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Paolo is the undisputed king or rock and pop knowledge on the blog.

I would dispute that to be fair. I've learned hunners from other folk on here!

Ah but it is a wise king who learns from his subjects!

I think between us all we'd make a damn good team at a music quiz

#1 Said so last week.

Previous threed:

#65 - Mike, it was The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards that got the number one.

#72 - Captain, I've asked you this before - do you want us to think of you as the late cockney comedian or the former Radio One DJ? If the latter then its Read.

A. P. Dantic

Caption

George helps a bandmate with toothache.

"One more yank should do it!"

Time running out for The Floaters MM

Monday's show is still not available on Listen Again. I'm having to listen to Pick of The Pops!!

Not bad Bryan you only played one song that wasn't No.1

Wednesday

Instinction / Spandau Ballet



I don't know what it means




but I don't want to hear it either!

'IMITOSIS' - ANDREW BIRD

He's another one who makes words up, as well as using archaic and scientific words in his lyrics...a load of pretentious nonsense perhaps but I like this song.

Paolo - Blinded by the light would fit this theme perfectly. Could you suggest it for me?

Lionel Ritchie - Dancing On The Ceiling

No matter how hard I try......

#13 what about "living on the wall" then Norrie?

I suppose anything by "Yes" would do, phrases like "total mass refrain" spring to mind....

Missed out on the number ones that don`t have the title in the song. Instrumentals are barred. Can think of 4 or 5.

Lyrics that don't make sense - has to feature
Cocteau Twins. Just about any of theirs would do, but haven't heard Lorelei for a while.
A band more interested in the sound and feel of the song than the lyrics.

Presidents of The United States Of America Lump Whatever that means. It's quite fun though.

Yello Jungle Bill
Can only make out some of the lyrics here and they don't make much sense. Got a bit of a "I Feel Love" feel about it. Love the horn work.

".....is it hard to make arrangements with yourself?
when you're old enough to repay but young enough to sell...

Tell Me Why - Neil Young

... yes please do Neil!

Beautiful melody though!!

Paul from Ayr

#7

Yip... can't seem to get anything played these days.

WEDNESDAY

'Eh Umna Therefore Eh Um' - Saint Andrew

It might make sense tae Oor Wullie, but this Weedgie has no' got a Scooby!

>8-D

#19
Seconded. Brilliant nonesense. ;o)

Blinded by the Light / Loose Windscreen (Maria won't know who you mean Norrie)

Life on Mars / Bowie
Ying Tong Song / Goons

#19,20 Eh thirded? Is that right? Double seconded?

#22 More to come, I hope!

The Trip - Donovan

utter nonsense and truly fantastic:one of many Donovan nonsense songs but easily the best, imho.

really hope this gets played.

regardez youse

henri

Another vote for blindede by the light, but I'd prefer the Manfred Mann version. Also,

Fix you - Coldplay
Human - the Killers
Maid in heaven - Be Bop Deluxe
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
If I ever leave this world alive - Flogging Molly
Take me out - Franz Fedinand
De do do do, de da da da - Police


Joe
Linlithgow

Now you see this one-eyed midget
Shouting the word 鈥淣OW鈥�
And you say, 鈥淔or what reason?鈥�
And he says, 鈥淗ow?鈥�
And you say, 鈥淲hat does this mean?鈥�
And he screams back, 鈥淵ou鈥檙e a cow
Give me some milk
Or else go home鈥�

Night, night.

The moderator hasn't grasped Dylan's coarse symbolism.

File with Hey Jude.

Tee hee

Samson - Regina Spektor -forget the lyrics, it's a gorgeous song

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
Ate a slice of wonderbread and went right back to bed
Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down
Yeah we couldn't destroy a single one
And history books forgot about us
And the bible didn't mention us, not even once

Roscoe - Midlake

Stonecutters made them from stones
Chosen specially for you and I
Who will live inside
The mountaineers gathered tender
Piled high
In which to take along.
Driving many miles, knowing they'd get here.

When they got here, all exhausted
On the roof leaks they got started
And now when the rain comes
We can be thankful

Ooh aah ooh
When the mountaineers
Saw that everything fit, they were
Glad and so they took off

Thought we were devoid
A change or two
Around this place
When they get back they're all mixed up with no one to stay with

Silver Lining - Rilo Kiley

And I'm not going back
Into rags or in the hole
And our bruises are coming
But we will never fold

And i was your silver lining
As the story goes
I was your silver lining
But now I'm gold

You think these are nonsense? Willie Dixon says it best of all - the human race makes no sense at all:

It Don't Make Sense,
You Can't Make Peace

by Willie Dixon

You have made great planes to span the sky
You gave sight to the blind with another man's eyes
You even made submarines, they submerge for weeks
But it don't make sense you can't make peace

You take one man's heart and make another one live
u even go to the moon and come back thrilled
Why you can crush any country in a matter of weeks
But it don't make sense you can't make peace
You know it don't make sense- you can't make peace

When you can't make peace....
You can make a transfusion that will save a life
You can change the darkness into broad daylight
You make the deaf man hear and the dumb man speak
But it don't make sense you can't make peace

You know it don't make sense- you can't make peace

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...

(a park made out of icing ~ are you sure)

Someone left the cake out in the rain

(why ~ that was never going to be a good idea, ants apart from anything else)

and I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have that recipe again

(of course you will - google it!)

Donna Summer - McArthur Park please not Richard Harris!

wrinkle, wrinkle little scar, count the freckles on my arm
if freckles don't mean anything, does anything mean anything?

'CONSTELLATIONS' - DARWIN DEEZ

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I've just been reading the obituary of Gregory Issacs in The Herald.

There must be a fair amount of drivel in the average reggae lyric?

Tribute, suggestions,madmac?

regardez youse

henri

Henri...'Dat' by Pluto Shervington (little campaign Mac + I have going) makes sense if you know the lingo I reckon, but otherwise it's a bit of a jumble. They'd me more likely to play 'Gimme Dat Ding' though I suppose.

#33

Drivel... that's somewhat broad-brush assumption 'enri!

Linton Kwesi Johnson 鈥� All Wi Doin Is Defendin' another prior suggestion to have fallen on GIO's deaf ear!

Several songs by this singer spring to mind but I'll go with this one.

My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died - Roger Miller

If I'm feeling blue Roger Miller always makes me smile!

:o)

#36 Yes...a chicken ain't a chicken till it's lickin' good fried!

I`ve just been reading the obituary of Paul the Psychic Octopus.
There must be a few songs about cephalopod molluscs which are pretty hard to understand.

Brown Girl In The Ring - Boney M

Used to have me puzzled. Was it about a plum shaped, circus freak in dirty clothes who lived on something called Johnny Cakes?

#21 would that be manfred mann?

I'll get my coat...again!

Gotta be leftfield, Afro left for tonight. HAve asked djum djum many times what it all means but he won't reveal...all made up I reckon

#34/35

I know, that was a strange comment coming from a committed Dreadzone fan, such as myself. All their lyrics make perfect sense.

Zion Youth (Radio Edit) - Dreadzone

this version, is all de way from creation: Zion!

I'll add it to Pluto & Linton.

Mind you,I'd still like to hear that Donvan track. Worth hearing.

regardez youse

henri

#39

Maria, are you going to the Leftfield gig in the Barrowland Ballroom, end of November?

I was at their 1996 gig there: utterly mental: Big 2nd for Afro Left.

regardez vous

henri

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#40 Absolutely, let's have something by Mr Donvan Leitch.
B.T.W. Is he related to Don Juan?

#25. "Maid In Heaven", not make any sense? Of course it does. It's our hero, post-gig, musing about the possibility of pulling the hotel chambermaid. So, it's like Busted's "Air Hostess", but a bit more, er, enigmatic. I'm reliably informed that this explanation comes from The Man Himself.

Obvious scope for "McArthur Park" tonight, I think. Plus, "almost anything by the Skids" except possibly "Charles"?

Meanwhile...over on FB...criteria now seems to include misheard lyrics!

#5 Yes, I do

A P Edant

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#45

Surely to goodness they won't move the goalposts in that direction just to make it easier for the F***bookers!

Pat Dean!

#48

The GIO team would never do such a thing: I couldn't give a monkees about Alice, as passe as J&C.

I had an Aunt Alice, but she died many years ago and I don't think the writer lived next door to her - let's move to something worth hearing, shall we?

regardez vous

henri

Oh and I almost forgot almost anything from my favourite album of the year - Plastic Beach.

Stylo/Emoire Ants/Superfast Jellyfish - Gorrillaz

Theme: Album of the year?

regadrdez youse

henri

that's 'Empire Ants'

I'll need to check that out Henri - it got some terrible reviews so I avoided the album but if you reckon album of year then must be worth a punt....

The Police - De do do do de da da da what was that all about?

Gordon,Kirrie

#53

Norrie, like yourself, the initial reviews didn't help and I wasn't immediately attracted to it, though I loved Demon Days and bought it in hope more than expectation - but a couple of listens I realisid that those who had initially reviwed it hadn't listened to anymore than snippets or fully understood the breadth of the work.

It is a truly remarkable record and the first couple of intro tracks, it just flies.

I read a more recent review that said ' for those who wished Blur had made their 'White Album', this is it' and I know what they mean.

The scope in terms of styles of music, technical proficiency and sheer musical imagination is truly breathtaking.

I think if you asked those who initially reviwed it, they'd have changed their minds by now.

Definately album of the year: no contest.

regardez vous

henri

matter of fact, I'd be equally happy with any of these other tracks from Plastic Beach:

Glitter Freeze,Some Kind Of nature,On Melancholy Hill/Broken/Plastic Beach/ or To Binge - Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

none of it makes any sense, but it all works just fine in describing a post - apocalypitic world

regardez youse

henri