Lexie's Chain: The Three Hundred and Twelfth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 312 of Lexie's Chain. Last week the winner was Skye wiv Zombies an She's Not There. Let's see what we gots this week:

@maggietkat
Well done with The Zombies' "she's not there". Rob Sargent is the song writing dynamo for the band. After he left the Zombies, he tried a number of things but ended up with his solo ventures. Rob's debut album featured several well known artists including Alphonso Jones from the early days of Weather Report which was a fusion jazz group. When I think of Jones' contributions, one song comes to mind "Black Market" which is on the album of the same name. This vid was recorded with those lovely pops from vinyl.

@terenceterrier
Soooo da linky to follow is "She's Not There" by The Zombies. I'm a simple fur so I goes for a simple linky . A linky wiv lotsa zombies dancing in da video. "Thriller" / Michael Jackson. That's it. Move along.  Nuffin more to see here.

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Skye won wiv the Zombies and She's Not There. The members of the Zombies came from St Albans. One of mum's schoolgirl crushes apparently now lives in St Albans. We give you Mr David Essex and Hold Me Close.

@daisy_dor
Concats to Skye on da victory wiv a super linky to a cool song ... I has decided to go for a simple linky dis week. The song She's Not There has been covered by many peeps, including Nick Cave (as a duet with Neko Case). Nick Cave is also the artist (along wiv da Bad Seeds) on one of my fav songs from da fantabulous tv programme called Peaky Blinders and dat do be Red Right Hand. So der we has it ... my linky dis week is Nick Cave and da Bad Seeds with Red Right Hand.

@claptonterrier
Last week was our winner was a song by The Zombies!….*shudder*…that made us think about halloweens and all things scary….so this week we are choosing as our link the band Vampire Weekend….and their song Oxford Comma….!

@sonikebt
Great link from @skye613 last week with "She's not there" by the Zombies.  Our link this week is the protest song about "The Troubles" in NI by The Cranberries,  "Zombie"

@djladylexie
Zombies is also known as the undead. They was once deaded and then they comes back to life again when they has been deaded. Very confusslin that is! Well anyhoo, annuva very famous undeaded does be Dracula wot is also undeaded but he is a vampire instead of a zombie wot drinks blood instead of eatin people. Dracula was written by Bram Stoker an was made into a movie. Annuva famous vampire writer is Anne Rice who wrote The Vampire Lestat. That book was made into a movie too and I choosin a song from dat movie wot be Moon Over Bourbon Street by Sting.

An da winner as chosen by ................. Skye dus be ........... ut oh ................... is me! Boo! Bet prepare me dad for incomin :).

Ere wot Skye said: Wow, the picking gets harder every time. What great links. Very difficult to choose. Was torn between #5 and #7 oh and #2. But in the end the undeaded win #7. Thanks pals! 

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 22nd January 2017 (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 Three Hundred and Eleventh Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 311 of Lexie's Chain. Last week the winner was Megan wiv somfink. Let's see what we gots this week:

@daisy_dor
Congrats to Megan der victory last week. Dis one is a tad tricky cos me nots knows da music of Da Lost Shadowy Puppetyfings, so i did has to put my finkings caps on ... Dem is on a Domino music label (well so wikidodats says), also on dat label is Franz Ferdinand and me has been known to gets me grove on to Take Me Out. So der it is, my linky dis week is Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand.

@terenceterrier
Larst week Lady Megan pinned her name on da scoresheet wiv "Miracle Aligner" by The Last Shadow Puppets. I noes nuffin abowt dem so I rummages in Wikipedia n reads dat dey played at Glastonbury larst year n performed "Moonage Daydream" in memory of David Bowie. Since it be a year ago dis week dat Bowie died I woz gonna go wiv da original as my linky. Nah! I gonna take dis a step further. For my linky I gonna give yoo David Bowie doing a cover in memory of sumwun wot died. So I gives yoo as my linky da live vershun of David Bowie singing "Imagine" as a tribute to John Lennon.

@claptonterrier
Last week we had a song by The Last Shadow Puppets...in looking at their Wikipedia page we noticed an odd footnote which just said "Dutch singles positions"...so this week our linky is to the song which is currently number 1 in the Dutch singles chart....Clean Bandit by Rockabye!

@maggietkat
Well done! Radiohead was indeed a progressive band. My band also broke in as a progressive band, Talking Heads. The song link was Burn the Witch and my song is "Burning Down the House". So, some Head band is burning something!

@skye613
Congrats Megan, love this tune. Never heard it before so began investigating. The genre is Baroque Pop. The infusion of " classical music, orchestral pop, rock and Baroque music." It emerged in the 60's  blending harmonies and instruments not heard previously in rock/pop. My linky this week is said to have started the British Baroque Pop movement.

@sonikebt
Well done @cloonfourmegan for last week's winning link, The Last Shadow Puppets and "Miracle Enabler". We are staying with the theme of miracles and a fav band from the typists youth - "Promised you a Miracle" by Simple Minds.

@djladylexie
Hmm shadow puppets are fun as are finger puppets. Mum is so old she used to watch Fingerbobs. Fingerbobs was a TV programme wot was in the 1970's. There was a mouse puppet called Fingermouse. Finberbob was mentioned in the video of by Lost Prophet's A Town Called Hypocrisy. So me goin wiv dat as me linky.

An da winner as chosen by ................. Megan ............... dus be .................. @sky613. Yay! Concats me pal .. dat mean you choosin next week!

Ere wot Megan said: I does be most impressed wiv the amount of research undertaken by da chainers this week and some very inventive linkys. We ummed and aahed a bit but finally we pick clever Linky 5 and we does love the chilled out song too.

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 22nd January 2017 (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 Three Hundred and Tenth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 310 of Lexie's Chain. Last week the winner was Terence wiv Mike Oldfield's William Tell. Let's see what we gots this week:

@maggietkat
Well done Sir (once again). Oldfield's music inspired artists including Walter Murphy and his hit "Fifth of Beethoven". I decided to leave this syntho music and go back to rock and roll roots while staying in the theme of classical music with the inimitable Chuck Berry's "Roll over Beethoven".

@wotterface
The first winner of 2017 was Tel with Mike Oldfield. Mike Oldfield was a prog rocker and there's a current track by some other prog rockers that's on loop in our house. I'm sick of floopin hearing it! It's Radiohead and Burn the Witch.

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Tel started as he means to go on by winning with Mike Oldfield playing the Lone Ranger. Mike Oldfield's biggest single was Moonlight Shadow. This week Supergroup The Last Shadow Puppets won best album art and here is one of their songs Miracle Enabler.

@claptonterrier
last week our winner was Mike Oldfield and the William Tell Overture….well that made us think about the place of classical music in pop music…there have been some famous sings inspired by classical music…famous pop producer Pete Waterman described Johann Pachelbel as ‘almost the grandfather of pop’, referring to the way that the ground bass of Pachelbel’s Canon has, in one way or another, provided the starting point for a whole legion of songs – Waterman himself admitted that it had even been the spark for Kylie Minogue’s ‘I should be so lucky’. The most famous instance of Pachelbel’s work being referenced in pop came when Liverpudlians The Farm released their ‘Altogether Now’ in 1990. So that is our linky this week.

@skye613
Happy 2017 #Lexieschain! To start our new year, Terence has given us the William Tell Overture. William Tell is said to be the forerunner of Robin Hood. Both legends have been made into films through the years. In 1991, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was released and became the second highest-grossing film of the year. But the song, written specifically for the film, was the #1 hit of 1991. And won a Grammy!

@daisy_dor
Congrats to Terence on a super linky last time. Me dus luff a bit of Mike Oldfield. Mike Oldfield do have a passion for fings transport and is a licensed pilot. His Augusta Bell 47G helichopter appeared on the sleeve of his cover version of the ABBA song "Arrival". So for my linky I am choosing a song from da ABBA album of the same name - "Money, Money, Money". After all we all needs da money for noms.

@djladylexie
William Tell was most famous for shooting an apple from his son's head in one shot with his crossbow, to save his life. Sir Isaac Newton alledgedly discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head. Those apples is dangerous I must say! So, moral of da story is don't sit under the apple tree! So here me linky Andrew Sisters and Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree.

@diamondbertie
@Terenceterrier won with Mike Oldfield playing William Tell. My choice is keeping the TV/film theme, the film Breakfast at Tiffanys the theme music has to be Moon River, the version I chose is by Ackerman Bilk it's so gentle and mellow.

@sonikebt
Well done Sir Tel winning the first chain of the year with Mike Oldfield playing the William Tell Overture. Classical music is the inspiration to many pop songs from Saturday Night Fever (Mussorgsky -Night on Bald Mountain) to S Club 7 (Faure's Pavane).  We have chosen as our link this week a song which features a theme from Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - "Plug in Baby" by Muse.

(here's the link to Bach if you fancy a listen)

An da winner as chosen by ................. Terence ............... dus be .................. @cloonfourmegan. Yay! Concats me pal .. dat mean you choosin next week!

Ere wot Tel said: Fank yoo pals for da 9 linkies. Dey woz all well fort owt n cleverly  linked to mine n it took me ages to decide on da winner. In da end I decided to go wiv linky 3 - The Last Shadow Puppets "Miracle Enabler ". A very close 2nd woz linky 5 - Bryan Adams "(Everything I Do) I do it for You". I  always listens to a linky while wotchin da video first then goes back n listens to all again wivowt. I fink dis impawtant cos some of dem woz weird to wotch ! 

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 15th January 2017 (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 Three Hundred and Ninth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 309 and da first week of 2017! First of all congratulations to Terence who dus be Chain Champ of 2016! Yay! Right, down to business. Last week the winner was Bertie wiv The Lone Ranger. Let's see what we gots this week:

@claptonterrier
Last week our winner was the theme from the Lone Ranger….that programme used to run on Saturday mornings alongside other programmes like Champion the Wonder Horse….that made us think about Queen singing We are the Champions…and of course it is then a short leap to our link this week…George Michael singing Queen’s Somebody to LOve…

@maggietkat
Well done with the theme from Lone Ranger. Ranger protect land, forests and as soldiers oppressed peoples. My pick of the week is a song about a special division of the US Army. Here is SSGT Barry Sadler's self penned and vocals  "Ballad of the Green Berets".

@wotterface
Last week's winner was the theme tune to the Lone Ranger tv show. Well there's only one song to link to that, Sugarhill Gang's Apache!

@skye613
These always give me a head shake. Great win! So The Lone Ranger had a horse named Silver. Hi Ho Silver.... So da horse must get thirsty right? My linky " Silver Springs" Live for the Tucker Man! Happy New Year Pals!

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Bertie won with the Lone Ranger. In the film remake Johnny Depp plays Tonto. Johnny used to be with Vanessa Paradis who made this lovely French song about a pretty taxi.

@terenceterrier
Larst week Uncle Bertie winned wiv da feem toon from da Lone Ranger TV series. Annuva TV series from da same period wot woz also a favrit wiv my mum woz William Tell. She had her own crossbow doncha kno! Any ways I finds a supa vershun of da William Tell overture wot be performed by Mike Oldfield n lotsa clones. Dis be my linky.

@sonikebt
Happy New Year pals. Going to start the year with a classy song following on from last week's winning song of "Hi ho Silver ...." For our first link of the year we give you "Hi Ho Hi Ho it's off to work we go" from Snow White.

@djladylexie
Me linky is Bryan Ferry! What? Ok Long Ranger to Tonto, the Lone Ranger's side kick! Tonto was played by Jay Silverheels who was the son of a Mohawk Tribal Chief. The Mohawk is a hairstyle sported mainly by punk rockers. Patti Smith was a punk rocker in the 70's and had an album called Horses. Patti Smith accepted the nobel prize on behalf of Dylan in December 2016 where she sang his hit - Hard Rain. Bryan Ferry covered Hard Rain on his debut solo album These Foolish Things. So from da album I give you Hard Rain, Bryan Ferry.

An da winner as chosen by ................. Bertie  ............... dus be .................. @terenceterrier. Wow Tel off to a flyin start already! Dat is Tel wot dus choosin next week.

Ere wot Bertie said: Those were brilliant links, I could see where each choice came from. Sugarhill Gang's Apache made me smile,  the Ballard of the Green Berets brought a tear to her eye, her dad was in 2nd SAS in WWII,  she is so proud of him and all soldiers. 
However the talented Mike Oldfield with his version of William Tell Overture was brilliant I have to choose only one winner so I choose link number six. Happy new year everyone. Love Christine aka diamondbertie.

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 8th January 2017 (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!