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Steve Earle - Guitar Town (Someday)

Jeff Buckley - Grace (Lover You Should Have Come Over)

Pretenders (Space Invader)

Velvet Underground - (I'll Be Your Mirror)

the Clash - (Police and Thieves)

Josh Ritter - Golden Age Of Radio (Me and Joggs)

Skids - Scared To Dance (Scared To Dance)

Elvis Presley - (I Gotta Woman)

Bruce Springsteen- Greetings From...(For You)

David Bowie (Silly Boy Blue)

Raphael Saadiq's first solo album 'Instant Vintage' earned him 5 Grammy nominations...

Raphael Saadiq - 'Still Ray'



Not yet the snappy-dresser he is today, and...is this the only R+B tuba bassline?

Roxy Music - Ladytron

Difficult theme tonight, since most instantly memorable rhymes come from the self evident, so have decided to use Babs best reserve score of 10, it looks like.

Miss Babs : 32
Richard : 41
Mandi : 52
Kirsten : 21 - two shows in hand.

tomorrow night's theme could be a stoater, provided we don't hear the hit single.

regardez youse

henri

'The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill' won Lauryn Hill 5 Grammys.

'Doo Wop (That Thing)'


'Everything Is Everything'


Such a great album.

Long before Leo Sayer became a bland singer he released a debut album which was quite unlike anything around at the time. Adam Faith persuaded him to don the Pierrot costume to get himself and his unique voice noticed.

his first album Silverbird had a couple of standout tracks. The Dancer and the one for thursdays show

Why Is Everybody going Home / Leo sayer

None of his subsequent material came close.

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Five songs which were tolerable(ish).

Five so called "songs" which were truly awful.

The rest were just mince.

I blame myself. The first half was so bad, I fell into the trap of thinking it could only get better.


I will be deducting points for this. Don't tell me I can't move the goalposts. The team do it all the time.

Mandi has a substantial lead, but still seven shows to go!

THURSDAY


My favourite debut album is The Kick Inside by Kate Bush.


James and the Cold Gun please. Or anything else on the album, apart from the songs released as singles in the U.K. Thank you!

:o)

The Lipstick On His Collar - Caro Emerald from one of the most remarkable debut albums ever, and a quite fantastic concert last Sunday evening.

Whispers - Fairground Attraction I was listening to this album recently, quite astonishing track from a great album.Pity, now we just get all that Burns stuff.

Anna ( Go To Him) - the Beatles simply the most significant debut album ever released.

Ladytron - Roxy Music It would be goode to hear this.

doubtless more to follow...

regardez youse

henri

#6 does moving the goal-posts mean you'll be reconsidering the possible recipients of the CHOCOLATE EGGS?


oh goodie


Hot Fuss must be up there with the best debut albums - musical complexity, variety, songs you just want to sing along to, fab,fab,fab

All These Things That I've Done - the Killers

Mike Heron was singing the Hedgehog song and others in Queen's Hall, Edinburgh this week (it said in my Herald - which reminds me, was that a Henri Hannah pic on Saturday?)

The Incredible String Band: Dandelion Blues - The Incredible String Band

A New Day Yesterday: debut album of Joe Bonamassa, no 9 in the US blues charts - A New Day Yesterday

( I think Mr Git would like this song, hmm, wonder how many points he'll give me?)

Fresh Cream: Spoonful - Cream

and let's try this one again

Barton Hollow - no1 download on itunes the week it was released, Grammy award-winning, etc etc

20 Years or Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars

This is still a fantastic album...

Steve Forbert - 'Alive on Arrival'

'Tonight I Feel So Far Away From Home'...oh go on and play it...it's quite simply beautiful


This isn't bad either...

'It Isn't Gonna Be That Way'

This Love - Maroon 5

Stay - The Blue Nile a change from Tinsel Town

Expectations - Belle & Sebastian

Lady With The Braid - Dory Previn

Without You - El Presidente

Stupid Girl - Garbage

Here's Looking At You, Kid - The Gaslight Anthem

Tickets To Waterfalls - Jack Bruce

What Is Life - George Harrison

Every Night/ maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney

Johnny,Don't Do It - 10CC

Islands - The XX

Set The Tigers Free - The Villagers

Shut Up And Let Me Go - The Ting Tings

that'll do

regardez youse

henri

The Bamboos - 'Step It Up'

The title track, featuring Alice Russell


Love love love the Bamboos! They just keep getting better and better.

#10

Gaie,

I like the Joe Bonamassa track very much! I take it you'll be in Glasgow on April 4th.?

'Ladyhawke' - Ladyhawke

'My Delirium'

oh and a couple of others:

You're Beautiful - Love & Money

Cold War- Janeele Monae

Release The Pressure - Leftfield

Just keeping Patrick company, okay?

regardez youse

henri

#15 SG, I was so keen to get a ticket to see him, I bought one for Edinburgh (27th March) - he didn't announce a Glasgow date till well after that one had been listed. Only one consolation - the Edinburgh ticket cost £35, Glasgow £50! Travel cost of course evens it out.

#14

Big 2nd for The Bamboos on your recommendation i bought '4' - truly excellent, thank- you.

#16

Big posters in the ABC for a new Ladyhawke album at Caro Emerald - maybe she's coming to Glasgow?

regardez vous

henri

Oh.. and Taste the Coast - Admiral Fallow

#3 #7
I agree.
We all know the singles Bryan. Let's hear what else made your listeners debut albums of choice, their picks.

#19...better still HH...she'll be in Edinburgh in April! Things are improving steadily here re live music...hurrah!

Chance - Big Country

From their debut album The Crossing

Thats a single

Take me out - Franz Ferdinand
Happy - Travis (from Good Feeling)
That kind of fool - Cado Belle
Ride like the wind - Christopher Cross
My generation - The Who (from My generation)
A soft place to fall - Allison Moorer (from Alabama Song)
My winding wheel - Ryan Adams (from Heartbreaker)

Joe
Linlithgow

#24 one that's never been played on GIO

I would have gone for Storm but it's a tad too long

Alicia Keys - 'Songs In A minor'

'How Come You Don't Call Me'

THURSDAY


The opening track from the first album;

- Kathryn Dawn


Keep it _ _ _ Rock & Roll!


>8-D

#10

Nope, no me, Gaie - I can't even be bothered using my phone/camera to record the events of the day.

regardez vous

henri

That's because you're too busy writing them down.

- The Jezabels

Like I said, it’s a shame Warren Zevon died before recording a second song. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ should be telt!

This one I am suggesting for Gaie - I think she need cheered up. Anyway it is one of those artists who has only written one song (Show Me Heaven)* - but this is not that song and she did not even write it. It comes from a superb debut album and contains the following Tom Petty and Mike Campbell cracker:

Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked

sadly the band did not really live up to their potential and depite some great solo material Maria McKee has never had enough recognition as a solo artist.


*I have discounted A Good Heart as that is now officially the Feargal Sharkey song.

Talking Heads - Don't Worry About The Government

Unless you're a pensioner ;-)

#26

Chance has been played on GIO, more than once - but no matter, it's great, still worth a point - it's still very much in the 'less obvious' category, I think. Certainly less obvious than that 'bagpipe guitar' sound that they invented, which I never really took to.

#31, too true,faither:-))

regardez youse

henri

#33
Never knew that about Good Heart, Norrie.


Good to see the Bloggers sticking to album tracks rather than the singles. Maybe Norrie and Julie can suggest to our cousins on the other side that they do the same.

BTW, NM & JFE, why do you feel the need to post the same set of requests on both sides?

one of the greatest scottish albums ever made.
and they never bettered it.

from 'play gaelic'

'air an traigh'....................runrig ( on the beach)

or

'tillidh mi' (dhachaidh).........runrig (i will return (home)).....wouldn't we all?

you can feel the hebridean air in every note

cheers from a very busy dale_kelvin

who had an amazing encounter with a stand up comedian on the bus to London a few weeks back.its strange how circumstances throw people together.memorable.and totally enriching.

Why would I deny the facebookers the opportunity to gasp at the brilliance of my suggestions?

Why are you snooping on facebook?

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Naebody even mentioned Aberdeen.......

#37

I hope you offered him your seat, DK

#38

Like Mr Townsend, it was purely research.
But do you text and email them in too?

#39
Nae chance of that SG. Have you ever had a keek in there?

#43 No just send them cakes and offer easter eggs. I also plan to take up running more seriously....I also now refuse to cross bridges.

#44

That bridge thing is no joke. I have the same problem as BB.

#37
Seconded DK...... And where's my big picnic DVD

#40 in true glasgow vernacular, after once buying some sweeties in a Liverpudlian sweetie shop I asked the girl if I could have a poke.

They confiscated my sweeties before giving me a lift back in their shiny new police car.

Theme suggestion
(as above)

Singers who only wrote one song.
(we miraculously uncover a second one)

A debut album that exploded society yet imploded the band:

'Never Mind the *ollocks' == T Sex Pistols

Created a mouthpiece for the dissenchanted, a target for the entrenched, and bewilderment for the predictable masses. For me it was a catalyst ........

For a change, either 'No Feelings' or 'EMI' would be good.

Sheep Farming In barnet - Danced

was not a single though a live version was

For you it was a catalyst, for everyone else it was two ounces of plastic with a hole in the middle.

still wearing flares?

David Gray - A Century Ends (It's All Over)

A really great track from a pretty decent debut album, Neil MacColl on guitar.

can "everyone else" please confirm their happy for the band leader to speak on their behalf ......

#48 Disenchanted is it... I can buy into that!
I'm both disappointed and dismayed at yet another repeated theme idea way too soon.
'62 saw the first use of silicone breast implants by Houston plastic surgeons and look where that lead to!
Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables - Dead Kennedys
"Ill In The Head" you'd have to be to under go surgery for surgery's sake!

Rex, Glen's only saving grace is he doesn't point score producers ;-)

#46 @ ya P_P................it's no' been done yet.
it is sitting safely in a cupboard just waiting for me to be pro-active. you are not forgotten.

and the strange thing is i was sitting in a broadway theatre in december settling down to 'war horse'...the cast came on stage and started the show with 'only remembered'............i was totally gobsmacked......so thats 3 huge productions that have that anthem as its core.....'big picnic' and 'the ship'............looking through the programme the connection was obvious........john tams......a wonderful song.

cheers frae the dale

Norrie, you're an absolute star - thank you.

#45

I suppose for Bryan and yourself, A Bridge Over Troubled Water is the scariest record in the world, the opposite of the message the song is trying to inculcate.

But tell me, what do you think will happen whilst crossing the bridge?

regardez -yvous

henri

R.E.M. - Talk About The Passion

#53 they're there now

#57

perhaps?

#59

Yes, there's "their" there when there should be "they're" there.

#57
Its called "gephyrophobia", its an anxiety thing, you dont actually think anything is going to happen.
I just get it when I'm driving over bridges. I dont get it in the passenger seat or walking across.

14 songs, less than 29 minutes, their debut album breathed new life into popular music. Go figure!





What's tomorrows theme, I'm bored already!

me too, Friarton Bridge near Perth, gives me the heebie jeebies, even more now since I had to look it up for the name and it says it's a lightweight concrete bridge. NO!!!!! Make it strong, make it solid, make it anything but lightweight!! I'll have to drive with my eyes shut the next time I go over it.

#64 refers to 62, but yes, the themes this week haven't inspired.

#64

yep, after the 4 song, 100 minute 'Oceans' album, it's hard to disagree.

#62/64

Intersting that it's a driving thing - wonder of our hero is the same?

Do you feel insecure and speculate that the vehicle may slide out of conrol and off the bridge?

#64

Friarton Bridge is a steel box girder bridge with a composite lightweight concrete deck. The lower weight makes it safer. Read all about it and don't believe all you read on Wikipaedia. I was offered a job on its construction.

#67
No.
As I say, its not a "what might happen" fear. I get the same thing with tunnels (though I am conquering that one).
Read this

Glen, nothing you say will make it any less terrifying, not even if you hand-made it yourself. It's something to do with its curve and the closeness of the edge.

Try having a couple of drinks before you set off - it works for me.

59, 60 & 61

the least i can do is dedicate this to you both

Cheers Tex. Unfortunately my ayepad couldnae load the movie. I'm sure is was neither hear nor their

#72

Never mind DC, that wis HC!

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