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!

Lexie's Chain: The Three Hundred and Eighth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 308 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was me wiv White Horsies. Let's see what we gots this final chainy week:

@terenceterrier
Larst week moosik diva Lexie winned wiv "White Horses " by Jackie Lee. There are lotsa wild white horses in da Camargue. Mum woz wotchin film abowt dem in cinema when news came on screen dat JF Kennedy woz assasinayted. Marilyn Munroe woz a speshall *coughs* friend of his. So I chose for my linky MM performing "I Want To Be Loved By You" in da funny film "Some Like It Hot". It always woz on at Christmas when mum woz younger.

@maggietkat
Well done with "White Horses". Staying with The color white and adding in the season, my pick is "White Christmas".

@skye613
And a very Merry Christmas to one & all! Continuing the Horse theme, I chose " All The Pretty Horses ". A beautiful tune, almost a lullaby. Cause it was a children's show!  ( um I think).

@sonikebt
The typist loved @Dogstoyevsky winning song "White Horses" and the TV series when she was a youngster and this reminded her of another song from her youf, The Osmonds and "Crazy Horses". Happy Christmas to you all.

@diamondbertie
How clever of you to win with On White Horses, my mind kept thinking of a famous white horse Silver, so I choose the opening credits of The Lone Ranger someone said that true intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. As a child I used to watch the Lone Ranger and looked forward to it every week.

An da winner as chosen by ................. me dad ............... dus be .................. @diamondbertie Bertie. Yay! Dat is me pal you dus choosin next week the first chainy of 2017.

Ere wot me dad said: Am I still doing this?! Hmm ok well ..... *jumps on horse* Hi Ho Silver and .............. away!!! I loved the lone ranger as a kid so that was an easy one. All the best for you and you families in 2017.

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 1st 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 Seventh Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 307 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Megan wiv Horsey song whose name I can't remember (BOLBOL see what I dun there). Let's see what we gots this penultimate chainy week:

@maggietkat
Well done Megan with America's Horse with no name. I decided to look for bands whose names are countries. My pick is not quite countries, but their hit is all about "Down Under". Here is the video by Men at Work.

@skye613
Prepare to take a walkabout wif me. So Megan won with "A Horse With No Name". That is sad, he had no name. This dog has a name. In 2015 a documentary film was released entitled " A Dog Named Gucci "  This is the story of a dog & the man who saved him from being badly abused. It also chronicles the 7 year-long crusade to change & enforce stricter penalties for animal abuse. " One Voice " was written by Ruth Moody of The Wailin' Jennys and included in the film.

@claptonterrier
Hello Miss Lexie…last week our winner was a song by the band America….we tried hard to think about songs about horses and about bands named after countries but we drew a bit if a blank…and then we realised that the band America was full of young Americans…and so our link this week is to David Bowie and his song “Young Americans”.

@terenceterrier
Larst week pal Megan winned wiv da linky "A Horse With No Name".  Dat mean da hoss be nameless *logical ears* . Luckily for me there a group called Nameless so I choose for my linky their track called "Butterfly" cos it be a happy bop along songy.

@bunnersandharvs
So congrachoolashuns Megan fur da winnin linky 'Horse with no name' sung by America. We wos thinking we dus luv horses and dat old Mum did luv da groop America too. So whur we going wid a linky... Well, if dat horse didn't have a name, it must have been wild too which gots us thinking about da songy 'Wild Horses' by da Rolling Stones so we using it as our link dis week cos we been listenin to der new songy 'Just your fool'. So der you has our linky fur da week.

@diamondbertie
@maggietkat won with save a horse by Big and Rich. My choice this time is ALMOST withering a western theme. It comes from the film The Blues Brothers where they are singing Rawhide. The critics panned this film but the public liked it regardless.

@sonikebt
Well done @CloonfourMegan winning the link with "A horse with no name" This week we have chosen as our link a horse that is a name - Horse McDonald with (gets the mistletoe  ready) "So, kiss me".

@djladylexie
Horsies are still da feem. Well me usin a riddle for me linky. What horses can you ride that have no riders, no reins and no saddles? White horses .. thems is the crest of waves dussnt you know! Well here me song wot mum used to sing in her head when she rode her virchewal horse (a broomstick wiv mop an wheels) wot her inventive (but poor) dad made er instead of the real fing.

An da winner as chosen by ................. Megan ............... dus be ..................oh! piffle is me! grrrr still dat mean me dad gets to choose the last chainy of 2016 ... he will be so happy teehee.

Ere wot Megan said: Wot brill linkys this week. Very difficult to choose. There be lots of horses which make me a bit nervous but makes mum happy. We very moved by Linky 2 but in the end couldn't resist Linky 8 which also takes mum back to her childhood. Neigh!

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 25th December 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 Three Hundred and Sixth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 305 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Maggie wiv Donald Fagen's Nightfly. Let's see what we gots this week:

@maggietkat
Well done Skye with the Doors and Riders in the Storm. I thought about Riders and Storms and there is a fun tune about riders. "Save a Horse. ride a Cowboy." By Big and Rich.

@claptonterrier
Hello Miss Lexie…last week our winner chose by Miss Skye was Riders on the Storm….the most famous storm we can think of was Hurricane Katrina…which of course decimated the city of New Orleans a few years ago…so this week our linky is Katrina and the Waves singing “Walking on Sunshine”…

@terenceterrier
Larst week pal Skye winned wiv "Riders On The Storm" by The Doors. *stares into space to get inspawrayshun * . Doors can be lotsa colours. My favrit colour is green cos of da grass n plants n trees n fings. So my linky dis week be "Green Door" by Shakin' Stevens. I hopes yoo likes dis YooToob vershun cos there be a luvvly doggie n two kittehs in cameo roles.

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Skye won with The Doors and Riders on the Storm. I am scared of horses but go with the equine theme and A Horse With No Name.

@djladylexie
Doors, Riders on the storm eh? Hmmmm let me fink.I read that the song was inspired by (Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend by Stan Jones.  Ere be Johnny Cash version of dat song.

An da winner as chosen by ................. Skye ............... dus be ..................Megan! Yay! Well done me pal you dus be choosin next week.

Ere wot Skye said: All great minds this week, horses and doggies and kitties, oh my. Going with link-4. Which was followed closely by 3 & 5. Hard this week  pals, you are all so good! 

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 18th December 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 Three Hundred and Fifth Chain

Hello pals. Welcome to week 305 of #lexieschain. Last week the winner was Maggie wiv Donald Fagen's Nightfly. Let's see what we gots this week:

@cloonfourmegan
Last week Maggie won with Nightfly by Donald Fagin. This made us fink of our favourite Fagin Reviewing The Situation in Oliver.

@claptonterrier
last week winner was Donald Fagan with the Nightly…Mr Fagan was famously in the band Steely Dan….that band took its name from a..ahem…thing in a William Burroughs book…and so this week our linky must have a literary theme….there are various bands whose names have come from literature…Steppenwolf..The Doors and Veruca Salt to name but three…but this week our entry is by Moby…who was named after Moby Dick…the celebrity whale from the Herman Melville book…and we have selected his song “Porcelain”…

@terenceterrier
Larst week pal Maggie winned wiv Nightfly by Donald Fagan. Fagan woz da baddie gang master in da Dickens tale Oliver Twist wot has been bowf a stage show moosical n a film. We lives not far from Rochester n there be a Dickens Festival on at da mo. Therefore I give yoo one of our favrit songs from da 1968 film "I'd Do Anything (For You"  n cos I'd do anyfink for my #lexieschain pals.

@skye613
So last week Maggie won with " Nightfly ". Way back when M was growing up there was a female DJ, Alison Steele, on WNEW in New York. One of the few at the time , she was known as the Night Bird. According to Jimi Hendrix's manager the song " Night Bird Flying " was inspired by Alison. If it was raining at the start of her late night show , she always led with The Doors " Riders On The Storm " , my linky this week.

@diamondbertie
Maggie won with Donald Fagen, Nightfly, I'd not heard it but I liked it, I'm not able to give a good link but I shall still have a go. It's that time of year where we are bombarded with Christmas songs some creating their own ear worms. My favourite has to be Fairytale of Christmas by the pogues.

@sonikebt
@MaggieTKat won the chain with "The Nightfly" from Donald Fagan's autobiographical album "The Nightfly". We are going autobiographical this week with a George Michael song which was written at the time he was trying to distance himself from his record company Sony and the image created for his album Faith. "Interestingly" the only shot of George in the video is of his bottom - a reference to the Saturday Night Live spoof of him shaking his ass in Faith. Our link is "Freedom 90".

@djladylexie
Me linky dus be hats. Ok let's see. Well, me readed that Donald Fagen (not fagan as I fort) was founding member of Steely Dan. I always get Steely Dan and Steeleye Span mixed up as to who is who. Steeleye Span had a song called All Around Me Hat. Donald Fagen's father was an accountant wot worked in the office of a hat maker! so me link is hats!

An da winner as chosen by ................. Maggie  ............... dus be ..................Skye! Yay! Well done me pal you dus be choosin next week.

Ere wot Maggie said: Winner is The Doors with Riders in the Storm. You all knew my favorites! Reviewing the Situation features Fagin at his best, Clever reasoning with I'd do anything, Night bird with the Doors, and the amazing Steeleye Span. I chose the Doors because it is dreary in St. Louis, I remember the Night Bird, and Riders is an early Jim Morrison before he got boozy and whipped out his you know.  

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 11th December 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!