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54.At 19:28 30th May 2011, You wrote:
TUESDAY


'Sweet Home Alabama' - Lynyrd Skynyrd

followed by

'Play it All Night Long' - Warren Zevon

(The second song is a song about the first song. Pure complementary, by the way).

N.B. Massive thanks to Glen Miller for pointing this out to me.

Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream vs The Hoxtons

followed by

Progress - Jack Bruce

can this really be the same artist?


reagrdez youse

henri

Going to California - Led Zeppelin
Monkey - Low
Robert Plant covers Monkey in his Band of Joy album and this is my choice pair so far but I also like

Out of Time - Chris Farlowe
All We Make is Entertainment - Manic Street Preachers
who have a great cover of Out of Time (thanks, Norrie)


Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris
To Ohio - The Low Anthem
Emmylou's recorded To Ohio with the Low Anthem, though I prefer their own version

The Real McCoy - the Silencers
All Over the News -
James is son of Jimme O'Neill of The Silencers

hey, this is quite fun!

Roscoe - Midlake
Sigourney Weaver - John Grant from the album Queen of Denmark
Midlake co-produced and played on Queen of Denmark

Boom Papa Boom - Jimmie Vaughan
Honey Bee - Stevie Ray Vaughan
brothers

The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
Catch the Wind - Donovan - from the album Hurdy Gurdy Man
among the many instruments played by Arcade Fire is the hurdy gurdy

Battle of New Orleans - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie

Operator - The Manhatten Transfer

followed by

Badge - Cream

no reason, just like the contrasting tempo and styles.

regardez youse

henri

have we done a theme of one word song titles?

Hello.

Great theme and great suggestions above.

Linked by title:

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?

Camera Obscura - Lloyd I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken

Linked by Music:

Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes

David Bowie - Move On (all the young dudes backwards)

Just sound great one after the other:

Justin Currie - What Is Love For

Edwin Collins - Home again

I think Bryan could fade them in cleverly:

James Brown - Funky Drummer

George Michael - Waiting On That Day, great sample by George brilliant track

Slightly obscure:

Pity that Andy White - Me, The Moon My Car and You followed by Racing in the Street by Springsteen would be too long but Andy takes the song theme both in music and subject and turns in his own mini masterpiece.

#6 yes

OK, so the night-out was tonight and I didn't get invited? :0(

Oh, OK you're there

Long Tall Sally - The Beatles

followed by the beautiful jazz ballad,

Distractions - Paul McCartney

regardez youse

henri

My First Night Alone Without You - Bonnie Raitt

followed by

What Is And What Should Never Be - Led Zepplin

regardez youse

henri

#9 me neither Gaie.

ps I can give the blog a great gardening tip! Do not mow the lawn while lisytening to Bad Moon Rising in GIO. Mow mow, la la la, bang sparks etc.....my arm is only a wee bit sore. Thank goodness for RCD circuits.

I probably shouldnt have been drinking either.....

From the moment I heard Tubeway Army I instinctively disliked anything about or to do with Gary Numan.

But I do like

Freak Like Me - The Sugababes

followed by

Cars - The Leisure Society

A more astonishing contrast it's hard to imagine. Anyone who hasn't yet heard Cars by The Leisure Society should have a listen on Spotify etc.

regardez youse

henri

What an original idea... can I get a badge?

#17

MadMac,

Yes. See #6

As our show is on first, they're copying us.

>8-D



#15

Norrie,

What happened to the sheep?

Somebody's Baby - Jackson Browne
Nobody's Child - The Traveling Wilburys

Theyare still safe on the croft.....

Henri:

I suppose a is out of the question.......

#18

you mean like this dream segues,

Copy Cat ~ Derrick Morgan & Cheat ~ T. Clash

dream segues...

Policy Of Truth ~ Depeche Mode

Gimme Some Truth ~ John Lennon

#21

Thanks, Nine Inch Nails are better than the original, for sure, but The Leisure Society's 'Penguin Cafe Orchestra' version is sublime. I love it.

I bought a couple of Leisure Society CD's - exquisite packaging, lovely items to own.

regardez youse

henri

more dream segues...

True Confessions ~ T. Undertones

True ~ Spandau Ballet

or

Would I Lie To You ~ Eurythmics

I'm Not Calling You A Liar ~ Florence & The Machine

or

Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) ~ T. Offspring

Tell Me No Lies ~ Clark Richard

Henri - have a recording of them recording Something. Pretty good.

I saw Emmylou at the Royal Concert Hall on Sunday, so very happy to second Gaie's third option (#3).

Also:

(Looking for) the heart of Saturday night - Tom Waits
Landslide - Dixie Chicks

Nobody knows - Pink
I'll work for you're love - Springsteen

Stay - Sugarland
Three wishes - the Pierces

Conversation 16 - the National
Rise - Eddie Vedder

Let the river run - Carly Simon
You've got a friend - James Taylor

Holiday - Joan as Policewoman
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

I thought you should know - Steve Earle
A soft place to fall - Allison Moorer

Jean genie - David Bowie
Modern love - Last Town Chorus

Because the night - Patti Smith
Fire - the Pointer Sisters

Rose of Cimarron - Poco
I can't stand up for falling down - Elvis Costello

Misty blue - Dorothy Moore
Neon blue - the Mavericks

Born to run - Springtseen
Born to run - Emmylou Harris

Joe
Linlithgow

One more, to connect this theme with last Friday's his'n'hers:

Get on the floor - J-Lo
This old heart of mine - Isley Brothers

Joe
Linlithgow

'Special' - Garbage

has, at the end of it, an interpolation (say that 10 times quickly Bryan) of...

'Talk Of the Town' - The Pretenders.

Buzzcocks --- Love You More

Buddy Holly --- Rave On



Both songs well under 2 mins

Magazine - A Song From Under The Floorboards

Morrissey - Something Is Squeezing My Skull

Tonight Vic played a track by The Incredible String Band. It was incredibly bad - indescribably dull and awful, droned on for hours and the guy couldn't sing.

I can only presume contracts were easy to get in 1968. It took me back Peel's Saturday afternoon show - I remember he played "Dog Evil Backwards" which I instinctively knew was mince but wasn't courageous enough to say as ISB were cool hip and trendy. Not everything about the 60's was great.

Blackburn was right,of course, bit we won't get fooled again.

Dog Evil Backwards - Incredible String Band

Followed by

Roadrunner - Jur Walker & The Allstars
Regardez youse

Henri

I fully expect a list of Capt Ramius preportions from our resident Blog DJ Pablo for this theme.
I, on the other hand, can only come up with the best segue ever:

From Thin Lizzy`s Live and Dangerous:

`Cowboy Song` into `Boys are Back in Town`

Simply majestic.

I beg to disagree Adam,

Happiest days of our lives into Another brick in the wall part 2 - Pink Floyd, 'The Wall




DC

The whole of Side 2 to the Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle

Incident on 57th Street/Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)/New York City Serenade

Fantastic (paolo will confirm)

Jackson Browne

The Load Out /Stay

Sweet Nothings - Brenda Lee
Honey Hush - Elvis Costello

#36 Absolutelyagree Norrie and if you are willing to invest I will give you generous odds against having that whgole side played!

Could get carried away with this theme but I'll just suggest a wee easy mix for Oor Bryan

Goodbye nothin to say / Nosmo King and the Javells
Right back where we started from / Maxine Nightengale

It's practically the same backing track.




Great Gig in the sky / Pink Floyd
Superman / Five for fighting

The piano works well together




Off to play five a sides for the first time in 30 years.
Visiting time is 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

#38 - Paolo - They have visiting times at the morgue???

;o)

I like to think of these two songs as being about the same couple. The first song is the woman amazed at how perfect it is. The second song is the man gazing at the wreckage, sad because it's over but happy because it happened. Two of my favourites -


Heaven - Do ~ (Candlelight mix)

The Dance - Garth Brooks ~ aka The "Anti-Hank"


:o)

#40 - Make sure you keep your hankies handy!

;o)

Separated at birth?

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl
The Strokes - Last Nite

'the ballad of easy rider'...............the byrds

'everybody's talkin'........................harry nilsson

2 songs = 2 good tunes = 2 good lyrics = 2 good films = good enough for me

cheers frae the dale

Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Paul Simon - Father and Daughter

Both produced by Brian Eno

The Emperors new clothes syndrome could be a theme, did you have the guts to stand up and say "That band are rubbish" or did you just say you liked them to appear cool the only problem is BB might feel obliged to play obscure stuff, or Bands that you secretly like but were "too cool" to admit too all the closet Duranies out there!

my head is not on pairing tunes today all I can think of is the tune at the end of the aerobics class knowing that the cool down song is next it reminds me a bit of when I worked in a shop when I was 16 and the same tape was played all he time and I always expect to hear I feel for you Chakka Khan followed by Tinsle town Blue Nile right after it, I went to see chakka khan and lulu etc and she sang that song and 25 years or so later I still expected to hear Blue Nile Brain washed I was

Last Friday night on ´óÏó´«Ã½4 was "Easy Listening" night covering everything from James Last to the incomparable Bacharach and David.Why doesnt Hal David who wrote the wonderful lyrics never get feted in the way Burt does?Anyway while watching B.B. on "Electric Proms"it was jawdropping to hear one absolute classic after another.Dionne Warwicke was the muse for them and when in an earlier documentary I watched Cilla Black struggle on her 29th take on "Alfie"its easy to see why.Dionne makes those veinbusting keychanges sound effortless.Burt's later collaberations with wife Carole Bayer Sager seemed to lack Hal David's sophistication(imho).Fast forward a decade or so and I heard what I thought must be a new Bacharach David song in the shape of "God Give Me Strength".Turns out it was Elvis Costello and they went on to make an exceptional album together.It would be great to hear Dionne's light breezy original version of "I Say a Little Prayer"followed by Elvis Costello's stunning "God Give me Strength"Cheers ,Willie Bartke

#46,Oops,excuse my double negative!:0) Willie B.

#46
Ah Willie, the great Hal David. Who can forget:

Hey! Little Girl
Comb your hair, fix your makeup
Soon he will open the door
Don't think because there's a ring on your finger
You needn't try anymore
For wives should always be lovers too
Run to his arms the moment he comes home to you
I'm warning you...
Day after day
There are girls at the office
And men will always be men
Don't send him off with your hair still in curlers
You may not see him again
For wives should always be lovers too
Run to his arms the moment he comes home to you
He's almost here...
Hey! Little girl
Better wear something pretty
Something you'd wear to go to the city and
Dim all the lights, pour the wine, start the music
Time to get ready for love
Time to get ready
Time to get ready for love

Dont come more sophisticated than that.

:)

#45

Not a bad pair you've got there jinkky!

HAHA !Adam,just call me Don Draper!:0) Willie B.

Julie's great suggestion, as always, reminds me of another couple of tracks which include "interpolation" of other songs:

Joni Mitchell - Chinese Cafe

fatastic song which works in Unchained Melody.

The Who - Real Good Looking Boy

again a superb track and works in I Can't Help Falling In Love

It would be really good to hear these songs back to back with the originals.

I Don't Want To Go Home - Southside Johnnny & The Asbury Jukes

followed by

Midnight At The Oasis - Maria Muldaur

regardez youse

henri

random shuffled pair

Wheels - Foo Fighters
Supermassive Black Hole - the Muse

sounded good this morning on way to work!

#50
Its funny Willie, as I was re-reading the lyrics, thats just the programme I was thinking of! I guess it was of its time. To be fair too, I think I read once that it was written tongue in cheek.

Hi Couchpotato Willie again.God bless ´óÏó´«Ã½4.I tuned in to the Beegees night thinking it would be a night of "Les Tosseurs"as Clive Anderson would say.I forgot just how great there 60s songs were before Barry discovered his infernal disco falsetto.On the"Sing The Beegees"follow up show I heard Esther Ofarim's cover of "Morning of my Life" a solo hit for her in the 60s,as Julie will confirm!Beautiful little song which could be coupled with Candi Statton's belting cover of "Nights on Broadway"!Cheers,the Madman,Willie Barke

#52 the man is genius

#54

Ah yes, the man who brought us:

After the fox
After the fox
Off to the hunt with chains and locks

The Hollies' finest hour and a Desert Island choice for Otis Ferry.

#55

I used to like The I think the disco phase started after Barry accidentally backed into an Autotuner.

GIO picnic in Millport gets out of hand.

Ride On Time - Black Box

followed by

Like A Prayer - Loleatta Holloway

regardez youse

henri

#49 you'll have met me then !? Thanks haha
#48 Elaine C Smith does a great wee sketch with that song in it and how she loved to sing along and then on closer inspection of the words would have all the feminists spontainiously compust bras and all also cliff Richard living doll gonna lock her up in a box etc hysterical please excuse my spelling on handheld and beautifully manacured nails are too long for the key board must dash "children go wash and change for your father coming home ill pour his gin and tonic and get his slippers ready and take my rollers out"

Oh and I admit to liking the Begees too. There I'm out I've said it! Feels good!

Hows about

Sparkle - My Life Story
Shine - Take That

or for the Bieber fans
Love Me - Justin Bieber
Lovefool - The Cardigans
They have pretty much the same chorus and every time I hear the Bieber song from Elspeth's bedroom I wish it was the Cardigans one....

Richard Hawley - Born Under A Bad Sign
Orange Juice - Get While The Gettings Good

Sound very good together ☺

I really cannot bring myself to admit that i like the Bee Gees, because I don't.

They take themselves tremendously seriously and I cannot fathom out why, particularly when they sound and look ludicrous.Kenny Everett used to do great sketches of them which only highlighted how attitudinally pompous they are.

Maybe Al Fayed should put up a statue to Maurice Gibb outside Fulham's ground - which I still think is a good theme (statues- or did we do that?).

I think 'Nights On Broadway' (Candi Staton preferred) and 'Night Fever' are good. Some soul boys think Jive Talkin' is good, but it doesn't do much for me, I'm afraid.

The Boat That I Row - Lulu

Immigrant Song - Led Zepplin

Lulu was married to Maurice Gibb, Led Zepplin were her backing band.

regardez vous

henri

#65 show me a band/group that doesn't think they are above all others when it comes to their artistic ego haha and I defy any one to not jig as soon as they hear the opening bars to Night Fever love it or hate it it makes you want to shimmy

That reminds me; must get my white three-piece whistle oot the cleaners in time for the GIO swally.


















Of course it still fits.......

#67 You'll no be wanting bolognese then?

#65

If you could really bring yourself to admit that you like the Bee Gees when you don't then you would have a personality disorder. You would then qualify for life membership of this blog.

I admit that I like the Bee Gees even though I don't, except I do due to my personality disorder. Do I also qualify for life membership of this blog?

#69

Glen,

I think we have to change the description to:- You can be a member of this blog until you're deid or until you get a life. Whichever comes first.