Next week's themes...

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They'd rather watch Big Brother

... and they don't know the past tense of sing.

1966 the year the Beach Boys released Pet Sounds. That's it!!! I KNEW there was something else happened in '66.

Pretty good themes though? But paolo someone one day is going to explain the Beach Boys to me and I am going to get them.....but so far nope! And I have tried many many times. God Only Knows what I'll do if I hear that song one more time la la la tra la la etc etc to fade overdubbed 50times.

#5

There are only three voices on God Only Knows and the song, arrangement and performance still impress me after 43 years.

One man's Meat Loaf is another man's Poison.

Monday:

There can be only one album for me, 'Dark Side of the Moon' by Pink Floyd.

Given that Producer Babs will veto any Floyd track proposed, I have to appeal to Bryan tae pit his fit doon here. 'Brain Damage' will do if you can't persuade PB to allow 'Money', 'Time' or 'The Great Gig in the Sky'.

This album experimented in new techniques and was so successful that others tried to follow in the footsteps of the group. None came close.

By the way, the loonie's laughter on 'Brain Damage' sounds just like my brother-in-law....

DC in Cellardyke

At the risk of posting early and being forgotten about next week

Monday
A landmark album which was a noted change of direction for the artist in question. An album he had to fight with the labels hierarchy to get released due to it's marked departure from the labels usual radio friendly output. The first popular soul album with heavy political and social content, a concept album whose songs worked in a cycle ending with a reprise of the opening title track. An outstanding album that has never dated..........What's Goin on / Marvin Gaye

And from it, it has to be the classic Inner City Blues (Makes me wanna holler)

Tuesday 1967
A listen again job tonight but from the summer of love, at under two minutes, the greatest short song ever recorded

The Letter / Box Tops

Wed Singing Actors
Mr Bojangles / Sammy Davis Junior
Classic recording

Thu Space
A bitter song about a girl who goes off to 'find herself' before
returning to her lover. He uses the analogy that she might as well have been in outer space.

Drops of Jupiter / Train

''Tell me did you sail across the sun
Did you make it to the milky way to see the lights all faded
and that heaven is overrated
tell me did you fall for a shooting star
one without a permanent scar
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there''

Glen you are absolutely right and I am going to have to try harder to tune in to the Beach Boys.

MONDAY

'The Kick Inside' - Kate Bush - from her debut album 'The Kick Inside'

Talented, enigmatic, total babe. I've been smitten since seeing her dance around a tree singing 'Wuthering Heights'

I do not expect to recover.

#10

Norrie,

You were right the first time. When it comes to the Beach Boys, if it isn't 'Californian Girls' it's mince. If it's 'Sloop John B' it's total mince.

>8-D

#11
The first time I ever heard Wuthering Heights on the radio was a real WTF moment. Had never heard anything like it but agree, it was a great album.

Come to think of it, had you asked for wuthering heights DC would have got to hear Dave Gilmour on GIO.

Mondays theme is really difficult, so many great albums and artists to chose from. My first thought is the Beratles and Revolver which really was pioneering (and much better than Sgt. Pepper). Will need to think about that theme some more!

For Tuesday believe me I have never been described or thought of as groovy! However here are a couple of suggestions:

Danny Wilson - Second Summer of Love
Springsteen - Girls In Their Summer Clothes, for all those enjoying some sun at Hampden!
Tremeloes - Here Comes My Baby

You're right about Revolver.

Except it was by the Beatles!

#14, #15

Indeed Revolver is the better album. I've always thought that the whole 'best album in history' label that Pepper seems to be given is just nonsense; yes, it's a good album - but it's not a GREAT album. The Beatles are not even largely responsible for the good things about it! In those days it was the PRODUCER who essentially dictated what went on the records, the sequencing of the tracks (CRUCIALLY important to albums like Pepper!) and in George Martin's case, he was actually adding material himself, especially in post-production. It's a telling fact about Sgt Pepper's that McCartney actually went off on holiday after he had finished recording all his bits and didn't even know what the whole thing sounded like until Martin finished the job!

I had suggested a theme on producers but does not seem to have been of interest but I think could be a good one. Along with textures.

Cue Sandy Shaw! :-)

Excellent - a night for album tracks... I do feel a Pink Floyd phase coming on. And there's got to be some Roxy Music/Eno too.

Abrupt changes of direction for artistes I think are fair game too - The Unforgettable Fire for instance.

And Babs, Bryan and team - if you can track down some tracks by Smashup Derby, that would be wonderful; they're the only band I know who play mashups live (ie really playing the backing to Smells Like Teen Spirit to the vocals of Billy Jean in a live gig)

You're all right, btw, Revolver by *far* the better album.

#14

I was under the impression that Tuesday's theme restricted us to requests from 1967

Bryan, please remove this ambiguity.

Ta.









confused git

#18

Brilliant! Bags I Don Was.....

#21 I think you are right Scotch! Strike #14.

Given that a few of us regular bloggers will be in Glasgow on Tuesday, do you think we should offer to produce the show? We could all meet up at the BBC and wave at Babs through the window!

We'll have to be finished by 7pm to allow us time to get out to Hampden though...

DC

Risky strategy - Bryan could be doing some pose?

Chair man of the bored.

Monday

How High The Moon - Les Paul and Mary Ford - More voices than the Beach Boys and a decade before them.
Seven and Seven Is - Love - More energy than the Sex Pistols and a decade before them
Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone - What's Going On? - a riot.

Tuesday

Young Girl Sunday Blues - Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxters is 1967 on a record
Along Comes Mary - The Association - First band on at Monterey
98.6 - Keith - Down the foggy ruins of time
You Keep Me Hanging On - Vanilla Fudge - Much Sturm und Drang about very little

Wednesday

It Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr - That'll Be The Day
Memo From Turner - Mick Jagger - And a great Performance by Ry Cooder

Thursday

Outa Space - Billy Preston - On the line between The Band's Cripple Creek and Superstition
Hava Nagila - The Spotnicks - For S Git by the forerunners of ABBA

Thursday:

Bryan might like to consider a study of this...

https://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf

I think "City of New Orleans" by Arlo Guthrie is a good selection from this mega list to beat all lists

DC

For Thursday before I forget

N.A.S.A - The People Tree from the outstanding The Spirit of Apollo lp

or Spacious Thoughts.

Actors:

Harry Dean Stanton does a fantastic vocal performance on Ry Cooders across the Borderline.

Steve Martin - The Crow from his new banjo album.

MON

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n2NXuQ5ako&feature=related

TUES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJzcF0v1eOE

WED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYQgCqr2mVE

THURS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03cy86u6Wi4

#26

Why thank you, Mr. Miller!

Speaking of Abba.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz96OZDBqKw

Monday - Albums

Hunky Dory - David Bowie, right at the start of the seventies and there's an edge, drive & sophistication that was missing from happy, clappy sixties stuff. We must have heard about five tracks from this album on GIO, says it all.

Tuesday - 1967

Penny Lane - Beatles, great, carefree, happy song that that's typical of the sixties and a bit of a historical document as well.

Wednesday - Actors

Atered Images - I could be happy, Clare Grogan mmm....

Thursday - Space

Cosmic Girl - Jamiroquai

I'm on holiday abroad next week, hence the milleresque posting, sorry Glen!
Can't believe I'm missing the Springsteen concert, hope it's a good night for all you lucky ones that are going.

Is it like pinteresque without the pauses?

Are your Andes on the ends of your Wristies?

Somebody call for a Caretaker whilst awa' on holiday?

TUESDAY:

'Groovin'' - The Young Rascals.

'Incense and Peppermints' - Strawberry Alarm Clock

'Magic Carpet Ride' - Steppenwolf

I forgot...1967 was actually a very good year for The Monkees. What about 'Randy Scouse Git ( or its UK title of 'Alternate Title')...the 'why don't you cut your hair' one.

Aw Julie...'Groovin'' - Ya Wee Rascal yae! Top shout!

#39 (and #37)...and it's from 1967.

24# DC, whats special about this Tuesday, anyone interesting playing at Hampden?

No sure, I'll hae tae ask the boss....

DC

#41

Jan,

Some Channel Island chappie. From Jersey, I believe. Probably bilingual...

Dunno why he wants to celebrate Bastille Day in Glasgow. Perhaps he swallowed all that 'Auld Alliance' cobblers.

>8-D

#43, Bergerac??????

DC

If John Nettles were Scottish, his nickname would be 'Jaggy'.

He certainly likes putting people in the docken.

Tea leafs, and the like.

Planted evidence...

Aagh! Not Space as a theme again!!!

I can only presume it has been chosen in order to entice MazzyStar back.

She wont be able to resist requesting `Clouds Across The Moon` and `Calling Occupants....`

Watch this SPACE :-)

Groundbreaking albums:

Here after nmuch thought are my mini list of ground breaking albums:

The Crickets - The Chirping Crickets, (Oh Boy!)

Elvis - Elvis Is Back! (Reconsider Baby)

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisisted, (Like A Rolling Stone)

The Beatles - Revolver, (She Said She Said)

The Velvet Underground & Nico (I'm Waiting For The Man)

David Bowie - Low (Be My Wife)

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The ...(God Save The Queen)


I will not bore the blog with one of my posts that goes on for ever but any track from any of these essential albums would be appropriate.

One for Glen on Wed:

Adam Sandler - Werewolves of London, actually a really good version.

With Mick Fleetwood and Waddy Wachtel it should be. You could also have Billy Bob Thornton with The Wind. I believe he and Warren struck up a friendship on the basis of their OCD.

I think the turning point for the Beatles was Rain and it has Ringo's best drumming.

Glen I know I am going to ask a stupid question...OCD? Obsessive Compulisve Disorder?

Billy Bob observed Warren returning to a post box five times to make sure he had posted his letter and observed, "I see you've got it too."

Monday - Pioneering Pop:
She Said She Said - The Beatles (from Revolver)
London Calling - The Clash (from London Calling)
Boing Boom Tschak - Kraftwerk (from Electric Cafe)
Rising Runner Missed By Endless Sender - Tangerine Dream (from Cyclone)
Solid Air - John Martyn (from Solid Air)
I Was Made To Love Her - The Beach Boys (from Smiley Smile)
Night Ride Home - Joni Mitchell (from Night Ride Home)
Birdland - Weather Report (from Heavy Weather)
Tutti Frutti - Litle Richard (from Here's Little Richard)

Tuesday - Summer Of Love/Groovin':
Groove Is On - Groove Armada
Foxey Lady - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Can You Feel The Force - The Real Thing
Let's Groove - Earth, Wind & Fire
Get Down - Gene Chandler
Groove Is In The Heart - Deee-Lite
Somebody Groovy - The Mamas & The Papas
Wild Thing - The Troggs
The Second Summer Of Love - Danny Wilson

Wednesday - Actors/Singers:
Common People - Joe Jackson/William Shatner (cannot resist it!)
China Girl - David Bowie
The Year 2000 Minus 25 - Kris Kristofferson
I Am... I Said - Neil Diamond (great song)
The Rose - Bette Midler
Borderline - Madonna (err... yes, she IS an actress, I think...)
No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Donna Summer/Barbra Streisand
Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Doris Day (top version of this one)
Flying Down To Rio - Fred Astaire

Jim I thought from an earlier post in this thread it was songs from 67 for Tuesday? See #14 and #21.

#59

AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH! OK ignore #57 and I will re-submit.

I dont know - hopefully they will clarify.

Actually it's a lot easier to pick just from 1967 - there a ton of stuff in my MP3's alone when I search on date.

Tuesday (strictly 1967 only) - Summer Of Love/Groovin':
Light My Fire - The Doors
On A Carousel - The Hollies
A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Soul Man - Sam & Dave
Alfie - Dionne Warwick
To Sir With Love - Lulu

Thursday - Space:
The Moon's A Harsh Mistress - Jimmy Webb (stonkingly beautiful)
St. Judy's Comet - Paul Simon (Simon at his most 'McCartney-like')
Lost Horizon - Todd Rundgren
Subterranean Homesick Alien - Radiohead
Not To Touch The Earth - The Doors
The Black Hit Of Space - The Human League
Apollo 9 - Adam & The Ants
Ticket To The Moon - Electric Light Orchestra
Cosmos (Outer Space) - t.A.T.u
Doctor? - Orbital (amazing version of the Doctor Who theme)
Star Trekkin' - The Firm ;-)
Galaxy Song - Monty Python (end the show with this one?)

Just back from holiday and still in the wrong time-zone. My initial thoughts for the week ahead are below.

Monday - innovative artists
Not much to add to the excellent suggestions already lited above:-
I'm Free - The Who (from Tommy)
Born to run - Springtsteen

Tuesday - 1967

San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Light my Fire - the Doors
I was made to love her - Stevie Wonder
I'm a believer - the Monkees
Reflections - Diana Ross and the Supremes
Higher and higher - Jackie Wilson


Wednesday

Singers in the movies:-
America or Hello again - Neil Diamond (both from The Jazz Singer)
(You want to) Make a memory - Jon Bon Jovi (U571/Pay it forward)
Don't get a round much anymore - Harry Connick Jnr (Memphis Belle)
You make me feels so young - Sinatra (lots of films, including High Society and On the Town)
That's Amore - Dean Martin (lots of films with Jerry Lewis)
Road to Ensenada - Lyle Lovett (The opposite of sex)
Martha - Tom Waits (The Fisher King)
On and on - Stephen Bishop (The Blues Brothers, The Twilight Zone movie)
Moon over Bourboun Street - Sting (Dune)

Actors who sing:
This is not a test - She & Him (singer is Zooey Deschanel (from Elf))
Hungry Heart - Minnie Driver
Under the boardwalk - Bruce Willis
How can I be sure - David Cassidy
Smile - Robert Downey Jnr
Torn or Shiver - Natalie Imbruglia


Thursday - Space

Fly me to the moon - Sinatra

More to follow

Joe
Linlithgow

TUESDAY

'To Sir With Love' - Lulu - Gaun yersel', hen! Wan singer, wan song....

In support of JimFraeErskine (see #63)

Monday (Innovative artists).
As I understand the theme, its artists who dared to be different in their style and approach, without too much consideration of whether or not it would be a hit with the listening public?
GENESIS: Misunderstanding
BILLY BRAGG: The Man in the Iron Mask
LEONARD COHEN: Suzanne

MIKE OLDFIELD: Arrival
QUEEN: Spread Your Wings
SEX PISTOLS: Silly Thing

Lots of seconds for Monday: Innovation night.

But I'm going to have to nominate 3 people for weaving other musical traditions into popular music:

Peter Gabriel for his WOMAD work, sponsorship of non-Western artistes via Real World Records and his encouragement of people to get involved in musical creativity using strong source material via RealWorldRemixed. The track I'd like to nominate is Tiger Phone Card by Dengue Fever which crosses all three of those threads.

Paul Simon for Gracelands. The track I'd like to nominate is Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes.

The Imagined Village as a whole for mixing traditional English and Indian music with contemporary music, and keeping authenticity with all three traditions. And the track (which I've requested many, many times here without success - let tonight be the night) is Cold, Hailey, Rainy Night. Which as a Brucie-Bonus linking us to the start, was available on RealWorldRemixed, and I remixed.

Correction: final version of my remix of Cold, Hailey, Rainy Night.

MONDAY: Innovative Artists and Albums

Roxy Music's eponymous debut album released in June 1972 is undoubtedly an influential album that changed a lot in the way musicians approached writing, recording and presenting their music. This album was presented as a complete package to the record company, sleeve 'n' all. Bryan Ferry's art school training is seen in the lavish album sleeve inside and out. The music sounds like everything you have heard before and nothing you have heard before all in the same album sometimes in the one song. Ferry's Elivisesque pastiche coupled with Mackay's rock sax and classical oboe, Manzanera's psychedelic guitar all treated by Eno to create the manic synthesized soundscapes that backdrop the entire album. The album didn't even have a single released and still hit the top 10. Virginia Plain was recorded and released after the album was released. When that came out Top Of The Pops now knew why it was invented 8 years after the first show.

The debut album has in some ways not stood the test of time. The vibrancy of the band can be heard in their first offering but at the expense of their recording inexperience and small budget. The second album 'For Your Pleasure' recorded with the benifit of experiance and budget and knowing they now have a place in modern music is a much more assured offering and confirms how influential this band will go on and become.

To choose a track to display the versatility on the album would be 'Ladytron'. The opening lunar landscape created by Eno with Mackay's haunting oboe floating over the top before the song begins in earnest. The passage between verse 1 and 2 has probably the first ever rock oboe sole (yess!!!! rock oboe) the track transends in to a cacophonic gallop at the end with Manzanera's guitar sounding as unlike a guitar could be. This album was released in the beard and denims era and stuck its two fingers up to the muso blues based guitar rock of the recent era.

This album sub-consciously started the whole punk ethos and the DNA of this album and band can be heard on many bands since. In recent times, Franz Ferdinand, Scissor Sisters, Coldplay all claim this band as a huge influence.

J.O'B.

Great post RJ.

Max B Gold was only thinking that too. You can never tire of endlessly reading about Roxy/Eno/Ferry/McKay et al.

However, Max is of the firm belief that care is required as things like this can sometimes develop into an obsession.

Innovation is a much misused word in music and in life generally. Max B Gold is steadfast in his opinion that there is nothing new under the sun.

However, if pushed to make a choice in the field of popular music Max B Gold chooses anything by Wilco.

"I'm the man who loves you", "Muzzle of bees" or "Spiders (kidsmoke)" would be good to hear on the radio tonight.

Noooooo - Sledgehammer's a great track, but one of the least innovative on 'So'. If you want to showcase the stuff I was alluding to, then go for Red Rain, which used a Brazilian township rhythm called Forro.

I was intending to ask for Shaking The Tree which Peter Gabriel did with the stunning Youssou N'Dour - absolutely demonstrates how he brought together musical influences from all over and created something genuinely new. And it's a stonking track! But for some reason it didn't end up on my final list...

#71

Truly innovative. The first rock oboe sole - half woodwind, half fish.

#77

I'll listen to it again, but it sounded like it was a Mellotron and not an oboe to me...

#75 - Are you sure about that Capt?

#79

I thought it was based on the Slosh

#78 Jim you are kidding?

On 2 points

1. Roxy John would not be wrong on that

2. Why use a mellotron when Andy McKay is in your band!!

He was wrong about the sole music.

#81

The attack on the notes is a bit of a give away... It can't be emulated by a human. And the 'sound' is very much like a Mellotron - which was very fashionable back in the day! Also, when you key a monophonic series of notes on a Mellotron, there is a small amount of cross-modulation between the notes which also is 'very keyboardy'. In fact, bands are starting to use them again today (or at least samples from them).

Is Roxyjohn in the next bed?

Checkout Andy Mackay blowing into an oboe shaped Mellotron on Ladytron here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVeEBMJt8vs

Eno treated a lot of the instruments hence the sounds being unique at the time.

J.O'B.

RJ - one that always made me chuckle is his credit for playing "cricket menace" on Lodger, I think African Nightflight. Eno that is.

That was a fantastic show.

#85

Very cool - Thanks Roxy.

No Wendy Carlos, bah!

Will need to listen again as only caught the odd snippet. Must admit though, Kraftwerk and Exciting in the same sentence made me laugh.

#14, #21, #23 OOPS!!

Norrie,

I'm wrong

You're right

Blame Bryan

>8-D

#89

I liked her better when she was Walter. More Switched On, I think ;-)

Now that TUesday is clarified a wee bit my suggestions re:

Danny Wilson - Second Summer of Love
Springsteen - Girls In Their Summer Clothes,
Tremeloes - Here Comes My Baby

I see Pink Floyd got the usual airing tonight.....

Think it's about time the boys went round to Bryan's place for a wee word. In fact, there might be an opperchancity Tuesday evening! The new BBC place is down by the Clyde, isn't it?

;-)

DC on the way tae Glesgy

Right across from your Hotel I think!

Well either I'll hang out a banner, or I might just have a wee walk across the road.

Anyway, I won't be able to hear all of Tuesday's show because I, like many of the other regular bloggers, will be heading for the Springsteen concert at Hampden. Bryan, can you please play us a 1967 track which sums up Get It On for Tuesday?

'Out of time' by Chris Farlowe

DC

DC that is one of my all time favourite tracks. Fantastic record from a great artist.

Max B Gold is thinking that "Love you madly" by the groovilicious CAKE would be the type of song that would fit well with the Tuesday night theme.

More suggestions for Thursday:

Home to Houston - Steve Earle (for the Houston reference)
Space Cowboy - Steve Miller
Walking On The Moon - The Police
The final countdown - Europe
Saturn - Stevie Wonder
Shining Star - Earth, Wind and Fire

Joe
Linlithgow