Next week's themes...

Monday

God Gave Me Everything - Mick Jagger

Tuesday

Baby Let Me Take You Home - The Animals

Wednesday

Dead Man's Curve - Jan and Dean

Thursday

Free As A Bird - Beatles

Tuesday

Labour of Love - Joe Grusheky

As I can request heehaw on Tuesday, I'm gonna ask for this on

MONDAY

'(Everything I Do) I Do It For You' - Bryan Adams

If I suffer, everyone suffers! >8-D










Mark up another Pyrrhic victory for the Git!

At least you weren't moderated and it's better than Summer of '69.

Pyrrhic up your ears as Joe Orton would say.

#3

Go for it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3tXOWfzCuQ

:-)

Mon
Everything that glitters is not gold / Dan seals
Everything I Own / Ken Booth

Tues
My ex was a barry Marshmallow fan and insisted on his greatest
hits in the maternity ward so moving swiftly on to speed night

Wed
Slow Dancer / Box Scaggs
Ernie / Benny Hill
Nice and Slow / Jesse Green
Speedy Gonzales / Pat Boone

Thu
The Long Road / Mark Knopfler
An appropriate yet wonderful piece of driving music to hit the open road with and escape the rat race for a few hours.

Monday

Everything - Stereo Mcs
Everything She Wants - Wham
Everything Must Go - T. Manic Street Preachers

Promise Her Anything - Dean Martin
I Cant Give You Anything - T. Ramones
Monday Dont Mean Anything - Alabama 3

A few first thoughts for the week ahead:

Everything/Anything

You are Everything - Ross/Gaye
Uptight (everything's alright) - Stevie Wonder
Anything for you - Gloria Estefan
Do anything you wanna do - Eddie and the Hot Rods

Labour

Goodnight Girl - Wet Wet Wet (actually it was a boy)

Speed

Life in the fast lane - Eagles
Speed of the sound of lonliness - Nanci Griffith
Slow motion - David Gray
Can't slow down - Lionel Ritchie
If I should fall behind or Racing in the street - Springsteen

Freedom

I'm free - The Who (reminds me of the year I left school (a long long time ago) when I saw them at Parkhead, with Alex Harvey and Little Feat in support)

Have a good weekend

Joe
Linlithgow

#5

Are you sure that isn't Scott Tracy?

#9

Not sure, but one things for sure... prohibition doesn't seem to apply in that barn! Maybe he'll get a taste for it if offered!

Before this it was only a dry sherry before dinner - then he woke up in Shanghai with a beard.

#11

And we're not talking facial hair...

An emotional Tuesday for me. No such thing as 'songs that were playing when your child was born' in my number one's case. Indeed, the thought of male presence in the labour ward had only just been passed by the midwyfies at Forth Park Hospital in Kirkcaldy (kain?)

Anyway, the 38 hour labour which preceded the entrance to the world of number one son (I kid you not) was obviously a stressful time for Mrs C but she did well and the arrival of my wee boy was a fantastic experience.

A couple of hours later, I jumped into the car to drive home to tell the world about my wee boy and heard 'Alive and kicking' by Simple Minds come over the radio.

Emotional indeed! Alan is now in his fourth year at Dundee Uni Medical School and about to sit his exams. Please wish him aw the best

DC in Cellardyke

#5, #9

'Stand By Your Action Man' - Tammy Wynette
or,
'Puppet On A String' - Lady Penelope


#13

Look at DC kvell! Already he is shepping naches from his son, the Doctor.

My daughter has the same effect on me. I'm so proud of her I feel I could burst.

#11

"We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy,
Like the hippies out in San Francisco do

We still wave Old Glory down at the Courthouse,
And White Lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.."



I still prefer the Kinkster's version.

>8-D

Scotch, I haven't even started to speak of my daughter or number two son (each with their own special tune!) Happy feth'r's day tae all dads on the blog!

DC

Yep happy fathers day all the proud dads.

My first wasn't as long a labour as DC's....just 24 hours but still way too long for any poor mum to have to go through. And Barry Manilow was the only tape she took in with her. We didn't have music for the second or third from what I remember but thankfully they were much quicker in making their appearance.

However I do remember playing the following on returning from the labour wards
My son and I / Neil Sedaka for Chris
Isn't she lovely / Stevie Wonder Nats
Marliese / Fischer Z for Marie Elise (well it was close)

Marie Elise was to be called Michaela but when I returned home in the early hours from the hospital I put on the Tv to find The Hit Man And Her with Pete Waterman and a screechin Michaela Strachan. Funny how you can go off a name. I was playin some tunes instead of which Marliese was one and thought that would be nice although the missus subsequently altered it to marie Elise.

So there we have it.

The trial and tribulation timekeepers have clocked DC at an eye-watering 38 hours but there must be someone out there sitting shyly on a super-40 score on the maternal mission monitor.

Let's hear from you.

Meanwhile, here are Ace posing the musical question How Long Has This Been Going On?

#18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gxMvb9VrzY

:-)

Bob Dylan - Everything Is Broken

Jackson Browne - I'd Do Anything

#18. At 37 hrs I think I'll be second in the 'how many hours' contest...although a consultant did tell me that labour actually can take umpteen (that's a technical term) days more. I was in hospital on a 'false alarm' a few days before and it would have been nice if The Daughter had made an appearance then - my Dad's Birthday - they would've loved to have shared the day (never mind though...she gets to share with Scotch Git instead). I didn't have a birth tape, listened to the radio instead so if there's any commentary from a British Lions rugby match from 26 June 1993...even through the haze of every drug they could put in me I do remember declaring my appreciation of Jeremy Guscott's legs. I don't know anyone who made a birth tape. The Daughter was already a fortnight late, it was a hot June and I was becoming very weary so I may have included The Kinks - 'Tired Of Waiting For You' in a tape had I made one.

MONDAY:

'Everything I Am' - Plastic Penny

Know it's a bit twee but I have a real soft spot for 'Everything Is Beautiful' by Ray Stevens...there are some songs where little kids singing is naff (Grandad) and others where it's OK (e.g this one, Grocer Jack).

'Almost Anything Goes' - Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

'I Can't Give You Anything But Love Baby' - Fats Domino

MONDAY

Flippin 'Eck it's mah theme! It's only taken me 2 years to get one accepted but at least I've kept listening. Thanks Bryan and the team.

My suggestion for now is:-

Everything is Everything - Lauryn Hill

For Monday

EVERYTHING But The Girl............Baby Come Home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQOujKgN9SY

Monday - Anything & Everything:
All The Things She Said - Simple Minds
All These Things - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Every Path - Alela Diane
Everything Must Go - Steely Dan
Anything She Does - Genesis
Every Little Kiss - Bruce Hornsby
Any World - Steely Dan
It Doesn't Really Matter At All - Dave Edmunds
Anything - The Damned
Anything At All - The Soulsteppers
All Kinds Of Everything - Dana (not joking - it's a great song!)
Promise Her Anything - Tom Jones

Wednesday - Speed:
Fylingdale Flyer - Jethro Tull
Speedway Hero - Billy Bragg
Drive - Todd Rundgren
World's Slowest Elevator - Carbonlifer
Run - Air
1000 Miles Per Hour - OK Go
Slow Dancer - Boz Scaggs
Manuela Run - Toto
Speedy's Coming - Scorpions
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
The Fastest Guitar Alive - Roy Orbison
I'll Come Running - Brian Eno

I spent five hours today listening to 'Daddy' songs on Country music radio shows, at the end of which I was tripping o'er the snotters. Therefore,

WEDNESDAY

'Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast' - Wayne Newton



If I suffer, everyone suffers! >8-D










sentimental git

#22 Re: Grocer Jack

Julie,

Apparently when Mark Wirtz played 'Excerpt from a teenage opera' for the approval of EMI executives, they were horrified. The unanimous verdict was "Can the tape, kill the project."

Somehow John Peel, then with Radio Caroline, obtained a recording. When he aired the song, the response was immediate. People demanded to know who, where, why and how could they get their hands on a copy.
The rest is historical history.

EMI also turned down the opportunity to sign the Beatles. Go figure.

>8-D

I salute your historicalasity.

#29

I was gonna write an historical history, but the knowledge that Hoppo would regard this as a declaration of war stayed my hand.

>8-D

An hypothesis indeed...

#27

Tell me you haven't sunk to Commander Cody's Down To Seeds And Stems Again. It makes Red Sovine's Teddy Bear sound like Agadoo.

#28

Wednesday

My White Bicycle - Tomorrow

Thursday - Freedom & Adventure:
This Land Is Your Land - Billy Bragg
Fire At Midnight - Jethro Tull
Eternity Road - The Moody Blues
Freedom Train - Lenny Kravitz
Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John
I Want To Break Free - Queen
I Can't Stay - The Killers
Chimes Of Freedom - Youssou N'Dour
Breathe - Prodigy
Love's Great Adventure - Ultravox
The Great Escape - We Are Scientists
Wide Open Space - Cliff Richard

Just noticed the Thursday comment "Schools Out".

Not in Fife they're no'......

DC in Cellardyke (where the bairns don't return to school after the summer holidays until 19th August 2009)

Speaking of 'School's Out', howzabout SAHB's cover of the Alice Cooper classic?

WARNING!
You will probably have to remove the reference to what not to do in the water supply! >8-D

# 29 correct, #30 no I will not rise to the bait.

For tonight;

Everything Must Change - Paul Young
Everything Must Change - Nina Simone

Currently a busy man at work, which is not good for the soul - in fact it brings on the blues

Can any of you techno guys out there tell me how long it should take to convert WMA files to the itune format. I'm doin about 15000 from my flash drive and so far it's got through 2000 in 14 hours...and slowing the old laptop up considerably. Is this normal? Should I book a holiday in the sun and come back in a fortnight and see if it's finished?

#37

Paulo - yes it's normal, and does it on install. You can temporarily kill the process if you need to but I'd suggest just letting it chunter on until it's done. It's usually fast enough.

MONDAY

Anything from the David Sylvian CD 'Everything And Nothing'

J.O'B.

Monday:

Skipping the 'All' songs that we had last week, I'm pretty thin on the ground for this. But I'm going for:

* Blues Brothers: I got everything I need (almost)

#38 Chunter! I couldn't have described it better myself. If ever a word suggested one speed only then that's it. Ever been used in a song title that would do for Wed Night?

#39 Not like you to be playin away from home RJ

Tuesday:

I'm refusing to be disqualified from this, on 2 counts: firstly, Mrs Ramius would very much like me to point out that not everyone goes near a maternity ward: all 3 of ours were homebirths (and, she insists on me telling you, waterbirths).

While I'll give you the listing of CD she put together for CabinBoy #1's birth tomorrow once I've dug it out, I'd also like to propose
* Runrig: News From Heaven
for Tuesday.

#33

If you're going for the Bragg nexus for Thurs, then you can't look past:
* Billy Bragg: To Have and To Have Not
(which is also an 'end of school' song, that's maybe regrowing into appropriateness in these times)
* Billy Bragg: A Lover Sings
(note to GiO Production Team: that's definitely not one that fits into your Bragg 'one bloke & guitar' assumptions - it's got Hammond Organ & everything)

#41

Tunes with 'chunter' in the title:

Chunter - Keller Williams, from the album Dance

I can't find it on Youtube, but check this out instead - it's a belter!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHWAzDfZr78

WEDNESDAY

'I'm A Celerity...Get Me Out Of Here Very Quickly!' - Jennifer Rush

>8-D

#45

I'm A Celeriac - Get Me Out Of Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmJCKs67M0I

#38, #41

In future, whenever I'm asked what I drive, I shall reply thus:-

"A Chunter. 2.5 Diesel."

>8-D

N.B. Glen, this is not an anagram!!

#46

A waste of ten big studs...........

Monday:

'Don't believe anything I say' - Graham Coxon
'Everything is average nowadays' - Kaiser Chiefs

DC in Cellardyke

#47

Each turn, slide E 2.5

DC

#50

Which part of not do you not understand?

>8-D

ALERT! ALERT! THEME DEVIATION!

That Roy Orbison song is titled 'You Got It'............

........and Bonnie Raitt does it better..................

#41 David Sylvian is just Bryan Ferry with flat batteries. ;-)

#51 regarding # 47

You accusin me of being Glenn?







The lucid Seer 2.5? Na

Dana's horse song:

All kinds of everything remind me of uhu

DC

#53. Well said.

Hey JFE you were right that Dana song was not as naff as I remembered - no doubt about that whatsoever.

I felt a bit nervous listening to the show tonight in case it was light on quality but needn't have worried, even Dana was worth listening to, if no quite up to the memory of it.
Also, thanks to the Team for playing my choon on my theme night.

TUESDAY

Never did mix-tapes so just did a bit of google research to find what was in the charts when my son was born in 1987. I was amazed to find it was "China in Your Hand" by T'Pau, as it it's a big favourite of my wife Cathie. Definitely worth hearing again.

New here and I'm not sure I like the sound of my posts being "reactively moderated" - sounds a bit nasty.

TUESDAY
Gonna request some Smashing Pumpkins for the maternity mix as we had loads playing at the births of our first two (as well as played to them via a walkman and headphones throughout the preceeding 9 months. 'Today' was a favourite and caused a fair bit of wriggling.

WEDNESDAY
Kiss 'Detriot Rock City', preferably the live version from 'Alive II' but the studio recording from 'Destroyer' would be fine.

THURSDAY
The Guillemots 'We're Here' always gets a play when we're off on our travels, particulalry brilliant when played loudly as we're driving through the highlands.

'57. Oh Norrie...please don't give me cause to worry about you.

No Julie it was far far worse than I recalled, presumably kept a reasonable track off air and makes me wonder what JFE's definition of naff is!! ;o)

Of course I accept that a lot of my stuff people will not like....each to their own!

#57, #61

Make your mind up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVvz7NA28CM&feature=related

:-)

#59
wildturkeyandcoke,

Welcome aboard!

You must have the constitution of a grizzly bear. The worst hangover of my life was inflicted by Wild Turkey.

#47, #51, #54

Ah gi'e in. If yer legs fa' aff, dinnae come runnin' tae me!

>8-D

#64
Hi scotch-git, thanks for the welcome- any more whisky related posters round here?

I've had my share of "badger in mouth, sledge hammer in skull, WTF did i do last night and where am i?" moments with the fire water myself but damn if it don't taste nice! Through utter lack of imagination (I've only been meaning to register here for ages so I have no excuse) I conjoured up a username based on what I was drinking at the time. I guess it could've been a lot worse.

welcome to the blog

signed

sodaandlimeforfourweeksanditsmakingmegrumpy!

welcome from me too

signed

ihavenoboozeleftinthehouseihavedrunkitall...hic!

Welcome wildturkey.

Hope your press is well stocked. You'll need a good supply to get through this blog experience. (it'd drive anyone to drink)

signed

naeboozeforafortnight!

Hi wild turkey etc, good to have you aboard

Hope you;re not a Smiths fan......

:-)

DC

Forerunner of Hot Tuna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgy6AVkZmeo

Hi WildTurkey - Welcome!

Hope you are a Bragg/Tull/Rundgren fan - if so, you can join the nexus! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Did I say that out loud?

Ah, the mix tape for the birth. We had Springsteen, Ry Cooder, Ted Hawkins plus some soul. The wife was / is a queen fan (her musical taste is a standing joke amongst friends and family, queen is not even half of it) so I compromised and put some Roachford on as she liked 'Cuddly Toy'. So having trawled throguh the memory bank I suppse the highlights would be:

Springsteen - Thunder Road
Ry Cooder - He'll have to Go
Ted Hawkins - Ain't That Pretty
Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue

#67,68,69- thanks all- some very fine examples of just hw much worse my username choice could've been :) Also, yes, well stocked as in nuclear-winter-end-of-civilisation well stocked. Should just say that's down to an imminent birthday and a generous family. Honestly, I'm not an alchoholic (although that could just be classic denial).

#70 "I hope you're not a Smith's fan"? Actually sounds like something Morrisey could have writen. BTW sorry to disappoint....

#72,73 No and yes, respectively. Actually, Bragg I can take but Tull....spent many years blocking out attempts by "friends" to convert me to Tull. Bit of a shame really as your cult of musical zealots/evil empire sounds kinda fun.

#75 etc. At this time of the morning it's teaandbanana for me, but not in the same cup!

Happy blogging..

capuccino and banana for me and now a long day of 'how to work more efficiently' (eg cut costs without saying so) to look forward to.

Hello Wildturkey.
Jeez you guys are lucky.
I've got the hangover from hell this morning and I only had one pint last night. How did that happen. Maybe I should have gone to sleep at some point. And I've got to stay awake through two meetings today, one of which I'm hosting. Haven't felt like this since I spent 24 hours at a bedside 23 years ago not allowed to nod off. Even with an epidural in her back and doped up to the eyeballs in excruciating pain, she could still muster up enough energy to scream ''Don't Sleep'' if my head moved forward as much as half an inch.

#78 I increasingly finding that my alcohol consumption and hangover bear no relation to each other. At one point I had to consume copius quantities, and / or strange concotions to get a serious hangover. Now I can do it after pint, or a glass or two of wine. Strangely I still have days where after serious drinking I am fine. Thus I try and avoid drinking on school nights, thoguh even this doesn't work as now if I do get a hangover I can feel crap for two or three days.

Thursday - school's out! - My first taste of freedom was a work experience placement at a department store in Brisbane, Australia, 1975 just before I left school.
and the song which always takes me back to that 'Big new world' feeling of being out amongst it all - 'Ding a dong' Hollands Eurovision entry for that year ! Dont ask me why, but it must have got quite a bit of airplay in far flung Australia.

Ian in Partick.

#79

Hoppo,

If I awaken after a richt guid bevvy feeling fine it's because I'm still drunk. The hangover gradually imposes itself during the course of the day. By early evening my options are extremely limited; i.e. go back to the pub or go home to bed.

>8-D

TUESDAY

Well as I am not equipped to give birth it makes Tuesday hard for me. As I am never stuck for a Roxy/Ferry reference for most themes I thought of a wee bit of word play on 'Virginia Plain'

Plain could miss out the L and become 'pain' and you can do your own wordplay on 'Virginia' for fear of the wrath of the moderator.

J.O'B.

#82

N.B. Glen, this is not an anagram!!

>8-D

#83

Correct - it's a monologue.

#80

Ian,

Welcome! Are you True Blue? Is Buckland a reference to fortified wine? Do you know Zac Savage? He's from Brisbane. Or is it Adelaide?

#76, 78
Hello
Thanks
Ouch- hosting a lie in bed with a hangover is about my limit, hope your audience were sympathetic.

#77 don't envy you, been to enough of those to know that doing away with meetings about efficiencies is probably the number one way to achieve them.

Loving all the alternative beverage based usernames which got me thinking that mine was perhaps a poor choice; not only does it imply several social and psychological issues it would appear to contravene the BBC's advertising policies. Twice! Which may make a name check/hearing a request v unlikely, which kind of defeats the purpose.

#83 Ivan grip pailing?

Baby night -

Push it, Salt and Pepa
The Drugs Don't Work, The Verve
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
Father and Son, Cat Stevens

Speed night -

The Speed of the Beat of My Heart, Horse
Ray of light, Madonna

#88 well done Kirsty I forgot about that KB song.

This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
This Woman's Work, Kate Bush

I hope they take the hint.
J.O'B.

Tuesday - Baby Night:

Well, as I can't claim any knowledge of the whole baby production thing, I shall just suggest a few nice tunes for consideration!

Newborn Lullaby - Billy Walsh
Welcome - Phil Collins
Be My Baby - Bay City Rollers
Newborn Man - The Dartts
Baby Blue - Nat King Cole
The Fidgety Bairn - Kathleen Ferrier

...or Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children - Queen Latifah with De La Soul

#87

Watch out for the peepee, DC.

WEDNESDAY
'Wall Of Death' - Richard Thompson

'Our Velocity' - Maximo Park

'Leave Them All Behind' - Ride

Or if, you feel really brave- 'Faster Bastard' - Bomb Disneyland

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There's enough on this thread alone.

It's a free world - or is it?

There is no 'licence to insult' on public forums, no.

#95 & 97, Sorry Jim, really didnt mean it as an insult. I was just responding to:

"I can't claim any knowledge of the whole baby production thing".

Must remember and put ;) at the end of my posts.

There is a great Bowie instrumental called Speed of Life from the Low album well worth a play (oddly not featuring Eno).

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Speedboat

Kim Carnes & Lyle Lovett - Speed of The Sound of Loneliness, from the labum View From The House which also has an outstanding version of Prines If You Dont Want My Love)

Snow Patrol - Velocity Girl

Norrie - I only know the John Prines version of Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness. I'll look your one out.