Track of the Week - 12 August 2018
One of the things I've been enjoying on my 'sabbatical' from work is listening to the Radcliffe & Maconie show on BBC Radio 6 Music in the afternoons*. If I'm in I try to be around for their Tea Time Theme Time slot where listeners suggest three songs that are linked in some way and you have to find the connection.
It's rare that I know all three songs and even rarer that I get the connection, this week though I managed to get the correct answer first!
First up was Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine and their marvellous 1989 single Sheriff Fatman. This wordy rant at slum landlords is a song I've known for a while so I had a good handle on the lyrics. Bring on the second song.
It was Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran, a rock and roll hall of famer from 1958. A song I've heard plenty of times too. In the song Cochran doesn't want to work through the summer but loses privileges as a result. He gets so miffed he wants to take his problem to the United Nations. Hang on! Carter mention the United Nations too.
I jumped on the Twitter and sent my answer to the RadMac show. Now it was sit back** and wait for song three. I didn't know it (turns out it was The Words That Maketh Murder by PJ Harvey - I really should listen to more PJ Harvey, I usually enjoy what I hear from her) so didn't know if I was right.
Two and a half minutes in - no mention of the United Nations. Was I wrong? Had I gone too soon? Then at 2:45 "What if I take my problem to the United Nations?" Surely I was right. Not only right but the first to get it right. Chuffed with that!
Of the three songs I'm going with Summertime Blues as it's the one where I made the connection. If you want to listen to the others I'm sure you can find your way around the internet to get them.
* I can't believe the show's being moved to weekend mornings next year. Sad times.
** I was most likely throwing darts to tell the truth.
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