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MONDAY

'Burlesque' - Family

Julie says she's gonna keep bugging you until you play this.
I would spare you that pain.

Play it tonight and I'll get Julie off your back. You know it makes sense!

Thu
20/20 vision...George Benson
Hey 19....Steely Dan
18 with a bullet....Pete Wingfield
At 17...Janis Ian
When you were sweet 16...Fureys
TVC15...David Bowie
14 days to save the earth / Tomski
Wishing I was Lucky / Wet Wet Wet
Blue Monday 12 inch version / New Order
Legs / ZZ Top
You / Ten Sharp
9 Crimes / Damien Riice
8 days a Week / Beatles
7 seas of rhye / Queen
Big 6 / Judge Dread
Superman / Five for Fighting
4 seasons in one day / Crowded House
3 coins in the fountain / Sinatra
Just the 2 of us /Bill Withers
One and one is one / Medicine Head

TUESDAY

'Wild Mountain Thyme' - The Silencers

'We Could' - John Prine and Iris DeMent

THURSDAY

'17' - Jethro Tull

'Sixteen Brothers' - Joe Dolan

'Fifteen Minutes' - Kirsty MacColl

'Top Ten Commandments' - Kinky Friedman

'Engine Engine No. 9' - Roger Miller

'Four Stone Walls' - Capercaillie

'When Two Worlds Collide' - John Prine & Trisha Yearwood

'I Know One' - John Prine & Emmylou Harris

#2 & #4 Quick work lads but aren't you supposed to leave some for the rest of us?!

It'll take me til wednesday to come up with a couple for this theme so i'll stick with flowers for now...

TUESDAY

Have we ever had Wishbone Ash played on the show?

How about "Leaf and Stream" from the "Argus" album. Beautiful song with some great guitar work.

PH

If you are stuck on thirteen you could of course play "13 Steps Lead Down" by Elvis Costello from the album Brutal Youth.
Alternatively something by the 13th Floor Elevators, maybe "You're gonna miss me", or by Thirteen Senses.
Johnny Cash also recorded a song called "Thirteen" on his American Recordings, but it is not very cheerful! That's four suggestions from my record collection, but I would pick the Elvis Costello one! I have been a Costello fan for 32 years, and last year treated myself to a reissued copy of his Fender Jazzmaster guitar. I also bought all the songbooks and am slowly learning to play some of them.

#5 Exactly!

Tuesday:

'We Don't Need Another Be-Ro' - Tina Turner

#5 Fear not, guys, after a quick squint through my collection I can see loads of other stuff to suggest. Paulo has indeed beaten me to a few class shouts, so I may just back him for those and add some of my own. Should be a good theme!

Let me recover from the shock of Thunder Road not being played on Stirring Songs night first!

#4

Moses:

"The good news - I managed to cut it down to ten.

The bad - adultery's still in".

Hi all...some for next week...

Mon...

Aztec Camera....Killermont Street
The Assembly......Never Never

Tues...

The Who.....Pictures Of Lily

Wed...

Propaganda.......Duel

Thur...

Loads been mentioned already so i'll just add

The Regents.....17


maybe more to follow

Ta Ra

Frank I D

#7, #8, Guys, spoke to soon, have now got about half of the "set". May be forced to carry on now and try to emulate Paulo!

#9 Norrie, it was a shocking omission, i'm still confused about that whole theme!!

paul you made some great suggestions this week including Skids, Dylan...did any get on? I have not caught up with it all this week. Is your love in vain was agreat track suggestion and I was playing Street Legal tonight - what a great overlooked album. I had suggested Baby Stop Crying for sax theme which would have been nice.

Still good chance to include some of thes eon themeless night which i am looking forward to.

Enjoy the holiday weekend everyone in case I forget!

#6

Do you play air cello along with the Brodsky Quartet tracks?

Hah!

Anyone brought up in the space age will be aware that a PROPER countdown includes 'Ignition', 'Zero' and 'We have lift off' in the sequence!

I therefore submit Joan Armatrading's 'Down to Zero' as the song which should close the Thursday show.

DC in Cellardyke

#15 DC - That's genius! I second that choice! I call upon all bloggers to support you!

I'll see your Down To Zero and raise you Less Than Zero.

Monday

When I'm Through With You - VLA - Energy like U2 had before Bono rose again on the third day

Tuesday

What On Earth - Blossom Toes - Family forerunners

Wednesday

Back Street Luv - Curved Air - Sonja Kristina, a perspex violin and no safety net

Thursday

7 + 7 Is - Love

14 - Love - Today this represents advanced maths

#17 Re Back Steet Luv - It won't be played, but I salute your askability! Great track.

#18. Well, if you're right and that wouldn't be played then I give up...What earthly objection could there be?...is it "bizarre"? :0(

Just opened up the blog and saw Morningtown Ride by the Seekers, just amazing. A song that I really shouldn't like, but it is wonderful and Judith Durham had / has one of the great voices. Play it Monday or Wednesday, in fact paly it both nights!

Paolo some good shouts, Janis Ian, we should have more of her and I will even forgive the queen track, though here I would prefer it be 39, the only track of their I can actually say I liek listening to, but seven seas is okay.

#15, 16, 17

Agreed, there has to be zero

Saved by Zero - The Fixx
Zero - Smashing Pumpkins
Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I will now go and think about sonsg I woudl relaly like to hear on Monday, along with Morningtown Ride, Pressure Drop and Promised Land.

#13 Thanks for the comments Norrie, even with your support I didn't get the Skids or Dylan played. I did get a couple of others so can't complain. The Street Legal album is a favourite of mine too and I'll be looking to get something else from it played soon. Happy Holidays....

#16 Seein' as any extension of a theme goes... T minus 1 hour & counting, LOL!

#2
Didn't mean to jump the gun. just rattled them off the top of my head but there's obviously thousands more.

Re Wishing I was lucky for 13 and Legs for 11 makes me wonder if it would be possible to get from 20 to 0 without actually mentioning any of the numbers.

#9 - Ah Norrie! Did we go a week without the Boss?? Surely not ;-)

For Tuesday, I know its a soppy/sad one but I still think "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" is a fantastic song. Reminds me of being young and listening to Mum and Dads records.

Streisand on top form as ever and as all my fellow bloggers know, Mr Diamond can do no wrong for me!

Happy Easter weekend everyone

Maria :-)

#10

I suspect that Bryan will Pass Over this one.

Keep taking the Tablets!

#23 Please don't reproach yourself Paolo, a great list!

Wishing i was lucky was clever, a similar kinda theme would be Roll of the Dice which could cover 7.

nice one Norrie. I'll add that to the alternative list

I'd like to suggest One on One by Hall and Oates for Thursday, but does it qualify for 11, 2, or 1 ?

WEDNESDAY

'Turn Me Round' - k.d. lang & The Reclines

(mad mental a movin' and a shakin' mandatory!)

Keep it Country!

Thursday's

20th Century Boy - T Rex

Nineteen - Paul Hardcastle

She's Only 18 - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Seventeen - Sex Pistols

You're Sixteen - Ringo Starr

5:15 - The Who

14 Years - Guns N' Roses

1913 Massacre - Woody Guthrie

Rainy Day Women #12 And #35 - Bob Dylan

Eleven O'Clock Tick Tock - U2

There Goes A Tenner - Kate Bush

Cloud Nine - The Temptations

Eight Miles High - The Byrds

Seven Year Ache - Roseanne Cash

Six Months In A Leaky Boat - Split Enz

Five Years - David Bowie OR Five To One - The Doors

Four Sticks - Led Zeppelin

Knock Three Times - Tony Orlando and Dawn

Party Fears Two - T. Associates

One Fine Day - The Chiffons

Fed up waitin'

I started off at one, so as part of the ignition sequence.

Zero and Blind Terry - Bruce Springsteen

and then

One - Johnny Cash
Two Hearts - Bruce Springsteen
Quarter to Three Gary US Bonds
4Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan
5Obviously Five Believers - Bob Dylan
From a Buick Six - Bob Dylan
Seven Days - Bob Dylan
Eight Days a Week - Beatles
Cloud Nine - Temptations
I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten - Dusty Springfield
Eleven O’Clock Tick Tock - U2
Rainy Day Women No 12 and 35 - Bob Dylan
Thirteen - Big Star
Fourteen Black Paintings - Peter Gabriel
Fifteen Years - The Levellers
Only Sixteen - Sam Cooke
17 - Janis Ian
Eighteen Yellow Roses - Bobby Darin
Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown - Rolling Stones
Twenty Flight Rock - Eddie Cochran

Oh Mac you were doin brilliantly till you hit no.3. The Slosh and Alleycat in consecutive weeks? You'll be starting another arguement in Denny.

Floral night

Lily the Pink / Scaffold
Forget me nots / Patrice Rushen
Edelweiss / Vince Hill
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom white /
Eddie Calvert
Which way you go billy/Poppy Family
Is it Love you're after/Rose Royce



Female Frontal Night

We Expected / The Hussy's
Tiger / The Hussy's
(a good glasgow band)

Whoops!

Three steps to Heaven ~ Eddie Cochran

am I wrong in thinking we had numbers very very recently?

MONDAY:

A wee collection of songs by artistes I don't think have been played on GIO yet...

Soundgarden - 'Black Hole Sun'

'Every Night' a Paul McCartney song covered by Phoebe Snow.

'Trouble is a woman' - Julie Reeves

'A sleepin' at the foot of the bed' - Little Jimmy Dickens

The Undisputed Truth - 'Show Time'. Probably difficult to find but well worth it if you can.

Raphael Saadiq - 'Love That girl'

Mickey Jupp - 'Heave To My Hearties'

'Look Over The Hill and Far Away' by The Humblebums is a lovely song - it's OK...It's Gerry Rafferty singing :0)

Kylie Auldist - 'Community Service Announcement (great song - with The Bamboos I think - sounds as if it should have been recorded in the 60s)

and...last but by no means least...it would be very thoughtful if 'Burlesque' by Family could be played...just for Scotch Git :0) (or at least play him some Tull)

#37. Not sure how recently it was last a theme but, for this slightly different format, the presenting will surely have to be very disciplined if they're to get as far as number one...never mind the zero-songs some people are hopeful of reaching (which reminds me of 'Big Fat Zero' by Graham Parker). So...no chatting about cakes, handbags and what JFE says he's cooking for his tea on Thursday then.

I like Mickey Jupp's song Joggin' (not walk the doggin').

It may be that short songs have to be selected on Thursday if we're to have our normal ration of infectious laughter/irritating giggles.

Thursday

Less Than Zero - Declan MacManus and The Jazzmaster

Love Minus Zero - R. Allen Zimmerman

One - Three Dog Night

Two Kinds Of Teardrops - Del Shannon

World War Three - DOA

It's Four In The Morning - Faron Young

5D - The Byrds

Six Years Gone - Georgia Satellites

Seven Days A Week - The Sounds

Eight Days A Week - The Beatles

Engine No. 9 - The Deftones

Ten Cents A Dance - Ella Fitzgerald

Song Eleven Could Take Forever - Ned's Atomic Dustbin

The Twelve Steps - Spiritualized

Lucky Thirteen - The Smashing Pumpkins

Fourteen Today - Dan Hill

Fifteen - Taylor Swift

Only Sixteen - Craig Douglas

Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks

Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses - Kathy Mattea

Nineteen Forty One - Nilsson

Four And Twenty - Stephen Stills

#40...ooh Glen! You'll be my daughter's new BBF for asking for a Taylor Swift song :0)

Tuesday ~ Floral Theme

Of Lillies and Remains - Bauhaus
Consider the Lillies - New Vintage
Violet - T. Tiger Lillies
New Rose - T.Damned or G n R's cover
La Vie En Rose - Grace Jones
Rose of my Heart - Johnny Cash
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Black Rose - Thin Lizzy
Blue Orchid - T. White Stripes
Build Me Up Buttercup - T. Foundations
Daisy Lane - Stereophonics
Days Of Wine And Roses - Henry Mancini
Desert Rose - Sting
For The Roses - Joni Mitchell
Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen
Hyacinth House - T. Doors
Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley
Marigold - Nirvana
Mother Rose - Patti Smith
Orange Blossom Special - Johnny Cash
Rosenrot - Rammstein
Roses From My Friends - Ben Harper
Poison Ivy _ T. Paramounts
Tiptoe Through The Tulips - Tiny Tim
Tokyo Rose - Idle Eyes
Where The Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Daffodil Lament - T. Cranberries

FLOWERS:

Please play something by the wonderfully-named jazz singer Blossom Dearie. 'I'm Hip' shows what a good singer she was. The lyrics are witty and would have been perfect for the jive talking theme.

Failing that...another shout for 'Rosie' by Don Partridge (c'mon...anything with a kazoo is worth a play).

FLOWERS...

almost forgot The Tiger Lillies - 'Bully Boys' (if you dare...very catchy, but quite odd...but I like it).

THURSDAY:

20. 'Twenty Miles' - Chubby Checker

19. 'Nineteen Days' - Dave Clark Five

18. 2-10, 6-18 (Doesn't Anybody Know My Name) - Johnny Cash.

17. 'Edge of Seventeen' - Stevie Nicks

16. 'You're Sixteen' - Ringo Starr

15. 'Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow' - Nick Cave

14. '14 Karat Gold' - Gordon Lightfoot.

13. '13 Step Boogie' - Martin Sexton

12. 'Twelve Thirty' - The Mamas and Papas

11. 'Eleven Plus Eleven' - Nine Below Zero.

10. 'Clock Strikes Ten' - Cheap Trick.

9. 'Don't Point Your Finger' (at the guitar man)' - Nine Below Zero

8. 'Eight More Miles To Louisville' - Grandpa Jones.

7. 'Seven Days In Sunny June' - Jamiroquai.

6. 'Age Six Racer (So Long Sweet Summer)' - Dashboard Confessional.

5. 'Twiggy Twiggy' - Pizzicato Five

4. 'Four Strong Winds' - Neil Young.

3. 'Les Trois Cloches' - Edith Piaf and Les Compagnons de la Chanson - perhaps better known as 'The Three Bells (all the chapel bells were ringing...boum boum boum...you know the one. Loads of cover versions in English but (quelle surprise) I'd love to hear the most famous French version.

2. 'Two Worlds Collide' - Inspiral Carpets

1. 'The Number One Song In Heaven' - Sparks.

0. 'Big Fat Zero' - Graham Parker.

Great No 1 Julie. They will need to beat the clock and try and get that one on!

@33...Paolo

Lol...I have since received an apology from my wife's friend who said it was her mistake...i had never heard of the Alleycat ...but i see you have.... ;O) gonny show us the moves...

#46. Very good Norrie ;0)

WEDNESDAY

'Coisich a' Ruin' - Capercaillie

So what if most of us cannae understaun' a word? It's brilliant!

#49 I can! :-)

Understand the song or SG's last sentence?

#51 Both. Basically it means 'walk to me my love'.

Did this come up before? I think I asked my DFad about one of these - did Julie Foulis cover this track....ah no matter. I am listening to a Decemberists concert. Great stuff!

I think I have heard a few people doing that particular song, but off the top of my head can't remember who!

I am probably talking rubiish but it has a good video as well

Yup that's the version I know. Funny lyrics at the end though... I never understood the writer's aversion to left-handed men!

Not sure next weeks theme challenge is much of an inspiration for anyone tuning in on Monday onwards. It seems that all numbers and flowers have been done, and it's just Friday night.

Perhaps we could have entire evenings devoted to a particular number....

DC

Ooops... the time I took to type that post, it's turned into Saturday morning!

DC

Dc I nominate the following ajudactor of numbers

I am trying to think of Monday still! Stop pressurising me!

#59 Norrie that's brilliant!

Not as good as this but it was cruelly overlooked for Stirring Songs night:

How about this!

Love the mobile phone!

There is the seeds of a theme - tecnology referred to now abandoned.

Check that Decemberists link Jim - really good.

At the risk of one-upmanship, this is for Paolo and Norrie....



DC

Love it DC!

#64 Good shout! Check out Doppelganger by The Luddites. Great punk band from Hull.

#65 - Ower muckle time on yir hawnds DC. Brilliant tho.

Any truth in the rumour that Google are adding to their portfolio with a "lists" section???

Hope that's a one-off EC...

DC

On holiday next week, but would like to make a suggestion for Tuesday:-

Flowers on The Wall by The Statler Brothers

I am sure I have a version somewhere of Steve Earle doing the Stones Dead Flowers....

A few initial thoughts for Monday:

#17 Happy to endorse "When I am though with you" - the VLA - Great song!

Sylvia - Focus
Every river - Kim Richey
Hard drive - Evan Dando
Spanish Stroll - Mink de Ville
C'mon c'mon - Von Bondies
Your heart is as black as night - Melody Gardot

More to follow...............

Joe
Linlithgow

#70, Lucky you Jan. This strikes me as an ideal opportunity for you to bend your "one song only" rule on Thursday, as you have 21 potentially to offer! All that time on your hands too, go on, you know you want to....

Monday - Themeless Night:
Embers - Just Jack (best track of 2009 so far!)
Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes
Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen
California Stars - Billy Bragg
Weathercock - Jethro Tull
Waiting For The Day - Gerry Rafferty
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Pump Up The Volume - M/A/R/R/S
Magic Fly - Space

Hi all

Also for the floral theme would be good to hear Travis, Flowers In The Window.
Great track.

Numbers night seems to be pretty much covered but;

Don't Stop Movin - S Club 7 (Go on BB, its a top pop song!!!)

I Got Five On It Luniz or

5ive Keep On Movin' (going all out for the pop classics on this theme!!)

It Takes Two - Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston

You're The One For Me Fatty - Morrissey

The sun is out and chocolate the only thing on the menu for sunday, good times.

Maria

Wednesday - Bands Fronted By Women:
Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft - The Carpenters
I'll Stand By You - The Pretenders (re-mastered version please)
Connection - Elastica
Only Happy When It Rains - Garbage
Atomic - Blondie
It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back) - Eurythmics
Echo Beach - Martha And The Muffins
Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles

#47
I don't do the alleycat Frank. That's for wmps. Now if you want to know how to do the Hucklebuck......there's a real ankle breaking, kick up the a**e type of violent dance.

65
Ha ha

#77
it's especially good at office parties for exacting retribution on those staff who are habitually late or call off. Good for the soul and a lot quicker than lengthy drawn out disciplinary procedures :-)

Tuesday - Floral Theme:
Give My Love To Rose - Johnny Cash
Let It Grow - Eric Clapton
Carnation - The Jam
Bulbs - Van Morrison
Roots, Rock, Reggae - Bob Marley And The Wailers
Flowers For Zoe - Lenny Kravitz
Seeds - Bruce Springsteen

#33, #47

Gentlemen,

What do mere men know of such things?

Let's ask Julie!

#33, #47. I danced the slosh to 'Roll With It' by Oasis at an office Christmas party one year...at least I think it was the slosh...wasn't my idea - I'm about as good at it as I am at that bloomin' 'dance' to 'Oops upside your head' :0)

Yeah, that sounds like the 'Hucklebuck'

(see 77)

>8-D

Thursday - Top 20 Countdown:
Twenty Foreplay - Janet Jackson
Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan
18 'Til I Die - Bryan Adams
Edge Of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks
Sweet Little Sixteen - The Hollies
TVC 15 - David Bowie
Fourteen Black Paintings - Peter Gabriel
Thirteen - Johnny Cash
Dozen Girls - The Damned
11 O'Clock Tick Tock - U2
Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin
Cloud 9 - George Harrison
Driver 8 - R.E.M.
Seven Wonders - Fleetwood Mac
If 6 Was 9 - Jimi Hendrix
Five Long Years - Eric Clapton
Four Seasons In One Day - Crowded House
Three - Massive Attack
Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad - Meatloaf
Number One - The Rutles

...and as it's a countdown, I will add:

Happy Lift Off - The Splashdowns

:-)

Long-ish lists for the rest of the week (except Wednesday), with some endorsements of earlier blog suggestions:

Tuesday

A dozen roses:
Good year for the roses - Elvis Costello
Rose of Cimarron - Emmylou Harris
Kiss from a rose - Seal
The Rose - Bette Midler
Ramblin' Rose - Nat King Cole
Desert Rose - Sting
La vie en rose - Edith Piaf
Wishing on a star - Rose Royce
Rose Garden - Glen Campbell
Love is a rose - Linda Ronstadt
My love is like a red rose - Eadie Reader
Rose - Patti Scialfa

You can bring me flowers - Ray LaMontagne

Wednesday

Misguided angel - Cowboy Junkies
Rocked to stony silence - Cado Belle
Denis Denis - Blondie


Thursday

20th Century Boy - T.Rex
2:19 Blues - Louis Armstrong
Eighteen with a bullet - Pete Wingfield
Edge of seventeen - Stevie Nicks
Only 16 - Same Cooke
Fifteen Summers - Gallagher and Lyle
Fourteen years - Deacon Blue
Into the Fire - Thirteen Senses
Midnight train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips
Mornings Eleven - The Magic Numbers
10th Avenue Freeze-out - Springsteen
9 crimes - Damian Rice
8 Miles from Memphis - The Grid
Seven seas of Rye - Queen
6,8,12 - Brian McKnight
Love at the five and dime - Nanci Griffiths
Walk away Renee - the Four Tops
Those 3 Days - Lucinda Williams
Song 2 - Blur
One of these nights - Eagles
Less than zero - Elvis Costello

Have a good weekend

Joe
Linlithgow

Just back from Hampden bursting with floral thoughts.

Dust my Broom - Fleetwood Mac
Dandelion - Rolling Stones
I Don't Know You - New Riders of the Purple Sage
Orange Blossom Special - The Hellecasters
Laurel Canyon ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ - John Mayall
Flowers of Evil - Mountain
Sweet Pea - Tommy Roe
Crimson and Clover - Tommy James & The Shondells
Honeysuckle Rose - Fats Waller
Two Lips - Petula Clark
Magnolia - JJ Cale
Jennifer Juniper - Donovan
Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes - Edison Lighthouse
Veronica - E. Costello
Mandrake Root - Deep Purple
Lavender Blue - Leon Russell
Lotus - REM
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
A White Sport Coat and Pink Carnation - Marty Robbins

Can't believe that this blog has degenerated into lists. Hardly seems worth the effort posting because all the good tracks seem to have been snapped up....

HOWEVER

I still want 'New Faces' by The Rolling Stones to be given an airing and Easter Monday seems to be the perfect oppurtunity.

Come on Bryan, GET IT ON!!!!

(Hope the Easter Bunny is good to you)

DC in Cellardyke

Can't beat them, join them

#87

DC,

A wee aberration, methinks. Thursday's countdown theme invites everyone to submit a list. I don't have a problem with lists per se, but with the motivation.
Songs which are included simply because the title or the band's name corresponds with the theme drag the show down.
I am not trying to impose my views upon others, merely expressing an opinion.

Vive la difference!


Oh, yeah. Happy Easter!

Happy Easter SG!

D.C/S.G - I can confirm my "countdown" songs are all tracks I haven't heard for ages and love...does that qualify as an acceptable GIO blog in the committee's opinion?! ;-)

I must admit the lists have put me off reading the blog the last few days......sorry folks, you can' please all the people all the time and all that.

Mazzy

#89, Scotch, it's not just Thursday though! And anyway, I was moaning because I couldn't think of anything because all the good songs had already been listed.

#90, Mazzy, I agree entirely with your point about wading through above.

DC in sunny Cellardyke

Monday - theme free / songs not heard in ages

A couple that were missed but would have been good to hear

Ian Hunter - All American alien Boy, featuring the great David Sanborn sax playing

Small Faces and pp arnold - Tin Soldier

two for easter

Mott The Hoople - Roll Away The Stone

Bruce Springsteen - Jesus Was an Only Son

not heard in ages

Belouis Some - Imagination

Happy Easter everybody

Some Bowie for this week

Seven - Bowie

Pictures of Lily - Bowie

not Bowie but what about

The Clash - Magnificent Seven

#87 They all have too much time on their hands with nothing better to do than generate lists.

Last time I generated such a big list the ship nearly capsized.

For themeless Monday how about
"Couldn't get it right" - The Climax Blues Band.

Themeless Night

The Shivers / Hercules Mandarin
Wall of Hate / Shine

Female frontal night

White Rabbit / Jefferson Airplane

#94
I had Climax Blues Band played a couple of weeks back and can't remember what the theme could have been

For consideration on Monday...

Behind the Wall of Sleep - T. Smithereens
or
Staring at the Rude Boys - T. Ruts

Although I had a playful dig on the subject of long lists earlier in this blog I have followed the debate with interest and would like to make a couple more points on the subject:-

1. Isn't it possible that a long list could detract from the good content of one show? Lets say someone lists about 15 really high quality tracks; is the GIO team gonnae "name-check" you for more than one of them? Your then hoping that non-bloggers request some of the same songs also, but then I suspect many of them also read the blog and will want to submit "original" requests.

2. You could do yourself out of hearing your favourite track! This happened to me last week when posting a massive list of just two tracks!!

3. What does the GIO team think?

Anyway, it was a beautiful sunrise this morning on the way to work, so for the benefit of all those at leisure can I request:-

Let the Sunshine In - Hair Musical

PH on the Sunny M77 & M8

#97
I'm only speaking for myself here and not for others as I was first up with my top 20 list. The themes just happened to go up whilst i was on the blog and I literally just rattled off 20 for a bit of fun (probably due to an obsession with the charts in my younger days). It wasn't meant to get up anyones nose and if I go back to the list i could easily narrow it down to those tracks I actually want to hear. . .

As for other themes, we could all suggest one song per theme and if it doesn't appeal to the GIO team it won't get on. I tend to pick songs I like that fit a theme in the hope that one of them will appeal to GIO. Sometimes it's two or three, sometimes it's half a dozen. If someone has beat me to a good tune I'm happy to second it in the hope it will influence the producers.

But as I say I'm only speaking for myself. Everyone's different and each to their own.. . . which is probably why i enjoy reading the blog. Different personalities, different tastes but all passionate about music.

In fact as a bit of fun if everyone keeps nominating for thursday regardless of what has gone before then come thursday I'll compile the blog top 20 of the most popular selections just for our own interest.

Morning chaps and chapesses,

My comment about lists was not intended as a criticism of any individual. Of course the Thursday countdown theme lends itself to 20 suggestions (21 if you adhere to my belief that 'Zero' has to be part of any countdown!).

My comment was out of frustration because I couldn't think of any contribution for the other days because they'd been listed already. (Apart from the Stones 'New Faces', Bryan please take note!)

Looking forward to tonight's show.

Sunrise not so good this side of the country, hopefully the haar will burn off later in the day

DC in a misty Cellardyke