OGWT Double DVD
Posted by: BigH47 on 14 March 2004
Just wanted to say what a great value set this is (£14.99 CD Source P&P free). It was recommended in the "Lost Days Posts". Nearly 300 minutes and I only skipped one "performance" the dire PIL. Worth the price of admission for Frankenstein alone. Some classic moments in there highly recommended.
Howard
Howard
Posted on: 14 March 2004 by Rasher
That is Vol 1. I agree - it's wonderful. I especially like the Rory snippit. What do you reckon of Vols 2 & 3?
Posted on: 14 March 2004 by blythe
Anyone care to list what's on the various DVD's?
Computers are supposed to work on 1's and 0's - in other words "Yes" or "No" - why does mine frequently say "Maybe"?......
Computers are supposed to work on 1's and 0's - in other words "Yes" or "No" - why does mine frequently say "Maybe"?......
Posted on: 14 March 2004 by Rasher
It's a long list:
Track listing:
Volume 1, Disc 1:
Alice Cooper 'Under My Wheels'
Elton John 'Tiny Dancer'
Curtis Mayfield 'We Gotta Have Peace'
Randy Newman 'Political Science'
Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge 'Help Me Make it Through the Night'
Bill Withers 'Ain't No Sunshine'
Focus 'Sylvia/Hocus Pocus'
Rory Gallagher 'Hands Off'
John Martyn 'May You Never'
The Wailers 'Stir it Up'
Roxy Music 'Do the Strand'
The Edgar Winter Group 'Frankenstein'
New York Dolls 'Jet Boy'
Tim Buckley 'Dolphins'
Captain Beefheart 'Upon the My O My'
Little Feat 'Rock 'n' Roll Doctor'
Dr Feelgood 'Roxette'
John Lennon 'Stand By Me'
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band 'Give My Compliments to the Chef'
Lynyrd Skynyrd 'Freebird'
Emmylou Harris 'Amarillo'
Bonnie Raitt 'Too Long at the Fair'
Tom Waits 'Tom Traubert's Blues'
John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett 'Really Free'
Volume 1, Disc 2:
Talking Heads 'Psycho Killer'
XTC 'Statue of Liberty'
Blondie '(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence Dear'
Val Doonican & Charlie McCoy 'Stone Fox Chase'
Meatloaf 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light'
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers 'American Girl'
The Police 'Can't Stand Losing You'
Bruce Springsteen 'Rosalita'
Iggy Pop 'I'm Bored'
Tubeway Army 'Are Friends Electric'
The Specials 'Message to You Rudi'
The Damned 'Smash It Up/I Just Can't Be Happy Today'
The Ramones 'Rock 'n' Roll High School'
PIL 'Careering'
The Teardrop Explodes 'Reward'
U2 'I Will Follow'
Nine Below Zero 'Stone Fox Chase'
Japan 'Ghosts'
Robert Wyatt 'Shipbuilding'
REM 'Moon River/Pretty Persuasion'
Simply Red 'Holding Back the Years'
Volume 2:
Heads Hands & Feet 'Warming up the Band'
Kevin Ayers 'May I'
Roxy Music 'Ladytron'
Loggins & Messina 'House at Pooh Corner'
The Who 'Relay'
Judee Sill 'The Kiss'
Argent 'God Gave Rock n Roll to You'
Humble Pie 'Black Coffee'
Average White Band 'Put it Where you Want it'
Montrose 'Bad Motor Scooter'
Bruce Johnston 'Disney Girls'
Be Bop Deluxe 'Made in Heaven'
Nils Lofgren 'Going Back'
Daryl Hall & John Oates 'She's Gone'
Joan Armatrading 'Love & Affection'
Roy Harper 'One of Those Days in England'
The Adverts 'Bored Teenagers'
Patti Smith 'Because the Night'
Siouxsie & the Banshees 'Metal Postcard'
Gary Moore & Phil Lynott 'Don't Believe a Word'
Undertones 'Jimmy Jimmy'
Squeeze 'Slap and Tickle'
OMD 'Dancing'
Stanley Clarke/George Duke Project 'Schooldays'
Tom Verlaine 'Days on the Mountain Part 1'
Aztec Camera 'Walk Out to Winter'
Thomas Dolby 'Hyperactive'
Style Council 'Walls Come Tumbling Down'
Suzanne Vega 'Marlene On the Wall'
John Walters, John Peel, Ro Newton, Andy Kershaw Skiffle jam
Prefab Sprout 'When Love Breaks Down'
Pet Shop Boys 'Opportunities'
Pogues 'Dirty Old Town'
Volume 3:
Lindisfarne 'Meet Me On The Corner’
David Bowie 'Oh You Pretty Things’
Jackson Browne 'Jamaica Say You Will’
Steppenwolf 'Born To Be Wild’
Stealers Wheel 'I Get By’
Roger Daltrey 'Giving It All Away’
Humble Pie 'Black Coffee’
Fairport Convention 'Brilliancy Medley’
Freddie King 'Boogie Funk’
Brinsley Schwarz 'Surrender To The Rhythm’
Robin Trower 'A Little Bit Of Sympathy’
Supertramp 'Dreamer’
Johnny Winter 'Jumping Jack Flash’
Richard and Linda Thompson 'A Heart Needs A Home’
Janis Ian 'At Seventeen’
Al Stewart 'Year Of The Cat’
John Martyn & Danny Thompson 'Couldn’t Love You More’
Chris Rea 'Fires Of Spring’
The Jam ’A Bomb In Wardour Street’
BB King 'When It All Comes Down’/'Hold On’
John Cooper Clarke 'I Don’t Want to be Nice’
Joe Jackson 'Sunday Papers’
Simple Minds 'Chelsea Girl’
King Crimson 'Frame By Frame’
Orange Juice 'Rip It Up’
Howard Jones 'No-one Is To Blame’
Sade 'Is It A Crime’
Jesus & Mary Chain 'In A Hole’
Lone Justice 'Sweet, Sweet Baby (I’m Falling)’
Half Man Half Biscuit 'All I want for Xmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit'
Bangles 'Walk Like An Egyptian’
Track listing:
Volume 1, Disc 1:
Alice Cooper 'Under My Wheels'
Elton John 'Tiny Dancer'
Curtis Mayfield 'We Gotta Have Peace'
Randy Newman 'Political Science'
Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge 'Help Me Make it Through the Night'
Bill Withers 'Ain't No Sunshine'
Focus 'Sylvia/Hocus Pocus'
Rory Gallagher 'Hands Off'
John Martyn 'May You Never'
The Wailers 'Stir it Up'
Roxy Music 'Do the Strand'
The Edgar Winter Group 'Frankenstein'
New York Dolls 'Jet Boy'
Tim Buckley 'Dolphins'
Captain Beefheart 'Upon the My O My'
Little Feat 'Rock 'n' Roll Doctor'
Dr Feelgood 'Roxette'
John Lennon 'Stand By Me'
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band 'Give My Compliments to the Chef'
Lynyrd Skynyrd 'Freebird'
Emmylou Harris 'Amarillo'
Bonnie Raitt 'Too Long at the Fair'
Tom Waits 'Tom Traubert's Blues'
John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett 'Really Free'
Volume 1, Disc 2:
Talking Heads 'Psycho Killer'
XTC 'Statue of Liberty'
Blondie '(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence Dear'
Val Doonican & Charlie McCoy 'Stone Fox Chase'
Meatloaf 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light'
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers 'American Girl'
The Police 'Can't Stand Losing You'
Bruce Springsteen 'Rosalita'
Iggy Pop 'I'm Bored'
Tubeway Army 'Are Friends Electric'
The Specials 'Message to You Rudi'
The Damned 'Smash It Up/I Just Can't Be Happy Today'
The Ramones 'Rock 'n' Roll High School'
PIL 'Careering'
The Teardrop Explodes 'Reward'
U2 'I Will Follow'
Nine Below Zero 'Stone Fox Chase'
Japan 'Ghosts'
Robert Wyatt 'Shipbuilding'
REM 'Moon River/Pretty Persuasion'
Simply Red 'Holding Back the Years'
Volume 2:
Heads Hands & Feet 'Warming up the Band'
Kevin Ayers 'May I'
Roxy Music 'Ladytron'
Loggins & Messina 'House at Pooh Corner'
The Who 'Relay'
Judee Sill 'The Kiss'
Argent 'God Gave Rock n Roll to You'
Humble Pie 'Black Coffee'
Average White Band 'Put it Where you Want it'
Montrose 'Bad Motor Scooter'
Bruce Johnston 'Disney Girls'
Be Bop Deluxe 'Made in Heaven'
Nils Lofgren 'Going Back'
Daryl Hall & John Oates 'She's Gone'
Joan Armatrading 'Love & Affection'
Roy Harper 'One of Those Days in England'
The Adverts 'Bored Teenagers'
Patti Smith 'Because the Night'
Siouxsie & the Banshees 'Metal Postcard'
Gary Moore & Phil Lynott 'Don't Believe a Word'
Undertones 'Jimmy Jimmy'
Squeeze 'Slap and Tickle'
OMD 'Dancing'
Stanley Clarke/George Duke Project 'Schooldays'
Tom Verlaine 'Days on the Mountain Part 1'
Aztec Camera 'Walk Out to Winter'
Thomas Dolby 'Hyperactive'
Style Council 'Walls Come Tumbling Down'
Suzanne Vega 'Marlene On the Wall'
John Walters, John Peel, Ro Newton, Andy Kershaw Skiffle jam
Prefab Sprout 'When Love Breaks Down'
Pet Shop Boys 'Opportunities'
Pogues 'Dirty Old Town'
Volume 3:
Lindisfarne 'Meet Me On The Corner’
David Bowie 'Oh You Pretty Things’
Jackson Browne 'Jamaica Say You Will’
Steppenwolf 'Born To Be Wild’
Stealers Wheel 'I Get By’
Roger Daltrey 'Giving It All Away’
Humble Pie 'Black Coffee’
Fairport Convention 'Brilliancy Medley’
Freddie King 'Boogie Funk’
Brinsley Schwarz 'Surrender To The Rhythm’
Robin Trower 'A Little Bit Of Sympathy’
Supertramp 'Dreamer’
Johnny Winter 'Jumping Jack Flash’
Richard and Linda Thompson 'A Heart Needs A Home’
Janis Ian 'At Seventeen’
Al Stewart 'Year Of The Cat’
John Martyn & Danny Thompson 'Couldn’t Love You More’
Chris Rea 'Fires Of Spring’
The Jam ’A Bomb In Wardour Street’
BB King 'When It All Comes Down’/'Hold On’
John Cooper Clarke 'I Don’t Want to be Nice’
Joe Jackson 'Sunday Papers’
Simple Minds 'Chelsea Girl’
King Crimson 'Frame By Frame’
Orange Juice 'Rip It Up’
Howard Jones 'No-one Is To Blame’
Sade 'Is It A Crime’
Jesus & Mary Chain 'In A Hole’
Lone Justice 'Sweet, Sweet Baby (I’m Falling)’
Half Man Half Biscuit 'All I want for Xmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit'
Bangles 'Walk Like An Egyptian’
Posted on: 14 March 2004 by BigH47
Re: Val Doonican it was the theme music for the program and the only appearance by the writer on the show. Eclectic was what OGWT was all about. There were shows that to quote A Kershaw on Vol1 made you say what the "fuck was that". Maybe not the greatest music or performances but really seemed to catch the essence of the times.Well away from the mainstream chart "music". Working on the others.
Rasher only got Vol 1 so far.
Howard
Rasher only got Vol 1 so far.
Howard
Posted on: 15 March 2004 by blythe
Rasher, you're a Star for doing all that work - thanks!
I have to say, i fancy all of them for various reasons - as has been said, ecletic and some real Gems.
Thomas Dolby, Be Bop Deluxe, Joan Amatrading, Suzanne Vega, Bowie, Prefab Sprout, Roxy Music, Blondie, Talking Heads, Police, XTC, Kevin Ayres, Moore & Lynott, U2, Damned, Specials, Emmylou Harris, Focus, Rory Gallagher, Squeeze, Simple Minds immediately come to mind!
Are they available from my local HMV or do you get them from the BBC direct?
Computers are supposed to work on 1's and 0's - in other words "Yes" or "No" - why does mine frequently say "Maybe"?......
I have to say, i fancy all of them for various reasons - as has been said, ecletic and some real Gems.
Thomas Dolby, Be Bop Deluxe, Joan Amatrading, Suzanne Vega, Bowie, Prefab Sprout, Roxy Music, Blondie, Talking Heads, Police, XTC, Kevin Ayres, Moore & Lynott, U2, Damned, Specials, Emmylou Harris, Focus, Rory Gallagher, Squeeze, Simple Minds immediately come to mind!
Are they available from my local HMV or do you get them from the BBC direct?
Computers are supposed to work on 1's and 0's - in other words "Yes" or "No" - why does mine frequently say "Maybe"?......
Posted on: 16 March 2004 by Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus
ahh - they dont make programmes like that anymore. Spose Jools does it to an extent but he always seems to have the same ppl on.
Got the first set which was thoroughly enjoyable. The new one looks good, but disapointed they missed out AC/DC who I think did Whole Lotta Rosie and Sensational Alex harvey Band with Delilah (possibly).
ooh, it takes me right back......
Got the first set which was thoroughly enjoyable. The new one looks good, but disapointed they missed out AC/DC who I think did Whole Lotta Rosie and Sensational Alex harvey Band with Delilah (possibly).
ooh, it takes me right back......
Posted on: 16 March 2004 by Rasher
It was no work. I wouldn't do that amount of work. It was a copy & paste from Amazon. 
Posted on: 16 March 2004 by blythe
quote:
Originally posted by Rasher:
It was no work. I wouldn't do that amount of work. It was a copy & paste from Amazon.
I guessed as much but I couldn't even be arsed to look at Amazon!
Computers are supposed to work on 1's and 0's - in other words "Yes" or "No" - why does mine frequently say "Maybe"?......
Posted on: 16 March 2004 by Gary H
I had a small role in editing these DVD's. We wanted to hide this as an easter egg in volume two, but the author never got back to us. Enjoy Old Grey Squirrel Test
Posted on: 16 March 2004 by Colin Lorenson
God that list takes me back to when I had hair and slightly less body mass.
Have to get the DVD's.
Have to get the DVD's.
Posted on: 19 March 2004 by P
So they really were miming on the OGWT then?
I sorta suspected this all along really but how disappointing to discover that it wasn't just a few but that they were ALL miming. What a shocking revelation.
The sound quality on my recently purchased copy of Vol.2 is truly DIRE BTW. Nowhere near as good as Vol. 1. Why? The tape hiss on Roxy doing Ladytron for eg? What a God awful mess. Bloody awful. Ruined.
I do hope I have a duff copy.
Anyone else?
P
I sorta suspected this all along really but how disappointing to discover that it wasn't just a few but that they were ALL miming. What a shocking revelation.
The sound quality on my recently purchased copy of Vol.2 is truly DIRE BTW. Nowhere near as good as Vol. 1. Why? The tape hiss on Roxy doing Ladytron for eg? What a God awful mess. Bloody awful. Ruined.
I do hope I have a duff copy.
Anyone else?
P
Posted on: 22 March 2004 by Mike Hughes
P,
'Fraid not. Volume 2 is simply an all round duffer. Someone let the series down very badly in terms of choices, presentation, sound, extras - the lot really. Vols 1 and 3 are excellent. Sad to hear that 3 is the last. They do all seem a bit random though. Putting aside one's own musical choices it was lovely to be reminded of thos OGWT moments that you wouldn't necessarily buy but you do remember all your life - that bloody yodelling pillock from Focus for starters.
'Fraid not. Volume 2 is simply an all round duffer. Someone let the series down very badly in terms of choices, presentation, sound, extras - the lot really. Vols 1 and 3 are excellent. Sad to hear that 3 is the last. They do all seem a bit random though. Putting aside one's own musical choices it was lovely to be reminded of thos OGWT moments that you wouldn't necessarily buy but you do remember all your life - that bloody yodelling pillock from Focus for starters.
Posted on: 22 March 2004 by J.N.
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that bloody yodelling pillock from Focus for starters.
That's Thijs van Leer you're abusing there, and probably my favourite bit on OGWT - 1, which I have
I reckon 2 is pants, but will probably get 3, which contains some gems. The early 70's stuff is worth it for the visual impact alone!