Brit Rock 19th November

All I want for Christmas is the end to musical dross like Justin Bieber, stupid commercial radio stations that play the same stupid pop songs over and over again, an end to people displaying their stupidity yet thinking they should be admired (reality TV nobody's), people to realise that living their lives just for themselves makes everyone unhappy and for the whole world to listen to Brit Rock. Now is that too much to ask?
1) Living Colour - Love rears up its ugly head
2) Billy Idol - White wedding
3) Bob Dylan - Positively 4th street
4) Joan Jett - I hate myself for loving you
5) Bryan Adams - Cuts like a knife
6) Queen - Good old fashioned lover boy
7) Marillion - Freaks
8) Rush - Tom Sawyer
9) Honeycombs - Solid gold
10) Traffic - Paper sun
11) Mastodon - Just got paid
12) Nirvana - Come as you are
13) The Kinks - All day and all of the night
14) Coheed & Cambria - Beer drinkers & hell raisers
15) ZZ Top - Rough boy
16) Pink Floyd - See Emily play
17) Pink Floyd - Money
18) Pink Floyd - High hopes
19) Black Sabbath - Iron man
20) Quireboys - 7'0 clock
21) Little Angels - Too much too young
22) Focus - Hocus pocus
23) REM - Losing my religion
Hour three features live performances
1) Eric Clapton - Layla
2) Gary Moore - Parisienne walkways
3) Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
4) Van Halen - Jump
5) Biffy Clyro - Bubbles
6) Aerosmith - Dream on
7) Evanescence - My immortal
8) Iron Maiden - Blood brothers
9) Bruce Springsteen - Tougher than the rest
10) Status Quo - Dirty water
11) Robert Plant - Tall cool one
12) Dave Matthews Band - Stay or leave

Brit Rock 12th November

I'm writing this shortly after the two minutes of silence on November 13th, remembrance Sunday. It's been wonderful to see all people of all ages giving money to the British Legion via the poppy wearing schemes. I have no problem with this but choose not to wear a poppy, if it becomes compulsorary, then it also becomes meaningless. It's more sincere to observe the silence in your own way than the countless hypocrites who wear the poppy, but are in a mindless conversation seconds before the silence, which they pick up the second afterwards. Obviously, their minds weren't thinking about the fallen, but about the continuation of whatever trivia was engulfing their minds. This was an observation I made recently.
Anyway, here's this weeks show.
1) The Beatles - Baby you're a rich man
2) The Doors - Break on through to the other side
3) Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth
4) Rolling Stones - Not fade away
5) Warrant - Cherry pie
6) Peter Gabriel - Shock the monkey
7) Genesis - Mama
8) Manic Street Preachers - This is the day
9) Fragile X - Poison arrow
10) Blackfoot - Highway song
11) ELO - Bluebird
12) Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
13) 10CC - Rubber bullets
14) ACDC - Thunderstruck
15) The Scorpions - Rock you like a hurricane
16) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have you ever seen the rain
17) Guns 'N' Roses - November rain
18) The Who - Love reign over me
19) Bob Seger - Against the wind
20) Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Snow (hey oh)
21) Pulp - Do you remember the first time
22) Cranberries - Zombie
23) Weezer - Buddy Holly
Hour three features comedy rock songs
1) Monty Python - The lumberjack song
2) Eric Idol - Always look on the bright side of life
3) J Giels Band - Love stinks
4) Tenacious D - Tribute
5) Jilted John - Jilted John
6) Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - I'm the urban spaceman
7) The Who - Boris the spider
8) Weird Al Anchovy - Smells like Nirvana
9) Spinal Tap - Stonehenge
10) Bad News - Bohemian rhapsody
11) Steel Panther - I want it that way
12) David Lee Roth - Yankee rose
13) Bowling For Soup - 1985
14) Offspring - Pretty fly for a white guy

Brit Rock 5th November

Remember remember the 5th November. Can't remember why. Oh yes, we celebrate the fact that Guy Fawkes and his group were cruelly put to death by disembowelling for attempting to blow up the House Of Parliament and King James 1 who were involved in the most appalling persecution of people for their religious faith. If anyone had behaved like James 1 had towards people today, we would have thought that the end of a tyrant was a good thing. Still, that's history for you. This week tunes then.
1) Freddie Mercury - Love kills
2) Van Halen - When it's love
3) Cheap Trick - If you want my love
4) Jim Capaldi - Love hurts
5) Bad Company - Feel like makin' love
6) Heart - What about love
7) Andrew Maze - Knock knock
8) Autograph - Turn up the radio
9) Deep Purple - Sometimes I feel like screaming
10) Led Zeppelin - Since I've been lovin' you
11) Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb
12) Chris Rea - I can hear your heartbeat
13) Motley Crue - Hell on high heels
14) Whitesnake - Here I go again
15) Bon Jovi - Dry country
16) Mothership - Rock on
17) David Essex - Imperial wizard
18) Andrew Maze - Feels like home
19) Jackson Browne - In the shape of a heart
20) Def Leppard - Rock rock ('till you drop)
21) Journey - Open arms
22) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into my arms
Hour three consists of nothing but hard rock
1) Megadeath - Hangar 18
2) Velvet Revolver - Dirty little thing
3) Pantera - Cowboys from hell
4) Metallica - Disposable heroes
5) Motorhead - Overkill
6) Judas Priest - Painkiller
7) Anthrax - Caught in a mosh
8) Linkin Park - One step closer
9) Iron Maiden - Rime of the ancient mariner
10) Ash - Burn baby burn

Brit Rock 29th October

Greeting my children. The first two hours of this weeks show concentrates on nothing but 1977.
1) The Eagles - Life in the fast lane
2) Neil Young - Like a hurricane
3) Fleetwood Mac - The chain
4) Eddie & The Hotrods - Do anything you wanna do
5) Sex Pistols - Pretty vacant
6) ELO - Turn to stone
7) Jackson Browne - Running on empty
8) Yes - Wondrous stories
9) Rainbow - Kill the king
10) Steve Miller Band - Jet airliner
11) Ram Jam - Black Betty
12) Ted Nugent - Cat scratch fever
13) Heart - Barracuda
14) Boz Scaggs - Lido shuffle
15) Foriegner - Feels like the first time
16) Queen - Spread your wings
17) Meatloaf - All revved up with no place to go
18) Tom Petty - American girl
19) Thin Lizzy - Dancing in the moonlight
20) Stranglers - No more heroes
21) Supertramp - Give a little bit
22) Kansas - Dust in the wind
23) STYX - Fooling yourself
24) Boston - More than a feeling
25) Ramones - Sheena is a punk rocker
Hour three consists of bits and pieces from all over the place
1) John Lennon - Give peace a chance
2) Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
3) Prince - Purple rain
4) Oasis - Cum on feel the noize
5) Foo Fighters - Walk
6) Kevin Johnson - Rock 'n' roll I gave you all the best years of my life
7) Harry Chapin - WOLD
8) John Lee Hooker - Boom boom
9) Joe Cocker - You are so beautiful
10) Louis Jordan - Ain't nobody here but us chickens
11) David Lee Roth - Just a gigolo/I ain't got nobody

Brit Rock 22nd October

A particularly joyful time for music as the odious Westlife announce they are calling it a day, having formed a "band" consisting of four mediocre singers who have been together for 14 years and have contributed absolutely nothing to music whatsoever. Not one thing.
I thought that a band had to consist of people playing instruments rather than just warbling cover versions of others work or giving the world insipid ballads that sound like they were written by the creators of Mills & Boon, perhaps even Dame Barbara Cartland in her present state of health (been dead for fifteen years).
Westlife and their manager Louis Walsh for me represent all that is vile and wrong in the music world. The demise of Westlife will begin to see the fall of the karaoke pop world as represented by the likes of Walsh and that supreme monger of pap - Simon Cowell. Mark my words, the empire of tosh is begging to fall and not before time.
Good riddance to Westlife and the lot of them.
Rant over, here's this weeks show.
1) The Police - Can't stand losing you
2) Dr Feelgood - Milk and alcohol
3) London Philharmonic Orchestra - O Fortuna
4) Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a madman
5) Oasis - Cast no shadow
6) Queen - Love of my life
7) Marillion - No one can
8) REO Speedwagon - Can't fight this feeling
9) The Lightfighters - Feel the heat
10) Melissa Etheridge - Bring me some water
11) The Who - See me feel me
12) The Verve - Bittersweet symphony
13) Gary US Bonds - This little girl
14) Fats Domino - Ain't that a shame
15) Craig Douglas - Our favourite melodies
16) Chuck Berry - Come on
17) Van De Graf Generator - Theme 1
18) Pink Floyd - Set the controls for the heart of the sun
19) Genesis - The carpet crawlers
20) Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
21) Mike & The mechanics - All I need is a miracle
22) The Lightfighters - Take me home
23) Kings Of Leon - Fans
24) Foo Fighters - learning to fly
25) Nickleback - If today was your last day
26) Shinedown - Second chance
27) Cheap Trick - I want you to want me
Hour three is non stop AOR
1) Coney Hatch - Hey operator
2) Jefferson Starship - Jane
3) It Bites - Whole new world
4) Foriegner - Urgent
5) Steve Augeri - Riverside
6) Journey - Don't stop believing
7) Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie
8) W.E.T - Invincible
9) White Widow - Give or take
10) Alien - Ready to fly
11) Chicago - Baby what a big surprise
12) The Baby's - Isn't it time
13) Chris DeBurgh - In a country churchyard
14) Bread - Sweet surrender

Brit Rock 15th October

A word in memory of Sir Jimmy Saville, OBE. One of the pioneers of DJ'ing. Noted for his charity work. A real individual who people are saying nice things about now he's died. Sunday lunch times were Jimmy Saville times on the radio, at a time when he'd get TV size audiences listening.
He had a peculiar habit of saying various catch phrases, "Now then guys and gals. At number two in the charts as we know, howz about that, it's the Rolling Stones, howz about that, arrr, arrrrr." This was from a habit of presenting TV shows where you'd be given a certain amount of time to say what you have to and ill where you need to. Thus all of these vocal aids he used which became his trademark.
Anyway, howz about that. Here's this weeks playlist now then now then.
1) Ennio Morricone - The ecstasy of gold
2) Metallica - For whom the bell tolls
3) Chris Cornell - You know my name
4) White Stripes - My doorbell
5) The Strokes - Last night
6) Bon Jovi - Wanted dead or alive
7) Elton John - Funeral for a friend/Love lies bleeding
8) Amaranthe - Araranthe
9) Pat Benatar - Invincible
10) Von Hertzen Brothers - Always been right
11) Destine - Thousand miles
12) Fall Out Boy - Thanks for the memories
13) Tyrannosaurs Rex - Deborah
14) The Doors - Hello I love you
15) Vanilla Fudge - Ticket to ride
16) The Beatles - Blackbird
17) Steppenwolf - Magic carpet ride
18) Iron Butterfly - In a gadda da vida
19) Creedence Clearwater Revival - I put a spell on you
20) Canned Heat - On the road again
21) Rolling Stones - Street fighting man
22) The Marbles - Only one woman
23) Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown traffic
24) Status Quo - Pictures of matchstick men
25) Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
26) The Darkness - I believe in a thing called love
Hour three consists of songs from fictional rock bands
1) Steel Dragon - Stand up
2) Josie & The Pussycats - Theme
3) The Wonders - The thing that you do
4) The Ruttles - I must be in love
5) Wayne & Garth - Wayne's World theme
6) Crucial Taunt - Ballroom blitz
7) School Of Rock - Teacher's pet
8) Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm gonna rock you
9) Spinal Tap - Stonehenge
10) Bad News - Warriors of Genghis Khan
11) Stillwater - Fever dog
12) Strange Fruit - All over the world
13) Vesuvius - Promised land
14) Letters To Cleo - Cruel to be kind