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...and I went back in time to post it.

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Hi all....


For Mon...

Panic..................... The Smiths

For Tuesday ...

He Stopped Loving Her Today ....... George Jones (go on, get us all greetin' with this classic) :O)


For Wed...

Friends ..................Shalamar

For Thursday ...

Walk Away Renee .......... Four Tops Baby Come Back ............ The Equals


Have a great weekend everyone

F I D

Great list Frank...

For Tuesday the sublime:

My Life - Iris DeMent

and in case Glen is not back

My Ride's Here - Warren Zevon or the absolutely fantastic and heartful tribute to Zevon as recorded by the Boss a day after Zevon's death.

Norrie... where else can you request The Smiths, Shalamar, George Jones and the Four Tops and have a good chance of them being played?

Its why l love this show....

Only in our heids!!

Thursday

Jesus Was An Only Son - Springsteen, v She Devil - Natalie Merchant

Thursday:

'Quiet' - Ian Dury and the Blockheads (great track - the kind of song that illustrates why I love this band)
v
'Talking Loud and Clear' - OMD

Good themes

Monday
The Bare Necessities / Phil Harris
This World of Water / New Musik

Tuesday
Funny How Time Slips away / Willie Nelson
Rock and Roll Suicide / David Bowie
Drowning in a sea of Love / Joe Simon or Boz Scaggs

Wed
Right Next Door / Robert Cray (Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese)
Amigos Para siempre / Sarah Brightman & Jose Carreras
Waiting on a Friend / Rolling Stones

Thursday
The love i lost / Harold Melvin
I Found Lovin / Fatback Band

I Can See Clearly Now / Johnny Nash
I'd Rather Go Blind / Etta James

Your love is lifting me higher and higher / Jackie wilson
Love Come down / Evelyn Champagne King

Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy / The Tams
Old And wise / Alan Parsons Project

My Ship is Coming In / Walker Brothers
Drift away / Dobie Gray

THURSDAY:

'Ain't No Pleasing You' - Chas n Dave
'Everybody's Happy Nowadays' - The Buzzcocks

Yeah....all of the day is very good.....we must be careful every times,because we not know what will happen....Just enjoyed your life...
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There is a great version of When I'm Dead and Gone by Phil Everly with Cliff Richard.

#1, #2

Is Bryan the new Dr. Who?

We should be telt!

>8-D

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#17

Naw - you've got to be about 17 these days to be the Doctor.

Miss Babs as The Master, however... (or is that Servelan?)

Tuesday Mortality

Loads and loads of tracks I could suggest, but there's only one that I really, really want to hear and share with the GiO listeners:
Billy Bragg -
Whenever I hear it, I hear two perspectives - as a father and as a son.

Anyone who only knows Billy as a purveyor of political polemic will be blown away by this moving meditation.

Monday: The Bairns

Bryan Ferry's son Otis, is credited with 'whip' on 'Cruel'. It can be heard at the end as he cracks the whip on the backbeat.


J.O'B.

#20

Absolutely agree. Fantastic song. A big second from me for that.

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For Monday:

The Skids - Circus Games

Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will

#19 She certainly treats Bryan like one of The Ood.

Monday (Kids singing):

Schools Out - Alice Cooper


Tuesday (Death):

Ernie - Benny Hill
Snoopy V The Red Baron - The Royal Guardsmen
Running Bear - Johnny Preston

#11 Here Pablito! I'm surprised you didnt try your Paper Lace request for Tuesday. You could have gone for a PL double as both their top ten hits fit the bill

MONDAY:

'Dear God' - XTC
'Everything Is Beautiful' - Ray Stevens

#25

BRING ME THE OOD OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

#26
What!....and risk being upstaged by Ernie and Snoopy?

Ha! just wait till JFE comes in with 'Honey' and 'Tell Laura I Love her'.
That'll put your gas at a peep!

Scotch-git, norriemaclean, thank you for the kind words. I felt like the invisible man for a while there. Is there a knack to this? I find myself wondering if email is a better option. Let's see if we get one played this week.



Mon. WE ALL STAND TOGETHER - Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus

JuliefromEdinburgh got in first with Ray Stevens. I'll second that request.


Tues. LOCOMOTIVE BREATH - Jethro Tull

The runaway train is life. Careering out of control to the end of the line.


Wed. LAZY SUNDAY - Small Faces

Wouldn't it be nice to get on with me neighbours?


Thurs. I CAN'T MAKE YOU LOVE ME - Bonnie Raitt

The highlight of last Wednesday's show opposed to,

I'M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME - Diana Ross & The Supremes

I think the Temptations were involved in this song. Somebody will know.

#29
And if he does I shall see him and raise him Red Sovine's 'Teddy Bear'

#30
You got to have the Small Faces played. Clever Suggestion!

Cannymarra - by a convulated route your suggestions led me to:

In The Neighbourhood - Tom Waits

which reminded me of what I think is Springsteen's best song since Darkness

Long Walk Ö÷²¥´óÐã - Bruce Springsteen

both of which fit for Wed even if Bruce was using neighbourhood imagery for a wider political point. Brilliant song.

Thoughts for the week ahead....

Monday - songs featuring children singing

If I Had Words - Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley featured backing by the St Thomas More Roman Catholic School Choir

Tuesday:songs about mortality

This life (Sons of Anarchy theme)- Curtis Stigers
All my tears - Emmylou Harris
Hell yeah - Neil Diamond
Jacobs ladder - Springsteen
Live like you were dying - Tim McGraw
God's Acre - Kimmie Rhodes
My generation - the Who

Wednesday: friends and neighbours

Thank you for being a friend - Andrew Gold
Forever my friend - Ray Lamontagne
Lean on me - Bill Withers
I'll be there for you - Rembrandts (for intro-mx!!!)
My old friend the blues - Steve Earle
Hello old friend - Kim Richey
Let's invite them over - John Prine/Iris DeMent

Thursday: opposites

A good heart - Feargal Sharkey/Your heart is as black as night - Melody Gardot
I love to boogie - T.Rex/I won't dance -Sinatra
On Broadway - George Benson/Backstreets - Springsteen
One of these nights - Eagles/Every day hurts - Sad Cafe
Country Girl - Primal Scream/Uptown Girl - Billy Joel
I thought you should know -Steve Earle/I keep it hid - Linda Ronstadt
Tender - Blur/Harsh - Baskery
Way down in the hole - Blind Boys of Alabama/High and dry - Radiohead
Poor boy - Steve Earle/ Rich Girl - Hall and Oates

Have a good weekend all

Joe
Linlithgow

Think you might have touched on a whole new theme here Adam.

Killed in song by the Lynching Lyricist

Ernie / Benny Hill
Snoopy Versus the red Baron / Royal Guardsmen
Running Bear / Johnny Preston
Billy Don't Be a Hero / Paper Lace
Tell Laura I love Her / Ricky Valance
Honey / Bobby Goldsboro
Seasons in the Sun / Terry Jacks
Bat Out Of Hell / Meatloaf
Bohemian Rhapsody / Queen
Leader Of The Pack / Shangri Las
Ebony eyes / Everly Bros
Old shep / Elvis
Teddy Bear / Red Sovine
Call the Doctor / Hercules Mandarin
Billy Davey's Daughter / Stereophonics
Shannon / Henry Gross

#35 PaoloP - one more.... Killing him - Amy LaVere

Joe

>8-D


TUESDAY

BRING ME THE HEADSTONE OF ALFREDO GARCIA!


WEDNESDAY

668 THE NEIGHBOUR OF THE BEAST!


THURSDAY

BRING ME THE CHALK AND CHEESE-HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

Thursday's theme is addictive. One more:

Forever young - Audra Mae/When you are old - Gretchen Peters.

Joe
Linlithgow

MONDAY

I'll sit this one out. Weans dae mah nut in. I do, however, reserve the right to change my mind.

>8-D

TUESDAY

'Please Don't Bury Me' - John Prine

If I don't ask for it, Norrie will. PDB,BTW


'Desert Skies' - Marshall Tucker Band

Keep it Country!

Bryan, I've stuck a copy of the Lincoln City unreleased track Catherina in the post to you today; it would be lovely to hear it played on the radio for the first time on Tuesday when the theme is mortality. The song is about a Scottish GI bride who died young from cancer. But no mention of the D word in the lyrics. The tune has an early Simon and Garfunkel vibe to it. First public performance is in Edinburgh next month. You read it here first. Lincoln City might just be the best band ever to come out of Scotland.

Tuesday

Who wants to live for ever - Queen
Only the good die young - Billy Joel
Killing of Georgie - Rod Stewart

Jim

THURSDAY

Got carried away with tonights theme, so got themes within themes

Mix and match

Go now - The Moody Blues with any of
Please Stay - Duffy
Stay - Shakespear Sister
Stay - Jackson Brown

Downtown - Petula Clark with any of
Uptown Girl - Billy Joel
Uptown top ranking - Althea and Donna
Uptown Uptempo Woman - Randy Edelman

One song, two opposites

I can't stand up for falling down - Elvis Costello
Night and Day - by various artists but I like Clair Teal's version

Original theme

Truth - Hue and Cry / Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac
Under Pressure - Queen - Take it easy - The Eagles
Betrayed / Happy ever after both by Julia Fordham

Monday - Songs Featuring Children:
Dirty Harry - Gorillaz
Joe Le Taxi - Vanessa Paradis (she was 14!)
Sing - The Carpenters
You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones
The Candy Man - Sammy Davis Jr.
Children - The Mavericks
Playground In My Mind - Clint Holmes
They Killed Him - Bob Dylan with The Children's Choir
Pictures In The Dark - Mike Oldfield (ftr Aled Jones)
Keep The Faith - Jon Bon Jovi and the Washington Youth Choir
Rio Grande - David Bedford

Thursday - Opposites:
Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? - Moby
Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin

Hole In My Shoe - Traffic
New Shoes - Paulo Nutini

The Fool On The Hill - The Beatles
Man Smart, Woman Smarter - The Carpenters

Cosmos (Outer Space) - t.A.T.u
Innerspace - Bruce Dickinson

Let's Get Married - The Proclaimers
D.I.V.O.R.C.E. - Tammy Wynette

Let's Dance - David Bowie
I Don't Feel Like Dancin' - Scissor Sisters

Cold - Tears For Fears
Slow Burn - David Bowie

Higher Love - Steve Winwood
How Deep Is Your Love - Be Gees

Ready For Drowning - Manic Street Preachers
Low Desert - R.E.M.

Up, Up And Away - Andy Williams
Down Down - Status Quo

Across The Universe - The Beatles
The Girl Next Door - Frank Sinatra

Trapped - Utopia
Breathe - Prodigy

Bag Lady - Todd Rundgren
New Life - Depeche Mode

Wednesday - Friends And Neighbours:
A Miner's Life - Billy Bragg
"Union miners stand together"

Solidarity - Jefferson Airplane
Man Next Door - Massive Attack
You've Got A Friend - James Taylor
Neighbour, Neighbour - The Spectres
My New Next Door Neighbor - Jerry McCain
You're My Mate - Right Said Fred

TUESDAY

Support for 'Locomotive Breath' - Jethro Tull (see #30)

For Monday, the great lost Clash track

Clash - This Is England

or

Clash - Career Opportunities (Sandinista version)

Some suggestions for Tuesday's show as a fan of Deacon Blue / Ricky Ross /McIntosh Ross. Ricky's "Pale Rider" album from 2005 dealt with mortality in a few songs; the great atmospheric title track and the closing song "In The End" which was written in memory of Deacon Blue's late guitarist Graeme Kelling. Deacon Blue songs dealing with death and mortality: Riches (b-side to the first Dignity single back in 1987); Goodnight Jamsie and I Will See You Tomorrow (from Fellow Hoodlums). Another couple of great B-sides in the shape of Golden Bells and Indigo Sky also deal with the theme of mortality. And, look out for the subtle plug coming, the new McIntosh Ross album due out on 28th September has a song "Winter Is Coming" where Lorraine has said it's about celebrating the fact they are looking forward to growing old and celebrating their best years may be behind them, and Lorraine has also written a song on the album called "This World Is Not My Ö÷²¥´óÐã"... also worth a spin is the b-side to the new single - Summer. The lyrics seem to be about coming home from a funeral and not wanting to carry on after someone close has died but the music is full of life and is strangely uplifting.

I could throw in a couple of hard to get hold of Larry Norman recordings too... "The Road That Leads To Ö÷²¥´óÐã" which was recorded with just Larry on guitar singing in a hospital ward a year or two after he had a quadruple bypass which saved his life and a year or two before he finally succumbed to all his health problems with his heart condition. One of his last released recordings was "Lost Unto This World" which was an Emmylou Harris cover i think.

Tuesday

David Gray - Otherside ( the song about his deceased father and the album New Day at Midnight was dedicated to him)
Johnny Cash - Hurt

Thursday:-
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the dark, Bruce Springsteen or Manfred Mann - Blinded by the Light.
ELO - Confusion, Johnny Nash - I can see clearly now.

Thu Opposites

I heard his fiance got a letter to say that Billy died that day.
The letter said that he was a hero, she should be glad he died that way
/Paper Lace

William it was really nothin / Smiths



Money Can't buy me love / Beatles
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap / AC/Dc





Oh and another snuffed out in the lyrics
The Killing of Georgie / Rod Stewart

Thursday - you asked for 2 songs to do opposites. But can't they be in 1 tune? Like 'Hallo Goodbye' and isn't there some old crooner song with summit like "first they say they love you, then then they leave you.." in the lyrics? Have a great rest of weekend! MadhufromDunblanethomebbesoonbackinEdinburgh

#45

Hole in my Shoe works for Monday too.

#53

So it does! I'd forgotten about that bit! Too influenced by Neil's version I think... :-)

Tuesday - Mortality Night:
Dust In The Wind - Todd Rundgren
"As I lay me down to take my rest
I see that it's just dust in the wind"

Waiting To Die - Zero 7 (end the show with this one!)
Hope I'm Around - Todd Rundgren
Life Is A Long Song - Jethro Tull
Forever - Moby
We Can Run Away Now They're All Dead And Gone - Snow Patrol
Kids In America - Kim Wilde
Why Was I Born? - Aretha Franklin
The End - The Doors
Meet My Maker - Shannon Boshears
Never Gonna Die - The Shys
You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone - Muddy Waters

Good themes this week and some good suggestions so far'
i'd like tae chip in wi'
Monday; Mother of Mine - Neil Reid
Tuesday; Atmosphere - Joy Division
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks (should be a stick on)
Wednesday; Your my best Friend - Don Williams
Thursday; (the one we all really want to get our teeth into)
God save the Queen-Sex Pistols v The queen is Dead-The Smiths
Endless Love- D Ross & L Ritchie v Nothing lasts Forever- Echo & The Bunnymen
Love is a wonderful Colour-Icicle Works v Fade to Grey-Visage
Southbound-Thin Lizzy v Hit the North-The Fall
Just go Away-Blondie v Stay with Me-Rod Stewart

and my challenge to everyone

Welcome to my World-Jim Reeves v Ashes to Ashes-David Bowie

#51

I heard she threw the letter away.

>8-D

#10
oops scrub New Musik. Wrong song and the right one 'Living By Numbers' is chronic.

'It's Too Late' - Carole King

'It's Never Too Late' - Steppenwolf

>8-D

Sometimes It's Too Late - Green Frog Feet :-)

TUESDAY

"...life's a long song, but the tune ends too soon for us all."

'Life Is A Long Song' - Jethro Tull

In support of JimFraeErskine (see #55)

Re: Bryan's blurb on Thursday's theme; doesn't 'Don't Go' and 'Please Stay' mean the same thing?

We should be telt!

>8-D

THURSDAY

'Ne Me Quitte Pas' - Jacques Brel

vs.

'Go! And Never Darken My Towels Again!!' - Groucho Marx

>8-D

#62

BRING ME THE COROLLARY SAID OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

Thursday Opposites

5-4-3-2-1 - Manfred Mann / (1,2,3,4,5) Senses Working Overtime - XTC
All Day And All Of The Night - The Stranglers / NEVER Ever - All Saints
Stand and DELIVER - Adam and The Ants / RETURN To Sender - Elvis
DOWNTOWN - Petula Clark / UPTOWN Girl - Billy Joel
Money For NOTHING - Dire Straits / EVERYTHING I Own - Bread
Bridge Over Troubled WATER Simon & Garfunkel / FIREstarter - Prodigy
Let's Dance - David Bowie / I Don't Feel Like Dancin' - Scissor Sisters
Nancy With The LAUGHING Face - Frank Sinatra / CRYING - KD Lang
I Love It LOUD - Kiss / Its So QUIET - Bjork
NORTH Bound - John Sferra / SOUTH Bound - Thin Lizzy
DON'T GO - Yazoo / STAY - Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs

#62, #65

It's no' just Bryan then. Must be a sou'side thing. Jeezo....

>8-D

67# aw gawd, didnt realise I just fell into that stay/dont go trap ! thanks Scotch --- jeezo lol lol

#67 ok i got he blog number wrong also....#66 aw gawd...etc lol

I can see Monday turning into 'Junior Choice' with Bryan 'Stewpot' Burnett.

THURSDAY

'Maggie May' - Rod Stewart

'Willie Can' - Beverley Sisters

'I Really Don't Want To Know' - Waylon Jennings

>8-D

Monday - Children In Song

Toy Soldiers - Martika
Beautiful - Christina Aguilera
Matchstalk Men and Matchstick Cats & Dogs - Brian & Michael with (dare I mention) St Winifred's school choir :-)
The Song of the White Horse - David Bedford / Nash Ensemble. Brilliant piece of music where DB used a choir and provided some helium for the high high notes!. Bit long for GIO though would take 30 mins LOL
Jump To The Beat - Stacy Lattisaw
Because We Want To - Billie (Piper)
MMMBop - Hanson
Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me - Lena Zavaroni

Monday

"It's Cliched Being Cynical at Christmas" Half Man Half Biscuit
"Rio Grande" David Bedford (again), and well under 10 minutes
"Career Opportunities" The Clash (Sandinista version)

Tuesday

"Night Comes On" Leonard Cohen
"Night Comes On" Leonard Cohen
"Night Comes On" Leonard Cohen
"Night Comes On" Leonard Cohen
"Night Comes On" Leonard Cohen

Well, three shouts for David Bedford! I suspect we will need to extend the Nexus now... :-)

Just read all 72 posts (been in Newcastle all weekend) so just catching up

Good shout for "School's Out" AfR and I like your Benny Hill suggestion. However, there's one mortality song which shows the way for immortality:

"Hello this is Joanie" by Paul Evans

:-)

DC in Cellardyke

Tuesday: Mortality

The title track from Bryan Ferry's 'Boys And Girls' album was written when his father died and has the line 'death is the friend I've yet to meet'

J.O'B.

Here are my suggestions for this week.
Monday Paul Simon Father and Daughter
Martika Toy Soldiers
SClub7 Have You Ever - the Children in Need version which my daughter's school recorded the chorus to be added to help boost sales and meant all the children on it could claim to have had a number one hit!
Tuesday Circle of Life by Elton John which is my other daughter's most favourite Disney film!
Hear You Me by Jimmy Eats World - "may angels lead you in"
If Tomorrow Never Comes by Ronan Keating
Someone To Watch Over Me by Ella Fitzgerald
Wednesday Friends Theme as everything that is said to teenage duaghter is met with "that was in Friends"!
Fernando by Abba
With a Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker or Wet, Wet, Wet

Thursday
Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore by Walker Brothers Vs
Morning Has Broken by Cat Stevens

Sound of the Suburbs by The Menbers Vs
In The City by the Jam

Careless Whisper by Wham Vs
Shout by Tears For Fears

Lets Get Married by The Proclaimers Vs
DIVORCE by Billy Connolly!

THURSDAY

Opposites

'Love and Marriage' - Sinatra

'Happiness' - Ken Dodd










cynical git

#73
Ooh forgot about that one. Another for a future Slain in Song theme. I make that about enough for a whole theme. Whether anyone would want to listen is another debate entirely.


No one suggesting Clair / Gilbert O'Sullivan tonight? (She's heard giggling at the end) Not politically correct in an age when kids can't sit on Santas Knee, Lollipop men can't hold a child's hand crossing the road and you can't take photos of your own kids in a school play?

If Teenage pop stars count rather than just kids voices on record then
Diana / Paul Anka (14 years old)

and

I Call it Pretty Music but the old people call it the Blues /Little Stevie Wonder (aged 11)

or

Blowin in the wind / Stevie Wonder (Aged 15)

Monday Kids

Like toy soldiers, Eminem
Hardknock life, Jay Z
I have a dream, Abba
One day, Bjork (baby gurgles at the start)

And I know there's still about 95 shopping days to go but it fits with the theme...

Happy Xmas(War is over), John and Yoko

Monday Wains: summarising above:

* Traffic - Hole in My Shoe
* Mike Oldfield - Pictures in the Dark

and I *know* there's a version of Blue Skies which has a child speaking the first verse. But can I find it? (No, I don't think it's any of the ones mentioned in the Wikipedia article)

Thursday Opposites:

* The Who - Real Good Looking Boy or
* Lennon - Beautiful Boy
v
* Anything by Ugly Kid Joe or
* Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty - You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly

* The Troggs - Love Is All Around
v
* Steve Rowland & Family Dogg – Sympathy
(And sympathy is what you need my friend, because there's not enough Love to go around)

* Jilted John - Jilted John
v
* Julie & Gordon - Gordon's Not A Moron

Good call on Jilted John!

Thursday opposites continued (now I've learned the difference between the Preview & Post buttons *ahem*):

* Moby - Porcelain
* The Primitives - Crash

* I to I - The Right Time (to fall in love)
* Tom Waits - I hope that I don't fall in love with you

* Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - How? (in the Scots usage, mind)
* Beatles - Because

* Dylan - The Times They Are A'Changing
* The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society

* Lennon - Grow Old My Love With Me
* Undertones - Teenage Kicks or
* The Regents - 7Teen or
* The Who - My Generation

* Slade - Cum On Feel the Noize
* Japan - Quiet Life

* Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
* Van Morrison - Moondance

* The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
* Beatles - Cry Baby Cry

* The Nice - America
* Sting - Russians

* Rose Royce - Working At The Carwash
* Traveling Wilburies - Dirty World (all full of car metaphors)

* Pink Floyd - Money
* Paul Young - Love of the Common People (or indeed Pulp)

* Human League - Don't You Want Me
* Beatles - I Want You (she's so heavy

* Lennon - Stepping Out
* Runrig - Going Ö÷²¥´óÐã or
* Madness - My Girl (would rather stay in and watch TV on my own)
There's also a great Streets song that would do here too, but perhaps not suitable for Drivetime Radio

and finally:
* Zager & Evans - In the year 2525
* Jethro Tull - Living in the Past
Yeah, gwan. Gwan gwan gwan.

Monday :
The Housemartins have a kiddie chorus in the last half of 'Bow down'

Ian in Partick.

Bryan - The Wall is not about the Berlin Wall! It's a metaphor for isolation and self-protectiveness from emotion and others' ridicule, ending up at supreme callousness, and built from life events such as early death of Father, experience of WWII, mother's over-protectiveness, bullying schoolteachers, unfaithful wife etc.

Instead of playing with Shaker Maker tomorrow, why not sit down and listen to it, end to end?

#54 My mate Matt had the 12" of Neil's version, where Neil actually goes on to do the washing up.

More for THURSDAY:

'Heat Treatment' - Graham Parker v 'Night Nurse' - UB40 (well, it's a cold cure innit!).

'Answer Me' - Barbara Dickson v 'Don't Speak' - No Doubt.

'Nervous Wreck' - Radio Stars v 'Harder Faster Better Stronger' - Daft Punk.

'Let Me Down Easy' - Bettye LaVette v 'It Was Easier To Hurt Her' - Wayne Fontana.

'Love That Girl' - Raphael Saadiq v 'She Hates Me' - Puddle of Mudd (would have to be a radio edit though).

'I Will Always Love You' - Dolly Parton v 'I Never Really Loved You Anyway' - The Corrs.

'Down In Mexico' - The Coasters v 'North to Alaska' - Johnny Horton.

I know it's a repeated theme but it's such a good one that I can feel a few more lists coming on.

Bryan, we raised a few glasses to Sir Bobby this evening. Will you dedicate something to him on Tuesday? Whatever you feel is appropriate. Thank yee.

TUESDAY:

'The Passing Show' - Ian Dury and the Blockheads (this is a great track which I've asked for quite a few times...a poignant song about mortality given the expert Blockheads treatment...really funky...from the album 'Mr Love Pants')

'I Want My Baby Back' - Jimmy Cross (teenage death record parody..."Oh Baby I Dig You So Much"...ugh!)

'Here In heaven' - Sparks

This is Stevie, DC's Welsh Wales Brother-in-law nickin a shot on his computer (don't tell him)

Tuesday show: "Patches" by Clarence Carter which is possibly the most corny song ever written!

Patches ah'm dipendin on ya son....

Hellish but hilarious. The word "schmaltz" was invented with that song in mind.

Here's DC coming back so better go....

Steve

#85

Captain, I can understand BB making the connection with the Berlin Wall because of Roger Waters' show that was done in Germany in the early 90's which explicitly suggested that it could be about the falling of the Berlin Wall specifically and the lowering of barriers more generally.



I think at one point they also show some of the wall being demolished as part of the show.

#87. Silly me...don't think UB40 did a version of 'Night Nurse'. Better make it Gregory Isaacs or Simply Red.

#91

Well, if you're going to use the 1990 Berlin Wall as a visual aid, then it'd be impolitic not to use it as a secondary metaphor, but that's what it is - very much secondary.

#93

Agreed. However it's not unlikely at all that a non-hardcore, non-paid up member of the Floyd Appreciation Society would make that mistake. Bryan likes to keep it country, remember? :-)

OK - Tuesday is the day you HAVE to play the Grateful Dead. There is no choice...if the theme is mortality. Most GD songs are long and/or about tragic themes so here are some relatively short and upbeat songs that I think the passengers aboard the good ship Get it On might like.

Cassidy
Cosmic Charley
Sugar Magnolia
Mr. Charlie
Tennessee Jed
West L.A. Fadeaway
Uncle John's Band

Cheers y'all

Scott Martin
Charlotte NC USA

TUESDAY - DEATH

Lenny Bruce - Bob Dylan,

Dylan in fine voice with a great melody about the life and death of the American comedian. Some of the lines in the song have an excellent black comedy quality about them.

Hello.

For Tuesday was going to suggest Leader of the Pack. Looking at the blog I see it's already been requested. Are The Shangri-La's the best band with the fewest plays on the radio? Their back catalogue of singles is tremendous.

Instead I'm going for Death Disco by Public Image Limited. Can't see this making the show as the single got zero airplay at the time of it's release.

From 'Metal Box' - undoubtedley the best album of the 1980's.

Cheers.

LLIM.

#95

BRING ME THE GRATEFUL DEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

Tuesday: Mortality

Can't help but echo CaptRamius (#20), and JimFraeErskine (#22) – Billy Braggs 'Tank Park Salute' simply says it all...

A few more suggestions though...

A Most Peculiar Man: Simon and Garfunkel
The Last of the Hobo KIngs: Mary Gauthier
But I May Die Tonight: Cat Stevens
Now I'm Easy: Eric Bogle
Come Back to Me: Big Country

M

Julie,

I salute your memorable discernability!

Support for 'Here In Heaven' - Sparks (see #89)