I was thinking of a theme tune...
On tuning in last night for my regular Sunday evening listen to Radio Galloway, I was surprised to hear his Georgeness asking for suggestions for a new theme song for his show: he may possibly be looking to replace the current theme, the entirely appropriate "Top Cat".
Anyway, I restrained myself from ringing in and suggesting the Syrian national anthem. But it got me to thinking about whether other prominent lefties (I use the term in the broadest sense, before anyone whinges) shouldn't have a theme song. So I took it upon myself to come up with some suggestions.
Yvonne "Party Gal" Ridley - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Cyndi Lauper - or Legs, ZZ Top
John Rees - I Wanna Be Elected, Alice Cooper - or To Win Just Once, The Saw Doctors
Lindsey German - Losing My Religion, REM
Sean Matgamna - Overload, Zappacosta
Peter Taaffe - Macarena, Los Del Rio (just because the picture it conjures is sooo funny)
The Spartacist League - Maniac in the Brainiac, Mack 10 and Ice Cube
The CPGB - Weirdo, The Charlatans
Oh, we could go on and on...
Perhaps a few suggestions for the blog types as well?
Stroppy and Louise - Sin Wagon, The Dixie Chicks
Mike - The Theme from Inspector Morse
Janine - Children of the Revolution, Kirsty MacColl
Osler - Teenage Kicks, The Undertones
Broder - also Teenage Kicks, The Undertones
And for mi compadre, the one and only Denham? It has to be Red Ingle's classic version of Cigarettes, Whusky and Wild, Wild Women - or else of course anything by John Coltrane!
Any further suggestions welcome; the comments box is all yours.
Anyway, I restrained myself from ringing in and suggesting the Syrian national anthem. But it got me to thinking about whether other prominent lefties (I use the term in the broadest sense, before anyone whinges) shouldn't have a theme song. So I took it upon myself to come up with some suggestions.
Yvonne "Party Gal" Ridley - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Cyndi Lauper - or Legs, ZZ Top
John Rees - I Wanna Be Elected, Alice Cooper - or To Win Just Once, The Saw Doctors
Lindsey German - Losing My Religion, REM
Sean Matgamna - Overload, Zappacosta
Peter Taaffe - Macarena, Los Del Rio (just because the picture it conjures is sooo funny)
The Spartacist League - Maniac in the Brainiac, Mack 10 and Ice Cube
The CPGB - Weirdo, The Charlatans
Oh, we could go on and on...
Perhaps a few suggestions for the blog types as well?
Stroppy and Louise - Sin Wagon, The Dixie Chicks
Mike - The Theme from Inspector Morse
Janine - Children of the Revolution, Kirsty MacColl
Osler - Teenage Kicks, The Undertones
Broder - also Teenage Kicks, The Undertones
And for mi compadre, the one and only Denham? It has to be Red Ingle's classic version of Cigarettes, Whusky and Wild, Wild Women - or else of course anything by John Coltrane!
Any further suggestions welcome; the comments box is all yours.
posted by voltaires_priest at
12:59 AM
14 Comments:
If GG is 'Top Cat', does that make John Rees 'Benny'?
Or Muttley to George's Dastardly.
Dixie Chicks is fine with Moi but dunno what the Stroppy One will think.
I was thinking John Rees is more "Brains" from Top Cat. He aint beaknit Chew Chew.
Nah, what about "Pinky and the Brain"? Brain wants to "take over the world" so could be either Rees or Galloway.
Dave,
I know a couple of SPGBer's who also have that rare copy of 'Teenage Kicks' (one of them having the best record collection for the Peel generation that I have ever seen in my life. Think Hornby's High Fidelity, then multiply it by a hundred).
With regards to song titles:
Bjork's 'It's oh so quiet' (the SWP during the down turn.)
Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain' (George Galloway)
The Smiths 'That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore' (Mark Thomas)
Kingmaker 'Armchair Anarchist' (Youth Wing of Workers' Power)
Regina Spektor's 'Poor Little Rich Boy' (Youth Wing of the CPGB-Weekly Worker)
Thomas Dolby 'Hyperactive' (Youth Wing of the Millies)
U2 'I Will Follow' (Youth Wing of the SWP)
The Beatles 'When I'm 64' (Youth Wing of the CPB)
Bow Wow Wow's 'Go Wild in the Country (The scamps from the Scottish Socialist Youth)
The Cure's 'Three Imaginary Boys' (The International Bolshevik Tendency)
New Order's 'Bizarre Love Triangle' (Sheridan, the CWI and the SWP)
Radiohead's 'Paranoid Android' (Ian Donovan)
Pet Shop Boys' 'Being Boring' (Forty years of the Grant/Taafite press)
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions 'Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?' (Sheridan's Vanity Project)
The Clash's 'Remote Control' (The London Offices of the CWI and the SWP, and their Scottish sections.)
Sonic Youth's 'Self Obsessed and Sexee' (Tommy Sheridan)
Stevie Wonder's 'Mr Know It All' (Sean Whatshisnamethisweek?)
Badly Drawn Boy 'Pissing in the Wind' (SPGB - and a few hundred other suggested titles in an old post here
I think I'll stop now
LOL, I don't think anyones gonna top that...
The Ian Donovan reference is cruel, but very funny.
surely broders should be cows with guns??
http://www.3dweb.no/galleri/stuestolbm/bilder/anim1.swf
Volty
Sin Wagon is ok, but I want 'Girls juts wanna have fun ' as the stroppyblog theme tune ;-)
Oh and "You're so vain" could also be Oslers. Never know a man spend so long looking at himself in the mirror. I could add more but I think for once I ought to say no more ...
LOL, no Dave, 'twas the punk reference that sprang to mind.
C'mon, whaddya want? Denham got "whusky and wild women" remember! :D:D:D
Daz;
Dude, you've devoted far too much time to the subject of SPGB theme tunes... ;-)
Volty
Looks like there might be an inugural meeting of the stroppyblog/decadent tendency after the Time to Go demo .
You up for drinks ?
Yes indeed! Email me the details!
How about a theme tune for Andrew Adonis? 'If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next'
And I'd suggest to Galloway that he re-reocrd 'Unbelievable' as 'Indefatigable'. Go on, sing it in your head - it sounds great.
Volty
Bruce, whoever he is ?, is looking for a suitably down market pub. When we have details we will do a post and see who is up for it. No puritans though :-)
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