DJ Lady Lexie's Chain

Sunday, 29 May 2011

Lexie's Chain: The Twenty-First Chain

Hello pals .. is me .. Lexie! Ow fings? Welcome to Week 21 of #lexieschain. Dis week it woz down to @diamondbertie to make da decishun. So let's see wot ideas come in dis week:

@thisbear: Joy Division Oven Gloves by Half Man Half Biscuit cos they'd be useful for taking your pot of jubalaya off the stove ;o)

@kelsoterrier: My choice is Swamp Thing by The Grid. Why because a Bayou is similar to a swamp and jambalaya kinda looks like a swamp ;-)

@tartan_terriers : In the air tonight by Phil Collins cos Karen Carpenter and Phil Collins were/are both very talented vocalists and drummers.

@borderpup: In Private by Dusty Springfield and the Pet Shop Boys. Why? Because Burt Bacharach wrote songs wot were hits for the Carpenters, and Dusty also had hits wiv some of his songs. Oh, and mum is a Dusty fan!

And da winner chosen by .... @diamondbertie.... is ... @kelsoterrier wiv:

The year: 1993

The song: Swamp Thing

Artist: The Grid

Pals, is time again 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 @kelsoterrier!

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 5 June 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!

Monday, 23 May 2011

Lexie's Chain: The Twentieth Chain

Hello pals .. is me .. Lexie! Ow fings? Welcome to Week 20 of #lexieschain. Entries bit fin on da ground this week but I dus ope it pick up again soon - probly you is all on your holibobs!

Dis week it woz down to me to make da decishun. So let's see wot ideas come in dis week:

@kelsoterrier

My entry dis week iz Knockin' on Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan. Coz The Belle Stars' cover of Iko Iko was in a film called Knockin' on Heaven's Door. And also because The Grateful Dead have covered both Iko Iko and Knockin' on Heven's Door.

@diamondbertie
Iko Iko is a song of the Bayou, Louisiana my spontaneous response is Jambalaya by the Carpenters it's the food of the Bayou and a great song.

@marleyterrier
New Orleans Jazz Vipers wi Hope You're Comin' Back. This do be cos Iko Iko did recently feature in brilliunt new series "Treme" about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and dat song in it 2.

@rettetkaninchen
Salt 'N' Pepa with Expression. Why? This is a song about partying and Mardi Gras and having a good time too. And the band are three woman like the Dixie Cups.

And da winner chosen by .... me .... is ... @diamondbertie wiv:

The year: 1973 (original by Hank Williams)

The song: Jambalaya (On The Bayou)

Artist: The Carpenters

Pals, is time again 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 as you @diamondbertie!

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 29 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!

Monday, 16 May 2011

Lexie's Chain: The Nineteenth Chain

Hello ma pals! Welcome to Week 19 of #lexieschain. Entries bit fin on da ground this week but I dus ope it pick up again soon - probly you is all on your holibobs!

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

@kelsoterrier
My entry for this week is Acapella by Kelis. Why? Coz Don't Worry, Be Happy became the first a cappella song to reach number one on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart.

@borderpup
Dis week I choose 'Eloise' by The Damned. Why? becos Captain Sensible had a solo hit wiv 'Happy Talk' , and Eloise was a big hit for his group, who were The Damned.

@djladylexie
I went for dis song. It was in da movie Cocktail wiv Tom Cruise who also starred in da movie Rain Man in da same year. Song from dat movie is Iko Iko wot dus be Mardias Gras song wot makes people happy!

And the winner .... as chosen by @tartan_terriers is .... @dogstoyevsky (dat is me!) wiv:

The year: 1965 (original was in 1953 by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford)

The song: Iko Iko
Artist: Dixie Cups

Pals, is time again 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 as you probly know by now. So dat mean you @dogstoyevsky - oh dat is me hahaaa mustn't forget!

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 22 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!

Tuesday, 10 May 2011

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!

Sunday, 24 April 2011

Lexie's Chain: The Seventeenth Chain

Hello ma pals! Welcome to Week 16 of #Lexieschain. Annuva great week! Keep em comin pals, dis be great fun!

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

@Kelsoterrier
Worried About Ray by the Hoosiers. Why? Because The Lemonheads breakthrough album was called It's a Shame About Ray which is similar to my chosen song and because the Lemonheads are fromBoston. There is a Boston in Indiana and people from Indiana are known as Hoosiers.

Tucker @bvfeyj
Me pick dis week duz be Green Tamborine by The Lemon Pipers. Why? Bof bands be lemons!. Well, dey hab lemon in dere name me means. Dat da link & dat me pick dis week!

@Milie_Dog
My link for this week's chain is "One day like this" by Elbow, because your elbows are in your arms!

@Tartan_Terriers
Come on feel the noise by Slade cos Into your arms by The Lemon Heads comes from the album Come on feel The Lemon Heads

@DJLadyLexie
Ramblin Man by Lemon Jelly – coz there is a lemon in their name too and I love dis song bout all da places to travel around da world like wot we dus one day!

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

The year: 2007 (oh wow we is in da nooorties)

The song: Worried About Ray

Artist: The Hoosiers

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 8 May 2011dat is coz I dus be at Borderfest next weekend! Pals I also wants to tell you sometime they dussnt always seem to come frew, so double-check wiv me bout dat.

Ere dus be recap of da links in our chain so far. Is gettin longer all da time!

Week 16: Into Your Arms by the Lemonheads, because the iconic Stone Roses album cover has slices of lemon on it.

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/04/lexies-chain-sixteenth-chain.html

Week 15: She Bangs The Drum by The Stone Roses. From Stone Poneys to Stone Roses and I'm sure it's a different drum she's banging!!

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/04/lexies-chain-fifteenth-chain.html

Week 14: Different Drum by The Stone Poneys. Mike Nesmith was a member ob da Monkees and he wrote Different Drum which became a hit for da Stone Poneys and launched Linda Rondstat's solo career.

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/04/lexies-chain-fourteenth-chain.html

Week 13: Randy Scouse Git by The Monkees. Harry Nilsson wrote the moosical The Point starring Micky Dolenz who was in The Monkees and wrote dis song!

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/03/lexies-chain-thirteenth-chain.html

Week 12: Everbody's Talkin' by Harry Nilsson because Mama Cass from The Mamas and the Papas died in a flat rented by Harry Nilsson.

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/03/lexies-chain-twelfth-chain.html

Week 11: Before da Lovin' Spoonful John Sebastian was in a group called da Mugwumps. Also in da Mugwumps was Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty who became part of The Mamas and The Papas. Dey first hit song was California Dreamin' which duz also be bout daydreaming!

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/03/lexies-chain-eleventh-chain.html

Week 10: Daydream by The Lovin' Spoonful. Whatever Lola Wants is from the broadway musical, Damn Yankees. One of the main characters in the musical is called Joe Hardy and he gets a nickname in the musical of 'Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, MO' (MO as in Missouri). That nickname is a reference to the real 'Shoeless Joe Jackson', the famous baseball player. The movie Field of Dreams was based on the book Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella. 'Daydream' by The Lovin' Spoonful was on the movie soundtrack.

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/03/lexies-chain-tenth-chain.html

Week 9: Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets by Della Reeves. Mustang Sally is supposedly based on Della Reeves wanting a new Mustang. The character of Mustang Sally did exactly what she pleased. The character of Lola, from the musical Damn Yankees, is another woman who gets exactly what she wants.

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/02/lexies-chain-ninth-chain.html

Week 8: Mustang Sally by The Commitments (not original). Because they was also singing Chain of Fools in dat movie and soundtrack.

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/02/lexies-chain-eighth-link.html

Week 7: Chain of Fools by Aretha Franklin. Aretha like Chuck Berry is in da Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and as da song says - she is just a link in your chain!

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/02/lexies-chain-seventh-link.html

Week 6: Johnny B.Goode by Chuck Berry. Down Under on Business as Usual album; another track on the Men At Work album is Be Good Johnny a reference to my link.

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/02/lexies-chain-sixth-link.html

Week 5: Down Under - Men At Work (Let's Dance video is set in Australia, the land Down Under. David Bowie and Men at Work have both been involved in "sampling" scandals - Men at Work "stole" flute riff in Down Under from children's song and Vanilla Ice "stole" riff from Bowie & Mercury's Under Pressure).

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/01/lexies-chain-fifth-link.html

Week 4: Let's Dance - David Bowie (David Bowie Let's Dance album title/track title same as Eurythmics Sweet Dreams track from Sweet Dreams album/track title and also released 1983).

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/01/lexies-chain-fourth-link.html

Week 3: Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics (Dave Stewart produced Feargal Sharkey's (from The Undertones) solo album. He was in the Eurythmics).

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/01/lexies-chain-third-link.html

Week 2: Teenage Kicks - The Undertones (John Peel was the first UK DJ to play T-Rex songs on the radio. John Peel's favourite record was Teenage Kicks).

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/01/lexies-chain-second-link.html

Week 1: Ride a White Swan - T-Rex

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/01/lexies-chain-first-link.html

Sunday, 17 April 2011

Lexie's Chain: The Sixteenth Chain

Hello ma pals! Welcome to Week 16 of #Lexieschain. Annuva great week! Keep em comin pals, dis be great fun!

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

@Millie_Dog chose Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones. Ian Brown was lead singer of Stone Roses. Sugar is sweet and so are roses (especially the chocolate variety!). If she bangs a drum a lot it could be a drum roll and a drum roll from the Stone Roses could be the Rolling Stones!

@tartan_terriers chose Crossfire by Brandon Flowers cos roses are flowers!

@rettetkaninchen chose Kowalski from Primal Scream. Mani Mounfield left the Stone Roses and joined Primal Scream in 1996. 1997 Primal Scream released a new album and Kowalski made it to 8th place at the UK charts. 8 years before "She bangs the drum" entered the UK Charts.

@marleyterrier chose In the Evening by Led Zeppelin cos they haz typists' favrit drummer in the band (John Bonham) and he make the earth move at exactly 58 seconds into this song.....She Bangs the Drum......Typist Bangs the Drum.....Mr Bonham Bangs the Drums (the hardest)....

@bvfeyj (Tucker) chose Let My Love Open the Door by Pete Townshend. The Stone Roses first gig (October 23, 1984) was an anti-heroin concert with Pete Townshend at the Moonlight Club in London.

@Borderpup chose Into Your Arms by the Lemonheads, because the iconic Stone Roses album cover has slices of lemon on it!

And the winner as chosen by @fizzlebear is .... @borderpup (aka Indie) wiv:

The year: 1993

The song: Into Your Arms

Artist: The Lemonheads

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 24 April 2011. Pals I also wants to tell you sometime they dussnt always seem to come frew, so double-check wiv me bout dat.

Ere dus be recap of da links in our chain so far. Is gettin longer all da time! An also I will tell you dat there is linky from da BBC website to our chain! Woofhoo!!! Ow eggstin is dat?

Week 15: She Bangs The Drum by The Stone Roses. From Stone Poneys to Stone Roses and I'm sure it's a different drum she's banging!!

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/04/lexies-chain-fifteenth-chain.html

Week 14: Different Drum by The Stone Poneys. Mike Nesmith was a member ob da Monkees and he wrote Different Drum which became a hit for da Stone Poneys and launched Linda Rondstat's solo career.

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/04/lexies-chain-fourteenth-chain.html

Week 13: Randy Scouse Git by The Monkees. Harry Nilsson wrote the moosical The Point starring Micky Dolenz who was in The Monkees and wrote dis song!

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/03/lexies-chain-thirteenth-chain.html

Week 12: Everbody's Talkin' by Harry Nilsson because Mama Cass from The Mamas and the Papas died in a flat rented by Harry Nilsson.

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/03/lexies-chain-twelfth-chain.html

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/03/lexies-chain-eleventh-chain.html

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/03/lexies-chain-tenth-chain.html

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/02/lexies-chain-ninth-chain.html

Week 8: Mustang Sally by The Commitments (not original). Because they was also singing Chain of Fools in dat movie and soundtrack.

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/02/lexies-chain-eighth-link.html

Week 7: Chain of Fools by Aretha Franklin. Aretha like Chuck Berry is in da Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and as da song says - she is just a link in your chain!

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/02/lexies-chain-seventh-link.html

Week 6: Johnny B.Goode by Chuck Berry. Down Under on Business as Usual album; another track on the Men At Work album is Be Good Johnny a reference to my link.

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/02/lexies-chain-sixth-link.html

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/01/lexies-chain-fifth-link.html

Week 4: Let's Dance - David Bowie (David Bowie Let's Dance album title/track title same as Eurythmics Sweet Dreams track from Sweet Dreams album/track title and also released 1983).

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/01/lexies-chain-fourth-link.html

Week 3: Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics (Dave Stewart produced Feargal Sharkey's (from The Undertones) solo album. He was in the Eurythmics).

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/01/lexies-chain-third-link.html

Week 2: Teenage Kicks - The Undertones (John Peel was the first UK DJ to play T-Rex songs on the radio. John Peel's favourite record was Teenage Kicks).

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/01/lexies-chain-second-link.html

Week 1: Ride a White Swan - T-Rex

http://lexiechain.blogspot.com/2011/01/lexies-chain-first-link.html