Single albums...

Sunday night I'm booking the table for the 6th. (just before the apprentice final. Hoping Helen doesn't win so I can give her a saturday job). Anyway those that have confirmed are
Adam
me
Imelda
scotch
Norrie
Paul H
Frankindenny
Gaie
Julie
Senga
Henri

Have i forgotten anyone? Anymore for anymore? All bloggers welcome. Sat 6th august in a well known rock memorabilia restaurant in Embra. DC is coming afterwards.

All seven tracks on Bat out of hell were released in various edits on 45 as either a sides or b sides.

Two out of three ain't bad / Meatloaf

I think the moderator could be busy with this particular caption competition!

Bowie:

Scary Monsters (Ashes to Ashes, Scary Monsters, Up The Hill Backwatrds, Fashion)

Springsteen:

Born In The USA (Dancing In The Dark, Cover Me, I'm On Fire, My Hometown, I'm Going Down, Born In The USA)

George Michael:

Listen Without Prejudice Vol.1 (Praying for Time, Waiting for That Day, Freedom! '90, Heal the Pain, Cowboys and Angels)

Waiting For That Day would be nice to hear. A personal favourite and dedicate to Mazzy*

Jeff Buckley - Grace

"Grace" "Last Goodbye" "So Real" "Eternal Life" "Forget Her" "Hallelujah"

to my amazement no single release of Lover You Should Have Come Over. Play that.

FRIDAY



I nominate 'Sheet Music' by 10cc. 3 singles were taken from the album; 'The Wall Street Shuffle', 'Silly Love', and the wonderful (and previously played on GIO) 'The Worst Band in the World'.

'Somewhere in Hollywood' might be considered a tad long, but not by me. After all, it doesn't prevent 'Bohemian Rhapsody' being played.

Every track on the album is a stoater. I would be delighted to hear any one of them, but if you're forcing me to make a choice I'll opt for

'Baron Samedi' - 10cc

#4

Glory Days??

Must have been a single Adam because there was a video. Thanks for that!

If the theme includes albums which could have had every track as a single then there is no doubt that:

Del Amitri - Change Everything

Would count.

"Sometimes I Just Have to Say Your Name"

#7

Adam's on fire...

I see Bryan has not specifically forbidden Greatest Hits albums.

Will this be a show where they promise not to play anything we haven't heard a million times already?

We should be telt!

>8-D

Parallel Lines could have been a "all singles" album I would have thought.

Caption


Freetwood's Clackers

previously on the blog #86 @ ya paul h.

re tawny pipit.......this bird was hopping about the garden for a few hours in late may coming and going and over the years i've tried to become more aware of unusual birds.....i had quite a close up view of this bird and i couldn't place it.i had the books out with many pictures of pipits and still couldn't get it to fit until i turned to the back of the book to the very rare species , and there it was.......tawny pipit.
the local manual had no previous recordings, ever.
the rspb were sceptical............however the local rspb officer was less so......on discussing it with him he said that there were quite a few south easterly winds in the spring/early summer so it was possible it had blown in from southern europe.
previously in the garden......corncrakes ( a brood of 12)...........short eared owl......white tailed eagle flying overhead.......a peregrine falcon/rock pigeon chase...the falcon screaming with rage at losing the prey..............harriers.......merlin.....snipe.......and as many waders as you can shake a stick at..........and more recently in the attic..........starlings who have colonised the chimney and parts of the roof!!

meanwhile the theme of birds continues with the album.............

'mr. tambourine man'....................and its arguably not even the best single on the album....................
so how about 'chimes of freedom'........................but any from the album would do.
i still think the byrds are a vastly underrated band...........a lot a radical sentiments in their songs

cheers frae the dale

#11

I thought that was the idea Senhor Geet.

Play one of the tracks from the album that wasn`t a single but could have been.
Makings of a great show.

#13

Were they no banned back in they day?

`back in the day` even.

Ian Anderson is playing America from Simon and Garfunkel's Bookends. What a wonderful song. What a great album. What a huge talent.

`Sam`s Town` - The Killers - `The River is Wild`


#13
BTW, they `clackers` could be his `boleadoras`. Gauchos use them for tripping up running coos.

#18 Couldn't agree more. Side 1 especially.

#14 #20

And, coincidentally, featuring the bass and drums from Mr. Tambourine Man.

Dave Edmunds - 'Get It'...the album 'I knew the Bride' is on has many more good tracks on it too:

'Get Out Of Denver'
'Worn Out Suits, Brand New Pockets'
'Back To School Days'
'Git It'

And seconding Norrie's Del Amitri shout...

Paul Simon's 'There Goes Rhymin' Simon...full of great songs:

'Take Me To The Mardi Gras'
'St Judy's Comet'
'Something So Right'
'Was A Sunny Day'

#22 Julie great album as is his Repeat When Neccessary lp.

Thanks for the welcome Paulo, Henri and folk. It's a bit daunting being 'new kids on the blog'. Usually only time to send a quick email before tea so you'll probably not hear much from us. We're up in Wester Ross so blog meal on 6th not an option - plus hearing bloggers names regularly on 'Get it On' is a bit like knowing the characters in a favourite book. Meeting up would shatter what we guess you're all like!

#26 Nothing daunting about it. All you need is skin like a rhinos hide to get through the initiation. Wester ross is fine. We'll all come there. What you cookin that night?

Talking Heads - Fear of Music

I Zimbra, Cities and Life During Wartime were singles but it would be great to hear Memories Can't Wait or Heaven

R.E.M. - Reckoning

Pretty Persuasion or 7 Chinese Brothers please ☺

My Best Friend's Girl and Just What I Needed from The Cars debut album are played but the rest of the album is criminally overlooked. Please play You're All I've Got Tonight.

Kings of Leon - 5 or 6 releases, none of them 'Closer' which is my favourite track.

There were five singles from The Bends by Radiohead but not the title track or (Nice Dream). Either of these deserves a play.

#19 - Adam - Stop playing with your boleadoras! 3 weeks to rehearse!! LOL!!!

;o)

Guilty - Barbra Streisand ~ The title track please!

:o)

Follow up theme? The tracks that were singles only (probably now on a compilation but there are loads of great examples).

eg Bowie - John - I'm Only Dancing

The Jam - News Of The World

Clash - Whiate Man (In Hammersmith Palais)

etc.

#13 I loved my clackers but they were banned eventually because someone moaned about a wee sore finger!! spoil sport I could get them up and over, does anyone remember playing balls up against the wall I was rubbish at it but my friend was magic she could turn around and do under leggy etc.

#33 love Guilty what a great album Classic The Love in side is my fav when Im having a Babs Moment

But my choice Dear Bryan if Possible would be The Joshua Tree U2 Where the Streets have no name has all the wee hairs standing up on my neck and sends shivers down my spine even after all these years true love aahhhhh

CAPTION COMP.

Lady Mcbeth..........aww thanks a lot fur the leg up, big chap, but ye still huvnae goat the hang o' that Spock sign yet.

Mick Mcbeth......tis true.....but where did ye hide thon breid knife? (offstage titters)

i'll accept drachmas today thx.

cheers frae the dale

'pet sounds'...............wouldn't it be nice...god only knows..sloop john b


cheers frae the dale

Roxy Music's 'Flesh + Blood'
https://www.vivaroxymusic.com/albums_11.php

'Over You' (Number 5)
'Oh Yeah (Number 5)
'The Same Old Scene' (Number 12)
'In The Midnight Hour' (Portugal & USA)
'Flesh + Blood' (Italy)

60 Weeks in the UK album charts and number one on 2 different occasions.
J.O'B.

Another theme idea (oft mooted here I think) is album only tracks.

#34

Ah well, that would be a Beatles night!

the fab four were not in the habit of including singles on their albums as they felt it cheated the public - mind you with that songwriting talent, they must have been among the very few who could afford to take that stance, commercially or artistically. Consequently, Beatles albums tend to be short on singles except where the tracks were germaine to the film soundtrack.

In fact,in the UK, 'With The Beatles' 'Beatles For Sale' Rubber Soul' 'Sgt Pepper' 'The White Album' and 'Yellow Submarine' have no singles released from them at the time.Astonishing - there were singles from these sessions, but they were released separately from the album.

An excption was the American releases which differed somewhat and included both Magical Mystery Tour and Hey Jude as albums with no UK equivilent - these were made up of singles to 'fill' the vinyl.

Magical Mystrey Tour includes 'Hello Goodbye', Strawberry Fields Forever' Penny Lane' and 'All You Need Is Love'

Any of these will do, but everyone knows the Beatles canon of singles so well it really would be tremendously refreshing to hear one of the many that so easily would have been a chart topper if anyone had been enthuiastic enough to be bothered to release it:

Hey Bulldog - The Beatles (which may have been subsequently released as a single)

regardez youse

henri

#40
"""the fab four were not in the habit of including singles on their albums as they felt it cheated the public""""

An idea for a theme (th eopposite of tonight's)

Albums with no singles:
The first 2 Roxy Music albums didn't include singles either but they released singles at the same time as the albums, 'Virginia Plain' and 'Pyjamarama' respectively.

J.O'B.

#38

Another idea for a theme sort of based on tonight's theme, songs from UK hit albums that were released as singles abroad but not in UK.

For example:
ROXY MUSIC
Do The Strand most regions except UK
The Thrill Of It All USA
InThe Midnight Hour Portugal and USA

J.O'B.

#42

The Jam - Thats Entertainment

The Clash - Train In Vain

David Bowie - Stay

#41

I remember back in '73 Johnnie Walker making a clown of himself on radio 1 by playing 'Pyjamamrama' and then stating it was from the new Roxy Music album 'For Your Pleasure' (which he had been listening to the night before).

It wasn't on my copy.

regardez vous

henri

#34, #39 & #41

I fear for frazzled f***bookers!!

#33
Already note perfect, Senga

Hmmm.. we raelly can't forget Steve Wonder's magnificent seventies albums...

Innervisions had 'Living For The City' 'Don't You Worry Bout A Thing' 'He's Mistra Know It All'..... bit not 'Higher Ground'?

Any of these would do - especially Higher Ground...

regardez youse

henri

Just checked - Higher Ground was a single in the States. De facto, it's a single form an album, and qualifies! Hooray!

Sinead O'Connor - 'I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got'

Last Day Of Our Acquaintance - such a powerful song...gets me fair 'overcome with emulsion'!!

The Emperor's New Clothes

There's always Nothing Compares 2U...the best known one but actually a song I never tire of...but it'd be interesting to hear one of the other 2 for a change.

Hmmm....songs by pop stars that weren't good enough to be released as singles. Can't wait.

Welcome back to the blog, Thing - Fish, a fresh injection of ongoing disappointment turning to cynicism is exactly what our blog has been missing these last few weeks.

Fancy a night out in Edinburgh in August - and what have you done with Mary-Doll?

regardez vous

henri

Henri - "ongoing disappointment turning to cynicism is exactly what our blog has been missing these last few weeks"

Do you not read the posts Glen Miller makes anymore?

Snow Patrol - Final Straw, 5 single releases

Chocolate - Snow Patrol

Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet, 4 singles

Swimming in Your Ocean - Crash Test Dummies


Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty (solo) 7 singles

Runnin' Down a Dream - Tom Petty

'All Aboard! 24 Original All-Time Childrens' Favourites'

'Right Said Fred' - Bernard Cribbens

#52 I've never forgiven that album for killing Gene Clark (the royalties for feel a whole lot better certainly didnt make Gene feel any better as they gave him the means by which to finally kill himself through drink and drugs)

Thanks Henri, I try my best.

Also, thanks for the Embra invitation - but I'm off to Czech Republic first thing Monday morning for beer and MotoGP the following weekend.

Theme suggestion - Avant Garde

A sure fire winner!

Come On Come On is the fourth album by Mary Chapin Carpenter. Seven of its tracks became Billboard Hot Country Singles hits in 1992, 1993, and 1994. They were, chronologically, "I Feel Lucky" at #4, "Not Too Much to Ask" (a duet with Joe Diffie) at #15, "Passionate Kisses" at #4, "The Hard Way" at #11, "The Bug" (a cover of a Dire Straits song) at #16, "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" at #2, and "I Take My Chances" also at #2. The album topped out at #6 on the Billboard Country Albums chart.

Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Hard Way

theme suggestion - the albums that have been responsible for killing people

today's theme not gone down so well over-bye - 4 comments so far

Not so Gaie - look closer!

#58

Gaie,

You must mean Norrie's comments. Young (1973) Skywalker has been seduced by the
Dark Side!

>8-D

#59 oh right enough - you'd think they'd know that being on the slow side I can't manage more than one thread at a time

"'What's the story, morning glory' was a hit packed album."


Is the theme rhyming slang again?

#61 How do you think I feel. Blog, f/b, texts, e,ails, tweets, morse code and my pigeon. I'm suffering from communication overload.

I just need to learn to bake and I have covered all bases.

Great to hear Boz Scaggs.

Oh, that's just brilliant; Oasis and U2 on the same show...







































Nae wunner Ah drink.......

Never mind MCC is coming on soon. Bryan said so....

#66

Still think The Rhythm of The Blues is the best track on that album - it would be goode to hear.

#14 what an exciting garden you have...wish mine had as much action going on.....

....OK back to the theme, has anything from Simon & Garfunkel featured?

Only Living Boy in New York - S & G


B-Side of Cecilia.....one of four singles from the album


Paul from Ayr

Everything so far "could have been" a single.

Same old same old.

We want Alison back! or Vic! or anyone else!

E.M.I.


Mah wee ears are pure bleedin', man!

An hour in and no singles??

That's good!