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WEDNESDAY

'Sweet Caroline' - Neil Diamond

'Rhinestone Cowboy' - Glen Campbell

'Ally's Tartan Army' - Andy Cameron

'Rocky Raccoon' - Beatles ~ for Graham Stewart

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"...I do think that certain songs are like fine food and much more enjoyable when accompanied by a well chosen wine..."

Bryan Burnett


"...or a bucket ay buckie..."

Scotch Git

'El Paso' - Marty Robbins
'Hersham Boys' - Sham 69

Alan Jackson - It's Five O'clock Somewhere

Jimmy Buffet - Margharitaville

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long

I have sung along whilst merry to these.

Wait a minute I have sung along very merry to all the records in my collection.....

When we've good friends round and had a few convivial drinks, the song books come out, the piano lid is lifted (or the guitar) and God knows what the neighbours make of the resulting racket. Manny is usually sober - and as he's the one at key or frettboard, at least they don't have to worry about the underlying sound. Always wonderful to hear.

Anyway.
A favourite on such ocassions is
Paul Simon Something So Right
Equally as celebratory as it is maudlin, perfect for that state of mind when you've had a real good gas about everything and you're slightly drunk and you're neither happy nor sad - just mellow and accepting that you're not superman but wish things could be a bit different and you can't quite put your finger on what's what, but you think you might have a haver. And you're trying to explain things but end up sounding just a wee bit too introspective, anal and overly-analysing (thank you Senor Freud for that addition to our vocab!). Or somesuch.

Ach. It's worth a play.

On reflection - most of that was gibberish. Probably makes more sense when drunk. ;o)

Many an evening following some hard Summer or Winter climbs were to be had in the Clachaig.
Two songs spring to mind Coille Chneagaidh when Spud, Chalky, Boab, Davy Boy, Slippy & yours truly blew the Aran sweater & bobble hat band clean away... Then there was on a cold snowy Winters evening with JC and a six piece band from Perthshire, WOLFTRAIN & their pulsating Black Cat Bone!

Recent party experience has taught me that stuff i'd written off as disposable pop suddenly comes alive when given the drunken karaoke treatment, example...

All The Lovers - Kylie Minogue

Paul from Ayr

When I'm tired and emotional two songs (by artists I dislike,and which are not brilliant by any standards) always remind me of when my sons were born:
A groovy kind of love - Phil Collins
For your babies - Simply Red

The only Keith Urban song I own is all about booze and emotion:Tonight I wanna cry.

This is us by Harris/Knopfler is self-explanatory - but also really good and therefore perahaps off-theme. Ditto for "A little respect" by Erasure and/or "This old heart of mine" by the Isley Brothers and/or "Misty Blue" by Dorothy Moore. Great at any time. Brilliant with cocktails!

Joe
Linlithgow

Also, on behalf of my better half, and her side of the family I second SG's "Sweet Caroline" (#1).

J
L

#11, sobering thought Glen!

Last time I mentioned this someone posted a link (Captain maybe?).
It was a student party, Day had turned to dark and back to day again.
Lots of alcohol consumed.
A couple of guys jammin on guitars started playing the intro to Wish you were here. Two or three started singing, then four or five, then the ones that had fallen asleep, then the guy in the lavvy, then the whole house. In fact i'm sure the paperboy and milkman joined in as well. Totally spontaneous and unforgettable. A bit like

Wish you were here / Pink Floyd

#13 my works PC can't cope with that link Paolo, so can only imagine what it would be like, but great shout anyway...the Floyd version that is!

The most pissed people I have ever seen singing along and having a great time (before being carried out in a huge amount of cases)is at the Take That shows:

Take That - Patience

play it for everyone who wore a pink cowboy hat (all 60,000 of them)

It was a huge amount of people just carried out, they did not put them in cases.

The songs that sound better after a few drinks: ~

Blimey! – another theme all about GONG!

2032 from 2032 by GONG

INFINITEA from LIVE TO INFINITEA by GONG

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#18 "It'll be GONG next - Mark my words!" said Bryan

The Radio has been Drinking (not me) songs:

The inevitable
* Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking (not me)
* Tom Waits - A Little Drop of Poison One for the Shrek fans there

The incomparable
* Spike Jones (and his City Slickers) - Cocktails for Two
How many songs do you know with a stop-chorus of hiccups?

The underappreciated
* Marillion - Slainte Mhath

The much missed
* Sammy Davis Jr - One For My Baby

And after a few, everyone's yer best mate:
* Saw Doctors - The Best of Friends
and you start getting a bit messed up about people and their choices:
* Ewan McGregor/Jose Feliciano - El Tango Del Roxanne (from Moulin Rouge OST)
* Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues
* Cat Stephens - Wild World
* Richard Thompson - The Dimming of the Day (Dave Gilmour version also very good)
and you start missing home
* Dean Owens - Raining in Glasgow
* Peter Nardini - A River Without You

Let's hear it for the Irish!

Daddy must have thought this sounded better after one or three drinks.

I never heard him sing it sober!

Catch Me If You Can - Brendan Shine

Ivan Morrison can be a grumpy so-and-so but this is brilliant!

I'll Tell Me Ma - Van Morrison & The Chieftains

Gone but not forgotten. Try singing this after 10 pints of Guinness!

You're Such A Good Looking Woman - Joe Dolan


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Dire Unless Drunk night:

Surprised you havent suggested Sunshine Mountain, DC.

"..how they can use those skills to find full time employment"

Rich coming from someone who has a part-time job, and only has to work a couple of hours a day!

Not been to Sunshine Mountain for a few years Adam. May have to re-visit ere long.

I think I have fairly good taste in music. However, this goes down the tubes after midnight on Friday & Saturday nights, when I have been known to dredge up songs I would not normally admit to liking.

Examples include:


Shang-a-lang - Bay City Rollers
Without you - Harry Nilsson

But I'd like to suggest Angel Fingers - Wizzard as the song that I verbally abuse most fondly

DC

I like Senga's Ivan George Morrison suggestion. That's good track to belt along to whilst inebriated, actually the whole album is.

OK...thinking of more songs enjoyed while 'tipsy' at parties...

Proclaimers - 'Sean' (even if in pub after Hibs failed yet again to win silverware)
Mott The Hoople - 'Roll Away The Stone'
David Cassidy - 'Could It Be Forever'
Oasis - 'Wonderwall'
Beach Boys - 'Sloop John B'
My friend Mo has a fine voice...sang a great version of 'Cry Me A River'at a party... would've sounded great even if I hadn't had all that wine beforehand (please no more Buble...as opposed to "yes please!...more bubbly!).

#24 I think I have a fairly poor taste in music. This is confirmed by the fact that Bryan has never played any of it on Get It On. Either that or Bryan is a twerp.

Is Fred really

We should be telt!

;o)

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#29 No reason this should be referred.

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There is no such thing as 'taste in music'; some people like the Proclaimers, some Gong. It is about liking or not liking, not a judgement on your cultural aspirations. Everything's worth listening to at least once so you can decide if you want to hear some more of the same.

Everyone who's ever listened to GIO has heard The Proclaimers. No-one who has listened to every single GIO programme has heard Gong through that medium.

Dance With the Pixies - Gong

I'll drink to that.

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now gonnae gie's

Ten Guitars

I have to say though, what bizarre timing, this theme on the day the parliament debates how to deal with Scotland's rivers of alcohol.

BORN ON THE WRONG SIDE OF TIME from TASTE by TASTE (if there is such a thing)

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Oh, the things that we say

may not even see the light of day

if moderators wullnay quit

censorship

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By the rivers of alcohol, there we sat down
ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Bryan.

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When the teacup
Carried us away in captivitea
Required of us some Gong
Now how shall we get on a Gong song
In GIO land

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Billy, I posted a link to a goal in a polo match that was censored. I havnae a scooby why.

WEDNESDAY

Chelsea Dagger - the Fratellis

Rambling Rover - the McCalmans

Alba - Runrig

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Supper's Ready (Genesis).

As a teenager, I once got back from a party about 3:00am, put Suppers Ready on the turntable, donned the headphones, crawled into bed and started, unwittingly, singing along rather too loudly:

I had got to the lines (and was shouting them out, apparently)

"with the guards of Mogog swarming around,
the pied piper takes his children undergound,
dragons coming out of the sea
shivering silver head of wisdom lookin at me
he brings down the fire from the skies
you can tell he's doin well by the look in human eyes
better not compromise, it won't be easy.."

Downstairs, this private singalong was not well recieved and was rudely interrupted by my furious old man shaking me and shouting:

'What the bloody hell have you been drinking?'

Nothing like ancient prog rock to get the singing voice going. Not that you'll play it, but the appropriate section appears at 15:40 into the 22:58 classic.

regardez vous

henri

Hey Billy's a poet,
And we didn't know it!

#24 I actually meant to say that I had good taste in vodka

DC

#31
Aye Billy, and then
"..the group 'workshopped' a few theme ideas and we got some good ones for future shows."
So they'll have been filed along with all the good themes gathered during the alphabet month in the summer.

THE POACHERS SONG from A GLINT AT THE KINDLING by ROBIN WILLIAMSON
who is appearing at the Fraser Centre Milngavie on Saturday night.

Whatever, Angel Fingers is an excellent suggestion anyway.

Once in a town called Rothesay long long ago, Maw and Paw went away leaving me in charge of the house. After enough time to be sure they were on the boat I went straight to the drinks cupboard and hit the gin. Gin? Why on earth? I haven't a clue. Gimme Shelter went on the cassette player and was played over and over and over, sounding better each time as level in the gin bottle neared the bottom and I did imitation Mick Jagger dancing.
Then I went for a sleep, woke up in time to go to work that evening - in the pub. And was none the worse as far as I can remember.

Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones

sorry, 'whatever' refers to #43

Whatever....

What A Fool Believes - the Doobie Brothers

On a Friday in February 1979, The Hairy Cornflake played this on the Radio 1 breakfast show, announcing 'this is the new single by The Dooleys'. Gobsmacked, I went out at lunchtime from work and attempted to buy it and was relieved to find it was actually by a favourite band. I copied it to cassette and went off for the weekend with an ex and a group of mates to a dance in the Arrocher Hotel with this track being a constant feature of the aural landscape over a very boozy weekend.

Anyway, we got blisteringly drunk and at the height of our drunkenness, the ex and myself decided to get engaged.

Am I the only person who got hitched to an ex to the prophetic strains of 'What A Fool Believes'?

In time we did get married. I wanted 'Will Your Anchor Hold?' sung at our wedding, but couldn't get agreement.

Anyway, it didn't.

Still love the track,drunk or sober, but drunk it has strange and powerful influences over your behaviour.

regardez youse

henri

Okay then mine's a Special Brew ~ Bad Manners just livin' up to the stereotypical opinion of us Bankies!

#49

Why dont we get the Hairy Cornflake on the show the next time Bryan gets a night off?

He gets my vote.

He's ok I s'pose. Blandish. Would be good on Pick of the Pops.

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We'd get snooker on the radio back and Paolo would get the highest break.

My reference to The Hairy Cornflake wasn't supposed to be any kind of endorsement - I should have known the weekend would end badly from the moment he opened his inaccurate hirsute gob.

Resigning on air, as though he mattered: utterly pompous, and not amusing: frankly, I could do better.

Not since Johnny Walker played 'Pyjammarama' announcing 'this is from the new Roxy Music album, 'For Your Pleasure' had I heard such inaccurate drivel.

Shocking.

regardez vous

henri

Ahhhhhhh cmon Henri. We're talking about the golden age of British radio!
Tony Blackburn, Paul Burnett, Kid Jensen, Peter Powell, and the HC was best of the bunch.

Dont forget Convoy GB either.

No one, not even our hero, has measured up to Kenny Everett.....and when I hear Bryan say (Something So Right) 'is not a Paul Simon song I'm overly familiar with' ..... and I think about Kenny Everett...I think to myself.....

Great shout, Mary Doll, hadn't heard that for a wee while...

regardez youse

henri

He'll be praisin Jimmy Young next......


"What's the recipe today, Jim?"

At least, with two Number One singles, he knew something about music.

Let's hear it for Brian Matthews and Alan Freeman.

When I put the extraordinary talent that was Kenny Everett to one side, cause he's dead - our hero, Bryan Burnett is the best music radio presenter I can think of, though I think the GIO format is maybe limiting for him. Much better than any of those listed above, except maybe Blackburn.

They say that the best effect of fine people is noticed by their absence, and any time Bryan has had a night off, the results have always been sub-standard, and that's not a familiarity thing.

I think Kaye Adams is excellent too.

There is no one else on the station that is better than routine.Some of the music presenters lack personality which is not compensated for by the fact that they know something about their genre.

David Sillers was the best voice the station had.

Woof woof!!!

#61

Not familiar with David sillers, so can't comment.

I, too, think that Kaye Adams is excellent. Although as someone who has a crush on Kaye Adams, I cannot claim an objective opinion.

I used to love Bryan's Country show, my only (minor) criticism being that he (IMHO) talked too much between songs. I think the GIO set-up is perfect for him.

I thought Alison Craig was marvellous, despite not being match-fit (to borrow a phrase from the guys next door). My memories of Alison on the air are all good ones. She is, (IMHO), PDB.

Iain Anderson is an extraordinary radio presenter. 'Mr. Anderson's Fine Tunes', with its mix of Celtic and Classical music, was the best show on any radio station, anywhere in the world by a long way.

As you can probably tell, I'm a wee bit drunk. I've been to see Sarah Millican (another lady on whom I have a crush) at a comedy club in Glasgow. All in all, a damn good night!

Oh MaryDoll - had long forgotten that Paul Simon track! Was told a long long time ago that it summed me up - put me in right into that navel gazing mode but without the wine!
Then I was nearly taken out my a white van man in the wrong lane on the Skinflats roundabout - not the way for an enigmatic tragi heroine to go!!!
Thanks for playing it Bryan and MD for sharing it with us