Monday, 29 April 2013

Monday Morning Music - And what you say about his company is what you say about society

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Rush - Tom Sawyer


 Tom Sawyer is a song by Canadian rock band Rush, named after Mark Twain's literary character.  Geddy Lee has referred to the track as the band's "defining piece of music...from the early '80s" 
"Tom Sawyer" came about during a summer rehearsal holiday that Rush spent at
Ronnie Hawkins' farm outside Toronto (sounds like Peterborough to me!).

Enjoy!

Monday, 22 April 2013

Monday Morning Music - BAH Bah Bah!

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline



 "Sweet Caroline" is a soft rock song written and performed by Neil Diamond and officially released on September 16th 1969, as a single. It was later released on December 9, 1972 as a part of Diamond's Hot August Night album.  In a 2007 interview, Diamond revealed the inspiration for "Sweet Caroline" was President John F. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline Kennedy, who was eleven years old at the time.  Boston's Fenway Park has played the song since at least 1997, and it has been played at every game in the middle of the eighth inning since 2002.

This is how it sounds with the Fenway faithful -


I'll always think of this rendition, myself - 


Enjoy!

Monday, 15 April 2013

Monday Morning Music - Don't Waste My Time

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Lay It On The Line - Triumph


 Triumph is a Canadian hard rock power trio that was popular in the late 1970s through the 1980s.  The heavy-rotation FM radio airplay of 'Lay It On The Line' solidified the band in the minds of classic rock audiences. In 'oldies' classic rock formats, it remains the most widely played and recognized song from the Triumph catalogue.

Enjoy!

Monday, 8 April 2013

Monday Morning Music - When You Wanna Go To It

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax


Frankie Goes to Hollywood (FGTH) were a British band popular in the mid-1980s.  The group's debut single "Relax" was banned by the BBC in 1984 while at number six in the charts and subsequently topped the UK singles chart for five consecutive weeks, going on to enjoy prolonged chart success throughout that year and ultimately becoming the seventh best-selling UK single of all time.

the BBC banned the record from all its TV and radio outlets, with the exception of its Top 40 show.[7] "Relax" immediately shot to Number One in the UK charts and stayed there for five weeks, during which time the BBC could not feature the nation's best-selling single on Top Of The Pops.

I always think "Zoolander" when I hear this song, but couldn't find a good clip online.  This'll have to do.

 Enjoy!

Monday, 1 April 2013

Monday Morning Music - "I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling"

Monday Morning Music is whatever tune I've got in my head when I wake up.

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up


"Never Gonna Give You Up" is a 1987 song by British singer Rick AstleyThe song was a worldwide number-one hit, initially in the singer's native United Kingdom in 1987.  In 2004, it was voted #28 in 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs ... Ever by VH1. In 2008, Rick Astley won the MTV EMA awards for "Best Act Ever" with the song "Never Gonna Give You Up", as a result of collective voting from thousands of people on the internet, due to the popular phenomenon of Rickrolling.

 "Never Gonna Give You Up" is the subject of a popular Internet prank known as "Rickrolling" involving misleading links redirecting to the song's music video.[6] By May 2007, the practice had achieved notoriety on the Internet, and it increased in popularity after its use as a 2008 April Fool's Day joke by various media companies and websites, including YouTube rickrolling all of its featured videos on that day and a website allowing people to Rickroll their friends' phones.

Enjoy (if you can)!