Radio Free D'ni

I put the Heavy Metal tracks into the preshow, only to find that my colleagues disagreed with the labelling of Danish group Pretty Maids as Heavy. Apparently they are Hair Metal, despite what their website and Wikipedia (I know…) says. I think we can compromise on Glam Metal. I never knew there were so many different Metals out there.

Apart from them, we had two tracks from We Wish You a Metal X-Mas and a Headbanging New Year, on which each track is played by a combination of metallic musicians. I simply could not resist including Silent Night.

Also in the preshow was The Kings and Shepherds Arise from The Home Service’s soundtrack to the Royal National Theatre’s 1985 cycle of Mystery Plays, with John Tams and Linda Thompson providing memorable vocals.

The postshow contained a proper French language version of Patapan and Herderkenslied, the Shepherds Song from Flemish group ‘t Kliekske, keeping our international credentials intact. The Death or Glory Wassail from Sid Kipper could almost have been another language, heavy Norfolk accent laid on thick. Some Early English music from The Sixteen and Polyphony followed and we closed with the Wintersmith from Steeleye Span, in memory of Terry Pratchett. Steeleye Span were one of his favourite groups, and he was thrilled to bits that they had take his book and set it to music, as well as asking him to provide some spoken word parts.

The final show for 2016 went down well, even though the hosts all forgot their Santa Hats. We had 27 listeners at one stage and over 20 for nearly the whole show.

Preshow

Title	Artist	Album	Year
Angels From The Realms of Glory	Rick Wakeman	Christmas Variations	2000
Solstice	Mary Jane	Solstice	2014
The Nativity III: The Kings / Shepherd’s Arise	The Home Service	The Mysteries	1997
Run Rudolph Run	Billy Gibbons, Dave Grohl & Lemmy Kilmister;	We Wish You a Metal X-Mas and a Headbanging New Year	2009
Silent Night	Chris Wyse, Chuck Billy, John Tempesta, Jon Donais & Scott Ian	We Wish You a Metal X-Mas and a Headbanging New Year	2009
In Santa’s Claws	Pretty Maids	In Santa’s Claws	1990

The Show

Gloria In Excelsis	Al Jarreau	Christmas	2008
Carol of the Bells	Pentatonix	That’s Christmas to Me	2014
White Winter Hymnal	Pentatonix	That’s Christmas To Me	2014
Pat a Pan	Mannheim Steamroller	Christmas in the Aire	1995
Gower Wassail	Steeleye Span	First Steps	2002
Joy to the World	Kate Rusby	While Mortals Sleep	2011
Yorkshire Merry Christmas	Kate Rusby	The Frost Is All Over	2015
Huron Carol	Heather Dale	This Endris Night	2002
The Boar’s Head Carol	Steeleye Span & Maddy Prior	A Rare Collection 1972-1996	1999
Drive the Cold Winter Away	Johnny Coppin	A Country Christmas	1995
O Come, O Come, Immanuel	Annie Haslam	It Snows in Heaven Too	2000
Tune for a Blythsome Turkey	The Albion Band	Christmas Album	1999
Personent Hodie	The Albion Band	Another Christmas Present From The Albion Band	2010
Silent Night	Bela Fleck And The Flecktones	Jingle All The Way	2008
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas	Manhattan Transfer	The Christmas Album	1992
Another Christmas Song	Jethro Tull	The Jethro Tull Christmas Album	2003
I Believe in Father Christmas	ELP	I Believe in Father Christmas	1995
Feliz Navidad	Chicago	Chicago Christmas: What’s It Going To Be, Santa	2003
Bouree	Jethro Tull	The Jethro Tull Christmas Album	2003
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town	The Supremes	Merry Christmas	1965
Merry Christmas Everybody	Slade	single	1973
A Christmas Carol	Tom Lehrer	The Remains Of Tom Lehrer	2000
Suddenly It’s Christmas	Loudon Wainwright III	Career Moves	1993
Stille Nacht	Carreras, Cole, Domingo	Celebration Of Christmas	1996
1 Gloria in excelsis Deo’; 2- ‘Et in Terra pax’; 3 – ‘Gratias agimus tibi’; 4 – ‘Propter magnam gloriam’	Kings College Choir, Academy of Ancient Music	Vivaldi: Gloria	2002
For unto us a child is born	Tavener Choir & Players	Andrew Parrott / Handel / Messiah	1996
Up On The Housetop	Al Jarreau	Christmas	2008

Postshow

Patapan	Heather Dale	This Endris Night	2002
Winter Wonderland	Dave Brubeck	A Dave Brubeck Christmas	1996
Santa Claus is Coming to Town	Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan
Death Or Glory Wassail	Sid Kipper	Boiled In The Bag	1997
Herderkenslied	‘t Kliekske	‘t Is Met Dees Koude Winterse Dagen	2000
Salutation Carol (15th century MS)	Sixteen Harry Christophers	An Early English Christmas Collection	2004
Nowell sing we, both all and some (c.1450 Seldon MS)	Sixteen Harry Christophers	An Early English Christmas Collection	2004
Sing Lullaby	Polyphony, Stephen Layton	A Christmas Present from Polyphony	2004
Wintersmith	Steeleye Span	Wintersmith	2013

 

Difficult Times had 26 listeners at one point, and 20 for most of the show.

Here’s the playlist, and a link to the lyrics for Rush’s Losing It, as requested (click on the track title)

Preshow

Unsquare Dance is possibly the second most famous Dave Brubeck track after Take Five. Klaus Doldinger’s Timesignature is the sleeper here – it is in common time, but has the relevant title…

Title	Artists	Album	Year	Time signature
Subdivisions	Rush	Signals	1982	7/8
Unsquare Dance	The Dave Brubeck Quartet	Time Further Out	1961	7/8
The Tango King	Bruce Hornsby	Hot House	1995	4/4 + 5/4
Kid Gloves	Rush	Grace Under Pressure	1984	5/4 alternating 4/4
Timesignature	Klaus Doldinger	Constellation	1983	4/4
In The Dead Of The Night	UK	UK	1978	7/4
Take Five	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Time Out	1959	5/4

The Show

I Say A Little Prayer	Dionne Warwick	The Windows of the World	1967	4/4, 10/4, 11/4
Far More Blue	The Dave Brubeck Quartet	Time Further Out	1961	5/4
Far More Drums	The Dave Brubeck Quartet	Time Further Out	1961	5/4
Living in the Past	Jethro Tull	Living in the Past	1972	5/4
Here Comes The Sun	The Beatles	Abbey Road	1969	Chorus 3/4 5/4 2/4
Good Morning Good Morning	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band	1967	5/4, 4/4, 3/4
Happiness Is a Warm Gun	The Beatles	The White Album	1968	complicated
Nothing Else Matters	Metallica	single	1992	6/8
Heart of Lothian	Marillion	Misplaced Childhood	1985	7/4 + 5/4
Dance of the Little Fairies	Sky	Sky 2	1980	7/4
Solsbury Hill	Peter Gabriel	Car (Remaster)	1977	7/4
Money	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side Of The Moon	1973	7/4 + 4/4
Superconductor	Rush	Presto	1989	7/4 alternating 4/4
Rubylove	Cat Stevens	Teaser And The Firecat	1971	7/8
Wade In The Water	CCS	Whole Lotta Love	1970	7/4 then 13/8
Blue Rondo a la Turk	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Time Out	1959	9/8
Blue Shadows in the Street	The Dave Brubeck Quartet	Time Further Out	1961	9/8
Losing It	Rush	Signals	1982	11/8
Golden Brown	Stranglers	La folie	1981	13/8
Schism	Tool	Lateralus	2001	12/8 as 5/8+7/8
Turn It On Again	Genesis	Duke	1980	13/4 – 4/4 – 9/4 – 13/4 – 4/4 – 9/4
Happy Jack	The Who	A Quick One	1966	13/4
Tubular bells – Intro	Mike Oldfield	Tubular Bells	1973	15/8
Discipline	King Crimson	Discipline	1974	Drums 17/16, everyone else all over the place.
Hell’s Bells	Bill Bruford	One of a Kind	1979	19/16 then 7/4

Postshow

Aretha’s version of Say A Little Prayer is the second best, after the Dionne Warwick original.

Vix 9 is by Bela Fleck and the Wooten brothers, Victor on bass and Roy “Futureman” Wooten on drumitar, his own drum controller made in roughly the shape of a guitar.   Bela Fleck is playing an electric banjo and synth pedals, and the live video of them playing this on Youtube is very impressive to watch.

I Say A Little Prayer	Franklin, Aretha	The Very Best Of Vol.1	1994	4/4, 10/4, 11/4
Caesar’s Palace Blues	UK	Danger Money	1979	5/4
The Fish (Shindleria Praematurus)	Yes	Fragile	1971	7/4
Vix 9	Bela Fleck & The Flecktones	Three Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest	1993	9/8
Kashmir	Led Zeppelin	Physical Graffiti	1975	Drums 4/4, all else 3/4 + 9/8
Experience	Gentle Giant	In A Glass House	1973	9/8
Modern Love	Peter Gabriel	Car (Remaster)	1977	11/8, 4/4
Night Illusion	Gong	Gazeuse!	1976	13/8, 17/8

We had a great show with a very appreciative audience for our first Covered Up set, where we played well-known songs and their covers – in some cases the covers being more well known than the originals.

Edison put the preshow together and I didn’t make a note of what was played – it was taken from earlier shows though. I put the postshow together so I can give you the extra info for those tracks below – beginning with a rather impressive cover of The Sounds of Silence from heavy-metallers Disturbed.

An internet outage caused me to go offline and lose the channel for several minutes, which caused an unexpected and unannounced end to the show.  Apologies – Technical Issues Beyond our Control.

Call Me The Breeze	J.J. Cale	Naturally	1972
Call Me The Breeze	Lynyrd Skynyrd	Second Helping	1973
Blue Suede Shoes	Carl Perkins	single	1956
Blue Suede Shoes	Link Wray	Live at the Paradiso	1979
I Heard It Through the Grapevine	Marvin Gaye	In The Groove	1968
I Heard It Through the Grapevine	Gladys Knight and the Pips	single	1967
I Heard It Through the Grapevine	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Cosmo’s Factory	1970
After Midnight	Eric Clapton	Eric Clapton	1970
After Midnight	J.J. Cale	Naturally	1972
Rockin’ All Over The World	Status Quo	Rockin’ All Over The World	1977
Rockin’ All Over The World	John Fogerty	John Fogerty	1975
Rockin’ All Over the World	Carl Wilson	Youngblood	1984
Shapes Of Things	Yardbirds	single	1967
Shapes Of Things	Jeff Beck	Truth	1968
I Hear You Knocking	Smiley Lewis	single	1955
I Hear You Knockin’	Dave Edmunds	single	1970
Batman Theme	The Ron Hicklin Singers	TV theme	1966
Batman Theme	Link Wray	single	1967
Before You Accuse Me	Bo Diddley	Bo Diddley	1958
Before You Accuse Me	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Cosmo’s Factory	1970
California Girls	The Beach Boys	Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)	1965
California Girls	David Lee Roth	Crazy from the Heat	1985
The Wind Cries Mary	Jimi Hendrix	single	1967
De Wind secht Maria	Torfrock	…dat matscht so schön	1977
Born Under A Bad Sign	Albert King	Born Under A Bad Sign	1967
Born Under A Bad Sign	Passport	Blues Roots	1991
Give Peace A Chance	The Plastic Ono Band	single	1969
Give Peace a Chance	Louis Armstrong	What a Wonderful World	1970
Honky Tonk Women	The Rolling Stones	Forty Licks	1969
Honky Tonk Woman	Jerry Lee Lewis	Last Man Standing	2006
Live and Let Die	Wings	Live and Let Die OST	1973
Live And Let Die	Guns N’ Roses	Use Your Illusion I	1991

Postshow

The Sound Of Silence	Disturbed	Immortalized	2015
The Sound Of Silence	Simon & Garfunkel	Sounds Of Silence	1966
Money For Nothing	Dire Straits	Brothers in Arms	1985
Perfect	Fairground Attraction	First of a Million Kisses	1988
Bad	Michael Jackson	Bad	1987
Werewolves of London	Warren Zevon	Stand in the Fire	1980
Money for Nothing	Dire Straits	Brothers In Arms	1985
Take The Money And Run	Steve Miller Band	Fly Like An Eagle	1976
Abandon City	Utopia	Oops! Wrong Planet	1977
Blind Eye	Wishbone Ash	Wishbone Ash	1970
Bodhisattva	Steely Dan	Countdown To Ecstasy	1973
Feelin’ Alright	Dave Mason	Headkeeper	1972
Destination Anywhere	The Commitments	The Commitments OST	1991
China Grove	The Doobie Brothers	The Captain and Me	1973
Heartlight	Kenny Loggins	High Adventure	1982
Put It Where You Want It	The Crusaders	Crusaders 1	1972
Black Cat Moan	Beck, Bogert & Appice	Beck Bogert & Appice	1973
Scratch	The Crusaders	Scratch	1974
In The Midnight Hour	The Commitments	The Commitments OST	1991
Standing in the Light	Level 42	Standing in the Light	2002
Perfect Timing	Kiki Dee	Perfect Timing	1981
Pick Up The Pieces	Average White Band	Volume 8	1980
Peg	Steely Dan	Aja	1977
Peg (featuring Robben Ford)	VA	The Royal Dan – A Tribute	2006
Stomp And Buck Dance	The Crusaders	Southern Comfort	1974
Sock Puppets	Iain Ballamy	MirrorMask	2005
The Boys Are Back In Town	Thin Lizzy	Jailbreak	1976
Walking	CCS	A’s, B’s & Rarities	2005
You’re Made That Way	The Doobie Brothers	Livin’ On The Fault Line	1977
Little Favours	KT Tunstall	Drastic Fantastic	2007

After missing one show slot, we returned to a great audience who stayed with us for a long show.  As it was the DST shift for Europe, we started an hour later than usual for the US listeners, but I was able to get into the cavern early and let folks know what was going on, and also have some music playing during what would have been the preshow period.  There was also an extended postshow, as there was so much material and I wanted to chat about that too.  A long list below…   A peak of 24 listeners, which is at the top end of what we usually have, and even better as we were competing with an event in SL that drew the refugee crowd away.

Total time on air – about 5 hours

Pre-preshow   With a sub-theme of ‘time’ as it was to fill up time due to the late DST announcement by me.

Timewhys	Tonto’s Expanding Head Band	Zero Time	1971
Time	Pink Floyd	Dark Side Of The Moon	1973
Time Is Short	Robin Trower	Back It Up	1983
Time Machine	Tim Larkin	Myst V End of Ages Soundtrack	2005
Static Time	Turjan Aylahn	Prolepsis	2011
Big Time	Peter Gabriel	So	1987
Difference In Time	Wishbone Ash	Bona Fide	2006
Doctorin’ The Tardis	The Timelords	Single	1988
Who Knows Where The Time Goes?	Fairport Convention	Unhalfbricking	1969
Time Is Tight	Booker T & the MG’s	Single	1968
Sign ‘O’ The Times	Prince	Sign ‘O’ The Times	1987
The Time Warp	Various Artists	The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?	Chicago	Chicago Transit Authority	1969

Preshow

Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun	Tang dynasty poetry	Pink Floyd	A Saucerful Of Secrets	1968
Red Barchetta	SF short, Richard Foster	Rush	Moving Pictures	1981
Rocket Man	Ray Bradbury short	Elton John	Honky Chateau	1972
Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	Kate Bush	The Kick Inside	1978
Misty Mountain Hop	Tolkien	Led Zeppelin	IV (Zoso)	1971
The Council of Elrond	Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings	Enya, Lord of the Rings OST	2001

The Show

Genesis I Verse 20	Genesis	Ralph McTell	You,Well-Meaning, Brought Me Here	1971
Turn!  Turn!  Turn!	King Solomon, Ecclesiastes	The Byrds	Turn!  Turn!  Turn!	1965
Benedictus	I Ching	Strawbs	Grave New World	1972
Tales Of Brave Ulysses	Homer, Odyssey	Cream	Disraeli Gears	1967
Home At Last	Homer, Odyssey	Steely Dan	Aja	1977
Xanadu	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Rush	A Farewell To Kings	1977
Don Quixote	Cervantes	Gordon Lightfoot	Don Quixote	1972
Ramble On	Tolkien	Led Zeppelin	II	1969
Ride A White Swan	Tolkien	T.Rex	single	1970
A Trick of the Tail	William Golding, The Inheritors	Genesis	A Trick of the Tail	1976
I Am The Walrus	Alice Through The Looking Glass	The Beatles	Magical Mystery Tour	1967
Tomahawk Kid	Stevenson, Treasure Island	The Sensational Alex Harvey Band	The Impossible Dream	1974
Im Nebel	Herman Hesse	PUR	Opus1	1983
Sheltering Sky	Paul Bowles	King Crimson	Discipline	1974
End Of The Night	Celine,Voyage au bout de la Nuit	The Doors	The Doors	1967
1984	Orwell	David Bowie	Diamond Dogs	1974
Schiller	Friedrich Schiller	Wise Guys	Frei	2008
Purple Haze	Philip Jose Farmer	Jimi Hendrix	single	1967
To Tame A Land	Frank Herbert, Dune	Iron Maiden	Piece Of Mind	1983
Childhood’s End	Arthur C Clarke	Pink Floyd	Obscured by Clouds	1972
Sirens Of Titan	Kurt Vonnegut	Al Stewart	Modern Times	1975
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress	Robert Heinlein	Judy Collins	Judith	1975

Postshow

Don’t Stand So Close to Me	Nabokov, Lolita	The Police	Zenyatta Mondatta	1980
Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	Rush	Moving Pictures	1981
The Three Fates: Clotho/Lachesis/Atropos	Myths	Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Emerson, Lake & Palmer	1970
Jekyll And Hyde	R.L. Stevenson	Renaissance	Azure D’or	1979
Sympathy For The Devil	Baudelaire, Bulgakov	Rolling Stones	Beggar’s Banquet	1967
Brighton Rock	Graham Greene	Queen	Sheer Heart Attack	1991
Pigs (Three Different Ones)	Orwell, Animal Farm	Pink Floyd	Animals	1977
Narnia	C.S. Lewis	Steve Hackett	Please Don’t Touch	1978
Knots	R.D. Laing	Gentle Giant	Octopus	1972
The Battle Of Evermore	Tolkien	Led Zeppelin	IV (Zoso)	1971
The Advent Of Panurge	Rabelais	Gentle Giant	Octopus	1972
Lay Down	Bible	Strawbs	Bursting At The Seams	1973
A Dream Within A Dream	Edgar Allen Poe	The Alan Parsons Project	Tales Of Mystery And Imagination	1976
The Ferryman	Hesse, Siddhartha	Ralph McTell	You, Well-Meaning, Brought Me Here	1971
Peg		Steely Dan	Aja	1977

 

The preshow included Santana’s Samba Pa Ti from Abraxas, Jethro Tull’s Broadsword (I always think of it as one of his Scottish Songs), Status Quo’s elderly but still hale Caroline and Supertramp and It’s A Long Road.

We overran for a change, and Martin Barre’s ‘A Blues For All Reasons’ got bumped into the postshow.  What we might have said about it is

“He was a late starter, but it seems he needed an outlet for the creativity that was curbed in by being a member of Jethro Tull. His first three solo albums spaced out over a full decade, Barre has come back in force after Anderson declared J-Tull to be a thing of the past: he has put out three new albums in as many years since 2013.”

As is often the case, I went on for a bit after the post-show and we all had some fun dancing when I didn’t get in the way with chat.

Preshow

Title	Artists	Album	Year
Samba Pa Ti	Santana	Abraxas	1970
Broadsword	Jethro Tull	The Broadsword And The Beast	1982
Why Why Why	The Kelly Family	Over The Hump	1994
Stealing Hearts	Matchbox	Going Down Town	1985
Caroline	Status Quo	Hello!	1973
Saint and Sinner	Kiss	Creatures of the Night	1982
The Wall	John Fogerty	John Fogerty	1975
Last Man On Earth	Loudon Wainwright III	Last Man On Earth	2001
It’s a Long Road	Supertramp	Supertramp	1970

The Show

2120 South Michigan Avenue	The Rolling Stones	Around and Around	1964
Real Man	Todd Rundgren	Initiation	1975
Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me	Slade	Sladest	1973
Side o’the Road	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Willy and the Poor Boys	1970
Video Killed the Radio Star	The Buggles	The Age of Plastic	1980
The Point	Klaus Doldinger	Constellation	1984
Rumble (LP Version)	Link Wray	Jack The Ripper	1963
Try again	Supertramp	Supertramp	1970
The Lone Ranger	Quantum Jump	Quantum Jump	1976
Zabadak!	Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich	single	1967
Muleskinner Blues	The Fendermen	Muleskinner Blues	1960
Toast	Streetband	Streetband	1978
That’s the Kind of Sugar Papa Likes	Peter Criss	Peter Criss	1978
Rumble	Link Wray	Live at the Paradiso	1979
Spirit In The Sky	Norman Greenbaum	Spirit In The Sky	1969
Street Mama	Dion	Fire in the Night	1979
Thick As A Brick [Live 1978]	Jethro Tull	Thick As A Brick [Extra Tracks]	1978
Talking New Bob Dylan	Loudon Wainwright III	History	1992
Eileen	Sleepy LaBeef	Electricity	1982
You Little Trustmaker	The Tymes	Trustmaker	1974
Play that Fast Thing (One More Time)	Rockpile	Seconds of Pleasure	1980
Change In The Weather	John Fogerty	Eye Of The Zombie	1986
Roll Over Beethoven	Charlie Feathers	New Jungle Fever	1987

Postshow

A Blues For All Reasons	Martin Barre	A Trick Of Memory	1994
Pet You and Hold You	Rockpile	Seconds of Pleasure	1980
Don’t Believe Her	Scorpions	Crazy World	1990
Scotted Dick	Matchbox	Midnight Dynamos	1980
Rolling Home	Rednex	Sex & Violins	1995
We’ll Take The Night	Roy Orbison	King Of Hearts	1992

Post Postshow

I Hear You Knocking	Dave Edmunds	Rockpile [Bonus Tracks]	1972
Boogie Wonderland	Earth Wind And Fire	I Am	1979
Superstition	Stevie Wonder	Talking Book	1972
Lets See Action	The Who	single	1972
Smoke On The Water	Deep Purple	Machine Head	1972
Girls On Film	Duran Duran	Duran Duran	1980
Standing in the Road	Blackfoot Sue	Nothing to Hide	1973
Golden Years	David Bowie	Station to Station	1976
Tiger Feet	Mud	single	1974
Another One Bites the Dust	Queen	The Game	1980
2-4-6-8 Motorway	Tom Robinson Band	single	1973
Long Train Runnin’	The Doobie Brothers	The Captain and Me	1973
Tap Turns on the Water	CCS	A’s, B’s & Rarities	2005
I Love To Boogie	T.Rex	Dandy in the Underworld	1976
Born To Be Wild	Steppenwolf	Steppenwolf	1968
Galo Galan	Xosé Manuel Budiño	Zume de Terra	2004
I’ll Be Creepin’	Free	Free	1969
Old Man Hank	Jellybread	Sixty-Five Parkway	1970
Without You	The Doobie Brothers	The Captain and Me	1973
Dancing	Decameron	Tomorrow’s Pantomime	1976
Westway	Sky	Sky	1979
One More River	The Alan Parsons Project	Pyramid	1978
Destination Anywhere	The Commitments	The Commitments – Soundtrack	1991