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87 Boys…
Another very satisfying show, with 15 listeners online during the preshow, rising to a maximum of 29. Preshow starts at M and moves on to P in my stash, and the postshow included alternative takes and tracks referred to in the main show.
The reason I mentioned that no frogs were harmed by the inclusion of Axel F, despite severe temptation was, as you may already know, due to the “Crazy Frog” adaption, a very annoying thing. Do not click on the link below.
Preshow
Title | Artists | Album | Year |
Last Train to Clarksville | The Monkees | The Monkees | 1966 |
Pleasant Valley Sunday | The Monkees | Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. | 1967 |
That was then, this is now | The Monkees | Single | 1986 |
Before The Deluge | Moving Hearts | Moving Hearts | 1981 |
Graceland | Paul Simon | Graceland | 1986 |
Hunting Song | The Pentangle | Basket of Light | 1988 |
Light Flight (Theme from ‘Take Three Girls’) | The Pentangle | Basket of Light | 1988 |
The Show
Amos Moses | The Sensational Alex Harvey Band | SAHB Stories | 1978 |
A Boy Named Sue | Johnny Cash | At San Quentin | 1969 |
Hats Off To Larry | Del Shannon | Runaway With Del Shannon | 1961 |
Louie Louie | The Kingsmen | The Kingsmen In Person | 1963 |
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | Jim Croce | Life And Times | 1973 |
Bo Diddley’s a Gunslinger / Bo Diddley | Warren Zevon | Stand in the Fire | 1980 |
Simon Smith & His Amazing Dancing Bear | Alan Price Set | Price is Right | 1968 |
Old Man Hank | Jellybread | Sixty-Five Parkway | 1970 |
Daniel | Elton John | Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player | 1972 |
Mighty Quinn | Manfred Mann’s Earth Band | Watch | 1978 |
My Brother Jake | Free | Highway | 1970 |
Mickey | Toni Basil | Word of Mouth | 1981 |
Sir Duke | Stevie Wonder | Songs In The Key Of Life | 1976 |
You Can Call Me Al | Paul Simon | Graceland | 1986 |
Me and Bobby McGee | Janis Joplin | Pearl | 1988 |
Chuck E’s In Love | Rickie Lee Jones | Rickie Lee Jones | 1979 |
Romeo and Juliet | Dire Straits | Making Movies | 1980 |
Careful With that Axe, Eugene | Pink Floyd | Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii | 1972 |
Davy’s On The Road Again | Manfred Mann’s Earth Band | Watch | 1978 |
Axel F | Harold Faltermeyer | Beverly Hills Cop | 1985 |
Kid Charlemagne | Steely Dan | The Royal Scam | 1976 |
Neal and Jack and Me | King Crimson | Beat | 1982 |
Sneaking Up On Boo Radley | Bruce Hornsby | Spirit Trail | 1996 |
Tom’s | Martin Barre | The Meeting | 1996 |
Boris Dancing | Ian Anderson | The Secret Language Of Birds | 2000 |
Postshow
Louie Louie | The Beach Boys | Shut Down Vol. 2 | 1964 |
Louie, Louie | The Kinks | You Really Got Me | 1998 |
Bring Back That Leroy Brown | Queen | Sheer Heart Attack | 1974 |
Me and Bobby McGee | Gordon Lightfoot | If You Could Read My Mind | 1970 |
Romeo And Juliet | Dire Straits | Alchemy – Live Part One | 1984 |
Baba O’Riley | The Who | Who’s Next | 1971 |
The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald | Gordon Lightfoot | Summertime Dream | 1976 |
86 Valentine’s Day
A fine romantic evening’s entertainment was shared with up to 29 listeners at one point.
Preshow from my stash again, some Little Feat, Swarbrick/Carthy, The Melrose Quartet with a fine piece of anti-war sentiment, composed by Carthy, and after that some Michael Chapman, with added Mick Ronson and Rick Kemp.
The show walked the listener through an affair, from first meeting to a Valentine, a slow dance, and a look at the future.
Postshow we had some of the tracks that just didn’t quite make the cut, from Bryan Ferry’s Slave To Love (another meet-up and falling in love song), Under The Boardwalk and Wouldn’t It Be Nice (getting to know each other) and some steamy stuff, Body Talk and Feel Like Makin’ Love. Finally, Paxton’s Outward Bound sees the couple heading off on a life’s voyage.
Preshow
Title | Artists | Album | Year |
Teenage Warrior | Little Feat | Representing the Mambo | 1990 |
Representing the Mambo | Little Feat | Representing the Mambo | 1990 |
Carthy’s March – The Lemon Tree | Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick | Life and Limb | 1990 |
Dominion of the Sword | Melrose Quartet | Dominion | 2017 |
Rainmaker | Michael Chapman | Rainmaker | 1969 |
Naked Ladies & Electric Ragtime | Michael Chapman | Fully Qualified Survivor | 1970 |
Stranger In The Room | Michael Chapman | Fully Qualified Survivor | 1970 |
The Show
Meeting Up
Meeting Up | |||
Dancing in the City | Marshall Hain | Free Ride | 1978 |
Getting to know them | |||
Groovin’ | Rascals | Groovin’ | 1967 |
Falling for them | |||
Close To You | The Carpenters | Close To You | 1970 |
Baby Blue | The Beach Boys | L.A. (Light Album) | 1979 |
Man in Love | Eric Clapton | Money and Cigarettes | 1983 |
You Got It | Roy Orbison | Mystery Girl | 1989 |
This could be love | |||
In My Life | The Beatles | Rubber Soul | 1965 |
When A Man Loves A Woman | Percy Sledge | single | 1966 |
Your Love Is King | Sade | Diamond Life | 1984 |
Cuddle Up | The Beach Boys | Carl & The Passions – So Tough | 1972 |
Feeling In Love | J.J. Cale | Number 10 | 1992 |
Slip On Through | The Beach Boys | Sunflower | 1970 |
Valentine’s Day | |||
Love Me Tender | Elvis Presley | Elvis | 1956 |
Harvest Moon | Neil Young | Harvest Moon | 1992 |
Hello | Lionel Richie | Can’t Slow Down | 1983 |
How Can I Tell You | Cat Stevens | Teaser And The Firecat | 1971 |
Sunny | Georgie Fame | Sound Venture | 1966 |
I Just Wanna Be With You | Chris Rea | The Road To Hell | 1989 |
More Than Anything In This World | Lenny Kravitz | Mama Said | 1991 |
You Matter To Me | Peter Criss | Peter Criss | 1978 |
Love On the Air | David Gilmour | About Face | 1984 |
Slow dance together | |||
Albatross | Fleetwood Mac | single | 1968 |
Hip Hug-Her | Booker T. and the M.G.’s | Hip Hug-Her | 1967 |
I’m Not In Love | 10cc | The Original Soundtrack | 1975 |
Nights In White Satin | The Moody Blues | single | 1967 |
and what may come next | |||
Midnight at the Oasis | Maria Muldaur | Maria Muldaur | 1973 |
Kissin’ And A Huggin’ | Joan Armatrading | Show Some Emotion | 1977 |
Facing the future together | |||
We’ve Only Just Begun | The Carpenters | Close To You | 1970 |
Postshow
Slave To Love | Bryan Ferry | Boys and Girls | 1985 |
No More Lonely Nights | Paul McCartney | Give My Regards to Broad Street | 1984 |
Under the Boardwalk | The Drifters | The Drifters | 1964 |
Wouldn’t It Be Nice | The Beach Boys | The Beach Boys In Concert | 1973 |
My Kind Of Lady | Supertramp | Famous Last Words | 1982 |
Body Talk | Imagination | Body Talk | 1981 |
Feel Like Makin’ Love | Bad Company | Straight Shooter | 1975 |
Outward Bound | Tom Paxton | Outward Bound | 1966 |
A V-Day Show!
Yes, yes, it’s a few days late, but we will have our Valentine’s Day show on Sunday at the usual time, at the usual place.
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
85 MOULa 8th Anniversary
For the 8th anniversary, we put together a program including soundtrack music from Uru and other Cyan games, some of the cavern’s favourite musicians, and from explorers who are also musicians. I have included links to the explorers band’s websites where known. We had record-breaking audience figures, due entirely to the assiduous advertising of the anniversary event by Minasunda, and also due to us following the opening ceremony, explorer memorial and NULP dance troupe events. We held on to the audience you gave us, guys, so I’m happy with that.
Links to the explorer-artists:
Jet Blast
Turjan (Alain Pachins)
as Aylahn
Aylahn’s bandcamp
Aylahn’s D’marnah blog
as Cialyn
Krossfire
Edison Rex – Youtube
Edison Res – Radio Spiral
Piboc (Olivier Maurey)
Preshow
Track | Artists | Album | Year |
State Of Independence | Jon And Vangelis | The Friends of Mr Cairo | 1981 |
The Flat Earth | Thomas Dolby | The Flat Earth | 1984 |
Break it Down | Tony Levin | Resonator | 2006 |
Three of a Perfect Pair | King Crimson | Three of a Perfect Pair | 1984 |
Trailer Music | Tim Larkin | Uru – Ages Beyond Myst | 2003 |
Great Shaft | Tim Larkin | Myst V End of Ages | 2005 |
What If I Forget the Champagne | Stanley Clarke | East River Drive | 1993 |
The Show
Myst Theme | Robyn Miller | Myst | 1998 |
Solsbury Hill | Peter Gabriel | Car | 1977 |
Air Stream | Tim Larkin | Uru – Ages Beyond Myst | 2003 |
Fissure | Robyn Miller | Riven | 1997 |
Oxygène (Part II) | Jean-Michel Jarre | Oxygène | 1976 |
The Gold Bug | The Alan Parsons Project | The Instrumental Works | 1988 |
Equinoxe Part 7 | Jean Michel Jarre | Equinoxe | 1978 |
Présages | Jet Blast | Premier impact | 2014 |
Plans for J.D. | Bill Bruford | Gradually Going Tornado | 1980 |
Like Somebody’s Watchin’ Me | Aylahn | Striped Circle | 2013 |
Places to Go | Tony Levin | Resonator | 2006 |
The Great Deceiver | King Crimson | Starless & Bible Black | 1974 |
Der Friedhof meiner Träume | Carom | Carom | 1994 |
Helden | Carom | Carom | 1993 |
Illusion de nuit | Jet Blast | Premier impact | 2014 |
False Reality | Krossfire | Learning To Fly | 2011 |
Yoda_Mir_Edison_Lasershow_Apr2014 | Paul Harriman | ||
The Light and Form of Ordinary Joy 1st Mvt | Paul Harriman | For Love or Money | 1997 |
Les cours D’ni de Zoorin et Turjan | Olivier Maurey | L’Age des Sons | 2010 |
Postshow
Adrénaline | Jet Blast | Premier impact | 2014 |
Individual Choice | Jean-Luc Ponty | Individual Choice | 1983 |
Where’s the Walrus? | The Alan Parsons Project | The Instrumental Works | 1988 |
Age of Information | Bill Bruford | Gradually Going Tornado | 1980 |
Périapside | CIALYN | 2016 | |
Finale | Tim Larkin | Myst V End of Ages Soundtrack | 2005 |
84 Have a Drink On Us
The first of an occasional series of shows linked by the theme of drink. A very popular pastime.
The preshow was full of L, namely, Led Zep, Level 42 and Lindisfarne.
The postshow had tracks that we wanted to include in the “Lost in 2017” show, but could not fit in.
Preshow
Title | Artists | Album | Year |
Heartbreaker | Led Zeppelin | Remasters | 1990 |
Rock And Roll | Led Zeppelin | Remasters | 1990 |
Running In The Family | Level 42 | Level Best | 1989 |
Hot Water | Level 42 | Level Best | 1989 |
Children Say | Level 42 | Level Best | 1989 |
Road To Kingdom Come | Lindisfarne | Nicely Out Of Tune | 1970 |
Turn A Deaf Ear | Lindisfarne | Nicely Out Of Tune | 1970 |
Meet Me On The Corner | Lindisfarne | Fog On The Tyne | 1971 |
The Show
Have A Drink On Me | AC/DC | Back In Black | 1980 |
Clink, Clink, Another Drink | Spike Jones and his City Slickers | single | 1942 |
Send Me No Wine | The Moody Blues | On the Threshold of a Dream | 1969 |
Winter Wine | Caravan | In the Land of Grey and Pink | 1971 |
Elderberry Wine | Elton John | Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player | 1972 |
Water With The Wine | Joan Armatrading | Joan Armatrading | 1976 |
Wicked Wine | Lee Ritenour | Feel The Night | 1979 |
What If I Forget the Champagne | Stanley Clarke | East River Drive | 1993 |
Barrelhouse Shake-Down | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Works, Vol. 2 | 1977 |
Watkins Ale | The York Waits | 1588 – Music from the time of the Spanish Armada | 1988 |
Cakes and Ale | Maddy Prior/June Tabor | No More to the Dance | 1988 |
In Taberna | Corvus Corax | Mille Anni Passi Sunt | 2000 |
John Barleycorn | Traffic | John Barleycorn Must Die | 1970 |
Alabama Song | The Doors | In Concert | 1970 |
Lady Whiskey | Wishbone Ash | Wishbone Ash | 1970 |
Whisky In The Jar | Thin Lizzy | single | 1972 |
Cup Of Wonder | Jethro Tull | Songs From The Wood | 1977 |
Ye Marine’rs All | Fairport Convention | Tipplers Tales | 1978 |
Chartreuse | ZZ Top | La Futura | 2012 |
Black Coffee | Julie London | Around Midnight | 1960 |
Coffee Time | André Previn & His Group W Gerry Mulligan | The Subterraneans | 1960 |
Second Cup Of Coffee | Gordon Lightfoot | Don Quixote | 1972 |
Boston Tea Party | The Sensational Alex Harvey Band | SAHB Stories | 1976 |
Tea For the Tillerman | Cat Stevens | Tea For The Tillerman | 1970 |
Teahouse On The Tracks | Donald Fagen | Kamakiriad | 1993 |
Postshow
You’re A Lady | Peter Skellern | You’re A Lady | 1972 |
Atavachron | Allan Holdsworth | Atavachron | 1986 |
Thief | Can | Delay 1968 | 1981 |
For Ladies Only | Steppenwolf | For Ladies Only | 1971 |
Tiny Dancer | Elton John | Madman Across the Water | 1971 |
Silver Machine | Hawkwind | single | 1972 |
83 Lost in 2017
For the first show of 2018, we looked back at the careers of some of the most notable musicians that had died in 2017. There were a great many, too, so many that we will cover some of them in postshow sections over the next few shows.
We covered sixteen artists, and inevitably had quite a lot to say about each of them, leading to an unusually large overrun. Still, you, the audience, stayed with us – a peak of 22, and 19 for most of the show, a goodly number to start the year on. We had the occasional fluff, but teamwork pulled us through.
Preshow
Title | Artists | Album | Year |
Jessica | The Allman Brothers (8) | Brothers and Sisters | 1973 |
Metal Fatigue | Allan Holdsworth (7) | Metal Fatigue | 1985 |
Walking On Air | John Wetton (1) | Voice Mail | 1994 |
Noir c’est noir | Johnny Hallyday (16) | La Génération Perdue | 1966 |
Imagination | Al Jarreau (3) | High Crime | 1984 |
Cotton Tail | Lambert, Hendricks & Ross (15) | Everybody’s Boppin’ | 1959 |
Tonight I Wanna Cry | Keith Urban (13) | Be Here | 2004 |
Je suis né dans la rue | Johnny Hallyday (16) | Que je t’aime | 1969 |
Show
One Step Closer | Asia (1) | Asia | 1982 |
Caught In The Crossfire | John Wetton (1) | Caught In The Crossfire | 1980 |
7171 551 (Live in London 1976) | Man (2) | All’s Well That Ends Well (extended edition) | 2014 |
Romain (Live in London 1976) | Man (2) | All’s Well That Ends Well (extended edition) | 2014 |
Black And Blues | Al Jarreau (3) | In London | 1985 |
Rene’s Theme | Larry Coryell (4) | Spaces | 1970 |
Maybelline | Chuck Berry (5) | single | 1955 |
My Ding-a-Ling | Chuck Berry (5)(5a) | The London Chuck Berry Sessions | 1972 |
Freeze Frame | J. Geils Band (6) | Freeze Frame | 1981 |
Dodgy Boat | Allan Holdsworth (7) | Wardenclyffe Tower | 1992 |
Road Games | Allan Holdsworth (7) | Road Games | 1983 |
Midnight Rider | The Allman Brothers Band (8) | Idlewild South | 1970 |
Melissa | The Allman Brothers Band (8) | Eat a Peach | 1972 |
Wichita Lineman | Glenn Campbell (9) | Wichita Lineman | 1968 |
FM | Steely Dan (10) | A Decade of Steely Dan | 1985 |
Girlfriend | Walter Becker (10) | 11 Tracks of Whack | 1994 |
Free Fallin’ | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (11) | Full Moon Fever | 1989 |
The Fat Man | Fats Domino (12) | single | 1949 |
Walking To New Orleans | Fats Domino (12) | A Lot Of Dominos | 1960 |
The Greatest Discovery | Elton John (13) | Elton John | 1970 |
Shes Gotta Be | Keith Urban (13) | Be Here | 2004 |
Get It Hot | AC/DC (14)(14a) | Highway To Hell | 1979 |
Wheels | AC/DC (14)(14a) | Black Ice | 2008 |
Centerpiece | Lambert, Hendricks & Ross (15) | Everybody’s Boppin’ | 1959 |
Souvenirs Souvenirs | Johnny Hallyday (16) | Hello Johnny | 1960 |
Ma gueule | Johnny Hallyday (16) | Pavillon de Paris Porte de Pantin | 1979 |
Allumer Le Feu | Johnny Hallyday (16) | Ce que je sais | 1998 |
Postshow
Voyage Au Pays Des Vivants | Johnny Hallyday (16) | Rivière… Ouvre ton lit | 1969 |
Time To Kill | UK (1) (7) | UK | 1978 |
(Ain’t Nothin’ But a) House Party | J. Geils Band (6) | Bloodshot | 1973 |
Lucky Henry | Walter Becker (10) | 11 Tracks of Whack | 1994 |
Toute la musique que j’aime | Johnny Hallyday (16) | Insolitudes | 1973 |
The featured artists were:
1) John Wetton
2) Deke Leonard
3) Al Jarreau
4) Larry Coryell
5) Chuck Berry
5a) Billy Bland (songwriter)
6) John Geils
7) Allan Holdsworth
8) Gregg Allman
9) Glenn Campbell
10) Walter Bekcer
11) Tom Petty
12) Fats Domino
13) Paul Buckmaster
14) Malcolm Young
14a) AC/DC manager and producer George Young (older brother of Malcolm)
15) Jon Hendricks
16) Johnny Hallyday
Tribute to the Fallen of 2017
Our show on Sunday, January 7th will be a tribute to those great musicians who left us during the last year. Not all of them were well-known, but they all have had a huge impact on the music we hear today. A sad occasion, but we will be celebrating their music.
See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse
82 Un-covered
For a change, sets of tracks that are linked by title only, everything else about them being different. Once we started looking we found lots of candidates, so there will be more shows on this theme, unless you’d rather we didnt’…
The preshow contained one track excerpted from the main show, Dog Eat Dog by afrobeat legend Fela Kuti – at fifteen minutes it would have eaten into the time too much – and we overran as it was.
The show theme meant we had a wide variety of styles of music, showing off our ecelcticism if nothing else. Unfortunately, some of the tracks turned out to be poor examples of the musicians talent, which we will try to correct next time.
Postshow was stuff from Mal’s stash, as he put the show together.
This will be the last show in 2017, as our next slot would be on Christmas Eve and we all plan to be busy then. Have a great time over the holiday, and we’ll see you on January 7th with a show paying tribute to all those musicians and performers we lost in 2017.
Preshow
Title | Artists | Album | Year |
Living After Midnight | Judas Priest | Rock Songs [Disc 2] | 1980 |
Dog Eat Dog | Fela Kuti | Shuffering and Shmiling | 1999 |
All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You | Heart | Rock Super Stars Vol. 2 | 1995 |
I’ll Make Love To You Anytime | J.J. Cale | 5 | 1979 |
The Show
Hard Times | AC/DC | Rock Or Bust | 2014 |
Hard Times | Eric Clapton | Journeyman | 1989 |
Hard Times | KISS | Dynasty | 1979 |
All I Want Is You | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Love Beach | 1978 |
All I Want Is You | Roxy Music | Country Life | 1974 |
Dog Eat Dog | Adam And The Ants | Kings Of The Wild Frontier | 1980 |
Dog Eat Dog | Joni Mitchell | Dog Eat Dog | 1985 |
Dog Eat Dog | AC/DC | Let There Be Rock | 1977 |
Friends | The Beach Boys | Friends | 1968 |
Friends | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin III | 1970 |
Friends | Sandy Denny | Who Knows Where The Time Goes | 1991 |
Night Train | Jimmy Forrest | single | 1951 |
Night Train | Steve Winwood | Arc Of A Diver | 1993 |
Take The Money And Run | Steve Miller Band | Fly Like An Eagle | 1976 |
Take The Money And Run | Gerry Rafferty | Baker Street | 1997 |
Let’s Dance | Benny Goodman | Ken Burns Jazz Series: Benny Goodman | 1939 |
Let’s Dance | Chris Montez | single | 1962 |
Let’s Dance | David Bowie | Let’s Dance | 2003 |
Let’s Dance | Chris Rea | Dancing With Strangers | 1987 |
Oh Darlin’ | The Beach Boys | Keepin’ the Summer Alive | 1980 |
Oh Darling | Supertramp | Breakfast In America | 1979 |
Oh! Darling | The Beatles | Abbey Road | 1969 |
Eye to Eye | Asia | Alpha | 1983 |
Eye to Eye | Audience | The House on the Hill | 1971 |
Time | Dennis Wilson | Pacific Ocean Blue | 1977 |
Time | Carl Wilson | Youngblood | 1984 |
Time | Hootie & the Blowfish | Cracked Rear View | 1994 |
Time | John Miles | Stranger in the City | 1977 |
Postshow
Fallen On Hard Times | Jethro Tull | The Broadsword And The Beast | 1982 |
I’m The Urban Spaceman | Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band | The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse | 1968 |
Bat Out Of Hell | Meat Loaf | Bat Out of Hell | 1977 |
Feelin Allright [Live] | Joe Cocker | Rock Super Stars Vol. 2 | 1995 |
Souped Up Ford | Rory Gallagher | Against The Grain | 1975 |
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper | Blue Öyster Cult | Agents of Fortune | 1976 |
Announcement – Show 82 – Un-Covered
On Sunday 10th December, Radio Free D’ni will broadcast a show entitled Un-Covered, consisting of sets of tracks that have the same title but that are otherwise completely different. Initially we thought there would be few candidates, but as we dug into this we found lots, and Sundays show will just contain a few of them. Artists featured on Sunday will include AC/DC, Roxy Music, Joni Mitchell, Steve Winwood and David Bowie.
Join us at 8pm UK time (13 KI), Sunday 12th November, on Radio Free D’ni.
Use the links at the top of the https://radiofreedni.org page to listen.
In game we will be on the public plaza or in Second Life visit TJ’s Dance Hall where Ainia DaFente will host the rebroadcast into SL.
The direct links still work as well
http://aegura.harriman4.com/8000.php
or http://www.urutunes.com and choose Radio Free D’ni…
Or you can plug http://aegura.harriman4.com:8000/stream.mp3 into your audio player
Show 81: By The Book, Chapter 2
A fine time was had, eventually, despite some difficulties with the handover and a problem with a couple of the tracks. We still overran a bit, but you stayed with us, which we do appreciate.
Prior to the show, I had streamed music for Xenipher’s race, a CavCon event aimed at raising awareness of the state of cavern finances and encouraging donations. The race went well, I think (the secret music, which was not revealed beforehand, was the Uru soundtrack by Tim Larkin, and the track titles were clues), and was won by thoekenem. We only had a few minutes to make a handover, from me to Ed to host the show, and although it went well as far as could be seen (I did not lose the stream), we did lose a lot of listeners. Most of them came back though, having been warned that this could happen.
On with the motley, then, and a fun-packed show with a bit more chat than usual. Well, I had the books to write about as well as the tracks…
I did promise during the show to say a bit more about the Mock Turtle. Alice In Wonderland, if you don’t know already, is slotted into the “nonsense” category by many, but it truth it is much more complicated than that. The author, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll is a pen-name) was a mathematics don at Oxford (having achieved a Second in Divinity and a First in Mathematics, and been awarded a Fellowship for life, no mean achievement) and contributed important work in the fields of symbolic logic and what is today known as game theory. The Alice books are full of logical allusions, as well as literary references and puns. The original illustrations for the books were done by celebrated illustrator and cartoonist Sir John Tenniel, to Dodgson’s exacting and profuse directions, and should be considered as part of the story.
So, the Mock Turtle is an allusion to a culinary dish called Mock Turtle soup, which is a dish that tries to replicate the taste of green turtle soup using items more easily available. The main component is a calf’s head, boiled, and the meat recovered for use in the soup, along with oysters and a few other things. Hence Tenniel, under Dodgson’s instructions, made the Mock Turtle have a turtle’s body and front flippers, but a calf’s head, feet and tail. A clever visual joke, sadly lost on today’s audience who have no reason to know what Mock Turtle soup is made out of. The text of the relevant chapter can be found here, and will explain the whole “Fainting in Coils” thing (painting in oils, in case it’s not obvious)
I’ll link to as many helpful pages for the books and songs as I can below.
The Show
Title | Artists | Album | Year | Book |
Oedipus Rex | Tom Lehrer | The Remains Of Tom Lehrer [disc 2: Live Performances] | 2000 | Sophocles, 429 BC |
I Am Stretched On Your Grave | Abney Park | Lost Horizons | 2008 | Irish poem, C17 |
Rime Of The Ancient Mariner | Iron Maiden | Powerslave | 1984 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798 |
Jerusalem | Emerson Lake & Palmer | Brain Salad Surgery | 1973 | William Blake, 1804 |
Wreck of the Hesperus | George Harrison | Cloud Nine | 1987 | Longfellow, 1842 |
White Rabbit | Jefferson Airplane | Surrealistic Pillow | 1967 | Lewis Carroll, Wonderland, 1865 |
Fainting In Coils | Bill Bruford | One of a Kind | 1979 | Lewis Carroll, Wonderland, 1865 |
Eve Of The War | Richard Burton / Justin Hayward | Jeff Wayne’s The War Of The Worlds | 1978 | H.G. Wells, 1897 |
Steppenwolf | Hawkwind | Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music | 1976 | Herman Hesse, 1927 |
New World | Strawbs | Grave New World | 1972 | Aldous Huxley, 1932 |
The Virgin And The Gypsy | Steve Hackett | Spectral Mornings | 1979 | D.H. Lawrence, 1930 |
A Cry For Everyone | Gentle Giant | Octopus | 1972 | Camus (1913-60) |
Rivendell | Rush | Fly by Night | 1975 | Tolkein, 1937 |
I Robot | The Alan Parsons Project | I Robot | 1977 | Asimov, 1940 |
Watcher of the Skies | Genesis | Foxtrot | 1972 | Clarke, Rescue Party, 1945 |
Big Brother | David Bowie | Diamond Dogs | 1974 | George Orwell, 1948 |
The Mule | Deep Purple | Fireball | 1971 | Asimov, Foundation, 1951 |
Let There Be Light | Mike Oldfield | Songs of Distant Earth | 1994 | Clarke, 1986 |
Postshow
Airship Pirate | Abney Park | Lost Horizons | 2008 | Neil Gaiman, Stardust, 1999 |
Are ‘Friends’ Electric | Tubeway Army | Replicas | 1979 | Phil Dick, 1968 |
Lady Fuschia | Strawbs | Bursting At The Seams | 1973 | Mervyn Peake, 1946 |
Carry On up the Vicarage | Steve Hackett | Please Don’t Touch | 1978 | Agatha Christie, 1920 |
The Body Electric | Rush | Grace Under Pressure | 1984 | Phil Dick, 1968 |
Pantagruel`s Nativity | Gentle Giant | Acquiring The Taste | 1971 | François Rabelais, C16 |
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