The ones that never date...

Radio Gaga - Queen

This was written in 1996 so not that old but 100% relevant, a favouritolen.e of my good friend Scotch Git

Iris DeMent - Wasteland of the Free

Superb song.

#1

Eric,

I can't believe they played "Message in a Bottle" AGAIN!!!

It's been played almost as often as "Hanging on the Telephone"

Nae wunner Ah drink!


>8-D

#2

Norrie,

Happy to lend my support!

:o)

WEDNESDAY


Still Gonna Die - Old Dogs ~ Some things never change. Gotta have a laugh!

;o)


Who's Next? - Tom Lehrer ~ The ongoing nuclear arms race. Gotta have a laugh!

;o)


All I Can Do is Write About It - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Ronnie Van Zant was environmentally aware before it became trendy! The acoustic version, please, from the All Time Greatest Hits album.

:o)

#3

The sad thing is only the clinically dead would be unable to dance to it.

For an age old problem send for Dr. Clap MD - Ivor Biggin

'Identity' ~~ X-Ray Spex

... it's a price you still have to pay ...

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An upbeat song from 1972...

'Be Thankful For What You've Got' - William DeVaughn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2NNLdom7K8

SG - happy to second Skynyrd (#5). Also:
My way - Sinatra
Jacob's ladder - Springsteen
This land is your land - Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Every time we say goodbye - Ella Fitzgerald
I fall to pieces - Trisha Yearwood/Aaron Neville
Will you love me tomorrow - Carole King
Superstition - Stevie Wonder

Joe
Linlithgow

Rat Trap by the Rats - the great use of words to describe parts of today's society:

He says the traps have been sprung long before he was born
He says "hope bites the dust behind all the closed doors
And puss and grime ooze from its scab crusted sores
There's screaming and crying in the high rise blocks"

'nuff said.



Paul in China

A seventeenth hot dart…

#12

There can be nothing worse than feline parasites

You'll have had your flea...

I suppose it's better than pus in boots.

In China, cats are lucky. I refer, of course, to The Maneki Neko

Theme suggestion:- (Inspired by #12)


We've had Story Songs

The time has come for Multistorey Songs


>8-D

FRIDAY


Fred MacAulay is on The News Quiz

The Jam - Smithers-Jones

Come in Smithers old boy
Take a seat, take the weight off your feet
I've some news to tell you
There's no longer a position for you
Sorry Smithers-Jones

The Tubes - What Do You Want From Life?

A satirical song about consumerism and celebrity culture. Sound familiar?

Teenage Love doesn't really change
* Billy Bragg - The Saturday Boy
* Billy Bragg - A Lover Sings
* The Saw Doctors - Red Cortina
* The Saw Doctors - D'ye Wanna Play My Guitar
* Mark Knopfler - Secondary Waltz

Parenthood doesn't really change either:
* Loudon Wainwright III - Bein' a Dad

Mind you, teenage unemployment is just as relevant now as it was in 1983:
* Billy Bragg - To Have and Have Not

The Housemartins - Flag Day

Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay - Danny and the Juniors - Prescience from 1958, the year Ian Donald took ultrasound from the shipyard to the maternity ward

All written in days of yore but I think would still stand up today.

Sweet Freedom / Michael McDonald

The Living Years / Mike & The Mechanics

Atmospherics Listen To The Radio / Tom Robinson

This Is The Day / The The

Jocelyn Square / Love & Money

Live To Tell / Madonna

Al.

Looked through a playlist I put together for my girls, for my suggestions. Cos when you are 10 and 12 you know everything there is to know and yer auld man can tell you nothing!!... but if you hear it in a song, it MUST be true... (There's more than one way to skin a cat!)

Only mild apologies for digging out some (predicatable?) choices

Company Of Friends: Danny Schmidt
Masters Of War: Bob Dylan
The January Man: Christy Moore
You've Got A Friend: James Taylor
At Seventeen: Janis Ian
Days Like These: Billy Bragg
Cat's In The Cradle: Harry Chapin
The World Turned Upside Down: Dick Gauchan

Still relevant today ...
John Lennon's "Imagine"
More relevant than ever; "Imagine no religion"

Ian
Gartcosh

Just like Soviet Russia.

Shoddy mail order service is still an issue today, so this will fit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uSGtRoEQYA

#27

yep, I always thought 'Imagine no possessions' was the killer line.

Lets Get Physical - Olivia Newton John


Norrie is living blogging proof that this is still relevant.

Conversely, as the recently canonised Steve Jobs said: 'I base my business philosophy on The Beatles'.

What Steve was referring to was the greatest philosophical statement ever made.When you consider the now famous 'Stanford address' it is almost entirely drawn form this:

All You Need Is Love - The Beatles

Timeless positivity and wisdom - our political masters (and the IMF) should adopt it as a mantra (I have). These lads knew how to turn a few quid and everybody was sanguine and happy about it.

regardez vous

henri

p.s. moral of the story - if you love what you do - it'll be really good. If it's really good people will still pay £13:00 for an album you made in 1963, in 2011 - and £157 for a box set.

Even more egalitarian, an accompaniment to vegetarian,is that old hippie - Morrissey!

The Smiths box set - £210:00.There's no one you can do that can't be done, as they say.

regardez youse

henri

Mercy Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye

Predictions of ecological disaster from What's Going On - in fact, there's proabably not a track on that album that doesn't fit this theme:

Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye works just as well.

regardez youse

henri

£157?? you didnt buy the mono box then? or if you did you got it much cheaper than me!

These are all old songs which are relevant today: ~


BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND from THE FREEWHEELIN’ BOB DYLAN by BOB DYLAN

THE SUN NEVER SHINES ON THE POOR from HOKEY POKEY by RICHARD AND LINDA THOMPSON

NOTHING CHANGES from STRANGE TIMES by THE MOODY BLUES

POLITICAL LIES from THE TEN OF SONGS by ROBIN WILLIAMSON

HEROIN from THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO by THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

WHEN THE LIE’S SO BIG from BROADWAY THE HARDWAY by FRANK ZAPPA

DROOLING MIDRANGE ACCOUNTANTS IN EASTER HAY from QuAUDIOPHILLIAc by FRANK ZAPPA


and Get It On fits right in to the sentiment behind the narrative at the end of the last song.

Train In The Distance - Paul Simon

a commentary on the complex lives we lead, still true now - the idea that things could be better refuses to die....

Every Kinda People - Robert Palmer

yep, in praise of persistence and integrity, which alone are omnipotant, a lesson society keeps on having to relearn.I preferred Dr Fox when he used to countdown the top 20.

Blood On The Rooftops - Genesis

This theme has had me revisiting old hippie albums: This comes from Genesis post hippie mythology late 70's mega stardom period, just as punk put the knife in. It's a really great track though about watching TV and deciding:

' let's skip the news, boy
I'll make some tea
The Arabs and the Jews, boy
Too much for me'

everything changes, everything stays the same....

Wake Up Everybody - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes

'The world won't get no better if we just let it be - we gotta change it, girl, just you and me...'

Written for a Presidential candidate's campaign, we now know it's all Harold Melvin's fault that the political class are now incapable of offering us anything except 'change'. De Facto, the promise of endless change is no change at all.

that'll do for now...

regardez youse

henru

I can't recall a more depressing set of requests. No half-baked, utopian, "feel my pain" scribbling has been overlooked.

Oh and this can go on endless repeat: Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who

....O yes we will...

Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie And the Hot Rods

similar, but different.

The Game - Dory Previn a song about Casinos. Of which we have quite a few now.... and then there's Casino banking.. if only Dory hadn't said 'deal me in' at the end, we'd be on the moral high ground, but hey, that's life.

She Works Hard For the Money - Donna Summer

Nothing changes...sounding very like my mother on this one..

regardez youse

henri

#37 Thank you very much

Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello & the Attractions. I think about this song every time I see one of those 'Join the Forces' types ads.

Hard Rain - the Roxy Music version. A dire warning!

Ghost Town - The Specials

This town, is coming like a ghost town
Why must the youth fight against themselves?
Government leaving the youth on the shelf
This place, is coming like a ghost town
No job to be found in this country

Sadly too true - but a great song!

#37

who? surely not me, faither?

.... I'm all positve affirmation:-)) My natural exuberance just spills out all over the place:-))

here's a few more...

Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel more relevant now, if anything..


Stormy Weather - Etta James well, we live here, this is what we get.

No Fish Today - Kid Creole how society really works..this is fabby!!!

Luka - Suzanne Vega the story of too many children..

What Is Life George Harrison still we have no scoobie..

regardez youse

henri

welkom from amsterdaam.............well since its 4 decades since i've been here and one that has never dated and first heard here........ímagine'............john lennon.......which is a poignant reminder as i'm just bac'k from a visit to the ''anne frank huis''.........................cheers frae the dam

#41

And you don't exist