comment number 33.

    #19

    Great shout! And if it doesn't get played you won't be assaulted by a woman brandishing a brolly.

    >8-D


    #20

    Fiction? Exodus?!? Shurely shum mishtake!
    Are we talking Moses or Leon Uris? We must consult our spiritual advisor, the Rockin' Reverend! If the question is indeed Pentateuchal, a Rockin' Rabbi should be drafted in for his theological perspective.


    BRING ME THE RED SEA OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

  • Comment number 34.

    #23 Care to elaborate?

  • Comment number 35.


    Mon. ALL I REMEMBER - Christy Moore

    "Wild Christian Brothers sharpening their leathers,
    Learn it by heart, that's the rule.
    All I remember is dreading September and school."

    Mick Hanly's funny memories of school in Ireland.


    Tues. RIDING THE WAVES (for Virginia Woolf) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

    Inspired by Woolf's novel "The Waves"


    Wed. MATH SUKS - Jimmy Buffet

    Please dedicate to my new buddy BruceNesmith. Hands across the water, etc.


    Thurs. GREEN ISLAND - Christy Moore

    Back to Ireland. Ewan MacColl's sad and beautiful song.

  • Comment number 36.

    "Well we busted outta class, had to get away from those fools, we learned more from a 3 minute record baby than we ever learned in School". Tsk tsk Boss - great song though.

    No Surrender - Bruce Springsteen

    One more Try - George Michael, again for the lyric

    Learning To Fly - Tom Petty, if you have not seen the Petty documentry - it is brilliant

    Lou Reed - Teach The Gifted Children, great track from the horribly underrated Growing Up In Public lp.

    I also want to highjack SG's great suggestion of To Sir With Love and nominate:

    To Sir With Love : 10,000 Maniacs and Michael Stipe absoluetly fantastic version of this song.

  • Comment number 37.

    #33
    Exodus, the children's novel by Julia Bertagna..........(he said trying to redeem the situation)


    Actually , i'd picked the three and then stuck it on as an afterthought. Silly Me.

    Oh and she's got a new brolly.......but it just ain't as good as the last one :-)

  • Comment number 38.

    #34

    ;-)

    DC

  • Comment number 39.

    #1

    Involves the 3 Rs: Readin', Ritin' and a Ruddy Good Hiding
    (I've been Miles Jupp, you've been a great Radio Scotland audience, good-night)

  • Comment number 40.

    Monday - Education/School:
    Jack The Idiot Dunce - The Kinks
    Don't You Ever Learn - Todd Rundgren
    Qualifications - Billy Bragg
    School - Supertramp
    Art School - The Jam
    The Heart's Filthy Lesson - David Bowie
    Just Another Lesson - The New Seekers
    I Taught Myself How To Grow Old - Ryan Adams
    Teacher - Jethro Tull
    The Teacher - Paul Simon
    Learning The Game - Leo Kottke
    Learning To Fly - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
    Love In The First Degree - Bananarama :-)

  • Comment number 41.

    Tuesday - Literature/Great Authors:
    Writing - Elton John
    Sonnet - The Verve
    Much Ado About Nothing - Forest
    The Whole World Is A Stage - The Persuasions
    Romeo And Juliet - Dire Straits
    Merchant Of Venice - Bill Bonk
    Shakespeare Didn't Quote That - Terry Evans
    Reader Meet Author - Morrissey
    Shakespeare's Sister - The Smiths
    Hamlet By Night - Peter Mitchell
    As You Like It - Adam Faith
    Lady Macbeth - Barclay James Harvest
    Globe Alone - Blur
    Macbeth - John Cale
    Favorite Writer - Magnapop
    Out Out Damn Spot - Anthony Rapp
    Othello Syndrome - Ettison Clio
    Mr Lear - Al Stewart ;-)

  • Comment number 42.

    #36

    My client, Mr. Norrie McLean, assures me that 'No Surrender' does not refer to the Battle of the Boyne.

    (If it did he would have requested it for Thursday).

    Donald Findlay, Q.C.

  • Comment number 43.

    #36 Re: To Sir With Love

    Norrie,

    Yeah, go for it. They played Lulu a few weeks ago, unlikely to do so again so soon.

  • Comment number 44.

    TUESDAY

    'Oor Hamlet' - Adam McNaughton ~ This is hysterical. Scottish humour at its best.

    Ask the Professor nicely, he may allow you to borrow Iain Anderson's copy.

  • Comment number 45.

    #17, #37

    I had never heard of the Bruderhof. They sound a bit like the Amish.


    The Rockin' Rabbi is happy to absolve you. The Rockin' Reverend might not be so forgiving...


    She'll never let you forget that brolly...(neither will we) >8-D

  • Comment number 46.

    #40
    Good shout for School / Supertramp.

    Reminds me of a wasted but thoroughly enjoyable 6th year in the school prefect rooms.

  • Comment number 47.

    #46

    I have (ahem!) similar recollections... ;-)

  • Comment number 48.

    Monday :)

    Proper Education- Eric Prydz
    And I Was A Boy From School- Hot Chip
    What I Go To School For- Busted
    Hollaback Girl- Gwen Stefani
    School Of Rock- Dean
    When you gonna learn- Jamiroquai
    Secret Alphabets- Kasabian
    Straight A's- Dead Kennedys
    The Headmaster Ritual- The Smiths
    Thats Not My Name- Ting Tings (As Said To Many Teacher's Over & Over Again At School) :P

  • Comment number 49.

    #38

    Cat got your tongue?

  • Comment number 50.

    Mon...

    Blackboard of my Heart...............Hank Thompson

    Tues...

    "Christine" (Stephen King).............Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Wed...

    Concrete and Clay....................Unit 4+2

    Thur.....



  • Comment number 51.

    Monday Education/School

    * Billy Bragg - To Have and Have Not
    (relevant again in these times - what's the point of having lots of A grade exams if there's no jobs, and the employers think that today's exams mean a thing?)
    * Pink Floyd - The Happiest Days of Our Lives
    You! Yes You behind the bike sheds! Stand still laddie!
    (better idea - play this segueing into Brick in the Wall Part 2 as they're really one piece)
    * Tom Paxton - What Did You Learn In School Today?
    Did we ever really believe our teachers?
    * The Humpff Family - Teach Jeasus
    I would sell my children into slavery for the Humpff Family
    (Or so a t-shirt I wore in the early 90s said)
    * The Sawdoctors - Presentation Boarder
    Schooldays romances, eh? Not so easy when one of you is under the very strict control of nuns. But you find ways around.

  • Comment number 52.

    Tuesday literature:

    * Waterboys: The Stolen Child (Yeats)
    * Van Morrison: Before the World was Made (Yeats)
    * Badly Drawn Boy: Something to Talk About (Hornby)
    * The Cure: Killing an Arab (Camus - l'Etranger)
    * Generation X: Valley of the Dolls (Jacqueline Susann)
    * Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit (Carroll)

  • Comment number 53.

    #46 & 47 have you two been hanging out in The Bulldog with Mrs Wallace? Still if you are having recollections cannot be too bad.

  • Comment number 54.

    For Tuesday songs that have literary connections, more fun!

    Highway 61 - Bob Dylan (story of Abraham, Genesis 22)
    Hey Jack Kerouac - 10,000 Maniacs
    Desolation Row - Bob Dylan (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Romeo and Juliert,Ezra Pound, T S Eliot)
    Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan (F Scott Fitzgerald)
    Rave on John Donne - Van Morrison
    The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash (Book of Revelations)
    From the Underworld - The Herd (Orpheus)
    Venus in Furs - Velvet Underground (Von Masoch's book of the same name)


    and seconding Ghost of Tom Joad and White Rabbit and I will end here before I really start to ramble on....hang on wasn't Sympathy for the Devil based on a book? I will have to do some research now!

  • Comment number 55.

    Didn't take long Master and Margerita by Bulgakov, though apparently Jagger claimed it was Baudelaire, but I suppose both work for the theme, so I propose that as well.

  • Comment number 56.

    Don't think we've any chance of The Cure, as (afaik) Killing An Arab's still on the "tracks the ´óÏó´«Ã½ won't play for fear of touchy people who don't actually listen to anything beyond the title" list.

    Or is it? Prove me wrong, Bryan.

  • Comment number 57.

    #23 *sigh*

    Dearie me! Must be the influence of this week's themes.....

    Gotta start 'Making Your Mind Up', if you want a 'Piece of the Action' y'all better play by the 'Rules of the Game', coz 'If You Can't Stand the Heat' you'll be banished to 'The Land of Make Believe'

    >8-D

  • Comment number 58.

    #23 ???????



    They also had a track called "If you can't stand the heat"...

    DC

  • Comment number 59.

    #58

    do tell.....

  • Comment number 60.

    #23 Moderator's must be easily piqued. Your comment was on for days.

    Hands up bloggers - who's having a hissy fit??

  • Comment number 61.

    #52

    Re The Stolen Child
    I suggested a theme a couple of weeks back for songs with dialogue over the intro but perhaps a better one (if it's not been done already) would be songs that contain the spoken word anywhere in them.


    Red Sovine and JJ Barrie need not apply.

  • Comment number 62.

    Excellent for the Next week's themes....

    =Dennis Junior=

  • Comment number 63.

    #61

    Walk Away Renee - Billy Bragg! (actually, loads of Billy tracks)
    but also quite a few by The Streets, who I've always thought to be very Bragg-like.

    Oh, and there was the theme I suggested *months* back (and has been mentioned as a possibility a few times): singers who use their own accents, not the mid-Atlantic thing (Def Leppard, I'm looking at *you*).

  • Comment number 64.

    Monday Learning

    KOOL SKOOL - Nils Lofgren, it doesn't look like Nils learned to spell at school but maybe it's just about being cool.

    The only one who could ever TEACH me was the SON OF A PREACHER MAN - Dusty Springfield.

  • Comment number 65.

    #59

    It would appear that the group we were speaking about is much more offensive that we first thought.Especially if you give it a Scottish slant by slightly changing the first part to a northern fishing port.

    Perhaps the person who referred the comment doesn't like fish

    :-)

    DC

  • Comment number 66.

    Could it be that an occassional contributor to these pages, someone with power who yet has already confessed to loving some pretty dodgy 70's and 80's acts and who has never really let go of her adortaion forher pin-ups has recalled that Bucks Fizz were resposnible for knocking the mighty Shakin Stevens off Number 1.....

  • Comment number 67.

    #65 Or changing it to an abbreviation of a Devon monastery.

  • Comment number 68.

    #22

    Surely Pocket Calculator is a better fit for Wednesday?

  • Comment number 69.

    #67 perhaps the referrer isn't religious?

    What do you make of this Watson?

    D(ete)C(tive) Holmes

  • Comment number 70.


    I'm fizzing, Holmes. Buck thizz!

  • Comment number 71.

    #65, #67

    Perhaps the person who referred the comment doesn't like monkfish...

    >8-D

  • Comment number 72.

    #35
    Great shout! Ages since we have heard any Christy Moore on the show.

    #51
    And of course I need to back-up CaptRamius on his Billy Bragg shout.

  • Comment number 73.

    #71

    Hahahahaha!!!! Brilliant!

    #51

    I second the Captain's suggestion that "Happiest Days of our Lives" precedes "Another Brick in the Wall". The first is really the intro to the other (and one of the best intros you'll ever hear)

    DC

  • Comment number 74.

    DC - ooh I see there on facebook there is a groundswell of opinion against the playing of Floyd tonight!

  • Comment number 75.

    #61 Paolo

    would be a good one if its not been done...has this one been done?.....people who have been in 2 successful bands? e.g. Steve Winwood... Spencer Davis Group / Traffic John Lydon ... Sex Pistols / P.I.L maybe the Captain can tell us.


    F I D

  • Comment number 76.

    #61, #75 good theme suggestions....

    Street Hassle with the Bruce monolouge

    Also there are people like Annie Lennox / Dave Stewart, David Grohl, Shirley Manson, Gary Clark, Nils Lofgren,,.

  • Comment number 77.

    #72

    We can extend the Christy Moore coverage on Tuesday, via Song Of The Wandering Aengus which is another .

    And to further the conspiracy theories of sockpuppeting: I spent my teenage years in Shropshire; my Mum & Dad (from Glasgow) still live there. I've never been called Mike though.

  • Comment number 78.

    #74, so that's the death knell for the tune no doubt....

    DC

  • Comment number 79.

    TUESDAY:

    For Whom The Bell Tolls - Fad Gadget

    The Man In The Iron Mask - Billy Bragg

  • Comment number 80.

    Monday

    Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime - The Korgis
    It Started With A Kiss - Hot Chocolate
    You Learn - Alanis Morissette
    Love Is The Answer - Todd Rundgren
    I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing - New Seekers
    Teacher I Need You - Elton John

  • Comment number 81.

    Monday.
    Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters.
    Rock'n' Roll High School - Ramones.
    High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis.
    My Old School - Steely Dan.

  • Comment number 82.

    Dropout Boogie - Captain Beefheart.

  • Comment number 83.

    #74 and #78
    Not necessarily

  • Comment number 84.

    Mmmm getting a bit peckish.

  • Comment number 85.

    # just tuned in in time to hear my name. I'll have to listen again!

    DOH!!!

    Cheers Bryan

    DC

  • Comment number 86.

    Ya beauty that sizzler's starting to warm up quite nicely. Cheers guys

  • Comment number 87.

    Only managed to think of a few things so far.
    Wednesday Radiohead 2+2=5
    Thursday Prefab Sprout The King of Rock and Roll.
    I'll need to have a think for some cheese!

  • Comment number 88.

    For Tuesday:

    Romeo and Juliet - The Indigo Girls (Shakespeare)
    Crazy Jane On God - Van Morrison (lyrics by Yeats)
    Bhudda of Suburbia - David Bowie (book by Hanif Kureishi)
    Edgar allan Poe - Lou Reed
    Springsteen - Ghost of Tom Joad, as suggested by others

    and

    10,000 Maniacs - Hey Jack Kerouac

  • Comment number 89.

    Good show tonight. Bloggers got an excellent representation, so well done production team

    DC

  • Comment number 90.

    #89

    and Paolo has been fed. I fear a precedent has been set. Miss Babs abuses her power, but sometimes it's to our benefit. Julie has been getting her own way for so long only Adam picks up on it. The dam has burst.

    Gentlemen, we have become dispensable. The quines are asserting their authority.

  • Comment number 91.

    TUESDAY:

    'Lovely to Me' by LUCKY JIM...as well as being a novel by Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim was a nom de plume of Gordon Grahame of The Lost Soul Band. It'll be familiar from a certain TV advert for bread (You're lovely to me yes you are).

    'LOCAL GIRLS' - Graham Parker and the Rumour. Also the name of a novel by Alice Hoffman.

    'Twist In My Sobriety' by Tanita Tikaram starts with the line 'ALL GOD'S CHILDREN NEED TRAVELLIN' SHOES'...the title of a Maya Angelou book.

    'ON THE ROAD Again' - Nine Below Zero...to paraphrase Jack Kerouac.

  • Comment number 92.

    TUESDAY

    Team GIO:

    Martin Amis is one of my favorite authors and Money is one of my favorite Martin Amis novels. So...

    Money (That's What I Want) by several artists including Barrett Strong.
    Mouldy Old Dough - Lieutenant Pigeon.
    Money Can't Buy Me Love ~ The Beatles.
    Money - Pink Floyd.
    If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time ~ Willie Nelson
    Take the Money and Run ~ Steve Miller Band

    I'm also a big J.P. Donleavy Fan. My favorite is The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman. So Dancing Queen by Abba.

    Kingsley Amis, Martin's father (I'm certain you know that) wrote a book about drinking, titled On Drink. So the obvious choice is Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Please. If there's a more literary song than that, I'd like to know about it.

    Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American so perhaps anything by Warren Zevon, Frank Zappa, Madonna, Elvis, Ted Nugent, et. al.

    Ernest Hemmingway wrote A Farewell to Arms so anything by Def Leppard.

  • Comment number 93.

    #92. (Last one) LOL!

  • Comment number 94.

    #92

    as a fellow drummer i should not have laughed at that...









    but i did....lol !!! :O)

  • Comment number 95.

    TUESDAY LITERATURE

    As I can't think of an obvious song title that comes from a book, I'm gonnae go for a tenuous connection:-

    The Spy Who Loved Me - The Ian Fleming novel gave rise to the Bond movie of the same name, which in turn had the theme tune:-

    Nobody Does it Better - Carly Simon

    Though the book title doesn't match the song title, it is to be found in the lyrics.

  • Comment number 96.

    Tuesday: Literature and great authors

    A superb Mary Gauthier track ' Last of the Hobo Kings' references Steinbecks 'Grapes of Wrath':

    The last free men are hoboes
    Steinbeck said, and he paid cash
    And the stories that he bought from them
    Helped write the Grapes of Wrath.


  • Comment number 97.

    Tuesday's literature programme...

    'Horrorshow' by Edinburgh band The Scars. This single dates from either 1978 or 1979. I've never heard this on the radio and it would be great.
    Still got the seven inch single at home but alas no record player.

    The song details the Anthony Burgess novel 'A Clockwork Orange'. Hence the title 'Horrorshow'.

    Cheers.

    LLIM

  • Comment number 98.

    Ok, ok, forget my previous suggestions - you just have to play this tribute to Tolkein's creation:

    Leonard Nimoy -

    (at last - a decent audio for this; is hilariously of its time, but it's recorded off the TV, so the sound is rubbish)

  • Comment number 99.


    Based on the (probably irrational) grounds that Roxy John might not have access to a computer before the show begins;

    TUESDAY

    'Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 18' - Bryan Ferry


    David Gilmour does a version of this.









    Ferry's is better.

    >8-D

  • Comment number 100.

    #99
    Class shyeut! Wor bairn is a local hero! Divvint mess aroond, Git It On!!

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