Cinnamon Girl
I Don't Want To Talk About It - Rod Stewart

The latter was written by Young collaborator Danny Whitten.

I Don't Want To Talk About It - Rod Stewart
Lola - The Kinks

Rod Stewart was lead singer with the Ray Davies Quartet, as the Kinks were first known

Lola - The Kinks
Hash Pipe - Weezer

Both songs about trannies. (Hope you're enjoying your sojourn Genie )

Hash Pipe - Weezer
Just What I Needed - The Cars


Weezer recorded their debut album with producer Rik Ocasek better known as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of The Cars


currently in Vienna ...back nxt wk TC ...having fun!

Just What I Needed - The Cars
Tarantula - Smashing Pumpkins

Just What I Needed was produced by Roy Thomas Baker who also produced Zeitgeist by The Smashing Pumpkins - Tarantula was a single from that album.

Tarantula - Smashing Pumpkins
Black Night Crash - Ride

A single from Ride's final, weak, posthumous album entitled 'Tarantula'

hope to catch ya next week then, DS's answer to Michael Palin

Black Night Crash - Ride
Go Let It Out - Oasis


Andy Bell,former member of Ride, is currently playing guitar in the band Beady Eye, he was also well known as the bass guitarist for Oasis,

Go Let It Out - Oasis
King Of Birds - REM

GLIO appears on their fourth album, 'Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants', the key refrain from REM's 'King Of Birds'.

Welcome back Genie!!

King Of Birds - REM
You Know You're Right - Nirvana

REM's Michael Stipe is God Father To Kurt Cobain's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain

Thanks TC would like to stay but been invited out to friends for tea & cake, hopefully get back on soon

You Know You're Right - Nirvana
Hands Up - Ottowan

On the day that Kurt Cobain died, the Ottowan government ordered the slaughter of 19 million chickens.


(Hope chicken's not on the menu tonight Genie!!)

Hands Up - Ottowan
Que Sera Mi Vida - The Gibson Brothers

both hits written and produced by Daniel Vangarde & Jean Kluger

thankfully chicken not on the menu tonight TC

Que Sera Mi Vida - The Gibson Brothers
Anyone Can Play Guitar - Radiohead

Gibson, legendary guitar manufacturers

Anyone Can Play Guitar - Radiohead
Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai

Both Thom Yorke and Jay Kay are notable supporters of Friends of the Earth

Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai
For Lenny's Own Pleasure - Joyzipper

Both the VI video and the 80's Smiths Square Crisps (# they're weird! #) commercial had the ol' 'bloke in shrinky room' trick. The latter featured Lenny Henry.

For Lenny's Own Pleasure - Joyzipper
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Both Joyzipper (with "Baby You Should Know") and Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" have been featured on Fox Television's The O.C.

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Oasis:- The Importance of Being Idle

There was another song Hallelujah that won Eurovision for Milk & Honey. Milk & Alcohol was a hit for Dr Feelgood, while Oasis had a hit with Cigarettes & Alcohol. However, my fave Oasis song is The Importance of Being Idle.

Oasis:- The Importance of Being Idle
Picture Of Dorian Gray - Futureheads

Both with an Oscar Wilde link in the titles

Picture Of Dorian Gray - Futureheads
Get Up And Jump - Red Hot Chili Peppers


Five tracks of the Futureheads self-titled debut album were produced by Andy Gill, Gang of Four guitarist. He also produced the first self -titled album for Red Hot Chili Peppers

Get Up And Jump - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Fools Hall Of Fame - Roy Orbison

Get Up is a song by REM and Jump by Van Halen. Both were nominated as inductees into the 2007 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

Fools Hall Of Fame - Roy Orbison
Being With You - Smokey Robinson

and 30 years before REM & Van Halen. were inducted...The Big O and Smokey were themselves inducted into that very same Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Being With You - Smokey Robinson
Pink Triangle - Weezer

The thing I remember most about Being With You as a kid, apart from it annoying me 'cos it knocked Adam and the Ants off number one, was the pink clothed pool table on the video. I'd never seen one before and it stayed with me lol...

Have to look up that video....

Pink Triangle - Weezer
Alice - Moby




Matt Sharp, founding member and former bassist for the band Weezer played the part of God in the unreleased 2003 film "Slashed" which also starred Moby as himself

Alice - Moby
Wicker Man - Mock Turtles

All 4 elements have a literary / film link....Alice In Wonderland, Mody Dick, The Wicker Man was a book before it was a film and The Mock Turtles were of course AIW characters.

Wicker Man ~ Mock Turtles
White Rabbit ~ Jefferson Airplane

Continuing with the AIW theme.

White Rabbit
Puff The Magic Dragon - Peter Paul & Mary

Drug undertones in lyrics despite cutesy titles