Wednesday 30 November 2016

Lexie's Chain: The Three Hundred and Fourth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 304 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Clapton wiv God (that is Dog backwards acchewlly) is a DJ by Rollo Faithless. Dog is a DJ ... get it!? Let's see wot we gots this week:

@sonikebt
@claptonterrier winning song last week was "God is a DJ" by Faithless. Well "I am an antichrist" - "Anarchy in the U.K." Sex Pistols



@djladylexie
God is a DJ from Faithless. My link does be singular names. What?! Well .. check it ... I am goin wiv Rolle > Dido > Eminem. Faithless front man is the amazin Rollo. Rollo also has a famous singer sister called Dido. Dido had a hit wivn Eminem an the very sad song Stan.  Dat me linky.





@maggietkat
Well done Clapton with Faithless "I am a dj". This is one of me favorites songs about the gods that Djs can be, "Nightfly" by Donald Fagan.



@terenceterrier
Larst week little pal Clapton winned wiv a linky by da group Faithless wot headlined at da Isle of Wight festival. Dis got me finking abowt islands n moosishuns n songies wot be associated wiv dem. In 1977 da group Wings had a Christmas Numba 1 wiv a songy abowt a bull wot be a rare breed called da Mullock n comes from da Isle of Mull. My linky be " Mullock Entire".

Hangs on a minnit Mum interruptin. WOT ! Err she sez Sir Paul McCartney (who woz plain mister back then) bought High Park Farm in 1966 on da  Kintyre peninsula (wot will be an island if da narrow bit at Tarbert sinks into da sea) n da song rilly a tribute to da Mull of Kintyre. *embarrassed back tracking ears* . My linky be Wings performing "Mull of Kintyre " on da Mike Yarwood Christmas Show 1977 n wiv a lot of peeps playing bagpipes n drums.






@wotterface
Last week Clapton won with the dance classic by Faithless, God is a DJ. Faithless did another song about not being able to sleep, Insomnia. This reminded me of another song about not sleeping, Arcade Fire's Rebellion.



@diamondbertie
I had to think religion so my mind switch to Son of a Preacher Man I originally heard it by Dusty Springfield but searching YouTube I found a better version by Aretha Franklin.



@cloonfourmegan
Last week Sir Slowhand Clapton won with Faithless and God is a DJ. Well if he is then it's no wonder Last Night A DJ Saved My Life.




@sky613
Great choice, Sir Clapton! Couldn't resist this one. If " God is a DJ" , then it gets personal and music saves us all! My linky this week, "Personal Jesus"  Rock on pals!




An da winner as chosen by ..................Clapton ............... dus be ..................Maggie! Yay! Well done me pal you dus be choosin next week.

Ere wot CT said: Hello there Miss Lexie. What a lot of very good links we have had this week. However, I think someone out there in Chainyland knows us too well and has picked one of our favourite songs by one of our favourite artists…well, when I say “we” i really mean accident blackspot @terriertypist…and so our winner this week is link 3 and “Nightfly” by Donald Fagan…*jazz paws*.

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until 4th December 2016 (gets it to me by 2pm UK time if poss). Oh sometimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title and dussnt forget to send a linky to da video from You Tube!

Lexie's Chain dus be inspired by da pawsome Radcliffe & Maconie Show wot you can has a listen to on dere website. Follow me @dogstoyevsky or #lexieschain on Twitter to join da fun. Remember anyfink goes! Rock, classical, opera, ballads, punk, reggae - is up to you! Fanx for playin!

Friday 25 November 2016

Lexie's Chain: The Three Hundred and Third Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 302 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Terence wiv Free and All Right Now. Let's see wot we gots this week:

@claptonterrier
Hello Miss Lexie…last week Sir Terence won with a song played at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival…in 2016 that festival was headlined by the band Faithless and so this week our linky is their song…God Is A DJ.




@maggietkat
Well done Terence channeling Tucker! I got thinking about the song title All Right Now and thought and thought. Then lightning struck! There is an old jazzy standard "Alright. Okay. You win."  Many artists have covered the sing, but this one is by Peggy Lee.




@skye613
Another great win, Terence! Paul Rodgers and Andy Fraser wrote " All Right Now ". Paul also wrote " Radioactive ". While many are familiar with the tune by the same name from Imagine Dragons , this came out in 1985. This video is not a very good quality but check it out! Love The Firm.




@cloonfourmegan
Last week clever Tel won again with Free and Alright Now. We Lubs running free so we does pick the song with the same name by Iron Maiden *bangs head*.




@wotterface
Last week's winner was Tel with Free and Alright Now. Wikipedia told us that one of the engineers on that record was a guy who was also an engineer for The Darkness so here's a bit of silly glam rock from them...




@sonikebt
Well done Sir Tel with last week's winning link "All Right Now" by Free. This song is about a guy picking up a girl for ... well ... *slightly embarrassed ears* you Only one song came to mind as our link this week."Creep" by Radiohead.




@djladylexie
Free was an english rock band. Their lead singer was Paul Rodgers who went to become front man of Bad Company. I dus give you one of the most awsomest songs from Bad Company - Feel Like Making Love.



An da winner as chosen by ..................Terence ............... dus be ..................Clapton! Yay! Well done me pal you dus be choosin next week,

Ere wot Tel said: Dis week I didn't know any of da linky toons so I had to keep playing dem agin n agin. It woz a close run fing but in da end I chooses linky 1.

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until 27th November 2016 (gets it to me by 2pm UK time if poss). Oh sometimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title and dussnt forget to send a linky to da video from You Tube!

Lexie's Chain dus be inspired by da pawsome Radcliffe & Maconie Show wot you can has a listen to on dere website. Follow me @dogstoyevsky or #lexieschain on Twitter to join da fun. Remember anyfink goes! Rock, classical, opera, ballads, punk, reggae - is up to you! Fanx for playin!

Tuesday 15 November 2016

Lexie's Chain: The Three Hundred and Second Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 302 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Maggie wiv Da Who and The Kids Is Alright. Let's see wot we gots this week:

@skye613
Congrats Maggie! The Kids are Alright , I wonder about the parents. Sticking with kids & live, my link this week is " Teach Your Children" covered by Kathy Mattea, Alison Krauss & Suzy Boggus. This was performed at the White House. Peace.


@cloonfourmegan
Last week Maggie won with The Kids Are Alright by the Who. What a week it has been and we have to mark the passing of the irreplaceable Leonard Cohen following the theme of The Who with Who By Fire with the very pertinent lyrics Who in Mortal Chains Who in Power?



@terenceterrier
Larst week pal Maggie winned wiv "The Kids Are Alright" by The Who. Dis woz originally on da My Generation LP. Dis takes me niftily to my linky wot be "Alright Now" by Free cos it be enjoyed by same same generation of kids wot heard da original Who songy n it share da Alright werd. Cos it be Remembrance Sunday I remembas  Tucker who be a sadly departed lexieschain Champion n gives yoo a live vershun cos he luvved to do dat. Dis vershun woz recorded at da Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.



@wotterface
Last week's winner was The Who's The Kids Are Alright. The first line of that song is about watching your girl dance with other men and this song is about seeing someone you loved dancing with other people too. It's Robyn with Dancing on my Own.




@sonikebt
Well done @MaggieTKat winning the link last week. If the "The Kids are Alright" get your dancing shoes (& hats) on because the everything's gonna be alright. "It's alright" by East 17.




@djladylexie
Well done Maggie! My linky does be Everybody's Talkin' from Midnight Cowboy sun by Harry Nilsson. Why? Well, The Kids are Alright from The Who. The Kids Are Alright was also a 1979 rockumentary about the band. A week after the first rushes, Keith Moon, drummer in The Who died from an overdose. Eerily, Moon died in the very same flat that Cass Elliott also died in. The flat was owned by Harry Nilsson who believed the flat was cursed.





An da winner wot was decided by Maggie.............. is .....................................Terence! Yay! Well done me pal. You dus choose next week. (Ed: Might have to start calling this Tel's Chain BOLBOL - miss you Tucker!)

Ere wot Maggie said: I have an impossible task this week. Teach your children shows Mrs Clinton smiling ages ago before her losing battle this past week. Next, the passing of Leonard Cohen is near and dear to my heart. Finally, losing Tucker is never far from my mind.  Honorable mention is the Nilsson link. (He was HOT in the day!) I chose " Alright Now" by Free in Tucker's honor. Cheers dear corgi link master.

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until 20th November 2016 (gets it to me by 2pm UK time if poss). Oh sometimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title and dussnt forget to send a linky to da video from You Tube!

Lexie's Chain dus be inspired by da pawsome Radcliffe & Maconie Show wot you can has a listen to on dere website. Follow me @dogstoyevsky or #lexieschain on Twitter to join da fun. Remember anyfink goes! Rock, classical, opera, ballads, punk, reggae - is up to you! Fanx for playin!

Wednesday 9 November 2016

Lexie's Chain: The Three Hundred and First Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 301  of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Tel with T-Rex and Children of the Revolution.

@diamondbertie
The Children of the Revolution chosen by Terence had me in a real fix, then I thought of the composer Shostakovich a real child of the Russian revolution who composed The Gadfly Suite, the piece Romance is my choice the book and film Reilly Ace of Spies was a real spy who got involved and was murdered during the revolution.




@claptonterrier
last week Sir Terence won with a song by T-Rex….which of course is a dinosaur…so this week our link keeps the lizard theme going and we have picked “Money” by the Flying Lizards….(although I think someone a little more well known wrote the song…).




@wotterface
Last week's chain winner was T with T.Rex's Children of the Revolution. The 1990's indie band The Wannadies covered this song as Ann side for one of their singles so my pick this week is another of their songs, probably their most famous. You and Me Song.




@cloonfourmegan
Last week Terence won with Children of the Revolution by T Rex. Gloria Jones sang with T Rex but before that she sang Tainted Love which was very popular in Northern Soul clubs and then covered by Marc Almond in Soft Cell creating a great 80s synth pop hit. So here it is.




@maggietkat
Well done Terence. Children of the revolution was the anthem of me college years. The Who were anthem bearers for secondary years.  Here is the grown up version of Kids are Alright.




@sonikebt
Well done Tel winning with T. rex and "Children of the Revolution". Now this did get us thinking about other bands that are named after extinct species and found this great song by The Dodos - "Fools"



@djladylexie
Well done Ter wiv children of the revolution. Marc Bolan tragtically died in a car accident. The driver was Gloria Jones, his girlfriend at the time. She met Bolan while performing in the musical Hair which is not about hair at all. So I choosin a song from the musical - Aquarius!



 An da winner wot was decided by Tel .............. was .....................................Maggie! Yay! Well done me pal. You dus choose next week.

Ere wot Tel said: Wowser wot a lotta cleva linkies - some of da songies I noes well n some new to me. It woz a close call between 5 n 7. But Roger Daltrey woz Mum's teenage idol n "The Kids Are Alright" one of her all time favrits so if  I dussnt want my treets wivheld I haz to go wiv Linky 5. 

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until 13th November 2016 (gets it to me by 2pm UK time if poss). Oh sometimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title and dussnt forget to send a linky to da video from You Tube!

Lexie's Chain dus be inspired by da pawsome Radcliffe & Maconie Show wot you can has a listen to on dere website. Follow me @dogstoyevsky or #lexieschain on Twitter to join da fun. Remember anyfink goes! Rock, classical, opera, ballads, punk, reggae - is up to you! Fanx for playin!

Thursday 3 November 2016

Lexie's Chain: The Three Hundredth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 300 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Megan with King of the Swingers. Let's see what we've got this week:

@terenceterrier
Larst week Megan winned wiv The King of The Swingers singed by King Louie. *finks hard* King Louis XVI woz executed in 1793 during da French Revolution. So for my linky I gonna go wiv "Children of the Revolution " by T Rex.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgcxd9wtXUE

@wotterface
Last week Megan won with a song from her favourite film so my choice this week is a song from my favourite film. From the film Labyrinth is David Bowie with Underground.

http://youtu.be/CwVqOs3Aess

@claptonterrier
Last week our winning song was from the Jungle Book and featured the crossings of King Louie…in the recent remake of the film King Louie was played by the actor Christopher Walker….and so this week our linky is his most famous musical moment which saw him appearing in the video for Fat Boy Slim’s Weapons of Choice…



@sonikebt
Louies' and monkies and swinging, Oh My! Did you know that " I Wanna Be Like You " was covered in pop, country ,and swing! Big Bad Voodoo Daddy covered it so I am really excited to chose " Mambo Swing" . Love this band. There's swinging & monkies too!



@djladylexie
Louie is the king of the swingers! Well I bet you didn't know that there was a King of Swing too! His name was Benny Goodman and he an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". I choosing a Benny Goodman hit sing sing sing!




An da winner wot was decided by Megan .............. was .....................................Terence! Yay! Well done me pal. You dus choose next week.

Ere wot Megan said: Fank you my pal and these were some clever linkys with lots of swinging. Finally though we decided on the historical link and choose Linky No 1 which also be a great song!

So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until 30th October 2016 (gets it to me by 2pm UK time if poss). Oh sometimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title and dussnt forget to send a linky to da video from You Tube!

Lexie's Chain dus be inspired by da pawsome Radcliffe & Maconie Show wot you can has a listen to on dere website. Follow me @dogstoyevsky or #lexieschain on Twitter to join da fun. Remember anyfink goes! Rock, classical, opera, ballads, punk, reggae - is up to you! Fanx for playin!