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Mon.

The Saints are Coming ~ T. Skids

Matthew even!

Monday

Got to request the irritating Hey Matthew - Karel Fialka, you will know it when you hear it again LOL

MONDAY

Roxy Music 'Psalm' the first song Ferry wrote but didn't record until the 3rd album.

J.O'B.

By the way, do I get 2 requests as my name is John and my son is Luke.

J.O'B.

The Bible - Abraham, Martin And John

must be appropriate!

Madmac - got your Skids tickets yet?

MONDAY

The Apostle Mark, aka Mark the Evangelist, is Patron Saint of Egypt.

'Cleopatra, Queen of Denial' -

or,

'Big Bad John' - Charlie Daniels Band & The Oakridge Boys

From the CDB album '³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖsick Heroes'

#2

Guid yin, Jan. I thought it would've been played when we had the 'Songs featuring children' theme.

#6 Not yet Norrie

#7 No...
John Henry ~ Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston
or
John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man ~ The Carter Family

If a better song is played on Monday than Ryan Adams and The Cardinals and Dear John then I will be pleasantly surprised!

Monday
Gospels or bible. Who thinks this theme might be expanded. Anyway sticking to the theme for now

Fool / Al Matthews
A long forgotton soul classic from the 70's. I won it in a competition in the Airdrie and Coatbridge advertiser. The first prize was the new Al Matthews single, an Al Matthews t shirt and a Stephen Stills LP. In other words eh um what do we have lying about that we can give away.


The long Road / Mark Knopfler
AKA the theme from Cal. His finest work.

Luke back over your shoulder / Archie Bell & the Drells
Northern Soul Classic


Love me for a reason / Johnny Bristol (Don't often hear the soul original which was hijacked by shiny faces and white teeth.)






However I wouldnae object to Misty / Johnny Mathis. I don't care I really don't. Unashamed guilty pleasure!

Totally agree about Cal. Stunning music, great shout....

Tuesday
And the painting you stole from Picasso
Your loveliness goes on and on........

.....Where Do You Go To My Lovely / Peter Sarstedt


Who Painted the Moon Black / Hayley Westenra



Iris / The Goo Goo Dolls
(You'd need to play it twice so it was Irises)


Your Baby ain't your Baby anymore / Paul Da Vinci
(this was the non Rubette who hit the high notes on Sugar Baby Love)
((Don't actually want it played....Just excreting some useless trivia))

For Monday I need to do some research, the Bible certificate I got at Westburn School circa 19ohmyGodisitthatlongago is long gone from the memory cells, but I know ther eis Jude so Hey Jude / Beatles and there is John I'm Only Dancing / Bowie. May need more research and less wine. Will probably have plenty of time this weekend as the snow is getting deeper by the minute, and it is therefore unlikely the Locos will be playing Rothes tomorrow.

Hoppo, you went to Westburn Primary in Cambuslang?

Wednesday
Cornflake Girl / Myra Ellen Amos
Not a Dry Eye in the House / Marvin Lee Aday
Love is a Battlefield / Patricia Mae Andrezejewski
Hurricane / The Singing Hoover
I've got the music in me / Pauline Matthews
On the Radio / LaDonna Andrea Gaines
Wa\r (what is it good for) / Charles Hatcher


A lot of artists changed their name to their stage name by deed poll so for example Elton John and Alice Cooper are now their real names. Confused? You will be....

As for thursday...Brilliant! Dead Chuffed! Did I suggest this? I'm having some serious senior moments these days. I assume I must have heard something I hadn't heard in years and thought that would be a good theme. Just wish I could remember what it was now.

#15 No Westburn in Aberdeen - do I type in a by the way accent?

Aye pure but

18# naw....whatever that is LOL

Monday

Father And Son - Yusuf Islam

BTW DC great trivia question which current mega star was a backing vocalist on the 30th anniversary concert? Which mega band was the "house" band?

Monday

They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Any More - Kinky Friedman

A day at the races...bonne chance.

Monday

Anything from Piper At The Gates of Dawn for any Pan worshippers dismayed by the casual religious chauvinism of this theme.

Tuesday has got to be a for Captain Beefheart gettig their first ever airing on GIO, surely? Eh, GregaryPeccary? Perhaps something from Trout Mask Replica?

#7, #9



I'm not Roman Catholic, but I'll take their word for it. I would have guessed Coptic rather than RC, but what do I know?

#27

MONDAY:
'The Belle Of St Mark' - Sheila E
'Ants Marching' - Dave Matthews Band

The New Testament is a bit more of a problem then just the Bible. However, as it is more about forgiveness how about Sympathy for the Devil, by the Stones. Also Tryin' to get to Heaven by Bob Dylan.

#5 Abraham is old testament so BB may be picky.

Joan Osbourne - If God Was One of Us. How obvious was that?

Who sang Jesus was a Crossmaker? Or should I just google it?

Can it be anything IN the New Testament or is it just the names of the books? Mr Git are you adjudicating on this since it's your theme? Would God Shuffled his Feet, Crash Test Dummies pass for instance? I need to know before expending valuable brain cells of a weekend thinking about songs that won't qualify

#28

? , you say?

#28

How no'?

>8-D

#33

Gaie, after us all thinking about great guitar playing and putting forward lots of 'bands with front men playing guitar' only to discover the front man disqualified the band, I'd play it safe.

I'm going to stick to strict and literal, otherwise I'd sieze another opportunity to suggest

Umbrella - Manic Street Preachers

BTW, I've phoned into 'Any Answers' to have a go at our former PM, but whether they'll pick me, who knows - if selected, I will, of course be appearing under my Sunday name of Glen Miller.

#33

Gaie,

It was a response to ideas of themes that would span the entire week, e.g. North, South, East, West or Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales.

My own first choice request could be regarded as being a wee bit tenuous, so maybe I'm not the one to ask. Anyway, the team move the goalposts as and when the mood takes them.

Looking at Bryan's words above, I would venture to suggest it's more about the names and the Gospels in particular, not the New Testament in general.

But what do I know?

#34

Dawkins has helped to put the mental in fundamentalist.

He is at least as dogmatic as the Ayatollahs.

Mr. Dawkins can keep his 'God delusion.'

I'll stick with the 'Ethics of the Fathers'

Hey Folks...just to stop confusion quickly....Monday's theme is exactly as you say Scotch..... Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. So tracks around or by those names. Not many Luke's to choose from I suspect - mind you we could play Luke Goss!! But I'm sure you will all be inventive!
Hope that clears things up. And come on, somebody has to ask for Bros...don't they?

#38

I tell you... 'children and animals'. It's true you know.

#39

No, no one has to ask for Bros.

Hopefully, not even our friends on f***book will ask for Bros - besides, i think they were played in the last couple of months.

Even the vox pop texters will think twice before inflicting this mince upon our tiny nation, simply becuase one of these two was called 'Luke' -I mean common decency says 'you wouldn't' - would you?

I shall have to luke up google for 'songs by Luke....',

It's the dog, ma.

. It's a dog!

Ha ha Henri.... Ok I'll give you a starter - Luke Pritchard from the Kooks! Other than him, I'm struggling to see past Luke Goss! Of course perhaps there are songs with "Luke" in them!
I'm off to "luke" out my Bros album just in case it's needed.

#36
If you're having a go at our former PM you can easily blow his whole arguement out the water.

If we thought they had weapons of mass destruction we would never have gone in.


I mean we left North Korea alone didn't we....





......or is there a shortage of the black stuff there

Monday:

Luk wot u dun
Take that Luke off your face
Luka
Luke what the cat dragged in

Nae bother!

DC

There is that disco version of the theme from Star Wars. There`s a Luke in that.

Plastic Jesus / Jack Johnson


The song that Paul Newman sang in

#44

Google produces surprisingly little, which shows what an obscure name Luke is. Some Irish folk singer called Luke Kelly that even Archie Fisher* will be struggling to remember.


Google does tell me that Hank Williams also recorded as 'Luke the Drifter' - so that's two requests I can put in for Hank Williams this week!

Of course, no doubt Bros will be brought upon us, not because of Luke, but because his brother is called Matt, which I'd temporarily forgotten.

*By the way, has anyone else noticed how all the music on Archie Fisher's travellin folk all sounds the same? Obviously, they're either not travellin very far, or worse, (as witnessed on Mary O'Hairy's Global Gathering), it doesn't matter how far they travel, they still sound the same.

To be fair, the Celtic Connections gig's involving Babby McFerrin and Trlok Girtu truly were 'world' - but much closer to Steven Duffy, I think.


#45

Unfortunatley,Pablo, I didn't get on Any Answers today - although i have got on a few times in the last few years - once before on this subject when I was incredulous about Hutton.

I still have the Private Eye cover with Hutton presenting his report
and the quote bubble says " and I conclude Dr Shipman is innocent of all charges"

I thought Chilcot would be another Hutton, but it's turned out to be really interesting.

As it happens another caller made my point for me - that Chilcot shows us that, de facto, we live in an elected dictatorship, where even our elected representatives have very little influence upon the elected dictator. Our parliamentary democracy is an illusion, to keep us humoured and treated with disdain.

The power ceded to one individual, the PM, is ludicrous.

Bad enough on a good day but Blair was'delusional and convinced', a character trait of tin pot dictators the world over, and an irony that is almost Shakesperian as the tragedy that is Iraq unfolds.

The audacity to present a slight change in emphasis in one word in a report that makes 'hand grenades' turn into 'missiles delivered within 45 minutes'is utterly despicable.

How I wish Robin Cook had lived to tell the truth to the Chilcot enquiry... maybe he was he bumped off too.

We are,indeed, living in The Matrix: Idea for a theme: covert,smoke and mirrors,illusion,espionage, undercover etc....probably been done before

# 45

old joke: Where did Saddam Hussein keep his CD's?

#50

He ripped them to MP3 and put them in his iRaq.

51

in a rack

#45

#49

If they allow an inquiry it is not worth having.

The Bloody Sunday inquiry - 11 years and £200M and not yet reported. I suppose it provides employment.

So it's only the names of the FIRST FOUR books of the New Testament. Just as well we asked.
OK, off to see how many songs Tom Petty wrote about M,M, L and J.


#49 well said, Henri, even if it wasn't on the radio.

#49 - Ahem. Wrong blog I think, Henri.

Okay, Monday having been clarified I shall go back to the drawing board.

John I'm Only Dancing - Bowie
Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
John Doe No 24 - Mary Chapin Carter
Talkin John Birch Paranoid Blues - Bob Dylan
Matthew and Son - Cat Stevens


Are we opening this up to "Johnny"?

#56, yeah, I know, off on one, sorry - didn't mean to lower the tone of this blog.

Anyway, tell me about the Brazilian National Anthem

Anyone going to Imogen Heap on 8th February? (ABC)

J.O'B.

#56 #59

It's better than lists of songs

#60

I'm not planning to Imogen anybody

See the things you find out: googling 'musician Luke' gives a clip from the Huddersfield Examiner, that well-known successor to NME. There's a guitarist called Luke Fitton who's in Vagabond, who had a kind of weird single called
Don't Wanna Run No More,
which the H.E says is gospel. Well maybe, but not as Aretha would know it. However, that would of course be appropriate for our now clarified theme. Only there's a better song (IMO) by Vagabond called
Smile of Mona Lisa
John Mayer does a version of
Free Fallin',
keeping the T P connection live
And I also found a song new to me, called
So Far from the Clyde by Mark Knopfler
- stopped me in my tracks and it's a great song.
Matthew's proving a problem though and it's tea-time. Moussaka, Bryan.

John Henry - Bruce Springsteen

Hmm, are we only going with the four books mentioned or the full 27? Eg Jude, Romans etc? I didn't get my Bible certificate for nothing.

From
The not liking the Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Hoppo!

PS Was my suggestion of bands etc., you thought would be huge rejected due to it possibly showing up the paucity of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland library?

Monday.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - Fairport Convention.
John Brown - Masters of Reality.
The Luke Of Love - Dusty Springfield.

MONDAY: Matthew Mark Luke & John.

Matthew:

Woodstock - Matthew's Southern Comfort
On Days Like These - Matt Munro

Mark

Does Caroline Know? - Talk Talk (Mark Hollis was/is the writer in the best 80's band ever)

Luke

Your Cheatin' Heart - Hank Willims (aka Luke the Drifter)

John

And, after today's rant:

Gimme Some Truth - John Lennon.

#61 - that's only 5!

regardez youse

henri

#64

"I didn't get my Bible certificate for nothing."

Me neither. Parting with cold, hard cash beats study any day of the week.

>8-D

I'm not convinced Miss Babs will allow it, but going down the patronage road would increase our options somewhat. e.g. St. Luke is the Patron Saint of physicians.

MONDAY

No problems with this fitting the theme...

'Mac Rebennack's Visit to Blairgowrie' - Michael Marra

#49. You serious? I think Archie Fisher will have heard of Luke Kelly...Google harder.

Thanks for words of consolation re Lizzy at back end of last weeks blog and I feel kinda responsible for DC gettin the sharp side o' Sou-side Senga's tongue, apologies for not sticking up for you DC but in my defence I've been at work and just found out. Probably luckily for me ;)
I'll away and think up some suggestions for the week but i can see Mr Bowie featuring heavily. Is it defo only the 1st 4 books for Monday? I was thinkin Hoppo's "Hey Jude" #14 was a great shout, still, it could scrape in by virtue of JOHN Lennon??!
I'd also be interested to hear Gaie's suggestion #62 "So far from the Clyde"

If we're allowed Bros because of band member names then surely any band wi a dude called John something should also be allowed, non?

BRING ME THE HEAD OF JOHN THE BAPTIST!

From alpha to omega

John The Revelator - Taj Mahal

Morning all!Initial thoughts for the week ahead, with more to follow:

Monday - New Testament.
John the Revelator - John Mellencamp or Curtis Stigers
I want love - Elton John
Mark my word - Allison Moorer
Someone to love you - Matt Morris
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohen

Tuesday - visual arts (with thanks to all at GIO)
Art for art's sake - 10cc
Painter Song - Nora Jones
The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke - Queen
I'll be there for you - The Rembrants
Michelangelo - Emmylou Harris
Portrait of my love - Matt Munro
Family portrait - Pink
Still life - Nanci Griffith
A picture of you - Joe Brown

Wednesday - to follow

Thursday - songs you rediscovered on Get It On
Stay - The Blue Nile
Personally, I'd have more suggestions if the theme was "songs you heard first on GIO and likes o much you bought the mp3/cd".

Friday - to follow.

Have a good week.

Joe
Linlithgow

Apologies, I meant to say "...........and liked so much you bought the mp3/cd"

J
L

Just back from a graaayyyyttt Burns Supper tonight so will avoid posting until the haggis wears off





Apart from this post that is!.....






More on LastFM

DC

#34 Go Original vid is best... l.o.l.
#35/39 Cudgie no goa yer instruction?

A few ideas for Wednesday:

Robert Allen Zimmerman /Dylan - If you see her say hello
Ellen Naomi Cohen/Mama Cass Elliot - It's getting better
Leslie Wunderman/Taylor Dayne - Tell it to my heart
Erik Schrody/Everlast - Saving Grace
Marvin Lee Aday/Meat Loaf - Heaven can wait
Eilleen Edwards/Shania Twain - When or From This Moment On
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta/Lady Gaga - Poker Face
Alecia Beth Moore/Pink - Who knew
Sting/Gordon Sumner - Russians or Moon over Bourbon Street

Joe
Linlithgow

Monday

The Cuban Heels ~ Matthew & Son
Matt Bianco ~ Yeh Yeh

Mark E Smith ~ The CD In Your Hand
Marc Almond ~ The Stars We Are

Broder Daniel ~ Luke Skywalker
Luke the Drifter ~ Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw

Mika ~ Dr.John
Hank Williams ~ Dear John

#69

Well,I'm almost never entirely serious anyway, but I barely know who Archie Fisher is, let alone Luke Kelly.

My knowledge of folk music is imbecilic, hence,it all sounds the same to me.

But I could be mixed up.Maybe it's the people who like folk music that all sound the same:they pretty much look the same.Beards,that kind of thing.

Some traditional folk music seems fun but my impression is that overall it's dreary,serious, ernest and concerned with loss,stuffed with historical tragedy,and/or political issues. I hate all that 'I Was A Miner From Newcastle' stuff. Get over it, have a shave and tidy yersel up a bit.

And they are forever trying to do that 'fusion' thing which implies it's some kind of 'world' movement. The Trilok Gurtu gig was spolied because some Scottish trio with a whistle, accoustic guitar and an accordian had to join in and do the 'Celtic' bit - it was mince.

Consequently,anyone with two ounces of one brain would be well advised to give it a wide bearth or risk becoming as depressed as the folk you see nursing a beer and looking concerned,as they contemplate the lyrical import of whatever issue is being sung about now.

Do they not understand: girls just wanna have fun?

Personally, I think there is far too much of this stuff on Radio Scotland and that Archie Fisher and Mary O'Hairy should be cut back by about 50% and more time devoted the world's greatest (and possibly unique) thematic request show.

Smiffy and myself were having dinner last night with some media folk and I found myself giving them a hard time for wasting their time following a drama about some extraordinary farming folk with exotic names like 'Shula' and an imbecilic Glasweigan character called 'Jazzer', when they could be wigging out with Bryan & Babs. What a ton of horse manure The Archers is - I hate all that planted 'social issue' stuff too.

I'm doing my best to get the show noticed in the right places, although if I understand it correctly the Radio Scotland audience isn't that big.But there will come a tipping point - seriously!

MONDAY

Please play for the heathens among us, in the hope that they, too will be redeemed.

It matches the theme coz St. Matthew was Sagittarius.

>8-D

#77

MadMac,

Your 'Apostolic' link is gubbed. Divine intervention?

>8-D

#82

I did it a minute ago, it worked okay - stuff about the King James revisionist bible - gospel according to John?

#69 #80 Beards indeed...harrumph! Any follower of this blog worth their salt should know it's a moustache I have ;-) (I'm not that keen on Archie Fisher either).

#83

It's all Greek to me.......

#86

Coptic? Greek? make yer mind up! L.O.L.

'St. John was clearly one of the busiest Apostles!'

#74/75

I agree with Joe, Thursday's theme would be better if it included the stuff you'd never heard before and subsequently got into/bought/downloaded.

There's lots of those.

Feeling ecstatic by hearing what you'd forgotten is more difficult,because you remember where you were the first time you heard it, not when you subsequently heard it - so you forget it again.

A bit like everyone knowing exactly where they were when they heard Kennedy had been assassinated (I was at The Life Boys).

Though the theme as described happened for me on Friday when 'Davy's On the Road Again' got played - I'd forgotten how well crafted it was, great bass line. But it took me back to when I first heard it - we used to sing it to Davie Anderson but would change the second line to 'wearin wimmin's clothes again'.

I later downloaded it.Well, it's a start.

#87 see #67



#88

Sarah Kennedy has been assassinated?!? But she widnae' hurt a fly!!!

"I was at the Life Boys." Spare us the details.......

#89

Are you absolutely certain you don't want to know what happened at The Life Boys the night Sarah Kennedy was assassinated?

Doctor! I smell like a bar of soap!



Well that's life boy.......






:-0




DC

#91

sobered up?

did you give them the benfit of your new found poetic prowess last night?

I'm so bored attending Burns Suppers that I'm thinking of doing a MacGonnagall Supper next January. Apparently there area couple of these already - everything is done backwards, coffee first etc.

I was discussing this with some actors last night and they were telling me about a Laughing Lenny supper they'd been to which was fantastic.

Theme idea: who else deserves a supper in their honour?

#80
How many folk singers does it take to change a light bulb














11................one to change it and the other ten to reminisce how it's not as good as the old one was.


#92
We could have a Henrihannah supper......


How many would you feed :-)

We could have a supper for all the people on the blog - all three of us.

#94

Julie,

How did you arrive at that figure?

We should be telt!

DC

#93/94

I could certainly stretch to all three of us - but since Glen & myself are the same person, it'll be supper for two.

I'm honoured, Paolo, by the idea of a Henri Hannah supper but I'm afraid that there isn't (yet) a recognisable canon of work to celebrate.

Mind you, our building, Wit's End, could hold maybe 30 seated and 100+ for a buffet, so if we could agree a suitable celebrant, I could certainly host it.

JESUS CHRIST!

Oops! I forgot; that was the last supper.......

#92 my entire offering was a 20 minute poem





#97 BRING ME THE LAST FED OF ALFREDO GARCIA




DC

And as DC hits a 30 yard thunderbolt it's acrobatically cleared off the line by PP....and he misses out on No. 100