How about WONDROUS STORIES by YES?

#128 previous blog for Ken - It was Three Friends (3 ex-members of Gentle Giant, though sadly Kerry Minnear has now left the band) - check em out on the Toob - fantastic memories!



Off to Guidford today to visit The Boy at Uni for a spot of lunch before he jaunts of to Cornwall for a month to do a string of gigs with his chanteuse girlfriend. They've recorded a cool version of Stop This Train by John Mayer (available, etc....) amongst others....search for Geneva Lane Stop This Train.



So, no bloggetry for me today sadly. Have a great day one and all, and I hope to catch The Show on my way home.

Or even WONDEROUS STORIES - it's much better!

ooh, quick, I might get my...

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TWO LITTLE BOYS by ROLF HARRIS



NELLIE THE ELEPHANT by THE TOY DOLLS



THOSE WERE THE DAYS by MARY HOPKINS



EVERY LITTL THING SHE DOES IS MAGIC by THE POLICE







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5 in a row...

or not...

Hah! Simon introduces a potential prog theme for the day (songs telling stories) and then dashes it, all in once sentence - tunes preferably under 5 minutes :-).



So folk songs maybe more the order of the day?



How about "The Emigrants Farewell" by Cara Dillon. Nice playout tune to Mike Harding.



Morning all. Spike, what was the Youtube link pointing to? Can't see it from work during the day.

#8 hi Ken, see #2

Ah, question answered before posed, thanks Spike :-). I did once have a Gentle Giant Radio 1 In Concert on cassette which I really liked, but don't have anything else of their stuff.

Wondrous Stories was on last week. If it gets on again today I['d eat my hat, if I owned one :-)

Morning again



So, no taxes after all!



My offerings so far:

"Don't Stand So close" - Police

"Don't Like Mondays" - Boomtown Rats.



Will carry on thinking.



Tortie x

#8 I dunno Ken, looking at my copy of NURSEY CRYME by GENESIS you could have:



"For Absent Friends" at 1:44.

"Harold the Barrel" at 2:59 &

"Harlequin" at 2:53



and then from other albums:

"Where the Sour Turns to Sweet" – 3:16

"In the Beginning" – 3:47

"Fireside Song" – 4:20

"The Serpent" – 4:40

"Am I Very Wrong?" – 3:33

"In the Wilderness" – 3:33

"The Conqueror" – 3:42

"In Hiding" – 2:40

"One Day" – 3:22

"Window" – 3:35

"In Limbo" – 3:32

"Silent Sun" (Gabriel/Banks) – 2:15

"A Place to Call My Own" – 2:00

"Dusk" – 4:13

"Time Table" - 4.40

"Horizons" - 1.41

"I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" - 4:07

"More Fool Me" - 3:10

"After the Ordeal" - 4:13

"Aisle of Plenty" - 1:32

"The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" – 4:55

"Fly on a Windshield" – 2:47

"Broadway Melody of 1974" – 1:58

"Cuckoo Cocoon" – 2:14

"The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging" – 2:45

"Hairless Heart" – 2:25

"Counting Out Time" – 3:45

"Lilywhite Lilith" – 2:40

"Anyway" – 3:18

"Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist" – 2:50

"Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats" – 3:06

"Ravine" – 2:05

"The Light Dies Down on Broadway" – 3:32

"Riding the Scree" – 3:56

"In the Rapids" – 2:24

"it" – 4:58



and the list goes on...







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#11 Chew well my friend



Fancy you having a live recording then?! May I suggest Prologue (from the Three Friends albumen) or Boys In The Band (from the superb Octopus albumen) plus a host of other great live offerings on a certain video channel (others available, etc...)

#12

Yes, I know, "Dont Stand ..." has one of the worst rhymes = "temptation .... so bad it made him cough; just like the old man in the book by Nabakov"!!!

#13 Is CDF a computer?

#16



Master Control Program (CDF): You shouldn't have come back, Spike.



Kevin Flynn (Spike): Hey, hey, hey, it's the big Cornish Master Control Program everybody's talking about.



Master Control Program (CDF): [calmly] Sit right there; make yourself comfortable. Remember the time we used to spend playing chess together?



[Spike continues typing]



Master Control Program (CDF): That isn't going to do you any good, Spike.



[Spike launches a compute-intensive program]



Master Control Program (CDF): I'm afraid... stop, please. You realize I cannot allow this!



Kevin Flynn (Spike): How are you going to run the universe if you can't answer a few unsolvable problems? Come on, big fella, let's see what you got.



Master Control Program (CDF): I'd like to go against you and see what your made of.



Kevin Flynn (Spike): You know, you look nothing like your pictures.



Master Control Program (CDF): I'm warning you. You're entering a big error, Spike.



[manipulates dematerialization gun and targets Spike]



Master Control Program (CDF): I'm going to have to put you on the game grid.



Kevin Flynn (Spike): Games? You want games? I'll give you games. I'll...

[klaxon blares; dematerialization gun fires at Spike]



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'A boy named Sue' Johnny Cash

'The ballad of Lucy Jordan' Marianne Faithful

'House of the rising sun' The Animals

'Lola' The Kinks

'Where do you go to my lovely' Peter Starsted

'Woodstock" Mathew and Southern Comfort

'Space oddity' Dave Bowie

'Suzanne' Leonard Cohen

'The killing of Georgie' Rod Stewart

'Joe Hill' Joan Baez to lead into Mr Harding

#17 LOL, that's sorted that little identity question then!



Great movie, Identity, btw...

Morning all - some people clearly have too much time on their hands...



Only just had a chance to find out today's theme, so I'll have a thunk and blog/tweet later.



Deebee X

soulie tunes...

R.Dean Taylor "Indiana wants me"

Clarence Carter "Patches"

"Love child" Diana Ross and the Supremes

"I'm livin' in shame" Diana Ross and the Supremes

"I heard it through the grapevine" Marvin Gaye

#20

My sentiments entirely, DeeBee!



Just a thought re. frog juice - if frog's legs taste like chicken, does frog juice taste like chicken stock? I've never had them, so can't comment, just wondered!



Tortie x

RUBY, DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN by KENNY ROGERS.





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Madonna - Papa Don't Preach



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#23/24 A well programmed computer....;-)

Morning Simon,



Thanks for playing my song suggestion yesterday. I only have the one suggestion today, it is a ghost story:



UNDER YOUR THUMB by GODLEY AND CREME



Looking forward to tonights show, remember the 80's well,so will dust down my frilly pie collar shirt and green pedal pushers and reminisce!



Many thanks, Mcw x

PS Darren have you been on the orange squash with all the E numbers this morning?

#27 I didn't get much time on the computer yesterday, just making up for it today.



And remember, this is the BBC, so you have to always say "other squash flavours are available".



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#26 I'll join you with headband, boxy jacket, shades, Punk is Dead T shirt, spandex shorts, neon socks and plimsolls (clashing)

#29 this is a fancy dress show, no?

Simon,



Story of the Blues by Wah.

If we are after a song which is a story, Johnny Cash - I Hung My Head (I may have imagined this but I think this song was written by Sting?!) or anything else by the man in black.



Spike - Are you on a mission to change your sign in name on a daily basis?!



Nic

#31 don't be daft man!



Sting it was - and a fine toon and story, good choice.

#29 We'll knock 'em dead Spike!



#28 On second thoughts it could have been frog juice (other frog juices are available)!



#31 The Mighty Wah is a mighty fine choice Nic. Love that song.

Morning Simon, et al,



TO CUT A LONG STORY SHORT by Spandau Ballet at 3:20mins.



Nuff said - Hampshire Dave

#17. Good morning Cornish Darren I'm Not Simon Mayo, Red Rum, Tom The Fork Truck Driver, Paul Mathew Gambaccini, Darren Fewins, Fewins. I would congratulate you on your "Tron" pun, but I suspect it may only lead to another identity denial. Furthermore, I strongly suspect you of being a mass hallucination, since I discovered people other than myself can see your blogs, thus laying to rest my previous fear that I 'see blog people'. I couldn't work out whether that made me Bruce Willis or Hayley Joel Osment. As i an clearly neither, and I didn't want to get into identity denial myself, the discovery of YOUR status as a mass hallucination came as a great relief, I can tell you. Or did you already know that?

#17 and #35 This is getting way too surreal for me! Time for a cup of tea methinks!

Anyway, Good Morning Each! First of all, if Spike can't blog today, and HIS name has changed (again), I wonder if.... no, I won't go there.

Secondly, I am unclear as to what todays criteria is. Does Simon want songs that tell a story, like, say "Mathew & Son" for example, or songs that feature a story in the title, as in "Wuthering Heights"

Clarification from any quarter welcome, even if I do have to 'imagine' it.

Morning all



My suggestion for today is 'Neverending Story' by Limahl.



#37 We won't get Wuthering Heights again coz it was played last week and even if we do we probably won't get a mensh out of it (not that I am sulking at all.....)



'usual pleasantries'



mtd ffb xxx

#38 mtd, I think you've just got yerself a top of the show Mensh - henceforth known as The Top Of The Show Mensh, or TTOTSM, or in binary code for CDF 0001010110010100000111110101000001

#35 great blogging!

#39



Have you ever seen "The Lawnmower Man" Spike?



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#41 No, couldn't be grassed

The Boy has an unexpected rehearsal this lunchtime, so it's a later than expected journey for me...talking of which, hope Tricky's having a good day out down South (sorry, I live in Norf Laaaaandan, so it should be Darn Saaaaaf)



"Down South", how terribly posh of me!

OK, so my suggestions, to cover either eventuality are



'Cats In The Cradle', by Harry Chapin

'Frankenstien' by The Edgar Winter Group.



And for the handover song, although I've tried this before



'John Henry' by Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band.

Spike, Paul - Surreal but keeping me entertained!



Nic

# 39 - 01110100 01101111 01110000 00100000 01100010 01101100 01101111 01100111 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 01110011 01100101 01101100 01100110 (Binary for 'Top Blogging Yourself')

#44 aaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhhhhh (for the last sentence)



But to be positive, I'd like to propose the following



RAISED ON ROBBERY by ROBERTA JOAN ANDERSON



or, even better



JESSE JAMES BOLERO by PREFAB SPROUT



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Your life will be richer for the experience.

MA BAKER by....















BONEY M.

















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#48 someone pull his plug out....

#46 There are 3 different types of people when it comes down to Binary.



Those that understand it and those who don’t.



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" Angels flying to close to the ground."



Beth Rowley or Willie Nelson version.



Both pretty ace.



Hi All.



MTF.xx

Jack and Diane by John Cougar. Jack and Jill by Raydio. Gonna get along without you now - Viola Wills. You're so vain - Carly Simon. That's my lot for now. :)

Having re-read Simons opener to todays blog, this time with my eyes widely open, I see what is required of us. So, forget 'Frankenstien',(an unlikely to be played instrumental anyway). I aint gonna tweet any of these, but I feel someone should take up the 'TrickyTorrent', as he is missing today. So;

Castles Made of Sand by Jimi Hendrix

Up The Junction by Squeeze

Paradise By The Dashboard Light by Meatloaf

In The Ghetto by Elvis Presley

My Name Is Luca by Suzanne Vega

Toms Diner by Suzanne Vega

It's My Party by Lesley Gore

Sloop John B by The Beach Boys

Angie Baby by Helen Reddy

Leader of the Pack by The Shangri-las

Ode To Billy Joe by Bobby Gentry

Wreck of the Edmund FitzGerald by Gordon Lightfoot

Deep Deep Trouble by Bart Simpson

Deep Deep Trouble by Bart Simpson



I dunno why I wrote the last one twice. Your own conclusions.





I think that is enough to keep even a For*st fan happy!

OR, why not.....



Twilight by the mighty ELO!!!



Why not indeed.



MTF.xx

I think I have lost the plot totally, but hey ho!!



MTF.xx

#50 10 types actually.;-)

Does Jeff Lynne have shares in Drivetime?



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#56 help me out here, put a space between 50 and 10

Ignore # 58. OOoh, it's happening again

MTF What day is it?

You too Paul!!



MTF.xx

Or, alternatively, Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs Tears (With the money from her accident, she bought herself a mobile home...) Great song.



Nic

The Open University by the undervalued and much missed Clifford T Ward. Short and sweet!

Has anyone put ..



The green green grass of home?



If not, thats my last shot.



Gotta fly.



Have fun.





MTF.xx

*slinks back after not having time to blog for a while*



Afternoon!



How about...



Fast Car - Tracy Chapman



Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles



OK brain's exhausted now!



Dragonxx

#26 Hello neighbour!!



MCW and I have discovered we live near each other. Small world indeed! So you never know, there could be an East Anglian blogpoppet meet some time soon!



Anyway, my choices (for what they're worth):



"Copacobana" - Barry Manilow

"Lonely Boy" - Andrew Gold

"Summer the first time" Bobby Goldsboro



Although I suspect the subject in the last one may be a bit naughty for Drivetime... ;-)



Deebee X

#66 I reckon Deebee is related to Jackie Collins!!!





I reckon the perfect STORY song about frogs has to be:



JOY TO THE WORLD, (JEREMIAH WAS A BULLFROG) by THREE DOG NIGHT.



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#67 how do you work that out, exactly?

Hi gang. No time to catch up - just off out to an interview.



ODE TO BILLY JOE - BOBBY GENTRY



OR



STAN - EMINEM



Storyfull toons!!! (if not happy toons!)



Laters hunnies.



Deevs



x

#66 Everybody needs good neighbours....



Don't worry about Darren, Deebee, he has been away with the piskies all day!... (no that is not a spelling mistake, Darren knows what I mean!)

Piskey- Cornish pixies, the most mischievious of creatures. Remind you of anyone?

#68 I've just read the lyrics to "Summer the first time" Bobby Goldsboro.



Had to sit down until the 'man'ly hairs grew back on my chest.



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#71 What an outrageous thing to say! I'm going to go gnome and tend my bruised elf-esteem.



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#71 A fairy accurate description I thought!

#73 You could pull up a toadstool, sit down and pour a sprite! (other fizzy drinks are available). Does sprite contain any e numbers?

MICHAEL JACKSON: BILLIE JEAN





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BAGGY TROUSERS

HOUSE OF FUN

EMBARRESSMENT

MY GIRL

all by MADNESS



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PINBALL WIZARD by THE WHO or if you like ELTON JOHN





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Good Afternoon Simon, good afternoon one and all. This is a brief and fleeting visit .......Simon...PLEASE DON'T PLAY THAT DREADFUL RECORD 2 LITTLE BOYS!!!!! I shall turn you off if you do!! AArrgghhh



I challenge you to play "The Partisan" by the great Leonard Cohen

#79 well he wasn't going to play it, but now you've put the idea in his head.....



Hope you're well, Rev.

#79 What's wrong with Rolf St DM?



Oh, and btw:



RASPBERRY BERET by PRINCE



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#80 actually, much as I loathe the song it would almost be worth it if Simon played it and then gave the Rev a mensh!

"the snake" Al Wilson a Northern Soul anthem

I'm having a bad day at work.



While I was looking in one of the work's filing cabinet's I cut my finger on the metal edge of the "Health & Safety" folder.



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Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot – Bonnie And Clyde





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OH WHAT A CIRCUS (DAVID ESSEX VERSION)



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Are you tweeting all of these as well, Darren? Just curious...

#87



No, not all of them.



A few which stick in the head, yes but no, I'm trying to vary it as much as possible.



Won't be like this tomorrow. Very busy days this week accept today where I am in the office doing paperwork.



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Anyway, that's it! Gotta show to do. Will be back on after 19:00.



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Well done Deebee! A mention too! Even that piskey Darren snuck in with a mention from Simon about his poorly finger!

Yes well done Debs....

PoshSoulLady.....we are doing well

Just recovering from a girlie squeeeee - my kids clearly think I am certifiable!! Wednesday seems to be my lucky day - the last mensh was on a Weds 2 weeks ago.



Get me - "the last mensh...." I'll be getting blase about it soonsoon - actually, no chance of that!



Well done to poshsoullady too!

#93 soonsoon - sorry, fingers running away with me in the excitement

Well done poshsoullady!! I hope that Simon carries on the theme tomorrow, going on the brilliant song suggestions here and on Twitter. Really enjoying the show tonight, apart from the icky frog bit!

soosoon how splednid!

#96 Hahaha!

thanks #92 93 95 begining to feel part of the blog

this is mine too!

and this one!