Good Morning Simon, team and everybody



Early blog this morning!



How about:



PLAY THE GAME by Queen



MY GENERATION by The Who



FIVE FOUR THREE TWO ONE by Manfred Mann



Deebee ~X~

Good Morning Everyone



A bright & sunny one here and a bright & early new blog.



Suggest -



PUSH THE BUTTON - Suga Babes



THE FINAL COUNTDOWN - Europe



BEAT THE CLOCK - Sparks

Morning all,



PROPERTY QUIZ - Beautiful South



QUIZ SHOW - Clifford T Ward

GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS - Peter Gabriel



GAMES PEOPLE PLAY - Joe South



THE NAME OF THE GAME - Abba



SILLY GAMES - Janet Kay

2 different songs -same title



GAME OF LOVE - Santana & Michelle Branch



GAME OF LOVE - Wayne Fontana & Mindbenders

Morning Again,



Looking forward to hearing Roger Waters.



So how about SEE EMILY PLAY by PINK FLOYD (of course!)

WEAKEST MOMENT - John Mellencamp



BLIND DATE - Barbra Streisand, or Boomtown Rats



BLOCKBUSTER - The Sweet

Whoa! Slow down there Billie...LOL! What about the poor bloggers who can't get on till later?



~X~

Simon, I remember those lovely Lyons (other brands etc...)cup cakes with loads of chocolate icing and they always were in foil frilly baking cases. Do they still make them?

Morning all



I was hoping for an early blog today as I won't be around much - first aid course from 09.00 until 4.30 - so thanks Simon!



No time for thinking today, so, if I may, I'll second Deebee's PLAY THE GAME by Queen.



Hopefully back later.



Tortie x

Good morning Simon, Team, NYM and blogpoppets!



That cold shower must have got you going early this morning Simon. Nice early blog. Got time to play before disappearing for a meeting.



Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers



Sweet - Blockbuster



That's all my brain can come up with this early.



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THE FINAL COUNTDOWN by EUROPE

SALE OF THE CENTURY - Godley and Creme





DEAL (NO DEAL) Josh Groban



MASTERMIND - Divine Comedy



MR AND MRS. REGARD - Gilbert O'Sullivan



THE GOLDEN BALL - Clannad

HIGHER AND HIGHER by JACKIE WILSON (Play Your Cards Right)

WOULD I LIE TO YOU? - Charles & Eddie



different song



WOULD I LIE TO YOU? - Eurythmics

#13 Alex, Godley and Creme, can I second your excellent choice?

Some good thinking up there! Look forward to hearing some of these on tonight's show.



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OUT OF TIME - Chris Farlowe



WIPE OUT - Surfaris



WIPEOUT - Fat Boys & Beach Boys

Good Morning Sir Dude - your family meal times sound just about perfect - and the marmite/peanut butter combo is still a winner ...



... as for themed choons - I guess they've all been chosen by now.





IT'S ALL IN THE GAME - TOMMY EDWARDS



GAME ON - CATATONIA

Morning Lord Ammo, team, NYM and thermostatically-controlled bloggers



GLITTERING PRIZE - Simple Minds



THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL - Abba

my (_!_) is numb I've been on the naughty step for sooooo long.....may toss a few tunes into the pot later :-)

QUESTION - Moody Blues

TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN - Steve Miller Band



LOVELY DAY - as in I've had a - Bill Withers



GO NOW - Moody Blues

IF I HAD A MILLION DOLLARS - Barenaked Ladies

Ah yes. Almost forgot to say ..





... my the fourth be with you











:^)

... and even then I typed it wrong.





May the fourth be with you.

Good Morning All :)



Isn't it lovely that his Lordship joins in our chat, I like a nice chocolate cupcake myself, and did indeed often partake of one purchased from the local bakery, for my tea as a wee lassie.



The mister used to be a big fan of Pink Floyd, and especially The Wall, he finds it all a bit too maudlin now. But Comfortably Numb is still one of my all time favourite songs.



Oldies suggestions...



WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE - FRANK SINATRA & CELESTE HOLM



LOVE IS A LOSING GAME - AMY WINEHOUSE

Morning folks - how about the obvious, from the red Hot & Blue album...



WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? - The Thompson Twins

Hi again everyone... here's a few 'games' songs!





QUIT PLAYING GAMES WITH MY HEART ~ Backstreet Boys



LOVE IS A LOSING GAME ~ Amy Winehouse



GAMES PEOPLE PLAY ~ Joe South



THE NAME GAME ~ Shirley Ellis





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Good morning Simon, Team and fellow blogpoppets!



Lovely here in London town, if a tad on the chilly side.



And a happy Star Wars day to you, KatyMatey!



No suggestions from me - the early bird mensh chasers seem to have put forward enough to give the NYM something to do today.



Busy morning of meetings, then lunch with my agency to discuss potential contract roles come July, then a quiet afternoon of project planning. No doubt I will be back here then!



Only 3 more sleeps till Cambridge! Whoo hoo!



A-G

Morning all, some of you were quick off the mark today, so I'll have to go off-piste ..



RUNNING IN THE FAMILY (FORTUNES) by Level 42



I WOULD RATHER GO BLIND (DATE) by Etta James



(SHOOTING) STARS by Simply Red



HAVE I GOT NEWS (OF THE WORLD) FOR YOU by The Jam

More oldie suggestions...



TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME - BOBBY BROWN



WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS - QUEEN



THE GAMBLER - KENNY ROGERS

9.30 am and it's all over bar the shouting. OK - the fat lady may sing another tune but I fear all is done and dusted ...



Speak In Metaphors Day

I know it's early for puns, but this made me titter...



PUT A LITTLE MONKHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL - They Might Be Giants



But, more legitimately...



BIG BROTHER - David Bowie



WIPE OUT - The Surfaris



COME DANCING - The Kinks



THE APPRENTICE - John Martyn



Wasn't sure about Claire McGuire last night - too many missing "t"s in her conversation for me, but SO thrilled she played a John Martyn song in her songbook contribution... a beautiful beautiful song, and she didn't wreck it, which could easily have been the case. I wish JM was available to come on and do a session himself... that would have been chaotic!



Madchick - you mentioned the village of Ugley yesterday - we used to imagine what the various local institutions in Ugley must have been like - Ugley mothers and Toddlers Group for instance, or Ugley Women's Institute. Also, in Suffolk, the village of Elmswell near where we used to live, which even now is only ever mentioned as All's Well That Elmswell...

*the fat lady sings*



A couple of class acts:



SHOW ME THE WAY - PETER FRAMPTON



THE SHOW MUST GO ON - LEO SAYER

Morning,





Play the game - Queen



It's all in the game - Tommy Edwards or the four tops



I was right and you were wrong - Deacon blue



It's yer money I'm after baby - The wonderstuff



The Lunatics have taken over the asylum - The fun boy three



Overkill - Motorhead



Don't believe the hype - Public enemy

Good morning,



#9 Chickster, What about French Fancies? I got some for the Big Girl for the school street party last week because they reminded me of the Jubilee in 1977.



As for suggestions, I am going to second:



WINNER TAKES IT ALL by Abba because the Big Girl likes it.



Have a good day.x

Given that tomorrow sees the AV vote coming to pass, I was wondering if AV might be the way forward for selection of the oldies, so that the obvious obviously get picked if they are indeed that obvious, but then the weaker tracks suggested are lost in the first round, the next weakest in the second round, and so on... so that by the time the show goes on air either the bleedin' obvious songs or the ones suggested by most of the Poppets du Blog get picked. This might of course mean that "Simply the Best" and "Thriller" never get aired again, and it might also result in the regular playing of a certain ELO track concerning the end of the day....

How about...



CUDDLY TOY - ROACHFORD



The ever present item on the Generation Game conveyer-belt :D

The man of the moment ...







SIMON SMITH AND HIS AMAZING DANCING BEARS - ALAN PRICE





SIMON SAYS - 1910 FRUITGUM CO

Having problems posting again so will post in chunks - here's the first instalment.



Good morning Everyone and, of course, Simon The Dudiest Drivetime Host, The Team and The NYM,



Just pooping by with (5-4-)3-2-1 - Manfred Mann.



Will be back in a bit. The boss is out today and I don't have great piles of work on so should be able to play out for a bit.



~ xx

#37 - Julia - French Fancies.... truly a food designed by God.



#40 - Cakey - I love that Alan Price song! Was it written by Randy Newman?

By the way, the coalman used to scare the bejaysus out of me - if I was playing outdoors when he came to make his delivery, I'd be back in the house before you could blink. As much as anything it was the noise of the coal being deposited in the bunker; it always seemed so loud. We didn't see many rag and bone men round our way, not sure why, we certainly weren't posh. I do remember the milkman; he was employed by the Co-op (other retailers etc, etc). My job on a Saturday was to pop to the Co-op to get rolls for breakfast and milk tokens. I still remember my Mum's dividend number. Charlie Livingstone used to come round with a grocer's van - my Mum used to treat me to a drumstick, a quiz and some mo-jos to enjoy whilst watching 'Watch with Mother'. Aaaaah the happiest of times :D



Rightio, off to tidy up the grindstone.



Back in a bit.



~ xx

#38 B&B - I can see where you're coming from [actually, I can't - literally. Metaphorically - perhaps]





Personally, I'd be cock-a-hoop NEVER to hear Winner Takes It All, Simply the Best, We are the Champions - and any other 'winning' songs - ever again.

Good morning everyone.



Seems I'm a little late to the party but I have a suggestion. I think it is of American origin but the reward for winning games at fairgrounds was often a cigar, hence the expression "Close, but no cigar" and I think Thomas Dolby released a song with that title. But my request, in honour of Roger Waters' appearance on the show, would be:



HAVE A CIGAR by PINK FLOYD

'match game' Otis Redding

Now then shop bought cupcakes were never an option in our house so that's a treat that past me by. All our treats were home baked but I never felt like I'd missed out because I thought that was how it was. I remember being quite excited about the Party Rings (other children's biscuits...) we had at Playschool - all those pretty colours :).



~ xx

#34 B&B - the game of naming institutions after towns with odd names was a favourite one of Richard Whiteley. I can recall only a few of the ones he mentioned on Countdown. Others were:



Idle Working Men's Club (Idle is near Bradford)



Loose Women's Institute (I think Loose is in Kent?)

#44 Katy - me too, particularly The Final Countdown! BUT - I think the songs that generally do get picked are testament to the generally good taste of the contributors herein and the equally discerning good taste of Noisy and the team. It is Radio 2 after all, so they have to play a fair bit of "the bleedin' obvious" now and again, but... as last night's show demonstrated - you can play them with wit and a sense of fun, so Phil Collins' "I Missed Again" was very funny as a snooker song (and it's a really good record!). It's more the ARF family heading up to Edinburgh for the National Brat Awards, where Tanya and AJ are entered for the "Best Brat In Britain" award, who want "Simply The Best" played yet again that get me down!

#42 B&B



Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear was indeed penned by the mighty Randy Newman in 1967.



What a name to be gifted! The writer's. Or a curse? High expectations and all that.



Joe Cocker and Ron Sexsmith may also feel the pressure ..

#48 - excellent Harry! Good morning to you, by the way.

#51 And good morning to you too, B&B.



I was really busy yesterday and just as I was about to join in the chat in the afternoon we had a power cut. As it had been on the news that there had been arrests at Sellafield following the bin Laden killing some of us here began to fear the worst!

#50 - KatyMac - I always used to wonder who Randy Vanwarmer was warming the van for, given his own obvious sense of excitement...

#54 Wasn't Randy van Warmer a Dutch vehicle valet? I know for sure that Tesco van Driver was Dutch!

Morning All,



'It's A Mystery' Toyah



Have a good day everybody

#53 Baxter& - that's the chap I was trying to remember! My OH was talking about him the other day ...

Darned if I can recall the context ...





;^)

#52 - I spotted that too Harry. It's a sad world when a bunch of Bangladeshi guys taking photos of Sellafield are automatically suspected terrorists, when back in the day they might just have been suspected tourists.

#54 - Harry m' Lovely, Tesco Van Driver? Are you sure?



~ xx

'You Keep Me Hanging On' The Supremes

Oooh 'ello Brandon - one of the funnier elements of this blog [not you Brandon] is when there's a particularly snappy/saucy exchange and someone just innocently wanders in to post something sensible - totally oblivious ...



Flippin' spoilsporty 3 - minute post gap warning has almost put paid to that sort of random silliness. grrrrr.







I thing I've managed around 20 metaphors or cliches so far today .....

#56 - was the context "if only we had someone who could warm the back of this van up!"?



#54 - I think you're right Harry. As for Van Dyke Parks, there's a car park outside of Rotterdam where...... (on second thoughts, better not!)

Ah. And Toots is here. :^)



All is well with the world

#60 I wrote a poem in English (at school that is) Katy, that went...



If I can't use a metaphor

I think it might be better for

You to try a simile

Instead.



Didn't get me to poet laureate job...

#49 Sorry B&B for my suggestion at #12, I do usually try to pick songs I'd like to hear rather than any old track that fits in with the theme, but that one just leapt out on to the keyboard and I posted it before I came to my senses!!:-)



Talking of party rings, does anyone remember the brightly coloured iced biscuits that had clowns faces and other pictures on them? I also remember cola flavoured jelly.

When I was growing up, I lived in a small village out in the sticks and not only did we have the milkman, newspaper van, postman and coalman we also had a grocery van, a butcher, ice cream van and late summer the 'blackberry man' used to come a couple of times a week and freinds and I used to pick huge baskets full of blackberries -- the hedges were black with them around the fields in those days -- and he would weigh them and pay us 6d a pound... a lot of money in those days if you'd got 30 or so pounds of them. I think they used to be sold on to a jam factory.

Just been catching up with yesterday's blog. PoS and Mo from the previous blog - in my world good, food and rude all rhyme, who knew they were supposed to sound different.



Mo, when you were learning to read how were you taught to read wh?



Kilconquhar in Fife is pronounced Kinnucher (the ch as in loch).



Off to catch up with the recent goings on, on this 'ere blog.



~ xx

OK - as we're talking pop/rock names -

Here's how you generate your own Rock/Pop band name.





The name of the last pet you 'lost'



- then add the words [as appropropiate] AND or AND THE -



Then the last thing you ate yesterday.

Plus *optional* - the last thing you purchased online.







Mine is Tweety and the Peanut Tickets.

#49 B&B, I'm afraid Brat's life.



#64 Chickster, When I started reading "brightly coloured iced biscuits" I thought you were talking about iced gems. I absolutely loathed those but have noticed a chocolate version sometimes pops up on the current kids' party scene. Haven't felt the urge to test them because the thought of the pastel coloured ones still conjures up that awful taste in my mouth.



#65 Luciesmum, If you talked to kids today about the "blackberry man" they would think you were referring to the bloke who works in the Carphone Warehouse (other mobile phone shops etc etc).

On the subject of tea cakes, one of my old favourites is Battenburg cake, with its checkered squares of yellow and pink sponge, surrounded by marzipan. And marshmallows, which actually comprised of a biscuit base with marshmallow on top, the whole lot covered in chocolate. Yummy!



And how about Swiss roll, which for some unaccountable reason my 'baby' brother used to call swimming pool cake...



~X~

#67 Haha! Good game, KatyMatey!



Mine is Kipper and the Pizza Shoes



~X~

Hi Katy, well done on the metaphors - keep 'em coming - you never know, it may catch on. Baxter&Bertie - liked your little poem (or as it is in Scotland poyem - and that's from my very well-educated pal). Oh and why is shire as in Lincolnshire (other counties, etc) pronounced sheer???



Alex~G - glad your car has been mended. I'm still disgruntled that I can't meet you guys this weekend :(



I didn't have any Easter eggs but the younger GB still has some left. The elder GB finished the last of his Easter chocolate last night - studying for AS exams obviously works up an appetite.



~ xx

#68 Julia, I agree, iced gems were foul. No these were flat iced biscuits.



Deebee, Battenburg was one of my favourites...mmm



#67 Meg and The Mushy Pea Shoes! :-)

On Clare Maguire... I quite like that Sword and Shield song, but I didn't care much for her version of 'I Couldn't Love You More' But then I do have a great fondness for the original. I thought I could hear hints of Bonnie Tyler in her voice, but when Simon read out the Shakira comparison, I could totally hear that too!



On men (or indeed boys!) that do... We did have a rag and bone man back in the day, he was very Steptoe and Son with his cart, but he had a donkey not a horse! We actually still have a rag and bone man that comes round now, but he operates from the back of a van these days, still shouting "Any old iron!" though.



I recall we had the same Insurance Man for years, Mr Kite, and although he called round every week as regular as clockwork, our dog always went for him!



On sexy voices (as Noisy was rather taken with Julia and her soft furnishings!) it got me pondering on men who have sexy voices... There are a few who do it for me, so to speak! After hearing that 'Me and Tennessee' song by Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw, I'm finding his voice very alluring, particularly on that track. Then there's Michael Sheen, I could listen to him talking all day. There are more, but one is a politician :O and the other, well...

Tea cakes? Snowballs - lovely gooey mess.



#65 we picked fruit/tatties according to the season when I was but a lass. Didn't take long to scunner yourself of berries.



I have just discovered that the company I work for has been asked not to undertake some maintenance work while the Olympics are on. Now this work is to take place quite a lot of miles NE of Aberdeen in the middle of the North Sea. Only thing I can think of is that the high diving events will be held there due to lack of cash available for building new facilities?



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#64 - sorry MCM - didn't mean to cause offence, and don't apologise!!!



#69 - Deebee - oh no...I am making a mess on my desk now: battenburgs, marshmallows, Tunnock's Snowballs, chocolate rolls, and by the time we are in the cake shop, coffee-iced cream choux buns, vanilla slices, chocolate eclairs....



#71 - Studio Boots - it has just dawned on me that the only two poems I can remember writing at school both finished on the one-line word "Instead"! The other was about a cow...



This ruminating quadruped

Never has to go to bed

It chews its cud

From dawn till dusk

Instead...



(baxter and bertie, aged 11 and three quarters).



My rock band is Zebedee & The Honey Toast. I think we probably sounded much like The Archies.

#67 Dan and the Spaghetti Parking just doesn't do it for me but a good game from Katy.



#75 tea on screen - much more inventive that I could ever be



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Good Morning Each!



'As Long As The Price Is Right' by Dr Feelgood



'Going For Gold' by Shed Seven



'Sale Of The Century' by Thomas Dolby



'The Kids Are Alright' by The Who



'Mr And Mrs' by Rosemary Clooney



'A Question Of Sport' by Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick



'Wipe Out' by The Surfaris (or The Ventures. Prefer the first)



'Pokerface' by Lady Gaga



'Jokers Wild' by Paul Hardcastle



'Just A Minute' by Count Basie



Then, there's...



'I'm Sorry' by Roxette



and



'I Haven't Got A Clue' by The Honest Johns



The antidote to game shows. D'ya see what I did there?

Did you know .......?





....that Prince – who is Prince Rogers Nelson - according to reliable internet sources, has changed his name a record 743 times, including “the artist formally known as the artist formally known as Prince”.



Some sources indicate he is in the process of changing it to 'Bob'



More power to his elbow.



Just as long as he says 'Bob' in the manner of Edmund Blackadder [ II - episode 1 ]







:^D

Morning All,



No suggestions...



#67 - I would be Dandy and the Bolognese Book



A.

#67 Katy - I'm Lola and the Rich Teas :)



~ xx

#67 Katy's Game:



JASPER AND THE TABOULEH GOATSKIN

ooo - no - we were:



Zebedee & The Honey Toast Kindle



#73 ZoeUU - You had an insurance man called Mr Kite? Was he a high flyer? Did people talk about his policies as Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite? On sexy bloke voices, if I was inclined so I'd say Alan Rickman has a pretty healthy tone.

#67 Woody and the Jammy Dodgers would be mine :D

Rock Band...



Ollie and the ChocolateRiceKrispiecake Barstools.



My word!

#81 - it's a different world up there Harry! Do you shop at Goatskins R Us? Hope you didn't get fleeced..... Didn't Kevin Ayres sit in a few times with Jasper and the Tabouleh Goatskin, at the Middle Earth in about 1968?

#75 - that's amazing that you still remember them. I remember doing a poem about politics at primary school about the time Jeremy Thorpe was a candidate. I can't remember how it went but I do remember the teacher chuckling when she read it.



#80 - the last thing i bought on line was a George Foreman healthy cooking grill (other healthy cooking grills...) but that's too much of a mouthful so settled for what I had for supper - the evening snack designed to stave off night starvation and see you through to morning.



MCM - i had forgotten all about those clown biscuits but I can remember them now. I wasn't a fan of Iced Gems either but loved Bunty sponges - does anyone recall them? We used to sell them in the school tuck shop. mmmmm yummy they were great.



~ xx

#85 Kevin Ayres? Now there's a blast from the past!! [sound of me dashing off the Spotify] :-)

....I'm bored! Anyone fancy an argument? We could do Royal Weddings, murdering insurrectionists in other sovereign states, AV v FPTP? Any takers? Or just Favourite Pink Floyd songs? Mine would be See Emily Play, Bike, Granchester Meadows. In that order... probably.

#67 Oscar and the Nakd Berry Bars

Haha #67 KateyMatey... in the words of Brucie... 'good game, good game'!



My pop group would be called Sophie and the Chocolate Memory Cards :o))

Harry, a friend gave me and the now ex a goatskin as a wedding present (or gift if you're so inclined) - it was really rather stinky; we never used it although it did travel around with us before we eventually chucked it out. I was so sad as I thought it was a really cool present.



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#88. No, it wouldn't...

#85 & #87 I would have put good money on Kevin spelling his name "Ayres" but it is "Ayers".



And, I kid you not (pun intended!), last thing I bought online was a Nigerian goat skin; arrived about 20 minutes ago :-)

#75 No, far from it, you didn't cause offence at all. If it does get an airing, I'll blame Billie as I noticed that she suggested it before me! ;-)

#87 - Joy of a Toy was, I believe, his Ziggy Stardust/Dark Side of the Moon moment... Remember fondly and album called "June 1st 1974", which was a live gig with him, Brian Eno, Nico and John Cale, with - I believe - Phil "It's a pity about me because I genuinely am a fabulous drummer" Collins and Phil Manzanera on board... you don't get many line-ups like that these days! Checked this just on Wikipedia and found the following... "Tensions were somewhat fraught at the event since the night before John Cale had caught Ayers sleeping with his wife". You don't get that as much nowadays either.....

B&B - no, please, we don't want any arguments, let's play nicely. I'm enjoying Katy's game at the mo. My favourite Pink Floyd choon would be Shine on You Crazy Diamond.



oh yeah, Tunnocks snowballs were a real treat - a local hotel used to serve 'ice cream surprise' - the surprise (the first time and it really was a pleasant surprise) was a Tunnocks snowball underneath the ice cream.



~ xx

#82 Oh yes, Alan Rickman has a lovely voice :)



Mr Kite was not a high flier, he was a rather tall and spindly man, like a character out of a Roald Dahl book! no wonder the dog used to go for him!!



#88 I could argue over AV, but it depends which side you're coming from... I was contemplating the whole Osama Bin Laden thing last night, after I accidentally happened upon the Sky News Newspaper review, and found the two reviewers congratulating The Sun on their headline and lead article for today's edition... *actually despairs for humanity*

#86 Tooty, toot, Toots, Bunty? Remember the mag but not the cakes.



#88 B&B, I thought that on this 'ere positive blog we didn't have arguments. We sometime have intelligent debates and discussions involving opposing views. If it's virtual fisticuffs you want I gather the Daily Mail website is a good place to vent your spleen.



Oh, and Pink Floyd? Can't stand them ;-)

Hmmm



Bibs and the cheese carrier sheets.



Doesn't work very well really :)

Morning again,





The Gambler - Kenny Rogers



The Smiths - Bigmouth strikes again



We hate it when our friends become successful - Morrissey