Here come the hot stepper I'm the lyrical gangsta Pick up a blue bow yeah I still love you like that Here come the hot stepper I'm the lyrical danger Pick up a crew in the area I still love you like that Here come the hot stepper I'm the lyrical gangsta Time to let me know my danger I still love you like that
BBC 6 Music BBC 6 Music Closer to the music that matters BBC 6 Music Adam & Joe As I wait for sleep to drag me under
In the evening bloom I sit and wonder
The good said to you The things I've always meant to do The bad dreams that all came true You woke up my neighborhood Night after night we would row You woke up my neighborhood Things are pretty quite well known
When I think of how we were together No, we couldn't be like that forever
The night we let it go too far I slept out in the car
I remember skipping on the porch till it grew cold I remember feeling like I was eight years old Saw my son to cross the lawn Singing, dancing until dawn Every now and then we'd have a row
You woke up my neighbourhood Things are pretty quiet round here now You woke up my neighbourhood Night after night we would row You woke up my neighbourhood Things are pretty quiet round here now You woke up my neighbourhood
There you go, that's Billy Bragg with You Woke Up My Neighbourhood.
This is Adam and Joe here on BBC6 Music.
You're saying there you go as if people requested that or wanted it.
Yeah, they did want it.
Everyone wants some Bragg.
Everyone likes a delicious slice of Bragg first thing in the morning.
The barge.
Could I have another?
No, you can't.
This is Adam and Joe.
Welcome to our Saturday morning show here on BBC6 Music.
We're here with you until noon.
And it's like, I've thought of a simile or a metaphor.
The show's like a box of chocolates.
Is it?
Has anyone used that before?
No.
That's never been used.
Only... In what way is it like a box of chocolates?
Because there's different ones.
Yeah, you never know what you're gonna get.
That's right.
Is that what you mean?
Yes!
okay good different segments and stuff and it's more like an orange exactly like an orange like an orange for instance we are going to be announcing the winner of last week's song wars sorry can i just ask you can you just pronounce for instance a bit better because it is like for instance it was like for instance there is a new government directive that those words have been combined yeah you know you can lose your job for that
For for instance, BBC by saying for instance, yeah, for instance, that's a town in France.
That would be a good name for an instant frothy drink.
It would would for instance, for instance, by anyway, let's play some music or say what else is coming up?
Yes, song was that we got a lot of song wars business to resolve.
We've got this week's Song Wars and we've got last week's Song Wars to pay off.
We're going to be announcing the winner of last week's Song Wars very soon.
We're going to have Text the Nation, the nation's favourite segment.
I'm going to tell you a little bit about my trip to Radiohead Studio.
Exactly.
A bit later on.
I'm excited about that.
And all sorts of other rambling nonsense coming up.
But let's get into some more music right now.
Here's some Baby Shambles.
This is YouTalk.
You talk, you talk a good game I wish I could talk the same I know song is just a game Forgetting it and cheating at all You talk
I'd love to explain, I'd love to show in your hand And all about, oh well I know, I know, I know, I know And so and so, and so and so what?
I suppose, got to go I never, ever said it was clever I'd just like it to end it Looking for a light Right behind you, a heart
You talk a good game I wish I could talk and sing I know showing is just a game I'm getting good at cheesing out on Utah Remember Utah in the rain And those little red shoes And some kid with good news Yeah, it's right on your wick You just grin and bear it Yeah, I know, I know, I know, I know I'm tall and so, I'm so
Never said it was clever I just like it so let me know I've been looking for a light A light behind your eyes You talk You talk a good game You talk You talk a good game You talk
Are you talking again?
Are you talking?
Are you talking again?
But I never ever said it was clever I just like getting level Looking for the
hahaha
baby shambles with you talk that was that was delightful and it's a lovely morning i'm filling here joe you're doing a good job man we've got lots of other great music coming up this hour alone we're gonna have althea and donna in a second uptown top rank i love that record it's a classic track we got some strokes some bloke party oh you've got some main source this is looking great but you should uh i know you sometimes we drop some of these songs and then people might get upset
Yeah, well I was just sticking the flag in the mountain for those particular bands.
Right, okay.
We can't drop them now.
Fair enough.
It's a crafty technique.
Yeah, that's very... Hey, have we got a Song Wars jingle we could play?
You're going to be hearing this jingle a lot this morning.
Well, we're not going right into Song Wars just yet.
I thought we were going to pay off last week's Song Wars.
We're going to do it in just a second.
Okay.
But first of all, we've got some more music for you.
This is... Ooh, this is one of my choices.
I chose this one.
This is a good track.
This is from Sparks and it's from their album, Number One Song in Heaven.
This is when they went all kind of disco and weirdly techno-ish.
Hope you enjoy it.
It's called My Other Voice.
you
But that's gonna change me soon With my other voice I can destroy this room I'll wrap my voice around you And I'll drag you everywhere My other
Nah, nah, nah, nah, they've got their symbols backwards, mate.
Nah.
How embarrassing.
How embarrassing.
Oh, dear.
Whoops.
Another boo-boo.
Listen, Ron, I don't know how to tell you this.
You know the song we just did?
The symbols are backwards.
Russell, how could you have done that?
Is that what happens if you just put them on upside down?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's real, that's how they get that noise.
Yeah, exactly.
Solomon Joel on BBC6 music.
Good morning, hope you're having a lovely Saturday morning.
Not you, you.
Yeah.
You won.
That was Sparks, incidentally, you just heard with the track called My Other Voice.
Hope you enjoyed it.
And sorry, we had to hold off on the Song Wars thing there.
There's just a little bit of drama happening, just a little bit of drama.
I felt my authority was compromised.
Sorry man, didn't want to compromise your authority, but you know... I'm sorry, I didn't, I don't mind.
We were going to play clips of last week's Song Wars tracks.
Hey, let's do it now!
It's time for Song Wars, the war of the songs.
and of course we had to put our songs to a delayed listener test last week because the show was pre-recorded but now we're back live so we didn't know who had won last week last week the songs were constructed around found
lyrics, weren't they?
That's right.
We asked listeners to send in found text, recipes, instructions, that kind of thing.
And I'm just receiving the envelope here with the winner inside it.
Can't wait to get his grubby little hands on the envelope.
And so your votes came in during the week.
They flooded in.
They did.
They had to install new plumbing.
And I had quite a long song and it was the lyrics were about, we don't have a copy of the lyrics to hand do it.
Well, it was basically the instructions to IKEA Frozen Meatballs and we constructed our songs around those instructions word for word.
I'm a little bit disgruntled this morning because I had to play a version last week that was not quite finished because we had to rush into the studio as we recorded and I went to town.
I didn't go all the way to town.
I stopped just short of the town.
On the outskirts of town.
Yeah, I was on the outskirts of the town, so I played a track that wasn't in my view quite finished.
And I spent yesterday remixing it, getting it pristine, but there was a bit of a mix up.
But that's queering the pitch a bit, isn't it?
It is a little bit.
Because your song is your song on the day that it's played.
Fair enough, fair enough.
You can't go and wiggle it about.
Well, I guess.
But anyway... I mean, that was a statement, not a question.
Yeah.
You can't.
No, you can.
I'm opening the envelope.
Well, we have to hear clips from the songs first.
Oh, we have to hear clips, that's true.
I've got the full songs.
Okay, so these are last week's songs.
They're on the subject of meatballs, the IKEA meatball recipe.
We'll start with my little shorty one.
This is my kind of, we decided it was stadium Bowie.
Glass spider period, stadium Bowie.
This is the recipe for IKEA meatballs.
Place the meatballs in an ovenproof dish and heat a 225 degrees centigrade for about 15 minutes in a microwave at 700 watts.
Place the meatballs in a bowl without a lid And the heat At full power for four to five minutes Stir after half the time I said stir the meatballs after half the time Come on, place the meatballs in the meatballs You love meatballs, you love meatballs Come on, meatballs
It's nice at the end there.
Yeah, the ending's the best bit.
I'm, you know, I very much doubt that'll win.
It starts strong.
If it wins, there's something wrong out there.
Right.
Now listen, I'm not proposing we hear the whole of mine because A, I'm not happy with the mix.
Yeah.
B, it's very long.
So let's just hear the beginning of my version of Meatballs.
This is a sort of New York punk version.
Place the meatballs in an oven-proof dish That sounds, it sounds dreadful It sounds good, I like it I wouldn't want to eat this guy's meatballs I don't even think it's coming out of stereo, is it?
Yeah That's good, I like that little scream No, you see all this bits?
I've remixed all this
I just think his kitchen would be filthy.
Okay, that's enough, that's enough meatballs there.
There's a nice little bit at the end, there's a nice coda where there's a big chorus and everyone sings along, meatballs.
Is there?
What, on the new version?
No, on this one.
Really?
But, uh, but listen, let's find out who's won.
So those were the songs...
This is a scandal.
I've won.
No way.
Yeah, that is scandalous, listeners.
I've won by 68%.
Is that really true?
68%.
For my awful Bowie dirge that I did in four minutes.
Look, what does this indicate?
This indicates that either... You know what, Adam?
I'm... I'm... What's the word?
I'm surrendering that victory, giving it to you.
No, I don't want... I'm like Marlon Brando at the Oscars.
You're my red Indian.
Right.
No, who was it that gave, it was Cuba Gooding Jr.
that gave away his Oscar wasn't it?
That's a more recent example, but Marlon did do that I do believe as well.
It's saying Adam 32%, Joe 68%.
Here's the chorus.
That's what you didn't vote for, you lunatic.
So what does that bring the score to now on Song Wars?
3-0.
3-0.
You see, this is a tricky set.
You fade it down, please.
No, it's hurting my brain.
This is the situation now in Song Wars.
This is our fourth show.
We've done three editions of Song Wars.
I, Joe, have won all three.
So but don't let that prejudice this week.
Song Wars.
Here we go.
Don't let your pity for Adam.
Prejudice base the songs on their merits.
Could you be the most ungracious man in the United Kingdom?
I just think that there should be sort of a you know scientific accuracy on this thing.
Oh my goodness Listen, we'll come back to song wars a little later on.
But first here's some more music some proper music This is Susie and the Banshees with Christine
Christine, the strawberry girl Christine, banana squid lady Christine, the strawberry girl Christine, banana squid lady
Now she's in purple, now she's in turtle Disintegrated Christine, the strawberry girl Christine Been on a speed light at Christine The strawberry girl Christine sees her face is unfurled
Who's the turtle?
Descent Lady Christine Christine Christine, the strawberry girl Christine, the nonstick lady Christine, the strawberry girl Christine
Susan the Banshees with Christine, who was involved in the alien attack in War of the Worlds.
Christine?
She was disintegrated.
Yes, that's right.
She was the one when he was running past the car.
Yeah, yeah.
And you saw it reflected in the wing mirror.
It's very sad, isn't it?
It was very sad.
Before that, she was a strawberry girl.
Is that true?
Yeah.
What a life Christine has had.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC Six Music.
Now, Joe, maybe you can tell me about the Tesco ad with the Spice Girls in it.
Have you seen that one?
No, no.
Have you not?
No, but word on the street is that telly's full of these amazingly expensive lavish Christmas commercials.
Right.
They're throwing bigger and bigger Hollywood stars.
I mean, they must have.
hello there that's how you pronounce it now isn't it that's the official new pronunciation yeah with a slightly sort of halfway to going exactly now that there aren't any proper big stars or blockbusters or good films you pronounce it but um the word is that because there's all those commercials yeah out there it's like the uh 50s again
In what?
No, the 40s.
I don't know, but it's recessionary.
Yeah.
Right, there's like an edge of desperation to it.
I mean, that must have cost a lot of money, unless the Spice Girls were taking a significant cut on their usual- They work for very little money now.
Well, I would imagine they work for less than they did at the height of girl power, you would think.
But still, even so, they've probably got powerful agents, they must be wangling them some decent fees, and you're multiplying a pretty good fee by five as soon as you harness the power of the girls.
And then, anyway, if you haven't seen this ad, folks, this is an ad for Big Supermarket Chain, and it's for Christmas shopping there, and it features all the girls running around doing their shopping.
I think the idea is that they're buying things for each other, for the other members of the Spice Club.
It's a far-fetched scenario, but we'll go with it.
Well, exactly.
I mean, it's fraught with a lot of problems.
Is there a bit where they shove razor blades into the gifts they've bought for each other?
No.
Is that?
No, they wouldn't do that.
No, they all get on very well now.
That's right.
Yeah, they're all delightful friends.
But it's weird because they keep hiding from each other, you know, like as soon as the whole thing is like, when Mel B comes around the corner, Posh Spice suddenly jumps in front of a TV screen that has her face on anyway, thereby disguising herself because she's everywhere.
That's the idea.
Sounds amazing.
It's sort of amazing.
But it's very odd because like they're all just desperately hiding from each other.
You know what I mean?
And I can't figure out if they're hiding from each other because they don't want each other to see the gifts they've got, each other, or they're just ashamed that they're so cheap.
They're just really thick.
Right.
They're really stupid.
It's like toddlers.
Yeah.
They just like to hide and stuff.
Okay.
I just wanted to check.
Hey, if you know the answer to Adam's Quandary, don't forget you can text us at any point on 64046 or email adamandjoe.6musicatbbc.co.gu.
BBC.co.uk.
And then you just, oh, you slipped up at the end there.
Althea and Donna time.
Here's uptown top ranking.
Six music next week.
Tom York and Ed O'Brien from Radiohead talk for the first time about the band's brand new album in rainbows.
Join me, Steve Remak for this exclusive interview on Monday afternoon.
In conversation with Radiohead Monday from four on six music.
Sippin' in the pan, scented
That is true constant strength.
Them chicks say we come from cosmos.
But the truth that I know ain't it.
Them I know say we talk franking.
Oh!
That's Sir Althea and Donna with Uptown Ranking.
Uptown Top Ranking?
Uptown, yeah, sorry.
Alright.
I hadn't ranked the ranking correctly with the correct rank.
That's pretty much 9.30 now and time for the news here on BBC6 Music, read by Catherine Cracknell.
Police hunt for more secrets at Margate House of Horrors news stark climate change warning and Scotland's fans nerves tested BBC six music BBC news at 930 I'm Catherine crack
Police search teams have been getting to work at a house in Margate this morning where the bodies of two teenage girls have been found.
Detectives think the second woman found yesterday is Dinah McNichol who went missing while hitching back from a music festival in 1991 when she was 18.
Ian Palmer is outside the house in Margate for us now.
He says officers are digging up the garden that
And that's where they've been focusing their attention and we're expecting them to finish the groundwork sometime this weekend.
Sussex Police, I know for a fact, are reopening two cases, one of Jesse Earl, who went missing in 1980, and also Louise Kay.
They both went missing in Eastbourne.
In other six music news, a murder investigation is underway after a man was stabbed to death in South Manchester.
A 25-year-old man was found at an address in Wythenshawe in the early hours.
Three men and a woman have been arrested.
A 21-year-old man's due in court later charged with murdering a Liverpool University student.
24-year-old Sean Hardy was attacked in the early hours of Thursday after going out clubbing.
The world's leading climate experts say it may already be too late to do anything about some of the effects of global warming.
The dire new warning comes from the highly respected UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Six Music Sport Football and Scotland expects they're hoping to book a place in Euro 2008.
by beating world champions Italy at Hampden Park at five.
England, meanwhile, are hoping Russia don't beat Israel, leaving their chances hanging by a thread.
The team's 1-0 win in the friendly against Austria last night came with a price.
Michael Owen limped off the pitch in Vienna with a thigh injury.
It's left England manager Steve McLaren gloomy.
You know, we're devastated about Michael and it appears we're haunted with injuries at the present moment and missing our two centre-halves and two centre-folds for what I believe will be the biggest game for quite a while.
And the weather, a little chance of seeing the sun, mostly damp and windy, 9 to 10 the high.
That's Six Music News, next update, 10.30.
Adam and Joe's on sixth music.
In many ways there'll be some
Yeah, it hurts to say, but I want you to stay Sometimes, sometimes When we was young, how man did we have fun?
Always, always Promises, they break before their mate Sometimes, sometimes
Are you saying you wanna stay by my side?
I feel your hand's not right I still always stay and together we fall apart Yeah, I think I'll be alright I'm working so I won't have to try so hard Tables they turn sometimes Oh, some day
And now my fears, they come to me in dreams So I, sometimes, embrace my friends In sweetest, strangest things I find, sometimes All my assets are black and white
I see you're always staying together, we fall apart Yeah, I think I'll be alright I'm working so hard, won't have to try So hard, the opposite turns and turns Oh, it's alright
Yep, that's good isn't it?
That's the strokes with Someday.
And this is Adam and Joe here on BBC Six Music.
Hi.
That's Joe Cornish saying hi.
Now I feel sorry for Craig David this week.
I don't know if you've been reading the mags but Craig David's got a new album out that probably no one that listens to Six Music will be interested in.
Neither am I. But God bless him and everything.
Yeah.
What were you going to say?
I was going to say people that listen to Six Music have very Catholic tastes.
They have Catholic tastes?
Does that mean broad?
Yeah.
Catholics don't have broad tastes they have very I am I was baptized a Catholic but they have quite limited strict rules yeah but uh where's that expression come from I have no idea okay anyway Craig David's been speaking out in the press about how avid Marion's Bo Selektor sketch affected him oh really yeah it's quite interesting he sort of waited until Bo Selektor sort of off the cultural radar a bit yeah and now he's spilling his heart about how it psychologically affected him
Really?
It kind of ruined his life.
No.
For about two years, yeah, everywhere he went.
Greg David.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
He looked at his own face in the mirror and started to hate it.
You laugh, but it's interesting, isn't it?
Yeah.
As comedians, sometimes one does impressions or things that could be slightly cruel about people.
Mm-hmm.
Or, you know, and you think, well, they're famous.
They can take it.
Yeah.
But it's not true.
That's true, isn't it?
I was watching an episode of Larry Sanders this week, an old Larry Sanders episode about exactly this thing.
And really, it's he gets who's the guy from Wayne's World, not Mike Myers, but Dana Carvey.
Dana Carvey does an impression of Larry Sanders, of Gary Shandling.
And it's it's really cruel.
And he's whining like this.
And he'd say, oh, my ass looks big in these pants.
And it totally destroys his confidence and he can't get beyond this impression that he's doing and he's trying to get reassurance from everyone that he's not really like that, you know.
We did a thing on a series of our ancient show where Adam did a very good impression of Zane Lowe.
It wasn't very accurate though.
It was quite good though.
It was supposed to be... Did you ever worry that that might...
that might you know a little bit yeah because I heard I heard from someone he wasn't even that famous at the time no I heard from someone that he I heard from someone that he didn't really like or he said what's what's so funny about it you know as you would if you if someone said oh there's someone doing an impression of you and usually you see if someone does an impression of yeah it's usually to you not not accurate anyway millions of
the public oh i see what you mean yeah yeah you just sort of think that's not me at all what i don't understand yeah but that's almost worse you know craig david doesn't talk like that and his face isn't that extended his chin isn't that big but listen i would say that uh lee francis who does bow selector
would be in exactly the same camp as I was with Zane Lowe as a fan, you know what I mean?
Like, as a genuine fan.
But what about the consequences of his action?
Craig David couldn't walk down the street without being mocked.
No, exactly, that didn't happen to Zane Lowe.
No.
I know, that's harsh, you know?
I must say I felt for Craig David and I thought in future I might, you know, steer away from that sort of thing.
Right.
It's just a little bit cheap.
On the other hand, man, people delight in that impression.
It is fun.
At the same time, Craig David did embrace it at the time.
He had to.
And he says in these interviews that he would be really polite to, what's his name, Lee Francis, and enthusiastic and stuff.
But then at one stage he did corner Lee Francis about it backstage at a gig and he said, you're ruining my life.
No.
Yeah.
There was swearing in the article I read.
Oh my lord.
No, because I remember Lee Francis saying that he was going on stage with Craig David at one point.
That's right.
Craig David appeared in the show.
Yeah, yeah.
But he hated it.
It ruined his life.
And now he's having to, at every interview he does for his new album, he's being asked about it.
Right.
So really, the Bose Electra creation has got more sort of a cultural, cultural longevity.
Yeah, you got there.
Yeah.
I'm not.
I'm tired.
I'm finished.
Let's play another music.
Craig David!
Come on!
You're just keeping it going!
Yeah, of course!
Poor Craig David!
Craig!
I'm gonna buy his record just as a sort of a charity gesture.
Craig David!
He shaved the beard off!
It's a new Craig David!
Right, well, no, look, we're starting it again now.
What have we got now?
We've got some block party for you folks.
This is Flux.
An eye in the curls of art Dancing till we're near So that we'll learn to disappear When you shall turn on me I saw my father in the second grade Concerned and kind, yet unable to reach me We were home
We found what we spoke to smell
This is the end
Spatchcock.
That's the intense sounds of Dirty Shirty, who will be supporting the naughty men at the Nunty Rooms in Depressa all this week.
Meat Farm.
That is Adam Zane Lowe impression.
Somebody texted us in to ask for the, um, to hear that impression.
It's not a very accurate impression.
and in fact he's not like that anymore my impression was based on zane in the olden days when he was on mtv and uh he was just starting out and he was incredibly intense the thing that i mean i liked the show because like it was a proper unironic uh show about his enthusiasm for music you know you'd use that kind of convenient get-out clause that it was an homage
it was a homage it really genuinely was but in the same you know in the same respect you always latch on to the thing that is ludicrous about something you love do you know what i mean like especially when people do things that are from the heart it's easy to kind of have a little it's a dangerous game doing things from the heart yeah well exactly but if you're a if you're a true original which i genuinely believe zane lowe is you know what i mean he's someone who's blazed a trail for uh for the for his passion which is uh indie music
And if you're someone like that, who's like genuinely coming from a sincere place, then it's quite easy to have a little chuckle at you.
But Lee Francis, you know, he based his entire career on just not just a person, but a phrase in the person's song, Bo Selecta.
What's that joke you just got?
It's quite a good joke.
This is probably his old, very, very old.
It's okay.
Craig David seems to be picking himself back up again.
Did you hear he's training for the 2012 Olympics?
Apparently he's going to be on the Great Britain archery team.
He won't actually be firing any arrows though.
He's just the boat selector.
There you go.
Nice.
Nice job.
You know, Zayn actually invited us to the... I caught that invite, yeah.
...fifth year anniversary party.
I don't know if I can make it, but I'd really like to have gone.
To apologise?
I've seen him since then.
I saw him a few years ago.
You can't apologise enough though.
No.
You know the difference is that lots of people watch Bow Selector, whereas nobody watched our television programme.
Well, exactly.
The thing is that Zane Lowe is far more successful than we are.
Okay, it's time for Text the Nation.
Text the Nation.
Text, text, text.
Text the Nation.
What if I don't want to?
Text the Nation.
But I'm using email.
Is that a problem?
It doesn't matter.
Text.
That's right, this is the part of the show where we ask you to send us texts.
It's as simple as that.
And this week, the theme of the Text-A-Nation feature is what superhero powers would you have if it was up to you?
If you could choose any kind of special superhero power, like in the program Heroes, what would your power be?
The text number is 64046.
Yeah, and remember this is important.
It is very important.
It's the nation's favourite feature.
So if you don't support the nation's favourite feature then you're involved in feature side which is crime.
Now listen we usually offer some suggestions of our own.
I found this one a bit tricky.
So did I. You suggested it.
I know it seemed like a good idea at the time.
What were you playing at?
I don't know.
I tell you why because a lot of people are already all over it.
Right.
The film Mystery Men.
Yeah.
The film The Specials.
Uh huh.
Uh Heroes.
What's The Specials?
It's a kind of bad American superhero spoof film.
Came out direct to DVD over here.
Not a biopic about the Coventry.
No, sadly not.
That would be good though.
Yeah.
Who else does it?
I think there's an ITV comedy coming up called No Heroics about superheroes with silly powers.
Gosh.
With silly powers these are.
Well silly-ish.
You know it's tricky with superpowers isn't it?
They're a tricky thing.
Yeah.
They usually come in a couple of forms.
In the world of Stan Lee,
and that kind of thing, the DC and Marvel world, they usually either replicate a power that something in the world already has, an animal, or they're an expression of some kind of internal conflict.
They're usually fairly elemental, like the classic superheroes, you know, they're very strong... Elemental is a good word, yeah, that's to do with an animal or a substance.
Yeah.
A spider, iron, that kind of thing, an ant.
Yeah, and of course the modern... Jews laughing at ants.
Why are you laughing at ants?
Ant-Man.
Joe's just written a screenplay called Ant-Man.
I've just written a screenplay called Marvel based on Ant-Man.
So he's a little touchy about it.
I do know what I'm talking about.
He's a little touchy about the ants.
But my superhero powers, I was thinking, and I guess this is the way that superheroes are going now, is very specific modern day powers, like something useful in an everyday context.
Right, like to be able to eject a CD tray.
Is that modern?
No.
Ejector.
Ejector?
Yeah.
Yeah, that'd be quite good.
That would be quite... No one has CD trays anymore, do they?
Don't they?
No, because you're sticking your CD in the computer.
You don't want to know where I stick my CD.
Oh, stop it will you please.
So I was thinking my superhero would be called Keywallow, the locator.
And he would be able, just stay with me for a second, to locate keys and wallets.
I can't believe he went with the key gambit.
Keywallow!
That's good, Keywallow.
Were you thinking of keys as well?
It did cross my mind.
I will.
The finding the keys.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But everyone wants that superhero power.
So far I haven't seen that superhero represented.
So you've got healing people.
Yeah.
You've got like even making things float, saving lives and you're going for key locating.
And wallets.
It's a very selfish power.
In minutes.
And wallets in minutes.
Would you do this for other people?
Would you be altruistic or would it just be for yourself?
Kiwalo can only find his own keys and wallets.
I don't think you need a superpower for that.
I think there's something they sell at Argos for that.
No, there's a little thing that you... Which is, Argos is super powered in some ways.
Well there's a thing that you can attach to your keys and you whistle and it beeps at you but it's no good because it's so annoying that after a day or so you rip it off and you throw it in the bin and then the bin beeps at you thereafter.
So key wallow the locator, that would be one of my... Why is he called key wallow?
Cuz it's keys and wallets.
Okay, so I was trying to write it.
Sorry.
It sounded Aboriginal for a second Yeah, well, that's maybe he's an African African.
He might wear an Aboriginal guys.
Yeah costume.
Yeah The other I was in real trouble clearly universal remote wrong You can't believe you thought of this I really tried hard
Universal Remotron can change channels on any set, no matter where he is.
Also available in the shops for £14.99.
Again, I've bought those things, they're very hard, you have to program them with the specific number of the TV set and it's a fallacy that there's such a thing as a universal remote.
But Universal Remotron would have true universal remote powers.
Yeah.
Oh, crikey.
And here's, here's another one.
I was running out at this point.
I was in real trouble.
I've got one.
Go on, what's yours?
I was going to be, I'd be an unpopular superhero because I'm Mr. Reasonable.
Mr. Reasonable?
And I just have a power to make everyone behave reasonably.
That's a nice idea.
That would be an amazing power.
I'd be parachuted, because I can't fly, or choppered, into any location, and I'd go... And waves of reasonability.
Waves of reasonability.
Everyone would just go... If people were having an argument, I'd say, stop it, I hate you, I'm gonna hate you.
You can be called chillax or I like that chillax or you know everybody just relaxes.
They're reasonable They have a cup of tea and your cut your catchphrase could be think about hey Hey, hey Come on guys.
Hey guys, come on
Take a joke, then.
What kind of costume would you have, Chillaxor?
I don't know.
I need to think about that.
Something reasonable.
But that would be, I mean, that would be a genuinely incredible power, wouldn't it?
I would be very in demand by peace-loving people, but I would also expose all the people who are actually interested in causing conflict.
The warmongers would hate Chillaxor.
The double-crossing governments who stage incidents, illicitly finance revolutions and stuff like that.
And big business?
They would hate business business with a vested interest in local skirmishes and wars.
They would want to get rid of me.
I'd be a litmus test.
He's making everyone reasonable.
Other superheroes would hate me because they'd want to get involved in big spectacular flight fights up the main street.
And I just calm everything down.
I wouldn't be popular in the film biz.
No, too dull.
No, exactly.
Much too dull.
Anyway, text your superpower suggestions to 64046.
Uh, please.
Now, here's main source.
Are you enjoying that?
Did you pick this one?
Yeah, this is quite an old track.
This is a hippity hoppity track.
It's one of my all time favourites.
It's by a band that kind of vanished.
But when they were around, they were brilliant.
It's from 91.
It's called Looking at the Front Door.
This is main source.
So immature I try to concentrate on the cure And keep looking at the front door Thinking if I were to evacuate You'd probably be straighter than straight And wouldn't have so much hate Cause you don't know the pain I feel When I see you smiling And when I roll up you start wildin' So I front like everything's hunky dory
But it's a whole different story.
You don't like the fact that I'm me.
I don't put on a show when it comes time for you to have company.
And your friends don't understand your choice of man.
They speak proper while my speech is from a garbage can.
But regardless, you shouldn't have to be so raw.
I'm looking at the front door.
I'm the one you're against And it doesn't make sense Cause I'm the one that you claim to love for life But all I get is grey hairs and strife And I can play some old stuck up rapper role And get foul every time you lose control But that's not my order of operations So I should win an award for lots of patience Cause that's all a fella can have With a girl who's shooting up his world like Shav And I don't think that I can take it anymore I'm looking at the light of the night
front door
My friends always tell me how I'm lucky to possess The best-looking girl in the whole U.S.
But every time you scream, you blow your finesse Tryin' to diss the profess, or 24 hours of actin' sore Sometimes I wish you'd come down with lockjaw So I don't have to take in the breakin' Just hit me like a burnt piece of bacon It seems like just two years Back when we were wanted and not pierced But now I keep etchin' a jet Sittin' in a chair just to stare Set to sprint
Sweetheart you better take a hit I say it now like I said it before
There we go, main source.
We're looking at the front door.
Includes a fantastic lyric about a burnt piece of bacon.
You treat me like a burnt piece of bacon.
Well, how would you treat a burnt piece of bacon?
You'd be delighted, wouldn't you?
No, it's very bad for you.
Is it?
Well, any burnt food is very bad for you.
I'm not actually sure that's true, but that's the rumor, isn't it?
Pretty much everything is carcinogenic.
Is it?
Yeah, bad vibes, toast.
Bad vibes?
Yeah.
Can you get ill off of bad vibes?
Definitely.
Wow.
Definitely.
Bad vibes are the number one killer.
Really?
In Europe.
Yeah.
Wow.
And that's true
There we go.
So nice intonation, man.
Yeah.
We're going to have a little session track for you in just a second.
And this is one that I chose for you.
Have you have we got any in the interim?
Have we got any emails about superheroes trickling in?
Yep, they're coming in.
And don't forget, we we primed listeners for this last week.
So during the week, we've had quite a few superpower based emails come in.
But do keep texting 64046 or email Adam and Joe dot six music at BBC dot co dot UK with your superpower, what you would like.
Coming up in the next hour here on BBC6 Music, we have an update on Song Wars.
We're going to be launching this week's... Lunching.
We're going to be launching and launching this week's Song Wars and we'll be talking to the people responsible for our suggestions.
It's a good one this week.
Yeah, it's a good one.
Song Wars is good this week.
Yeah, because we got people to suggest friends of theirs that they would like us to write songs about.
Yeah.
So they supplied us with salient facts about those friends and Joe and I went off individually and composed songs about their friends.
You'll be hearing those in the next hour.
But right now here is my session track this week.
This is from a really great band and this is a brother and sister team, isn't it?
And that's that's always a strange thing in a band.
And the Fiery Furnaces are certainly one of the more unusual bands around right now in every way.
you know not just the fact that they're brother and sister and they argue quite a lot i believe but they make a very strange racket this is one of the more conventional tracks that we're playing right now from a session from 2004 and i really fancy the singer oh my lord she used to go out with the lead singer of uh Franz Ferdinand not for very long and that slightly put me off not not because i don't like Franz Ferdinand but that guy's a
He's a little bit of a ponzist.
Yeah, you don't want to go where he's been.
No, exactly.
But she seems there's something about her that's so sexy.
I didn't mean it like that.
Of course you did.
Just to places on holiday.
Anyway, speaking of lovely places that you'd like to go, here's a track called Tropical Island.
This is Fiery Furnaces from a BBC six music session from 2004.
I hope you enjoy it.
Adam's pick of the BBC archive.
A ghost hiding in a deli case A sweet angel and your bearded face A penguin in shape and red on at night That's what you're doing with no sunlight Tropical, tropical, tropical, icy land Tropical, tropical, tropical, icy, icy
Black church on a cold tundra A mountain glacier, glacier, glacier stream Blackstone beach on a black dead bottom It's on me and my baby on me Tropical, tropical, tropical, icy land Tropical, tropical, tropical, icy, icy
It's taking a mission or at the movies.
It sprees outside for one quick smoke.
And take a climb up off from the palm machine.
Hey, it's ice cream, don't I know.
Tropical, tropical, tropical, icy land.
Tropical, tropical, tropical, icy, icy land.
We're meeting Christiana next summer Let's get out before we melt away I've seen enough stray ponies and pumpkins To get me through TV and domain Tropical, tropical, tropical, icy land Tropical, tropical, tropical, icy, icy
BBC 6 Music.
BBC 6 Music.
Closer to the music that matters.
Adam and Joe.
On 6music.
And we don't care about the old thoughts Talking about the old style too And we don't care about our own thoughts Talking about our own stuff All we care about is talking, talking
We pretend to disappear No one will surprise me unless you do I can tell there's something going on Ours seems to disappear Everyone is leaving, I'm still with you It doesn't matter what we do We are going to
We can stick around and see this night through And we don't care about the young folks Talking about the young side And we don't care about the old folks Talking about the old style too
Oh, Caroline is talking, talking
I added a little extra whistle riff there at the end.
Yeah, you ruined it.
Did I?
I'm sorry.
You came in there and you ruined Peter Bjorn and John.
You know, that whistling is very addictive, isn't it?
That song, do you think that song would be the song it was without the whistling?
No, I mean it's sparse, isn't it?
Is the tune alone what does it or is it the fact that it's a kind of building site whistle?
It's the whistle.
Everything works on that song.
It's absolutely, they got it exactly right.
And her little... But my proposition is that whistling in and of itself is a brilliant kind of nuclear pop missile.
Right.
And I'm suggesting that next week's Song Wars we factor in some whistling.
Do a whistling song.
Well no it's not a whistling song but there must be an element of whistle there.
Is that the only criterion?
No we'll have another criteria but it's a sub-criteria.
I can never remember.
It's sub-crititious.
Do you say criterion?
Criterion is not the singular of criteria is it?
I love it when we talk about stuff like this.
I just need to check.
Otherwise I'm going around... What's the question, Criterion?
Is Criterion... We had this discussion before.
Criterion is not the singular of Criteria.
No.
No.
No, you can have one Criteria.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
He's an Asian film director.
Is he?
One Criteria.
That's racist.
Is it?
Yeah, you're fired.
Bye.
Bye.
Come back.
he's out no he should collect his pass man this is the big british castle you can get destroyed for that he's rubbing his eyes of course it's not racist you lunatic hey have you been watching i'm a celebrity get me out of here you know i watched uh i managed to miss it but then i tuned in for two minutes and it happened to be the the two minutes right with the lady going yeah yeah janice what's her surname dickinson yeah i had to switch it off because i thought this is a terrible thing i've tuned in at exactly the the sticky moment
traumatized Anton deck we're talking about a live bush tucker trial folks this is the show of course i don't want to talk about celebrities in the jungle and uh they this was on thursday night i think and they had a live bush tucker trial with this kind of insane ex-supermodel that they've got on there called Janice and it was a sort of disastrous half hour of tv with basically her just screaming and having a little fit about not wanting to stick her head in this
a little jar of spiders and rats and snakes that they've got the usual sort of stuff stuff that you of course admittedly would not relish the thought of doing under normal circumstances but you would think that once you've gone out to the Australian jungle and been paid your considerable fee you know you'd be prepared for that kind of thing anyway she refused to do it and
it was sort of it started out being fun watching it but then got a little bit annoying and you could tell that Ant and Dec were just thinking this is no good what can we do and there was no way they could hurry it along luckily Biggins was there she wasn't respecting the camera angles was the worst thing she wasn't she wasn't standing where she should have stood and right and she was her back was to the camera she was blocking big big ones she was dropping the f-bomb all over the place yeah she said something bad about holes it was it was a it was a disaster yeah i ain't watching that stuff
right well i am i can't i can't get enough uh you know and deco a good presenters man but even they were taxed to the limits by that one come on six music i tell you what i just think people listening to this station they're not interested there's no shame in watching a bit of i'm a celebrity i think it's i think it's a good show
The thing that worries me at the moment is that there's an ongoing romance situation with Keris from Catatonia, who I'm surprised to see in there in the first place, to be honest.
Shame.
She's a nice person.
And this guy Mark, I don't even know who Mark is.
There's a lot of people on the show this time around.
I have no clue whatsoever who they are.
Oh, I went a little bit best.
But this guy Mark, he might be a puppeteer for all I know, a children's entertainer.
I don't care.
But there's some flirting, there's some high level flirting going on and both of them are in steady relationships.
Do you not feel bad for their partners?
I don't care.
Come on, you must care.
I really, no disrespect to you, I really don't care.
Yeah, but put yourself in the mind of someone who did care.
don't care they're not I don't think they're I don't think they're humans of course they're human I'm not sure that they are yeah but they're real I think when you agree to go on that show I think you you hand in your ticket well you don't I mean the thing is that someone like here is more sympathy for Craig David's predicament than anyone in that show yeah but well he's in exactly the same position once you're out in the vice those people are inviting anything
No, of course not.
Well, you could say that Craig David by wanting to have a pop career invited.
No, I think there's a distinction.
I do actually.
No, you're insane.
No, anyway, I feel bad for them because it's like Chantelle and Preston all over again.
Do you know what I mean?
I feel bad for the real people in these situations who get caught in the sexy crossfire.
that's what i'm saying hey hope uh they can stay faithful yeah no good luck to them yeah i don't wish any any ill on them um apparently criteria is the plural and criterion is the singular like media and medium yeah come on boys you're educated people you should know these things says faith but then you can say the media
as a sort of collective noun.
I tell you what, during the next record, I'll pop over to Radio 4 and ask someone in there, they'll know.
That would be nice.
Would you like some Kaiser Chiefs?
Yes, please.
Well, here's some for you.
Lovely.
I won't be the one to disappoint you anymore And I know I've said all this and that you've heard it All before the trick is Getting you to think that all this was your idea And that this was everything you've ever wanted Out of here
Love's not a competition, but I'm winning I'm not sure what's truly altruistic Anymore When every good thing that I do is listed And you're keeping score Love's not a competition, but I'm winning
Love's not a competition, but I'm winning At least I thought I was But there's no way of knowing At least I thought I was But there's no way of knowing You know what it's like when you're new to the game, but I'm not
I won't be the one to disappoint you anymore
What if I don't want to?
But I'm using email.
Is that a problem?
They go all the rules of text the nation handily explained within the body of the jingle and before that you heard the Kaiser Chiefs with one of their songs it was called loves not a competition but I'm winning in brackets now we are asking you to text us this week or email us of course about superhero powers superpowers that you wish you had have we got any there Joe we have here's my favorite one so far this is from site Simon in seven Oaks
His name is Simon Truett.
He says, hello chaps, my superpower would be to cause mediocre indie bands to split up.
My secret name would be Splitter.
I'd start with the stereophonics.
Splitter?
No kids don't say er anymore, they say ah.
Splitter?
Splitter.
Oh that's good.
Kids won't understand it if you say Splitter.
And he's starting with the phonics?
he's starting with the phonics yeah he is starting with the phonics that's not a bad place to start no i'd be interested simon in knowing what other mediocre indie band splitter would split up it'd be it'd be good wouldn't it because he just he'd be quite a mysterious superhero he would just shuffle backstage
anonymously in a sort of long trench coat in fedora yeah and you'd see him lurking in a corner while the band were having their post-show party and his sort of insidious influence would cause the drummer to say something inflammatory right to the bassist the lead singer would then step in to defend the bassist schism weeks later split well splitter would go up maybe uh once he's insinuated himself into the entourage he would go up to the drummer and say
You know, Gary, you're really talented.
You should do a solo album.
That kind of thing.
So he starts with a drummer.
The drummer starts getting ideas above his station, goes off to do a solo album.
Not a big problem, you know.
They just get rid of Stuart Cable and get the new sexy guy in, in the case of the phonics.
But then, what's his next move?
What's Split's next move?
He goes up to the lead singer and he starts saying, these guys are not supporting your vision, you know.
They're weighing you down.
You should branch out.
Yeah.
Because the band is becoming safe and you've got amazing new ideas and everyone likes you more than they like the whole band.
Splitter might have been in the room with us at some point.
Do you think?
Around about when?
Do you think, I don't know, maybe like... Around about 2001.
About 2001.
Yeah.
And maybe... Get rid of the tall guy.
You're the sexy one.
That's what he said to you, yeah.
You wouldn't believe what he said to me.
What did he say to you?
I can't say it because it turned out to be true.
Get rid of Fatso.
But that could be like a myth.
People could go, Tommy, Tommy, I saw a bloke backstage.
I'm sure it was Splitter.
Be careful, man.
I'm sure it was.
Don't be stupid.
Splitter doesn't exist.
Come on, Charlene.
Let's go and snort some powder.
That's what happens backstage.
In bands.
Yeah, in bands.
In bands.
I think that's a good idea.
Well done, Mr. Man, who sent that in.
Simon.
Simon from Amstel.
Okay, here are some more that have come in via emails.
I'm going to do a bit of flicking through them.
Love it when you do that.
Little bit of flicking.
You see, people have gone for quite tawdry stuff along the lines of your tawdry keyfinding one.
That's not tawdry!
This is a bit tawdry.
Heather says hello Adam and Joe also inspired by heroes we've had discussions in my office about which superpower we'd like to have although we decided to go for minor superpowers have your bag always come off the luggage conveyor belt first that's a good one that's a good super power do you it's called first class having the bus you want arrive at the bus stop just after you arrive
Yeah.
I can sympathise with that one.
That's a very good one.
Not being able to wait.
Are these all from the same person?
Yeah, these are all from, oh these are from Heather, Katja, Nicola and Sarah in B-E-L-B-O-3.
I think they're in the film T-H-X-1-1-3-8.
Right.
They're in a cell, cell B-E-L-B-O-3.
Their heads are shaved, they're just wearing their white gowns.
On the napes of their neck.
Those are good suggestions.
Yep.
Another one is always being able to see at a gig.
Mmm, I'd love that.
That's kind of the power that ET has, an extendable neck.
Yes.
I sort of have one actually.
My disability of not being able to see at gigs has meant that I've got in so many rucks.
I was thinking the other day about when I went to see David Byrne at Shepherd's Bush Empire, which is one of my least favourite venues because I can never see.
And I was standing on the steps just by the bar to get a little, suddenly I thought, oh I can see David Byrne, I love you!
and then the security guards like off the steps I immediately got in an argument with the guy because it was so rad there was nowhere else for me to stand.
Man security people at venues are uh that's a subject in itself.
Ended up being ejected.
Listen uh we'll have we'll come back to text the nation in a moment stay tuned though because coming up any second we're going to launch this week's song wars which is which is special it's got all sorts of layers and levels and we're going to have people on the phone oh my lord and it's exciting stuff
uh but right now here's a track from one of my favorite albums of the year so it's that time folks when people start doing their roundups of best albums of the year and we've been spoiled for choice there's been some great albums this year but one of my very much favorites if that's a sentence it's not no no uh is from the texan band spoon who who i'm a massive fan of uh this is from their album gar gar gar gar gar and it's called black like me hope you enjoy it
I believe that someone take care of me tonight As I walk into Dorian's, can you see it in my eyes?
My boots are on the mend, I lay walking
Street tour in summer Do a job on your soul Street tour in summer Do a job on your soul
Jenny's watching, cover's shy, my head's feeling light I've been leading someone to kill Tonight, L.A.
have, L.A.
wait, so I split Just getting louder, it's gonna get me out of this I split the night in the map room, I humanized the vacuum
I believe in someone, take care of me tonight
Oh, next I'm looking out at you, can you see that?
In my eyes, all the men, now they could leave me home Street tar and summer, you play a trick on your soul Oh, it's just a day of life, yeah Oh, it made me feel so alive, oh yeah Just a little care to lie
To take care of life All that has to feel alive So what to take care of life All the weird kids up front Tell me what you know you want So what to take care of life
I love that can't get enough of that album that spoon with black like me from the album.
Ga Ga Ga Ga.
Mum, yes, can I have a jingle?
Would you like a jingle?
Let me reach into my jingle bag.
I'll see what I've got for you.
It's time for soul.
Yes, it's Song Wars time.
This is the part of the show when we pick a theme and then each week Adam and I write a song on that theme and then we battle our song through the medium of listener votes.
And this time we asked people or rather last time we asked people to send us facts about friends of theirs that they would like us to write a song about.
Yeah.
And we got some really good little sketches.
We did.
It was terribly hard to choose.
It really was and I felt bad about it.
And they were really heartfelt as well.
Lots of really nice little tributes to friends.
So apologies to anybody who we didn't pick.
Obviously we could only pick one each.
Yeah, exactly.
Thank you for everybody who sent in stuff, info.
And I felt a little guilty.
Shall I go first or do you want to go first?
Why not?
Okay.
I felt a little guilty in a way that I focused on one of the more unsavoury character sketches that we received.
It was from a chap called Mark, and he wanted me to write a song about his friend from university called James Rowan or Rohan.
And I think we have Mark on the line now.
Hello, Mark.
Hello.
Good morning.
How are you doing?
Yeah, I'm alright.
A little bit of the worse for wear, I hear.
yeah yeah you know it was early it's the binge drinking culture i don't know if you've been watching the news mark but you're in trouble mark's too old for that it's only the under fives the under fives you've got to worry it was a bit of a release actually i met up with a friend to discuss some good stories about harry but um now this is your mate uh james roan or is his name pronounced roan or rohan
I don't know.
Everyone calls him Harry.
I don't really know.
He doesn't know his friend's surname.
How close can you guess?
He's nicknamed Harry.
Now, Mark, you... Just hair.
Sometimes just hair.
And why is he called Harry?
On the surface he doesn't look that hairy, but he has very, very hairy armpits.
Do you say when you're in his company, do you say, hear hair here?
Have you not seen the film?
Have you seen the film with Nell and I?
occasionally yeah i love it anyway move on that's a little that's a little moment from that's one of the best moments from the film here here here anyway so hairy he's got the long armpit hair going on from the description you sent to me much of which i can't quote on the radio because it's so filthy um he sounds like a kind of uh a beast person is that accurate
Definitely, originally actually when I first knew him it was just his armpits that were really hairy.
And now he's hairy all over?
Yeah he's actually got hairy all over.
That tends to happen with the onset of puberty.
That's right the hair spots.
I mean originally a lot of people I knew were hairless apart from their head.
And then you get to middle age and suddenly the hair just goes mental all over the area.
Now how old is hairy now Mark?
25 I guess.
25?
And has he cleaned up his ways?
Because the description you sent to me was of a man who drinks excessively, treats women pretty badly as far as I can tell, and almost gets in fights at karaoke evenings and stuff like this.
Is he still like that?
I think he's calmed down a little bit now, but he's, you know, it's still there.
Traces are still there, you know, you'll see it.
Has he got a job?
If he drinks too much.
Yeah, yeah, he's got a job.
What does he do?
He's a graphic designer.
He's a graphic designer.
Let's see, can we hear the song?
Then this all will mean more to us.
Okay, and one other fact, of course, is that the possible reason for Harry becoming hairy was that when he was younger, he was a swimming champ, and he had to have what's known as a shave down.
Shave it off and it makes it grow faster, stronger.
So that's, I've tried to incorporate all that into this song and I've gone for a reggae vibe for your song, Mark.
Brilliant.
I can't wait.
I'm glad you got, I hope you got shaved down in there.
I didn't get the phrase shaved down, but there is a reference to the whole shaving process.
Here we go.
Hope you enjoy it about Harry.
There's a man whose name is James Rohan He's a beast!
On the surface he is not a shoot But his armpit hair is scary And for that reason he is known as Harry He is preoccupied with lady parts and solo fun Before the internet he lived up on the top shelf He bought a Lindsey Dawn Mackenzie DVD One time!
But returned it cause it wasn't really dirty
He likes football and drinking He's not a fan of thinking He nearly gets in fights with blokes at karaoke nights He sounds like quite a nightmare But perhaps that isn't quite fair Maybe there's a softer side to Harry that he's trying to hide
For example, Jimmy Rohan used to be a swimming champ Which is when they had to shave all his hair off When it grew back, it was longer and coarser Which may have left him with some feelings of resentment On the plus side, Jimmy Rohan really likes Star Trek Which indicates that he is not beyond redemption James Rohan, Neanderthal man Learn from the lessons of the Trek And apparently his mum is really fit
So there you go, Mark.
Is that an accurate representation of James?
It's spot on, absolutely spot on.
I think that's, yeah.
I'm not going to listen to anything else.
All right.
Never.
For a while.
Now we're going to check out Joe's one right now.
Yeah, now if you want to vote for that one you've just heard, 64046 text Adam to 64046.
Alternatively, here's my one.
I responded to an email sent by Joel Hughes, who's on the line.
Hello, Joel.
Morning.
How you doing, man?
I'm doing great.
How old are you?
I'm 27.
27.
What do you do for a living?
I'm a web developer.
Ooh, and where do you live?
I live in Bristol.
There you go.
So you sent me a great email all about your friend whose name is Jack Meller.
Yes, that's the one.
Yeah, this is an old friend is it?
Oh yeah, ten years.
Ten years, that's good man.
So you guys go way back and here are the salient facts you sent me.
In fact most of them are included in the song so I'm not going to kind of double up on them.
He grew up on a farm but he was middle class.
Yeah most of them are in the song I think.
There was one fact you put in here that is a little bit dark that I kind of skirted around so let's not talk or chat about that.
No no.
OK, are you ready then Joel?
Yeah I'm ready.
You've got your luggles pinned back.
I certainly have.
Well done.
Here it is.
This song is simply called a song for Jack Meller.
That Jack Meller is an interesting fella.
Do you mind if I tell you some more about Jack Meller?
That Jack Meller is a man who, don't you know, had a friend who listens to Adam and Joe's song Wars one week, had a thing where you send an email with facts about your closest friend, a friend you've been friends with for oh so long that you want Adam and Joe to write a song
Jack's friend Joel sent in some facts and now I've written a song about Joel's friend Jack.
Jack was raised on a farm but Jack was quite posh so Jack had a childhood son.
He wore knee length boots everywhere he'd go cause he thought he looked like Antonio.
Banned their ass in desperado but did he?
He did not, oh no.
If you saw Jack I'm sure that you'd say that his looks were closer to Darren Day.
Full of carrots on his bum, just for fun it hurt quite a lot Jack once dipped a somersault over a chair with a mouthful of peanuts Just for a day, you can imagine the shock when his pipes got blocked But he survived to be mocked, cause his dad was a doctor Jack, Jack, Melo, he's an interesting fellow Jack, Jack, Jack had him open, though he rode around town But one item of clothing would let the side down Cause in order to keep his legs dry in the rain He put on his mum's apron and just looked insane Jack, Jack, Melo, he's an interesting fellow
There we go, that song for Jack Meller.
What do you think of that, Joel?
That's incredible.
Incredible?
Oh, that's high praise indeed.
Did I cover most of his tropes?
You took a picture of his life and made a song out of it.
Wow.
So there you go.
It's a tough one this week.
If you want to vote for that one, 64046.
Vote Joe to 64046.
We'll be announcing the winner towards the end of the show.
And in a way, it's kind of Mark versus Joel.
Are you both there?
Are they both there?
Gentlemen, speak at the same time.
It's exciting.
Oh okay.
Yeah nearly.
I'm gonna win.
Thank you very much indeed.
Oh look at that fighting spirit there, who was that?
That's me Joel.
That was Joel.
Well get those folks coming on.
Fight back Mark.
He's too hungover, he's hopeless, he's weakened by boos.
I don't need to say anything, although obviously I do know.
It's time now for the news.
U.N.
Chief's climate change warning.
Police look for more secrets at Kent House and a few more grey hairs for Scotland fans.
BBC News at 10.30, I'm Catherine Cracknell.
New efforts are getting underway at a climate change conference in Spain to do something about global warming.
A landmark report's been released by top experts on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
I can get a word in, saying some of the effects are irreversible.
Hans Veralme is from the WWF Conservation Group.
He says politicians have to act now to cut greenhouse gases.
The evidence now is overwhelming.
What we are being presented with today has been referred to as the climate bible.
Not acting would be criminally negligent.
Police have been at work at the Kent House, where the bodies of two teenage girls have already been unearthed.
The second body found yesterday afternoon has yet to be formally identified, but detectives are almost certain it's 18-year-old Dinah McNickle who vanished 16 years ago.
Three men and a woman are being questioned by police about the death of a 25-year-old man in Manchester.
The victim was found stabbed to death at a property in Wythenshawe in the early hours of the morning.
In other Six Music News, 10 commercial organisations have expressed an interest in buying Northern Rock.
The bank's been guaranteed by public funds since thousands of depositors demanded their money back in September.
Another record-breaking night for children in need.
At the end of last night's radio and TV appeal, £19 million had been pledged.
Six Music, Sport, Football and Scotland's fans' nerves will be tested to the limit later.
They take on Italy at five, hoping for a win to take them through to Euro 2008.
Craig Browns, the former Scotland manager.
My gut reaction and sincere gut reaction is a 2-1 victory for Scotland.
I do think that the Italians will find it difficult here.
They're experienced players, but the Scottish team will be up for this match, that's for sure.
And meanwhile, England are hoping for the best from Israel and that they don't get beaten by Russia or qualification will be hanging by a thread.
The team faced Croatia on Wednesday without Michael Owen after he injured his thigh in last night's friendly against Austria.
Six music news now.
Here's Andre Payne.
Amy Whitehouse was back on form at the second date of her tour at Glasgow Barrowlands.
She was reportedly caught by a cabin crew on the plane over having a cigarette, and one attendant told passengers, our famous little friend is smoking in the toilet.
Amy was late on stage, but once she turned up, she dedicated a song to her husband Blake Fielder Sybil, and there was no repeat of the booing in Birmingham from these fans.
Amazing.
It was actually amazing.
It was so good.
Even though she was late, it was so worth it.
Waiting.
It was worth waiting.
When she was in there, she felt like tonight was the first night for two.
Brawien.
Absolutely Brawien.
Yeah, Brawien.
Really good.
Really enjoyed that.
Now the supersonic event in London's Battersea Park combines music and athletics tonight.
The enemy in Dizzy Rascal will perform and Dizzy says he's always loved running.
I run for every school I went to, including primary schools and all that.
I run for the borough a few times.
I just love running.
I just love the freedom.
I love competing.
I felt like I was a part of something important.
And finally, you two are previewing an unheard Joshua Tree track on Facebook.
Wave of Sorrow didn't make the original album because it wasn't finished, but it will appear on the 20th anniversary reissue next week.
6th Music News, your next bulletin is at 11.30.
6th Music News.
On the Music Week this Sunday, is Jay-Z the new king of the music world?
As the rap mogul equals Elvis for number one albums, we cross stateside for the inside story.
We get a rare audience with Daft Punk and we dig into the archives with Steve LaMac to bring radio headbands a special treat.
That's the Music Week with me, Julie Cullen, tomorrow from 1.
BBC 6 Music.
Adam and Joe.
Still the contract, from the contract There's no turning back The turning point of a career In Korea, being in sincere The holiday was fun packed The contract, still intact
All for themselves, after all Through grabbing hands, grab all we can All for themselves, after all It's a competitive world Everything counts in large amounts
picture it now, see just how the lies that we see gain a little more power confidence taken in by a sunset and a grin the clapping hands grab a weekend all for themselves after all
After all, it's a competitive world Everything counts in large amounts Everything counts in large amounts
Counts and marginals
That's a brand new band you may not have heard of.
What are they called, Adam?
They're a darkwave band.
They're called Depeche Mode.
Depeche Mod?
They're actually tied in with Ugly Betty.
Are they?
Why?
Because doesn't she... I'm just trying to be up to date.
She works for a magazine called Mode, doesn't she?
Oh, yeah, right.
It's tenuous.
A la Modus.
I'm just trying to stay hip.
Yeah, do you still watch Ugly Betty?
No, it's not a case of still.
I've sort of inspected it from a distance.
You know, and listeners, I don't know whether you agree with me, I've got this obsession that all comedy has the same music on it these days, especially American comedy, and it's the same Danny Elfman piece of music from 1990.
Right.
And it goes...
like that all comedy has that same bit of music on it yeah ugly Betty's it's wall-to-wall that music yes things like Desperate Housewives yeah all of them even the films even the comedy films yeah like a sort of nutty waltz the nutty waltz sophisticated but
I'd like to see a film called Nutty Waltz.
Nutty Waltz?
Yeah.
It's a sort of Robert Altman thing.
That wasn't my favourite Depeche Mode song, I have to be honest.
Really?
I quite liked that one.
I liked it when they were with Vince Clark.
You know, was that post Vince Clark?
I think that was, wasn't it?
I liked that time in the 80s when music was about business.
Right.
Do you know what I mean?
Heaven 17 and stuff, and there was nothing more sexy and glamorous than being in a pinstripe suit near a very tall building handing over a wad of paper.
They were being ironical though, Heaven 17.
I didn't understand that.
When I was small, I thought, wow, working in the city is cool.
It's true, I thought all those images on the front of Penthouse and Pavement.
Imagine talking on the telephone.
That's right, because Blur many years later around the time of The Great Escape did a photo shoot where they were all, well in fact the cover of, is it the back cover of The Great Escape, it's got them all crowded around a PC and they're all in business mode.
It's exciting.
They do look cool.
Yeah.
Hey listen, this is Adam and Joe, this is BBC6 Music.
We're just coming up to kind of the last third of the second hour.
I like to segment the show and keep everybody up to date with which precise area of the pie chart we're in.
Towards the end of the second act, that's traditionally the most exciting part, isn't it?
Yeah, the climax of the second act, you're painted into a corner.
There's no way out, you think the situation's irresolvable.
but then Han Solo turns up.
So that's generally a bit of a let there.
Yeah.
Don't forget to vote for your favourite in Song Wars.
They're 64046.
The votes are being totted up.
It's a choice between my reggae song about Harry, which was suggested by his friend Mark.
James Rohan was the name of the song.
James Rohan, Neanderthal Man.
and joe's song was it was called song for jack meller it was a sort of a a rapidly rapidly number and we're going to be reminding you of those songs with some uh little clips maybe uh at the top of the hour kind of kind of an area tiny little clips oh what i was just thinking about little clips let's have some more music
Oh yeah, this is a smash.
Is this doing well, this single?
This is a new single.
Hey, you know what, I think we all want to hear about your Radiohead adventures.
Yes, I'll talk to you about Radiohead in a bit, do a little bit of cautious name dropping.
Foo Fighters, this is their new single, Long Road to Ruin.
Ah, you can't really beat this, come on.
Take a sound Say have you heard the news today?
One flag was taken down To raise another in its place A heavy cross you bear A stubborn heart remains unchanged No harm, no loss, no love No stranger singing in your name
Can't say we take this town No king or queen of any state Get up to shut it down Open the streets and raise the gates I know I want to scale I know I feel without a name Head on without a care Before it's way too late
The colors change in the valley skies Oh God, I've sealed my fate
Before every piece to fall in place Forever gone without a trace Your horizon takes its shape No turning back, don't turn that page Come now, I'm leaving here tonight Come now, let's leave it all behind Is that the first you pay?
Running through hell, heaven can wait
Dead ends, all the time is dead
That was the Foolish Fighters with their new song.
What's that called, Adam?
Long Road to Ruin.
Now, from a lesser band, that would seem sort of formulaic and workman-like.
Do you know what I mean?
But for some reason, the power of Dave Grohl just turns that very straight-ahead rock song into...
A pure slice of genius.
He knows exactly how many times to repeat the good bits in a song.
You know what I mean?
That's a real talent.
That's released on the 3rd of December.
It's from their 6th album, Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace.
And they finish their UK tour tomorrow at the O2 Arena.
That's a shame, isn't it?
It is.
Have you been to the O2 Arena?
Formerly, of course, the Millennium Doom.
Yeah, I have.
I went to see the premiere of The Simpsons film there.
Did you?
Yeah.
It's a long way to go.
It's like a big old public swimming pool.
Right.
Was that an enjoyable premiere?
Not really.
Famous people?
Me.
I love you.
You're brilliant.
Listen man, I had a sort of celebrity packed weekend last weekend.
Of course we pre-recorded our show because on Friday night
and uh saturday morning i was in oxfordshire in the english countryside with the popular beat combo radio head i was helping them with their webcast that they did live last friday night from nine till midnight and uh man it was a good time me and my friend garth went there and we were basically helping them put together little pre-recorded video segments that they could play into the live portion of the show do you know what i'm saying
And so we went to their studio where they record all their stuff.
They built this studio just after they finished OK Computer back in the early noughties.
And they sort of co-own this place and it's really amazing, you know, sort of residential.
They built it from scratch kind of thing?
No, I think they converted a barn.
I'd have liked to have seen that guy from Grand Designs cover that building project.
You know, I'd like to see Kevin MacLeod and Thom Yorke.
Yes.
Thom's plans for this barn are hugely ambitious, but does he realise the scale of the task he's taken on?
Is he going to stick his head?
I don't know, you know, he'd do some terrible metaphor.
I wasn't actually going to do one.
No.
You know, that wouldn't be good, wouldn't it?
Anyway, keep talking.
It looks like that kind of place though, do you know what I mean?
It's really beautiful and futuristic inside, but yet a little bit rustic.
It's exactly the sort of thing you would hope it would be like.
You want to be careful with rust in a studio.
A bit of rusticity.
Yeah.
Anyway, keep going.
But it was good.
Basically, I won't go on too much about what I actually did there because it was fairly boring.
I was just basically working pretty hard.
Tell us secret things like
Were there any little details?
Like what's in Radiohead's fridge?
Well, it's a well stocked fridge.
They've got like a lady called Kat who works there and she basically makes all their meals for them.
Really?
It's brilliant.
So they're working away.
Another lady's called Kat.
Yeah yeah she was dead nice and she I think used to be a chef for Jon Bon Jovi or someone like that.
She was a dancer for Prince.
She was really cool and you know you'd be working away and suddenly she'd say lunchtime and everyone comes and sits down at a big table and you get lunch like a delicious piping hot.
Like a sort of pop mum.
Yeah and she does a little bit of organic food here a bit of veggie food there because everyone has different dietary needs.
man it was brilliant and you eat the best food you've had for weeks and weeks and then you get back to work and they're pretty self-disciplined I'd imagine yeah very much so yeah take it seriously take it very seriously but it's a good atmosphere you know what I mean like everyone after years of being a band like that being a successful band everyone seems to know exactly what their function is really so there's no no room for disagreement and I mean they weren't what kind of thing were they did so they were just putting this podcast together
So they were playing some tracks live.
They pre-recorded a few tracks that they were playing live in their little studio.
Then they played some tracks live as the actual podcast went out.
Then they did a few things.
Me and Garth had some ideas for little videos.
Now Garth is Garth Jennings, who directed Hitchhiker's Guide and the forthcoming Son of Rambo.
Also there was Nigel Godrich, right, who's their producer.
Yeah, Nigel.
I mean, he's the guy that's basically got all the answers technically.
He's amazing.
And he was sort of masterminding the technical side of the whole thing.
I saw a little bit of him DJing kind of what sounded like sort of 80s electro R&B records.
Of Thom Yorke.
Oh, was it Tom or was it Nigel?
It was Tom, he was DJing, yeah.
Tom's got a, yeah, he's a good DJ.
And it's a good idea to have a band DJ, you know, because it's a real insight into what they're like.
That's true, to have the singer or to have, yeah, one of the members of the band on the turntables.
Well, every member of the band had a go on the turntables.
It's true, because it sometimes goes the other way, doesn't it?
A DJ will become a musician.
But yeah, you don't get many musicians actually DJing.
And it's a good insight into their personality.
You know what I mean?
You really get the choices they make say a lot about who they are, you know.
And Tom's choices were very eclectic and very challenging.
Because he's eclectic.
Exactly.
And challenging.
Exactly, Joe.
Yes.
It was good.
If you want to know more about it, you can go onto my website, adam-buxton.co.uk, where you'll find a fairly full account of my time there.
Also, you'll see the video that me and Garth put together for the track that they're just about to release, the first single from the album in Rainbows, which is called Jigsaw Falling Into Place.
We did this little video using these helmet cams that I made, basically like a little security camera stuck on the end of a pole attached to a bicycle helmet.
and we stuck them onto the band and they performed their track jigsaw falling into place and we did it just for the webcast but it's now being used as the official video no yeah for for the track i believe and it's also on the six music website there's a link to the adam and joe page there you can see it
Um, and so yeah, check it out.
Uh, if you want to.
It's on... Check it out.
Adam-Buckston.co.uk.
That's my blog.
And here is the song right now for you to enjoy.
This is Radiohead with Jigsaw Falling Into Place.
Take my hand Just as you write my number down Just as it takes a ride Just as they play your favorite songs Your belly disappears No one can wind up like a spring Before you add too much Come back and focus again The walls have been this shade We gotta chase your cat grand
This place is on a mission for the night out Before the animal noise is close to get cameras Before he comes
The beat goes round and round The beat goes round and round
to explain
Radiohead with Jigsaw falling into place.
We were just talking about the fact that I had the pleasure of working on the video for that track, which is, you know, it was just going to be for the webcast.
Now it's the official video.
I've made a Radiohead video, me and Garth, and making that was fun.
Editing it together was amazing.
Watching Phil Selway, the drummer, he puts an amazing amount of, I mean, they give a really good performance of that song.
All of them are amazing, but particularly Phil Selway drumming away there.
It's amazing.
Check it out.
I've got to stop saying amazing, but he's a powerhouse.
He's a baldy powerhouse, I'm telling you.
A what?
Baldy powerhouse, man.
Okay.
And yeah, Tom does his wobbly head dance on there and... It's all going off.
It's all going off.
Now, I happen to know because you told me the other day that another hero of yours walked in.
to the area while you were up there yeah that's right the uh lead singer of candy flip uh was visiting no it was um david burn lead singer of talking heads i've heard of them and of course uh you know of course we mentioned before of course they gave um radiohead their name talking heads there's a track called radiohead from their album true stories
Not the best Talking Heads track.
Oh, I like that album.
And he's quite a stately figure now, David Byrne, isn't he?
He's a sort of sophisticated New York intellectual type fella.
He's got white hair.
Exactly.
Has he still got dark eyebrows?
Because that sometimes happens with an older gentleman.
The hair on the top of the head goes white, but the eyebrows stay in an authoritative dark.
You know, I didn't notice.
I got the impression that it was all white.
Was he wearing some sort of a suit?
He was very smartly dressed.
I think he took off his suit jacket.
He was casual.
I want to be like that in the future.
But man, he looked trim and dapper and I was very attracted to him.
That must have been pretty exciting for you because you're a big Talking Heads fan.
Massive Talking Heads fan.
Did you feel all funny?
I did, I really did.
I was trying to be cool as well, you know?
It's tricky, isn't it, in a situation like that?
Because the thing is, I knew I had no purchase on the situation, do you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, you had no swag, no currency, no leverage.
None, because it was all about the band.
You know, David wasn't there to see me, obviously.
He was there to see Radiohead.
She should have been there to see you.
and he didn't want to know he didn't want to know me and my business the best I got was a limp handshake I was a little disappointed that he didn't introduce himself when I stretched out my hand and said hi nice to meet you David I'm Adam or I didn't say David I said hi I'm Adam he just said hi he didn't say hello I'm David do you know what I mean I mean obviously everybody knew that he was David but are you do you know what I'm saying like it to know what I go very weird in situations like that yeah I get
always get an urge if I'm in a famous person's home or place of work I always get an urge to nick something.
I know what you're saying.
Just because I feel like I've stepped through a mirror for instance I was in Quentin Tarantino's house for one reason or another during the summer and I was alone in his kitchen and I had my digital camera and I got obsessed with his fridge because it had brilliant weird fridge magnets all over it so I got my camera
I'll take a picture of his fridge.
It's not stealing but in a way it's stealing.
It is stealing.
Yeah it's stealing the soul of the fridge.
Listen in a way it's worse than stealing.
Is it?
It's a betrayal of its trust.
So I started just taking photos like some kind of a burglar.
Demented paparazzo.
And then my friend Edgar who I was working with caught me.
He walked in and caught me.
He went don't take pictures of the fridge.
I went sorry.
And I deleted, I went outside and I deleted all the pictures.
Because I thought, come on Cornish, you're not an intruder in Quentin's house, you're a guest.
Relax, you'll be back.
And you know what, I was.
And now you've got loads of pictures of his fridge.
Yeah, I've actually got some friends of mine are in his house and he doesn't know it.
You made damn sure you weren't busted by Edgar Wright.
I'm sending my gypsy friends over there.
My circus pals.
Yeah.
Now this is a music choice that is yours, I believe, Joe.
Yeah, is it?
This is from another of our mutual heroes, but not someone that I particularly relish meeting, I have to say.
Oh, right.
This is a grumpy master of soul crooning.
And you know what?
We promised we're going to do no more name dropping.
That's it.
That's our name dropping allocation.
That was an exhaustive bit of name dropping.
Yeah, that was bad.
So no more of that.
But here to clear the air, here is Van Morrison with everyone.
Yeah, the hour knew Just like we used to With our heads so high Smile and pass it by Yeah, we're simply sad Ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay
Everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone.
By the wedding's dream, We shall lay and dream, In big dreams come true, If we want them too.
Yes, I'll overcome Playin' pints and drums Sing a happy song Yeah, we'll sing along Everyone, everyone, everyone Everyone, everyone, everyone
Just like we used to With our heads so high Smellin' past the sky And we'll talk to sound
BBC Six Music, tick, tick, tick, tick.
Live in the Six Music Hub on Monday.
Athlete.
Join Athlete Live in the Six Music Hub with George Lamb Monday morning after 11.30.
The Hub, the home of live music on Six Music.
Adam and Joe on Six Music.
I am Tokyo, I am here.
I'm an upstart bound to crush you I'm the hypocrite by your side
I am Tokyo, I am here I am Leon's sons on your street I'm an army of winter binds
Tell us apart, cause we were
That's Athlete with Tokyo.
Are Athlete playing in the lobby somewhere or the hub?
On Monday they're playing.
What sort of time?
1130?
Could be around 1130.
We should get bands to just play in the lav.
I think it would be nice.
Wouldn't that be better?
We should have some bands in.
There's a big disabled lav.
You wouldn't mind them up or anything, you'd just know they were there.
Yeah, the big disabled lav by the studio that is off the blog.
Yeah, that's a bit spacious, isn't it?
They could play in there.
I mean, stick them in the ladies, I say.
Yeah, exactly.
That would be fun.
Anyway, that's Affelite to look forward to.
Now, let's return, ladies and gentlemen, to one of our two beautiful, well-rounded features, Song Wars.
It's time for songs Wars, the war of the songs A couple of tunes by a couple of prongs So check it out So the idea here, listeners, is we've both composed a song based on information sent to us by listeners about one of those listeners' closest friends.
The two men involved, what my one's called Jack Meller, who's your called, Mark?
James Rohan was the subject of the song, as suggested by his friend Mark.
Yeah, mine is about a guy called Jack Meller sent to me by Joel.
and we're going to play you the two clips just to remind you of the songs if you've just tuned in and uh text 64046 or email adamandjoe.sixmusic at pbc.co.uk because we're going to do something a bit new and we're going to not we're not going to announce the winner this week we're going to announce the winner at the beginning of next week's show that way uh the people who uh listen to this show via the listen again function can participate in the vote that's way
That way all Joe's fans who actually know how to use texting will be able to vote for him.
You're saying that you think your fans... I think my fans are probably older and have very high powered jobs which means that they're too busy to text in.
Which is why I've lost...
three times in a row yeah but this would then give you the advantage because now they've got more time in their busy schedules that's right because you've got all the way until close of business on friday didn't do me any favors last week for this one but still that's the theory now let's have a clip shall we play joe's clip first this is about james meller james meller yeah this is no jack meller this is called song for jack meller jack was raised
You can't, that was a badly chosen clip.
He sounds like hogwash, what does it say?
Sans hogwash.
It's French.
My fans like French.
Oh, sans hogwash.
The only thing I could think of that would rhyme.
It's very nice.
And now here is a little clip from my song about James Rohan, aka Hairy.
There's a man whose name is James Rohan.
He's a beast on the surface.
He is not a shoot, but his armpit hair is scary.
And for that reason, he is known as Harry.
You know, it's tough coming up with these songs week in, week out, because you end up falling back.
I mean, you're a little luckier, I have to say, Joe, because you can actually sing a little bit.
Whereas that's not necessarily an advantage.
Yeah, well you've gone you've gone for rapping a couple of times now I have singing is it slightly embarrassing it is embarrassing.
That's why I was that's automatically sincere bands are frightened.
That's true That's why they pick up megaphones and exactly the effects on their voices
I fall back on the on the shaggy voice whenever I'm in trouble and but I really tried one time last week in fact one time one time uh to to sing in a sincere way but it was too toe-curling even as a joke I mean the part of the joke was supposed to be that it was we should do a sincere week then yeah we really should a joke free week
Are we getting, why don't we do that next week?
Well we have to think of a subject.
So Liletz, we heard your clip didn't we?
You said Liletz.
Did I?
Yes!
I'm actually being sponsored by a major panty pad company.
Shush!
Panty pads.
Listen, so text your vote either Adam or Joe to 64046 or email adamandjoe.sixmusicatbbc.co.uk today, tomorrow, anytime up to close of business on Friday and we'll announce the winner at the beginning
of the show next week.
Now who chose this track by The Stranglers?
Neither of us.
This was just chosen out of thin air by someone who works here at Six Music.
Are you sure?
What is it?
Well, Always the Sun.
You know it's not a bad track but it's very late period Stranglers and it's quite a cheesy one.
I wanted to hear European Female by The... And it's got the line, it's got the line in it, who gets the job of pushing the knob?
That's the kind of job that I'd pay money to avoid or something like that.
But anyway, it's it's kind of a nice song.
I look forward to hearing that lyric.
Yeah.
Who gets the job of pushing the knob?
You decide.
Here's the Stranglers.
I was always told at school, everybody should get the same How many times have you been told, if you don't ask you don't get How many lads have taken your money, your mother said you shouldn't bet
You can swear
You know it's nothing like the politicians and the leaders When they do things by the heart
It's my favourite newspaper, I like the lady on page three, what has no top on?
What, are you talking about The Sun?
Yeah.
Oh, I see.
This is the best bit of the track that we're talking over here now.
It's not the best Strangler's track.
We've decided to mount an intervention.
We're having a little intervention.
We do apologise to any big fans of this song.
you know um but at least it was a little reminder of it there that sort of responsibility you draw straws for if you're mad enough he just really squeezed those lyrics in there he wasn't bothered drawing straws isn't uh a particularly mad activity requires a certain amount of preparation well it is mad troll if you're drawing straws for the job of pushing the knob
What does pushing the knob do?
A nuclear knob!
When was that song recorded?
It was not at the height of the Cold War, but it was still, you know, it's always an ongoing issue, isn't it?
Yeah, that's true.
The destruction of the planet.
Nuclear proliferation.
Exactly.
Hey, we're in the middle of Texanation, of course.
Yes, yes, yes.
So we should catch up with some of those.
We've been asking you what superpower you would have if you could have any superpower.
Nice little daytime voice there.
Thanks a lot.
Yeah, I hit a higher note just to lift the mood.
It's like we've moved on from a section about child abuse to something about Corrie.
Now, what kind of superpower would you have?
I do think you and I could take over from Phil and Fern.
You reckon?
Someone's could, because they're getting big now.
I think we'd be quite good.
Yeah, well Fern of course is getting small.
She's losing a great deal.
She's losing, right, yeah, absolutely.
But you know, they're appearing in Nintendo DS adverts now.
Are they?
Yeah.
That Nicole Kidman, she loves the Nintendo DS.
Wow.
That's why that film The Invasion was such a mess.
She needs all that help she can get.
She couldn't stop playing WarioWare.
Right.
Cookie Cookie Mama.
uh she is in uh i don't want to go too far off message because we're going to hear about superpowers in a second but she is in the golden compass isn't she she is uh is that a cg film golden compass i mean it's a mixture of cgi and live action yeah that's a very old world distinction you're making there adam you clearly haven't seen beowulf well i was thinking about beowulf i will kill your monster i'm here to kill you a monster
I saw it man.
Yeah and you liked it.
Oh it's brilliant.
You've got to see it in 3D at the IMAX.
Right.
If you see it in 2D you're a nutball.
You're missing out on your ideas.
3D at the IMAX and you've got to remove yourself from your nipples a bit.
A little bit.
Before you go.
Have a little shandy.
And then it's enormously satisfying.
Like a giant three-dimensional space cat.
What if you're T-total though and you're not up for any removals?
It's pretty much the most fun you can have whilst being T-total.
It'll make you feel like you're not T-total.
Do you get what I'm saying?
I think I do, yeah.
Yeah, put those specs on and... Have you seen a golden compass?
No, that's not out yet.
Not for a couple of weeks.
Is it not?
The ads are everywhere.
Yeah.
But I thought you with your special insider powers, you might have had a little sneaky peaky.
I wonder if it's going to break Kidman's unbroken run of stink power.
Oh, poor old Kidman.
I mean, she's great.
Listen, let's come back to Kidman.
Let's just go and kind of wrap up the text of the nation.
Yes.
We've been asking you what superpower you would have.
Hi, Adam and Joe.
This is from Mel.
I would have the power to split myself in two like Plankton.
Plankton, girl.
One half saves the world.
One half sits in and watches.
I'm a gamoo.
Oh, that's the acronym for I'm a celebrity, get me out of here.
Imakamoo.
That's not a good one.
That's a hair remover called Imak, isn't it?
It's not like Hignify for Have I Got News For You.
That's true.
It doesn't work quite so well.
What do you think of that one?
I like it, Plankton Girl.
I like that idea, but it's sort of, would the top half go off and do that, or you would split into two separate fully formed entities?
Who knows, let's move on.
Okay.
Here's another one from Tim in Plymouth.
He says, my superpower would be to be
uh he's written b's and twos he hasn't even written the full words my superpower my superpower would be to be able to skip the annoying legal warnings that play when you put in a dvd good super power that's a really good one tim they're as annoying as robert mcgarvey's mustache skippertron you could be called skippertron they are annoying they are
Torture!
I tell you what I've always wanted to play as a piece of music is the... You wouldn't steal a car.
That bit of music.
Yeah.
They should release it as a single.
Man, did you see the It crowd with the spoof of that?
I did, yeah.
Brilliant.
I just like the logic of that.
Like, who would choose that bit of music?
Oh, this is a bit of music that criminals will pay attention to.
It's edgy and Guattari and Rocky.
You know who's the worst for those?
It's Disney.
On their DVDs they put so many trailers that you cannot skip through.
The best you can do is fast forward them, but you have to go through every single f-ing one.
Terrible business.
And it's insulting, isn't it?
Like, you've given these people your money, you want to watch one of their films, and they subject you to a sort of ten minute lecture
About even when you go to the cinema, they do it.
You know, our staff have infrared goggles.
They will be patrolling the aisles.
You feel like a criminal?
Just for going and having some entertainment.
Sort yourselves out, studios.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm with you on that one, man.
I'm a member of WGA East as well.
Whatever.
Here's another one then.
Say things quickly.
Oh yeah.
What have you got?
there i've got some more text you know another superpower that i thought of having this is a real middle-aged one now by the way actually all of us agreed in the studio that the ultimate superpower which they have in heroes and of course it's the best character in heroes is the power to teleport yeah teleportation inarguably because it will cut out all air travel or tedious travel exactly the planet would be spared because all the carbon emissions would rocket down you know you wouldn't have to rely on
cars and airplanes and automobiles and all that malarkey automobiles are the same as cars but you know what I'm saying it's the best one and also travel in the modern world especially in the post 9-11 world is not enjoyable in any way I love it when you say post 9-11 yeah I slipped it in there yeah but you know what I'm saying like security checks and oh it's grim it is grim
Here's another one.
This is from Paul Savage in Wolverhampton.
He says, dear Adam and Joe, if I had a minor superpower, I would like to know how much of anything there is left.
I think that's a good idea.
For instance, if I wanted a biscuit, if I knew there was only one Jaffa cake left but plenty of digestives in the tin, I would go and get it so I could suck the delicious orangeness.
But you know, obviously that would be useful for biscuits.
He also says it would work with petrol, sex scenes in erotic thrillers.
But it would also be good for finding out how many natural reserves there are of various, you know, elements.
Foxy women.
I sometimes think, I wonder how many foxy women there are on the planet.
Really?
Yeah.
And also... That would be good because you could... Yeah, that would be good.
Sorry, I was about to say something.
Well, it seems as if the number of Foxy women is rising, but I think that's a byproduct of getting older, yeah.
Also, I sometimes wonder, I sometimes wish I had the power to rate people by their attractiveness, a little bit like your face or mine, I think it was, wasn't it, with Jimmy Carr a while ago?
Anyway, and you know, you would be able to sort of attach ratings to, it's ludicrous, I wish I hadn't started saying that.
Now listen, should we have some more music before we hear a tiny bit more, before we wrap up that feature?
There was a frightening light flashing in the studio just there.
What was it?
It was fine.
I was worried it was going to be like... Somebody complaining.
Head of the BBC complaining about something.
You're fired!
Four weeks into the show, you're out!
Now here's a track I chose for you folks.
This is from the Beach Boys.
Amazing box set.
There's a big Guardian thing about the hundred best albums you should listen to.
A thousand albums.
Which made us think...
Does anyone have a relative who is... I don't mean to bring the atmosphere down, dying.
I'd love it if someone on their deathbed who was dying demanded one of those 100 things you should do before you die lists.
Yes, get me a copy of Fried by Julian Cope.
I have only hours left before I expire and I need to hear it.
The Guardian today's got a list of a thousand albums to hear before you die.
it's a ridiculous premise well here's one that you should certainly prioritize don't wait until it's too late uh the beach boys box set is packed with delights and uh this is just one of them it's a track called can't wait too long it's
I miss you darling, I miss you so hard
I miss you so hard
Baby, baby, way too long Can't wait too long Baby, baby, way too long Can't wait too long Baby, baby, way too long Can't wait too long Baby, baby, way too long Can't wait too long Baby, baby, way too long Can't wait too long
Can't wait too long, can't wait too long baby, can't wait too long
Can't wait too long, baby, can't wait too long Can't wait too long, baby, can't wait too long Can't wait too long, baby, can't wait too long Can't wait too long, baby, can't wait too long
Can't wait too long, can't wait too long
Way too long, baby Way too long, baby Way too long, baby
That's the Beach Boys with Can't Wait Too Long.
Now that's got to be the precursor to a lot of things like the Beta Band, I would say.
Do you know what I mean?
That reminds me a little bit of some of the stuff on the Beta Band's Three EPs album there.
It's like they've just been jamming for a while and they didn't really get a track out of it, but they've chopped the best bits of the sessions together and just stuck them out there for whoever wants to hear.
Listen, sorry to interrupt.
Rich in Oxford wants to figure out whether to call his cat Snickerpuss or Morrissey.
Morrissey?
Snickerpuss or Morrissey?
Let's do this quickly.
Yeah Morrissey.
Morrissey, yeah.
Definitely.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 music.
We're just gonna... What are we doing now?
It's half past.
Shall we go to the news?
Yeah, here's the news read by a beautiful lady called Catherine Cracknell.
Digital radio.
Digital TV.
BBC Six Music.
Dinging goes on as House of Horrors global warming experts gather for conference and Scotland expects.
And in the Six Music news, Amy is back on track and service for Kanye's mum.
BBC Six Music.
BBC News, at 11.30, I'm Catherine Cracknell.
Police are continuing to dig up the garden of a house in Margate, where the remains of two teenagers have been found.
Police haven't identified the second body discovered yesterday, but they think it's Dinah McNichol, an 18-year-old who disappeared on her way home from a music festival in 1991.
Tabitha Wilson is from Essex Police.
This morning, she read out a statement from the current owner of the house, Nicola Downing.
We'd never heard of Peter Tobin and we found the news devastating and unreal.
I can only describe it is a nightmare that seems to get worse every day.
We lived in that house for 12 years and we had a happy family home.
What they are finding there is just awful and it has turned our family life upside down.
The plan is on the verge of catastrophe unless urgent action is taken.
The stark new warning from the UN's climate change experts.
The IPCC have released their report this morning at a climate change conference in the Spanish city of Valencia.
In other Six Music News, three men and a woman are being held by police in Manchester over the murder of a 25-year-old man.
He was found stabbed to death at an address in Wythenshawe in the early hours of the morning.
Detectives in County Tyrone say it's going to take them some time to investigate a fire which killed a family of seven at their home in Oma.
Detectives are working on the theory that the father, Arthur McKell Hill, who was a convicted sex offender, set fire to his own house.
Six music sports, football and the Tartan army expect Scotland take on Italy at Hampden Park this afternoon, hoping to beat Italy and book a place at Euro 2008.
Christian Fraser is in Rome, gauging the mood among fans there.
There is a bit of quiet confidence here, but with all that expectation comes an enormous amount of pressure, particularly for Roberto Donadoni.
the team coach after all the euphoria of the World Cup and all the expectation that comes with that they made an awful start to this group they drew with Lithuania at home they lost to the new arch enemy France England aren't in action but it's a crucial day nonetheless as Israel take on Russia if Russia win it could all but end their chances of getting through six music news now here's Andre Payne BBC six music
Amy Winehouse told fans in Glasgow it felt like the first night of her tour.
The gig followed a walkout from some fans after her performance in Birmingham a few days ago.
She dedicated one song to her husband, is on remand, accused of GBH and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Amy seemed on better form and told the fans they were much friendlier than the Midlands crowd and they seemed happy with her performance.
We were worried that she wouldn't turn up, but she did and the result was fantastic.
We knew the lead did not come.
Fantastic.
It was actually the best gig I've actually been to.
She was phenomenal.
Her voice was absolutely outstanding.
End of the day, she's very talented and she proved it brilliant.
Tapes and Tapes have finished recording their second album in upstate New York.
The record was overseen by Mercury Rev producer Dave Friedman and comes out next spring.
And finally, Kanye West's mother and manager has been remembered at a memorial service in Chicago.
It was organized by Chicago State Uni where Don DeWest was a faculty member for 24 years.
That's 6 Music News, your next bulletin is at 12.30.
6.30.
On the Music Week this Sunday, is Jay-Z the new king of the music world?
As the rap mogul equals Elvis for number one albums, we cross stateside for the inside story.
We get a rare audience with Daft Punk and we dig into the archives with Steve LaMac to bring radio headbands a special treat.
That's the Music Week with me, Julie Cullen, tomorrow from 1.
6 Music.
Adam and Joan from Six Music.
When the time comes that you're no longer there Fall down to my knees Give my nightmare Words spill from my drunken mouth I just can't keep them all in I keep up with the racing rats And do my best to win
You can't keep running away You mustn't go outside yet It's not your time to play Standing at the edge of your town With the skyline in your eyes Reaching up to God The sun says it's goodbye If I prayed, would you fall?
In the surface of the Earth Let's pretend we never met Let's pretend we're on our own
We'll live different lives until our cover's blown I'll push my hand up to the sky, shake my eyes from the sun As the dust settles around me, suddenly night time has begun If the grave were too far
In the surface of the earth The surface of the earth Come on now You knew you were lost But you carried on anyway Oh, come on now You knew you had no time But you left the day
As you fall from the sky How big a hole would it make If a blade were to fall from the sky How big a hole would it make In the surface of the earth The surface of the earth The surface of the earth
New to BBC Two.
What's the difference between this... Hello there, good evening and welcome to Nevermind the Buzzcocks.
I'm Simon Amstel.
And this... Hello there, good evening and welcome to Nevermind the Buzzcocks.
I'm Simon Amstel.
The first went out on a Wednesday and was obviously not funny.
The second went out on a Thursday, which meant it was very, very funny.
New, Nevermind the Buzzcocks.
Thursday's a fun day.
Thursday at 9 on BBC2.
But the thing he was saying wasn't supposed to be funny.
He was just saying his name.
He was, the trail is about the fact that they've got a new time slot.
It's on Wednesdays, Thursdays now as opposed to Wednesdays.
And Thursday is inherently so funny that people laugh at things that aren't even jokes.
Yeah because the slot is called Thursdays are funny.
Okay.
You know, Peter Serafini, which his show was on there, that's finished.
It's run now.
It made me angry, that trailer.
It's a good show, though, man.
Never mind the Buzzcocks.
Did you watch it last week?
Nope.
It was really funny.
I was laughing away, man.
I never used to laugh at shows like that.
I don't know what's happening to me.
You're tired.
Maybe I'm tired, but Amstel's very funny.
He's good.
We love him.
Hey, listen, let's wrap up, um, text the nation, the superpowers thing.
Is that, is that a good thing to do?
Finish it all off with one or two little ones.
Kiwalo, the locator.
He can locate your keys and wallets.
No, he can't locate your keys and wallets.
Only his own.
He can locate his own keys and wallets in minutes.
Kiwalo, the locator.
I'm filling here.
Yeah, you're doing a good job.
I think I've picked up the wrong bits of paper.
Also, I was thinking the cholesterolizer.
He can lower his own cholesterol at will without the aid of pills.
That's good.
There's a guy here called Richard Jeffries.
Is that his name?
Yeah, he listens in America.
Where's that?
America's next to France.
It's where David Duchovny lives.
Yes.
Do they have Coca-Cola coming out of the town?
Yes they do.
Okay.
He wants the power of omniscience.
Omniscience.
We just went through this before.
Yeah omniscience.
I can't really pronounce omniscience.
Joe thought it was omniscience, the power to control the smell of your bath salts.
But, you know, and that's the most obvious thing to go for.
When I was thinking about this, I thought, well, you want the power to cure all disease.
Well, he wants to be God.
I mean, you know.
But superheroes can't, I mean, you can't go that big as a superhero, can you?
No, because then there's no limits.
There's no rules.
It's got to be kind of quirky and odd, a superpower, because it's got to have limitations.
Exactly.
Otherwise there's no drama.
Life is only enjoyable with limitations.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah, so you can't be God.
And you know, it's good for you to be ambitious, Richard.
But you know, just you need to keep things in check a bit.
Exactly.
It's nice to be omniscient, but you'll end up competing with Stephen Fry and you'll get nowhere.
Yeah.
Luke Maskell has emailed, he says his superpower would be to be able to pull a £20 note out of his pocket on any occasion.
So he'd be casually rich.
But that's quite good in that yes he wants to be rich, but the limit is one £20 only comes at a time.
So if, say, he needs a million, you're talking about a commitment of several weeks of note tugging.
Very sore back of the hand.
He'd have to get very loose cotton trousers.
It's like having a £20 limit on your ATM machine.
Yes.
You know, a daily limit there.
That's very true.
Which would be annoying.
Kat, who runs a website called Cutout and Keep, says my superpower would be having a built-in version of Bernard's Watch.
I agree with that.
The ability to stop time.
What's Bernard's Watch?
Bernard's Watch was a kids cartoon, was it?
Maybe it was live action.
I think it was a cartoon.
He was a kid who... No, it was live action.
It was a CBBC or CITV, I don't know, series about a little boy with a watch.
He could stop time.
Well, there's that.
There's also a Twilight Zone episode.
Brilliant Twilight Zone episode, yeah.
But that would be fantastic, wouldn't it?
I've always wanted to do that.
Yeah, I was thinking my adjustment to that would be I would be able to go five minutes back in time.
That would be the only thing that I'd be able to do.
You know what I mean?
It would have to be only five minutes and then you could get out of all kind of little social embarrassments and things like that.
Yeah, you'd use that a lot.
Wasn't there a thing, there was a TV show, wasn't there, called The Minute Man or something about a guy who could do that?
I think there have been lots of variants of that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, there's a guy called Peter Green in Seward's End in Saffron Walden.
I've probably said that wrong as well, but he's a dangerous man, listeners, because it says if I had a superpower, it would be to be able to make people's brains explode just by looking at them.
And I would do it to everyone.
And there would be no one left.
And then I would just eat biscuits.
Has he really put that?
Yeah.
That's nice, man.
Nice bit of thinking there.
You're either lovely or very, very dangerous.
Well, there was another guy who emailed in whose superpower would have been to make people poo their pants.
There was another guy called Big John emailed in and he said, I've lost the piece of paper, but from memory it said, Dear Adam and Joe,
I would like to, for want of a better euphemism, have the power to be able to make love to everybody I see or kill them.
Yours, Big John.
That's George Clooney's power.
Is it?
That's true.
He kills them with boring political films.
The Cloonster.
Speaking of which, well we'll talk about it later.
But shall we have some music right now?
Hey, that's the end of Text the Nation note.
Thank you very much for everybody who emailed or texted those results.
We'll be going to Gordon Brown, who will base a new policy initiative on them.
Now you chose this one, didn't you Joe?
This is a track by The Cure.
Yeah, this is a track by The Cure.
This is from 1983.
And we used to groove around to this one.
Yeah.
When we met Frank Black, though, a little bit of name dropping for you, a little bit more name dropping.
He said that this was one of his favorite Cure tracks.
And I remember you saying to him, Joe, but no, you can't like the Love Cats.
That's that's bad period cure.
But Frank said, no, I like it.
It's a good one.
So you've come around to it now then?
Oh yeah, I love this track.
You probably haven't heard it out there.
It's a band called The Cure.
It's one of their lesser known tracks called Love Cats.
Enjoy.
Joe's pick of the BBC archive.
The way we walk, the way we talk, the way we stalk, the way we kiss We slip through the streets while everyone sleeps Getting bigger and thicker and wider and brighter We bite and smack and scream all night Let's go and throw all the songs we know Into the sea, you and me All these years and no one heard
Wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty.
All you know that I'd do anything for you.
We should have each other to tea, huh?
We should have each other with cream.
Then cut a bit of fire and sleep for a while.
This acrobatic is the perfect dream.
Into the scene, you and me.
All the years and no one home.
I'll show you in spring.
It's such an interesting thing.
We miss you.
His love is so lovely Wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty You know that I'd do anything for you To have each other's dinner To have each other with cream
We've been far, get up for a while It's a dubious thing, it's a fake dream Hand in hand is the only way to land Oh, it's the right way around We're broken in pieces, hidden in pieces We miss someone as long as We miss someone as long as We miss you, yes, love comes
How could we mess up one next to one next to me
Wow, that sounded fantastic, didn't it?
Yeah, it's good, man.
Really?
In the middle of the song, does he say, oh, it's brilliant?
I didn't hear that.
He'd have every right to.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was the Cure with Love Cats recorded.
When was that recorded?
June, here we go, 1983, the 26th of August, 1983.
You know, the hardcore Cure fans, they think that that's a blot on the Cure landscape.
That's Dura Gura for hardcore fans.
That's the definition of a hardcore fan, right?
That's right.
You fixate on something obscure.
They hate it when it goes commercial.
Ignore the Main Street, yeah.
When it crosses over.
I like that.
It's just like a bit of skiffily fun.
That could be by Bardo and I still like it.
Maybe it was written by Bardo.
I like skiffily fun.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 Music.
Now we've got to, you know, play you the Song Wars songs again, really.
I'm sorry to say.
Yeah.
You have all week to vote for your favourite.
Just to quickly explain to people who've tuned in, we've written a song each about the friend of listeners.
Listeners email facts about the friends.
We're not going to do a lot of waffle.
Can we stand to hear them again?
Something in my bones is telling me that this might be once too many.
Especially if they're going to be on the website, I'm thinking.
Do you know what I mean?
They are going to be on the website.
Let's just play a little bit of each one.
Let's start with, don't play the clips, but play the full versions.
And we'll see how much we can take.
This is Adam's one, what's your one called?
This one is called James Rohan, Neanderthal Man.
There's a man whose name is James Rohan He's a beast!
On the surface he is not a shoot But his armpit hair is scary And for that reason he is known as Harry He is preoccupied with lady parts and solo fun Before the internet he lived up on the top shelf He bought a Lindsey Dawn Mackenzie DVD One time!
But returned it cos it wasn't really dirty Okay let's come out of here
So there we go.
If you want to vote for that song to win Song Wars, text Adam to 64046.
You can even just text AD.
Yeah.
It's three less presses of the thumb.
It'll actually lengthen your life by three more thumb presses.
You could even just text A, you know.
Really?
If you wanted to.
I don't know.
That might be the abstract.
They might think it's a... Whatever you want.
Mistake.
Or the other song is about Jack Meller, whose friend Joel sent in details.
And this is called Song for Jack Meller.
That Jack Meller is an interesting fella Do you mind if I tell you some more about that Jack Meller?
That Jack Meller is a man who Don't you know?
Had a friend who listens to Adam and Joe Song Wars one week Had a thing where you send an email With facts about your closest friend A friend you've been friends with for oh so long that you want
That was more about the process of constructing... Yeah, I was... You know what I was thinking?
What?
I was just thinking that these songs will mean nothing to anybody listening.
Okay.
So you were trying to put it in context.
So contextualizing.
I like it, yeah.
Did I waste my time?
So if you like that one, the song for Jack Meller, then email.
If you're if you're voting during the week, you need to email, right?
Yeah, because text comes straight to the studio.
So you'll just be texting Namone or something and she'll be all confused and angry.
Yeah.
And the email address is adamandjoe.6music.bbc.co.uk.
And we're just gonna, in a few minutes we're gonna find out who's winning so far.
Oh my lord.
In an attempt to kind of anger the fans of the losing song.
Fanger.
The fanger, exactly the worst type of anger.
Yeah.
And you know, just poke the whole fire, stir things up a bit.
Bit of fire poking.
Now before we wrap things up, here's a little track that Joe chose for you ladies and gentlemen.
Hey, can you vote more than once?
Can we stop people from voting more than once?
Yeah, wait a second.
It's easy for people to vote more than once, isn't it?
Now it's all becoming clear.
Wait, hang on a second.
No, the reason I say that is because we've just had three Adam votes in at once and they all appear to be from the same number.
Well, good, because, you know, it's getting, the message is getting through.
And it's your mum's mum.
Thanks, mum!
Now, Joe, here's your track.
This is The Ohio Players.
Yeah, gosh.
I've only just had a session track.
Yeah, what's this one then that I chose?
You and Me.
Oh, this is great.
This is by The Ohio Players.
If you ever look at their album covers, every album they ever did has a sexy lady being dribbled in honey or hosed down with a hose.
They're filthy, aren't they?
That's what drew me to them.
And then luckily the music, every bit's good.
This is called You and Me.
Singing, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
in my chest
That's the Ohio Players there.
This is Adam and Joel on BBC 6 Music.
We're having a minor crisis because we haven't thought of the theme for next week's Song Wars and we've only got five minutes left in the show.
Well, we decided there's going to be whistling.
We decided there's going to be whistling.
We thought we were going to challenge each other to do some really sincere songs.
Yeah.
We still need a subject, so if you guys would like to email us in with some suggestions for what our song next week should be about.
The subject can just be a surprise.
We'll announce it.
We'll decide it after the show and we'll just announce it.
And maybe it'll pop up on the website.
Are we asking people to send in their suggestions?
Yeah, you can send in suggestions.
adamandjoe.sixmusicatpbc.co.uk.
Stay tuned because Liz Kershaw's coming up in a second.
Also, Text The Nation, we'd like your suggestions for... Actually, no, we don't need suggestions.
We've got an idea for Text The Nation.
Very complicated.
it is you say what is it oh yeah right text the nation next week listeners um is ideas uh things that you've seen in the world that you swear you had first yeah there's a film directed by michelle gondry called be kind rewind starring jack black and moose deaf about
Two men who run a video store.
And you're convinced that he nicked it off you?
I'm convinced.
Well, I did.
I had that idea.
Right.
I'm not saying that they stole it off me.
Yeah.
But I did have that idea.
I mean, an idea... I did nothing about it.
An idea is no good unless you do something about it.
I know, but still, it's something that happens in life a lot.
Yeah.
Does it not, listeners?
You know, you see something like a book about a killer mug.
I thought of a book about the killer man.
Oh, the killer man.
If only I'd written it.
Yeah.
So what idea that's been out in the world do you swear you've had before?
Or maybe you've got a friend who bores you by swearing that they've had ideas before.
How angry did it make you?
You know, all that kind of business.
Well the best thing would be to hear from someone who actually had done something about their idea.
Right.
And even then they got trumped by someone else.
Because a lot of good ideas out there you think, oh if only I'd thought of that.
So simple.
Well, there's a lot of synchronicity that goes on, isn't there?
You know, Pixar and whoever come out with a film about bugs and then there's Bugs Life and then Ants coming out at the same time.
Disney Pixar Cars?
Who picks your cars?
Disney Pixar Cars.
Yeah.
What?
But you know what I'm saying?
There's always a rash.
There was the media film rash wasn't there.
There's Armageddon and Deep Impact and all that kind of thing.
But those were the ones that succeeded and got above ground.
What, have you ever had an idea of yours?
Be trumped by the big boys!
That's what we've had a chance- ideas that you think you had first.
So get emailing and thanks to everybody who's texted an email during the show.
We've kind of had too much to stuff in today.
Yeah, we can use some of it next week.
Don't forget the show will be available to listen again on the Six Music website all week, as will the two songs in Song Wars, so please keep voting.
Yeah, speaking of listening again, by the way,
hope you don't mind me just plugging a show that I'm involved with in a small way it's John Holmes new show our six music brother John Holmes has a show called listen against which is on Radio 4 at 6 30 on Wednesdays it's a kind of insane topical satire thing so check that out I think you'll enjoy it but anyway thanks very much indeed Liz Kershaw's coming up we'll see you next week thanks for listening bye
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