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THURSDAY


'Getting Over You' - Stephen Bruton


This song, written by the late Turner Stephen Bruton, is my very favourite for several reasons, one of which is the killer line

"But there's a vantage point, (takes some time to find), where you can see how all the pieces fit as you watch them fall apart."

Hearing this for the first time was a real epiphany for me. If music heals, this is the song that set me on the road to recovery.

If you can't find the original, please play

'Getting Over You' - Willie Nelson & Bonnie Raitt

It was written by Neil Finn but I wish I'd written 'Don't Dream It's Over' by Crowded House. Everything about it is just perfect. In my opinion it's also one song that shouldn't be covered by anybody else, especially Paul Young. Is that a theme idea?

#2 Theme idea: misguided cover versions, not just by Paul Young (but he has had more than his fair share!)

Playing the original versions obviously ☺

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

Wish I'd written "Happy Birthday To You" & allowed to claim royalties.........

Cherry Bomb - John Cougar Mellencamp

#4, #6

'Fess up, Steve.

We should be telt!

>8-D

#7

Not to sure actually. Think I might have posted too much of the lyrics to Cherry Bomb and failed the copyright rules.

Only said that I liked them, never claimed to have written them. Its getting tougher not to break the rules. You live amd learn, I guess.

Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone.

Judas?


Never, like Bob says, play it "very" loud.

Or the Animals version of House of the Rising Sun. It's amazing but suffers from familiarity.

Is it just the one song?

There are songs that you wish you'd written because they say say something about your personal experience and songs that you wish you'd written because you admire the song writing or music.

I don't know where to begin........

regardez youse

henri

ps the 'wild' theme was predictably tame,even so,Cliff's schoolboy rugby career winning out over Keith Moon's rock n roll lifestyle... you couldn't see that one coming...

#11

henri, most of these wild men of rock got the reputation by trashing hotel rooms or other inanimate objects. Cliff, by his own admission, was prepared to get in there and mix it with the best of them. Surely it must count for something?

#5 well I was going to say Baker St for the same reasons, since it reputedly brings in £80,000 a year. I could live on that. On Skye. And have a horse.

Oh well, dream on.

I'd be quite pleased if I'd written this song and I'd be even more pleased if it were to be played, as I think it's quite stunning. Many times requested etc


Cellar of Dreams - the Silencers

Bryan,

The "woman" who came up with R.E.S.P.E.C.T. was Otis Redding.




Jeezo.......

>8-D

#14

I may have jumped the gun.......















stoopit git

#12

Yep, agreed.

Though Moon's penchant for carrying sticks of dynamite around with him is pretty extraordinary - these days he'd be locked up under the terrorism legislation.

I've got at least 20 songs that I can think of off the top of my head...

regardez youse

henri

Moon had it easy drinking alcohol, would you want to drink all that Tizer like Cliff?

and then, he had that relationship with the Janis Joplin of the 70's - Olivia Newton-John...

Cliff? Are you sure?

Going for sentimental overload -

John Denver Annie's Song

Have we not all felt like this at some point yet been unable to articulate it quite so eloquently and beautifully? Simple but delightful.

God Only Knows - The Beach Boys - It's very good

#21

That's my list down to 19!

As ever, a list:
Baba O'Riley - The Who
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Ships in the night - Be Bop Deluxe
The river - Springsteen
Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard
Run - Snow Patrol
On a bus to St Cloud - Gretchen Peters
Secret heart - Ron Sexsmith

Joe
Linlithgow

#18 relationship? I remember when he and sue barker split she gave the reason as ' a woman had needs'

#20 agreed. Written for his wife.
Just can't get it out of my head that he eh um didn't treat her very gently afterwards.

#8 isn't this blog reactive? Could it be that there's an keen referrer on the loose?

Just jokin....... That would never be the case!




:-)

I wouldn't know where to start with this theme

#24

"a woman's needs are many fold, and sue she married ted
but strange things happened on their wedding night, as they lay in their bed........"




A real cliffhanger!

#25 I boringly read all the rules about reactive blog policy after I had an innocent post removed but I think there's also certain things that alert the mods automatically.

some of my favourites have been written by women, but from a woman's perspective, so I wouldn't have aspired to that...looks like it's gonnae be a bloke then...and Dylan has already been "taken"...

#29

Paul,

Ah ken whit ye mean. An exception is 'Only Women Bleed'

Written by someone called Alice...

#30 good point Scotch, in that case i'll mention...

Sweet Bird - Joni Mitchell, apparently chaps do use beauty products these days...

...anyway a quick look at the blog las night confirmed my feeling that it won't be possible to do this one without stealing other bloggers' thunder, so apologies in advance...

first remembered...

She Loves You - Beatles, not a bad place to start, simple but effective!

first considered...

Space Oddity - Bowie, king of the bizarre yes, but these lyrics were sat down in front of me by none other than my English teacher (Tommy Church) in my first year at Q.M.A. A critical appraisal then ensued, english became a favourite subject!

first serious stuff...

Breathe - Pink Floyd

This was the first set of lyrics that really impressed me, social commentary, poetry and a bitter-sweet feel. Tremendous.

The rest are long lasting goodies..

Bessie Smith - Dylan & The Band

A hidden gem from the maestro and his mates about the feeling of love in the making. In contrast "Katy's Been Gone" on the same album, the pain of lost love!

Like A Hurricane - Neil Young

This arrived at the time I was experiencing these feelings, overawed by the object of my affections. So many to choose from the man as he put his feelings and emotions in there like no-one else.

New Amsterdam - Elvis Costello

Just great wordplay & superb tune

Army Dreamers - Kate Bush

Social commentary, today as relevant as it was then.

Mattie's Rag - Gerrry Rafferty

A favourite from City to City


so many more, but no time left....


Paul from Ayr

#1 Good song Scotch. never heard it but liked it. Unfortunately my online shop of choice despite having a stack of Stephen Bruton stuff didnt have that track. One of the saddest songs I've heard was it's namesake Getting over you by Janis Ian which is just brilliant.

However still struggling to think of just one song I wish I'd written.
But like Gaie (and baker st) how good must it be to come up with just one song that you know you can retire on.

Both nuns repent

Too many ns

Well, as I have a playlist on the old ipod titled 'Wish I had written'... I'll just list the top ten as they currently stand...

Audra Mae: The River
Badly Drawn Boy: You Were Right
The Beatles: Let It Be
Billy Bragg: Days Like These
Bob Dylan: Master Of War
Chris Wood: Summerfireld Avenue
Chris Wood: The Cottagers Reply
Christy Moore: The January Man
Dick Gaughan: Both Sides The Tweed
The Dubliners: Foggy Dew

She put Bru on ten

usurp on the bet

obtuse pen hurt

butter phone us

I wish I wrote Roxy Music's 'Just Like You' I saw them open the tour in Newcastle on Tuesday and they played at least 10 songs they had not played for over 30 years, a real treat for the die-hards. They play Glasgow tonight and tomorrow with a set that shows the width of this band, they won't just slavishly play all the hits like some cabaret act.

J.O'B.

#34 sorry, I thought we were doing "nearly anagrams" like #74 yesterday.

RJ

saw the setlist on your web site, looks a fantastic show and really looking forward to it....but what happened to the "For Your Pleasure" bit?

I'm with Paolo and Henri on this theme. Tough one to call.

Usually with themes like this I look to Burt Bacharach but today for a change I'll go with:


If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot

As this is another non-theme where anything can be requested……wish I’d written

LA GAZZA LADRA from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by WENDY CARLOS

MICKEY’S SON AND DAUGHTER from GORILLA by THE BONZO DOG DOO DAH BAND

ROLLING IN THE DEEP from 21 by ADELE

SOFA #1 from YOU CAN’T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE VOLUME 1 by FRANK ZAPPA

HOW TO STAY ALIVE from 2032 by GONG

THE SAME THING from LIVE, LOVE, LARF & LOAF by FRENCH FRITH KAISER THOMPSON

#43 agreed Adam. I'm not sure what the point of the theme is, do we wish to have written because of quality of song? Or complexity / cleverness of the music? Or the fame it brought? Or the financial gain?

You are correct Thing-Fish. Absolutely anything can be requested, but it looks like a wee story is required along with each track.

My choice would be: New Faces by the Rolling Stones from their Voodoo Lounge album.

Why? It's a quality song; it involves three accoustic guitars, all expertly played; Jagger & Richards are not only famous throughout the world, they are also mega-rich.

But the fact that it's a great listen is the real reason.

Now I suppose a post such as this qualifies for a "regardez youse"...

DC

I would pick a personal anthem from my student days, Obscurity Knocks by the Trash Can Sinatras, as the genius within the lyrics transport me to a time before wife and kids... (not that I'm not happy where I am now, just good memories of a different era of my life)

I also thought this is just 'What's your favourite song?' but I do think there's a slightly different slant to it. Most of the songs that I love are so typical of the people who wrote them (and are sung by them) that I can't begin to imagine myself writing them. So I haven't got an endless list for this.

One, though, that I think is a simply glorious tune and so well suited to the voice it was written for is

Thairis air a' Ghleann - Runrig

if I'd written that I'd award myself two gold stars, one for the melody and the other because my travails with the gaelic language must have been fruitful enough for me to have written the lyrics

(harris air a chlee-oun, Bryan, is the pronunciation and it means beyond the glen, no excuses now!)

ok i've got one..for today anyway.

When I still have thee / Teenage Fanclub

The sun is shining and it sounds great today so yeah I wish I'd written it. Great 60's styles harmonies and feel to it.

Hello Bryan,

A Texas fan of your! Bono of U2 writes lovely, deep meaning lyrics. I would have loved to have writeen "Miracle Drug."

#35

I do very much like Christy's version of The January Man. But the voice on Martin Carthy's version is just amazing.

#48

So Glen is Gaelic for clown.

#51

I followed the link only but it only leads to a picture of a frightening face

#48
ciamar a' tha thu

Can't really leave Jackson out, so many good songs, any one of which I'd love to have written both for thoughtful lyrics and for the melody. Only problem is a similarity of tone, ie you can pick out any one and say that's a darned good song, but after a 15 or so you think oh OK let's have something else now. Nevertheless, just to have written this would be triumph enough


Jackson Browne - The Pretender

oh glè mhath, tapadh leat. Thu fhein?

Hail! Nae sharing it a'

ha ha, Glen in air sitar

Missed last nights show and just checked playlist. My Son in law to be can vouch for Calvin Harris's bad boy image. He once sacked him from his job in a well known supermarket. So he's to blame for him taking up his 'musical' career.

Also no Angel Fingers again. How many different themes now DC?

Hello

At first I was a bit underwhelmed with theme, but putting a wee spin on it here is what I have come up with:

1. Imagine being so young and so taleneted,being 16 and being able to write a masterpiece. Mindblowing.

Jackson Browne - These Days


2. Imagine bringing so much joy to so many people.

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (not that rubbish from Hammersmith 75 thank you)


3. Imagine being so clever

Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone


4. Imagine being able to touch so many people hearts

Jane Siberry - The Valley (k.d. lang version please)

Not biting, not biting :-)

#58 We'll keep trying

Angel Fingers is the new Gong

(You know wot I mean Fish!)

DC

#60 you know you want to take the bait....

I wish I'd had the imagination to write

"City of New Orleans" (by Steve Goodman) with phrases like

"...their fathers' magic carpets made of steel"

good versions by Arlo Guthrie,or Randy Scruggs (with John Prine)

EBTG - "Missing" - The acoustic version not the atrocious Todd Terry remix.

Christy Moore - Viva La Quinta Brigada

CAKE - Love You Madly

i wish i wrote
"only girl(in the world)" by rihanna
Eva (11)

30#Paul,Got to disagree about Joni's "Sweet Bird"coming from a female perspective,in fact most of her songs are not gender specific.So far as I understand"Sweet Bird"is a meditation on the transcience of youth(without once mentioning the word)and certainly not a specifically female obsession.Even her most well known songs from "Big Yellow Taxi" to "Both Sides Now"have been recorded by men.Beautiful choice though it is it may be considered too abstract lyrically for GIO!I mean the closing repeated mantra "Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching"doesnt exactly trip off the tongue.!I would go for "Both Sides Now"but the later recording which is so moving.I am a huge fan of Bacharach/David's 60s stuff but was blown away when I heard "God Give Me Strength" Burt's collaberation with Elvis Costello.An absolute beauty.It was written for a film "Grace of my Heart"loosely based on the early career of one Carole King which brings me to my third choice.Goffin and King's "Up on the Roof",A song that just about every one can relate to and ironically was the only US hit that Laura Nyro had considering the hit machine she was herself(for others) in the 60s.it would be cool to hear any of these three classics ,Bryan,Cheers Willie Bartke

#30 & 66

Joni can also explain the offside rule, I believe.

Most of Tom Wait's songs!!!

Don't understand a lot of them but hey... they're fantastically sureal.

George (Inverkip)

59#Norrie,big 2nd for "The Valley" by kd or Jane Siberry.I saw Jane Siberry in New York at a Laura Nyro tribute concert in 1997.She has recorded a clever medley of Laura's songs called "When I think of Laura Nyro".Also love kd's cover of Jane's beautiful "Love is Everything"Cheers,Willie Bartke

What about early Roody frame / aztec camera e.g. "Walk Out To Winter"
George (Inverkip)

67#Probably!and with more eloquence than Andy Gray!:o)

#67 #71
Saw the CEO of BskyB being interviewed on the Beeb this morning putting up a staunch defence of the company's standardsregarding sexism equal opportunities etc. . Was dying for someone to ask why all their female skysportsnews presenters were gorgeous and under 35?




Not that I'm complaining but it would've been an interesting question.

Well, there's no sexism on GIO and this Blog, thats for sure.







Just ask Lyle Lovett.

#66 Willie, i'm not gonna argue with a Joni expert like yourself! I probably didn't explain things very well but the song I was thinking about last night was "Edith & The Kingpin" which I consider to come from a female point of view, so would probably not have aspired to write it (although it's undoubtedly brilliant).
Having thought about it Sweet Bird does have a meaning for all genders as do the other tracks you mention. I would probably not have come up with a line like "vain promises on beauty jars" though. Certainly not in the 70s when I first heard it. Maybe now in more enlightened times though!

#72

Offside rule? Ask

#73 correct AFR; the head of 80's music on Radio Scotland would never put an artist on her banned list because he was ugly.

Never.