BlandSongs LocalRadio Day11

Good grief.  That's my joke.  Ha ha, I am funny.  (Don't worry if you don't get it, it isn't funny.)

From the album of the same name, ranked by Rolling Stone as the 480th greatest album of all time, how about that.  Sandwiched between, at 481, the The Smiths with their eponymous album (I like), and at 479, Richard and Linda Thompson, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (I very like).  I half expect the odd Richard Thompson track to turn up!

Day11

6.40AM LocalRadio

BlandSong

George Michael - Faith

BlandSongs LocalRadio Day10

Friday 8 October

A rather dull MJ song this, followed by a silly song by HL & TN, a more exciting version of Mike and the Mechanics.

 

Day10

6.40AM LocalRadio

BlandSong

Michael Jackson - Remember The Time

 

6.42AM LocalRadio

Huey Lewis and the News - When The Going Gets Tough

BlandSongs LocalRadio Day9

Thursday 7 October

The Lighthouse Family, *heavy sigh*...

Day9

6.36AM LocalRadio

BlandSong

The Lighthouse Family - Lifted

 

Accidentally listened to a second song, had to flush the lighthouse out.

 

6.42AM LocalRadio

K T Tunstall - Suddenly I See

BlandSongs LocalRadio Day8

Wednesday6 October

I had a bit of a dance to this before turning back over to Radio 4 and that windbag James Naughtie.

 

Day8

6.40AM LocalRadio

BlandSong

KC and the Sunshine Band - Give It Up

BlandSongs LocalRadio Day7

Don't remember ever hearing this either, but then a matter of minutes after hearing it I couldn't remember anything about it.  I hoped it would turn in to a poor cover of Sexual Healing due to 'When I get that feeling' being repeated, but no luck.

If only...

This is rubbish, did it have a tune, a melody, or any redeeming feature?  A random key change might have helped.  Wikipedia says it was an international hit, what a dull week that must have been.

Day7

6.40AM LocalRadio

BlandSong

Texas - Say What You Want

BlandSongs LocalRadio Day6

For goodness sake don't make the mistake of thinking I'm having a dig at local radio.  Shooting fish in a barrel is pointless, and jabbing a local radio breakfast show for its playlist even more so, as if the fish has swum up the barrel of the sawn-off and is waiting to be vapourised.

The point of this is, as originally stated, to see how long before either one of the expected songs from the playlist appears, or for one already played to appear.  That's it.  And it's a brief break for me from Radio4 and James Naughtie failing to score in to an open brothel with a banjo's arse when interviewing politicians first thing.

Here's today's little gem.

Day6

6.40AM LocalRadio

BlandSong

KC and the Sunshine Band - Give It Up

BlandSongs LocalRadio Day5

Not one of my favourite Beatles songs, not even one of my favourite Harrisongs.  Here Comes the Sun is in a minor key with a lyric that is not obviously down-beat.  Songs played in a minor key do not necessarily make people feel melancholic, and in fact many people find this an upbeat tune.

For me though it recalls winter Sundays in the 1970's, with Last of The Summer Wine when they were all teenagers, and Cliff Michelmore on the Holiday programme.  At school the "what did you do over the summer" writing question was usually answered by "played on the railway line next to Crumpsall Station, built a den under the bridge and dared each other how close we could get to the electric third-rail", such larks.  Back then people used to dream of going to the Blue Dolphin Holiday Park in Filey, never mind that abroad place.

I don't dislike the song, or think it is particularly bland, it just isn't as cheery as the lyric makes out.  If the lyric is in counterpoint to the minor key I don't think it's light enough to achieve balance and serves to make the song much more doleful.  I suspect that this was the intention of Harrison all along, he was a smart chap, had been a member of one of the best bands of all time, had tremendous song-writing skill, and the subtlety of the song has been missed.

Obviously I didn't miss the subtlety so that makes me a super-great smart chap.

Unless I'm talking cock, in which case I'm not a super-great smart chap, but a talking cock...

Day5

6.42AM LocalRadio

BlandSong

George Harrison - Here Comes the Sun