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 recent shows:

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