The Whole Nine Yards Ep 208 19.1.25 Words & Music with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 208

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 19th January 2025 3-5pm

http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Words and Music

Poetry offers great building blocks for songwriters due to its creative language, emotions, and imagery. Poems have a natural rhythm and flow that can easily translate into the structure of a song. Expressive language helps songwriters capture complex feelings and tell stories. Thought-provoking words resonate with listeners. When words and music come together, the impact is mind-expanding. Here are some songs influenced by or written by poets.

Hour One

Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls (Please 1984)

The Nails – 88 Lines About 44 Women (Hotel for Women 1981)

Anberlin – Impossible (Dark is the Way, Light is a Place 2010)

Ash – A Life Less Ordinary (A Life Less Ordinary soundtrack 1997)

Bloc Party – Ion Square (Intimacy 2008)

The Libertines – Anthem for Doomed Youth (Anthems for Doomed Youth 2015)

Little Green Cars – My Love Took Me Down To The River (To Silence Me) (Absolute Zero 2013)

Marianne Faithfull – Sparrows Will Sing (Give My Love to London 2014)

The Beach Boys – All This Is That (Carl and the Passions – “So Tough” 1972)

Nickel Creek – Sweet Afton (Nickel Creek 2000)

Wild Beasts – Albatross (Smother 2011)

Hour Two

Noah and the Whale – The First Days Of Spring (The First Days Of Spring 2009)

Phosphorescent – A Poem On The Men’s Room Wall (Revelator 2024)

Iggy Pop – We Are The People (Free 2019)

Lisa O’Neill – All Of This Is Chance (All Of This Is Chance 2023)

Lisa Hannigan – Anahorish (At Swim 2016)

The Cure – Alone (Songs of a Lost World 2024)

Loyle Carner ft Stevie Smith – Not Waving, But Drowning (Not Waving, But Drowning 2019)

Loyle Carner – Dear Ben ft Jean Coyle-Larner (Not Waving, But Drowning 2019)

Gil Scott-Heron – Whitey on the Moon (Small Talk at 125th and Lenox / The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters (Sampler)1970)

Dylan Thomas – Rage (read by Anthony Hopkins 1994)

Beth Orton – Mystery (Sugaring Season 2012)

Natalie Merchant – Spring and Fall: To a Young Child (Leave Your Sleep 2010)

James Blake – I Want You To Know (Playing Robots into Heaven 2023)

Published by Roy Stannard

I'm someone who doesn't like parameters, barriers or fences. I'll try and climb over them, burrow under them or just pretend they don't exist - until they don't. Sometimes I'll write about the mind in a poetic way, or poetry with neural undertones, or I'll proselytise endlessly about my favourite new band - or one of the old ones. My Blog will give you the keys to the kingdom. A kingdom with no borders, no expectations and, therefore, no failure.. Because I am endlessly empathetic with people, their motivation, their behaviour,their problems and their quest for knowledge, I work with the pioneering Brighton-based homeless, vulnerable women and disempowered school students charity Off The Fence Trust that has tried to redress the equality deficit for over two decades. I produce, host and promote two radio shows a week: The Whole Nine Yards Sundays 3-5pm on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM (www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen) - and Lost Immortals on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM on Sundays 5-7pm.

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