Lexie's Chain: The Hundred and Seventy Eighth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 178 of #lexieschain. So last time was me wiv White Lines and Grand Master Melle Mel. So lets see wot we gots dis week:

@borderpup
Clever Lex won again! To make a linky from 'White Lines' we did a little bit of research and found out that there was an unofficial video made by Spike Lee (who was at that time a fillum student). The star of the video was Laurence Fishburne who, many years later, went on to star in CSI, the theme tune for which is 'Who Are You?' by The Who, our linky for this week.

@terenceterrier
You winned last week wiv “White Lines” by Grandmaster Melle Mel. I woz stuck for a bit den I remembas dat dey haz white lines marking owt da tennis courts at Wimbledog. So for my linky I choses “Wombling Song” by The Wombles cos dey lives on Wimbledon Common.

@claptonterrier
Hi Miss Lexie….I see that you chose the song White Lines last week…a song about naughty stuff….we tried to think of something good about white lines instead….we found there are no famous songs about tennis (and TBH we were not about to inflict Cliff Richard on the Chain community)…so instead we have chose to think about songs about driving…white lines in the middle of the road…and the song we like best about driving is Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen….

@freddie_bt
Super winnin linky last week. We wuz pulled in two directions fer our choice, Hip Hop n Rap or film music n den agonised over two vewy different songs. We fawt wot other bwilliant darkly comic British films are dere dat av great soundtracks n we instantly arrived at Trainspotting, tho hilarious in places it deals wiv da squalor of drug dependency on da ugly side of Edinburgh. Da best song in da soundtrack n one of Dad's absolute favwites is Born Slippy Nux by Underworld, its not a drugs song, it is beautiful multi-layered uplifting music tho the fragmented phrases represent da nonsense dat Karl Hyde talked when he wuz an alcoholic. I's sufferin cramp coz I's bin told to keep my paws cwossed dat Dad manages to get tickets fer da complete performance of DubNoBassWithMyHeadMan at da RFH in October.

Lastly in a gesture to da Hip Hop song we nearly chose can we please just take a moment to remember da gweat Bobby Womack who sadly passed away. Anyways searchin YouTube we found dis stunning live performance wiv Karl Hyde at his best.

@skye613
​The great DJ Lexie strikes again. ​Well done pal & welcome back! The song " White Lines" although now seems to be an anti-drug anthem was actually written as a tongue in cheek story of a cocaine party or life story. Years before Grace Slick while still in The Great Society wrote " White Rabbit", based in part on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. A fantasy long thought to be influenced by the use of hallucinogenic drugs. " White Rabbit was quickly adopted as a theme song by the drug counter culture.

@wotterface
Last weeks winner was the hip hop classic "White Lines" which featured on the soundtrack for the hilarious Shaun of the Dead. Simon Pegg wrote and starred in that film. We're going for another Simon Pegg soundtrack tune, from his early work, the sitcom Spaced, which we love. We've chosen "Beat Goes On" by All Seeing I. La de da dee dee, la de da de dow...

@diamondbertie
Well done with your winning choice being Grandmaster Melle Mel - White Lines, an anti drug song. Drugs are here to stay a regrettable blight non the less, my choice another anti drug song is Black Sabbath - Snowblind.

An da winner ... as chosen by  .... hudad ......... dus be ......... @skye613 wiv White Rabbit. Super linky dad said! He's gone off to do some dancin! ........ oh no!! Dad ...  no!!!! He loved the wimbledon connection and da born slippy too!

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 6th July 2014 (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!

Lexie's Chain: The Hundred and Seventy Seventh Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 177 of #lexieschain. Welcome back pals. Mum all okies enuff to elp me wiv computa! So last time was Wyn and Freddie joint winners. So lets see wot we gots dis week:

@maggietkat
2 winners! Well Done Freddie and Wyn! I have chosen to link with The Civil War's "Barton Hollow". Their contemporary bluegrass reminded me of the movie, "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" and The Soggy Bottom Boys. One member of the "band" was Tommy Johnson who had sold his soul to the devil. Barton Hollow spoke of strife, and my pick of the week does the same, "Man of Constant Sorrow".

@skye613

Ohh 2 winners! Well done Freddie & Wyn. So looking at both songs .. we see the Civil War & bells. On December 25, 1864 upon hearing of his sons enlistment in the Union Army, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote Christmas Bells in which he expressed his anguish over the hate tearing the nation apart. In 1872 it was set to music by John Baptiste Calken and is known today as " I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day" . The poem is 7 stanzas long but most renditions remove two verses that directly address the Civil War. 

@diamondbertie
Tubular Bell by Mike Oldfield is a lovely tune and my choice for this link is another Mike Oldfield piece Moonlight Shaddow.

@borderpup
We just seen you're doing chainy dis week - eek! Ok, so we will make a linky from Tubular Bells and go wiv annuver sort of tube, Down in the Tubestation at Midnight by The Jam. See what I did there? I'll get my coat ...

@claptonterrier
Last time there were two winners but we decided to link to Mr Freddie’s choice of Tubular Bells…..typist f course wanted to do links to tubular tyres and something to do with cycling but I have insisted that we do a link to the sort of tubes I like…the one with the trains in when I go to London so our link this week is “Down in the Tube Station at Midnight” by The Jam…

@djladylexie
Ok well our linky do be cocaine! What the … well hang on pals. Let me explain!
Right Mike Oldfield dun a great song called Moonlight Shadow. Moonlight Shadow was da feme toon of one Dave Angel, Eco-warrior from The Fast Show. Dave Angel was played by comedy stand up comedian Simon Day. Simon Day has suffered wiv drug problems frewout his life, his drug of choice bein cocaine. Simon Day starred in the movie Run Fat Boy Run wiv Simon Pegg. Simon Pegg was in the great zombie movie Shaun of the Dead. In Shaun of the Dead they play White Lines in a scene outside the pub. White Lines is an anti-drug song from awesome Hip Hop Grandmaster Melle Mel. So dat is ma linky. White Lines by Grandmaster Melle Mel.Don't dus drugs!

An da winner ... as chosen by  .... Wyn and Freddie ...... dus be ......... on bloomin eck! Is me again! Dad ain't gonna be very appy!

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 29th June 2014 (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!

Lexie's Chain: The Hundred and Seventy Sixth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 176 of #lexieschain. Impawtant Note pals, mum goin into hospital on 4th June and will be out of action for a few weeks so Lexie's Chain will go on hold until she allowed to help me on computa again pffttttttt!! 

Last week da winner was me wiv Sympafy for the Devil by Rollin Stones. Let's see wot we gots dis week: 

@terenceterrier

Moosik expert DJ Lady Lexie won wiv “ Sympathy For the Devil” by the Rolling Stones. I pondered a bit and da name Lucifer popped into my head. Dis be annuva name for da Devil. If yoo google woogle a bit abowt relijuss beliffs yoo sees dat Lucifer woz a da Fallen Angel. So for my linky dis week I have a track called “Fallen Angels” by Black Veil Brides.

@maggietkat
I SO love "sympathy for the Devil" - well done Lexie! The song has a Afro-latin beat, so I took this tangent. I noticed that the saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins had played on the Stones' "Tattoo You" album. (listen to Waiting on a friend, and you will hear Sonny). Sonny was born in the Virgin Islands and writes many songs with that same afro-latin beat. Here is one of my favorites, "St. Thomas" with the incomparable Max Roach on drums.

@diamondbertie
So dear Lexie won last week with The Rolling Stones song Sympathy for the Devil, my choice this week is keeping the theme of the Devil with Hector Berioz's Hungarian March from the opera The Damnation of Faust. I bet there is no one who listens to this piece of music without tapping their feet.

@skye613
Great linky from the DJ Lexie! For the past two weeks we have had God and the devil. Different sides of the coin . My pick for this week " Both Sides Now". Know it's not new or Tecky Oh well. Lexie's Mum you take care. We all be sending Healing Energy!

@smcheetham
Sorry we been missing last two weeks we are back now. Lexie's winning entry was Sympathy for the Devil that song mentions the assassination of JF Kennedy in the lyrics. That's what we have used as our link this week. Another song that is about JFKs assassination is Seconds by the Human League from their best know album Dare. We have gone with possibly their biggest hit which also features on Dare and that is Don't You Want me Baby which takes me right back to my Uni days.

@WOtterface
Well done on last weeks win with Sympathy For The Devil. We got thinking about why you'd feel sorry for the devil, after all, he's not very nice. But the devil has to keep track of all the naughty people in the world and he must be very busy. That led us on to a beautiful song by a duo called "The Civil Wars" called Barton Hollow. It contains the lyric...

Ain't going back to Barton Hollow
Devil gonna follow me e'er I go

See, the devil is very busy! 

@claptonterrier
Yikes Miss Lexie! You have introduced the Devil into proceedings…I am not sure I like the Devil…I am going to send him to Georgia….

Clapton (*behind the sofa)

@bunnersandharvs
So den a Lexie how coool is it you won wid dat linky last week by dem Rolling Stones - Sympathy fur da Devil! It gots us thinking if you had sympathy fur da devil some peepls might say you is confused or even misguided. So our linky dis week dus be by The Cowboy Junkies and is called Misguided Angel. Oh and dat der songy is frum der album The Trinity Session and guess what too, it was recorded in a church. Good luck to your sweet Mum Lexie and we'll see you when she is well and getting all better too.

@freddie_bt
Gweat linky Lexie one of da best Stones' songs.Our linky is a piece of music dats unlikely to elicit much sympafy fer da Devil on account of it bein used as a late weplacement in da film The Exorcist. Da director wuz unhappy wiv da score n heard dis music n said dats wot I want, da odd timin disconcerts da bwain n doesn't let it get used to da chords n switch off. Da music tho incwedibly successful wuz rarely perfomed as Mike Oldfield became kwite reclusive, burdened by such huge success at 19. However dere wuz a notable performance fer da BBC which featured many of Oldfield's fwends n his brother n sister. Dis gives us a second linky connection as one of da guitarists is Mick Taylor who weplaced Brian Jones in da Rolling Stones. Sittin to his right n next to Oldifled is Steve Hillage who wud later invent Ambient music wiv his partner Miquette Giraudy. Our linky an abridged version of da gweat Tubular Bells.

An da winner ... as chosen by  .... dad ...... dus be ......... @WOtterface AND @freddie_bt! So dat mean Wyn an Freddie dus be choosin next time (when me and mum allowed back on computa)! Please still send chainy tho!

Ere wot me dad said:  My head hurts. Haha so many great links to choose from. I like the  first one, never seen such clean looking emos. I enjoyed the 80's number of course. I also liked the Sonny Rollins number. All great, in fact. I could be a pain and pick two. In fact, as the dogfather, it is my duty to mix things up. So, I choose Links 6 and 9. Barton Hollow and Mike Oldfield. That'll teach you to ask me Lex ;).

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 8th June 2014 (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!