The Nicky-Tams Pub Quiz runs from 9pm - 12am every Sunday night. It's an informal, fun and free to enter quiz with a range of general knowledge, music & TV questions.
Drinks are won at the end of each of the 4 rounds with a bottle of bubbly for the highest overall scoring team.
Just to let you know there has been a change or two with the quiz. What we do now is offer a £25 bar tab for the winning team on the night, and if you happen to win one of the four rounds, we give you the chance on a lucky dip to see what prize you get. These new prizes over the past couple of weeks include rounds of drinks, meal vouchers for the Tams, t-shirts, headphones, shot glasses and other bar nonsense.
Do get involved, if not for the £25 bar tab, then for the awesome selection of tunes that gets played.
Tunes from Sunday last, apologies for the long delay!
White Lies - Farewell to the Fairground Beck - Girl Weezer - Buddy Holly Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning The Ravonettes - That Great Love Sound Belle and Sebastian - White Collar Boy Modest Mouse - Float On English Beat - Save it for Later Blur - There's No Other Way Animotion - Obsession Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums Whitey - Leave It All Behind New Order - Age of Consent White Stripes - The Denial Twist Bloc Party - Helicopter The Who - The Seeker Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your friends Santogold - Say Aha CSS -Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above Gorillaz - 5/4 David Bowie - Queen Bitch Cult - She Sells Sanctuary Elvis Costello - Radio Radio Cult - She Sells Sanctuary Happy Mondays - Step On REM -Radio Free Europe Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride and Joy The Rakes - 1989 The 45 King - The 900 Number Avengers Theme Radiohead - A National Anthem Camera Obscura - French Navy Rolling Stones - Get off my Cloud Manic Street Preachers - Australia The Smiths - Cemetery Gates Pulp - Sorted for Es and Wizz The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again MGMT - Time to Pretend Housemartins - Happy Hour XTC - Senses Working Overtime The View - 5 Rebeccas Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) Ramones - California Sun
Tunes from Sunday 22/03/2009. I lost the sheet, apologies!
Stereolab - Come and Play in the Milky Night (d) Modest Mouse - The View (s) Elliot Smith - Son of Sam (d) Curiosity Killed the Cat - Down to Earth (12" Mix) (s) Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Wake Up and Make Love to Me (d) Dusty Springfield - Spooky (s) Barbarossa - Burning Daylight (d) Coldplay - Shiver (s) Teenage Fanclub - It's All in My Mind (d) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin' Out My Backdoor (s) Kenny Rogers - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (d) The Cure - Lovecats (s) New Order - Temptation (s) The Who - I Can't Reach You (d) Pixies - Debaser (s) Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind (s) Skoubhie Dubh Orchestra - Mortgage (d) Animotion - Obsession (12" Mix) (s) Public Enemy - Caught, Can I Get a Witness (d) Gorillaz - DARE (s) Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place (d) Belle and Sebastian - Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying (s) Sonic Youth - Incinerate (d) Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country (s) My Morning Jacket - I'm Amazed (s) The Clash - Clampdown (d) Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes (s) Pulp - Mis-shapes (s) Talking Heads - Pulled Up (d)
Here's the tunes from Sunday 8th March, well done to Hi I am Spicy Tatties Dad who took the overall prize home!
Stereolab - Come and Play in the Milky Night (d) George Thoroughgood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (s) The Fiery Furnaces - My Egyptian Grammar (d) Tegan and Sara - Back in Your Head (s) Beck - Deadweight (d) Decemberists - The Sporting Life (s) Pierro Piccioni - Traffic Boom (d) The Cure - Just Like Heaven (s) Delroy Wilson - I Want Justice (d) Stone Roses - Fools Gold (s) Modeselektor and Thom Yorke - The White Flash (d) Weezer - Buddy Holly (s) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Bang (d) David Bowie - Fame (s) Those Dancing Days - 1000 Words (d) The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There (s) Devo - That's Good (d) Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes (s) Wild Beasts - Through Dark Night (d) Broken Social Scene - Fire Eye'd Boy (s) The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty) (s) Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me (d) Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (s) Bob Dylan - The Man in Me (s) Vampire Weekend - Walcott (s) Blur - Girls and Boys (s) B52's - Wig (d) Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To? (s) Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin' (d) MARRS -Pump Up The Volume (s) Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun (s) Talking Heads - Pulled Up (d) Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid (s) Sugarcubes - Hit (d) US3 - Cantaloop (s) MAKE-UP - Gospel 2000 (d) The Who - I Can't Explain (s) Big Country - In a Big Country (s) David Bowie - Sound and Vision (d) Flight of the Conchords - Mutha'uckas (s) Fischerspooner - All We Are (d) Goldfrapp - Strict Machine (s) The Jam - A Town Called Malice (s) The Exciters - The Blowing Up My Mind (d) Blondie - Heart of Glass (s)
Sunday playlist from the Haggis on the Beach weekend.
Curtis Mayfield - Pusher Man (d) Doves - There Goes The Fear (s) Marcia Aitken - I'm Still In Love (d) Daft Punk - Da Funk (s) Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (d) The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (s) LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great (d) David Bowie - Young Americans (s) The Idle Race - Days Of The Broken Arrows (d) The Beatles - Revolution (s) Bob Dylan - Bob's 115th Dream (d) Mylo vs. Miami Sound Machine - Doctor Beat (s) PJ Harvey - Down By The Water (d) M.I.A. - Paper Planes (s) White Town - Your Woman (d) Grandmaster Flash and the Sugarhill Gang - Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel (s) Elvis Costello - The Beat (d) Belle and Sebastian - Step Into My Office, Baby (s) Iggy Pop - Lust for Life (s) The Long Blondes - The Couples (d) Blur - Girls and Boys (s) Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen (s) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Afro (Single Version) (d) The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (s) Rufus Thomas - Itch and Scratch (Pt. 1) (d) Bloc Party - Banquet (s) Modest Mouse - A Different City (d) Hot Chip - Over and Over (s) Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump (d) Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (s) Radiohead - Black Star (d) Credence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (s) Prince - Pop Life (d) The Cardigans - Lovefool (s) Idlewild - American English (s) King Creosote - You Cuckoos (d) Pulp - Sorted for E's and Wizz (s) The View - Superstar Tradesman (s) Modern Lovers - Government Center (d) Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky (s) Grandmaster Flash and the Sugarhill Gang - White Lines (Don't Do It)
(s) are Stuart's selections,(d) are Dave's. White Lines was the ender to keep Ram happy. Dave and JC in control next week, I'm away to get some sunshine!
Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs (d) Stone Roses - Ten Story Love Song (s) Elvis Costello - New Lace Sleeves (d) Belle and Sebastian - If She Wants Me (s) The Beta Band - Squares (d) The Shins - New Slang (s) The Ronettes - Be My Baby (d) Beach Boys - Wild Honey (s) David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World (d) Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next to Me (s) Talking Heads - The Book I Read (d) Coconut Records - Nighttiming (s) Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D. (d) Talk Talk - It's My Life (US 12") (s) Public Enemy - Caught, Can We Get a Witness (d) Toots and the Maytals - Pressure Drop (s) Lowell Fulson - Tramp (d) Elvis Costello - I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down (d) The Who - Join Together (d) Sergeant - Sunshine (s) The Clash - I'm Not Down (d) Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses (s) The View - 5 Rebeccas (s) Wild Beasts - The Devil's Crayon (d) Santogold - Say Aha (s) Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days (d) Snow Patrol - Tiny Little Fractures (s) The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty) (s) Radiohead - Cuttooth (d) Sons and Daughters - This Gift (s) Modest Mouse - Float On (d) Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow (Soulwax Remix) (s) M.I.A. - Come Around (d) The Streets - Let's Push Things Forward (s) Beck - Where It's At (d) Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be (s) Run DMC - My Adidas (d) Bloc Party - Banquet (s) The Exciters - The Blowing Up My Mind (d) The Ramones - California Sun (s) Journey - Don't Stop Believin' (s) The Long Blondes - Guilt (d) Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (s) The Coral - In the Morning (s) Canned Heat - On the Road Again (d) The Strokes - Hard to Explain (s) Fischerspooner - All We Are (d)
(d) were chosen by David,(s) were chosen by Stuart.
Here's another batch of sounds from Sunday. A brilliant end to the week, complete with apple pies and Jaffa Cakes!
Bjork - One Day (d) Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) (s) David Bowie - Absolute Beginners (d) Belle and Sebastian - Boy With the Arab Strap (s) Beth Orton - Stolen Car (d) The Shins - Phantom Limb (s) Radiohead - House of Cards (d) Happy Mondays - Step On (s) Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso (d) Inspiral Carpets - This Is How It Feels (s) The Specials - Friday Night Saturday Morning (d) Santogold - I'm a Lady (s) Link Wray - Run Chicken Run (d) New Order - Blue Monday (s) Fischerspooner - All We Are (d) Stone Roses - Fools Gold (s) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (d) Blondie - Union City Blues (s) The Clash - Death or Glory (d) Guillemots - Trains to Brazil (s) MGMT - Time to Pretend (s) Talking Heads - Take Me To the River (d) Ladyhawke - Paris is Burning (s) The Smiths - There's a Light That Never Goes Out (s) R.E.M. - The One I Love (d) The Go! Team - Panther Dash (s) Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting on the Man (d) Chemical Brothers - Believe (s) Iggy Pop - I Wanna Be Your Dog (d) Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (s) King Biscuit Time - I Walk the Earth (d) Idlewild - American English (s) The Who - Pictures of Lily (d) Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (s) Blur - To the End (s) Prince - Cream (d) Foals - Olympic Airways (s) Maximo Park - Graffiti (s) Le Tigre - Deceptacon (d) Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (s) R. Dean Taylor - There's a Ghost In My House (d)
The excesses of Saturday meant that I was strictly on softs on Sunday night, and Dave was taking it easy with the Moscow Mules. The last playlist of the year, hope you had a good night.
James Brown - Funky Drummer (d) MGMT - Kids (s) The Clash - Guns of Brixton (d) Grandmaster Flash & The Sugarhill Gang - Rappers Delight (Radio Edit) (s) LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous! (d) The Go! Team - Ladyflash (s) David Bowie - Fame (d) Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums (s) Sonny & Cher - The Beat Goes On (d) Chemical Brothers - Out of Control (s) Gary Numan - Are Friends Electric (d) Goldfrapp - Strict Machine (s) Ian Dury - Wake Up & Make (d) The Jam - Eton Rifles (s) John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Through the Night (d) Air - Kelly Watch the Stars (d) Blur - Music is my Radar (d) Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance (s) Belle & Sebastian - If She Wants Me (s) Talking Heads - Uh-oh, Love Comes to Town (d) Beach Boys - Wild Honey (s) Nick Drake - Hazey Jane II (d) CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (s) Snow Patrol - Tiny Little Fractures (s) Modern Lovers - Old World (d) Bloc Party - One Month Off (s) Radiohead - Planet Telex (d) The Pipettes - Pull Shapes (s) Toots & The Maytals - 54 46 Was My Number (d) Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun (s) Supermode - Tell (s) Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump (d) Poison - Talk Dirty to Me (s) Paul Simon - Graceland (d) The Zutons - Valerie (s) Bob Dylan - Absolutely Sweet Marie (d) Chemical Brothers feat. Fatlip - The Salmon Dance (s) Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants (d) The Cult - Wild Flower (s) Blondie - Rapture (s) Lee Dorsey - Get Out of my Life (d) Outkast - The Way You Move (s) Les Rythmes Digitales - Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat) (s) 1990's - See You at the Lights (s) The Submarines - Boys Don't Cry (s) King Creosote - Homeboy (d) T-Rex - Children of the Revolution (s) The B52's - Rock Lobster (d) Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta (s) Elvis Costello - Pump It Up (s) Moloko - Sing It Back (s) Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (d) Mylo - Drop the Pressure (s) The Clash - Train in Vain (Stand by me) (d) We are Scientists - The Great Escape (s) Datarock - Princess (d)
Songs marked (d) are David's choices. (s) are Stuart's
Sunday's playlist folks, larger than normal as we were open 'till 1 and will be for the rest of the year.
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil (Live) The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses Blur - Tender Stereophonics - Long Way Round David Bowie - Absolute Beginners The Charlatans - The Only One I Know Pulp - Do You Remember the First Time? Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants Beck - Broken Train The Killers - A Crippling Blow The Strokes - This Modern Age Stereolab - Daisy Click Click Talking Heads - The Book I Read Hot Chip - Over and Over Susan Cadogan and The Upsetters - Hurt So Good Of Montreal - Gallery Piece The Shins - Phantom Limb ELO - Mr. Blue Sky Radiohead - Paperback Writer Athlete - Hurricane Elvis Costello - So Young Hot Chip - Hold On Belle and Sebastian - Step Into My Office, Baby Broken Social Scene - Cause = Time The Cure - Boys Don't Cry Fratellis - A Heady Tale The Clash - Guns of Brixton Giorgio Moroder and Phil Oakey - Together in Electric Dreams Tom Waits - Singapore paris Hilton - Stars Are Blind Freemasons feat. Katherine Ellis - When You Touch Me King creosote - A Month of Firsts Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta The Roots - Adrenaline Toots and the Maytals - Pressure Drop The Modern Lovers - Astral Plane Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love The Who - The Seeker The Streets - Fit But You Know It The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping Paul Simon - Kodachrome Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight T-Rex - Bang-a-Gong, Get It On LCD Soundsystem - Time to Get Away Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love Stone Roses - Waterfall B-52's - Give Me Back My Man The Jam - Down the Tube Station at Midnight Prince - Cream Ladyhawke - My Delerium Ladytron - The Way That I Found You Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next to Me Nick Drake - Hazy Jane II
It must be December, as the classic by The Waitresses, Christmas Wrapping, got a blast! An unmistakable introduction bringing with it sighs and joys!
Jonathan Richman - I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar Jesus & Mary Chain - April Skies The Vaselines - Molly's Lips The Beta Band - It's Not Too Beautiful E Z Rollers - Walk This Land A Certain Ratio - Shack Up Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking Booker T & The MG's - Time is Tight Marcia Griffiths - Gypsy man MGMT - Kids Lily Allen - The Fear Moby - Run On Ting Tings - Be the One New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends Manic Street Preachers - You Stone the Sun From My Heart Elvis Costello - 45 Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection Devo - Mongoloid Undertones - My Perfect Cousin The Idle Race - Days of Broken Arrows The Smiths - Shakespeare's Sister No Doubt - Just a Girl Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues The Rapture - Whoo! Alright-Yeah-uh-huh The Chemical Brothers Feat. Fatlip - The Salmon Dance Ramones - Rockaway Beach Bloc Party - Banquet Joy Division - Disorder Yazoo - Situation (US 12" Mix) Tom Waits - Walking Spanish Elvis Costello - Radio Radio Radiohead - Where I End & You Begin The Fall - Classical R. Dean Taylor - There's a Ghost in my House Interpol - Slow Hands The Associates - Party Fears Two The Go! Team - Doing it Right The Pipettes - Really That Bad Young Knives - Weekends & Bleak Days (Hot Summers) The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping Le Tigre - Deceptacon REM - Radio Free Europe The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
Cover versions, a constant source of debate which rears its head every now and again. Recently, her from X-factor covering Run by Snow Patrol, a high regarded song in my opinion, brutally re-hashed. However, each to their own.
Another one is David Watts, JC likes the Kinks version, I prefer The Jam. Somebody to Love, a Jefferson Airplane hit from 1967 which is one of many to have a dance remix, this time by the Boogie Pimps. We've all seen the video, and I think it is absolutely fantastic. Time and time again we see scale models of landscapes which are pieces of cut up sponge, green paint and a few fences. However, the director has taken time to re-create what is clearly a post-WW2 agricultural landscape displaying properties of arable and pastoral farming. These are represented by the variety of mosaics we are familiar with whenever we take to the skies on a clear day, developed due to the requirement of large scale machinery which took over from tractors. It is not just the field mosaic, but we also see a detailed township and also what looks like deciduous managed woodland possibly used for coppicing or pollarding in bygone years. Shame the CGI's a bit crap but the girl's not too bad!
The Irish give it big licks, the Yanks have their moment and even the Aussies are infiltrating into our hostelries to partake in a celebration of their national day. Despite the celebration of other national days, we neglect our own. However, steps were taken to ensure not blanket coverage but jovial recognition that we can get involved in this national day celebration business and maybe, just maybe, get a holiday out of it in the future!
I decided to shape up a St. Andrews themed round, and set myself the challenge, that every song coming out of my iPod had to be, in some way, connected to Scotland. I'm pleased to say that, despite strains with half an hour to go, this was achieved! Dave also managed to get a few Scottish artists in there too. Well done to the winners and hope you all had a good night! Here's the tracklisting:
David Bowie - Space Odyssey (d) Idlewild - American English (s) Gomez - Get Miles (d) Mull Historical Society - Watching Xanadu (s) Barbarossa - Burning Daylight (d) Aberfeldy - Summer's Gone (s) Pixies - Where Is My Mind (d) Edwin Collins - A Girl Like You (s) Beta Band - Dance O'er the Border (d) Belle and Sebastian - Step Into My Office, Baby (s) Alasdair Roberts - Firewater (d) Sergeant - Sunshine (s) She and Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? (d) Snow Patrol - Chocolate (s) Bridget Bardot - Harley Davidson (d) Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter (12" version) (s) Tom Waits - 16 Shells From A 30 Ought 6 (d) Travis - Flowers In The Window (s) Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream For Crow (d) Orange Juice - Rip It Up (s) Talking Heads - Pulled Up (d) Sons and Daughters - This Gift (s) The Skids - Into the Valley (s) Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives (d) The View - Superstar Tradesman (s) Skoubhie Dubh Orchestra - How's Your Tongue (d) Dogs Die in Hot Cars - Lounger (s) Fiery Furnaces - Ex Guru (d) Lloyd Cole - My Bag (s) R Dean Taylor - There's a Ghost in My House (d) 1990's - See You At the Lights (s) Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place(d) Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinee (s) Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso (d) K.T. Tunstall - Suddenly I See (s) Deerhoof - Believe E.S.P. (d) Biffy Clyro - Saturday Superhouse (s) Big Country - In a Big Country (s) Bjork - Alarm Call (d) Del Amitri - Nothing Ever Happens (s) Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You (s) Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants (d) Calvin harris - Acceptable in the 80's (s) Smiths - A Boy With a Thorn in His Side (d) Mylo - Drop the Pressure (s)
Songs marked (d) are David's choices. (s) are Stuart's
My Song of The Week choice this week is maybe a bit of a departure, as it's heading off into the spangly world of pop. Not that there's anything wrong with that. If there's one thing I wont do while building this playlist, it's aim for any kind of cool points. The 17 year old me would turn a snooty nose up to a Kylie tune, but what does he know? That's right, nothing. He's an idiot.
I Believe In You by Kylie Minogue has, for some reason or other, an almost unique place on my iPod. It falls into a strange "I will never skip this song" category that I can't really apply to anything else. I think it's completely brilliant. A little investigation tells me it's a collaboration with the Scissor Sisters, which might explain something. I reckon it's better than anything they've done though.
BEST BIT: 2:07 - the chant after it all breaks down, that and the bugabugabuga synthy bass.
I also recommend Slow as a similarly great slice of electronic pop-pie from the same era. Good lying-on-the-floor choreography in the video too. Well done Kylie.
Beck - Jack-Ass (d) Of Montreal - For Our Elegant Castle (s) Al Green - Take Me To The River (d) Hot Chip - And I Was A Boy From School (s) Wild Beasts - His Grinning Skull (d) Charlatans - The Only One I Know (s) Kate Bush - The Big Sky (d) Suede - Beautiful Ones (s) Beta Band - Inner Meet Me (d) Pulp - Mile End (s) Bob Dylan - Thunder On The Mountain (d) Foals - Olympic Airways (s) Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Songs That We Sing (d) Blur - Coffee & TV (s) REM - Fall On Me (d) Daft Punk - Da Funk (s) Radiohead - Down Is The New Up (d) The Who - Squeeze Box (s) Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out (d) Stereophonics - A Thousand Trees (s) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch - Hold Tight (d) Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent (s) MGMT - Kids (s) Those Dancing Days - Hitten (d) Kings of Leon - Red Morning Light (s) The Jam - Eton Rifles (s) The Clash - White Man In Hammersmith Palais (d) Goldfrapp - Strict Machine (s) Bjork - Crying (d) LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous! (s) Annie - Me Plus One (d) CSS - Let's Make Love & Listen To Death From Above (s) Haircut 100 - Love Plus One (d) The Smiths - Panic (s) Elvis Costello - My Mood Swings (d) Beatles - Drive My Car (s) Blondie - Sunday Girl (s) PJ Harvey - Good Fortune (d) Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (s) King Creosote - Homeboy (d) Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie Andrew WK - Party Hard (s) Captain Beefheart - Diddy Wah Diddy (d) Stone Roses - Fool's Gold (s)
As usual, songs marked (d) are David's choices. (s) are Stuart's.
A little late, but here's the playlist for Sunday 26th October:
Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue (d) Last Shadow Puppets - My Mistakes Were Made For You (s) Stereolab - Infinity Girl (d) The Courteneers - No You didn't No You Don't (s) Lou Reed - Wild Child (d) Noah & The Whale - Jocasta (s) Beck - Lord Only Knows (d) The School - I Want You Back (s) Make-Up - What's The Rumpus (d) Stone Roses - This Is The One (s) David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes (d) Little Man Tate - Hey Little Sweetie (s) Tegan & Sara - Back In Your Head (d) MGMT -Kids (s) Sonny & Cher - Beat Goes On (d) The Jam - Start! (s) Elvis Costello - Blue Chair (d) Snow Patrol - Take Back The City (s) The Smiths - Cemetery Gates (d) Sergeant -Sunshine (s) Radiohead - A Punch Up At A Wedding (d) Suede - Trash (s) The Smiths - This Charming Man (s) Talking Heads - Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town (d) U2 - Wild Honey (s) Annie - Me Plus One (d) 5,6,7,8's - Woo Hoo (s) Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (s) Ian Brown - Dolphins Were Monkeys (d) Bloc Party - Helicopter (s) Credence Clearwater Revival - Looking Out My Back Door (d) Over & Over - Hot Chip (s) Beta Band - Shrek (d) Foals - Olympic Airways (s) The Strokes - Someday (d) The Who - Squeeze Box (s) The Outsiders - Time Wont Let Me (d) Blur - There's No Other Way (s) Modern Lovers - Astral Plane (d) Pipettes - Pull Shapes (s) The View - Superstar Tradesman (s) The Clash - Magnificent Seven (d) Blondie - Heart of Glass (s) Go! Team - Ladyflash (s) Tom Tom Club - On On On (d) Housemartins - Happy Hour (s) Belle & Sebastian - You Don't Send Me (d) The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (s) Grandmaster Flash - White Lines (d)
As usual, songs marked (d) are David's choices. (s) are Stuart's.
Time to resurrect the song of the week again, this was something I did a year or so back but got out of the habit. However, Dave suggested that it makes a return, so here is a song which was out in 2007, See You at the Lights by the 1990's. It may have been played a fair bit, but it certainly is one of the best tunes of 2007!
For the past couple of weeks, Stop Making Sense has been my go-to DVD for when I'm sitting around doing nothing in particular. When I was wee, I'd always read about how great it was but I didn't get round to watching it until I was studying. Now that I own it, every so often I'll take the notion to stick it on, and that'll be me off on a Talking Heads trip for a few weeks.
Picking a song of the week from the film is pretty tricky, since they're all fantastic. I've picked This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody), firstly because it's amazing and I really like to play it at the start of the night on a Sunday in Nicky-Tams, but also because the performance from the film is lovely. If you've never seen it, you're in for a treat. David Byrne dancing with the lamp is a bit of magic.
I couldn't really leave it at that, so as a bonus Stop Making Sense slice, here's Life During Wartime too. In the film, this is the first taste of Byrne's amazing dancing, and where the gears start shifting towards running-on-the-spot, sweaty, big-suit madness:
I guess what I'm saying is that you should go get hold of Stop Making Sense if you haven't seen it, and go watch it if you already own it. My other top tips for new folk are Psycho Killer, Slippery People and Burning Down The House. As good as they are on YouTube, you do lose the cumulative power of seeing the whole concert.
This is a wee announcement to say that there will be no quiz on Sunday 19th October due to the Carnage night in Stirling.
It's the first time in as long as I can remember that the quiz isn't on and we're gonna take advantage of our night off. Perhaps for a change we'll try our hand at being contestants at another quiz in town. Enjoy Carnage if you go along. Apologies to our regulars if it's any inconvenience. Drink responsibly, friend.
The quiz will of course return to normal in a fortnight on Sunday 26th October. Hopefully see you then.
Here is the playlist for Sunday 12th October at Nicky-Tams:
Gomez - Get Miles (d) Foals - Olympic Airways (s) Beta Band - I Know (d) Ernie K. Doe - Here Come The Girls (s) Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (d) Human League - Love Action (s) B-52s - Mesopotamia (d) Arctic Monkeys - Fake Tales of San Francisco (s) Credence Clearwater Revival - Heard It Through The Grapevine (d) Supermode - Tell (s) Captain Beefheart - Somebody In My Home (d) Kings of Leon - Notion (s) John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Through The Night (d) Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness (s) Grandmaster Flash - The Message (d) Journey - Don't Stop Believing (s) Make Up - Gospel 2000 (d) The Who - Squeeze Box (s) Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums (s) The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again (d) Spencer Davis Group - I'm A Man (s) Talking Heads - Slippery People (d) Franz Ferdinand - Dark of The Matinee (s) Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (s) Devo - Uncontrollable Urge (d) Go! Team - Do It Right (s) Tom Waits - Union Square (d) Daft Punk - Da Funk (s) Captain Beefheart - Diddy Wah Diddy (d) The Charlatans - The Only One I Know (s) Radiohead - Where I End & You Begin (d) Bloc Party - Banquet (s) The Organ - Brother (d) Blur - Girls & Boys (s) The Clash - Train In Vain (Stand By Me) (d) David Bowie - Let's Dance (s) Gorillaz - Dare (s) Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants (d) LCD Soundsystem - Time To Get Away (s) MGMT - Time To Pretend (s) Bob Dylan - Obviously 5 Believers (d) Zutons - Valerie (s) Datarock - Fa Fa Fa (d) Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (s) Shirley Ellis - The Clapping Song (d)
Songs marked (d) are David's choices. (s) are Stuart's.
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Song of The Week:
For well over a year now I've been keeping a playlist called "Song of The Week". Every week I pick a track that I have particularly enjoyed listening to and drop it in there. After a while, the playlist has grown into a big weird collection of tunes that wouldn't exist anywhere else. I've started posting them here:
