Fun on Friday...

Songs we have requested but still wait for?

Songs about cold?

just so it doesn't look like we don't want to use a golden opportunity for suggestions, here's a couple more
Scotch says I suggested

tea and biscuits
(I think it my idea of a wild celebration over Gong being played - no I don't get out much) and I think possibly I'm about to disown it and go for

Frenzied Friday

Heaven only knows how many times we've asked for, as DC says,
requested but never played songs, (which makes it in a circular sort of way a theme that has been oft requested but never used)
but I do think Capt Ramius's is a great idea

Adam is in transit but I'm sure he said something about Space

#2

Songs to keep us warm:

Hot Chocolate
Canned Heat
The Heat Is On
Hot Love
Hot Stuff
Hotlegs
Hothouse Flowers......

Brass in pocket......

Warm Love.......for the Captain's theme idea!

Unwanted gifts?

We,ve all got some cold weather now, so how about we alternate cold songs with hot songs to remind us summer will come along. E.g. Snowbound - Ozark mountain daredevils then Stevie Wonder's You are the sunshine of my life then Cold wind - Arcade fire followed by Sunny afternoon - The kinks then Funk in the deep freeze - Chet baker and Sun it rises - Fleet foxes etc etc

It was all going so well until you mentioned the Fleet Foxes.

ex left foes

B.B. King just sent me this message on f***book: 'May your heart be filled with gladness and your home be filled with joy. Happy Thanksgiving!'
How cool is that? I like to think it was just for me and not the other 259,139 people who are also his friends.

Friday night - let's make it blues night

for the Praise and Blame fans: did you hear about this on the news before GIO?

See Glen's post #71 on previous thread

#12

May your heart be filled with gladness and your home be filled with joy
May your heart be filled with gladness and your home be filled with joy
But it's a lonely day for me - I'm the original Blues Boy

#13

For £35 he'd better do the encore in his white Speedos.

#3

Gaie,

Am I giving you credit for someone else's idea?

Who suggested 'Have a Cuppa Tea!' as a theme?

Ah should be telt!

Freaks 'Freaky' Friday!

Who are/were the artists in need of a psychiatrist!

#15 nobody wants to see any man in Speedos. Least of all TJ. He's a fine singer, but.

#17 That would be too Sun-PC, madmac. Rephrased, it might work better.

Speak for yourself M.D. I always wear my Budgie Smugglers much to everyones delight!

#20 don't want to burst your bubble....but.... are you sure that's delight and not just polite sniggers? Hats off to you if you can pull that look off, right enough. I am humbled into silence if you can.

#4 Adam told me he wanted Space too..I think he just meant time away from me on the blog tho...

#1

I also like DC's idea. I have a long list...



...and cousins who went to school with the Brennans...

I refuse to conform with swim shorts... having never been a surfer!

As a competitive swimmer & water polo player in ones youth I justify my 'Speedos' to the family on the grounds of drag issues.

Hadn't put you down as a fatist, LOL!

#16 ah, lost in the mists of too many blogs. I thought last week you meant triumphant Friday as a theme. Confused, as I so often am. And trailing in with yesterday's news. #14. :0(
I'll away and see if Tom's managed to wish me a Happy Thanksgiving to cheer me up. Or maybe I'll just imagine him in a pair of Speedos.....Oh sorry, getting carried away there.

Friday: songs by artists you'd like to see in their underwear

#16 I think it was Adam

We can blame him for everything coz he's in transit

#23 it's a tempting idea but I think the programme politburo would find a way of ignoring what has been ignored

#24 fatist??? not at all. Nowt wrong with anyone carrying any excess. It's how it's carried that's the issue. A bit of style and decorum. Nobody cares about the wobbly bits if they're well-managed and presented with confidence. If someone has to wear unflattering get-ups to improve their performance, that's fine. But that was never an excuse for Tom Jones. I rest my case.

Drag issues...

Budgie smugglers...

Gotta be a joke in there somewhere...

Fatist? I saw Fat and Frantic at The Marquee Club once, or was that yeaterday?

#25

You mean like a Freudian slip?

Mary, its not as if he doesn't have enough Knickers, Slips & Girdles to pick from is it?

#31

Are these the Drag issues?

#28

fair dinkim but that's no way to talk about the Aussies...

#33

How are things Down Under?

In Sydney?

Devine...

#28

Check out thisbanana hammock

Another sleepless night ahead, how about hope over experience as a theme, or misplaced optimism, or humiliation at the hands of Australians.

#37 I don't like cricket uh oh no!

Though apologies for calling those that do bad names on the previous thread.

Howsabout
Long Songs
Gambling songs
Songs that tell a story

I also liked Scotch's thanksgiving theme and Captains fav act without the klaxon. I would even go as far as to restrict it to album tracks.

Songs that have never been a uk hit

Brown Eyed Girl / Van Morrison
Tinsel Town in the Rain / Blue Nile
One Way or Another / Blondie
Redemption Song / Bob marley
The Sound of Silence / Simon and Garfunkel
Thunder Road / Bruce Springsteen
Old Time Rock n Roll / Bob seger
Reeling in the Years / Steely dan
Desperado / Eagles
Take me to the River / Al Green
Alison / Elvis Costello
Time in a Bottle / Jim Croce
Mr Bojangles / Sammy Davis Jnr
Harvest Moon / Neil young
New Rose / Damned
Eagle / Abba


etc etc etc

#37

The triumph of hope over experience sounds good to me. There was a time when I figured that people would, inevitably, let you down, and that made me keep everyone at arm's length.


Until I realised that I, too, was one of those people.

















misanthropic git

Okay then we're back to Fatist Friday!

I quite like the True Fans night suggested by Captain Ramius, playing the less well known songs rather than the usual often played ones.

My choice would be for "Remember (Walking In The Sand)" by The Shangri Las, instead of "Leader of the Pack".

#40

Songs which have never been a hit but are heard more often than the time signal. Ideal for this show.

Hows about Best Number Two's?

And I'm not referring to down under

#41 'Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them' - the best friends understand why people are as they are. We all let each other down, it's the human condition. The best we can do is go on learning and turning negative to positive.


If the theme is only to be announced tonight, then there's no point in suggesting ones needing either elaborate research on our part or furious searching by GIO.
So space or colours it is. And if Bryan reads that out and says I suggested it I'm off to another radio station.

Errm, Capt Ramius's true fans idea twisted to 'not their biggest hit'.

Unlikely to deliver what the listener truly desires plus reckon the production team would be in melt-down attempting to up-skill their knowledge in an afternoon LOL.

You'd get the all usual suspects & their near misses & be left feeling cheated!

Revenge - Reprisals - Rage - Resentment - Retribution - Rancour - Retaliation

Take your pick or mix 'n' match!

There's not enough anger on this show. Allow us to vent our rage!!!

;o)

'It's Rocky Raccoon Night'

I'm with the Captain and the others. The blogotariat has long championed the 'less obvious'and been permanently frustrated by the show's playlist policy which, understandably, believes that the listeners are only really intereted in the familiar, because it's tea time/ drive time.

It is a central tenet of the henri hannah radio show that the opposite is true: that presented properly - in an amusing and entertaining way,the proletariat are sophisticated, interested and open minded,at any time.

Of course, the likes of me would give my right arm to be in the studio petitioning for the blogotariat's choices and I think the Captain would too, I'm sure. They should let us do that, a kind of radio version of juke box jury. That would be good fun, a better form of 'zoo' radio.

Last week someone texted in for 'Nous Sommes Du Soleil'. No one in the studio had heard of it.Anyone who sat through the apogee of prog in December 1973 will ever forget it.'The Listener' is much more knowledgeable and broad minded than the conventions of radio programming believe.

'Rocky Racoon Night' could be an opportunity to prove it: open the door, and let 'em in.

regardez youse

henri

Herbs + Spices
Singers with quiffs
Like the 'not the most oft-heard song idea, think its been done before, hope they'd play stuff they really haven't played more than once beore.
Tea + Biscuits sounds interestiong...was that not Glen's idea...or maybe Adam's?

One theme I liked before was the songs with 1 word title...then 2, 3 and 4 words and so on.

#47/#49

Yeah, I noticed that change too - 'biggest hit' is not quite a neat subset of 'most obvious/best known tracks', let alone entirely congruent (yes, it's back to Maths Homework & set theory).

'Most obvious' is a bit more subjective. It's kind of the opposite of the Family Fortunes concept - get 100 people to name a track by the band, and only play those that get the big "WA-WAAA" noise. I like the idea of an in-studio bloggers' jury to do the filtering.

I also like the idea of the team doing homework - that's what I've suggested for a long, long time: if you don't know a suggested track, give it a listen, and then you end up playing a lot more lesser-known but brilliant tracks. (Did someone invoke the ghost of John Peel there?)

And I like very much the summary of "Rocky Racoon" night :-)

Exactly 50 years ago today: 25th November, 1960: The Scottish Parliament met in order to protect the alleged existence of the Loch Ness Monster. It was reported that a group of young English men were planning on dropping homemade bombs into the water in order to bring Nessie to the surface. This would result in her capture for further study. The Chief constable of Inverness supported scientific study of Nessie, however he did not support bombing her assuming she did exist....

How about songs about myths, legends and tall tales?

River man: Nick Drake
White Rabbit: Jefferson Airplane
Pinball Wizard: The Who
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall: Bob Dylan

Except, it was exactly 50 years ago yesterday... but you know what I mean!!

#52

I like that one - one could also add

* D:ream - Things can only get better
* Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come

(insert Ben Elton catchphrase here)

Yes Mike...I've been suggesting Myths + Legends for about 3 years!!! So, good luck!!! :o)

The big problem here is the fact that Bryan does not like anything he hasn’t heard before, hence the reluctance to play FRANK ZAPPA and GONG and refusal to play ROBIN WILLIAMSON. It makes me wonder how he ever got to like anything in the first place.

FredTheFish was the person who suggested TEA as a theme – not sure who added the BISCUITS though.

And I mean that most sincerely, folks.

#47 #49 #51 To deep for me guys. Didn't mean to misquote, or change, your suggested theme captain. Just wanted to get a song played that I haven't heard in a while.

#57

I think we were more talking about the refocusing in the main blog post - so don't worry... unless you're Bryan in disguise (*shock horror*) :-)

How Ironic...Bernard Matthews dies the day after thanksgiving. A lot of turkeys will be turning in their gravy.

#58 I have now read the main blog post, my misunderstanding.

Note to self - read the main blog post before posting.

So, do we have a concensus of opinion here? You saw what happened when the blog united to demand a gong song on pudsey night. Maybe we agree what we want and then blog 50 posts asking for the theme?

Or even a consensus?

Howabout holding my theme back to Xmas(ish) week when we might well be able to assemble a Pacific Quay quorum to invade the studios and provide on-air klaxons?

And beers afterwards.

(Which would also satisfy my £50 'be a co-producer' CiN proposal)

#63 I'll go with that!

#56 to be fair to Bryan, he's played a fair few songs for me that he's not heard before - the Unwinding Hours, the Low Anthem, Frightened Rabbit, Kassidy - and seemed to quite like them. Common factor? They're all newish bands.

My local just re-opened due the hard work of the new owners: the former bartender and the former general manager plus the original owner...hats off to Jeff, Helen Marie, and Svend.

Why not a theme about pub names?

Sir Edmond Halley's = Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft by The Carpenters
Fox and Hounds = Anything by Pet Shop Boys

Etc.

Scott Martin
Charlotte NC

So what's it gonnae be?

Hot & Cold?
Number two's?
Pubs?
Tea & Biscuits?
Avoid the klaxon?
Ignored requests?
Fibs?



The suspense is...... (yawn....) zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

#56

Shuggy,

Thanks for the info! I thought it wis a quine...

I think the biscuits were Kinky's idea.

>8-D

Adam!

Does Scotch kain you????