Sunday 25 April 2010

Soft Rock Classics Show 24th April

And away we go
1) Def Leppard - Stage fright
2) Tom Petty - Don't come around here no more
3) Blur - Song 2
4) Green Day - Good Riddance (time of your life)
5) Aerosmith - Pink
6) Radiohead - Karma police
7) Bush - Swallowed
8) Placebo - Nancy boy
9) Reef - Place your hands
10) Genesis - Shipwrecked
11) Cheryl Crow - Every day is a winding road
12) Foo Fighters - Everlong
13) Pulp - Help the aged
14) Deep Purple - Knocking at your back door
15) The Cult - She sells sanctuary
16) ACDC - Back in black
17) Jimi Hendrix - Axis bold as love
18) Free - Wishing well
19) Meat Loaf - Los Angeloser
20) Meat Loaf - Modern girl
21) Slash - By the sword
22) Guns 'N' Roses - Sweet child of mine
23) Don Henley - Dirty laundry
24) Peter Gabriel - Philadelphia
In the third hour of this weeks programme, it's an hour of progressive rock. Hey man.
1) Moody Blues - Ride my see-saw
2) Manfred Mann's Earthband - Joybringer
3) King Crimson - In the court of the crimson king
4) Marillion - Freaks
5) Atomic Rooster - Tomorrow night
6) Jethro Tull - Aqualung
7) Focus - Hocus pocus
8) Rare Bird - Sympathy
9) Rush - 2112 overture/The temples of syrinx
10) Barclay James Harvest - Mockingbird

Saturday 24 April 2010

A billion

The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases. Absorb every detail of what follows:

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E. BUT at the rate our government is spending it a billion UK Pounds ago was ONLY 13 HOURS AND 12 MINUTES.


Let’s consider Taxes:

Building Permit Tax, Cigarette Tax, Corporate Income Tax, Income Tax, Unemployment Tax, Fishing License Tax, Food License Tax, Fuel Permit Tax, Petrol/Diesel Tax, Hunting License Tax, Inheritance Tax, Inventory Tax (tax on top of tax), Liquor Tax, Luxury Tax, Marriage License Tax, Property Tax, Real Estate Tax, Service charge taxes, Social Security Tax, Road Usage Tax, Local Tax, Vehicle License Registration Tax, Vehicle Sales Tax, Workers Compensation Tax, Value Added Tax, Pension Tax

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago… And our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.

What happened ? Politicians.

Friday 16 April 2010

Soft Rock Classics Show 17th April

Greetings. And as they say in the rocking school of knitting,"for those about to darn a sock - we salute you"
1) David Lee Roth - Yankee rose
2) It Bites - Calling all the heroes
3) Beastie Boys - Fight for your right to party
4) Poison - Cry tough
5) Bruce Hornsby & The Range - Mandolin rain
6) Jackson Browne - In the shape of a heart
7) Genesis - Tonight tonight tonight
8) Bon Jovi - Wanted dead or alive
9) Status Quo - Red sky
10) Europe - Rock the night
11) Dixie Dreggs - Take it off the top
12) Curved Air - Back street luv
13) Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
14) Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven
15) Evanescence - My immortal
16) Daylight Saving - Sunshine is a state of mind. For more on this highly talented outfit, go to www.facebook.com/daylightsaving or www.myspace.com/daylightsavingjazz
17) Steeley Dan - Haitian divorce
18) Doobie Brothers - China grove
19) The Baby's - Everytime I think of you
20) Santana - She's not there
The third hour features nothing but psychedelic rock
1) Small Faces - Itchycoo park
2) Traffic - Paper sun
3) Moody Blues - Voices in the sky
4) The Byrds - Eight miles high
5) The Beatles - Fixing a hole
6) Jefferson Airplane - White rabbit
7) Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - I'm the urban spaceman
8) David McWilliams - The days of Pearly Spencer
9) Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - Kites
10) Matthews Southern Comfort - Woodstock
11) Soft Machine - Jet propelled photograph
12) Procol Harum - Homburg
13) Thunderclap Newman - Something in the air
14) Beach Boys - Heroes and villians
15) The Flowerpot Men - Let's go to San Francisco
16) Donovan - Jennifer Juniper

Sunday 11 April 2010

Soft Rock Classics Show 10th April

It's a weekly three hour extravaganza of highly produced, quality rock music, as presented by your modest host.
1) The Doors - Love her madly
2) Stephen Stills - Love the one you're with
3) The Who - Baba O' Reilly
4) Black Sabbath - Iron man
5) Bad Finger - No matter what
6) Led Zeppelin - Rock and roll
7) Mountain - Nantucket sleighride
8) David Bowie - Changes
9) Free - My brother Jake
10) Rod Stewart - Reason to believe
11) Fall Out Boy - Thanks for the memories
12) Puddle Of Mudd - Blurry
13) Alice Cooper - Poison
14) King Crimson - In the court of the crimson king
15) Pink Floyd - The great gig in the sky
16) Budgie - Napoleon Bona pts 1 & 2
17) Iron Maiden - Flight of Icarus
18) Charlemagne - Starlight
19) Metallica - Nothing else matters
20) Tom Petty - Mary Jane's last dance
21) Status Quo - Roll over lay down
This weeks third hour features nothing but pure rock and roll
1) Jerry Lee Lewis - Breathless
2) Gene Vincent - Be bop a Lula
3) Chuck Berry - Come on
4) Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Shaking all over
5) Elvis Presley - Jailhouse rock
6) Billy Joel - All shook up
7) Craig Douglas - Our favourite melodies
8) Dion - Runaround Sue
9) Ricky Nelson - Hello Mary Lou
10) Fats Domino - Ain't that a shame
11) Johnny Preston - Cradle of love
12) Eddie Cochran - Somethin' else
13) Buddy Holly - Baby I don't care
14) Big Bopper - Chantilly lace
15) Richie Valens - Come on let's go
16) Danny & The Juniors - At the hop
17) Little Richard - Lucille
18) Everly Brothers - Cathy's clown
19) Cliff Richard - Move it
20) Poni Tails - Born too late
21) The Chordettes - Mr Sandman
22) Billy Fury - I'd never find another you
23) The Skyliners - Since I don't have you

Saturday 3 April 2010

Soft Rock Classics Show 3rd April

It's Easter time.
1) Genesis - Land of confusion
2) Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
3) The Kinks - All day and all of the night
4) The Beatles - I saw her standing there
5) The Rolling Stones - Not fade away
6) Them - Baby please don't go
7) The Zombies - She's not there
8) The Animals - House of the rising sun
9) The Who - I can't explain
10) Nashville Teens - Tobacco road
11) Chuck Berry - No particular place to go
12) Pearl Jam - Last kiss
13) Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
14) Aerosmith - Crying
15) INXS - Heaven sent
16) Steppenwolf - Magic carpet ride
17) Juicy Lucy - Who do you love
18) Rainbow - Catch the rainbow
19) Top Johnny - Ecstasy. For more on this excellent new band of rockers, go to www.myspace.com/topjohnny
20) Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
21) Charlamagne - The bloody verdict of Verden
22) Vixen - Edge of a broken heart
23) Def Leppard - Pour some sugar on me
24) Stryper - Calling on you
25) Queensryche - Heaven on their minds
The third hour this week features cover versions
1) The Stranglers - Walk on by
2) The Clash - I fought the law
3) Guns 'N' Roses - Live and let die
4) Black Crowes - Hard to handle
5) Whitesnake - Ain't no love in the heart of the city
6) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Heard it through the grapevine
7) Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
8) Muse - Feeling good
9) Jimi Hendrix - All along the watchtower
10) Eric Clapton - I shot the sheriff
11) Van Halen - You really got me
12) Paul Carrack - When you walk in the room
13) Roger Daltrey - Giving it all away
14) Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Delilah