Lexie's Chain: The Two Hundred and Sixty Ninth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 269 of #lexieschain. Before we gets to the chainy I want to just have a moment for our dearest pal @bunnersandharvs Harvey who went OTRB this weekend. We will miss you ma pal and fanks for all the fun linkies you has played over the years. *bows head*.

Last week the winner was Bertie wiv Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep from Middle of the Road. Let's see wots we got this week.

@pepperandspot

Last week @dismondbertie played a blinder with that great dong "chirpy chirpy cheep cheep. By Middle of the road . well we are on the road in our holibobs waghon and this brings us to thinking of good road songs .so Custard chose this link (I felt I should as I gave him a black eye. ) the Eagle's album 'long road out of Eden. The track is the same name.

@maggietkat

Well done bErtie with Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. When I think of birdies, I think of marauding kitties. So, my tune of the week is Natalie Merchant in Timbuk 3 performing Facts about Cats (cats eat birds). 

http://youtu.be/aFT-TQfCrGU

@tereneterrier

Last week Uncle Bertie broke his duck ( note bird link !) by winning #lexieschain with “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep” by Middle Of The Road. I have thought of another corn – y (another bird link !) track to use as my entry.  Since Birdies sing chirpy chirpy cheep cheep I give you “The Birdie Song” . It has been performed by many people but since this competition is on Twitter I give you the version by The Tweets.

@cloonfourmegan

Last week Diamond Bertie won wiv earworm song Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. That was sung by Glasgow band Middle of the Road. Another Glasgow band of the seventies whose songs get stuck in your head were the Bay City Rollers and last night I heard my mama singing this song.

@wotterface

Last week's winner was @diamondbertie with the earworm by Middle of the Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. There was an episode of the comedy series Father Ted called Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep about a prize winning sheep who couldn't stop burping which I always think of when I hear this song. So, my choice for today's chain is the theme tune for Father Ted. Songs of Love by the Divine Comedy. What better for Easter Sunday than the theme tune to a sitcom about priests?!

@claptonterrier

Last week Bertie chose a song by the band Middle of the Road…of course, pop history is littered with songs about the road and its many twists and turns….one of our very favourite of these refers to a famous avenue in New Jersey…..10th Avenue Freeze Out by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band…

@sonikebt

Well done @diamondbertie for winning the chain last week with "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" by Middle of the Road. One of the original members of the band, Ken Andrew, comes from a small Scottish town called Bearsden. He is not the only famous "rockstar" who lived in the town. Mark Knopfler went to the local primary school (as did Darius but we're going to ignore that). We all know that Knopfler was a member of Dire Straits but he has also composed film soundtracks. Our link this 

week is the theme from a film by the wonderful Bill Forsyth and for our "Local Hero" - Mark 

Knopfler. 

@skye613

Always learning from the Lexieschainy. Congrats Bertie ! May be taking the easy way out this week but I couldn't get the Pretenders out of my mind when I saw the name of the band. Happy holiday pals! 

@djladylexie

Well done Bertie! Well now, did you know that Mac and Katie Kissoon also had a hit wiv dat song? Now then, did you further know that Katie Kissoon was a backing singer for many famous artists. Well, one such artist she performed wiv was old slowhand himself, yes that's right Eric Clapton. Katie sang with Eric on Wonderful Tonight so that me choice. Eric Clapton wiv Wonderful Tonight.

An da winner as choosed by Bertie dus be ..................  on flippin flip!  Is me again pfttttt. Errr .. me dad gonna decide again then. 

Ere wot Bertie said: It was a tough choice, so here goes. The Eagles - Long Road to Freedom a good link and atmospheric. The Birdie Song by the Tweets, such a fun song, best enjoyed with a happy crowd very slightly tipsy. Local Hero by Mark Knopfler, a lovely film haunting tune and a great link. My choice of winner is

Drum roll...............

Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight. A talented artist and a great link.

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 3rd April 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!

Lexie's Chain: The Two Hundred and Sixty Eight Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 268 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was me wiv Annie Lennox an Little Bird. Let's see wots we got this week.

@pepperandspot
Last week dear Lexie was very clever with her fab link to that fab
lady Annie Lennox, little bird. That was from a fabulous album "Diva"which in 1992 mum played all the time, and is still a favourite. Annie, was a clever lady and was a member of an iconic band the eurythmics, so our link is back to the Eurythmics and their hit "Sweet
Dreams " with the same titled album.

@diamondbertie
Congratulations @claptonterrier, delighted with your choice, I have to keep the "bird" theme going, my choice is Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep by Middle of the Road, 1971. I know it's before your time , but it's foot tapping, smile making fun.

@claptonterrier

Hello Miss Lexie…last week our winning song was “Little Bird”…..I think that the wren is a very tiny bird…so this week my linky is “jenny Wren” by Paul McCartney….

@skye613

So Sir Clapton picked the DJ Lexie to win with " Little Bird" by Annie Lennox. That little bird has flown the coop but Bowie's little bird can"t. Oh my ! Dodo.

@cloonfourmegan

Last week Lexie won with Annie Lennox and Little Bird. Annie was once in a band called The Tourists who had a hit with this song but we pick the original Dusty version. Dad also do have this as ringtone when Mum ring him! Aaaaah romantic!

@wotterface

Last week the winner was you with Annie Lennox and Little Birds. In the video she had lots of other people pretending to be her so the song we've chosen this week is Dani California by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers because in the video they dress up as lots of other people, see if you know them all...

@terenceterrier

arst week pal Lexie winned wiv “Little Bird” by Annie Lennox.  Bantams be lickle birds of da poultry kind n dey lives in a chicken house at night to keep dem safe. Chicken Shack be a British blues band. So for my linky dis week I gives you their 1969 hit “I’d Rather Go Blind”.

 

@maggietkat

Well done Lexi on Annie Lennox with Little Bird. I became aware of Annie as The Eurythmics in the early Mtv era. Their song, Sweet dReams (are made of this) was released in 1983. The Kajagoogoo album White Feather was also released in 1983 and contained the one hit wonder Too Shy. So my chain is Little Bird-Annie Lennox- Eurythmics-Sweet Dreams-1983-Kajagoogoo-white feather (birds. Get it. Ha!)-Too Shy.

@bunnersandharvs

So we gots us a linky from Lexie's fabydoo of a linky last week frum Annie Lennox's songy  Little Bird and how she wishes she could fly and be released cos she so sad and feels burdened. So, dat makes us think about da songy by The Band 'I Shall Be Released' cos even tho some people is sad and feels burdens and has hardships, our day will come and we will be set free. 

@sonikebt

@Dogstoyevsky won last week with Annie Lennox & "Little Bird". Annie Lennox studied flute at the Royal Academy of Music & was a flautist with the Dragon's Playground early in her career. Now our Auntie is also a flautist & has played in lots of films, musicals and orchestras. However, we have just found out that she also played on the album "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" by Belle and Sebastian. So our link this week is from that album - "Wrapped Up in Books".

An da winner as choosed by me dad dus be ..................  ! 

Ere wot me dad said: I have no choice but to go cheesy, gotta love a bit of cheese right? So Chirpy Chirpy it is! Link 2 is my selection. 

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 27th March 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!

Lexie's Chain: The Two Hundred and Sixty Seventh Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 267 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Clapton wiv Christine McVie an Songbird. Let's see wots we got this week.

@pepperandspot
Well as I sit here in a sun puddle on the end of da bed, while mum sips her tea, I do hear all da songbirds in the garden especially the Blackbirds. So my linky this week is The Beatles "blackbird" from the white album.

@maggietkat

Well done Clapton with fleetwood Mac and Songbird. George Martin died this week, so I couldn't help but think about another bird, Blackbird sung by Paul McCartney and the Beatles.

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Clapton won with Songbird written and sung by Christine McVitie. Songbird was also the title of the album and sung by Eva Cassidy. She also famously sang Fields of Gold on that album and we pick that lovely song sung by the very lovely Mr Sting.

@terenceterrier
Larst week little pal Clapton winned wiv “Songbird” by Fleetwood Mac. Dey had a big hit wiv an instrumental abowt annuva bird “Albatross”. Dis bird iz in da poem “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” wot mum had to learn by heart at skool. So I goes for annuva linky abowt a man in a boat n gives yoo “Sailing” by Rod Stewart.

@diamondbertie
Last week @claptonterrier won with the great choice Songbird sung by Christine McVie, a lovely song, not heard it before, thank you. My choice this week is Bob Marley singing Three Little Birds my reason is the "bird" connection I know a bit thin but I love it his song, this was used to great effect in the film Legend.

@sonikebt
@claptonterrier won last week with "Songbird" by Christine McVie. This week our choice is a song (music really) about a bird which, in 2015, was voted Britain's favourite piece of classical music. Our link is the glorious "The Lark Ascending" by Vaughan Williams, played by Nicola Benedetti.

@djladylexie
Songbird is a great song. A songbird is a little birdy wot likes to perch and sing and everyone heard the phrase she sings like a canary. A canary is a little bird with a sweet voice. So we goin wiv Annie Lennox and Little Bird.

An da winner as choosed by Clapton dus be .................. oh flippin flip is me again! Pfftttt

Ere wot Clapton said: Hello Miss Lexie. Our choice of linky this week is Link No 7. Everyone chose really good songs and we had thought of some of them ourselves….but it has been ages sine we heard Annie Lennox …..so that was the narrow tie-breaker….

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 20th March 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!

Lexie's Chain: The Two Hundred and Sixty Sixth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 266 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Pepper n Spot wiv Glass Eye and Christine. Let's see wots we got this week.

@skye613
Welcome and congrats to Pepper N Spot. Cool tune. So this week the song title jumped out at me. Got to thinking about famous Christines'. Prior to joining Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie was the lead singer for Chicken Shack. My linky to Glass Eye- Christine is "I'd Rather Go Blind ", Chicken Shack.





@cloonfourmegan
Last week PepperandSpot won wiv very first attempt wiv Glass Eye singing Christine. Glass Eye were from Austin Texas and we fink best album to come out of Texas is the Texas Campfire Tapes by Michelle Shocked. Now Michelle has gone off the rails in recent years so we pick this cover of the best song from when she was great. Anchorage ...

@claptonterrier
Hello Mis Lexie…last week our winner was a song called “Christine”…..and in our view there is only once Christine in music and that is Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac…so this week our linky is “songbird” sung by Christine McVie…

@wotterface
Last week's winner was Pepper n Spot with Glass Eye. Well done pals, what a start! The lead singer of Glass Eye, Kathy McCarty was in a film called "Slacker". Slacker movies are about people who don't actually do much and lack ambition. The song I've chosen has the line "they're saying wake up you need to make money", which is very anti slacker. My song this week is Twenty One Pilots with "Stressed Out".

@terenceterrier
larst week lexieschain newbies Pepper n Spot had beginners luck n winned wiv da linky “Christine” by Glass Eye. Corse any menshun of dat werd glass n immediately we fink of da David Bowie Glass Spider Tour (mum woz at Wembley gig). Dis woz in 1987 da same decade as da winning linky larst week. Cos our pals are “Absolute Beginners” at dis chainy malarky  I gives yoo da live vershun from dat gig.

@diamondbertie
Last week's winner was @pepperandspot with "Glass Eye  -  Christine" the theme is eyes or the loss of them, I'm  keeping it with eyes by thinking of Amore sung by Dean Martin, the words go "when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie....." This was the theme to the charming film "moonstruck " with Cher.



@pepperandspot
So we have Glass eye singing Christine..... One of Custards favourite things apart from Me and Spot and her, is Fleetwood Mac and the lovely Christine Mc Vie. We were lucky enough to see them last year at the IOW festival.  So our linky this week is Don't Stop, by Fleetwood Mac.



@sonikebt
Well done @pepperandspot for winning with your very first link "Christine" by Glass Eye. Glass Eye's musical style was considered unusual with occasional tendencies for avant-garde, which is experimental or innovative music that pushes the boundaries. One experimental band who pioneered electronic music and is cited as an influence to a diverse range of artists including Bjork, OMD, Prodigy and Daft Punk is Kraftwerk. David Bowie's 1977 album Heroes includes the track "V-2 Schneider" which is a tribute to Kraftwerk founding member Florian Schneider who Bowie acknowledged as an influence at that time. So we have chosen that track, which was also the B-side to Bowie's "Heroes" single, as our link this week.



@djladylexie
Christine? Well there was a movie called Christine which was about an evil car. That filum was directed by John Carpenter. John Carpenter also directed the movie Halloween (wot is also scary) which starred Jamie Lee Curtis in her first movie in 1978. Jamie Lee Curtis is married to Christopher Guest who starred in, wrote and directed This Is Spinal Tap a British heavy metal rock band mockumentary comedy.  In honour of this great film we are choosing the greatest British metal song of all time Ace of Spades. RIP Lemmy.



An da winner as choosed by Pepper n Spot dus be ............ @claptonterrier!Yay! You choosin next week me pal.

Ere wot Pepper n Spot said: What an honour to be a judge and to listen to all the entries, what a great eclectic mix.
After much thought and head scratching it was a tie between link 5 and link 3. So it was all down to a toss of a coin. But link three, won by a whisker.

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 13th March 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!

Lexie's Chain: The Two Hundred and Sixty Fifth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 265 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Maggie wiv Ry Cooder and Get Rhythm. Let's see wots we got this week.

@sonikebt
@MaggieTKat won last week's chain with Ry Cooder and "Get Rhythm". As Maggie said Ry wrote the soundtrack for Paris Texas which starred Harry Dean Stanton. Our link this week is from another film starring Stanton - "Pretty in Pink" by The Psychedelic Furs.

@claptonterrier
hello Miss Lexie…last week Miss Maggie chose a song by Ry Cooder…that made us think of the book Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger….there have been many songs inspired by that book and the one we have chosen is We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel which mentions the title of the book in one of the early verses…listen closely! Woof.

@skye613
Well done Maggie, well done. When I heard the winning tune there was only one way for me to go.... I Got Rhythm!

@izzy_border
Last weeks winner was Ry Cooder and Get Rhythm. Now straight away mum found herself fixed on the word Rhythm and making the connection with Bill Wyman and the Rhythm Kings. Bill Wyman was the bass player with the Rolling Stones so really it has to be a Stones song. Both hoomans have loved one song in particular since they met nearly 25 years ago so it can only be Angie.

@terenceterrier
Larst week pal Maggie winned wiv da linky “Get Rhythm” by Ry Cooder. I fink once yoo gots rhythm yoo should be all set up to have a dance. So my linky dis week be a live vershun wiv Tina Turner n David Bowie wot combines two songs wiv da same title of “Let’s Dance” *bops off round da room*.

@wotterface
Last week the winning song was called "Get Rhythm". If you've got rhythm then you can dance and sometimes you've just got to dance, even if you're on your own...

@bunnersandharvs
So a dat Maggie had a great winning linky last with week Ry Cooder's 'Get Rythym. And we dus love dat Jazzy stuff but wot we thort of wos if humans had rhythm, dey could boogie! So our linky dus be simple but it all about da Boogie so dat our linky da Jackson's Blame It On The Boogie. I just want, I just want to celebrate...

@cloonfourmegan
Well done Maggie. We pick this to honour the death of Father Jack from Father Ted  ... Gurls! Drink!

@pepperandspot
Ry Cooder Get Rhythm. Well that chap  Ry, was a clever man but one thing I didnt know was the poor chap accidental poked his eye out with a knife when he was a lad. So he has a glass eye! So my linky is "Glass eye" singing Christine . 1989

@djladylexie
Rhythm is handy for dancin and that.so we goin wiv a great dance song Rhythm Is A Dancer

An da winner as choosed by Maggie dus be ......................... Pepper n Spot!! Yay dat is first go too! Amazin! You choosin next week me pals.

Ere wot Maggie said: What a wonderful selection of tuneage! I chose Glass Eye singing "Christine". I didn't realize Cooder had a glass eye!

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 7th March 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!