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Can you ask Babs if there are electric eels in the twitter stream? Thanks xx

David Bowie - My Death

cheery little number

Previously on the blog...


'Julie, Do Ya Love Me?' -


A hit before Norrie was born.......

In order of preference
The famous final scene / Bob seger & Silver Bullet band
If this is the last kiss let's make it last all night / Meatloaf
Last resort / Eagles
The last one to follow / Aerials up
The Last shot / Tom Baxter
Last of the sun / Cry Before dawn




I can blog text facebook e mail but you're goin too far with the birdie stuff. You might be lucky cos there's a few ornthlo orintholli olnithornog birdwatchers on here

#1 and how do they keep their wires dry?

Springsteen - Last Carnival, superb tribute to the late Danny Federici

#3. Oh for goodness...

FRIDAY


'Never Again, Again' - Lee Ann Womack


One for Mary-Doll;

'Cold Wind to Valhalla' - Jethro Tull

'The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray' - Jake Thackray ~ Surprise!

and support for any and all Warren Zevon suggestions.

#4

Paolo,

As Frankie Howerd almost said, "Twitter ye not!"


>8-D

#8 good shout SG

Warren Zevon (in case Glen continues his absence) or Springsteen - My Rides Here

David Gray - The Other Side

DC I see yer mans been nominated for the Mercury prize. Good album.

Birdy's amazing Live Lounge cover of Ed Sheerin's 'the A Team' ... "Light's gone, day's end"... hard to believe she's only 15!

Previously on the Blog.... sorry about that jinnk.


"Last Farewell" - Roger Whittaker

one of my karoke numbers - never a dry eye in the house.

'The End Of The World' - John Mellencamp.

Paolopablo The Fmous Final Scene is a fantastic suggestion.....

(It's Not War) Just The End Of Love' - Manics

Possibly for all the bloggers???

Europe The Final Countdown

Just stirrin' it.

'The Final Arrears' - Mull Historical Society

#17 great track Julie!

#18

Doesnt matter how many tweets there are MD, you're far better off with our twits on the Blog.

#21 - tell me about it, Adam. Even Facebook has some element of everybody getting a look-in as to who's saying what with a chance to comment/ add/ subtract. Twitter's just a quick fix - immediate, no doubt, but there's something missing. And it's not just the ability to type more than 140 characters.

Oh well - here's another shout for either Madeleine or Leonard

Dance Me To The End Of Love

and, also Adam - love the RW. I don't care if he's considered naff - I think he has a great voice and sings with a world-weary wisdom that is genuinely moving.

recently i stumbled upon a vhs tape of 'the big picnic' a masterpiece put on in a disused shipyard on govan road in 1994.
its a story about the govan boys on front in the 1st. world war and this astonishing drama was directed by bill bryden.
of course the first thing i did on finding this gem was watch it again.
there is incredibly moving music in the play.
non more so than the final scene and the singing of the anthem by the whole cast.

so from the final scene.
the final song.

'always remembered'...............the cast of 'the big picnic'

the problem here is and it is a challenge to the GIO team....can you find a copy?

if you manage to find a copy in some dark and dusty vault then you will want to play this..............guarenteed.

find it..........listen to it it...........then GIO.................then every listener will have a greater understanding and appreciation of the term 'finality'.

cheers frae the dale

#24. The problem will soon be (if it isn't already)...will they stop playing with their new toys long enough to actually read your post. You'd better tweet them to make sure they see it! it's already down to "oh someone on the blog mentioned that too"!!!

#25 @ ya julie.................ma wee complimentary phone from the tangerine company is so rudimentary it just about has one o' they dialling things wi' letters and numbers on it like the wan in 'dial m for murrrrrder'

cheers frae the dale

Josh Ritter - 'The Temptation Of Adam' ...

"We passed the time with crosswords that she thought to bring inside
What five letters spell "apocalypse" she asked me
I won her over saying "W.W.I.I.I."
She smiled and we both knew that she'd misjudged me"

#23
Yup he's a good lad, MD.

#25
Aye, weel....

come on, henri - how busy are you on twitter ignoring your tweets that you can't be here requesting
Soft Cell Say Hello, Wave Goodbye 12" version?
Too late - you'll have to second it.

How about the song I would like played at my funeral as the cofin leaves the church... ...

Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away


or on a sweeter note, one of my favourites...

FAST CAR by TRACY CHAPMAN


another lovely one would be ONE DAY I'LL FLY AWAY by RANDY CRAWFORD

Cause We've Ended as Lovers - Jeff Beck

Take Good Care of yourself - Frankie Miller

Long Gone - George Thorogood

The Best of Everything - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Oh Yeah, You're Gone - Brad Paisley

Never mind all that. Has the blog faith in the Capn as our source of all things geek been shaken to the core with twitterfeedgate?

#32@ ya norrie.

the capn does seem to have disappeared somewhat since that radio equivalent of a gong.

cheers frae the dale

Empty The Chamber ~ Sadies

Nough said!

#29

It's unusual for for me to have to 2nd the 12" of Say Hello, Wave Goodbye but I'm happy to do so. You have to be careful about your version though - I prefer the 91 remix from the 'Soft Cell -Memorabilia'Album - though Norrie's orginal 12" is also brilliant ( that's a soft cell track). What is not brilliant is the version that keeps on cropping up on GIO. Our hero promised to rectify this situation after playing the David Grey version about a year ago.

However, since we won't be hearing it, let me tell you about one of my favourite discoveries of recent times:

The Last Of The Melting Snow - The Leisure Society

Nick Hemming won an Ivor Novello award for this before the band even had a contract.Beautiful Mccartney melodic feel meets The Penguin Cafe Orchestra but with Lennon's lyrical ability. Awesome, gentle and refined, clever.

I've bought both of their albums 'The Sleeper' which contains the most remarkable cover version of 'Cars' and their new album 'Into the Murky Water'.

A complete joy for summer.

And now, the tweeting disaster: turns out I made the fatal msitake of wiping the bbc address from the tweet box, hence they didn't turn up at GIO. But, if you don't wipe the bbc address it only leaves you 50 characters - which for someone as verbose as me is a nightmare.So I deleted it and tweeted to myself for two days.

That said I have 100% more followers than before: so I must be doing something right!

regardez youse

henri

#24 DK i hope one day we meet so I can borrow that tape. I never knew a recorded version was ever available but it was definitely one of the best pieces of live theatre I have ever seen and the only one where my seat was carted along by a crane to keep up with the action.

#16 They won't have it. It's not one of the three.

#12 saw that. I'll congratulate him next time he's passing the door

DC

The ultimate last song:

Two Suns in the Sunset - Pink Floyd

I commend it tae the hoose.


DC

Point of order your honours:

If one who posts on Twitter makes what is known as a 'tweet', what do we call someone who continually posts inconsiderate posts on that site?

perhaps my final attempt to tempt you with these 2 ...

'The Ending' ~~ (we are) Performance

'Last Weekend'' ~~ The Tiny

#39

DC,

Is it true that Norrie was seduced by the Dark Side when someone gave him a super poke?


I'm not sure if we should be telt!

R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Matchbox Twenty - How Far We've Come
"Waking up at the start of the end of the world,
But it's feeling just like every other morning before,
Now I wonder what my life is going to mean if it's gone"

Steven Lindsay - Giving Up The Ghost

Sparks - Here In Heaven

Roxy Music 'End Of The Line'
Concrete Blonde 'End Of The Line' (Roxy cover with Paul Thompson on drums)
Andy Mackay 'End Of The World' (Sax instrumental of a Skeeter Davis hit)
Bryan Ferry 'Funny How Time Slips Away' (Willie Nelson cover)
Bryan Ferry 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' (Dylan cover)
Phila Manzanera 'Till the End Of The Line'
The Explorers 'You Go Up In Smoke'

J.O'B.

#41 Mr Chairman! Point of order. Norrie was active on f/b and tweet long before GIO and therefore, I submit to the house, cannot have been seduced by the GIO activity in that "other place".

It is my contention that the motion put forward by Scotch Git:

Norrie Maclean was seduced by a super poke

is fundamently flawed and must be rejected!!

Previously on the Blog....

#3 - Julie - The Osmonds ~ from the Crazy Horses album.

:o)


#39 - DC - If one Twitters Tweets on the night shift does that make one a Twit Twoo?

;o)


#41 - Scotch Git - It might explain his ménage à trois crack on the previous page. LOL!

;o)

They don't come more final than this! The only question is, do you laugh?

Still Gonna Die - Old Dogs

Or do you cry?

Dust In The Wind - Melanie

:o)

#45 - Norrie MacLean - The man who puts the fun and the mental in fundamental! LOL!

;o)

To tweet or not to tweet:

You're never too old to learn something stupid ☺

#46. Funnily enough...not a mention on the 'your name in a song' theme night (I wanted 'Julie's been working for the drug squad'). A guy at work sings 'Julie Julie Julie do you love me' every single blessed time he sees me...or even in a phone call... and STILL thinks it's funny after 10 years. Of course I smile sweetly at him (while sticking pins into the wax effigy I keep in my desk drawer).

#50 - Julie - They didn't play Three Men From Carntyne either! I was in Ireland but DC asked for it for me. We need a campaign!

:o)

OK clever bloggers, let's conjugate the verb 'Tweet"

I'll start with the present tense:

I tweet
You tweet
He tweets
She tweets
We tweet
You tweet
They tweet

Who's going for the past historic?

#52 - DC - ??? - Is that the same as past tense? Or are you being silly?

;o)

#52 are you an English teacher?

#52

I tweeted
You twote
He twittered
She tittered
We wittered
You withered
They dithered

To be continued?

I'm only gonna support the Beatles Klaxon Track if it starts with Golden Slumbers and ends with Her Magesty.

Magesty? What the hell am I on about... you know what I mean.

'This is the end' ~~ The Doors
'This is the last time' ~~ Keane
'The night the lights went out in Scotland' ~~ The Real McKenzies

s'cuse ... 'The End' ~~ The Doors

Otherwise:

* Pink Floyd - Goodbye Cruel World
* Roger Waters - Four Minutes
They pressed the button Jim?
What button?
The Big Red One
* Republica - Ready to Go
* U2 - Exit (although I think One Tree Hill also fits very well, and A Sort of Homecoming does too)

* Justin Hayward/Jeff Wayne - Forever Autumn
* Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad of Lucy Jordan
both have a strong sense of acceptance of endings about them

Right 30 second twitter tutorial.

To follow @bbcgetiton, either go to
and follow them or just tweet
f bbcgetiton

To communicate with the team:
1) If is following you, they will see your tweets[1]. If you're following them, you'll see all their tweets.

2) Whether or not they're following you, if you mention in your tweet (the @ is significant, don't miss it out), it will be in their Replies section. If they mention you, it'll be in yours.

3) If is following you, you may Direct Message (aka DM) them which no-one else can see.

General tip: The Twitter website isn't really the best way of doing Twitter - a number of clients are available for free or small charge from various vendors, but the official Twitter ones aren't too bad (and are free). Other clients are available.


Tomorrow's lesson: hashtags.


(1) Exception: if you start your tweet with addressing it to someone they're not following.

The Twitter website isn't really the best way of doing Twitter !!!! What is the point then?

Thanks for that though capn, very helpfull.

Missed a bit Englebert.



Adam in UK

#53

"I tweeted" = past tense

"I used to tweet" = past historic

"I would have tweeted" = future historic


#54 No

#63 helpful in that I can now view twitter. But what does it actually do?
I think this is a ruse to get us away from the blog. We must resist

Blur featuring Françoise Hardy - La Comedie/To The End

Très bien ☺

#65 I blog, therefore I am ☺

#64 Welcome home Adam

#67 Ah kain.....

#65

Think of it as real-time like texting (and in fact, you can do Twitter via SMS on certain operators - Voda for sure), but without the fiddlyness of phones (or needing a signal - I have almost no signal at home, but excellent WiFi and can type waaaaay faster than I can text).

So best used: during the show.

Best ´óÏó´«Ã½ R Scotland tweeters
(by a long way), then and (aka Tom Morton) neck and neck. (Alison Craig) coming along nicely while and are taking positive baby steps.

And as today's Friday, we can do the Twitter Tradition of Follow Friday (shortened to #ff), which is to give a shoutout to all the above and a recommendation to follow them!

#65 #70

Real-time like texting. Just what we need.

Traffic mowing down inattentive texters is nature's way of improving the gene pool.

#66

Ah yes! Now we're talking - Since I've only requested The Leisure Society there is an outside chance that three of my favourite tracks might appear on the one show.

that's: The Last Of The Melting Snow - The Leisure Society

and huge 2nd for: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye -Soft Cell - 12" 91 Memoabilia version

and a huge 2nd for the wolrd's most alluring member of the opposite sex:

To The End/La Comedie -Blur featuring Francoise Hardy

Well done Billy in Alloa, nice to know there is more than one of us. Lovely video that goes with that recording.

regardez- vous

henri

#72 Merci. Françoise adds a certain je ne sais quoi ☺

Never mind all this nonsesns about tweeting. Back to the music;

Electric Light Orchestra - "From the end of the World", - from the "Time " album.

Ian
Gartcosh

I think I prefer the banter of the Twits. ELO have become the GIO house band.

#70

Cap'n,

You're probably the man to consult! I can't be the only blogger who has been receiving emails re: H2G2

Is someone other than the ´óÏó´«Ã½ gonna own the blogs? If so, what are the implications for the likesay us?

#64

Furryboots?

Right, I've gien it a shot. Lets see if I've got through on twit

DC

#78

Twaitor!


>8-D

I'm still waiting tae see what happens..............

So much for the Cellardyke Resist And Protest campaign...


>8-D