Radio
Myself and one of my friends – Scott – record a radio show with East Renfrewshire’s local radio station – Pulse 98.4FM Easy listening music and nonsense chat is the order of the day.
Here are some of the playlists from selected shows:
Laid Back with Gordon and Scott – October 2011
- Mustt Mustt – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Track 1
- Last Date – Floyd Cramer Track 1
- Changes – Kings of Tomorrow Track
- Chilled:
- Shoot You Down– The Stone Roses (Soul Hooligan Remix) CD 1 Track 17
- Amber – Sexual. Disc 1 Track 12
- Toxic Girl– Kings of Convenience Track 7
- Ambling Alp – Yeasayer. Track 2
- Fare The Well My Own True Love– Mary Black Track 9.
What’s The Year:
- The Right Thing To Do– Carly Simon Disc 2 Track 6
- Amoureuse – Kiki Dee. Disc2 Track 10.
- The Light is Always Green – The Housemartins Track 3
- Aeons– The Presets Track 10
- Laid Back to Back Classics (US Style)
- Lyin Eyes– The Eagles Track 9
- Oh Yeah – Roxy Music Disc 1 Track 4
- I Hear You Now – Jon and Vangelis Disc 2 Track 15
- You Are Here – Nathan Fake Track 8.
- Black Lead – Death in Vegas Track 4
One From Two:
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square – Harry Connick Jnr Track 6
- Numb – Portishead Track 6
Laid Back with Gordon and Scott – Gigha Special – May 2011
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Laid Back With Gordon and Scott – 4th Feb 2011
- Different Seasons– Johnny Hates Jazz
- Neon Lights– OMD
- Rainy Days and Mondays – Carpenters
- Chilled:
- Kuddelmaus - Ulrich Schnauss
- Breathing Light – Nitin Sawney
- Don’t Walk Away –Youssou N’Dour (feat Sting).
- Carry Me (Like a Fire in your Heart) – Chris De Burgh
- Coming Up Empty – Radio 4.
- Change – Lisa Stansfield.
- Laid Back to Back Classics:
- High – Lighthouse Family -
- High – James Blunt.
- The Sun Rising– The Beloved (Danny’s Love is…. Mix)–
- Bad Day – Daniel Powter.
- Signing Off– UB40
- Beautiful Day – Mozez Feat Zero 7.
- What’s The Year: (1983)
- Feels Like Heaven – Fiction Factory
- The First Picture of You – Lotus Eaters.
- One From One from Two:
- With or Without You– KeanE.
- Eyes Without a Face – Billy Idol.
Laid Back with Gordon & Scott – 28th January 2011
Love Goes Down – Plan B
Evergreen ( Love theme from A Star is Born) – Barbra Streisand
Move on Now – Hard Fi
Guess The Year ( 1980 )
Vienna – Ultravox ,
Celebrate – Simple Minds ,
Jodi Sings – Masters of Reality ,
Ocean Blue – ABC ,
If Your Thinking of me ( Lovesick Mix ) – Dodgy ,
2 x 1 x1 ( Cover Version )
If You Dont Know me by Now – Simply Red ,
The Same Mistakes – The Cooper Temple Clause ,
Permafrost – Magazine ,
Classic Chilled ( well , they will be )
Fjara – For a Minor Reflection ,
On Melancholy Hill – Gorillaz
3 Back to Back Classics
Lady Grinning Soul – David Bowie ,
Sunday Morning – Velvet Underground feat Nico ,
Tonight – Iggy Pop ,
Violet – Seal ,
Amused to Death – Roger Waters ,
Laid Back With Gordon and Scott – 17th January 2011
- Chilled:
- Dogs of Ilhes - Silicone Soul
- 84 Pontiac Dream – Boards of Canada
- Home– Erasure
- One Man’s Dream– Yanni
- City Life – Camel
- Laid Back to Back Classics:
- Moon River – Danny Williams
- Saturday Night, Sunday Morning – River Detectives.
- Any Second Now– Depeche Mode
- Channel 1 Suite –Cinematic Orchestra.
- September Blue – Chris Rea.
- Arizona Sky – China Crisis.
- Perfect Place – Voice of the Beehive.
- What’s The Year: (19?)
- Over You – Roxy Music
- Oh Yeah – Roxy Music.
- Clues:
- February 13 – The Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.
- February 19 – Bon Scott of AC/DC dies of alcohol poisoning.
- March 8th – the first official Russian rock festival – called the Tiblisi Rock Festival was held – the only acts were Russian abnds.
- April 10 – Spain and the United Kingdom agree to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain which had been closed since 1969.
- April 30 – Six Iranian-born terrorists take over the Iranian embassy in London, SAS retakes the Embassy on May 5.
- May 18th – Ian Curtis, singer/songwriter of acclaimed post punk band Joy Division, is found hanged.
- If You Could See Me Now – Big Bam Boo.
- Redemption song (Oh Happy Day) – Moodfood (with Tanita Tikaram).
- I Know There’s an Answer – The Beach Boys.
- One From One from Two:
- It’s Alright With Me– Harry Connick Jnr. (Written for the musical Can-Can by Cole Porter in 1954 Original recordings– Erroll Garner (1956), Ella Fitzgerald – (1956. 1958 and 1959), Frank Sinatra 1960 and 1984) and Tom Waits – (1990))
- Mistake – Moby.
Laid Back With Gordon and Scott – 5th November 2010
- Chilled:
- Harry Flowers- William Orbit Track 4
- The Child – Ravi Shaza Disc 3 – Track 8
- Remain Again– Adventures in Stereo Track 15
- Aye? – Martyn Bennet Track 2
- Tyrant – The Bravery Track 4
- Laid Back to Back Classics:
- The Secret Garden – Quincy Jones – Track 14
- Only You – flying Pickets. Disc 2 Track 6
- Try Me, I Know We Can Make It– Donna Summer – Track 3
- Too Late –OMD. Disc 8
- Temptation and Lies – Brett Johnson featuring Dave Baker. Track 10
- Luka – Suzanne Vega. Track 3
- Ain’t Necessarily So – Bronski Beat. Track 2.
- What’s The Year: (1999)
- Two Beds and a Coffee Machine – Savage Garden Track 9
- Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad – Moby. Track 4
- Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day – Morcheeba. Track 2.
- Albatross – Fleetwood Mac. Disc 2 Track 14
- Slip Slidin’ Away – Paul Simon. Track 11.
- One From One from Two:
- Keep on the Sunny Side– The Whites. Track 8. (Original – the Carter Family – 1928)
- River – Enya. Track 9.
Laid Back With Gordon and Scott – 10th Sept 2010
- Every Kinda People– Robert Palmer
- Song For Whoever – Beautiful South
- Toxic Girl – Kings of Convenience /David Whittaker
- Chilled:
- Melt – Leftfield
- Any Other Name – Thomas Newman
- Rodrigo’s Guitare Concerto – Nicolas De Angelis
- Lovely Day –Bill Wiuthers.
- What’s The Year: (1960)
- Theme From A Summer Place– Peecy Faith Orchestra.
- Beyond the Sea – Bobby Darin.
- Koko’s Song – Silicon Soul.
- Silence is Golden – Brian Poole and the Tremeloes.
- I’m So Lonely I Could Cry – Floyd Cramer.
- Laid Back to Back Classics:
- The Drugs Don’t Work – The Verve.
- Children – Robert Miles.
- Run – Snow Patrol
- Barefoot – Chicane.
- Caught in the Act of Being Themselves – Rex Bob Lowenstein.
- I Like Birds – Eels.
- One From One from Two:
- The Man Who Sold the World– Lulu.
- Chiquitita – Abba.
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Laid Back With Gordon and Scott – 10th Sept 2010
- Dream to Sleep– H20
- Half Mast – Empire of the Sun
- Never Be Lonely – The Feeling
- Chilled:
- Love’s Theme – Vangelis
- Pacific 808 – 808 State
- The Beloved – Lose Yourself In Me
- The Eagles – Love Will Keep Us Alive.
- What’s The Year: (1982)
- Maneater – Darryl Hall and John Oates. Disc 2 – Track 18
- Pale Shelter – Tears For Fears. Disc 3
- Just for Tonight – Groove Armada.
- Let There Be Love – Nat King Cole.
- Standin’ In the Rain – ELO.
- Laid Back to Back Classics:
- The Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.
- I’m Not in Love – 10 CC.
- Ordinary World – Duran Duran
- In the Bath – Lemon Jelly. Track 1.
- Heart of Gold – Johnny Hates Jazz. Track 11
- Neon Lights – OMD. Disc 11.
- One From One from Two:
- Mr Fix It– UB 40.
- Toxic Gilr – Kings of Convenience. Disc 7.
Laid Back With Gordon and Scott – 14th June 2010
• OMD – Souvenir.
• Yeasayer – Sunrise
• Chilled:
o Silicon Soul – 3:00am.
o Lemon Jelly – In the Bath.
• Paul Haig – Something Good
• Nat King Cole – Unforgettable.
• Imagination – In and Out of Love.
• Laid Back to Back Classics:
o Neil Diamond – Love on the Rocks.
o Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
o Tears for Fears – The Hurting
• The Script – The Man Who Can’t Be Moved.
• Snow Patrol – Run.
• Abba – One of Us.
• Shakespeare’s Sister – Stay
• What’s The Year: (1989)
o Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold
o Bangles – Eternal Flame.
• Ulrich Schnaus – In all the Wrong Places.
• Slade – Everyday
• Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To My Lovely
• One From Two:
o Perry Como – Magic Moments.
o Dean Martin – Magic Moments.
Laid Back With Gordon and Scott – 14th May 2010
• Rick Astley – Cry for Help.
• Dean Martin – Memories Are Made of This.
• What’s The Year: (1975)
o Paul Simon – 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.
o Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy.
o Clues:
• Garbage – A State of Luck.
• Def Leppard – Tonight.
• The Bible – Honey Be Good.
• Laid Back to Back Classics:
o Jon and Vangelis – I’ll Find My Way Home.
o Everything But the Girl – I Don’t Walk to Talk About It.
o Alessi – Oh Lori
• Bark Psychosis – 400 Winters
• Kings of Convenience versus David Whitaker – Toxic Girl
• Chilled:
o The Edge – Rowena’s Theme.
o The Sabres of Paradise – Smokebelch II (Beatless Mix)
• The Fray – How To Save a Life
• Ghosts – Temporary
• ELO – Big Wheels
• Cast of Godspell – Day by Day
• Lloyd Cole and the Commotion – Rattlesnakes
• Tommy Dorsey Dorsey Orchestra – Song of India
• One for Two:
o Jealous Guy – John Lennon
o Jealous Guy – Bryan Ferry
• The Avalanches – Since I Left You.
• Johnny Hates Jazz – Turn Back the Clock
2nd April
- White Winter Hymnal – Fleet Foxes
- Billy Davies Daughter – Stereophonics
- Classic Chilled
- Shoot You down – Stone Roses
- Melt – Leftfield
- The Way You Do The Things You Do – Manfred Mann
- I Am I Said – Neil Diamond
- 3 Back to Back classics
- Falling Down – Turin Brakes
- Driftwood – Travis
- Half The World Away – Noel Gallagher
- Bass Trap – U2
- People Get Ready – Curtis Mayfield
- Guess The Year (1967)
- Alone Again Or – Love
- Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand – The Who
- Golden Brown – Stranglers
- Touch Me in the Morning – Diana Ross
- 2 x 1 (same track 2 different artists )
- Life on Mars (live) – David Bowie
- Life on Mars – Divine Comedy
- Winter in July – Bomb the Bass
- Cry for Help – Rick Astley
- Sacred Trust – Bee Gees
- Precious – Depeche Mode
- The Beginning and The End – OMD
19th March
- They – Jem
- Danny Wilson – Mary’s Prayer
- Crystal Gale – Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
- Talk Talk – Give It Up
- Chilled:
- Mogwai – Black Spider
- Tag! – Ms Gonzalez
- Yanni – Aria
- Radio 4 – Coming Up Empty
- David Gray – We’re Not Right
- What’s the Year: 1980
- UB40 – Food for Thought
- The Korgi’s – Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime
- The Archies – Sugar Sugar
- Mike Oldfield – Aurora
- Eagles – Love Will Keep Us Alive
- Back to Back Classics:
- Annie Lennox – Why
- Roxy Music – Over You
- Joe Jackson – It’s Different For Girls
- Camel – City Life
- Jackson Browne – Say It Isn’t True
- Youssou N’Dour – Don’t Walk Away (Featuring Sting)
- Pat Methaney Group – Are You Going With Me?
5th March
- Porcelain by Moby
- Glory Box by Portishead
- Downtown Lights by Blue Nile
- Atmosphere by Joy Division
- Love Theme – A Star is Born by Barbra Striesand
- Holes by Mercury Rev
- That’s Amore by Dean Martin
- I Say a Little Prayer by Aretha Franklin
- Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding
- Seymour Stein by Belle and Sebastien
- 2×1-
- Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen & Jeff Buckley
1995 tracks
- Walking in Memphis by Cher
- Yes by Mcalmont and Butler
- Come Together by Smokin Mojo Filters
Classic chilled
- Higher than the Sun by Primal Scream
- Little Fluffy Clouds by The Orb
- Moonlight Serenade – Glenn Miller
19th Feb
- I Can’t Forget – Leonard Cohen
- Sailing Away – Chris De Burgh
- Silver Girl – Fleetwood Mac
- Laid Back to Back Classics:
- Hotel California – Eagles
- Groovy Kind of Love – Wayne Fontana
- Maggie May – Rod Stewart
- One & One – Robert Miles
- Luka – Suzanne Vega
Chilled:
- Kunst Or Ars – The Meanderthals
- Sunshine’s Better – John Martyn (Talvin Singh Version)
- Wonderful Life – Black
- More Than this – Roxy Music
- The Shining – Badly Drawn Boy
Linked:
- True – Spandau Ballet
- Set Adrift on Memory Bliss – PM Dawn.
- Unforgettable – Nat King Cole
What a Year: (1965)
- California Dreamin’ – Mamas and Papas.
- Mr Tambourine Man – The Byrds
And
- Imbube – Lady Smith Black Mambazo
- True – Spandau Ballet
- Everybody Hurts – REM
- Ice Cream Van – Glasvegas

