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MONDAY


Man! I Feel Like a Woman! - Shania Twain


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Aztec Camera - Knife

An excellent Pete Townsend solo track with David Gilmour:

Pete Townsend - Give Blood

MONDAY


Surgeons tend to be specialists.

For plastic surgeons;

"He's got plastic lips that hide his plastic teeth and gums, and plastic legs that reach up to his plastic bum."

Plastic Man - Kinks



For orthopaedic surgeons;

Pull Out the Pin - Kate Bush



For dental surgeons;

Unfinished Sweet - Alice Cooper



For the interns;

Like a Surgeon - Weird Al Yankovic



The operation was a success! But the patient died...

Still Gonna Die - Old Dogs


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An absolute shoo - in for Monday!!!!!

#4

and while you're there have a look at "We're Scared of Bob" - a classic.

one evening a few years ago i was minding my own business doing the ironing with the soundless tv flickering away in the corner (this is a household where there are various states of tv listening modes...some with earphones,others constantly flicking voluminously...my preference being silence)
anyway i would occasionally catch the action on the screen while i perfected my shirt sleeves.
the pictures seemed to be showing a load of old guys and gals jumpin' about and taking part in what looked like a jolly sing-a-long, american style.
so i put the volume up and sat for a minute to watch and listen.
two hours later i realised i had sat through the most incredibly life affirming programme i had ever seen ( and have seen nothing to compare since)
the programme was 'young @ heart'.
a group of seventy somethings, eighty somethings being put through their vocal paces by a genius call bob cilman.(why isn't he president?)
'young @ heart' are a troupe who give public performances of pop classics.
being the age they were, some members were carrying chronic illnesses.
so two of the guys were going to perform 'fix you' but before the performance one of then sadly died, the remaining guy determined to push on with the now solo performance with the rest of the troupe on backing vocals.
the programme ended with the public performance of fred knittle singing 'fix you'.....at the time he was desperately ill himself......no words can describe that performance.

the bbc now has 3 days to find a recording of this song.the listeners deserve to hear this, the best ever cover of a pop song ....ever.

'fix you'................fred knittle.....young @ heart

cheers frae the dale

#6. You're absolutely right... Loved that programme (actually mentioned it on the blog myself as it was so moving)...old bloke was wonderful..don't know how it would come across on radio but the tv version was amazing..

"Surgeon! careful with that scalpel"...The Lost Fingers - 'Pump Up The Jam'

This theme reminds me of when my ex reported to out-patients. He was politely and warmly welcomed and ushered into a room to change into a gown. When he returned to the desk he was told that they were sorry but his first patient hadn't turned up yet. I'm your first patient he told them...here to have a cust removed from behind my ear! They're lucky he didn't just play along!

a cust??? cyst...sigh!

The STAPLE Singers - 'I'll Take You There'

Art Garfunkel - 'Scissors Cut'

The Tubes - 'Don't want To Wait Anymore', 'White Punks On Dope'

Types of superglue are used in surgery...Paolo knows a band that would fit the bill for that!

no surgeon worth his bread could refrain from miming these in front of the adoring theatre nurses (oh, doctor, your gorgeously awful) ............

'god shuffled his feet'................crash test dummies

'at my funeral'.......................crash test dummies

cheers frae the dale

Bryan, I have to agree that the week of themes theme was a good idea. Indeed, I have made a playlist on my ayechoons of all the songs played (those I have on my laptop!) along with those I suggested (which obviously I have on my laptop). Listening to it just now and it's really good!

D(o)C

#6 but more importantly, did ye burn yer shirt?

The Coasters - 'Searchin'' (for that missing swab...and the forceps)

Monday:

The final cut - Pink Floyd

Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd

Coming back to life - Pink Floyd

Brain damage - Pink Floyd

Gimme stitches - Foofighters

New Faces - The Rolling Stones (oft requested, never played)

Only women bleed - Alice Cooper

Waking up sideways - Kassidy

For particular operations:

What becomes of the broken hearted - Jimmy Ruffin

and...

Blame it on the Stones - Kris Kristofferson

even...




Following on from #1:



Madam George - Van Morrison





DC

According to local comman-knowledge and and now ´óÏó´«Ã½ news reports...

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary:

DUSTY Springfield - 'Nothing Has Been Proved'
'DIRRTY' - Christina Aguilera

#16 Before Louise corrects me...common

Van Morrison - St James Infirmary

Heart on my sleeve - Gallgher and Lyle
In sleep - Lissie
Change of heart - Teddy Thompson
Way down in the hole - Blind Boys of Alabama
Sewn - the Feeling
Bits and pieces - Dave Clark 5

More to follow

Joe
Linlithgow

Maria McKee - I'm Gonna Soothe You

I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones

After all who wouldn't want to be sedated if they are being operated on :)

Wires - Athlete

You got wires, going in
You got wires, coming out of your skin
There's dry blood, on your wrist
Your dry blood on my fingertip

Continuing on the sedated them

The Airborne Toxic Event - Numb

And the ever turning spinning wheel of people, places
Lies I feel
The restless beat of the sleepless night to come
I just want to be numb
I just want to be numb

Pretty sure I would want to be numb if I am operated on :).

Comedy Option

Like A Surgeon - "Weird Al" Yankovic

Dem Bones
(no idea who recorded it)

There is a thought Elwe, any of:

Floyd / Gilmour / Van and The Band -Comfortably Numb

Ladies and Gentlemen i Give You

The Amateur transplants!

A Kind of modern age Barron Knights of the Medical profession.

#22 dem delta river boys! other people too....

In case the surgeon needs a clue:

Jackson Browne - In The Shape Of A Heart

Thye Who and Eric Clapton - Eyesight To The Blind

The Who - There's A Doctor

The Who - Miracle Cure

Jackson Bronwe - Doctor My Eyes

#25 It was the other people who sang that very song at number one son's graduation a couple of years ago. Shows that even Universities can have a sense of humour.....

Staple it together / Jack Johnson
Coming around again / Carly simon
I can hear your heartbeat / chris Rea
All Messed Up / Dave stewart (this is a superb song. Shows how wasted he was in the Eurythmics)

The Beatles - 'If I Fell' ("if I give my heart to you")

Listening again. Good show. But. Tragedy - by The Beatles???? I'm surprised nobody......
Anyway - in situations like these, sometimes it's better to
Rip it Up And Start Again Orange Juice
That's about as witty as I get after a night out on the tiles paying more than a tenner for a pint. Probably no wittier at half the price, but an' aw'

'I Go To Sleep' - Pretenders, Kinks...or that strangely good version by Peggy Lee

'I'm only sleeping' - The Beatles or Suggs

Totally off topic, but reading that Sylvia Robinson died this week. Part of the duo Mickey and Sylvia she had a risque solo hit in 1973 with Pillow Talk which i'm sure a few bloggers will remember. A one hit wonder methought and that was that.

Didn't know that she had founded sugarhill records and was the driving force behind the Sugarhill gang's Rappers Delight and Grandmaster Flash's The Message.

So this 'one hit wonder' of the 70's never to be heard of again was actually responsible for founding the whole hiphop rap sampling scene that we have today.

That I never knew.


Pillow Talk / Sylvia
The title fits Mondays theme.......the song may not!

A tenner a pint!!!!!!!!!!!

seconds for Numb, Elwe!

Paolo, I don't know Pillow Talk, but any girl who loves Dirty Dancing will know Love is Strange by Mickey and Sylvia. However, didn't of course know any of the rest - I wonder why........

MONDAY

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Painkiller - Turin Brakes

- The National


Norrie, I read the Herald review of the Echo and the Bunnymen concert - sounds atrocious - what was the audience reaction?

Gaie - fair to say not a happy bunch! Booing, walking out etc. Sadly no drink/ bottles were allowed in so no weapons were to hand. It would have been interesting in the Barras. Fair to say my brother having taken leave, paid for flights to Scotland and hotel bill was not pleased!! Still the Bible the next night were superb.

Oh well... glad I missed that.... but how about this on-theme classic?

Cutter - Echo & The Bunnymen

regardez youse

henri

Something's Gotten Hold of my Heart - Gene Pitney

No surgery required!

Fearless Heart - Steve Earle or excellemt Shawn Colvin version

wot, no caption comp?
mean.
but, i think i've found the hidden golden song.
its one that stops and starts slows down and speeds up right to the end and then the skillful brain surgeon after removing the organ declares............oh, look at the time. it's 6.10pm, ma tea's oot.
might not seem like its on theme but unscramble the words and hey presto.....ye gottae get it oan.

'eliose'.............barry ryan..........'brain alley,sorry'

tonite i'm off to the tramway to see 'the missing'......chilling.

cheers frae the dale

Lips Like Ether - Love & Money

Probably my fave L&M song...

Al.

that's a great song, Al.

Chloroform - Graham Parker & the Figgs

Cocaine - Jackson Browne

Before the Lobotomy - Green Day

Lots of good songs on this blog.

Bet they play something silly like 'Oh! Mr Porter!'. Just as well none of us would suggest daft songs like that.

Daaaammmmmmnnnn.......

Yep, lot's of good stuff.

Didn't expect that when I heard the theme.

I'll Put You Together Again - Hot Chocolate

Join Together - The Who

Al.

#42 gaie, we'll need to find something of JB's that fits......ah'll check ma playlists this efftie....

Al.

Black Lung Heartache - Joe Bonamassa

Building a Bridge to Your Heart - Wax

#34 quick get him into theatre before he flatlines!

#46 ..or possibly an emergency op -

The Whale That Swallowed Jonah - Joe Bonamassa

there are 10,700 videos for Unchained Melody and not a one for

High Blood Pressure - the Righteous Brothers

Pity.

#50 Obviously seconded.

Well ah've got a wee list;

I Can't Stop Bleeding / James Grant
Cure For Life / James Grant (both from the wonderful Sawdust in my Veins Album)

Medicine / Del Amitri
Roll To Me / Del Amitri

Skin Deep / The Stranglers

Heart of Life / John Mayer

Coconut / Harry Nillson

I'm no superman / Lazlo Bane (fae Scrubs OST)

Difficult to cure / Rainbow (bit of Blackmore does Beethoven)

Nikka Costa / Push & Pull (just a great song)

Well that's enough for me the noo ah think, gie sumdy else a shot.

Al.

Searching For A Heart - Warren Zevon
Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Hernia Record
You Can't Sit Down - Emma Royd and The Dukes of Argyll

First part of the transplant operation...
'Stand and Deliver' - Adam and The Ants

Very important...take note ERI...
'A Little Bit Of Soap' - Showaddywaddy
'Do It Clean' - Echo + The Bunnymen

You'll have had your clostridium difficile.

Here's

one

for



;o)

Journey To the Centre Of Your Heart - Donna Summer full-on electronic disco.Epic. What a huge voice Donna has.

Change Of Heart - Diana Ross Great track, little heard.

Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart - Betty Lavette tough choice between Betty and Dusty, happy with either.

Medicine Man - Zero Seven I don't think we've had Zero Seven on GIO, about time..

Tonight's Beatles suggestion

Rocky Raccoon- The Beatles ( the doctor came in, stinking of gin etc etc)

Will we get to hear Clydebank's finest ever guitarist - Jimmy MacCullough?

Tonight's Paul McCartney suggestion - one of the very few not written by him - this one by the aforementioned guitar hero:

Medicine Jar - Paul McCartney & Wings

regardez youse

henri

#56

hahahahaha!

Emergency - The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Going Under - Devo

forgot about:

the Hospital Song - 10CC a song for the world's neglected, the one's who don't get visitors.

the fabulous gospel inspired: Operator - Manhatten Transfer

regardez youse

henri

don't worry, Mr Hannah, our top surgeon Mr Git will be along shortly to remove that unsightly apostrophe.


amazing how such an unlikely theme has thrown up so many good songs - is it because it's new?

61

After I posted, I noticed I'd done that, but he did it himself the other week so I thought... well, mybe no one notice... some hope on this blog:-))

One of the thrilling parts of GIO is thinking, what else could this mean?

So you go into Spotify and type in 'surgeon'... up comes St Vincent and the track 'Surgeon'. Great. Don't know anything about it. It wouldn't get houseroom on GIO, but hey,really interesting.

It was in exactly this way that I stumbled upon The Leisure Society, whom I think are fabby and have become my band of the year.Really subtle, fantastic lyrics,melodic tunes played by fabulous musicians -but since it can take a couple of listens to get into, unlikely to be played on GIO.

So, how about this then, Guy's & Gals:

Rock and Roll Doctor - Little Feet

Actually, Just Like The Knife - The Leisure Society would work well, though you could lose the first minute for GIO - it would allow us to hear its beautiful, glorious last two minutes..magnificently happy..

regardez youse

henri

#62

Henri,

I assume you mean Little Feat


There are some stunning songs on the soundtrack. And you get a giggle!


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Ah.. of course..

Behind The Mask - Eric Clapton or Michael Jackson

regardez youse

henri

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Two Headed Sex Change - The Clamps ~ Double whammy!

#53 & #55

He's back!
And the Blog is a better place for it.

A chance to get The Trammps their weekly play.

Re-recorded and used for an anti-caesserian section / pro-natural birth campaign in the US.

"Hold Back The Knife" - The Trammps

Best song to get the rhthym right while doing CPR is

"Stayin Alive" - The Bee Gees

Right, thats me. Off to Rock in Rio.

Juist been out for some mid evening chomping up thr West End. Great Western Road is getting nicer than Byres Road these days...

goofing baout on Spotify and found this:

Oxygen - Bryan Adams

To my surprise, I really really like this - it's on theme, radio friendly - check this out!

So, that makes this the same Oxygene part IV- Jean-Michel Jarre and this, which i know nothing about but is fabulous Oxygen - Willy Mason

regardez youse

henri

and Love Is Like Oxygen - Sweet .. I'd forgotten how good they really were...

#63 SG I concur with your observation re. the Scrubs sounds, see post #52

Disappointed though to pick up that people are googling & spotifying as I did assume such practices were the territory of Twits & Bookfacers.

Here's me thinking, perhaps naively, that the bloggers were just out and out mewsos that knew their stuff or is it;

All In My Head - Shawn Mullins

BRING ME THE MISTAKENLY SEVERED HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA

#73

Al,

Ah kain! *sigh* It's easy for one to sound as if one actually knows whereof one speaks, when one has the interweb at one's fingertips.

Just as well for me...


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No way I could keep up without the help of Spotify, but that's what I like - finding a random new song because of a theme. I'd never just suggest a song because its title fits, I have to like it, so I listen to stuff I might not otherwise have heard of. eg the Graham Parker song Chloroform above - really like it, never heard it before. Likewise Devo - Devo's been suggested hunners of times by Madmac and his pals, so when Going Under turned up I thought I'd give it a go - and found I liked it.


Don't know much about music, but I do know what I like!

well it was a really good night out at the tramway....'the missing' is a really powerful drama. o'hagan tries to give a socio/economic edge.
loads o' famous people there as well.
o'hagan, eddi reader and liz lochhead!!! (scotlands A list)
i should have got o'hagan to sign the programme but the person i was wie' was like......right aff we go.
thats a mistake.....i have previously lost out on a tracy emmin/jerry hall double act autograph.
all i've really got to show for my autograph hunting is gordon strachan on a 'black watch' flyer....he didnae even get in that night in the drill hall next tae sandy bells....me neither, i'm jist the driver.

oh aye and a' do have koni's autograph......previously on the blog ( there is actually another twist to that long convoluted 'valentines card' tale but why would you want to know about the comings and goings of island life)

ah dinnae hae spotify so am pretty maxed oot on this theme and i'm making good old fashioned beef lasagne followed by good old morrisons american cheesecake (leftovers) if anybiddy wants tae gie it a wee menshi the morra.

cheers frae the dale

previously on the blog

Ah've found it. It wizny Mary Coughlin. It wiz Dolores Keane. No wonder it took me so long. Eejit. And on the CD i've got it's called simply 'Island'. Now that may be a misprint on the CD sleeve but in my view it now qualifies so can I have it played last Friday please.

Island / Dolores Keane


Thanks.





Paolo looking for a backy on a neutrino.

#73/76

You'll get no apology from me - if the facebookers/vox-pop texters put in one iota of the research put in by the bloggers, eclecticism would be the order of the day, rather than repeated blisteringly obvious shouts for Blondie, Queen,the Reid twins and other golden oldies of the last 60 years.

All that has an understandably dominant place in a drivetime request show, but as a way of developing a wider perspective, researching GIO themes is quite invaluable.

I'm a serious music fan but you can't know everything and GIO themes send me off in search of things I'm not aware of.As I say,I discovered The Leisure Society (and dozens of others) goofing about on Spotify - a database like that is liberating, empowering, edifying and a force for good. I also purchase anything I like in cd format - therefore, because of GIO themes I now spend more money on music than I ever have which is against the trend of downloading individual tracks. I still believe in albums.

Like Gaie, I never request anything simply because it's on theme, I have to like it - it's also useful to challenge your own pre- conceptions. For example, because of that Robin Hood song, I've always believed I don't like Bryan Adams - but I've now put up one of his tracks, thanks to researching a GIO theme.

Similarly I've had to challenge long held pre-conceptions which is enormously liberating: for years I believed I didn't like lots of things - for example, Deacon Blue. But forcing myself to consider 'What is it about this I don't get?' I came to realise that there is some great music in there, even if I do think the lyrics don't fit with the spirit and pace of the music - and I've come to really appreciate Rikki as a broadcaster and interviewer in particular.It broadens the mind. I remember Bryan's experiencing something similar by attempting to 'streetdance'.

Since tuning into GIO and being a particpant on this blog, picking up on things my peers are listening to, starting to listen to the genre specific shows - the range, depth and diversity of my musical taste is breathtaking in relation to where it was before I accidentally became absorbed in this - much more open-minded, less eletist and listening - I just love Janelle Monae.

Besides, finding something edifying to be absorbed in is a kind of reaction to what's going on 'out there'. Television seems to be a 'less is more' medium - for me, it's an open sewer of bad news and bad taste running through your living room. When I visit my mother and the tele is on I am astonished at how infantile and insulting television news is - why do we need a computer genrated pie chart to understand what 50% is? Why does the reporter stand outside the Royal Courts of Justice long after everyone's gone home for us to understand this report is about a court case?

Cutting your budget by 20%, ´óÏó´«Ã½? There's a place to start - meaningless insulting dumbed down news and pointless outside news broadcasts.

I accidentally banished the tele from the house in 2005 and wouldn't have it back. As Spike Milligan said, 'the pictures are better on radio' - and I think he was right enough.

regardez youse

henri

My son like me is not the greatest telly fan. Would sooner have music on. He got rid of his telly after two years of never having it switched on by sitting it outside on his pavement with a notice saying free telly. It was gone within an hour.

I actually don't think it's fair to blame facebookers for what's played -there are some really good suggestions there too - admittedly interspersed with the 'surely a must for tonight' comments that get us the endlessly repeated songs that we have grown to despise, but everyone has to start somewhere and if you're dashing about busy at work and haven't time to think of a song about communication never mind Spotifying all evening, then maybe Hanging on the Telephone is the best you can do - I still think the problem is with the weight given by the team to those obvious songs and the assumption that they're what people want to hear, rather than trying to lead gently towards some less played songs which people might be very happy to hear. Of course there has to be a balance with credit given to as many people as possible, I just think they too often go to the lowest common denominator.

All that aside, GIO has indirectly made a massive contribution to my listening pleasure outwith the programme. Sometimes the programme itself drives me completely nuts by missing the point, and sometimes I get a real kick out of getting a previously unplayed band on.

I have a telly. I watch various things, such as Sky Arts, ´óÏó´«Ã½4, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Alba, Wimbledon and Merlin. And the best thing on at present, Educating Essex.

I'm not ashamed to be such a pleb.

#79 I too continue to buy albums but I download them rather than purchasing a CD. However, I'm now on the lookout for a decent turntable, amp & speaker system so that I can listen again to the 250+ LPs I have stashed away safely in the garret. (Any recommendations on which is the best system out there?)

My musical tastes have expanded due to my fellow bloggers and for this, I thank you all

DC

My name is Louise and I have a telly.

I like watching all sorts - some programmes educate and make me think where others are pure escapism. I don't apologise for any of them, not even The Only Way Is Essex!

I neither read nor listen to the radio as much as I would like but hey, that's they way it goes...there aren't enough hours in the day.

I don't care for snobbishness in any form and would hope that we all watch/listen/suggest what we want, rather than to impress others.

#79 henri, gaie and SG.

It was never my intention to upset or annoy anyone and if I have I offer my unreserved and full apologies.

I will therefore award myself the red card for the remainder of this theme and place myself in 'listener only' mode for the rest of the week.

Best regards for the week ahead,
Al.

#82 i use a Rega planar 3 turntable, cannot reccomend it highly enough. Easily upgradeable which is a huge plus. I have reasonably basic Denon components (amp etc) but spent money on cables and connects which makes a big difference. A pair of second hand linn speakers. Good enough without spending a fortune.

And a telly

#82

Have a look at Pro-ject turntables, DC. It might be an idea to have a hearing test first before you spend any money.

#87 what?

;-)

Talking of which, can you hear any differences in the re-mastered Pink Floyd?

I heard nothing new in the Beatles re-issues.

#84

Fear not - no problemo, I'm not offended in the least. Please don't take the week off on my account.

I also aplogise, ,I wasn't being entirely serious. I also have a screen, but it's not used as a telly.I got rid of the telly,in part, because I was turning into a news junkee. It was only when I let it go that I realised how duff much of the coverage was, I wasn't criticising anyone who watches the telly, everyone does.

My underlying point was I'd rather the ´óÏó´«Ã½ cut back on mind numbing 24/7 blanket rolling news coverage than jeapordise the potential in an improving Radio Scotland by blanket budget cuts.

it must cost fortunes to keep an outside broadcast unit and a presenter hanging around a closed courtroom until 10:00 pm - for what?

I'm also considering buying a turntable again, but your right, faither - start with the ears.

regardez youse

henri

i've got 6 tellies but no' a' in the same room.
if they were i'de have people queing at the door to come in an put a bet on.
i don't watch very much because the quality of the content is poor.
i prefer to read tv reviews.it saves having to watch.
the last thing i watched in any deatil was the fox coverage of the last american primaries.and it was unsurpassed.
i don't even have a decent music palyer.
and when i'm no listenin tae gio i tune into a great wee station celtic music radio frae the livingstone tower.its a gem of a station.
the great thing about gio is not only do you choose the music but very often you write the script as well. that's unique in radio and fun. what more tae ask at 6.10 monday tae friday.

cheers frae the dale

#89 I had all the albums prior to re-mastering apart from 'Meddle' which I downloaded this weekend. I hear no difference other than that caused by my recently purchased Bose headphones. The comments on ayechoons were all about how perfect the original LPs were and it was these which prompted me to think about digging the vinyls out again

DC

#84 heavens, you've not offended me in the least - I only felt I had to own up to not being particularly knowledgeable and to using Spotify.

Please don't take the week off, we need all the bloggers and you've made some cracking suggestions - eg, apart from our Joe, Skin Deep is one of my all time favourites

Remastered is music industry speak for buy it again sucker!

Won't get fooled again.

Still the new Quadrophenia edition is only £79

Gaie inspired by your bird photos and chit chat etc I've bought a wee seed thing and hung it up. But I'm quite irritated at what messy eaters they are. More seeds on ground than in birds.

#96

...and the world 'record' breaking Smiths at a paltry £220:00.

#97
Get the slug gun oot Norrie.


How about a track from Brain Salad Surgery tomorrow. I bet you have that in your vinyl collection DC. I can see you back in the day in your donkey jacket with that one under your arm. A proper cover too. Dont get that anymore with your downloads.

Coldplay were excellent last night (this morning - they came on at 1am). Maroon 5 were a pleasant surprise.

Gol!