It's that song again...

I did say I was gonna be positive this week so......well done Bryan for setting me the biggest challenge yet!

Don't stop believing / Journey
I think its safe to say it comes into the overplayed category but I still like it.
Probably cos I liked it 30 years ago when noone else did.
I thought it rather bizarre it took off all those many moons later.

And the fact that Cowell wanted to use it for his winning karaoke song and was told to get tae was also ok by me.

Anf if you're gonna play bohemian rhapsody can we have the Fugees version for a change














or the Rolf harris one

#2

Paolo,

You like it because it sounds similar to Bob Seger. Me too.

>8-D

WEDNESDAY


Bob Harris seems to think this is the only song Tull ever recorded. But it's a joy to hear every single time.

'Life is a Long Song' - Jethro Tull

WEDNESDAY


Billy Rankin seems to think this is the only song Tull ever recorded. But it's a joy to hear every single time.

'Locomotive Breath' - Jethro Tull

WEDNESDAY


Richard Murdoch seems to think this is the only song Tull ever recorded. But it's a joy to hear every single time.

'Living in the Past' - Jethro Tull

>8-D

Frankie Miller has recorded many fine songs, presently being revisited on the iPod, but of course the one most played is not his own

Caledonia - Frankie Miller

is there any chance once this lot's out the way, of having the unheard gems given their own show? In the interests of balance of course.

I second that emotion Gaie

#3

There are absolutely no circumstances in which it is appropriate to play any version of Bohemian Rhapsody - except perhaps The Muppets version.

It is unquestionably the worst record ever made.I just plain hate it. I have hated it from the moment Emperor Rosco played it on his new releases show one Friday evening in the autumn of 1975. Incredibly, he played Springstein's 'Born To Run' almost immediately thereafter.

I felt certain I'd just heard a monster number one - but to my shock and surprise, it was the operatic pastiche mince wot done it, proof that the record buying public's taste is firmly in it's mouth.

When I think of all the things that never get played, I have difficulty with this theme - but I'll think of something.

As predicted, Moorcheeba and Judy Tzuke didn't make it again - I had to go to the fiery dragon's funeral today and didn't have time to drop a copy off to Pacific Quay.

Maybe it wouldn't have mattered.

regardez youse

henri

but there must be a reason why people want to hear them again and again

CHURN! CHURN! CHURN! ~ T. Byrds

as time goes by / Dooley Wilson

Play it again Sam





Aye I know he never actually said that but it's on theme

'Honky Tonk Woman'

Sorry ... Never get tired

It's the same old song / KC & the Sunshine Band

Stop me (If you've heard it all before) / Billy Ocean

Rainbow - 'Since You've Been Gone'

I really do like / am sick off:

Waterboys / Whole of the Moon
Bowie / Life on Mars
The Boss / Hungry Heart
The Clash / London Calling
Jackson Broon / Stay
Lou Reed / Walk On The Wild Side

'Cold as Ice' ~ Foreigner
'Ain't seen nothin yet' ~ BTO
'More than a Feeling' ~ Boston
'Africa' ~ Toto

also seem to fit the snuggly ...

Went online to a well known download store to look for a track I wanted 'Baby I'm yours' by Linda Lewis only to find that it was available on album only and I would need to buy the album. Fortunately the album was a soul compilation for £4.49 for 60 classic tracks, all original recordings . Ok i had over450 of them but still cracking value. And i'd forgotton how good gene Chandler 'Does she have a friend for me' was. Good buy for any soulsters out there.

450=40

#20

could you put down your working please so we can see how you did it.

Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Uprising - Muse

Get Ready - Temptations

#10 there's a difference between (did I get that right, GM?) not liking something and something being rubbish. It's all about subjectivity and ..err.. another brand of the same. Just with more folks on one side. Or the other.
So - whilst some of us may appreciate why you don't like it - it doesn't amount to us accepting it's not good. YOYO there, henri. Totally disagreeing with you. ;o)

If I ask for The Eagles now Hotel California it's not only because I'm extremely unoriginal in my requests, it's also because I'm extremely unoriginal AND think it's not in the least bit underplayed. There's something for everyone, if you care to listen and take in the LA psychobabble that does, in some distorted way, have something to say about STUFF. see they flowers in ma hair? they're all well preserved.

I note that Mr Miller has been rendered speechless

DC

#22

Yep, I see what you mean,MD. And you're quite right:-)). I stopped short of saying it was rubbish in case I offending anyone's preferences.

That notwithstanding, Bohemian Rhapsody remains utterly loathsome and the worst record ever made.

Even 'Dignity' is better, it's a good tune with duff lyrics whereas Bohemian Rhapsody has no redeeming features at all - most particularly because it's completely humourless -they take it so seriously, like it was a great work of art when in fact it's three bits of nonsense pastiche thrown together.

If 10CC had made that we could all have joined in the fun.

regardez youse

henri

Born to run - Springsteen
Sweet home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
This year's love - David Gray
Lido shuffle - Boz Scaggs
White winter hymnal - Fleet Foxes
Heroes - Bowie
One day like this - Elbow
Fix you - Coldplay
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Midnight train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips
Run - Snow Patrol
Use somebody - Kings of Leon
Read my mind - The Killers
Strangers in the night - Sinatra
Dance the night away - The Mavericks
Ring of fire - J Cash

Joe
Linlithgow

Human League - 'Love Action'

Captain Raimus must hae the definitive list. He should just send in the top 23 and be done with it

Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes

#29 How very dare you Juliefromedinburgh!

Give it Up - KC and the Sunshine Band
Tragedy - Bee Gees
Love Train - O Jays
Feel the Need - Detroit Emeralds
Give Me Just A Little More Time - Chairman of the Board

And here was me leaving:

Showaddywaddy / Under The Moon of Love

WEDNESDAY


'Kashmir' - Led Zeppelin

'There's No Lights on the Xmas Tree, Mother, They're Burning Big Louie Tonight' - SAHB

Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper

Long Train Running - Doobies

Layla - Derek & the Dominoes


Paul from Ayr

We haven't had the Proclaimers on Get It On in ages!

Sunshine on Leith please!



DC (going sailing tonight so unfortunately won't hear the show)

The usual suspects we can hear any night. I reckon these ones are worthy of at least one more play:

Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2

Heaven 17 - Temptation

The Teardrop Explodes - Reward

Previously on the blog....

Look for #25

I need clarification on tomorrow's theme. Is it Christmas songs? Is it re-releases? Is it cover versions? I need to be telt!

:o)

Especially after getting last night's theme wrong again.

;o)

I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

Sylvia's Mother - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show

Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley

:o)

two of the greatest pop songs ever to escape from the silvery banks o' the tay......

'mary's prayer'....................danny wilson

'beanoland'................deacon blue

i'll bet nobody switches off the radio when they hear these two songs

a theme...........songs by band/singer that are about the place the band/singer is from.

cheers frae the dale

#28 - DC - Follow the link on #37 then look for #63

;o)

#42 - dale_kelvin - What a brilliant idea!

:o)


Back To Bradford - Smokie

;o)

Why is Willie Bartke The Genius asking for songs on email instead of the blog? I should be telt!

;o)

#44 @ ya senga.........cheers.........

this is total bliss and makes me want to visit not just sheffield but every 'coles corners' in the country..........

'coles corner'...............richard hawley (would also suit tonites programme)

cheers frae the dale

@ dale kelvin - Lou Reed, New York

Good news Glen! The theme has changed! It is now "timeless classic". Any better?

Greensleeves - Henry VIII

She wouldn't have a Willie or a Sam

;o)

#48

50 posts in and they change the theme !! Where did you see that Norrie?
Sheesh, what a week.

Thats the facebook listing:

"What tracks do you never get fed up hearing - the tunes you hear time and again and still love - from the Beatles to the Stones, Stevie Wonder to Dusty Springfield...what's your timeless classic...."

i.e songs you like. Not songs that are played to death and you are heartliy sick of. I withdraw all my list.

I add in instaed:

Always on My Mind - Elvis / Willie / Ryan Adams
Ashes to Ashes - Bowie
Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground
Secret Garden - The Boss
Sky Blue and Black - Jackson Browne
All The Young Dudes - Mott

#51
Senga being repsonsible for 20% of them. Thats JfE levels that is.

:)

i always love hearing.............

'go west'..................pet shop boys................it's upbeat,great tempo seemingly optimistic but it's a strangely poignant song.

cheers frae the dale

I see there's a new all night show. I suppose swapping slots with this programme is out of the question.

#52 don't know why it wasn't advertised that way before. I might have looked up my 'most played' list on ayechoons.

Not that it would have made any difference. They only have half of the Live in Gdansk album at Pacific Quay

DC

* Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison
* U2 - Pride (In the name of Love)
* Pink Floyd - Money
* Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
* Black Sabbath - Paranoid
* Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
* Fairport Convention - Meet on the Ledge
* Deep Purple - Black Night
* Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz
* Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
* The Commitments - Mustang Sally
* Oasis - Rock 'n' Roll Star
* Slade - Coz I Luv You
* Bowie - Life on Mars
* Madness - Our House
* Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
* Undertones - Teenage Kicks
* Blues Brothers - Everybody Needs Someone To Love
* Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
* The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
* The Crew Cuts - Life Could Be a Dream (Sh-boom)
* The Shadows - Classical Gas
* The Jam - That's Entertainment
* Labi Siffre - It Must Be Love (Madness version also accepted)
* The Kinks - Lola
* Right Said Fred - Deeply Dippy
* James Taylor - Fire and Rain
* Fairground Attraction - Perfect
* Free - All Right Now
* Lou Reed - Perfect Day
* Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
* Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach
* Roy Orbison - Crying
* Toploader - Dancing in the Moonlight
* Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You
* Ram Jam - Black Betty
* The George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag
* The Specials - Free Nelson Mandela
* Rod Stewart - Handbags and Gladrags
* Barenaked Ladies - If I had $1,000,000
* The Police - Roxanne
* Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
* Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding (Robert Wyatt also acceptable)
* Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
* Temptations - Papa was a Rolling Stone
...for starters

#52

Damn. Just read this. While most of the above are from my top rated/most played playlist, it was heavily cleansed through the filter of overt populism.

oh that is a totally different theme.

I withdraw Caledonia and replace it with

Love Letters - Frankie Miller, as if that's going to get played hahaha
Cellar of Dreams - The Silencers ditto
Refugee - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

and

Stop Messin' Round - Fleetwood Mac

for the folks who write the theme 'guidelines'

One track I listen to again and again yet still marvel at the quality of the acoustic guitar playing:

New Faces - The Rolling Stones

DC

Romeo & Juliet - Dire Straits
Walking In Memphis - Marc Cohn
12 Reasons Why I Love Her - My Life Story
Breakfast At Tiffanys - Deep Blue Something
Patience Of Angels - Eddi Reader
Stacy's Mom - Fountains Of Wayne
Dolphins Make Me Cry - Martyn Joseph
You've Got The Power - Win
Portions For Foxes - Rilo Kiley
Obscurity Knocks - Trash Can Sinatras

Brilliant lists el capitano and elspethspa

OK, my most listened to tracks (according to last.fm stats since Feb 2006) are:

* Clannad & Bono – In A Lifetime
* Capercaillie – Ma theid mise tuilleadh (If I Ever Go Again)
* Cocteau Twins – Donimo
* Sandy Denny – The North Star Grassman And The Ravens
* Richard Thompson And Mary Black – The Dimming Of The Day
* Miles Davis – Flamenco Sketches
* Elbow – asleep in the back
* Fairport Convention – Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
* Van Morrison – Before The World Was Made
* Sinéad Lohan – The Fish
* Sheryl Crow – Real Gone
* Neil Young – Harvest Moon
* Nick Drake – River Man
* Pink Floyd – Us and Them
* Charles Trenet – La mer

#45,Senga,I email on a regular basis,just dont always get a mention and it seems only good manners to address our glorious leader"in person"from time to time!Regarding overplayed songs you dont seem to get sick of,Old Motown or Phil Spector stuff always does the trick for me.The opening drums on both the Ronettes "Be My Baby" and Martha and the Vandellas"Dancing in the Street"get me rockin!Joni's "Help Me"and Steely Dan's"Do it Again"remind me of my "loonpants and cheesecloth shirt"days.I suppose memories have a lot to do with irrational liking for old and overplayed chestnuts!Cheers Willie Bartke

Theme suggestion

Songs cOvered in episodes of Glee

Theme suggestion

Recorded at.....

So Abbey Road, Record Plant, Trident Studios, Muscle Shoals etc

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen.
Jeff Buckley, John Cale, Rufus Wainwright, KD Lang, to name just a few, have all done a cover of this brilliant song? It's also featured on The West Wing, Cold Case and Shrek but I never get tired of it.

#65

Careful Norrie, there's stuff like F B Gs in there......

#65

Norrie,

What's a Glee?

#68 you turned into Capn/Glen??

#69. Glees were wee purple sweeties

#59

Gaie,

This is Bryan's favourite wind-up. Usually Pablo or Adam is cast as the victim.

Don't take it personally.












...unless you really, really want to...

Delighted to hear Gaie got her wish.

Haha, I know, and no, I don't take it personally - they seemed to be having a go at a few of us this evening - Locomotive Breath, Dignity played after mentioning Henri, Norrie getting thrown off the blog for suggesting the Glee theme - yep, have-a-go at bloggers night tonight. I guess we can't complain, given the amount of time we spend doing the same.

In any case I'd rather hear Frankie than not at all

mind you I didn't hear mention of the second part of that post, Unheard Gems night... daresay it'll be coming up soon?

and now I've got to spend an hour on the phone having a gaelic tutorial. Oh my aching head, just when I was so looking forward to thinking up songs that have been in the charts so often we've heard them over and over and over - or did we just do that? I'm so confused.