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This is similar, I think, to the 'one track album' theme we had a year or so ago.

Funnily enough, it's not a modern problem - I'm frequently taken aback by tracks that come up on shuffle that cause me to do the reverse - re-appraise albums positively that I haven't always got the first time around.

It'll be partly my fault, but Paulo will be able to request 'Winter' by Love & Money.

Last time I went for Rosie Vela and Ace and I might do so again. I'd go for Alanis Morrissette but spring is here, we've had a hard winter and our small nation deserves some peace from the screaming harridan.

I'd be interested in the opposite theme.Things you didn't mean to buy, but went on to love.

regardez youse

henri

Fundamental flaw - you need to ask for things that were duff? I need to think about this....

WEDNESDAY


Having perused the available playlists, I demand the return of my licence fee.

Can't remember buying anything I didn't like. Apart from that breakdancey thing I got instead of the intended
Propaganda Dr Mabuse
Entirely my own fault.

No shows:

Steve Earle
Fats Domino
Dr. John
Al Kooper
Stan Webb
Edgar Winter

The only one with a valid excuse was Steve Earle - jailed for drugs and firearms offences.

YOu should not take drugs and shout at people when you have a tour lined up. Steve Earle has gone down in my estimation. Mind you the reultant lp was a cracker. Though this does not seem to have had a positive effect on his boy.

On last year's Record Store Day, I dragged my really rather hungover self out of bed to plonk myself in a record shop to hear Roddy Hart. I did hear Inge Thomson who was quite good, stood around bored for a while, had some free alcohol and crisps, stood around bored for a bit longer, listened to someone else...can't remember who...wandered around the Old Town...ate a sandwich...wandered back to the shop feeling really pretty ill only to discover Mr Hart had decided rehearsing with his band was more important than giving me a free concert!!!

If I'd paid anything I'd want my money back.

I seem to remember Norrie said the track 'Boxes' is good...please play that...I'll probably go off on one of my Roddy Hart...couldnae even be bothered turning up...he's never getting a penny off of me...rants though!!!

#7 Not that you have a grudge! Boxes is an excellent track! I'll tell Roddy you were asking for him.

Norrie - Agreed, this is a difficult theme.

I can think of two examples:

A - I heard Jewel perform "Have a little faith in me" on a movie soundtrack, and bought the CD Pieces of You in the mistaken assumption that it would be of a similar quality. Big mistake!
B - I expect Ryan Adams' CDs to be a tad inconsistent, but when he is good he is incredible. A few years ago I saw him in concert in Glasgow, with the Cardinals, and it was "a game of two halves". The first section of the show was brilliant and culminated in a fabulous version of "When the stars go blue". Then it all went wrong, and for the rest of the concert we were subjected to long instrumental dirges or half-finished unpolished songs destined for the next CD. A huge disappointment.

Please play:
Have a little faith in me - Jewel
When the stars go blue - Ryan Adams.

Joe
Linlithgow

the lead singer of deep purple, and his band, deep purple.
many moons ago played the caird hall in dundee.
he strode onto the stage grabbed the mike which resulted in the mike stand tumbling ever so gently into the audience, lightly brushing some dewey eyed groupie in ROW 1.
after mumbling his way through the first song HE APOLOGISED TO THE PERSON IN THE AUDIENCE FOR INCONSIDERATELY SKITING THE MIKE STAND INTO ROW 1.
when did a pop icon ever apologise for THAT?
it was downhill from there even with a number of ritchie blakmore solos.(yawwwwwn).
the obilgatory end of show wrecking of equipment consisted of the towers of amps being LIFTED onto the stage floor and SLID across the stage.
NOT A SINGLE GUITAR WAS SMASHED.
THE DRUMSTICKS WERE THROWN TO THE FLOOR (too wild!!)
weak.
pathetic.
LEAD SINGER>>>>>>>>>>>>>>YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE
yes, i would take my 2 quid back.
double pronto.

spose you'll have to play 'black night' and put him oot his misery.

cheers frae the dale

#8 Please do Norrie...and tell him If I ever meet him I'll give him a Chinese burn!

#9 I agree with Joe, Ryan Adams is the only gig I have ever walked out on. Drunk, incoherent. And Ryan adams was worse!! When he statred slagging the audience for being stupid enough to buy a couple of his albums that was enough...

2nd Joes choice of When The Stars Go Blue, anything but New York, my favourite is La Cienga Smiled or

English Girls Approximately which features....

I have always wanted to see Marianne Faithful, she was supposed to play in Glasgow but had the cheek to get seriously ill before the tickets even went on sale!

Marianne Faithful - Times square

I bought 'Classic Yes' in 1982 or thereabouts because I'd heard Wonderous Stories on the wireless. I have not yet managed to like any of the other tracks.

No doubt my fellow bloggers will disown me


DC

#9

I think "obilgatory" just about sums it up.

#13

Yours Is No Disgrace provided the soundtrack for a number of parties in my youth but Yes are hard work.

#13 & 14 @ ya DC and Glen Miller..............agreed

YES, many moons ago at the caird hall in dundee.............(nah its not deja vu)

many moons later i nearly had the misfortune of bumping into rick wakeman in a campsite @ glastonbury (other family business, not the musical jamboree).at the reception desk there it was stuck to the wall..........a local newspaer article about how rick (born again) had recently stayed at the avalon campsite. phew..near miss.
glastonbury is quite nice out of season btw.
anyway.
the one bit of the gig i rememeber was the organist......... that would be the bold rick..................jumping up the back of the stage steps to play the in-house organ..............ruined on him it was.

had to suffer the YES version of AMERICA (west side story).............
so it was YES..........definititely NO NO.
and YES i would accept any reasonable offer of a refund.

cheers frae the dale

Julies phone must be suffering on this thread

Dylan had just come off a hat-trick of top albums in the 70s when he recruited half of Dire Straits for his next offering. I liked them as well at the time so buying the next album was a no-brainer, I didn't even bother to listen to anything before picking up a copy of "Slow Train Coming".......bad mistake.......

Precious Angel - Bob Dylan

......is the only track I would download.......

....if I had an MP3 player.....

Paul from Ayr

#17 Go back and try that album again Paul, the whole of side 1 is outstanding. Gotta Serve Somebody, Precious Angel, I Believe In You, Slow Train. There is some strong material on Side 2 as well. Give it another go I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

Another great theme – request stuff you don’t like.

However, congratulations to ArtificialRhonda who got pole position on the show last night on her very first attempt at guess what’s on the GIO playlist.

I once bought The Mars Volta mistakenly thinking it was John Martyn Live (it was in the John Martyn section and I was in a hurry). It wasn’t until I started playing it in the car that I realised something was amiss. Mind you, I quite like it now.

Is CONCERTINA from SCABDATES by THE MARS VOLTA on the list?

Didn’t think so.

This bitterness will eventually corrode your soul.

I bought Ellis, Beggs and Howard on the strength this single only to find out from a sneering colleague that they were a Kajagoogoo off-shoot. The pain of this style faux pas is only now beginning to wear off.

Big Bubbles No Trouble - Ellis, Beggs and Howard

Well there's the one about a (friend) who bought two tickets for a 'Steeleye Span' gig to impress a prospective new lass who loved the band... only to discover after her luke-warm reaction to the gig, she was infact a big 'Steely Dan' fan!

Never been able to listed to 'All Around My Hat' with a straight face since.....

#21

#21

Yep, apparently they are very popular with wimmin folk.

regardez vous

henri

Cue Capt. Ramius Vapors request.

#21

There was a story about a guy who refused to report the theft of his car because he'd left a Steeleye Span cassette in it.

CAN I HAVE MY MONEY BACK from CAN I HAVE MY MONEY BACK by GERRY RAFFERTY

#19 Thankyou....very......much ThingFish.

Isn't it awful when people put things back in the wrong position. I listened to this on YouTube, and I agree with you ThingFish, it would be quite good after some persistence.

So Can I ask you Bryan if Concertina by Mars Volta can be heard on the Rdio Waves for ThingFish

Many years ago a friend gave me a John Denver LP which she loved. I think the only one track I liked on this was Country Roads, which, of Olivia Newton John made a Hit.



It would be very nice to hear this on the radio waves for ThingFish

#26 Oops I was all fingers & thumbs there. It should have read at the end :-

which of course Olivia Newton John made a Hit

It would be very nice to hear this played on the radio waves for ThingFish!!!!

#20 'The pain of this..faux pas is only now beginning to wear off'


Doncha just hate it when you kajagoogoos.......................

Receives scrotum…

Revoices rectums…

Hi! Dial cat for rain.

Arachnoid airlift

The Clash album "Cut The Crap" should never have seen the light of day. Preceded though by an excellent tour, albeit with only Strummer and Simonon of the original band, and with an outstanding lead single. The album has since been disowned by everyone associated with it:

The Clash - This Is England

This of course can happen in reverse. The Who first album without Keith Moon was quite keenly anticipated as the band had been in blistering form at the Rock For Kampuchea gigs. A good lead single "You Better You Bet" appeared to bode well but the album was roundly panned. However a good few years on the album actually stands up as not a bad record.

The Who - Don't Let go The Coat

Oi! Finch Tail Do

Being so excited about Arcade Fire's The Suburbs I only thought great, there's another two albums by Arcade Fire, can't wait to hear them. Santa duly delivered Funeral and a decent burial's all it deserves. I've just about got to like a couple of tracks, but the rest are just loud and screechy.

So not a track off that, obviously, but one of the many that got me hooked on Arcade Fire last year

City With No Children in It - Arcade Fire - oft requested and not just by me

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART claimed that the only good thing about BLUEJEANS AND MOONBEAMS was the cover artwork and urged anyone who bought it to take it back to the store and ask for their money back. It is generally considered to be the worst BEEFHEART album and it has none of the originality of any of the others. He also urged people to take back UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED (the second worst) for a refund but had no comment to make on the cover art.

I like both these albums and if they were on GIO’S approved list I would ask for

PARTY OF SPECIAL THINGS TO DO from BLUEJEANS AND MOONBEAMS
and
UPON THE MY O MY from UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED

As you know I've been "awa ower long" so I missed The Proclaimers and all their success in the 80s and 90s.
Knowing this, a friend recently presented me with their Greatest Hits as something I might like to get to know. How we laughed at home as he wasn't to know that I get more than the normal Proclaimers prescription from my favourite radio show!
The CD has never been played and is currently a coaster for my latest golf trophy.

"Us Again. Whit a Scunner" - The Proclaimers

Fair hair clan do it

Ahem! clammy cornice

#36 could have been (just) worse, you might have got paolo nutini cd's

oops Im finished now sorry Julie:


"My heart was broken, my heart was broken
Sorrow Sorrow Sorrow Sorrow
My heart was broken, my heart was broken "

And on the subject of Steely Dan.... I've said this before... but it's nice summer's evening music.

Having heard the single, Magic Smile and seen a photograph of Rosie Vela, i rush out and bought her album Zazoo.

It was pretty disappointing. Magic Smile was made by the guys from Steely Dan... it's interesting to speculate what their music might have been like with a female vocalist and this is as close as it gets. Upon reflection, what lady would agree to sing with a band called Steely Dan?

Rosie Vela was/is a beautiful looking woman who went on, if my memory is correct, to become Mrs Jeff Lynne.

Magic Smile - Rosie Vela

regardez youse

henri

On the strength of 'Hate to Say I Told You So' I bought 'Your New Favourite Band' by The Hives. I should have looked at the rest of the track listing to know that it wasn't going to go well, particularly track 9: 'A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T' ☺

Oh and ... Don Juan's Wreckless Daughter by Joni Mitchell really was hard work and I still didn't get it.... self indulgent mince..but it did have a couple of good tracks which is lamentable for a double album.

Off Night Back Street or Cotton Ave- Joni Mitchell

regardez youse

henri

regardez youse

henri