Lexie's Chain: The Hundred and Twenty Second Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 122 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Kelso wiv Ramp by Scooter. Let's see wot we got dis week!

@freddie_bt
Dad missed da hints to select Techno or Dance music last week otherwise he'd have selected Underworld. Anyways on to da finkin fer dis week's linky, we looked at Scooter n thought dis is a noisy often irritatable form of transport as indeed is da Camel n dis made Dad's choice simple. It is a piece of music which has a Techno feel is defnitly Chill Out n also has a trance like quality because of its Middle Eastern n North African elements inlcuding the Oud. The music was composed, played n produced by the Spy From Cairo aka Zeb real name Moreno Visini who wuz raised in Italy n lives n works in New York as a club DJ n recording artist. Dad luvs da way he blends modern electronic music wiv traditional chants n instruments, so here's our linky da beautifully hauntin "Ride My Camel" by Spy From Cairo.

@skye613
Congrats to @kelsoterrier Great win! Another Oh what a week! Spent the time learning about Eurovision. Who knew Abba & Celine Dion Winners! And guess what me watched the semi-finals second round on Friday. Yes! It's Eurovision 2013 from Malmo. Ding Dong...." I wanna be sedated " The Ramones be ma link. 

@diamondbertie
Last week's winner of the chain was Ramp (the logical song) by Scooter, I defy anyone listening to this and not smiling and tapping their feet. My choice is another such fun piece is Popcorn by Hot Butter.

@bvfeyj
GREAT link, Kelso! You da dog! Me does hab to say to Lexie’s dad, Ha! Ha! dis easy one to link to! It dun comed to me in a blinding flash! So let me ‘splain... Kelso did gib us Ramp! (The Logical Song) by Scooter. (To me great surprise me did like it!) Still, it ravver loosely based on da Logical Song by Supertramp and does use some ob da lyrics from dat great song which in itself could be a link. But me not chose da easy link ob Supertramp’s Logical Song- NO! Me does fink about da lyrics dey does quote and da rest ob Roger Hodgson’s lyrics including da great line “The questions run too deep for such a simple man...” So me chose “Simple Man” by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Take dat, Lexie’s dad! Dis ain’t no techno!





@wonderwinger
Looking for a Eurovision themed entry linking to Scooter was a bit tricky, but then I thought I know I'll whip off the -ter replace them with a -ch. What have we got? Only SCOOCH! Yes that's right Scooch who were the UK Eurovision entry in 2007 with "Flying The Flag (For You)". Of course, to scooch means to scoot over and some urban dictionaries state it comes from "scoot your tush" as in to very quickly move your bottom a tiny bit.

@bunnersandharvs
Well dun to you Kelso fur your win AGIN dis week. We has had a rilly tuff time on dis linky so all we could go wif was dat scooter and wot it dus which is take you here and der sooooo our linky dis week dus be da Staple Singers I'll Take You There. BOL! 

@smcheetham
Bit late here hope I don't miss the cut. Have to be quick. Scooters ramp made me think of scooters that mods ride on. Quadrophenia by the Who was their mod opera my favourite song by The Who is 5 15 so that's my very rushed suggestion. Good luck all.

@claptonterrier
Hello Miss Lexie…I am very sorry I did not have a chance to pawticipate in last week's Chain….someone *ahem* was off on a boy's weekend abroad….anyhoo, we saw that mr Kelso was the winner last week with Ramp! by Scooter. In this house, scooters are not German techno nerds but a way of travelling…that's right, we are talking about scooters and mopeds and motorbikes…so this week our link is "Unknown Legend" by Neil Young…the chorus says

Somewhere on a desert highway
She rides a Harley-Davidson
Her long blonde hair
Flyin' in the wind
She's been runnin' half her life
The chrome and steel she rides
Collidin' with
The very air she breathes
The air she breathes.

Someone round here would like to have ago at doing that….but has to settle for going to the station on his Vespa….*makes "Loser" L on forehead*….




@djladylexie
Hmmm so many choices .. Ramps! Scooters! Logic!! Am going wiv scooters. Who loves scooters? Mods that's who! What is greatest mod movie of all time? Quadrophenia of course (errr think it was the only mod movie!!). Famous for his role in the movie was Phil Daniels playing Jimmy, a mod who has an awesome Lambretta scooter. Phil Daniels also dun a right good bit of singing (well talking really) on the Parklife single so that is ma linky! Parklife . Blur.






@rosieterrier
Well done Kelso on your win last weeky. Well, hmmm. Ramp huh? I fink of Mark Ramprakash cos dat be his nickname. So I choose 'Let's Get Loud' by Jennifer Lopez coz that's what he danced his Cha Cha Cha to on Strictly Come Dancing. *sways of on balls of pads, twisting hips*.

An ............. da winner dis week .... as chosen by @kelsoterrier  ............. dus be ................ @bvfeyj (Tucker) wiv Simple Man by Lynrd Skynrd! Yay!!!

Now is time to get your finkin caps on an send me (find out how on da guidelines page fing) the next link in the chain. Da winner dis week dus be pickin da winner next week and dat means you Tucker.

It's over to you! Email me: lexie at toxicpenguin dot com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until noon (GMT) Sunday 26 May 2013 (gots to get 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!

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!

Lexie's Chain: The Hundred and Eighteenth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 118 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Briar wiv Send in the Clowns. So lets see wot we got dis week.

@patchdacat

Briar won with a very clever linky and arrived at “Send in the clowns” by Judy Collins. Another well known Judy was Judy Garland. I chose “Over The Rainbow” as my linky.

@terenceterrier

Last da winning linky woz Judi Collins wiv “Send in da Clowns”. Clowns are usually at a circus. So for my linky I chooses “Circus” by Britney Spears.

@kelsoterrier 

Hmm, send in the clowns you say? Well, we all know what happens when you send the clowns into the Big Top don't we? They play "Entrance of the Gladiators" as composed by Julius Fučík. Not really a "pop" tune but a very well known piece of music and one guaranteed to bring a smile to your chops. 

@baxter_man 

Dis week it be hard i fought and fought as much as me little brain would werk. I was not eatin as well as normal cause i was finking so much and i not like dat situation! I try's to fink of all angles den I finks who bee da mostest famous clown I noes......but nuffing comes two mind den BINGO, Pa do sumfing silly and Ma says "You're such a clown sumtimes". I don't fink it was two complementary towardes Pa!

It gave me da start and frum dere it waz easy. Ma's kennel name bee Carol, I dunt understood why she still live wif Pa he alwayes acting da fool. Derefore my #lexieschain entrie dis week be "Oh Carol" by Neil Sedaka cause I now be finking, Oh Carol why did youz marry him!

@bunnersandharvs 

Well dun to da Briar fur dat Linky last week wot is Send in Da Clowns! Our linky, as usoooal is rilly simples. Why? Cause we says clowns dus be good for making us larf so we goin fur a songy in one of my favurite moovies 'Singing In Da Rain' and da particuular songy wot be called 'Make Em Laugh!' Hit it pals.... deee daa doo Caus if short peeples have long faces and Tall peeeples have short faces you gots to larf. Anyway, enjoy da linky and we hopes it makes you larf too..... 

@borderpup

Right, we needs to find a linky from Send in the Clowns, hmmm ... Well, this song was written by Stephen Sondheim for his moosical 'A Little Night Music', and he parrently did write it speshully for the actress Glynis Johns who played the role off Desiree in the Broadway vershun. In the US tour of the moosical, the role was played by Jean Simmons, who in turn was later replaced by Virginia McKenna. Ms McKenna later famusly played the part of Joy Adamson in the fillum 'Born Free', which did have an Oscar winning feem toon sung by Matt Monro, so dat is ma linky: 

@diamondbertie 

Here is my entry for this week, my first reaction for Andrea Bocelli singing Pagliacci a very sad song sung by a clown a lament for lost love which had to follow on from Judy Collins singing Send in the Clowns where the singer is so sand and angry. 

@bvfeyj

Congrats to Briar! As we know Briar did win wif da bery clever linky “Send In the Clowns” by Judy Collins. Once again dere was lots ob possibilities from dere, but me hab chosen dis one. Stephen Sondheim did write dat song and it be from da musical “A Little Night Music”. He say dat da clowns is not circus clowns, but instead refers to “fools”. The song was specifically written for da actress Glynis Johns who created da character ob Desiree on Broadway. She was not a powerful singer able to sustain notes so dat why he wrote it da way he did in short phrases. Judi Dench did play dis role in London. Judi Dench is famous as stage actress more dan fur mobies, though she is not known so much as a singer. Early in his career when he was still pretty unknown Stephen Sondheim did also write da lyrics for “Gypsy”. Dis part was created by da bery famous and talented stage actress and singer, Ethel Merman. So me does choose da wonderful “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” from “Gypsy” performed by the late great Ethel Merman! Now she is a singer!

@rosieterrier 

Well done Briar on your win last week. The Brotherhood of Man (keep a straight face!) also sang the beautiful 'Send in the Clowns'. They also sang a song called 'Angelo'. As we all know, even though she didn't want us to, that Adele's son is called Angelo. Adele is a female singer along with Duffy, Amy Whinehouse and Birdy. This week my chainy is 'Shelter' by Birdy. 

@claptonterrier

Hello Miss Lexie. I saw that last week Lady Briar won with "Send in the Clowns" a song by Stephen Sondheim from the 1973 musical A Little Night Music. That made us think about music about the night….and of course the only link from thinking along that road is "In the Midnight Hour" by Wilson Pickett….

 

@smcheetham 

Hi all another week another chain. Winner last week was Send in the Clowns. As ever I am so predictable I am using a word in the title to connect to one of my favourite songs which as you will be seeing are mainly of the indie variety even though I am far too old to carry on in this vein. This week I am using the word Send as my link. My link is to We Can Send Letters by Aztec Camera if you have never heard it its well worth a listen. good luck everyone.

@skye613

Last week the chain was won with " Send In The Clowns " (Congrats Briar! ) written by Stephen Sondheim. In an interview Sondheim explained that he did not mean circus clowns but fools. Heroes are the anything but fools. In light of the events in Boston this week my link celebrates the everyday people becoming heroes and anything but fools. Meat Loaf with Brian May " A Time For Heroes " 

@freddie_bt

Dad had lots of ideas fe da train linky last week but missed da boat. He stwuggled wiv clown n Sondheim links so he's focussed on Judy Collins. As wuz pointed out Judy Collins wuz girlfriend of Stephen Stills n also pwomoted work of young songwriters includin Joni Mitchell. Joni Mitchell wuz girlfriend of Graham Nash so Dad apologises coz he's makin link dat takes us stwaight back into the post-Byrds David Crosby world of late 60s California. Anyways Dad's choice is a song that Judy Collins recorded and popularised but Dad has chosen Joni Mitchell singing and playing her own composition da beautiful "Both Sides Now. Is dere a more perfect metaphor than "ice cream castles in the air" 

@djladylexie

Hmm right-o clowns, clowns ok. Right so … Send In The Clowns is not about the circus or anyfink you will be surprised to hear. It's actually refers to how when a show (or your life) is going badly, send in the clowns or have a joke around, have a laugh. Well clowns are quite funny tho aint they so I spose that is where the idea comes from. I will tell you one clown wot isn't very funny and is quite sad really is Pierrot. So ma linky dus be pierrot and who better to tell about that than the wonderful Leo Sayer, dressed as Pierrot singing The Show Must Go On. 

And ............. da winner dis week .... as chosen by ma Briar dus be ................ @kelsoterrier. Well dun again ma pal! Woofhoo!

Ere be wot Briar said bowt fings:

The winner is linky no 3 for the originality factor. A very close second was linky no. 5 as my humum is so often a short person with a long face, but that song turned her frown upside down. Highly commended sausages to linkys no 6, 8 & 13. Although anyone could have been a winner.

Now is time to get your finkin caps on an send me (find out how on da guidelines page fing) the next link in the chain. Da winner dis week dus be pickin da winner next week and dat means you Kelloggs!!

It's over to you! Email me: lexie at toxicpenguin dot com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until noon (GMT) Sunday 28 April 2013 (gots to get 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!

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!

Lexie's Chain: The Eighteenth Chain

Hello ma pals! Welcome to Week 18 of #Lexieschain. I went campin as you might know to borderfest so fings bit mucked up dis week and I fink I lost some emails too. Dat is ma way of sayin dat if you sended me your entry, I sorry, I dun lost it. So sorry if dat da case. We start again next week proper!

Dis week it woz down to our pal @kelsoterrier to make da decishun. So let's see how it went! Here was da entries for dis week:

@Marleyterrier 

New York City's Killing Me by Ray Lamontagne. We is sorry the chain is so obvious but this rilly is typist favrit song of the year and he saw the man singin it in London recently and say it was pawsome.

@tartan_terriers 

Don't Worry Be Happy by Bobby Mcferrin cos The Hoosiers are worried about Ray and we thought this might cheer then up!

And the winner .... as chosen by @kelsoterrier is .... @tartan_terriers wiv:

The year: 1988 

The song: Don't Worry, Be Happy

Artist: Bobby McFerrin

Pals, is time again get your finkin caps on again n send me (find out how on da guidelines page fing) the next link in the chain. Da winner dis week dus be pickin da winner next week as you probly know by now. So dat mean you @tartan_terriers!

So, it's over to you! Email me: lexie at toxicpenguin dot com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until noon (GMT) Sunday 15 May 2011. I also wants to tell you sometime they dussnt always seem to come frew, so double-check wiv me bout dat.

As a look on da right to see all of da links in our chain. Is gettin longer all da time! 

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