Word Association Game

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PHONE

 

 

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MONEY

 

St. Bob says get on the phone and give us your money and performing at Live Aid.  I saw him with the Boomtown Rats at Wychwood a few years ago and they were still remarkably good.

 

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COINS 

 

 

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CASH

 

The mountain fire seems to be dying down and, hopefully, under control.  A day of digging out tree roots to extend my veg patch (well reclaim a bit that has been overgrown by the ever expanding laurel hedge).

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HURT

 

In my opinion, sad as it is, the best cover version if all time. 

Glad the fire is dying down. I'm a bit less manic with work today

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HEAL

 

Lovely Johnny Cash.  A sad song for sad times.

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BOOM

 

One of my mates from school and uni is massively into his blues and plays in a few bands (has done for years). Whilst I'm not as avid a blues fan as he is still like it. And of course from the fantastic Blues Brothers film. 

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BLUES

Sorry I cant find a performance video but the was the wonderful Liverpool Scene with their mickey take on the blues scene of the day. "You'd better learn some blues son because there's gonna be a boom."

John Peel was a big fan.  More info here: https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Liverpool_Scene

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STORY 

 

 

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MAIL This is from Harry Chapin's album Short Stories.  Beautiful and bittersweet.  Harry Chapin wrote songs which he said were about big moments in the lives of ordinary people.

 

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NIGHT

 

Loved the original of this but this is great too. 

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DIXIE

 

Another track from The Last Waltz.  Great DVD and series of concerts.

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CHICKS

 

 

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RUN

 

 

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SLIPPY 

 

I'm not sure if I've posted it before but done a search on born and slippy on thread and doesn't look like it

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HERD

 

 

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FARM

 

 

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HARVEST

 

 

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WORLD

 

The original of course which I discovered via this cover which is pretty good too

 

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CHRISTIAN

 

One of the finest festival bands of all time.  Great singalong anthems.  The connection is the first verse: "Well I didn't see much future when I left the Christian Brothers' School."

This track is a lovely wave your arms in the air and singalong.

Steady rain today but the mountain is still smouldering.

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DOCTORS

 

I did a 5 month work placement at uni out in Canada working for my cousins and this was one of the songs of that summer. 

Was great time as 1 of my cousins was in a band so lots of gigs and parties. 

This is them:

 

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PARTY

 

A memento of your parties in Canada.  Two people here Springsteen and Southside Johnny both grew up in New Jersey and ran rival bands but also occasionally played together.  A lot of the musicians moved between their bands so Southside Johnny's band The Asbury Jukes became the Springsteen second team.

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HARD

 

 

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SOFT

 

 

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TAINTED 

 

Whilst Soft Cell is a great cover I do love a bit of Northern Soul so linking to original version. 

There are 2 reasons i have heard that Soft Cell covered this song:

1) Mark Almond was big fan of Marc Bolan and Gloria Jones was a girlfriend of Bolans

2) Mark was working at the Warehouse club in Leeds in the cloakroom and heard it played at a soul night there