Sunday, October 19, 2008

Meeting of 15 October 2008

Theme: ROCKtober (chosen by John)

John
David Essex - Rock On
David Bowie - Rock and Roll Suicide
The Beatles - Rock and Roll Music
Edwyn Collins - Campaign for Real Rock
The Go Betweens - My Rock and Roll Friend
Simon & Garfunkel - I am a Rock

Glenn
Wings - Rock Show
Pink Mountaintops - Rock and Roll Fantasy
Les Yper Sound - Pysche Rock
Jeff Beck Group - Rock My Plimsoul
Rinocerose - "Rock Classics" Vol 1
Stereolab - Analogue - Rock

Andreas 
The Velvet  Underground - Rock and Roll
Oasis - Rock and Roll Star
Mott the Hoople - Rock and Roll Queen
Paul Collins Beat - Rock n Roll Girl
The Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock and Roll
BJ Thomas - Rock and Roll Lullaby

Craig (in absentia)
Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll
Spinal Tap - The Majesty of Rock
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
The B52s - Rock Lobster
The Ramones - Rock and Roll High School

Playout tracks: Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock; Johnny & the Hurricanes - Red River Rock

Meeting of 18 September 2008

Theme:  The Netherlands (chosen by Glenn)

(explanation provided where selection is not a Dutch artist or is not otherwise immediately obvious)

Glenn
Group 1850 - Paradise Now
The Outsiders - Strange Things are Happening
The Fall - Kurious Oranj (from album based on appointment of William of Orange to the English crown)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea (from album inspired by The Diary of Ann Frank)
Q'65 - The Life I Live

Michael
Coldplay - Amsterdam
Shocking Blue - Venus
Squeeze - Up the Junction  (Jools Holland)
The Birthday Party - Nick the Stripper (song first released, as a bootleg, in Netherlands)
Tee Set - My Belle Amie

Andreas
Nirvana - Love Buzz (cover of song written by a member of Shocking Blue)
David Bowie - Amsterdam
Half Man Half Biscuit - Ordinary to Enschede (a town in the Netherlands)
Steeleye Span - the Lowlands of Holland
Focus - Hamburger Concerto

John 
The Beatles - The Ballad of John & Yoko (reference to Amsterdam Hilton)
Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam
Don McLean - Vincent
Golden Earring - Intro / Plus Minus Absurdio
Focus - Hocus Pocus

Craig
K D Lang - Helpless (dykes)
REM - Orange Crush (orange)
Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary (wind - windmills)
The Who - My Generation (had 23 hits in The Netherlands but no number 1s)
Bob Marley - Redemption Song (fondness for the herb)

Playout track: The Sound Magics - Don't You Remember