Off Topic Ahhh... the good news thread

I am putting together my playlist for tomorrow, putting one Jackson-themed song into each set. I remembered I have a post-Nice album by Lee Jackson's band called Jackson Heights (album called King's Progress) - not very good but it has one usable track. I have found a few others not so immedately obvious.

 

Running on empty- Jackson Browne.

 

That title might have been more apt than the one I have selected. I will see if I can change my upload.

 

Set list from last night - sprinkled with references to Jackson and Jason Euell (You'll ...)

Also it was my estranged wife's birthday, which was referenced in the last two songs of set 3 ...

1-1 John Cougar Mellencamp – Thundering Hearts (American Fool 1982)
1-2 Graham Parker – Turn It Into Hate (Acid Bubblegum 1996)
1-3 Bruce Springsteen – You'll Be Comin' Down (Magic 2007)
1-4 Jackson Browne – Red Neck Friend (For Everyman 1973)
1-5 Nick Lowe – So It Goes (Jesus of Cool 1978)
2-1 Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams (American Idiot 2004)
2-2 Joe Jackson Band – Still Alive (Volume 4 2003)
2-3 Dodgy – Did It Have to Be This Way? (Stand Upright in a Cool Place 2012)
2-4 Jason Isbell – Flying Over Water (Southeastern 2013)
3-1 Supertramp – It's Raining Again (...Famous Last Words 1982)
3-2 John Martyn – Fisherman's Dream (Sapphire 1984)
3-3 Michael Chapman – Soulfull Lady (Fully Qualified Survivor 1970)
3-4 Roy Harper – Methane Zone (Death or Glory 1994)
3-5 Python Lee Jackson – In A Broken Dream (In A Broken Dream 1972)
3-6 Crowded House – Whispers and Moans (live) (Recurring Dream: The Very Best of Crowded House 1994)
3-7 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – Fake Friends (Album 1983)
3-8 Elton John – The Bitch Is Back (Caribou 1974)
4-1 Bruce Springsteen – Jackson Cage (The River 1980)
4-2 Graham Nash – You'll Never Be The Same (Wild Tales 1975)
4-3 Tom Robinson – Living in a Boom Time (Living in a Boom Time 1992)
4-4 Rolling Stones, The – Plundered My Soul (Exile on Main St. 1972)
4-5 Roger Daltrey – Where Is A Man To Go? (As Long As I Have You 2018)
5-1 Jackson Heights – Doubting Thomas (King Progress 1970)
5-2 R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts (Automatic For The People 1992)
5-3 Richard Thompson – I'll Tag Along (The Old Kit Bag 2003)

Close
Mick Abrahams Band – Goodbye

 

Like it, what about Buddy Holly's "Heartbeat"?

 

Here's the set list from last Saturday.
As today is Remembrance Day I have delayed posting it until today as all songs have an anti-war theme. Anybody interested in a link to them can contact me.
1-1 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – War (live) (Live/1975-85 1986)
1-2 Band, The – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band 1969) War: American Civil War
1-3 Pogues, The – The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Rum Sodomy & the Lash 1985) War: World War I
2-1 Zombies, The – Butcher's Tale (Odessey and Oracle 1968) War: World War I
2-2 Jona Lewie – Stop The Cavalry (The Stiff Records Box Set 1980) War: World War I
2-3 Clash, The – Spanish Bombs (London Calling 1979) War: Spanish Civil War
2-4 Warren Zevon – Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner (Excitable Boy 1978) War: Congo
2-5 Doors, The – The Unknown Soldier (Waiting for the Sun 1968) War: Vietnam War
3-1 Fairport Convention – The Deserter (Liege & Lief 1969) Victorian army
3-2 Roy Harper – The War Came Home (Death or Glory 1994) War: Gulf war
3-3 Steve Earle – Rich Man's War (The Revolution Starts Now 2004)
3-4 Richard Thompson – Dad's Gonna Kill Me (Sweet Warrior 2007) War: Gulf war
3-5 Pearl Jam – World Wide Suicide (Pearl Jam 2006) War: Gulf war
3-6 Neil Young – Shock And Awe (Living With War 2006) War: Gulf War
3-7 Jackson Browne – The Drums of War (Time the Conqueror 2008) War: Gulf war
3-8 Kate Bush – Army Dreamers (Never for Ever 1980) War: Unspecified
4-1 Green Day – 21 Guns (21st Century Breakdown 2009) Military salute to the dead
4-2 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son (Willy and the Poor Boys 1969) War: Vietnam
4-3 Byrds, The – Draft Morning (The Notorious Byrd Brothers 1968) War: Vietnam
R.E.M. – Orange Crush (Green 2013) War: Vietnam
4-5 Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Oliver's Army (Armed Forces 1979) War: Northern Irish troubles
5-1 Roger Waters – The Bravery of Being out of Range (Amused to Death 1992) War: Gulf war
5-2 David Bowie – How Does the Grass Grow? (The Next Day 2013) War: General war
5-3 Midnight Oil – Armistice Day (Place Without A Postcard 1981) War: World War i
Close
Mick Abrahams Band - Goodbye

Shut out:
Family – Lives And Ladies (Anyway 1970)
Midnight Oil – US Forces (10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 1982)
Mountain – Masters of War (Masters of War 2007)
Pink Floyd – The Dogs Of War (A Momentary Lapse Of Reason 1987)
Steppenwolf – Draft Resister (Monster 1969)

 

Very nice playlist

All together now - The Farm
Profit in peace - Ocean Colour Scene
Glad it's all over - Captain Sensible
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel

There's certainly no shortage of eloquent anthems on the theme of warfare.

 

Top bloke

 

Brilliant

 

That's a great gesture, well done Jonathan West

 

My own personal playlist at the 5 Bells Open-Mike-

Solo- Simon Smith and his Dancing Bear (Alan Price version on guitar)
When She Cam' Ben (trad. Scottish air)
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Mingus)

Accompanying Singer-
In My Life (Beatles)
Wonderful World (Armstrong)
Every Day (Buddy Holly)
True Love Ways "
Michelle (Beatles)
To Make You Feel My Love (Dylan)

 

Not having seen @Smudger603 post for a few days, I am pleased to report he has not deserted our 15.5 membership.
He had phone problems.

 

Glad to hear he's OK.

I'm having Image Host problems
The one I've been using for a couple of years is playing up something awful all of a sudden.
Images coming & going off Dick's new site and ITTV.

But the good news folks is that this wonderful forum will not be affected.
Unlike Proboards forums, this board allows me to upload images directly at full size and definition No need for an image host.

Long Live Not606 Charlton

 

England Lionesses beat Latvia 20-0 tonight. Last week Belgium ladies put 18 past someone else. Seems like a bit of a disparity between the better ladies teams and the rest. Haven't seen any of them equal Arbroath v Bon Accord yet though.

 

Some might say (not you Ken) that scores like 20-0 make the women's game look ridiculous.

I would disagree with that.
Such scores serve to highlight how far some nations (and some domestic Clubs) need to go to develop their skills and attract good young players.

There is a massive potential pool of talented young female footballers out there.
As many as there are talented young male players.
The sheer physical strength and possibly stamina of female players is unlikely to ever equal that of male players at the same general fitness level, but there is no evidence that coordination, technical skills or desire to compete and win is any less among female footballers than among male ones.
That equality of skill and desire is already accepted in many other sports - has been for many decades.

So scores like 20-0, although not comfortable to see from the point of view of most people who prefer a more even contest, do serve to show how much more work there is to do in bringing women's football up to fulfil its true potential.

Anybody who uses such mis-matched scores as an excuse to dismiss the whole genre as frivolous needs to take a look at their own attitude towards women.
Because it's attitudes like that which have maintained centuries of injustice and suppression of women's rights to be treated equally.

PS:

Just to repeat, I'm not suggesting that you were dismissing the women's game with your post Ken.
None of my criticism of people who don't take women's football seriously was aimed at you.

 

Aww. I was just happy to see an England team score so many.

 

I had to use the search function to find this thread.
It's in no danger of crashing from over-use

GOOD NEWS

Scientists have found evidence that new micro-organisms are evolving in the oceans, capable of eating plastic
Over centuries, they may clean the seas of all the plastic waste we have left there.

That's all fine and dandy, unless these microbes also have a taste for plastics we are still using (have not yet discarded).
That might get a bit tricky...

 

I hope Elfs will be careful in Brazil

 

Well... good news for this forum anyway (I hope you'll agree)

I've been unable to log onto any Proboards forums for about four hours now.
Pretty sure it's not my computer, though the issue does not seem to be affecting most other members (on Dick's forum or ITTV).
I've cleared my browser history, tried alternative browsers, re-booted...
All to no effect.

The practical upshot is that - until Proboards sorts out the issue - you have my undivided attention!