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Mixed Music Bag 2024 – week 9 – Delphic

The final February MMB. Find a band or solo singer that starts with the letter C or D (March will be E or F)

Delphic are an alternative dance band from Manchester, England. They are signed to Polydor but released their first single “Counterpoint”, produced by Ewan Pearson, in April 2009 through R&S Records. The band started out as a trio – Richard “Rick” Boardman, Matt Cocksedge, and James Cook – after their previous group, ‘Snowfight in the City Centre’, disbanded. They are now a four-piece band, joined by drummer Dan Hadley. At present the band have other projects in the making.

The band’s first album Acolyte was released in 2010, followed by Collections in 2013. Doubt was the first single taken from their first album.

Wanting meaning, wanting more than the same things
Wanting everything, just to start at the ending
I found another face to show
Just because what you say is what will go

Doubt, in it all for me
I’ve hit the wall, all that’s left for you is doubt
Better you than me, I’ve so far to fall
All that’s left for you is doubt
In it all for me, I’ve hit the wall that’s left for you is doubt
Better you than me, I’ve so far to fall, but I can’t change now

Missing the life gone by that I had lost
I’m missing the better times that I had lost
When you’re near me I get tired when you follow
When you speak what you say is what will go
Will go
What you say is what will go

Doubt, in it all for me
I’ve hit the wall, all that’s left for you is doubt
Better you than me, I’ve so far to fall
All that’s left for you is doubt
In it all for me, I’ve hit the wall that’s left for you is doubt
Better you than me, I’ve so far to fall, but I can’t change now

Doubt, in it all for me
I’ve hit the wall, all that’s left for you is doubt
Better you than me, I’ve so far to fall
All that’s left for you is doubt
In it all for me, I’ve hit the wall that’s left for you is doubt
Better you than me, I’ve so far to fall, but I can’t change now

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: James Cook / Matthew Cocksedge / Richard Boardman

Doubt lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Song Lyric Sunday – Singled out

This week the SLS theme is to find a song that was not originally released as an album single, or never became a single. Thanks once again to Jim Adams for the prompt.

This week I’ve chosen a track by possibly my all-time favourite UK band; Free. The song Fire And Water is the lead track from the album of the same name and was first released on the island record label in April 1970 and was a landmark album for the band. Their best known song; ‘All Right Now’ was also on it.

Every single day, I got a heartache comin' my way
I don't want to say goodbye 
Baby but look at the tears in my eye
I don't want to say goodbye 
Mama but look at the way you made me cry
Every way that's nice
You show you've got a heart that's made of ice
And I know

Fire and water must have made you their daughter
You've got what it takes, to make a poor man's heart break
A poor mans heart break

Baby you turn me on
But as quick as a flash your love is gone
Baby I'm gonna leave you now 
But I'm gonna try to make you grieve somehow

Fire and water must have made you their daughter
You've got what it takes to make a poor man's heart break
A poor man's heart break
And my heart is breakin' too

I don't want to say goodbye baby
But look at the tears you made me cry
Every way that's nice 
You show you've got a heart that's made of ice
And I know

Fire and water must have made you their daughter
You've got what it takes to make a poor mans heart break

Fire, fire and water must have made you their daughter
Baby you've got what it take to make a poor man's heart break
Heart break

Baby and my heart is breakin'
Oh my heart is breakin'
Oh listen

written by Fraser/Rodgers

Update on Chase

Here are the latest pictures of my dog; Chase, after he had his first full groom at the pet shop.

It’s amazing how the white markings on his chest stand out now.

Mixed Music Bag 2024 – week 8 – Caravan

Caravan are an English rock band from the Canterbury, Kent area, founded by former Wilde Flowers members David Sinclair, Richard Sinclair, Pye Hastings, and Richard Coughlan in 1968. The band have never achieved the great commercial success that was widely predicted for them at the beginning of their career, but are nevertheless considered a key part of the Canterbury Scene of progressive rock acts, blending psychedelic rock, jazz, and classical influences to create a distinctive sound.

After being dropped by Verve Record, the band signed to Decca, where they released their most critically acclaimed album, In The Land Of Grey and Pink, in 1971 (Golf Girl is a track from that album). Dave Sinclair left after the album’s release and the group split up the following year. Hastings and Coughlan added new members and continued on before splitting again in 1978.

The band reformed several times in the following decades, and Caravan still remain active as a live band in the 21st century, despite Coughlan’s death in December 2013.

Standing on a golf course dressed in PVC
I chanced upon a golf girl selling cups of tea
She asked me did I want one, asked me with a grin
For thruppence you can buy one full right to the brim

Well of course I had to have one – in fact I ordered three
So I could watch the golf girl, could see she fancied me
And later on the golf course after drinking tea
It started raining golf balls and she protected me

Her name was Pat
And we sat under a tree
She kissed me
We go for walks in fine weather
All together
On the golf course
We talk in morse

Standing on a golf course dressed in PVC
I chanced upon a golf girl selling cups of tea
She asked me did I want one, asked me with a grin
For thruppence you can buy one full right to the brim

Well of course I had to have one – in fact I ordered three
So I could watch the golf girl, could see she fancied me
And later on the golf course after drinking tea
It started raining golf balls and she protected me

Her name was Pat
And we sat under a tree
She kissed me

Let’s hear it for Jeffrey, come on

Thank you everybody, good night

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: David Sinclair / Richard Sinclair / Dave Sinclair / Richard Coughlan / Pye Hastings / Richard Voughlan

Song Lyric Sunday – Collaborating Duos

The theme of SLS this week is to find a songwriting duo who wrote mainly together and performed in a band. Thanks once again to Jim Adams for the prompt.

Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook are the songwriting team known for their work as the principal writers for the British New Wave rock band Squeeze. In addition to playing guitar for the band, they are responsible for the group’s many hits, including “Cool for Cats, “Up the Junction,” “Another Nail In My Heart,” “Pulling Mussels (From the Shell),” “Tempted,” and “Annie Get Your Gun.” They have both written independently outside the band.

They do it down on Camber Sands
They do it at Waikiki
Lazing about the beach all day,
At night the crickets creepy

Squinting faces at the sky
A Harold Robbins paperback
Surfers drop their boards and dry
And everybody wants a hat

But behind the chalet
My holiday’s complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from a shell
Pulling mussels from a shell

Shrinking in the sea so cold
Topless ladies look away
A he-man in a sudden shower
Shelters from the rain

You wish you had a motor boat
To pose around the harbor bar
And when the sun goes off to bed
You hook it up behind the car

But behind the chalet
My holiday’s complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from a shell
Pulling mussels from a shell

Two fat ladies window shop
Something for the mantelpiece
In for bingo all the nines
A panda for sweet little niece

The coach drivers stand about
Looking at a local map
About the boy who’s gone away
Down to next door’s caravan

But behind the chalet
My holiday’s complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from a shell
Pulling mussels from a shell

But behind the chalet
My holiday’s complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from a shell
Pulling mussels from a shell

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Christopher Henry Difford / Glenn Martin Tilbrook

Pulling Mussels lyrics © Royalty Network, Universal Music Publishing Group

Mixed music bag 2024 – Week 7 – Depeche Mode

February’s MMB theme is to find a band or solo singer who’s name starts with a C or D

Depeche Mode are a band that I’ve followed since the release of their first single; Dreaming of Me in 1981. To date, they have released 60 singles, 15 studio albums, 7 live albums and 10 compilations.

Memento Mori (which, translated means; ‘Remember that you must die’) is the fifteenth studio album by the band; released on 24 March 2023 through Columbia Records. The album was produced by James Ford, and marks their first album in six years since 2017’s Spirit, the longest period of time between albums in the band’s history and is the first Depeche Mode studio album to be recorded and released as a duo, after the death of co-founder and keyboardist Andy Fletcher on 26 May 2022. “Ghosts Again” was the single that preceded the Memento Mori album and was released on 9th february 2023 as a tribute to Andy. Dave Gahan (vocals) and Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar vocals) are the two remaining original members of the band.

Wasted feelings
Broken meanings
Time is fleeting
See what it brings

Hellos, goodbyes, a thousand midnights
Lost in sleepless lullabies

Heaven’s dreaming
Thoughtless thoughts, my friends
We know we’ll be ghosts again

Sundays shining
Silver linings
Weightless hours
All my flowers

A place to hide the tears that you cried
Everybody says goodbye

Faith is sleeping
Lovers in the end
Whisper we’ll be ghosts again

Heaven’s dreaming
Thoughtless thoughts, my friends
We know we’ll be ghosts again

Faith is sleeping
Lovers in the end
Whisper we’ll be ghosts again

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Richard Butler / Martin Gore

Ghosts Again lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Ltd.

Song Lyric Sunday – In uniform

The theme of SLS this week is to find a band who all, or are mostly wearing the same uniform in a performance. Thanks again to Jim for the prompt.

Mud, the English glam rock band, were formed in February 1966. Their earlier success came in a pop and then glam rock style, while later hits were influenced by 1950s rock and Roll and rockabilly and they are best remembered for their hit singles “Dynamite” , “Tiger Feet”, which was the UK’s best-selling single of 1974, and “Lonely This Christmas” which was a number one in December 1974. After signing to Rak Records and teaming up with songwriters/producers Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, the band had fourteen UK Top 20 hits between 1973 and 1976, including three number ones.

The classic line-up during that period were; Les Gray – lead vocals, keyboards (deceased). Rob Davis – lead guitar vocals. Ray Stiles – bass guitar, vocals. Dave Mount – drums, percussion (deceased).

Mud also released four UK singles in the 60s but none charted.

Nobody knew her name
She turned up just the same
There was a knock on the door
A bump on the floor
And the party turned insane
She called out her na-a-a-me

Then she walked in looking like dynamite
She said now come along boogaloo through the night
And by the way she’s moving well dynamite
Might she not, we’re all she’s got
She’s got the whole town lighting up dynamite
Nobody quite knows what to do wrong or right
But they all know Dyna is dynamite
And they’re right

She hadn’t been there long
When she told us where she came from
There was a flash in the sky
A light in her eye
And the dynamite light burned on
As the music went on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on

Then she walked in looking like dynamite
She said now come along boogaloo through the night
And by the way she’s moving well dynamite
Might she not, we’re all she’s got
She’s got the whole town lighting up dynamite
Nobody quite knows what to do wrong or right
But they all know Dyna is dynamite
And they’re right

And then she walked in looking like dynamite
She said now come along boogaloo through the night
And by the way she’s moving well dynamite
Might she not, we’re all she’s got
She’s got the whole town lighting up dynamite
Nobody quite knows what to do wrong or right
But they all know Dyna is dynamite
And they’re right
And they’re right
And then she walked in looking like dynamite…..

Source: AZ Lyrics

Writer(s): Sylvester Stewart

Dynamite lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc

Mixed Music Bag 2024 – Week 6 – The Cure

As it’s now February, the theme for this months MMB is to find a band or singer that starts with the letter C or D

The Cure are an English rock band formed in 1978 in Crawley, Sussex. Throughout numerous lineup changes since the band’s formation, guitarist, lead vocalist, and songwriter Robert Smith has remained the only constant member, though bassist Simon Gallop has been present for all but about three years of the band’s history. Their debut album, Three Imaginary Boys (1979), along with several early singles, placed the band at the forefront of the emerging post-punk and new wave movements that had sprung up in the United Kingdom. Beginning with their second album, Seventeen Seconds (1980), the band adopted a new, increasingly dark and tormented style, which, together with Smith’s stage look, had a strong influence on the emerging genre of gothic rock as well as the subculture that eventually formed around the genre.

I’ve chosen a remix of A Forest, from the Mixed Up (1990) album. It was originally their only single from the Seventeen Seconds album, which is one of my favourites. I’ve been a fan and collector of the Cure from the very beginning.

The band hasn’t released a studio album since 2008 but there are rumours of a new one coming out this year?

Come closer and see
See into the trees
Find the girl
While you can

Come closer and see
See into the dark
Just follow your eyes
Just follow your eyes

I hear her voice
Calling my name
The sound is deep
In the dark

I hear her voice
And start to run
Into the trees
Into the trees

Into the trees

Suddenly I stop
But I know it’s too late
I’m lost in a forest
All alone

The girl was never there
It’s always the same
I’m running towards nothing
Again and again and again and again…

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Laurence Andrew Tolhurst / Robert James Smith / Simon Gallup / Matthieu A. Hartley

A Forest lyrics © Fiction Songs Ltd.

Song Lyric Sunday – Dance yourself dizzy

The theme of SLS this week is to find a song that is/was a dance craze. Thanks once again to Jim for the prompt.

Moonstomp was a simple dance derived from earlier styles of reggae to associate with offbeat genres such as ska and dub. It was also referred to as “skanking”, which has it’s origins in Jamaica.

To moonstomp conventionally, it is suggested that you raise your left leg along with your left arm and produce a low kicking movement towards the ground in front while making a slow and gentle “punching the air” movement with your fist, sweeping it behind your right leg and doing the same movement symmetrically with your right leg and right arm and thus repeating, to the rhythm and tempo of the ska or dub song, until the end of the song.

“I want all you skinheads to get up on your feet, put your braces together and your boots on your feet and give me some of that old moonstomping……”

© 1999-2024 Urban Dictionary ®

I want all you skinheads to get up on your feet
Put your braces together and your boots on your feet
And give me some of that old moonstomping

Get ready, we got three million miles to reach the moon
So let’s start getting happy now
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah

Now, before we reach the moon, fellas
We got to make sure that everthing is spic and span, alright?
We got to make sure you, shine your boots, brush your teeth
Because the man on the moon look different from man on the Earth
That’s what I say boys
Now remember, I am your boss skinhead speaking, my name is Caleb
Alright, and remember, I’m the boss
You can see, look at my boot, or my feet, or whatever you want to call it
And you can see I’ve got the biggest boots (that’s not right)
Now, when I say “sing”, I want everyone to get in the groove and start singing
Because we’re on the moon

Ready? One time, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah

Now, I want all you fellas to gather around me, and we’re gonna start stomping
Ready? Here we go, one time

Now, we want to make sure when we get back on the Earth
We’ve got the moon on top of us

Now, we want to make sure that everybody is still in the groove when we get back
So let’s start singing one more time

Ready?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Come on, moonwalk, moonwalk, come on…

Source: LyricFind