Saturday 4 July 2015

Tapes and tapes

I can't write ... anything. Apart from quiz questions. I've tried various times in the last month or so to come up with something for this blog but I've got nothing.

Here have been my ideas - they're good ideas ...

  • Let's treat the careers of our favourite bands as if they're tenpin bowling games.
  • Common People vs A Design for Life: Compare and Contrast
  • What do people really want from a festival headliner?
  • What is the perfect support act?
  • Lines that burst out of songs, starting with "Michigan seems like a dream to me now ..."
Hopefully those blogs will come in time, but I'm all out of prose style.

Let's make some compilation tapes ...

Compilation for adventurous people with lots of money, who like trains and planes, who want to see lots of different cities

Let's Get Out of This Country - Camera Obscura
Lille - Lisa Hannigan
Paris - Friendly Fires
Vienna - Ultravox
Budapest - George Ezra
Istanbul (not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants
Night Boat to Cairo - Madness
If You See Her, Say Hello - Bob Dylan
Marrakesh Express - Crosby Stills and Nash
Liberian Girl - Michael Jackson
Gimme Hope Jo'anna - Eddie Grant
Mozambique - Bob Dylan
A New Jerusalem - Carly Simon

Bombs Over Baghdad - OutKast
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
Shanghai - Ed Harcourt
Pyongyang - blur
Anchorage - Michelle Shocked
Via Chicago - Wilco
Do You Know the Way to San Jose? - Dionne Warwick
Loco in Acapulco - The Four Tops
Kingston Town - UB40
New Amsterdam - Elvis Costello
Going Down to Liverpool - The Bangles
Homeward Bound - Simon and Garfunkel
Until I Believe in My Soul - Dexys Midnight Runners

This one is called "Still got it"

That's Why God Made the Radio - Beach Boys
Nobody's Empire - Belle and Sebastian
Come On Let's Go - Paul Weller
Irish Blood, English Heart - Morrissey
Cocoon - Ash
Nothing I Can Do About It - Idlewild
Ruckus in B Minor - Wu-Tang Clan
Love is Gonna Lift You Up - Bobby Womack
Show Me the Wonder - Manic Street Preachers
The Never Ending Happening - Bill Fay

Maria - Blondie
New York is Killing Me - Gil Scott Heron
It Starts and Ends With You - Suede
Workingman Blues - Bob Dylan
You Got Me Singing - Leonard Cohen
40 Days of Rain - Roddy Frame
Losing You - Randy Newman
We All Go Back to Where We Belong - REM
Where Are We Now? - David Bowie
Ong Ong - Blur

Right, that's it for now


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