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Is this theme about music? Or clothes? Or songs about clothes? Or songs by clotheshorses? Spandau Ballet, anyone?






















confused git

why Mr Dapper himself ...

'Smooth Operator' --- Senor Coconut & His Orchestra


*warning* !!! no go for vertigo sufferers

FRIDAY


Okay! I think I have all the bases covered here. A song about clothes performed by a lady who loves to wear fabulous dresses on stage, but who looks just as good in blue jeans!


Something in Red -


Keep it Country!

Kirsty McColl - In These Shoes?

Bauhaus - She's In Parties

ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man

#4
Billy match your ZZ Top and raise you a

Brad Paisley - Sharp Dressed Man



Lindi Ortega - Little Red Boots
Blitzen Trapper - Girl in a Coat

Drive by Truckers / Outfit

Mark Knopfler / Imelda
On a certain Mrs Marcos' and how she just went shoppin for shoes......

#1 Scotch - it's a bit random, agreed. Val Doonican may even have a chance.
Prefer substance with style as an added bonus over just style itself myself, so, naturally, for me it's Jarvis and his geeky daddy long legs loucheness that ticks all the boxes
Help The Aged
;o)



Another one for hh's list - Dory Previn.

My newest favourite live band for under £20 are quite natty dressers with a taste for cravats which surprisingly doesn't look too ridiculous...

Vintage Trouble - 'Blues Hand Me Down' or ' Not All Right With Me'


My previous favourite under £20...under £14 even... find and still my favourite in that price-range:

Eli 'Paperboy' Reed - 'Pick A Number'...a good line in sharp suits and sometimes a 50s style cardi!


Talking of sharp-suits...
Richard Hawley - 'Early Morning Rain' (Gordon Lightfoot cover) or 'Serious'

Or, seeing as it's "style" they're looking for, here's ............
;o)))))))

... i'm still lost for words also, but they sure seem to tick all the boxes ...

'Word Up' ~~ Cameo

Johnny and Mary - Robert Palmer
Your heart is as black as night - Melody Gardot
Sway - Dean Martin

More to follow

Joe
Linlithgow

the one and only ......


Mr Fee Waybill

'Whit Punks on Dope' --- The Tubes

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(missing from above, but maybe not - judging by the clip!)

#5 really? I'd like to hear that!

Loving you has made me bananas / Guy Marks

Hello everyone. Talking about Fashion [but not about clothes].. It has now become very trendy to drop your Ts and it seems more and more people adopt this variety of English called 'Estuary English'. I am well aware I am no native speaker of English { I have lived nearly all my life in France] but do not ask me to say David Gue''a! I simply can't do it. Isn't it a very 'un-British' thing to drop your Teas? You can always retort that it is rather un-French' not to be interested in Fashion at all.

Having said that, yesterday's show was quite lively and upbeat and I enjoyed at least the first half of it / I went to bed at about 8.20 PM [my time]

suggestion for the show this evening: 'Man in a long black coat' by Joane OSBOURNE.

Friendly greetings to all.

Felicitations, Christophe - that wisnae estuary English, it was a very Wes' of Sco'land sort of English, but I agree, it was extreme. However, you only have to listen to Tom Mor'on and Gary Rober'son to know that Radio Sco'land favours this way of speaking.

I thought last night's show was excellent though and am in awe of youngsters who are so confident speaking on national radio. Charles was great. C'mon, GIO, there's a place for regular shows where the music is not all the tedious oldies we know so well.

My own style icon would have to be Stevie Nicks, with her floaty scarves and dresses and loads of beads.

Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks

and Eric Clapton used to spend a fortune on the latest fashion presumably in the hopes of being a style icon - maybe you could make up for last week's faux-pas and play the flip-side of the real Layla

Bell-Bottom Blues - Eric Clapton

the lovely Tom Petty and Mike Campbell are pretty stylish

It's Good to be King - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

only 124 sleeps.......................

I think one of the most stylish pop icons has always been David Bowie.

David Bowie - Fashion

or

David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging

David Byrne did a whole lp on the subject of Imelda Marcos, with Fatboy Slim and a whole host of others:

Dvid Byrne w Fatboy Slim and Imelda Marcos - A perfect Hand

or wee ctracker for the Git

David Byrne w Fatboy Slim , Cyndi Lauper and Tori Amos- Why Dont You Love Me

#16 apologies to Gary Robertson, ts all intact, it's someone on drivetime.

and here's a stylish wee band:

- The Legend of John The Terror Notorious

or if you can't find that, then either Mariana or Imagineer would be good

icons? ahve kent a few.

in the days when auntie could put on a good 'quiz show' two style icons towered above all else. for those of you who remember 'top of the form' (tonite we have uddingston grammar versus that ruffhouse from glesca, 'hutchies'), you will also be familiar with 'a question of sport' before the days it became populated with sporting 'non-icons'.......
so one evening my favourite team was being led by my favourite manager....and what an icon he was .....pipe smoking....baldie heid...... (or was that the centre forward?), a man that thought tactics was mastering the trick of putting they wee mint sweeties in yer mooth backwards.........anyway the great iconic jerry kerr was coasting through the programme leading his team majestically as he did every saturday.......and then he was asked this googlie of a question......

...'now jerry, this ones for you, name the recent hit this young iconic barefooted very 60's icon, you know jerry she 'sang puppet on a string'...here's a picture of her jerry, of her barefootedness, just to remind you, like......no conferring jerry, this one's for you....c'mon now jerry do i need to remind you......clock's ticking jerry...her name is sandie shaw.....she has barefeet....60's icon, bit like yersel' jerry, i'm tryin' tae jog yer memory jerry...'TRYIN' TAE REMIND YE'......
but jerry sat there, smiling, good naturedly........he hidnae a scooby.......couldnae even ask a substitute, cos it was a 'no conferrin' question'........after about 3 hours of jerry torturing himself tryin' tae rememeber he surprisingly, gave up.

how the audience, and jerry, laughed when jerry was shown the placard with the answer..........

'always something there to remind me'............sandie shaw

that programme just has to be in the bbc archives somewhere......i would donate every centime of my CAPTION COMP winnings to see that again.....
of course what happened next was the clearing of studio and re-setting up of tables for the titanic battle between the 'hutchie bears ' versus the 'drumchapel poshows'...ah think.

cheers frae the dale

Gram Parsons in his Nudie suit...

'That's All It Took' - Gram and Emmylou

Oh yes Julie, Gram in his Nudsie Suits. Perfect. Great suggestion.

#16. Hello Gaie. Ok, I stand corrected; Apologies, I did not know that the English spoken in Western Scotland also has this glottal stop.

More suggestions : 'Queen of the underground' by Michael Franks
excerpt: ' I met you Sunday at the Dalai Lama's. You posed for pictures in those silk pyjamas
and you seemed like someone from another planet, with your eyes so jet and your lips so pomegranate'

'Les filles de l'aurore' by William SHELLER [ Les garçons de l'aurore glissent leurs corps dans des jeans usés / the boys at dawn slip on worn out jeans']

'Life during wartime' by TALKING HEADS [ we dress like students, we dress like housewives or in a suit and a tie_ I have changed my hairstyle so many times now, I don't know what I look like]
or 'Seen and unseen' by the same band [album: Remain in Light]

'Paper Talk' by John WETTON [ your watch is by CARTIER and time is the only price you pay...]

'Englishman in New York' by STING [See me walking down Fifth Avenue
A walking cane here at my side
I take it everywhere I walk
I'm an Englishman in New York]

Peter GABRIEL's 'Intruder' : Intruder"

I know something about opening windows and doors
I know how to move quietly to creep across creaky wooden floors
I know where to find precious things in all your cupboards and drawers
Slipping the clippers
Slipping the clippers through the telephone wires
The sense of isolation inspires
Inspires me
I like to feel the suspense when I'm certain you know I am there
I like you lying awake, your bated breath charging the air
I like the touch and the smell of all the pretty dresses you wear
Intruders happy in the dark
Intruder come
Intruder come and leave his mark, leave his mark

'Farewell to the Rhonda' by Noel Mc LOUGHLIN {Farewell to the Rhonda, the muffler and the caps...]

HA! 'Imelda' by Mark KNOPFLER a song about shoes_ featuring on his album 'Golden heart'
'Blue Jean' by David BOWIE

'The nanny named Fran' by Ann Hampton CALLOWAY
'I want you to want me' by CHEAP TRICK [ I'll shine on my old brown shoes and put on a brand new shirt]

'Cat Walk' by SAGA (?????]
'On the outside' by OINGO BOINGO [ I wear the wrong clothes I say the wrong things...]
'Black cars' by Gino VANNELLI

Friendly greetings to everyone.

Ooh! Ooh! Another VERY snazzy dresser...

Raphael Saadiq - 'Sure Hope you mean It' or 'Let's Take A Walk'

he has that retro-Motown-cool thingy pretty much nailed.

The Daughter would tell me that, by saying 'snazzy', I'm just showing how un-cool I am!

Lyle Lovett - Don't Touch My HAT
the Who - Dont Let Go The COAT
My morning JACKET - Knot Comes Loose
MCC - This SHIRT
Springsteen - The TIES that bind
Black - Her COAT and no KNICKERS
Malcolm Middleton - Red Travelling SOCKS
Graham Parker - Soul SHOES
God Help The Girl - I just want your JEANS

There we are, ready to go. Until

Kackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home

Agree with previous sentiments ... congrats to both Charles and Leigh-Ann for introducing enthusiasm, energy and a different slant to last night's GIO proceedings. Nights of similar variety would be worth considering.

Friday suggestion: 'Wonderful Life' ... by the impecably attired Hurts

#26

Brilliant Norrie, I'm literally just about falling off my chair at your underwear description!

Laughing that is!

Saw my new favourite live band for under £8 in a trendy club in Edinburgh the other week (don't know how they let me in!). A couple of days later they went on to be one of the winners at the Celtic Connections Danny Kyle's Open Stage. They were actually the support band but I preferred them to The Magic Tombolinos.

'The List' describes them as 'This eight piece band from Edinburgh are a contemporary alternative blues band that ‘combines original material with traditional standards and a fully realised pre-war blues fixation'. Most of them look pretty cool, though one of the guitarists looks as if an Army Captain's got into the band by mistake.

The Black Diamond Express...keep your eyes open for them...they're jolly awfully good.

FRIDAY


Another couple of well-dressed troubadours...

- John Prine


That's Right (You're Not from Texas) -



Keep it Country!

Oozing sartorial elegance.

Kid Creole & The Coconuts - I'm a Wonderful Thing Baby

The Associates - 18 Carat Love Affair

BA Robertson - Kool in the Kaftan

Cheers just now.
Al.

Where's Roxy John on a theme like this?

Have recently been watching the Tube compilation dvds. Worth a watch fellow bloggers.

These fashion-busters were on it:




The Message - Grandmaster Flash

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I managed 42 seconds...


#18

Norrie,

Re: Why Don't You Love Me


I remember listening to this just after the album was released. I still don't like it. But thank you for the thought!

:o)

Aye but you like Ms Lauper

.... Or 'Rubberband girl' by Kate BUSH from the 'Red Shoes' album, uh?

Perhaps this is predictable from me, and it may seem unlikely when thought about now but it seems to me to be impossible to go past The Beatles and John Lennon in particular in terms of style/fashion, or rather - anti -fashion: the triumph of substance over style. Lennon's utter disdain and rejection of the entertainment industry's norms that it's stars were supposed to be glamorous led to a deliberately unkempt, long haired jeans and a T shirt appearance which became not just an anti- fashion statement but was itself alligned with a philosophical standpoint about individualism and how with determination and persistence you could achieve anything, wrapped up in the idea that "All You Need Is Love".

(To be fair,Lennon was always a bit contrary about it - as soon as everyone grew their hair, he sported a skinhead.)

The impact was far and wide: that Bryan speaks to us on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ with his underlying doric twang, let alone Robbie Sheppard, is directly related to the revolution The Beatles provoked in music, the arts, media and entertainment by being determined to 'be themselves' and perform their own material.

It would not be until the outbreak of Glam Rock (Bowie, Roxy Music, T Rex) that 'style' and dressing up would re-emerge to be associated with a 'style' of music (which is kinda ridiculous when I think about it because there is nothing in the clothes that connects the music, in fact).

The songs which kind of sums up the attitude and spirit of the times are, among many,

Revolution or The Ballad Of John and Yoko - The Beatles which is not actually the Beatles, just John and Paul: McCartney, Drum and Bass, Lennon Guitar and vocal.

and one other style icon who is impossible to miss out tonight - and it would be great to hear this track.

No Fish Today - Kid Creole & Coconuts

regardez - youse

henri

#36

Doesn't everyone?


>8-D

Mauranne _ 'Toutes les Mamas'

Carnaval starts today and as the mankini has seen better days, I'm going with this look this year.



Rod had some style in the 80s. Was there ever a better decade for men's hair?

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Did ye kill it yersel'?

#2 & #9

Titter, I'll take your Senor Coconut & Orchestra and raise you The Latin Brothers.




#42
Aye, but the feet are tiger.

The Ramones - 'Danny Says'

The '68 Comeback version of Elvis - 'One Night'

Siouxsie and The Banshees - 'Christine'

#38 @ ya hh

i'm not sure that i would agree with that.
the beatles weren't all long hair and t-shirts. when they burst on the scene they were all long hair and suits.in particular suits with collarless jackets with winklepicker boots.
the period between post-beatles and glam rock could be described as the 'the stars and stripes' icon era....where disillusionment was setting in and evident in clothing styles, lifestyles and the music.......hendrix flaunting a burning flag and blazing equipment...bandana a' la santana.....the spirit of 'easy rider' and 'zabriskie point'..............the music, lifestyle, clothing, art and angst attitudes all merging.......there must be somewhere outta here....there's too much confusion........

'all along the watchtower'....................hendrix

cheers frae the dale

Could do a whole show about 'hats in pop' (say it like you would say "pigs in space").

Saw a wee baldy middle-aged bloke at my suburban bus stop this week. He was quite a dapper wee thing and was wearing a back-to-front kangol bunnet. My first thought was...bet he's been dressing that way since 1986 and he thinks he looks like Gary Clark...which he did!

Danny Wilson - 'Never Gonna Be The Same'

Somebody mention space??

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Who's Gary Clark?

Somebody mention

Leon Wilkeson (may he rest in peace) had a different hat for every song!

#48

Found him! Kicked a ba' for

#46

If he wis wearing a bunnet, how did ye ken he wis baldy?

#43

titter ye not AFR, you've trumped me there ... happy to relinquish and endorse

The Latin Bros please ...

Victory Dance -

definitely seconds for Hendrix and I guess Keith Richards has to be in there for a style all of his own

You Got the Silver - Rolling Stones

#51...OK, maybe he just didn't have any sideburns...perhaps it was really the Jim Kerr look he was going for...remember him...fullback for Heriots!

Brig'ton's finest style icon

- Papa Don't Know

...and another opportunity to ask for...

Willy DeVille - great clothes, great hair, great moustache...cigarette...looked great in a hat or a bandana...definitely a style icon. In fact...I think he's my favourite.

There's a bloke who used to get on my bus obviously models himself on Willy DeVille...I once felt moved to tell him how good his 'look' was...he was chuffed to be appreciated but his Edinburgh accent quite spoiled the impression. "Aw hanks hen" just spoiled it.

The marvellous 'Hey Joe' or 'Storybook Love' - Willy DeVille

Its like a jungle out there Julie. Makes me wonder how you keep from going under.

'Get Ready' ~~ The Temptations

Moss Bros must have been proud!

I will nominate Patti LABELLE (Lady Marmalade)
All the feathers....
How is it I remember having seen her and her sidekicks singing this wearing bits of medieval armor, ha ha ha ha!

Look Sharp ~ Joe Jackson