On a cold winter's day, with the snow falling down, the schools maybe closed for safety reasons, the roads in total chaos (the UK usually comes to a standstill if there is more than a couple of inches of snow!), how are you going to occupy the kids? Well, "The S4L Kid Friendly Playlist...Sort of!", has come to the rescue. Songs from great tv shows when I was a kid plus a host of other Kid related songs will keep them busy while they are drying out after a session of sledging or being outside to build Snowmen (or do we have to say Snow People in light of current PC guidelines! 😄).
Enjoy.
On The Playlist
If The Kids Are United - Sham 69
Teenage - UK Subs
Spiderman - Ramones
Batman - The Who
I'm Lion-O/Thundercats - Relient K
The Bare Necessities (from The Jungle Book)- Steel Pulse
Stay Together For the Kids - Blink 182
Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio - New Found Glory
(Meet) The Flinstones - The B-52's
Furry Happy Monsters - R.E.M. and Seasame Street Monsters
You've Got A Friend In Me (from Toy Story) - Sly and Robbie
Teeneage Rampage - Vice Squad
Just a Kid (from Spongebob Squarepants Movie) - Wilco
Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
Lights Out (from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) - P.O.D.
Twenty - Taking Back Sunday Craft Recordings Released 11ith January 2019
Watch and Listen To 'Twenty' here:
Tracklist 1 Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team) 3:33 (1) 2 You're So Last Summer 3:02 (1) 3 Timberwolves At New Jersey 3:25 (1) 4 A Decade Under The Influemce 4:09 (2) 5 Set Phasers To Stun 3:05 (2) 6 One-Eighty By Summer 3:56 (2) 7 Liar (It Takes One To Know One) 3:11 (3) 8 Makedamnsure 3:33 (3) 9 What's It Feel Like To Be A Ghost? 3:45 (3) 10 My Blue Heaven 4:09 (3) 11 Sink Into Me 3:04 (4) 12 Everything Must Go 4:44 (4) 13 Faith (When I Let You Down) 3:09 (5) 14 Call Me In The Morning 3:59 (5) 15 Flicker, Fade 4:34 (6) 16 Better Homes And Gardens 3:54 (6) 17 Tidal Wave 2:35 (7) 18 You Can't Look Back 4:30 (7) 19 Call Come Running 3:15 (7) 20 All Ready To Go 3:59 (8) 21 A Song For Dan 5:00 (8)
Tracks Appeared on: (1) Tell All Your Friends (2002) (2) Where You Want To Be (2004) (3) Louder Now (2006) (4) New Again (2009) (5) Taking Back Sunday (2011) (6) Happiness Is (2014) (7) Tidal Wave (2016) (8) Previously Unreleased
Personnel Adam Lazzara – lead vocals (all tracks) John Nolan – lead guitar, keyboards, vocals (tracks, 1–3; 13–21) Shaun Cooper – bass guitar (tracks, 1–3; 13–21) Mark O'Connell – drums, percussion (all tracks) Eddie Reyes – rhythm guitar (tracks 1–19) Fred Mascherino – lead guitar, vocals (tracks, 4–10) Matt Rubano – bass guitar (tracks, 4-12) Matthew Fazzi – lead guitar, keyboards, vocals (tracks, 11–12)
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Current Line Up of Taking Back Sunday John Nolan – lead guitar, keyboards, vocals (1999–2003; 2010–present) Adam Lazzara – lead vocals (2001–present); bass guitar, vocals (2000–2001) Mark O'Connell – drums, percussion (2001–present) Shaun Cooper – bass guitar (2001–2003; 2010–present)
Twenty Years for a band is a pretty good landmark to reach and for Taking Back Sunday who began life in Long Island, New York (in 1999), it's been a journey that has not always been smooth sailing due to various personnel departures, and returning members. They have enjoyed some Chart success over the years with four of their seven studio albums hitting the Top Ten in the USA ('Louder Now' released in 2006 held the highest position at #2 and broke the Top Twenty in the UK Album Chart peaking at #18).
The current line up of the band actually only contains one of the founding members of the band, John Nolan, who had actually left the band in 2003 and returned in 2010 (as did bassist Shaun Cooper for the same time period). Eddie Reyes, also a founding member of the band had left the band in 2018 due to personal problems. Lead vocalist Adam Lazzara and drummer Mark O'Connell have been constant since 2001. I won't go into all the details of the other changes because you can easily track down that information elsewhere on the WorldWideWeb.
'Twenty' is a celebration of those years and draws 19 songs from their seven studio albums that have been released between 2002-2016 and also two new songs that give a little idea to the future direction of Taking Back Sunday.
To Celebrate their 20th Anniversary
UK Tour June 2019 13 – Birmingham, O2 Institute 14 – Glasgow, Barrowlands 15 – Belfast, Limelight 16 – Dublin, Vicar Street 18 – London, Troxy 19 – Manchester, Academy 20 – Bristol, O2 Academy Bristol
I thought I should maybe get my act together and post a little something and so the first Radio Show that's not really a Radio Show of the year is finally here.
There's a lot of new music, newish music, a few old favourites and a couple of things new to my ears that I quite liked and so thought might be worth sharing. As is normal here on S4L the music is drawn from a wide variety of musical styles because it's a bit boring being so narrow that you miss out on some other great music.
Listen Here To
The S4L Radio Show January 2019 #1
On The Playlist Hello Again (Neil Diamond Cover) - Fun Lovin' Criminals Sunshine Rock - Bob Mould All Over Now - The Cranberries Let It Happen - Switchfoot Bottoms Up (Here's To Goodbye) - Ryan Hamilton & The Harlequin Ghosts Strange Land - Joe Jackson Powerful Taboo - Pedro The Lion You Haven't Called - UB40 Light On - Maggie Rogers Surprised By Joy - Richard Ashcroft Bowie - Paul Weller Alone On The Rope - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Summer In The City - Johnny Marr and Matt Johnson (The The) We Hold Each Other Up - Miles Hunt (The Wonder Stuff) Perfect 10 - Paul Heaton + Jacqui Abbot All Ready To Go - Taking Back Sunday Coming Backwards - The Alarm Backwards and Forwards (Live in Madrid 1984) - Aztec Camera When Love Breaks Down - Prefab Sprout C'est La Vie (Live in New Jersey) - Duncan Reid and The Big Heads Do Anything You Wanna Do (Live 2018) - The Damned featuring Barrie Masters (Eddie and the Hot Rods) The Last Goodbye - The Kills
A fine mix of tunes issued between January - March 1979 that includes Debut Singles from Monochrome Set, The Ruts and The Scars from Edinburgh; major label Debuts from The Members and The Skids; as well as tunes from the usual suspects like The Clash, Ramones, X-Ray Spex, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Generation X, The Undertones, The Jam, Sham 69 and Buzzcocks. There's Peel Session performances from Gang of Four, Tubeway Army and Adam and the Ants. It all kicks off with the return of The Damned who would go on to sign with Chiswick Records and release some excellent singles and a magnificent third album in 1979.
On The Playlist Love Song/Burglar (The Dodgy Demo 7") - The Damned Outdoor Miner - Wire I Found The Essensce Rare (Peel Session) - Gang of Four She's The One - Ramones Ain't You - Kleenex Get Over You - The Undertones He's Frank - Monochrome Set King Rocker - Generation X The Sound of the Suburbs - The Members In A Rut - The Ruts Rubber Cars - The Wasps Into The Valley - The Skids Pressure Drop (B-Side) - The Clash Overcome by Fumes - Rudi Strange Town - The Jam Down In The Park (Peel Session) - Tubeway Army Why Can't I Touch It? (B-Side) - Buzzcocks I Need Nothing - Menace Cold City - Spizzoil Questions and Answers - Sham 69 Highly Inflammable - X-Ray Spex Adult/ery - The Scars The Staircase (Mystery) - Siouxsie and the Banshees Never Trust a Man with Egg on his Face (Peel Session) - Adam and the Ants
As we come to the start of the New Year I would like to thank you first for continually stopping by to visit this little Blog, Soundtrack4Life. Last year I didn't do an awful lot mainly due to health issues and whilst I can't promise you that this year will be very different there is one thing I can be certain about and that is when I do get to posting then it will some great New Music that will be released in the coming year as well as some excellent older music that continues to thrill me as the years go by.
I hope that you will keep coming back from time to time to see what's new. In the meantime let me offer up a wish, a longing, a desire, a prayer even, for you in this coming year with this particular song below.
It's funny how a particular song comes along and at first you kind of like it but it doesn't totally resonate with you until maybe years later.
Strength by The Alarm first appeared in 1985 as a single and was also the title track to their second album. Seeing that I was a fan of the band I faithfully purchased both single and album and of course went to see them live on the tour to promote it.
In the past few years though the song has begun to seep into my thoughts in a new way and reveals something about me that I probably wouldn't normally talk about, especially with those who don't know me. Us blokes don't like to come across as being vulnerable because we might have grown up with the concept that it is not cool to show such a side of yourself as it can easily be perceived as weakness. But the way we think and feel has been changing as we have been encouraged by others speaking about their own struggles with the complexities of life whether it be health issues physically or mentally.
One of the writers of this song is Mike Peters. You will know a bit about him from the many posts spotlighting The Alarm and his Solo work on this very blog. He's a man who is a survivor and a fighter. Having battled cancer a few times now (the last time alongside his wife Jules) and making a huge difference with the Love Hope Strength Foundation, a rock and roll cancer charity. He has just received an MBE in the New Year's Honours List for his charity work and it's much deserved. It's a great encouragement to many that have supported him and the work of the charity down through the years. That's just an aside.
Mike Peters and Me back in 2011
(with Craig Adams doing a sneaky photobomb!)
Picture by Andy Labrow
When it comes to the song itself there's a few things that have struck me about it in the past few years.
Firstly, there's almost a sense of desperation about the song. A man is in need, a man in pain, a man feeling isolated, a man who has a sense of uncertainty about what is happening to him at this very moment...he doesn't know whether he's "living or dying", and that seems like the most desperate place to be.
Struggling with health issues the past number of years, firstly with Arthritis and then the past couple of years with Epilepsy, I know a little of those feelings of pain, isolation and that sense of uncertainty. It's not pleasant to go through at all!
Secondly, he realises that the answer to the problems he's facing do not come from within but from outside of himself..."Give me someone to live for...Who will light the fire...I need someone I can depend on...Someone write me a letter...give me a telephone call...open up a door and let me out of this place". Is there anyone out there who can help alleviate the pain, that feeling of being "caged up for oh so long"?
It's probably at this point that many stumble because we have been told that the "love, hope and strength" that we need are within us already and we just need to find them and draw from that well, but the man in this song sees that is actually untrue and looks elsewhere.
The answer as to where we find that "someone I can depend on" are plentiful. Some find it in faith, others in people and in a way it's a combination I think of both but the root is in faith. Not faith in an inanimate object but faith in one who is bigger and higher than we can ever imagine. One who says to us that "I know your name", when our circumstances say "I'm alone on the outskirts of town where no one knows my name". I know it is very unfashionable and untrendy to talk about God, about Jesus Christ because the world around us teaches us to be self-relient rather than dependent upon another and that we need to reject religion of any sort because it is constantly divisive. But for me personally I have found that the source of this "Love...Hope...Strength" is found in the Divine One and as a result of that there are people in my life (my wife and some friends) who draw close by and help provide the things that the man in this song is crying out and yearning for.
As we go into 2019, which is an untraveled road for us, we are not sure of what lies ahead but having a focus and a faith in someone outside of ourselves will certainly quell the uncertainty when bumps, potholes, debris on the road, and strenuous climbs come our way.
The "love" we require is an unconditional love that knows all about us and yet loves us still. The "hope" is in one who has a plan for our lives even when to the human eye our little world is falling apart. The "strength" that we need is a fuel from above that we can draw upon in the moment we require it that will help us through whatever challenges come our way.
I do not for a moment presume that everyone will be in perfect agreement with what I have said but I put it out there for your careful thought and attention.
Strength - Mike Peters
101.9 Kink
Strength
written by The Alarm
GIVE ME LOVE GIVE ME HOPE GIVE ME STRENGTH GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR
Who will light the fire That I need to survive Who will be the life blood Coursing through my veins
Like a river flowing That will never change I need someone I can depend on
'Cause I'm a man of emotions Who can't hide the tears I'm a man of feeling Who can't hide the pain
I'm alone on the outskirts of town Where no one knows my name I'm at the point in my life Where I need affection
WON'T YOU GIVE ME LOVE (Give me love) GIVE ME HOPE (Give me hope) GIVE ME STRENGTH GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR
GIVE ME LOVE (Give me love) GIVE ME HOPE (Give me hope) GIVE ME STRENGTH GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR
I NEED IT NOW I NEED IT NOW
Someone write me a letter I need to know that I'm still alive Someone give me a telephone call I need to hear a human sound Someone open up a door And let me out of this place I've been caged up for oh so long I don't know if I'm living or dying
SOMEONE BETTER GIVE ME LOVE (Give me love) GIVE ME HOPE (Give me hope) GIVE ME STRENGTH GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR
GIVE ME LOVE (Give me love) GIVE ME HOPE (Give me hope) GIVE ME STRENGTH GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR
I walk alone across the outskirts of town I can't control what I'm going through now Will you light the fire that I need to survive Will you donate the life blood Coursing through my veins Will you open up the door & let me out of this place
I've been caged up for oh so long I don't know if I'm living or dying
WON'T YOU GIVE ME LOVE (Give me love) GIVE ME HOPE (Give me hope) GIVE ME STRENGTH GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR
GIVE ME LOVE (Give me love) GIVE ME HOPE (Give me hope) GIVE ME STRENGTH GIVE ME SOMEONE SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR
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