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For those too lazy to think of new suggestions (who, me? Guilty!), I offer the last time we did this theme.

Battle of New Orleans - Lonnie Donegan

I was on holiday the last time, watching Motorhead, The Killers and Bonnie Raitt. Did I miss anything?

Mark Knopfler And James Taylor - Sailing To Philadelphia
Indigo Girls - Galilleo
Van Morrison - In The Days Before Rock 'n Roll
Low Anthem - To The Gohst That Write History
Morrissey - Munich 1958 Air Disaster

hardly historic in anything other than a general way, but I reckon
Mary Hopkins Those Were The Days, My Friend
is somehow relevant to the theme. Even if it is just looking back with rose tinted spectacles.

OMD Enola Gay
The Tom Robinson Band Long Hot Summer
Paul Hardcastle Nineteen
Billy Joel We Didn't Start The Fire probably covers a shedload of recent events. Not his best, but I couldn't write even the worst of his songs, so who am I to comment?


Anyway - thoroughly enjoyed the programme tonight. Some real surprises (in particular, the one about not staying at granma's house - cracker!!) amongst the usual suspects. Even the usual suspects were good. And the only Nanci Griffiths song I like was stunning. I just don't get her voice, usually.

I really enjoyed tonight's programme but I realise that's just because today I'm the teacher's pet.

Tomorrow will be back to normal since history is only a half-stop behind geography in my list of subjects I'm hopeless at. That's because I can't remember stuff therefore I've also no idea what was played last time around so my suggestions'll probably cause hilarity and derision among the bloggers' elite.

As if I care. See me? Track of the night tonight. I'm so chuffed.

Boston Tea Party ~ SAHB

almost forgot
Elvis Costello Oliver's Army
It alludes to "The Troubles" and possibly Mr Cromwell and his New Model Army as well. Either way, it's about young, poor men being used as expendable cannon fodder.
A bit like
System Of A Down BYOB
which has no hope of getting a play. Not tonight, anyway. Or ever.

#5 Just suggest away, gaie. Who gives a stuff if the blog elite snigger? Hardly likely, anyway - you've earned your GIO national treasure status tonight! ;o)

Oh OK then

The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez

Elegy for Dunkirk - Jeff Beck

(mary-doll, if you like 'Cause we've ended as lovers' you'll like this too, I think, though it's inevitably pretty heart-wrenching)


In the Days of the Caveman - Crash Test Dummies

Congratulations Gaie!

Of course, there's this old prog rock band called Jethro Tull (who was an historical figure,something to do with Agriculture, if i remember correctly).Fittingly they do a song about living in the past, but no one's interested in hearing that......

#9 I do drama queen equally as well as I do genuinely moved. Which means I do both badly. Neither are parts being played, but.
Love that Jeff Beck song. Seconding gaie's
Jeff Beck Elegy for Dunkirk
A spine-tingler.

Smoke On The Water ~ Deep Purple a casino in Montreux!
Cities In Dust ~ Siouxsie and the Banshees Up Pompeii!
4 June 1989 ~ Mary Chapin Carpenter freedom of speech!
Zombie ~ T. Cranberries another bombing!
1913 Massacre ~ Woody Guthrie a poor practical joke!
The Dreaming ~ Kate Bush trash something sacred for something diabolic!
Spanish Bombs ~ The Clash Hitler's testbench!

TUESDAY

'Ride 'em Jewboy' - Willie Nelson

Kinky Friedman's poignant reflection on the Nazi holocaust.


'Magdalen Laundry' - Mary Coughlan

Shining the spotlight on a shameful aspect of recent Irish history. Powerful.

#12 couple of crackers there MMFC

#9 Gaie I love The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down, some great versions as I am sure you know better than me.

SG Keep 12 May free, I'll call you if I ever get a phone again.....

#1

Cap'n,

Thank you! I'll think of new suggestions after they play the old ones.

>8-D


#10

Henri,

Bryan is twisted enough to play that and say that "Henri wis askin' furrit!"

Ask Paolo...

>8-D

#15

Do you mean 5 April? Tickets are available for Sarah Millican at the Old Fruitmarket.

'The Night the Lights Went Out in Scotland' ... The Real McKenzies
'Lest we Forget' ... The Real McKenzies
'The Lads Who Fought and Won' ... The Real McKenzies

'No Gods and Precious Few Heroes' ... Dick Gaughan

Beautiful historical sounds ...

The Night We Nearly Got Busted - Alabama 3

On Saturday Afternoons, 1963 - Rikki Lee Jones...little fluffy clouds..

The Night They Buried Sadie Clay - Cherry Ghost

Nightshift - The Commodores

Back In The USSR- The Beatles.. what else is on the White Album?

Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards - Billy Bragg wonderful, wonderful, amusing musing on history and political satire ... I'd really like to hear this, Johnny Marr and Kirsty MacColl on guitar the growing chorus

more to follow...?

regardez youse


henri

Happiness is a warm raccoon...

#18 "Luceo non Uro" L.O.L.

How's about this one... Sink the Bismarck ~ Johnny Horton

#14 you give me too much credit, Norrie - I too love this song, but don't know many other versions - any you'd recommend?

The Rising or Devils & dust - Bruce Springsteen (9/11)
Jerusalem - Steve Earle
Michelangelo - Emmylou Harris
Goonight Siagon - Billy Joel (Vietnam and mass immigration to the US)
New York mining disaster 1941 - Bee Gees
San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
This land is your land - Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Russians - Sting


Joe
Linlithgow

Just back from Bodrum where the north wind brought the temperature down. I was hoping to find an excuse to have Cold Turkey played but nae luck.

Victor Jara - Arlo Guthrie is my suggestion. Can't recall Arlo having been played on GiO over the past few years so this is Bryan's chance to make history & play history at the same time.

DC

#20 speak for yersel.....

A wee bit early for Remembrance Sunday, but here's a few themed for past conflicts, and the average Joe's experience:

* Emmylou Harris, Dolores Keane and Mary Black - Grey Funnel Line
By far the best recording of this I've heard, from the Bringing It All Back Home album I mentioned earlier. For those not in the know, all the great liner companies were known by their funnel colours. The Grey Funnel Line was the sardonic name for the Royal Navy.

* June Tabor -
* Oysterband - Deserters
What would your reaction be to the horror of WWI (or any conflict)? Running away seems to me to be a perfectly rational response. The first of these makes me shiver; the second a bit more 'up'.

* The Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

* Men They Couldn't Hang - The Colours
Whose war is it anyway?

* Donovan - Universal Soldier
The most powerful war memorial I've seen is the Vietnam Memorial in DC. It's only when you get close to it and the mass of names become individuals that it hits you. of one small section, with some of the stories of the men commemorated in that bit.

* Judy Small - Mothers Daughters Wives
It's not only the soldiers who are impacted

* Billy Bragg - Between the Wars
Sometimes out of conflict comes a determination to make things better

'Halley Came To Jackson' - Mary Chapin Carpenter

'Shaking Hands (Soldiers Joy)' - Michelle Shocked (re American Civil War...with Uncle Tupelo I think).

Boston Tea Party - SAHB

After the Goldrush - Neil Young

Bonnie Dundee - The Corries

Gaie - Richie Havens does a great version, Allman Brothers Band and I think the best is The Band at Last Waltz!

Nice MCC suggestion Julie!

Big seconds for Goodnight Saigon and Nightshift, and also In the Days Before rock and Roll by Van morrison which has been asked fer many many times. It could be they don't have it though. The digital album seems to be missing from well known online stores.

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One that would be good to hear is from Alan 'Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh' Sherman's hilarious take on the French Revolution....

A parody on the song You came a long way from St Louis. Very Clever.



Alternatively if you want to finish the show with all guns blazing there can be no better finale than the 1812 overture.

Roxy Music's 'Triptych' makes reference to the crucifixion.

J.O'B.

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Siol Ghoraidh / Runrig
The geneaology ogf the Islands

Miss sarajevo / Passengers (u2 and Pavarotti)
A beauty pageant amidst the Balkans conflict

A Change is gonna come / Sam Cooke
American Civil rights anthem

The Last Resort / The Eagles
White man came and raped the land

Part of the Union / Strawbs
unrest in the 70's

'The Jarrow Song' - Alan Price (The Jarrow March of 1936 from Jarrow to Wetminster as a protest against unemployment and poverty in the North East of England).

#36...Westminster!

#35

PP have you heard the original song that the Strawbs blatantly nicked from (and turned the meaning 180 degrees)?
* Woody Guthrie -
That's unfortunately just an extract, although is complete

(btw, if anyone wants a Spotify invite, I have a few)

Joni mitchell's beautiful allegorical nod to Amelia Earhart"Amelia"..."Like Icarus ascending on beautiful foolish arms",sheer poetry and the exquisite keening guitar of Larry Carlton who played Darvel Town Hall last Saturday !Laughing Lenny Cohen's "Joan of Arc"as sung by Judy Collins or Jennifer Warnes.Nina Simone righteously raging on "Mississipi Goddamn"...2

I did have a list, but as Daddy would have said - "No party songs! We have mixed company!"

;o)


Green Island - Christy Moore

Oops,posted too soon!As I was saying!, Nina Simone righteously raging on Mississsipi Goddamn..."You dont have to live next to me,just give me equality"One of the great champions of Civil Rights and sadly gone now.Buffalo Springfield's "For What its Worth" about the Kent State student shooting.On A lighter note how about Napoleon 14th's "They're Coming to take me away,hahah!Willie Bartke

You may be thinking about CSNY's Ohio. The shootings took place 3 years after For What It's Worth. One of the four killed was Jeffrey Glenn Miller.

John Cale "Paris 1919"
Billy Bragg "The World Turned Upside Down" (Dick Gaughan's version better, but can't imagine it's deemed suitable drivetime listening as it doesnae have a drumbeat...)
Al Stewart "Roads to Moscow" or any track from "Past, Present & Future", strangely enough

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The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace

has to be a shoo-in for history night!


:)

could easily be a theme.

Has Dilma Rousseff eliminated poverty yet?

'This is Moscow speaking, all radio transmitters in the soviet union are broadcasting.We have received news from the state news agency Tass about the world's first flight of man in space.'...

The opening line of 'Yuri' by Oi Va Voi...very dance-round-the-kitchen-ish!!!

#47
Not yet, but she`s on the case.
All the oil money will take care of that. (If there`s any left after World Cups, Olympics and my 50th birthday party).

#45 Yes yes and yes

#48

Brilliant Julie! This is a great track. It`ll become the new GIO must play.


Yuri - Oi Va Voi


Just in case they missed it up there.

Expect unqualified support from SG.

No song about one way trip though.

#51 Thanks Adam...It's a real 'birl-around' sort of tune. I've asked for it before but to no avail so it would be 'grrreat' if they GIO tonight.

#51 Perhaps a wee mention of K T Tunstall's involvement with the band (Oi Va Voi) may perk up the production team's interest a wee bitty?

#54 The Reid brothers are also big fans I believe.
STG, that should do it.

I believe they played at Freddy Mercury's Bar Mitzvah.

History: ~

BIBLE STUDY from ACIDMOTHERHOOD by GONG

or is that fiction?

RIOT 1968 from THE MYSTERY AND THE HISTORY OF PLANET GONG by GONG

Morrisey is a massive fan of GONG

I thought it was DONG

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#43. Right,Glen,you know what they say about the 60s.If you remember them you weren't there!Seem to remember "For What its Worth" was about a similar incident then.Another triggerhappy State Trooper,Willie Bartke

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Gun Sale At The Church - Beat Farmers

Time Will Come -

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Martin Luther McCoy

#61

Willie, i had no idea you had been a state trooper.

"If I Were A Carpenter"

I've always thought the first line was a reference to Jesus Christ's mum & dad, it's historically tenuous perhaps, but I think worth a try.

Probably the version i remember was by Bobby Darin but it would be good to hear the one by Johnny & June Cash

Paul from Ayr

#60 Blimey! It says morrisey's band played GONG hits! I'm not surprised that they were repeated though........

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#67 So there's there is absolutely no excuse for Bryan not to GET IT GONG!!!!!!

#70 Now I'm repeating myself, it must have been that cucumber at lunch-time today Hic Hic

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Non-war historical ideas:

Wondering if
* Danny Wilson - The Second Summer of Love
* Kid Rock - All Summer Long
would count...

Damn, got interrupted there and forgot what else I was going to post.

#72 #48 Catchy innit! So that's 'YURI' by OI VA VOI. :o)

#61 Ha ha Henri,looks like my grammar has gone the same way as my memory...to pot(and not in a 60s way)!Would be great to hear the original "Abraham,Martin,and John"by Dion(if my shaky memory serves me well)!Cheers, Willie Bartke

#66
Paul, Bob Seger does a great version but it's not one of the three Bob Seger tracks that GIO possess unfortunately.

#38
I was aware of it (did you or someone else on here mention it before) but had never checked it out up until now. See what you mean.

#76 sounds about right Paolo