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Still confused. Ah'm awa' tae lie doon.

A special month of themes in July.

Canada Day.

Independence Day (U.S.A.)

Bastille Day.

I've seen a Banana Split, an Apple Turnover and a Raspberry Ripple, but I ain't never seen an Orange Walk.


Last but not least.... Space!

We'll just have to wait till July for some excitement.

First thoughts:
Monday - Evil woman - ELO
Tuesday - "Beyond the sea" by Bobby Darin is great, but not as good as the original by Charles Trenet "La mer"
Wednesday -
I ain't ever satisfied - from Steve Earle's "Exit 0"
New York, New York or When the stars go Blue - from Ryan Adams' Gold"
Thursday - This old heart of mine - the Isley Brothers

More to follow

Joe
Linlithgow

Thumbs up to Graeme for King Curtis tonight!

Monday (sure we already had this earlier this year)
Bad to the Bone / George Thorougood and the destroyers

It must have been about eight years ago. My daughter was 13. Pop Idol was on the telly. Napster was the most visited household website at the time. One day I came in from work to be met by my excited daughter who couldn't wait to let me hear a Gareth Gates song that she downloaded cos I would love it and he wrote it himself. It was mack the Knife!



One I never realised was a cover until quite recently was Fern Kinney's Groove Me but then discovered King Floyds original which is far superior.

Wed
Difficult second album? Different artist?
Bad For Good / Jim Steinman

After the success of Bat Out of Hell the follow up album was waiting to be recorded but after months of vocal problems for Meat Loaf, Jim Steinman gave up and recorded the album himself. Most of the album has been covered by Meat Loaf on other albums since.

So How about Stark Raving Love (or at least the intro) which was rewritten as Holding out for a hero and given to Bonnie Tyler!

Thursday
Thunder Road (Live 75 Version).......






......Sorry Norrie!

well, it's 2:43 accordng thisd computert. Just back from Jams Gerant - absoluteky luminous. just fabntsatic.You sahould'v been teere.

regardez youse

henrei.

pd smiffy id fidhedd. as arevwe all.

MONDAY

'Sam Hall' - Johnny Cash ~ The version from 'American IV: The Man Comes Around'

'Amos Moses' - Sensational Alex Harvey Band

'The Ballad of Charles Whitman' - Kinky Friedman

'Mr. Raffles (Man, it was Mean)' - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

'The Wedding List' - Kate Bush

'Cry for the Bad Man' - Lynyrd Skynyrd

'Big Bad John' - Charlie Daniels Band accompanied by The Oak Ridge Boys

#10

Hilarious.

WEDNESDAY 15:00

Scotch was stunned and speechless. Standards of grammar, spelling and typography on the blog had, within 24 hours, sunk to a hitherto unimaginable low. Sadly he contemplated the move to radio 3.

Monday

we did bad behaviour less than 2 months ago so let's hope this is an opportunity to play the good ones that got away.

Bad, Bad Boy - Paul Jones

and seconds for Bad to the Bone

Tuesday

lots to choose from, from when I were a nipper and didn't realize where these old blues songs came from:

Born under a bad Sign - Cream
Crossroads - Cream
Little Red Rooster - Rolling Stones

then there was

Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

yep, hadnae a clue, me

I will not waste anyone's time requesting Warren Zevon's Mr. Bad Example yet again.

Monday

Big Bad John -

A few more suggestions:-

Monday - songs about the not so pleasant people
Big Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
Here I am/Poison lovers - Steve Earle
Gypsies, tramps and thieves - Cher
A boy named Sue - J Cash

Wednesday - second album
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd (from Second Helpings)
Back to black - Amy Winehouse (from Back to Black)
Feel like makin' love - Bad Company (from Straight Shooter)
Take it easy - Jackson Browne (from For Everyman)
Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris (from Pieces of the Sky)
(Nice dream) - Radiohead (from The Bends)
Piano man or You're my home - Billy Joel (from Piano man)

Joe
Linlithgow

#16

I will.

MONDAY

'Mr. Bad Example' - Warren Zevon ~ Outrageous. Funny. The best song on the show.

Glen has been championing the music of Warren Zevon on this blog for years. There is a very good reason why he has done so. Can you guess what it is?

Can we do space again soon? I like space. Space is good.

#18
No

#18

They're both Stumpy?
They're both dead?
They both look like long-lost Bee Gee brothers?

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Same to you.

Oh - almost forgot to add the bit that makes up for it all...

;-)

Monday - Badness:

The Wee Cooper Of Fife - Kenneth McKellar
- all about one silly little man in Fife who was very very naughty.

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A. Same way Erseskin sounds funny in any language.

#26

Wrong - try again.

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#18

I fear there's as much chance of it as Kinky Friedman writing a World Cup song for the Germans.

#22

Is that a reference to a producer?

#26

You wouldn't know from the photographs.

#17
Steady Joe! Some of my best friends are gypsies and tramps!!
Not all bad you know.

:)

#31

Absolutely! And there is also the music of people like Sheila Stewart - from travelling folk - beautiful Scots singer with real stories to tell in her songs.

#18

The question was directed at our beloved presenter. As well ye ken...


#22

One hump or two?

#28

Clue:

wrong




again











Oh dear, how sad, what a shame

#33 two so far

MONDAY

'Baron Samedi' - 10cc

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

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

Oops - almost forgot...

:-)

#22

:-)

Just let me tiptoe through this rubble;

Gaie,

News of a programme which will interest most of us, but yourself in particular.

Lady Plays the Blues

Tuesday 11:30 repeated Saturday 15:30 Radio 4 or on Listen Again.

#42

The 'rubble' has all been saved for later analysis when we can ALL see what was said.

#42 thanks, S-g, I will most definitely listen to that. Anyone seen the movie Crossroads? I'm talking Robert Johnson, not Eric Clapton.

All this nonsense above is doing the blog no favours at all. I very much doubt if any of us wants to see the published stuff never mind the moderated.

I suppose I'll now wish I'd learned to tiptoe.

Glen, do we wear our GIO badges to the concert?

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#31 and 32. My McAveety "moment". No offence intended (and none taken by a diligient and busy moderator). :)

Tuesday
Oddly I first heard (and liked) the Mavericks' versions of two Springsteen songs:All that heaven will allow and Downbound train.

Joe
Linlithgow

Oops - typo alert. Apologies for the extra "i"

J
L

Did I miss the full moon this weekend?

Can someone please explain the abuse I seem to be getting above?


The Arabic (that's the language spoken in Algeria) says "get intae them" and is not a reference to any particular blogger's post. Bad Bad Boy is a song by Nazareth which not only fits the theme for Monday but is a good track, hence my suggestion


Looks like yet another conclusion being jumped to.

Dearie me. It looks like my post was removed by someone

I'll start again

Monday:

Bad bad boy - Nazareth

A great way to start the show

DC

PS (Non arabic this time) "Get intae them". (This is the language spoken in Algeria, a country which has a football team which did particularly well on Friday night)





This post does not make reference to any specific blogger. It is not intended to cause offence. No inference should be made regarding anyone either living or dead.


It's a pity we appear to have to explain ourselves to third parties

I think I might be a rare breed on this blog in that I am neither a Mozz lover nor a mozz hater. Some I Like and some I ain't too fussed with. However one of his rather well crafted ditties is First of the Gang to Die which would be good for Monday (although not as good as Bad to the Bone #6)

LOL! I knew I'd seen it before! Graffito in a public toilet.

In a bus station.

In Nazareth!

>8-D









Why did I think it referred to camels?

Here's the blurb from the blog heading copied and pasted from tuesday 27th april 2010......less than two months ago.

Tuesday
Russell Hutcheson got in touch and would like to encourage some bad behaviour. Are you more likely to Tear Your Playhouse Down or Fight for Your Right To Party. I'll be handing out the musical ASBO's if you get in touch with the songs about being bad...


Now even in this era of repeat themes Miss Babs even you have to admit this is ridiculous. Did you forget to take Gaies list last week to the themes meeting after all :-)

Here we go again - will you pair give it a rest.

JfE - you read too much into blog posts.

DC - a lobster killer!!!.

Bad Bad Boy is a great shout

How about Alice Cooper's - Poison (could be applied to some of the blog postings)

Please don't read too much into that last comment, just read back some of the stuff posted. ;-)

Nothing wrong with killing lobsters. In fact it's best to do that before you try to eat them. You get a sore stomach if you don't

DC

Better dead and red.

#55
Think you'd get a sore throat first!

#53
In saying that tue wed and thu themes are good.

I'm not sure who is worse, men or moderators. Unhinged!

;o)


For Monday - Goodbye Earl - Dixie Chicks


For Tuesday - The first time I heard this song was in a cinema watching a film starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. It was ages before I heard a DJ on the radio mention the original version. It didn't sound like a country song to me!

I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston


For Wednesday - Rocky Mountain Way - Michael Bolotin ~ Everyday Of My Life

Don't Play Your Rock 'n' Roll To Me - Smokie ~ Changing All The Time

Freakin' At The Freaker's Ball - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show ~ Sloppy Seconds


For Thursday - Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

Has to be this version. Elvis comes very close but Art Garfunkel nailed it.


#44 - Gaie is right. As a victim of overzealous moderation I'm inclined to give the bloggers the benefit of the doubt but it doesn't matter who is to blame. If the situation deteriorates I'll go back to email or give Facebook a go.

I hope everyone going gigging tonight has a good time. I'll just leave the windows open and listen to Paul at Hampden!

;o)

#44

I'll the one playing air mandolin along with David Lindley.

Monday

Vide Cor Meum - Hannibal Soundtrack - This man remains unpersuaded by vegetarianism

Tuesday

Truck Stop Girl - The Byrds - Nearly 40 years later I found out this was a Little Feat song. Listen to Clarence White's Telecaster

How Much I Lied - Elvis Costello - Steve Nieve lifts Gram Parsons' tune out of the gilded palace of sin and leads it to a new and better life

Wednesday

Lawyers, Guns and Money - Warren Zevon - His second album Excitable Boy also contains a medley of his hit

Thursday

Dancing Queen - The Yayhoos - Bjorn in the USA

MONDAY:

'Bully Boys' - The Tiger Lillies


'Cocaine Blues' - Johnny Cash

'Marie Laveau' - Bobby Bare

'Backstabbers - O'Jays

'The Ghost Who Walks' - Karen Elson

Stop it my sides are hurting.

Anyways you have not had any decent themes for months. Paolo you were right first time. Cover versions? A good album track. A song you like. Hardly awe inspiring.

Don't discourage Jim it's what makes it worth popping along here now and then!

As you were......

TUESDAY

Johnnie Walker played on his show today.

Ah pure didnae' huv a Scooby, BTW!

MONDAY

'Bully Boys' - The Tiger Lillies ~ Support for Julie #61

For Tuesday...


........ The Nerves

Naw, no Blondie

and this for a bonus track .......They wrote this one too

For Wed...

The Jam -- 'Standards' From This is the Modern World

TUESDAY:

Was surprised when I discovered Nina Simone was the first to record this:


'The Tide Is High' - Blondie
Original:

...and another Blondie cover version:

Jackson Browne and David Lindley opened with a Warren Zevon (and Carl Hiaasen) song. Is this an omen? Probably not.

#63

I see Jeff Beck played drums with The Arrows.

We await a review from Hampden from our reporter.

#68 So how was it for you?

#68

has a song?

For the benefit of anyone who does not listen to

#60

'Excitable Boy' is Warren Zevon's third album. It is, therefore, ineligible for Wednesday's show.














I salute my insufferability!

>8-D

Oh well, I thought it was a wonderful concert, great band and David Lindley does that thing of sounding like a complete string section on his own. JB's voice is as good as ever, and my only complaint is that another half hour would have been perfect - it seemed that no sooner had I sat down than it was time to go home.

Hope all you other concert-goers had as good a night

#73

Et tu Scotus?

#74

I really went to see David Lindley and would have liked more of the El Rayo-X stuff like Crazy 'Bout a Mercury. JB has a wonderful voice (and looks great) but, for me, his material has individual brilliance but a narrow stylistic range which can lead to listening fatigue.

It would not have pleased tonight's audience, but I would have welcomed a chance to hear more of DL's back catalogue.

Still, you don't often see a lute and mandola at a rock concert (see previous theme ideas).

#72

I believe Cerys is Welsh for vuvuzela.

report from Hampden:

Awesome: the worlds biggest singalong, as one classic after another poured out.Fantastic musicians, fabulous lights and graphics. Moving, in places, like the version of 'Something' for George - hilarious in others - like the spontaneous outpouring of good fun: I never thought I'd find myself out of my seat for Ola de obla da but it's surprising how well it worked on the night.

The set list reads like the aural landscape of your life and then you remember some of the things he didn't do, like 'Can't Buy Me Love' or 'I Saw Her Standing There' and given he started at eight and finished after eleven, it was a breathtaking achievement for a 68 year old man.

Highlights for me (and they were all highlights) were hearing things like 'I've Just Seen A Face' 'Helter Skelter' and 'I've Got A Feeling.'

I took my sister, ( who saw the Beatles in the Odeon in 64) Smiffy and our collective morons (age 15 - 28) and we were all totally amazed.

It really was that good.We're all completly staggered by what we've just witnessed and heard.Not enough superlatives.

Night Night,

henri.

A 'thumbs up' then.

Oh, and Scotch will be pleased to know that although 'Venus & Mars/ Rock Show' wasn't good enough for GIO on Friday night, it was good enough for Paul to open the Hampden gig with. Great.

henri

ps and now that I'm sober again, I'll report on James Grant tomorrow. What a night that was. What a weekend it's been. Lost my phone though...hmmm.

MONDAY - NASTY PEOPLE

Sandman - America,

Is a sandman good or bad? it sounds like the later in this track but I'm never quite sure, but then that's the USA.

Great to be home :-/

Paul from Ayr (Skahtland)

#76, you're quite right about JB, I can only listen for so long then it's time for a change, whereas TP, well can listen to him forever. But unlike our regular concert-goer, Henri, I don't get out much and it was a sheer delight to be back at a concert and such an enjoyable one. As you say, Jackson looks awfully well - I took photies and his skin sure don't look like Keith Richards'.

Paul, hope you had a good holiday and spent much of your time exploring the bars and juke-joints to bring home some good ol' American music for us on GIO who are always eager for new material.

MONDAY

I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy - Paul Jones

Mean Old Man - Jerry Lee Lewis

Monday:
For some reason I keep coming up with tracks about drugs and guns and er... 'ladies of the night'.... not intentional I assure you...

Death On Two Legs: Queen
The Devils Right Hand: Steve Earle
Poppy Day: Steve Knightly
Cocaine (Blues): John Martyn
Hey Joe: Jimi Hendrix
Maybe There's a Road: Karine Pollwart
Neighborhood Girl: Suzanne Vega
Right Next Door (Because of Me): Robert Cray

Sorry... forget Joni Mitchells 'The Magdalene Laundries'... Christy Moore does an excellent cover also.

M

#84

Mike,

It's not the same song, but you should check out

'Magdalen Laundry' -

from her album 'Sentimental Killer'

Well worth a listen.

#75 heehee

What have the Romans ever done for us?

2 Samuel is much more exciting. Much smiting under the fifth rib.

>8-D

Recommended reading;

'God Knows' - Joseph Heller

#71

is Zevon and Hiaasen's song about a crooked banker who absconds to Florida. I suppose it would do for tonight.

#75

With The Beatles is actually their third album, too.

#71, #87

I like his books. Didn't know of the Zevon link. Thanks for that!



#75, #87

Was there a U.S. release between 'Please Please Me' and 'With The Beatles' ?

Since we can't define second album, let's change the theme to 'Space' instead.

#87 & #88

Well spotted (although a tad debatable)



DC

Monday - Unpleasant people

Coward of the County, Kenny Rogers
American Idiot, Green Day
I wish it was over, Teddy Thompson
The King of Bedside Manor, Barenaked Ladies
Springtime for Hitler, Mel Brookes

#85.

Cheers for the nod Scotch... will do.

#85

Magdalen Laundry is an anagram of deny dull anagram.

I believe it's being made into a musical with Subo entitled Knocked Up and Locked Up.

NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY from BILLION DOLLAR BABIES by ALICE COOPER
BLACK JACK DAVEY from I LOOKED UP by THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND
WHISKY YOU’RE THE DEVIL from THE OLD FANGLED TONE by ROBIN WILLIAMSON
JOHNNY TOO BAD from GRACE AND DANGER by JOHN MARTYN (autobiographical)

#94 seconds for Black Jack Davey

#94 I'll definitely second these ones StoneMonkey

THE EVIL PRINCE from THING FISH by FRANK ZAPPA
WILLIE THE PIMP from FILLMORE EAST, 21 JUNE 1974 by FRANK ZAPPA
MAGDALENE from 2000-ZERO TO INFINITY by JETHRO TULL
SWEET DECEIVER from SWEET DECEIVER by KEVIN AYERS

#93

U A DRAM A DAY GLENN?



DC

monday

Welcome back Bryan! Have you ever heard Rocky Raccoon by The Beatles? One of the few left out by Paul's epic gig last night and suitable for tonight.

Positievely 4th Street - Bob Dylan

Dadi Was A Badi - Black Grape

Lipstick On Your Collar - Connie Francis?

Big 2nd for Scotch Git's suggestion of 'Baron Samedi' by 10CC

Big 2nd for Gaie's suggestion of 'I've Been a Bad Bad Boy - Paul Jones'

regardez youse

henri

#97

A Glen Maurandya, D

I requested Big Bad John to mark Jimmy Dean's death last week.