“You can get so confused
that you’ll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place…”
I’m not trying to tread on Jon’s toes – I just want the sour tone of RR to stop.
With that in mind you have until Sunday evening to choose waiting songs – no strings – anything to do with waiting… just so those who do not ‘get’ the Beatles can have a fun weekend playing a game.
If you could add links via the Guardian blog box, if you understand what I mean – rather than adding youtube links straight in – (that’ll help if this gets too big) .. I’d like to be able to see suggestions without shutting my photoshop down .. lots of video’s gets too big too quickly. I also want this to be inclusive for those with less powerful computers.
You are perfectly welcome to add a list or do a ‘spill post of songs too.
I’ll be waiting to read through on Sunday night to select a top 13.
Good luck – entertain me – while I jangle my jewellery.
One of Bob Mould’s and Husker Du’s finest moments, not just from the monumental Warehouse:Songs and Stories LP, but career-wise –
Standing in the Rain. I’ll try to find a link later. Love this song.
Perfect excuse to show you what I mean – I just did this in the comment box of RR – then cut and pasted it here:
Thanks Ivor.
Standing In The Rain (Husker Du)
This has overtones of early Genesis! It’s good. Dond.
Thank you, Shane – obvious one from me! (Tried to follow your example…won’t know if it works till…)
The Waiting by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
I think the waiting for my washing to dry might be the hardest part today.
I’ve been photographing my t-shirts for B’Boys Brainasaurus – had to spread them out inside – as a thunder storm started when they were on the line!
Every time it looks like rain – which is often – I’ve been dashing out to feel the T shirts (which I need for my 3 TP&TH concerts next week) and they’re never quite dry…It’s a hard life when you’re retired.
Brainasaurus T- shirts came out okay (I think) – even while photographed in a thunderstorm:
http://arteesane.net/2012/06/15/new-t-shirts/
Oh, lovely! I like the one on the pier best…but I suppose I’d better ask my grandsons which ones THEY like before I order.
Well done, shane: the perfectly civilised RR alternative! Much as I value the Beatles, solo-Beatle-songs is not a worthy RR topic. Yet another one (imho).
Have a bleedin’ obvious nom: S&G‘s Homeward Bound. He’s waiting at the station and his love is waiting back home.
Thank You Chris –
I must point out – I will try NOT to include Zedded songs in the final list – so brilliant suggestion but already in the Marconium for ‘Home’ theme -
I’d better do some work now before the children get back – will pop in later to see how this goes.
… other point is – this is more ‘RR’ than ‘spill challenge – so as many carefully thought out interesting suggestions as anyone pleases.
hi helen – everyone is welcome. (I’d like Jon to suggest songs too – he never gets the chance over there)
rules are the same as RR – be friendly with each other and be creative with nominations – that’s all.
Monkeys ended up brilliant didn’t it?
Queen’s had the badly written strap line – I didn’t nominate a whole section of ‘screaming queen’s’ songs because of that – but that was a sub editors fault.
I’m not having a go at the theme – there’s people who will enjoy it this week – but there’s a large section who don’t worship at the alter of Beatles members. This is to keep people busy so RR doesn’t become a slanging match of different opinions – that’s no fun – I love RR because it tolerates – when people are not kept busy with a theme – other ugly issues raise their heads.
Have fun – can’t wait for the suggestions.
Ooh! Fun fun fun.
I’ve got quite a few! Here’s a list, sorry. I’ve got to move some furniture, which I’m very useless at. I’ll be back later!
Waiting Room – Fugazi OF COURSE!
I’m still Waiting – Robert Nesta Marley Crooney and lovely. It sounds like waiting. I like it better than Wait in Vain, because I think I’ve just heard Wait in Vain too damn many times. Still love it, though!!
Stretch Out and Wait – The Smiths. My favorite Smiths song. It’s so cinematic.
I’ll have a think and get back with more.
no worries about the list
(I ‘weirdly’ like lists – I find them a calming structure in my messy mind- just goes to show how everyone is different)
back later – no more answering posts from me, for now.
dond to Fugazi’s Waiting Room, I love the bass
Ooh me too. It’s great.
have another dond for Fugazi, love it and them !
Donds for Fugazi. I’m waiting for it to be zedded. Cheerio.
Oh, and I LOVE the picture.
And donds for Tom Petty – it was actually the first one I thought of!
And I thought of Tom Waits (Double extra points!) With The Day After Tomorrow, a heartbreaking song about a soldier waiting to go home.
Really? Strangely, it was the first one I thought of too.
Oh, and how about Wait Until Tomorrow – Jimi Hendrix, obviously, but there’s also a good version by Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso!
Nice idea, Shane. Back with some songs later…
Oh, wait, here’s a short spotify playlist!
spotify users click here
I don’t know how to add it as a link though,
No I can’t do linky thing.
Songs are:
Wait Up (Boots of Danger) – Tokyo Police Club
Waiting For The Blackout – The Damned
Waiting For A Bus – Aaron Neville
Waiting For A Train – Flash and The Pan
How Long Do I Have To Wait For You – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Crying, Waiting, Hoping – Buddy Holly
Waiting For A Star To Fall – Boy Meets Girl
I Cant Wait To Get Off Work…. Tom Waits
I’ll check for zeddedness later ..
Spotify List
If I may have the great man again…
Waiting For Tonight by Tom Petty with the Bangles. This is TP on his own, playing all the instruments – the Bangles were recording at the same studio so he invited them to come in and put on some backing vocals. But he didn’t tell them what to sing. I love the way it’s the man who’s waiting, and he’s all worried and unsure, but the woman’s part is the next stage but one in the story…and it seems to have all gone OK.
Oh that’s a dond
Ooh ta
Was going to have a week off while those B**tles drown out everything else once again – just like the old days. Here’s a short list while waiting for the footy.
Buzzcocks - Times Up
“I was waiting in the waiting room. I was dying in the living room.”
Akobe Seksu – I Wait For You
Slow things down with some slowcore
Mark Stewart & Maffia – The Waiting Room
Monk sampling way before that Enigma bloke. So young to be so cynical.
Be Good Tanyas – Waiting Around To Die
Eno & Byrne – America Is Waiting
Grizzly Bear – While You Wait For The Others
Stranglers – Waiting For The Meninblack
I’m clutching my teddy bear
Colin Newman – I’ve Waited Ages
Solo wireman.
Tubeway Army - Jo The Waiter
Early almost acoustic Gaz.
Memory Tapes – Wait In The Dark
Talking Heads – Memories Can Wait
Killing Joke – The Wait
another KJ dond, it’s taken me a long time to appreciate them, but they are rather irresistible.
I am looking forward to your playlist. But…but… where are The Mountain Goats????
A large dond for “Time’s Up”. Daft of me not to think of that one earlier as I only saw them play it live a couple of weeks ago. Derrr………..
Oh was that the 3 ages of Buzzcocks show? Would love to have seen that.
They were in town 4 or 5 years ago & as fun as ever (only ever seen Diggle attempt to play bass by holding it above his head).
Genesis – Man On The Corner – See the lonely man there on the corner. What he’s waiting for, I don’t know. But he waits everyday now. He’s just waiting for somebody to show.
Aretha and George – I Knew You Were Waiting For Me
Grrrr.
I hate manually typing WordPress BBCode. Is there an easier way?
You used the wrong brackets, SHA. But I’m sure Shane will sort it for you.
Donding George
Hi Shane,
What an excellent chance for me to play the game for once: ta for that. But PC still locking me out of The Spill, so it’ll be iPhone noms only, and no linkies. Sorry.
First thought, and a song that used to be VERY close to my heart:
Somebodys Brother – It’s Not For Long
Some of you may find it in your collections from last time I ‘Boxed it.
More later; you’ll just have to wait (Am I first with that obvious joke?)
I can’t get the HTML right on my mobile, can I?!? Sorry folks.
Shane -
Agree with you about the tone on RR. Seems to have been getting nastier for awhile now. I’m usually absent after the first day or 2 now rather than get involved. Shame it’s disintrigated down to that on there.
This one won’t be making your list, but it makes me smile anyway.
Grateful Dead – Rain
Josh Ritter – Wait for Love
Nice dreamy number from The Historical Conquests of…
Beatewn to it by Shoey , so here’s a dond and one of the best live performances I’ve ever seen first hand – featuring one of Macca’s recent Lennon substitutes on bass
Heh!
Love it! KJ are now becoming big in Finland in metal circles. I think it’s because they’re released on Spinefarm and Svart Records here (the Vinyl releases from Svart are just amazing). Anyway they’ve played the metal Tuska festival and MMXII was the best selling record in ÄX the week it was released, I doubt Chinny would claim them for metal though.
Of course this week’s topic on the main thread made a Test Tubes nom impossible…well almost…
However here’s an entirely legit Test Tubes nom – my favourite Test Tubes song in fact ..epic!
Peter & The Test Tube Babies – Blown Out Again
“I am here but where is she? We were supposed to meet at three”
Gotta fit in a bit of Diana Ross! Here with the Supremes:
you can’t hurry love
Or the later solo hit, which comes across as something of a sequel:
I’m still waiting
Double donds, bish!
Bish -
did your email maybe get hacked? I just got an email supposedly from you that looks like nothing you would send, and i don’t recoginze any of the other emails on there either.
I got one too – telling me to go on a diet
mine had a dodgy looking website link, that i stupidly clikced on, but didn’t wait for it to load. It was from a hotmail address.
I just checked the last legit email i got from Bish, and unfortunately it’s the same address, that’s not good. Does anyone have anohter way to get in touch with him, i’m afraid to use that email.
I’ll try Facebook, but it’s Friday night – he’s probably out on the razzle.
Yeah seems I was hacked or spammed or virused or summink. I have changed my hotmail password. Dunno if that’ll help. I ran a virus scan on my machine and it came up clean. Mysterious… Sorry all – hope it doesn’t cause probs. I presumably got it from a similar email I received yesterday.
I messaged you on Fb, bish – just ignore it.
No, i got no virus scan either, which is why i stupidly clicked on the link. (no scan there either though).
I used to use hotmail, but a few years ago, hackers apparently got access to all hotmail addresses that started with A or B. Which happened to be all of mine, so i switched to gmail and never looked back.
Oops! Sorry for adding vids rather than links, shane – my bad for not reading the rubric properly… I came over all ‘feeding frenzy’ there. Thanks to whoever sorted it out.
no worries Bish – I’m the last to complain about ignoring the rubic – (it’s easy to sort out when you set the theme) glad I can give you some dissertation avoidance without resorting to football watching – enjoy.
Jukebox Jenny standing in the corner searching for another dime
All dressed up and ready to go, if I had money I would make her mine
Working like a dog all week long I got the money in my hand
I can pay my bills, I can buy some pills but I’m going to see a rock’n'roll band.
Waiting For Saturday Night by Dr Feelgood
Yay!
Nice idea saneshane, and I agree with you about the unpleasant comments on RR. It’s a shame. I’ll go for a Betty Davis song called ”Your Mama Wants Ya Back”. The word ‘waiting’ isn’t mentioned in the lyric but it’s obvious that she’s lusting after her man and waiting, waiting, waiting, for him to come back to her. littleriver.
TO AVOID PUTTING VIDEOS IN THESE COMMENTS (as requested by our host):
1. Open a Guardian blog and type what you want to say in a Comment box.
2. Format it and add links as if you are going to post on the blog…BUT
3. Don’t press the Post button.
4. Highlight everything in the Comment box and copy it (to the clipboard).
5. Return to this thread and paste in what you’ve just copied.
6. Post!
Oh, then i can skip the whole graun blog thing and just code the post in html.
test
nope, didn’t work. wonder why not.
I haven’t been able to respond or use the formatting buttons on the Graun for a few days now any. Any formatting i have on there the last few days is from hand coding the post. So i’ll just nom The Cult – Rain without a link then.
Rain by The Cult
Thanks! I don’t know why the graun hasn’t been working for me lately. Seems to work for others who can format and click respond.
Several people (including me) have noticed that often the last page is missing, or the last few posts on the page, until you refresh.
It’s messed up over at the Graun – but I’m still getting a comment box – so I’m cutting and pasting them (from any old thread)
If too many comments appear here – and people are losing out on being able to play – we can start another post – just shout … so accidental videos are fine. (I can edit too)
I just didn’t want anyone to miss out because we were overloading the system with clips.
thanks all – great selection so far. – back later.
I get a comment box, but no formatting buttons. So i was able to format in html on my own, but not with their tools. However, i can’t seem to use the a href = type link on here for a youtube video like i can in the Graun comments. I can click recommend over there, but not respond.
A mega-dond to Rain, I think of your interpretation of this song every time I hear it now, having previously just thought it was about clouds and precipitation, how you opened my eyes.
I don’t think The Phoenix is about a mythical birdie either!
Thanks for the dond!
The Cult are in town tomorrow. If they’d brought KJ & the Mission with them, i’d deffo be pulling a sicky.
they’ve had to change to smaller venues for the Cult, Mish and KJ gigs in the UK, they overestimated the overlap of fans I think. I would go, but I have a solemn arrangement with the universe never to see the Mission, so it would cause cosmic chaos if I did!
You can also click on the tab at the top of The ‘Spill saying Manual, then on PIX, VIDS AND JAZZY COMMENTS, then scroll down to ‘Inserting Links’. Just below, there is the HTML format you need to make a ‘hot link’. Copy and paste it into a WordPress comment box, replace the words ‘name of link’ with the text you want to appear, and put the link addres between the inverted commas.
A bit fiddly, but it works. It works on The Guardian comment box too, when their link button is unresponsive. I think we have Maki to thank for the manual. Thanks Maki !
Cheers DP – (and Maki) – and Chris for helping out my rubbish explaining
(I’m not that technical)
Great idea not to overload the page with vids, shane – the Spill often plays havoc with my poor old computer / Chrome / bandwidth (not sure which).
just shout if it gets too much and I’ll start another post, helen.
I have a computer system that cost about the same as a small car (I need it to work) – but it connects to the internet via a pigeon with a dodgy wing (making it go round and round with no real purpose) and runs on the power of field mice – the only choice of provider is between weasels and a rats.
But the house was a bargain and the air is breathable… so life is good. Who needs speed anyway?
‘Please Mr. Postman‘ by The Marvelettes.
We’ve all waited for the postman before in our lives, haven’t we? Birthday cards, exam results, the letter from our boyfriend so far away.
It’s very relevant.
I added a link – hope you don’t mind – thanks for joining in.
I don’t mind at all, thanks for adding it.
Another thought :The Doors – Waiting For The Sun
”Waiting for the sun. Can you feel it now that spring has come.. Waiting for the sun….waiting for you to come along…waiting for you to hear my song. Waiting for you to tell me what went wrong.”
I think it’s about waiting for some kind of ‘divine’ intervention to help him make sense of his life. littleriver.
Great song, love The Doors!
Ah, I have one, although no idea how to link to it properly, it never works for me on the Guardian sites either *shrug*
The magnificent Nine While Nine by the Sisters of Mercy has the most groovy bass and riff combination which just chugs along like the train Andrew is waiting for…knowing that he waits in vain, well it was up North, I suppose, in the mists of time.
” I’m walking through the rain
Trying to hold on
Waiting for the train”
I could tell a story involving this song and a late night and when I was young and we were wild – and it might possibly be more appropriate for tinny’s last challenge – *sigh*
oh go on, saneshane, it’s your post, share the story! (thanks for sorting out the link too)
trouble is, the modern world is a strange beast – told as an entertaining story on a Friday night – that’d be fine.. typed out, ever present on the internet .. not so sure about ! hee hee.
spit it out! I, for one anyway, am not easily offended or outraged. In fact, i probably should be more so.
Is this what waiting sounds like?
Waiting For All She Knows – Ted Barnes(instr.)
Melancholic, tense, mixed with hope and dread.
what a weirdly great album cover – a beautiful music too.
Thanks! The artwork is by Jim Friedlander – I haven’t been able to find out much about him.
Hi helenf888, I really liked that piece of music. I remember you introducing me to Clayhill on RR..Ted Barnes is part of that group isn’t he?
Hi (is that littleriver?). Yes, Ted was a member of Clayhill and has worked with Beth Orton and Catherine Feeny. He’s recorded three solo albums of mostly instrumental tracks – quite interesting, I once saw them described as “musical vignettes” which seems to fit.
Yes, it’s littleriver
This is lovely. I’ll have to buy this. Though I’m not sure I really want a song that reminds me of all those moments I’ve waited while expecting the worst. Just tubed the next two songs on the album and the melancholy! The melancholy! There’s a video for Seaside Dunce that has been watched by 164 people in two years. Very sad. Thanks for the introduction.
Thanks for the comments. I just got around to listening to the whole “Classical” playlist this morning and wanted to say how beautiful and haunting the Panda Bear track was (but they closed the comments – other highlights for me were Jane Birkin and The Cougars). Anyway really lovely, I’ll look for more of them – so thank you back, Fuel!
Peech Boys – ‘Don’t Make Me Wait’
It’s a Larry Levan sureshot!
Great idea Shane, but all I can think of is “Waiting in Vain” and “So tired of waiting” (Bob MArley & the Kinks, respectively. Will try harder.
Dond for the Kinks!
rather embarassingly, the first thing to come to mind was Five Star…
“Can’ Wait Another Minute”
do they all work in foot locker now?
well done sir, for not only thinking first of five star – but admitting it – and linking to it – I made it through 1 minute 27 seconds.
that’s longer than I managed…!
they were indirectly responsible for one of those childhood defining moments…..sod the Pistols on Bill Grundy….! !
Going Live
Deniece (yes, that is how she spells it) tried out for The Voice, the BBC’s not-so-dissimilar knock-off of X Factor. She still can’t shake the Jacko-isms, cha-mone! She didn’t make it through to the live shows, sadly.
I can remember watching that Going Live and literally shaking with shock. (I had a very sheltered childhood.)
I have to say I did think of you as I was nominating Five Star Bish !
I lasted 2 episodes of The Voice, it was just…..dull !
The Going Live moment WAS a shock, I thought it was hilarious though and just about the best thing I had ever seen ! !
SPD – Speed
I maybe this will work? I am not sure if I understand correctly.
SPEED are a fantastic Girl Group from my home of Okinawa. They are graduates from theOkinawa Actors School which has produced lots of great singers, dancers and actors and is something like the school in the TV series fame. I will make a post about for here soon.
They formed in 1996 became the most popular girl band in Asia selling 20 million albums in three years and were the first girl group to perform at the Tokyo Dome.
They kinda stopped in 1999 and did other things. Hiroko Shimabukuro formed the Jazz group Coco d’Or and had a very successful Jazz singer career. Eriko Imai had a successful pop career as a solo singer. Takako Uehara became a very successful actress in TV dramas and films. Hitoe Arakaki went to New York and became an artist well known and very successful for her graffiti style and paintings of minority ethnic people.
But they all stayed good friends and regularly did charity concerts and some special events. In 2009 they reformed and have been very successful again. This was their comeback single.
The song talks about the fans waiting for the comeback.
They sing:
In Englsih this is:
They are all happily married with kids have had great and interesting careers and still making music and having fun with making music with dear friends. How great is it that! ! !
I hope you like it ! ! !
SPD – Speed
SPEED SPD
worked perfectly, Sakura. Thank You.
That’s a great pop song.
I really pleased you liked it ! ! !
BTW Sakura
Does matte kudasai mean “please wait” or “please wait a moment”? I ask because I love the song Matte Kudasai by King Crimson.
Hi Fuel
Matte Kudasai means “please wait”.
If you want to say “please wait a moment” then you would say “chotto matte kudasai”
I listened quickly to the track and it is really nice – I am going to listen again now ! ! !
Hi Sakaura
Thank you very much.
Sorry, Sakura, I misspelt your name there.
Thud, Thud, Thud.
That’s the sound of me banging my head against the wall for forgetting that one. It’s one of my all time favourite Crimson tracks. Massive donds fuel.
From the very lovely Gillian Welch:
Can’t believe how long I’ve stayed
Two more days till I get paid
And I’ll find that small town boy I’m dating
Tell him I’m done patiently waiting
I’m done patiently waiting
Patiently Waiting by Gillian Welch and (of course) Dave Rawlings
Got to include this one
Waiting For The Big One – Peter Gabriel
Thanks for fixing my links, saneshane, I didn’t know you liked the Sisters of Mercy (or someone you were once linked to did).
I’ve thought of another one. I’ve been trying to ween myself off the Cure, but it seems to be a difficult habit to break and this song came to me for the end line
It’s Prayers for Rain by the Cure.
I have a large Sisters record collection … as students we ran small club nights – even though they were headed indie night or goth night or whatever – there was a lot of crossover.
I did promotion for the club – artwork for flyers and the such – so was let in at the start of the night for free and having had ‘friendships’ with the bar staff (they mostly took pity on me) – I don’t ever remember having to pay for drinks. Consequently me and my mate J. would start the evening off merrier than the club goers (who usually turned up at pub kicking out time) – by this point we had a theatrical routine a bit like the children’s ‘oranges and lemons’ playground game. My friend J. was the most beautiful goth lad, who was in a long term partnership with his childhood sweetheart – and I was a useless social outcast that could only just dribble a conversation with females … but we attracted attention together dancing this dance in an empty club – and made close friendships with the more unique (raving nut nut) club goers… obviously there are juicy stories to tell – but to protect the innocent – i.e ME. I’m not typing them out.
But coming back to the Sisters – on my birthday a couple of weeks ago I was riffling through Oxfam and there hiding in the pop and easy listening were two ‘original album series’ box sets: the sisters of mercy and Jesus and mary chain – so instead of ripping the 10 albums included from vinyl – I now have them all on my computer .. so little effort and a £5 to Oxfam – ace birthday present to myself. (I have been doing dark dances around the room lately – which makes my boys laugh)
cider and black anyone?
aw, that is a lovely story, I can just imagine the theatrical routine, sounds delightful. I did sell some vinyl when we moved house, but all the Sisters 12″ records stayed with me. I’m not such a Sisters nut as some people I know, being a Nephilim child, but I do love the first 2 albums.
I recall having much fun at the AMS (Alternative Music Society) discos at University in Essex, they were run by the goth elite, Timmy King Goth and his side kicks (hope he doesn’t read this, love you Tim), it was my life’s mission to get The Birthday Party played even though no one danced to it. Those were good old days, mine will be a Diamond White with blackcurrant in the top and a straw thanks.
Donds from me for “America Is Waiting”
My nomination is an oblique one on the theme of waiting. It is an early Eurythmics song, “This City Never Sleeps”.
Waiting is never actually mentioned at all, but the song suggests to me someone alone in an anonymous bedsit, in the hot muggy London Summer heat, nothing to do, nowhere to go, no friends, not even able to tak to a neighbour.
Just lying there in the heat, listening to the rumble of the Tube trains (I see this as being near Earl’s Court or westwards where the Tube is above ground), waiting for some opportunity to do something, anything.
I have the power to edit.
was this used in crass 80′s films like Risky Business and 91/2 weeks?
I love the track (and probably enjoyed the movies as a teenage boy) – the album Sweet Dreams was the first electronic album my Dad reluctantly agreed was ‘proper music”‘ even though no ‘real’ instruments were played.
I had to then start annoying him by purchasing DJ’s scratching and rappers – not singing – fun.
Thanks Shane, not seen Risky Business and it is so long since I saw 9 1/2 Weeks (an appalling film) that I can’t remember the soundtrack at all!
It’s a particular kind of waiting, maybe, but Black Peter is definitely waiting. For his own death.
The Grateful Dead, of course. This is a nicely languid 1972 version.
Dond
Donds from me too for America is Waiting.
I’ve got quite a few waiting songs but I’ll just post these few here.
Moody Blues………….”Watching and Waiting“.
Pink Floyd ………….”Waiting for the Worms”
But my favourite is an instrumental by a South African group called The Tananas.
It’s called I’LL BE WAITING IN THE LOUNGE.
It’s not on youtube and I’m useless at other type of links so is it OK if I drop it in the ‘box?
please do ‘box the Tananas – I can’t find a clip to add – thanks, bluepeter.
mega donds for watching and waiting. yum!
Another vote of thanks for the suggestion of putting in links rather than clips – could we adopt this for most Spill posts, do you think? It does make life so much easier…
Nice theme. The classic rock crowd don’t seem to have found their way here yet, so this hasn’t been suggested so far: Van Halen, I’ll Wait. Somewhat controversial at the time, as I recall, as another track from the 1984 album with far too many keyboards on it for some fans’ taste, but it’s a classic.
I was wondering that too. I don’t know how much control there is over the WordPress version/install here, but it looks like there might be some plugins that would provide simple text editors for comments – see here and here and there are probably others. This could make it easier. I really have no idea about these or how much effort something like this would be. If it’s not appropriate then please ignore!
If we’re rocking out I’ll offer Waiting For An Alibi – Thin Lizzy.
that’s a great idea, my computer gives up the ghost after about 40 posts when the videos are included, maybe whoever posts the challenge could do a bit of editing if necessary and we could all try to use links where possible.
So does mine, Beth, even though I beefed up the memory a year or so ago and I am using Linux, which has a smaller footprint than Windows.
In my case, it is because Firefox tries to attach each video as the page opens and it just eats up storage.
I’m glad it’s working – there’s over a 100 comments and still we are here – thanks everyone for making the effort.
I’ll look into a text editor on my site when I get a chance and see what happens – some of these things only work on WP.org rather than .com – I’m not very technical tho – so I might fail. (I’ve never strayed far from the power of negative thinking)
Not only is it still working, it’s working really well.
Excellent, I was reading that article too. Look on the bright side – nah, you can keep that!
A bit of a misnomer ?
Blondie…………….”Sunday Girl”.
“Hurry up, hurry up and wait
I stay away all week and still I wait,
got the blues, please come see
what your loving means to me”
Ha! The idea of hurry up and wait is so Finnish and I’ve never thought of this before. I’ll be singing this to myself the next time I have to hurry up and then wait. Nice.
This takes me back a bit…………..
Sandie Shaw………”Girl Don’t Come”.
“You have a date for half past eight tonight,
some distant clock starts chiming nine.
You wanna see her, you wanna see her,
so you wait , you wait and wait..
Girl don’t come”
Dond!
Are we all just avoiding the obvious, or do we all believe it be be zedded (which it isn’t)?
The Velvets’ I’m Waiting For The Man is about the perpetual wait in the perpetual cycle. Here is Moe Tucker‘s fragile, hopeless, lovestruck take on it.
I’d just assumed it was zedded. If it isn’t, it should be!
The Wedding Present’s This boy can wait, for me.
Hmmm… or maybe Culture’s Black Star Liner in which they are waiting for the fabled ship to carry them home to Africa.
Just to keep up the RR tradition, here’s my pointless jazz nomination for the week: great song – can’t believe it’s nearly ten years since I first heard this in a light drizzle at the Brecon Jazz Festival – and relevant title, but the absence of lyrics means this doesn’t stand a chance whoever is being guru… Guy Barker, Waiting for the Delay. Nothing that I can find on YouTube, but it’s on Spotify if anyone’s interesting.
I remember singing along (badly) to this – there’s the EBTG cover too
Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper
If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting
Time after time
Lovely tinny drum sound on this paen to waiting and those who do. “I have been dancing in the penny arcade”. Have you dear?
I love the way TV Smith’s ambition always stretched the band’s rudimentary musicianship to breaking point. They did it though, they did it.
Adverts – We Who Wait
I aslo want to recomment Waiting by Keen, the eighties indie band my sister was in. I know it’s on youtube somewhere but typing the band and title doesn’t really get me anywhere. Look all round to my place and I’ll play you the vinyl copy.
aslo??
Incidentally, I keep imagining lots and lots of comments intended for here appearing at random all over CIF and other Grauniad blogs as people absent-mindedly press “post”.
Indeed, it’s almost tempting to do it accidentally-on-purpose with something to the effect of “it’s so much more fun doing this than trying to think of anything to say on the post-Beatles snorefest over on the mothership”…
That’s why I’ve been doing cut and paste, not copy and paste. Then I know it’s gone.
Hocus Pocus – J’attends (I’m Waiting)
A good mix of despondency and humour.
‘’I’m waiting for a little more electricity in the atmosphere…I smoke a cigarette while waiting for cancer…..because of what I say and do, I’m waiting for the electric chair. No problem, seeing that I do nothing but wait.” littleriver
What Finnish obscurities can I find for you? The usual:
Regina – Tapaa Minut Aamulla (Meet me in the morning) She’s waited the whole evening and into the next morning. In the morning she’ll look older. but you might not notice, even though she waits outside your house. Uh oh! The song has a gentle funky beat, hammond organ soul flourishes, and classical piano cadences but it’s about a stalker. She sounds obsessed and hopeful.
Yona – Kellon Alla (Under the clock) She’s waiting under the clock, which says 4:30. She is going to have to wait from then until the end of time because the friend isn’t coming. It’s a slow theatrical start, she watches the theatre of the street and the buskers and begins a dance with a laughing Time. At that point the song gets jazzy and you feel her worry and frustration as time goes by and the jazz gets edgier. The jazz ends and she ends the song by saying she would have so wanted to see her friend. A tram rumbles past.
Eleanoora Rosenholm – Maailmanloppu (The End of the World) Tick Tock. Time goes by. Eleanoora’s been waiting a long time for the end of the world and now it’s here, at last. She’s making her final journey. Lyrics included in the video.
And something in English:
Pere Ubu – I Will Wait Love that bass. Love that sounds “There’s no reason”.
Soddin’ell! How did I link to an article I’ve never seen before?
Here’s Yona – Kellon Alla
A live version
I was thinking about you yesterday in reference to the (ex) Beatles thread. I said to myself, ‘Fuel is an elegant cookie. Unlike me, he didn’t post a comment saying that he wasn’t going to participate, for whatever reason.’
Donding Eleanoora Rosenhelm.
I’ve taken the liberty of nominating a band (and maybe a song too) that you introduced me to.
Honestly, I love it when people nom something that I may have introduced them to. And French Films are so poppy, it’s the sort of thing I expect people should nom. BTW You can nom Maailmanloppu or Cassette 2012 when we do apocalypse / end of the world songs in December, if JD is following the Mayan calendar.
I sighed, looked at the thread and thought that’s not for me. It’s nice to be here instead. Though I’m going to stick with those four songs.
An elegant cookie you say. I like that. A Hob Nob dressed as whatever your idea of elegant is.
Elegant Hob Nob trumps my stroopwafel. I liked the Eleanoora Rosenholm – Maailmanloppu – dond. littleriver
Thank you! You often dond Eleanoora Rosenholm, I always smile when someone donds one of Finnish noms. I was going to nom Stig – Odotan (I’m waiting).It plays on Finnish stereotypes of staying in, waiting for a lotto victory, waiting for someone to visit but refusing to open the door when someone does as they fear it will be Jehova’s Witnesses. I didn’t nom it for that reason (though obviously I’m happy with serial killers and stalkers) and the fact that the male choir is so obviously a steal from ER.
I gather that in the late eighties the ice cream vans touring some Glasgow estates delivered more than just the ice cream. Heroin dealers had sussed the possibilities of a good, wholesome cover-story.
In this song the narrator initially looks down on the customer/addicts and despises the dealer but finally succumbs and waits anxiously for his arrival. A sinister little tune. I’m afraid the only link I can find is not great quality.
Ice Cream Man – Mary Coughlan
Severin has reminded me of Lindisfarne and “Meet me on the Corner” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mGyOKr8frw&feature=related
“Lay down your bundles of rags and reminders, and spread your wares on the ground. Well I’ve got time if you deal in rhyme – I’m just hangin’ round.” Which is, sort of, waiting.
Takes me back to my late teens, listening to it and watching the video now it all seems very innocent. I had a poster of Lindisfarne on my wall – this was when they first started out and before they got a bit – well, boring,really. They were all very hairy, which didn’t impress my dad too much. My friend and I used to sit in her purple and orange bedroom and listen to “Dingley Dell”, which I still think is a good album. Eeeh, takes me back to winter evenings and concerts at the Colston Hall, drinking Barley Wine and looking for – err – nice young men.
I wonder if that link will work …
I had no luck with the linking at all. I also have a song that’s not on Spotty or youtube that’s perfect but I’d need to do it through the dropbox. Can you do that shane?
It’s For The Clocks In Paris – Stas Neilyk
yep – SR – put it in the box. I can listen there.
I put that one in and another one, Convict – French Films. Thanksx
Wow! he’s taken the vocal melody from “Like Frankie Lymon” by the Weather Prophets and he’s referenced the Weather Prophets in “Neon Jesus”. Donds for all things Stas Here’s a Soundcloud link “For the Clocks in Paris”. Cheers
I heard him on ThisIsMyJam for the first time yesterday and flipped out completely. Thanks for doing the Soundcloud link. The French Films, of course, I learned of through you – great too.
I can’t let my legacy here be 5 Star ! !
Underrated, perpetual underachievers Love as Laughter have a great song called “Margaritas” that goes:
“waiting for the weekend,
every single day,
the weekend don’t come,
we get drunk anyway”
…..which could be about the weekly anticipation for RR if you are so inclined…
It’s not on Youtube but is on Spotify, but couldn’t link to the Spotify playlist…..help !
I had forgotten about this one. And then reading through the postings, I came across littleriver’s nom for J’Attends.
The track I have of the same name, (almost), is from the Hans Zimmer soundtrack to the movie “Black Hawk Down”.
It is credited to Denez Prigent and Lisa Gerrard and it’s full title is ” Gortoz A Ran – J’Attends”.
It is a beautiful piece of music. I’ll drop it in the box.
Okay, you know the way that a theme can cause you to think of something deeply cheesy, and you then can’t get it out of your head to think of anything more credible? In this case, I think it’s partly because this is – despite all the problems of cheesiness, overexposure and a certain ghastly cover version – rather a catchy little pop song. Guy lives next door to girl for twenty-four years, never finding the moment or the nerve to tell her how he feels, and then suddenly she leaves; another girl then tells him that she’s been waiting twenty-four years for him to stop obsessing about the first one and to notice her, but he’s still obsessing as her limousine disappears into the distance… Yup, it’s… Smokie, Living Next Door to Alice
Yes, I’ve been plagued by this cheesy song since the subject first opened aba.
It is one of Ireland’s Eurovision winners. It’s from 1980 and it was Johnny Logan’s first winner. It was no 1 in the UK charts for two weeks in May of that year.
Johnny Logan…………..”What’s Another Year”.
“I’ve been waiting, such a long time
looking out for you
but you’re not there.
What’s another year”.
September Song
Not sure if this is going to work. WordPress is playing silly biggers with my log-in.
Lovely version – that song has been in my head too.
Won’t even let me swear any more!
Aha, something to cleanse the palate: I think it’s pretty clear that the Warriors at the Edge of Time have been hanging around for an aeon or two…
Hawkwind, Standing on the Edge
Ooh! Some good pop: Bananarama, Robert de Niro’s Waiting for a Decent RR Topic Too. Or is it zedded?
famous people – zedded for.
I’ve been singing it for 24 hours – De Nero is in the back of the guide.
Sounds like an upbeat title, but it’s another melancholic song
Avenue of Hope – I Am Kloot
no-one’s born, no-one dies,
no-one loves, so no-one cries
and we wait to see just what we will become
PS. when’s the deadline?
deadline is now!
this is one of my personal fav’s – would have been a shoe in if I hadn’t been listening to all the tunes – making a final selection.
Maybe I can slip one more in. This lass is waiting for her pretty sailor to come back from being pressganged to fight at sea
Rolling Sea – Eliza Carthy
All the wars will soon be over
And the sailors, once come home
Every lass will get a laddie
She won’t have to sleep alone