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Chris Ibberson Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: Aug. 2011 Posted: Sep. 01 2011, 13:21 Does anyone remember a Radio One series from the 1980's hosted by Mike Read in which musicians popped in and chose their top 10 songs (A parody of Desert Island Discs)  I know that Mike included -Masquerade by the Skids, -Astronomy Domine-Pink Floyd, Amazing Grace-Royal Scots Dragoon Band, and tracks by Steve Miller Band and, Spirit. If anyone remembers the details of this programme approximately 60 minutes long, I would love to know. Some of his choices will have changed a lot since that year. -------------- Diana Luna Lucina Back to top

Airborne Group: Members Posts: 192 Joined: Sep. 2006 Posted: Sep. 01 2011, 16:12 Check out the bottom of this page. http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio1/star_guests.htm Don't have the exact details to hand (they are on another computer, I think) but your memory of the songs he had seems about right. Back to top

Airborne Group: Members Posts: 192 Joined: Sep. 2006 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 07:57 Eventually found the details today, here we are: Broadcast on BBC Radio One on October 29, 1983. 1. Skids - Masquerade 2. Zombies - She's Not There 3. Beatles - A Day In The Life 4. The Shadows - The Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt 5. Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - Amazing Grace 6. The Police - Can't Stand Losing You 7. Spirit - The Family That Plays Together 8. The Steve Miller Band - Sailor 9. Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers 10. Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine 11. Billy Holiday - Stormy Weather 12. Free - Alright Now Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 09:20 I hate most of those songs! Especially "All right now". Surely the creator of TB2 and Amarok and TSODE was joking with this list??   Back to top

kazav Group: Members Posts: 136 Joined: Oct. 2010 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 09:57 Maybe that's just how MO was feeling on the day. I know myself I could never compile a list like that. There are a few songs that are and always remain favourites but the rest of my list would keep changing depending on how I felt at the time. -------------- The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Back to top

HR lover Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Sep. 2010 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 11:51 Really awesome that such a list exists. I'm currently listening to all the music. Some bands I haven't heard of, like Skids. -------------- Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Back to top

HR lover Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Sep. 2010 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 12:03 Why, Oh why is a punk song on No1 when Mike was against punk? -------------- Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 12:14 Yes, great find Chris and Airborne! Think I like a lot of those songs. I don't know the Billy Holiday one. -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 12:17 Oh yes I do - just had a look. "Don't know why, there's no sun up in the sky Stormy weather, since my man and I ain't together Keeps raining all the time..." -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

Matt Group: Admins Posts: 1186 Joined: Nov. 2002 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 12:25 Quote (HR lover @ Sep. 04 2011, 17:03) Why, Oh why is a punk song on No1 when Mike was against punk? Interesting! Was it a change of heart and Mike did like that song or was it his sense of humour appearing again -------------- "I say I say I say I say, what's got three bottles and five eyes and no legs and two wheels" Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 14:21 Matt - yes, The Skids may be Mike's humour. They're not bad. Two of those titles are albums - The Family That Plays Together - Spirit Sailor - The Steve Millor Band. I'm a big fan of The Police so very chuffed that he likes "Can't Stand Losing You." -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

HR lover Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Sep. 2010 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 15:45 I used to be a fan of the police, but I've matured   -------------- Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Back to top

Cavalier (Lost Version) Group: Members Posts: 598 Joined: Nov. 2010 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 15:45 I'm pretty sure Iona was the first song I heard that I knew was by The Skids.  On the radio, quite liking it and no idea that they were punk, or post-punk or whatever and if anyone playing it commented on who the guest keyboardist was, it might not have sunk in anyway - we're still a few years away from my Damascus moment.  I see now that they were on Virgin and spent time recording at The Manor after Mike's main time, so he may have met them socially.  And he tried recording with Hazel O'Connor, didn't he? Most punks seemed to adapt out of the stereotyped phase - I remember a review in Smash Hits around this time commenting on why the appearance of strings on The Damned's Strawbs wasn't any more unexpected than the recent no. 1 from former member Captain Sensible, with a song from South Pacific! -------------- "Who was that?" "That was Venger - the force of Evil!  I am Dungeon Master - your guide in the realm of Dungeons & Dragons!" Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 16:12 Quote (HR lover @ Sep. 04 2011, 20:45) I used to be a fan of the police, but I've matured   Hey, altogether: -   "I see you've sent my letters back And my LP records and they're all scratched I can't see the point in another day When nobody listens to a word I say You can call it lack of confidence But to carry on living doesn't make no sense...." -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 16:14 This is a good one.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg2Nc178JIo&feature=fvst -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 17:53 Mike did play on a Skids record. More in this thread: http://tubular.net/forums....;t=2212 -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Hastengas Group: Members Posts: 319 Joined: Nov. 2010 Posted: Sep. 04 2011, 21:24 I bet his list is almost completely different now....mine can change with mood, let alone 28 years or so....some good songs there, but I dont see any influences in Mikes music...lol Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Sep. 05 2011, 03:35 Quote (wiga @ Sep. 04 2011, 16:14) This is a good one.   I'm surprised "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" wasn't on the list. Back to top

Chris Ibberson Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: Aug. 2011 Posted: Sep. 05 2011, 04:53 I would hazard a guess that Amazing Grace will still be in his Desert Island Discs, and Free All Right Now probably would be on the ship too. I never ever believed that I would love an album more than Ommadawn until 2001 Bjork Vespertine arrived, even then I gave it five years or so until I had to concede that it was my No.1 -------------- Diana Luna Lucina Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Sep. 05 2011, 17:11 Quote (Chris Ibberson @ Sep. 05 2011, 09:53) I would hazard a guess that Amazing Grace will still be in his Desert Island Discs. Yes, I think you could be right. Expect those words in the hymn must have resonated, to the extent he wanted to use them in 1999 for "Sunlight Shining Through Cloud". -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

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