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John Cooper Clarke ~ Evidently Chickentown

"Beasley Street" won't get past the timekeeper!

The Ballad of Spotty Muldoon - Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore -Erupts with laughter

I'd like to suggest Bicycle Race for the Queen spot - that's fairly mundane.

Bruce Springsteen - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live

Big river / Jimmy Nail
Let's Clean Up The ghetto / Philadelphia International Allstars

Ain''t got no money / Frankie Miller
Ain't Got no money / Bob Seger

#6

Back in the day when I had BB's ear and he had Jim Traynor's Saturday phone in slot, I was privileged to get Let's Clean Up The Ghetto on only to be cut short by the timekeeper!

Can you imagine a legendary artist hanging out his washing....

Clothes Line Saga - Bob Dylan and The Band


I've suggested it a few times when the theme was along the lines of comedy and I think Dylan excels with some dry humour here.

Paul from Ayr

Pure anthem in the Sub-Club back in the day by the way!

#8
Well Mac seeing as how Henri has Bab's stomach perhaps he should second it.

A night for the Braggster I'd say. Still churning out the workers' protest songs from his country pile in the south west. He did well out of Maggie. If she hadnt come along he would needed to have invented her.

Incomplete and Insecure - the Avett Brothers
A Brighter Beat - Malcolm Middleton - 'everything I do is redundant..'
Working Man Blues - Louisiana Red
Quarryman's Lament - Joe Bonamassa
Behind With the Rent - Mark Knopfler

#4

I'll raise you in the humble stakes with We Are the Champions.

#8 It should of course be played in it's full glory but I believe there was a 45 version was there not? Mibbes that's what they played.

can't be many more apt than ...

'Working Class Hero' ~~ John Lennon

would take a one second fade to allow it played ...

8/14 huge 2nd/3rd for Let's Clean Up The Ghetto 8:42 but on the subject of long tracks deserving play how about the 8:01 version of

Keep On Truckin' - Eddie Kendricks

some others are;

Fisherman's Blues

Workinman's Blues - Bob Dylan
Clean Up Woman - Betty Wright
A Hard Days Night - the Beatles
Hard Times - Plan B
Back On The Chain Gang - The Pretenders
Crippled Inside - John Lennon

regardez youse

henri

Six Days on the Road - George Thorogood & the Destroyers

Get real? Would heartily recommend this reality check from a guy who sings from the heart.

'If this is as bad as it gets' ~~ Joe Lima

Should get your fingers tapping, your mind ticking and (hopefully) your head nodding in agreement.

'Help Me' ~~ Johnny Cash

any explanation would be a disservice ...

Saturday Night - the Blue Nile ( an ordinary girl... extraordinary record)

Another Saturday Night - Cat Stevens

Love Of the Common People - Nicky Thomas

Debris - The Faces it would be goode to hear this, my favourite Faces track, sung by Ronnie Lane, recording lives of utter mundanity.

regardez youse

henri

Satuday Night At The Duck Pond - The Cougars - Swan Lake it ain't

THURSDAY


"Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love."

'Luckenbach, Texas' - Willie & Waylon


"We're not the jet set. We're the old Chevrolet set..."

'(We're Not) The Jet Set' - John Prine & Iris DeMent

Workin On The Highway - Bruce Springsteen

Mr President, have Pity On The Working Man - Randy Newman

Work To Make It Work - Robert Palmer


regardez youse

henri

#15

Kene Gelly,

Are you trying to get the delectable Alison into trouble?!?





























I salute her delectability!

THURSDAY


"Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm real!"

- William Shatner & Brad Paisley

Mr President / Pink

A reality check for the then worlds ruler George Walker Bush

I wonder if the registrar in Texas could have spelt properly then he wouldn't have been a Walker

Ray Davies & Amy Macdonald - Dead End Street

Think you'll be missing a trick tonight if John Mellencamp doesn't get a spin! So many of his songs highlight the plight of Americas small farmers and working class folks:

Pink Houses
Check It Out
Jackie Brown
Rain On The Scarecrow
Hard Times For An Honest Man
Empty Hands

this is a song that takes me back to early morning sunny july days......trudgin' up and down driels, filling 'luggies' and pouring the filled 'luggie' into bigger buckets then getting it weighed and being amazed at having earned 1/6d for hours of red juice stained endeavour.

ahhhh.............the berries

i'm sure johnny cash has also been there done that got the red hands..........

'pickin' time'............johnny cash

cheers frae the dale

You and Johnny - peas in a pod.

#15

Funny how we all interprit things differently, KG. I can't think of anything less apt than "Working Class Hero".

Here's a couple of different topics, but that speak of the gritty reality of life:

The Rhythm Of The Blues - Mary Chapin Carpenter

That's Real - Mary Chapin Carpenter

You're Not The Only One - Love & Money

regardez youse

henri

Matthew & Son - Cat Stevens

For all those office workers looking forward to their cup of cold coffee and a piece of cake............


DC

Nothing makes you realise what is and what isn't important more than being forced to confront your own mortality. You can react to this with humour or tears.

Still Gonna Die - Old Dogs ~ A Shel Silverstein classic!


If I want a good greet I browse through Daddy's record collection.

Dust In The Wind - Melanie ~ Melanie's version of the Kansas song. My favourite.

:o)

Must dig that out Senga, Great song but ver heard Melanie doing it

#34 - Paolo - The record is called Moments From My Life

I hope that helps.

:o)

Bruce Springsteen & The seeger Sessions Band - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live

a song which was orioginaly written about the hard times during the Great Depression, and re-written by Springsteen to reflect the hardship of the people following Huricane Katrina and the Bush administrations woeful response.

Rush - Working Man

#35 Found it on a different album. Just one of 5 albums i've downloaded since your post. Melanie rediscovered. That's the drink money for embra spent.

Elvis Presley - 'In The Ghetto'

Curtis Mayfield - 'The Other Side Of Town'

Alan Price - 'In Times Like These'

#38 "drink"?

Singular?

John Legend - 'Ordinary People'

#31

Funny how you interpret "interpret".


#33

I'd like to die quietly in my sleep like my Dad - not screaming in terror like his passengers.

Van Morrison - Cleaning Windows

#36

- Sonny Landreth - On the same theme

The Jam - Just Who Is The 5 O'clock Hero

#44 Glen - that is absolutely superb. I'll be buying that.

Some say he's the finest slide guitarist...................in the world

Southbound - Thin Lizzy (Live N Dangerous version)

A shoe-in for the Braggster, yes?

* Billy Bragg - The Saturday Boy
* Billy Bragg - Walk Away Renee (version)
* Billy Bragg - Tank Park Salute
* Billy Bragg - Must I Paint You a Picture?

Also
* The Saw Doctors - Red Cortina
* The Saw Doctors - Galway and Mayo
* The Saw Doctors - Will It Ever Stop Raining?

Posh boy from Richmond, Mick Jagger aint no prole but the Stones "Salt of the Earth"fits the bill with some great piano from late great sessionman Nicky Hopkins.
The flipside of the American Dream never sounded more heartbreaking than Paul Simon's "America"(Bookends again,must get a hold of it) and if your looking for the mundanities of life in a song then how about Glen Campbell's "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife"?Cheers,Willie Bartke

#11

As you'll guess from my requests above, I think Billy Bragg's non-political songs are the most keepingitrealest, very much grounded in real life, real experience.

Mansion On The Hill - Billy Bragg and the Boaks

this ones for DC on the Blog he or she?



Well she must be telt


:o)

Anyone ever heard the phrase "the greeting wean gets the sweetie".

Just wondering. No reason of course.

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