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A theme tailor-made for the Dark Side.


Time for my long weekend...



Glen,

Get the beers in. It's Miller Time!

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.... thankfully we went nowhere near Hammersmith

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road

Against the odds, here's hoping the lack of sunshine and airplay won't hex him on Monday. Nor me, when I return to work after a really crummy run of weather.
Bill Withers Lovely Day

This could ring true for any work day during the week:

Manic Monday - The Bangles

P.S.

I just thought of something. I never liked Mondays.

I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats

Who was it again that sang

Twiddling your thumbs whilst waiting for the gasman

I suppose Comfortably Numb could describe many a Monday feeling but I have to admit to feeling less of the "comfortable" these days.

I'll go for Numb - U2





That's unless you can find a track entitled "Paracetamodeine " or summin like that...

#7 Purely for medicinal purposes - maybe what you need is some
Nirvana Lithium
or perhaps a bit of
Stranglers Golden Brown

What a graaayyyyttt idea for a theme!


(Away tae dae some research)

Obviously I forgot Penicillin Blues - Stone the Crows

Nightshift on Monday so it'll have to be - All Night Long - Rainbow

Hoping to avoid - Cat People (putting out fire) - David Bowie or Fire - Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Mary Chapin won $11,000,000. I slipped and slid through the slush to buy my rolls and a ticket that might be worth £90,000,000!

I Feel Lucky - Mary Chapin Carpenter

:o)

How many of you knew that Help Yourself - Tom Jones was originally written in Italian and called Gli Occhi Miei ?

Me neither! Anyway, there could be a theme in this, i.e., songs written in a foreign language but we only ever hear the English translation so don't know it wasn't written in English till somebody tells us. Marc Almond & Scott Walker spring to mind. And that Sinatra song.

;o)

#13 @ ya senga..........
scott walker singing jacques brel is a thought........... but i think B.B and B would have to listen to it first. (then they could say 'NAW')


cheers frae the dale

Ice? I clog him!

#13 and Adam could get umberto tozzi on

On Monday I'll be in the house, waiting for the plumber to come back to stop my loo cistern leaking...which wasn't even happening when he was round last week to repair it...

Always on the lookout for an opportunity to request the brilliant Northern Soul track by Marlena Shaw - 'Let's wade In The Water' but a bit miffed that these circumstances gave me the chance!!!

'I started something I couldn't finish' - The Smiffs

'Come back and finish what you started' - Gladys Knight and The Pips

monday...... might be a good day , might be a bad day but no matter what kind of day, when looking out my window at work i can see trains and boats and planes (and buses, cars, lorries, joggers) and that is always cheering especially watching the tide change throughout the day.now, the water is the river clyde and if you were to go to the source of the clyde with two very long bits of rope and wind one of the ropes round all the contours of the river until it reaches a spot just across from my window then instruct a crow to fly with the other piece of rope in its beak until it reaches that same spot across from my window and then measure both bits of rope......what you find is.........if you divide the contour length by the direct length you get an answer of 3.14 (if you are a non-believer try it with the thames, the nile, the indus, or any river at all...it works for every river)
and monday is of course MARCH 14th. or 3/14.......which is recognised worldwide as 'pi day'.........
so monday,good or bad, should be a celebration of the mysterious 'pi'..........put much more eloquently to music by .......

kate bush singing 'pi'


cheers frae the dale

Ah DK for a minute there I thought you were gonna request the wonderful
The Pi by the sutherland brothers

#17 Julie - don't get the plumber in just yet. Is it a leaky pipe connection or an overflow at the top? If the later, try bending the arm on the float downwards. That should shut the water off. You may eventually need to replace the flush unit, but it's nothing a decent DIY manual can't walk you through. I've done it. It's not as tricky as the money a plumber charges for it would suggest.

Better suggest something suitably watery to go with that unsolicited advice.
The Waterboys Fisherman's Blues

#21 perhaps another possibility could be The days before lavvy roll - Van Morrison

Or anything by Looloo

Cisterns are doin it for themselves!

By Urethra Franklin

Or The Incontinental by Ginger Rogers.
From The Gay Divorcee.
Should keep the weans going for a few hours.

FLUSH....

Saviour of your univ erse

ooops, hit the space bar by mistake....

Anything by Looloo

Or John Loo Hooker

Or tracks which include pan pipes

of to see bill brydens 'the ship' this afternoon.......anyone know where i can get a copy of 'the big picnic'?

the fonz's happy days mentions monday .....and its cheery


cheers frae the dale

#29 you'll realise at some time during the Sunday morning come down

#32 I saw it at the govan shipyard. Best live theatre I have ever seen bar none.

Testing testing. Just making sure I didn't break the blog earlier

When the lavvy breaks - Led Piping
Black Bog - Led Piping
Flush me in the morning - Diana Ross
Julie don't be a hero - (loo) Paper Lace

Some Folks Never Learn - Loo Rolls :0)

ABBA Waterloo

#35 Hahahaha!!!

Took me twice reading your post..... I thought you said:

Testing testing. Just making sure I didn't break the bog earlier

Perfect Day - Loo Reed
Flushed by the Wheels of Industry - Heaven 17

Loo Paper Boy Reed - Come and Get It

Flush - Queen

I knew you lot would be kind and sympathetic!!! Oh well...if you can't beat 'em...

Boomtown Rats - 'Leaking After Number One'

Crikey Tuesdays theme is not going to be easy to get two hours of genuine on theme tracks. I feel re-issues etc. will need to be included. "Artists who released two seperate albums on the same day", I can think of Guns n Roses, Springsteen, Moby Grape, Ryan Adams and em...

RADIATION SICKNESS by NUCLEAR ASSAULT seems appropriate

#44 Tom Waits?

#44

never mind, norrie, that's 4 more than I know of.

well said, Thing-Fish. What, I wonder, would the Japanese victims give for an ordinary trivia-filled day.

Waking up this morning wasn’t easy and I drive to work still half asleep. Now I’m here I have one more cup of coffee and things start to look better. I take a little time to plan the rest of the week. Nothing ever happens on a Monday normally but on a day like this I have plenty to keep me busy. The morning’s over in a flash. Back after lunch and I’m ready to start again.

Arcade Fire - 'Ready to Start'

#47 if you can stomach another Queen song on GIO then the last track on A Day at the Races could be appropriate.

Teo torriate (let us cling together) is partly sung in Japanese and has the right sentiments

#47 You're right, puts everything else into perspective.

One of my hobbies is refurbishing and selling on old radiograms. You can certainly spend a good Monday cleaning up the valves, polishing the wood and getting everything thing into as pristine a condition as possible.

Some of the best examples are the beau -decca ones (mainly for the quality of the wood) and old telefunken radiograms which are especially interesting as they list some exotic radio stations from around the globe AFM Stars of jazz, athlone, Budapest, Luxembourg and so on. Absolutely brilliant.


Now I'm not suggesting that van Morrison has spend his day like me replacing the wiring on a radiogram, cleaning up with the witch hazel and applying the shellac, but he certainly knows what I'm talking about:

Van Morrison - In The Days Before Rock n Roll

Also

SURFSPIN from GO by STOMU YAMASH’TA

it must be some GIO listeners birthday............so well done and

'oh lucky you'........lightning seeds

cos you share it with

'einstein a go-go'...........can't remember the name of the band.

cheers frae the dale

#53 Landscape

#51 I would like to buy one of your radiogrammes for old times sake as it would remind me of being a kid. Have you got one like my dad used to have. It had four walnut feet with a gap from floor to the mainframe which wasn't quite big enough for a four year old to squeeze his head under to see where the singers were. It had a huge gold speaker grill in the front with a dent and wee hole just above the middle where my cousin crashed his tricycle. Inside on the right hand side where all the radio stations were there was a light that moved with the dial. I thought this was the ´óÏó´«Ã½ light cos that's what it said just above athlone. It also had a turntable and spindle where you could cue up about six singles at a time but usually when the fourth one fell it would skite all over the place and make pinky and perky sound like Tom waits.

Do you have any just like that?

JAPAN IN A DISHPAN from LICK MY DECALS OFF, BABY by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND

BIG IN JAPAN from MULE VARIATIONS by TOM WAITS

TUTTI I COLORI DEL SILENZIO from TUTTI I COLORI DEL SILENZIO by DAMO SUZUKI’S NETWORK

#55 i will keep my eyes open of course, wonderfully described may I say.

Not much from the Blog on today's show then!!

#58 I presume TGIOSH track got played?

#58

Surprised?

S'pose not.

Well thats the quickest theme change yet......just regular double albums now.

Triples???

Sandinista, Wings Over america...only triples I can think of...

Nice one...

Songs In The Key Of Life & Yessongs another two

Neil Young Decades but that was a greatest hits, Springsteen Live 5lp's, ....