Mmmm, I was talking to myself on yesterday's blog :( I'll cut and paste so you don't have to trawl back over there :)



My ARFO suggestion is:-



USE IT UP AND WEAR IT OUT - ODYSSEY



Thank you.



~ x

No one here?



Well, a good morning when you arrive!

Morning Toots

Hey Harry - nice to see you :)



FROM THE PREVIOUS BLOG:





Good morning Everyone and, of course, Simon, The Team and the NYM,



Firstly - thank you so much for playing my request last night and for the mensh :) Humblest apologoes if it embarrasses you reading out my moniker, Simon, but I have it on good authority from the gawjus Alex~G that I should leave it as it is. I doubt it'll be a permanent feature, I'm sure it'll change as the mood takes me :) Anyhoo, I had to listen at a time more convenient as I was in the car with a friend (she had her car radio tuned to the local radio station, what's that all about???). We were off to see Frankenstein at the cinema - it was totally fabulous. I know Katy is going next week, did you say you're going next week too Tortie? You are in for such a treat. It was very moving and sad but there were some lighter moments too - fan-blimmin'-tastic. Twister from Lark Rise was in it and the girl from Small Island too. We're planning on going to see The Cherry Orchard with Zoe Wannamaker (she's in it, she's not coming with us) at the end of June.



Gazmondo - I missed ya - good to see you, however briefly.



Tortie - good to see you back again and I'm so glad you had a wonderful time. MTF is just so thoughtful and caring, isn't she? A lovely, lovely, lady.



I'm going to post this as it's taken me an age to catch up and type this so I reckon today's blog will be up and running now :s



~ x

Apologoes for being so rude - John I heard your mensh las night - well done - good choon. I think a change of moniker would be good - it sounds rather grand, I think :)



Rightio, it's Friday and I have some hoosework to tackle :( A trip to the hairdresser's after lunch so it's not all work today :) xx



~ x

I'm here too!

I know Fridays are usually quiet but I'm tripping over the tumbleweed at the mo. Eeeerie silence :)



Rightio, I'm outta here.



Laters sweet pataters ~ x

Morning again on the new blog ..



Please may I request I DON'T NEED A LOVER by Texas .. come on, you can hear that drum beat already ..



Have a fab Friday xx

Good Morning All :)



I'm not a fan of Chris Moyles, but I bow to his record breaking show and more importantly the money it's raised for

Comic Relief.



It's a tad grey outside but sun has been promised for later... We shall see!



Btw I am the blogger formerly known as mrs_moog, I do feel a bit exposed under my Sunday name, but as I'm amongst friends... ;)





REBEL YELL - BILLY IDOL



That's my ARFO choice to get the weekend off to a rousing start.

'I GET THE SWEETEST FEELING' JACKIE WILSON



would be a fine and dandy way to start the weekend



thanking you psl x

Yay, PSL! Nice to see you :) x



Right, going now!



~ x

Morning all.



I'm chasing a bit of a record myself!



The longest requested ARF. 18 months and still going strong :)



I'll stick with my moniker too.



So as per....



Simon, NYM and the Team,to make me wind down the window and shout out (very LOUD) would you please play.........



*** Twilight ***



By ELO.



Thank You.



MTF.xx



Ps, weather report from Somerset RAIN! As heavy as it comes :(

Morning All,



Well Done on the menshes yesterday.



In honour of the Cheltenham Cup and because it was mentioned earlier this week, can we have



RUBY, RUBY, RUBY - Kaiser Chiefs



Maybes laters



A.

Morning Simon, Morning Everyone,



Dull and damp here in the south with hopes for sunnyshine later...Child 2 on a Geography field trip at Lulworth Cove today - lucky boy!!(Mum is it gonna rain, Mum what shall I wear, Mum how am I gonna keep my clipboard dry - you know how it goes).



Not good with ARFs (or any other choon choosing really) but something to shout out of the car window might be... Ballroom Blitz - Sweet. A little 70s glam to start the weekend.



Have good days wherever you are.



Softy

xx

Dear MTF,



Perhaps next week we should all ask for Twilight just to see what happens!!!



Hang in there - maybe one day



x

Hello again all



#4 - and yes, Toots, saw your message in FB more or less as you posted it.

:^)



Tried three times to reply, but nothing shows on my screen. Thought I'd explain, just in case the missing posts all turn up at one!

I believe Benedict will be Victor in the production we are booked for. We've got front row 'Premier' seats - lots of elbow and leg space and a place for drinks and popcorn. A real treat.





#9 Zoe W √

re. Moylesey √

Good Morning All



Late this morning and haven't read lastnight/overnight yet.



Please, Simon and team will you open with the tremendous



THE BEAT - by The Look



That would get the weekend going.



Love



BP

#15 Hi SouthernSofty. Nice to see you again.



Just thought I'd mention that we all colluded on the Twilight request some time ago. I think it's fair to say that Simon is unlikely to be pressurized into playing it just because we take a stand, so to speak!



:^)

Thanks SouthernSofty.



Like Katy says, pressure dont work, so I'll keep on keeping on. Its what I do best :)



MTF.xx



Ps, Toots, your moniker is wonderful, I love hearing Simon say it.

#18



Hi KatyMac,



Obviously the man is not for turning!!! I bet it made him smile though.



x

Steve White is doing a Soul All-nighter on BBC Sheffield, BBC Leeds, BBC Lincolnshire, BBC York and BBC Humberside for Comic Relief 10pm -6am....should be worth a listen



psl

Morning all



#12 looks like we left the area at the right time MTF! It's quite sunny here today!



No ARFO suggestion from me today - too much work to catch up with!



Back later



Tortie x

Morning all and a sunny one it is in Pudsey too. My usual request for U2 "Where The Streets Have No Name" please.



OR



As it is Comic Relief how about The Proclaimers "500 Miles".



GB

PS I see my £1 is safe from yesterday!



GB

You are right Tortie.



Burnham on Sea webcam just about sums it up if anyone fancies a peep!



MTF.xx

Morning to all former record-breaking cool dudes, wherever you may be,



My crank-it-up belt-it-out sing-a-long ARFO suggestion:



TWIST AND SHOUT - THE BEATLES



What could be better?



Nice day all, and be good.

Me again -



It's absolutely gorgeous here on Anglesey. Looks like the sort of day for just sitting in the garden. Far too busy.



Have Fab Fridays.



Love



BP

#26 - Johann ! Love it!

#13 I respect your choice Alice, but I have to say that Ruby by The Kaiser Cheifs, is one of those records that's been ruined for me by over-excessive radio play :(



Many songs have gone that way for me like Chasing Cars by Snowpatrol, also that new song by Adele - Someone Like You is being played to death!! I think it's too overblown anyway, I prefered Rolling In The Deep personally.

Morning chaps and chaplains. As Simon says, wind down the windows, join in the guitar riff (full volume please - the cars around you will thank you for it) and lets have...



REBEL REBEL - David Bowie



By the way Mrs Moog-who-shall-now-be-known-otherwise - that Bowie remix thing you posted on twitter is fantastic! I will be purchasing.



Ooo - I got a comment on the show last night! It were me wot made a joke about Rebecca's sneezing being classic spy signalling, just before the quiz! very funny confession last night, and very funny reaction from the team I thought.

Shall we ALL change our names, and see how long it takes for us to work out who is/was who? I would become BertieBaxter....

Morning all!



Grey and muzzling in London town this morning!



Could I please second Johann's (love it John!) request but an alternative version:



TWIST & SHOUT - Chaka Demus & Pliers



It's a make you happy tune and would be good to hear as we drive down the A21 to the bolthole.



Laters!!



Alex-Girl

#30 Morning BaxterandBertie,



Guardian this morning has a small recommendation for ELLEN AND THE ESCAPADES, Folk/Pop band from Leeds apparently, and a new band for me. It's suggested that COMING BACK HOME is the one to listen to first but I think WITHOUT YOU is a much jollier way to start a Friday.

#29 Aaah Mrs Mo...errr...Zoe Double Ewe,



I am sometimes my own worse enemy. I find an album I like and then proceed to play it to death. Haven't quite got there with '21' as I am mixing it with Ellie Goulding's Lights and Pixie Lotts 'Turn it up Louder'. I then leave to one side before 'rediscovering' them months/years down the line. Current 'rediscovery' Elbow's Seldom Seen Kid' which I believe was 'cos you mentioned in an earlier blog.



Must say that I do prefer Rolling in the Deep over Someone Like You. My other favourite tho is Rumour has It, good thumping tune, it is!





A.

#30 B&B I thought you might appreciate that Bowie re-mix being a fellow fan :) Also if my ARFO doesn't get played I would love to hear your choice xx



After finding out the number one's for the year I was born etc yesterday, I found a site that tells you what the best selling books were when you were born (and any other date you care to search for) it's the New York Times bestseller list though, I couldn't find one for UK. I can't post the link on here because the site is also a book retailer, but I'll put the link on Twitter. Anyway the best selling books for me were...



Watership Down - No 1 Fiction



All The Presidents Men - No 1 Non-Fiction :)

Good Morning All,



Suggest for ARF



'Fields Of Fire' Big Country



Definately one to get you tapping the steering wheel or bopping around the kitchen



Hope it is a good day for one and all

Is anyone else having probs with the blog refreshing?



A.

#34 I know what you mean Alice, we do tend to overdose on songs when we like them. I think

it's a case of 'too much of a good thing leaves one wanting less!' :D



I don't know if I mentioned Elbow's Seldom Seen Kid on here, might have on Facebook :/ I do love that album but it's another one that's had to be 'rested' after excessive play!

Seems like the NNYM forgot to put 50p in the blogometer this morning...

#33 Morning Harry! - I'll have a Spotify at those this evening - sounds good!



#35 - ZUU (!) - I only listened to about five minutes cos I can't have sound on here, but it was fab. Really interesting. For anyone not on Twitter, it is www.bowie2001.com (is that right?)



Did everybody lose the BBC for about ten minutes on the web? Or was it just me?

#30 B&B. You might have just picked a winner. But who knows...



Heard your comment about Rebecca's sneezing. I also sneeze when I eat Polos (other mints ... blah blah blah). And wasabi. And horseradish. And really hot mustard. But not chilies or tobasco.

JPA #37 I'm having problems too!



I just replied to your #34 and it disappeared!



I was asking if you had heard Elbow's new CD - "Build a Rocket Boys"? I like it, but not as much as "Seldom Seen Kid".



We're going to see them tomorrow night in Sheffield - should be good!

Tortie x

#38 I think it was comment about the new Elbow album not being as good as Seldom Seen Kid.



Maybes it wasn't you ZoeUU.



Hurrah, blue skies in this 'ere patch of South Yorkshire!



A.

#42 It was you Tortie!



Are they at the Arena?



Do you know...I've never been to a concert.





Errrm, perhaps that is something I should keep to misen?





A.

Good Morning Former Record Holder and all lovely blogpoppets



The nation will be pleased to know that this weeks ARF show will NOT be featuring any members of my family. Probably.



#30 B&B - I wondered if that was you. Well done for the mensh!



Toots - got your FB message. Glad you enjoyed 'Frankenstein'.



In case anyone missed it yesterday, my latest blog is up and available for viewing/commenting https://deebeesblog-debbie.blogspot.com/2011/03/will-you-still-need-me.html No point in doing these things if nobody reads them (and thanks to Zoe-formerlly-Mrs-Moog for your comment!)



Deebee X

#44 Yes, they are at the Arena. To be honest, I've not been to many concerts, much prefer going to the theatre, but this one is part of my birthday pressie from Mr Tortie, and I do like Elbow!

#46 - Hope you have a good night, Tortie!





A.

And how very remiss of me. A very belated and very big welcome back Tortie!! So glad you had a good birthday break. Hope you enjoy Elbow - I love going to live concerts.



Sorry I can't really join in the chat right now. I'll be back at lunchtime though.



X

#41 - Johann (!) - certainly, horseradish and hot mustard (Coleman's English?) are not to be sneezed at...

50?

Okay, back to the grindstone...



;o)

I've finally finished working out the No.1s on my birthdays and a sorry bunch they are too. My Top 10 (of 54) in chronological order:



'62 Tornados Telstar

'69 Creedence Clearwater Revival Bad Moon Rising

'70 Freda Payne Band of Gold

'71 Tams Hey Girl Don't Bother Me

'76 ABBA Dancing Queen

'79 Police Message in a Bottle

'80 Police Don't Stand So Close

'86 Communards Don't Leave Me This Way

'88 U2 Desire

'06 Razorlight America

Good morning Simon, Team, NNYM and blogpoppets! Bootiful day here after a frosty start. Hope all well in blogpoppet land.



Pooping in briefly to catch breath and request:



AZTEC CAMERA - SOMEWHERE IN MY HEART



Simon, may I just say thank you very much (not) for waking me at 5.45. Not sure what my fone was sitting on but it went mental on vibrate when your tweet about being awake early arrived.



Back to the grindstone. Should be able to play this afternoon.



X

Sorry - but I can't remember who it is that loves bassett hounds??? But Dave Gorman just tweeted this, with the instruction that we'll all feel better for seeing a picture of bassett hounds running!! And he is right.... recommend to all: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/basset-hounds-running

Morning all



ARF Suggestion:



Keep Yourself Alive - Queen



Have any bloggers gone down the route of ripping their music collections to lossless format on a hard disk? It breaks my heart that my CDs just don't get listened to these days because it's more convenient to connect up the iPod or listen while doing stuff at the PC. So I've pretty much decided I'm going to do that. Have been playing with EAC for ripping and taken a look at Squeezeserver and Squeezeplayer as I think I'm going to end up investing in a Squeezebox.



But the thought of ripping all my discs is a bit daunting.

No. 1's on my birthday:-



Tiger Feet - Mud

Heart of Glass - Blondie

I Know Him So Well - Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson

Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor

Goodnight Girl - Wet Wet Wet

Think Twice - Celine Dion

With A Little Help From My Friends - Sam & Mack





A.

#55 - Ken...CDs? I smile affectionately at a large pile of vinyl most days, and wonder if we'll ever speak again?

BREAKAWAY by TRACEY ULLMAN please Simon for a stonkingly good start to the show....

# 55 Hi Ken ...I got somebody else to put some of my vinyl albums onto disc. I think it is worth doing, perhaps a few at a time?

Or even THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT US...by the same artist TRACEY ULLMAN.

#58 Hi Revster... Tracey Ullman: love both of these.... how many of the vocal tracks are Tracey, and how many are Kirsty MacColl???

Hello Revster! How are you? We have missed you!



x

# 62 Thank you Mo, its always nice to be missed. Incredibly busy...60 hour weeks these days...and sometimes it is all I can do to squeeze off a quick 3 worder....today is my day off! In between blogging I'm playing with my trains!!

Choo choo Revster :)



MTF.xx

#59 "I got somebody else to" - delegation at its finest Revster! I think you're right, a few at a time as a long term project (and it will be a very long job).



#57 B&B, my vinyl is on the bottom of a number of wardrobes and hasn't been seen for getting on for a couple of decades now. I rebought much of the most listened to stuff on CD. The turntable is in a box in the attic - didn't have any room left for it on the HiFi rack!

Hi de Hi MTF

Slow day on the blog!



Another couple of ARF suggestions for me. In honour of Tortie, Elbow "One Day Like This". In honour of my wife Coldplay "Fix You"



Off for a lunch time walk now as it looks glorious outside.



GB

#67 Thanks, Simon!



I'm off for a lunchtime walk too, it's lovely here!



Tortie x



PS Where's Deevs? I've not seen her around recently

BTW, in case anyone is still worrying about it, my yoghurt turned up yesterday in my car boot (eh?). Today's is on my desk where it should be ;-)



X

#55, #57 & #59 I guess this is something we're all going to have to consider. I transferred about 50 of my rarer vinyl albums to CD a few years back and gave all my vinyl to my niece (my kids weren't interested). All my CDs have been ripped to mp3 and that's how I listen to music now. I sold most of my CDs to a market trader, I think I kept about 30 or 40 maximum. I haven't bought a CD in over 2 years; I just download now. I never really liked CDs anyway so I didn't feel the same loss. To my ears they lack the warmth of vinyl played on a decent system. And all those little scratches and crackles which had their own stories to tell just don't feature with CDs. I think I probably listen to more music now than I ever did so I don't feel I'm missing out.

Hurrah for the lost/now found yoghurt Mo :)



MTF.xx

Hello Simon et al



ARF - the Kinks - You Really Got Me



Thank you very much.



Well done to Chris Moyles - even although I can't listen to R1 anymore!!! And Happy Red Nose Day!



A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. So says someone....no idea who said it, but at least it means we can laugh a lot today and no gym required!



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Talking about little scratches and crackles on vinyl albums.



My first record player was one of those where you could stack the vinyl and there was a little plastic arm which operated a switch to tell the machine that the record to be played was either a 45 or a 12”. Me and my first girlfriend discovered that, if you left the arm off, convincing the machine that a 45 was to be played, with Emerson Lake & Palmer’s first album, the needle would land just at the end of ‘Tank’ and so play ‘Lucky Man’ continuously for hours.



ELP’s eponymous first album is only vinyl I still own, it’s in a frame on the wall, but I know if I play it all the way through there is a little scratch between the last two tracks on side 2 which holds sweet memories.

Good afternoon all,



ARF:



XANADU by Olivia Newton John and ELO



Deebee, Many thanks for your kind first aid on my finget yesterday. It's still very sore but I'll live!



#55 Ken, I kid you not - Mr 39 (38 actually) still has 78s and several HMV gramaphones. We occasionally crank them up and the sound is just awesome.



Zoe UU, Do I know you ;-)



Laters.x

#74 Sometimes when I play a CD or listen online, I anticipate the point where the click or jump on my old vinyl copy would have been. It's nice to be able to put that vinyl onto a format such as an MP3 file or disc so that you can listen anywhere and still get those little inconsistencies, but it is the vinly album covers that are so nice - some I have with gatefold (!) sleeves still crackle like new when they did when they were bought in 1974. Also, however much you enjoy more modern formats, second hand albums bought back in the seventies from Cardiff market still bear the names of the people who had owned them before me. So however much I may enjoy listening to Robert Fripp's EXPOSURE album on an MP3, it doesn't bear the mystical name of one "Ruan Kimber" who owned it before me. I have a few of these - sometimes tempted to find them on Facebook, just to find out all these years later who they actually were... but never bothered. Sadly a leaking boiler a year or so ago leaked so impereptibly that half my albums were ruined before I knew there was a leak, including some rare spoken word albums from the sixties of Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller and some Jack Kerouac, that will now never be listened to again my house...

There was something very special about that first play of a brand new vinyl album. And they are still the best way to view cover art.

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@B&B - have you ever noticed that, just once in a while someone has scratched a note in the blank bit of vinyl of the run-out? I had an album (which I lent out and never got back) called It's About Time by Tonto's Expanding Head Band (an early synthesiser band). In the run-out someone had written:



"Have you ever thought what you seek for the sake of seeking yourself?"



Never quite understood what it meant! :-)

- oooh KatyMac, many thanks - but it's not my birthday! April 19th me! Please help yourself to the cakes everybody...

#80 - indeed HArry. I think it was often someone in the pressing plant. On Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Aprt" single it says "please don't desert me, I've only got record shops left".

#82 Yes definitely at the plant. The Tonto album was brand new when I got it.



Just looked them up on Wiki and it tells me they were British? I would have sworn they were from the west coast of the USA?

#81 Happy No Birthday BandB and thanks, the cake will go nicely with the coffee I'm about to make.



X

#42 Hope you have a great time seeing Elbow in Sheffield tomorrow, Tortie :) x I would have liked to see them but Saturday nights are a no go for us, ah well, maybe one day...



#75 Hmm you may know me Julia... ;) Sorry about your sore finget btw

#84 I am sure Harry could give us a birthday to celebrate?

Did somebody mention cake? Think I'll claim that hat as well #73 for the 50th post!



X

#85 Hello Zoe, I do like the name-change. It suits you :-)

#86 ..... I was holding back but:





Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), B.J. Wilson (Procol Harum), and Adam Levine (Maroon 5)

#86 ...... and should there be any cake left tomorrow and you fancy celebrating, Tony Iommi will be 63 tomorrow!

#88 Thank you Harry xx

#86 And, following on from one of the main topics of conversation yesterday, it's Wishbone Ash's Andy Powell's birthday tomorrow too

#89 - also, I believe, Mr Wilson Pickett

#91 Zoe, have to admit I liked JPA's abbreviation ZoeUU, especially when pronounced Zoe Ewe Ewe - has a rather nice ring to it , don't you think?

#93 - I'll add him to the list for next year

As I'm still a relative newcomer to the blog, why are Friday's so much slower than the rest of the week? Can't be all down to mensh-chasing, surely?

Personally, I love the slow relaxed feel to the Friday blog.



MTF.xx

And for all you Bay City Rollers fans ....... Derek Longmuir will be 60 tomorrow ... at last someone older than me.

#97 MTF, I was just curious, I'm not complaining. For once this week I've been busy so not much time to keep up anyway.

#94 I was just trying to be inventive with the 'W' bit of my name really :/ I don't mind ZoeUU or indeed Zoe Ewe Ewe!!



#96 I think mensh chasing has got to be a big part of it, but maybe folk are busier on Friday's, getting sorted for the weekend etc :/