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Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Monday, 15th March 2010
One of the hour specials on Easter Monday will be themed to Boston USA. Apologies to Lincolshire. And to the band Boston.
So, suggestions please for Bostonians for the show.. Bands, artistes, songs about Boston, etc. Here please...
I Should Have Known, from the Aimee Mann album 'Whatever'. She is from Boston.
The Boston Tea Party - Sensational Alex Harvey Band (they weren't from Boston, but the story relates to that area)
Aren't baked beans originally from Boston?
Roger Daltrey bathes in them on the cover of my favourite Who album, 'Sell Out'. Something off that? 'Tattoo' per chance?
Very tenuous link.
i'll second the jonathan richman & the modern lovers suggestion read out last week. i'd really like it if gideon brought in his crackly copy of rockin' & romance and played a track off it.
Is it true that the "128" in Jonathan Richman's "Road Runner" is a reference to the Boston ring road?
I was hoping to find a song about the Boston strangler but to no avail. He does get a name check in "Midnight rambler" by The Stones.
There is a song called "Boston burglar" which sounds like a euphamism for something unpleasant, painful or possibly both.
Bob Luman did a song called "Boston rocker" according to my Tracks Catalogue, I'll see if I can listen to it on the web.
James Taylor - the singer/songwriter one, not the jazz funk organist - was a native of that city. I know this because my ex-brother-in-law - a Bostonian himself - went to school with him. That's maybe straying too far back into the "tenuous claims to fame" thread though. We'll be discussing Arthur Mullard if we're not careful, and as far as I know he had no connection with any part of Massachusetts, although he did cover a song that was earlier performed by John Travolta, who was also in Saturday Night Fever, which was largely soundtracked by The Bee Gees, who once wrote a song.... oh never mind.
I'm guessing Pixies qualify, and will feature?
What's going on to make the server too busy to cope? Perhaps Ed Vaizey's been recommending the message boards to all his friends.
Anyhoo... I know it's an obvious suggestion, but I wonder whether a space could be found for the Pixies . Maybe you could play Tony's Theme, thereby providing a tenuous cross-curricular link to the Midlands theme via Tony Pulis the Stoke City manager (does Stoke qualify as Midlands, or is it too far north?)
Just curious- surely it can't be a coincidence?- but did somebody utter "Bostin!" when you selected the Midlands theme , giving you the idea for the second one?
Anything by Dick Dale or Donna Summer.
Or Leonard Nimoy.
, in reply to message 9.
Posted by LJJsPlectrum (U14169939) on Wednesday, 17th March 2010
Mission of Burma
Buffalo Tom. Frozen Lake even mentions Boston.
Gotta be "New England" by Mr Jonathan Richman
Any Buffalo Tom would be good too.
Maybe some Scud Mountain Boys too (anything from 'Massachusetts')
One more suggestion - "Bunker Hill" by Michael Penn off his "Free for All" album
, in reply to message 1.
Posted by Colin Hammond (U14371065) on Wednesday, 24th March 2010
Love that Dirty Water by the Standells obviously
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