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!

Lexie's Chain: The Hundred and Ninety Fifth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 195 of #lexieschain. Last week was Skye wiv Love Can Build A Bridge by some wimmins includin Neneh Cherry an Chrissie Hynde! Let us see what we gots dis week:

@maggietkat
congrats Skye on the great tune. The song was written by 3 people which include Naomi Judd. Naomi and her daughter Wynonna, better known as The Judds, took country music by storm in the 1980's. My link is The Judds and one of my favorites, "Rockin' with the Rhythm of the Rain'.

@claptonterrier
Hi Miss Lexie…last week Miss Skye chose a song called “Love Can Build a Bridge”…we have been trying to do our link all week this week so that we didn’t have to do a last minute entry like last week…but we kept forgetting what the song was that we were supposed to be linking to…so that has finally made our choice very easy indeed….we ave chosen “Don’t Forget About the Bridge” by the Blind Boys of Alabama…

@terenceterrier
Last week da winning linky woz Cher n 3 others singing “Love Can Build A Bridge”. Cos it iz nearly Halloween I remembas dat Cher woz in da film The Witches Of Eastwick. This was also made into a stage musical so I choose a song from it called “Look At me”.

@djladylexie
Our linky does be bridges. Neneh Cherry was in this song an also ma song is about building bridges. Well, Neneh Cherry also appears in a video wiv TheThe called Slow Train to Dawn where she be tied up on the train tracks demonstratin ow the man is not prepared to let the woman be her true self. Plus bridges go over train tracks! Yay! heehee.

An da winner as chosen by @skye613 dus be .....................................  @claptonterrier. Yay! Well done CT me pal. You dus be choosin next time. 

Ere wot Skye saided: Great tunes chainy pals. Gotta go with #2. Love the visual I got from this. " Don't Forget About The Bridge ".

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 2nd 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 Fourth Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 194 of #lexieschain. Last week was Briar wiv You Or No-one from Chrissie Hynde. Let us see what we gots dis week:

@smcheetham
MOrning all well done Briar for last week. We have used Chrissie Hynde as our link for the chain for this week. Chrissie was very briefly married to Jim Kerr from Simple Minds. They have been through a number of incarnations over the years this track is from New Gold Dream an early album which contained a number of their early hits. I have chosen Glittering Prize which has a very 80s video with lots of chiseled jaws. So link is Chrissie to Jim and song Is Glittering Prize by Simple Minds.

@Wotterface
So, last weeks winner was a Chrissie Hynde song. She was in a band called The Pretenders. Lots of musicians pretend to be other people - it's called alter egos. I thought about people like David Bowie and Lady Gaga but then I thought about Damon Albarn and his band Gorillaz. Gorillaz are all animated and each character has a back story, Damon voices the singer 2D. They have many songs to choose from and lots of amazing live performances using holograms (check them out) but we chose their first song "Clint Eastwood" especially for the zombie gorillas!

@terenceterrier
Last week supermodel Briar winned wiv da linky “ You or no one” by Chrissie Hynde wot be pro Animal Rights. Annuva female singer / song writer who is very active in the animal welfare field is Maria Daines. She be a patron of Doris Banham Dog Rescue wot help pound dogs on kill lists in da UK n find dem spaces at rescues. I wouldn’t be alive today if dey hadn’t stepped in n put me in emergency boarding in kennels when my 7 days were up at da pound cos da local rescue had no space for me. So iz duty bound to pick a songy by her n I chooses “Where Do All The Angels Go”.

@claptonterrier
Hi Miss Lexie…last week Lady Briar chose a song by Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders….in a rush today the first thing I thought about Miss Hynde was that she used to be married to Jim Kerr of Simple Minds and so…we are hurriedly linking to “Waterfront” by Simple Minds…”come in, come out of the rain” they sang, how appropriate.

@skye613
Great tune Briar! I try to stay away from repeating an artist but just had to pick this one this week. First ,it has 4 super artists and second because " Love Can Build a Bridge " tells of a love that grows and " You or No One " shows that love between a man and his pup.

@maggietkat
congrats on the Chrissie Hynde tune! I know she works with dog rescues, so I thought I would choose something about the love of dogs. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band recorded a great song about the love of a man and dog, "Mr. Bojangles".

@diamondbertie
Last linky was won by Briar @wonderwinger with You or No One sung by Chrissy Hynde who as well as talented singer was an animal activist the song is a love song. My choice is Rossini"s Cats Duet by Ann Murray, Felicity Lott and Vladimir Shakin, which is a love song with a difference. Who hasn't been woken up by cats courting?

@djladylexie
Chrissie Hynde was animal activist. She was also romantically involved wiv ay Davies from The Kinks. So we gowin wiv Animal by The Kinks!

An da winner as chosen by @wonderwinger dus be .....................................  @skye163. Yay! Well done me pal. You dus be choosin next time. 

Ere wot Briar saided: My linky selection shall be no 5. All super links but I liked the love linky of this one. 

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 26th October 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 Third Chain

Hello pals! Welcome to week 193 of #lexieschain. Last week was Sam Cooke and Chain Gang. Let us see what we gots dis week:

@terenceterrier
Middle of da night search for inspirashun to link Sam Cooke n Working on A Chain Gang to a brill linky to impress da judge. I had a good fink and remembas dat it woz slaves wot werked on chain gangs. So for my linky I gives yoo Slave to Love by Bryan Ferry. I gives yoo in best Tucker tradishun a live vershun of da songy. Dis from a concert in Lyon and I fink betta than da original offishull video.

@wonderwinger
Well done @Skye613 giving us Sam Cooke and Chain Gang to make links in the chain. This immediately made me think of the song by The Pretenders "Back on the Chain Gang". The Pretenders had taken their name from the Platters' song "The Great Pretender". Sam Cooke had also made a soulful cover version of this song. The Pretenders only original member is Chrissie Hynde; an artist renowned for her animal rights views. This year she released my linky: "You or no one" a song for all dogs, whether they be loved or looking for love, everywhere.





@wotterface
Dead simple this week. Last week was Sam Cooke's "Chain Gang" and Johnny Cash did a song with the same title so we decided to pick a Johnny Cash song. We've actually gone with his cover of Nine Inch Nail's "Hurt" because it's possibly better than the original and the video is particularly moving, showing an ageing Cash after the death of June...

@diamondbertie
Last week Working on a Chain Gang sung by Sam Cooke a great choice from @skye613 I love Sam Cooke who died tragically young. It got me thinking of prison films and the music associated with them I keep coming back to the music of The Great Escape this is my choice.

@smcheetham
We keep missing Lexie's chain we are sorry. This week we have used the word Cooke as our link and used it to take us to Paul Cook the drummer in the Sex Pistols. Different spelling but don't suppose that matters we have chosen Pretty Vacant for that incendiary opening guitar which even now sounds really really exciting so that our link for this week good luck all.

@maggietkat
Well done Skye with Sam Cooke's "Chain Gang". A 1955 prison film titled Unchained is best known for the theme song which was recorded by many artists including Sam Cooke. My prison related chain (gang) is "Unchained Melody". The artists best know for the song are the Righteous Brothers who had a resurgence due to the movie "Ghost".

@djladylexie
Chain Gang. A chain is gang (ha) of prisoners wot works while they is all chained together. We fort bowt filums wiv chain gangs in em. One wot we likes is Cool Hand Luke wiv Paul Newman. So Chain Gang > Cool Hand Luke > Paul Newman. Paul Newman starred in quite a few filums wiv Robert Redford. Our favourite dus be Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. An a great song from da movie is Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head. Somfink I bet chain gangs would be happy wiv to keep em cool!





@claptonterrier
Hi Miss Lexie. Last week Miss Skye won with a song abut a chain gang…a chain gang of course is a group of prisoners chained together doing lots of work¦that sounds awful to us so if I was in jail I could definitely be looking to break out and so my linky this week is Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy!





@freddie_bt
Gweat winner last week not too many singers or songs offer sympafy to prisoners. Sam Cooke also publicly supported Civil Rights wiv Change is Gonna Come which makes most contemporary Soul seem bland n soulless by comparison but dere is still passion n pwotest in music. Wes not fans of most Rap n Hip Hop but we duz like Nas n da first time we heard Just a Moment we wuz blown away by its power, its restrained anger at ow a life of crime leadin to a senseless death or prison is da lot fer too many. It also used a confrontational word dat caused a dispute wiv Jesse jackson, Nasâ response wuz change happened but problems still exist n pwotest continues in a new way. Da song also calls fer moments of silence to remember fwends, relatives, soldiers anyone who has died, Sam Cooke wuz murdered in circumstances dat remain controversial. Our linky Just a Moment by NasÂ

@bunnersandharvs
Well here we is on anouthur week with a great song to to find a linky fur. Well done to Skye & Sonny. So Sam Cooke wos singin about working hard on a chain gang....which wos about inekwality and hardship. It gots us thinking abowt Dolly Parton's song 'Nine to Five'. Cos it about how sum womens dus wurk so hard dey dus 'lose your life' cos it all 'take and no giving'. It also put a smile on our face and we did tap our paws too. Good luck choosing pals and happy day to you all.

An da winner as chosen by @skye613 dus be .....................................  @wonderwinger .. Briar Chrissie Hynde and You Or No One. Yay! Well done me pal. You dus be choosin next time. 
Ere wot Skye saided: The links this week were all wonderfully woven around working on the chain gang, the lonely desolate feeling. Picking link # 2 as it touched my heart. Loved all- really close with #1,6 & 9. Well done 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 19th October 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!