Theme 237 - String Theory - Songs/instrumentals that feature a violin(s) - Helen - (closed - 3rd November)

[theDuke]

Forthcoming Themes:

238 - "May your god be with you" - Songs that mention a god, or a religion , or a faith, praying, church, hymns etc. Anything religious, no matter how slight, positive or negative. - KJS
239 - Anything featuring a harmonica - Lez
240 - "Angels v Devils" - Songs featuring the word Angel or Devil, or both, in the song's title. - theDuke
241. Tracks where one of the main artists (singer or featured instrumentalist) is under 25 years old in 2019 - Val
242. Tha c'n WHISTLE fer it (standard answer to any child's request in South Yorkshire) - any song featuring (human, non-instrumental) whistling however brief (the whistling, not the song) - Brass Neck
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243. Throw some shapes! - Any song with a shape in the title, (can include the word shape(s) if you get stuck). - TheFoe
244. Wildcard Round 9
245. Singer takes it to the break with nominative exclamation. - Sera69
246. Funk me! Any song or band name with the word funk or any of its derivatives and misspellings (fonk, funky, etc) in it (doesn't have to be a funk tune, eg James Gang's Funk #49 is anything but. And as for Grand Funk Railroad …..) - Brass Neck
247. Mononymous - song title is a single word boy or girl name (no other words in title pls) - Helen

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Hello & good evening folks, let's 'string' together another round, shall we? *groan!*

Helen would like you to nominated something violin based, for this round: 'String Theory - Songs/instrumentals that feature a violin(s)'.

Another nice n straightforward one then, as ever, your noms and links in the usual order, thank you.

Shall i go with an obvious one by Dexy's Midnight Runners or not..hmmm....decisions decisions...! :)

PS: I've noticed that the Captcha robot, seems to have done a flit. Ii haven't had to do one of those "find all the bicycles, buses, road crossings, bridges or fire hydrants" for sometime now. Hooray! It's gone at last....only taken 2 years for it to bugger off! :)

[KJS]

Duke I changed my theme for 238 could you put it on the list.Thanks
238 - "May your god be with you" - Songs that mention a god, or a religion , or a faith, praying, church, hymns etc. Anything religious, no matter how slight, positive or negative. - KJS

[Craig White]

there's a variety of dexy's tunes featuring a violin.

i had a few ideas, inc the slits, p.far i, etc, etc, but i feel like winning this week, so,

Lose This Skin - The Clash

https://youtu.be/9wX1SheQSeQ

would've also fitted (now defunct) guest vocalist theme - sung by strummer cohort tymon dogg.

[Tim]

after tech

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEvl-...

[Jemma]

After Tim

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Coz I Luv You - Slade

https://youtu.be/gufUfvpg5XA

[TheFoe]

After Tim

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocTZn...

[Jemma]

Oops! Tidy. 😀

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Coz I Luv You - Slade
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick

[TheFoe]

Thanks, sorry Jemma :-)

[Jemma]

Hi Nick, no worries we hit at the same time just shows we’ve got perfect timing. 😂

[David]

After Jemma's tidy

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Coz I Luv You - Slade
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys

https://youtu.be/a4UQJwd3awQ

[SussexWelsh]

After David

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Coz I Luv You - Slade
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
Episode - Pavlov's Dog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKBsI...

[Derek]

after sussex

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Coz I Luv You - Slade
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
Episode - Pavlov's Dog
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wbF-...

[Helen The Melon]

After Derek

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Coz I Luv You - Slade
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
Episode - Pavlov's Dog
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mAMi-8I...

[Lez]

After Helen

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Coz I Luv You - Slade
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
Episode - Pavlov's Dog
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson

https://youtu.be/SRLxzrdeZTA

[Sera69]

After BionicLez

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Coz I Luv You - Slade
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
Episode - Pavlov's Dog
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson
Riverflow - The Levellers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3DCI...

[Val]

After Sera

I hope there's enough violin here to qualify

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Coz I Luv You - Slade
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
Episode - Pavlov's Dog
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson
Riverflow - The Levellers
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYPuK...

[Brass Neck]

I spent most weekends from March to November and holidays camping for the first 18 or so years of my life. When there was a big regional meet there would be a marquee with a disco for the yoof and this was a sure-fire (grass) floor-filler engendering a mass circle wheeling dervish-like round the big tent.

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Coz I Luv You - Slade
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
Episode - Pavlov's Dog
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson
Riverflow - The Levellers
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1QlN...

[Helen The Melon]

Val wrote: "After Sera

I hope there's enough violin here to qualify..."

Of course, Val, that's fine.

[KJS]

After Brass Neck

I nearly went with Tony Conrad but I'll go with one of my favourite records. Surprisingly this was only a minor hit in the UK.

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Coz I Luv You - Slade
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
Episode - Pavlov's Dog
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson
Riverflow - The Levellers
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUdqM...

Duke I changed my theme for 238 could you add it to the list.Thanks.

[Rob]

After KJS

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Coz I Luv You - Slade
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
Episode - Pavlov's Dog
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson
Riverflow - The Levellers
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra
Paper In Fire - John Cougar Mellencamp

https://youtu.be/myo9wXrNUP4

[Sj]

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Coz I Luv You - Slade
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
Episode - Pavlov's Dog
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson
Riverflow - The Levellers
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra
Paper In Fire - John Cougar Mellencamp
Raga Piloo - Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin

https://youtu.be/dZnHSaxinm4

[theDuke]

Hello folks..i'm back online again. A combination of power cuts, internet distruptions and yet another pointless massive Windows feature upgrade, that messed around with the smooth operation of my aging laptop, had cut me off from the virtual world for a time. Alas, i could not get my nom in, nevermind.

KJS..seen your post, and have updated your forthcoming nomination to the new one.

Well..i may have not got a nom in, in time, but we have a healthy 15 songs to peruse over this week..so here's the playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wX1S...

And the voting list:

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats
Coz I Luv You - Slade
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
Episode - Pavlov's Dog
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson
Riverflow - The Levellers
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra
Paper In Fire - John Cougar Mellencamp
Raga Piloo - Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin

I dunno if i'll be to listen to it...my laptop still isn't working right...this happens every time there's any major update now....it seems to effect the start up process. I have had to drain all power out of it, and then many attempts to reboot, then put right what the upgrade did. I hate Windows! When i get a new laptop, i'm going with Lynux next..bollocks to Microsoft!

Anyway..enjoy the choons! :)

[KJS]

Thank you Duke.

[Craig White]

oh, i enjoy everything,

4 - r.lefevre
3 - r.aincoats
2 - e.a.johnson
1 - s.layde

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats - 3
Coz I Luv You - Slade - 1
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
Episode - Pavlov's Dog
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson - 2
Riverflow - The Levellers
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra - 4
Paper In Fire - John Cougar Mellencamp
Raga Piloo - Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin

[Rob]

After Tech,

4 - The Waterboys
3 - Pavlov's Dog
2 - Slade
1 - Punch Brothers

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats - 3
Coz I Luv You - Slade - 3
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys - 4
Episode - Pavlov's Dog - 3
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson - 2
Riverflow - The Levellers
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers - 1
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra - 4
Paper In Fire - John Cougar Mellencamp
Raga Piloo - Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin

[Jemma]

After Rob

Waterboys - 4
Raymond - 3
John - 2
Ed - 1

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats - 3
Coz I Luv You - Slade - 3
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys - 8
Episode - Pavlov's Dog - 3
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson - 3
Riverflow - The Levellers
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers - 1
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra - 7
Paper In Fire - John Cougar - Mellencamp - 2
Raga Piloo - Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin

[David]

After Jemma

Mellencamp - 4
Pavlov's Dog - 3
Slade - 2
East of Eden - 1

Lose This Skin - The Clash
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats - 3
Coz I Luv You - Slade - 5
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys - 8
Episode - Pavlov's Dog - 6
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson - 3
Riverflow - The Levellers
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers - 1
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden - 1
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra - 7
Paper In Fire - John Cougar - Mellencamp - 6
Raga Piloo - Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin

[Helen The Melon]

After David

Ed A-J - 4 (nearly nominated this, best track off the album)
W'boys - 3
Levellers - 2
Clash - 1

Lose This Skin - The Clash - 1
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats - 3
Coz I Luv You - Slade - 5
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys - 11
Episode - Pavlov's Dog - 6
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson - 7
Riverflow - The Levellers - 2
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers - 1
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden - 1
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra - 7
Paper In Fire - John Cougar - Mellencamp - 6
Raga Piloo - Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin

[Lez]

Duke, you'll need to change the heading to VOTING!

[Val]

After Helen

The Waterboys - 4
The Clash - 3
Pavlov's Dog - 2
Raymond Lefevre - 1

Lose This Skin - The Clash - 4
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats - 3
Coz I Luv You - Slade - 5
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys - 15
Episode - Pavlov's Dog - 8
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson - 7
Riverflow - The Levellers - 2
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers - 1
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden - 1
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra - 8
Paper In Fire - John Cougar - Mellencamp - 6
Raga Piloo - Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin

[theDuke]

Lez wrote: "Duke, you'll need to change the heading to VOTING!"

Thank you reminding me Lez, now done.

You must be on the mend..as it's only you that brings my attention to it, when i forget to change it! :)

[TheFoe]

After Val

Ed Alleyne-Johnson - 4
East Of Eden -3
Cult Of Youth - 2
Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin - 1

Lose This Skin - The Clash - 4
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats - 3
Coz I Luv You - Slade - 5
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys - 15
Episode - Pavlov's Dog - 8
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth - 2
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson - 11
Riverflow - The Levellers - 2
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers - 1
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden - 4
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra - 8
Paper In Fire - John Cougar - Mellencamp - 6
Raga Piloo - Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin - 1

[KJS]

After TheFoe

I remember seeing J Mellencamp at Hammersmith Odeon 1988 and then going to The Mean Fiddler to see Steve Earle afterwards.

J Mellencamp - 4
E O Eden - 3
R Shankar/YMenuhin - 2
P Dog - 1

Lose This Skin - The Clash - 4
No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats - 3
Coz I Luv You - Slade - 5
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys - 15
Episode - Pavlov's Dog - 9
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth - 2
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson - 11
Riverflow - The Levellers - 2
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers - 1
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden - 7
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra - 8
Paper In Fire - John Cougar - Mellencamp - 10
Raga Piloo - Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin - 3

[Lez]

After KJS

Clash 4
Water 3
Punch 2
Pavlov 1

Lose This Skin - The Clash -8
No-One's Little Girl - The Raincoats - 3
Coz I Luv You - Slade - 5
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys - 18
Episode - Pavlov's Dog - 10
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth - 2
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson - 11
Riverflow - The Levellers - 2
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers - 3
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden - 7
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra - 8
Paper In Fire - John Cougar - Mellencamp - 10
Raga Piloo - Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin - 3

[Tim]

Ravi & Hudi - 4
Pavlov's Dog - 3
Brandt Brauer Frick - 2
Ed Alleyne-Johnson - 1

Lose This Skin - The Clash -8
No-One's Little Girl - The Raincoats - 3
Coz I Luv You - Slade - 5
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick - 2
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys - 18
Episode - Pavlov's Dog - 13
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth - 2
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson - 12
Riverflow - The Levellers - 2
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers - 3
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden - 7
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra - 8
Paper In Fire - John Cougar - Mellencamp - 10
Raga Piloo - Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin - 7

[Derek]

after Tim

BBF 4
Pavlov's 3
JC-M 2
Levellers 1

Lose This Skin - The Clash -8
No-One's Little Girl - The Raincoats - 3
Coz I Luv You - Slade - 5
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick - 6
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys - 18
Episode - Pavlov's Dog - 16
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth - 2
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson - 12
Riverflow - The Levellers - 3
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers - 3
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden - 7
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra - 8
Paper In Fire - John Cougar - Mellencamp - 12
Raga Piloo - Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin - 7

[Sj]

Coz I Luv You - Slade ~ 4
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys ~ 3
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden ~ 2
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson ~ 1

Lose This Skin - The Clash - 8
No-One's Little Girl - The Raincoats - 3
Coz I Luv You - Slade - 9
Masse - Brandt Brauer Frick - 6
Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys - 21
Episode - Pavlov's Dog - 16
The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live) - Feast of Fiddles
New West - Cult Of Youth - 2
Oxford Suite Pt.1 - Ed Alleyne-Johnson - 13
Riverflow - The Levellers - 3
Like It's Going Out of Style - Punch Brothers - 3
Jig-a-Jig - East Of Eden - 9
Soul Coaxing (Âme Câline) - Raymond Lefèvre & His Orchestra - 8
Paper In Fire - John Cougar - Mellencamp - 12
Raga Piloo - Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin - 7

[theDuke]

Right..hello folks. Seems i wasn't in mood this week to get me votes in, in time, even though i have had listened to the playlist. Also, i neglected to mentioned that as we had 15 songs this week, we should've had 5 votes to use up as well..so double apologies for that.

I've not really been on form at the moment..been a bit 'off', for absolutely no reason whatsoever. So, dunno what's going on there, mibbe a case of S.A.D. perhaps, now that the evening light has faded away? Who knows. I didn't finished everything i wanted to get done on my man cave project this year..so maybe that's it..i dunno.

Anyway, had i got votes in time, they would've only increased the scores of top two winners, plus put Mellencamp in 3rd place, so apologies to Rob; and, Feast of Fiddles would've been saved from the ignomy of a nul point, as well, so apologies to Derek as well.

So, here be my 5 belated votes, which won't be counted.

Pavlov's Dog - 5
The Waterboys - 4
Mellencamp - 3
Slade - 2
Feast of Fiddles - 1

Okay then, let's wrap this up shall we...and i'll try harder next time...

In first place, well in the lead with 21 points, is 'Fisherman's Blues' by The Waterboys, so David gets to sit atop the podium for a change...well done that man! :)
'Episode' by Pavlov's Dog, scored a reasonable 16 point, so SussexWelsh takes the middle step, and nice to see Lez standing next to lads, after her medical sabatical, earning her the 3rd spot with her nom 'Oxford Suite Pt.1' by Ed Alleyne-Johnson, which scored 13 points.

Well done you three, and hard luck...and (apologies again!) to Derek, as he wins a wooden spoon for his split meddley 'The March of the Siamese Children/Kashmir (live)' by Feast of Fiddles.

Right..i'm off to find a nom for KJS's changed theme! :)