Grunge fest...

OK, the obvious suggestions:

Good Riddance (Time of your life) - Greenday, I would have preferred ‘Jesus of suburbia’ but you’ll no play it aw.

Everlong - Foo Fighters but gonnae play the acoustic version please?



DC

I'm not currently, or ever was, consciously aware of any bands 'influenced by Nirvana'
Think they probably achieved cult status for reasons other than their music and for that reason, as they say on that silly dragony programme
'I'm Out'

I see the goalposts have moved:

Name - The Goo Goo Dolls

Moonshine - Feeder

 
Were there really only 19 tracks played this evening? (see playlist).

I tried to listen, but it was too painful. Thursday looks like a night off.

Bob Harris Country. Possibly preceded by Rufus Hound. But probably not.

The only comedians I would pay money to see are Sarah Millican and Rich Hall.



























giggling git

Scotch Git:

Speechless in Seattle?

Huvnae a clue what the theme means -however, here's an excuse for Henri to ask for Supermassive Black Hole again and I'll second it.

Is alt-rock different from indie? C'mon, DC, you seem to know what it's all about or are you just bluffing?

ps, I absolutely don't get Nirvana. Kurt Cobain certainly made a good career move.

Well I dont think this band would have sounded the same without Nirvana (or indeed you know who)

Gaslight Anthem - American Slang

How about

E-Pro - Beck

I went with the original theme ie bands influenced by Nirvana. I looked at my ayechoons and Greenday & Foofighters were the obvious answers.

By the time I got my selection typed in, the theme had changed to become post Nirvana bands. That kindo widens the field a bit, doesn't it? We haven't even started on the Muses and the likes

Canny help you any more other than think this must be a wide open theme now (they couldnae possibly limit it to Cobain influence stuff caws they'd run out after a dozen blog posts).

Ref the description: "what we are looking for is 'post grunge' tunes"

DC

And something has gone badly wrong if this is not played :

Nine Inch Nails - Closer (eh radio edit)

and why not fling

Bowie - I'm Afraid Of Americans V1 (Trent Reznor version basically)

och well, try again for

Welcome to Your Wedding Day - Airborne Toxic Event

#1/ 3 DC - Even though they have opened up the options to embrace non-Nirvana, I still think your Foo Fighters suggestion is worth a play. (I tried to post a link - the system couldn't handle it.)
#12 Norrie - Massive, major seconds for the Nine Inch Nails/ Trent Reznor suggestions!! Not sure how the first will fare (radio edit or no - it's sex written IN CAPS!! I was always lead to believe that sex sells, but somehow it doesn't when it does what it says on the tin. Er - guess that one will be a no. Pity!!) , but the second - come on, if it's good enough for Bowie... ;o)

Mary -D you have made my day. Ta.

Here's another wee help. I'll start with Adelita's Way and the rest of you can go through the alphabet.

Sorted.

I take that back, they're pure sair heid.

#16 I'll take Matchboc Twenty

Matchbox Twenty - Bent

So are we now saying that the theme is just Alt-rock?

confusedfaeraferry

#6

Certified in Cellardyke

Thanks Gaie, since Norrie beat me to The Gaslight Anthem...he's obviously been reading the same site via Google that I was... Frankly, I know next to nothing about Nirvana and they just don't interest me therfore I have no real scoobie if this is influenced by Nirvana - i read up about it but and I don't recall Nivana being mentioned... anyhoo ... let's hear

Super Massive Black Hole - Muse

regardez youse

henri

Beg your pardon Mr Hannah I most certainly was not.

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

#15 - Norrie - I would absolutely love to hear Closer played, non-radio friendly version, even. We both know it hasn't a snowball's chance in hell on a show aired between 6.10 and 8pm. I have to admit, it's not really suitable for the ears of the 6 year olds who are getting their requests played (and who can then be assumed to be part of the core audience), so - aye, what's the problem with giving the man who has given Mr Cash one of his swan songs and whom Mr Bowie (who has gigged with him - come on!!) isn't embarrassed to be associated with - a bit of a shout?

1985 - Bowling for Soup (Think it qualifies but if it doesn't I don't care just love the vid, it's good fun music)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K38xNqZvBJI

Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne (ditto but video would get moderated)

I sincerely apologise, Norrie. It was quite wrong of me to imagine that you had read the site which mentions The Gaslight Anthem. This influence is hotly disputed, of course, so i'm not sure if either of us is right. - though, I shall be happy to hear the Gaslight Anthem on GIO at last.

I think this Nirvana 'influence' thing is ballocks anyway - part of the mince and hype that goes with the whole tortured soul guff. Everything is influenced by everything else -. if there wasn't blues and gospel, there would have been no Elvis, no Elvis no Beatles, no Beatles no Bowie etc - and in terms of influencing anyone else I just don't see what's so important about Nirvana's music - they are a rock band, they sound similar to lots of rock bands before 91 - they didn't invent the electric guitar or anything.

If anything, i think Nirvana ( and the rest of them) were influenced by Mccartney's Helter Skelter. So I've picked things which are post 91 rock type things where you can say they were influenced by what went before.

Stupid Girl - Garbage

On Meloncholy Hill - Gorillaz

Safe From Harm - Massive Attack

alt Gaslight Anthem track..... Great Expectations

tonight's McCartney suggestion:

Dress Me Up As A Robber - Paul Mccartney (Caribbean Indie Rock)

tonight's Beatles suggestion

Come Together/Dear Prudence/ Cry Baby Cry - the Beatles (Love Album, mixed with indie rock sensibilities in mind obviously)

regardez - vous

henri

Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You

The Kooks - She Moves in Her Own Way

The Kill - 30 Seconds to Mars

will you be giving out the recipe for your mince & hype tea tomorrow, Henri?

Here's a few more:

Rules Don't Stop Me - We Are Scientists

Loop The Loop - Wild Beasts

The Kids Don't Stand A Chance - Vampire Weekend

Shut Up And Let Me Go - The Ting Tings

Throwing Bones - The Phantom band

that'll do..

regardez youse

henri

#29

I'll try and compile the recipie for tomorrow, but obviously, the central ingrediant is dying young - so that lots of myth and hype is automatically generated around this - which is a heady mix, superheated it becomes 'gravitas'... which means ordinary music lovers are encouraged to attach a seriousness and importance to the work which in the absence of premature stiffening would have passed unremarkably.

Once the gravitas cools, it turns into mince.

Think Sylvia Plath, Byron, Shelley, Keats, John Lennon and you're on the right track...:-))

regardez vous

henri

Kings and Queens - 30 Seconds to Mars

Pavement - Folk Jam

Codeine Velvet Club - Vanity Kills

Sparky's Dream - Teenage Fanclub

oooohhhhhhhh controversial Mr Hannah!! I love Sylvia Plath's pomes.

#32

and Sid and Nancy, of course:-))

previously on the blog.....

#71 & 73

.....you say it best, when you say nothin at all...... :-)



btw..... no idea what this theme is all about, so probably gonna play dumb and suggest JAPW as usual. What track to go for tho? Not that it makes any difference lol

Struggling a bit, so...............
Wake up - Arcade Fire
Use somebody - Kings of Leon
The black roses - Codeine Velvet Club
Heaven never seemed so close - Kill it Kid
Listen to your love - Mona
Housewife - the Cribs
Northern man - Detroit Social Club
Bloodbuzz Ohio - The national

Joe
Linlithgow

Gaie - sorry just spotted #31. Happy to second Vanity Kills.

Joe
linlithgow

#5 @ ya SG.........

how, whits wrang wi' gerry sadowitz.
and he does great tricks.
and he sets up his ain table after a gig and sells his cd's.
i dunno whits warng wi' the world.
i've seen mair offensive jokers on newsnight.......gerry, man, he's a scream.

ok so its grunge wi' a wee nod tae sweden............... a shortish list

'angel eyes'................czars

cheers frae the dale

Not entirely 100% sure what the topic covers since it seems to have been opened out somewhat so giving a few choices that hopefully cover the bases as it were :).

Higher - Creed
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
Buck Rogers - Feeder
Rooftops - Lostprophets

Hopefully will actually get to listen to the show as I have missed it the past few days :(.

So the theme is bands of the last 20 years. Good.

Up all night / Counting Crows
Into oblivion / Funeral for a friend
What do you want from me / Monaco
American idiot / Green Day
Drops of jupiter / Train
Stadium Arcadium / Red hot chili peppers
Crying like a church on monday / New Radicals

#36 nae bother, Joe, the Black Roses is a good track too and we've had Vanity Kills before so would be happy to hear either. Following on from that

Santo Domingo - Jon Fratelli

and just to make my wee list easier to read

Kings and Queens - 30 Seconds to Mars
Folk Jam - Pavement
Sparky's Dream - Teenage Fanclub

Tetley Tea (to Set you Free) - The Rudiments

Fistful of Fivers - Woodenbox and a Fistful of Fivers

Green Day & U2 - The Saints Are Coming

This has the potential to be a very good show. I wonder what the f***book crew will do to it.....

#42 that's a cunning plan for getting a great old number onto the show :-)

Joe-K...big second for Bloodbuzz Ohio - The National...not a clue if they're Nirvana influenced or not but it's a great song!

Help me out... who are Nirvana and who is this Captain Kirk Coburn and what's alternative rock.....? and what happened to the folk theme night?

#37

d_k,

Never having seen Mr. Sadowitz perform, I am not in a position to express an opinion. However, a wee glance at his tour schedule reveals that in December and January he will be doing 25 gigs (count 'em) at the Leicester Square Theatre.

That is impressive!

#46

Mike - Nirvana are a British psychedelic rock band from 1968 who are famous for the minor hit "Rainbow Chaser" thought to be the first record to include phasing and or flanging throughout the whole recording. They also made the first concept album, a style copied by everyone at the time, including the Beatlesl

Captain Kirk is a character in a sci - fi series called Star Trek.

Cockburn's is a brand of port.

As Lord Denning famously remarked " And who are The Beatles?"

regardez youse

henri

My Immortal - Evanescence
Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
I Don't Care - Fallout Boy
I Write Sins, Not Tragedies - Panic! at the Disco

#35/42

huge third for The National... I bought High Violet for the cover and fell in love with it, they've been requested on here many times but never played.

Bloodbuzz Ohio is a strange lyric though, the first verse is about shirt lifting?

regardez youse

henri

PS Still think that's a decent theme idea... albums you bought for the cover... or am I in a minority of one?

regardez youse

henri

Well if Pop Musik kicked off last night then this has to be tonight's starter:


Indie Rock and Roll - The Killers

Gong tune up rests

Stop! Grunge tunes!

I haven't really been paying attention thru the nineties and noughties but a few things have caught my attention now that my kids have grown up....

Nervous - Joan As Police Woman

Maybe Tomorrow - Stereophonics

Glorious - Andreas Johnson


Paul from Ayr

Now, that what I call Influenced! Directly attributable to Nirvana and is a dead cert for tonight!

"Cake best known for their ubiquitous hit 'The Distance', Cake epitomised the post -modern ,irony-drenched aesthetic of 90's Geek Rock - white boy funk, hip hop, country,new wave,pop, jazz, college rock and guitar rock - with a particular delight in the clashes that result."

From the movie soundtrack 'Stubs The Zombie' comes:

Strangers In The Night - Cake

regardez youse

henri

#53

George Best punts!

just checked out Stubs The Zombie to discover he's based on Michael Jackson - unsurprising, when I think about it.

Em just a thoight:

Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World

#56 Bring back nearly anagrams!

Often requested always ignored………

SODA DREAMER from TAXIDERMY by QUEENADREENA

#56 Or snugg Pete Best?

Anal Rangers man

Learn, nag 'Sam' ran

Couldn't be grunge night without Neil 'Godfather of Grunge' Young (controversial I know!) It would be great to hear 'Hey, Hey, My, My' or 'Rockin' in the Free World' with or without Pearl Jam.

Great show tonight. Hope the second hour is as good as the first

DC

#64 Agreed, DC. But there is a lamentable lack of female artists. I know they played Garbage, which was great, but...... how about some Tori Amos? She definitely fits into the post grunge/ alternative rock style/ genre, whatever.

#48 Ha well spotted Henri. I'd forgotten about that. There's a theme, different acts with the same name. I can think of Kenny and Blue and er em well that would take us to 6.20.

Oh and the drifters.

#66 it would still make a longer playlist than tuesdays......


Still waiting on the jazz night playlist as there were one or two I would have quite liked to download. I think there should be a suspension pending disciplinary for tuesdays producer.

thoroughly enjoying the show - great energy

#65 also a lamentable lack of blog requests. Am I right in thinking only Henri got a mention? And that the Captain got two mentions, both via other means?

Mutiny by the Captain!!!! (Is that no a Paul Nicholas record?)

Whit next?

where's Madmac? heard him get a few mentions this week

deserted us?

A completely thrilling show, layer upon layer of great tunes building to a crecendo - all of which I knew well -i just didn't realise they were alternative rock - sounded like rock to me. Disappointed not to have Cake's classic rendition of Strangers In The Night but I felt cool, hip and trendy when my Muse track came on:-)

#74 go on, henri - rub it in, why don't you! ;o)

#70 well, both gaie and I had a mention - yes, via other means. And a few songs I "like"d on FB got played, so... aye, I can't complain on that score. It was a great show. Just wondering where all the female artists disappeared to.
Maybe that's a theme idea - no girls/ boys aloud. 2 nights free of any women/ men. One night of each option. ;o)

Sorry Paolo, just noticed the playlist is missing for Tuesday evening - I'll sort it tomorrow for you. Apologies folks.