ah my younger brother loved this retro original back in the 70's by the Ran-dells, much weirder and more fun than Rocky's version.

 

Mars is in our galaxy. Not another chocolate reference, the film Guardians Of The Galaxy is chock full of oldies classics integrated into the sci-fi fun. I wanted the brilliant Redbone's Come And Get Your Love, but they've already gone in all their Native American glory - who woulda thought! So here's another from the film

 

Runaways

 

Cherry Bomb!

 

You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb was a rather fantabulous single from Spoon in 2007. I could just go straight into that but these days I'm ever so slightly preferring another track from the Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga album, 'The Underdog'.

 

 

From Spoon we go to knives.

 

Knives Out from Radiohead's Amnesiac.

 

spoon, knives, why not afternoons and coffeespoons?

 

Cos this is better. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

Crash Test Dummies

 

talking about crash lets have this

 

The lead singer of The Primitives was the double-named Tracy Tracy. Meanwhile Mary Mary was the lead singer of contemporaries Gaye Bikers on Acid.

 

The loveliest song called Gaye is by a teacher who had a great body of affecting pastoral tunes, the late Clifford T Ward

 

Black Grape had an album out called its great when your straight.

 

Edited August 14, 201410 yr by fiesta

black grapes would be a very strange fruit. But not as harrowing as this Billie Holliday track.

 

Harrowing is an understatement.

 

Strange Fruit is one of the most harrowing songs of all time. When the late, great John Peel set up a record label he chose to name it after that song. Most of the releases on the label were of recordings of sessions for his Radio 1 show. The Adverts one included Gary Gilmore's Eyes. The story of that song is a bit grim too.

 

no eyes

 

Bruce Springsteen wrote a song about being blinded (by the light) which was a hit for Manfred Mann's Earthband. The Manfreds have already appeared but The Boss hasn't so here are ten of his (and the late Clarence Clemons') finest minutes with the masterpiece that is Jungleland.

 

well you can't have a Bruce without his Sheila, mate...

 

I know how much you love Chic, so just for you :lol:

 

Spacer.

 

Sheila (and) B. Devotion

 

 

From Sheila B Devotion to (I Wanna Give You) Devotion by Nomad and some early 90s hip-house!

 

A nomad is a wanderer, essentially. The Wanderer is a Dion song covered (badly) by Status Quo. Here's a much better rifftastic psychedelic Quo record....

 

A lover of the status quo would not agree that Everything Must Change. Paul Young would beg to differ.

 

Everything must change you say? Well that's rather against the spirit of the game but I shall adhere to the instruction from our site leader and leave no link whatsoever. So here's the Bucketheads as I fancied listening to it (after realising my original choice of Longpigs had already been taken!)

 

Edited August 31, 201410 yr by مدهش*

I suspect there was a tenuous link between the Bucketheads, because as everyone knows, wherever you lay your hat, it has to be on a head :yahoo: :lol:

 

When I was a toddler I loved my Buckets to have holes in them , Dear Liza, courtesy Harry Belafonte. A better hole was In My Shoe, Traffic's hippie ditty. Paper Sun was a better record, but the best record ever ever ever with Sun in the title is the spine-tingling Four Seasons song as perfected by the fabulous Walker Brothers,

 

The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore

 

 

talking about the weather, I can't believe according to the list we havent had this great band yet, Weather With You links nicely to the song above but instead I have chosen this one from 1996.

 

From Crowded House to the rather less specific A House and Endless Art