³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ

THURSDAY

'Mony a Mickle Maks a Muckle' - Sir Fred Goodwin

(wecently wetired banker)

Previous perks plus plump pension plan paid prematurely.

THURSDAY

'Wook! Wabbit Twacks!!' - Elmer Fudd

MONDAY

'Wishing Well' - Free

'Wishing Well' - INXS

'Wishing Well' - Black Sabbath

'Wishing Well' - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

An interesting example of extended use of alliteration can be heard on MacLean and MacLean's tribute to Bing Crosby on their Dirty Thirty album.

Monday

I Wish It Would Rain - Temptations

Tuesday

Don't Bring Me Down - Pretty Things (Bo Diddley)

Wednesday

Chardonnay - Cerys Matthews (headache)

Thursday

Keep On Smiling - Wet Willie

Quite tough themes this week apart from Monday.

The Springsteen fans got more than a fair crack last week so my first suggestion is probably unlikely:

Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream, would be good to hear though!

he has masses of others and I listed some on last weeks blog.

Moving on!

Bob Dylan - series of dreams, really great and unsual Bob song.

The Bible - The Wishing Game from the Eureka album and produced by Steve Earle

Tift Merritt - Hopes too high, one of the many great tracks on Another Country album

John Lennon - #9 Dream

Elvis Presley - Follow That Dream, there are several great cuts of this Elvis track and Springsteen has taken this song and worked wonders with it live turning it into a completely different, uplifting song. One of the Kings better movies as well!

Is that Max Wall in the picture?
I can't see his tights.

Why is he singing with Blythe Duff - is it Children in Need?

Monday
Something Better Change - The Stranglers from the Live at The Hope and Anchor album.

Thanks For The Memory - Bob Hope and Shirley Ross.

Tuesday
Videotape - Radiohead

Woman from Tokyo - Deep Purple

#7

Wicky Woss + Wife

THURSDAY

We must have a contribution from Tom Lehrer tonight.
My suggestions, in order of preference, are;

'When You are Old and Grey'

'The Elements'

A few thoughts for the week ahead...

Monday:

When you are old - Gretchen Peters
Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow ) - Fleetwood Mac
No Surrender - Bruce Springsteen
Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now - Jefferson Starship
Everything will be Alright - The Killers
Dreaming - Blondie
The only way is up - Yazz
Won't get fooled again - The Who
Wishing I was lucky - Wet Wet Wet… works for Thursday too!

Tuesday: Bands' Names

Radiohead were named after the Talking Head's Radio Head - you could play "Stop whispering"
The Rolling Stones were named after the Muddy waters song "Rolling Stone" - please play "Paint it black"
Cherry Ghost were named after a lyric taken from the song "Theologians" by Wilco - please play "People help the people"

Wednesday:

Live version of Springsteen's Should I fall behind

Thursday:

Hungry heart - Springsteen
Swingin' Safari - Bert Kaempfert
Galway girl, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ to Houston, or Sparkle and Shine- Steve Earle
Viva la vida - Coldplay
Rocked to stony silence - Cado Bellle
La bamba - Los Lobos
Something stupid - Mavericks/Yearwood
Crescent City - Emmylou Harris
Chin up cheer up, or Winding wheel - Ryan Adams
White winter hymnal - Fleet Foxes
Forever and for always - Shania Twain
Say you'll be mine - Christopher Cross
Different drum - Linda Ronstadt
Way down in the hole - Blind Boys of Alabama
Road to Ensenada - Lyell Lovett

Have a good weekend

Joe
Linlithgow

Re: #10

oops! For 'grey' read 'gray' (alternate U.S. spelling)

David Bowie - Alladin Sane (simple minds)

David Bowie - Kooks (eh Kooks) for Mr Chops of course!!

Bad Boy - Beatles
Big Bill's Blues - Big Bill Broonzy

monday wishing and hoping
Tonights the night / Rod Stewart
Millionaire / Dr Hook
Barenaked Ladies

tuesday Band Names
Sweet (named after an Archies hit?)
Killers (named after a Georgie Fame hit?)
The Jags (named after a Searchers song)

Wed songs that give you goosebumps
Baby it's cold outside
Ice ice baby
Southern Freeez

Wed songs that make you vomit
Coming Up / Paul McCartney
When will I see you again / 3 Degrees
Anything by Huuuuueeeeeey Lewis
Whiter shade of Pale

Thu Alliterations
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
Wish I Was a Wild West Wero
Dave Dee Dozy Deeply Dig a Ditch

#7 No tights, but tune in...



#8 Great call for S.B.C. & the Guildford Four

#4
sure that's not thursdays list?

#17 Pink Floyd are fans

MONDAY

'So Much Love' - Faith Hope & Charity



Band name stolen from one of St. Paolo's Epistles.

(dinnae ask which yin. ah dinnae ken).

Tuesday's submission...

B-52’s - Planet Claire

The beehive hairstyle popular in the 1950's was called a B-52 after the USAF plane with that particular designation.

BAD COMPANY - Good Lovin' Gone Bad

A 1972 modern cowboy movie starring Jeff Bridges.

BELLE and SEBASTIAN - You're just a baby

French T.V. series in the late Sixties/early Seventies about a little boy and his dog, a Saint Bernard named Belle. Was in B/W too! Ach, bring back the Singing Ringing Tree :o

CHEAP TRICK - Surrender

Supposedly, the band members asked a Ouija Board what they should call themselves... Rick Neilson was always mad believing himself to be better than Steve Howe...

DEPECHE MODE - Precious

The name was taken from a French fashion magazine, "Dépêche mode", which I understand to translate to "Fashion Update" or "Fashion News Dispatch" (dépêche = dispatch) though it has commonly been mistranslated as "Fast Fashion", due to the confusion with the French verb "se dépêcher" ("to hurry up")

DOOBIE BROTHERS - What a Fool Believes

Doobie, 60's slang for a marijuana joint

BOB DYLAN - I can't get you off my mind

He liked the poet Dylan Thomas

HEAVEN 17 - Penthouse and Pavement

Took their name from a group mentioned in the novel A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess.

MOTORHEAD - Chase is better than the catch

Slang for a drug user who uses a lot of speed

THE SMITHEREENS - Behind the Wall of Sleep

Inspired by the cartoon character Yosemite Sam's classic line, "I'll blow you varmints to smithereens"

10 CC - "Rubber" Bullets

Nothing to do with cubic capacity of a mope!

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB - Whatever Happened to My Rock 'n' Roll (Punk Song)

Took their name from Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang in the '53 film "The Wild One"

FOO FIGHTERS - Monkey Wrench

Named after a slang expression used in World War II by US pilots to describe the alien-looking fireballs they sometimes saw over Germany. That'd be the Spitfire Mk XIV zipping past them then, "fue"!

THE NICE - America

The band name comes from a Small Faces song about drugs called "Here Comes the Nice"

PRIMAL SCREAM - Jailbird

The Primal Scream a psychological best seller by Dr Arthur Janov

BOOMTOWN RATS - (I Never Loved) Eva Braun

Taken from the gang in Woody Guthrie's "Bound for Glory" novel

SUPERTRAMP - School

Named after the book called "Autobiography Of A Supertramp", written by W.H.Davies

TRAVIS - Selfish Jean

Inspired by the lead character in the film "Paris, Texas" incidentally musical score was composed by Ry Cooder, not that I like Ry!

Oops...

Must read the question before attempting to answer, must red the question before ....

TUESDAY

'Sin Wagon' - Dixie Chicks (from Dixie Chicken, Little Feat)

#22 I would not worry about that MM really interesting post.

Re: #10

Any scholars out there?
I'm beginning to wonder if alliteration means what I think it means.

I like the concept of illiteration. Paolo done it. I seen him.

MONDAY:

I WISH you would play 'WISHFUL THINKING' by The Ditty Bops. I've asked for this umpteen times but to no avail. I think it's a cheery wee song with some good guitar-picking (which is always a good thing and guaranteed to lift ones mood - think of all those poor folk in traffic jams who need cheering-up) and their harmonies are excellent. Don't be put off by the strange first line :0)

Danielle,

Canadian band 'Woodpigeon'.

On the Wicky Woss show Tuesday. Right after GIO.

#26
An illiterate man from Japan
Wrote limericks what never did scan
When his pal told him so
He replied Yes I Know
But I always try to get as many words into the last line as I possibly can

There was a young man from Leeds and after an afternoon's alliterative activity he proceeded to list some other old friends:

No Mean City - Litotes
Like A Rolling Stone - Simile
Bang Bang - Onomatopoeia
I'm Your Puppet - Metaphor
Sound of Silence - Oxymoron
500 Miles - Hyperbole
Indiana Wants Me - Metonymy
I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone - Homonyms (and Parallelism)
Witchy Woman - Tautology
Steeltown - Irony
Good To Hear - Antonymic

@29

very good Paolo..

#29

Ah! So,...........................................

#30
and the proverb?

#33 Peter Piper picked a piece of pickled pepper - and then did something he shouldn't...

People in glass houses shouldn't.

Where else would one grow peppers at this time of year?

#30 Glen, very clever.

Are we to accept two-word alliteration? I suppose we could go for 'Polythene Pam' and Sexy Sadie' by the Beatles.

There can't be many three word titles; 'Mean Mister Mustard' and Bye Bye Baby' are the only ones I can think of at the moment

DC in Cellardyke

How about Sun Kil Moon - Carry me Ohio

The band is named after korean bantamweight boxer Sung-Kil Moon.

Meam Mister Mustard is a good one DC, I thgought it was going to be really difficult as I had assumed you would need at least 3 - 4 words beginning with the same letter to be allteration. But if not....

Adam Ant - Strip, great bit of trivia not only is this produuced by Phil Collins but the female spojen section is by Frida of ABBA fame. It is a good track.

Frida?

Mamma Mia!

(not a Thursday suggestion by the way)

DC

Does the alliteration have to be in the title? If so then it's dead easy. I've thought of some tunes where the alliterations are in the lyrics themselves, which for me is a more interesting idea. Most themes seem to be able to stretch a bit, so I am hoping it won't all be dubious Duran Duran stuff on Thursday...

Thursday:
'Sea Side Shuffle' (Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs) and 'Slim Slow Slider' (Van Morrison arethe only other three worders I have on my AyeChoons

Monday:
Status Quo's answer to the wish -'Whatever you want'

DC

Slim Slow Slider - great choice DC. I just got Astral Weeks Live lp and it is truly fabulous. I dont know why but he has messed with track order slightly, well on the lp anyway possibly it is ok on CD, not sure. Well worth buying.

TUESDAY:

9 BELOW ZERO took their name from a song by Sonny Boy Williamson. They're a great, typical British pub/blues band and are still touring - please play either Eleven Past Eleven (which was the musical interlude in the very first episode of The Young Ones) or 'Don't Point Your Finger (at The Guitar Man)'.

THURSDAY: 'I Am The Walrus'. The words with the repeated consonants are not necessarily consecutive (and I don't think they need to be to constitute alliteration) but, because of that, plus a lot of rhyming within lines, I think it sounds as if alliteration is used much more than it actually is.

#45 Great shout Julie, you got me thinking!

Lindisfarne's 'Fog On The Tyne' perhaps rivals the Walrus's alliteration

DC in Cellardyke

#46 - That's perfect!!! "Sittin in a sleazy snack bar sucking sickly sausage rolls". I don't any other song will beat that (although I'll be racking my brains to find one).

But could a copper catch a crooked coffin maker, could a copper comprehend, that a crooked coffin maker's just an undertaker who undertakes to be a friend?

I think we should be telt!

DC in Cellardyke

#46 - I will third the suggestion of Fog On The Tyne. Class suggestion! Lindisfarne version, though, pleez!!!!!!!!

JFE I thought you would be wanting to hear Gazza! Not.

Joe in Linlithgow - the Boss at Hampden 14 July, tickets on sale 6 March I believe.

ALLITERATION:

'Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap' - AC/DC

Bruce Springsteen - Tougher Than The rest

I heard a rumour that Bryan Ferry is Bruce's support.

MONDAY:

Pessimistically assuming I'll not get The Ditty Bops - 'Wishful Thinking' played so, here are my runners-up:

'Wishful Thinking' - China Crisis

'Part Of Me' - Suzy Bogguss (there's a part of her that wishes all her dreams will come true) - lovely song.

#54 Wow Glen that is fantastic news! What a gig that will be.....except Bruce never has a support act :o(

And I was looking forward to their duet on Virginia Plain

WEDNESDAY:

'WOW' - Kate Bush so, despite her doing daft-sounding-voice stuff with the low notes, overall, the song still gives me a (good) shivery feeling even after a couple of decades.

Is it too soon to hear Bettye Lavette singing 'STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA' again? It's one of those songs that makes you stop what you're doing and just listen it's so good...or, could you get hold of her singing the Who's 'LOVE REIGN O'ER ME' from The Kennedy Center Honors tribute to Townsend and Daltry in 2008 as it has the same sort of feel to it?

'GOD GIVE ME STRENGTH' - Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach...ditto...and pretty much anything by Chet Baker...

'BORN ON A FRIDAY' by Cleo Laine...although I find some of her recordings a tad too 'sanitised', I've seen her in concert a couple of times and she was utterly brilliant and her vocal range was incredible.

Linda Lewis singing 'IT'S IN HIS KISS' is almost always guaranteed to make me feel joyful :0)

WEDNESDAY:

Forgot 'Sing Sing Sing' by The Benny Goodman Orchestra...I defy anyone not to feel uplifted by this.

Sing Sing - A Song: The Carpenters' answer to Folsom Prison Blues.

Benny was a gifted man - they played us his version of the Mozart concerto at school.

Monday:

Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'Arby

I Have A Dream - ABBA

Wasn't there a GIO blogger mentioned a while back that they had played alongside ABBA at school?

Hi everyone

Monday has to be "Wishing I Was Lucky" by Wet Wet Wet.

Brings back some really great memories for me of being a happy 15 year old and thinking Marti Pellow was pretty cute! I think its easy to foget that the band made some really good hit singles.

Also maybe "Fishermans Blues" by Waterboys for that memorable first line...

Hope the week goes well! Themes look like good ones.

Maria

Got to have "Wish I had a Photograph of You" byA Flock of Seagulls for Monday's show.

As for Tuesday, how about some Lightning Seeds, maybe "Ready or Not", who got their name from the purple one's "Rasberry Beret". A variation on a theme, could be The Killers, who took their name from a band called... The Killers which appeared in the video for New Order's "Crystal".

#61

I think this could be half right. I played clarinet alongside BA, who coincidentally wrote We Have A Dream. He ended up having a shower with Burt Bacharach who wrote God Give Me Strength with Elvis Costello who sang Sweet Dreams.

#61 - It was me! When ABBA were on one of their tours they typically used local school choirs on stage with them on I Have A Dream. My school's choir was chosen for the Glasgow appearance. Good times!

#64, Glen, did you wear the kaftkan? I bet BA thought you were cool

DC

#51 - Norrie

Thanks. I'm keen to see Springsteen in Rome, but won't pass up he chance to see in sunny Glasgow. Thanks for the heads up.

See you in the front row!

Joe

THURSDAY

'The Wee Cooper O' Fife' - Kenneth McKellar

nickety nackety noo noo noo...............

For all our bloggers in the Kingdom.



'Coulter's Candy' - Hamish Imlach

Scottish music. PDB, BTW.

#65

All you did was eat and sleep and sing.

#69 Thanks for the comment. I'll give it all the consideration it is due.

#44
Ah Nine below Zero...more goosebumps

Monday
Wish you were here / Pink Floyd
Wishing You Were Here / Chicago
I Wish it would rain / Q Tips
Sitting Waiting Wishing / Jack Johnson
I Wish / Stevie Wonder
Wishing it as / Santans & Eagle Eye Cherry

I Hope You're Happy Now / Elvis Costello
High Hopes / Pink Floyd

Monday - Wishing and Hoping:
I Wish - Stevie Wonder
Alison - Elvis Costello (all about the hope of love, and the name of my first girlfriend)
One Vision - Queen
I Really Hope - The Cranberries
I Wish It Would Rain Down - Phil Collins
I Have A Dream - Abba
(as I have fond memories of them doing it with our school choir!)

Wednesday - Songs That Affect You Physically:
Sunshine On Leith - The Proclaimers (always makes me cry)
Love Is The Answer - Todd Rundgren (really makes your heart swell check the lyrics...)
January - Pilot (brings back warm memories of my yoof)
Solid Air - John Martyn (reminds me of trying to play guitar as well as John...)
Alison - Elvis Costello (all about the hope of love, and the name of my first girlfriend)

Thursday - Alliteration:
(Can't think of a whole lot for this theme, but I do like these few tracks)
Alliterations - James Finnerty (beautiful song, with loads of alliteration in the lyrics)
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Da Da Da - Trio
Bleezer's Ice Cream - Jack Prelutsky (Billy Botter baked biscuits with bitter butter in the batter)

Monday

'Wishful Thinking' by China Crisis

J.O'B.

Wishing and Hoping

Wish and Hoping - Dusty Springfield
Wishing on a Star - Rose Royce
A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
You Can Get It If You Really Want - Jimmy Cliff
Getting Better - Beatles
Reason to Believe / Working on a Dream / The Wish / The Rising / No Surrender / With Every Wish / Book of Dreams / Land of Hope and Dreams / Eyes on the Prize - Bruce Springsteen
Wouldn’t It Be Nice - Beach Boys
Wishing Well - Free
I Believe When I Fall in Love - Stevie Wonder
Keep on the Sunny Side - Carter Family / The Whites



Bands Named After Songs

Rolling Stones (Muddy Waters - Rolling Stone)
Madness (Prince Buster - Madness

Lots of others I don't really wnat to hear.


Songs that Give You Goosebumps

Love Can Build a Bridge - Cher, Neneh Cherry

Most songs don't give me 'goosebumps , but this oner always brings me to a stop. It was played on the radio just after the news the morning after the Dunblane shootings and I had to stop the car for several minutes. It always brings to mind those terrible scenes of parents rushig to the school, pushing buggies and not knowing just how awful it was going to be. For the forepoing reasons please feel free not to play it.


Alliteration

Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood
Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
Viva Las Vegas - Elvis / ZZ Top
Splish Splash - Bobbie Darin
Dirty Deed Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC

Monday:

* The Rutles: Living in Hope
* Sawdoctors: I Hope We Meet Again
* Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here

the obvious but fine
* Tom Waits: I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You

There's a great adaptation of Yeats' poem "He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven" by Nervous

One you might have trouble finding, but would be fantastic is
* Fat and Frantic: I Wish
which is all about wishing that one expressed various strong emotions (laughing, shouting, crying) more often

I know we had a lot of Springsteen last week, but I'm entering special pleading for
* Springsteen: The Rising
as it is so perfect for the theme in its own right, and yet doubly so as it was pretty much the anthem of the Obama campaign throughout 2008, echoing that central message of Hope.

#4
You forgot the Terence Trent D'Arby track:

Mon:
'Hold on Hope' - Guided by Voices

I did a quick search and it seems you could fill a programme just with songs called 'Hope' (REM/Bjork/Kristin Hersh). I don't think any of those are as good as the GbV track, above. Wishful thinking by the other artists!?

#75. Never heard 'Bleezer's Ice Cream' set to music...it was in a nonsense verse anthology the daughter had and I used to enjoy reading it to her...we particularly liked Sukiyaki Succotash!

Monday: I second Captain R's suggestion of Pink Floyd's 'Wish you were here'.

DC in Cellardyke

Re: #79

I didn't forget it.
The production team are, allegedly, fond of lists.
Personally, I oppose them.
If I request a song it's because I want to hear it. Or because I want to inflict upon y'all that which masquerades as humour in my warped mind.
Adam, aka 'The True Voice of Reason' is correct.
Inevitably songs get played which no-one, not even the person who asks for them, wants to hear.
Why?
They fit the theme.

If others wish to indulge, so be it.
I prefer not to.

#83 Scotch, I agree with your comments. Well said.

DC

Monday:

I wonder if anyone remembers the compilation 'Beat Runs Wild' which was out around 1986? It was in most record shops for 99p.

There was some good stuff on there including Hipsway, Love and Money and Swing Out Sister.

Also included was a track by ex-Clash drummer Topper Headon called 'Hope For Donna'.

This if I remember was part of a double a-side single released in 1985.


Cheers.

Raymie in Consett.

Re: 28 Thanks for the info S-G!

#83 I very much agree SG.

My personal rules are:-
I only ask for songs I'd want to listen to.
One song per show (although I very occasionally allow myself two).
No Googling other than to check my facts, song titles etc.
If someone's already blogged it, I think of something else.

Like Scotch though, that's just me, and I don't mind how other people want to do it, although I do find it mildly annnoying if I go to put my choices on the blog on a Monday morning and find the song I want to ask for already there in a huge list (as opposed to being someone else's considered choice).

#83 Each to their own. Lists can be fun and it depends on the theme. The original, less well known records last week was a case in point that just got me interested. Other themes sometime just don't interest. Agree though that it should be something you want to hear rather then just a list, but it is a mistake I fell into when I first started blogging. As to requesting something that has already been mentioned, well the more it is asked for the more chance it is played, though like everyone else I do get a little bit miffed if I think I was the first one to request a song and it is played and someone else is name checked - childish I know.

#83

Oh I don't disagree - and I never put a song on my suggestion lists that I don't want to hear.

There's definitely a division though between songs that I *really really* want to hear and ones that I'd quite like to hear, but reckon there's an outside chance of getting played. And any songs on the second subset that have already/are likely to get suggested by someone else get removed before posting.

TTB is from the second subset, for the record, whereas all items in #78 are from the first, in descending preference order of:
1) Fat & Frantic
2) Springsteen
3) Nervous
4) Tom Waits
5) The Rutles
6) Pink Floyd

Tuesday

I know you've head this one from me before, but...
Death Cab for Cutie - Named after the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's song
Please play - I Will Possess Your Heart

Ladytron - Named after the Roxy Music song
Please play Ghosts

Monday:

Wishing the Days Away:
Billy Bragg

(from the quite brilliant 'Talking with the Taxman About Poetry' album)

#42
Seaside is one word, D(isnae) C(oont).

#54
The Boss isn't a Black Russian man then, Glen?


TTVOR

#92 TTVORIR surely??

Mon.
Dusty Springfield--Wishin' and Hopin'

Faith Hope & Charity- To Each His Own

I Wish-Stevie Wonder

#94 Definitely seconding I Wish by Stevie Wonder - brilliant track.

#92 A(ye) R(icht enough), here's what I got on the song (but note they write Sea Side also):

Joining a list of non hit Uk bands who subsequently scored hits under a pseudonym (e.g. Stavely Makepeace aka Lieutenant Pigeon ) blues rockers Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts reached no.2 in the Uk with Sea Side Shuffle in 1972, under the one-off jokey name Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs. There followed two more singles and an album using the name. The final single (She Left, I Died b/w Too Self Centered) has not been reissued before. Sea Side Shuffle had originally been released by the production company Sonet in 1971, having previously released the first two B,M and T LPs. When the UK label took a license and promoted the single the following year then the international hit was scored. Differing to their parent group Terry Dactyl and The Dinosaurs served up an interesting blend of jug band and acoustic blues shuffle style sounds, not a long way from contemporaries Bronx Cheer and Mungo Jerry. Consider the instruments involved for a further clue as to the sonic atmosphere which, alongside your guitars and piano, include: African Whistle, Siren, Asba, Tin Cans, Kazoo, Zobstick, Woodblocks, Washboard, Dustbin, Rubber Duck ! Especially on the singles, where the genius of writer/singer Jona Lewie started to shine. He of course would later achieve huge international success as a solo artist.

D(id some resear)C(h)

Re: #4, #61, #83

Jan fae Ruglin,

Howzitgaun, hen? For the sake of reiteration and clarification may I say I learned my lesson with Sheena Easton!

I wasn't having a dig at any particular song or singer. Or, indeed, at any particular individual.

Besides, I'm hardly going to jeopardise that drink you owe me!

Ok hands up I can be guilty of list writing but depends on the theme. I usually go through my music collection for songs I'd like to hear on a theme and sometimes it could be one or 21. But I enjoy everyone elses comments and suggestions too lists or not, especially the humour. Think I listed 7 for tonight but since 3 of us have gone for Wish you were here and 4 of us for I Wish either of them would be good.

As far as rest of the week goes, apart from the tongue in cheek ones I posted earlier, I'm not too bothered about tue or thu but anyone of three for wednesday's theme would be great.

1 Thunder Road !975 Live Hammersmith version. My fav version of any song ever.
Slowed right down to bring the best in Bruce's voice and Roy's fantastic piano just makes the song. My daughter wants a pianist playing this version of it as background music when she signs the register at her wedding. Must get a hold of Fiona from the piano bar in Glasgow's Corinthian who does a mean version.

2 Superman by Five for Fighting. Fabulous song about Superman written from his own perspective and why he finds it so difficult being who he is. Very very clever. I sent it to a friend once and she said it was the first song that had ever made her cry.

3 The Blowers Daughter by Damien Rice. Check out the video on You tube. Absolutely sensational. You won't find a more intense love song than this.

Superman

#98 Paulo - I am pretty sure there is a piano version of Thunder Road out there. I had a quick look and found references to it but not who did it or anything helpful.

Perhaps the GIO team can help you out? ;-)