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technology. Harrumph! Fantastic gift of an iPod yesterday. First one had to go back after it ran a bit mad then died. Second one fine, itunes now won't run. Uninstalled, - downloaded exe file, it won't run.

HELP!!

I do like that caption. But where are the tarts? ;o)

I would be quite happy for Vic to stay on.

Monday
Technology
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Throw Away Your Television

or, in your case, Gaie - your iPod. I had similar issues with an MP3 player I got for Christmas. My son managed to get it working and has now taken ownership of it. Funny, that. He bought me it.

Story to go with this choice of song - manny and I went through a stage at the beginning of our family's life of refusing to have a TV set. Young parents trying to do the "right thing". It lasted 5 years. The boys developed a love of the written word and could read before they started school. (Don't think this extended to them being able to spell spaghetti at 3, mind).
We eventually succumbed to this particular form of technology when they discovered the joys of The Adventures of Tintin on the box round at a friend's house. We'd read all the books together but it somehow wasn't the same. It felt cruel to deny them that simple pleasure. Not sure if I have a point there, just sharing some trivia.

New phone yesterday

Blackberry Way - Carl Wayne

Other spartphones are available

DC

Spartphones?????

Should have gone to smecsavers

DC

#4
I got rid of the telly for good in 2005.

Initially, it was an accident. I was having the house renovated and I sent the telly to the office. It took five months to renovate the house.

Hitherto, I was a news junkie:it's absence completely revolutionized our lives for the better.

So I never did bring it back.

Sometimes when I visit the Ayatollah and Sister Margaret on a Friday evening the telly is playing and when I see it, particularly the news, I think it's just infantile and insulting.

Otherwise, I think of it as an open sewer running through the living room: except for ´óÏó´«Ã½ 4, which I sometimes miss..

I don't quite get the theme... this covers everything that's ever happened in human history to this point - including the technological breakthroughs in agriculture involving Jethro Tull - or is it GIO's excuse to play synth pop from the 80's (again)?

#6 they're they new-fangled thingumijigs.

Don't know why this suddenly popped into my head
Radiohead Paranoid Android
;o)

#6 got me wondering: Would Doctor Spooner have had a PhartsMoan?

Teknorlogy
Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin.
Car Phone - Roger McGuinn.
I Hate My F'n Isp - Todd Rundgren.
Deep Blue - Arcade Fire.
Ejection - Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters.
Third Man On The Moon - Masters of Reality.
TV Is King - The Tubes.
The Restless Consumer - Neil Young.

#7 Sounds like a good decision. In spite of having a TV, it's not on a lot. It's there for sport, documentaries and the odd bit of Come Dine With Me. Swedish Wallander. And Antiques Roadshow. I don't grudge the licence fee because it funds our radio habit. But am severely miffed they axed the Friday Play. And hearing a lot of repeats. Hmm.

my phartsmoan is ringing in my ears. must shoot.
toodles x

Technology

Transverse City - Warren Zevon
You Can't Catch Me - Chuck Berry
Mercury Blues - David Lindley
Grand Coulee Dam - Lonnie Donegan
Here Come The Navvies - Ian Campbell

U is for Uplift

Those songs which never fail to cheer the spirits - even in the darkest moments - like Don't Stop Believin' by the Glee Cast.

David Bowie - TVC15

Springsteen - TV Movie

Neil Young / Sonic Youth - Computer Age

OMD - Electricity

Ryan Adams - Nuclear

Richard Ashcroft - Science of Silence

Is Neil Young's Trans the worst album ever made?

MONDAY

The technological breakthrough from which mankind has derived most benefit is, IMHO,

It occupies the smallest, yet most important, room in the house. It's contribution to our personal hygiene is incalculable.

Indeed, I salute its incalculability!

BUT!

The flush toilet, or, to be more accurate, the upon which one sits (or not) whilst engaged in evacuative procedures, has long been a bone of contention betwixt quines and loons. Why don't men leave the seat down? Why don't ladies leave the seat up?

My request for Monday evening addresses this contentious issue. An issue which directly affects everyone who shares toilet facilities with a person or persons of the opposite sex.

Not only that; it is a love song. (It's also funny, but it's still a love song).

Ladies & Gentlemen, for your entertainment:


'Ode De Toilet (The Toilet Song)' - Brad Paisley

My song suggestions are based on a list complied by a group of engineers of the most important technological developments of the 20th century:
Automobile - Keep the car running - Arcade Fire
Airplane - This flight tonight - Nazareth
Water supply and Distribution - Every river - Kim Richey
Electrification - Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
Electronics, Radio and Television - Broken radio - Jesse Malin
Mechanised agriculture - Trouble in the fields - Nanci Griffith
Telephone - Telephone Road - Steve Earle
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration - Cold, cold heart - Norah Jones
Highways - Gulf Coast Highway - Nanci Griffith
Spacecraft - Fly me to the moon - Sinatra
Computers and the Internet - Surfin USA - Beach Boys
Imaging - Pictures of Lily - the Who
Household appliances - Money for nothing - Dire Straits
Health Technologies - Love is a drug - Roxy Music
Petroleum and Petrochemical Technologies - Gasoline and matches - Buddy & Julie Miller
Laser and Fiber Optics - Blinded by the light - Manfred Mann
Nuclear technologies - Atomic - Blondie
Materials science - Conctrete and barbed wire - Lucinda Williams

Theme ideas to follow

Joe
Lilithgow

Point of order your honour. What exactly do we mean by "Technology"? Is it the use of Science / Engineering theory? Or are we expanding to include the resultant manufactured goods?

After all, anything purchased from any store will have used technology in its manufacture! Could this be Get It On's widest open theme ever?

We need tae be telt

#16 It is certainly his worst ever album. But Metal Machine Music is worse.

Monday merely keeping with the 'program'

Reactor ~ Brian Eno
Nuclear Fusion ~ Mat Zo
Nuclear Device ~ T. Stranglers
Techno D Day ~ Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
Nuclear Burn ~ Brand X

Science ~ System of a Down

'well... ain't it the application of practical science that creates technology' isn't the ambiguity @ GIO wonderful!

Behind the Wheel ~ Depeche Mode
Aéro Dynamik ~ Kraftwerk
Built For Speed ~ Stray Cats
(We're not)the jet set ~ Tammy & George

Higher Than A Skyscraper ~ Hybrid

PSI Power ~ Hawkwind

Tape Loop ~ Morcheeba
Digital Rasta ~ Cabaret Voltaire

Cells ~ They Might Be Giants
Superbug ~ Sneaker Pimps
Chemical Beats ~ Chemical Brothers

#19

Don't think about it too much...

It really doesn't make a blind bit of difference 'cause the popular vote invariably wins through.

GIO... tunes for the masses!

#17
Interesting...
Goes without saying everybody agrees that scientific research is indispensable to the nation's health.
However, clearly you failed to examine all the alternatives within the confines of your research, particularly and where do you stand on the matter of slippers?
We all have a responsibility to stop the avalanche of low-quality research.

Resubmission asap for final grading!

#23

Sorry, sir! In mitigation, I'm just trying to get a song played. When I say "mankind" I speak primarily of the residents of Western Europe and North America. I refuse to visit countries which are bereft of proper plumbing. As for squatting (are you serious?) I would require at least one hip replacement.

>8-D

#22

I salute your cynicability

#24

You can do anything but lay off of your blue suede shoes

#18

No squeak from DC about automobile, airplane and fiber?

#18

I always imagined Wichita Lineman was about telephone lines rather than power lines - or am I splitting hairs?

Splitting The Atom - Massive Attack

#23

Brad is quite right, Edward Crapper's water closet is one of the great technologcal advances ever made in human history.

T*** On The Run - The Rolling Stones from the excellent remastered Exile On Main Street - you forget how great some of the 'unheard' Stones material of the late 60/s early 70/s is though this might not be the best example - it won't be getting played anyway.

#19 yep, in my interpretation, just about anything at all counts for this theme, with the possible exception of love and religion etc which are about feelings rather than things - although relationships ended using a fax or a text message or epiphanies happening on a plane would count, I guess.

I'm trying to track down a song about the potato peeler at the moment which I think is a great thing.

Way Down

#26

#24
Oh really, suggest you make an appointment there's a couple of things we need to

#26 - Glen - American engineers, enough said?
#27 - HH - How about Power lines by Nanci Griffith as an alternative?

Joe
Linlithgow

#25 don't think they'll be blue any more....

Monday

Electricity - OMD (one for Glen)

Love Grows - Edison Lighthouse (one for the ladies)

#26


Americans. Where would we be without them?

One out of three.

Aw Glen, I missed that...........

I was merely acknowledging our debt to Uncle Sam.

Flushing toilets, potato peelers, cheese slicers, toasters, ovens, fridges - hard to find songs that do them any justice. Apart from that Brad Paisley one - must remember to get the men of the house to listen to it.
But there's one thing I found a worthy song for (others may beg to differ):
Hard-Fi Cash Machine

#33 Good OMD shout. That song reminds me of some early Lesley Ash TV appearance. Think it might have been a Roald Dahl Tale of the Unexpected, or something. Anyway, the song stuck in my head, even if the name of programme didn't.

Enola Gay should have been on yesterday, the 65th anniversary of Hiroshima.

#23, #24, #30

So, that's what the slippers are for!

Sorry, Corporal Punishment. You're getting me confused with Ben Dover.

>8-D

#39 looks like we all forgot to request it. Maybe we can make amends and change that OMD request. Bombers count as technology. As do atomic bombs, even if neither have contributed anything positive to the human condition.
OMD Enola Gaye
Blondie Atomic

We can wait another year for OMD and Blondie are overplayed already.

That's me telt, then.

Fine.
Rage Against The Machine Killing in the Name
might cover it instead.

Anyway...
one the nicest inventions I rely on every day is very basic as far as technology goes, but I can't live without it. The toaster.
Streetband Toast

#43

Sorry for that. Unacceptably rude.

- The Captain Lockheed & the Starfighters

#38

And who was the first person in the UK to use a cash machine?

#31

No, please don't change it, Joe.pay no attention to me, its a fantastic list and well thought out.

Wichita Lineman is one of those incredibly rare and completely remarkable records that is genre busting,timeless,innovative,utterly perfect and one of a handful that I just don't ever tire of hearing.

New chapter. Ditched the tiresome surname.

#18, #21 - impressive lists!

just two from me for now:

- Biffy Clyro (Iain Cook Aereogramme remix) - love it

and


being a hugely impressive engineering work that provided Greenock with water from Loch Thom so

At the Cut - The Cave Singers

and seconds for Ode de Toilet - checked it out the last time you suggested it, Scotch, definitely deserves a play


Now say what we will (and we do say plenty) about songs that don't get played; nevertheless these three songs typify what's good about GIO - all of them came about for me through either checking out someone else's recommendation or looking for something myself for a theme.

#50

Why not just adopt a new surname?

Maybe something eccentric, unusual and uncommon.

I'll ask Cynthia and Fred to suggest something

Note I'm carefully dodging the question of why an eccentric name would suit me.

#48 I think it was Stan Butler

There are 24 professionals named Stan Butler, who use LinkedIn to exchange information. Was it one of their dads?

Gaie I dont know his real name - Stan from Off The Buses..I could google but where is the fun in that.

Someone will know...

Olive's brother...

Thats right! Ha ha it's coming back to me now :o)

#50

Gaie,

The Brad Paisley song was played this evening on Bill Black's Country Show.

When Nick Barraclough presented his Country show on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio2 he played it several times.

We both know it's a great song. It's a real shame that Bryan's audience is being deprived of the opportunity to hear it.












guilt trip git

I think he real name is Reg.

Reg Varney... (not googled)

Thanks, I was going to say Reg Vardy but knew that was a motor dealership and must be wrong.

#62 and the name of Tony Blackburn's dug's administrative supervisor?

was the dug called Arnold?

Woof woof

#40

Apparently only in Japan! See #24

Monday Tech

My Clone Sleeps Alone ~ Pat Benatar

For Monday - Telephones & Trannies

Austin - Blake Shelton

Turn Your Radio On - Skeeter Davis



Theme suggestion for Tuesday

I was torn between utterly useless for men in general or unhinged for the men on this blog.

Instead I'll give Bryan an Ultimatum. Get it on! Or else!!!

Welcome back, Bryan!

;o)

#39 - #41 - #42 - #43 - #44 - #46 - Glen - A married man should know this, but just in case you don't. When a woman says Fine! you're in deep trouble!

Ask Paolo. He knows.

;o)

Sadder and wiser.

Tuesday

Uplifting

Up for it!

Unusual, Unconventional

#46 Over it already. And you might just be right. ;o)

#68 Enjoyed that!

Unconditional
Uncomplicated
Up and Under

Welcome back, Bryan.

Unusual songs for Get It On










(Unlikely to be the theme...)

I'll second 'TV Is King' by The Tubes
And...'Telephone Road' - Steve Earle.

Both grrreat songs.

Well done. Reg Varney it was.

More techie trivia -

Who was the first man in the UK to use a mobile phone?

'HIGHWAYS of My Life' - The Isley Brothers

#75. Duke of Edinburgh

Was he phoning for a kebab?

Who were the first clones to have a hit with "Letter from America"?

Duke of Earl?

William of Orange?

#75 The one with the biggest tumour.

#75 my Dad in the 50s. He was a vet and if he went out for the evening he'd say 'I'll have to take the phone with me'
ie transfer calls to the number he was at.

Telephone Exchange - Angel

U is for under the radar, the bands and songs that didn't get the recognition they deserved

#5 I have one for my work. Hate it with a passion. never stops ringing.

#19 Like I said on last thread, The wheel was technological at one time.

#27 Thomas Crappers invention? Urban Myth!

#75 Ernie Wise? (not googled and possibly not right but somethings slapping me about the chops saying Ernie Wise)


Hardly wortn going away for the weekend when it takes so long to catch back up.

No technology from me..wouldn't know where to start

U is for unheard on GIO before

Good luck Gaie in your chosen lifestyle. How about Wallace for your new surname. They will never take your freedom.



Or is there a Wallace on the show already?

On second thoughts I have an appropriate one for technology night

Since 'Mary had a little lamb' was the first recording Edison made on his new invention the phonograph back in eighteenlongago howsabout

Mary Had a Little Lamb / Paul McCartney and Wings.

A hit in 1972 recorded cos he was fed up with the Beeb banning his records.

#83

Many years ago I watched a documentary with a nutter of a presenter called Lucinda Lampton and she credited it to T.C, but maybe she was talking a lot of crap.

Tsk

U for Under The Stairs ...guess what's in my cupboard!!! Nah!...what's in your cupboards (music or otherwise)!!!

U is for Ubiquitous - the stuff that's played everywhere.... only joking....
u is for Underplayed and Underrated.

Theme ideas:

Tuesday
Ups and downs in songs
United -songs about togetherness
Umbrage - songs about taking or giving offence

Wednesday
Songs featuring Violins
Vixen - songs about scheming women
Verity - songs where the title rings true (eg it's still rock'n roll to me)

Thursday
Songs that begin with "What" "Where" or "Why"
Wee - small things in songs
Wistful songs

Next Monday
XXX - kissing songs
XXX - songs which are not played because they require a wee bit of censorship
XXX - songs with beer in the lyrics

Joe
Linlithgow

I'd love to hear Underplayed or Underrated songs. I mainly only listen to GIO to hear those types of songs. Sadly fewer played these days than before.

Under Your Hat - songs about hair (or lack of it perhaps).
Under The Weather - songs about illnesses or being no weel!

#84, Paolo, thank you. My chosen lifestyle is a house on Skye, a horse in the field, Tom Petty i..oh well anyway, might take more than luck, but a girl can dream.

MONDAY

If I Had a Hammer - Nancy Griffith
Walkmans and Magnums - the Silencers
In the Days of the Caveman - Crash Test Dummies
At the Cut - the Cave Singers
Machines - Biffy Clyro (Iain Cook Aereogramme remix)*choice*

we have U for underplayed, underrated, unusual, under the radar, unconventional, unplayed on GIO before - does anyone see a THEME developing here?

perhaps we could add in Understatement

#86 well reinstated Henri. At the risk of being an utter bore he did invent the ballcock to be fair

#93

Yep, no doubt about the direction the blog is going in for this theme but the thing is we don't know what JfE has suggested, and they'll go with that, whatever it is.

I'm worried about Big Al in Maryport, too. Since Vic played 'Wooden Heart' I think he's stopped eating: his dinner was firmly tied to his text regime. No reason to text, no reason to eat = loss of will to live.

Mind you, it's been nice to hear about the music people are interested in hearing rather their kipper and liver spicy pasta on a nightly basis.

#96 oh come off it, henry. you get your fair share of requests played. WE all do. Apart from a few notable exceptions, and THAT'S unforgiveable, given the quality of the requests.
JfE isn't here anymore to defend himself - wonder why that might be. If he still holds some sway in what gets played even if he isn't here, good for him. Stop being so miserable about people who put their requests in off the blog - you've done it yourself. WE all do.

More T Vicar?

Hmmmmmmm

I see an open

GOAL!