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Fight club...

Bryan Burnett | 19:26 UK time, Thursday, 27 January 2011

Tonight's theme of 'the songs you wish you'd written' turned out to be a real cracker. At first I thought we would get a lot of frustrated songwriters talking about the musicians and songwriters they most admire. What we ended up with was load of great suggestions with our listeners opening up and revealing just what it was about particular songs that affected them so such. Friday night should be a stormy show! We're going to do 'conflict' as a theme. It could be songs about domestic battles, raging arguments or full on war. There should be plenty of scope there for an interesting Friday night.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    Shut Up ~ The Stranglers

  • Comment number 2.

    FRIDAY


    "You got the knife, I got the gun. Come on, boy; we gonna have a little fun..."

    'Jealous Man' - Hoyt Axton

  • Comment number 3.

    If the wife and I are fussin', brother that's our right
    'Cause me and that sweet woman's got a license to fight

  • Comment number 4.


    Theme suggestion

    Real v Artificial


    Probably over two nights. That which is authentic, the genuine article, the real deal and that which is artificial, false.

    e.g. 'Real' - William Shatner & Brad Paisley

    'Paper Roses' - Marie Osmond

  • Comment number 5.

    'They'll be fighting in the street'
    Please please please play the full length version of
    The Who - Won't get fooled again, absolute classic!

    Best wishes from Brian and Sook, Cruden Bay

  • Comment number 6.

    Steve Earle was played earlier in the week, but has two great "on-theme" songs: "Jerusalem" and "³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ to Houston".

    Also:
    Devils and dust - Sprngsteen
    This uncivil war - Gretchen Peters
    Olivers Army - Elvis Costello
    In the ghetto - Elvis
    Goodnight Siagon - Billy Joel (too long perhaps?)
    Crossfire - Brandon Flowers
    There were roses - Cara Dillon
    This life - Curtis Stigers
    Not ready to make nice - Dixie Chicks
    World without tears - Lucinda Williams
    I won't back down - Tom Petty

    Joe
    Linlithgow

    Independence Day - Carrie Underwood

  • Comment number 7.

    "Sugar honey girl fly fly away
    I been a lady up to now don't know how much more I can take
    Queens shouldn't swing if you know what I mean
    But I'm bout to take my earrings off get me some Vaseline
    You better go on get out my face girl you better chill
    Chill and I mean it
    You better back down before you get smacked down you better chill)
    You better relax yourself
    You better go on get out my face girl you better chill
    He's my man and nobody else's"

    ...Jill Scott - 'Gettin' In The Way'

  • Comment number 8.

    Boom Boom Mancini - Warren Zevon - A boxing story
    Hit Somebody - Warren Zevon - An ice hockey story
    Red Road - Bill Miller - A multi-storey

  • Comment number 9.

    Completely off theme so fully expecting to be moderated....

    Friday 28th January 2011 is the RNLI "SOS" fund-raising day. Please donate to this very worthwhile cause. These guys & gals volunteer to venture out into some of the most ferocious weather conditions on the planet to save folk so they deserve all the support they can get.

    Theme suggestion for future:

    Charities

    DC


  • Comment number 10.

    Superman / five for fighting
    Maybe I / five for fighting

    Dunno any other acts named after an ice hockey sinbin punishment




    And big seconds for goodnight Saigon.

  • Comment number 11.

    Would be good to expect the unexpected for once ...

    'Tae the Battle'. The Real McKenzies
    'Swords of a Thousand Men'. The Real McKenzies
    'The Lads Who Fought & Won' The Real McKenzies





  • Comment number 12.

    Which is best,

    or


    There's only one way to find out, FIGHT!






    Disclaimer
    Bloggers who are sensitive by nature may be helped to better understand human perception and why people understand the exact same circumstances in very different ways by viewing the aforementioned.

  • Comment number 13.

    Womack & Womack - 'Love Wars', drop those guns on the floor

  • Comment number 14.


    BRING ME THE HEAD BUTT OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

  • Comment number 15.

    Lives in the Balance - Jackson Browne

    Drunken Nights in the City - Frankie Miller

    War of my Life - John Mayer

    Feel Like I'm fixing to Die - Country Joe & the Fish

    Grounds for Divorce - Elbow

  • Comment number 16.

    Iris DeMent - Wasteland of the Free

    play a better, more appropriate song I eat RJ's front row, backstage pass for the gig....

    Springsteen - The Hiter (or T Jones for the Capn in absentia)

    Der Oooo - Saturday nights Allright (For Fighting)

  • Comment number 17.

    #11 keep fighting for them, Kene, keep fighting....

  • Comment number 18.

    I'm in fighting mood. As ever, the preamble here suggests something a bit narrower than what eventually ends up being ok on the show, for one reason or another. So not opting for the song title- the band name'll do.
    Foo Fighters Everlong
    What a surprise.

  • Comment number 19.

    M-D, have you heard the unplugged version? I think it was recorded as part of a radio chat show interview. My kids had a copy a few years ago but I haven't heard it since. Anybody got any info?

  • Comment number 20.

    I'll be out Friday but I will dedicate a song to my fellow bloggers which perhaps sums up the whole war thing and the futility of it all. After all, we're all humans and should value the friendships we have around the world


    Two little boys - Rolf Harris



    DC

  • Comment number 21.

    "Fist City" by Loretta Lynn -- gets my vote for the best song she's ever written, with one hilarious line after another. The moral of the story is: Loretta has had enough of you and now SHE WILL BEAT YOU DOWN.

    Rich in North Carolina

  • Comment number 22.

    elvis.............an american trilogy....you can feel the horses kicking up the dust and hear the clanking of the saddlery crossing the mason-dixon line on this one.

    edwin starr......WAR!! (what is it good for?.............absolutely nothing!)

    rolling stones..............street fighting man

  • Comment number 23.

    #11 I'll join you with...

    Hey Little Sister ~ The Meat Purveyors & Gotta Get Back To Forgettin You ~ Rex Hobart

    #21
    "That'd be good" in a BB stylee!

  • Comment number 24.

    An to conflict

  • Comment number 25.

    Great theme.... lots of great tracks about war and the futility of war, but choosing of tracks that fitted the theme, I thought about ‘Cat’s In The Cradle’ by the great Harry Chapin. Not a war song but definitely about ‘conflict’. Really a pretty heart-wrenching observation of conflicts of time and conflicts of interest that arise between a parent and a child… and of course we realise it when it’s all too late.

    Or on the more traditional front:

    Alternative Ulster: Stiff Little Fingers
    Island Of No Return: Billy Bragg
    Shape Of My Heart: Sting
    Masters Of War: Bob Dylan
    Come Back To Me: Big Country
    The Foggy Dew: Sinead O'Conner with The Chieftans)
    Erin-Go-Bragh: Dick Gaughan
    Come Back To Me: Big Country
    Invisible Sun: The Police
    Bullet The Blue Sky: U2
    Eaton Rifles: The Jam
    Blaze Of Glory: Jon Bon Jovi
    Waste Deep In The Big Muddy: Richard Shindell
    Siol Ghoraidh: Runrig

  • Comment number 26.

    Won the Battle - Robert Cray

  • Comment number 27.


    I bet the most asked for song tonight will be A Boy Named Sue but did you know Shel Silverstein wrote another song about the fight between Sue and his dad?

    Father Of A Boy Named Sue -

    #3 - Massive support for Madmac. Let's hear some Hank! And some Anti-Hank!


    We Bury The Hatchet (But Leave The Handle Sticking Out) - Garth Brooks

    :o)

  • Comment number 28.

    Down from the glen came the marching men
    With their shields and their swords
    To fight the fight they believed to be right
    Overthrow the overlords

    Thin Lizzy - 'Emerald'

  • Comment number 29.

    #6 - Is Oliver's Army allowed to be played these days Joe?

    #21 - Pretty sure Lorreta knows the offside rule too, Rich.

    #24 - What does he put in his drawer, Glen?

  • Comment number 30.

    Low Rider / War
    A Day to Myself / Clifford T Ward
    Too weak to Fight / Clarence Carter
    The Battle of Evermore / Led zeppelin
    Battleship Chains / Georgia Satellites
    The Last resort / Eagles
    Paradise By the Dashboard Light / Meatloaf and Ellen Foley
    She Hates Me / Puddle of Mudd

  • Comment number 31.

    Classic domestic strife:

    Him - Rupert Holmes


    and

    Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers. For Mazzy, who always likes to hear the Gatlin boys get their comeuppance.
    :)

  • Comment number 32.



  • Comment number 33.

    It has got to be:

    Morrissey - First Of The Gang To Die

  • Comment number 34.

    FRIDAY

    'They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore' - Kinky Friedman

    "They don't turn the other cheek the way they done before..."

    >8-D

  • Comment number 35.

    #33

    It has? Why?

  • Comment number 36.

    While I’m on a roll request wise, DC….

    ANGEL FINGERS by WIZZARD (representing the conflict between bloggers’ requests and GIO’s playlist)

    COLD FEBRUARY from HARD ROPE AND SILKEN TWINE by THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND (war)

    WHO NEEDS THE PEACE CORPS? from WE’RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY by THE MOTHERS OF INVENVTION (hippies versus police in 60’s ‘Frisco)

    HAIR PIE BAKE 1 from TROUT MASK REPLICA by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND (the conflict between several instruments played in different keys and in different time signatures – and yet, somehow…….you gotta listen (probably at least 10 times – this stuff was rehearsed note for note for 8 months before recording))

  • Comment number 37.

    Bob Seger touring the states in March....wonder if any UK dates will be announced.

  • Comment number 38.

    "In 1969 I stepped off a plane in Ibadan, Nigeria and a someone stuck a rifle up against my throat. Evidently I'd been taking illegal pictures over a war zone in Biafra, and now I was being carted off to have my priorities corrected by two machine gun toting Yoruba army thugs in dark glasses. I was saved by a U.S. ambassador, who bribed the lads. It was my first day in Africa…a baptism."

    Tom Russell - East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam

    This is a fantastic song...

  • Comment number 39.

    #37 He's reassembling the silver bullet band as well.

    As he makes his way to the SECC for his 7 night sold out residence, he stops off at Pacific Quay and hands in his entire back catalogue addressed to Bryan and Babs with love x.

    Strong Lager don't do Bob Seger tours but if they did......

  • Comment number 40.

    ...and not only would the blog regulars be invited to present that show, they'd all be given free tickets.....



    Best not touch that stuff Paolo!

  • Comment number 41.

    Cleaning my Gun - Mark Knopfler - simply superb



  • Comment number 42.

    Riot in Cell Block Number 9 - Blues Brothers

  • Comment number 43.


    Ah kain!

    (Wid ye like a wee peek?

  • Comment number 44.


    Oops! Here is the missing parenthesis. )

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