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Mon

For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield

Tue

Dimming of the Day - Richard and Linda Thompson

Wed

Mystery Train - Elvis/Sam Phillips

Thur

Scars - Papa Roach

THURSDAY

'The Plook of Love' - ABC

BRING ME THE FOREHEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

BRING ME THE BLACKHEADS OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

Mon...

Buzzcocks ----- Noise Annoys

Tues...

Abba -------- The Day Before You Came

Wed...

Yes ----------- Owner of a Lonely Heart -- Trevor Horn

Thur...

Fred Estaire ----------- Cheek to Cheek ( can you listen to this and not think of the Green Mile? )







Have a great weekend everyone


Frank I D

I suppose there'll be a spate of:

Everybody Nose - Dave Clark Five
Ear, There and Everywhere _ Beatles
Eyeball On To Glasgow - Will Fyffe

and the like, but I refuse to take part.

Covering every theme in one post:

David Bowie - Sound and Vision

Monday - Sound

Tuesday - The Doo Doo doo bit was performed by Mary Hopkin, the wife of:

Wed - Tony Visconti the superb producer, more of later in the week

Thursday - Vision (eyes)

'Sto, plook, listen to your heart' - Stylistics

'Blackheads' - Ian Dury

>8-D

MONDAY

'Fish and Whistle' - John Prine




My flatmate is going abroad for five days and intends to kidnap the laptop. I'll get all my requests posted now.

TUESDAY

'Your Mamma Won't Like Me' - Suzi Quatro

Suzi married her guitarist, Len Tuckey

On e of my all time favourite songs is John Prines wonderful Speed of The Sound of Loneliness. For a change from the John Prine or Nanci Griffith versions:

Jeffrey Foucault - Speed of the Sound of Loneliness

or

Kim Carnes and Lyle Lovett - Speed of the Sound of Loneliness

both great versions and it would be nice to hear Kim not singing Bette Davies Eyes!!

WEDNESDAY

Most of my favourite albums were produced by Don Was.

Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Lyle Lovett, Travis Tritt, Roy Orbison, Randy Newman, Jackson Browne, Bob Seger, Carly Simon and Brian Wilson are some of the stars who have derived benefit from his skills.

Not forgetting the sexy, talented, incomparable Bonnie Raitt.

'Longing In Their Hearts' - Bonnie Raitt

The title track of the Grammy award winning album produced by Don Was.

SG i swear those posts overlapped!

THURSDAY

'Innocence' - Kirsty MacColl

Things you find on a face
SECOND HAND news / Fleetwood Mac

#13

I didn't even know you were here until I left the thread then returned. One of the drawbacks of this new blog set-up.

Great shout for Monday!

#15

Very good! Everyone is wide awake tonight!

Eyes Without A Face - Billy Idol or Tori Amos

Monday Sounds
Gone Forever / Cry Before Dawn
Smokestack Lightning / Howlin Wolf
Redemption Song / Bob Marley & the Wailers
Wherever You will go / The Calling
I put a spell on you / Screamin Jay Hawkins
It's in the way that you use it / Eric Clap ton

Tuesday relationships

Ghosts of Dachau Style Council (Paul Weller and Dee C Lee. A haunting song about the WW11 prison camp. Failing that

The Wedding Song (There is Love) / Captain & Tenille
Solid / Ashford & Simpson
Almost Blue / Diana Krall (written by hubby Elvis Costello)
Gipsy / Fleetwood Mac
Maybe I'm amazed / Wings
Teardrops / Womack & Womack
Proud Mary / ike & Tina Turner
Mockingbird / James Taylor & Carly Simon

Wednesday Producers
Gamble and Huff legendary producers of Philadelphia International records.

Anything would do from this fabulous label but a few suggestions...
Let's Clean up the Ghetto / Philly International all stars
See you when I get there / Lou Rawls
Soul City walkin / Archie Bell & the Drells
Bring the Family Back / Billy Paul
The whole town's laughing at me / Teddy Pendergrass
Life on mars / Dexter Wansell

This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

Has someone been naughty?

Mon. THE WIND CRIES MARY - Jimi Hendrix

Tues. LET ME ROLL IT - Wings - Paul and Linda

Wed. The late Gus Dudgeon worked with the Bonzos - Elkie Brooks - Lindisfarne - Ralph McTell - Fairport Convention and many more. He is probably best remembered for the albums he produced for Reg Dwight.

THE BITCH IS BACK - Elton John

Thurs. I LET THE STARS GET IN MY EYES - Goldie Hill - A forgotten Country gem.

#1 Talk about hitting the mark from the off!

Both Monday & Tuesday shouts *brilliant* (as my suggestion history will show, The Dimming of the Day is definitely in my Desert Island Discs top 8, and vies for favourite ever track with Wish You Were Here).

Monday - Sound:
Ouch! - The Rutles
Raise A Ruckus - Uncle Earle
Flash, Bang, Wallop - Tommy Steele
The Trolley Song - Judy Garland
Rock The Casbah - The Clash ("the crazy Casbah sound...")
Trumpets - The Waterboys
Shout - Tears For Fears
I Hear You Now - Jon & Vangelis (BEAUTIFUL ballad not played nearly enough)
Talking Loud And Clear - OMD
Bang The Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren
Love Is Noise - The Verve
Generation Rumble - Dave Edmunds
48 Crash - Suzi Quattro
Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman
The Whisper - The Selector
Hawkwind - Silver Machine (loads of noise ALL the way through!)
Rewind - Craig David ("the crowd say bo! selecta!!!")
My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry ;-)

I am unfamiliar with Silver Machine's version of Hawkwind. Perhaps if you hummed a few bars.....

DOH!

Tricky themes this week, but in a good way. my initial thoughts are:-

Monday: Sound.

Lips Like Sugar - Echo and the Bunnymen
Crash - The Primitives
Bang tht drum slowly - Emmylou Harris
Bang bang - B. A. Robertson or Cher (both equally cheesy)
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
Pop Musick - M
Stop Whispering - Radiohead

Tuesday:relationships in bands

Tunnel of Love - Springsteen (with Patti)
Wake up - Arcade fire (fronted by the husband and wife duo of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne)
Go your own way - Fleetwood Mac
Something Stupid - the Mavericks and Trisha Yearwood (who was married to one of the band at the time)
In another's eyes - Trisha Yearwood/Garth Brooks
Anything for you - Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine (her husband Emilio is in the band)
I got you babe - Sonny & Cher (for intro-mix only, please)

Wednesday:the producers

Nights on Broadway - Bee Gees. Arif Mardin worked with countless artists including Carly Simon, Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand, the Bee Gees, Diana Ross, Queen, Patti Labelle, Aretha Franklin, Phil Collins, Scritti Politti, Culture Club, Roberta Flack, Average White Band, Hall & Oates, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan, George Benson, Willie Nelson, John Prine, Dusty Springfield, David Bowie, and Jewel.
When producing the Bee Gees' 1975 Main Course album track "Nights on Broadway" he famously discovered the distinctive falsetto of Barry Gibb
He also produced the soundrack to Saturday Night Fever.

Heaven can wait or Bat out of hell - Meatloaf - Todd Rungren produced Bat out of Hell, and is repsonsible for the distinctive mortorcycle guitar sound.

Orphan Girl - Emmylou Harris from Wrecking Ball, which sae EH change from the traditional sound for which she'd become known, to team up with rock producer Daniel Lanois (most commonly associated with U2 and Bob Dylan)


Thursday: found on a face

Lips Like Sugar - Echo and the Bunnymen
Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
Shut Your Eyes - Snow Patrol
The Man With The Child In His Eyes-Kate Bush
Angel Eyes-Roxy Music
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Platters
Smile like you mean it - Killers
Smile - Lyle Lovett
A beard of bees - Dollboy

Joe
Linlithgow

Sounds -
Sound of your voice, Barenaked Ladies
Ring the bell, James

Relationships -
The winner takes it all, ABBA
Missing, EBTG

Thu Things you'll find on a face

Tears on my pillow / Little Anthony & the Imperials
Scar Tissue / Red Hot Chili Peppers
Break Up to Make Up / Stylistics
Beard Full of Acne / Trace Aber
Lipstick Vogue / Elvis Costello
Sunshine of your smile / Mike Berry
The Look of Love / Gladys knight
Tick Tick Boom / The Hives

or a bit of northern soul

Weak Spot / Evelyn Thomas
Keep Your Chin Up / Jackie Ross

Completely forgot to suggest "Falling Slowly" by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová for Tuesday.

Joe
Linlithgow

meant to comment - good on Bryan or the production team for attention to detail as I Gotta A Woman was the first song Elvis played in Vegas (in 1969, most peeople discount the disaster of shows in April 56).

CAPTION COMPETITION!!

I`m sorry Jim, but you`re breaking up.

caption...
In the pilot show for Get It On Miss Babs attempts to find the write in listeners request for Bud Flanagan's Run Rabbit Run.



I suppose that a Sine Die for me then?

"Quick, Daphne. The boys are coming back!"

Caption

Should have got a Mac !!

"Is this where I plug in my curlers? Last time I got it wrong a Tull track was played...

"I haven't seen so many of these since that Belle and Sebastian concert"

This control panel has never been the same since JFE put in that new OS Upgrade v3.2.

I can see my HOUSE from here!

Ooohhhh dear.... Where's Brian Eno when you need him?

"But what were his actual words, Mr. Sachs?"

5 4 3 2 1 Thunderbirds are Go!

Thursday - Things Found On The Face:
Freckle Song - Chuck Prophet (try and find this - it's brilliant!)
Pardon My Whiskers While I Kiss You Goodnight - The Mayfield Brothers
How To Bring A Blush To The Snow - Cocteau Twins
Upside Down Frown - They Might Be Giants
Skin Deep - The Stranglers
Mister Chin - Yellowman
Contact - Edwin Starr
The Mask - Fugees
Lipstick - Buzzcocks
Shut Your Mouth - Garbage
Grin - Roger Greenaway
Lips Like Sugar - Echo & The Bunnymen
Eye To Eye - Go West
Smile - The Jayhawks
Dribble - The Tiger Lillies
Red Cadillac And A Black Moustache - Roofraisers
Why Can't I Grow A Beard - The Gay Blades
Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On - Neal McCoy
- check the vid on Youtube!

Well Jim, that was a conversation stopper

Scotch Git's going up a Ben today.

#45

Sure seemed that way! What's up with this place now? At one point we had about 200 posts by the Monday... Hey - maybe it's quality as opposed to quantity! :-)

I see Chuck Berry's coming. Do you think he'll do Stairlift to Heaven?

Now now, Glen. Keep it clean.

Ha! Hark at JFE!!

#48
..and Sweet Little Hundred and Sixteen, not to mention Reelin in a Rockin Chair

MONDAY - SOUNDS

Tell Me When The Whistle Blows - Elton John,

A top track hidden away on a very good album, really deserves a hearing.

Monday -
Stone Roses - She Bangs the drums
Simon & Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang

Tuesday:-
Johnny cash & June Carter - Jackson

Thursday:-
The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
Julian cope - World shut your mouth
Womack & womack - Teardrops
Coldplay - God put a smile on your face
Josh Rouse - Middle School Frown
Jimmy Buffett - Pencil Thin Moustache
Wilco - Bod Dylan's 49th beard

Bit of an advice shout but for Thursday:

Morrissey - Something Is Squeezing My Skull


great singalong Mozz!

Sorry advance not advice....I am no position to give advice to anyone!

Have we had Materials as a theme -

Concrete and Clay
Tin Soldier
Walking in the Sand/In My Shoes
Ebony and Ivory/Tower
China/Girl in Your Hand
Heart of Gold/finger
Heart of Glass/Onion
Heart of Stone/Free
Knock On Wood/n't It Be Nice...................?

Wednesday - Producers:

Thriller - Michael Jackson
Quincy Jones producer

Step Into My Office, Baby - Belle And Sebastian
Trevor Horn producer

That's Really Super, Supergirl - XTC
Todd Rundgren producer

Come On Over - Shania Twain (Grammy - best country song 1999)
Robert 'Mutt' Lange producer

Love Comes A-Tumblin' Down - Cheap Trick
George Martin producer

Wild Heart - Stevie Nicks
Beau Hill producer

I'm Not Gonna Take This - The Pigeon Detectives
Stephen Street producer

Brave New World (Todd Terry Remix) - Jeff Wayne (ULLAdubULLA album)
Todd Terry producer

Too Fast For Love - Motley Crue
Michael Wagner producer

Glen - good list,cleverly done as well would be a good theme.

One more for Monday: There's a story in your voice - Elvis Costello/Lucinda Williams.

Joe
Linlithgow

Blimey, nearly all the ones I wanted to suggest on Monday are already there, including:
* The Rutles - Ouch!
* Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drum (mmm a fave of mine on Guitar Hero)
* Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
* The Primitives - Crash
but I'm going to add:
* The Members - Sound of the Suburbs
(cos the chances of getting 17-23 minutes of Pink Floyd's Echoes are similar to a whelk's in a supernova).

Another advance for Thursday:

* The Supernaturals - Smile

Monday: Sounds

The Auld Triangle: The Pogues (A tale by Brendan Behan, where a triangle was used to rouse him and fellow prison inmates in the mornings)

Kathy's Song: Simon and Garfunkel (The first line being; I hear the rhythm of the rain)

Ideology: Billy Bragg (Above the sound of ideologies clashing)

Monday.

Probably forever remembered for Story of the Blues, Wah Heat had an excellent single out in the early eighties called Better Scream. This may even have been their first release. Sure it was on one of the NME compilation tapes from the early eighties.

LLIM.

Hmm no comments since 1.37 today.

*blows into mic* is this thing on?

I think people must be on holiday?

Anyway time for my Tuesday thoughts:

Springsteen with his missus Patti Scialfa is an obvious one but I think she is terrible on her records, really intrusive! But all is not lost as her solo albums are surprisingly good:

Patti Scialfa with the hubby - Talk To Me Like The Rain

The next sugggestion is by Joni Mitchell with her husband Larry Klein producing and playing bass on an incredibly personal song which is just superb:

Joni Mitchell with hubby - Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody

and just must nominate

Steve Earle and Alison Moorer - Days Aren't Long Enough (need an excuse sometime for her version of Dancing Bearfoot)!

Was Alison dancing with a hairy-handed gent who ran amok in Kent?

Thursday

Teardrop - Pimple Minds
Paper Noses - Marie Osmond
Come On Feel The Nose - Slade

:-)

'Snot Unusual - Tom Jones

Another for Thursday

Fergus 'The Bogeyman' Sings the Blues - Deacon Blue lol

Missed Mondays show but at least track list back up & thank the lord for i-player coz it looks like an interesting bunch of songs.
Some suggestions for other nights,
Tuesday -
Blondie's always good to hear, maybe "Pretty Baby" for a change, but what I'd really love to hear, and so should everyone else, is

Did You Ever? - George Jones & Tammy Wynette

Wednesday -
Tony Visconti produced loads for Bowie of course, a wee selection :-
The Man Who Sold the World or Heroes as title tracks from their albums or Ashes to Ashes from Scary Monsters,
He also produced the album Black Rose for
Thin Lizzy - Waiting For an Alibi

The legendary Steve Albini (of Big Black) produced the hugely influential album Surfer Rosa for
The Pixies - Gigantic was I think the only single from it but River Euphrates must've been the b side and was a better track

Tuesday Relationships:

Can't do any better than backing up Glenmiller's stonking suggestion of
* Richard & Linda Thompson - The Dimming of the Day
which is one of the most touching songs of yearning ever written.

However, for a bit of variety, you could also add:
* The Thompson Twins - In The Name of Love
Tom Bailey & Alannah Currie are still an item since retiring from the biz and producing offspring.
* The Tourists - I Only Want to Be With You
rather than the Eurythmics, as Annie & Dave split up as a couple before forming the Eurythmics.
* The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
Too soon for Christmas music? Don't care - it's a great track, and Kirsty was married to Steve Lillywhite who produced the track.

Tuesday - Relationships:

Just the one selection for tonight's show as I suspect many many people will jump on Fleetwood Mac, Abba, Eurythmics etc...

Stormbringer - John & Beverley Martyn (from the Stormbringer album). Perhaps the best example of how the couple's varied and distinctive styles meshed to produce this wonderful album that neither could have made on their own.

It's a very sophisticated and beautiful song for having been recorded in 1970 under John's 'usual conditions' (shall we say!) A Gorgeous and very clever string arrangement lends the song a somewhat 'Bond song' element - perhaps it's the Bond song that never was...

Tuesday: Relationships

Something from Karine Polwart band would be good (Karines husband is the drummer in the band): 'Follow The Heron' or 'Hole In The Heart' or 'Daisy'.

or Kate Rusby 'You Belong To Me'. (Produced by husband John McCusker)

Ola!

Just back from a week in Boa Vista (Cape Verde Islands) where the temperature was in the thirties most of the time. A wonderful time had by all in this tropical paradise!

Anyway, my Tuesday suggestion: "Kiss and say goodbye" by Kate & Anna McGarrigle.

DC back in Cellardyke (South East gales and 9 degrees this afternoon..... :-()

#75

Your suggestion breaks several rules and is a slight upon the mother of Rufus Wainwright

#76 "breaks several rules"? Aye, once the goalposts had been moved.....

DC

(ooops! forgot the ;-) )

#77

Yes, the Alexander Brothers were about to be viewed in a new light, too.

They weren't real brothers???????

DC

"For these are my mountains........"

...and this is my glenmiller.......

DC

Wednesday producer:

Don Was of The Rolling Stones.

Don produced many of the Stones' great albums, but the one which stands out for me is Voodoo Lounge.

"New Faces", with its multi-accoustic guitar playing is my favourite

DC

DC,
We're trying to reach Wednesday in a sub-100 post position.
So dont you come swanning back in from your half-term holiday and spoil everything!

Me? spoil everything???

What makes you think that

I would do that???

;-)

DC

Babs Bryan howsabout a wee costume theme for halloween next week. Songs you can dress up as.

Good evening.

I have always loved poring over the record labels, liner notes and all the rest of it and have always been fascinated by the Producers, Engineers and all the rest of it and as a teenager wondered what exactly they did!

Here are some of the names that seemed to crop up so often on wonderful records and a nomination for a track....


Tony Visconti - so many wonderful albums he has produced including T Rex, Thin Lizzy, Altered Images, Morrisey and of course David Bowie. His and Bowies peak for me was the Sacry Monsters album, I have read him talking about Bowie jsut having some sketches and ideas for songs and they worked it out in the studio. Bowie has never beaten Teenage Wildlife. The layering of music in the song, the vocal and musical performance it just sounds fantastic.

Chris Thomas - the list is incredible Roxy, Pistols, Pretenders and Pete Townsend - Slit Skirts

Jerry Wexler and the Muscle shoals Rythm Section - everyone from Aretha through to Dire Straits, Dylan, Bob Seger, Bobby "Blue" Bland. I would pick Seger and Mainstreet.

Daniel Lanois - needs no introduction, loved his work to produce Gabriels Birdy album and of course his work with Dylan and especially Emmylou Harris - Every Grain Of Sand.

#88
great list Norrie and normally I would second any Bob Seger track nominated but if yer man produced Bobby Bland's 'Ain't No love in the Heart of the City' then bob would be upstaged by bobby on this occasion.

Thanks for that Paolo. Great blog spot on him:

#87

Songs you can dress up in???? Examples of what you had in mind Pablito?

In the meantime,I`d better get my annual Halloween request in.

`Some Guisers Have All The Luck`.

Trick Or Treat Myself - Stevie Wonder

Producers:

Not immediately associated with his Producing skills, but would like to plug Elvis Costello for The Pogues classic album 'Rum, Sodomy and the Lash'.

How about 'A Pair of Brown Eyes' from said album?

WEDNESDAY:

Leiber and Stoller - 'Tell Him' by The Exciters.

Wednesday Producers:

Brian Eno (and Daniel Lanois)
* U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
The album that propelled U2 from a good band to being a great band; showing they could grow in huge leaps, not just tiny steps

Martin Hannett
* Joy Division - She's Lost Control
This being from the sessions where reputedly Hannett dismantled the drum kit, rebuilt it involving lavatory parts and had some of it recorded on the roof. He was also entirely instrumental in bringing in electronics to the post-punk sound, and stripping down the live sound to something wonderfully sparse.

Steve Lillywhite
* Peter Gabriel - Games without Frontiers from III (aka Melt)
although Intruder is reportedly the first use of the gated reverb sound on drums, played by Phil Collins in this case.

Phil Spector
Famously described albums as 'Two singles and ten pieces of junk', but definitely needs recognising for the Wall of Sound technique, particularly on
* The Ronettes - Be My Baby

And that technique inspired Trevor Horn on tracks like
* Frankie Goes to Holywood - Two Tribes

Finally: a bit shout to Norman Whitfield, responsible for huge amounts of the Tamla/Motown output. Rather than the great, but 12-min long, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, let's have
* The Temptations - Cloud Nine

#87 That's a great idea, and a good variant on the standard Hallowe'en fare.

Also, are we getting a generic Autumn theme while the trees are still golden? We didn't have one last year I don't think.

#92

Any trick or treaters at our house get this treatment:

PRODUCERS

TREACHEROUS CRETINS from SHUT UP ‘N PLAY YER GUITAR by FRANK ZAPPA produced by FRANK ZAPPA.

Why has no-one mentioned JOE BOYD yet?

Hunners of great albums.

For example: -

SIGN ON MY MIND from HEAVY PETTING by DR STRANGELY STRANGE produced by JOE BOYD

Producers:

I am surprised no one has mentioned Guy Stevens, especially for the London Calling album, but also Free, Mott The Hoople, Procul harum and others.

During the London calling sessions he would often swing ladders and throw chairs around the band to create an emotional atmosphere - there is some incredible footage of him and his crazy antics. Well worth tracking down!

The Clash - Clampdown
Mott The Hoople - Wrath and Wroll

#98

But oddly normal.

Not to mention definitive work with Fairport, Thompson and the Albion Band