Lexie's Chain: The Two Hundred and Seventh Chain

Hello pals or hola amigos as we will be sayin when we in Beefa! Welcome to week 207 of #lexieschain. Last week  the winner was Wyn wiv Always from Erasure. Let's see wot appened this week.

@borderpup
To link from Always by Erasure, we carried on the Vince Clarke feem, and before Erasure he was half of Yazoo wiv Alison Moyet. She went solo after Yazoo split up and as mum isn't ready to leave the 80s synthpop just yet, we have chosen I Go Weak -Alison Moyet. Can't find video so found this one which is very weird! Sorry!

@smcheetham

So last week our chain champion won again well done Wyn. I am afraid I just shamelessly use the chain to link to my favourite songs and I have done this again this week. I have used the word Always to link to You Were Always on my Mind which must be the best song ever about not making enough effort in a relationship. Anyway I like it and there is a link so hear you go You Were Always on my Mind by Elvis Presley. have a good weekend all.

@kelsoterrier
I see last week’s winning link was Erasure with Always. Always infers something will last forever whereas the band’s name infers this isn’t necessarily the case because things can be erased. Erasure are well known as being a synthpop band so I am going to link to a song that also incorporates a synthesiser to create a more disco-oriented sound. What song you ask? Well, why erase when you can rip it up and start again? My link is Orange Juice with Rip It Up.

@terenceterrier
Last week da winnin linky woz da songy “Always” by Erasure . An erasure iz posh name for a rubber wot yoo use to remove mistakes if yoo writted on paper wiv a pencil . *paws froo contents of box of cherished 33 rpm albums* My linky dis week coming from da LP by The Beatles wot be called “Rubber Soul”. I chooses da track “In My Life” cos it be one of my favorits.

@diamondbertie
Great that Erasure won last week with always, a lovely song my choice has to be Baby it's Cold Outside who to choose for the artist, so many choices Dean Martin, Tom Jones, Idina Menzel or Rod Stewart, hmmm. Well I have to choose Tom Jones version alway had a bit of a soft spot for the Welsh Wizard.

@maggietkat
Well done with the Vince Clarke tune! Checking back, he was also in the band Yazoo which was known in the US as Yaz. The name change happened due to copyright issues with a record label. Yazoo Records was formed to preserve American heritage music. One of the artists on the label is the Memphis Jug Band, performing a song by Gus Cannon (band member), "Walk Right In".

 

@djladylexie
Last week was Erasure wiv Always. Always is a very popular title for songs you know! We dus know cos we found out from Wikipiki the font of all knowledge. Then we wondered what is the opposite of always … well we fink is never! So ere we dus av Never Say Never from Basement Jaxx. Sorry about the bottom!

@skye613
So to start this search I wondered what is Always? Something that goes on forever, or happens all the time. Yes Those are correct. This also happens always ... Every week "Manic Monday".

@bunnersandharvs
What a super dups linky by Wotter last week with Erasure's Always. You is on a anudder roll it seems, pal. We wos thinking about da songy by Erasure and it made us think if you erased you may also feel invisible so dat is why we has Chosen Invisible by Skylar Grey. She says wot eva she tries to do she always invisible. Awww Good luck choosing da link dis week pal.

@claptonterrier
Last week Miss Wyn won with a song by Erasure. This put is in mind of a great song by Erasure called A Little Respect. Our favourite version of this song was a cover version by Wheatus and that gives us a perfect excuse to select the Wheatus song “Teenage Dirtbag” as our link this week…

An the winner as chosen by @wotterface .... dus be ....... @kelsoterrier! Yay well done me pal first one of 2015 under your belt or should I say medallion Kelos heehee. You be choosin next week.

Ere wot Wyn said: We genuinely couldn't decide this week so we had to narrow it down to a couple, write them on paper, throw them in the air and catch one...Orange Juice and Rip It Up. So congrats whoever that was! So many good links this week. Loving the dance and synth pop, the jug music and the various classics. Please don't make it so hard again! We really laughed at the Erasure/eraser confusion. 

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 25th 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 Two Hundred and Sixth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 206 of #lexieschain. Last week  the winner was Skye wiv Nothing by Depeche Mode. Let's see wot appened this week! Good to see some pals returnin for 2015. Let's hope we get some competishun goin dis year - year 5! Can you believes it?

@maggietkat
Well done with Nothing by Depeche Mode. The dark melodies remind me of another artist.  The lyrics talk of surprises that advertise nothing which also puts me in the mind of a song by this dark artist. My choice this week's is "Step Right Up" by Tom Waits.

@smcheetham
Happy new year all fellow chainees New Years resolution to not leave chain until the last minute. So here goes last times winner was by Depeche Mode those great survivors and astonishingly successful electronic Essex Boys. They famously said they wanted to make electronic music after hearing Electricity by OMD - now that's a good tune so my link is Electricity by OMD electronic pioneers from The Wirral good luck all.

@kelsoterrier
Last week we had Depeche Mode with Nothing. I see Depeche is French for Dispatch or News Report so can't help thinking of the terrible events in France this week. I think we all wish "Nothing" had happened and that we were still "Enjoying The Silence" but one thing for sure is that freedom of speech must prevail and publications like Charlie Hebdo must have a voice.....for this reason my link is Charly (Says) by The Prodigy.

@terenceterrier
Larst week da winnin linky woz “Nothing” by Depeche Mode. Umm nothing = nowt = zero = absence of anyfink = nuffinness.  *bangs head on wall hopin for inspirayshun*  Gots it ! I go wiv “Nothing Compares 2U” by Sinead O’Connor.

@wotterface
Last weeks winner was a Depeche Mode song and it has sent our house into an 80's frenzy. Vince Clark worked with Depeche Mode for a brief period and the reason for much embarrassing dancing in the house is one of his other acts, the wonderful Erasure. So many tracks to choose from, but we've gone for "Always".

@borderpup
A bit difficult this week, hmm.  A link from Depeche Mode and Nothing ... well, we did our research on the interweb and found out that this song was on several albums, including a live one called 101. There is a tv programme here in UK called Room 101, where guests are invited to say why things they don't like should be got rid of into room 101, and the host picks the best one. Now, if I were on that programme, what would I choose? SQUIRRELS of course, pesky fings! So here is a silly song from Ray Stevens called the Mississippi Squirrel Revival. No offence to anyone intended, but as it has been a terrible news week we thought we could do with a bit of a laugh and cringe with this cheesy video.

@djladylexie
Well did you know that Depeche Mode means somfink close to fashion news in French? No? Me neivas! So what is fashion, one pals fashion is annuva cringeworfy affair. Fashun is a popular or latest style of clothing, hair, decorashun or behaviour. As Bowie himself says fa fa fa fa fashion! Dat is me linky, fashion by bowie.

@bunnersandharvs
So a Happy New Year and a very big well dun to Skye fur winning da furst linky dis year with Depeche Mode's Nothing. We wos listening to da songy and thort about nothing and sitting around waiting and anticipating and you know dis gots us thinking about if you wos sitting around you might do it sumwhur like on a dock watching time roll away so of course our linky dis week is Sitting By the Dock of the Bay but dis version is by Sara Bereilles. Enjoy chooosin your linky Skye.

@claptonterrier
last week a song called “Nothing” won and so this week our task has been very easy…we have selected a song called “Everything” by Micky Bubbles…at lest I think that’s his mafia name...

An the winner as chosen by @skye613 .... dus be ....... @wotterface! Yay well done me pal. You be choosin next week!

Ere wot the Skye said: So many great links this week to chose from. After I finished my chair dancing routine I must pick # 5. Love the link and the tune. Well done chainy pals! we  are going to have a great 2015 with #Lexieschain.

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 18th 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 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 Two Hundred and Fourth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 204 of #lexieschain. The final chainy of 2014!  I will announce the winner on New Years Day evenin 8pm on twitta. Be there for the #lexieschain awards of 2014. So let's see wot we got dis week:

@terenceterrier
Da winnin linky larst week woz “Walk Unafraid” by First Aid Kit. I had a good fink abowt dis an annuva songy we luvs sez if yoo haz hope in yor heart yoo neva walks alone n so if yoo not alone yoo can walk unafraid. Hah! So I chooses “ You’ll Never Walk Alone” by Gerry and The Pacemakers as my linky.

@maggietkat

Well done Skye!What a great duo First Aid Kit. I thought about this, and the song that keeps popping in is "You'll Never Walk Alone" as sung by Gerry and the Pacemakers. Have a good New Years!

@wotterface

Last weeks winner was First Aid Kit. If you need to use a first aid kit you might need to say to someone "take me to the hospital". The Prodigy had a song called "Take me to the hospital". So we decided to blow out the old year and the final Lexies Chain with a Prodigy track. And no Prodigy track blows the cobwebs out better than "Firestarter"!

@claptonterrier 

Last week Miss Skye chose a song by our new favourite band First Aid Kit….so this week we think the Chain needs some extra attention and that calls for a fully qualified medical practitioner and so our link this week is Ann Peebles singing “Dr Love Power”….

@djladylexie
First Aid kit is swedish folk band wot we never eard of before. Course the most famousest band to come out of Sweden dus be Abba. So we gowin wiv Abba and SOS. SOS is a signal showing you need help or aid because you are in a life threatening situation.

An the winner as chosen by @skye613 dus be .... oh gawd .. is me! So I dus be choosin the first chainy winner of 2015. So is all to play for.

Ere wot Skye said: So on this the last chainy of 2014 all the links are winners! But since we must have one it is link # 5. Staying  'In Country" with Abba! Happy New Years Chainy pals! 

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 4th 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 Two Hundred and Third Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 203 of #lexieschain. Only one more to go and we will find out who is da Chain Champ of 2014!! So let's see wot we got dis week:

@wonderwinger
Last week the beautiful @wotterface won with REM's "What's the Frequency Kenneth?". My human went to see REM in Hyde Park, possibly that same year as Wyn's saw them at Glastonbury. Except she couldn't see them as she was surrounded by very tall people who all refused to move an inch. Worse than this they all insisted in singing along, but with the wrong words!

Anyway, REM's lead singer is Michael Stipe. Michael Stipe is the godfather to Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. Kurt Cobain's band Nirvana recorded our link, a song called "Something in the Way", which harks back to my humum's REM concert experience.

As another little connection both REM and Nirvana are from towns in America that have better known counterparts in Europe: REM being from Athens, Georgia and Nirvana being from Aberdeen, Washington.

@terenceterrier
Righty Ho ho Ho . I needs a linky to follows on from REM “What’s the Frequency Kenneth” Hmm praps I should follow Winter’s line of finking and choose a linky wot have absolutely nuffin to do wiv the previous group or da previous song. Yup dat’s da way to do it. Cos it be Crispmouse I select a songy duet wiv David Bowie n Bing Crosby “ Little Dummer Boy / Peace n Earth “ We can’t have a Crispmouse lexieschain wivout Bing Crosby who be singer famuss for his Crispmouse songs ( Umm or David Bowie sez mum).

@djladylexie
What's the Frequency Kennif? It made me fink of radio frequencies and sound tests. Did you know that if a sound has a frequency of 100,000 hz (or hertz) it means that the air passing through a reference location at is doing is at 100,000 time per second! That made me fink of Air's album 10,000 Hz Legend. So I choosin a number from their album Wonder Milky Bitch.

@claptonterrier
Hello Miss Lexie…last week Miss Wyn chose a song by REM from their album Monster. That record was partly recorded at Ocean Way recordings in Los Angeles….a lot of famous musicians have recorded their records there so we have chosen this one by John Mayer….”Gravity”.

@skye613
So you could say that frequencies are kinda wild. And I love this name. So maybe Kenneth needs some first aid! An REM cover from the new movie Wild! Merry Christmas chainy pals.

@bunnersandharvs
Okey so here we goes wid another clever winning linky REM, 'What's My Frequency' dat Wotter did win. Well it did get these paws thinking how can we come up wid a linky dat is about Christmas too (cos it is, you know) and, guess what? REM does release a grumpy Chirstmas Griping songy! So dat our linky dis week cos we thort it would be fun, even if dey is grumpy....

 

An the winner as chosen by @wotterface dus be @skye613. Yay! Well done me pal! You choosin next week.

Ere wot Wyn said: So, a surprising amount of slow songs this week, all very atmospheric. We were reluctant to go with an actual repeat of choosing REM but we couldn't resist the gorgeous First Aid Kit cover. So this weeks winner is link 5

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 28th 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 Hundred and Second Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 202 of #lexieschain. Only two more to go and we will find out who is da Chain Champ of 2014!! So let's see wot we got dis week:

@terenceterrier
So I needs a linky to follow on from MASH by da Manic Street Preachers. *shuts self in darkened room wiv mum’s old 45 collekshun * Okays. Back in da dim dark past when mum went to pawties n disco’s n fings dere woz a dance called da Mash Potato. Dis gets menshuned in da The Hollies songy “ Do You Love Me “ . So I picks dis for my linky. *sits on bed paw jiving*.

@wotterface
So last weeks winner was the Manic Street Preachers with Suicide is Painless. We're going with a personal link this week. Mom went to Glastonbury, just the once and MSP were playing there, as were REM. So we're going to go with REM and What's the Frequency Kenneth? as Kenneth is Grandad's name too!

@djladylexie
MASH stands for mobile army surgical hospital. There are many people wot work in hospitals not just mobile ones. One person you will always find in hospitals is a doctor. Doctors are there to help make you feel better. So a great name for a doctor would be Doctor Feelgood! Haha then I am gowin wiv Dr Feelgood (British band of the 70's from Essex!) and their song Roxette.

@skye613

Last week the cool Maggie did win with a song from a TV show about the Korean war. That got me thinking about other shows & other wars. China Beach was one of the shows that dealt with the Vietnam war. One of the many tunes on the sound tracks was " Don't Worry Baby" . My favorite Beach Boys tune. Enjoy! 

@bunnersandharvs
Well Maggie you shooor is on a good run dis year with another winning linky by Manic Street Preachers singing 'Suicide is Painless'. It gots us thinking about all des songs and linkies ova da last few weeks and we knows dat through all da protesting, anger, pain and sadness, der is only one thing dat gets us through and dat is Love. So our linky is a simple one by The Beatles - 'All You Need Is Love'. You know we all wishes fur love peace and happiness for evabody. Enjoy choosing Maggie. Thanking you, Lexie fur organising deses fur us lyke you dus. 

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

Ere wot Maggie said: So many choices, and all so outstanding! Beach Boys, Hollies, and Beatles are all dear to my heart. However, the REM tune "What's the Frequency, Kenneth" is the winning link. You all know I have a kitty brother Ken? 

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 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!