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Stand by your man ~ Miss Tammy Wynette... Well it wuz No. 1 on my 13th birthday!

Keepin it country!

Wow, at 33-1!

Baba O' Reilly - The Who

1971, when surgical spirits got rid of plooks




DC

An Meths wuz fur drinkin'

WEDNESDAY

'Plooks' - David Bowie

'The Plook of Love' - Dusty

'Sto, Plook, Listen to Your Heart' - Diana & Marvin, Gaie.

>8-D

I remember lip-synching and attempting to dance in front of my sister's mirror to this (it was her single, she had a record player, I didn't) as a pre-teen. Preteentious.
Mike Oldfield Five Miles High
Random. It must have appealed to a tortured teenager in the making, though.

and there's always this one that is probably the only Duran Duran song that I really like:
Duran Duran The Chauffeur
If you don't like DD it won't make any difference. You'll still hate it.

And not forgetting
Yazoo Ode To Boy
Don't know why, it just made me weep. Teenagers.

There's no accounting for taste and I daresay I didn't have any. Some things never change. (PS - trying to be gentle on the '80's naysayers - there's plenty more where that came from.) ;0)

jeez - just walked into the comedy zone.
Note to self - stop trying to take it too seriously.
As you were, boys.

Anything by Squeeze and The Jackson Five.

So After Eights lead to zits.

#6

Out!

What is a zit anyway?

Is it a plook wi straight teeth?

We need tae be telt

#5 Very funny, Mr Zit

heehee...

Zabaglione.. telt ye.

I'm The Face - The Who.
Teenage Head - The Flamin' Groovies.
Pulling Mussels - Squeeze.

WAIT UNTIL IT COMES TO A HEAD, ALFREDO GARCIA!

Bring me the Itchie Blackheid of Alfredo Garcia!

WEDNESDAY

Can't remember the precise date, (Paolo knows), but one of the best gigs ever was the Mael brothers at the Apollo, supported by Pilot. I was accompanied by the stunningly beautiful Edith, my first love.

I got a tad jealous when Edith kept banging on about how handsome and talented Russell was. I eventually realised that I, not Russell, would be taking Edith home after the show.

So I just let him be jealous...


'Talent is an Asset' - Sparks

#10
if my teenage angst doesn't make the grade, I'll just start requesting on behalf of my boys. Who are far too busy being busy to post here
Nine Inch Nails Sunspots

which probably doesn't, either.

Knew I should have asked for Adam and the Antz.

Brad, you should be on the stage....

THURSDAY

KISSES

X ÓË¥ X ÓË¥ X ÓË¥ X

#18

Whatever!

# 17 - you sure it wasnt Ron that had caught young Edith's eye?

Waitin for the Pus - ZZ Top
This is Zit - Michael Jackson
Promised you a Miracle - Pimple Minds
Blackheads - Ian Dury
Acne Blues - Gallagher & Lyle
and for my son who went clean aff his heid when the doc put him on a drug to clear up his acne - frightening stuff, we packed up the hundreds of tablets he'd been so blithely handed out and gave them right back to the NHS to send some other poor sod round the bend.

Generous to a fault

Psychotic Reaction - The Count Five

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instant response to request for a teenage memory song?

Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

no particular memory, just a sublime song that takes me back to those carefree days when it all seemed possible

aw shucks

#20 He's just showing off now. Don't encourage him, mary-doll

#21 err. ok. if you'd said "whateva", I might have got wiv' it. feelin' dissed. off to pick ma plukes.

21st November 1974...

Russell had Caught Edith's eye, but Edith thought she had caught the eye of Ron, while all along young Brad had caught Ron's eye, even though he thought Edith only had eyes for him as his talent was an assett...or was that a girl from Germany.....confused? You will be...

#25

Make sure you clean that bathroom mirror afterwards... you hear me?

#19

You should have seen my in 'The Winter's Tale'

I was knockin' 'em dead until Act 3, Scene 3














undone by an overenthusiastic bear...

27 posts in and just 3 or 4 genuine shouts. We'll be getting told off for not taking the theme seriously.

Though I suppose it is more fitting for Facebook...

#29 I'm busy debating Showaddywaddy, Toyah or Bowie...

#19 .... sweeping it. ;o)
#24 ..............
#25 awe, DAD! FFS. What did I do NOW? You're ALWAYS picking on me. It's not fair.

#27 (herrumph) awe, DAD! FFS. What did I do NOW? You're ALWAYS picking on me. It's not fair.
SO?? I didn't ask to be born, you know!

#29 they'd need to notice us first

and I'll put a wee ;0) just to keep it light-hearted

#28 another momentuous moment lost to me. They don't make them like they used to. I blame the teachers. ;o)

Glen - you had a theme on 3rd December 2009, I think you should get to cast the vote on Thursdays theme...

If we're talking zits - Skweeze Me Pleeze Me - Slade.

Spiders and snakes - Jim Stafford
Beach Baby - First Class
Pick up the pieces - Average White Band
It's so easy - Linda Ronstadt

#22

LOL! No, Edith kent the difference!

Aye, aye, Jim's back!

One year when I was about ****teen all the places that had music on loudspeakers were playing "Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)"

After tonight's comments I realise why she was wearing the glasses!

Zits:

Yellow river

:-/

What do you say to a 16 year old with zits?








Big Mac and fries please!







Other 16 year olds are available!

My Generation - the Who
Sylvia - Focus
I hear you knockin' - Dave Edmunds
See my baby jive - Wizzard
Free - Deniece Williams
Love is a rose - Linda Ronstadt
Misty blue - Dorothy Moore

Joe
Linlithgow

This has to be the most open-ended theme of the lot. I could get my dad to request Vera Lynn and my neice to request... hmmmm.... not sure what's on the go today...., but hey, you get what I mean

Paolo, what's the odds on 1970's music being played? I would reckon (from the blog) that one in every two tracks has to be a shoo-in. However, bet it's nothin like that







DC




PS Yacht for sale

I can't get interested in this. I'm too busy looking through yacht brochures.

Plooky Yooth


I remember seeing this when i was around 10 or 11 ...

What i remember more was my Dads reaction to it...

Everyone was talking about it at school... loads of us even tried to stick our hair up (no gel in them days)

Brilliant Frank....

#35
Norrie, havent heard tonights show yet but are they going to let the listeners vote on a theme for Thursday?

And what does the Blog think of the decision to make Friday a theme night too?

#43
Yhink this could be an 80's night again judging by the number of facebookers and texters and even some of the bloggers

#45
I was and still am a Drive in Saturday man myself which was out just before or after Life on Mars I think.

#47
about time we had a friday night theme.

I wonder why they are picking the best of the rest for this thursday. There have been so many good themes suggested it could go a year without repeats.

Am I in a minority of one on here that's enjoyed the A to Z. Not all the themes perhaps but it's brought the blog alive and has generated some good chat and many laughs. Rather than a week of themes at a time I quite like the day to day stuff!

Frank my :

#40

Yacht tae be ashamed ay yirsel'.


#41

Oi! Pizza-Face!


#44

Yacht tae get a grip.


#47

I remain to be convinced. Or... Ah'll believe it when Ah see it.


#48

I'm left with the definite impression that a conscious decision was made to keep the themes as simple as possible. It was, however, an effective method of filling the theme jotter with new ideas; possibly inspired by all the bitching and moaning on the blog.

Ah'll be glad when it's feeneeshed.

#45 #46 #48

To expand...

Music in our house consisted of 100% countrywestern.. George Jones Glen Campbell Buck Owens etc and when he wanted something more upbeat, out would come the Fats Domino..( btw he was 31 when i was 11!!!) I had no radio or owned any records, so to see someone looking and sounding like this was just incredible... it was probably 2 years after it came out so i had a lot of catching up to do... I caught up.


The only other time i got this feeling was when i saw Joy Division on 'Somewhere Else' doing..



Something was about to happen and i wanted some of it..

The answer to Paolo's question is that Life on Mars was the follow up single to Drive In Saturday (though of course from an earlier album). The video was directed by Mick Rock and very much has his style about it....try and avoid Barbara Streisbads cover version at all costs!

For you prog rock fans....Rick Wakeman plays the piano.

Need to go....have a great day.

29 days after my 13th birthday The Beatles released Love Me Do. This was followed by a lot of good music.

Paulo, I've enjoyed the A-Z as it's kept things going over the summer and hopefully they'll use all the good suggestions over the next few months. It's much easier to think up a theme when given a framework - which is what the alphabet did. My only gripe is that they did tend to go for the most unoriginal and blindingly obvious every time - possibly because of the time restraint.
We'll see what happens next!

Yacht to see my yacht - I'll sail it on the canal so you canal see it.

Ah, they don't make jokes like that any more.

a few more memory songs:

Honky Tonk Woman - Rolling Stones

le nightclub in La Baule, 2 youngsters completely starry-eyed in a real downstairs nightclub - all we'd known up till then being a showband in Rothesay pier buildings and a special one-off dispensation on the usual 10.00pm curfew

Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival

simply the best band ever then for me, when first I heard them


Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well

FM are forever Peter Green's FM in my book and this song was so - I dunno - Cool


Don't Let me Down - Beatles

a yearning teenager, wishing there were someone to let her down!

Yester-me Yester-you Yester-day - Stevie Wonder

just a great song


Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf

a wannabe wild-child, the look right, long skirt, beads, bells, headband - and in reality completely clueless about life on the wild side unless you could count plunking an afternoon's school to sunbathe at Ettrick bay or cycling out to same for an evening barbecue with - hope the moderators aren't too appalled - some homebrew for underage drinking.

Zits...

Am I really going to confess to this.... OK, here goes nothing...

I remember being caught-up in the early 80's SKA revival (The Specials, Madness, The Beat, Bad Manners, The Selecter et al)... even had the black Harrington jacket with the tartan lining, the black staypress breeks, white socks and tassle shoes....

there you go, how emotionally unburdened do I feel now!!

Gangsters by The Specials please.

and now I have the cheek to say to my girls... "you're not going out looking like that"!

Oh yes, the teenage years. When is a hairbrush not a hairbrush? When it's a microphone.

;o)


For Wednesday - Help Me Mama - Dr. Hook


Theme suggestion for Thursday

Revenge - Reprisals - Rage - Resentment - Retribution - Rancour - Retaliation

Take your pick. Or do as I do, Mix 'n' Match!

:o)

and two more, the first from possibly my next album after the Monkees. Well no-one said anything about consistency

Don't Waste My Time - John Mayall

and then

The Last Thing on my Mind - Tom Paxton

for the 2 wonderful folk-singers who packed the Struan bar to the gunnels for a summer of Saturday evenings.
I'll have a dark rum and coke, thanks

that's it, no more.

Despite being of the age in the 80s, there'll be nae synthpopping here (and there wull be nae hooliganism, and there wull be nae bevvying), cos in the latter part of the 80s, I was listening to:

* Mike Oldfield - On Horseback
* Kate Bush - Under the Ivy
* Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues
* The Cure - Killing An Arab (pace Dundonians)
* Marillion - Freaks
* Genesis - Blood on the Rooftops
* Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
* Sandy Denny - John the Gun

Oh go on, just the one then:
* The Thompson Twins - We Are Detective

#55

Damn, yes, had forgotten about the Ska revival & associated Modness (although maybe just a *wee* bit before my zittage). I too wore the Harrington on the mean streets of Telford Town Centre. Or would have if I'd been allowed on a bus there on my own.

Specials - Guns of Navarone
The Jam - Going Underground

And just because my New Romantic fan of a big sister made me listen to it so much in 1981
The Passions - I'm In Love with a German Film Star
The unexpected Foo Fighters' cover is also good.

MEGA 2nd for Gaie's Oh Well shout...
Recall I was intrigued as a pre teen (on the occasions that I'd steal into Big Bro's record collection) that the entire recording was in two parts on the same single... but wasn't deemed a double A side?

#48

I was dubious about the alphabet metatheme when it was announced, but I think it's been excellent overall, even if I'd have picked some of the other themes suggested.

Well done the GiO Team!

(now, about that Tull request ;-) )

#47

I like the idea of having Friday as a theme night that's only announced on Thursday. We've done the Friday theme for long enough now, and the Black Eyed Peas and the Cure all say "Thankyou very much."

There's no reason why we can't still have some of the Friday features (PMF etc).

The other alternative would be to have Friday to play those many tracks that would have been played through the week, if the show had gone on another hour or so.

I think the alphabet thing has been great. I'm sure it will be repeated.

I'll have to think about this. My teen-hood (luckily no plooks worth talking about) covers late Glam Rock through to the New Romantics.

#62 & #64

Too many groans I'm afraid. (And I was away for most of it!)
Take tonight's theme for example. Dearame.

Ok I reckon the spottiest years were roughly ages 14 - 17? For me anyway, not that I was that spotty, just hormonal.

Anyway I digress.....those spotty years fpr me co-incided with the best period ever for music. Roughly 78 - 81. Albums included Darkness on The Edge of Town, The River, Scary Monsters, London calling, Lodger, Replicas, Flesh + Blood, Back In Black, Setting Sons I could go on. The number of classic singles from this period just cannot be beten:

insert Glen Miller complaint here.......









..........................


anyway enough of this rambling. Spotty teenage angst. It has got to be:

The Jam - The Bitterest Pill (I've Ever Had To Swallow)

1982, spotty and probably dumped...again! It seemed appropriate then and is still a great song now!

#53 the pigeon fancier's song?

#54 Yaffa yat? Which yat yaffa?

And other recent posts... I have to say that I enjoyed the alphabet soup, so much so that I think it should be started all over again. The more repetitions of letters, the less blindingly obvious themes can be suggested

Give it some thought GiO!

DC

Zits - the songs you remember from your teenage years!: ~

THE SPOT HEAD PIXIES from FLYING TEASPOT (RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE PART 1) by GONG
WITCH'S SONG, I AM YOUR PUS from FLYING TEASPOT (RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE PART 1) by GONG

Theme suggestion for themorra; ~

CHEESE

All this user's posts have been removed.Why?

Or from when I was a pre-spotty:

Showaddywaddy - Trocadero

I'll go with:

In A Rut - The Ruts

Seem to remember being accused of that a lot.

All this user's posts have been removed.Why?

#72

Only if it's followed *immediately* (and with no other sound between) with the John Peel Speak brief recording that's on the Bustin' Out compilation.

I've found this really difficult: I don't know where to start.

I became a teenager in the year of the White Album. I never did get plooks but 'teenage' life began properly around about 70/71, I think.

Around this time there came an enormous change in the way people percieved music: the music you danced to was unlikely to be the music you listened to - albums became 'the thing' and it all got quite serious.

The first album I bought was 'Abbey Road' but that was an alleged present for my sister's Xmas (more than a touch of self interest there) and I quickly owned albums by Ten Years After, Led Zepplin and The Moody Blues (who were massive in the late 60's) and King Crimson.I was the first person I knew to own 'Gasoline Alley'.

I got my first lumber during a slow dance to 'Albatross' at a party around 1970, and things in this regard really got going with 'Every Picture Tells A Story' playing in the background ( is this too much information.)

One of the albums that was a constant feature of our youth club was Jack Bruce's 'Songs for a Tailor'. Hot Rats was also constant as was Led Zepplin II, Sweet Baby James and Imagine.

However, there are a few which, for me, best sum up the times, the mood and that sense of endless curiosity and exploration where everything is possible and nothing is harmful (unless you fall off your Lambretta)

Meet Me On The Corner - Lindisfarne

Gimme Some Truth - John Lennon

The Resurrection Shuffle - Ashton Gardner & Dyke

I Hear You Knockin' - Dave Edmunds

The last two, I never owned but they were the aural landscape of teenage life and quite a lot of exciting things happened whilst they were playing.

Hopefully, you can play one of these, but failing that if you'd like to play something to liven eveything up which was equally exciting.

The Stomp - Ten Years After would be equally appropriate.

They were the first band I saw live - age 14 - Tyranasuraus Rex were the support.

regardez youse

henri

Zits ~

PUS-JE from ODD ZITTIES by KEVIN AYERS

THE SPOTLIGHT KID from THE SPOTLIGHT KID by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART

Or

AND THEN HE PLOOK UP GOLF by THE INK SPOTS

#75

and- how could I forget - much winching was done to this....

Motown Chatrbusters - Vol III which I bought in about 1970, but which stetches slightly further back... though it was also part of being teenage... the original album cover was just magnificent, much better than later print runs when it dulled down...

it was the first compiliation album to reach no 1 and still is, imho, the best compilation album.. now... ever.. Jur Walker remains mindblowing but we've heard it a few times recently so how about....

Behind A Painted Smile - The Isley Brothers

regardez youse

henri

#75 & 77
Didnt know you were in the tree felling business in your youth Henri.
You were in charge of the hoist were you?

My Fresh-faced youth:

'I'm Not In Love' by 10CC shall forever remind me of finally winning the heart of the boy of my dreams at the youth club disco, just in time to be guaranteed a partner for the dreaded round of pre-Christmas dancing lessons at school!

'It's In His Kiss' - Linda Lewis (just one of my favourite songs of that era)

'The Wanderer' by Dion was re-issued in 1976.

'Clevor Trever' - Ian Dury + The Blockheads...first concert.

My sisters music...Simon + Garfunkel - 'A simple desultory phillipic' never played on GIO, Kris Kristofferson - 'Casey's Last Ride'

So many more but busy at work so I'll just leave it at that!

#78

well, it was the word that was used at the time... plainly, I don't remember the spelling of it...matter of fact, I never really understood why that word was used to describle that activity.. but I managed nonetheless...

#79

Ah Julie! The memories of the race across the gym floor to make sure you get a decent pick. Looking back, surely one of the cruellest thing the teachers could do to the girls who weren't, shall we say, first choice.

Secondary Waltz - Mark Knopfler

covers this and would fit tonights theme perfectly

#81. It was the girls who were still wearing vests under their nylon school blouses in 5th year I felt most sorry for...they always had to partner each other like 2 old aunties at a wedding! There were always more girls than boys too.Also...I've yet to find an occasion where I can show off my mastery at the square tango!

LIQUIDATION GIRL from SKOOKUM CHIEF POWERED TEENAGE ZIT ROCK ANGST by THE DELGADOS

Henri getting a lumber....Julie in a vest....if this does not tempt JFE back on the blog then nothing will!

Where is Hoppo when we need him?

#81
The first gym dance rehearsals, boys on one wall girls on another. Right guys pick your partner. Noone moved out of embarrassment. Then one or two trudged over then a few more trying to look really unenthusiastic. Then the ones at the back. And then the penny dropped. And your right Adam, week 2, take your partners......you could see the skid marks as gym shoes burned rubber in the stampede!

#82

I clearly missed out on this Girls Outnumbering Boys thing.

But then, I went to an all-boys secondary school; Gurls were a forn country for far too long.

#87

You learned Scottish Country dancing with a bloke as a partner?

#86 etc. Ladies'Choice...you had to train for weeks beforehand in case a girl in a vest (who happened to be in the athletics team) nicked in first and stole your boyfriend...leaving you to dance with her friend!

#82

I was a Cha Cha and Rumba man myself.

Of course, now I wish we'd been given the Samba.....

Bah southeners. Us Highlanders simply dance with who / what available.

#91 Sheep?

well, that's some ska on for one of our ever reliable bloggers - ...reliability not being confined to emailers, of course.

#88 reminds me of that Steptoe & Son episode when Dad taught Son how to waltz. When it came to the actual dance, male & female moved apart!

the #92 comment was in reference to "bah", nothing more sinister.

#93 it's a great mix tonight. Good theme!

#91
who's got the monitor cleaner again?

#95
Havent heard the show yet, but "good theme" (songs from when you were younger) - no, dont agree.

There might have been some good shouts though, which made it a good show.

Christina Hendricks's end, mad man.

Sunburst Finish - Todd Rundgren & Utopia.
Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who. " Yeahhhhhhhhhh"
21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson. ( the final 41 seconds).
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter.
21st Century Schizoid Man - The Tubes.

there's an ending going through my head now and I can't place it. Pure doin' ma heid in so it is.

What a tube.. What Do You Want From Life - The Tubes