Thank Felix it’s Friday.
Gather round, readers. The vinyl-breaking theme for this week’s voucher-less music banter comes courtesy of our valued Trailer Park key-holder Andy Pipkin.
Andy writes:
“As a suggestion for today’s competition may I suggest your favourite song about cheating!! Here’s mine.”
You may.
And here’s mine.
Lines must close at 5.15pm 10.45pm Saturday 10am.
Please include video link if possible.
Last week I asked you to name your favourite song about or mentioning stars. You answered in your tens.
Ben Madigan won my esteem with this entry…
Teenage Fanclub – Star Sign
Ben writes:
“Is your star sign ever wrong?”
“A classic slice of melodic guitar power pop from 1991’s Bandwagonesque.”
Nick says: Congrats Ben and thanks to y’all for entering.
Last week: Win Nick’s Esteem
Steamboat Vinyl, Limerick
FREE.
You’ve been cheatin’ on me
You’ve been cheatin’ on me
You’ve been cheatin’ on me
I can tell, I can tell
You’ve been cheatin’ on me
And now I’m free of you
Primal Scream – Free
have a great one.
link to Free.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp5uTdxXbeo
as David is obv paying homage to Lennon’s US Army shirt in rocking that jacket,here ya go Jealous Guy.
https://youtu.be/wADRRYNHhOA
The Doors Back Door Man. Superb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9n3v4Wr-JI
Great winner, all right!
And another great topic! In honour of Andy’s single female name country song, allow me to go with Lucille by Kenny Rogers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kulJsH8v0ok
there’s gonna be a whole passel o’ country music on this here thread –
your cheatin’ heart, patsy cline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKZRp515SmY
I’m going to polish my rifles while I listen back over the weekend and swig bad whiskey ( just to stay in character)
what do you get when you play a country and western song backwards?
you get your girl back, your dog back, your car back..
haha maybe even your teeth ! back
Even better Marianne faithful why’d you do it
A song in homage to mick jagger broken English
As she sings you feel her heart broken and the pure rage of being betrayed
And the lyrics are not pleasant but brilliant
johnny cash, the long black veil.
i’ll see your cheating and raise you a hanging – a lad would rather hang than admit he was cheating with his best mate’s wife:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYA46dyKh4
Marianne Faithful
The long black veil on rich kids blues one of the best album you will ever hear
Well done Ben
Can Nick win his own esteem? Excellent choice Nick
Shaggy. ‘It wasn’t me.’ Of course
https://youtu.be/Fua6PSz4-kY
Dolly, Bury we under the willow
Keeping on a Dolly/cheating theme, I like the groove in her 1983 track “Potential New Boyfriend”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sDzu5sm-9Q
The video looks like it could have been shot in Dublin. Can anyone confirm? I see the director was Dublin-born, Steve Barron.
Although I think the song would probably have been better without the chorus – or maybe it’s just because that’s the version I became familiar with first
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps_YAr-8udU
wouldn’t that be cool
More Dolly…
“I know this dress I’m wearing doesn’t hide the secret
I have tried concealing
When he left he promised me he’d be back
By the time it was revealing”
Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra – Down from Dover
https://youtu.be/3PR6_B95gfw
Dolly doing Jolene at 33 and a third rpm
https://youtu.be/cS4LCoh0VGQ
Hank, your cheating heart
footsteps on the dancefloor, next time I’ll be true….. sometimes you don’t know what you had until your throw it away
https://youtu.be/R8AOAap6_k4
Womack, Teardrops
Whispers in the powder room
Great choice in fairness!
How do you like me sheets?
Little Musgrave – Planxty
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p0-gcccksAg
Like a rolling stone aimed no doubt at a girl that broke Dylan’s heart at college
I would say she wounded him pretty hard
The lyrics wow
There can only be one really. Nirvana cover of Leadbelly classic. The hurt, anger and anguish in the vocal delivery gives goosebumps and upstanding hair on nape of neck.
My girl, my girl, don’t lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEMm7gxBYSc
good shout
These boots are made for walking. Nancy Sinatra.
https://youtu.be/vhVaLL5pQv0
Here’s one of mine
Pluto – Your Honor
“He claims me a touch ‘im wife, it is a terrible and wicked lie,
me two hands them was occuppied – my shirt in my left – my pants in my right”
https://youtu.be/RRWzk1w3dJg
“Heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine”
https://youtu.be/jPnZZTVp_2A
the funkiest 3 note vamp ever:
papa was a rolling stone; the temptations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJV2pWFyfn4
“Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa” written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Originally recorded by Gene Pitney but I’d go for the Dusty Springfield version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q9DSFu6eCQ
Oh, I was only twenty four hours from Tulsa
Ah, only one day away from your arms
I hate to do this to you but I love somebody new, what can I do?
And I can never, never, never—go home again
https://youtu.be/NYOQDnWFXYI
he kinda sounds convincing…
Me and Mrs Jones, Billy Paul
Apart from the deceit, and the pain that brings, something happens afterwards- a mourning if you like.
But, despite the damage done, and as part of the healing process, it is perfectly fine to tell him or her that you miss them. Things will never be the same again, collective memories are good.
Artful & Ridney ft. Terri Walker – Missing You (Eric Kupper’s ‘Director’s Cut Tribute To FK’ Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnAv_fUlhZw
Also, let them carry their own inadequacies.
You actin’ kinda shady
Ain’t callin’ me baby
Better say my name
Say my name
https://youtu.be/VyCGGQMcSVo
ps it’s Big J not fupping Jessica you low down hound…true story
Apart from the deceit, and the pain that brings, something like that afterwards happens- a mourning, if you like.
But, despite the damage done, and as part of the healing process, it is perfectly fine to tell him or her that you miss them. Things will never be the same again, collective memories are good.
Artful & Ridney ft. Terri Walker – Missing You (Eric Kupper’s ‘Director’s Cut Tribute To FK’ Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnAv_fUlhZw
Also, let them carry their own inadequacies.
Sophia George – Young Man You’re Too Girlie Girlie (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLyE0N_wi08
No, it’s not a song about a trend towards increased feminisation of males in modern society, it’s a song about cheating :p
“Young man you too girlie girlie
You jus a flash it round the worldie.
Him have one up here
One down there
One in Hannover
One down a vere.
One she’s a lawyer
One she’s a doctor..”
Tanya Stephens – It’s a pity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeZMG_WBV4s
Between The Cheats : Amy Winehouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p2WYnb9vsM
I can see Keeley now, Lorraine has gone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSuB4t3q_dA
Amy Winehouse – You know I’m no good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-I2s5zRbHg
Lesser known soul classic from 1969:
Reconsider Me – Johnny Adams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIRRLMxPqE
Really powerful vocal performance
The Clash -Stager Lee-
Cheating at cards you mean.
It is the wrong ’em boyo!
(Possibly the best thing ever pressed on vinyl.)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KWBlQik168U
My favourite song about cheating is Does he Love You by Rilo Kiley. Betrayal, confession, intrigue. As usual Jenny Lewis gives the story life and emotion.
https://youtu.be/Hv5PswA2zr0
shame and scandal
peter tosh
https://youtu.be/iOaeCG4CIwU
chickens coming home to roost
Billy Bragg
The Myth of Trust
https://youtu.be/evAJlMotrFM
the apple that doesn’t want get eaten will still fall off the tree..
seeing how me and mrs jones is gone –
Betty Wright – clean up woman
https://youtu.be/TPVk-m1Pr4s
Ann Peebles
Somebody’s on your case
https://youtu.be/TPVk-m1Pr4s
What would friday be without a little funkiness ?
A funkless friday – perish that thought
happy friday
Indeed
Kiprich – Joe Grind
https://youtu.be/zfoj38LXZvY
For a bit of guilty pleasure bit of kitch there’s “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” by Rupert Holmes or a few crowd pleasers such as the ubiquitous, Mr. Brightside (Killers) ; Lyin’ Eyes (Eagles): the wonderfully bitchy Say Hello Wave Goodbye by Soft Cell or an underrated gem “Human” by The Human League but I’d agree for cheatin’ country is the go to genre. So whilst for me while its a toss up between Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris with “We’ll Sweep The Ashes Out In The Morning” but I opted for Gram in an earlier post Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo incarnation; a country supergroup – The Flying Burrito Brothers – from the wonderfully titled album “The Gilded Palace of Sin” a song murdered in The Commitments- but here as it should be sung – “At the Dark End of the Street”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Woxon_VuI
Yes I know James Carr did the soulful original – which is quite a banger version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC3AXQ8dPJM
Excellent picks as usual – fair play.
I do apologise, I posted this below but you had bate me to it
No worries – i always cheat a bit by posting a Smörgåsbord of tunes as i can never decide – still Mr. Brightside a good crowd pleaser ditty – if a little dark
Woohoo thanks Nick! I will treasure your esteem for ever… well for the rest of the evening anyway.
Another good theme from Andy – surprised no-one has thrown this one in yet:
Hey Joe
Where you going with that gun in your hand
I’m going down to shoot my old lady
You know I caught her messing round with another man
https://youtu.be/rXwMrBb2x1Q
Jimi Hendrix version of course
Pretty hard to top Nick’s pick which I’d happily listen to on rotation all day long. Fantastic tune from a fantastic band. Well done Ben, The Fannies were always close to my heart.
I love Screaming Jay Hawkins and I really love this cover of “I Put a Spell on You” by Nina Simone. So that’s my choice.
https://youtu.be/ua2k52n_Bvw
“You better stop the things you do
I tell you, I ain’t lying
I ain’t lying”
“Now they’re going to bed / And my stomach is sick / And it’s all in my head / But she’s touching his chest”
Mr Brightside, Killers
https://youtu.be/gGdGFtwCNBE
Jaysus you are quite the expert on this theme Janet!
Here’s one for you ..
The Winner Takes it All
ABBA
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=92cwKCU8Z5c
The gods may throw a dice
Their minds as cold as ice
And someone way down here
Loses someone dear
The winner takes it all (takes it all)
The loser has to fall (has to fall)
It’s simple and it’s plain (it’s so plain)
Why should I complain? (Why complain?)
But tell me, does she kiss
Like I used to kiss you?
Does it feel the same
When she calls your name?
Somewhere deep inside
You must know I miss you
But what can I say?
Rules must be obeyed
The judges will decide (will decide)
The likes of me abide (me abide)
Spectators of the show (of the show)
Always staying low (staying low)
The game is on again (on again)
A lover or a friend (or a friend)
A big thing or a small (big or small)
The winner takes it all (takes it all)
ABBA ! ah hear….now that’s playing dirty !
(I’m an unfortunate expert, infidelity is rather more the norm in France….and I suppose if you can’t beat them ;))
alors tiens !
https://youtu.be/PYpz606lv8o
C’est la java de l’adultè-re
Qu’on voit danser sur toute la te-rre
Dans le vice chacun se vautre
Mais c’est pour faire comme les autres
Braver la morale
Il n’est rien de plus banal
C’est la java des nuits d’orgi-es
A la lueur trouble des bougi-es
Jusqu’à l’aube mo-lle
On boit des alcools
On boit des alcools
C’est la java des parties fines
Des gros sandwichs à la morphi-ne
Des carrés et des figures
but there’s always a solution when there’s extra love to give ….;) https://youtu.be/pZpVGvx3WSs
Il y a tant d’amour à donner
Viens ! je voulais te présenter
Que dis-tu ?
Que dis-tu d’un ménage à trois ?
Pourquoi pas
Que dis-tu d’un ménage à trois ?
Pourquoi pas
and on that note, You Can Have My Husband, but Please Don’t Mess With My Man, Irma Thomas
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lD3HVExGrCM&feature=share
“But you have to remember there’s this other kiss
She’s at home, wondering where you are and what you’re doing…”
Arab Strap – New Birds
https://youtu.be/Vnx_sQq5wGQ
“And her husband was one of those blokes
The sort that only laughs at his own jokes
The sort a war takes away
And when there wasn’t a war he left anyway…”
Billy Bragg – Levi Stubb’s Tears
https://youtu.be/PhmCKkRae7o
I posted this before but it’s a deadly wee tune
That the angel in your arms this morning
Is gonna be the devil in someone else’s arms tonight….
https://youtu.be/bku5VetnNvc
The old give away, lipstick on your collar…before smartphones …https://youtu.be/V8x5cUFoDnU
My friends tell me it’s no future
In lovin’ a married man
If I can’t see you when I want to
I’ll have to see you when I can
(her friends were right) If loving you is wrong, I don’t want to be right, Millie Jackson
https://youtu.be/amb0JFw447k
My final thoughts on the matter,
I know time is gonna take it’s toll, We have to pay for the love we stole
The dark end of the street, https://youtu.be/TDIhN630_3w
A oldie but goody – Everly brothers, bye bye love
https://youtu.be/fnPc94l-gxo
the next theme should be songs about regret or lack of at this rate ;)
We watched Castaway there Janet
I gotta admit I was fairly disgusted when she got in the car at the end – like you’re married with a kid FFS
WILSON! WILSOOOOOOOONNNNNNNN!
Lol
Jim Diamond, I should have known better.
https://youtu.be/dFVc_ycIQaQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CWIIoSf4nw&ab_channel=PaddyBarry
7 Drunken Nights by The Dubliners; I used to play music in Donoghue’s – they’re a hard act to follow ;(
Preferred his stuff with the Spanish guitar, but this is still a stomper:
John Newman – Cheating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8N6SScXb8M
The Smiths – Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
https://youtu.be/SckD99B51IA
A cheating drunkard tells increasingly tall tales to explain his absences while Stephen Patrick Morrissey and his domestiques complete the Tour de Salford. Just magic.
Squeeze – Up the junction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQciegmLPAo
Bermuda Triangle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7FuIceh-Uk
One with a, erm, happy ending.
This just came on the radio, and I thought it would fit. Apologies if I missed it already posted
Bryan Adams, Run To You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCBASt507WA
spanky layin’ down the law
don’t mess with bill
https://youtu.be/H_4HmBRnYHQ
https://youtu.be/y207itTGDvs
SPIRITUALIZED – THE BEST THING YOU NEVER HAD (THE D SONG)
“Honey, you’re laid in doubt, you’re never getting anything done
Oh, you’re wasting time, you best let the water run
Oh, your eyes light up, the best thing you ever knew
Honey, you best sit down, the good times will come to you
Honey, you lived that life, you’re never getting out for free
*Honey, you walked that walk, you’ll never walk back to me*
Gonna be a long ride down
Come on, Holly, we’ll take it from here”
I have no clue if Holly cheated on him, but… “you’ll never walk back to me” says things just aren’t going well for this lad and Holly :)
Playing tonight in The Olympia, WOOHOO! Gonna be deadly! :)
Is it still cheating if you encouraged it because you really like to watch..?