大象传媒

Is this some sort of dig?

Still in the sin-bin for being less than complimentary about acoustic night but I wonder where they got the bad grammar idea from?

Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad - Derek & the Dominos

FRIDAY

'Ananinginaneana' - Saint Andrew ~ 5:18

'Eh Umna Therefore Eh Um' - Saint Andrew ~ 2:26

'Dinna Ast Me [Eh Dinna Ken]' - Saint Andrew ~ 2:55

ur 2 sensitiv nory

Don't let Nobody Turn you Away - The Low Anthem my fave band of the moment
Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Ain't Got No Money - Frankie Miller
You Done Me Wrong - Al Green

Poor Norrie!

Just U remember this

Honky Tonk Badonkadonk ~ Trace Adkins





w.t.!. Is a Badonkadonk?

wt

#2 Welcome to smokers corner!

The Police ~ Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 鈥淓verything she do just turns me on鈥�

Bonnie Raitt ~ I Can鈥檛 Make You Love Me 鈥淟ay down with me, tell me no lies鈥�

Rose Royce ~ Love Don't Live Here Anymore

Bryan Adams - Run To You - opens "She said her love for me would never die... that'd change if she ever found out about you and I". Should be "you and me". Why is it always assumed that "I" is correct?

I'm not so convinced about Me and Julio down by the school yard. What is the context of that? E.g. "a photo of me down by the school yard" would be correct.

Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd



We don't need no education?

Aye, right....


DC

U Don't Dance 2 Teckno Anymore - Alabama 3

I've just checked - it is quite clean and rather amusing (in a bad taste kind of way)

Previous thread - Gaie, thanks for the heads up on the Love and Money tickets - I didn't know about it - do you where the gig is?

thanks

regardez youse

henri

Smokin' in the Boys' Room - Brownesville Station

checkin' out the halls makin' sure the coast is clear
Lookin' in the stalls - nah, there ain't nobody here

B-b-b-bayby, you have not witnessed anything thus far - Bachman Turner Overdrive

Clyde Auditorium, Henri.

never let bad grammar get in the way of a good sentiment
Sophie B Hawkins Damn! I Wish I Was Your Lover
I think, Sophie B, you might find that this counts as a subjunctive and therefore should be "Were".

Little Sister - Ry Cooder

don't you do what your big sister done

Candle in the Wind - not that I'd particularly like to hear it, but what a mess of metaphors

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to have known you

and it's either 'I would have liked to know you' or 'I would like to have known you' children, don't use 'have' twice. Now remember that, please.

And as for Midge Ure's 'If I Was', see Miss Doll's lesson above.

#2

Gaie,

I suggested double-negatives as a sneaky way of getting a blues night. Is that from whence they got the idea? Ain't got a Scooby!

>8-D



#9

doonhamer55,

Artistic license. Or is it licence? Besides, 'me' disnae' rhyme wi' 'die'.

Unless you're fae the Kingdom...

>8-D

#17 I'll up you. I don't mind hearing Elton's tinkling on the ivories. Just so long as he leaves the seat down and clears up afterwards.
Elton John Your Song
"I put down in words" eh? I know what it means, but it's not quite the Queen's.
any excuse will do to play Bernie Taupin's fantastic lyrics.

#9 It could be worse...Julio and myself down by the schoolyard?

"...But if this ever changing world in which we live in

Makes you give in and cry, say live and let die."



This line has me screaming at the radio. The pedant in me is outraged. So he is...

#20 ?!?

Julio & Julie?

#18 (re #9)I think the clue is in his name.....

Live an let dee

#18

'Ain't got a Scooby!' should read 'Ain't got no Scooby!'

I'll do what I should've did...grrrr...don't play it.

'You Haven't Done Nothin'' - Stevie Wonder

Ironic - Alanis Morrissette

Occasionally, you hear a record and think 'that's great' and later realise that you've rushed out and bought 'Jagged Little Pill' by Alanis Morrissette.

Three days later you can't understand why her endless whining and girning was ever thought endearing. You never play it again - just relieved you're 'not the boyfriend'.

It must be one of my least favourite records of all time - and I'm not entirely sure if it qualifies for tonight's theme but there is a track on that album called 'Ironic' - I suppose it's to edify us with a list of ironic circumstances, but if they qualify as irony, they are really rather poor examples.

In my view, a man who is terrified of flying and who is subsequently killed in a plane crash is not an example of irony because irony is about opposites,usually couched as wry humour.

Consequently, this truly appalling track 'Ironic' - displays an adolescent understanding of irony - it lacks the subtlety and humour we associate with irony and sums up why the album is quickly insufferable.

And isn't it ironic?

I don't think our tiny nation should have their tea-time ruined with this drivel.

Rant over.

regardez youse

henri

#27

Even Madmetrosexual can't pick any fault in your line of reasoning.

#2/#18

previously, on the blog: #20

My Love does it good.... really.. does 'what' good... the common cold?

Mind you, My Love does it properly/correctly/accurately etc doesn't really convey the same intensity of sexual and emotional satisfaction that the writer is trying to convey.

If he had sung My Love **** * *** **** which is what he plainly means,it would only have added to a then string of songs banned by,among others, the 大象传媒.

reagdrez youse

henri

I can not get any satisfaction

There is not a mountain high enough

#27 did Ed Byrne the comedian not point out that very little of the things are actually ironic, in actual fact they, much like miss morrisette, are just bloody annoying.

Wooly Bully ~ Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs

Since you been gone - Rainbow
Right back where we started from - Maxine Nightingale
I got money now - Pink

More to follow

Joe
Linlithgow

I would like to nominate Henri Hannah for Friday's show

a) because I think he has the "correct" voice for language correction (as witnessed on his impeccable delivery for Children In Need)
b) His posts are always grammatically correct - that is apart from his annoyingly incorrect use of:
c) "regardez youse"

Anyone with two months of first year French will kain that the word "regardez" means "look" in second person (plural) and has nothing to do with passing on good wishes

Colon / hyphen / close parenthesis

DC

PS I would pay 拢20 to Comic Relief to have Henri present Friday's show by the way....

One of the great Soul Voices

There isn't any love in the heart of the city / Bobby Bland

i am not going to bump anymore with any big fat woman / Joe tex

You and I and a dog named Bi / Lobo

Those pesky double negatives!You could fill the whole show with "Aint Got No" songs.I was thinking of Iron Butterfly on GIO(yeh,dream on!)and their 17 epic originally titled"In The Garden of Eden"but the singer was so out of it and his vocals became so slurred it became the famous mondegreen(look it up!)"IN A GADDA DA VIDA".Not so much bad grammar as "Stoned Soul Diction"!I would love to hear The Doors"L.A.Woman"despite the poet Jim Morrison's shocking grammar"If they say I dont love you,you know they are a liar"should be "they are liars"The Killers "Human"drives me nuts when I hear the insightful lyric"Or are we dancer?"Is there a grammatical term for this rubbish?Finally,Oasis's album title "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants"should surely be "On the Shoulders"Am I right or am a meringue,Cheers Willie Bartke

Damn,I missed a question mark!:0)

And a whole word!Jeez!

#27

Oh haud me back...

Rain on your wedding day isn't ironic. Unless you're a meteorologist, and you'd picked the day based on statistical records of precipitation.

Can we retitle the song "Isn't it a mild bummer?"

Cheers Aye
Capt R - in India this/next week so finding listening a bit tricky for timezone reasons.

Grammatical errata:

* Less than Zero - Elvis Costello ITYM Fewer for countable items (whereas A Little Less Conversation is correct)
* Born Slippy - UnderworldSlippery
* You Really Got Me - The Kinks
* Me and the Farmer - The Housemartins As the singer is the subject of the sentence (in full: Me and the Farmer [are] getting on like hand and blister), this should be "The Farmer and I"
* Whole Lotta Love - Led Zep
* Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty
* Walk This Way - Hayseed Dixie
you ain't seen nothin' till you're down on a muffin is (as they say in Just a Minute) deviating from more than just grammar.

And finally, a little grammar pedant's joke:

Knock Knock
Who's there?
To
To Who?
To Whom

Do Right By Your Woman - Bad Company

...when does bad grammar become "artistic licence" ?

Paul from Ayr

As they should have been...

The L and N no longer stops here: Michelle Shocked
Do not pretend to be a cowboy, Jim: Kirsty MacColl
The man wearing the iron mask: Billy Bragg
I am not ready to apologise: Dixie Chicks
We will not be fooled again: The Who

but see if you can dig out 'Hang Me Good' by The Porch Song Anthology... well worth a play.

Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby - Dinah Washington

One can call me Al' - Paul Simon

Lucinda williams - 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

Cowboy Junkies - 'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel

#3 @ ya scotch git.

I think BB will put these suggestions doon the cundy.
They might fail the bad grammer test on account of the fact that's how they speak in the 'dee and ther might be phone calls of complaint discrimmination etc etc........but mibbe if ye had a a copy of the songs in the mid-craigie dialect then thayr might be a chance of getting them on......cos they do talk funny.

cheers frae the dale ( with no mid-craigie aquaintances)

Sly and The Family Stone - 'Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin'

Eh, Scotch mith end up wee a richt minter

#52 refers to #50......

'woodinntit be noyce to get on wiv me naybors'..............

a song packed with atroshus grammar.....


...cor blimey mr b play for the nation (and 'ow's your old lumbago?)


cheers frae the dale

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco,
this ain't no fooling around
No time for dancing, or lovey dovey,
I ain't got time for that now

Talking Heads - 'Life During Wartime'

and wan fur mz babs..........'fit but you know it'.......the streets


cheers frae the dale

Clevor Trever - Ian Dury

Still Gonna Die - Old Dogs

Lay Back In The Arms Of Someone - Smokie

I'll Tell Me Ma - Van Morrison & The Chieftains

And last but not least Kansas City Star - Roger Miller

for the line Kansas City star, that's what I are

;o)

#50

dale_kelvin,

"In Mid eh saw a big alsation,

Fag in it's mooth and a few tattoos..."

Michael Marra

>8-D

#58 @ya scotch git

if its name wisnae rebel then it was from the classier mid suburb of happyhillock


cheers frae the dale

'Xtatic Truth' ... Crystal Fighters

Worthy of a chance ...

maybe this is where it all went wrong
Pink Floyd Another Brick In The Wall
"We don't need no education......"
Now there's a lesson in irony for Miss Morrisette. But it's a moot point when you get the message behind the lyrics - are we too preoccupied with style over substance if we focus on the grammar rather than the drift of the song?
Discuss in less than 140 characters.

#61



see #10...................



we've had lots of requests for Pink Floyd tonight, that would be gooood. Miss Babs, let's get it on before seven o' clock

(127 characters btw)

banged to rights, DC. Good shout!
;o)

Having seconded DC's wonderful suggestion, I'll ask for Bill Withers Ain't No Sunshine , too.

How are you going to see me now / Alice Cooper

MONDAY







Jeezo..........

Funnily enough I was in Newport, Wales on business last summer and found myself in Thunder Road. This was in the summer with my friend Mary. We put Roy Orbison on the Radio and there really was a bit of magic that night...

strange thing is we are going again this Monday. I can hardly believe the co-incidence....