Hey folks,
I know this is a may come a little out of the blue but after some heartfelt thought I have decided to stop doing the podcast.  I have been finding it increasingly hard to find the time to produce the show to the quality that I would like and am beginning to fear that I am repeating myself and not staying fresh.  This decision was not easy to make and I know I am going to miss doing the show a lot.  I have had an absolute ball podcasting for the past nearly 2 years and have made some wonderful friends in the process.  Thankyou to everyone that has downlodaded the podcast and enjoyed it and sent me lovely emails - you guys are the best.
The past shows should still be available for the next month so download them now while you have the chance.
Take care.

Anna

Just a quick note to say I am taking a little break over Easter.  Sorry I didn't get a chance to put out a show this week but I promise I will be back the weekend after Easter.
For those interested in how the shave went click on the link on the left side of the site to check out my before and after photos.  A huge thanks to those Music I-Quiz listeners who supported me in this very worthwhile cause.

Sorry there's no show this week - I haven't got myself organised enough but please check back next week for what I promise will be a Music I-Quiz SPECTACULAR!!!!!
In the meantime all of those who are in the cd exchange now is your chance to share your Valentines Day mixes with the world.  What are the tracks that are guaranteed to win a heart and get some sweet, sweet lovin'?  Just leave a comment below with your tracklist and get out there and fall in love.

 

Here are the answers to the Little Miss I-Quiz Tiebreak Mega-Song Scramble (phew hows that for a title)  I copied this from Maureen and Michaels answers with the couple of corrections - they did amazing.

1.  Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps - Doris Day version, pretty sure. 
2.  Coming in from the Cold - Bob Marley
3.  Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C&C Music Factory
4.  Nightswimming - REM
5.  Killing in the Name of - Rage Against the Machine  (It was actually Bulls on Parade from Rage)
6.  Today - Smashing Pumpkins
7.  A Change is Gonna Come- Sam Cooke
8.  Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
9.  Luka - Suzanne Vega
10.  Waterfalls - TLC
11.  I'm Waiting for the Man - Velvet Underground
12.  I Still Call Australia Home - hmmm...I can't tell if this is the Hugh Jackman or Peter Allen version - they sound a lot alike.  I'll go with Hugh Jackman... (should have gone with Peter Allen)
13. Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
14.  Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
15.  Who Are You? - The Who
16.  Maggie's Farm - Li'l Bobby Zimmerman (our pet name for  Dylan)
17.  The Milkman of Human Kindness - Billy Bragg
18.  Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
19.  I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
20.  Little Miss Can't be Wrong - Spin Doctors (how appropriate)

The intro music I played was "Two of Us" originally recorded by The Beatles.  This version appeared on the "I Am Sam" soundtrack and is sung by Aimee Mann and Michael Penn who happen to be husband and wife

The bonus question was to name the 5 Beatles songs that occupied the top 5 spots on the Billboard Music Charts in April 1964.  They were:

1. Can't Buy Me Love
2. Twist and Shout
3. She Loves You
4. I Want to Hold Your Hand
5. Please, Please Me

Here are the songs included in Bill Bailey's Cockney Medley in order.

Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
Guns N Roses - Paradise City
Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
The Prodigy - Firestarter
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record)
Bauhaus - Bella Lugousi's Dead
Ultravox - Vienna
Cars - Gary Numan
Chris De Burgh - Lady In Red

This months mission is to make a cd full of your favourite cover songs.  Whether it be William Shatner or Jimi Hendrix, here is a chance to share your mix with everyone else.  Just leave a comment with your track listings and who knows, maybe you will discover a hidden gem in somebody elses mix.
To start off here is my cd.  I also included a second cd with all of the original versions of these songs for comparitve purposes (original artists in brackets)
1. Freakshow - Keller Williams (Ani DiFranco)
2. El Lado Mas Bestia De La Vida - Albert Pla (Lou Reed)
3. Psychokiller - Kate Miller Heidke (Talking Heads)
4. Bizarre Love Triangle - Frente (New Order)
5. Don't Dream it's Over - Sarah Blasko (Crowded House)
6. Flame Trees - Sacred Heart School (Cold Chisel)
7. Hyperballad - Big Heavy Stuff (Bjork)
8. Eye in the Sky - Jonatha Brooke (Alan Parsons Project)
9. My Sweet Lord - Girlyman (George Harrison)
10. Let Down - Easy Star All-Stars (Radiohead)
11. Green River - M. Ward (CCR)
12. Fall on Me - Cry Cry Cry (R.E.M.)
13. Harvest - Rufus Wainwright (Neil Young)
14. Careless Whisper - Ben Fold and Rufus Wainwright (George Michael)
15. Lola - The Raincoats (The Kinks)
16. Monkey Man - Amy Winehouse (The Specials)
17. Rock and Roll - Rasputina (Led Zeppelin)
18. Hallelujah - Clare Bowditch (Leonard Cohen)
19. Exit Music (for a film) - Brad Mehldau (Radiohead)

I got some great submissions, here we go.

John B.- A grasshopper walks into a bar.
The bartender says, "Hey, I've got a drink named after you!"
The grasshopper replies, "You have a drink named 'Jim'??"

Cool B - Man goes in a bar...
No pretzels, no chips, just mangos.

Rachel -

Hey guys just letting you know I'm taking the weekend off.  The weather just turned nice and I got a call to go to the beach for the weekend - what's a girl to do?  See you all next week.

The track I played, "What'll I Do" was taken from the album The McGarrigle Hour and that track featured Kate and Anna Mcgarrigle, Kate's ex-husband Loudon Wainwright III, and their son Rufus Wainwright.

As promised, here is your chance to share your road trip cd with the rest of the world.  Here is what I put in mine, separated into 3 sub-genres:  wind in your hair songs; songs you can car dance to; and finally cheesy sing-along songs (hopefully you can tell what's what) - why don't you leave your tracklist as a comment.

1. Intro from This American Life
2.It's a Beautiful Day - The Eels
3. Summertime - The Sundays
4. Bang Bang - Joe Cuba
5. 20th Century Man - The Kinks
6. New York, New York - Ryan Adams
7. Kissing My Love - Bill Withers
8. Burning Love - Elvis Presley
9. Proud Mary - Ike and Tina Turner
10. The Happy Song - Otis Redding
11. Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
12. Misty Mountain Hop - Led Zeppelin
13. Mr Brightside - The Killers
14. Stickshifts and Safetybelts - Cake
15. Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
16. California Dreamin' - Mamas and the Papas
17. I Know Him So Well - Barbara Dickson and Elaine Page
18. Top of the World - The Carpenters
19. Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
20. Harvest Moon - Neil Young
21. Take me Home, Country Roads - Toots and the Maytals.

The 5 songs in the song scramble were (in order)

1. All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
2. All for you - Sister Hazel
3. All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow
4. All I want is You - U2
5. All Night Long - Lionel Richie

The 5 movies were all written by John Hughes.
P.S. Sorry I was a bit late posting this

The 5 songs in the song scramble, in order, were
1. Always on the Run - Lenny Kravitz
2. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
3. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
4. You Can't Hurry Love - Diana Ross and the Supremes
5. Let it Be - The Beatles

I'm sure you got those all right, hey!!

The two artists that had April as both their birth and death month were Marvin Gaye and Muddy Waters.

A big thanks to George Garner for alerting me to this fact. I mentioned in episode 34 that I had trouble tracking down the first song to become number one by a female artist. Well George had no trouble at all - here is a copy of his e-mail -
"But I was surprised by the difficulty you had finding the first female song to top the charts. I'm not sure if you're aware of the great almanac by Joel Whitburn called The Billboard Book of Top 40 Singles. He puts one out every four years and it lists every song and artist that ever hit the top 40 from 1955 to the publish date. And it shows that, in fact, the first 3 #1 songs on the Top 40 charts were from women: 1. Joan Weber, "Let Me Go Lover" (01/01/1955) 2. The Fontane Sisters, "Hearts of Stone" (02/05/1955) 3. The McGuire Sisters, "Sincerely". (02/12/1955) Those songs spent 4, 3, and 10 weeks at number 1 respectively. So for the first four-ish months the Billboard Top 40 chart was published, women ruled!"

In case you didn't want to die not knowing all the answers - here they are. Now I cut and paste this from the winning entry of Steve Boorman - this is your competition folks. A big thankyou to everyone that entered, you guys ROCK!! I want to give special mention to Erik, who also got 100% and to my mate Kezzie who got a very respectable 19.25 (and she used to live with me - poor thing) -=Pick the Riff=- 1 Tracey Chapman - Talkin 'Bout a Revolution (Tracy Chapman) 2 Sheryl Crow - Strong Enough (Tuesday Night Music Club) 3 Melissa Etheridge - Like the Way I Do (Melissa Etheridge) 4 k.d. lang - Constant Craving (Ingenue) 5 Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine (Indigo Girls) -=Mash up=- 6 The Police - Every Breath You Take (Synchronicity) Ben E. King - Stand By Me 7 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (Thriller) Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nevermind) 8 Shaggy (Orville Richard Burrell) - It Wasn't Me (Hot Shot) The Beatles - Let It Be (Let It Be) 9 Coldplay - In My Place (A Rush of Blood to the Head) Destiny's Child - Say My Name (The Writing's on the Wall) 10 The White Stripes- Seven Nation Army (Elephant) Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) -= Cameo: Emmylou Harris =- 11 Duet: Bob Dylan Song: One More Cup of Coffee Album: Desire Album 12 Duet: Sarah McLachlan Song: Angel Album: Lilith Fair Vol 2 -=The Devil Made Me Do It=- 13 Duet: Gram Parsons Song: Love Hurts Album: Grievous Angel 14 Duet: Ryan Adams Song: Oh My Sweet Carolina Album: Heartbreaker 15 Duet: Lucinda Williams Song: Greenville Album: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road -=Original or Cover=- 16 Original. "Rudy, A Message To You", by Dandy Livingstone. 17 R.E.M. cover of The Clique's, "Superman". 18 Cover by Joe cocker of "The Letter" Song written by Wayne Carson but performed by The Box Tops 19 Original. "You Can Leave Your Hat On" by Randy Newman. 20 James Taylor cover of "You've Got A Friend" by Carole King.

The songs appearing in the 4 chord song are.........

1.Don't Stop Believin' - Journey 2.Adam's Song - Blink 182 3.Not Pretty Enough - Kasey Chambers 4.Amazing - Alex Lloyd 5.Wherever You Will Go - The Calling 6.Glycerine - Bush 7.Heaven Coming Down - The Tea Party 8.Superman - Five For Fighting 9.High - Lighthouse Family 10.Sway - Bic Runga 11.Soul To Squeeze - Red Hot Chili Peppers 12.She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5 13.With Or Without You - U2 14.Fall At Your Feet - Crowded House 15.Torn - Natalie Imbruglia 16.Scar - Missy Higgins 17.Let It Be - The Beatles 18.Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers 19.Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson 20.Can You Feel The Love Tonight - Elton John How did you do??? Leave a comment and let me know. Anna

The song "The Night that the lights went out in Georgia" was released in 1973.   It is about a man who meets his best friend Andy in a bar called Webs for a drink after a two-week trip. Andy reveals that the wife has been cheating on him with another man, whose name is Seth Amos. Andy also reveals that he has "been with her himself." Later that evening, the man gets his gun and goes to Andy's house to kill him, but finds that someone has already killed Andy. The police arrive after the man shoots his gun to catch their attention, and he is arrested at the scene, is tried, wrongly convicted, and hanged. The narrator then reveals that she is the man's sister and was the one who shot Andy, and killed her brother's wife.

The answer to the homework question for episode 25 is, in the order you hear them in the song.
1. All That She Wants - Ace of Base  
2. The Boy Is Mine - Brandy and Monica 
3. Try Again - Aaliyah 
4. California Dreamin - Mamas and Papas
5. Oops I Did It Again - Britney Spears
6. Naughty Girl - Beyonce
7. I Feel Love - Donna Summer
8. This Love - Maroon 5
9. My Name Is - Eminem
10. U Don't Know My Name - Alicia Keys
11. Say My Name - Destiny's Child
12. Who Am I?(What's My Name) - Snoop Dogg
13. What's My Name? - DMX
14. Who Are You - The Who
15. Who the Hell Are You - MAdison Avenue
16. Whos' that Girl - Eurythmics
17. I Don't Remember - Peter Gabriel
18. Fame  - Irene Cara
19. The New Workout Plan - Kanye West
20. Whalt's Your Name - Lynrd Skynrd
21. Eyes Open (Remember My Name) - Jason Mraz
22. Take Me Home - Phil Collins

 Download epsiode # 25 to hear the mash-up.  Leave a comment and tell me how many you got right.