Bellshill Bands suggested by JC

 

I had reached the total of 9 Bellshill bands and was keen to reach double figures.

I was devoid of ideas but fortunately JC stepped up to the plate with three more taking it to a dozen bands which sounds like a much neater way to finish. Thank you Jim!

He went into quite a lot of detail in the comments about the three bands in question. So much so that I think I will merely cut and paste his comments as they are far more informative than anything I could come up with

You mentioned Joe McAlinden a couple of times in previous posts. He is very much a Bellshill boy, and so you could feature his own band, Linden who released two albums back in 2012 and 2015 (the former being on AED Record, the label owned and run by Edwyn Collins).

I think you could also include Superstar - another band fronted by Joe and which included Jim McCulloch among their number. 1998 album 'Palm Tree' was reissued a while back by Past Night From Glasgow.

Primary 5 are another possibility. Founded by Paul Quinn (former drummer with TFC) and another in which Jim McCulloch was involved. They released albums in the 00's

What a great way to conclude this series. And no Sheena Easton Ernie - Sorry, not sorry!

Linden -Rest & Be Thankful

Superstar - Superstar

Primary 5 - Off Course

Saturday Shuffle 162

 

You will all be familiar with the song Drift Away. It was written by Mentor Williams and has been covered by a number of singers including most famously  our cover star and Saturday Shuffle debutant Dobie Gray.

Broken Chanter is up next up - Bandcamp catalogue available here From the 2021 album Catastrophe Hits  on LNFG/Olive Grove here's David with track 7 Extinction Event Souvenir T-Shirt

To finish we travel as far back as 1970 with Canned Heat and  Let's Work Together something that CCM always subscibes  to.

We shall hopefully reconvene next Saturday for more Shuffling.

Dobie Gray - Drift Away

Broken Chanter - Extinction Event Souvenir T-Shirt

Canned Heat - Let's Work Together

Goat's Head Soup

 

George recently very kindly sent me a copy of Goats Head Soup the eleventh studio album from The Rolling Stones originally released in 1973. I must admit that it was not one that I was familiar with. Indeed the only one of the ten tracks that I was recognised  was the hit single Angie.

It may be just me but I think that many folk may have thought that it failed to live up to the classic four albums which preceded it namely Beggars Banquet (1968), Let It Bleed (1969), Sticky Fingers (1971) and Exile on Main St (1972). Let's face it any album would struggle to follow these four.

I think I may have promoted the Fantastic Four to the Fabulous Five!

George also kindly included three bonus tracks from the 2020 Deluxe version which I may well feature at a later date.

The Rolling Stones - Dancing With Mr D

The Rolling Stones -Angie

The Rolling Stones - Winter

Funky Chickens

 My pal Euan and I had the "pleasure" of catching up with George , our Portuguese correspondent, for brunch in Glasgow yesterday on his way to see his mum in Dundee.

He seemed to spend most of the time talking about chickens, and him a vegan too.

We are meeting up again on Saturday for a curry prior to his flight home. Chicken may well be on the menu.

I don't think the Willie Henderson doing the Funky Chicken is the one who played  for Rangers and Scotland in the 60's.

T-Model Ford - Chicken Head Man

Lloyd Price - The Chicken and the Bop

Bobby Rush - Chickenheads

Willie Henderson & the Soul Explosions - Do The Funky Chicken pt. 1

Frank Chickens - We Are Ninja

Joe Strimmer

 

We were driving through East Kilbride when I saw a man strimming a grass verge.

As is my wont I shouted out Joe Strimmer! Juvenile I know but there you go.

Obviously this post calls for a song from each of the three albums by Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros namely Rock Art and the X-Ray Style (1999), Global A Go-Go (2001) and Streetcore (2003) the latter one very kindly gifted to me by JC

A reminder that I still have some strimming to do before the weather takes a turn for the worse.

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Yalla, Yalla

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Bhindi Bhagee 

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Redemption Song

Only Connect

 

Like Jez I am a fan of the BBC2 Quiz Show Only Connect hosted by Victoria Coren- Mitchell. After his post I now find myself looking at the show in a new light.!

It's pretty difficult and you end up feeling pretty chuffed if you guess a connection correctly. I'm not bad at the missing letters round but struggle to get any connections from the other three rounds.

I think what I'm saying is that I would not be an automatic choice in the Bloggers Team.

I reckon Rol, John, and of course Jez would make a fairly formidable team!

Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely

Yazoo - Only You

Stereo MCs - Connected

Elastica - Connection

More Painter Songs

 

I'm stuck for inspiration so more painter songs today with no focus on the colour this time.

Elmer Gantry, Norah Jones, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot and Belle & Sebastian have all got their brushes out.

Please feel free to point out where they've missed a bit

Elmer Gantry - The Painter

Norah Jones - Painter Song

Neil Young - The Painter

Gordon Lightfoot - Painter Passing Through

Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane