Fight club...

Shut Up ~ The Stranglers

FRIDAY


"You got the knife, I got the gun. Come on, boy; we gonna have a little fun..."

'Jealous Man' - Hoyt Axton

If the wife and I are fussin', brother that's our right
'Cause me and that sweet woman's got a license to fight

Theme suggestion

Real v Artificial

Probably over two nights. That which is authentic, the genuine article, the real deal and that which is artificial, false.

e.g. 'Real' - William Shatner & Brad Paisley

'Paper Roses' - Marie Osmond

'They'll be fighting in the street'
Please please please play the full length version of
The Who - Won't get fooled again, absolute classic!

Best wishes from Brian and Sook, Cruden Bay

Steve Earle was played earlier in the week, but has two great "on-theme" songs: "Jerusalem" and "Home to Houston".

Also:
Devils and dust - Sprngsteen
This uncivil war - Gretchen Peters
Olivers Army - Elvis Costello
In the ghetto - Elvis
Goodnight Siagon - Billy Joel (too long perhaps?)
Crossfire - Brandon Flowers
There were roses - Cara Dillon
This life - Curtis Stigers
Not ready to make nice - Dixie Chicks
World without tears - Lucinda Williams
I won't back down - Tom Petty

Joe
Linlithgow

Independence Day - Carrie Underwood

"Sugar honey girl fly fly away
I been a lady up to now don't know how much more I can take
Queens shouldn't swing if you know what I mean
But I'm bout to take my earrings off get me some Vaseline
You better go on get out my face girl you better chill
Chill and I mean it
You better back down before you get smacked down you better chill)
You better relax yourself
You better go on get out my face girl you better chill
He's my man and nobody else's"

...Jill Scott - 'Gettin' In The Way'

Boom Boom Mancini - Warren Zevon - A boxing story
Hit Somebody - Warren Zevon - An ice hockey story
Red Road - Bill Miller - A multi-storey

Completely off theme so fully expecting to be moderated....

Friday 28th January 2011 is the RNLI "SOS" fund-raising day. Please donate to this very worthwhile cause. These guys & gals volunteer to venture out into some of the most ferocious weather conditions on the planet to save folk so they deserve all the support they can get.

Theme suggestion for future:

Charities

DC

Superman / five for fighting
Maybe I / five for fighting

Dunno any other acts named after an ice hockey sinbin punishment




And big seconds for goodnight Saigon.

Would be good to expect the unexpected for once ...

'Tae the Battle'. The Real McKenzies
'Swords of a Thousand Men'. The Real McKenzies
'The Lads Who Fought & Won' The Real McKenzies

Which is best,
Mac
or
Fay?

There's only one way to find out, FIGHT!






Disclaimer
Bloggers who are sensitive by nature may be helped to better understand human perception and why people understand the exact same circumstances in very different ways by viewing the aforementioned.

Womack & Womack - 'Love Wars', drop those guns on the floor

BRING ME THE HEAD BUTT OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

Lives in the Balance - Jackson Browne

Drunken Nights in the City - Frankie Miller

War of my Life - John Mayer

Feel Like I'm fixing to Die - Country Joe & the Fish

Grounds for Divorce - Elbow

Iris DeMent - Wasteland of the Free

play a better, more appropriate song I eat RJ's front row, backstage pass for the gig....

Springsteen - The Hiter (or T Jones for the Capn in absentia)

Der Oooo - Saturday nights Allright (For Fighting)

#11 keep fighting for them, Kene, keep fighting....

I'm in fighting mood. As ever, the preamble here suggests something a bit narrower than what eventually ends up being ok on the show, for one reason or another. So not opting for the song title- the band name'll do.
Foo Fighters Everlong
What a surprise.

M-D, have you heard the unplugged version? I think it was recorded as part of a radio chat show interview. My kids had a copy a few years ago but I haven't heard it since. Anybody got any info?

I'll be out Friday but I will dedicate a song to my fellow bloggers which perhaps sums up the whole war thing and the futility of it all. After all, we're all humans and should value the friendships we have around the world


Two little boys - Rolf Harris



DC

"Fist City" by Loretta Lynn -- gets my vote for the best song she's ever written, with one hilarious line after another. The moral of the story is: Loretta has had enough of you and now SHE WILL BEAT YOU DOWN.

Rich in North Carolina

elvis.............an american trilogy....you can feel the horses kicking up the dust and hear the clanking of the saddlery crossing the mason-dixon line on this one.

edwin starr......WAR!! (what is it good for?.............absolutely nothing!)

rolling stones..............street fighting man

#11 I'll join you with...

Hey Little Sister ~ The Meat Purveyors & Gotta Get Back To Forgettin You ~ Rex Hobart

#21
"That'd be good" in a BB stylee!

An antidote to conflict

Great theme.... lots of great tracks about war and the futility of war, but choosing of tracks that fitted the theme, I thought about ‘Cat’s In The Cradle’ by the great Harry Chapin. Not a war song but definitely about ‘conflict’. Really a pretty heart-wrenching observation of conflicts of time and conflicts of interest that arise between a parent and a child… and of course we realise it when it’s all too late.

Or on the more traditional front:

Alternative Ulster: Stiff Little Fingers
Island Of No Return: Billy Bragg
Shape Of My Heart: Sting
Masters Of War: Bob Dylan
Come Back To Me: Big Country
The Foggy Dew: Sinead O'Conner with The Chieftans)
Erin-Go-Bragh: Dick Gaughan
Come Back To Me: Big Country
Invisible Sun: The Police
Bullet The Blue Sky: U2
Eaton Rifles: The Jam
Blaze Of Glory: Jon Bon Jovi
Waste Deep In The Big Muddy: Richard Shindell
Siol Ghoraidh: Runrig

Won the Battle - Robert Cray

I bet the most asked for song tonight will be A Boy Named Sue but did you know Shel Silverstein wrote another song about the fight between Sue and his dad?

Father Of A Boy Named Sue - Shel Silverstein

#3 - Massive support for Madmac. Let's hear some Hank! And some Anti-Hank!


We Bury The Hatchet (But Leave The Handle Sticking Out) - Garth Brooks

:o)

Down from the glen came the marching men
With their shields and their swords
To fight the fight they believed to be right
Overthrow the overlords

Thin Lizzy - 'Emerald'

#6 - Is Oliver's Army allowed to be played these days Joe?

#21 - Pretty sure Lorreta knows the offside rule too, Rich.

#24 - What does he put in his drawer, Glen?

Low Rider / War
A Day to Myself / Clifford T Ward
Too weak to Fight / Clarence Carter
The Battle of Evermore / Led zeppelin
Battleship Chains / Georgia Satellites
The Last resort / Eagles
Paradise By the Dashboard Light / Meatloaf and Ellen Foley
She Hates Me / Puddle of Mudd

Classic domestic strife:

Him - Rupert Holmes


and

Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers. For Mazzy, who always likes to hear the Gatlin boys get their comeuppance.
:)

YOU GOT TO TURN THE OTHER CHEEK

It has got to be:

Morrissey - First Of The Gang To Die

FRIDAY

'They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore' - Kinky Friedman

"They don't turn the other cheek the way they done before..."

>8-D

#33

It has? Why?

While I’m on a roll request wise, DC….

ANGEL FINGERS by WIZZARD (representing the conflict between bloggers’ requests and GIO’s playlist)

COLD FEBRUARY from HARD ROPE AND SILKEN TWINE by THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND (war)

WHO NEEDS THE PEACE CORPS? from WE’RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY by THE MOTHERS OF INVENVTION (hippies versus police in 60’s ‘Frisco)

HAIR PIE BAKE 1 from TROUT MASK REPLICA by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND (the conflict between several instruments played in different keys and in different time signatures – and yet, somehow…….you gotta listen (probably at least 10 times – this stuff was rehearsed note for note for 8 months before recording))

Bob Seger touring the states in March....wonder if any UK dates will be announced.

"In 1969 I stepped off a plane in Ibadan, Nigeria and a someone stuck a rifle up against my throat. Evidently I'd been taking illegal pictures over a war zone in Biafra, and now I was being carted off to have my priorities corrected by two machine gun toting Yoruba army thugs in dark glasses. I was saved by a U.S. ambassador, who bribed the lads. It was my first day in Africa…a baptism."

Tom Russell - East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam

This is a fantastic song...

#37 He's reassembling the silver bullet band as well.

As he makes his way to the SECC for his 7 night sold out residence, he stops off at Pacific Quay and hands in his entire back catalogue addressed to Bryan and Babs with love x.

Strong Lager don't do Bob Seger tours but if they did......

...and not only would the blog regulars be invited to present that show, they'd all be given free tickets.....



Best not touch that stuff Paolo!

Cleaning my Gun - Mark Knopfler - simply superb

Riot in Cell Block Number 9 - Blues Brothers

Ah kain!

(Wid ye like a wee peek?

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