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The Times - I Helped Parick McGoohan Escape

Patrick...

What can I say....it's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win:

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road


also

Steve Earle or the great Shawn Colvin cover - Someday


both CRACKERS!!

And I think even Gaie will back me up!

Split Lip Rayfield ~ Movin' To Virginia










for the one that got away, btw whur's Scotch?

Keepin' it Country!

Norrie, of course you are absolutely right. Whenever I'm down I reach for Thunder Road or Someday and all my worries just disappear.

and if for some reason I can't find either of them, I get out my other favourite CD and put on

Running Down a Dream - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

FRIDAY


I enjoyed the first hour, but can't listen to Sting when I can hear Country music, courtesy of Whispering Bob.


Meanwhile, back to Friday's theme...

Shoo-in:

Houdini - Kate Bush


:o)

T. Ethiopians ~ Train To Skaville

R. E. M. ~ All The Way To Reno

Motörhead - Leaving Here

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

'Running Scared' - Roy Orbison (for LouiseJuliefromEdinburgh'spal's husband Alastair...who...tonight Matthew...will be Roy Orbison at a music heroes fancy dress party on Saturday!)

It has be:

Lawyer, Guns and Money - Warren Zevon - "Dad, get me out of this"

A theme that seems almost tailor made for my office, colleagues and me this week, on 2 counts. Sticking with the least of our worries, the song that fits best.
Pacific Quay relocation - thanks, but no thanks.
I'd rather take the money and Sail Away David Gray
Luckily for me, this is a viable option. Just not at this time of year, maybe. What do you reckon, DC?

9 Below Zero ~ Ridin' On The L&N

#12 + #13 I'll second those!

'Runaway' - SAHB

'Gotta Getaway' - Stiff Little Fingers

"Southbound" - Thin Lizzy (Live N Dangerous version)

"Escape" - Rupert Holmes (not enough RH on GIO)

Four Tops - 'You Keep Running Away'

Slade - ' Run Runaway' (ooh! Where did Big Country get their sound from? Worst Hogmanay I ever had...Edinburgh Playhouse 1984...I think Adam was there...which of course has nothing to do with it being a bad gig...)

Tami Lynn - 'I'm Gonna Run Away From You'

#17...Rupert Holmes...aah Adam...you never disappoint! x

#16 I'll second that as I think Mean Dartin would if he was about ;-)

#18

The Four Tops' best (along with Loving You Is Sweeter then Ever).

#12 I managed a sail a fortnight ago. Nae chance this weekend though!

Escape choon:

New Horizons - Moody Blues

2nds for Tami Lynn
3rds for The Four tops

1sts for
Bishy's hideaway / Stephen Bishop

House for Sale / Millie Jackson
Break Away / gallagher & Lyle
Drift away / Dobie Gray
Someday we'll all be free / Donnie Hathaway
A Little bit further away / Kokomo

One that;s been requested by various bloggers from time to time would fit this theme perfectly

The Island / Paul Brady

One of those I never tire of hearing

#18, #24

Julie, Paolo,

Have y'all heard version?

Why Don't I Run Away from You? - Kiki Dee


:o)

Not yet

#25

Kokomo! Jeezho Paulo, the QM 1975.... I had their only two albums... no idea where they are re now... the singers went onto work with Bryan Ferry... the gilr was called Diane Birch... last year Tom Morton played a track by Diane Birch and I was momentarily ecstatic... it wasn't the same one, obviously... I'm off to check Spotify...

#18 seconds for Slade

#26 seconds for Paul Brady

#10 Shouldn't that be LouiseJuliefromEdinburgh'sPal'sHusbandAlastair?

Chatter Seepage...

ESCAPE TO THE ROYAL WOOD (ON ICE) from DOING THIS…ON ICE by JACK BRUCE

Well I'm taking some time, with my quiet friend, well I'mtaking some time on my own, well Im making some plans for my getaway, there will be blue skies shining up above, when I'm cloud hidden..

Van the Man clearly a Munro bagger:

Van Morrison - Alan Watts Blues

For paolo

Bob Seger - Roll Me Away

i recently read that oklahoma is just about getting round to clearing a site to build a woody guthrie center,
no' before time.
this one's from a great triple cd, 'the little red box of protest songs'

'we shall be free'......................woody guthrie (very topical,@ the tron!)

from the same cd

'goin' home boys'....................josh white and the carolinians (very topical @ n carolina primary! )

cheers frae the dale

CAN'T KEEP ME HERE from THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND by THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND

ESCAPE CONTROL DELETE from 2032 by GONG

Gaie and Henri - Thanks for your Celtic Connections suggestions. Tony McManus is new to me so checked him out on t'interweb. Excellent stuff and don't know why I hadn't heard of him before.

#33

I only have that on Harmony Row ... a 'jack bruce' on ice show would be something else.. mind you, he's done everything else..

Huge 2nd, but they'll never play it nayway..

regardez youse

henri

regarde

some more excellent suggestions from Norrie, I second them all.


Thing-Fish, I first heard of Tony McManus from someone who saw him at Celtic Connections a good few years ago now and she was mighty impressed.

ISB, let's have some ISB to cheers us on a dreary wet Friday.

Angelo, Brotherhood of Man
Ford Econoline, Nancy Griffiths
Small Town Boy, Bronski Beat

Ah ... escape... escape...the question is two fold:...escape to where? or escape into what?

Supertramp do a good line in escape songs:

to where: Goodbye Stranger

into what: Hide In Your Shell

or temporary respite from the circumstances as they are Take The Long Way Home

regardez youse

henri

Key to the Highway - Eric Clapton

- Rocky Athas Group

Yet another plea: The Leisure Society - If God Did Give Me Choice

If there is a better song written about the desire to escape, I've yet to hear it. Anthemic, radio friendly, meaningful.

regardrez youse

henri

#41

Norrie loves the International Submarine Band

- Patti Page - Takes me back

Escape is a dominant theme in Dylan's work but I'd like to hear the hugely under rated under played

New Morning - Bob Dylan

The celebration of the new life....

The New Life .... The Waterboys

Run Run Run - Jo Jo Gunne Good fun 70's rock.

zillions to follow if I can remeber them

regardez youse

henri

Oh and a record i think is one of the greatest pop songs ever:

Island In the Sun - Weezer from the The Green Album.

regardez youse

henri

She's Leaving Home ~ T. Beatles maybe?

#49

I'd been thinking about that, but it's a bit quiet and reflective for a Friday night - I have a feeling there looking for upbeat happy holiday escapes and not emotional trauma escapes, but it's bang on theme.

We Gotta Get Outta This Place - Spencer Davis Group

The Road 's My Middle Name - Bonnie Raitt

I'm Gonna Run Away From You - Tammi Lynne

Knockin On Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan

regardez youse

henri

Oh ..just remembered...

Set The Tigers Free - The Villagers

The last time you played The Villagers ( 27 strangers) it was declared the track of the night... this will be no different ( unless you play The Leisure Society).

regardez youse

henri.

and

Meet Me On The Corner - Lindisfarne

escape into your dreams..

regardez youse

henri

When the Tigers broke free - Pink Floyd

A different type of Tiger but the same sort of outcome

DC

Michael Nesmith - Rio

Surely more scenic than Alloa :-p

#26 #30 Thirds for The Island

Also
* The Saw Doctors - Clare Island
* Madness - For The Wings of a Dove
* Fairport Convention - Meet on the Ledge
* SAHB or The Traveling Wilburys - Runaway
* The Corrs - Runaway
* Runrig - The Cutter
* Runrig - Going Home
* Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell (perhaps not the kind of escape you were thinking of...)

Different sorts of escape:
* Fatboy Slim - The Weekend Starts Here Turn up the bass for that one...
* All Saints - Pure Shores Yeah, real 'bring on summer' one there
* Matthews' Southern Comfort - Woodstock No, not Joni this time.

If we are to have Echo Beach can we have the acoustic version for a change?

hey Capt, what about

Runrig - Rocket to the Moon

#46 I know, he recommended them to me and I think they're almost as good as Bruce Springsteen

Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild In the Country

SAGA, a Canadian band not really well known in Scotland it seems have some songs to help you escape, like 'Time to go',; 'The flyer'; 'On the loose'
Other suggestions i posted yesterday and which very seldom get air play
Warren ZEVON's 'Wild age' or 'Splendid isolation'
John WETTON's 'Turn on the radio' or 'Nothing to lose'
OINGO BOINGO 'Run Away' (the escape song) featuring on their album 'Dark at the end of the tunnel'.
FIXX ' Secret separation' can fit the theme too.

.... 'True' by CONCRETE BLONDE

#50

Sad! This is sad.. Whiskey Lullaby ~ Brad Paisley and Allison Krauss

That's Etta James away. Well, I bet Megrahi didn't think he'd outlive Etta James. The deaths go on!

Henri, yer like page two in the Dundee Courier!

Well, it's a tabloid as of today - so Etta James will be on the front page tomorrow?

Who'd have thought there could be a running joke about prostate cancer?

#65 Same as the P&J?

KASSAV / 'Mwen Alé (I'm leaving)