Tunes on Tuesday ~ Lifted
first, find the peace within yourself
Not that anyone would believe it, but The Lighthouse Family are an English band, from Newcastle upon Tyne. That’s not why I chose this song, it’s because I feel the need to be lifted from the slough of despond I’ve been suffering.
I believe that I’ve driven that road, just out of Death Valley, California.
Probably in a Mustang Convertible.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
sometimes, only a Mustang convertible will do
Songs on Saturday ~ The Chain
there’s nothing wrong with the car, except that it’s on fire
Back in the great days of motor racing, before it became a procession of ugly electric slot cars, the iconic commentator and pundit on the BBC was a chap called Murray Walker ~ famous for getting it all wrong at the best time. The music for the opening credits for the Grand Prix show on TV was The Chain by Fleetwood Mac.
This is the short version.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Murray Walker passed away about a year ago. He loved this lotus 72 as driven by Emerson Fittipaldi
Songs on Saturday ~ Daytona
twelve wild horses in silver chains
Back in the day, when Chris Rea could still sing and great cars didn’t rely on computers to make them work, Pininfarina designed the Daytona. I would contend one of the 10 best-looking cars ever made.
I’ve been to Daytona Beach, and I even know what Daytona means, but I’ve never driven a Ferrari Daytona, not anywhere. And actually, I’d rather own a Jaguar V12 E-Type, but then I am English and not Californian
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
a man’s man’s car
Tunes on Tuesday ~ Björk
Iceland has only one telephone directory
I like this clip because it briefly features a frogeye Austin-Healey Sprite. In any event the Icelandic diva Björk is sufficiently weird to be quite interesting. But you wouldn’t ever want to date her.
Having said that, Iceland is sufficiently weird as to be quite interesting, but I wouldn’t ever go there again.
If you ever go to Iceland don’t buy a beer, it will be stupidly expensive.
And in Iceland never, ever eat any of the local delicacies.
Every Icelandic woman I’ve ever met was blonde.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
there are trolls in Iceland
Tunes on Tuesday ~ Vanishing Point
high speed means freedom of the soul
The movie Vanishing Point is as far away from a ‘chick flick’ as it’s possible to get ~ the whole thing is just one long car chase with minimal dialogue and a lot of engine noise. What’s not to like?
A 1970 Dodge Challenger is a very cool car indeed.
I’ve driven newer Challengers, and I’ve driven on those roads, but these days Dodge Muscle Cars are emasculated shadows of greater, faster, classics.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
anyhow, in the desert I prefer a convertible Mustang
Songs on Saturday ~ Last Train to Clarkesville
in Clarksville it’s de rigueur to marry your cousin
I’ve never been To Tennessee but I like this Monkees song, and it’s so mid sixties. Anyhow I like trains.
Enjoy, and try not to dance to this track.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
the supercharger is a bit OTT
Songs on Saturday ~ Funkytown
in the 80s funkalicious and funkintacious were real words
If anyone had asked me who recorded this song, I would never in a million years have come up with Lipps, Inc. Well, there you go. I like the costumes and the weird dance. I can remember dancing to this in a club in Newcastle upon Tyne. That night there was a girl I should have walked away from ~ instead of marrying her.
Some definitions of funky are to do with being strongly musky or musty.
I’m not quite certain about that one. Is Chanel #5 musky?
I must have been very drunk at the time,
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Joanna Lumley, aka Purdy
very funkalicious
Tunes on Tuesday ~ Satisfaction
some things look better in black and white
While Californians were listening to drug culture bands like Jefferson Airplane, filmed in glorious Technicolor at Woodstock, we English were listening to bands like The Rolling Stones ~ here filmed in grainy monochrome in Ireland. As a matter of fact we English thought everyone in California went around saying; ‘peace and love….’ If you said that here in the sixties you were likely to get smacked.
You decide which is better, The Stones or Jefferson Airplane.
Actually, I prefer The Beatles.
And we say ‘aeroplane…’
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
another 1960’s English icon
works Mini Cooper
Tunes on Tuesday ~ White Rabbit
I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date
In the 60’s and 70s we English were not listening to Californian music, so I have never heard this track from Jefferson Airplane before. Woodstock passed us by with barely a murmur The reason I’m playing it now is that we English greet or friends with; ‘white rabbits’ on the first of the month, which was yesterday. (Of course there has to be an R in the month.)
Convoluted I know, and on first hearing I’m not certain I like Californian surfer-dude bands anyhow.
But hey, I like Jefferson Starship, so I’m certain that Jefferson Airplane will grow on me, like a weed.
This track probably sounds better if you’re high.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
To we English California is still
Alice through the looking glass
Songs on Saturday ~ Michael Jackson
don’t stop ’til you get enough
I’ve been suffering with a terrible cold, or maybe the flu. Totally out of it for a week. Today I wanted some music that would cheer me up
I like this song and this video.
I hope that you like it too.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
I’m sorry that I’ve bee out of it.
But I’ve been very unwell.
