Nice band, shame about the name...
As I failed to deliver Harry Lauder then I'm afraid my 'song of the show' award went by default to Aztec Camera. I had forgotten just what a beautiful song Belle of the Ball is. It was great to hear that Annie Ross song again on tonight's show. It was truly a night to showcase out best exports.
Tomorrow night should be fun as the theme is the artist names that put you off. My top choice would be Withered Hand who get lots of airplay on Vic's show. I think I would like their music but the name puts me right off.
There are also the bands whose name just doesn't suit their sound. Blogger's Favourite Airborne Toxic Event are a good example of this. Who does it, or rather doesn't do it for you?
Do Lady Antebellum sound posher than they actually are, or like Miss B are The Righteous Brothers just too righteous sounding for you?
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At 20:24 21st Feb 2012, Scotch Get wrote:WEDNESDAY
ELIZABETH COOK sounds like she should be writing for Mills & Boon!
Sometimes It Takes Balls to Be a Woman - Elizabeth Cook
Then again.......
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At 20:42 21st Feb 2012, norriemaclean wrote:10,000 Maniacs - eek sound like punks
Coboy Junkies - sound like grunge
Two great bands!
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane or Sun Comes Up It's Tuesday Morning
10,000 Maniacs - Because The Night or Like The Weather
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At 20:58 21st Feb 2012, Alfaeraferry wrote:The one that does it for me is Death Cab for Cutie. They are an absolutely excellent band though.
If you've not heard them try
Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark
Al.
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At 21:00 21st Feb 2012, norriemaclean wrote:#2 though nothing wrong with grunge or punk
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At 21:22 21st Feb 2012, Scotch Get wrote:I think I disagree. What is a grunge?
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At 21:24 21st Feb 2012, norriemaclean wrote:Not sure but Julie and the daughter will know...
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At 21:39 21st Feb 2012, gaie wrote:The Rudiments is about as dull a name as I can think of - it's not too late, lads, get it changed now before you become famous
Start to Roll - The Rudiments
and of course I'm really looking forward to
Sometime Around Midnight - Airborne Toxic Event,
which I'm hopefully assuming 'has to be in there'
Malcolm Middleton's latest incarnation completely baffles me, as no doubt intended
The H.D.B.A. Theme - Human Don't Be Angry
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At 21:52 21st Feb 2012, Scotch Get wrote:WEDNESDAY
Gretchen Wilson has to be Heidi's American cousin.
California Girls - Gretchen Wilson
Keep it Country!
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At 21:59 21st Feb 2012, Scotch Get wrote:WEDNESDAY
An anagram for Thing-Fish...
Walk Out Backwards - Teea Goans
>8-D
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At 22:25 21st Feb 2012, mary-doll wrote:#9 If you say so.
System of a Down. What a cheery band name. IDTS!! (That's some sort of teenagey thingy whatnot!) Whateva.
Aerials
Not a hope. But, as you're in the area -
Aerials Up I Am
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Comment number 11.
At 22:27 21st Feb 2012, Rex Titter wrote:titter ye not ...
'False Jesii Part 2' ------- Pissed Jeans
... dirty boy (in a harry Hill stylee)
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At 22:30 21st Feb 2012, Rex Titter wrote:titter away ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1BCfjbne3s
the cultish 'Singing Butts' ... take yer pick .........
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Comment number 13.
At 22:56 21st Feb 2012, henri hannah wrote:Well, the problem is the name only sounds weird until you like the music and then it's totally accepted, so you can no longer remember how you felt about the name before capitulation and acceptance.
I instinctively dislike names that I think are pretentious or corny; like Frigid Pink, Barclay James Harvest, the Moody Blues ( not a trace of blues anywhere) Fatboy Slim, Fun Boy Three and zillions of others, though in all cases I went on to enjoy the music.
But for plain old corny strangeness, 'The Beatles' takes a bit of beating! - it is inculcated, so you never think about it. My ichoons library has named individual artists outnumbering bands by quite some distance, so maybe I'm bigoted against bands.
Here's some that I instinctively disliked the name of before falling in love with the music.
The Trashcan Sinatras - Obscurity Knocks this is fantastic.
Steely Dan - Third World Man I hated the name even without knowing they were named after a sex toy ( who would buy a sex toy with a name like that?) but the name fits with Donald Fagan's "languid and bittersweet" story lines - nobody does slease quite like Steely Dan. I wonder if the name influenced the output, living up to the name? So I've picked a truly beautiful piece of music with lyrics about South American drug war child soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder. Typical - but at least it's not about drug fuelled sex sessions.
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky Didn't know much about them until a friend encouraged me along to the Barrowland gig. Wow. great musicianship, this is Dylanesque and fabby.
Codeine Velvet Club - Begging Bowl Blues I instinctively didn't fancy the John Lawler (Fratelli) 'side project' because of the pretentious name -and i was right - if this has been put out as 'The Fratellis' (and let's face it, he was The Fratelli's) it would have been a worldwide smash. This is a remarkable record that through choosing the wrong marketing approach/name, hardly anyone has heard.Sometimes you pay a high price for yer art.
That'll do just now.. I could go on but it would be great to hear any one of these. Pretty unlikely though, as these wonderful tunes will doubtless be sidelined in the Pigs Will Fly list.
regardez youse
henri
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At 23:28 21st Feb 2012, Scotch Get wrote:WEDNESDAY
The Notorious Cherry Bombs
What kind of stupid name for a band is that?
It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night that Chew Your Ass Out all Day Long
>8-D
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At 23:33 21st Feb 2012, Madmacfaeclydebank wrote:Lordy Lordy ~ T. Distillers When I first saw this in the GIO Sceptics’ CD collection I mistakenly thought the violin lessons had paid off and she'd got into the Scottish Folk scene!
Belsen Was a Gas ~ T. Sex Pistols Even for me this was way too controversial.
Holiday In Cambodia ~ Dead Kennedys The picture sleeve carried more impact than any reference to the death of America's first Irish-Catholic president and his brother.
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At 23:36 21st Feb 2012, Madmacfaeclydebank wrote:Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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At 23:39 21st Feb 2012, joe-k-brown wrote:First thoughts that came to me when I read the theme:
The Doobie Brothers. Odd name/great band. Please play "Long train running"
Mona - a rock band, not a solo artist - "Listen to your love"
More to follow
Joe
Linlithgow
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Comment number 18.
At 23:46 21st Feb 2012, JuliefromEdinburgh wrote:Not surprised you like Wilco HH...they're fairly Beatles-influenced.
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At 00:30 22nd Feb 2012, paolopablo wrote:The first time I had ever heard of the bare naked ladies was when my son barely a teenager told me he was going to see them. That was an interesting conversation.
Heres three bands whose music I would have avoided for their names alone but who have had the odd decent track
When I still have thee / Teenage fanclub
Into oblivion / Funeral for a friend
Hooverville / The Christians
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At 07:40 22nd Feb 2012, gaie wrote:#13 exactly what I was thinking, Henri - I can remember several names that seemed pretty stupid/pretentious when I first heard them and now can't for the life of me think what they were, because it's all about the music.
I'm fairly sure The Low Anthem seemed an oddly unappealing name till I heard Charlie Darwin; My Morning Jacket is another.
The Low Anthem - To Ohio
My Morning Jacket - Victory Dance
and I thought PJ Harvey was a sort of k.d. Lang (and therefore dismissed as not for me) till I listened to Let England Shake. Sorry, k.d. fans, this is far more to my liking
either
Let England Shake
or
On Battleship Hill - PJ Harvey
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At 09:06 22nd Feb 2012, dale_kelvin wrote:typical irish punks, wit ur they like?
advice to the choosing panel...........my taste is impeccable (as yiz ken) so you dont have to bother listening to this gem from the wonderful cd 'rogues gallery' (i'm trying to help you here!!)...a treasure chest (geddit?) of sea chanties (another clue). i think its about havin' a punch up in the alley after a boozy nite oot...aye that's right a bit like byres road on a wet wednesday....the nation will love ya for playing it.......i'll go into hiding.....but not before i've heard the accordion bit in the middle.
'bully in the alley'..................three pruned men
cheers frae the dale
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At 09:13 22nd Feb 2012, DC wrote:The Flaming Lips
Where did that come from????
The Ya Ya song please
DC
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Comment number 23.
At 09:42 22nd Feb 2012, mikeshropshire wrote:Always thought Elvis Costello sounded like a cross between Elvis Presley and half of Abbot and Costello!
Chumbawamba... what's all that about?
but to my request....
John Cougar Mellencamp... so daft that he eventually dropped the 'Cougar'.... but not until he had made some great albums.
Would love to hear 'Check It Out' from the 'Lonesome Jubilee' album (equally daft title)!
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At 11:01 22nd Feb 2012, Alfaeraferry wrote:Name sounded more like a law firm or something that might grow on the side of your house.
Climie Fisher - Love Changes Everything
also for consideration
Hootie & The Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You
Al.
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At 12:18 22nd Feb 2012, Scotch Get wrote:Theme suggestion:
Bands and singers with names bereft of vowels.
WEDNESDAY
Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Kp t Cntry!
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At 12:40 22nd Feb 2012, DC wrote:Did we do a theme a while back where an explanation was given to explain how the band got their name?
#25 is allegedly because of the PE teacher at the singer's school (Mr Leonard Skinner)
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At 13:46 22nd Feb 2012, joethejamman wrote:Garbage-I think I'm Paranoid
Plastic Bertrand-Ca Plane Pour Moi
Duffy-Warwick Avenue
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At 14:06 22nd Feb 2012, Kene Gelly wrote:'Boa v's Python' ~~ Test Icicles
'Sleep Deprivation' ~~ Simian Mobile Disco
'Short Sharp Shock' ~~ (we are) Performance
'MechANIcal Heart' ~~ Nostalghia
'Nine Million Rainy Days ~~ The Jesus & Mary Chain
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At 16:05 22nd Feb 2012, Alfaeraferry wrote:Def Leppard - Pour some sugar on me
Al.
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At 16:28 22nd Feb 2012, Thing-Fish wrote:#9 Awkward blackouts
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At 16:32 22nd Feb 2012, Will Power wrote:I've always thought that Bullet For My Valentine is very unromantic ☺
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At 16:35 22nd Feb 2012, JuliefromEdinburgh wrote:Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly - 'Call me Ishmael'
The Meat Purveyors - 'Burr Under My Saddle'
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At 17:01 22nd Feb 2012, Will Power wrote:Tunng - Sashimi
Porcupine Tree - Stranger By The Minute
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At 17:21 22nd Feb 2012, henri hannah wrote:Here's a few more where i instinctively couldn't relate to the name but love the music:
A Tribe Called Quest - I Left My wallet In El Segundo
Prefab Sprout - Life Of Surprises
Pink Martini - Autrefois
Little Feat - Rock N Roll Doctor
The Leisure Society - If God Did Give Me A Choice
It would be good to hear any of these...especially the Leisure Society.. I heard someone famous in a Sunday column raving about them.Well, that's two of us.
regardez youse
henri
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At 18:48 22nd Feb 2012, Thing-Fish wrote:IS IT MY BODY? from LOVE IT TO DEATH by ALICE COOPER
who turned out to be nothing like Mary Hopkin
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At 19:12 22nd Feb 2012, Madmacfaeclydebank wrote:Given Blur's success at the fantastic Brits...
Kingdom Of Doom ~ The Good, The Bad & The Queen
GIO please!
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At 19:19 22nd Feb 2012, Madmacfaeclydebank wrote:What's that? The new Charles Tyrwhitt catalogue has arrived, I'll be right there!
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At 19:38 22nd Feb 2012, JuliefromEdinburgh wrote:At work so not listening till later...have they played the Maccabees yet...named after a Jewish army but don't sound at all warlike that I've heard. Think they've made the Radio Scotland playlist recently but I'd quite like Toothpaste Kisses again...lovely wee song.
Oh well...back to the grind...carry on chaps!
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At 19:47 22nd Feb 2012, Madmacfaeclydebank wrote:Babs, Cage Fighting... surely that would fit with BBC Sport Relief?
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At 19:49 22nd Feb 2012, henri hannah wrote:Nope - we've been getting Randy Van Warmer -which I'd always presumed was a made up name, but apparently not. You couldn't make it up.
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At 19:49 22nd Feb 2012, Will Power wrote:#37 I prefer TM Lewin :-)
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At 19:51 22nd Feb 2012, Madmacfaeclydebank wrote:#38
Nae "9 BELOW ZERO with THREE TIMES ENOUGH" again tonight!
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At 19:52 22nd Feb 2012, Madmacfaeclydebank wrote:#41 I did too until they stopped doing shoes L.O.L.
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