Dare to be different...

Call of the West ~ Wall Of Voodoo

Often requested Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Captain Beefheart - Big Eyed Beans From Venus

Bill Nelson - Do You Dream In Colour?

Julian Cope - Spacehopper

The Tubes - What Do You Want From Life?

A shout on GIO, well you can't have that...

#2
Big second for Bill Nelson BiA, though I would suggest:

"Sister Seagull" - Be Bop Deluxe

also

"Three Little Fishes" - Frankie Howerd

THURSDAY


A man who was intelligent and humorous. A devout Catholic. A gentleman.

Lah-di-dah - Jake Thackray

Oft requested, etc.

David Byrne - Like Humans Do

I like this theme but I could be typing just for the hell of it ;-)

This is a bit quirky, but good quirky....

Killing Him / Amy LaVere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ZdD4kh4-E

Al.

Wendy Carlos ~ Suicide Scherzo (Ninth Symphony, Second Movement, Abridged)
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros ~ Techno D-Day
Afrika Bambaataa & Family ~ Funk You "for all youse Queen fans"

&


T. Meat Purveyors ~ Hey Little Sister


Keepin' it Insurgent Country ;-)

and

Furr / Blitzen Trapper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzCi6qr5qKw

Al.

bonus points for Gong, Zappa and ISB?


Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
or
On Battleship Hill - PJ Harvey

The Copper Top - Bill Wells & Aiden Moffat
Ghost Woman Blues - The Low Anthem
Way Back in the 1960s - Incredible String Band
Solstice- the Unwinding Hours - pure quality, sunk without trace. Such a shame.

best stop there or the list Policia'll be onto me. Imagine if they'd their mankinis on, that really would be terrifying.

Imelda just told me Davy Jones was dead. I thought she was joking but then I saw her face; now I'm a believer

I wonder how broad the term 'pop' will be? Pity it was tacked on at the end, it does rule out an awful lot of what we might suggest I'd imagine. All of #11 probably.

#11

As you see fit. I'm going to stick to one point for every track I've never heard before except for exceptional circumstances like tonight when I gave 10 for anything I'd never heard. Thus we heard an obscure and very good Mary Wells track. Who is Rex Titter?

So now I'm at Richard 10 - Kirtsen - 8 and Miss B -10.

I'm also thinking of weighting my own choices, like making a track I think really deserves an airing a ten pointer.

Scotch is proposing to award 5 points every time one of his gets played, but i'm less bothered about that, beacuse the idea is to hear things I haven't heard more than popularising things I do like, as if such a thing were possible.

i've concluded that 'encouraging' rather than 'bitching' is the correct approach.

Soon the bloggers award, let's call it a 'greggory peccary', will be more valuable to an individual producer than a Sony award.

regardez youse

henri

Innovation almost every album he has made, David Bowie. Take your pick. Moonage Daydream must have made people go !! in circa '72, for example.

But let's go for:

Suicide - Dream Baby Dream.

Trust me it is different

Prince or symbol - really different, "my little red corvette"
And I know he became almost normal but the brilliant Bowie was extremely different "ziggy stardust" just love it.
From this century Lady Gaga what about "I'm on the edge"
loving the show every night on my drive home from work. Ines x

Atlantic City or the Ghost of Tom Joad - Springsteen
Life on Mars or Golden years - Bowie
killing the blues - Krauss/Plant
Good year for the roses - Elvis Costello

Joe
Linlithgow

#13 Got to agree, the use of the word "pop" wields a covert influence over the theme idea as a whole. Can't the altruistic approach lasting ;-)

Antony And The Johnsons - 'Thank You For Your Love' or 'Hope There's Someone'

Hello everybody. Ok, you hardly ever hear about them these days.... I suppose they have split up...
But not so long ago (20 years approx) they certainly were regarded as eccentric....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eglgj77T0rk

DEVO 'Peekaboo'

Hello again
Nina HAGEN and Klaus NOMI too dare(d) be different

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r5MBBRRn1Y

#14

Henri,

I think you'll find a chocolate egg is a far greater incentive than some abstract "Greggary Peccary" concept.

Mind you, something created by Cynthia CasterPlaster might turn a girl's head...

#14

Point of order, BTW!

10 points for one of mine. 5 points for a Country song, (regardless of who asks for it). 15 points for one of my Country songs, with a 5 point bonus bringing the grand total to 20 points towards a CHOCOLATE EGG!!!

(Have you forgotten that most of our esteemed producers are feminine females?)


>8-D

shameful stereotyping and it's only 3:2 anyway.

Don't let that deter anyone from sending me Easter eggs, though.

THURSDAY

Next - SAHB
Fire - Arthur Brown


BTW, Henri, in keeping with the spirit of innovation, you're not allowed a Beatles' track tonight.....

Bob Dylan has never been afraid to take an alternative path:

Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone

Bob Dylan - Lay lady Lay

Bob Dylan - Precious Angel

Not a complete makeover but interesting:

Paul Weller - That Dangerous Age

Don't Want To Know: John Martyn
Enola Gay: OMD
Here's The Tender Coming: The Unthanks

#24

Gaie,

It's actually shameless stereotyping. Maybe I should have said female women.

As for the ratio, we are usually blessed with Miss Babs' presence twice a week, therefore the true ratio is 4:1

Except when it isn't...

Kate Bush was certainly very different when she first appeared on the music scene. I've always liked...

'WOW!' - Kate Bush

THURSDAY


A certain gentleman from North Carolina found himself ostracised when he visited the great and the good of Nashville, Tennessee. In fact, he wrote a song about it!


Renegade - Charlie Daniels


Any producers tempted to overtake Kirsten?

;o)

#12 shouldn't that be ..."now I'm a bereaver"?

Genius of Love / Tom Tom Club

Twilight Cafe / Susan Fassbender

S s s single Bed / Fox

and as this guy will definitely be played, his first TOTP appearance actually made the papers if I remember correctly, can I ask we have one of his lesser played songs. Still quite like this;

Church of the Poisoned Mind / Culture Club

btw he's no 'a man without conviction' anymore.

Al.

DC, you get sent the same text jokes as I do.

Mandy is only Producer of note apart from capitulating to Bryan's appreciation of Lambeth Walk a few weeks back! 8-0

Do I detect a hint of tetchiness in the blurb at top of this Blog?? Maybe Bryan (if it is still he who writes it) is miffed that he can't win a Greg Peck.

Hey Fishy Thing! If ever there was a theme........


#32 It was played on the Building theme night a few weeks ago, Al.

#33 You're not on my mailing list too are you Metro?

Q. Which "beloved blogger" suggested this theme?


Bryan's Beloved Bloggers should be telt!

THURSDAY


They don't come much more different than this...

The Tale of the Giant Stone Eater - Sensational Alex Harvey Band

#35 Cheers Adam, passed me by.

OK scratch Boy George and propose a worthy Eurovision winner.

Hard Rock Hallelujah / Lordi

Al.

#38
No, no, no Al.
Didnt mean for you to do that. You're absolutely right, Boy George will be a shoo - in tonight. Keep him in.

#39
Hard Rock in Eurovision, true innovators mate, and they won it with a then record points total.

Millions of Eurovisionese canny be wrong, can they?

Al.

#14

Drummer in the 'Reversables' HH

... you'll ken my other band mates Kene Gelly, KK Bing and Mean Dartin?

hi BB & Bloggers

Just a wee list that reflects my " catholic / eclectic " mix of music that DRT @ 50 likes :

Noah and the Whale..........Life is Life

Sinead O Connor...............You made me the thief of your heart

Beth Orton.......................Central Reservation

Daft Punk........................Anything from the albumn Discovery, like.One More Time

Prince.............................I want to be your Lover......written and performed at 16

Cocteau Twins.................Iceblink Luck

Patrick Wolf.....................Bermondsley Street

I know that you have played PW...many times but hey...he is DIFFERENT

Hope that one of these tracks finds it way onto the radio...and someone else will hear someone else that is different.....
...just like I heard PW & Angus & Julia STone on GIO.

Daddyrugbytaxi

#40 I think I'm turning Eurovisionese ☺

Lordi were from Finland. Methinks the winters there are too long!

Daring to be different:

How many groups would think of promoting an album by floating a huge inflatable animal between the lums on Battersea Power Station? None other than Pink Floyd

I'd like to hear Sheep from their Animals album which would undoubtedly score 100 on the Hannah Continuum.





Mind you, there's more chance of seeing pigs fly.....

#43 ur you no thinking of the Vapors song Billy?

Aye they were Finnish, as were these guys, who were actually quite good and could fit tonight's theme quite nicely.

In The Shadows / The Rasmus

Al.

Hi,
Sitting here doing paperwork and have random choice on my music files....and yet another....

Patrick Wolf tune................THE FALCONS......

Ohh to hear that on National Radio........we live in hope.....

Drt

that'll be Daddyrugbytaxiefaehope then?

#36
Yeah who was it?
Is it on the Jotter List, Gaie?

yes, Adam, it is. I do remember suggesting a dare to be different theme, but it was about singers/bands who did something outside their usual comfort zone. If it's the same theme title the explanation will have been lost in the mists each time the jotter was lost and found.

17:33 and rushed - getting ready for berlin tomorrow - subject to airport strikes etc. Never been - going to see hertha berlin.

Gair Brown says I can't request the Beatles but the truth is there has never been a more innovative group - however, it's so obvious it's only worth one point and two for playing one of their most innovative tracks.

Gaye Brown that is:

#50

250 points for Revolution 9?

#50
Never knew you were a football man Henri. Are you going to see the Werder Bremen match?

#50 & #53
Coincidentally I was showing a Berliner around Rio last Saturday. He was telling me about his city - it sounds a fascinating place.

#52

they'll never do that - even I wouldn't do that Strawberry Fields Forever - the beatles 25 points.

#53

I'm not really, but we have this thing where we go and watch a team for no reason at all - started modestly - carlisle, preston etc - since been to Ajax etc. greta fun, guys weekend away.

I think it is Werder Bremen - hopefully ther's not a riot.

regardez youse

henri

Eric Clapton on Jack Bruce's bass playing: " he tore up the rule book"

Badge - Cream 1 point - but -

Tickets To waterfalls - jack Bruce 50 points

regardez youse

henri

Innovation: 50 reasons to love Paul McCartney( Mojo)

The truth is all those far out Beatles records written by John were mostly arranged by Mccartney & Martin. John later complained that Paul was much less adventurous with his own songs, but John was bored ridgid by studio work and didn't even like stereo and wasn't that bothered what happened to the production of his songs.

Post Beatles, McCartney went on to have a go ata most things - even the frog chorus heard with the cartoon it was written for is brilliant.on Mccartney he showed the way forward for electronica and has done Classical, opera, choral, crooning as well as straighforward rock and pop.

No one else has attempted to cover such a wide range: not always a success, but unfazed by the challenge.

Distractions - Paul Mccartney - jazz ballad

Check My Machine - Paul McCartney - electonica

Spiral - Paul McCartney Classical

Wunderlust - Paul McCartney Ballad with Brass band

The Mess - Paul Mccarteny & Wings - Rock

any one these 250 points.

regardez -youse

henri

#35 Don't think so Adam, my nuisance source is from East Kilbride and answers to JC!

mandi races intro the lead.

stumbles at the last fence, but sufficient lengths ahead to keep her nose in front