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TUESDAY



This is not just any song.

Relaxing, like Mary-Doll's bubblebath.

Smooth, like Tennessee whiskey.

Mellow, like Kinky's Cuban cigars.

This is not just any song.

This is a Bonnie Raitt song.





I commend it to the House!

What's the point of raging in a traffic jam? Doesn't get you there faster. All my own choice of music de-stresses me anyway.

Don't get this theme I'm afraid.

ps some of you might like this

#2

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

I'll never forget the time my vehicle's horn refused to toot. By the end of the week I'd lost my temper, my voice and my mind.

Gridlock - Warren Zevon

Sunday driver / The Corries

simply the knowledge that ...

'There's No Place Like ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ' ~~ Devo

... a lovely little number that should melt the heart of the most skeptical of GIO jury members ...

Pent up and ripped off by Glasgow TOA! I know I've been away but Nobody Knows Glasgow Like They Do. It was like being back Paris!

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"I know I've been away..."

Izzat a euphonium?


P.S. Their business is picking up.

#3


Toot Sweets - Dick Van Dyke & Sally Ann Howes

then again, there's often been the time when I've thought ...

'I'll be Walking ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Today' ~~ Michael Paul Miller

... Americana/Gospel blues at its finest ...

Just can't help grinning my face off for this:
* The Fray -

I should have mentioned — I thought tonight's show was pretty tootin' good. Very much avoiding the QI 'obvious' klaxon, complete with a left of centre cover.

Even the U2 track, which got me half way through mentally complaining "Hang on — a John Coltrane mention is welcome but it doesn't make a tribute" when the actual info was supplied, which was news to me. Nice one.

@ ya Git. You hum it and I'll play it!

I've always loved the Clash track Car Jamming, great backing vocals from Ellen Folley and would be nice change from the usual Clash tracks

The Clash - Car Jamming


And while I'm at it I will dedicate this track to Scotch

The Clash - Red Angel Dragnet

Like many of us, I live and work under pressure that strikes me as extraordinary.

Music is a vital component in retaining sanity. I'm lucky though, because I'm often moving between meetings in my car and do much of my listening there.

Therefore the line " Here in my car, I feel safest of all" resonates with me, I just don't care for Garry Numan's androgenous techno delivery.

Discovering The Leisure Society cover has been a deep joy, guaranteed to raise a relaxed smile, an opportunity to move into auto pilot and rise above the chaos that unfolds before me, both on the road and increasingly, everywhere else. This isn't chill out, Bryan, it's just plain fabulous.

Cars - The Leisure Society

Otherwise, the ipod is plugged into the car stereo, some 10k plus tracks on shuffle - I've no idea what's next and am frequently surprised that I don't know what I've got or forgotten about. For example, this completely wonderful track came on today while i was driving to a knitwear factory in Ayrshire.

Second Song - TV On The Radio

This really would work well on GIO, not chill out. Bowie fans like our Norrie would like this band (if you are not already familiar) - in fact, I think Bowie appeared on some of their stuff.

I could produce a list that would run forever, but the truth is your mood in the car is exactly like it is anywhere else - it changes constantly and the music reflects that: happy, sad, fast slow..so this is a kind of non theme ( there's been a few of these recently) and the mainstream sensibility of GIO prevents things you really do listen to getting houseroom. So here's a few others.

Atumn Leaves - Nat King Cole

Benedictus - Karl Jenkins ( start at 2:38 to catch the magnicient choral ending)

Shut Up And Let Me Go - The Ting Tings

Keep On Truckin - Eddie Kendricks

and for those days when it has all been mental, you just want escape, recharge the batteries and forget it all for a while:The helpless resignation in this song is how we all feel occasionally, tremendously powerfull in its simplicity.

I'm Done - Nitin Sawhney

regardez youse

henri

Modern love - Last Town Chorus
Portland Oregon - Loretta Lynn
Hey ya - Will Young
Be here to love me - Norah Jones
Low rising - the Swell Season
Leaving me here - Hem
You'll never find another love like mine - Lou Rawls
Misty blue - Dorothy Moore
Slow - Rumer
Fool to cry - Rolling Stones
Wreck on the highway - Springsteen

Joe
Linlithgow

Henri Hannah - brilliant suggestion.

#3. I can't drive but I can swear really really well :o)

I'll miss tomorrow's show as I'll be at the Pink Martini concert. I daresay their music would be good for combating road rage...'Let's never stop falling in love' might do the trick!

Oh dear....there are a lot of Queen tracks that fit this theme...

#18

Like a sojer.


>8-D

#14

Reggae?!?

You shouldn't have...

#13

Hmmm...

A traffic jam round our way is when you happen to meet one of the local farmers bringing the cows accross the road for milking.... but the instant stress eliminator track for me it's a simple wee song about keeping the faith in the real stuff, the simple stuff...

Company Of Friends: Danny Schmidt

#15 so it's just songs we like then? Thought so.

Cellar of Dreams - The Silencers
All We Make is Entertainment - The Manic Street Preachers
Southern Accents - Tom Petty
Blue Tarp Blues - Sonny Landreth
Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne

#19

It's a little understood fact that any cassette left in a car for a fortnight inexplicably turns into a copy of Queen's Greatest Hits.

#24 ha ha ha gaie! Do you think the Southern Accents album gets Tom Petty rid of pent up aggression?

#23 Had to take a detour on the way home last night because of sheep on the road.

Beach Boys - Baarbara Ann ☺

Actually would love to hear:

Steven Lindsay - Kite

...and anytime k d lang's voice appears, we all calm down, ease the foot back on the accelerator and meander up the road:

'Perfect Word' or 'Helpless' - k d lang

conversely, anytime Immigrant Song - Led Zepplin or Space Shanty - Leftfield come on, the foot goes down.

Wonder how many accidents and near misses have been caused by overly enthusiastic music appreciation whilst driving?

The antidote is Les Nuits - Nightmares On Wax - guaranteed not to be a nightmare on the road, simply beautiful.

regardez - youse

henri

#28

huge 2nd. Janice's remarkable show on Saturday not only included henri's favs, the Leisure Society, Nitin Sawhney but my favourite Janis Ian number but also... The Big Dish!

What good taste that girl has got!

This is also a great driving tune: Faith Healer - the Big Dish

regardez - youse

henri

As many of us found out last winter

More Than One Way ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ - Keb Mo

Is that a relaxing song or what.....?

More to follow,
Al.

Lyric fits surprisingly well, I have a city I'm thinking of, but any that has a river. Early morning drive from work after nightshift springs to mind.
The song's actually about something completely different but I just really like it.

All This Time - Sting

Al.

Highway 20 Ride - Zac Brown Band

Ventura Highway - America

It's The End of the World as we know it - REM
(Definitely crosses your mind on the M8 from time to time)

And I think no de-stress show would be complete with this man.

Mamma Don't / JJ Cale

Al.

#30. I note that Janice's record of the week is a song I mentioned a couple of weeks ago (not played...sigh!)...'Video Games' by Lana Del Ray. It'll probably be all over the radio soon and we'll be sick of the sound of it...but, for now, it's a great song!

Right I might as well confess. It's Bruce again. Thunder Road. Not that poncy live version but the proper guitar driven sound of Bruce pulling out of here to win.

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road

or even the proper guitar driven sound of Steve pulling out of here to win:

Steve Earle - Somewhere

Pubescent Singer – Hound Trader

Beachcombing - Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris

To mark its 1000th request on Get It On, the Lord Provost of Rundown, in a simple but tasteful ceremony, will be renaming Derelict Crescent - "Thunder Road". Council officials will be wearing specially made Springsteen codpieces and the works band of the former tar pits will play a selection of tunes from his new album "20 Retreads - Oh God, It's Not Bruce Again, Is It?". The party will then adjourn to The Shadow of Death Tearooms for lukewarm refreshments and stale cake.

#34

Lana Del Rey - She's the girl that causing a lot of fuss about whether she's had her lips done or not, right?

I heard she has to have her harmonicas made to order.

#26 absolutely, Norrie! Certainly works for me.

I have to admit I did get pretty wound up when my lad was a youngster playing tennis tournaments in obscure clubs in the middle of Rutherglen, Titwood, Newlands, Cambuslang - you name it, each club is bang in the middle of some un-signposted area and no passers-by can give you directions because even they don't know where it is. So we frequently found ourselves driving round and round as the time of the match ticked past and my son got more frantic and less likely to be able to play any sort of game because he was so distraught. He and his sister learned from their mother language of the sort rarely heard though often lip-read at tennis clubs. Only a sign saying

Tennis Courts
Up Around the Bend - Creedence Clearwater Revival

would have calmed me down

#38 a ringing endorsement!

#41 Gaie that was the lp he was recording when he lost the rag and punched the wall smashing his hand to bits. I think it was Rebels that annoyed him, so maybe Southern Accent is the correct choice!

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Aw naw we're in another REM video! Thought they'd split!

Oh, forgot all about that, norrie - I remember it now from the film! I did see a guy come out of a Greenock pub the other day when I was driving home - he was clearly about to erupt and the wall opposite was going to get it. Ashamed to say I was dying to see what happened when his fist smashed into the stonework, but sadly his hat blew off , he went to get it and I had to drive on anyway

I think someone had put Thunder Road or Born To Run on the jukebox!

Pubescent Singer - nob rot run

Tonight's theme will be busy no doubt but since we endured the full 8 minutes of American Pie last night, we're due ( were promised) the full 8 minutes of...

Say Hello Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell Julian Mendelssohn remix from the Soft Cell/Marc Almond " Memorabilia" album.

Magnificent oboe solo makes for sublime driving.

regardez - youse

henri

The oboe isn't used much in pop music. Apart from Roxy Music I can only think of Twice As Much's Sittin' on a Fence. There must be others.

#47 what theme?

#48

Have a listen to "Talking Loud and Clear" by OMD.

#50

The obvious one is I Got You Babe. Twice As Much use a very similar oboe phrase in the chorus.

#48 Twist In My Sobriety - Tanita Tikaeram

That's it. Let's have an oboe night.

Only a oboe / Bob Dylan

Send in the clowns / Judy Collins
Dandelion / Rolling Stones

The Mighty Quinn / Mannfred Mann
featuring Mike D'oboe on vocals

Little Steven - Solidarity

Beatles - Oboe La Di, Oboe La Do

Oboevious / Aztec Camera

Carly Simon - Let the River Run

I just love this song and for some strange reason it used to come on Wogan some mornings at the same bit of my journey into Edinburgh - namely the Harry Lauder Road in Edinburgh, which as many will know was sometimes like a carpark!

Did "I'd Love You To Want Me" not have one?

Olga's been back on!

There is hope for us all!

No Proclaimers? Can't believe that.
Bound to chill out ALL the bloggers.........................
King of the Road
;o)

What, no Oboe Diddley?

#64 Oboe There For You

@ ya 22. I'll name that tune in one but only if you can confirm it with the Performing Right Society of Great Britain!

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Oboe, Not My Baby

;o)

Bryan you must play something from Loudon Wainwright's album "Songs for the New Depression". My own favourite is "House"but any would fit. And remember LW3 is NYC's answer to Michael Marra!
Fraser from Minnigaff

Hey Fra, there's another theme page ;-)