Last week with a tanned €25 Golden Discs on offer, I asked you for your favourite song about being on holidays or to play/sing along with while you’re on holiday.
You chimed in in your tens.
But there could be only one winner.
Third Place:
Karakoy by Brazilian Girls
Songs, Spoofing And Spliffs writes:
It takes you on a walk and skip along its namesake streets in Istanbul, with Sabina Sciubba’s vocals overpowering the soft-washed trumpets when the chorus arrives.
A simple song but misleading,its a story,of walking and missing in one the worlds greatest cities. It’s a sunny little novella of pain written sharply with enough nuance to make you start a few teary daydreams…This is a live version from Colorado Public Radio’s OpenAir.
Runner-up:
Cups by Anna Kendrick
Slightly Bemused writes:
‘When visiting my daughter after that film came out, she used love to sing that song on car rides as we travelled between locations. A four hour drive from the town she lived in to the one where she was born to visit her grandparents could be filled with several renditions.
Maybe as it came on the radio, or maybe as she practised the rhythm section on the dashboard (thank god for large American cars, and sincere apologies to the rental company cleaning crew).
Of course when I tried to accompany in vocal section, my little lovely darling who is blessed with perfect pitch (pun intended) she would correct me. I now know the correct places to put the little ‘uh-ohs’ and how to put the right nasal sound to the words. My daughter was very particular about the details!
It has been a while – she is in college now, and Cups is no longer her favourite song. But I still sing it, even if it is only in my head whenever I travel.’
Winner:
Hot In Here by Nelly
Italia 90 writes:
‘I was on hols in Lanzarote in 2002. I’m just after getting divorced. Brand new GF, intelligent and witty af, never a dull moment. She booked us on a catamaran day trip/booze cruise.
It’s full of Irish nurses and the ratio was 5 or 6 to 1? Mighty session all afternoon and we continued at a little bar in the harbour, tequila cocktails and shots.
One of the little nurses was flirtin like mad and before things got messy, I was in a taxi back to the Fariones. Went for a bit to eat, then up to the apartment.
Low and behold, there in front of our door was the flirty nurse. Lying there on the mat, unconscious and butt naked.
The GF starts laughing, opens the door, steps over nursie, turns to me and says, – ‘that is your problem Captain’90, make sure she gets home’. Turns out they were staying in the same apartment complex and we must have mentioned which apartment we were staying in. Doh!
I ended up having to carry her two floors down and across to the other side of the complex and into one of the nurse’s rooms. The party was still going on and so I stayed for a few beers. Would have been rude not to.
The next time I see the flirty nurse, she’s on the Late Late Show. She had just won one of those blind wedding things and is in the audience being interviewed by Pat the Plank. The GF points her out to me and says, – ‘Look, there’s that mermaid you caught in Puerto del Carmen!’.
Last week, with a tipsy €25 Golden Discs voucher on offer, I asked you to name your favourite drinking song.
You answered in your belligerent tens.
But there could be only winner.
Third Place
I Wish I Was Still Drinking by Colin Hay
Mr P writes:
Usually when you hear a song that reminisces about bygone drinking days, it is often a song of regret and remorse, not this one!
Runner-up:
Limerick You’re A Lady by Sharyn Ward
Italia 90 writes:
I first heard this song in O’Sullivan’s in Crookhaven [County Cork] back in the summer of ’92 sung by the lovely Ann (one of the five Anns/Annes who used to comment on here regularly?) and to this day, it’s still my favourite pub song. Take it away Sharyn Ward! Can I also give a shameless plug to my godson in NY…
Winner:
A Pair Of Brown Eyes by The Pogues
Otis Blue writes;
‘And the arms and legs of other men were scattered all around. Some cursed, some prayed, some prayed then cursed…’. It should be the National Anthem.
Premier League-winning Liverpool FC fans celebrate outside Anfield, the club’s ground, last night
Please indulge me, dear readers.
It’s taken three long decades for Liverpool FC to climb back onto their perch as champions of England.
So naturally, as a lifelong fan, there could only be one theme for this week’s competition: What’s your favourite song by a band or singer from Liverpool?
To jog your memory, here’s a select list of Scousers who have put Merseyside on the music map: Gerry & The Pacemakers, Cilla Black, The Mop Tops, Wings, The Mighty Wah, Pink Industry, Echo & The Bunnymen, OMD, Teardrop Explodes, The Lotus Eaters, The La’s, Cast, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Atomic Kitten, Elvis Costello, Shack, Michael Head & The Strands, Plastic Ono Band…
In tribute to Herr Klopp and the Liverpool/German connection, here‘s my choice.
The best answer wins a delightful €25 Golden Discs voucher, to be chosen by my imaginary club mascot.
Last week, with a €25 Golden Discs voucher on offer, I asked you to name your favourite song with a one-word title?
You answered in your tens (supplying a brilliant playlist)
But there could be only one winner.
Third Place:
Xtal by Aphex Twin
Specific Gravity writes:
Often imitated, never bettered.
Runner-up:
Cupid by Sam Cooke
Scottser writes:
There are songs that reflect hope. Songs that reflect pain. Songs that try to encompass the human condition; why we are here, what am I for, what should I do? We fall in love.We must – its inevitable.
What song encapsulates that hope of being loved back? a song like no other, sung by a voice that would melt the coldest heart? Cupid, by Sam Cooke, that’s what..
Winner:
Nightswimming by REM
Andy Pipkin writes:
This track is just brilliant. Actually forgot how good it was!
Last week, with whopping €25 Golden Discs voucher on offer, I asked for your favourite song that names a specific town or city in the lyrics.
You answered in your tens.
But there could be only one winner.
Third Place:
Castle Of Dromore by Noel Kelehan Quintet
Theo Kretschmar Schuldorff writes:
Original Irish Jazz from the year of the auld birth – and well worth a try next time the wine and cheeses are out! Such a shame they didn’t keep at it..
Runner-up:
The Dublin Saunter by Noel Purcell
Harry Warren writes:
Encapsulates how Dublin was once upon a time :)
Winner:
Johnsburg, Illinois by Tom Waits
Dylan writes:
Tom Wait’s shortest and most beautiful and unaffected song, to his wife the mighty talented Kathleen Brennan.
