Next week's themes...

Good looking themes for next week, I'd start with "I read the news today oh boy...."

A Day In The Life - The Beatles

News of The World - The Jam

Great themes this coming week again.

A shameless bump for Frank who is growing a moustache for prostate cancer charity and I am sure that any donation would be gratefully received and appreciated.... you can catch up with his progress and make donations here...

https://uk.movember.com/mospace/304184

"RAF bombs northern Italy. Bookings for Lake Garda plummet"

Monday:

* The Slits - Heard it through the grapevine
(too soon since last time?)

By the way, this new BBC ID thing is *awful* not least because the declared password rules (6chars or more) are clearly not correct. Trying to reset my password, I had to use 8 chars, 2 non-alphanumeric.

Wed:

I think the more appropriate way to commemorate the dead and injured of past wars would be to not start new ones, particularly on false premises. And the next time you see a politician wearing a poppy with pride, stirring up the anger to tell them that if support for veterans meant anything, the Haig Fund would be unnecessary.

To that end, here's my 11th November playlist:
* The Human League - The Lebanon
* Edwinn Starr - War
* Donovan - Universal Soldier
* The Buoys - Give Up Your Guns
* U2 - Peace on Earth
* The Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
* Malinky - Jimmy Waddell: The Battle Of The Somme
* Billy Bragg - Like Soldiers Do
* June Tabor - Happed in Mist
and most of all
* Judy Small - Mothers Daughters Wives

BRING ME THE HEAD OF MEDIA STUDIES!

MONDAY

'Mister DJ' - Charlie Daniels Band



SPARE US THE BUGGLES!

>8-D

Monday Media:

* Selecter - On My Radio
* The Beatles - A Day in the Life

Monday:

Radio:

Jesse Mallin - Broken Radio, featuring the Boss but it is a great track.

Van The Mans classic - In The Days Before Rock n Roll (Luxembourg, Luxembourg,Athlone, Budapest, AFN,Hilversum, Helvetia - come in!)

TV:

TVC 15 - Bowie

Papers

Magazine - Song From Under The Floorboards
The Jam - News of The World

Internet:

The Who - Endless Wire

"Hall and Oates kick off their first UK tour"

#7

On a more serious note, let's find these premises and close them down.

#6
My password has only six characters. But I agree that the changes are an unnecessary nuisance. I intend to post my requests daily instead of weekly. The gentleman in Rio has a point, I think.

Mon. GIMME BACK MY BULLETS - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Ronnie's response to journalists quoting his comments out of context.

Tuesday should be funny. If Bryan does not recognise my request I shall be livid. I'm tempted to e-mail the answer to him just in case.

More Monday Media

* Runrig - Hearthammer
Extended reference to Radio Caroline & other early stations

Hey Bryan, how's the eye? hope you're going to complain to the council!!

#14 - Well, I have been known as "The True Voice of Reason" on these pages, CM. And thanks for the "gentleman" tag btw, its been a while.



Is that Leonard Rossiter in the background talking to the sojer?

#17, think there must be a case of mistaken identity.

Re the fotie, I thought the youngsters looked like Wussell Bwand & Jonathan Woss

DC

Monday:

Advertsing Space - Robbie Williams (his finest song and video)

Tuesday:

"Where are you all coming from?"

Adam - Monday. That suggestion will not be equalled. Brilliant.

Wednesday:

Birthday - The Beatles

:-)

DC

Monday:

Fat Old Sun - David Gilmour from his Live in Gdansk album

(If I ask often enough, maybe it'll be played!)

DC

#17

That's no soldier - that's Boris Becker in his Thunderbirds suit.

TUESDAY

"The Devil went down to Georgia, he was looking for a soul to steal..."

"Why'd you come in here lookin' like that?"

"Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys..."

"Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene..."

"There's a yellow rose in Texas, I'm going there to see..."

"Country roads, take me home..."

"Crazy, crazy for feeling so lonely..."

"Sylvia's Mother says, Sylvia's busy, too busy to come to the phone..."

"Oh, the crystal chandeiers light up the paintings on your wall..."

"It's four in the morning..."

"If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?"

"Are you lonesome tonight?"

"When you're in love with a beautiful woman, it's hard......."

"San Quentin..."

"Desperado..."

"Nashville cats..."

"Get your buisquits in the oven and your buns in the bed..."

"Dang me, dang me..."

"Don't let the stars get in your eyes..."

"It's now or never..."

"By the time I get to Phoenix..."









Keep it Country!

#9, but Scotch, I love a bit of Buggles ;-)

Monday
Television - Marquee Moon

Tuesday
"let me take you to the place where membership's a smiling face"

happy weekend everyone
mazzy

Re Monday: Two songs (maybe more?) mention my country's foremost newspaper, The New York Times: "Overs" by Simon and Garfunkel and "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees.

Re Thursday:
Get Up Stand Up, Bob Marley
Get On The Good Foot, James Brown
Enjoy Yourself, Specials
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Ian Dury
Think, Aretha Franklin
Tie Me at the Crossroads, Bruce Cockburn

Tuesday could have

"mama, just killed a man"

Wednesday, "thank you for the days by Kirsty McColl." Without the sacrifice of previous generations, would our lives have been so "cushy?"

#20 thanks Norrie, but it is a repeat. As is the theme.

#24 SG, I doot your at home on a Friday night with your K-Tel Country`s Greatest Hits. Not that I`m criticising or anything..its a no bad album.

#25 Mazzy your back!! so I dedicate,

`You talk like Marlene Dietrich and you dance like Zizi Jeanmaire`

to you for Tuesday.

Tuesday (has to be a list day I think):

Ground control to Major Tom

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair

I remember when the rock was young

Start spreadin the news, I’m leavin today

Place your sweet lips a little closer to the phone

I am not in love, but open to persuasion

When the night has come and the land is dark

An old cowboy went ridin out one dark an windy day

Out on the wild and windy moor

Well I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head didn’t hurt

There’s a lady that’s sure all that glitters is gold

Holly came from Miami FLA, hitch hiked her way cross the USA

There she was – justa walkin down the street

Oh I could hide ‘neath the wings of the bluebird as she sings

The road is long, with many a winding turn

Hello darkness my old friend

We don’t need no education…

Young teacher, the subject of schoolgirl fantasy

Well you wouldn’t read my letters if I wrote them and you asked me not to call you on the phone

Take a look at my girlfriend, she’s the only one I got

The light shines down the valley and the wind blows up the alley

As I was goin over the Cork and Kerry mountains

Call out the instigators

Out here in the fields I fought for my meals I put my back into my living





But, if I have to choose just one:

Yes I know the city like a lover…


Best theme in ages

DC in Cellardyke

Aye DC despite the fact I think this may be a variation on a previous theme .....it would have been good of you an the thigh slapping hat wearing country bumpkin to leave a couple.........

Scotch, did you hear what he called you?

Well Norrie, lists normally spoil the fun for me so I thought I'd get in with all the best ones first this week

(Cue muttley type "Shehehehehe" in the background.....)

:-)

DC

Scotch would take it as a compliment....

And you forgot a few...especially

Screen door slams, Marys dress waves, like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays (which also has the best closing line bar none)

Initial thoughts for the week ahead

Monday - the media

Radio Nowhere - Springsteen
The story - Brandi carlile
Sun, moon and stars - Nanci Griffiths
Writing to reach you - Travis


Tuesday - instantly recognisable opening lines of songs (brilliant theme).

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk

All this talk of getting old it's getting me down my love

Well she seemed all right by dawn's early light

There you go and baby here am I

Well papa go to bed now it's getting late

L.A.'s fine, the sun shines most the time

Well my name's John Lee Pettimore

hey girl whatcha doin down there

Well, I shuffled through the city on the 4th of July

There may be trouble ahead

Loving you isn't the right thing to do

Last night, I said goodbye, now it seems years


Wednesday - Remembering and giving thanks

Bang the drum slowly - Emmylou Harris


Thursday- bossy Thursday

Call me - Blondie
Hurry on now - Alice Russell
If you see her say hello - Dylan
Walk on by - Dionne Warwick
Bring em home - Springsteen
tell me ther's a heaven - Chris Rea
Don't stop - Fleetwood Mac
Say something - Haven

Have a good weekend

Joe
Linlithgow

Tuesday - First Lines:
"No-one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century..."
"I'm a sky scraper wean, I live on the ninteenth flair..."
"Here is the clock..."
"Over the hills and far away..."
"There was a young man from Venus..."
"I..."

"Out on the wiley, windy moors we'd roll and fall in green..."
"It's a little bit funny..."
"Giant steps are what you take..."
"On a dark desert highway..." (backing up DC)
"Hi there! I'm on my way, I'm making it!"
"Lend me your ear while I call you a fool..."
"I like to move it move it..."
"If you don't know me by now..."
"Watchin every motion in my foolish lover's game..."
"I must have dreamed a thousand dreams, been haunted by a million screams..."
"Spring was never waiting for us, girl - it ran one step ahead..."

Monday - The Media:
Mr Reporter - The Kinks
Empty Sky - Bruce Springsteen
Emotional Weather Report - Tom Waits
Edit - Regina Spektor
Media Man - Flash And The Pan
Advertising Space - Robbie Williams (backing up Adam - yes it's a repeat!)
The Sun Always Shines On T.V. - A-Ha
Radio, Radio - Elvis Costello
Transmission - Japan
Here Is The News - ELO
The Scoop - Beastie Boys
Headlines - Spice Girls
Court Report - Little Man Tate
Newspaper - Free
Tabloid Lover - Razorlight
Springtime For Hitler - The Producers ;-)

Telt ye it was a theme for lists...

I left the Boss to you, Norrie. So many to choose from

(fades with "In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway american dream")

DC

Thanks DC....

I get up in the evening, and I aint got nothing to say

My little sisters in the back street with an ice cream cone

You make up your mind, you choose the chance you take

Lights out tonight, trouble in the heartland

Not Boss:

"Its four in the morning, the end of December"

"I took time out to write to my old friend, I walked across that burning bridge"

" Do you remeber a guy thats been, In such an early song"

"They pulled in just behind the bridge, He lays her down, he frowns"

Mon

TV Is King - The Tubes
The Daily Planet - Love
Mohammed's Radio - Warren Zevon

Tue

I hear the music daylight disc
You tell lies thinking I can't see.
I'm a monster, got a revved up teenage head
Grandpa's missed his pants again. He don't give a damn.
Well I went home with the waitress - the way I always do.
His tail lights flickered as he pulled up to the truck stop.
Women think I'm tasty but they're always trying to waste me.
Your multilingual business friend has packed her bags and fled.
Oh how is it that I can come out to here and be still floating?
When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and it's Easter time too

Wed

The Grave - Don McLean

Thur

Don't - Elvis
Don't Bring Me Down - Pretty Things

#25

Maria,

Was that a euphonium?

>8-d


#28

Adam,

Bryan said "Don't send me the title or the artist; just send me the opening line."

I was just making a point.


#31

DC,

I take it as a compliment!

TUESDAY

At first I was afraid; I was petrified!

#19

Adam,

Tuesday's request is hilarious. I'm still grinning!

#43

Not if it's the Barron Knights version they play... LOL

"...we're from Dartmoor, we're on the run"

#44

"Let the record show that at 03:20am on 07 Nov 2009, JimFraeErskine fell intae Bryan's cunning trap."

Right guys, who had Jim in the sweep?

>8-D

Tuesday First Lines:

* I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham
* I was twenty one years when I wrote this song
* We come from the land of the ice and snow
* Naughty boys in nasty schools headmasters breaking all the rules
* We move like caged tigers, oh it couldn't get closer than this
* Well I've got a cousin called Kevin
* Good Morning Miss, Can I help you Sir?
* We used to say that come the day we'd all be making plans
* Well it's awfully considerate of you to think of me here
* Is it worth it? A new winter coat and shoes for the wife?
* Set me free, why don't you babe
* Two cigarettes in an ashtray
* A police car and a screaming siren
* I was totin' my pack along the long dusty Winnemucca road
* My heart is low my heart is so low
* I used to buy my chips from an oppressive chipshop regime
* I don't care if Monday's blue, Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too
* When the routine bites hard and ambitions are low
* It's a god-awful small affair to the girl with the mousey hair
* You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you
* It was Christmas Eve again in the drunktank
* The rain came down on a cold new town as he carried you away
* So you think you can tell heaven from hell
* Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
* It was the 3rd of September that day I will always remember
* There are places I remember all my life though some have changed

Couple more 1st lines:

* The Salvation Army Band played and all the children drank lemonade
* I came upon a child of God, he was walking along the road

If this is a lists competition, I have another 8500 on my ayechoons I haven't used yet.....

These could include such weird first lines as:

Hey Jude
Give a little bit
Supet Trouper

Just a wee thought (I'm sure Glen will be able to do this), what about an attempt to write a paragraph based on first lines? Perhaps when I get time tonight..


:-)

DC

#48 - You clearly have plenty of it, DC.




)

Think Tuesday's theme is really inspired. Have to say that some of the earlier postings aren't recognisable after minutes, let alone seconds. Probably down to me. Hope mine are a bit more obvious

Well it's one for the money
A boy is born in hard time Mississipi
Giant steps are what you take
My heart was broken
Well I don't know why I came here tonight
LA proved to much for the man
Oh it's funny to be seeing you after so long girl
Don't go changing to try and please me
Goodbye Norma Jean
Ever since I was a young boy I played the silver ball
I saw the light on the night I passed by her window
As I was goin' over the Cork and Kerry mountains


Jim

Monday a theme we last did about 5 minutes ago

In the days before rock and roll / Van Morrisson
(backing up Norrie)

Tues
i saw a werewolf with a chinese menu in his hand walking through the streets of soho in the rain.

Sirens are screaming and the fires are howling down in the valley tonight






By the way, am I the only person on the planet that thinks that this years best selling single by the nations darling is utter mince!

I struggled with a lot of Joe-k-brown's ones, but on googling, they're not songs I really know anyway.

Got most of the others - one of JFE's I was going to put in as a matter of form, but listening to the track, I realised I knew the intro really well, but not the 1st line.

Yeah, Jim, *that* one ;-)

One more for Tues:
* Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall?

#49 wrong AfR, making lists is easy. Just go tae ayechoons an run through any playlist. The computer does the work for you. As you weel kain, I normally don't do lists, preferring to have a good think about things myself before selecting my favourite.

Now THAT takes a lot more time and effort

:-)

DC

PS I would have used italics or bold lettering to stress the word "that", but I haven't the knowledge, time nor inclination to do so. Now you have a nice day

#52

Hehehe...

#45

"How did you work out your route?"

#55

"....you'll know it when they hit you 'cos they hurt a little bit."



"What were you in Dartmoor for?"

TUESDAY

"Don't look so sad; I know it's over..."

#56

"We borrowed a safe from the bank next door"

Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake.

4-Aminobiphenyl, hexachlorobenzene dimethyl sulphate, chloromethyl methylether 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin, carbon disulphide

Now join in on the chorus.

I once wrote a song called sulphosuccinatedundicyclenicmonoalcololomide.

#61

Yes, it's always difficult to get a rhyme for 'ride'

#62

Yes, it was with some pride.

We praise the colorectal surgeon, misunderstood and much maligned

A graayyytt song (bet it's not played)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlCLHf76q_w

DC

#64

A favourite of Buckydharma. As Kinky Friedman says unless you're the lead dog the view never really changes. It makes dentistry seem attractive. Cue Ring of Fire sequence.

MON.
The Radio Is Broken - Frank Zappa.

Tues.
I have this feeling that my luck is none too good.
Have you seen my baby?,on the avenue.
Back when I was goin' to school,I never learned a thing.
I want to live alone in the desert.
Well, I wanna shake that thing wit'cha all night long.
I sailed an Ocean,unsettled Ocean.
Mistress said I love you Chris.

WED.
Panzer Division Destroyed - Budgie.

Thurs.
Shake Your Moneymaker - Fleetwood Mac.

#66

And your smile is a thin disguise

#67

I thought by now you'd realise!

Leg it, I've been spotted.

67+68
He wonders how it ever got this crazy.

#64

Bet they don't play this one either:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFKaXq7zpqQ

Even more for Tues:

*There she stood in the street, smiling from her head to her feet
*When I wake up early in the morning
*There must be some way outta here said the joker to the thief
*I am the God of Hellfire and I bring you...
(hang on, we've done that one)

Tues

If you're mem'ry serves you well
Desmond has a barrow in the market place
Look out the left the Captain said
Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream
There once was a woman, a strange kind of woman
She's got a smile that it seems to me
One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small
I will fly a yellow paper sun in your sky
When I was a little girl I had a ragdoll
When you're weary
You need coolin, baby, I'm not foolin
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
Baby, Baby, Baby
We all came out to Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline
Queen of light took her bow and then she turned to go

Those of you intent on setting off still more fireworks this weekend, take heed:

https://www.weebls-stuff.com/catface/Cat+Face+17

TUESDAY

"I love a good bum on a woman, it makes my day.
To me it is palpable proof of God's existence, a posteriori."

Good list SpaceTrucker!

TUESDAY

"I had nothing to do on this hot afternoon..."

Tues.
In the Morelos mountains campesinos are planting their fields.

Owsley and Charlie, twins of the trade,come to the Poet's Room

TUESDAY

"Oh, rollin' and tumblin' ain't done me no harm..."

#79
Amoeba records it all.

Tue

Here I go (higher, higher) here I go (higher, higher) here I go, go, go, go, go

More recognisable suggestions for Tuesday:

In Napoli where love is king
I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
People try to put us d-down
She's got a smile that it seems to me
There is a house in New Orleans
What's the sense in sharing, this one and only life
Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said

Joe
Linlithgow

Tue

She loves you, yeah yeah yeah

Busted flat and Baton Rouge, headin for the trains,
Feelin nearly faded as my jeans......

#73
Yes, good list :-) And in response to one of them:
* There was a boy, a strange enchanted boy

#83
That's how rumours about producers start, y'know ;-)

#86 The Leonard Nimoy version!!!

We had a lot of luck on Venus

Police and thieves in the streets

#85

This is a cunning trap. You are waiting for some fool to mention the deliberate mistake. Well, it'll no' be me!












no' again...

Don't follow the arrows on your suit... Ground control will do nicely.

#51 chers paolo but we both know.....

best selling single is indeed mince, but I would not have been so charitable

DC have we ever done the sea as a theme?

Don't know if we have Norrie. Are you wanting me to add this to the themes meeting this week? Theme suggestions always welcome.

#86 - CaptR - good one, although of course I just like the song.

Joe
Linlithgow

Hi ProducerBabs well if it has not been done could be a good theme? Add it to the meeting please!

Land, then air, the sea?

#51, #92

You can still buy singles?



#93

DC is not the Messiah! He's a very nautical boy!! (buoy?)

He once thought he was, but an attempted walk in Cellardyke harbour convinced him otherwise.

>8-D

Tuesday's 'premise' seems suspect. Given the strong clue in the opening line - "It's been a hard day's night" - only 89% can identify the song.

The other 11% obviously do not find this 'instantly recognisable,' mistaking it perhaps for Ken Dodd's "Tears" or an extract from Carmina Burana.