Morning All,



JUST SAY YES - Snow Patrol

IS IT YES OR NO - James Brown

YES SIR, NO SIR - The Kinks

Good Morning again



Suggest -



LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH (AND YOUR NO BE NO) – Jimmy Cliff



HELLO GOODBYE – Beatles



HEY YA! – Outkast



YES I WILL – Hollies



MAKIN’ YOUR MIND UP – Buck’s Fizz



NO! – They might be Giants

NA NA IS THE SADDEST WORD - Stylistics

Morning Simon, team and fellow blogsters,



I am not going to be negative today, all my choices are positive ones! :)



YES I WILL by THE HOLLIES



NEVER SAY YES by ELVIS PRESLEY



I THINK THE ANSWERS YES by THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH



YES IT IS by THE BEATLES



HELLO GOODBYE by THE BEATLES



madchickster x

Morning all!



Swift one from me today...



IF I SAY YES - FIVE STAR



I DO I DO I DO I DO I DO - ABBA



Cheers,



Kev

Good morning Simon, Team, NNYM and bouncing Blogpoppets!



Thank you kindly for the techie update.



Lots of possibilities here:



NO MORE HEROES - The STRANGLERS



OWNER OF A LONELY HEART - YES



YES SIR I CAN BOOGIE - BACCARA



Shan't be offering up any more just in case I can't listen to the show.

Morning all



Typical - just as I make a foray into Twitterland, the new blog appears! So, to repeat myself:



HELLO, GOODBYE by The Beatles



"You say yes, I say no ...."



Please Simon.



The "techie fix" seems to have worked - the blog is not jumping here at the moment!



Back later



Tortie x

or how about the sublime



NO DOUBT ABOUT IT by HOT CHOCOLATE ?



Ooo Billie, I am loving your Jimmy Cliff suggestion!

May I just say - as an anarchist - I feel slightly uncomfortable with this whole subject.

Ahem



JUST SAY NO - GRANGE HILL



I've got my coat....



X

Morning folks - quick suggestions from me....



JUST SAY YES - The Cure



JUST SAY NO - The Cast of Grange Hill (!)



REVOLUTION - The Beatles



ELECTED - Alice Cooper



SOGN O THE TIMES - Prince



ANARCHY IN THE UK - The Sex Pistols (anyone fancy starting a middle-aged/aged punk band with me....The Sex Pastels?)



See you later...

YOU CAN VOTE HOWEVER YOU LIKE - Ron Clark Academy



VOTING DOESN'T WORK - Placebo



ONE MORE VOTE (ONE MORE KISS) - Perry Como



VOTE FOR ME - ELO



ONE CAT, ONE VOTE, ONE BEER - Ry Cooder



Hmm. Once the countdown was finished, tried posting and got message "We're having some problems posting your comment at the moment. Sorry. We're doing our best to fix it."



Several times :(

Morning all,

I have tweeted all my choices, but am SOOO excited to hear Emmylou Harris is to be on R2 - she and Joni Mitchell are the soundtrack to my early music listening years. The 'Wrecking Ball' album she did with her erstwhile hubby Daniel Lamois is one of those I listen to to relax, can't recommend it enough.

Lucky Simon,

Have a nice day y'all.

Hello again Simon and everyone!



LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH AND YOUR NO BE NO ~ Jimmy Cliff



ELECTIONEERING ~ Radiohead





Please Simon

Lucie's Mum x

I would like to apologise for the extraneous "o" in #10, and offer this "i" instead.



And Moppet - great minds think alike yet again eh?

Morning All



Check Yes Juliet - We The Kings



A.

#8 Billie - strange looks round here as I LOL :)



ELECTIONEERING - Radiohead

The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song - The Flaming Lips

Hello SimonDude and TeamCool

and Hi di Hi once more to fellow blogpoppickers.



#8 Nice one Billie. lol.



I suppose I should do some reading and find out about AV.

In the meantime - here is a list I prepared earlier ..



NO PROMISES – ICE HOUSE



NO REGRETS – THE WALKER BROTHERS



I SAID YEAH YEAH – GEORGIE FAME



YES I DO – SHAKIN STEVENS



YES I WILL – HOLLIES



SHAPES OF THINGS TO COME - YARDBIRDS

Good Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets



It's encouraging to know that people are listening to our complaints and working to sort the blog out. In the mean time, we carry on.



My tweeted suggestions are:



YES by Coldplay



I DO I DO I DO by Abba



I CAN'T GO FOR THAT by Hall and Oates



HELLO GOODBYE by the Beatles



LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH AND YOUR NO BE NO by Jimmy Cliff



So I'll be hoping to share the credit for some of those. Great minds, as always!



Deebee ~X~

Well, songs about voting - that must include anything from the Eurovision song contest. But what about:

POLITICAL WORLD - BOB DYLAN

or

TURN, TURN, TURN - THE BYRDS

or perhaps

YES, NO MAYBE SO - BARRAT STRONG (not that I can recall hearing it!)

#8 LOL



#14 or Fools Seldom Differ?



x

#8 ha good comment - presumably harking back to yesterday's (nicely sidelined by Simon) Blog Outrage over the making fun of a crazeee man touring the US and laughing all the way to the bank...personally today I would like to say how glad I am that we live in a democracy where we are able (and not afraid) to make fun of our voting system!!

My favourite from above is Jimmy Cliff, 'Let your yeah be yeah let you no be no' it sums up the UK voters perfectly..mainly apathetic, and undecided!

#8 Billie you made me laugh with that one! LOL



I guess that proves that even those don't think laughing at cripples is amusing can have a sense of humour too :-)

I would like to know, Madchick and Billie - why you have both opted for the Beatles song 'Hello Goodbye'



No big deal. Just being nosey.

!!



:^D

YES SIR I CAN BOOGIE ~ Baccara



TELL HER NO ~ The Zombies



xx

Oh Yeah - Ash



Don't mean to be sparse with mi comments. Still trying to get mi head around yisterdi's blog. Feeling a bit like Switzerland...



A.

please feel free to slip in a missing 'R' in the post above where required...fingers move faster than brain..it's the anarchist in me

#13 Luciesmum, sorry I didn't refresh before posting #16



ELECTION DAY - Duran Duran



BALLOT OR THE BULLET - Van Halen

No Sex Pistols suggestions then?



MTF.xx

#26 Switzerland - JPA??

Well Good Morning :)



I will be catching up with last night's Drivetime, and some of the TOTP stuff I missed on BBC Four on iPlayer. The former whilst I do the mountain of laundry and other assorted housework jobs, and the latter whilst I eat my third curry of the week - and it's only Tuesday!!



I love EmmyLou Harris, and have heard the song she wrote about Gram Parsons on Bob Harris's (no relation!) Country show. I liked it, and look forward to hearing more.



I tweeted my oldies suggestions (such as they were) but here they are...



YES - MERRY CLAYTON From the Dirty Dancing soundtrack.



I WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR LOVE (BUT I WON'T DO THAT) - MEATLOAF



PERHAPS, PERHAPS, PERHAPS - DORIS DAY For the undecideds like me!



Hope everyone is having a not too wet or windy Tuesday xx

#24 And me too, KatyMatey - see #19



It's because of the first line - "you say yes, I say no..." A bit tenuous maybe, but you never know...



;o)

#24 Katy, only because of the line 'you say yes, I say no'. :)

#24 Katy - It starts with "You say Yes, I say No............."



From yesterday -



Thought manfromuncle at #82 summed up everything.



From this morning #122 Ken - It IS a beautiful song - wonderful poignancy in the lyrics. Lump in throat.

Morning All, working from home again today



my suggestion



ELECTED by ALICE COOPER



see you later back to the coal face etc

Deebs/Madchick - oh. OK.

:^)

OH YEAH (ON THE RADIO) by ROXY MUSIC

That's me done for today! What a quick one this has been.



Have fun. See y'all later.



X

Oops missed #10.



MTF.xx

whoops sorry B&B I really should read the blog more carefully, missed your suggestion of elected

NO MORE THE FOOL -- ELKIE BROOKS.



From my neck of the woods :)



MTF.xx

#30 - Tortie, I think I am right in saying that Switzerland are known for being neutral. (Apologies if that is not the case. No offence intended). I really don't like sitting on the fence but really I can see both sides!



Having said that, got to say I am leaning toward BandB and manfromuncle...



A.

#26 Speaking for myself, I bear (not bare) no malice towards Simon, or anyone else who participated in yesterday's oldie selection.



But anything that makes light of mental illness or mental disabilities touches a raw nerve with me I'm afraid. Because it still seems that sufferers of both are regarded as fair game for mockery by comedians, and sometimes the wider public.



I just thought we'd moved past the 'laughing at the mentally ill in asylums' stage a long time ago, but maybe not...

Morning All,



'I Second That Emotion' Smokey Robinson



'Should I stay or Should I Go' The Clash



Hope everybody has a good day,

Off out now, catch up later

Can I post?

Have to go now.



Hope the blog behaves for you all.



Have TerrificTuesdays.



Love



BP

Ha ha Simonward. Not for another 3 minutes :)



MTF.xx

Morning all! Have to say I like this temporary fix as it means I can now vent my spleen on the technical inability of the BBC to fix anything! And while we are on fixing and voting see what I did there, how about Coldplay and "Fix You" for today's tune?



My U2 song for the day is "With or Without You".



By the way for all those interested in autism interesting piece on Look North last night https://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b0101h2m/.



About 6 minutes 30 seconds in!



GB

#48 Thanks simonward I shall check that piece on Look North out :)

NO GO SHOWBOAT -- the Beach Boys.



MTF.xx

Good Morning Each!



'Sure 'Nuff And Yes I Do' by Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band



'Don't Say Yes' by Darts



If you were to adopt an entirely sexist stance on the hustings...



'No You Girls' by Franz Ferdinand







Oh, and 'cos Simon particularly asked...



'First Past The Post' by Landermason from their fine folky album 'The Reason'



'Av - Ále Atte Voullái' by rOlfFa (Don't ask, I dunno)

EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD by Tears for Fears

Or....



'I'm your Man!'



Leonard Cohen.



MTF.xx

#43, Zoe. Agreed on yesterday. I didn't choose anything because I personally felt uncomfortable about it.



That is not to suggest anybody who did participate was in any way "wrong", or even that Simon was wrong to suggest the theme.



Just a personal choice.

Woohoo, it's Emmylou day and new album is imminent (or quite old now if you're Simon with an advanced copy!) so it's all good. I was wondering what had happened to the interview as it was done two or three weeks ago I think?



One of the best nights ever when I first saw Emmylou at the Albert Hall. Bob Harris probably had his view from the box he shared with Johhnie Walker obscured by my large head sitting just in front.



That was the first time I saw Patty Griffin as well. What Simon said about Emmylou's backing vox is spot on - she came on during Patty's support slot to sing harmonies on "Mary" and it's just the most beautiful sound you an imagine. Two voices and Patty's acoustic guitar just filling the Albert Hall - truly amazing night.



If anyone doesn't have the Spyboy live album (or DVD) I highly recommend it. You also get to appreciate what a fine harmony singer Buddy Miller is too and what a stonkingly good drummer Brady Blade is on a fine mix of earlier songs plus Wrecking Ball stuff. It's all good :-)



Yes and no tunes all done I think so no suggestion from me.

Some more oldies for today's theme:







THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN - BOB DYLAN



CHANGES - DAVID BOWIE



HIGH HOPES - FRANK SINATRA



THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER - D-REAM



DON'T STOP THINKING ABOUT TOMORROW - FLEETWOOD MAC



BETTER WAY - BEN HARPER

Another possible feem choon:





THE GREAT COMPROMISE - John Prine

Good afternoon,



As yesterday's hot blog topic has been referred I just want to make some observations:



When Simon introduced the theme on the show he mentioned the standing ovation Charlie Sheen had received for a recent performance. However in the blog he focussed on all the negative press Charlie Sheen has been receiving. The negativity when the theme was initially presented was what made me feel uncomfortable. It seemed to be leading us towards songs that would ridicule the man.



Gently ribbing each other and taking the mickey out of people in a light hearted way are things that go on on this blog and I am all for that. Also, I do get the "slebs put themselves up there so they have to take the rough with the smooth" argument but I fear in this case the man himself has lost control. Remember what happened to Michael Jackson?



I also had in mind that mental illness is a topic that has been discussed on here and was concerned the tone of the blog could cause upset to people who, although I have never met them, I really do care about.



Two things I love about this blog are how friendly the participants are and what a positive vibe it has. Long may those two things continue.



Have a good day.x

hello goodbye-beatles



let your yeah be yeah-pioneers



making your mind up-bucks fizz

Gazza....



Helllo, Goodbye :)



MTF.xx

#58 Julia, eloquently said!



Now, shall we all move on?

#61 Harry, Yes please!





What are you reading at the mo? I have just dived back into A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth. One of my top 5 favourite books.



Off to wake up the little one now but will be back later.



To be continued...

#61 & #62 It's all water under the bridge :)



#62 I am rereading The Hobbit at the moment, just because I haven't read it for years and the film talk has revived my interest in all things Middle Earth!



I was quite interested in the book that was reviewed on last night's book club 'My Dear, I wanted to tell you' but I missed the verdict on it because I missed the show! So off to iPlayer for me...

#62 Julia, at the moment I'm reading Brenda Maddox's biography of D.H. Lawrence, "The Married Man".



I watched the dramatisation of The Rainbow on BBC and wanted to know more about the man. I've only just started it so I can't comment on how good it is.

#63 Zoe, I haven't read the Hobbit since my early teens. I came to it after the Lord of the Rings and I found it quite disappointing. Maybe I would have had a different experience of the book if I'd read it first as an sensible person would have done :-)

#65 The Hobbit was my favourite book as a child, I found The Lord Of The Rings to be a disappointment after that, but to each their own :)

I read the LOTR before the Hobbit. I didn't feel that it made a difference. However, I am pleased to say that in my younger days I actually read the Silmarillion, which was a feat in itself... Tough going, as you might expect a Middle-Earth equivalent to the Bible to be!

Simon,



A bit of Baccara and Yes Sir I Can Boogie would go down a treat thanks muchly.



Nic

Aww - I've had another tweet reply from the lovely Rebecca Pike. That's about 3 or 4 tweets of mine she's replied to. Such a nice lady! Her esteemed colleague could take note...



Just been for my weekly lunchtime swim. You'll be pleased to know I remembered to put my swimsuit on - and thankfully so did everybody else who was there. Yesterday's 'Confession' refers...



;o)

#69 Doesn't Matt reply to your tweets, Deebee? ;-)

Bounce is back!



MTF.xx

#70 LOL Tortie! You know as well as I do that Matt isn't on Twitter. Wish he was...

Uh oh...blog is jumping for me again :(



#69 Are we back to the rare as hens teeth one? ;)

Hiccups observed here too.

Yep - Alberquerque back here too!

Trying to hit the right line of keys - my keyboard is jumping too now....



#62 - Julia - At the moment I am re-reading all the Harry Potter books, prompted by B&B Minimus, who wanted to re-read them all himself before the last film comes out in the summer, and I am also reading Return of the Native by a Mr T Hardy of Wessex. Interested to see on "Lambing Live" on the telly last night they referred to "raddle", the stain put on rams' undercarriages so they know which ewes they have "covered" - and hence Diggory Venn, the Reddleman, in Return of the Native came to mind. And regularly dipping into the Guinness Encyclopedia of Folk Music at the moment (copy kept in smallest room in house!). Discovered - chatting about music on Facebook the other night - that Jimi Hendrix once asked my friend's mum out on a date... Has anyone else ever been "asked out" by a superstar?



I never could get on with Tolkein - I always had too much to worry about in the real world!

#76 That's why I love this blog so much... you learn so much, even about ram's undercarriages!! :D

#76 B&B yes, not a superstar, but a star. I'm far too discrete to disclose any more (and it was a long time ago) !

#78 - Come on TC ... youre amongst friends! Give us a complicated anagram and we'll work it out:0)

How about....



Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do).



Bounce, bounce, bounce......

Just a thought - maybe we could re-name this the Tigger blog ...



"bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, fun, fun, fun, fun ...."



Yes, I am having a boring afternoon, since you ask!! : )

#81 Twin one plays that Tigger song on repeat! :D



It's bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy, fun fun fun fun fun



And part of the wonderful thing about this blog, is it's a jumpy one!



Y'know that song's gonna be stuck in my head for the rest of the day now *_*

#82 It's in mine too now - sorry Zoe!

#76 B&B - my godmother once went out with Dudley Moore. He wasn't famous at the time - they were at school together (as was my Mum), but he later mentioned her in an interview he did with (I think) Michael Parkinson.



And I've obviously been asked out by a few superstars..... oh, okay - that was only in my dreams...



~X~

#83 If you have infested yourself with it, that's punishment enough! :D

#76 B&B, I, too, saw 'Lambing Live' last night. I did feel for that poor lamb who was given the unfortunate name of 'Blow off'!







I know, I know, trust me to lower the tone of the conversation! :-)

Thanks to NicRolastic's choice @ #68 for the earworm that is relentlessly going around in my head at the moment!

Just thought of a qualifying song:



"Yeah No Definitely" by Juke Box Vandals



Probably not on the Radio 2 playback system though :-)

I've never been out with a celeb myself (I don't think), but the mother of one of my friends dated Sean Connery back in Glasgow before he was James Bond... And Mrs B&B claims to have "gone out" with that bloke who presents Homes Under the Hammer!

Mrs Snapper, who was at Exeter Uni, turned down one of the guys out of Show of Hands (she says!).



The closest I've ever come to famous women is that I taught one of the girls from Chumbawamba self-hypnosis.

Hello everyone,

not being very discreet,

I went out with Mark Knopfler when we both worked at the Yorkshire Post in Leeds, many years ago.



twigsan

As a result of AV the only people to get elected will be Middle of the Road. So why not Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.

This celeb dating is interesting eh? Harry - did she look into your eyes, not around your eyes, into your eyes -until she could self-induce? "3-2-1... you're back in the blog..."

#93 Take the p*** all you want, Mr B&B :-)



Poor girl was going on tour (I think to the States) and had stage fright. I think it worked. Mrs Snapper was her tutor on a Access course which is how we got to know her.

#94 - no offence intended Harry - sounds like you did a good job for her between you. Is/was she a local to your area then? Aren't Chum... from Burnley?

The blog is jumping so violently there's coffee all over my keyboard now.

#95 B&B, no offence taken ..... I was smiling!



They were from Leeds; we lived there from 1989-1994.

Afternoon All

apropos of absolutely everything -



I'd like to proudly announce that my other half has immaculate taste in music.

When we first became 'we' around the turn of the century, we had that conversation about favourite listening - Elbow, he said, and Doves [he pronounces it doovs being of cumbrian bent].

Not a twitch from me. Never heard of them said I. They're good says he.



Such prescience! Guy and co. on Jools tonight. Anyone else follow them way back then?





I .. ahem .. 'went out' with a pop star or two when I worked on Smash Hits

hello!