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I have nothing to contribute to this show.

Isn't it ironic?

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Nor I.

Make them walk. Child molesters are vastly outnumbered by fat children.

Yep, it's ironic - (in an Alanis Morrisette kind of way).

Maybe we should have a 'what do real real taxi drivers listen to'theme.

I've got nothing to contribute either:My youngest is a 22 year old delinquent. He can get his own bloody taxi.

I don't understand the theme: what do mum and dad's taxi listen to during the hours of 18:00 - 20:00. Get It On?

If they do, there's nothing to request.

If they don't, we'll never know.

Anyway, how shall we amuse ourselves in the meantime?

regardez youse

henri

I suppose they're looking for songs that aren't boring - that'll be a first.

#1-3 Aye. My kids are too old for me to qualify for the former, and I'm a parent, so I don't qualify for the latter, either. ;o)

(holding our breaths while we wait till someone worth responding to posts something)
Toodles

#3

We can amuse ourselves by looking ahead to Wednesday.

Songs that encourage audience participation, (hand clapping, foot stomping, etc.), benefit enormously from vast amounts of alcohol being consumed by the aforesaid audience.

'The Wild Rover' - The Dubliners

'The Belle of Belfast City' - Lick the Tins

it's a tough one alright, sounds like they're looking for something we like.......;-)

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Puff The Magic Dragon
Sweet ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Alabama
Mrs Robinson
American Pie
I'm Leaving On A Jet Plane
Black Velvet Band
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Now SING!

Was listening to Vic's show. Did anyone else hear Grinderman - Hyper Worm Tamer (Unkle remix)?

It would be good to hear that on GIO, but it's not released until 21/11.

A future classic - might even be single of the year, Xmas No1?

Imagine that.Nick Cave as the Xmas No 1.

regrardez youse

henri

My daughter was in the brownies. She was in the pixies - guess what we played in Mom's taxi?

If the songs for Wednesday are to be ones that sound better when we're blootered, does it mean they're not really that good in the sober light of teatime? Will this make for a good programme? Can I remember what songs I sang way, way back in the day when large amounts of alcohol didn't make death seem like a good idea following morning?

Still, Scotch is right, the Wild Rover is good for a sing-a-long and takes me right back to underage drinking in Struan Hotel where two folk singers caused the bar to be stowed out every Saturday one summer. The Leaving of Liverpool, Streets of London, Last Thing on my Mind, Wild Mountain Thyme, dark rum and coke or Double Century beer. Ah yes, happy days. And another try for the McCalmans I daresay.

theoretically if I was stuck in this situation I'd want to stick on an album that was listenable all the way through, currently that would be "Sigh No More" so...

Dust Bowl Dance - Mumford & Sons

Paul from Ayr

Devil in disguise - Trish Yearwood
Speed of sound - Coldplay
The hard way - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Hungry heart - Sprigsteen
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
Little lies - Fleetwood Mac
Say you'll be mine - Christopher Cross
Back to black - Amy Winehouse
Maid in heaven - Be-bop Deluxe
Bad moon rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
White winter hymnal - Fleet Foxes
Change of heart - Teddy Thomson
Tell me ther's a heaven - Chris Rea
So are you to me - Eastmountainsouth
They shoot horses don't they - Racing Cars
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This is us - Knopfler and Harris
Girls talk - Dave Edmunds
Sit down - James
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Joe
Linlithgow

Jesus of suburbia - Greenday

A challenge set by my kids to see if I could do St.Andrews to Anster in the time this song was on. Easy peasy.

The trip from Crail to home in the time it took to play Slade's Run run away required a quiet night on the roads however.

Please don't try this at home

Try it to Elvis Costello's Mystery Dance but put me down for your record collection in your will first.

#14 actually I just dreamed that (in case there are any traffic cops in our blogspace)

#8 No - it's an easy theme. the answer is 2032 from 2032 by GONG.

Or
LOUGH FOYLE from A GLINT AT THE KINDLING by ROBIN WILLIAMSON
who is appearing at the Fraser Centre Milngavie on Saturday night

One of them has passed his test (several years later than he should have I may point out). It is now the weans Taxi on suitable occasions (Thursday, Friday nights, Saturday pre and post fitba, Saturday night, the odd Sunday). The banda we both like a lot are The Clash and AC/DC

AC/DC - Runaway Train seems appropriate....

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The last song that made an impression on me during a long car journey was a cover of a Bryan Adams song.

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#22 FredTheFish backed it - kiss of death!

I've spent more than my fair share of hours standing in the freezing cold, wind and sleet while The Daughter was at football training 4 times a week, or sitting inside on a hard wooden gym bench while she learned Judo but I don't drive so am not Mum's Taxi. Used to hasve to get a taxi home sometimes just so there'd be time for her to do unimportant stuff like homework!

The Daughter's now hung up her fitba boots and goalie gloves and stopped throwing boys over her shoulder but, while I was Mum-who-paid-for-the-taxi, I was pleased GIO was there to keep me amused.

Play 'Hurry Up And Wait' by The Stereophonics to remind me of the time when 5 evenings out of 7 were spent hanging around...and, to the parents who sit in their toasty warm cars listening to GIO while waiting for their little darlings' sporting or cultural activity to end in these dark winter months...when you see a grumpy shivering rain-bedraggled parent pacing to or fro rubbing their poor cold hands together...don't just think "why is he/she not inside in the warm"? They may not have a car, and the pavilion is locked...invite them in for some shelter and a wee listen to the radio...brrrr!

That's brilliant Julie.

#25 Julie - is that a request for 2032 from 2032 by GONG?

#27 Yes Fred, of course it was!

I have taken a straw poll. 6 out of the 7 children said I always have Bruce Springsteen on when I pick them up. Working On A Dream or The Rising apparently.

The 7th stated Ziggy Stardust. She meant Bowie. The Prettiest Star - she is.

Bryan - Julie wants GONG!

I asked Hazel what songs she remembered from the taxi-mum days - instant response, Runrig. Not because it was always on when she was picked up,but because the minute she got in the car she shot the eject button and shoved in her own choice. No-one else got a look-in.
So for Hazel, as it's a special sort of day today,

Move a Mountain - Runrig

Initially, I didn't think I had anything to contribute to this.

Years of conditioning meant accepting I was the absent workaholic faither, though I recently was given some converted ancient family video tapes from Chateau Hannah which proves that I was there - if only holding the camera. Well,at least until the separation and divorce came along.

Moreover, for many years I was completely aerophobic*, so family holidays to the South of France comprised of enormous car journeys. But once you get below Lyon, it's glorious driving.

And I was completely disinterested in what any of 'them' wanted to hear,was a complete tyrant on the subject and inflicted my musical taste constantly - at all times when I drove them about - which it turms out I really did do. I'd just forgotten!

Accidentally inculcating my musical taste may be my only lasting parental contribution but something seems to have rubbed off.They've all picked up on things from those car journeys.

It's an absolute priviledge as a parent, years later, to find yourself at a Steve Wonder concert with your daughter, as a whole family at the McCartney gig in Hampden, with Smiffy and the twins at Dreadzone and later this month with our Steven at Leftfield (weird father and son gig, but hey!).

Recently, our Tom phoned me up and said 'What was that song you used to play in the car about someone's Little Sister, I really loved that'.

So you see, it turns out I did have a role after all:

Little Sister - Ry Cooder (Tom)

American Dread - Dreadzone (The Twins)

Somedays - Paul Mccartney (All)

Space Shanty - Leftfield (Steven)

I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder (Katie)

regardez youse

henri

* Becuase I overcame Aerophobia, I know how to cure Bryan's fear of bridges.

How do you cure his fear of GONG?

#28 #30 Well if that's Julie wanting GONG played, it may be a sure one for tonight by Bryan coz he ALWAYS listens AND plays anything for JULIE

#33 Pretend to be Julie HaHa

My Dad was a car dealer (and in fact as his 70th birthday rapidly approaches still is until November 30th when he officially retires from the noble trade) so I spent alot of time waiting in cars whilst he went to see a man about a dog...I often wondered why we never got a puppy but anyway...

I owe my love of country to my dear Dad after all those years waiting in the car and flicking through the cassettes and giving them a listen. (Sadly or fortunatley the love of jazz has not been passed onto the daughter)

To remind me of all those hours (which were probably more like minutes)waiting in the beloved brown Scimitar waiting impatiently would be Kenny Rogers, Coward of The County. It will be a sad day at the end of the month when I have to finally come to terms with the fact that my Dad is never going to bring me home a puppy ;-)

p.s. My Dad's name is Joe so when I was a teenager he used to like to sing Vanessa Paradis "Joe Le Taxi" as I asked for another lift to another friends house, it was very funny (not!)

Occasionally I'll go and pick up imelda if she is on a night out. I usually have time to listen
To the entire nestled back catalogue whilst she's saying goodbye to folk

Nestled? Where did that come from? It said beatles when I posted

I thought you were referring to someone I had never heard of!

#36

Poor wee Mazzy!
Were you no scared that the Gatlin boys might come by while you were left alone in the car???
Your dad might have taken a thought to himself and done a wee bit of cassette censoring.

#41 "Gatlin Boys????" I'm lost....

D'oh, with you....sorry....