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WEDNESDAY

'I Don't Like Methil' - Michael Marra

Grace Jones The Apple Stretching
A tale of a day in the life of a New Yorker. So glad I don't live in a city, it sounds a bit stressful. But beautifully descriptive lyrics and a really wonderfully laid back chorus.

Snow Patrol - 'Take Back The City'

Might as well combine two of my favourite artists with a Bowie cover of a Springsteen track:

David Bowie - it's Hard To Be A Saint In The City

#1 a bit of an exaggeration to mention Mefful on a blog about cities....

why not.
ABBA Summer Night City

and - for folk like me fed up with the Scottish climate and dreaming of something a bit warmer, there's no harm in remembering that too dry isn't good, either.
Lovin' Spoonful Summer In The City

Both massive klaxon clangers.

A siong about competitive teenage life in the urban sprawl

Joey's on the street again - Boomtown Rats


A great song, one of Bob's best


DC





(and it's got a great wood solo in the middle)

But I do love Mary Dolls Grace Jones track.

This is one of Springsteens best songs and a very suitable message these days:

Bruce Springsteen - My City Of Ruins

ur+ban听adj.听1.听of, relating to, or constituting a city or town. 2. living in a city or town.

Have to get in a Piaf song in somewhere.
Blog hog mary-doll choosing not to list a whole shedload of more city stuff if only this one gets played. All the rest can be left to someone's discretion.

Edith Sous Le Ciel De Paris

Gutsy, spirited, romantic, sweet, evocative. A bit like Paris itself. (OK, I'm just being pretentious. It's a fabulous song in its own right.)

WEDNESDAY


'Los Angeloser' - Meat Loaf

'The Vatican Rag' - Tom Lehrer

'Kansas City Star' - Roger Miller

'Rapid City, South Dakota' - Kinky Friedman

'Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone' - John Prine

'Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square' - Jethro Tull

Drunken Nights in the City - Frankie Miller

Murder in the City - The Avett Brothers

would be nice to hear the Avett brothers

Seconds for #12 his best song.

Streets of your town / the Go Betweens

Doves - 'Black and White Town'

Hello Bryan!
For Wednesday:
"City by the Bay" Journey
"City of Blinding Lights" U2
"You Belong to the City" Glenn Frey
"El Paso" Marty Robbins
"I Left My Heart in San Francisco" Tony Bennett

Have a good one!

#9 ahhhh... I see you've never actually visited then

:-)

White Town - 'Your Woman'

Cities and big toons have radio cabs so I'd like to suggest

Car 67 - Driver 67


"a pickup at noombah aieehty threwee Roayul Gahdins"

'Old Town' - Phil Lynott or, I'm not ashamed to admit, The Corrs version.

#17

or as an alternative I Left My Heart In San Francisco - Bonzos

#19 Huge 2nd, Julie - one of my favourite one hit wonders.

regardez - youse

henri

#17 big second for Glenn Frey

LIST ALERT LIST ALERT

Big one on the way . Batten down the hatches!

One Story Town - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

The Streets You Walk Every Day - James Grant

City Lights - Runrig

Atlantic City - Springsteen
City to city - Gerry Rafferty
Crescent City - Emmylou Harris
We built this city - Starship
These streets - Paolo Nutini
New York, New York - Sinatra or Ryan Adams
Boy from New York City - the Darts
Jersey Girl - Tom Waits
In the ghett0 - Elvis
City of immigrants or Jerusalem - Steve Earle

Joe
Linlithgow

Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead - W. Zevon
Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack
Christmas In Capetown - Randy Newman
Jerusalem - Steve Earle
Wonderful Copenhagen - Danny Kaye
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans - Freddie Cannon
Sweet Home Chicago - Buddy Guy

Mainstreet / Bob Seger
Across 110th street / Bobby Womack
Ain't no love in the heart of the city / Bobby Blue Bland
Costafine Town / Splinter
Children of the ghetto / Courtney Pine
Motortown / Kane gang
Darkness on the edge of town / Broooooce
Inner City blues / Grover Washington Jnr (for a change)
Center City / Fat Larry's Band
City with no children / Arcade Fire
Jesus of Suburbia / Green day
Subcity / Tracy Chapman
The Whole Towns Laughing at me / Teddy Pendergrass
Her Town Too / James Taylor
One Horse town / The Thrills
Cuprus avenue / Van Morrison
Backstreet Luv / Curved air
Dark End of the Street / James Carr

What a fabulous mixed tape even if I may say so myself

#18

Been there, done that, stole the T-Shirt.

>8-D


WEDNESDAY

'Cowboy Hat in Dallas' - Charlie Daniels Band

As the theme is about city living how about

The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops

or

Lloyd Cole and The Commotions - Four Flights Up

or anything from Sesame Street, maybe Born To Count....

i'm expecting great things from tonight's program, so many excellent tracks already suggested on the blog....

Big City - Dandy Livingstone (thanks again Henri)

Street Life - Randy Crawford

Paul from Ayr

#28 unusual.

Normally it's the other way around

#27 oh! seconds for Mainstreet, a fave Bob Seger song and City With No Children a fave Arcade Fire song!

- John Callahan

County Jail Blues - Eric Clapton

This Town - Thea Gilmore

Previously on the Blog....

DC - Grumpy? Me?

;o)


#11 - Support for Roger Miller.

#12 - Support for Frankie Miller.

#26 - Support for Glen Miller.


(Is This The Way To) Amarillo - Tony Christie

Please please please - NOT THE REMIX!

;o)


Well if they want to do repeats....

;o)

Previously on the Blog....

DC - Perhaps being deprived of sax has made you overly sensitive.

;o)

From the playlist a fair amount of sax and violins appears to have crept in.

* Pink Floyd -
* Beatles - (is in my ears and in my eyes)
* Beastie Boys -

You could have a Jam packed show tonight (In the City, Tube Station at Midnight, Going Underground)

But I'll go with

Sound of the Suburbs - Members
5705 - City Boy

#6
Well, MD, you're not called Captain Obvious for nothing. Wear your badge with pride. :)

#25 - Oh no Joe! Not that Starship song :(

'last train to clarksville'.............monkees

'sunshine on leith'...................proclaimers

'bleeker street'..............simon and garfunkel

'scarborough fair'..........simon and garfunkel

'let glasgow flourish'...........hue and cry

'24 hours from tulsa'.........gene pitney

'talk of the town'...pretenders

'new york city boy'..........pet shop boys

'tonight the streets are ours'.........richard hawley

and last but definitely not least........

'a kiss from wishaw cross'..............peter nardini

cheers frae the dale

#39

Any chance of Michael Marra's very, very fine version of Mother Glasgow instead of Hue & Cry's (which we played last time around IIRC)?

We'll absolve him of being a Dundonian for the duration.

Empire State Of Mind - Jay Z

or what about the Glasgow version? Paolo has the link.


#39 - Take it that your second on the list was just a tease, D_K?

Would be great to hear Nina Simone's loping reggae influenced reading of Randy Newman's wry commentary on a city in decline,"Baltimore".Brilliant bass and drums from Will Lee and Andy Newmark.Her last truly great performance(imho).Other "Urban" choices include Laura Nyro's extraordinary "New York Tenderberry" which captures the spirit of the ultimate city or her beautiful cover of Goffin/King's love letter to N.Y."Up on the Roof" Lastly ingenue Joni Mitchell and the first song I ever heard her sing way back in 1968,simply produced by David Crosby ,"Night in the City"Cheers ,Willie Bartke

In our urban/country split, where are we placing towns?

#40.............nah we cannae hav michael tonite..........i'm waiting on the theme........'single names songs about goalies'...come tae think of it..that song would do for tomorro's rural country theme.......'up at tannadice.........a small rurality of angus


cheers frae the dale

#41........until the duo bring out a remix entitled....'sunshine on cupar'.........then leith it is for the noo.we are pluralists here.


cheers frae the dale

#43 - surrounded by country

Towns:
* The Saw Doctors - All The Way from Tuam
* The Saw Doctors - Sugar Town
* Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
(wonderful tribute to Nick Drake)

* Fairport Convention - London River
* Billy Bragg - Debris
(isn't the Sunday Morning Market just the ultimate urban experience?)
* Michael Marra - Mother Glasgow
* Broooooooooce - Atlantic City( from the is really, really good)

Very odd - I tried to title #48 with
Cities:
and was told that it failed the profanity filter

BB last night: 鈥淭he more unusual the better鈥� 鈥� Really? Why, then, do you fill the programme with more of the usual?

Longing for 'Goodbye Toulouse' ... The Stranglers, however would be grateful for:

'Wigan work it out' ... The Fab 4
'Slough hands' ... Interpol
'Can I get a Widnes' ... Marvin Gaye
'Josie gets religion on a night out in Kirkcaldy ... Desert Rose
'Sealed with a Glasgow kiss' ... Carter (the unstoppable sex machine)
'New York state of mind' ... Pre-Brinkley gem from Billy Joel
'A Mexican funeral in Paris' ... The Pogues
'Rome' ... Performance
'A foggy day in London town' ... Ella Fitzgerald

I'm in a New York state of mind so two more suggestions.
On Broadway George Benson or The Drifters
Nights on Broadway Candi Staton,Cheers,Willie Bartke

Concrete and Clay - Kevin Rowland

Microdisney -- Town to Town

Sweet Suburbia -- Skids

Start a Band - Brad Paisley and Keith Urban

FrankInDenny - Sweet Suburbia is a great suggestion.

Talking Heads - 'Cities' or Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Cities in Dust'

Skids - Out of Town for the country night! Masquerade b side version better than Absolute Game version.

59. At 3:50pm on 23 Feb 2011, henrihannah wrote:

Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith

Deacon Blue - Raintown

C*ties on Flame With Rock And Roll - Blue 脰yster Cult

Oops! Nearly forgot!

Angel From Montgomery - Bonnie Raitt

:o)

#59

Arghhh...actually, I don't mind Raintown: it's the rest of it that does my brain in:-))

However I wanted to add to Paulo's request for

The Dark End Of The Street

which must be urban because in the the country... there is no dark end of the street, really...matter of fact, it's all dark:-))

regardez youse

henri



regardez youse

henri

I should clarify, of course, that The Dark End Of The Street is by James Carr...

Senga,Daniel O'Donnell apart, has there ever been a better singer than James Carr?:-))

regardez youse

henri

CITY OF SELF FASCINATION from 2032 by GONG

NEW YORK GIRLS from HEDONISM by BELLOWHEAD

AMSTERDAM from HEDONISM by BELLOWHEAD

LONDON TOWN from BURLESQUE by BELLOWHEAD

A MEXICAN FUNERAL IN PARIS from THE SNAKE by SHANE MACGOWAN AND THE POPES

鈥︹�︹�︹�︹�︹�︹��.or the usual

Just remembered a big shoo-in for tonight


Rush Hour - Jane Wiedlin

The Only Living Boy In New York- Simon&Garfunkel
Dirty Old town- the pogues
Belfast Child- Simple Minds

I loved the way Bryan made sure that everyone knows 'Villages' will be included in tomorrow's 'Rural' show, thereby ensuring that someone will request 'The Village Green Preservation Society', preferably Kate Rusby's cover version.

Nae wunner they cry him 'The Red Fox'

>8-D

Odds on then that Adam will second your shout for the village people?

Tuesday:

Huge second for Scotch Git's

"In the Young Farmers" - Village People

and how about

"Dolly My Love" - The Moments

to go along with it?

#69 I know there's a time difference across the Atlantic, but that's ridiculous....

#69
if it wisnae fur yer wellies
Where wid ye be
Cos the gorgeous dolly my love
Wid be runnin free
You would need four sizes too big
Or even two or three
So dollies hind legs could fit in yer wellies

#69, #71

I take it youse two live oot in the wilds...

I think they mean 'Heart of Lothian'

Had it been 'Heart of Midlothian' we could dedicate it to Julie.

>8-D

Jimmy Sommerville's a pain in the [Expletive removed by the moderators.]

Trash City.....

#73

They did, but there was never any danger of sullying GiO with 80s Prog.

That said, I was pleasantly surprised that we avoided the QI Klaxon on Pet Shop Boys, Deacon Blue and the Blue Nile.

Nice last minute bodyswerve on each.