Lexie's Chain: The Three Hundred and Second Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 302 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Maggie wiv Da Who and The Kids Is Alright. Let's see wot we gots this week:

@skye613
Congrats Maggie! The Kids are Alright , I wonder about the parents. Sticking with kids & live, my link this week is " Teach Your Children" covered by Kathy Mattea, Alison Krauss & Suzy Boggus. This was performed at the White House. Peace.

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Maggie won with The Kids Are Alright by the Who. What a week it has been and we have to mark the passing of the irreplaceable Leonard Cohen following the theme of The Who with Who By Fire with the very pertinent lyrics Who in Mortal Chains Who in Power?

@terenceterrier
Larst week pal Maggie winned wiv "The Kids Are Alright" by The Who. Dis woz originally on da My Generation LP. Dis takes me niftily to my linky wot be "Alright Now" by Free cos it be enjoyed by same same generation of kids wot heard da original Who songy n it share da Alright werd. Cos it be Remembrance Sunday I remembas  Tucker who be a sadly departed lexieschain Champion n gives yoo a live vershun cos he luvved to do dat. Dis vershun woz recorded at da Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.

@wotterface
Last week's winner was The Who's The Kids Are Alright. The first line of that song is about watching your girl dance with other men and this song is about seeing someone you loved dancing with other people too. It's Robyn with Dancing on my Own.

@sonikebt
Well done @MaggieTKat winning the link last week. If the "The Kids are Alright" get your dancing shoes (& hats) on because the everything's gonna be alright. "It's alright" by East 17.

@djladylexie
Well done Maggie! My linky does be Everybody's Talkin' from Midnight Cowboy sun by Harry Nilsson. Why? Well, The Kids are Alright from The Who. The Kids Are Alright was also a 1979 rockumentary about the band. A week after the first rushes, Keith Moon, drummer in The Who died from an overdose. Eerily, Moon died in the very same flat that Cass Elliott also died in. The flat was owned by Harry Nilsson who believed the flat was cursed.

An da winner wot was decided by Maggie.............. is .....................................Terence! Yay! Well done me pal. You dus choose next week. (Ed: Might have to start calling this Tel's Chain BOLBOL - miss you Tucker!)

Ere wot Maggie said: I have an impossible task this week. Teach your children shows Mrs Clinton smiling ages ago before her losing battle this past week. Next, the passing of Leonard Cohen is near and dear to my heart. Finally, losing Tucker is never far from my mind.  Honorable mention is the Nilsson link. (He was HOT in the day!) I chose " Alright Now" by Free in Tucker's honor. Cheers dear corgi link master.

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 20th November 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 Fifty Sixth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 256 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Wyn wiv Nathaniel Raetliff and S.O.B. Let's see what we got for the final chainy of 2015:

@sonikebt
Last week's great winning link from @wotterface was Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats with S.O.B. - a song about struggling with alcohol. Our link this week is about struggling to find love - "Stone Cold Sober" by Del Amitri.

@diamondbertie
Here we are the last chain for 2015  and we all say goodbye to a year with its ups and downs it's tears and laughter. @wotterface won with Nathaniel Rateliffe and the night sweats with S O B. My choice for for the last days of of 2015 is Days by Kirsty Maccoll

@skye613
ohhh the last chainy for 2015! Nathaniel Rateliff is a blues, gospel ,soul ,southern rocker, quite the combo of sound. And the vid for this winning tune appears to be set in a prison. Another southern blues rocking band is Alabama Shakes & they want no fighting at that prison or at the end of our year! Looking forward to the chain in 2016. Thanks to Lexie & Mom for all their hard work.

@claptonterrier
last week was a song by Mr Rateliff and the Night Sweats…it must be furry hot to be sweating in the night….in fact almost 100 degrees we think….so our choice is 96 Degrees in the Shade by Third World…not quite 100 degrees but close…

@cloonfourmegan
Well done Wynter for winning last week with Nathaniel and the Sweats! It has been quite sweaty in this warm December but not as sweaty as the Caribbean where mum once enjoyed dancing to this tune

@bunnersandharvs
So here's to another cleva linky and a big well dun to you Wyn...So we been listening to dat songy and we keeps thinking about a songy called 'Save Me' wot be sung by Aimee Mann. We int sure if it is abowt love or saving hoomans from demselves but we thort dat guy singing about drankin, needed saving.  Happy choosin, Wyn and Happy New Year to all our pals.

@terenceterrier
Larst week Wynn gived uz da winnin linky  “S.O.B.” by Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. I tell ya pals if I dussnt win dis week I gonna sob. I gonna whimper n howl. I gonna cry lots. So my linky in antisipawshun be “Crying”. Da original woz by Roy Orbinson but I find dis super vershun by Roy Orbinson wiv K D Lang wot I gives yoo as my linky.

@djladylexie
I never heard this song before but is about drinking your life away after a breakup. So dis week I gonna go wiv There's A Tear In My Beer. What I hear you say? Well, alcohol and break ups seem to create sad songs. So here we have a performer who struggled (and lost) is battle wiv alcohol and sung about a break up wiv alcohol in the lyrics! Who dat? Well it is Hank William of course. As an homage to Hank I have chosen TheThe's version of Tear In My Beer from their album Hanky Panky, dedicated to the country singer.

An da winner as choosed by Wyn ............ dus be ...................................... Megan! Yay well done me pal! You be choosin the first chainy of 2016!!

Ere wot Wyn said: First of all of like to say Merry Crispmouse and a Happy Pig's Ear to all my fellow chainers and a great big thanks to you for doing the chain for another year. 

There were lots of sad songs this week to choose from, my own fault really for choosing a song about break ups and drinking but I decided we can't end the year on a sad so my choice this week is link number 5 because it made Mom laugh out loud as it bought back memories of being at Jerry's Rollerdrome in her teenage years, skating round and falling over. What a saddo! 

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 January 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 Fifty First Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 251 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Terence wiv Moody Blues and Nights In White Satin. So let's see what we gots.

@wotterface
Last week's winner was Moody Blues with Nights in White Satin. I've often heard people being a bit confused as they think it's Knights in White Satin, which is silly. So my choice this week is another misunderstood lyric. Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze. Excuse me while I kiss this guy.

@djladylexie
Moody Blues Nights In White Satin. Great tune. Justin Hayward was the lead singer of The Moody Blues. Justin Hayward appeared on the fabulous Rick Wakeman album Return To the Centre Of The Earth. Rick Wakeman was the keyboard player for prog rock band Yes. I am choosing Owner Of A Lonely Heart, another song about the pain of love.

@skye613
And the dude Terence does win again. Good job! So " Nights In White Satin " was featured in season 5 of a favorite TV show, Fringe. Strange show that we loved here in ma dog house. There were 3 main characters, Olivia, Peter and Walter. My linky choice " Do You Remember Walter "

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Terence won with Nights in White Satin by da Moody Blues. Last week was very sad and more sad things have happened since and I wanted our moody not to be so blue so I is now In the Mood for Dancing and here be the Nolans help wiv that.

@maggietkat
Well done with Nights in White Satin. If I think about the title, I imagine white satin dresses and sheets. Sounds like someone might be Makin' Whoopee! This version is by Rickie Lee Jones and Dr. John which was featured in Sleepless in Seattle.

@claptonterrier
Hello Miss Lexie…last week we had a song about Knights in White Satin….how very posh this sounds…but I don’t think it is quite the right look for scruffy terriers and so I have chosen a song about some more basic attire and my link this week is “Blue Jeans and White T Shirts” by Gaslight Anthem…

@sonikebt
@terenceterrier won last week with Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues. When Justin Haywood was 17 he signed a publishing deal with Lonnie Donegan, "The King of Skiffle" who influenced some of the biggest names in Rock such as Roger Daltry. So, our link this week is from The Who with "My Generation".

An da winner as chosened by Tel dus be ....................................... @sonikebt wiv My Generation from da Who! Yay, well done me pal, you dus be choosin next week.

Ere wot Terence said: An interestin selekshun of linkies dis week. How well da chainers noes us here – two by groups wot Mum bin to see live. We likes a cleva linky leadin to a supa toon n it help if da video be speshull. Afta much hummin n hahrin I goes wiv linky 7 – The Who wiv “My Generation” . Luvved da Mods n Rockers at Margate footage n Mum denies any involvement in da mayhem on da beach.

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 November 2015 (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 Twenty Eighth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 228 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was me wiv Rolling Stones an You Can't Always Get What You Want. Let's see wot appened this week!

@wotterface
Last week's winner was you, again, with the Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones take their name from the phrase "a rolling stone gathers no moss" meaning if you keep moving you keep fresh and new. But this is the time of year where someone does gather moss so they can make homes for their babies - the birds. So I've chosen Young Fathers with their song Nest, to think about all the birds that are working hard at this time of year to raise their babies.

@sonikebt

Last week Lexie won with the Rolling Stones. When you try you do sometimes get what you need but it's good to remember that we always get what we give. Our link this week is "You get what you give" by New Radicals.

@terenceterrier

Lexie wins da chainy agin wiv da linky You Can't Always Get What you Want by The Rolling Stones. As a single dis woz da B side of Honky Tonk Woman. Dis woz also a track on da 1969 album Let It Bleed. Dis woz da first album wot had Mick Taylor on it. He woz previously guitarist wiv John Mayall's BluesBreakers . He had been asked to join dem after their regular guitarist Eric Clapton went off to form da band Cream. ( still wiv me ? good cos in dat case yoo will know where dis iz going) SO for my linky dis week I gives yoo Eric C wiv Layla cos she sounds a bit of a HTW!

@maggietkat
Congrats on "you can't always get what you want". I think when your luck runs out, you got to,be moving on. I have 2 songs with the same link this week. Sorry, but I couldn't choose.
1. The Rolling Stones got their name from the Muddy Waters song. Muddy was instrumental (pun not really intended) in establishing the Chicago Blues scene. A band in the 60's, the Paul Butterfield Band, was mentored by Muddy and other blues artists. They recorded a Robert Johnson standard, "Walkin Blues" because when you can't get what you want, you better be getting.

2. Not only is the Walkin Blues a classic for how to leave your ex behind. Paul Simon said it best, "50 ways to leave your lover". Of course, I think The Muppets tell it best, and what Amipal doesn't love Animal?

@skye613
So this week DJ Lexie has moved to Beefa. I'll bet that during that fun ride she had some times of dissatisfaction. What's a sweet pup to do?? Well , play a game & sing a song. My linky this week " Rock, Paper , Scissors".

 

@claptonterrier

Hello Miss Lexie…last week you chose a song by the Rolling Stones…a rolling stone gathers no moss they say….moss is a plant…we don’t know many songs about plants but one we do know is by Elvis Costello…”Good Year for the Roses”…

An the winner as chosen by ........................ dad .......................... dus be ......................... @sonikebt wiv New Radicals! Well done me pal you chooses next week.

Ere wot Dad said: All great links again! I like the train of thought about getting what you want, then not wanting it and so on. So, I am going to go with the New Radicals continuing the theme. Hasta Luego :). Eric Clapton was a close second and animal a close third so well done all.

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 21st June 2015 (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 Fifth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 205 of #lexieschain. The first chainy of 2015!  An well done to Wyn (@wotterface) for achieving the Chain Champ title of 2014. Ok, so on wiv da show. Let's see what we gots:

@Wotterface
So you won last week with Abba's SOS. If you're using the SOS signal then you need Help. Help! Was a film, single and album by the Beatles (not sure if anyone has heard of them). But we're going to choose "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" as our link this week. It's from the Help! album but it's a better song.

@terenceterrier
okey dokey. Off da top of my head. if sumwun be sending out a SOS dey needs help so my evvasa kwik linky be “Help” by The Beatles.

@skye613
What a great pawty and DJ Lexie the winner of last weeks chainy with " SOS " by Abba. This actually is something I have researched before. So SOS means.... nothing- nothing at all! My tune this week " Nothing". 

@claptonterrier
Hello Miss Lexie and happy new Chain year…!! Last week you chose a song called SOS by Abba…..SOS is of course a famous shorthand signal requesting urgent help which is often given in morse code….that got us thinking about codes and songs about codes….I am afraid we couldn’t think of many codes which feature in songs but we did find an example of a dress code…No Jacket Required…which, of course, is the name of an album by Phil Collons…he used to be in a band called Genesis so this week I have selected the Genesis song  “Turn It On Again’….a rare moment of toe-tapping pop music from the merchants of Prog!!

An the winner as chosen by me dad .... dus be ....... @skye613. Yay well done me pal. You be choosin next time.

Ere wot the Dad said: All great links. I was torn between Depeche Mode  and Genesis. Oh dear. Dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot - that's SOS in morse #geekdad. Anyhoo, I choose Depeche Mode and Nothing. Well done whoever you are.

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 11th January 2015 (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 Eighty Sixth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 186 of #lexieschain. So last time was Wyn wiv Where's Me Jumper by Sultans of Ping. So let's see wots we gots dis week:

@maggietkat
Well done with the quirky Where's Me Jumper? We loved it! The lyrics about dancing put us in mind of another musician, Frank Zappa. My link is "Dancing Fool".

@skye613
This weeks tune caused much head thumping & paws tapping Wotter, so good on ya! Played with a bunch of lost & found but decided that " I think I found it & I think I love it " What is lost shall be found!

@diamondbertie
Well done @Wotterface winning last week with Where's Me Jumper by Sultans of Ping, hilarious, I loved it. I had to choose another funny song, my mind went straight to Lily the Pink by the Scaffold.This song was based on the Ballard of Lydia Pinkham, she existed as a purveyor of medicinal compounds.

@terenceterrier
I woz proper stumped dis week. I reads dat da name of da band Sultans of Ping FC iz a play on the Dire Straits songy “ Sultans of Swing” . Mark Kopfler woz in Dire straits. So for my linky I gives you him wiv “ Brothers in Arms” . Why dis one? Obvious innit – cos jumpers have arms. And in Tucker’s honour it be a live vershun wiv Eric Clapton frown in.

@freddie_bt
Where's Me Jumper, well I duznt av a jumper, I did av a onesie bawt fer me n I wuz vewy welieved wen dat seemed to get lost. However I duz get vewy cwoss wen pawfectly gud toys are disaappeared jus coz deir stuffin spills out but I is digwessin fwom da task in hand wot is to fink ov a linky. I's not vewy gud at findin fings, pawently deres no finkin or plannin I jus run about madly lukin in da same place so I sympafises wiv da pwedicament dat Wreckless found imself in, fanks to his Mum. Blinkin oomums. Eric adnt actually lost anyfing no he wuz twyin to find someone. Eh? I's confused but opefully you wont be after 3 minutes of Eric's wonderful monotone as he twavels "The Whole Wide World".

@claptonterrier
Miss Wyn chose a song called “Where’s My Jumper”…and it occurred to me that jumpers are usually made from wool…all types of wool….and I am of course made of knitting of the finest mohair wool from the high Himalayas...…so this week my choose is the Knitting Song by Bill Oddie! Yes..that Bill Oddie.

@djladylexie
Hmmm jumpers! Me finkin. Well, jumpers can be used for all kinds of fings like keepin warm, wrappin round your shoulders if you is from the continent or playin golf, and using em for goalposts if you is playin football in the park. Parks are great and full of intrestin people an fings going on … so .. Our linky dus be park life! So here it is Blur an Parklife.

So da winner as decided by Wyn dus be .................. wot! Nooooo!! Not again ... is me! Pfftttt. Ok well dad dus be decidin again.

Ere wot Wyn said bowty it: We're so glad everyone loved Sultans of Ping! All of the links made us laugh with references to losing stuff and knitting and jumpers and onsies and sleeves. But there was only one choice for us that jumped out straight away because it's high energy, Mom is a massive fan and it's where we'd all have fun - Parklife! OI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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 31st August 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 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!