Hi Simon,

Well, it has to be

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL by the Strolling Bones! (Sorry Rev)



Cheers,

Hampshire Dave

Hi Simon,



How about HYNM by ULTRAVOX as an opener. Then there's always HEAVEN'S ON FIRE by KISS...



Cheers,



Kev

In case the Rev can't post on here today, he chose GLORIA by U2. Nice choice.



Also,



HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL by TAVARES



THERE MUST BE AN ANGEL (PLAYING WITH MY HEART) by EURYTHMICS



MY SWEET LORD by GEORGE HARRISON



STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN by LED ZEP



Oh, and



MARY'S BOY CHILD by BONEY M!

DEVIL GATE DRIVE by R2's own SUZI QUATRO

THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA by the CHARLIE DANIELS BAND.



See, the devil DOES have all the best tunes!

Morning Simon,



Yes, I remember Robert Lindsay as Wolfie in Citizen Smith.



Thanks for playing my choice last night and the mensh!



Please would you consider:



KING IN A CATHOLIC STYLE by CHINA CRISIS



Or



MORNING HAS BROKEN by CAT STEVENS



Or



FEELS LIKE HEAVEN by FICTION FACTORY



Many Thanks, Mcw x

HEAVEN AND HELL by BLACK SABBATH - I dare you, Simon!

I well remember Robert Lindsay - he went to the same college as me in Nottingham. Not at the same time though. Come to think of it, so did Su Pollard and Peter Bowles!

Morning each!How very wonderful it is that on the very day that Simon has R.E. as his chosen 'subject', he has the great Robert Lindsay in as his guest. I am sure that all of the muso's that read, and contribute to this site, will be aware that the Great Robert recorded the finest religious song of all time. I am therefore very confident that mine shall be the request chosen to be played today.

Simon. Simon, Simon, Simon, Simon, Simon. Simesy Wimesy, Simeon, old lad, could you please play "Steve Bloomer's Watching" by Robert Lindsay.

I thang yow!

The chap who played the character Speed, George Sweeney is/was also a plumber, and came to fix our boiler when we lived in Welwyn Garden City.

D'OH - obvious choice - schoolboy mistake in missing it...



BAT OUT OF HELL by MEATLOAF

Or, alternatively,



HEAVEN CAN WAIT - MEATLOAF



HEAVEN CAN WAIT - IRON MAIDEN

KevTricky, you've only gone and filled twitter up. Be careful, after your back, you don't want to go and sprain tour thumb :o)

"say a little prayer" Aretha Franklin....

#13 That will be YOUR thumb, unless it holidays independently.

#13 Didn't Mark King suffer from tour thumb in 1986?

and a few non-soulie ones too...



"God only knows" Beach Boys

"Oh my God" Kaiser Chiefs

"God is a DJ" Faithless

"God put a smile upon your face" Mark Ronson featuring the Daptone Horns

Ok, ok, "One of Us" by Joan Osbourne

But, really, 'Steve Bloomers Watching', sung with passion before each gathering at the Church that is Pride Park, by Robert Lindsay. I've got my teeth into it now, and I aint letting go.

CHURCH OF THE POISON MIND - CULTURE CLUB

KEEP THE CUSTOMER SATISFIED - SIMON AND GARFUNKEL (..I hear words I never heard in the Bible!)

Very quick visit today to say Hi to Si and Blogpopsters - & HB Mr Ayre





I have a hunch that we're gonna be overwhelmed by Angels after 5.05 - sadly haven't time to be more specific - JUST CALL ME ANGEL OF THE MORNING - PPPPP ARNOLD?



xx

'Also Sprach Zarathustra' by Deodato. Let's not get into a philosophical debate about the works of Neitzsche, or even one about whether an instrumental piece can be considered of Religious significance within the constraints of this forum In fact, let's play 'Steve Bloomers Watching' by ROBERT LINDSAY

How about Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode, or even the the Johnny Cash version.

"Oh happy day" Edwin Hawkins Singers

"Hallelujah" Leonard Cohen

"Knocking on heavens door" Bob Dylan

"three steps to heaven" Eddie Cochran

"spirit in the sky" Norman Greenbaum



a fairly eclectic list!

#25 Hey PoshSoulLady, Four Tops are playing in Bournemouth on Thursday - tickets still available!

HIGHWAY TO HELL - AC/DC for Deevs



LOSING MY RELIGION - REM for NicRolastic



Ta very muchly



Deevs



x

Morning All



So much to choose from and somebody still had to mention the unmentionable.....



OK my penn'orth Stairway to Heaven (Led Zep as a preference, but to cheer things up a bit the Rolf Harris version is not that bad) or There must be an Angel (Annie Lennox or was it the Eurythmics)



Happy Birthday payre.



'usual pleasantries'



mtd ffb xxx

#28, see #3. Please not Rolf! ;-)

Morning,



Whistle for the choir by the Fratellis please, Simon



Boo

#26 seeing them in Nottingham on the 25th :-)

A fellow Nottinghamian? I escaped in 1996...

#31 Don't mention that place to him. (Or are you still living in the past Tricky - you know what I mean. You too, Tickety

Morning all



I'll go with God Only Knows - Beach Boys.



Happy birthday payre.



Tortie

Hey everyone - it's Simons 50th Drivetime show on Friday. Do we send a card?

Hello everybody - Kev's picked up my choice - "Gloria" by U2 please Simon because it is an absolutely splednid track....and you would do me a favour and up my street cred if you don't play too many records mentioning you know who!

Happy Birthday Payre!



We're off out for the day now but hope to catch up with you all later.



To reiterate ......



Highway To Hell - AC/DC for Deevski



and



Losing My Religion - REM for NicRolastic



Love huggles and stuff, and Power To The People!



Deevs



x

Yes, have a gloriously celebratory and spledniforous birthday Pete!

Warm Tuesday Afternoon greetings to – 634Salan, Alison from Eastleigh, Anthony in Rugby, BabyDriver, St David Marshall, Brenda, CherylTheDiva, Deebee9, Emily, Flourishing, Helen May, Jason Issacs, Jeff, KatyMac, Ken Jude, Kev TrickyTree Williams, Kidteeth, MadChickenWoman, MissToeDipper, MobileToothFairy, Music_Geek, NicRolastic, Paul of Sheffield, Payre, PoshSoulLady, PurpleDragon, SparkleSparklyTinsel, SylviaB88, Ticketyboo, Tortie-cat, ,... and somebody who rarely makes a post, Spike!



Somebody has to say it:



DEVIL WOMAN by HARRY WEBB



Love the show, the host, myself, the staff, the other blogpoppets, the mods, the tweeters, the browsers, the callers, the emailers, the face bookers, the ones that don't even know the show exists (shame on you)

Imagine by John Lennon



Love the show, the host, myself, the staff, the other blogpoppets, the mods, the tweeters, the browsers, the callers, the emailers, the face bookers, the ones that don't even know the show exists (shame on you)

Darren, I accept that you probably aren't you know who.But who is Tom Williams?

Come sail away by Styx



Love the show, the host, myself, the staff, the other blogpoppets, the mods, the tweeters, the browsers, the callers, the emailers, the face bookers, the ones that don't even know the show exists (shame on you)

Afternoon Cornish Darren Fewins and all bloggers!



HEAVEN KNOWS I'M MISERABLE NOW - The Smiths



ANGEL EYES - Roxy Music



ANGEL OF THE MORNING - PP Arnold

Hello Si and team,

Heaven is a Halfpipe by OPM (censored version?)

I've been working in an office getting redecorated and my head is sore from the hideous paint fumes! I'd love to listen to this on the way home... at 5.40pm pretty please!!!! Where I shall smell coconuts thanks to an awesome air freshener in the car.

Thanks a million!

Kirstin in Lanarkshire

LIKE A PRAYER - MADONNA







#41

Tom Williams (Australian rules footballer)

Tom Williams (presenter), Australian television presenter

Tom Williams (Irish Republican) (1924–1942), IRA member who was hanged

Tom Williams (ice hockey b. 1940) (1940–1992), American professional hockey player, 1961–1976

Tom Williams (ice hockey b. 1951) (born 1951), Canadian professional hockey player, 1971–1979

Tom Williams (footballer) (born 1980), English-Cypriot football player

Tom Williams (rugby player) (born 1983), English rugby union player

Tommy Williams (politician) (born 1956), Republican member of the Texas Senate

Tommy Williams (footballer) (born 1957), Scottish footballer

Tom Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh (1888–1967), British Labour Party politician, MP 1922–1959, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries 1945–1951

Tom Williams (music), co-founder of Attic Records

Tom Williams (football coach), head football coach at Yale University

Tom Williams (swimmer), American freestyle sprinter

Tom Williams (Welsh rugby player) (1860-1913), Wales international rugby player and sports administrator



Love the show, the host, myself, the staff, the other blogpoppets, the mods, the tweeters, the browsers, the callers, the emailers, the face bookers, the ones that don't even know the show exists (shame on you)

Afternoon all



#10 George Sweeney has also attended my boiler in WGC in the past. He was also Corporal Twiss in Spearhead.



No musical suggestions from me today, far too preoccupied with the approach of the best sporting occasion of the year. T minus 20 minutes and counting.....

On the other hand, how about Judy Tzuke's "Heaven Can Wait".

# 46 He is a man of many talents!



My only other claim to fame is that Aleesha Dixon went to my old school and Nick Faldo used to live very close to said school with his parents!



Do you still live there Ken?

Afternoon everybody. I had a hunch Simon was going to choose RE today, in fact I even suggested it to him, so who knows. Anyway, I have been on a tweeting frenzy. I may have to go and have a lie down. To reiterate (and for any of you non-twits) my suggestions are:



Papa don't preach - Madonna

Jesus he knows me - Genesis

Always look on the bright side of life - Monty Python

Spirit in the sky - Doctor and the Medics

How great thou art - ??? dunno, that version Sir Tel played a few times

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen



and I also asked Simon NOT to play I believe by Robson and Jerome



Deebee X

Hi Deebee, could you also ask him not to play Rivers of Babylon please as don't do Twitter, and therefore am a non twit!



Loved the Monty Python suggestion... "He is not the Messiah..He's a very naughty boy!"

#50 he could still play Mary's Boy Child though!

#51 He wouldn't dare......would he????

#49, #50 Does the 'not' playing = you really want it to be played?



#51 noooooooooooooooooo



mtd ffb xxx

#50 no probs mcw - shall I use your real name or your blog name?



#51 technically that's a Christmas song, isn't it?

#54 yes, but it's also about the son of God, so it could crawl under the wire!

# 51 Mary's Boy Child is out - it is a Christmas Song!! AND IT IS NOT CHRISTMAS - but nearly Easter!

#55 So someone could suggest "Saviour's Day" by the Great One??

#54 Many thanks Deebee. Either name will be fine.



#53 Certainly not!



Mcw x

Dear SIMON



As you know, I have ben pestering you for yonks to play something by Prefab Sprout, to showcase Paddy McAloon's superb wordsmithery and tuneography.



So, please PLEASE P L E A S E play one of the following from the superb "Let's Change The World With Music"



* Ride (a lovely, catchy song about the power of belief)

* God Watch Over You

* Angel of Love



LOVE THE SHOW! ;-)



Spike

#58 Done! Although if he's reading this blog he'll know your views anyway!

#57 Come on Rev, you can do better than that. This is your specialist subject, after all!

#60 Thanks again Deebee.



See you all later, Simon has got plenty of good music to choose from today.



Mcw x

#62 and some not-so-good music....



See you later mcw X

# 61 I have DeeBee - "Gloria" by U2....but hey ho...Simon could have a night off ....he could simply put the Messiah on in all its glory and it will probably be still going during Bob Harris!! And into the night!

#48 Yup, still live in WGC. Ms D apparently struck up a conversation with my sister's other half in Tesco's Extra in Welwyn a while back. There might have been a language difficulty though, he speaks English whereas she.....who knows what that is? ;-)

MARY'S PRAYER - DANNY WILSON

How's about "STARFLIGHT" by AFTER THE FIRE.....a brilliant tune...splednid lyrics....livley tune...good Christian band....huh Simon? Huh??

#45 So which one did you write "Get Your Country On", as performed by Col Finley with?

"AMAZING GRACE" by that Scottish band..... (just a mo...I hate bagpipes!!!)

#69 'Pretty Amazing Grace' by Neil Diamond, then Rev.

Of course! Of course! Simon, are you still there? You simply MUST PLAY...... "DEEPER" by that amazingly spldnid band DELIRIOUS? - PLEASE!!!!

"LIFESONG" by the CASTING CROWNS........

#71 I wonder how long it'll be til you find a way of spelling splednid without using any of the original letters. :-)

#73 - a bit like ghoti ?

Ghoti?

Fish

Gh as in enouGH



O as in wOmen



TI as in emoTIon

put 'em all together and what have you got?

I remember. (Funny how I always remember right at the end.)

Lets see you do the ghoti thing for splendid, though

Now THERE'S a challenge!

#73 Sorry Paul I guess it is just part of me - have splednidly rest of day!

#82 Why sorry, you silly lump! I think that we all think that you are a splednidossitty. Keep up the good work. (And get back to that VERY neglected thought of the day...thought of the month just hasn't the same ring)

# 83 OK - right on it.....

"jamming" Bob Marley

#85 Cue joke...

A man rushes into a chemist shop:

"Quick, what can you give me for hiccups?"

The chemist leans across the counter and slaps him round the face.

"You fool! What did you do that for?"

"Well, it cured your hiccups."

"Idiot! I wanted it for my wife in the car outside!"

A Bishop of London was seated next to the French Ambassador. During the meal a fly settled on the tablecloth. Although the conversation had been in English, the Bishop was keen to show off his knowledge of French.

"Le mouche," he said airily.

After a brief glance, the Ambassador corrected him. "LA mouche."

The Bishop looked back at the insect, observing it from every angle. Finally he exclaimed: "I must say you've got remarkably good eyesight!"

Pretty bad eh?? Better get back to the sermon....it is on Contentment

Neither of those jokes featured Bob Marley, though!

No...I see....now...I see....I think...therefore..I am

Anyway, how come we've got so far through the day with absolutely no requests (as far as I can tell) for "Spirit In The Sky", any version? OR, anything by The Miracles?

Some religions say 10 Hail Marys.



I'm just trying to work out which particular order St David Marshall follows?



Is there a Church of Jim Bowen Witnesses?



Love the show, the host, myself, the staff, the other blogpoppets, the mods, the tweeters, the browsers, the callers, the emailers, the face bookers, the ones that don't even know the show exists (shame on you)

# 93 Any suggestions? What do you think O mighty Darren of a far flung place....

CDF #68 Well?

100 before Simon kicks off?

#92 see #25 ;)



Sharpeyedspike

KING IN A CATHOLIC STYLEEEEE PURPLEEESE SAINT SIMON



(or the PREFAB SPROUT suggestions



;-)

100 ?

#98 ooops, hanging parentheticality there, soz