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Monday - Anti-love songs

I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You - Tom Waits
You Don't Know What Love Is - The White Stripes
I Don't Love Anyone - Belle And Sebastian
Love Is a Losing Game - Amy Winehouse
Valentine's Day Is Over - Billy Bragg

Monday - Anti-Love Songs:

No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Donna Summer and Barbara Streisand
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - John Martyn
What Do I Do With My Heart - The Eagles
Falling Out Of Love - Aretha Franklin
Bitter End - Dixie Chicks
Don't Want To Forgive Me Now - Wet Wet Wet
No More I Love You's - Annie Lennox
What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am - John and Audrey Wiggins
The End - The Doors
No Love - Erykah Badu
Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? - Moby
This Is How It Goes - Missy Higgins
I'm Not In Love - 10CC
It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
There Is No Love Between Us Anymore - Pop Will Eat Itself

MONDAY

'God Will' - Lyle lovett

'Ill Wind' - Charlie Daniels Band

'Western Union Wire' - Kinky Friedman




Keep it Country!

MONDAY:

'The last day of our acquaintance' - Sinead O'Connor.

The Daughter thinks Taylor Swift is fantastic. I like her song 'Picture To Burn' .

'I get along without you very well' - Chet Baker.

Flight of the Conchords - 'I'm Not Crying'. Love the lyrics - 'these aren't tears of sadness because you're leaving, I've just been cutting onions, I'm making a lasagne...for one', and the cry/singing reminds me of Alex Harvey.

Talking about Alex Harvey...SAHB's version of Del Shannon's 'Runaway'.

Heartbreak Night?
Long Before Time / Hercules Mandarin

This is the Glasgow Band's imaginitive uptempo tragic love song between two of the last dinosaurs on earth who are awaiting their inevitible fate. You don't get much more heartbreaking than that. It's taken from thir album Fast behind The Times.

Besides it would be the first time I'd get to hear my son play the drums on Get It On!

A long list for Monday:

I will dream - Emmylou Harris
Southbound Train - Nanci Griffiths
Back to me - Kathleen Edwards
She's gone - Hall and Oates
I fall to pieces - Trisha Yearwood/Aaron Neville
Neon blue - Mavericks
Little does she know - Kursall Flyers
Since youve been gone - Rainbow
Even now - Barry Manilow
Gone away from me - Ray LaMontagne
Turn on me - the Shins
I wish I were blind - Springsteen
Answer me - Barbara Dickson
I thought you should know - Steve Earle
Tie one on - Aberfeldy
Don't get around much anymore - Tony Bennett
Still in love with you - Thin Lizzy
Love is a losing game - Amy Winehouse
Pardon me or Easier to forget - Allison Moorer
I'm alright - Kim Richey
I can't make you love me - Bonnie Raitt

For Tuesday, confident that others will suggest Springsteen, I opt for Emmylou Harris (who rather oddly, seldom, if ever, gets airtime on GIO). With many others, I've loved her music since the 70s and relished her development - she has always been a fabulous singer, and of late she has also become an articulate and thoughful songwriter. I find it hard to pick one favourite or truly representative song and so offer a choice: Boulder to birmingham; Goodbye; or I will dream.

Have a good weekend!

Joe
Linlithgow

#6
Joe,

Aren't Tuesday and Wednesday Brits only?









confused git

MONDAY

'Did I Shave My Legs For This?' - Deana Carter

and the reply from the laddies;

'Did I Shave My Back For This?' - Cledus T. Judd






Keep it Country!

Monday,

A rather sad theme... here’s somethin’ for the optimist

Break up to make up - Fiona & Lloyd Brown

SG - thanks - I think I may be the confused git today.

The Brit website (which I've just checked) has some international elements, but the pets Shop Boys are the only "lifetime achievement" nominee this year (which is quite incredible).

Wednesday is clearly Brits only, but "Tonight we will be saluting those artists who have made the biggest contribution to pop." is open to the interpretation which led me to conclude that Springsteen and Harris would be eligible.

I guess we need BB to define the Tusday criteria more clearly.

Joe
Linlithgow

for the pessimistic...

Mon.

Love don't live here anymore - Rose Royce
Your cheatin' heart - Beck
After the love has lost its shine - Regina Belle
Cold, cold heart - Lucinda Williams
I'm lost without you - Billy Fury
Without you I'd be lost - The Righteous Bros
The love I lost - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
Lost without your love - Bread
I lost you after all - Jean Shepard
Since I lost my baby - Audrey Martells
I'm through with love - Arthur Prysock
(Here I am) Broken Hearted - Johnnie Ray
Good morning heartache - Billie Holiday
A song for the broken hearted - Negative
Lost on the river - Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris
Alone and forsake - Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris

Joe K - great list again, and I think I am with you on the Tuesday theme where international artists will be allowed, I will thertefore be doing springsteen but I dont have time to blog it right now!

Hiwever can I make a very quick suggestion for Monday which ties in with your nomination of Emmylou (who I also love and request reasonably often)

Emmylou Harris with Springsteen and Patti - Tragedy, for Monday a great song of lost love and regret. Fantastic track and would love to hear it.

This of course makes me think of her version of Goodbye and then I realise that Steve Earles Valentines Day really should be played. Then so should the Boss with Drive All Night (love the opening line - when I lost you honey, sometimes I think I lost my guts too!!) and/or Fade Away - Bruce at his best with both of those.

Cheers

Norrie

Monday

Running Back - Thin Lizzy

Tuesday
Cant decide between Bowie and Ferry.

Bowie! There dont say I am not helpfull! Especially 1969 - 1980.

#6, #10

Joe,

I think you were right the first time.
Otherwise we would have the same theme running Tuesday and Wednesday. As it were. So to speak. Apologies for the confusion.

I salute your discernibility!

Tuesday,

#13 AFR I agree with Norrie, "Bowie."

Having said that I've gone with Gabriel reasons with the GIO Team.

Monday
Only one suggestion

What a fool believes - Doobie Brothers

Tuesday

Marc Bolan - a life cut short, but the music lives on

Jim

Hi everyone

Monday;

Rose Royce "Love Don't Live Here Anymore"
Neil Diamond "Love On The Rocks"
Phil Collins "Against All Odds" (Not a big PC fan at all but do have a soft spot for this one!)

Please no "All By Myself" for this theme, spare us BB!!

Maria

Hi yersel,

Scotch wuz askin' after you, trust all is well.

Nice one with R.R. for Monday.

Hey mmfc
all good thanks, hope you are yours keeping well too.
Love that RR tracks, just wish I had never heard Madonna or Jimmy Nail doing it!

Hello to SG too!

Maria

Hullo hen!

Tuesday:

Found it too difficult to think of one band/singer to nominate for the lifetime Achievement award so...having thought long and hard about it I am nominating the DJ John Peel. John Peel was mostly responsible for introducing me (and so so many others) to music that bit outside of the mainstream and, for that, I am eternally grateful. Not going to give a mini-biography here...anyone who doesn't know just what his contribution to music was should look it up on t'internet...and quick...their musical education will be sadly lacking otherwise.

I know the record that most folk would suggest for him would be 'Teenage Kicks' but, I'd like to hear either 'Rowche Rumble' by The Fall or Pink Floyd's 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'...tracks very different to each other, equally enjoyed by me and both of which feature in his Festive 50 for 1979.

#22 Absolutely agreed. A mate of mine actually did a Peel Session (I have it on tape - it's brilliant!)

Apparently he was a lovely man and his musical knowledge was encyclopaedic. Before they did the show, Peely chatted to the band to establish what was to be played and what was to be discussed. He already knew EVERYTHING about the band and who their influences were, and knew EVERYTHING about them too.

I know where I was when Peely died. For a lot of people, the Music died that day.

Tuesday - Lifetime achievement award:

For me it absolutely has to be George Martin. Originally I was going to suggest Paul McCartney, but then I thought about how his success and that of the Beatles came about in the first place. Yes, they were an excellent band, but it was when their recording career really kicked in that their fame and fortunes were made. In those days, it was the producer who really shaped albums like Revolver and Sgt Peppers - the artists turned up and did the recordings, but then typically left the producer to pull it all together. Those albums are HIS creations as much as they are the Beatles'.

I am going to suggest Eleanor Rigby as the track to play to represent Martin's genius. It marks the departure from the Beatles' early sound to their richer, more complex songs and also the use of technology in their material.

And - it's brilliant.

Last week kind of slipped past me, a tired man after having been in Sheffield at the weekend and then shovelling snow for what seemed like days on end. Anyway, for Monday I will plump for one already suggested, Doobie Brothers- What a Fool Believes as this track was actually playing as one of my former, and possibly greatest, loves advised me that she thought our relationship wasn't going anywhere and it was time to call it a day, and I thought I could change her mind!

Tuesday, well it has to be Bob Dylan, though I am happy to see others nominate Springsteen, and Emmylou Harris, a much neglected talent on GIO. My Dylan track Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again.

Tuesday - It's got to be something by Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express would be my nomination. A band that inspired the movement that would become "the New Romantic's" in this country, and in the USA the early Hip-Hop artist's (check out Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaataa and The Soul Sonic Force for early evidence of this) and the early House DJ's. Trans Europe Express also name-check's Iggy Pop and David Bowie.

Grhino - didnt Bowie write the track V2 Scneider as a tribute to Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk?

Hi All....

Mon..Patsy Cline- three cigarettes in an ashtray
(as romantic as it sounds!!)

Tues..I'm going to go for Billy Sloan. When my mates were listening to Peel i was tuned in to Billy. First time i heard Magazine & Joy Division (and he made sure he championed all great Scottish music..)..Tracks to play ..Simple Minds Chelsea Girl or Magazine Shot by both sides

Wed.. Controversial again perhaps...Pulp..Trees

Thurs....Ahh no aloud!!

TUESDAY

This theme has been driving me potty. I've been changing my mind every 10mins.

Enough, already! If I don't decide now, I'll condemn myself to a sleepless night.

I nominate Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon.
Art is, arguably, the finest living male singer. People will be listening to 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' and still marvelling at its power and beauty in the 22nd. Century.
The Almighty gave Paul Simon a wonderful gift. His album 'Sounds of Silence' hardly needed music. Just read the lyrics. Sheer poetry.
The song I request is 'The Only Living Boy In New York', if only because it doesn't get played often enough on the radio.

Must admit I'm finding it hard to get too excited about this weeks themes. I understand the production team wishing to encourage as many suggestions as possible but this week is so general it's almost turning into a request show where anything would fit and there's plenty of them about on other stations. The beauty about Get It On is having to think about the themes, it's what makes it different.

Here's a few suggestions

Songs about Water
Songs about a school timetable/subjects
Songs about occupations
Songs about items of furniture / appliances / things in your house
Songs about famous people who weren't recording artists
Songs about clothing
songs that don't mention the title in the lyrics
Songs that include the singer and the backing band in the acts name eg Elvis Costello and the atractions etc etc
Songs that are Album title tracks

Apologies if any have been done in the past. They're just off the top of my head.

#30 - Paulo, I have certainly enjoyed thinking about this week's themes - especially Tuesday's. Who would your lifetime achievement award go to and why? I think we should be telt. :-)

@ no 5

Good band there Paolopablo....wish the crowd shut up and listened to them.... i do know how that feels!




My Band....was a long time ago though

#31
Hi Jim, if I was being honest I would have difficulty in narrowing it down to a dozen, never mind one. Right now I would go for the Eagles both collectively and individually for the extensive and varied work they have produced but then I'm watching their Live in Melbourne DVD right now with a glass of red and thoroughly enjoying both. Ask me again in half an hour and it will probably be someone else.

Must say though. Petshop Boys for Brit Lifetime achievement award this year?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!

#32
Frank, this definitely rings a bell though can't think why. Really like it. When was it out?

#33 - Paulo - with you re the Petshop Boys. Mediocrity incarnate.

@34

Both tracks on there were out early '89

Clyde ,Forth and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland played them quite a bit mabye you heard them there....thanks for liking them



the other track

Rings a bell with me too - didnt support Black by any chance at the Theatre Royal?

#35 JFE surely you love their version of Go West?

The Neil Young cover is appropriate as he's pretty good at heartbreak, you could also pick from:

Burned - Neil Young
Love is a Rose - Neil Young
Only Love can Break your Heart - Neil Young
Your a Big Girl Now - Bob Dylan
Fool if You think it's Over - Elkie Brooks
She's Not There - Santana or Zombies
Harry's House - Joni Mitchell

Might need another show as the potential for this theme is massive.

Paul from Ayr

For Heartbreak night could I also suggest the following

Speed of The Sound of Lonliness - Any version but Nanci Griffith or John Prine would be great, there is also a great duest with Kim Carnes and Lyle Lovett

Iris DeMent really comes up with some good songs that fit tonights theme, these in the various stages of heartbreak / relationship end

I'll Take My Sorrow Straight
Youve Done Nothing Wrong
Easys Getting Harder Every Day

I would pick I'll Take My Sorrow Straight as in what may be an ironic way Iris co-credits this song with her ex-husband! Mind you he might not have been ex then, no mind still a great track from a fantastic artist.

Ref Pet Shop Boys;

I was suprised to hear they had been nominated for the Achievement Award but I think its well deserved.

They have consistently produced good pop tunes since West End Girls and perhaps its because I was a teenager when they first came on the scene but I have always liked them. I also went to see them live and it was a fantastic show in its truest meaning which is what they wanted it to be.
Just because they weren't in the Beatles, don't play guitars or had a string of number one singles and albums in the 1970's doesn't mean they don't deserve some recognition. As is the the beauty of Get It On, if we all liked the same thing the world would be a very dull place!

Maria

Yeah, but if we all hated Morrissey....................

>8-D

#41
Agree Maria that's the beauty of Get it on and it's good fun on the blog reading the variety of suggestions. It's all about opinions. Most of us on here probably have a wide range of musical tastes but I'm afraid we'll have just have to disagree on the pet shop boys. Good shout for Rose Royce though.

#38 , #41 - I don't HATE the Petshop Boys, but I do find them annoyingly 'samey' over many many years. Same vocal, same mix, same production, same ideas again and again. I can't see what they have contributed in terms of a 'lifetime contribution' other than not having died yet. Loads of other artists over that time period have done more and varied work that merits attention.

Yes they have made some good tunes. But so have loads of other people who will never get awards and who are just as good or better.

Re: #33

Paolo,

Who is it now? >8-D

#45
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet band

I mean Van Morrison

LOL

They were one of mine too!

Oops! 48 refers to 46

I'll maybe just settle for david van eagles and the Pink e street Lynyrd Lizzy bullet band featuring the 70's soul sounds of the new wave indie generation of classic singer songwriters who like a bit of rock.

Monday

Blue Shadows - The Blasters

Searching for a Heart - Warren Zevon

Tuesday

Carol Kaye - She's played on more good records than anyone else.

Mon:
'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' - St Etienne
(since I was beaten to the punch on the Neil Young original)

'Lost Cause' - Beck
(from 'Sea Change', a great break-up album)

'Lonely for You Baby' - Sam Dees
(great intro, builds into amazing Northern Soul track)

'Biscuit' - Portishead
(thought this would be a change from the ballads and soul songs you'll probably have on - more of a soundtrack feel and samples a different "I'll never fall in love again")

#53 - All very good shouts.

Oh alright then heartbreakers

Have You Seen Her..Chi Lites
On My Own .....McDonald / LaBelle
I Can't Make You Love Me....Bonnie Raitt
Gettin Over You....Janis Ian

Bitter Songs

Death on two Legs....Queen
Thorn in my Side...Eurythmics
Everyday I Love you Less and Less...Kaiser Chiefs
I am the Resurrection....Stone Roses

Ah that Bonnie Raitt song is amazing!

Tue:
'Get on the Good Foot' - James Brown
Unique performer, great track record from 1950s to 80s, pretty much created funk and hugely influenced soul, r&b, hip hop and beyond.

Wed:
I wondered if this meant what sums up Britain to us or to the rest of the world? And including the past or just the present? If you take the latter both times you get the likes of Leona Lewis, Coldplay, Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, Portishead, The Prodigy, Massive Attack and Dizzee Rascal.

I'm not fussed about Leona or Coldplay but the others would at least reflect more diverse tastes and give a bit of variety. Regardless of how good you think they are, there are several 'usual suspects' who get overplayed on the show.

#54 Cheers Jim, was trying to vary it a bit. And you'd already said Moby! Need to post earlier next weekend...

#58 - I think your points have been well made and in time.

Heartbreak Night.

Many of the songs written by Bryan Ferry in the 2-3 years after Jerry Hall left him for Mick Jagger where about this break up.

WHEN SHE WALKS IN THE ROOM (Bryan Ferry 1978)

"All your life you were taught to believe
Then a moment of truth - you're deceived
all the wine in your life's all dried up
now is not the time to give up?"

DANCE AWAY (Roxy Music 1979)

"It´s funny how I could never cry
Until tonight and you pass by
Hand in hand with another guy
You´re dressed to kill and guess who´s dying"

OH YEAH (Roxy Music 1980)

"There's a band playing on the radio
and it's drowing the sound of my tears.
They're playing oh yeah on the radio."

If you've never heard 'Are You Happy Now?' by Richard Shindell, then you definitely should. It would be perfect for tonight...

Otherwise, it's got to be the master exponent of the anti-love song, Billy Bragg. Take your choice from:
Honey I'm A Big Boy Now
Levi Stubbs' Tears
The Man in The Iron Mask
The Myth Of Trust
Walk Away Renee
Everybody loves you babe
The Saturday Boy
Sulk

Monday

Thorn Tree in the Garden - by Eric Clapton about himself, Harrison and Patti Boyd.

Tuesday's Lifetime Achievment Award for me should go to Cat Stevens (or Yousef Islam) for his great music and his dedication to teaching kids.

#14 and #16. Its easy to jump in with Bowie, but I often wonder if Ferry had started as a solo artist whether things might have been different.

Anyway as Felicity Jones says in Flashbacks of a Fool - How can you choose between Bryan Ferry and David Bowie? They're both gods.

AFR I should never have jumped in on your suggestion, very bad form. However retribution has been swift, woke up feeling bad threw up twwice on the way to work and am back at home feeling only lousy. I should never have stopped drinking!

Bowie was my big thing I must admit all through my youth. I think the run of albums Space Oddity to Scary Monsters is just fantastic.

Monday

#2 I agree with Jim, John Martyn would be good, but I propose something from Grace & Danger - how's about "Hurt in your Heart" or "Sweet Little Mystery?

Tuesday

Eliza Carthy has listed Half Man Half Biscuit in a couple of recent interviews as a fine example of a uniquely British (in fact English) take on life. "A Country Practice" is the particular song she quoted.



Wednesday

... and of course Hawkwind were the original British answer to the Grateful Dead, so let's go with "Right to Decide". It won't get played of course.... (a challenge, Bryan?)

Thursday

Not playing....

Hmmm, some musical ambrosia for the soul would be just the ticket tonight. Ma hearts roasted wi roses being punted at £5 a single stem when Queen Bunty of Harestanes normally gets a dozen for a fiver, every week tae!

Well here goes, credit crunch an` aw!

Valentine Bros - money`s too tight to mention

Dela Amitri - Whisky remorse


Silencers - Bulletproof heart

Aztec Camera - All I need is everything

Aztec Camera - Reason For Living

Orange Juice - L.O.V.E.


Right... that`s me of tae iron ma leather breeches

Tuesday
#64 OK I'll nominate Bryan Ferry then and lets go with the song that was featured in Flashbacks of a Fool,
If There Is Something - Roxy Music

#65 - Reverse those choices! Hawkwind for Tuesday on the basis of their 40 years non-stop contribution to grass-roots music and head-expansion, HMHB for being uniquely British.

Neither of them will be played, but I'll keep plugging away...

@37

Norrie

Nope.. never did support Black

might have seen us somewhere else perhaps....

Frank

WEDNESDAY

'Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues' - Kinks

From the shamefully neglected album 'Muswell Hillbillies'

What do the following records have in common?

Spanish Eyes Al Martino
Surfin' USA - The Beach Boys
Something Stupid - Frank and Nancy Sinatra
Feelin' All Right - Joe Cocker
The Way We Were - Barbara Streisand
In The Heat Of The Night - Ray Charles
I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Batman Theme - Marketts
I'm A Believer - The Monkees
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖward Bound - Simon and Garfunkel
Let's Dance - Chris Montez
River Deep Mountain High - Ike and Tina Turner
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling - Righteous Bros.
Up A Lazy River - Bobby Darin
Light My Fire - The Doors
The In Crowd - Dobie Gray
Bernadette - The Four Tops
Get Ready - The Temptations
Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals
Alone Again Or - Love
Bang Bang - Cher
Expecting To Fly - Buffalo Springfield
Rhythm Of The Rain - The Cascades
La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
I Got You Babe - Sonny and Cher
What A Wonderful World - Sam Cooke
Needles and Pins - Jackie De Shannon
Do You Love Me - The Isley Brothers
Surf City - Jan and Dean

a They'v'e all been listed by Joe in Linlithgow
b They've all been covered by Erskine Ferry
c They would all be good to hear
d Carol Kaye plays on all of them

Some list of songs Glen, answer is d.

Oh and c ....mostly!

Wednesday:

British acts who I like a lot and who haven't been/aren't often played on GIO:

Nine Below Zero - 'Don't Point Your Finger (at the Guitar man)'

Graham Parker - 'Temporary Beauty'

Mickey Jupp - 'Heave To My Hearties'

If I'm thinking about acts that I think sound very British, be it from 30 years ago or bang up to date...again asking for tracks by artists not normally played on GIO, I'll go with:

Master Shortie (one of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖs 'Sounds of 2009) - 'Dead End'.

Caravan - I love 'The Dog The Dog He's At It Again' but it's 5 or 6 minutes long, as is 'Golf Girl'. Perhaps 'Surprise Surprise'?

Alan Price - 'In Times Like These'

#74. On second thoughts I'd put Nine Below Zero into the 'Couldn't really be anything else but British' category. Hurrah for Pub Rock :0)

"In My Life", at least, they were the first songwriters to make an impact with their great melodies and lyrics. If nominating The Beatles puts me in the old git it on listener category, then "Let it Be".

Paul from Ayr

#71
Was that this week's quiz then.

#63 & #67

Bowie himself chose Bryan Ferry when he recorded his covers album inspired by Ferry's first covers album. He recorded Ladytron but didn't put it on the album and it remains unreleased along with 3 other Ferry/Roxy songs that he has recorded and never released.

Bowie did release a version of 'If There Is Something' on the Tin Machine album.

J.O'B.

My Ferry choice for Brit night is a track that shows the width of Ferry's repertoire and the sort of things he will tackle and put his own stamp on.

His recording of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is such class that only Ferry could pull off.

Ferry & Shakespeare how quintessentially British is that.

J.O'B.

RJ - I think Bowie was also the first person to cover Springsteen in those sessions as well with his cover of Growin Up, well one of the first anyway. The track also remained unreleased until the Ryko re-issues. I do wish Bowie would issue an equivalent of Springsteen's Tracks!

For any Bowie fans here is a link to a great article on his unreleased material:

Tuesday

Very difficult theme to restrict to one artist but I have opted for Bruce Springsteen. 37 years and still producing albums that are worthwhile and in the live arena never gives less than 100%.

His work remains relevant and he is not afraid to address difficult areas such as the aftermath of 9/11 (You’re Missing, Nothing Man) , Iraq (Devils and Dust, The Last To Die), Katrina (Long Walk ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ, How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live) and so on but is equally happy knocking some fairly commercial sounding tracks such as Hungry Heart. Once you get past the more well known tracks you find another side to his work especially on tracks like My Fathers House, Secret Garden, Point Blank.

I could write a fairly lengthy piece on his music but that would be more than dull here.....best kept to Springsteen forums I expect!

So I am suggesting Thunder Road a song with a fantastic opening and ending line and has all our dreams, insecurities, hopes and failures in between and ends in supreme optimism.

And aside from all that just a great song.

#81
If he's gonna play thunder road please please please pretty please play the live Hammersmith 75 version which not only was the first song he ever sang on british soil i believe but is THE definitive version of the song. The raw emotion in it is sensational.

#81. Well said Norrie.

Re: #71

The answer is e

They are all on the karaoke machine at the Mohawk and Safety-Pin.

Tuesday show: Eric Clapton has to feature here.

'Tears in Heaven' is a great accoustic track whilst 'Layla' has Clapton at his best on electric guitar.

However, the piece I'd like to hear is 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' from the 'Concert for George'. Not only is this a wonderful demonstration of the man at his best, it is an illustration of the work he did with and the influence he has had upon some of the greatest names in music

DC in Cellardyke

I salute your resolvability!

Would like to put in a shout for Christy Moore for tonight....

40 years now since his debut album 'Paddy on the Road'.

30 (solo, live, Planxty and Moving Hearts) albums on, and currently recording new material.

Still an inspiring live performer at nearly 64.

Musing on 'most British'. I suppose there are the obvious ones, but if pushed it would be one of the pub rockers Dr Feelgood, Kursaal Flyers or possibly the more esoteric Robert Wyatt or Richard Thompson. Then again a more Scottish take would be Bert Jansch, Proclaimers, Jesus and Mary Chain, Big Country, Delgados, Belle and Sebastian, but for no particular reason I'll go for The Incredible String Band and the song Mercy I Cry City

As stated earlier i would have great difficulty deciding which one of my favs should receive a lifetime achievement award so I've eventually decided to go for someone who single handedly influenced many who were to become legends themselves. The Beatles Rolling Stones Grateful Dead Bob Seger Eric Clapton Bruce Springsteen The Who Bob Dylan and even the Beach Boys have all cited him as a major influence on their careers. He inspired thousands to take up the guitar. He is the Man who may not have recorded the first rock n roll record but certainly brought it all together and shaped it for the future. John lennon once said if rock n roll was ever renamed it should be called after him.

So my lifetime award would go to an 82 year old who still gigs at least once a week......................Chuck Berry.

This isn't easy choosing the best British of all time as there have been so many greats but I'm going to go Queen, everyone will have a favourite Queen track,Don't stop me now is one of mine.

Gordon

Can anyone think of any band(s) with members from Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland (in the band at the same time)?

Julie - closest I can think of is Rockpile, but that was only English, Scottish, Welsh.

#76 - Agreed! Has to be the Beatles for Wednesday. Not only are they absolutely 'British' but their legacy is for the entire world; In my opinion the best band of all time. Their influence continues to ripple outwards throughout popular music amd they have even influenced classical composers. I think if you asked anyone to list their top 10 favourite albums or singles, the Beatles would inevitably feature.

I'd like to hear Al You Need Is Love, as a perfect representation of the universality of their songwriting - simply a great song.

As you have guessed by now I am a bit of a Bryan Ferry + Roxy Music fan.
(Please play Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 to show how diverse his music is)

Bryan Ferry is an inspiration, an explorer of music, not happy to stand still. Bryan Ferry has written psychedelic glam, through decade defining hits of the 70s & 80s inspiring many artists covered a wide range of songs in his own distinctive style, recorded Shakespeare and is almost finished his 21st album due for release this year.

A lot of the music we hear today would simply not exist if it wasn't for the exploration of artists like Roxy Music who didn't just play guitar like every other rock guitarist or sax like every other jazz influenced. The hybrid of Bryan Ferry's art school vision distinctive vocals and lyrics c/w Manzanera's soundscape guitars, Mackay's honking sax, Eno's Enoness all bound together with Paul Thompson's powerhouse have influenced many bands since they stunned the music scene in 1972.

Bryan Ferry's achievements over the almost 40 years are up with there with the best of them, maybe not in terms of sales in later years bur for sheer class, style and creativity. He has written some of the finest pieces of Pop-Art in songs like Virginia Plain, inspired many punk acts with songs like Editions Of You, filled dance floors with Love Is The Drug, Angel Eyes and inspired many bands from U2 Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand, Souixsie And the Banshees to name a few.

Bryan Ferry has tackled some of the greatest songs by some of the best artists and writers and found new ways to apply his own muse to songs as diverse as Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis, Dylan, Jerry Burns, to name a few. When Bryan Ferry finds the perfect niche that suits his style and sensibilities he simply moves on to try something else.

Some artists have out sold Ferry (though 30 million albums is still quite good) but you will find these artists have made the same sort of record for the same sort of people all their careers. Like I say, Ferry simply moved on down another avenue like he is doing in his studio as I write this

John O'Brien

#41

Praise be, to a voice of reason.

First class shout to open tonights GIO and not a single ounce of presumptuous kak needed.

Ave Maria

Bryan, Kirsten and all the GIO team; I applaud you!

That was a great show.

(I could have lived without Michael Jackson, but hey-ho).

Thank you so much.

Julie,
The winter is over already. Don't be a wimp. >8-D

Take it Hawkwind didnae make it then, with class acts like Michael Jackson on the go.

Ditto ScotchGit, I thought it was a great show.

Well done team, a perfect example of GIO. I hope it encourages alot more listeners to join in on first timers night.

Maria

I should imagine this theme will be re-visited as there seemed to be loads of great suggestions and I knwo I could have come up with many more. It was great to hear Boys Keep Swinging - not often heard and one of Bowies absolute finest, well one of my favourite Bowie tracks anyway! I missed who suggested it but great shout!