A HORSE WITH NO NAME ~ America



WILD HORSES ~ The Rolling Stones



Thanks Simon!

Lucie's Mum x

One more song before I get back to work...



NATIONAL EXPRESS ~ Divine Comedy



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Good morning,



How's about:



THANK YOU VERY MUCH by Scaffold (for the Aintree Iron)

BETCHYA BY GOLLY WOW bu The Stylistics

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS by Queen (good old Bob)

RED RED WINE by UB40 (as in Rum)



Have a good day.x

COME ON - The Rolling Stones



NATIONAL EXPRESS - Divine Comedy



JUMP - Van Halen

THE RACE IS ON - Dave Edmunds & Stray Cats

Morning all.





DONT BRING ME DOWN --- ELO.



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Morning All



Only two suggestions:



MANIFESTO by ROXY MUSIC (The horse Manifesto won in 1899)



VIVA BOBBY JOE by THE EQUALS (BobbyJo won in 1999)



Back later!



x

Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses - U2?



Morning all by the way! Last day at work for a few days for me as school holidays in the Leeds area mean a long weekend beckons!



Might poop back later.



GB

HOLD YOUR HEAD UP - Argent



RUN FOR HOME - Lindisfarne



RUNAWAY HORSES - Belinda Carlisle

Morning All,



The Fix - Elbow featuring Sheffield's own Richard Hawley



Not that I am suggesting that it's a fix at all...really...it's just a fine song about horses



Maybes Laters



A.

Morning all



#7 good suggestions Madchick!



The best I can come up with at the moment is



CRAZY HORSES - The Osmonds



Will try harder!



Tortie x

Doh!!



HOLD ON TIGHT -- ELO.



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COLOURS - Donovan



TRUE COLOURS - Cindy Lauper

I STARTED SOMETHING I COULDN'T FINISH - Smiths



CARRY THAT WEIGHT - Beatles



RUN FOR YOUR LIFE - Beatles

Morning all, another lovely day dawns here in Oxford (sorry if it's not great yet where you are) and a perfect day for cycyling to work - still cool enough so that you're not all sweaty when you get to work!

As regards the blog topic, howsabout a drop of U2, 'Gonna Ride your wild horses' not that they are, of course; furious maybe, but not wild.

Off for caffeine have a nice day y'all.

~ S

Looking at a list of runners and riders for inspiration. Ended up picking out my horse! The Tother One 33/1. Good name methinks. Good enough for this Yorkshire lass anyway. It's highlighted green which apparently means it has a good chance.



Anyways:-



Thriller - Michael Jackson, because it will be and because the opening line 'it's close to MIDNIGHT' The Midnight Club being one of the favourites, supposedly.



A.

Good morning everyone.



Well, this one was a non-starter at Cheltenham and Ascot so perhaps this it has been saved for the National:



RIDE ON by CHRISTY MOORE

I WON'T LET YOU DOWN - PhD



SADDLE UP - David Christie

RUN TO YOU -- BRYAN ADAMS.



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Greetings Fellow Blogpopsters - what an excellent array of choon choices!



I'm thinking of the start of the race - always fraught with difficulty ..



HOLD THE LINE - TOTO

ITS OVER -- ROY ORBISON.



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TUBTHUMPING ( I get knocked down but I get up again) - Chumbawamba

COME BACK AND FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED!! -- Gladys knight and the Pips.



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ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!! -- Queen.



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FAVOURITE SHIRTS - HAIRCUT 100



MY FAVOURITE GAME - CARDIGANS

Morning Simon, team, NNYM and sun-blessed blogsters





JUMP - POINTER SISTERS



JUMP - VAN HALEN



(I'm not really here)



Be good.

YOU BETTER YOU BET - THE WHO



BET YER LIFE I DO - HERMANS HERMITS

WAITING FOR A STAR TO FALL - BOY MEETS GIRL

Good Morning All,



'Winner Takes It All' Abba



Have a good day everybody

Morning all! Another sunny one here in Ethics!



There is an actual tune called OVER THE STICKS, but it comes from the Well Tuned Fiddle Book, so I don't expect it to be a close runner!

BET ON IT would be good, but it's from High School Musical, so not really classed as worthwhile music.

So instead I'll plump for YOU BETTER YOU BET - The Who.

ABBA.....



Take a chance on me OR...



Head over heels OR...



On and on and on.



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'Three Time Loser' Rod Stewart or Wilson Pickett (Picket Fence?)

woohoo - anyone remember this - 1968 midweek mosh material ..





RACE WITH THE DEVIL - GUN





:^O

#27 - you pipped me to the post on that one!

I'd better have DARK HORSE - George Harrison instead.

I have to go now and I want to stay and play!



Have TerrificThursdays.



Love



BP

IF I FELL -- The Beatles :)



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I CAN"T STAND UP FOR FALLING DOWN - ELVIS COSTELLO

Good Morning All



Grand National time already? The year is fairly galloping by...



I have tweeted:



JUMP by Van Halen



WIN PLACE OR SHOW by the Intruders



IT'S OVER by Level 42



ALL OVER AGAIN by Ronan Keating



COME ON OVER by Olivia Newton John



THANK YOU VERY MUCH by the Scaffold



And can I also second MTF's suggestion at #21 - I was trying desperately to think of that one, but couldn't get there.



Deebee ~X~

#33 Katy, 1968??? Oh God!!!

'You Better You Bet' The Who

ONLY SIXTEEN ( the number of fences on the course ) -- Sam Cooke.



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UPSIDE DOWN -- Diana Ross.



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Going back to my roots --Odyssey!!!



Right, play time over.



As usual, will listen out for you all after 5.



Off to dig, in the glorious sunshine.



Cheerio.



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#39 Harry - I know! Definitely an OMG moment.



#34 EthicsMan - hey, no worries - we share in here - it's not as though we 'own' these songs. lol.

I never read the choon choices when I first arrive here to post - just wade in there then look back and see who has done the same.







ROLL WITH IT - OASIS



FALL AT YOUR FEET - CROWDED HOUSE

'Come Back And Finish What You've Started' Gladys Knight and the Pips

#44 Katy, perhaps though, like me, you only know the song from the Girlschool cover of the early 80s? LOL

RIDE LIKE THE WING - CHRISTOPHER CROSS

HEAD OVER HEALS - TEARS FOR FEARS



should really get dressed and buy socks now

Morning folks... a beautiful day here in the parish. Hope you're all well. Can't put too much brain into this today - for one reason I exhausted my horse songs for Cheltenham, and I know that if I get started I'll start thinking up puns again (" A Martingale Sang in Berkely Square" anyone?), but because he's a cracking drummer first and foremost, and this ain't a bad choon....



AGAINST ALL ODDS - Phil Collins



A bientot...

One last one .....



SOMETHING GOT ME STARTED ---SIMPLY RED.



MTF.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.......

if anyone wants to replace my errant G with a D, feel free to do so



(oh and now i have to wait how many seconds?)

although, 'ride like the wing' dosent sound a half bad song title actually.



Alice, 'Thriller' regularly gets sung in our home as 'CAT B' is called MIDNIGHT

#48 Morning B&B, I listened to Fripp & Eno last night. It was just what I needed! Although undoubtedly unique, there were faint reminders of early Tangerine Dream for me. I think it might be my Sunday morning listening this week.

Back again!

'Bet(cha) by golly wow' Sylistics..thinking of all the monies passing through bookies' hands...

#46 Harry - yeah - and the Judas Priest cover in ooh .. er .. late 70s'?



#48 Ah - there you are B&B - i finally got round to sending you a PM in FB ...





Everyone looking forward to the can up the jacksy Chicken dish later?

- bet that's a sight for sore eyes - can't wait for the twitpic ....







♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥

I don't know much about horse-racing, but ... "A Carousel Horse Ride To The Seashore" from the Mary Poppins movie soundtrack - doesn't that include a horse-race?

High On A Horse by Grand Funk Railroad

Blame It On The Pony Express by Johnny Johnson

Ride Your Pony by Lee Dorsey ("Now, shoot" - but jockeys don't usually fire guns during the race - do they?)

Does Nigel Barden ever get mistaken for Nigel Slater or Nigel Marven. There was a Dennis Potter play Stand Up For Nigel Barton, long ago. I'm rambling.

'Riders On The Storm' The Doors

Good morning Simon, Team, NNYM and blogpoppets! Hugs to Gill and family. Thinking of you all.



It's a gorgeous day here too.



Late to the party today. Only choon that comes to mind (without reading above) is



JUMP - VAN HALEN



Don't suppose there's much time left to add to the list.



Hope everyone having a good day. Bring on the weekend, I say!



X

Morning all,



Bit late today, many of the best have been suggested.



SITTING ON THE FENCE - Rolling stones



JUMP THE FENCE - The Sweet



JUMP - Madonna

Just been 'listening again' to last night's show. Riders on the Storm /Rapture mix a work of genius? Up there with the very of Jive Bunny IMO. Some things are just too damn good to mess around.

THE RACE IS ON - Suzi Quattro



RACE TO THE FIRE - Bonnie Tyler



THE LONG RACE - Bruce Hornsby

#58 Please insert WORST between 'very' and 'of'.

#51 Morning Harry - glad you liked it. I never got Tangerine Dream, they were always somewhere down Prog Rock High Road for me, though ought to try again now a lifetime later. Rather than come to these albums via that route, I came via the Eno/Roxy route, having loved Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy and Here Come the Warm Jets. Still love those! "Baby's On Fire" has the nastiest guitar solo ever recorded - like having poetry read to you by a Vogon. The one that blended the two ideas of Eno's solo stuff was Another Green World... a superb album if you don't know it, very influential in many spheres. Absolutely beautiful. Ah... I spent many long dark hours listening to Evening Star while writing essays on Henry James and Emily Dickenson...



Hi KatyMac - just replied to you on FB, and thanks for that!



Gotta go do some work!

BLACK HORSE AND THE CHERRY TREE - KT Tunstall - Maybe a slight stretch for the theme, but a GREAT song (IMO of course).



or RIDE A WHITE HORSE - Goldfrapp

#50 - Had to read your post a few times Gill. I'm thinking "What 'G'?" hahaha! I was reading it as wind anyway!



Would Cat B be of the noir variety then?



A.

Good Morning Each! Some fine and dandy song choices for a fine and dandy day, I see. I also note that The Divine Comedy's National Express has been suggested. I can see that working, but what about Neil Hannons...



'My Lovely Horse' by Father Ted and Dougal.



I'll stick my twopenneth worth in with...



'In My Chair' by Status Quo



'Ginger' by Wayne Parker



'Do It Twice' by Bob Marley



'Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards' by Billy Bragg



'Go Fast (Turn Left)' by Before We Forget



'The Chase' from the Kill Bill 2 soundtrack (1 minute 4 seconds of 'bed'?)

Morning,



Can I go with:

Elbow - The Fix

The Divine Comedy - The Dogs & The Horses

Belle & Sebastian - Judy And The Dream Of Horses

Editors - The Racing Rats



And for a real long shot......



Hefner - Love Inside The Stud Farm (they were a favourite of John Peel!)



Cheers



Rips



Who apologies for any dooplicashuns



x

#64. I did my best to make them 'Grand National specific', but having looked back on them, I don't see many of them having a snowball in hells chance of being played. Maybe the Quo one?

oooo - I see no-one has picked this yet (suggested it for Cheltenham, and I am sure Noisy and the team will approve...)



WHITE HORSES - Jackie



You know it makes sense.....

#61 B&B, I understand what you mean. After 'Ricochet' they certainly became more mainstream, finally discovering melody. But, their origins are firmly in the German avant garde tradition of experimentation and there are some gems in there, although you do have to look hard. I'm not sure I'd want to re-visit their early work now.

AINTREE NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH - Diana Ross



FURLONG (HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON?) - Ace



SADDLE SORE THE ONE THAT I WANT - Olivia Newton John and John Travolta

Going back to the Red Rum days



You Win Again - The Bee Gees

Anyone suggested...



SIDE SADDLE - Russ Conway

THIS GIRL IS TAKING BETS - Thea Gilmore



YOU BET YOUR LIFE - Rush



YOU WANNA BET - Barbra Streisand



MY FAVOURITE GAME - The Cardigans



MY FAVOURITE MISTAKE - Sheryl Crow

CANAL YOU DIG IT - POP WILL EAT ITSELF



BEECHERS - THE STRANGLERS



BOOKIE WONDERLAND - EARTH WIND AND FIRE



HURDLE GURDY MAN - DONOVAN

And despite my best efforts, this is where my money will be going on Saturday...



'Nag, Nag, Nag' by Caberet Voltaire



'The Fallen' by Franz Ferdinand



'Also Ran' by Henry Rollins



'Do You Want To Finish...Or What?' by Toy Dolls



'Didn't Quite Make It' by Jim Condie

How about "Sadlle Up" by David Christie, "Ain't No Stoppin Us Now", "Blame it on the Pony Express", "Ticket to Ride", "Too Much Too Little Too Late" or "Warm Ride" (BeeGees) for Grand National songs?

ON THE MELLING ROAD AGAIN - Canned Heat

LOVE LIFTS STIRRUP WHERE WE BELONG - Jennifer Warnes/ Bill Medley?



HAPPINESS IS A WARM STARTERS GUN - The Beatles

#76. 'On The Road Again' is actually a legitimate choice, as they do cross the Melling Road twice. I may be mistaken, but I think that it was suggested this time last year. I bet Katy knows. Well, I do if I can find a bookie...

THEY SHOOT HORSES DON'T THEY - Racing Cars. (Can you tell I hate the Grand National?)

#78 AND #76



We didn't have the Grand National as a theme last year - the Dude took a week out at the seaside with his family ...

Nobody had...(I know this fella doesn't get played much on Radio 2 these days, but...)



BORN TO RUN - Bruce Springsteen?

Good Afternoon All :)



I tweeted my oldie choices this morning...



AGAINST ALL ODDS - PHIL COLLINS Great minds think alike B&B! But it's apt for the long-odds horses who occasionally win :)



BORN TO RUN - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I know! *ducks for cover*



I'm not sure about Nigel's offering today :/ I'm not sure I can approve of inserting a beer can into a chicken's nethers! :O Is it even hygenic or safe to roast meat with metal in it, like that? I suppose we use tin foil, but not usually in there!



I have mowed the lawn with our new lawnmower, and bored the mister rigid in praise of how easy it was. "It glided across the lawn practically by itself, and no backache!" He can consider it punishment for refusing to cut the grass himself!!

LOL at DOZYMAC - see Simon's blog - penultimate paragraph



[.. ooh get me with me big words]

winner takes it all-abba



its a kind of magic-queen



crazy horses-the osmonds



the race-yello



the gambler-kenny rodgers(you put a bet on the race)

I know we had this during Cheltenham, but it's more of a Grand National favourite I think...



REDRUM ON THE DANCEFLOOR - Sophie Ellis Bextor

Afternoon!



Don't remember seeing



YOU BETTER RUN - PAT BENATAR



above.



X

Afternoon all



Has anyone suggested:



YOU BETTER YOU BET - the Who



If they have, .. share?



Tortie x

#81 LOL I thought I'd try and revive that old classic too ;)

#82 - Zoe - great minds think even more aliker - #81!



Re Nigel's food fest this evening - an opportunity missed to cook some horse meat from a French butcher?...maybe he is putting "a la carte" before the horse?

or



THE SPEED OF THE BEAT OF MY HEART - HORSE



They must be beating somewhat fast by the end of the race



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#38 Deebee, I also thought about suggesting the Scaffold song, but on discovering what the 'Aintree iron' was supposed to refer to, changed my mind! ;-)

#91 MCM, come on, tell. Save us all googling it! :-)

Can we please have:



GOING DOWN TO LIVERPOOL - THE BANGLES

#92 I googled! https://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1840,00.html

#94 So did I Zoe! No one 'true' answer at all!

Now then, as it is getting just a little bit warm out there, I thought that I'd come in and share with you a little of my wizard of an evening, that was enjoyed last night.



If any of you are considering going, I can assure you that you won't be disappointed by the scenery, special effects and the music. It was all very cleverly done, especially when the audience is taken from the sepia of Kansas to the bright colourful Oz via a tornado that you really feel caught up in. The house does appear to actually fly. The Westie (Toto) really stole the show, as did the Wicked Witch of The West. Michael Crawford is not as tall in real life as I thought. Apparently he has had a long break from the stage before returning to this. Danielle Hope definitely deserved the role of Dorothy, fabulous voice.



From start to finish it was 2 3/4 hours. Visually it was quite sumptious, but I did feel that because it was a musical some of the story got a little lost. It was still quite a treat to watch, and a few surprises to make you jump.



PS I had forgotten how handily located the Palladium was, so we arranged to go there a little early so that we could just 'check' to see if the shops were there! ;-) x

#94 I'd assumed it might have been a reference to the use of a hot iron for persuasive purposes, which I read is a favourite tool of some unpleasant types in that part of the country.



Wrong again!

#92 Sorry Harry, I was referring to the most popular theory, the iron hoof and the manager of the Beatles.

#98 MCM, no problems. I followed Zoe's link and it seems we may never know. Guess the Guardian column makes it OK for the song to be a Drivetime themed oldie. But as Paul pointed out yesterday, the BBC plays some songs which, by its own standards, it shouldn't.

Arghhhhh Ants!



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