Your Theme Time Radio Show
Posted by David Wright on 15 April 2008 - 8:46pm.
If you had to fill Bob Dylan's shoes for one week and step in as presenter on his radio show, what theme would you select and what tracks would you play?
My theme would be "Nightime" and my ten tracks would be:
1)"The Night Fly"-Donald Fagen
2) "Moonlight In Vermont"-Billie Holiday
3) "In The Wee Small Hours"-Frank Sinatra
4) "Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark"- Robert Cray
5) "Death Disco" P.I.L
6) "This Is The Night"-The The
7)"Eclipse"-Pink Floyd
8) "Shine A Light"-The Rolling Stones
9) " Nighthawk Postcards"-Tom Waits
10) "Lights Out For Darker Skies"-British Sea Power
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Don't worry, David
We're working on them. You can't just dash these things off, you know.
No Problemo
I await with baited breath, some things in life are worth the wait.
Animals of increasing size
Is that specific enough? Too specific? Not even sure if I'm right!
1 Wharf rat / Grateful Dead
2 Nashville cats / Lovin' Spoonful
3 Hares on the mountain / Shirley Collins and Davy Graham
4 Dogs and ferrets / Steeleye Span
5 Dead skunk / Loudon Wainwright III
6 We are the pigs / Suede
7 Milkcow's calf blues / Robert Johnson
8 It must be a camel / Frank Zappa
9 Heavy horses / Jethro Tull
10 Elephant stone / Stone Roses
supplementary question from number 2 - name any other bands named after the male ejaculate
Er...
10 c.c.
Cream
Er... Sigue Sigue Spunknik?
G.C.S.E Grade E
A poor effort Archie, you must try harder in future.
George Jism?
Coat.
Original
A most unusual theme choice, but I like it. I suppose number 11 would be a dinosaur related song perhaps?
Good
A most unusual selection, If there were a number 11 would it be a dinosaur related track?
Clothes maketh the man (or woman)
Furniture / Love Your Shoes
The Wedding Present / My Favourite Dress
Cake / Short Skirt, Long Jacket
REM / Harbourcoat
Clive Gregson / Fingerless Gloves
The Hindu Love Gods / Raspberry Beret
Maria McKee / This Perfect Dress
Kirksty MaColl / In These Shoes?
Paul Weller / Peacock Suit
Pete Townsend / Don't Let Go Of The Coat
City Life.
Goldie - Inner City Life
"Inner-city life, inner-city pressure"
Terry Lee Hale - City Life
"I think about leaving here for the country almost every day
Wondering about a future and this city life."
Moonshake - City Poison
"Where the sun throws square shadows
Where too much means nothing to do"
Suede - High Rising
"With the high rise still in your eyes
you wonder who's out there at all."
The Montgolfier Brothers - Time Spent Passing
(Guitar. Children's voices.)
Saint Etienne - Shock Corridor
"The green escalator
is taking him home
The rain on the pavement
The dull neon glow."
Ooberman - Ghosts
"Faces pale and nauseous pass
blood on their shirts as they fall.
I raised a hand to a girl that I knew
having sex on a car park wall."
Blur - Best Days
"Bow bells say goodbye to the last train
Over the river they all go again
Out into leafy nowhere
Hope someones waiting out there
for them."
Scanner - My Lost Love Hunting Your Lost Face
(Funereal synths, Drums that sound like passing trains. Overlapping brass like car horns.)
Smog - Let's Move to the Country
"Let's move to the country
Just you and me."
Top Of The Class
Excellent stuff, the best so far, a lot of thought has gone into this track listing. I may burn off a copy of your track selections. The thing I like about these themed compilations is it makes you listen to stuff in your collection you may not have heard for a while.
I'm Lovin' It! [TM]
Annette Peacock - My Mama Never Taught Me How To Cook
Richard Thompson - Fast Food
Jimmy Buffett - Cheeseburgers in Paradise
Village People - Big Mac
Detroit Grand Pubahs - Sandwiches (Bloated Quarter Pounder Mix)
George Clinton - Do Fries Go With That Shake?
Ray Charles - Eatin' Ice Cream And Cake
K.D. Lang - Black Coffee
Nina Simone - I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
Bob Dylan - One More Cup Of Coffee
A bigger animal ( and that ejaculate)
Number 11 would be
To the last whale / Crosby and Nash
and my other answer to the supplementary question would be
Pearl Jam
Metals
Second attempt. Might have been a bit rusty but no cheating using Led Zeppelin, Freddie Mercury or the label Bronze.
1 Metal Firecracker / Lucinda Williams
2 Iron Lion Zion / Bob Marley and the Wailers
3 From Silver Lake / Jackson Browne
4 Brass Buttons / Gram Parsons
5 Tin Man / America
6 Copper Kettle / The Country Gentlemen
7 Golden Brown / Stranglers
8 Aluminium Illuminati / Super Furry Animals
9 Bronze And Baby Shoes / Swell Maps
10 King's Lead Hat / Brian Eno
Kings Lead Hat
It's an anagram of Talking Heads, you know.
Did they respond with a track called. . .
One Brain?