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MONDAY

'Girls With Guitars' - Wynonna Judd

A hint of Chuck Berry, a nod to Dire Straits and riffs borrowed from Cream and Deep Purple.

Plus, it was written by Mary Chapin Carpenter, so you have to play it.

Otherwise Norrie will hurl playthings from his perambulator. >8-D

Sampled Monday:
"La la la la la la la la means I love you" in Billy Bragg's The Saturday Boy
(hmm why did no-one mention that in last week's theme when we were talking about repeated words)

But this sounds like the perfect opportunity to get some Mashups in:

* Rapture Riders, mashing up Riders on the Storm and Blondie's Rapture - did actually get released as a single (and is for sale on iChoons) so is licensed properly like.

* Can we get on some Smash-Up Derby on? They do live mashups (ie play/sing rather than mix recordings) eg Billie Jean with Smells like Teen Spirit or She Sells Sanctuary with White Wedding. Lots of downloads at


* I've got a *most excellent* mashup of Clocks and Papa Was A Rolling Stone by


* There's also DJ Earworm's mashup of She's Leaving ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ with Scissor Sisters' Take Your Mama

Oops, my apologies - Papa was a Clock is by Mark Vidler's Go ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Productions.

Still can't beat neeps and tawties though, Captain.

before I forget...

MON:
Imani Coppola (now recording as Little Jackie) sampled Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" on her song "Legend of a Cowgirl" from the album "Chupacabra".

Two Twisted Pink Floyd covers get a post all to themselves, as they're album length:

* Easy Star All-Stars' Reggae version of Dark Side of the Moon, called (inevitably): Dub Side of the Moon. Money or Time for preference.

* Luther Wright and the Wrongs' country version of The Wall called Rebuild the Wall (the "Pink isn't well he stayed back at the hotel" track)

MONDAY:

"I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You A Rose Garden)" -- Kon Kan

A must-play on samples night, not just because of the lengthy sample of Lynn Anderson's "Rose Garden" -- it also has bits of Silver Convention's "Get Up And Boogie (That's Right)" and the theme from "The Magnificent Seven"!

TUESDAY:

"White City" -- The Pogues

WEDNESDAY:

"English Bay" -- Blue Rodeo
"Here Comes My Baby" -- The Mavericks

Samples night continued:
Kylie's Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head

Right Rythmheid - you need to guide me as I dont know many samples. Does a mashup of two songs by the same artist count if so:

David Bowie - Rebel never Gets Old

Where an artist incorporates bits of another song would that count, the example I am thinking of is

The Who - Real Good Looking Boy which has an interpolation as they call it of Cant Help Falling In Love.

Need to think about this one, I must know some samples surely!

Oh another good mashup is The Police / Ennio Morricone and Every Breath You Take / Theme from Peter Gunn

Of course you do.
Don't call me Shirley. :-D

11 refers to 9

I feel we may be straying into the realm of mince.

Musical quotations can be amusing but sampling is basically theft and demonstrates only poverty of imagination.

I am jumping a bit to Thursday but keen to get these down before I forget, all songs that I have suggested before

Roger Taylor - Racing In The Street (Springsteen)

10,000 Maniacs and David Byrne - Let The Mystery Be (Iris DeMent song)

Susannah Hoffs - Boys Keep Swinging (Bowie)

I think there are lots of really great unexpected cover versions so it could be a great show.

Norrie: If you're doing a mashup with Every Breath You Take (and neeps), then you have to do it with Stand by Me.

glen: Tell that to most of hip-hop who use the Funky Drummer sample (hey, there's another one... actually, you could play the Football trail with "GreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeTINGS!" in it too)

Also, the art of a good mashup is that it produces something new, different and better than the sum of the parts. So the She Sells Sanctuary vocal is miles better when it's got the backing track of White Weddings. And if the technology had been there, She's Leaving ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ would have surely been written with a backing track something like Kinobe's Slip Into Something More Comfortable.

And it's all no worse than a cover version anyway.

Capt dont know that one - but as someone who does not like the Police I would say that I do like that mash up with Peter Gunn Theme, the Bowie thing is pretty good too actually.

Its the weekend!!!

My son used to listen to the Grey Album.

To me this genre is superficially entertaining but lacks creativity and musical invention.

Since I suggested the theme I thought I'd better come up with a proper list...

Some landmark sample records:
'Rapper's Delight' - Sugarhill Gang (samples 'Good Times' - Chic)
'Adventures on the Wheels of Steel' - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (samples 'Rapture' - Blondie)
'Planet Rock' - Afrika Bambaataa (samples 'Trans-Europe Express' - Kraftwerk)
'Rebel Without a Pause' - Public Enemy (Samples 'The Grunt' - James Brown)
'Paid in Full' - Eric B and Rakim (samples 'Ashley's Roachclip' - The Soul Searchers)
'Say No Go' - De La Soul (samples 'It's the Joint' - Funky Four Plus One)
'Shadrach' - Beastie Boys (samples 'Funky Drummer' - James Brown)
'Voodoo Ray' - A Guy Called Gerald (samples Derek and Clive!)
'Sour Times' - Portishead/'Hell is Around the Corner' - Tricky (samples 'Ike's Rap II' - Isaac Hayes)

Recent(ish) favourites:
'Alphabet Aerobics' - Blackalicious ("Artificial amateurs, aren't at all amazing" goes through whole alphabet getting faster)
'Groovement Pt 1' - Ty (from 'Upwards' Mercury-nominated album)
'Thou Thalt Always Kill' - Dan le Sac And Scroobious Pip (modern 'commandments' including "Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry"!)

#13/#18 There are good uses of samples and not so good (same as any genre). To me, wholesale use of one song (like in most dance music) or two (like 'cut and shunt' mashups) is the lower end of the scale. It's can be fine but it is a bit lazy. But to tar all sampling artists with that brush is a superficial understanding of the process.

The people who do it best (like DJ Shadow, Coldcut, etc.) piece tracks together from multiple samples to blend them into something new. Often with live instruments alongside the samples (Tricky, Portishead, Massive Attack). If that's not creative then neither is arrangement or production.

I think sampling gets a bad reputation because people notice the obvious, less creative samples and often think more subtle ones are live instruments. The 'Endtroducing.... DJ Shadow' album sounds like he had a whole orchestra at his disposal but every note is made from samples. That's very creative.

I've discovered some great music by tracing the samples. Conversely, I've also found lots of fairly mediocre funk records with one interesting bit that deserved more attention. Sampling gives those forgotten moments their day in the sun (and the sampled artist gets royalties). Glen would surely agree that one man's trash is another man's treasure!

I think I've wandered through a rent in the Time-Space Continuum.
I shall return to my own dimension now.
God willing, I'll get back before 6 p.m. on Tuesday.

Which reminds me...
'Atomic Moog' - Coldcut
'Midnight in a Perfect World' - DJ Shadow
'Unfinished Sympathy' - Massive Attack
'Inner City Life' - Goldie

#9 Sampling is a portion of one song that appears in another record so it can include mashups. I don't want to be anal about it and get stuff barred, like happened with 'The Magic Number' this week. There are sample databases out there (like the-breaks.com) if you get stuck.

Last one for now... Just to say, you find samples everywhere, not just hip hop. Sheryl Crow even uses samples (in 'All I Wanna Do')! And you can suggest originals - Puff Daddy sampled the Police, Eminem sampled Aerosmith. There's plenty from the olden days to choose from!

Also before I forget - one of the all time great count in has to be

The Clash - White Man (In Hammersmith Palais)

1,2 ah 1, 2, 3, 4

Does anyone know who suggested Monday`s theme?

How was your break AFR? I am sure you said you were going to be away for a while over the holiday period - hope you had a good time.

Monday
Hung Up - Madonna (Great use of Abba, though she might have done better using Brendan`s Gimme Some)

Computer Love - Coldplay (not sure if this counts, better ask Kraftwerk)

Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendes- Black Eyed Peas (not sure if this counts either. Was saving it for the promised southern hemisphere theme which never materialised. More on that later.

It was fine Norrie, Thanks for asking. The floods didnt affect us so was able to alternate beach and golf quite comfortably.

While you`re there I have a technical question.

Elton John and James Blunt or Radiohead? Both at the Sambodromo (Samba Drome) in the coming weeks, but I am not going to pay the exhorbiant prices to see both gigs. What do you reckon?

Re: 19 - The De La Soul song 'Say No Go' also samples the Hall and Oates' song, 'I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)' that we heard yesterday!

#7 Rich, if they dont play that Kon Kan song I may never listen to GIO again. It sounds fascinating.

#28 Adam, glad to hear all was ok. Dont ask about golf - they are still recovering in the states from my trip! No wonder I wanted to log on to GIO!!

James Blunt is not for me, I have seen Elton once fantastic (Vegas) and twice apalling so I would go for Radiohead - I reckon that will be a show and a half!

Hope it is good whichever gig you see.

ps Adam - but what would I know!

I heard Radiohead had been re-scheduled to the Stadio del Bordomo Rigido.

#20

Yes, one man's Meat Loaf is another man's Poison.

#32 - Norrie I value your opinion. Saw EJ in Edinburgh in the 80s a couple of times and was well impressed.
#33 - GM, its Portuguese here I`m afraid.

OK, longer Twisted Covers list (I was one of the people who suggested it)

* Hayseed Dixie: Walk This Way (actually, pretty much any HSD track would do it)
* Vic Reeves and Giorgio Moroder: Black Night
* The Fabba Girls: Can't Buy me Love (Beatles A La Abba)
* White Stripes: Jolene
* The Twang: Don't Look Back in Anger (NB, that's the Country Twang, not the Brummie band)
* The Delgados: Mr Blue Sky
* Gotz Alsmann: People are People (in lovely swing stylee)
* Johnny Cash: Personal Jesus
* The Streets: Your Song (yes, the most wonderful singer's song sung by a near non-singer. But it works, somehow)

Scotch-git mentioned The Big Lebowski over on the last.fm group - there's the Gypsy Kings' Flamenco version of Hotel California on it.

There are a couple of odd versions of Love Will Tear Us Apart again
* Oysterband (with a June Tabor vocal)
* Nouvelle Vague featuring Eloisia

Is it too soon to play The Slits' version of I Heard It Through the Grapevine again?

And of course the wonderful Richard Thompson: Oops! I Did it Again

#35

There's no need to be afraid of Portuguese.

I saw EJ in 1970 at Strathclyde Universidade

More non-mashup samples:

*Lots* of bits of the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, but particularly

* Nicole Kidman et al: Sparkling Diamonds
* Elephant Love Medley: Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman

One going the other way - the samplee
Patti Page: Old Cape Cod ("if you're fond of sand dunes and salty air" per Fatboy Slim and Groove Armada)

Where would you place this - sample, or twisted cover?
DNA's extension of Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner
(trivium for Tom's Diner - it was the test track for the team that developed the MP3 format. So you could say that MP3 is uniquely optimised for Tom's Diner - no other track will sound *quite* as good)
And then there's the mashup I've got of Tom's Diner with Private Investigations...

After an initial reluctance to accept sampling, I now have no problem with it at all (looking forward to putting my list together in fact) but I've been feeling quite uncomfortably old and crotchety reading about mashups. Don't know a great deal about mashups but my first instinct is that what I've heard of them has seldom seemed worth the bother of putting the tracks together. I will however investigate and will possibly be a pleasantly surprised crotchety old besom instead...time will tell :0)

A few thoughts for the week ahead:

Samples/sampled

Blue moon revisited - Cowboy Junkies
Stainsby Girls by Chris Rea (the guitar riff after he mentions the Rolling Stones owes more to Keith Richards than any portrayal of Capt Sparrow)
Gangsta Paradise samples Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise - play the original
Hung up by Madonna samples Abba
All summer long by Kid Rock is based on Werewolves of London and Sweet ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Alabama - play the originals only!

London underground - to follow

Counting

Goodbye - Emmylou Harris is the one I'd really like to hear.

Other options:
Waitin on on on sunny day or Maria's bed - Springsteen
Two - Ryan Adams
The other side of town - Steve Earle
God's Acre - Kimmie Rhodes and Gillian Welch

Unexpected covers

Hey ya - Will Young
If there's any justice - James Blunt
Girls talk - Linda Ronstadt
Sad Eyes - Trisha Yearwood
Keep the car running - Foo Fighters
With or without you - Keane


For the intro-mix -
Run - Leona Lewis
Hips don't lie - The Fray
Love machine - Artic Monkeys

Joe
Linlithgow

Joe - I tried that album over and over, esp Sweet Jane and dont think there is a sample. That said! Get It On!!!
sad Eyes - you picked a belter of a cover - pretty soon after tracks was released??

#40.

Second the shout for The Arctic Monkeys covering Girls Aloud's "Love Machine" - it's just great fun.

@40

Joe - when they put together All Summer Long, they missed out two other tracks with exactly the same chord sequence: More than a Feeling and Back in Black (although there's a hint of Back in Black power guitar in there if I'm honest)

Stick 'em together, with a bit of Funk Soul Brother rhythm track and you've got a mashup I have (More Werewolves of Alabama, mashed by Audiodile)

#40 I also second Goodbye, from one of the standout albums, great song to start with taken to an incredible level and with a fantastic count in. Who did the count though? Lanois or Earle himself? Loved the fact that he played on this cover version - just an amazing, fragile self expose.

This theme could grow arms and legs!

Capt., you know, you should really try and get out more......

On the Count Ins, I want
Vertigo - U2
before anyone else gets in there ( I believe its a Spanish intro GM). Though Joe will probably call it in as a PS.
BTW Joe, what is this intro mix you`re on about?

AFR - I have asked this on blogs before and it is a serious question (well as serious as I get at this time of night, after this amount of alcohol) - I am sure that the Rezillos are fairly big in Brazil - is that right??

I was also surfing about today and read that Bob seger only jsut did not get out his cover of Tom Waits, Downtown Train before Rod Stewart and so it remains unreleased! I know that you were confused at my nomination of a Seger track for you so that is the even more vague connection to that comment.

I know what I would rather hear.

thank goodness I have some time with friends who are not in to music tomorrow!

Underground:

Lines:
Blur: Jubilee
Nick Drake: Northern Sky
Marillion: Warm Wet Circles
Bruce Springsteen: Atlantic [Hammersmith and] City
Weezer: Teenage Victor[ia] Song

Stations:
Squeeze: Up the [Watford] Junction (cos Clapham Junction's an overground station, innit)
Thomas Dolby: White City
Blur: Park [Royal] Life
Juice Newton: Angel of the Morning
Erasure: The [Picadilly] Circus
The Selector: James Bond [Street]
All Saints (on the DLR): Pure Shores
Marillion: Kayleigh (mentions Belsize Park)
Fairport Convention: Possibly Parsons Green


And another Sample (a double WIN):
Sinead O'Connor: Stretched Across Your Grave, which uses both the Funky Drummer break, but also The Waterboys' "When will we be married?" played by the WBs' fiddler.

Annoyingly, Hersham's not on the underground network.

Oh, and can we play Mornington Crescent in these suggestions?

@45 Heh yes I should. But this week has two themes which hit my own musical interests right on the nose. Annoyingly, I'm going to be in India next week, so if I'm listening, it'll be very late at night with the Streaming Thingy on the Interwebs.

Vertigo count-in is in Portuguese btw (anyone with a young daughter like I have watches enough Dora the Explorer to know that it ain't Spanish)

Count-ins:

About half of the Lennon (as opposed to Ono) tracks on Milk and Honey count in:

Nobody Told Me (damn, we had it last week)
Stepping Out
I Don't Wanna Face It (un, deux, ein, zwei, hickle, hickle)
Forgive Me (My Little Flower Princess)

*More* samples (or are they unexpected covers?):
Groove Armada (with the Quo): Purple Haze
Groove Armada (with Fairport): Remember

Rhythm Heid, I just can't get my Heid round the Rhythms for Monday. Like Scotch-Git, I'll re-tune Tuesday. Sorry.

Initial suggestions for the Underground (before I start to study the map):

Down in the tube station at midnight - Jam

Going Underground - Jam

Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks

DC in Cellardyke

Re: 21 and 50. Scotch-git and DC, don't discount Monday's show, you may actually find something you like!

Monday - Samples

Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock - It Takes Two
Samples Lyn Collins - Think (About It)
Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Samples AC/DC - T.N.T.
Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
Samples Stevie Wonder - Pastime Paradise
M.I.A. - Paper Planes
Samples The Clash - Straight To Hell

Tuesday - London Underground

Gomez - Whippin' PICCADILLY
Johnny Cash - Destination VICTORIA Station
The Postal Service - The DISTRICT Sleeps Tonight
Beth Orton - CENTRAL Reservation

Wednesday - Count Ins
(this was a tough one!)

Prince - Raspberry Beret
Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman

Thursday - Covers

Cat Power - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones)
Cake - Sad Songs and Waltzes (Willie Nelson)
Radiohead - Nobody Does It Better (Carly Simon)
Eels - Get Ur Freak On (Missy Elliott)
William Shatner - Common People (Pulp)

Monday
Sample example

Roxy Music's 'Amazona' from the Stranded album.

The opening guitar has been used by Ice T for his song 'That's How I'm Living.' (On the Rox Mix)

This is a real funky dude of a riff then the song explodes in the middle, classic Roxy. This track will blow away anyone who thinks Roxy are just Avalon & Dance Away.

Monday
Sample example

Roxy Music's 'Amazona' from the Stranded album.

The opening guitar has been used by Ice T for his song 'That's How I'm Living.' (On the Rox Mix)

This is a real funky dude of a riff then the song explodes in the middle, classic Roxy. This track will blow away anyone who thinks Roxy are just Avalon and Dance Away.

Bryan Ferry sampled Roxy Music's 'Ladytron' and 'The Bob' and played them on 'Gemini Moon' and 'Chain Reaction'

Bryan Ferry also sampled the rain on Ben Nevis and credited the mountain on the title track to the Taxi album. A sample of John Peel appears during the morse code intro to his version of 'Rescue Me' on the same album.

Monday:

would most like to hear:
"I'm A Tree" - Imani Coppola. This track samples "Soul Kitchen" by The Doors. Prefer this track to the one I mentioned futher up the blog. Imani Copplola is a violin-playing rapper - is she the only one?

otherwise...

I Monster's "Daydream In Blue"

PM Dawn - "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" ("True" - Spandau Ballet)

Cookie Crew - "Got To Keep On" ("25 Miles" - Edwin Starr).

Garbage - "Stupid Girl" (The Clash - "Train in Vain")

A Tribe Called Quest - "Can I Kick It" (Lou Reed - "Walk on the Wild Side")

But I'd really prefer to hear something by Imani Coppola. When I first heard of her I was sure she'd be more successful than she has been.

If samples includes those provided by a sampler (sampling keyboard) you could have tracks like Bad Animals by Heart.

At least you have play the damn thing.

Not really a substantive posting with new ideas, more a set of responses:

Norrie - Re #41 - I adopted a broader definition of sampling! Indeed I forgot to also suggest Russians by Sting and If I had words - the 1977 song performed by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley. The tune was taken from the main theme of the Maestoso from Saint-Saens Symphony No.3 in C minor (Organ Symphony) with an added reggae beat.

Capt R - re #43 - thanks - good to know!

Norrie - re #44 - sorry not sure - but a great track.

AFR - re #45 - apologies, BB uses the phrase theme montage. Happy to endorse Vertigo!

Joe
Linlithgow

Also When by Shania Twain fits the count-in theme.

Joe

Monday - Concrete Schoolyard - Jurassic 5 (Ramsay Lewis - Summer Breeze) - My son brainwashed me into liking this.

Tuesday - I Put A Spell On You - Screaming Jay Hawkins - One stop beyond Barking.

Wednesday - Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett - He manages to name six.

Thursday - Werewolves of London - Adam Sandler - Surprisingly good.

To avoid confusion: When by Shania Twain also fits the count-in theme!

Joe

Q. Who were the shouty men that covered Kate Bush's 'Hounds of Love' ?

TUESDAY

'Holloway Jail' - The Kinks

Makes a wee change from 'Waterloo Sunset' and 'Victoria'

@57 oh if it's *classical* theft we're talking about, then can we please have John O' Dreams (Christy Moore for preference), which is the slow movement of Tchaikovsky 6.

And while I think about it - Simple Minds Belfast Child is a straight melodic steal of the auld traditional song She Moves Through The Fair (but putting new words to old tunes is standard practise in Oral Cultures).

The theme is samples not quotations.

Since all rail lines are interlinked and London's Underground is ultimately connected to Glasgow's, I suggest Till the End of the Day by the Kinks from their Live at the Kelvin Hall album.

There appear to be strong rumours of a reunion tour although it may assume the traditional Sam and Dave format where the Davies brothers only meet on stage.

#64 Glen, after a superb solo album and a fantastic box set, with suitable reviews, it is a fgood time for a reunion tour! Fingers etc crossed.

I'm trying not to hog the thread, after getting chided above, but...

#59 Obviously I like J5. But you've gotta love Screaming Jay Hawkins (and apparently a lot of women did judging by the sheer amount of children!). Could be a great shout for Thursday too. I love his version. The ending almost sounds like they've just injected him with his medication to calm him down!

I also have to point out, a sample is the actual recording of a song played within another record. Another band playing/interpreting/plagiarising a previous artist isn't a sample, it's a cover/homage/rip-off. So Smash-up Derby, entertaining as they are, might qualify for Thursday but not Monday.

Rythm - dont get too wound up on that. I made the big antmusic mistake last week - take it as the themes being well I suppose themeatic!

In my defence if the theme is such an open one as songs with a title of two words you would think....eh sorry not going there agian!! LOL I am off to search for a life! :o)

Julie,
Kilburn and the High Roads seems an obvious suggestion for Tuesday, but I have to confess my total ignorance of their material.
Anything suitable for a tea-time radio show?

Also, (said he, saving the best till last), ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ4 TV are repeating 'The High Life' starting next Tuesday at 9 p.m.

Starring Siobhan Redmond.




Be still, my foolish heart.........................

#68 Does your heart go 'Pif Paf Pof'? ;-)

Sobering up now. Realised #19 should say 'Glory Box' not 'Sour Times'. And apparently Screamin Jay cast the original 'Spell...'


Tuesday teaser:
'Tears Dry on Their Own' - Amy Winehouse - which station does she represent?

Thursday Covers: 'Goodnight Irene' by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

DC in Cellardyke (busily lookin shroo mah iChoons library)

#68. Scotch. Yeah, I immediately thought of them but, I don't know any of their music beyond having heard a snippet or two in shows about Ian Dury. Think there's a CD available but I wouldn't know which track to suggest. The songs are likely littered with expletives anyway (as are some of my favourite Blockheads tracks...and then I go out and "tut" on buses at the youth of the nation's inability to utter a sweary-word-free sentence).

and yes, I heard about The High Life being repeated. I have it on DVD but that's great - long overdue. Enjoy your reunion with Shona Spurtle...Goebbels in a Gossard!

#66 Rhythmheid - You stick to your guns - I must confess to getting a tad grumpy when themes widened too much. In this case I think it would be quite unnecessary as there are so many songs containing samples there's no need to broaden it. Just my opinion :0)

#70. Their version of "Cheek to Cheek" is very good too.

Wossa Gossard ?!?

Please, no requests for 'Plaistow Patricia' on Tuesday.

We dinna want Bwyan lumped in wi' the likesay Wussel 'n' Woss!

TUESDAY:

Ian Dury is the first to spring to my mind for this theme:
"My Old Man" (Euston, Victoria) or "London Talking" (with first line "I went and changed a pound for the Underground" and mentioning a couple more stations).

Scotch - been doing a spot of research "UPMINSTER Kid" - KILBURN and the High Roads (think Ian Dury did this one with The Blockheads too). Slightly reminiscent of Sweet Gene Vincent and the lyrics seem OK sweary-word-wise.

"TV is King" - The TUBES

"Pure Shores" - ALL SAINTS

"Broken Down ANGEL" - Nazareth

"Guns of BRIXTON" - The Clash

One for the punners..."Solid Gold East ACTON" - T Rex

Tuesday - I suppose the Jam and Going Underground / Down In the Tube Station at Midnight are the most obvious tracks and both great songs.

Pete Townsend - Stardom In Acton

The Clash - On (ealing) Broadway and White Man In Hammersmith Palais

David Bowie - Waterloo Sunset

Van Morrison - Cyprus Avenue

Oops my requests for Tuesday should have included

Tubeway Army - Bombers

Monday;

Freak Like Me by Sugababes.
I know the Numan purists won't like it but I think its a great track.

Crazy In Love by Beyonce featuring the sample from Chi-Lites "Are you my Woman"

Happy Monday everyone

Maria

Maria - the Sugababes track is great, and personally I would love to hear Beyonce!

Sorry I meant watch Beyonce on video.

Tuesday

Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres - Al Stewart - A bedsitter image
London Bridge - Bread - The buyer thought he was getting Tower Bridge
Limehouse Blues - Django Reinhardt - If only he'd had a full set of fingers

On a lighter note:

Euston - Dean Martin
I'd Rotherhithe You - Earth Wind and Fire
If I were A Richmond - Topol
It's Oval - Roy Orbison
This Land Is Mile End - Woody Guthrie
Loughton Proud - Nazareth
Leyton The Evening - Paul Simon
Holloway Joe - Clancy Brothers
Beckton Normal - John Hiatt
Old New Bow Road and Blue - Slade and finally
Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House - Chorus "Hainault, Hainault"

Tuesday:
Broken down Angel - Nazareth
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Black Horse and the cherry tree - KT Tunstall
Euston Station - Davey Arthur & the Fureys
Highgate shuffle - Rod Stewart
Kings Cross Blues - Lindisfarne
White City - The Pogues
London Bridge - Bread
Waterloo sunset - The Kinks
Down in the tube station at midnight - Jam
Going Underground - Jam
Victoria - The Fall (as an alternative to the Kinks' version)
Hi Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck (Harry Beck designed the tube map)

DC in Cellardyke

I'd be surprised if Duffy's Warwick Avenue isn't played on Tuesday. Does it remind anyone else of My Girl?

Help ma boab ! Its only Sunday Pm n already 80 odd postings. Still not hard enough then.
Monday -Samples
Like toy soldiers - Eminen (If played would it be a first for the real slim shady ?)
Tuesday -London Underground
Anything - Blue Oyester(card) Cult
Ticket to ride - Monkeys
Wed - Count in
Road Runner - Johnathan Richmond and the modern lovers
Thur - Covers/unexpected
Your song - The streets ( V oiginal)
Ticket to ride - The Carpenters
Personal Jesus - Johnny Cash
Anything - Nouvelle Vague
If you dont know me by now - David Brent !!!!!
Toxic - Mark Ronson / Tigger
And my final Thursday cover would be
Angie Baby - The uncle devil show from the "A terrible beauty" album. Just being elitist/pretentious.

Theme sugestions
Subtle Love songs that dont have the word love in the title - You make me feel mighty real - Sylvester
Day songs
This is the day -The The
Everyday - lorna Brookes (Check her out she is scotlands best female singer songwriter without a doubt

#46 - Norrie, I have never heard the Rezillos being talked about over here. Thats not to say they weren`t big in the late 70`s early 80`s. I`ll ask around.

# Capt R, I dont care if your daughter watches re runs of Manuel on Fawlty Towers, what Bono utters at the start of Vertigo is not Portuguese.
What he says (officially) is Unos, dos, tres, catorce, (1, 2, 3, 14), which sounds like an attempt at least to speak in Spanish (gets the one a bit wrong though).

Um, dois, três, quatorze is the Portuguese equivalent, by the way.
Just in case Dora the Explorer ever finds herself in Lisbon.

Oops, doesnt like accents. Tres, the e has a hat on it.

#83 John - Uncle Devil Show would be fun to hear. I used to follow Lorna Brooks a long time ago but I am off her mailing list now, I am sure that the first time I saw her she was supporting Indigo Girls but could be wrong. I will need to have a google and see what she is currently doing.

Some count-ins for Wednesday:

(1 and a 2 and a 1234) "Goodnight Vienna" - great song from Ringo Starr. I like the "OK with gusto boys, with gusto" before the count-in too.

(123,223) "Brand New Tennessee Waltz" - Matthews Southern Comfort.

(1234) "Turn It On Again" - Genesis

and, of course, pretty much anything by The Ramones.

Wed.

You're Dancing On My Heart - Victor Sylvester - Who could forget "Slow Slow Quick Quick Slow" ? I believe the Ramones got the idea from him.

Ooooh, just thought of another song for the Count Ins theme - Rare Earth - I Just Want To Celebrate. I can't get this song out of my head now!

#30 -- Yes, Adam, I do hope Bryan & co. play the Kon Kan track on Monday, because it's excellent -- dance music for people who don't like dance music. I've always thought it sounds like the best New Order song that New Order never did....

Rich in North Carolina

Monday - Sample Songs:

I am very partial to a 'mashup' by Go ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Productions called 02 GHP - Finally, Did You No Wrong which is a mash of the Sex Pistols and Cece Peniston - I know the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ has a copy of it as it has been played before... ;-)

Another brilliant song with great use of samples is Move by Martyn Bennett from the Grit album. It samples the vocal of Seila Stewart singing in her native Perthshire Cant (after two years I still have not translated all of it as it is her own family dialect) but it is a fantastic song telling of the lives of itinerant farm workers who simply got 'the chuck' when work was scarce and then had to 'move'.

I would also like to recommend the following:

A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? [Boilerhouse Mix] (samples Walk On The Wild Side by Lou Reed)

DJ Shadow - In/Flux (samples David Walker's Never Can Say Goodbye)

Eric B and Rakim - I Know You Got Soul (samples Bobby Byrd's I Know You Got Soul)

De La Soul - Say No Go (samples I Can't Go For That by Hall and Oates)

Amerie - 1 Thing (sampled Oh Calcutta! by The Meters)

NWA - Express Yourself (samples Express Yourself by Charles Wright and The Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band)

The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up (samples Give The Drummer Some by Ultramagnetic MCs)

Adam F (son of Alvin Stardust!) - Circles (samples Bob James' Westchester Lady)

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony (samples The Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra's cover of The Last Time by The Rolling Stones

Tricky - Hell Is Round The Corner (samples Ike's Rap II by Isaac Hayes)

Wednesday count in:

There's a whispered '1,2 - 1,2,3,4' at the start of The Rolling Stones 'New Faces'.

This is one of the best accoustic guitar tracks you'll hear, with no fewer than three being played at the one time. It's a good tune too

DC in Cellardyke

#61, SG, it was the Futureheads that covered Hounds of Love. Definitely worth consideration for Thursday's show.

On that theme, one of my favourite cover versions is Marc Almond's version of "I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten", which he does as a duet with Sarah Cracknell of Saint Etienne, though it perhaps couldn't be classed as "unexpected". The Killers version of "Romeo and Juliet", is possibly also not in that category (I like it because the only thing I ever disliked about the song was the fact that it was by Dire Straits) but "Careless Whisper" done by Gossip has to be.

For tonight, I suggest Praise You by Fatboy Slim, or the track it samples, Take Yo Praise by Camille Yarborough.

Tuesday
LONDON UNDERGROUND

Roxy Music's "ANGEL Eyes"

Aldwych station used to be called Strand Station (Roxy Music "Do The Strand")

Wednesday
COUNT INS
Bryan Ferry's version of "It's My Party"

Thursday
Unexpected Cover Versions.

Bryan Ferry was the first male to record "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" a song about female vulnerability.

Tuesday

Here, mind The Gap Band!

Havent heard Burn Rubber on Me for a while.

If we mind the gap, do we also have to stay clear of The Doors?

Aye and beware of pickpockets

The Ponys - Pickpocket Song

The Jam - Thick as Thieves

MONDAY SAMPLE NIGHT

Far too many to choose from, so one will have to do:

Take Yo Praise - Camille Yarborough

...as used by one Fatboy Slim in Praise You.

That is all.

Re: #94 Thanks, Jan.

Am I the only blogger who finds the Killers irritating?

That Human/Dancer thing dismaheidin!