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Theme Time Afterword Hour – Work

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It’s night time in the big city. A solitary man gazes at a non solitary woman. It’s theme time afterword hour with your host ganglesprocket.

Hello friends, it’s theme time afterword hour; dreams, themes and schemes and this evening, January 2nd is, in Scotland still a bank holiday. Basically in Scotland folks are often still drunk from the 31st December. Here in England, where I now reside, many folks have returned to work. Many of these hard working people are likely hardly working this day. Who can? The weather is shit, we are broke, pay day is a long time away.

Musicians are noted work avoiders and yet plenty of them sing about work a lot. Willard Grant Conspiracy do a fine job here. And friends, if you have any other finest worksongs you care to contribute? Please do so. A spotify playlist will follow…

Theme Time Afterword Hour – Death

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It’s night time in the big city. A solitary man rocks a crying baby. It’s Theme Time Afterword Hour with your host ganglesprocket

Welcome friends. I have spent a day solo parenting and so my thoughts turn to death and the nothingness to which we are galloping, with grim inevitability.

Given that my teething child has been somewhat demanding and her brother is learning all kinds of terrible behaviours at nursery, I personally think this song sums up my feelings about death at the moment. Any other offers gratefully accepted….

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ain%27t+it+grand+to+be+bloomin+well+dead&oq=ain%27t+it+grand+to+be+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.6161j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Theme Time Afterword Hour – Gardens

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I was listening to an episode of Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan the other day and I don’t think we’ve done that here yet.

So let’s do one now. I have decided let’s start with Gardens. Mainly because this tune came up on my Spotify Discovery and I have been playing it to death ever since. And I did not think that Einstürzende Neubauten would ever be my cup of tea.

Any other gardening tunes I should know about?

Theme Time Radio Hour – Urgently Needed

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Hello “The Massive” I posted earlier this week on the Bob Dylan is rubbish thread. Now as we all know, according to the foie gras hating Brass in Pocket chanteuse Chrissie Hynde, there is a thin line between love and hate. For most of my 53 years I never “got” Dylan and pretty much hated his music,but in the past thee months it just clicked and now I have all that body of work to explore and spend time with…lucky old me! I do however need a, ahem, download of the complete Theme Time Radio Hour, of course I do, you guys know how it is if anyone does…and I can’t find it on my usual dodgy t’internet sites. I am hoping someone out there in obsessive musicland can help a Dylan newbie and point me in the right direction for this. Thanks in advance etc etc.