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Angie / Rolling Stones

Allegedly written about Mrs Bowie.

WEDNESDAY

I'm on a roll, people!


'Frida Kahlo's Visit to the Taybridge Bar' - Michael Marra

'Riding the Waves (For Virginia Woolf)' - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel










Smokin' Hot Git

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Smokin' Hot Saint

Someone suggested
Cat Stevens Lady D'Arbanville
tonight. All about his ex, Patti.
I requested that a while back and rather stupidly attributed it to Eric Clapton. Clap Cat.
Anyway - another Cat "homage" to Patti was
Wild World
Shared words of wisdom or merely (?) bitter about it all ending? Who knows - still a beautiful song about the loss of love. Just a beautiful song.
Would also fit for a theme of things you want to say to your kids to help 'em along.

The Rolling Stones Angie
All about David Bowie's missus. Or not. It was apparently actually named after Keith Richard's daughter, Dandelion Angela, who was newly born. Might have saved a lot of confusion in the long run if they'd called it Dandie.

please help us out here so this isn't the first post.

Patti Boyd: not one but at least 3 smash hits:

Something - The Beatles

Layla - Derek & The Dominoes

Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

regardez youse

henri

#6 too many Patti's - no wonder I was confused!

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#5

Mary-Doll,

Then they would confuse Dandie with

>8-D

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If anyone suggests better than this....


**David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul**

written for Claudia Lennear (as was Brown Sugar I think....)

Broooce's version of 'Jersey Girl' (by Tom Waits for his wife)

Oh Julie Julie Julie.........superb suggestion.

Also

Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue

I'm glad to see the filth perpetrated by paolopablo has been cleared from the previous thread...

Our House -- Crosby Stills and Nash

Written for and about Joni Mitchell - Graham Nash's then girlfriend.


Cold, Cold Heart -- written by Hank Williams about his wife Audrey.

#10 do you want Lola instead?
I'm easy.
Unless you ask my husband or colleagues.
;o)

By the way just released... the boys a genius.. if not a little mad!!

BRING ME THE LADY IN RED OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

#17

This conversation is taking a queer turn...

#7 Confused eh?

Oi,

#18 that is just - words fail me! How many times could he have killed himself. Brilliant though, just brilliant.

Bob Dylan or (Cash & Carter) ~ It Ain’t Me Babe about Joan Baez

T. Beatles or(Siouxsie & T. Banshees) ~ Dear Prudence Prudence Farrow, Mia’s sister

I wonder if it's possible to do a similar show of the songs inspired by blokes?

#4 lol

If noahs ark was made of wood what was Joan of arc maid of











Orleans



Ok It's an audio question

My Girl - the Temptations

(lyrics by Smokey Robinson for his wife Claudette)

Also very, very happy to endorse #13 - Jersey Girl

Also

Isn't she lovely - Stevie Wonder
Uptown girl - Bily Joel
My winding wheel - Ryan Adams (Heartbreaker, the album, was inspired by Adams's break-up with Amy Lombardi)
Sparkle and shine - Steve Earle (for Allison Moorer)
Sara - Fleeetwood Mac
Red-headed woman - Springsteen (if lyrics deemed radio-friendly)
Stainsby Girls - Chris Rea (his wife Joan attended Stainsby Secondary)

Joe
Linlithgow

Long Tall Sally - Little Richard - Apparently inspired by his aunt who was a bit shy.

I thought that Lee Dorsey sounded more like Diana Ross tonight. The version played was speeded up by 16%. What next- an attempt on the four minute Bohemian Rhapsody?

Surely we could break the four minute Bohemian Rhapsody?

I'd like to see it down to about 00.04 seconds.

The Reduced Shakespeare company could manage, I'm sure.

Momentarily, I thought we were to be subjected to 'Dignity, Once More' tonight - narrow escape.

regardez youse

henri

#27 It sounded like some kind of rerecording.

The Blowers Daughter / Damien Rice
inspired by the daughter of his Clarinet teacher.

Oh Donna / Richie Valens
Written for his girlfriend Donna ludwig

Mary Queen of Arkansas
Mary's Place
Mary Lou
Mary in 'The River'
Mary in 'Thunder Road'
Who was she Norrie?

#1 and #5
Your Right MD that jagger is on record as saying it wasn't about Angie Bowie, but rather it was about someone else and Richards simply suggested the name of his newborn as the title. Some think it could have been Marianne Faithful? The lyrics could suggest so.

Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole

Pocahontas - Neil Young

Paul from Ayr

#31

Some say it's about David Bowie which would disqualify it, given the heterocentric nature of this theme.

Jist stick on all of John's tracks on Milk & Honey.

Then for the blokes' show, stick on Yoko's (no, on second thoughts, don't)

To be more serious:
* Lennon - Grow Old With Me
* Lennon - (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess
(and Yoko's "Let Me Count The Ways" is pretty passable)

You could also have
* Marillion -
somewhat based on Fish's breakup with a lady named Kay Lee (but also a bit of an amalgam of other relationships)
* Feargal Sharkey -
written by Tom Petty & the Heartbreaker's keyboard player Benmont Tench about his relationship with Maria McKee. The reverse view of the same relationship was the basis of A Good Heart.

She's Everything - Brad Paisley for his wife Kimberley
thought Hot Scotch would've put that one up

Eleanor Put Your Boots On - Franz Ferdinand for Alex Kapranos' girlfriend Eleanor Friedberger

and *ouch*

Go your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac Lindsay Buckingham to Stevie Nicks

Hot on the heels of The Promise comes The Beatles Pastmasters with all those EP tracks and b sides that were too good for the original LPs.
Been a bit of a retro week all in all.


Coming next on ayechoons
Bob Seger..........pretty please?

#75 - CaptRamius - I like it! Fire up the Quattro!

;o)

Don't Cry For Me, Argentina - Julie Covington

#24 - Paolo - Was Joan's final prayer for forty days and forty nights of rain?

;o)

YONI POEM from 2032 by GONG about SHAKTI YONI aka GILLI SMYTH

SAD EYED LADY OF THE LOWLANDS from BLONDE ON BLONDE by BOB DYLAN about
his wife SARA

LOVE LETTER TO MY WIFE BINA from ISLAND OF THE STRONG DOOR by ROBIN WILLIAMSON about ……

Most predictable on the Get Predictable Stuff On show is Elton John (not a request by the way)

#37 Spot on Paolo, way overdue a comprehensive re-issue programme with properly mastered lp's....

Anyone got Debbie Harry's number and we can ask her if Maria was written about me or someone else?

Happy Wednesday

Mazzy*

#37 #42 I agree. Hopefully the people at ichoons are reading the blog right now, though of course they should be getting on with their work.

All my seger vinyl was last spotted in my ex's loft.

#43
tried to give her a ring mazzy but she just kept me hanging on the telephone

There is a thought....

Randy & The Rainbows - Denice which later became Denis by Blondie,

it was written a bout a real girl back in the original version

Laughing Len's "Joan of Arc"was actually about"that cold and lonesome heroin(e)" Nico,as were many other of his songs.Seems he was infatuated with the Hanover Hausfrau who discovered the big H!(Saint Nico!)there's a thought!The Stones "Sweet Black Angel"is about Angela Davis,American political activist in the 60s."Suite:Judy Blue Eyes"by Crosby, Still and Nash is about Judy Collins.Velvet Underground's "Candy Says"about Warhol Superstar Candy Darling.Todd Rungren,s "Baby Lets Swing"about Laura Nyro not to mention a little gem by The Cosmic Rough Riders simply called" Laura Nyro"!Dig that one out if you can Bryan.Oh and "Amelia"is about Amelia Earhart but we got that last week thanks,Cheers ,Willie Bartke

While this isn't describing the person in question, it's very much written for a particular lady:
* Billy Bragg -

I know we had him last night, but this is such a lovely romantic song that contrasts hugely with the political stuff.

Alice Cooper's Only women bleed is about an anonymous woman in an abusive relationship

#41 FRED YOU COULD HAVE REQUESTED SARA BY BOB DYLAN WHICH IS A GRAAAYYYYTTT SONG ABOUT THAT VERY WOMAN

(You aren't one of the proclaimers by any chance are you?)

Empire Line by My Life Story
a song about the first supermodel, Gia Carangi.
We don't hear enough MLS on the radio nowadays.

The Girl from Ipanema - Gilberto/Getz

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Although the first Mrs George Harrison won it outright, i also grudginly admire Oh Yoko from the Imagine album....

... but best of all is

Somedays - Paul MacCartney

who says Macca can only write silly love songs? - this is world class - a man reflecting, with some cause, on a really uncertain future, which as we all know, unhappily came true.Easily the most touching of his songs, and not silly at all...it would be great to hear this.

regardez youse

henri

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#50 So it's not only the Get Predictable Stuff On show. it's the Get The Bleedin' Obvious On show.

No I'm all three of them!

#41, #50, Fred, DC, no doubt that these are great Dylan songs, I wonder if they are too long tho. We did get "Hurricane" recently, so not out of the question. If it's a busy show it might be worth considering..

"She Belongs To Me" - supposedly about Joan Baez, the lyrics suggests that Dylan put her on a pedestal and was maybe a little in awe of her. the egyptian ring mentioned is apparently similar to a real one that Bob gave to her.

oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!


SORRY, I MEAN OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Not had your cod liver oil today?

All are great Dylan Songs
All Dylan songs are great

Not a dig at you DC but a dig at the show.

Like your reaction though!

Suze (the cough song)?

#36

Gaie,

Tactical. I knew you would ask for it. This way we get to hear Michael Marra and Brad Paisley.

:-)

#60 ahhh, you're a fly one! Thought there was somethin fishy. And there's me rising tae the bait. Caught hook line & sinker.

Best Wishes to Martin Lancelot Barre on this, the anniversary of his birth.

We should listen to him play lead guitar tomorrow evening. 'Twould be a treat.

#62 Ah!!

Fly Git

Gaie, do you agree?

Whole lotta Rosie - AC/DC

Gordon

No 'Candle in the Wind' then.

Was 'Dignity' named after a woman?

>8-D

What about a slightly contraversial one: Gold Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols as it is about our Queen, seems quiet appropriate at the moment since the royals are in the News. Stuart Glencross, Carlisle.

#52
I`ve met her! And her daughter.


AFR currently in freezin cauld Scotland, a long way fae Ipanema. Dont know how you guys put up with it. I`m knurlt.

Re: Henri's continuity announcer thingmy; I can introduce Jethro Tull songs! I'll even waive my fee!

















benevolent git

#70
Did she live up to the song's lyrics?

#72

Jake,

Ask him what 'knurlt' means...

#70
when's the getthegither

#73

Scotch Git, I am guessing it is derived from Knurl (A knob, knot, or other small protuberance. Free Online Dictionary) combined with the effects of the recent cold weather on the human body.

#75

Jake,

So the operative word is small...

#76 Size isn't everything..








So I am told.

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

I am talking about the size of fruit loafs.

Hey now don't start that again

#80

Izzat a banana loaf in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?

>8-D

#66 just finished struggling along with my daily gaelic lesson. Is it benefiting me? It's surely making me feel that learning's harder now than it used to be! I love the language, but I still can't understand more than a word here and there when it's spoken. Reading's a bit more satisfying. It is, I think an incredibly difficult language to learn, as there are so many rules; therefore if children can master it maybe they are well placed to learn other languages. Should it be kept alive - yes I think so. Should loads of money be spent in doing so? Chan eil fhios agam.

#82

Gaie,

I can relate to that. (Hebrew, not Gaelic). You explain the process with greater eloquence than could I.

#78

*sigh*

Contributing to this blog is like taking a stroll through a minefield...

Scotch - last night I nearly got up and left the class after 15 mins of conversation of which I understood not a word. This is my 4th year of night-classes and I felt a total dunderheid. Then we went on to some stuff on the board and it wasn't so bad. But help ma boab, at least Gaelic's written with the same letters - where do you even start with a new alphabet?
So are you persevering?

Hey! maybe we've stumbled on a way of getting past the over-zealous moderators?

#85 gaie,hope you don't mind me butting in.

I started learning Italian when I was in my late 40's and I find it so difficult. Like you, I can hardly understand anything when it is spoken to me, but it is worth it for the feeling that you get when you can make yourself understood in another language. Keep it up!

#85

I'm persevering in theory. In practice I'm a lazy so-and-so.


"Procrastination is the thief of time."

Edward Young

#87, yes I will, Jake - I've signed up for a distance learning module which I think will be more structured than the class. Not complaining about the class - it's free and I'd have got nowhere on my own, but it's not serving its purpose any more now other than just about stopping me from being a lazy so-and-so too!

#85 by the looks of the moderated posts it's mair like perversing

Should we be telt?

I can only understand the odd word here or there when watching Gaelic programmes too. They are usually the English ones that have no Gaelic equivalent such as Apollo Internet nimby etc

#78
either that was too subtle for me or the moderator is just extracting the Michael

#91

I remember Sorley Maclean addressing this point - someone claimed that Gaelic wasn't a real language and challenged him to provide the Gaelic for Spaghetti Bolognese. He simply turned round and asked for the English for it.

Tapadh leibh, mile grazie (etc)
(incidentally - if you're learning rules, then that's the hard way to learn a language, and not at all the way kids learn. Try the Michel Thomas approach. Don't think there's a Gaelic one, but I learned a fair bit of Italian and majorly brushed up my French & German that way, and did plenty fine in the countries without having to resort to English).

'Fraid I learned languages way back in the day when grammar counted and if the only phrase I know is 'I like Tom Petty' then I can't work out how to say 'You will not like Tom Petty' without rules. I read kids' books and that helps with the vocab, but if you've a rubbish memory like mine then the only way to move on to know why and how. Simple repetition doesn't work.

For tonight's CiN Show:

To make it a bit more interesting, and raise a bit more cash, I propose upgrading the 'pound a play' rule to a sliding scale that will have Bryan & co undergoing something equivalent to the rest of the world's fundraisers' need to sit in baths of beans: more money means playing tracks GiO wouldn't normally.

So, if you want a Beatles track, then it's a pound a play. If you want Gong, it's more, to encourage you to give more and GiO to expand its horizons.

Here's the scale, based on list.

£1:
Beatles, Bowie, Brooooce, Queen, Elvis, Stevie Wonder, Elton, Blondie, Johnny Cash, Prince or the Smiffs (including Morrissey solo)

£2:
Costello, ABBA, Stones, Cure, Rod Stewart, Simon & Garfunkel (jointly or severally), Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Paolo Nutini, Kate Rusby, Karine Polwart, any country artiste not otherwise mentioned

£5
Billy Bragg, Pink Floyd, Patsy Cline, Peter Gabriel

£10
Any prog rock not otherwised mentioned, Fairport Convention (or soloing members such as Richard Thompson or Sandy Denny)

£20
Gong, Incredible String Band, Jethro Tull, any folk not already mentioned

Any album track that wasn't a single takes it up a category (so Beatles: Her Majesty would be £2), as does any track over 5mins long and any cover of a track by that artiste (so Robert Wyatt's version of Shipbuilding is £5)

Anyone want to make other suggestions for the £5+ categories?


May I also take this opportunity to make my annual offer of £50 to be a (co)producer on the show over Xmas. Anyone want to join me? Last year, we had the total offer almost to £1k.

I think that's an excellent idea, but whether it will work - I suspect they already know they'll get more than £1 a play and rely on that to avoid having to play anything from the GIO banned list.

However, I'm already committed in my mind to a Gong song and for it to be played for Fred, not myself, so happy to go with the sliding scale. I found a box of ancient coins on a tidy-out this week, pennies and shillings and so on. Maybe the scrappy'll give me something for 'em.

Roxy Music's 'Beauty Queen' with the opening line 'Valerie Please' rumoured to be about Valerie Leon


Also Bryan Ferry's 'Goddess Of Love' written about Marilyn Monroe


J.O'B.

#84
Yes SG, at times your `path seems to be strewn with cow pats from the Devil`s own herd`

Jake she had just done a playboy spread (with her daughter) in 2001.

Paolo, I`m afraid i dont have a window this trip for a getthigither. Next time.

Still knurlt.

#96
RJ they haven't put. New thread u for today yet

Try again. RJ they haven't put up a new thread for today yet

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