BAIBS Wednesday 08/05/13

So another show with a link between the songs today. Well done to Annette Ramsay for spotting it. And Richard Pierce for getting it eventually. After much prodding. I did say I'd do another playlist of linked songs and in another insomniacal moment at about 2am this morning I wrote the following set list. See you after Van Halen.

Playlist Wednesday 08/05/13

The Whole Of The Moon - The Waterboys

Hello, I Love You - The Doors

Elysium - Section 60

Sacrilege - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

If I Had A Million Dollars - Barenaked Ladies

Nothing Our Way - Frankie And The Heartstrings

Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrissey

Follow Baby - Peace

Midnight Wave - Two Wounded Birds

Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones

It Starts And Ends With You - Suede

Girls And Boys - Blur

Given To Fly - Pearl Jam

Elephant Stone - The Stone Roses

Recovery - Frank Turner

All These Things That I've Done - The Killers

Lead The Way - The 48ks

Leather Jacket Love Song - The Cribs

It's Alright, It's OK - Primal Scream

Mr. Pharmacist - The Fall

Pelican - The Maccabees

Old Yellow Bricks - Arctic Monkeys

Rat Race - The Specials

This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads

Antarctica - Sound Of Guns

Never Knew Your Name - Madness

Turning Japanese - The Vapours

Bones - Bang Bang Romeo

Recover - Dexters

Everlong - Foo Fighters

American Slang - The Gaslight Anthem

Keep The Car Running - Arcade Fire

Food For Thought - UB40

Ask - The Smiths

Silence Is Easy - Starsailor

The Stars (Are Out Tonight) - David Bowie

Signal 30 - Public Service Broadcasting

Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie And The Banshees

One Way - The Levellers

Why Can't This Be Love - Van Halen

So if you've not seen it the initial letters of each song spells out The Sine FM Bigger All Important Breakfast Show. Mr. Pierce called me acrostic. I had to google that. I thought it was something to do with embroidery.  It's obvious now I look at it. Acrostic - acronym. I'm slow in the mornings. God knows why I do a breakfast show. It's also why for the first time I actually planned a playlist. For the colour linked songs I just had a list of about 45 songs I dipped into. This one had to be planned out whilst keeping with the feeling of the show and still getting new releases, birthdays and local gigs in there. I was originally trying to think of a phrase to use then realized the title of the show had about the right number of letters. I just had to hope it all squeezed into 3 hours. It did. Just. Anyway, Annette I owe you a pint.

I mentioned in there googling acrostic. Google has ceased to be just the name of a search engine and become a verb. What did we do before it? Think maybe? I was chatting to the kitchen selling Famous Villain last weekend about this. It was post gig at The Leopard and Toto's Hold The Line was playing. We both said how much we preferred it to Africa. Personally Africa is one of my least favourite songs ever. If only for the line 'As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.' At face value it's a shocking line. Closer inspection shows the writer using a mountain as a metaphor for, er, well, a mountain. Genius. I'm googling again.

Metaphor: A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object.

Unrelated object being the operative words there. And the tune's naff. 

I've so gone off my point there. Unlike me to tangent like that. The point is this. Thinking and the joy that comes from it. As I discussed with Tobes, the kitchen selling Famous Villain, the merits of Hold The Line we wracked our brains for Toto's other hit that wasn't Africa. We were struggling and close to googling. Tobin, quite rightly, said it was lazy and denied the googler the pleasure of getting the answer unaided. At which point I yelled ROSANNA with a big grin on my face thus proving Tobes point. 

And yes I googled the lyrics for Africa.

Laters

SS