Lexie's Chain: The Two Hundred and First Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 201 of #lexieschain. Last week was Terence wo won wiv Arlo Guthrie an Alice's Restaurant. Let's see wot we got dis week:

@skye613
So this week maybe taking the easy way but since " Alice's Restaurant " is one of the longest pop/rock songs, I wanted to know about some of the shortest songs. Coming in at 1:07 Queen's " Lazing on a sunday afternoon " is number 6 in shortness.

@claptonterrier
Wow,Terence chose an extraordinarily long linky last week…imagine being in the restaurant for that long..i think some of the patrons might be needing some assistance after all that….*gulp*…so we decided we should have a medical team on stand by…so this week we have chosen the song “Silver Lining” by First Aid Kit….the silver lining being that Terence won lexieschain! Yay….

@bunnersandharvs
Well Terence had a terrific linky last week wid Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant. It did remind Mum of hur brother wot loved Arlo sumthin. So our linky dis week is fur two reasons. One, Arlo did also sing a songy called da Power of Love a song also by another group called Huey Lewis and the News and they did also sing a songy called 'Back In Time' which is our linky cos dat songy wot Ter chose did take us Back In Time. Have fun chooosin, Ter.

@djladylexie
That was one long song wot you chose there Terence. Well we started finkin about length of songs and went to Guinness World Records to find out that the world's longest officiallly recorded song dus be called Zwei Jahre (two years) is 1 hour and 30 mins and 10 seconds long. It has 482 refrains (wotever them is) and 11,588 words!
Dat is my linky altho I would suggest not listenin to ole fing – but is quite nice!

@maggietkat
Well done Terence! "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" is an anti-Vietnam War protest song. I thought about protest songs through the years and I remembered my favorite one. Although it was written about 1970 about a faux suicide. it is about the Korean war. I love this version by Manic Street Preachers, "Suicide Is Painless" (Theme from M*A*S*H).

@smcheetham

So where to go from Terence's winner last week. Well we have gone from Arlo Guthrie to Woody Guthrie pretty obvious way forward. This one comes from Mermaid Avenue which was the album where Billy Bragg and Wilco put music to lyrics from the Woody Guthrie Archive at the request of his family. This is my favourite from the album with vocal by Jeff Tweedy it's very haunting but very beautiful it's called One by One Have a great week all.

@wotterface
We had to do a bit of reading about Arlo Guthrie as we didn't know any of his music or anything! It is thought that Alice's Restaurant was commenting on the Vietnam war draft so we looked at songs commenting on the Vietnam War. Simple. So we discovered that All Along The Watchtower is also about that war, and of course we went with the Hendrix version.

An the winner as chosen by @terenceterrier dus be @maggietkat. Yay! Well done again Maggie! You choosin next week.

Ere wot Tel said: Wowser ! Seven linkies to judge n not one Alice Cooper amongst dem *shrugs* Anyways I haz listened to all of dem and scrootinized da werds of da linkies for clevaness. I haz made my choice *long drawn out pawse* I chooz linky number 5. I luv dis song although I haz not heard dis vershun by da Manic Street Preacher before. ( Good reserch by da winna on wot I likes cos I have used dis linky myself in da past wiv da original recordin of it )

 

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 14th December 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 Two Hundredth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 200 of #lexieschain. Last week was White Rabbit from Jefferson Airplane. Let us see what we gots dis week:

@claptonterrier
Hi Miss Lexie! …but rushed this week…anyhow, last week the song White Rabbit was the winner….so, I have opted to go for an obvious link of songs with animals in the title…and one of our favourites is Barracuda by Heart….familiar to any household who plays Guitar Hero!! 

@bunnersandharvs

So den dat Maggie wos verreee cleva wid dat winning linky last week by Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit and it gots us thinking about being solitary and going down roads and flying around in airplanes too which also gots us thinking dat if you doing all dat you almost as free as a bird so we decided to go wid Lynyrd Synyrd's Free Bird. Have fun chooosin, Maggie and we hopes evaone has a great week too. 

@skye613
Maggie did win with one of my all time favorite songs " White Rabbit ". Awesome tune of my youth. I did not every record my antics in a diary thank goodness and have read " Nobody's Diary" . Have fun ma pal Maggie! 

@djladylexie
White Rabbit from Jefferson Airplane who later became Jefferson Starship. Members of the band were Grace Slick and Paul Kantner nicknamed The Chrome Nun and Baron Von Tollbooth by David Crosby. Pal Kantner went on to to produce Wooden Ships with Crosby which was recorded by Crosby, Still and Nash.

@diamondbertie
Clever @maggietkat won with Jafferson Airplane - White Rabbit is a clever song that acknowledges Alice in Wonderland and the narcotics. My choice has to be The Beatles' Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds this more than hints at the effects of narcotics.

@smcheetham

Well done Maggie for your win last week. As ever from me a very simple link. I have gone for a rabbits and colour link taking me from White Rabbit to Pink Rabbits by The National who are one of my very favourites this is a live version. Enjoy and have a great week my fellow chainees.

@terenceterrier
larst week da winnin linky be “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane. Yup we likes dat one. Wowser so many different ways we could take dis linky but dis time we not following da bunny path. Corse dis songy be all abowt Alice in Wonderland. Alice n all da uvvers went to da Mad Hatter’s tea party. But da wevva at da moment is very cold n wet so dey wouldnt want to be outside - dey could have it inside in a restaurant. So my linky dis week be “Alice’s Restaurant” by Arlo Guthrie . Some of da younger furs probs neva heard it before. ( PS at 22 mins 30 sec Iz definitely in da running for da longest linky award).

@wotterface
Last weeks winner was Jefferson Airplane with White Rabbit. The only other Jefferson Airplane song we know is Somebody To Love. Queen did a song called the same, so that's our link this week. Queen with Somebody To Love.

An the winner as chosen by @maggietkat dus be @terenceterrier wiv Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie! Yay well done Tel! Is your turn next time.

Ere wot Maggie said: The winning link is "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie. Such clever animal links, some tunes I have never heard. Pink Rabbit was quite lovely, Beatles are a love of mine, and how could you go wrong with the vocal ranges of Queen. I also love the chains that go through band members. However, I decided to 'feed my head' with the menu from Alice.

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 December 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 Ninety Ninth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 199 of #lexieschain. Last week was me wiv Solitary Man sung by Johnny Cash. Let us see what we gots dis week:

@smcheetham
Morning all its a horrible day here in St Albans bet its a lot nicer in Ibiza. Congrats Lexie for last week. very simple link from us but to a fave song from a fave album link is from Solitary Man to Lucky Man by the Verve from Urban Hymns.

@bunnersandharvs
Well dun to you Lexie fur your winning linky last which wos Johnny Cash singing abowt bein a solitary man. We alsoing did see da songy before by Wotter wos also abowt a lonely crane driva so wot da dealio wid evaone bein all by demself which gots us singing Celine Dion's songy so dat our linky dis week. Hee hee.

@terenceterrier
Last week da winnin linky woz “Solitary Man” by Johnny Cash. So I goes n sits in a darkened room for inspirayshun. I finks if yoo woz solitary likes I woz sitting there yoo would be all on yor own like I woz sittin there and so I comes up wiv “All by Myself” by Celine Dion as my linky cos I woz all by myself sittin there.

@wotterface
So, Johnny Cash's solitary man can only take us in one direction - Rick Rubin. Cash had fallen out of fashion a little until the 1990's and early 2000's when he teamed up with genius producer Rick Rubin and did the so called "American" recordings. These albums allowed him to cover some contemporary tracks in a stripped down way, resulting in some brilliant tracks. Rick Rubin was heavily involved with the popularisation of hip hop and eventually worked with really diverse artists across many genres, allowing us to just pick what we think is a damn good track that he also produced...Audioslave and Cochise. Be warned, it's dirty and loud...

@maggietkat
Well done Lexi with "Solitary Man". Whenever Mum thinks about that song, she hears the original version by the composer, Neil Diamond, in her head. She recalls summer days of driving with windows down and singing along with the radio. (They called it 4-70 air conditioning, 4 windows, 70mph.) So, radio station WLS Chicago is the only link for this chain (and silly Mum memories). This is our link "White Rabbit" by the Jefferson Airplane.

@claptonterrier
Last week you had a sing which referenced being solitary…that made me think of the word solitaire….which if course is the name of a card game…..so that set me thinking about songs that reference card games and cards…..so….no, its not going to be Ace of
….but we shall instead have Bob Dylan singing Jack, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts…!! (Ed: had to put in the youtboob version as the vimeo one won't go in.)

@skye613
Lexie won last week with Johnny Cash singing a great cover of a Neil Diamond song. Neil Peart is the primary lyricist for the band Rush, although he did not write " Working Man". Simple linky this week! 

An da winner as chosen by me dad ................... all day way from beefa dus be .....................................  White Rabbit! Well done Maggie me pal, you dus be choosin next week.

Ere wot Dad saided: well as I'm in beefa as Lex calls it, I thought I'd got for a song associated psychedelia, all pretty big stuff over here.

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 30th November 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 Ninety Eighth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 198 of #lexieschain. Last week was Wyn wiv The Loneliness of the Tower Crane Driver by Elbow. Nice song dat! Let us see what we gots dis week:

@maggietkat
Well done Wyn with the Elbows! The chording and lyrics spoke of the sense of lose. I am reminded of other things that can be lost. The Grateful Dead recorded "Touch of Gray", an anthem for the aging hippies who Turned On, Tuned In and Dropped Out. 

@terenceterrier
Larst week da winnin linky be “Elbow” wiv “The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver” . So for my linky dis week I follow da lonely feem n chooses “Only The Lonely” by Roy Orbison. *sings along* dum dum dum dummy doo wah ......

@smcheetham

Elbow had been plugging away for years without a huge amount of recognition when they won the Mercury prize for the Seldom Seen Kid and if was from then on that their career really took off and they became massive festival favourites. That made us think of using the Mercury Prize as the link which gave us lots of people to choose from. There is only one person who has won the award twice and that is PJ Harvey. The choice this week is from her mercury award winning album Let England Shake and we have gone for the title track. Let England Shake by PJ Harvey.

@skye613
Well done Wyn! I have never heard the tune & greatly enjoyed it. My linky this week comes from the orchestra playing and me thinking what a strange name for a tune! 

@djladylexie
That poor fing in the tower crane driver he must be very bored being there all on his own. A solitary existence one might say. Well, that is exacly wot Johnny Cash said in the song Solitary Man.

An da winner as chosen by @wotterface dus be ..................................... oh bloomin eck! Is me again.Oh no! Dad dus be in beefa wot we gonna dus! Well I will have to decide init.

Ere wot Wyn saided: Well, some really good links this week and, as always, it was hard to choose. However, we're pretty big Johnny Cash fans in this house and are ashamed to say we'd never heard the version in the link (not sure if it was meant to be a link to the Johnny Cash version, but we're actually glad it wasn't) so thanks for that. The winner this week is linky 5 and Johnny Cash with Solitary Man. 

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 23rd November 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 Ninety Seventh Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 197 of #lexieschain. Last week was Stella wiv Hold On from Alabama Shakes! Let us see what we gots dis week:

@Wotterface
So, last weeks winner was Alabama Shakes with "Hold On". People who don't hold on are very likely to be lonely and the song we have chosen is all about being lonely. It also contains the line "I must have been working the ropes, when your hand slipped from mine" so he definitely didn't hold on. Ladies and gents of the chain, we present to you the achingly beautiful Elbow and the Philharmonic Orchestra performing "The loneliness of a tower crane driver" live at Abbey Road. *shivers up the spine*.

@terenceterrier
Larst week da winning linky woz “Hold On” by Alabama Shakes. *finks* * finks again* OK I been shakin a lot cos of all da wizz bangs so I gonna choose a linky by Shakin Stevens “Cry Just A Little Bit”.

@claptonterrier

Last week Alabama Shakes was the winner and so this week my link is songs which reference other states of the United States…and from among the very many of them we have chosen Private Idaho by the B52s….

@skye613
So last week Miss Stella did win the chain with a tune from Alabama Shakes who were formed in Athens, Alabama. Another band was also formed in Athens but this one was in Athens , Georgia... The B-52's. My fav from them is of course " Rock Lobster" Small towns ..Big successes.

@djladylexie
Alabama Shakes wiv Hold On. A song that portrays loneliness an trying to hold on is Pink in The Wall by Pink Floyd- Hey You.

An da winner as chosen by @smcheetham dus be .....................................@wotterface Wyn, Yay! Well done me pal. You dus be choosin next time. 

Ere wot Stella saided: I have enjoyed doing a bit of judging this week and have given it plenty of thought a rich and varied selection of links to chose from. Interesting that  two people went for the B52s but from different angles.  I have however to be Loyal to my city of birth and do like a bit of Elbow so the winner this week is Linky 1 Elbow.

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 16th November 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 Ninety Sixth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 196 of #lexieschain. Last week was Clapton wiv Don't Forget The Bridge by Five Blind Boys! Let us see what we gots dis week:

@djladylexie
We gowin with the bridge feem. Bridges can be roads over rivers and railways for cars to get over. Annuva type of bridge is one in music wot is a constrastin section wot prepares the song or music for the return of the original section. This usually eight or 32 bar.32 bar form was used a lot in rock an roll whereas 8 to the bar more your swing/big band type fing anof course the blues. So we choosin Key to the Highway (ha) from Eric Clapton wiv a song originally written by the most awesome Big Bill Broonzy.

@maggietkat
Well done, Clapton! Five Blind Boys were featured in the opening credits in Season 1 of "The Wire" covering "Way Down the Hole" by Tom Waits. My link is 'covering Waits' songs', so please enjoy Diana Krall covering "Temptation".

@smcheetham
Well done Clapton great choice. We missed last week but we are back this week. We have used Alabama as our link this week to take us to Alabama Shakes and Hold On love the combination of the guitars and the way she belts out the lyrics very enjoyable. So that's the link nice and simple.

@terenceterrier
Last week our little pal Clapton winned wiv “Don’t Forget The Bridge” by Five Blind Boys. Another black American artist who be blind is Stevie Wonder. Because it be close to Halloween I chooses his songy “Superstition” as my linky dis week.

@wotterface
Quite simple and straightforward this time. Going from the Blind Boys of Alabama to Blind Melon and No Rain. Just cos we like it.

@bunnersandharvs

So another teeeerific Linky last week wot wos by Clapton, Don't Forget the Bridge. We thort about love building bridges and not forgetting about dem too and dat you gots to cross den so dis gots us thinking about a song Mum used to luv which wos sung by Linda Ronstadt, Many Rivers to Cross. We dus hope you enjoy chooosin dis week Clapton.

@skye613
Hope I not to late! Congrats to Clapton, Well done chainy pal. The Blind Boys of Alabama have always produced beautiful bible based music that is traditional. In 2013 they released a new album featuring among other guest artists Patty Griffin. Griffin is a prolific song writer as well as a dynamic performer. My linky this week is a Patty Griffin cover " Moses" by Missy Higgins. Why you ask? Cause Patty wants some help crossing the river. Needs a bridge? he he.

An da winner as chosen by @claptonterrier dus be .....................................  Stella @smcheetham. Yay! Well done me pal. You dus be choosin next time. 

Ere wot Clapyton saided: Oh Miss Lexie…it is IMPOSSIBLE to choose this week! All the links are brilliant!! We particularly enjoyed being reminded on the Blind Melon song with the bee girl in the video…and we are big Patti Griffin fans here (perhaps her original version might have won!!)…but we are going to choose Linky No.3 the Alabama Shakes as the winner…..its a very passionate song and we like that…but really everyone is the winner this week…*group hug*

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 9th November 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!