Theme 243 - Throw some shapes! - Any song with a shape in the title, - TheFoe - (closed 10pm Sun 15th December) The Shapes are all strung out!

[theDuke]

Forthcoming Themes:

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WINTER CREAM OF 2019 - 6 rounds

Rounds 5 & 6, can include reissued nominations (cos there's been loads of them this year!)

Commences Sunday 15th December.
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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
248. Trains and Boats and Planes (and cars, etc..). Any song title containing a means of transport. Specific makes/brands are excluded - SussexWelsh
249. Your Dennis Hopper Moment - love from tech.
250. "Great TV Show themes" - Choose a song, that was used for a TV show, by an established artist or band. You can use either the track written especially for the show's intro theme itself, or the full original song by the artist/band, if it was edited for the show, whichever. - theDuke
251. 'The Wire's' 100 (+30) Records That Set The World On Fire While No One Was Listening. https://rateyourmusic.com/list/funks/...
Compiled from an internal poll of the magazine's writers, this is a wide ranging eclectic list - mostly albums but including several singles. There should be something for most people. Preferably choose from the original 100, but go to the extra 30 if you can't find anything! - Tim
252. Silent break: Any track where the music stops suddenly, then restarts. - Fishy Jim

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And a very windy Sunday evening to you all, folks.

The final themed round to be going on with for 2019....i cannot believe another year has gone already! And another decade almost gone too..gee...time goes too fast these days! Where's The Doctor when ya need him....there quite a few moments in my past, i'd love to relive again!

Anyhoo..enuff of that rollocks....on we go..soldiering on..what what.

Rather neatly, the winner of the last round, get's the privilege of playing out his theme before we once again return to the Cream of Rounds. And for once....i'm actually ready folks...i've got a list a tasty choons to offer up..and i hope you have too. If the desire is there (yes i know Tech..not you..you never desire it, do you?! Well..not after first round, anyhow!)....we may squeeze in another another 1 or 2 rounds, if folks wish to..but for now it'll be 6 rounds, with reissues qualifiable for nominating on the last 2. As ever, we'll play it by...er...well..ear!

Right then....i've picked a stonker for this one..so let's see what you've got for Nick's theme, which is:

'Throw some shapes! - Any song with a shape in the title, (can include the word shape(s) if you get stuck).'

I would say..as straight as they come, but given the theme..it's whatever shape you want folks..so let's have 'em please..the more the merrier, cheers.

And you know the drill folks ..noms & links and all that..blah blah blah...ta! :)

See ya on Wednesday.

[theDuke]

Kick this one off shall i? I know zip about this multi instrumentalist Australian musician...but this track is just delightfully serene. Starts off sweet and slow, but soon gets going. You'll wanna turn the volume up.

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT0tu...

[KJS]

After theDuke

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS38j...

[Craig White]

efterkjs,

if this is pushing the definition i'll change it to something far less brilliant!

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads

https://youtu.be/3N5qQrGSuJ4

[Tim]

after tech

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads
Pyramid Song - Radiohead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_Gg...

[Lez]

After Tim

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon

https://youtu.be/uf4YyXVoWeA

[Sera69]

After Lez

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3zfg...

[Fishy_Jim]

After Sera69 (pushing the boundaries a bit with molecular structures there!):

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki

https://muddysuzuki.bandcamp.com/albu...
Track 7

[Val]

After Fishy_Jim

If this is from the 1971 show at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum, then I was there. Listen hard enough and you'll hear me singing along.

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki
The Old Triangle - The Corries

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

[TheFoe]

A curve is an arched or bent shape, and a Buckminster Fullerene has a truncated icosahedron, (which is a polyhedron with 20 faces), so I'll accept both. Had to Google them both, so don't think I'm a font of shape knowledge. :-)

After Val

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki
The Old Triangle - The Corries
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl7Vl...

[Helen The Melon]

After Foe


Full Circle - Xavier Rudd
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki
The Old Triangle - The Corries
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XcO6p8M...

[Lez]

It's amazing that on such a small forum that definitely 3 but probably 5 or more of us have been to the Edinburgh Lyceum. I love these coincidences 😀

[Brass Neck]

Lez wrote: "It's amazing that on such a small forum that definitely 3 but probably 5 or more of us have been to the Edinburgh Lyceum. I love these coincidences 😀"

At least 2 of us've been to Firth Park Library an' all.

[Brass Neck]

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki
The Old Triangle - The Corries
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf4EF...

[Craig White]

edinburgh lyceum? naw! had to check, mind, to see where i'd seen t.heads for the 2nd time in 1979. it was the odeon!

[Sj]

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki
The Old Triangle - The Corries
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Jam
Go Square Go - Glasvegas

https://youtu.be/hi88p43-O8Y

[Craig White]

i can take a hint, derek! 👍

[Fishy_Jim]

Nice to see a range of shapes rather than loads of circles, triangles and squares.

[Derek]

Changing my nomination since we already have a pyramid (you won't like this either tech)

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki
The Old Triangle - The Corries
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Jam
Go Square Go - Glasvegas
Hexahedron - Mountain Bus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xJrS...

[theDuke]

13 noms in so far, & 45 minutes left folks, any more noms to come?

Nup...that'll be the lot then...13 ship-'shaped' songs to muse over, so this week we get the 4 vote system.

Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki bandcamp link - (I've added the link to actual song on their page FJ):

https://muddysuzuki.bandcamp.com/trac...

Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

Voting List:

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki
The Old Triangle - The Corries
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Jam
Go Square Go - Glasvegas
Hexahedron - Mountain Bus

Make the best of 'em folks! :)

See ya on Sunday....and don't forget, that we'll be starting the winter Cream Of rounds after this has concluded, hope y'all ready! :)

Toodle pip.

[Helen The Melon]

·

Jam - 3
T Heads - 2
Gvegas - 1

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads - 2
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki
The Old Triangle - The Corries
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - Jam - 3
Go Square Go - Glasvegas - 1
Hexahedron - Mountain Bus

[TheFoe]

Right off we go, could have given max points to any of these 4, and Linda only just missed out.

Cosmic Baby - 4
Muddy Suzuki - 3
The Jam - 2
Xavier Rudd - 1

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd - 1
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki - 3
The Old Triangle - The Corries
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby - 4
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam - 2
Go Square Go - Glasvegas

[Helen The Melon]

Ooops. Updated.

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd - 1
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads - 2
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki - 3
The Old Triangle - The Corries
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby - 4
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam - 5
Go Square Go - Glasvegas - 1
Hexahedron - Mountain Bus

Duke missed off the last nom on his voting list but it is on the playlist.

[TheFoe]

S**t, sorry didn't listen to last song. :-(

[theDuke]

Opps, sorry about that, now corrected....but you probably did listen to the last song Nick, as Helen mentioned, it is on the playlist.

[Lez]

After Helen's update.

Glasvegas 4
Jam 3
Cosmic 2
Mountain 1

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd - 1
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads - 2
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki - 3
The Old Triangle - The Corries
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby - 7
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam - 9
Go Square Go - Glasvegas - 5
Hexahedron - Mountain Bus 1

[KJS]

After Lez

C Baby - 4
M Suzuki - 3
M Bus - 2
Corries - 1

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd - 1
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
The Great Curve - Talking Heads - 2
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki - 6
The Old Triangle - The Corries - 1
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby - 11
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam - 9
Go Square Go - Glasvegas - 5
Hexahedron - Mountain Bus - 3

[SussexWelsh]

After KJS

Mountain Bus 4
Linda Perhacs 3
Talking Heads 2
Radiohead 1

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd - 1
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs - 3
The Great Curve - Talking Heads - 4
Pyramid Song - Radiohead - 1
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki - 6
The Old Triangle - The Corries - 1
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby - 11
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam - 9
Go Square Go - Glasvegas - 5
Hexahedron - Mountain Bus - 7

[Craig White]

eftersussex,

mostly, that was a pile of shunk!

2 - t.corries
1 - g.lasvegas

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd - 1
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs - 3
The Great Curve - Talking Heads - 4
Pyramid Song - Radiohead - 1
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki - 6
The Old Triangle - The Corries - 3
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby - 11
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam - 9
Go Square Go - Glasvegas - 6
Hexahedron - Mountain Bus - 7

[Val]

After tech, and unlike ol' grumpy pants, I really liked this playlist. Apologies to Papernut Cambridge, Xavier Rudd and Talking Heads.

Muddy Suzuki - 4
Paul Simon - 3
Glasvegas - 2
The Jam - 1

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd - 1
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs - 3
The Great Curve - Talking Heads - 4
Pyramid Song - Radiohead - 1
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon - 3
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki - 10
The Old Triangle - The Corries - 3
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby - 11
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam - 10
Go Square Go - Glasvegas - 8
Hexahedron - Mountain Bus - 7

[theDuke]

After Val:

Mountain Bus - 4
Cosmic Baby - 3
Muddy Suzuki - 2
Linda Perhacs - 1

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd - 1
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs - 4
The Great Curve - Talking Heads - 4
Pyramid Song - Radiohead - 1
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon - 3
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki - 12
The Old Triangle - The Corries - 3
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby - 14
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam - 10
Go Square Go - Glasvegas - 8
Hexahedron - Mountain Bus - 11

[Craig White]

hiy! that's MR ol' grumpy pants to you! x

[Tim]

after the nomenclature handbags!

Talking Heads - 4
Jam - 3
Linda Perhacs - 2
Paul Simon - 1

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd - 1
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs - 6
The Great Curve - Talking Heads - 8
Pyramid Song - Radiohead - 1
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon - 4
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki - 12
The Old Triangle - The Corries - 3
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby - 14
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam - 13
Go Square Go - Glasvegas - 8
Hexahedron - Mountain Bus - 11

[Fishy_Jim]

After Tim:

The Great Curve - Talking Heads - 4
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis - 3
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs - 2
Pyramid Song - Radiohead - 1

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd - 1
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs - 8
The Great Curve - Talking Heads - 12
Pyramid Song - Radiohead - 2
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon - 4
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki - 12
The Old Triangle - The Corries - 3
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis - 3
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby - 14
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam - 13
Go Square Go - Glasvegas - 8
Hexahedron - Mountain Bus - 11

[Sj]

Hexahedron - Mountain Bus ~ 4
Full Circle - Xavier Rudd ~ 3
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon ~ 2
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs ~ 1

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd - 4
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs - 9
The Great Curve - Talking Heads - 12
Pyramid Song - Radiohead - 2
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon - 6
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki - 12
The Old Triangle - The Corries - 3
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis - 3
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby - 14
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam - 13
Go Square Go - Glasvegas - 8
Hexahedron - Mountain Bus - 15

[Derek]

after sj

XR 4
PC 3
LP 2
TH 1

Full Circle - Xavier Rudd - 8
Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs - 11
The Great Curve - Talking Heads - 13
Pyramid Song - Radiohead - 2
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - Paul Simon - 6
Buckminster Fullerene - Papernut Cambridge - 3
Dodecahedron - Muddy Suzuki - 12
The Old Triangle - The Corries - 3
Octagonal Room - Salami Rose Joe Louis - 3
Cosmic Cubes - Cosmic Baby - 14
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam - 13
Go Square Go - Glasvegas - 8
Hexahedron - Mountain Bus - 15

[theDuke]

And that'll be all the shape shifting sounds, from this week's round.

A modest, but once again, a very tightly scoring round. So, who be this week's podium toppers then;

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiinn first place, it's the song i accidently left off the voting list (opps!)..that top the bill, with 15 points - 'Hexahedron' by Mountain Bus. Which means, derek gets to punch the air with joy! Nice choice sah....i see it's from yet another 'one album wonder' band.....i might add that one to the others in collection! :)

One point fewer, puts 'Cosmic Cubes' by in 2nd place, on 14 pts, so Helen gets to claim the middle spot..and finally...

......a tie for 3rd. Level pegging at 13 points apiece, we have; Tech's nomination, 'The Great Curve' by Talking Heads, & Brass Neck offering 'Down In The Tube Station At Midnight' by The Jam.

A countback reveals, that Tech's song got 2 big fat ones, to Mr BN's nil. So Tech claims the last spot, unless he's in a magnaminous mood, and is willing to share with Brassy? He is Scottish though! ;-D

Well done you three (maybe four?!), some nice toons there.

Rightio then...it's back..the battle of 2019, shall commence shortly.

[Craig White]

oh, call it a draw. it's not that often he gets to stand with one so distinguished!

[theDuke]

Blimey.....it must be christmas! ;-)

[Craig White]

bah, bumhug!