A week or so ago I asked for your favourite songs with a name in – thanks for the great response. You’re going to have a hell of a lot of fantastic music to listen to this week. First up is the Dog with 24 songs – no mention of Peggy Sue, but we do have the lovely Sylvie. One thought, why has nobody written a song with the line “Sylvie…you’re gonna kill me”?

Laughing Dog’s Songs for Whoever

01 Sylvie – Harry Belafonte
02 Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Gauranga – Quintessence
03 Jackie Blue – The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
04 Laura – Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen
05 Amelia – Bell X1
06 Daphne – 1 Giant Leap
07 Judy – Stephen Stills
08 Cath… – Death Cab For Cutie
09 Amelia – Joni Mitchell
10 Jimmy Jimmy – The Undertones
11 Grace – Amy Wadge
12 Billy Jack – Curtis Mayfield
13 Pearly Jim – Richard Thompson
14 Johnny the Fox meets Jimmy the Weed – Thin Lizzy
15 Nadia – Nitin Sawhney
16 Jimmy Jazz – The Clash
17 Song for Suzie 1 – Heads Hands & Feet
18 Emma Lee – Buffy Sainte-Marie
19 Jaqueline – Alabama 3
20 Frederick – The Patti Smith Group
21 Ruby – Dave Rawlings Machine
22 Mr Siegal – Tom Waits
23 Sandi – My Sleeping Karma
24 Margaret Montgomery (1581 – _) – Manning

CheezePeeze’s Songs for Whoever

01 Midnight Moses – Sensational Alex Harvey Band
02 Anna Molly – Incubus
03 Lord Bateman – Jim Moray
04 Fergus Sings the Blues – Deacon Blue
05 Crow Jane – The Derek Trucks Band
06 Jeremy – Pearl Jam
07 Hazy Jane I – Nick Drake
08 Mike Mills – Air
09 Hey Floyd – Jamiroquai
10 Daisy Jane – America
11 Suite Charlotte Pike – Transatlantic
12 Nancy – Audience
13 Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing – Buffalo Springfield
14 Get Miles – Gomez
15 Annie Let’s Not Wait – Guillemots
16 Mr Bellows – John Cougar Mellencamp
17 Personal Jesus – Johnny Cash
18 Hey Joe – Robert Plant
19 Come Alive Diana – Everything Everything
20 Boris the Spider – The Who

Spacepig’s Songs for Whoever

01 Face of Melinda – Opeth
02 Gloria Lewis – Kyuss
03 The Ballad of Balin Longbeard – Glass Hammer
04 To Barbara – Hax-Cel
05 Diana – Comus
06 Julia – Pavlov’s Dog
07 Iris Murdoch Cut Me Down – No Man
08 Mephistophales – CWT
09 Mandy – Fats Waller
10 Little Olive – The Electric Prunes
11 Jesus Gonna Be Here – Tom Waits
12 Marie Antoinette – Curved Air
13 Mrs Prout – Fuzzy Duck
14 Zarozinia – Hawkwind
15 Annie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore – Eartha Kitt
16 Selene- Gong
17 Pamphlet To Mr. M Thompson – Coupla Prog
18 Hannah – Robin Trower
19 Abraham Lincoln – Clutch
20 Eleanor Rigby – Vanilla Fudge
21 Andrea – Guru Guru
22 Alison Gross – Steeleye Span
23 Hector The Hero – Wolfstone
24 The Simpsons – Birdsongs of the Mesozoic

Technoflid’s Songs for Whoever Mix [99mb]

01 Muddy Water Blues (Accoustic Version) – Buddy Guy, Paul Rodgers
02 Give My Love To Rose – Johnny Cash
03 Vera – Pink Floyd
04 Victoria – Ray Davies
05 Mrs Robinson – Paul Simon
06 Daniel – Elton John
07 Jeremy – Pearl Jam
08 You Can Call Me Al – Paul Simon
09 Jesse – Mother Earth
10 Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix
11 Michelle – The Beatles
12 Clarkson Blues – Chris Rea
13 Josephine – Chris Rea
14 Not Now John – Pink Floyd
15 Suite Judy Blue Eyes – Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young)
16 Hey Jude – The Beatles

Uncle Rave Dave : Songs for Whoever (From a Certain Era)

01 Planet Claire – The B-52s
02 Enola Gay – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
03 Europa and the Pirate Twins – Thomas Dolby
04 Sally – The Members
05 By My Girl Sally – The Police
06 Nellie the Elephant – Toy Dolls
07 Donald Where’s Your Trousers – The Men They Couldn’t Hang
08 Who Killed Bambi – Sex Pistols
09 Mr Brownstone – Guns ‘n’ Roses
10 Johnny B Goode – Peter Tosh
11 Bullets For Bafazane – Johnny Clegg
12 Tyler – UB40
13 Romeo & Juliet – Dire Straits
14 Mr Blue – Yazoo
15 Lassie Come Home – Alphaville
16 Avalon – Roxy Music
17 Ballad Of Lucy Jordan – Marianne Faithfull
18 Diamond Smiles – The Boomtown Rats
19 Johnny & Mary – Robert Palmer
20 Jungle Bill – Yello

Cover art by kekremsi

The Song for Whoever mixes will be available here to download for the next fortnight (until midnight on 8 March 2011).

Update: the Song For Whoever mixes are temporarily unavailable [blame the March hare/a senior moment by LZ while decluttering old files on the server]. They’ll all be back up by lunchtime GMT on Tuesday, 1 March. Sorry!

And they’re back up!

I don’t have many good ideas these days, but an idea popped into my head – why not make a play list that describes a day for the dog?

It was actually great fun to do and I was surprised how the song titles flowed together so well – hope you enjoy.

Here’s a challenge for you – why not send me a similar play list of songs that describes your day (and no Spacey you can’t spend it in the pub).

Wake Up, Just Before The Sun Will Rise, Black Coffee In Bed, Working Man, Going To Hell, Becoming A Slave, I Can`t Shit, Don’t Bug Me When I’m Working, Nothing Ever Happens, Robotic Lunch, In Mcdonalds, This Afternoon, Ghosts in my Machine, Wasted Hours, It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career, Killing an arsehole, Free At Last, The Pub, Two for the Road, Sunset Coming, I’m Going Home, On the Evening Train, So Good to be Back Home, Kettle’s On, Dinner at Eight, Bathtime, Let’s Get It On, Nos Da Cairad

The A Day in the Life mix (164 mb) will be available here to download for the next fortnight (until midnight on 24 December 2010).

What can I say about my pal from Ponty – just class, sheer class. 70 years old and still doing what he does best – singing songs.

His new album is a must for all music lovers, combining his usual warmth and charisma with, this time a gospel flavour. He ain’t no Johnny Cash (as some reviewers say) he doesn’t have to be, he’s Tom Jones – but forget all that, forget his history, his age – just enjoy the songs.

Especially love this part

“When I die
Where will I go?
When I die
Where will I go?

Somebody tell me
Somebody tell me
Somebody please tell me
Where will I go?”

Burning Hell

I’m going down
To the church house
Get down
On a bended knee
Deacon Jones
Pray for me
Deacon Jones please pray for me

Maybe there aint no heaven
Maybe there aint no hell
Maybe there aint no heaven
No burning hell
No

I’m going down to the cross roads
With no devil
Well I’ll make a deal
I’m going down to the cross roads
With no devil
Well I’ll make a deal

Maybe there aint no heaven
No burning hell
Maybe there aint no heaven
No burning hell
No

When I die
Where will I go>
When I die
Where will I go?

Somebody tell me
Somebody tell me
Somebody please tell me
Where will I go?

Maybe there aint no heaven
Maybe there aint no hell
No hell
No burning hell
Maybe there aint no heaven
Maybe there aint no hell
Maybe there aint no heaven
No burning hell
No

Just bought American VI : Ain’t No Grave the latest and probably last of Johnny Cash’s collaborations with Rick Rubin. I haven’t played it too much yet but I feel it’s in the same mode as the other albums and will I’m sure please all Cash fans and music lovers everywhere.

I find these albums incredibly sad, incredibly moving and actually find them very hard to listen to. I’m aware that music can be a powerful medium designed to impact upon your senses – but this guy just makes me cry.

I’m almost in tears as I write this, listening to his voice, listening to his words – so much passion so much emotion………………………….

I could not find a video from American VI so I decided to use Hurt, one of my favourite Cash/Rubin songs. Written by Trent Reznor and first released on Nine Inch Nails 1994 album The Downward Spiral. In 2002, it was one of Cash’s final releases before his death.

I hurt myself today,
to see if I still feel,
I focus on the pain,
the only thing that’s real,

The needle tears a hole,
the old familiar sting,
try to kill it all away,
but I remember everything,

(Chorus)
what have I become,
my sweetest friend,
everyone I know,
goes away in the end,

and you could have it all,
my empire of dirt,
I will let you down,
I will make you hurt,

I wear this crown of thorns,
upon my liars chair,
full of broken thoughts,
I cannot repair,

beneath the stains of time,
the feelings disappear,
you are someone else,
I am still right here,

What have I become,
my sweetest friend,
everyone I know,
goes away in the end,

and you could have it all,
my empire of dirt,
I will let you down,
I will make you hurt,

if I could start again,
a million miles away,
I will keep myself,
I would find a way.