Next week's themes...

Tuesday:

Bruce Springsteen's first song on British soil was at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1975. "Thunder Road" remains one of my favourite tracks of all time

DC

MONDAY

When you wake up in the dark, go to work in the dark, come home after work in the dark, when this situation seems to last forever, there is only one song to play when every day feels like Groundhog Day.

'I Got You, Babe' - Sonny & Cher

I can't stand music in the morning.

#3

You prefer the smell of napalm?

TUESDAY

'Song for Jeffrey' - Jethro Tull

They'll never play this!

Following in the footsteps of Norrie and DC

Desperate times...

>8-D

First thoughts for the week ahead:

Monday

Wake up - Arcade Fire
Chin up, cheer up or Desire - Ryan Adams
Until the night - Billy Joel
Bad things - Jace Everett
Happier times - Joe Bonamassa
Holding back the night - Findlay Brown

Tuesday...thinking

Wednesday
Together in electric dreams - Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakley
Tainted love - Soft Cell
Johnny & Mary - Robert Palmer
Fanfare for the common man - ELP

Thursday - not eligible

Joe
Linlithgow

Monday

Silence

Tuesday

Virginia Plain - Roxy Music

Wednesday

Virginia Plain - Roxy Music

Thursday

Silence

#7

Hello darkness my old friend....

Van Halen after David Lee Roth walked away in his sensible shoes.

I saw Fleetwood Mac in 1970. They were never the same after Jeremy Spencer left.

Surely no one is too sacred to get in touch?

Well they will not play it etc. etc. but an absolute classic has to be:

Suicide - Dream Baby Dream

#11

How was the gig?

Glen - thanks for asking absolutely superb. Cannot complain in the slightest, great set 100% effort and got pretty clsoe to the band. Very happy.

Wednesday:

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene part IV

or....

Chariots of Fire - Vangelis (I still whistle this any time I walk along the West Sands at St Andrews...!!)

I'd prefer JMJ though

DC

#13, so how was Ms Nicks? Horseshoe Bar to her liking?

;-)

DC

Monday Alarm Calls

Plutonium. That's the name of the tune on my phone alarm apparently.
If I was cheatin it would be nice to wake up to
Al Jarreau's Mornin

Tuesday Debut Singles

Every Kinda people / Robert Palmer
Keep Yourselves Alive / Queen
Ballpark Incident / Wizzard
You send Me / Sam Cooke
Cannonball / Damien Rice
My Declaration / Tom Baxter
Blinded by the light / Bruce Springsteen
Longview / Green day

Wed Synth
Take a moog, a clavinet and come up with a song it's just impossible to stay still to

Superstition / Stevie wonder

Thu
Washing my hair

#13
Did she do gypsy and Sara the finest fleetwood mac (part two) songs on the planet.

#13

I've grown to appreciate Lindsay Buckingham's understated style. I used to think it was a bit spare.

#15

Did you treat her to a pie and beans?

#16

From the drum intro to the brass fade-out, the arrangement on Superstition is near-perfect and the clavinet's almost a percussion instrument.

whose picture is this?
I like it.

#15

More to the point, did she win the karaoke competition?

>8-D

It really was a greatest hits set. Included Gypsy, Sara, Rhiannon, Second Hands News, Tusk, Dreams, Big Love, Oh Well etc etc. Stevie enjoyed her pint but said she will pass on the pie next time.

#18
I remember watching one of these 50 greatest something or others on tv presented by Isaac Hayes where it was claimed that when Stevie Wonder was introduced to the clavinet he said 'ok leave it with me and I'll see what i can do'' and a fortnight later had written Superstition.

Just hope it's not disqualified for having a lot more than the synths on it. Also hope we get warning when the Pet Shop Boys are gettin played so I can go and do something useful :-)

Why is superstition so hard to play
https://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/stevie-wonders-superstition-clavinet-parts-revealed/

Wednesday is a dream theme for the Zappa fans.

Cannae wait...

>8-D

Oh dear, if ever there was a theme made for me, it's Synths...

Hope it's going to go a long way beyond just plain pop...

Long list of artistes follows, to be short-leeted later in the week:

* Beatles
* ELP
* Kraftwerk
* Jean Michel Jarre (please, not Oxygene *again* - something from Concerts in China)
* Joy Division/New Order
* Human League (wonder if we'll get something from The League Unlimited Orchestra..?)
* Thomas Dolby
* Eurythmics
* Ultravox/Visage
* Bronski Beat
* ABC
* OMD
* Thompson Twins
* Howard Jones
* Depeche Mode/Yazoo/Erasure
* Depeche Mode (post Vince Clarke)
* Japan
* Nik Kershaw
* Frankie Goes to Hollywood (and Trevor Horn's Fairlight)
* Art of Noise (and Trevor Horn's Fairlight)

...and that's even avoiding the one(ish)-hit wonders like King, Alphaville, Paul Hardcastle, Heaven 17, Lotus Eaters...

A big shout out to the Prophet 5 btw, in amongst yer Rolands, Yamahas and Korgs.

Wondering if we can get Bill Bailey's Das Hokey-Kokey played..?

A big shout to a machine! I can see this being as a exciting as norriemaclean list of mathematical formula.

#25

I can see your point when we're moving onto digital synths, and the tinkly cool sound of additive synthesis (per the Yamaha DX series).

But there's something very different about the old analogue ones, with *real* knobs and sliders that controlled *real* oscillators, filters and amplifiers. That you could build yourself with a soldering iron. With their organic sounds.

The ARP, the Moog...

(Alright, I'll give you that Sequential's products such as the Prophet 5 were microprocessor controlled, so not really in this vein. But it felt like they were)

Fairlight trivium btw: part of the reason for Martin Hannett's departure from Factory was because Factory wouldn't spring for a Fairlight like the one Trevor Horn had. A couple of months later, Relax was released...

#26, you forgot the Stylophone.....

Long list above stupidly missed out:

* Genesis
* Peter Gabriel
* Vangelis
* Tangerine Dream
* Toto
* Enya
* Tomita
* Laurie Anderson
* Tears for Fears
* Brian Eno
* Walter/Wendy Carlos
* Rick Wakeman
* Jeff Wayne
* Pink Floyd (on Wish You Were Here in particular)
* Herbie Hancock
* Stevie Wonder

And I wonder whether My Perfect Cousin will get a related nod...

You forgot Suicide, Bowie, Pete Townsend, Giorgio Moroder, YMO.......

#26

Alright ...hands up who got to the end of this post....i made it to line 4 :0)

#28

WOOHOO! Somebody else that rates Tomita! :-)

For Wed...

Ultravox (with John Foxx) ..... Slow Motion..... i Wonder what Mr Numan was listening to in 1978?

https://www.last.fm/music/Ultravox/Systems+Of+Romance/Slow+Motion

#21

I saw Fleetwood Mac's picture in the paper and thought the interviews for Santas had started early.

Facts about synthesisers

The word comes from the Latin syn meaning bad and thesis meaning idea.

They sound sterile or, at best, almost like a musical instrument (see Wilfred/Wilma Carlos).

The players don't move much - apart from those spangly people with inflated Melodicas.

They are generally played by people with the all the charisma of an ironing board (when did you last hear a joke from Vangelis?)

They don't require much skill and can play themselves, often sounding better.

There are no synthesists with the musicianship of Nicky Hopkins or Steve Nieve or the energy and excitement of Jerry Lee Lewis or Little Richard

They are popular with Germans.

Laods of vangelis joeks on the inretent

Dylesixa rlues KO btw

Monday:

found this whole concept a wee bit difficult because what gets me out of bed is an alarm clock, which either rings or (if you have a modern version) beeps.

I suppose if I knew how to set my clock to play music I'd prefer to be woken up by the Moody Blues "New Horizons".

Please show me how...

DC

Any of you youngsters know what's going on here?

I don't get it.

Yes, we do. :-)

#27

I deduce that DC will be requesting 'Space Oddity' on Wednesday.

Pure elementary, btw

>8-D

#38

Jim,

I was addressing the kiddywinks. Dinnae forget, your age is in the public domain.

>8-D

#25

Do you mean formulae?

I'm bored and pedantic. An unhealthy combination.

>8-D

#41

Spot the deliberate mistake.

Mon. I agree with glenmiller at #3

Tues. Don't get confused. LADY ELEANOR was the first hit. The first single was
CLEAR WHITE LIGHT - Lindisfarne

Wed. Rolf Harris plays an Australian didgeridoo. Kate Bush plays an Australian Fairlight CMI
THE DREAMING - Kate Bush

#39

Take your protein pills and put yer helmet on....

Difficult themes this week
Monday; difficult because I don't like gettin up to any music in winter particularly, unless... maybe a motown-y Christmas song, maybe
Springsteen - Santa Claus is Comin to Town - or similar

Tuesday; difficult because often the songs that made an impact on me were a bands 2nd or 3rd single, eg Police's Roxanne or Coldplay's Yellow. Managed to think of some that made my "ears open my eyes" though
Stray Cats - Runaway Boys
Madness - The Prince
The Jam - In The City
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
The Smiths - Hand in Glove
Pogue Mahone (the Pogues) - Dark Streets of London
The Cult - Spiritwalker
Rage Against the Machine - Killing In The Name Of

Wednesday; difficult to know what NOT to ask for
Depeche Mode - Just Cant Get Enough, New Life, Enjoy the Silence
China Crisis - Wishful Thinking
O M D - Joan of Arc, Talking Loud and Clear, Souvenir
Visage - Fade to Grey
Furniture - Brilliant Mind
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric
New Order - Regret
Groove Armada - Purple Haze (not a Hendrix cover)

Thursday; difficult because I cannae join in :(

#44

Take the pills, but leave the capsule.









If you dare!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juD3nWpUunU

#34
"Facts about synthesisers

The word comes from the Latin syn meaning bad and thesis meaning idea."


I am not sure about that, I always thought it was the use of the word synthetic to make synthetic sounds.

J.O'B.
(Just back from most of October in sunnier climates)

#48
Welcome back RJ. Like DC disappearing when they played Floyd, what an october you've missed so far. Roxy must have been played about 18 times. One night we even had roxy music Phil Manzanera and Bryan ferry all played. In fact we thought you'd joined the production team. i'm sure it was in the first week for which the playlists are no longer available :-)

#34

I admit making that up - but I did pick Roxy Music.

Are you going for Eno's Music For Airports?

#50 good on you for VP.

I will go for Roxy's 'South Downs' the b-side to Oh Yeah. It is a 5 minute atmospheric synth piece by Ferry. The track is so weird that when they put it on a box set called The Thrill Of It All, they laced the master tape on backwards and no one noticed. (until the fans heard it after it was released)

Trash 2 is a good synth track (B-side to Trash)

Simple Minds 'Theme For Great Cities', another cracker too

J.O'B.

P.S. what Manzanera track was played and what was the theme.

Synth tracks

David Sylvian - - Bamboo Music
Japan - - Cantonese Boy
Japan - - Ghosts

Inverurie Locos 2, Stranraer 1

Hoppo will be fu' the nicht!

>8-D

Inverurie's doin' a brand new dance now
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
I know you'll get to like it
If you give it a chance now
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
The boys ower at Gierie can do it with ease
It's easier than learning oor DC's
So Inverurie, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me

You gotta swing your hips now
Come on Garioch, jump up, hmmm lets get foo
Caws it's Stranraer one an us lot two..

Now that you can do it
Let's make a chain now
(C'mon gierie do the loco-motion)
Chug-a chug-a motion like a railway train now
(C'mon gierie do the loco-motion)
Do it nice and easy now don't lose control
A little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul
So come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me
You gotta swing your hips now
Come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me

(apologies to little eva..)

#48 you should kain better than listen to Glen......

Hope you enjoyed your holiday & that the weather was as kind to you as it was to me.

Welcome back

DC

#51

Virginia Plain is one one of only half a dozen or so singles I have bought, believing them to offer poor value for money compared with LPs.

And talking of value, I bought the re-mastered Please Please Me today for the stereo mixes. Be warned that some fool threw out the master tapes of Love Me Do and PS I Love You. I remember hearing Love Me Do in stereo on a BBC test broadcast when they put one channel through TV and one through Radio. It never caught on.

A wee prezzy fae the Boss. (Jeff, that is).

For the benefit of our bloggers who reside outwith the U.K.

When I get up in the morning I always play

David Gilmour - Breathe, from Live In Gdansk

just to remind me

#51
Was only kidding. But Floyd was played when DC was on holiday.

MONDAY

When I wake up

In the morning light

I leave my jeans

On the chair

Roll over, and

Pull the duvet ower mah heid.









If you MUST play David Dundas again at least namecheck Paolo.

Gotta 'ave a larf, ain'tcha!

>8-D

Woke up this morning
Got yourself a gun - Alabama 3

Woke up this morning
My dog was dead
Someone disliked him
And shot him through the head - Nazareth

You know I woke up in the mornin', now, I had them Statesboro Blues
I woke up this morning now, I had them Statesboro Blues
I looked over in the corner, grandma and grandpa had 'em too - Taj Mahal

I woke up this morning, just before the break of day
I woke up this morning, just before the break of day
I looked at the pillow where my good girl used to lay - Fleetwood Mac

Woke up this morning
Had a shave
Did the Times crossword
Had another shave - Roger McGough

"Woke up this mornin' - that was my first mistake." (Billy Connolly)

Can I request the Breakfast Blues please?

You give me hard eggs in the morning. Cheese omelet you go.
You give me such hard eggs in the morning. Cheese omelet you go.
You hot butter grit your teeth and bare it. I donut love you anymore.
(Get that glazed look off'a your face).

Ham bacon you to leave me. I never sausage misery.
Ham bacon you to leave me. I never sausage misery.
You treated me so ungrapefruitly. You gave me raisin to be free.
(Orange juice ashamed of yourself?)

What do you eggs benedict me to do girl? I got muffin left to say
(You butter come up with somethin'.)
What do you eggs benedict me to do girl? I got muffin left to say.
You left such a waffle toast in my mouth. You biscuit out of town today.
(Ain't gonna leave the home fries burning for ya.)

[Repeat the first verse changing the last line:]
"Ain't gonna quiche you anymore"

#63

Was that stolen from Rich Hall?

>8-D

'Woke up this afternoon'

from the classic 'Alarm Clock Blues'

#60
When I wake up in the morning light
i think to myself what day is it, come on Paul what day is it,
do I need to get up, goddamnit why can't I remember what day it is.....

#64 made it up myself

0:-I







OK, I lied....

https://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Breakfast_Blues.htm

DC

#63

Interesting! It reminds me of this.

>8-D

Monday Wake Ups

68 Guns - The Alarm

What wakens me every week day is the alarm clock. At weekends it is Scooby Doo, Phineas & Ferb etc or the dulcet tones of my 2 wonderful children LOL. But how about this? The Beatles Good Day Sunshine, used as the wake up call on a NASA space mission :-)

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/releases/J05-057.html

Actually there were hunners of songs used on the space missions, ranging from "City of New Orleans" (for its line "Good Morning America, how are you") to "Scotland the Brave (because a Scot was on board the shuttle).

https://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf

Good shout though!

DC

Alarming Monday:

I was going to go for the early Bill Bailey short blues number:
Weeellll, I didn't wake up this morning [FIN]

or Fat and Frantic's Blues (Back to Sleep) cos no self-respecting blues guy actually wakes up in the morning.

While a student, I had This Mortal Coil's Filigree and Shadow as my wakeup music - waking up to Velvet Belly segueing into The Jeweller is a particularly mellow way to start the day.

Current alarm clock is provided by the dulcet tones of Mr Stephen Fry.

Monday - Wake Up Tunes:

I'm using some new software on my phone to use tunes from the old poddy as the alarm sound rather than the cursed built-in sounds - this is my actual playlist!

Busy Doin' Nothin' - The Beach Boys (no it's NOT the song you think!)
Cool In The Pool - Holger Czukay
8 Miles High - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin
Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes
Lovely Day - Bill Withers
Valerie - Steve Winwood
Ocean Drive - Lighthouse Family
We Got The Beat - The Go-Go's

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Here! Maybe we should have Space as a theme.

#74

Can we have Stars Across the Moon for it?

Clouds Across The Moon, actually.

Mazzy

Monday -

Here Comes the Summer by The Undertones

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Plunged to new depths....

Uptown top ranking??????

(oooooh!)

DC

#78

Explain.

Bring me the moderation of Alfredo Garcia!

Tuesday - Debut Singles:
Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd
My Sharona - The Knack (awesome single cover photy!)
Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols
Sexy Boy - Air
Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman
Psycho KIller - Talking Heads
Rock Lobster - The B-52's
Have I The Right? - The Honeycombs
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
A Horse With No Name - America

#82

BRING ME THE TALKING HEADS OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

BRING ME THE TALKING HEADS OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

>8-D

#80 (Muttley) Shehehehehe....

Tuesday:

One of the most important singles must be:

Elvis Presley - That's Allright Mama

would love to hear that.

Most of the singles that I really loved were not a debut single but I remeber really loving

The Jags - Back of My Hand

Toyah - Victims of the Riddle

The Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing

and

Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked

when they came out.

As an aside and I am not requesting this - but the first debut single to chart at no 1 was Vanilla Ice, please do no play it.

There is only be one contender for best debut single. A Whiter Shade of Pale.

#96

I think I've got pirate flu.

#97

After the show's finished, probably - with a cup of tea.

#98

The Completion Backward Principle

All you need is:
Bryan Ferry, Peter Gabriel, Sharon Corr, Cara Dillon, Midge Ure, Brian May, Bill Wyman, Paloma Faith, Hayley Westenra, Clare Teal, Cara Dillon, Bailey Tzuke, Beth Rowley, Heather Small, Nick Mason.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBsXOKvi3Ss

Tuesday: Debut Singles

Surely the hallmark of a great debut single is the one you hear for the first time and you think 'this artist is going to be BIG... and then years later, you still very much associate the artist with that single'...
so on that basis, a few suggestions:

Dignity: Deacon Blue
Hey Joe: Jimi Hendrix
New England: Billy Bragg
Gangsters: The Specials
Fast Car: Tracy Chapman
Marlene On The Wall: Suzanne Vega
Green Onions: Booker T and the MGs
Sultans of Swing: Dire Straits

#86 also contender for the best spoonerism...

DC

A wee thought for a theme:

'Over-shadowed singles"

You know the singles off an album that where over-shadowed by the more famous hit that gets played all the time. Usually the second or third single release from an album that doesn't sell as well because the first single was released before the album.

Roxy Music's 'Both Ends Burning' get forgotton about due to it more famous sibling 'Love Is The Drug' both from the 'Siren' album.

Good idea for a theme?
J.O'B.

Sorry to be pedantic but Physco Killer was about the 3rd single for Talking Heads.

good idea RJ and also the album onlyt track woulds be a great theme. I am aslo still promo9ting my suggestion of b side theme and 2:59 as a theme!

TUESDAY (Debut Singles):

E.L.O - '10538 Overture'
Human League - 'Being Boiled'
Pluto Shervington - 'Dat'

#87

You okay, Glen?

You're looking a bit peelie-wally.

DRAT, DRAT and DOUBLE DRAT!

Julie has scuppered my cunning plan...

>8-D

#94

Did they release it twice?

>8-D

#92

Explain.