The Songbook Highway

Listening Theme 34 – Hair Metal

Hi all,

In 3 weeks time Nikki and I are going to see Bon Jovi at the O2 in London and I was going to have a hair metal listening theme around that time, but seeing as UK digital radio station Planet Rock are holding a ‘Greatest Hair Metal Band’ poll [...]

Listening Theme – Rat Pack/My Way

This week I’m going to listen to albums by the Rat Pack – Frank, Dean and Sammy. On top of that I’m in the mood for another music marathon…

In the way that I listened to 100 different recordings of White Christmas in December I’m going to attempt to listen to [...]

Listening Theme 31 – Germany

Thursday, April
22, 2010 at 8:56am

After an enjoyable week of listening to tracks used by The Kleptones for their double mash-up album Uptime/Downtime it’s over to Eric Kleptone to become my next guest theme-setter (Thanks Eric). His theme, German music: “from Schlager to Krautrock to Techno – oh and The Scorpions [...]

Listening Theme 30 – Uptime/Downtime

Something a bit different this week. Instead of the run of the mill ‘you give me your recommendations’ type of Listening Theme, I’m going to give YOU a recommendation for a change.

For several years I’ve been listening to (and loving) the mash-up albums of The Kleptones.

For those of you who are [...]

Hi all,

For the next week or so I’m going to concentrate on the Southern soul released on a record label that was the main rival to Motown (LT7) during the 60’s – Stax. Stax (with it’s partnership with Atlantic Records) released albums by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Wilson Picket, Eddie Floyd, Rufus and Carla [...]

Listening Theme 28 – 70’s Glam Rock (Revisited)

Hi all,

About this time last year (the exact date lost in the mists of time) I had my very first Listening Theme – 70’s Glam Rock. It lasted a few days and only resulted in a couple of recommendations. I thought I’d mark this 1st anniversary by revisiting [...]

After a bit of fun last week with 70’s Disco here’s a more serious theme …
Listening Theme – The Piano Men (and Women!)

This is one of those themes that gets bigger the more you think about it – singer/songwiters that are primarily pianists. Elton John, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, [...]

Hi all,

After a most enjoyable couple of weeks listening to The Rolling Stones, I wanted a bit of a change for my next theme – 70’s Disco.

Instead of just listening to a compilation of disco hits, I’m particularly interested in albums (not just ‘Best Ofs) by artists that had those big disco hits (for instance, [...]

I’ve spent a fair bit of time listening to the Beatles lately so I thought it was about time I covered The Rolling Stones.

This will include Stones studio albums (I’ve always been more of a Beatles fan and have to admit that I’ll be listening to most of these albums for the first time!), live [...]

Paul Adams

January 15 at 3:13am

Listening Theme – The White Album Challenge

Well, Elvis has left the building (sorry, had to be said) and after a couple of weeks of The King it’s the time of Chris LeRoy! (a tough act to
follow Chris). Chris has been a champion of my Listening Themes from very early on and [...]