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Locomotive Breath / Jethro Tull

What's that all about?

Jeez!

Shall I get it all out of my system now?

My favourite live recording as I might have mentioned once or thrice is Thunder Road / Springsteen which has, to be fair, had an airing or four on GIO. However I don't get the studio version. It lacks all the drama and emotion of the live recording and quite frankly I think it's mince. Norrie likes it and I have no idea why.

#2 as long as you keep your dignity.

Julie...hard to read 'long posts on mobile phone' alert!

Henri tirade comin at ya in five four three two........

I'm with Paolo @ #1

Locomotive Breath ~ Jethro Tull or Helloween's cover

A song about the pain of seeing ones life go tits up.. who'd appreciate that????




















Who said fans of Morrissey?

Nine Inch Nails are one of my pet abominations, them and Rufus Wainwright. And Paul McCartney. I don't like these artists enough to know of any songs suitable for teatime listening, but if anyone else wants to help out with suggestions..

David Bowie's not been on my playlist since Rebel Rebel. I can't imagine why anyone would want to listen to a track like

Thursday's Child - David Bowie ( Hours)

Mary Had A Little Lamb ~ Wings "Macca"

Why would you want to put a nursery rhyme to music? The idea was so woolly it must have been Linda's!

See that silly Ian Anderson standing on the one leg and playing the flute - baffling really. He's got a pretty good guitarist, but who ever notices him with such an exhibitionist out front. I'll definitely not be wanting to listen to

Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull

Can't stand blokes in mascara & therefore I'm relieved the Snr Producer has resisted playin' Semi Precious Weapons Magnetic Babies!

#7 What a darling you are, gaie!! I would really love to hear some Nine Inch Nails other than Hurt, but ... being a realist, Mr Reznor always uses profanities or near the knuckle lyrics somewhere, thus ensuring less airplay. The stuff that passes the censors is mostly instrumental, which hasn't a hope here. So, much as I love his music, even I can't manipulate him into this. Massive pity - he's a very gifted musician and songwriter. Could we settle on Jarvis instead?!! ;o)
Meanwhile - I've never gotten what the fuss was with that Tom Petty guy. I've heard he's quite good, but I'm yet to be convinced.

Okay here goes...

Dignity - Deacon Blue

Ironically, this is a really good tune. I've never been especially keen on Rikki's singing voice, though I really like him as an interviewer.

However, the Soviet Politbureau (propaganda division) would be struggling to match the sentiment of the truly pathetic story line in which a council refuse collector has dedicated his life to picking up rubbish for routine wages and saving for his retirement, when he will purchase a dinghy and sail up and down the coast. This story is narrated by a man in a reflective reverie, sipping raki on a greek island whilst studying John Maynard Keynes, though we are left to wonder why this is significant.Implausibly,this dinghy will be called 'Dignity', thus undermining the basic precept of the story, since no one with any dignity would do such a thing.

Apart from that, it's great.

Flower Of Scotland - The Corrie

Is there another nation on earth with a national anthem about a battle with their neighbours? Worse, it's a battle that was ultimately lost, when we joined the union. On the one hand, it says, none of this matters, it's in the past (why sing about it) but promises a new round of trouble sometime in the future (but we can still rise now, and be a nation again) if we feel like it. Make up your mind.

An unmelodic dirge, dark and brooding with small minded resentment, it offers us nothing to aim for except, perhaps, if we're up for it, another round of hassle with our neighbours.

I wish we had a national ANTHEM, not a narrow minded folk song.That's the trouble with folk (and blues to a lesser extent) is that it's always looking backwards to it's roots.

It's always about having something to die for. I couldn't give a monkee's about 'roots' - I'd rather have a national anthem that suggested a Scotland that was worth living for.

I'm convinced that 'I Was Born With A Smile On My Face' would change the country's fortunes forever in a good way.

Other insufferable examples

Anything by Boney M

Any faux Burns... Loch Lomond etc ..matter of fact.... O never mind, that'll do.

regardez youse

henri

How dare Jack Bruce express his opinion of Led Zepp by saying, "You've always been crap and you'll never be anything else. Cream is 10 times the band that Led Zeppelin is."

I've never got Smiles and Grins by Jack!

I forgot to say - re Belle and Sebastian. One of my colleagues is big buddies with one of them. He got him to wear a t-shirt with our company logo on it years ago on some TOTP show, or something. Hasn't, to my knowledge, raised theirs nor our status any higher. But. Will defend one of their songs that stands out amongst the too twee and eh?
I Want The World To Stop
A delightful surprise.

This theme is a set-up. Bryan knows how much we all hate Morrissszzzzzzzzz.....




Yawn............

#13 lets hope you get the normal amount of luck associated with this number :-)

BTW what did we lose when we went into the union?

I've never understood all the fuss over Bruce Springsteen. He just yells WAAHHH or WOHHHHH and everyone thinks it's brill.

Henri, if they play Flower of Scotland by even half the Corries I'll throw the tranny oot the windae. It's on the hate list with One Day at a Time, The Old Rugged Cross and Highland Cathedral.

DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!

Mary-doll - The Best of Everything would convince you, I'm convinced of it :0)

Depeche Mode - so eighties, all that electronic stuff

Blasphemous Rumours - Depeche Mode

I don't "get":
Rap "music"
Black Eyed Peas
Brubo Mars
Lady Gaga
Madonna
Phil Collins
Paul McCartney
Status Quo
and most of all: Bob Dylan as a performer.

Joe
Linlithgow

I've never got Cliff Richard, for similar reasons to those outlined by Henri for Deacon Blue......however I do recognise the important role he had in British music, it's just that most of his good stuff occurred before I was old enough to appreciate it.

By the time I was paying attention he was doing this kind of thing, which I have a sort of sentimental attachment to.....

Visions - Cliff Richard


.....and it pretty much went downhill from there


Paul from Ayr

i can't stand the fleet foxes.
i think they are way too contrived.
pop should have the feeling of being easy to do, lighthearted with simple catchy tunes.by all means a storyline but not some pseudo ph.d dissertation ( are yez listenin' belle and sebastian......oh they're a different band? who wouldave thought)
they just sound ridiculously pretentious.
in fact they sound ridiculous..............even when they're trying to badly crib from others....get real you guys lighten up and sing some decent songs.

they are so bad i don't even know the name of any of their songs.........there is one about blood in the snow or something.....oh c'mon boys that is mince.

yeah , play that one . the one about ice snow and blood ( i might be wrong about that title LOL).

or just play

'big thumbs down'...................the fleet foxes (oill give'em knott)


#13 @ ya henri................i think there is serious significance about maynard keynes.....it anchors the road sweeper very firmly on the political spectrum....left of centre social democratic labour party.a whole generation will know exactly where the sweeper is coming from.
(hint hint....play it!!! g i onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn)

cheers frae the dale

#18 he's only written about 2 songs, mixing the waahhhs and woohhs around to make it sound like more.

Norrie, do you still like us?

Joni Mitchell - This Flight Tonight

all that up and down warbling and tedious guitar strumming - beats me, but I daresay some folks like it.....

although i like some of their stuff i think the stones have pulled the wool over too many eyes for too many years.
on the rare occasions these days that i have the tv on i usually have the sound down and just watch the pictures.........i prefer body language to talky language.
anyway...........one night here was 'keef' being interviewed about his new book so i put the sound upp just to get a flavour of the 'rock 'n roll' life .then he opened his mouth...........OMG.....POSH BOY.

cheers frae the dale

I hate Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Middle of the Road

Even the group are mis-named.


I condemn it to the house







DC (out tomorrow but nevertheless dedicate this to my fellow bloggers)

Gaie, you seem to have an aversion to everything I like........except for birds and that Woodenbox of fivers outfit :-)

#22

Fleet Foxes - check
Belle and Sebastian - check

I've never liked the meandering pretentiousness of Morrissey or the tortured whining of Cerys Matthews.

I've also taken an instant dislike to the aural cruelty that is Admiral Fallow.

Through this programme I have grown to hate Deacon Blue, The Eurythmics and the Edinburgh Terror Twins.

For non-musical reasons I cannot stand Paul Hewson, Gordon Sumner CBE and John Winston Ono Lennon (MBE returned).

The strangled tunelessness of The Associates is also beginning to annoy me.

And if he can hear me through the triple-glazed windows of his luxury mansion, "You are terminally boring, Billy Bragg."

#27, 28 looking forward to your suggestion eric :-)

#26 just trying to work the system, Paul!

They're an eclectic fusion of dub, reggae, techno, folk and rock.. B.A.D. to the core ;-)

Way too many influences to handle... I just can't get it... American Dread ~ Dreadzone

FRIDAY


This is why I dread Scottish theme nights...

Scottish and Proud - The Real McKenzies

Pure riddy, by the way. Nae wunner Hadrian had thon wa' built.

what's to like about 'genesis' i hear you ask, people.

nuffin would suffice.

this wee useless piece got to number 'a hunner an' seventy' in the charts.
if i was in the band that was number 171 i'de be feelin' pretty miffed.

'in limbo'.....................genesis ( aye, and yez shouldave styed there)

cheers frae the dale

#3 #8 Great suggestions, I neam terrible suggestions. Or do I? I'm not sure....

Tom Petty whine whine whine through his nose. Whats that all about.

Tom Petty - Even The Losers

yeah yeah whatever

I failed to understand why a band that had a sound that which a fusion of synthesiser / New Wave music would develop a spaghetti western soundtrack style of Ennio Morricone with their own!

Call Of The West ~ Wall of Voodoo... I just don't get it!

Jazz music? Let me know when they have finished their orchestral warm-up and are about to start the tune

DC

Wonder what Mozz tune you will all have to suffer ha ha! Julie and I both like Throwing My Arms Around Paris.

Sing along now:

Im throwing my arms around
Around Paris because
Only stone and steel accept my love

tra la la la etc.

'the divine comedy'......................are too clever by half.
there is too much effort put into the lyrics for them to resonate emotionally.
take for example a comparison with 'national express' and say 'ferry cross the mersey'.two songs about transport.
one song leaves me cold (maybe its the tea-break at newport pagnell), the other a warm glow.
one song full of smart 'in the know' comment the other full of heartfelt sentiment.
but anyways feel free to play

'national express'.........divine comedy but in my head i'll be humming along to gerry.

cheers frae the dale

re 11

know what u mean MMac ... blokey mascara was best left in the 70's (+ eighties come to think of it)
I guess (sigh) it'll have to be 'Magnetic Baby' by Semi Precious Weapons, with Justin Tranter fronting as only he can!

40 ...

spooky that - my friend Gob Beldof (reverse phsycologist by proxy) offers his endorsement also

reckon that means it'll reluctantly have to be Magnetic Baby -- Semi Precious Weapons
(please?)

I don't think i have laughed so much for a long time the comments on the blog are keeping me going...thank you all so much...body is shakin with laughter and mind is unable to concentrate on dislikes at the moment ,so much so i am unable to think of anyone i would not like to hear... when i have control of my body and mind i will get back with a please not that one.......

CAPTION COMP..........

........'nd he originally asked for a plate o' beans thon high but i said it'll spoil yer nice tie, who u txtn btw?

if there is no cash i will aceept a lot o' they wee bottles o' sparkin' pelligrino......just the job.but make it snappy.

cheers frae the dale.

#22

Hmmm... I don't think the Maynard Keynes reference tells us much about the values of the refuse collector.

It tells us something about the values the narrator would like to project onto the refuse collector, which is why it's so bloody irritating.

Perhaps Maynard Keynes had a boat, he certainly would have travelled first class on lots of ships - so maybe that's it.

John Maynard Keynes came from a privileged background, his father was a Cambridge lecturer, his mother was intellectually gifted. He was brought up with servants, went to Eton and Cambridge and had he been about today would doubtless have been in the Bullingdon Club with Boris and Dave.

He work centered on wealth creation, rather than re-distribution and he is acknowledged for having pointed out that state spending can be a lever to aid wealth creation, which is an apolitical economic theory.It is the extent of the pull on the lever, the length of time it's pulled and the depth of the pull and what to do with the proceeds of economic stimulus that is political.Keynes was a natural liberal.

If what you are suggesting is that the inclusion of the Maynard Keynes reference is to somehow to endorse the pigeon holing of the refuse collector as a tireless work ant and that that is a triumph for the dignity of 'the worker' and the left then I'm not sure it succeeds.

Saving up and owning a boat and sailing is not a uniquely working class aspiration: moreover the evidence presented suggests the refuse collector is completely unaware of his role in championing the left - he's got other things on his mind: he doesn't indicate that he sees see anything dignified in his circumstances, wants to buy a boat and bugger off out of the society he finds himself in.

Ironically, these are broadly the cornerstones of Thatcherite philosophy and sentiments as espoused by auld Maggie: hard work, thrift, progress through self reliance and self interest.

The hard working,ambitious and self reliant were not of great concern to Keynes, it was the involuntary unemployed, and putting their talent and labour to wealth creation that dominated his work.

So,I still don't see the tie up, though the song was written, I think, when auld Maggie was quite prolific and I've always found it surprising that Rikki would write a homage to an old Etonian and auld Maggie's sentiments, but there you have it:-))

Having said that I would perhaps like to withdraw my shout for Dignity I had forgotten that Rikki comes on after Bryan so I don't think it's fair to have one of his played tonight -unless Bryan thinks it's okay. I don't care for the song,but I like Rikki and don't want to appear unkind. I do like the tune, I just don't get the lyric.

regardez- youse

henri

#38

You sing to a Mozz song? I thought he snored!



#44

"Saving up and owning a boat and sailing is not a uniquely working class aspiration".

If you are middle class, you can purchase a boat without saving. If you are upper class, you can have someone purchase a boat on your behalf and watch them sail it from the comfort of your palace on the shore whilst supping G&Ts

#42 Ronasgirl the blog is funnier when our dear friend Glen Miller is posting, but he seems to have taken a sabbatical. I hope he will return soon.

What I dont get are themes like these.
We are expected to ask for music we don't like??

I didnt get it the last time we had this as a theme and I still dont.

#45 @ ya DC

A chance shurely - for Mr Git to request his most detested Lyle Lovett number

'If I Had Boat' - dedicated to bin men the world over.

Miss Babs is still away, so it's in with a chance!

regardez youse

henri

#47

What you do, Adam, is request

American Dread - Dreadzone

huge 2nd for madmac for this mish- mash shambles of styles and old cinema soundtracks.

regardez youse

henri

#47 Adam, tell us what it is you'd really like to hear on "the show where you choose the music" and one of us will place the shout. We'll qualify it by sayin' "I just don't get it" & like magic the team will park all their prejudices and produce the most eclectic show ever!

#50

Hmmmmmm. Dont think thats going to work MM.

I don't get Pink Floyd played enough on Get It On

DC

A friend of mine has passed many a first-rate listening tip along and is certainly responsible for my first hearing Bob Seger, Frankie Miller, Stevie Ray Vaughan - the list goes on. But why he wears a Frank Zappa T-shirt is beyond me.

how about the appropriately named

Zomby Woof - Frank Zappa

How could I have forgotten?

A Lifetime Achievement Award for Ellie Goulding for the seemingly impossible feat of removing every last trace of musicality from Elton John's Your Song.

#53

I you like Stevie Ray Vaughan you'll love

i have now regained some control...tho there are some that would say i never do... the expression used is " you just can't help yourself can you?....but here goes anyway....celine dion..or as i call her cilly the squealer..dictionary says squeal "is to give forth a loud shirll cry"...yep that will be the sound. don't know any thing she squeals so can't name one...but that is GREAT!!!! cause means you can't play what i don't suggest !!!

#55 true

#51

I get it!

First past the post, I can't wait until we get U2.

Springsteen - what's that all about. Complete mince.

#54 Ellie Goulding was selected to sing at this years Royal Wedding as a favourite of the royal couple.

I fear the aristocracy is doomed.

What about ELO?

Relax Paul, your prayers are about to answered;-(

Ask for stuff you don't like and get the same old same old. Ha ha!

#30, lol Gaie, if other peeps are doing this too then it's working......i'm liking more stuff tonite than in a "normal" programme......and we still have Broooss to go :-)

I'm with Paul one of my favourite shows in a while....

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44 @ ya henri.

phew!!

that man definitely deserved to have the toon M. Keynes named after him

cheers frae the dale

#64

You like every show.

It must be costing the NHS a fortune in anti-depressants.

#63 there you go, Paul it worked.


If I may help someone as I pass this way.......

what's Monday's theme? - my sore head made me turn the radio off

Songs about being the Boss.

#68 thanks Gaie and no need to switch off either..... Blood on the Tracks.........

:-)

Hope you feel better soon Gaie. Hope it's not a hangover you have!

That'll be Bryan then, he chooses the music.

Norrie, it was Joni (and others) wot done it. But thank you.

Muse. People seem to go into raptures about them, I've even had the live experience but still it just sounds like all the worst prog, metal and histrionic theatrical rock, chewed up and spat out. I get nothing from them at all, there's no emotional connection on any level, there's no soul, you can't even glean 'fun' from them.