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Leonard Cohen - Tower of Song

or

Bruce Springsteen - The Promise

So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star - The Byrds

Oh love that track Glen that would be good.

The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man - The Rolling Stones

Good Theme

Shooting Star / Bad Company
Rock and Roll I gave you the best years of my life / Kevin johnson
WOLD / Harry Chapin

for starters

I know we've had some Smiths tonight but the much of the music industry is so wonderfully summed up in Paint a Vulgar Picture by The Smiths. One of the best songs from their final album.

EMI - The Sex Pistols

The Clash - Hitsville UK

One of the great clash singles with a great guest vocal by Ellen Foley (of Bat out Of Hell lp fame)

The Smiths wis on?


Well I never! A pigs might fly moment after all!!!


DC (just in fae work)

So, anyone for The Load Out then? incorporating Stay?

I think it's great, but I'd feel I was cheating if it was credited to me alone -it's a kinda communal blog request from last week

regardez - youse

henri

Incredibly, another opportunity to hear Medicine Jar - Wings about the excesses of the music industry, which tragically and ironically, for Jimmy McCullough, came true.

Theme From An Imaginary Western - Jack Bruce despite the title it's about a touring band on the road, beautiful song, much covered by others

Take It Away - Paul McCartney

.... more to follow,

regardez youse

henri

TUESDAY

'Workin' for MCA' - Lynyrd Skynyrd

TUESDAY

"Never seen the van."

"Leave it to the roadies."

"Never met the roadies."

"Leave them in the van."


'The Worst Band in the World' - 10cc


Bryan,

Probably too subtle for some of your audience, (Naebody even mentioned the Dark Side), but do yourself a favour and check it out.

You'll find it on the album 'Sheet Music'

>8-D

#13

Yes Scotch! Beat me to that one - utterly brilliant - my favourite 10CC track - long overdue an airing on GIO- Huge 2nd.

regardez vous

henri

The Last DJ - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Mercury Poisoning' - Graham Parker & the Rumour (re his falling-out with the record company)

'Hey Mister That's me Up on The Jukebox' - Linda Ronstadt

'Success Story' - The Who

Previously....on the Blog

#160 Safe, ironed and hanging in the press.

Awoke this morning to the cloud of toxic smoke coming from the Cidade de Samba. You have to feel for the guys (and gals) who spend the whole year preparing for the Carnaval.
Big shame.

Bit like collecting for Bonfire Night only for the blokes across town to set fire to it on the 3rd. But a thousand times worse.

star........stealers wheel

super trouper...........abba

radio gaga........queen

radio killed the video star.......buggles

in no particular order of preference


cheers frae the dale

A couple of klaxons and proud of it
The Eagles Hotel California
Possibly (who trusts anything you read anywhere?) about the music industry glanz and glitz of the '70's west coast USA. Or maybe just about an obscure hotel in the middle of nowhere. Who knows.
David Bowie Ziggy Stardust
Someone else can ask for Nickelback. I know there's a big queue here...........

TUESDAY

'Renegade' - Charlie Daniels Band

'Nashville Cats' - Del McCoury Band

forgot
Elton John Bennie and the Jets
Another obvious one. In my defence, I never had the touch so can't be accused of losing it.

Honey Pie - The Beatles

Canny mind which album it wis on but it wis a good one

DC

Star / Nazareth

Their finest song

I suppose Floyd's Shine on you crazy diamond is too much to ask for?


What about No more Mr Nice Guy - Alice Cooper?




DC

Thirds for worst band in the world

Midnight train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips
Are you sure Hank done it this way - Waylon Jennings
Let there be music - Orleans
You are the music (we're just the band) - Trapeze
Listen to the radio - Nanci Griffith
Stars tonight - Lady Antebellum
Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams

Joe
Linlithgow

What a brilliant theme,Bryan!So many goodies that I dont know where to start so I may as well start with the best(imho).it didnt take Joni Mitchell long to bite the hand that feeds her and she says as much in the great "For The Roses"..."In some office sits a poet and he trembles as he sings and he asks some guy to circulate his soul around".It's a recurring theme as witnessed in the more famous "Free Man in Paris"and much later in the brilliant "Taming the Tiger"but it would be great to hear "For The Roses".Other acerbic swipes at the "starmaker machinery behind the popular song"are the brilliant "Even a Dog Can Shake Hands"by the great Warren Zevon,"Have a Cigar"by Pink Floyd(brilliantly sung by Roy Harper)and the extremely funny (and filthy,that's out then!)"Packard Goose"by genius Frank Zappa.

#29,Oops,So looking forward to some crackers tonight that signed off without saying "Cheers"!Cheers, Willie Bartke :o)

TUESDAY

- Brad Paisley

Written by Bill Anderson.

#23 good shout MD, you could also have chosen "Bitter Fingers" from the great "Captain Fantastic...." album. It mentions Denmark Street, Tra La Las and Lad Dee Dahs etc.

#29 Lookin forward to hearing that one too WB

Just found out what Bruce Johnston was on about when he wrote the song below. The "I" actually means the spirit of the music industry and it's clear when you read the first verse lyrics. At the time I just thought it was the singer being a bit big headed. all is forgiven...


I Write The Songs - David Cassidy

Paul from Ayr

At one time on the Billboard hot 100 listings songs that were expected to make significant strides the following week were given a bullet symbol.

Eighteen with a bullet / Peter Wingfield

Lodi - CCR

#26

I think you really mean
* Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar
or
* Pink Floyd - In the Flesh
or
* Pink Floyd - Nobody ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ
or
* Pink Floyd - Young Lust
or
* Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues
(for when the band you're in starts playing different tunes)

Aye, naeb'dy diz metacommentary like ra Floyd.

For a gentler version of Nobody ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ as the quintessential 'on tour song' you could do
* The McCalmans - Festival Lights

#33

And then you could go for
* The Rutles - Number One

Denmark Street - the Kinks

Twenty Dollar Gig - George Thorogood & the Destroyers

and seconds for The McCalmans

AC/DC - 'It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock'n'Roll)'

#35 lets just have a Pink Floyd night

Rush - 'The Spirit of Radio'

Written as a celebration of how radio should be but more an attack on radio station programming. Sound familiar ☺

Almost rash

Host's alarm!

Busking...'Down On The Corner' - Creedence Clearwater Revival

'Danny Says' - The Ramones (Sound check's at 5.02, Record stores and interviews)

'Saturday Gigs' - Mott The Hoople (paints a vivid picture)

#33 at the back of my mind I knew Pete Wingfield had blotted his copybook somewhere but had to look him up to find out what it was. Apart from being a one hit wonder he is also a real industry all rounder. Was a journalist with melody maker, and played with the hollies everlys Olympic soul runners Albert Lee Van Morrison housemartins and Paul McCartney and Alan Parsons.

He's written hits for Olivia Newton John and the pasadenas and produced albums for the Kane gang and dexys.


And the blot? Em he also produced sunshine on leith.

Turn the Page - Bob Seger

Travellin' Band - Creedence Clearwater Revival

On the Road Again - Willie Nelson

#5
Good Chapin shout Paolo.

#47
They dont have the first one Gaie

No one going for the shoo-ins?

Gonna Make You A Star - David Essex
Life in The Fast Lane - Joe Walsh
All Night Long - Rainbow
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits ( Can it still be played?)

What I would like though is:


If You Were Me - Chris Rea and Elton John

AFR I wondered about

Dire Straits - Walk of Life

as a shoo-in but you are right the Capn's klaxon will be blaring for the other track....

Harry Chapin - Remeber When The Music

#49 I know, Adam, I'm just being silly.

#50 invalidates #51 of course, you must know that.

#50/52

There's a more obvious Dire Straits track than the Sting-inflected one.

Yeah but if they play SOS I really will scream.......

Plus we want to see if they are still playing MFN on the Beeb

#32 - Paul - Just about anything from that album would fit this theme.

Writing - Elton John

Everybody's Makin' It Big But Me - Dr. Hook


And let me hear that klaxon for Joni Mitchell!

Free Man In Paris


;o)

#57 - Adam - Why wouldn't they?

#59

Previously on the Blog...

It has recently been banned in Canada.

#56

Dire Straits did an ABBA cover?

#60 - Adam - Why?

The word cannae be all that offensive at the Beeb, there was a half hour programme on the best source and methods of cooking them on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ4 the other day!

#62

#46

I met Pete Wingfield once before an Albert Lee gig at the Ferry. He came up and spoke to us. I didn't recognise him and thought he was trying to steal our seats. He was very pleasant and is a great interpreter of Floyd Cramer.

#64

I thought they were banning it because Sting was throwing a tantric on it.

#64 - That's just silly. If Rod Stewart wrote Stay With Me now instead of 40 years ago feminists would want him hanged yet we hear it on Get It On every time somebody asks for it. And Oliver's Army gets played about 3 times a month on average!

;o)

I's like to hear

Stay With Me - The Faces

another song about the feckless attitude of working musicians to their responsibilities towards those they find involved in the transitory nature of their existence

regardez youse

henri:-))

#64 Fairytale of New York has a fa***t in the lyrics and I'm sure that's been played a few times ☺

Don't even mention Plan B!

#67

.....and not a misogynistic tirade


#68

It's obviously a joke in that context because no man could find Shane McGowan attractive

#63

Comparing DS with Rod - MfN is clearly critical of the attitudes expressed in the song.

But hey, we can't even get The Cure's brilliant lyrical version of played in case someone mistakes existentialist & absurdist philosophy for xenophobia.

And as someone pointed out last time discussed - what about Jilted John?
A regular on GIO until Julie had it banned.

He's more of a man than you'll ever be

You'll never fill his mankini

We had a modern studies teacher at school called mr Gordon and he had the misfortune to have the prefect room complete with amstrad music centre adjacent to his classroom. Jilted John would always be turned up at the appropriate point which caused much hilarity in his class. He never complained so he must have agreed.




Other music centres were available

#71 Sigh...Here we go (two, three, four).

My Dad was called Gordon...made it even worse!

More-on that later...???

Sorry Julie, an inappropriate pun

Please refer to moderator if I have offended you

DC

#77 I may cry all the way to the chip shop!

Phew..........

SG your favourite radio presenter is coming back on, I assume you will listen with interest:

/blogs/radioscotland/2011/02/the-peri-menopause-why-wont-an.shtml

.....and also gain some handy hints

"On the Radio" - Donna Summer

That's Why I Play the Blues - Gary Moore

JOE’S GARAGE from JOE'S GARAGE by FRANK ZAPPA

TOURING CAN MAKE YOU CRAZY from FRANK ZAPPA’S 200 MOTELS by THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION AND THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

OUR BAND from GOTTLE O’GEER by FAIRPORT CONVENTION

#80

Are you SURE thats not Steven Tyler??


No captions this threed?
I was working on something on along the lines of Andrew Lloyd Webber was released earlier this afternoon after being mistakenly identified as the driver of the hit and run vehicle which struck and killed local man, Glen Miller, yesterday.
But thought better of it

Banksy victim of unappreciative Deep South lynch mob

Let envy rest

Canned Heat On the Road Again, Harry Chapin W.O.L.D (I am the morning DJ),Rick Nelson Garden Party. The first one made me think of unintelligible
lyrics which might be a theme if you've not done it already.

Give me the Beach Boys and free my soul

The Moody Blues, "I'm Just A Singer In A Rock and Roll Band"? And I echo the suggestion of "Worst Band In The World".

Nights In - Why Sat In?

Ah... just remebered..

First We Take Manhatten.. Laughing Lenny or Jennifer Warnes (with Stevie Ray Vaughan)

though, I'm not going to be content until Medicine Jar gets played.

regardez youse

henri

#31 Did Scotch not get the credit for Brad Paisley there? If so a shocking ommission not to credit our Brad Paisley correspondent.

Listening live tonight for a change and I miss the fast forward option.
That Tommy Steele song just has to be the worst thing ever played on the programme.

#93

He's down for the Buggles.

How you able to listen live? What's changed.

#95 paracetamol will help

#93 Aaaah! Take that back.

#96
Just the way today has gone.

I see Gaie was right enough (#54)

I think Rush (Spirit of Radio) nicked a fair bit of Rich Kid's "Rich Kids" you know.

overhead scissor kick