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How annoyed was I to be described as looking like a sunburned Noel Edmonds tonight? It's the devil in disguise. Clearly I am the devil but because I wearing Elvis specs I am in disguise! Maybe it was a brilliant costume concept that wasn't executed properly. Hardly surprising as it was done during the six o' clock news. I hope you all enjoyed the spooky tunes tonight - I know I did and thought there was a fantastic range of music suggested. Kristin Hersh and Tom Waits were the songs of the show. Tomorrow night is grunting, groaning and whoops of excitement with the likes of James Brown and Al Green likely to feature. Get in touch and let me know all about your favourite moaners and heavy breathers.

We thought long and hard about this week's themes as I wanted to get the right balance of themes that are easy fun for everyone to participate on alongside those that take a bit more thinking about. I hope you like the mix which will include the blogger's favourite of 'long songs' which is coming up on Wednesday night.

Don't feel that you have to dress up for Monday's show but if you are donning a costume for Halloween then I'd love it if you posted it on our Facebook page. I am working on my costume but hoping for a pop influenced spooky number.

It's unlikely we will be dooking for apples but I will be dipping into the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio Scotland library of tunes for a selection of the scariest songs of all time. Ghosts, witches and devils will all feature on the playlist as we aim to provide the perfect soundtrack for your Halloween party.

The clocks go back this weekend so we got to thinking - which album would you spend that precious 60 minutes listening to?

Maybe you'd dig out that old classic - Dylan's Blonde On Blonde or Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Is there something new that you haven't dipped into yet - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds or Mylo Xyloto by Coldplay? Or could this be the time to discover an album you never got around to by The Beatles or Stevie Wonder?

Alison Craig is looking after Get It On on Friday so let her know which album you would devote that extra hour to!

Get It On listeners have some brilliant memories of 1971 and you can see loads of them on our Facebook page and right here on the blog. It was a fab show with lots of tunes that seemed to hit the right note. Tomorrow night, Get It On goes green with a wide ranging theme that takes in everything from Green Door to Green Onions. It was suggested by Catherine MacGregor's school (Perth Academy) who are having a Green Day on Friday to raise money for their school garden.

The 'songs that should have been Bond themes' was a cracking theme and as you might expect there were some really epic sounding songs played. I loved the Broken records track and it was good hearing Scott Walker's wonderfully named, The Amorous Humphrey Plugg.

1971 is our theme for Wednesday night as we turn the clock back forty years and find out what you remember from that year.

While Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, Knock Three Times and The Pushbike Song were among the year's top ten best sellers, the album chart was a much more credible affair.

An astonishing roll call of some of the best albums of all time came out in '71. A small selection could include Blue, American Pie, Hunky Dory, Electric Warrior, Every Picture tells A Story and Tapestry.

There's honestly tons more that are of a similar pedigree. With a selection like that to choose from then tomorrow should be a brilliant show.

As I suspected, tonight's theme of 'songs you can wear' brought out some good puns. On the blog I loved 'Hold on Tights' and 'Annie's Thong' and on the text we also had a great suggestion for Dylan's 'If Not Fur You'. There were also suggestions of artists you could wear with Tammy Wynette and Carter the Unstoppable Socks machine topping the list for me. Tomorrow night's theme was suggested by 12 year old Aeden and I think it's a bit of a cracker. It's 'songs that should have been Bond themes'. Get in touch tomorrow night with your suggestions of the perfect track to open up the next 007 flick.

It did make me smile tonight that despite talking about Chico, Jedward and Wagner that the singer who got the biggest pelters tonight was Leonard Cohen. Ach well, I think all the critics would agree that he's a pretty amazing songwriter, so let's just leave it at that.

Thanks to everyone who has been in touch this week for a really varied bunch of themes. 'Difficult to dance to' was great fun and 'the less obvious hits' were the favourite themes for me. I'm sure the themes for next week will provide us with just as many interesting song choices.

Monday's an easy one as we open up the Get It On wardrobe for a night of the songs you can wear. Fashion meets pop as we get our Jeans On and team them up with A White Sport Coat (and a Pink carnation). It's quite a look.

It seems that tonight was a theme you were crying out for. We can all be a bit guilty of choosing the obvious songs to play so having a theme of the less obvious ones really worked. There were many familiar big hitters but I don't think anything felt 'overplayed'. Thanks to everyone who took some time to think about their offerings.

Tomorrow it's 'reality TV stole my song' as we reclaim the songs that were covered on X Factor and the like. So whether you are a lover of Adele, Leonard Cohen or Biffy Clyro tomorrow night is a chance for you to save their reputation.

That was a really interesting show tonight with some brilliant suggestions of songs that are still relevant decades after they were written. Interesting to see the effect that some of those songs had on people who were hearing them for the first time - Iris DeMent's Wasteland of the Free was a good example of this.

Tomorrow the bloggers will be delighted to hear that the theme is 'not the obvious one'. For instance you might ask for Chocolate Girl instead of Dignity or Being Boring instead of West End Girls. Ignore the big hit and come up with the one that wasn't quite so well known.

One theme that has always stood out for me was the one we did about songs that are out of date or no longer relevant. They included things like Telegram Sam, Free Nelson Mandella and C30,C60,C90 Go.

I suppose tomorrow night's theme is the opposite as I'll be asking you to suggest the songs that are still as relevant now as the day they were released.

Politically charged tunes like Streets of London and One in Ten will be popular but there are plenty of love songs whose message still counts today.

As someone who has awkwardly thrown himself around a dance floor to most things I will find Tuesday's show a bit of a golden opportunity. The theme is 'songs that are impossible to dance to' and for me that's just about everything.

I have the style of Mr Bean,the gracefulness of a rugby forward and I am as self conscious as a grumpy and confused teenager. You name me a tune and I will have messed up my moves trying to get to grips with it. I can't even line-dance which should give you an idea of my hopelessness.

What are the tunes that fox you on the dancefloor? Is it exotic rhythms, odd backbeats or just those tracks that stop dead for an awkward interlude. Get in touch and share all....

On tonight's show we celebrated loads of folk going off on holiday, toddlers dancing for the first time, couples marking their anniversary, a bloke writing his autobiography and a woman who finally got rid of five tons of horse manure. (Which according to Sharon from Tennessee doesn't smell that bad apparently. It's to do with being vegetarians!)

It was one of my favourite programmes and a fantastic theme so thanks to all who took part and made it a great experience. It was lovely to hear about the great things that have happened to you this week and even if you've had a rotten week I hope tonight's show will have cheered you up.

On Monday, it's songs that start slow and then get fast. Spandau's Gold that we played tonight is a good example but Freebird would be another good one. I'm the kind of guy who likes a song to grab me right from the opening. For me, it's all about that opening few seconds of a track. So, sounds like Monday's theme is going to be one that I might struggle with. Help me out then...

How good did The Charlatans sound tonight? It prompted Carolyn on the text to suggest a theme of songs that still sound fresh 20 years on. I like that idea and hopefully we'll get it on in the next few weeks. It's about time we had some more blog generated themes as well (hint hint). If you catch Miss B on a good day we might we even persuade her to have a week of blogger's themes.

Tomorrow night's theme is where you tell me about the best thing that's happened to you all week and the song that best describes it. We should get some happy tales as well as great songs.

Two Scottish legends on tonight's show. Roddy Frame and Sir Harry Lauder were brilliant additions to the mix tonight. Norrie's Nanci Griffith and UB40's One In Ten were also great. Tomorrow night it's fakes, pretenders and fibbers - not the actual pop stars but the songs concerning them.

Tomorrow night I will be donning my pinstripe suit for the GIO guide to finance.With all the banking scandals and continued talk of a double dip recession it's not surprising that people find it hard to trust financial institutions at the moment.

So if we can't rely on the financiers of the world then who can we look to for sound financial advice? Well how about pop stars? They all seem to have a bob or two...

Songs such as Can't Always Get What You Want or I Need A Dollar would seem to fit the bill, but do get in touch and tell me what advice you would give.

Tonight's show covered everything from the question of whether Grace Kelly was a proper singer, to the ethics of letting your dog lick the empty shepherds pie dish. (I think the outcome was that it was fine as long as you put the dishwasher on an intensive wash.)

A couple of folk got in touch tonight complaining of a rough day so tomorrow's theme should suit them. I'll be asking what are the songs that stop you raging in a traffic jam?

I don't want to end up with two hours of chill out tunes so I'd also like to hear about the rock tunes that help you get rid of that pent up aggression when you are behind the wheel.

Thanks for all your contributions across the week and we had some good songs with a few firsts for GIO.

On Monday we are going to do songs which were written in tribute to other artists. Soul singers seem to be the object of affection for many songwriters with tracks like Jackie Wilson Said and When Smokey Sings looking good for Monday night. Your suggested tracks don't have to name check the artists as there are many songs that were done as a subtle homage.

As always, I am sure the blog will come up with a few surprises.

Friday's show is a tribute to the visionary Apple computer co-founder, Steve Jobs who died on Wednesday. Not only did his innovations improve the way we use our computers and phones but he was largely responsible for the way we now consume, compile and listen to our music.

Tomorrow's show is a tribute to him. 'I love my MP3' is the theme so get in touch and tell me about your best ever downloads. Has the Ipod and other MP3 players meant you have discovered some new music or has it made you download afresh some forgotten classic. Get in touch and let me know...

Thursday is national poetry day so to mark the occasion I'm asking you to get in touch to suggest those song lyrics that could stand on their own as pieces of poetry.

The obvious ones are Dylan and Mozza but I would argue that artists like Eminem and Mike Skinner of The Streets could be considered a modern day poet.There are also poems that have been turned into songs and then there's also the pop stars who have collaborated with poets - Idlewild and Edwin Morgan is one of the best examples of this.

Mike |Scott of the Waterboys has just done a whole album of WB Yeats poems set to music and I'm hoping this theme will be a good excuse to get Eddi reader doing Burns on.

A fascinating show tonight hearing about not only the albums you bought on CD but the hi-fi's you bought to play them on. I loved Gillian's story of how her dad won a C player at the bingo! I also enjoyed Paolo's story of the salesman who used the theme from Dallas to convince him of the benefits of digital technology. Paolo's Joe Jackson suggestion was my song of the show tonight although Bobby Womack's If You Think You're Lonely Now came a close second. Years ago I once presented an entire show of country music 'train' songs and there were hundreds that we didn't even have time for. You will be pleased to know that other genres of music are encouraged tomorrow night.

Tonight's 'what surgeons listen to in the theatre' show was a hoot, especially the guy who got in touch to tell us about his surgeon dad who was tempted to stop his surgery so he could drum along to Led Zep.

There was also a sub-theme of the songs that surgeons shouldn't listen to which included Bowie's Absolute Beginners and Roy Orbison doing It's Over. Oh and let's not forget the text that suggested the labour ward classic, Knees Up Mother Brown!

I suspect we'll be getting a lot of Dire Straits tomorrow night as the theme is the 'first CD and the last vinyl you bought'. If you can remember both then great, but if not just tell me about the first CD that made you switch.