Tomorrow is Halloween. I won't be able to post appropriate songs then due to Snapshots, so here are a few Halloween favourites...
Showing posts with label Sinead O'Connor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sinead O'Connor. Show all posts
Friday, 30 October 2026
Another Day #22: Halloween
Tomorrow is Halloween. I won't be able to post appropriate songs then due to Snapshots, so here are a few Halloween favourites...
Friday, 7 August 2026
Neverending Top Ten #7.5: Eurovision
Here are a few appropriate tunes, only one of them a Eurovision contender...
I know you won't have time to listen to all those, but there's some cracking tunes in there. More reasons to go back into Europe!
Friday, 16 January 2026
Another Day #1: Nothing Day
Teachers love their Awareness Days' Calendar. Black History Month. World Environment Day. International Literacy Day. There’s always something to build a lesson on if you go searching.
Along the way, I’ve come across some truly ridiculous
awareness days… and so… you can guess the rest.
What better day to start than January 16th?
It's National
Nothing Day!
National Nothing Day is an "un-event" created in
1972 by newspaper columnist Harold Pullman Coffin and observed in the United
States annually on January 16 since 1973.
Its aim is “to provide Americans with one National Day when
they can just sit without celebrating, observing or honouring anything”.
We need this day in the UK too!
Here are some sweets nothings to help us celebrate….
Sinéad
O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Diana Ross & The Supremes - Nothing But Heartaches
Lee Hazlewood & Lula - Nothing
Dire
Straits - Money For Nothing
I Want My MTV… but not anymore, I guess.
Manic
Street Preachers featuring Traci Lords – Little Baby Nothing
Gilbert
O'Sullivan - Nothing Rhymed
Roddy Hart - Nothing Is Broken
Metallica
- Nothing Else Matters
John Grant - All That School For Nothing
Gwen
Guthrie - Ain't Nothing Goin' On But The
Rent
Echo
& The Bunnymen - Nothing Lasts Forever
The Decemberists - Everything I Try To Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right
Bachman-Turner
Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Let’s rock!
Sunday, 17 November 2024
Snapshots #370: A Top Ten Songs About Lost Cities
This weekend, we explored ten legendary cities, lost to the sands of time. I'm surprised we didn't bump into Indiana Jones while we were there...
10. He made three dollars.
The composer of the soundtracks for Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy, starring Clint Eastwood. He also ventured to this lost city in Colorado...
9. Rabbit, something you bear, Jodie Foster movie.
Peter the Rabbit, you bear the brunt, Jodie Foster was in Nell.
Peter Bruntnell - Camelot In Smithereens
8. Misspelled Mongol.
It's not Genghis Kahn, it's...
Apologies if you'd have preferred this...
7. From Grace.
No one wants a Fall from grace...
The Fall - Theme From Sparta FC
6. Wheeler's band - Fall Guy - Madonna, Miley, Mariah (initially) - monstrous wife.
Tim Wheeler's band is Ash. The Fall Guy was Lee Majors (not that Ryan fool). Madonna et al. are MCs. Frankenstein's monstrous wife was The Bride.
5. Yellow, Turquoise, Juniper.
Three song title colours from...
4. Once indoors, an unbelievable mix-up occurs.
"Once indoors, an..." was an anagram...
3. Revolutionary prison.
2. Don't get stuck in them.
1. No Joel? That'll cause a stir.
"No Joel" was an anagram of ELO and ONJ.
Olivia Newton John & ELO - Xanadu
Rediscover Snapshots next Saturday.
Thursday, 31 October 2024
One Final Halloween Snapshots Spillover
As it's Halloween, here's a final batch of horror film-inspired songs, starting with the Scream Queen herself. No, not Jamie Lee Curtis...
Next up, a track from the new Nick Lowe album, his first in eleven years. Apparently, he's spent the time catching up on movies like this...
Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets - A Quiet Place
I couldn't let this series close without mentioning "the most amazing motion picture of our time", starring Michael Landon, presumably before he found God in Highway To Heaven...
The Cramps - I Was A Teenage Werewolf
Up into the hills next, for an encounter with some inbred yokels... have you ever been to Holmfirth?
Irena Dubrovna discovered she was descended from an ancient tribe of Cat People who metamorphose into black panthers when aroused. Just like Manimal!
The original version of Cat People was released in 1942. Forty years later, a saucy remake roped this guy in to contribute to the soundtrack...
David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out The Fire)
Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was banned during the video nasties scare of the 80s, so it became something of a holy grail to teenage horror fans like myself, desperate to see it. When it was finally re-released in 1998, I rushed out to see it. The film does contain one of the most disturbing scenes I've ever seen... yet it's nothing to do with the infamous chainsaw, or even Leatherface himself. Instead, the bit that got me was the dinner party scene when they fetch Grandpa down from the attic...
The Tyla Gang formed in 1975 following the dissolution of Sean Tyla's previous band, Ducks Deluxe. I suspect there's more than a whiff of bandwagonary going on here...
Tyla Gang - Texas Chainsaw Massacre Boogie
The other classic horror film banned throughout my adolescent video shop days was Mark Kermode's favourite: The Exorcist. Hard to believe it's 25 years since the censors finally allowed me to watch that...
Curtis Mayfield - Sweet Exorcist
The less said about the 2005 remake of House of Wax, starring Paris Hilton, the better. The 1953 original though, with Vincent Price, was one of the first mainstream Hollywood movies to be filmed in 3D. I generally hate 3D movies, but I reckon it'd be worth seeing this one again with the glasses on.
I found a whole bunch of songs named after this flick. Here's a smattering of wax on wax...
Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club - House of Wax
Nothing beats a good haunted house story for me though. And that one to beat in that genre is the 1963 version of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, known simply as The Haunting.
Whatever you do, do NOT watch the 1999 version with Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta Jones. It's one of the worst films I've ever seen.
Here are some post-Shane Pogues... so no way as scary as they used to be.
And here's some Shane, in case you're missing him, along with Sinéad. I'm missing them both.
Shane MacGowan with Sinéad O'Connor - Haunted
Sadly, I couldn't find any songs named after the best haunted house movies of the 21st Century, the Paranormal Activity flicks, but I'm closing today with the film that got me hooked on horror movies back when I was a kid. I was obsessed with the Amityville Horror, reading all the books, watching all the films, and even looking favourably upon Lovebug Starski...
Happy Halloween to you all. Hoohahahahahaaaa!
Friday, 22 March 2024
Coffee Break #3: Dead Pheasant
I drink my coffee black, because that's how I prefer it. Despite my previously discussed aversion to cold milk, I can have milk in coffee... I just don't like it. Also, less calories, so it's win/win for me. I also don't have sugar, because... why would you?
Apparently there are two calories in double shot Americano and one if you only have a single shot. But why would you only have a single shot?
If you really must increase your calorie intake, you could try it with some toast. But I wouldn't recommend stopping at Mike Pedicin's cafe...
You'd be much better off at Tim Booth's house...
Just watch he doesn't try to sneak some milk in.
The song at the top of this post, by Sinéad, was written by Sonny Burke and Paul Francis Webster back in the late 1940s. This is the original version...
...but it's also been recorded by all the usual suspects: Frank, Ella, Petula... Tricky.
Back when I drank tea, I used to take it black with no sugar as well. I couldn't find any songs about Black Tea, so here's some Pennyroyal Tea for you tea drinkers.
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I can sigh eternally
I'm so tired I can't sleep
I'm a liar and a thief
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
I'm anaemic royalty
(Be warned though, although Pennyroyal leaf extracts are relatively harmless, Pennyroyal Oil can cause syncope, seizures, coma, cardiopulmonary collapse, acute liver injury, renal insufficiency and multiorgan failure. You might be better sticking with a nice cup of coffee.)
The big question is... why did I call this post “Dead Pheasant”? Not because the pheasant had been eating from the Pennyroyal plant, I assure you.
No, this comes from an amusing story my mum told me at the weekend, about the time my dad hit a pheasant with his car on his way home from work. If you drive the country lanes round here, kamikaze pheasants are a constant risk. They really are the stupidest of birds, and appear to have a pathological desire to run out in front of oncoming traffic. Watch them run and you can also see how they’re clearly descended from dinosaurs. Although thankfully, they do less damage to your car than hitting a velociraptor.
Anyway, my dad hit the pheasant, and being a Yorkshire farmer, he brought it home for tea. Waste not, want not. “I lit some candles,” Mum told me, “and we had a nice romantic meal.”
I hope they washed it down with a nice cup of coffee. Black, of course.
I like it black, just black as night
It keeps me up, it keeps me tight
It don't matter the size of the cup
Just as long as you fill it up
With black caffeine
Keeps me lean
You can hear me scream
Give me black caffeine
Sunday, 13 August 2023
Saturday Snapshots #305: A Top Ten Fairy Tale Songs
Once Upon A Time there was a little quiz called Saturday Snapshots...
10. Godlike records.
Divine vinyl records...
The Divinyls - Sleeping Beauty
9. Came alive in 1976.
Peter Frampton released Frampton Comes Alive! in 1976. Every household in the USA was forced to buy a copy. It was his... ahem... golden goose...
8. Probably lime flavoured.
Green Jelly - Three Little Pigs
7. Jester hoping for yuletide snow.
Danny Kaye was in The Court Jester... and White Christmas.
Danny Kaye - The Ugly Duckling
What other blogs do you know that will take you from Green Jelly to Danny Kaye in one move?
6. Which service do you require?
5. Bard's missus gets fried at the gates of Heaven.
Anne (Hathaway) gets crispy at St. Peter's
Crispian St. Peters - The Pied Piper
4. Are you giving me some messed up data, man?
"Data, man" was an anagram.
That video is a thing of true beauty.
3. We rest her habitual sofa rimples inside.
We rest her habitual sofa rimples inside.
Esther & Abi Ofarim - Cinderella Rockafella
When you hear a record you haven't heard in 40 years and you are simultaneously delighted and horrified.
2. Good looking blood.
The Handsome Family - Snow White Diner
That, on the other hand, never grows old.
1. Beyond compare.
Nothing compares to her.
Sinead O'Connor - The Emperor's New Clothes
And we all lived happily ever after.
Friday, 28 July 2023
Celebrity Jukebox #100: Sinéad O'Connor
To mark the hundredth edition of Celebrity Jukebox, I'd prepared a special tribute to Glen Campbell, the man responsible for my all-time favourite song. I figured I'd run that ahead of Tony Bennett and whoever else might leave us in the meantime...
And then we lost Sinéad O'Connor.
The thing about Sinéad is, at just 56 years of age, she was an artist from my generation. She was only 21 when she released her debut album in 1987, as I turned 15. Then, just three years later, the Number One hit that would cement her global fame was still in the charts on the day of my 18th birthday. So through all the tragedy and controversy that would follow, I always felt like she was one of our gang, and I felt closer to her because of that. I didn't follow her career religiously, but there were touchpoints over the years, and her last album, I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss... well, I really hoped that would be the beginning of a renaissance. Sadly, it was not to be. Hard to believe it's 9 years since I first heard this...
I didn't know what to expect from the Celebrity Jukebox, but I should have known Sinéad's influence ran far and wide, starting in her home country...
My Ireland needs to go back to the source
The initial trickle, a spring and tickle out its flow
My Ireland needs to let go
My Ireland saw Sinéad ripping up the Pope
And isn't able to cope
Stephen James Smith - My Ireland
...over into Europe...
Afeitada como la Sinéad O'Connor
La vi dejar el pub envuelta en humo de moto.
(which translates as...)
Shaved like Sinéad O'Connor
I saw her leave the pub enveloped in motorbike smoke.
...and across the Atlantic...
Mary was a good ol' gal
She didn't deserve this shit
She wrote her lines out one at a time
And she didn't complain one bit
She saw Sinéad cover Loretta on Saturday Night Live
Like every good virgin does
But she spent most her time just sittin' round wondering
Where in the hell Jesus was
Elizabeth Cook - Mary, The Submissing Years
Lovely John Prine tribute there. And as to Sinéad covering Loretta...
Sinéad sang that song on Saturday Night Live in 1992. Later in the show, she tore up a picture of the Pope in protest at the cover-up of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church. This action alone guaranteed her immortality in all manner of songs, including plenty of rebellious rap tunes...
I plead guilty, your honor
Cause I dissed the Pope more times than Sinéad O'Connor
...and, of course, in this...
I rip shit like Sinéad O'Connor
I wear my vag as a badge of honour
Pussy Riot - Straight Outta Vagina
But even without the controversy, it's clear that Sinéad O'Connor deserved her place in the pantheon of rock goddesses...
Tori Amos, Liz Phair
Sinéad O'Connor, Suzanne Vega
Jill Sobule, Melissa Etheridge
Tracy Chapman, Ani Difranco
Michelle Shocked, everyone of them has
Something kind of special that I like
There's an awful lot of women
In whose honor I would like to raise my glass to in a toast
Some of them are still alive
And some I hear their voices like a ghost
...and among the legends of Irish music...
I went backstage, I couldn't even think
Christy Moore, Sinéad O'Connor, somebody give me a drink
Still, the best tribute I could find was this one...
Read a book by Sinead O'Connor
Stained the pages and stared out at the water
I took a note when she said that songs are ghosts
I guess if anybody knows she knows
Melanie MacLaren - Summer In Sweden
...a song which leads us nicely to my all time favourite Sinéad O'Connor performance. "She had the voice of an angel," is such a cliché... but when you hear this, it's pretty hard to dispute. Especially when she's duetting with an old devil like Shane...
Rest in peace, Sinéad. I choose to believe you're with the angels now.
Tuesday, 7 July 2020
Hot 100 #2
My antipathy towards U2 is well documented so you may be surprised to find them at the top of the page this week. But really, there weren't a whole lot of strong contenders... and I did want to give U2 some credit to make up for years of taking the mick. There was a point sometime in 1988/9 where I thought they may be OK. Not earlier - I still think The Joshua Tree is one of the most overrated albums ever recorded... but Rattle & Hum... that, I didn't mind. So here, for the record, is my favourite U2 song. It's not a long list...
U2 - Angel of Harlem
Other contenders this week included...
Soul 2 Soul - Back To Life
I know that holds a special place in many a heart, but I was never a fan. Still, they were better than this lot...
2 Unlimited - No Limits
Truly the late 80s / early 90s were a dire time for chart music. I was in my late teens at the time and the tracks above largely forced me to venture outside the charts for the first time in my musical history.
What else do we have?
Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two
Two Door Cinema Club - Undercover Martyn
The Other Two - Tasty Fish
Two Gallants - Despite What You've Been Told
At Swim Two Birds - Little White Lion
Two Tone Pinks - Don't Lecture Me
Two Witches - Irresistible
Two Lone Swordsmen - Glide By Shooting
Two Tons O' Fun - I Got The Feeling
Two Dollar Pistols - Hands Up!
(My computer also suggested FleeTWOod Mac!)
OK, on with the show.
George starts us off this week...
Carl Butler and Pearl - Two of a Kind
No other song will touch that, if only for the sheer majesty of Pearl's vocal (and Carl's ability to use only one side of his mouth whilst singing).
Initially, I couldn't find that anywhere on the internet, but George was kind enough to send me a link so you can enjoy it in all its glory.
George tells me he has eight of their albums.
Give yourself a moment to let that sink in.
Next up was C...
The first to spring to mind is...
Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston: It Takes Two
That was the first thing to spring to my mind too, C. Though I still have nightmares about the awful Rod Stewart / Tina Turner version. The Sonny & Cher version (as suggested by Martin) is quite fun though.
I don't suppose anyone will mention that song about little boys by a certain person...although it was covered by Splodgenessabounds.
I loved that song when I was young. It breaks my heart that we can't listen to it anymore without awful connotations.
Splodgenessabounds - Two Little Boys
Not quite the same, is it?
George goes one better though...
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Two Little Boys
Apologies for suggesting such an execrable version of an execrable song.
Huge fan of Mr. Rogers & his edition, but... yes. Still, it's preferable to the more famous version now, I guess.
Speaking of Splodgenessabounds (as we were), the more obvious suggestion was surely this...?
(Alyson suggested this later in the proceedings.)
Splodgenessabounds - Two Pints Of Lager & A Packet Of Crisps
Martin was the first to observe that I have my work cut out for me this week.
As for "two", there are going to be loads, aren't there? Don't envy you collating them.
I'll let you into a secret... last week was training / CPD week at work. I attended all the training sessions online. But I also... multi-tasked. Which is why there was no pause in transmission this week.
So here are some. No doubt I'll forget something again this week, my mind is getting soft.
I think that goes for all of us after the past few months.
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
...or the original...
Prince - Nothing Compares 2 U
Prince - Ain't About 2 Stop
Not to mention...
Prince - Money Don't Matter 2Nite
(A favourite of mine.)
Prince - When 2 Are In Love
Prince & Chaka Khan - Don't Talk 2 Strangers
Prince - If I Love U 2Nite
...and a load more. Knock yourself out googling them.
Back to Martin...
Bill Withers & Grover Washington Jr. - Just The Two Of Us
Strong contender. I have a certain perverse affection for this version too...
Will Smith - Just The Two Of Us
Although the youtube url for that starts with Wamk... which is an unfortunate typo if ever there was one.
Oh, and this...
Eminem - '97 Bonnie & Clyde
Yes, I know that's a 97... and we did feature it way back in 1984 when we were doing that week of the Hot 100 on Ceefax, before the interweb. But it's based on the two songs above, so I'll break loads of rules and throw it in.
Back to Martin...
Richard Thompson - Two Left Feet
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock - It Takes Two
...and, er, Two Hearts by Phil Collins :)
Not too bad, through the window of nostalgia.
Onto Swiss Adam...
The Liminanas - Two Sisters
The Associates - Party Fears Two
Serious contender.
The Jesus and Mary Chain - The Two Of Us
FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
Pete Molinari - When Two Worlds Collide
That'll be the newest song on here this week then. I was the second youtube view of this video when I clicked on it last week.
The Clash - Capital Radio Two
Gary Clail - Two Thieves and A Liar
Blimey. Gary Clail. There's a name I haven't heard in 30 years.
Reverend Horton Heat - Duel at the Two O'Clock Bell
Stockholm Monsters - Life's Two Faces
Yo La Tengo - By Two's
I'm going to question the use of that apostrophe, YLT.
Sharon Tandy - Two Can Make It Together
Excellent tune.
The Human Beinz - Two Of A Kind
A colleague of mine once made a jingle for a garage out of a Human Beinz song. (Not that one though. This one.)
Thee Oh Sees - Two Drummers Disappear
I love that that appears to be from an album called The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In.
The Go- Betweens - I Need Two Heads
Love those really early Go-Betweens songs.
And probably loads more...
Thank you, SA. Definitely loads more.
Such as these, from Charity Chic...
The Jayhawks - Two Angels
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes
What a video.
Laura Cantrell - Two Seconds
A John Peel favourite.
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Two Gunslingers
I may be back.
I hope so, CC, because those were top suggestions.
John Medd next, limiting himself to just one obscure offering...
The Beatles - Two Of Us
Never heard of them.
Time for Douglas, who made the journey from Canada in record time this week...
Oh my, I somehow got here before The Swede published a list a clothyard long! I just have to get a few early suggestions in, then perhaps come back later after some real thought.
For starters, since I (indirectly) promoted The Lucksmiths last week, here are two solid suggestions from the Australian artists of winsome wordplay:
The Lucksmiths -The Art of Cooking For Two
The Lucksmiths -Two Storeys
Can't go wrong with the Lucksmiths.
Then of course there is the master of meticulous songcraft himself, the creative genius behind The Blue Nile (who births an album roughly every fifteen years):
Paul Buchanan - Two Children
Makes one want to smile and cry at the same time. And perhaps me especially after I discovered that the vinyl copy of the album from which it comes (2012's "Mid Air") which I purchased on release date for under $30 is now going on Discogs for something in the mid $300's. A better investment than real estate. And speaking of which, there is:
Real Estate - Two Arrows
As well as another suggestion from Kentucky's finest:
My Morning Jacket -Two Halves
Or if you are up for "seconds", and looking for something more ethereal and dreamy, there is my favourite shoegaze band:
Lush - Second Thought
I'm presuming you meant...
Lush - Second Sight
If not, I'm lost.
And for my usual Canadian offering, you could do worse than save some room for Montreal's beloved and finest indie rock band (no, don't worry, not Arcade Fire):
The Dears - The Second Part
I'm allowing those last two, but I didn't want to open the can of worms that was "second songs" or we really would have been here all week.
On to Alyson, who was missing in action last week but returns full force this week...
So, so many 2 suggestions. I am struggling to come up with anything better than Party Fears Two so agree with that one and here's a little extract from when I wrote about that song after my trip to Dundee.
'It’s certainly a strange title for a song and tricky to understand the lyrics other than that a party is involved. Billy did explain the origin however, 'My wee brother was at a party watching two girls who wanted to come in. They were smashing windows and attempting to kick the door in with their stiletto heels, which he admired, so he christened them the Party Fears Two and I pinched the title from him.''
That's a great explanation. I love that song, especially the opening line.
Sadly, Alyson's other suggestions all fall foul of the the Tom Robinson Rule.
Meat Loaf - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
As mentioned last time, if not for the rule above, this would have been a potential winner this week and last. Classic Jim Steinman songwriting.
Len Barry - 1-2-3
Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 (Great Christmas song but not about Christmas)
Good luck with all of this my friend - If 'It Take Two' weeks, that's fine!
Thanks, Alyson. Fortunately, as explained above, I had a little extra time this week. We'll have to see what happens next week though...
Time for Rigid Digit, who wants to blow away our cobwebs this Tuesday morning...
Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight
Iron Maiden - 2AM
I figured there would be a load more 2am song, but it seems only Iron Maiden are hard enough to stay up that late. Anyone else who stays up that late appears to not be happy about it...
Alejandro Escovedo - Pissed Off, 2AM
Jennifer Warnes - Pissed Off, 2AM
Back to RD...
Roxy Music - 2HB
Why aren't there more songs about how hard your pencils are?
Madness - My Girl 2
Spin Doctors - Two Princes
Gary Gl***er - Rock n Roll Part 2
See the Two Little Boys discussion above, sadly.
The Human League cover may get that one onto the list...
Yes, why not?
The Human League - Rock n Roll Part 2
Cast of Oliver! - You've Got To Pick a Pocket or Two
Ron Moody seemed the obvious choice there.
It's at this point that I have to give Rigid Digit a special award this week, for nabbing most of my top contenders in a very short space of time. Any of these could have been this week's winner. In fact, I had them listed together in almost the same order you presented them, RD...
Queen - Death On Two Legs
Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
Joe Jackson - Breaking Us In Two
Joe Jackson - Be My Number Two
I added the second Joe Jackson tune myself and seriously considered giving them joint winner status in the same way I had three winners last week. Sadly, a more obvious choice presented itself. But any other week...
Over to Jim in Dubai...
I fully endorse Swiss Adams choice of Party Fears 2, still sounds great and would be a worthy winner.
It would, wouldn't it?
I can add to this with...
Belle & Sebastian - Dirty Dream No 2
Northern Portrait - I Give You Two Seconds to Entertain Me
That's worthy of further investigation.
Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul (Part 2)
Orange Juice - Two Hearts Together
The Crotcheted Doughnut Ring - Two Little Ladies (Azalia & Rodedendrum)
Keith TOTP - Two Of The Beatles Are Dead
That was on my list.
Kirsty MacColl - England 2 Columbia 0
That should have been.
Now at this point in proceedings, I was feeling pretty smug about being way ahead of the game and well on track for a timely post with no overtime required.
And you know what happened then, don't you?
Enter: The Swede...
Hi folks. Sorry I'm late. I culled this list of appropriate tunes from my hard-drives a couple of weeks back and have attempted to take out anything already suggested - apologies for any I've duplicated...
OK, time to pull an all-nighter!
At least The Swede started with two he knew would be on my list...
Bruce Springsteen - Two Hearts
Bruce Springsteen - Two Faces
To which I'll quick add this...
Bruce Springsteen - Two For The Road
On with the show...
Meat Puppets - Two Rivers
Alternative TV - Splitting in Two
Eddie & the Hot Rods - Highlands One, Hopefuls Two (TRB Rule?)
Yes.
Grant Green - Sonnymoon For Two
Songs:Ohia - Two Blue Lights
Holger Czukay - Two Bass Shuffle
Silly me. How could I forget Holger Czukay?
Brigid Mae Power - The Two Worlds
Pugwash - Two Wrongs
Jellyfish - Two All Beef Patties
Sadly couldn't find that. I love Jellyfish, but that appears to be a rarity.
The Copper Family - Two Young Brethren
One for Mike Harding.
General Saint & Clint Eastwood - Two Bad DJ
Yo La Tengo - Two Trains
Miles Davis - Two Faced
Ultimate Painting - Two From the Vault
Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band - Two Minutes Love
This is the Kit - Two Pence Piece
Kane Strang - Two Hearts and No Brain
The Wedding Present - Two Bridges
That was on my list.
Michael Nesmith - Two Different Roads
Father John Misty - Two Wildly Different Perspectives
Spooner's Crowd - Two in the Morning
Jan Eden - The Only Thing Between You Two is Me
Western Skies Motel - Two Worlds
Culture - Two Sevens Clash
Tom Robinson Rule.
Cowboy Nation - Two Miles to Town
Green on Red - Thing or Two
Green on Red - Two Lovers (Waitin' to Die)
Green on Red - Two Bibles
The Stranglers - It Only Takes Two to Tango
The Stranglers - Two Sunspots
Polar Bear - Two Storms
Rachael Dadd - Two Coiled Springs
Nice bit of banjo.
Rachael Dadd - Two Islands
Emily Portman - Two Sisters
Tom Waits - Two Sisters
Peggy Seeger - Two Sisters
Alasdair Roberts - Two Sisters
The Fall - Ivanhoe's Two Pence
The Fall - Two Face
The Kinks - Two Sisters
The Entourage Music & Theatre Ensemble - The Two Snails Who Went To The Funeral OF A Dead Leaf
Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop - We Two Are a Moon
Parquet Courts - Two Dead Cops
Lower Dens - Two Faced Love
Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet - Praise Two
Bill Ryder Jones - Two to Birkenhead
I like that one. I've heard it before.
U Roy - Two Ton Gulletto
Richard Dawson - Two Halves
Video freaked me out. Although I like the lyrics a lot. For a football song, that was good.
King L - Two Cars Collide
That's pretty good too.
Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne - Two Lovely Black eyes
This week's Captain Birdseye tune.
Willard Grant Conspiracy - Two Step
King Creosote - Party Fears Two
Excellent cover. Though I prefer this, as covers go...
The Divine Comedy - Party Fears Two
Slow Club - Two Cousins
John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Two Virgins (probably no need to link this one!)
No, that one calls for a short swim in a concrete wetsuit.
Wye Oak - Two Small Deaths
The Strangers – Two To Make A Pair
The Jayhawks - Two Hearts
The Jayhawks - Two Minute Pop Song
Lee Perry & the Upsetters - Roots Train Number Two
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Two Sides of Silence
Mulatu Astatke & his Ethiopian Quintet - Love Mood For Two
John Peel would be proud.
The Gourds - Two Girls
Charalambides - Two Birds
Gilgamesh - Arriving Twice
Twice!? Wasn't 'Second' bad enough?
Chantage - Same Thing Twice
Sam Prekop - Practice Twice
Vivian Goldman - Same Thing Twice
Ryley Walker - I Will Ask You Twice
All those "Twice" songs and you didn't even find a space for this, Swede...?
Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice
Or even this...?
Ian Hunter - Once Bitten Twice Shy
(Although I suppose that does break the Tom Robinson Rule.)
Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
At least you didn't forget his Bobness this week.
Bob Dylan - Two Soldiers
Bob Dylan - Workingman's Blues #2
Wire - Two Minutes
Out Hud - My Two Nads
Joe Mooney Quartet - Tea For Two
The Tears - Two Creatures
That would have been on my list. But I edited my list down. Just sayin'.
Syd Barrett - Two of a Kind
Prince Far I - Mighty Two Version
The Sea and Cake - Two Dolphins
A Small Good Thing - Twice as Evil as You
Pauline Murray - Two Shots
By this point, The Swede is just making up songs based on people who work in his local pub.
Ernest Tubb - Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right
That one, I would have expected from George.
Aldous Harding - Two Bitten Hearts
Elvis Costello - Two Little Hitlers
That was on my list. Along with this...
Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel No. 2
Mark Lanegan - Two Horses
The Fiery Furnaces - Two Fat Feet
Game Theory - Choose Between Two Sons
Sam Prekop - Two Dedications
Roy Evans - Weary Yodelin Blues Part Two
Fresh from 1928, Pop-Pickers!
Neil Halstead - Two Stones in My Pocket
Robert Plant - Thru' With The Two Step
Let it be known, that in line with me keeping my sanity, I am going to heretofore limit The Swede to only 600 suggestions per week.
And after all that, I doubt very much that anyone will want to read my shortlist... although I think there's a couple at the top of my list that will a few of you kicking yourselves...
Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2
Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel #2
The Doors - Love Me Two Times
Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down
Bob Seger System - 2+2=?
Beach Boys - Games Two Can Play
Inspiral Carpets - Two Worlds Collide
Inspiral Carpets - Two Cows
Neil Diamond - Two-Bit Manchild
Drive-By Truckers - Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife
Ben Folds - Fred Jones, Pt 2
Diana Ross - Two Can Make It
Eddie Rabbit - Two Dollars In The Jukebox
William Bell - Trying To Love Two
Kenicke - Come Out 2Nite
Depeche Mode - Two Minute Warning
The Lincolns - Two Parts Whiskey
Abba - Two For The Price Of One
Justin Currie - Two People
Danger Mouse, Daniele Luppi & Jack White - Two Against One
Courtney Marie Andrews - Two Cold Nights in Buffalo
Air Supply - Two Less Lonely People In the World
Etta James - Two Sides (To Every Story)
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Two's Company (Three Is Allowed)
Jefferson Airplane - Two Heads
The Chesterfields - Two Girls & A Treehouse
Johnny Cash - Two Timin' Woman
Half Man Half Biscuit - Keeping Two Chevrons Apart
Carrie Underwood - Two Black Cadillacs
Elliot Smith - Waltz #2
Cat Stevens - Two Fine People
Chris Isaak - Two Hearts
David Byrne & St. Vincent - Dinner For Two
John Prine & Trisha Yearwood - When Two Worlds Collide
Magnetic Fields - Two Characters in Search of a Country Song
Suede - The 2 Of Us
Mary McGregor - Torn Between Two Lovers
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two Headed Love Child
Elbow - K2
Scott Walker - Two Weeks Since You've Gone
Scott Walker - Two Ragged Soldiers
The Holloways - Two Left Feet
Ultrasound - Between Two Rivers
OK. Let there be an end to it.
This week's winner was first suggested by John Medd, then seconded by Martin. It wasn't my first thought, but once it was out there, I couldn't think of anything any more appropriate.
Sam has taken to singing this song thus...
Woohoo! Abbamebaddawawa!
Woohoo! Dabbaweewawameme!
I've told him what the actual words are and he sings them once or twice, then goes back to the nonsense. Actually, I think the nonsense words are even more appropriate, since pure pop should be nonsense... and this is a contender for the purest indie pop song ever written.
Pleased ta meetcha!
Only one more to go. And there can be only one winner... but what will it be?
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