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WEDNESDAY


Another opportunity for Uncle Vic to redeem himself...

'Life is a Long Song' - Jethro Tull

'Eh Umna Therefore Eh Um' - Saint Andrew

>8-D

Lifes what you make it - Talk Talk

I don't pretend to be deep or philosophical - I'm just bad at expressing myself. Must be someone else's fault............
Supertramp The Logical Song
Let's be honest, it's not logic - it's just an excuse for pointing the finger of blame of stuff at others. A thoroughly dishonest and emotionally immature song.

but I like it

Please play it. I might get desperate if you don't. Actually, the chances are, I won't. I'll just sit in a fug of misunderstood gloom, forever. Aye. I (and everyone else) will get over it.

A pragmatic philosophy... The Tramp On The Street ~ Hank Williams

Life'll Kill Ya - Warren Zevon - Flawless logic

The Consolation of Philosophy... Precious ~ Depeche Mode

'Dance With the Pixies' ~ Gong

deeply satisfying ...

New Horizons - The Moody Blues



Doin a great job this week Vic



DC

Previously on the Blog...

#57 - Aye Mazzy, but he cut it halfway through! Before the sad bit!!

:(



(Had to laugh when I heard it come on though. Didnt think they`d play it once again.)

The secret of life - Gretchen Peters
I ain't ever satisfied - Steve Earle
Honesty - Billy Joel
We're all alone - Boz Scaggs
From small things (big thing one day come) OR Your own worst enemy - Springsteen
Fix you - Coldplay
Walk of life - Dire Straits
Peaceful, easy feeling - Eagles
So you are to me - Eastmountainsouth
Je ne regrette rien - Edith Piaf
Every grain of sand- Emmylou Harris
A good heart - Feargal Sharkey
Thre wishes - the Pierces
World without tears - Lucinda Williams
Simple man - Lynyrd Skynyrd


Joe
Linlithgow

got to agree with your assessment of the cosmic shown tonight Vic, thoroughly enjoyable! Lets have a repeat every time there's any aliens story in "the sun" :o)

#7 surely it is death that finally kills you off?

Have you chosen the right career?

'I was Meant For The Stage' - The Decemberists

I won't bore with my usual blah blah, all been suggested before, all great tracks, all 100% on theme:

Indigo Girls - Gallileo

Iris DeMent - The Way I Should

Van The Man - Why Must I Always Explain

And a belter:

The Clash - Something About England

#14 Norrie are you trying to Bond with Glen?


....You Only Live Twice.....

.....Live & Let Die......

:o)

#15 No Julie.....but I take comfort in music.. :-)

OK OK lets get to the theme....

Going to California - Led Zep
Tears on My Pillow - Kylie
Breathe - Pink Floyd
Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall
True Love Leaves No Traces - Lenny Cohen
Silky Veils of Ardor - Joni Mitchell
Simple Twist of Fate - Bob Dylan
Army Dreamers - Kate Bush
Strawberry Fields - Beatles

Paul from Ayr

2 by Monty Python

Meaning of Life
Bruces' Philosophers Song

Big Yellow Taxi - Counting Crowes

Mad World - Gary Jules

Moving sideways / Hercules Mandarin
The future / Leonard Cohen

Can't Stop - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen - Baz Luhrmann
Handlebars - Flobots

You see she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna learn to fly
She took off to find the footlights
I took off to find the sky
And now she's acting happy inside her handsome home
And me I'm flying in my taxi taking tips and getting stoned

Taxi / Harry chapin

#14

Death is the absence of life. If you don't live you can't die.

#26 Too deep for me, and to early for a Gin. I'll pass....

The Suns Comin' Over The Hill: Karine Pollwart
Days Like These: Billy Bragg
April Come She Will: Simon & Garfunkel
Is It LIke Today: World Party
Shape Of My Heart: Sting
Bad: U2

#27

That's a first

#20

Meaning of Life has to be a great show opener
Don't think the Philosophers' Song will make it past the tea-time lyric censor.

Also big props to whoever requested Sly & The Family Stone's version of Que Sera Sera a day early. I used it for my last year having heard it via Auntie Janice.

#30

I know what you mean about Bruces' but if you don't ask you don't get. Plus surely the technos at the Beeb could edit it???

Dontcha know, 'if' is the middle word of life
Pull My Daisy - Win or Nectarine No 9

What's love if you can kill for chocolate? - Win

And on to my requests:

* Howard Jones - What Is Love?
HoJo actually has a pretty direct philosophical bent. Equally strong on Big Ideas was
* Howard Jones - Life in One Day
* They Might Be Giants - Shoehorn with Teeth
which is in a similar vein to
* The Levellers - One Way of Life
ie your beliefs are grand, but mine may be different. And that's OK.

But most of all, above everything else:
* Billy Bragg - Tank Park Salute
The Braggster confronts the Big Concepts - age, mortality, parents and children
That feeling smothers me again
Daddy is it true that we all have to die?

I accepted the commiserations
Of all your friends and your relations
But there's some things I still don't understand

You were so tall
How could you fall?

If you can't go there on Philosophy Night, then you're running scared from the theme.

Ha! Slip, chip loo!

Previously on the blog....

Henri - Are you wearing those lovely lilac lycra shorts? With the padded seat? Don't forget to shower, dear.

;o)


Still Gonna Die - Old Dogs ~ Applying the same flawless logic as # 7

#14 - Norrie - Do you think Death looks like

;o)


Them Heavy People - Kate Bush


You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd - Roger Miller
But you can be happy if you've a mind to
All you got to do is put your mind to it
Knuckle down
Buckle down
Do it do it do it

:o)

#30

You broke yer toilet?

#36

Eh?

Three Steps To Heaven - Showaddywaddy

'Shoot First (Ask Questions Later) - Jim Jones Review

'Imitosis' - Andrew Bird (we are all basically alone)

'I Still Believe' - Frank Turner (I still believe that everyone can find a song for every time they've lost and every time they've won)

'Highways Of My Life - Isley Brothers (what a great piano intro too)

'Who Loves You?' - Four Seasons

'Tightrope' - Janelle Monae/Big Boi

#38 If there are just three steps to heaven why is Stairway to Heaven so long?

Japan - 'Ghosts'
David Bowie - 'My Death'
The Christians - 'Born Again'

#36 sorry that was meant to be to #34

Billy - My Death is a great suggestion.

The Cure - 'Killing An Arab', based on the existential novel L’Étranger by Albert Camus. It is not a promotion of violence aginst Arabs ☺

Or even against...

#44

Yes yes and yes!

Won't make it past the ´óÏó´«Ã½ censor though (don't think it's been played on t'radio since the 1st Gulf War)

#46...played on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Ulster in Sep 2009...oh blimey!!! How sad am I that I even bothered to find that out...kill me now!

Sounds like a dangerous precedent. Good work Julie ☺

#46 Sssh don't tell Colonel Gaddafi...

#34

He pish or plop!

#49

You're spelling his name wrong... What's my name? My name doesn't matter. I am just an ordinary citizen who relies on the Times crossword for stimulation. And I'm telling you that I met the man twice. And I recommended a pre-emptive Exocet missile strike against his air force, so I think I know how...

...They hang up on me every time.

#35

That's the very ones, Senga - I think they compliment my bike and the rest of the garb and, of course,the pale skin tones.

I take my time in the evening - turn up the ipod and peddle away - after another bonkers day here it's easy to lose concentration on the nutters making their way from the city to Milngavie, made all the more hazardous en route by the lemmings that congregate on Maryhill Road in the early evening.Why more people aren't killed is a mystery to me.I've been cycling 14 miles a day for the last week or so and my weight has gone up! I'm gutted.

I do take a shower and listen to Get It On whilst doing so and then text any requests when I emerge, radiant and happy, like a leader of the Tory party..

Knackered, I fall asleep listening to Radio 6. Very good it is too, musically speaking, but not really entertaining. I heard a great track by the Would Be's from an old Peel session last night, but cant source it.I'm gutted.

Anyway, in the morning I get up and do it all again.

And the philosophy is: do what you can, where you are, with what you've got - which is what Roosevelt told America at the height of the great depression and it's kinda useful in the times we live in.

Tracks:

Walk Tall - Dreadzone long overdue, Vic

Reds In My Bed - 10CC Eric Stewart's finest - much more on theme than Minestrone

Enjoy the Ride - Morcheeba
Body & Soul The Blue Nile
What Is Success? - Bonnie Raitt

There's zillions of others, maybe more to follow - Dreadzone or 10CC would be fab though!! Take them by surprise, Vic!

regardez youse

henri

Make your checks payable to 'QUENTIN ROBERT DeNAMELAND, Greatest Living Philostopher Known to Mankind'!
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Oh and I almost forgot:

Tomorrow Never Comes - Dreadzone

warm us all up for reggae night, Vic

Time to go and get the lycra boy outfit on now -

regardez youse

henri

#52

You're the one who'll end up as a casualty if you peddle while you pedal.

I'll go with #9 Dance with the Pixies

"GCHQ kept hard copies of all disruptive blog correspondence in case of cyber attack"

I have made a slide show too:

#43, #47

Norrie, Julie,

You're takin' recent results way too seriously. Remember, it's only a game.

>8-D

While obviously the Bragg request above is far and away my choice (I actually stopped short in track finding when I got to it), I will *almost* forgive you if you play Tom Jones' meditation on ethics & personal morality: What Good Am I?

Nice try SG. You know my team and you also I suspect know if thet are doing well or not so well.....I am not getting drawn in here...

Urgent message for Uncle Vic!


We've had your Mum on the phone. She said saying sorry ain't gonna cut it. BUT...

...if you play Life is a Long Song by Jethro Tull she'll forgive you.


END OF URGENT MESSAGE!

#61,

Norrie,

This obsession you and Julie have with death doesn't match the theme. Get with the programme!

>8-D

It's the only thing that's certain

jotter still lost I see

#65

Oh dear.

#64

That and Texas.















philosophical git

And Ms Fripp

Thursday:

Johnny Reggae - The Piglets






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DC

#69

Are Jonathan King records allowed?