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I don't know if you've noticed, but Sklugoo is a little obsessive and compulsive. All the labels have to be right. The first series all had one-word titles; the second had two words so guess how many words are in each of the titles of the fifth series. Yup: five. So when he saw that this episode was originally conceived as The Must Hear Show he had to find a better word. Essential is that word, although, on reflection, Compulsive might have been better. Still, what is done has been gone and done.
Are these popular songs? Sklugoo guesses so (in some circles). Are these good songs? Pff. What is good? Are these some of Sklugoo's favourite songs from over the years? Heck yeah! And if you have any respect for a small, green meditating frog then you gotta get with the programme.
Tune in, listen up and wind down to this setlist:
The Jam - Start!
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message
The Smiths - This Charming Man
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
The Fall - Cruiser's Creek
Prince & The Revolution - Kiss
MARRS - Pump Up The Volume
Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene
Soul II Soul - Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)
Primal Scream - Loaded
Jane Siberry & KD Lang - Calling All Angels
Radiohead - Creep
Beck - Loser
TLC - Waterfalls
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ft. Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow
Fugees - Ready or Not
Blur - Song 2
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Aimee Mann - Save Me
Eminem ft. Dido - Stan
Alicia Keys - Fallin'
Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
Coldplay - Fix You.
Goth Music is what they did back when rock became too tame and punk a little too scarey. So thinks Sklugoo, your favourite small, green meditating frog, and so it must be so.
This show is all about that kind of music and features such luminaries as Sklugoo chatting up a storm and a whole slew of people singing songs and playing guitars and drums as fiercely as their young bones would allow. What's not to enjoy?
Enough chat, here's the setlist for the show:
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
The Cramps - The Way I Walk
Spear Of Destiny - Liberator
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
The Mission - Wasteland
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
Billy Idol - White Wedding
Sex Gang Children - Sebastiane
Public Image Ltd - Rise
The Damned - Grimly Fiendish
The Stranglers - Peaches
The Cure - The Holy Hour
The Danse Society - Heaven Is Waiting
Love and Rockets - So Alive
Paradise Lost - How Soon Is Now?
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk The Line
Xmal Deutschland - Mondlicht
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Christine.
Just when you thought Sklugoo could deliver no more wonderful music (and chat (don't forget the chat)) into your lives he remembers that he didn't just record 8 episodes of this series, he recorded 12!
This one is, as is says on the label, about ambient music. I'd tell you what that is but I'm guessing that you're smart and know already.
If, on the other hand, you've never come across this lovely, laid-back genre then consider this to be your introduction.
Here's the setlist for your reading (and listening) pleasure:
Portishead - Roads
John Williams - Jaws (Main theme)
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Oneohtrix Point Never - Black Snow
Coldplay - Trouble
James Blake - Radio Silence
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Summertime
Bruce Springsteen - State Trooper
This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren
The Cure - A Forest
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
Tears For Fears - Mad World
Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Faithless - Insomnia
Björk - Possibly Maybe
Ex:Re - Romance
Usher - Crash.
Hope you enjoy. Heck, skip that; I'm convinced of it!
You wouldn't think Sklugoo could be moody could you, what with him having such a bright and sunny smile plastered across his green and lovely face?
Well, he's not.
But these songs are.
Not that you won't love them, because you will. They will warm the cockles of your heart to such an extent that you'll want to peck away at this episode as if you're a blackbird that's found a mince pie in the back garden.
Yeah, I know - it doesn't make that much sense to Sklugoo either, but it keeps the flow of conversation moving on.
Here's the setlist for your delectation:
Audrey Hepburn - Moon River
Nina Simone - Strange Fruit
Japan - Ghosts
Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
The Rolling Stones - Far Away Eyes
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Enya - Boadicea
Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Japan - Nightporter
David Sylvian - River Man
Nick Drake - River Man
Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day
Air - La Femme D'Argent
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song
The Velvet Underground
The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black.
Sklugoo does music. You gotta have gotten the gist of this by now this being the seventh episode of the series.
This is a set that ... sigh ... it's music that will mellow you out if you're a little too hyper and cheer you up if you're way, way down in the dumps, so what's not to love?
It starts with that piece of music you might have heard from The Matrix called ... but why bother telling you when you have the whole setlist at your fingertips here:
Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit
Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
Dire Straits - Private Investigations
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
Robert Plant - Big Log
Jace Everett - Bad Things
Bauhaus - She's In Parties
Shakespears Sister - Stay
Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Ultravox - Vienna
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Stanlow
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
John Murphy - In the House, in a Heartbeat
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
Ella Fitzgerald - Ev'ry time We Say Goodbye.
There was a wedding. There were no songs at the actual wedding but afterwards, they decided that there were songs that should have been played at the wedding. These are those songs:
Ben E. King - Stand By Me
Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
Commodores - Three Times A Lady
Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch
David Gray - Sail Away
Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You
Edie Brickell - Good Times
Elvis Presley - (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful
Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You
Morris Albert - Feelings
Nat King Cole - When I Fall In Love
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Peggy Lee - Fever
Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman
Sam Cooke - What A Wonderful World
The Stylistics - You Make Me Feel Brand New
Syreeta - Harmour Love
Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around.
If you are of a certain age. Or your parents are. Or your grandparents are. If so, play them to yourself or your parents or your grandparents.
Then meditate for a bit on the meaning of love.
This is Sklugoo. I'm meditating (obviously) so I'm getting Robert C Day to do my voice. He's not quite a disciple. The chickens are enough in that department. I let him have his own choice of music.
The songs all have the word Day in their titles or in their subjects. I understood that Robert C Day put a lot of time into thinking about them. In my opinion, that time would have been better spent meditating.
That said, here's the playlist:
Rudimental - These Days (ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)
The Beatles - Yesterday
Stan Freberg - Banana Boat (Day-O)
The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
The Bangles - Manic Monday
The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
The Undertones - Wednesday Week
Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning 3 A.M.
Jess Glynne - Thursday
The Cure - Friday I'm In Love
Sam Fender - Saturday
The Saturdays - What About Us
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Blondie - Sunday Girl
Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
Dermot Kennedy - Better Days
KSI – Holiday
Riton and Nightcrawlers - Friday (ft. Mufasa & Hypeman)
Europa (Jax Jones & Martin Solveig) - All Day and Night (ft. Madison Beer)
Blancmange - The Day Before You Came
The Strokes - Someday
Radiohead - Daydreaming
Gorillaz - Tomorrow Comes Today
Coldplay - Daylight
Tame Impala - Lost in Yesterday
The Sugarcubes - Birthday
As always in this series, if you hear Five Towns Radio then beep it out in your head. Or don't.
Sklugoo'll tell you all about this episode as you start to listen but in essence, this one is all about those songs that stick in your head and go round and around and around until you listen to something else and then magically fall out of the other ear. These are the best ones ever. The stickiest. The ones you love in the heart of your hearts. Your guilty pleasures.
If you hear something about Five Towns Radio then ignore it. Or not. It's up to you at the end of the day. Look them up if you like. Why not.
Here's the track listing in case you want to pick and choose:
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
Kanye West - Famous
Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind (ft. Alicia Keys)
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
Elton John - Candle In The Wind
Boney M - Rivers of Babylon
Elvis Presley - (You're The) Devil in Disguise
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Elvis Presley - It's Now or Never
Hanson - MMMBop
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
Human League - Don't You Want Me
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
ABBA - SOS
Lady Gaga - Just Dance
Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)
Spice Girls - Wannabe
If'n you only want the music then head over to YouTube.
Traitor!
Sklugoo, being a small, green meditating frog, has to live somewhere. In this incarnation that place is a kitchen window-ledge in a house in York. That's why the third episode of the fifth series of Sklugoo Speaks is called The York Show of Radio.
All the artists sharing their music in this episode hail from the fair city of York, which is in the North of England (for Sklugoo's US fans, this is the real name of the place you commonly call London).
A huge variety of music took birth and grew up around here so put yourself in discovery mode as you listen to these songs. Here's the track listing:
Angel Pavement - Maybe Tomorrow
Beaumont Hannant - Sym-phon5
Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Box of Stones
Beyond All Reason - Is This My Last Lie?
Bull - Green
Parry - Never Weather-Beaten Sail
Elliot Minor - Parallel Worlds
Fawn Spots - New Sense
Ruby Hughes - Bright Travellers: No. 1, Soundings
lestyn Davies & the Academy of Ancient Music - Handel: Serse | Ombra Mai Fu
Joe Alexander Shepherd - Time
New York Polyphony - Sweet and Low (Joseph Barnby)
King No-One - Obsolete
Lynne Dawson - Dido's Lament
Mostly Autumn - Tomorrow Dies (Sight of Day)
Reginald Kell - Schumann : Fantasiestücke Op.73 No.1
Robin Walker - Ballo del Granduca, J.P. Sweelinck
Shed Seven - Chasing Rainbows
St. Christopher - As Good As Married
Epilogues - This Is Why (Chapel Sessions)
The Howl & The Hum - Human Contact
Antichain - Watts & Hewins
Twinnie - Better When I'm Drunk
W.H. Auden - Funeral Blues
York Minster Choir - Thine be the glory (Maccabaeus)
If you just want to listen to the music (oh, the horror) then you can find it on a YouTube Playlist here. On the other hand, if you just want to listen to the dulcet tones of Sklugoo then you have about a couple of hundred other episodes to choose from in series one to four. Either way - enjoy!
Sklugoo brings you music. Sklugoo brings you life. Sklugoo brings you a very confused introduction to Five Towns Radio (ignore that part) and a very harmonious comparison between the top songs of 2022 and 1982.
Confused? You won't be after you've listened to Sklugoo prattling on while these delicious bumps of music play around him like ... maypole dancers or something like that. Forget about that; just enjoy!
Here's the track listing for the second episode in the epic fifth series of Sklugoo Speaks:
Madness - It Must Be Love
ACRAZE - Do It To It (ft. Cherish)
Dollar - Mirror Mirror
ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name)
Altered Images - I Could Be Happy
The Weeknd - Sacrifice
The Human League - Being Boiled 1978
SwitchOTR - Coming For You (ft. A1 x J1)
Foreigner - Waiting for a Girl Like You
Jessica Darrow - Surface Pressure (From "Encanto")
Meat Loaf - Dead Ringer for Love
D-Block Europe - Overseas (ft. Central Cee)
Jon and Vangelis - I'll Find My Way Home
Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran - Peru
The Human League - Don't You Want Me
Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under
Kool & The Gang - Get Down On It
Lauren Spencer Smith - Fingers Crossed
Shakin' Stevens - Oh Julie
We Don't Talk About Bruno (From "Encanto")
Kraftwerk - The Model
Adele - Easy On Me
Bucks Fizz - The Land of Make Believe
Gayle - ABCDEFU
This is episode one of an twelve-part series composed entirely of my radio shows. They are full of great music tracks with Sklugoo (pretending to be Robert C Day) or maybe Robert C Day (pretending to be Sklugoo) waffling on between them.
Don't be put off by any references to Five Towns Radio. At that time, Sklugoo (or Robert) was just confused about why he was doing what he was doing. He's no less confused now, but at least you get to get the benefit.
Because there's such a variety of music in this episode, I will give you a track listing. Feel free to fast-forward the songs if you want to hear my waffle, and vice versa if you want the music.
Here are the twenty-three (or so) songs in order of play:
Nina Simone - Feeling Good
Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass
ABBA - Super Trouper
Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
The Streets - Dry Your Eyes
Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen
Self Esteem - I Do This All The Time
Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (ft. T.I. & Pharrell)
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Selena Gomez, Marshmello - Wolves
Robert C Day - Numb Fingertips
CamelPhat & Elderbrook - Cola
Kideko & George Kwali - Crank It (Woah!) feat. Nadia Rose & Sweetie Irie
Kungs vs Cookin’ on 3 Burners - This Girl
Ex:Re - Romance
Laura Marling - Soothing
Wet Leg - Chaise Longue
Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under
Ed Sheeran - Shivers
Usher - Crash.
This last episode in this series is more of a story than a guide to how to visualise well but, that said, the character in the story does a fair amount of visualising and so there's something to learn from her. She's called Victoria, I'm called Sklugoo and I'm guessing that you know your own name by now. Enjoy.
You know how they say that small ones are more juicy? Well, this is an extremely juicy episode of Sklugoo Speaks. It's all about how to be tidy. So listen up all you Neat Freaks out there.
If you're going on a journey, get a good haircut and wear comfortable clothes. But that's not all there is to this fascinating episode of Sklugoo Speaks. Listen on to know more. And hey, if it you don't like it, the episode only lasts four, brief minutes. 😃
You have to hurry when you you're a penny behind Ed Sheeran. Oh, okay, I made that one up. Still...
The secret to keeping well is to... Oh, wait, if I tell you that then you won't listen to this wonderfully exciting and and informative episode from your favourite small, green, meditating frog. Feel free to tell me how much you love me too 'cause -you know what? - if you did then you'd be very loved back.
Annabella wasn't well after she fell outta the second story window. She's doing better now, though. She got well much faster after I sent her a Get Well card. At least, I hope she did because those cards aren't cheap you know. And neither am I!
Did you hear the one about the girl who went to heaven and found something very surprising happening on the dance floor? Well, listen up, because you're about to!
This is more like a little story than a normal episode of the internationally renowned podcast -Sklugoo Speaks', but it's an illustrative (and enormously entertaining) story, which has the potential to teach you and your friends how to Play Well. I hope you enjoy it.
Shakira did it in the half time interval at the Superbowl, people don't at weddings and funerals and I just did it in a cupboard under the stairs. What am I taking about? Yep, ululating. Here's a handy guide on doing it well. Try it once and you'll never look back!