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ciamar a' tha thu

'heroes'...........................bowie......german version

slainte frae the dale

Oh well, spoilt for choice now... among my favs..

Madonna - Sorry

garbled French over a disco beat... I love the line "I've heard it all before" ... very clever, she's quite right, of course... we have heard it all before ..it's Can You Feel It - by the Jacksons!

regardez youse

henri

monday
Amoureuse / Kiki Dee

Imeldas pick not mine.
She's forgotton her log in.
Didn't want to tell her it won't count cos it don't get mentioned in the song.

The Silencers - Number One Friend

re soirée, is there anyone going on the 6.30 train tomorrow?

Right Saturday night!
We'll be on the half six from queen St if emdy else from this neck of the woods is goin about that time.

I've booked queue skippers for 12 eaters at 7.40 though we may have one or two more. Nice to see willie B and Marydoll might be joining us. Meet outside at about half seven. Emdy coming later we will see you in the bar until Julie or any of the local yokels move us on.

Adam, it's no the mines DC has to be wary of, it's staying dry as he negotiates the quayside on the way back.

#4 #5 Gaie we must have passed in cyberspace. We'll also be on the train from bishopton to Glasgow before that.

'michelle'.......................les beatles

isnae bad at all

cheers frae the dale

OK, that's great, Paolo, see you at Queen St. unless I'm off into cyberspace again.

Grace Jones Libertango Halfish of the lyrics are French. Adds atmosphere and mystique. Or, if you don't like it, just sounds pretentious.
Propaganda Dr Mabuse the German language has no pretensions of being romantic nor easy on the ear. The whole time, manner, place, verb at the end word order thing gets in the way. But this is a top tune from my younger days I can't rationally explain the appeal of. (see what I did....ach, forget it! ;o) )

I mad a right pig's ear of that.

Hi Imelda here

Vado Via / Drupi
from the first ktel album I ever bought.

Gloria / Umberto tozzi
Gira con me questa notte / Josh Groban
L'italiano / Toto Cutugno

As a language teacher this is my kinda night.
Love it!

See you all tomorrow.

Robbie Williams - 'Supreme' (French version)

#12...Robbie Williams - 'Supreme' (the not-entirely-in-French version)!

'ananininganeana'............saint andrew

fits the bill nicely some would say.................the posh folk in 'the ferry' definitely havnae a scooby what he's oan aboot, some o' the time

cheers fare the dale

Empty Room - Arcade Fire

#15 anyone got a seating plan sorted out for tomorrow night?

The Stranglers did several songs in various languages...

N'Emmenes Pas Harry
Sverige All Quiet On The Eastern Front

However bet'cha you get Blondie's Dimanche de fille as usual 8-(


Hope you all have a great time tomorrow evening in Auld Reekie!

'Dosvedanya Mia Bombino' - Pink Martini

MONDAY


"I love a good bum on a woman, it makes my day.

To me it is palpable proof of God's existence, a posteriori."

How many song writers would (or could) make a pun in Latin? The man was a genius!


'On Again! On Again!' - Jake Thackray

Darts of Pleasure ~ Franz Ferdinand
Michelle ~ Beatles
Should I Stay or Should I Go ~ T. Clash
Lady Marmalade ~ Labelle
Eyes Without a Face ~ Billy Idol
Hold On Tight ~ ELO









Mexican Radio ~ Wall Of Voodoo... often requested etc

#16 yup i'm sitting nearest the food and norrie is sitting nearest the drink.

Have a good holiday madmac

Cheers Paolo, just about all set to head to the airport.

#21...and...later on...DC will probably be IN the drink!

Previously on the blog...

Re: Willie's Summer Mix; July 2008

Willie, Willie, Willie! A missed opportunity to request The Mighty Tull!

How could you?


>8-D

#21 i'm sitting with people who are interested in birds in case it gets like a busman's holiday :-)

#24,I kinda took the Summer theme a bit too literally there!Would be a bit more adventurous now,on reflection but I was so much older then ,I'm younger than that now!Was never really into Tull though I did go see them when they came to the Apollo with "Thick as a Brick"tour and of course they did Isle of Wight.Ian Anderson is in yesterdays Guardian remembering Tull's worst ever gig (in the States where he thought someone had thrown warm wine at him until he smelled it)!Hopefully see you guys tonight. Cheers Willie Bartke

#25,Paul,Have you seen the film "Psycho"?:0) Willie B.

#26 @ ya willie..................

yeah i dunno what rossi's problem was about the gig in dundee.
ah wiz there and seen worse on a quiet sunday mornin' up the hilltoon.
good job he disnae drink in the dolphin whose overexcited clients once made the headlines on bbc scotland's news at 6.

cheers frae the dale

#27 Willie, yeh and great it is, "The Birds" also!

#24

as you well know, if The Mighty Tull had been on the list it would have been consigned to the room of lost jotters and never have seen the light of day.

All quiet on the Blog I see.

A recent Blog favourite for Monday:

`Yuri` - Oi Va Voi

See y'all later in Embra. Norrie - tweeted you my mob #

A great night!

Thanks Henri and Smiffy for the lift home. That was above and beyond the call....

yes, a great night - thanks, Paolo for organising it - lovely to see everyone, some again and some new and one - well let's not go there for now.. the photos will be out there shortly I daresay

yeh, it was good that all your efforts to rally the troops payed off Paolo, nice one mate! Good to see the "new-faces" too. enjoyed the banter just as much as on the blog, cheers y'all

you'll be pleased to know that some of us took our blog duties seriously and collaborated on some suggestions for the language theme......

I Can't Speak French - Girls Aloud

.....we think the goalposts should be moved for this as clearly the artists wanted to use a foreign language but were hindered by their lack of ability........


Paul and Imelda without Paolo Pablo

That was rerr! Gaie - Thank you for the ride home! Paolo - Thank you for reminding me of this one - The perfect song to start the show -

C'est la Vie - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

My favourite version of this song. Oddly enough you'll find it on their Greatest Hits album but I don't remember it being a single for them. Go figure! LOL!

;o)

Agree with you all, a fantastic evening, thanks paolo! What a lovely bunch of people and not too much blog talk. Really enjoyed your company, folks. Am miffed I had to leave early - next time will factor in a later train, or if it's in Glasgow, will kip at my sister-in-law's. Adam - the shots glass was a really kind touch! I imagine one of my boys will appropriate mine. Senga - see #34!!!

#38 - mary-doll - As the Duke of Wellington once said - "Publish and be damned!"
LOL!

;o)

Howdi Blogotariat!

What a great night out! Smiffy and me had a great time and thanks Paulo for organising it.It was great to meet everyone again and the folks I'd not met before - to Adam for coming all the way from Rio armed with the shot glasses.Lovely bunch of people.

Our Senga is some kid, I was immediately regretting runing away from our weekend in Blackpool last year.

After leaving HRC, Julie, Adam and myself wandered down to a pub in the Cannongate to meet Smiffy & her dad, more strong drink was taken.

After we dropped Julie off, we drove in entirely the wrong direction for about half an hour, the rain got worse, so eventually stopped at Harthill for a cup of tea, watched the Tottenham riot for a while and sauntered in about 5:00.

Great night out, thanks for being such good company - hope the daughter was fine when you got in, Jullie - safe journey 'home', Adam.

regardez - youse

henri

#33 Henri and Smiffy took Adam from Rio home? That is above and beyond the call!

Thanks to Gaie for the lift from Glesga.
Looking forward to the Henrihannah radio show. Will it have a blog? Tell Linda I want her autograph.
Marytall lovely to meet you.
Senga, sorry for taking so long to get your bra off on the train home.
Frank, happy birthday, you've still got cream on your chin. Nice to meet Val.
Julie i've got a cracking photie
DC good to catch up. Did you have to get a boat to your boat.
Paul H, always a pleasure.
Adam, nice touch with the gifts.
Captain, where's the group photie
Norrie Hope the hamstring heals
Willie Bartke stop looking for us, we're home now
Scotch, you're a star but your memory nearly had you in so much trouble


And I must say, it was most kind of Adam to take on the social conveners baton ahead of next summers blog do in Rio!

Many thanks H + S for the lift home. The Daughter was unimpressed by her Mother staying out late after having forgotten to take her keys...she shouldn't have hidden them under her tennis racquet though should she! Mood improved after seeing the flippety-flops Adam had brought her from Brazil! That was very kind.

Monday
Quando Quando Quando / Juarez and Azura

Memories of a waterfall bar on the Costa Brava

#5 & 23 and others, yes, I did get soaked but that was because of the monsoon conditions in South Queensferry & the walk fae Dalmeny station, not fae a swim in Port Edgar Marina.

Up for the coastguard forecast at 0730 and the decision taken to cast off at 8am. We scraped over the bottom of Anster harbour to moor at 1pm. A great experience in Largo Bay however. We often see dolphins at our end of the Forth but I got a shock when a 25' whale surfaced about 20 yards ahead of the boat. It dived and we kept looking around to see if it would come up again. It did, this time no more than 10 yards alongside the yacht. It was so close, we got the spray and the stench of its fishy exhale!

Agreed with all comments above re the brilliant night out. You should have been there Bryan, you would have loved it. Pity Scotch, Norrie & Willie didn't manage along.

Monday song: Hold on tight - ELO


Quand tu vois ton bateau partir...........


DC

#44

DC,

That would be its "cetacean mammalian exhale."



























pedantic git

>8-D

Ignore me. Just jealous coz Ah didnae' see it.


:-)

#44 fabulous - we had a similar experience on the way to Rum one year, the whale spent quite some time diving under the boat and coming up the other side. And boy, it's breath did indeed smell fishy!

MONDAY

Bella Donna - The Avett Brothers
Reste Avec Moi - Codeine Velvet Club

My sincere apologies to you guys for not making it through.The best laid plans etc.Never even left Glasgow after disastrous family "get together"Talk about disfunctional.I'm sure some of you have been there.Would love to have met you all and I promise to make it next time.Maybe a Glasgow reunion sometime soon?I'm off for a long walk to Pollok Park to untangle my brain!Cheers Willie Bartke

Scrap the Propaganda track requested - don't know why I thought it contained any foreigneese. Shame, but not a tragedy, to have to ask for
Edith Piaf Autumn Leaves instead

#48 Willie - we've all been there with the dysfunctional families. Sometimes you just have to go through the motions (sort of like swimming near the Burntisland beach) a couple of times, then vow to not do it again if you can avoid it in future. Easier said than done. But a GIO bloggers night out isn't something you want to miss if you can come up with a credible excuse for avoiding the crapness!!

#39 I will publish nothing, so cannae be damned. For that, anyway...... but it seems a bit churlish to want to hide your magnificence from the ones who weren't there. Is there a problem with your publicity agent, or?? ;o)

I Will....but for a limited time only

#51
They disabled the soundtrack. Should have recorded Adam and Senga doin it themselves

#51 Mon Dieu :-)

#51 - O _ M _ G!

Does my bum look big in this?

;o)

great stuff, Paolo. Soundtrack's OK now?

Willie, I've done dysfunctional too and then some.

in case of pedanticness.....


"....no llores mi querida, dios nos vigila......"

which I think means....

"...don't cry my dear, god is watching us...."


Romance in Durango - Bob Dylan


Paul from Ayr

Looks like I missed a great night out! Sorry I missed it! Next time I hope.....

#51 #52 #55
Had to do an audioswap.
The correct soundtrack is available by email

Has anyone suggested:

Peter Gsbriel - Games Without Frontiers

Quite obvious I suppose but a great song.

Don't know that one Norrie, I only know Peter Gabriel's version



:-)

I'm being parochial...this nice wee song is in English with some Welsh...which is not English or Scots or Gaelic, Lallans, Doric or whatever it is we speak in Radio Scotland Land!

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - 'The Patio Song'

#51 - This one will bring back Saturday night. Shot of Tequila anyone?


He Drinks Tequila & She Talks Dirty In Spanish - Lorrie Morgan & Sammy Kershaw

;o)

#61 Julie it used to be but we just forgot, from Kirkintilloch to Tranent and Ecclefechan to........Penicuik!

#63 Yep I should've thought of that...and me coming from Pen Y Cog too!!!

Live tracks are not often played but this is really upbeat, fun and just a great track.

I expect tow supprting votes (Scotch Git and Senga)

Mary Chapin Carpenter with BeauSoleil - Down at The Twist And Shout

Le samedi soir et la lune est à I wanna chef sur plus de à la torsion et crier trouver un partenaire et un deux-etape Cajun beat lorsqu'il les ascenseurs de me trouver I'm gonna mes pieds au milieu d'une grande piste de danse lorsque j'entends que fiddle wanna mendier pour plus wanna la danse à une bande de a-Lou'sian' ce soir

......or something like that

Two supporting votes....the tow would come from DC I should imagine..

#64 indeed....of course your song choice is still valid and very nice!

Imelda! IMELDA! Come here....is #65 spelt correctly?

Adios - Linda Ronstadt
My cherie amour - Stevie Wonder
Wooden heart - Elvis
C'est la vie - Emmylou Harris
I won't dance - Sinatra
Denis - Blondie
That's amore - Dean Martin

and, of course, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody,

Joe
Linlithgow

#65. I'll add my support...so that's theer votes

ROXY MUSIC 'All I Want Is You'
L'amour, toujours l'amour

ROXY MUSIC 'A Song For Europe'
Sung mostly in English but has a Latin and French refrain:

Ecce momenta Illa mirabilia Quae captabit In aeternum
Memoria Modo dolores Sunt in dies Non est reliquum
Vero tantum Communicamus Perdita

Tous ces moments perdus dans l`enchantement
Qui ne reviendront jamais
Pas d'aujourd'hui pour nous our nous il n'y a rien
A partager sauf le passe
Tous ces moments perdus dans l`enchantement
Qui ne reviendront jamais
Jamais jamais jamais jamais jamaisjamais


ROXY MUSIC Bitter Sweet
has 4 lines that were translated by the 2 German girls on the cover of Country Life

Nein, Das is nicht Das Ende der Welt
Gestrandet an Leben und Kunst
Und das Spiel geht weiter Wie Man weiss
Noch viele Schonste, Wiedersehn

ROXY MUSIC 'All I Want Is You'
L'amour, toujours l'amour

#66 wot?


Hope nobody mentions Je suis un rock star.....

Franz Ferdinand - Darts of Pleasure

Ich heiße Superphantastisch!
Ich trinke Schampus mit Lachsfisch!
Ich heiße Su-per-phan-tas-tisch!

"My name is Superfantastic! I drink champagne with salmon! My name is Superfantastic!"

Rush - Circumstances

Plus ca change
Plus c'est la meme chose
The more that things change
The more they stay the same

Blur featuring Françoise Hardy - To The End (La Comédie)

Sung partly in French by the beautiful Françoise

#51 It looks like I missed a good night out ☺

#49,#55,Thanks,sometimes you want your life to be like in the movies.Unfortunately in my case over the weekend its been Mike Leigh's "Secrets and Lies "!Weird that you should mention Burntisland,Mary Doll.I was there a couple of weeks back for the first time in many years and walked from Burntisland to Aberdour on a very hot day. The beaches were packed with sunbathers but I was wondering why no one was having a dip!Is it to do with being swallowed by a shark or swallowing something much more dangerous?:0)Cheers Willie Bartke

It must have been the mushrooms!While I was getting my head together yesterday in Pollok Park I was turning over in my head today's theme and creeping into my thoughts came "Wichi Tai To" by Everything is Everything, a wonderful little song from the late 60s based on a Hopi Indian peyote chant.I would have been reading Carlos Castaneda's "Teachings of Don Juan"round about then and dousing my self in patchouli to mask the almighty stink of my Afghan coat.Another Madeleine cake moment!Brewer and Shipley famous for (ahem)"One Toke Over the Line"had a big US hit with "Wichi Tai to "and there's a youtube clip of The BMX Bandits singing it with the great Evie Sands at a Glasgow gig I was at a few years ago.Wonderfiul life affirming little song.Cheers, Willie Bartke

#73

Billy, Tell us something we don't already know LOL!

#79 Yeah I live in a posh area of Alloa ☺

Electric Light Orchestra dips into a bit of French, in "Hold on Tight";
Accroches-toi a ton reve,
Accroches-toi a ton reve,
Quand tu vois ton bateau partir,
Quand tu sents-ton coeur se briser,
Accroches-toi a ton reve.

Which for the non-French speakers, translates as;
Hold on tight to your dream,
Hold on tight to your dream,
When you see your ship go sailing,
When you feel your heart is breaking,
Hold on tight to your dream

Thoughts about the great (or even graaaayt) time had on Sat night later...

In the mean time, let's have some suggestions for tonight, and hopefully tax Bryan's linguistic skills:

* The Beatles - Sun King Cod-Spanish, but no worse than Wyman's French
* Enigma - Principles of Lust French and Latin. And some English
* Runrig - Canada Uses a few lines of Gaelic in the English
* The Rutles - Goose Step Mama Pandering to the local audience from their Hamburg days.
* Neneh Cherry & Youssou N'Dour - 7 Seconds
* Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Mýa, Pink - Lady Marmalade (From the Moulin Rouge OST)
* Paul Simon - Homeless

Big +1 for
* Peter Gabriel - Games without Frontiers
(We all know that's Kate Bush on the backing vocals, aye?)
The Peter Gsbriel version is also worth a listen.

And one instantly consigned to the GiO "Nae Prog Rock" bin:
* Marillion - III Blue Angel

Question for the production team: are we excluding count-ins? If not:
* Lennon - I Don't Wanna Face It for the Un, deux, ein zwei hickle pickle! count-in.

While I'm still in Shamanist mode do we invoke some Haitian devil dog if we sing the lyrics to the Dixie Cups "Iko Iko"....."Jackomo phee na nay" wooooh!Not to mention Doctor John's "Gris Gris Gumbo YaYa"Cheers Willie Bartke

Fat and Frantic - Last Night My Wife Hoovered My Head
which sounds just as ridiculous when they sing the chorus in French.

Uno, dos, tres, catorce!

One, two, three, fourteen!!!

U2 - Vertigo

Sounds like Crosby Stills and Nash were inhaling something interesting when they suddenly break into what I take to be Spanish in their paean to Judy Collins "Suite :Judy Blue Eyes"Cheers,Willie Bartke

#75

Yep, fantastic shout. I was going to put it up myself but wasn't sure if it's two songs with the one tune (La Comedie seems remote from To The End as a lyric) or whether it's one song with additional words in French.

Thinking the former ( i.e. it has two titles) I thought it was not available to choose, but now that you've done it, I'll give a massive 2nd to La Comedie/To The End- Francoise/Hardy Blur.

Any excuse to hear Fransoice will do me.

There are a couple of others: There was once a record called "Do You Speak French?" but I can't remember who it was by.I think they also made a record about the boudoir called " People Are Still Having Sex".

Oh ..and, of course, it will be close to impossible to get though the evening without Bryan playing Nous Sommes du Soliel - Yes

I wonder who's producing tonight?

regardez youse

henri

Apologies, typing in a hurry at the office, typos everywhere.

Oh and one of my favourite crooners has some garbled Italian:

On Days Like These - Matt Munro

It would be good to hear some excellent crooning, Bryan.

regardez youse

henri

If You Go Away - Dusty Springfield

- David Lindley

Melanie 's "Look What They've Done to My Song,Ma" for Sengathebraless!:0)Cheers,Willie Bartke

"Macarena" ~ Los del Río

Wonder if that last shout will be tweeted by "Moribund The Blogmeister"?

#91 - Look what the thought of ladies underwear has done to your brain, Willie Bartke The Genius!

What are ye like? LOL!

;o)

#51 paolo - what a fitting soundtrack! As if written for just that night. My only issue is - it's no' fair to post rear shots of ladies. You know how we are. Senga seems awfy sanguine about it, but!

#77 Burntisland - lovely beach, shame about the faeces. ;o)

#84 Intrigued. Doesn't sound like a half-bad idea. One for the Dragon's Den?

Apologies, WillieB - that was meant to be nice beach. Ah'm no' very good at this! Keep your head above the water, mister.

Senga,They're playing our tune!IEvery time I hear it now I'll be thinking of you ...or parts of you!;0))Cheers,Willie Bartke

#96,Thanks Mary Doll,I'm swimming as fast as I can!Cheers,Willie B.

#95 - mary-doll

That's torn it! Now Imelda will want to know why her Ìý»å±ð°ù°ù¾±Ã¨°ù±ð has not been photographed!

;o)

Goal!