Musical hieroglyphics and wonders
Radio journeys with Roy Stannard
THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS
Ep 307 9.2.25 with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples
on Mid Sussex Radio103.8FM
Songs that have been forgotten and not foreseen – but totally relevant to today.
THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS
Ep 306 Sunday 2nd Feb 2025 5-7pm
with Roy Stannard & Matthew Staples
on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM
www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen
Three trucking tracks, ‘Calum’s Dan’s Van’, ‘Monster Truck’ and ‘El Camino’ rev this show out of the pit this week in greasy but exhilarating fashion. Zeros threaten ‘Don’t push me around’; Scowl tell us ‘we’re not in Hell, but not in Heaven’ either. Propagandhi point out that ‘Today’s Empires are tomorrow’s ashes’ and The Radio Dept. calmly inform us that ‘Heaven’s on fire’. The original Camera Obscure sing about ‘Destitution’. The Delines deliver a ‘Left hook like Frazier’. But it’s OK, Lynn Miles reassures us that it’s hockey night in Canada. The world can rest easy.
Hour One
The Whole Nine Yards Episode 210
With Roy Stannard
On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM
Sunday 2nd February 2025 3-5pm
http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen
Midnight Mothers / Ebony Fathers
The black experience, at times harrowing, has nevertheless produced some magnificent music, poetry and art. On the show this week we feature over 20 powerful tracks that span genres and generations, telling stories of resilience, triumph, and cultural pride from both sides of the Atlantic.
We’ll also showcase three spoken word pieces by leading female black performance poets. There is some consolation in knowing that ancestral pain sometimes leads to cultural gain..
Hour One
Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come (Ain’t That Good News 1964)
Nina Simone – I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Silk & Soul 1967)
IQ Musique ft Neiel Israel – When a Black Man Walks (At NPS in Oakland, CA. 2014) (When a Black Man Walks 2014)
Gregg Kofi Brown feat Des’ree and Gabrielle – Wake Up the Morning (Together as One 2006)
Bob Marley – Redemption Song (Uprising 1980)
Aretha Franklin – Respect (I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You 1967)
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (What’s Going On 1971)
Sade – Slave Song (Love Deluxe 1992)
Alicia Keys – Queen of the Field (12 Years a Slave 2013)
Solange – Cranes in the Sky (A Seat at the Table 2016)
Black Pumas – Ain’t No Love at the Heart of the City (Black Pumas 2019)
Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street (Across 110th Street OST 1973)
Hour Two
Anderson .Paak – The Season / Carry Me Malibu 2016)
Noname – Casket Pretty (Telefone 2016)
H.E.R. – I Can’t Breathe (I Can’t Breathe 2020)
Tracy Chapman – Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution (Tracy Chapman 1988)
John Legend – Glory (Selma (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2014)
Common – Letter to the Free (Black America Again 2016)
India.Arie – Brown Skin (Acoustic Soul 2001)
Jenny Mitchell – When Our Mother Dies (live mix) 2023)
Leon Bridges – River (Coming Home 2015)
Janae Johnson – Black Rage (Janae Johnson at NPS in Oakland, CA. 2015)
William DeVaughan – Be Thankful for What You Got (Be Thankful for What You Got 1974)
Courtney Pine & Susaye Greene – Children of the Ghetto (Journey to the Urge Within 1986)
THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS
Ep 305 26.1.25 5-7pm
with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples
on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM
www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen
The songs used to be fresh, beautiful pop symphonies. Then the parts disappeared, the calls stopped and they slipped into retirement. Our listeners and Lost Immortals Facebook members have reached into their record collections, lofts, attics and garages to find tracks that badly, desperately want to make a comeback.
Hour One
Lambrini Girls – No Homo (Who Let the Dogs Out 2025)
Clipping – Change the Channel (Dead Channel Sky 2025)
The Treatment – Emergency (Running With the Dogs, 2013)
Queens of the Stone Age – Everybody Knows That You Are Insane (Lullabies to Paralyze, 2005)
Stiltskin – America (The Mind’s Eye, 1994)
Caesars – Jerk It Out (Love for the Streets 2002)
Lucy Dacus – Ankles (Forever is a Feeling, 2025)
Perfume Genius – It’s a Mirror (Glory 2025)
Caitlin Cary – Thick Walls Down (While You Were Away 2002)
Throwing Muses – Summer of Love (Moonlight Concessions, 2025)
Emitt Rhodes – Fresh As A Daisy (Emitt Rhodes, 1970)
Hour Two
My Morning Jacket – Time Waited (Is 2025)
Camera Obscura – I Need All The Friends I Can Get (Let’s Get Out of This Country 2006)
Black Pumas – More Than a Love Song (Chronicles of a Diamond, 2023)
Tom Misch & Loyle Carner – Colourblind (Six Songs EP 2024)
Morcheeba – Call For Love (Single 2005)
Celeste – Both Sides of the Moon (Live) (Not Your Muse, 2018)
Vinicio Capossela – Si è spento il sole (L’indispensabile 2005)
Lindi Ortega – Faded Gloryville (Faded Gloryville, 2015)
Waxahatchee – Crowbar (Tiger’s Blood 2024)
Keren Ann – Jardin d’hiver (La Biographie de Luka Philipsen 2000)
David Lynch & Lykke Li – I’m Waiting Here (The Big Dream, 2013)
Extended
The Saw Doctors – I Useta Lover (If This Is Rock and Roll, I Want My Old Job Back, 1991)
The Whole Nine Yards Episode 209
With Roy Stannard
On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM
Sunday 26th January 2025 3-5pm
http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen
Who is Dan Wilson?
Dan Wilson, the songwriter and lead singer of Semisonic, has a knack for writing catchy songs that resonate with audiences. Best known for the 90s hits Secret Smile and Closing Time, Wilson’s songwriting addresses themes of love, introspection, and the passage of time. His driving hooks and spiritual, reflective lyrics have provided some massive hits for Semisonic, but have also been fought over by other artists. One of the best, but least known songwriters in the world, Wilson has struck gold with numerous hits for artists like Adele, Taylor Swift, the Dixie Chicks, Weezer and Vance Joy.
Hour One
Semisonic – Singing In My Sleep (Feeling Strangely Fine 1998)
Weezer – Ruling Me (Hurley 2010)
Semisonic – Sculpture Garden (Pleasure EP 1995)
Dan Wilson – Home (Re-Covered 2017)
Chris Stapleton – White Horse (Higher 2023)
Semisonic – Secret Smile (Feeling Strangely Fine 1999)
James Morrison – Once When I was Little (Songs for You, Truths for Me 2008)
Semisonic – Lightning (You’re Not Alone EP 2020)
Foxes – All I Need (All I Need 2016)
Semisonic – Keep Me in Motion (Little Bit of Sun 2023)
Self Esteem – Focus is Power (A Complicated Woman 2025)
Vance Joy – We’re Going Home (Nation of Two 2018)
Mitski – The Only Heartbreaker (Laurel Hell 2021)
Hour Two
Semisonic – The Rope (Little Bit of Sun 2023)
Dan Wilson – Never Meant to Love You (Re-Covered 2017)
Taylor Swift – Treacherous (Taylor’s version) (Red 2012) (Red (Taylor’s Version 2021)
Stevie Nicks ft LeAnn Rimes & Jeff Beck & Rod Thomas – Borrowed (Stand Back 2013)
Lukas Graham – You’re Not the Only One (Redemption Song) (3: (The Purple Album) 2018)
Semisonic ft Carol King (One True Love (All About Chemistry 2001)
Jim James – Explode (Regions of Light and Sound of God 2013 / Reissue 2023)
Adele – Don’t You Remember (21 2011)
John Legend – You & I (Nobody in the World) (Love in the Future 2013)
Jon Batiste – Butterfly (World Music Radio 2023)
Dan Wilson – Someone Like You (with The Kronos Quartet) (Re-Covered 2017)
Iann Dior, Travis Barker and Machine Gun Kelly – Thought It Was (On to Better Things 2022)
Semisonic – Closing Time (Feeling Strangely Fine 1999)
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)
THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS
Ep 303
Sunday 12th January 2025 5-7pm
on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM
with Roy Stannard & Matthew Staples
www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen
The kid with the replaceable head
Any show that starts with Hell, replaceable heads, Saints and Swingers has got to be worth a listen. And then the treat of rare tracks from Jeff Beck and Peter Green. Sofia Isella sings that she looks into the future – and says it’s hers. Sandy Denny doesn’t know where the time has gone, but Richard Dawson is grounded in his song ‘Polytunnel’, growing his own music.
Hour One
Richard Hell and the Voidoids – The Kid with the Replaceable Head (Destiny Street, 1982. 2021 Remaster)
The Saints – Miss Wonderful (The Monkey Puzzle, 1981)
The Swingers – Counting the Beat (Practical Jokers 1981)
Tutankhamun – New Year’s Resolution (Tutankhamun 2023)
Julia Jacklin – Pressure To Party (Crushing, 2019)
Andrea England – Lemonade (Lemonade 2004)
Chris Smither – Seems So Real (Leave the Light On, 2006)
Balkan Beat Box – Sunday Arak (Shout It Out, 2005)
Louie Vega – One Dream (Roots Mix) ( Elements Of Life 2020)
Baba Blues – Help Me Through the Day (Glimmer of Gold 2019)
Jeffrey Foucault – Oh Mama (Salt as Wolves 2015)
Hour Two
Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac – Black Magic Woman (Live April 13th 1968)
Jeff Beck ‘Ol Man River (Truth 1968)
Ernestine Anderson – I Love Being Here With You (When The Sun Goes Down, 1985)
Chava Alberstein and The Klezmatics – Di Goldene Pave (The Well, 2001)
Richard Dawson – Polytunnel (End of the Middle, out 14/02/25)
Molly Tuttle – Standing On The Moon (Grateful Dead) – 12/2/2020 – Paste Studio NVL – Nashville TN (LP …but i’d rather be with you, 2020)
Carla De Coignac – Ils S’aimaient Toujours (Ces Filles Single 2024)
Sofia Isella – I look into the future – it’s mine (2023)
Black Box Recorder – Andrew Ridgeley (Passionoia 2003)
Jessica Platt – World on a String (Here in the Pitch 2024)
Fairport Convention – Who Knows Where The Time Goes (with Sandy Denny) (Unhalfbricking 1969)
The Whole Nine Yards Episode 207
With Roy Stannard
On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM
Sunday 12th January 2025 3-5pm
http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen
Unwavering
In a week of natural and man-made disasters how do we explain the unwavering human spirit? This week, we delve into the essence of perseverance and faith, exploring how these qualities shape our lives and help us overcome challenges. Fortunately, we have the insights and experiences of musicians, famous and unknown, to suggest a few answers. They relentlessly and obstinately sing about staying the course and believing in the unseen. How do we exercise the strength of the human heart and mind? In the tracks chosen today we may discover some of the secrets of where the motivation comes from to face life’s trials with courage and conviction. And I’ve found some great advice from some of the world’s greatest thinkers to accompany them.
Hour One
Larkin Poe – God Moves On The Water (Self Made Man 2020)
MercyMe – Hold Fast (Coming Up to Breathe 2006)
Bob Seger – Against The Wind (Against The Wind 1980)
Public Service Broadcasting (featuring James Dean Bradfield) – Turn No More (Every Valley 2017)
Nothing But Thieves – Overcome (Dead Club City 2023)
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – Keep Singing Out (Searching For The Hows And Whys 2008)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Carry On (Déjà Vu 1970)
Oh Wonder – Hallelujah (No One Else Can Wear Your Crown 2020)
Taylor Swift – Change (Fearless 2008)
Nada Surf – Do It Again (The Weight Is A Gift 2005)
Morrissey – Rose Garden (Live at the Grand Old Opry) (Low in High School 2018)
Wilson Phillips – Hold On (Wilson Phillips 1990)
Menswear – Being Brave (Nuisance 2995)
Hour Two
Arkells – Come to Light (High Noon 2014)
Lenny Kravitz – Believe (Are You Gonna Go My Way 1993)
Paul McCartney – All My Trials (Tripping the Live Fantastic: Highlights! 1990)
Buffy Sainte-Marie – Carry It On (Power In The Blood 2015)
Belle & Sebastian – Ever Had a Little Faith? (Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance 2015)
The Crusaders ft Joe Cocker – I’m So Glad I’m Standing Here Today (Standing Tall 1980)
Curtis Mayfield – Move On Up (full album version) (Curtis 1970)
Michael Kiwanuka – I’m Getting Ready (Home Again 2011)
Leah McFall – I Will Survive (Single only release 2013)
Martina McBride – Anyway (Waking up Laughing 2006)
Jimmy Cliff – Many Rivers To Cross (The Harder They Come 1972)
THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS
Ep 302
Sunday 5th January 2025 5-7pm
on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM
with Roy Stannard & Matthew Staples
www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen
Subways of your Mind
A box of treats for the first show of 2025. FEX – a lost German indie track from 1983, released on vinyl this month; The Pretenders with a song by the Ramones; Gaelic reggae; The Dead South (who appeared on Jools’ Hootenany; 2 songs about US presidents; Saint Etienne’s comeback; two songs from the soundtrack of 2021’s ‘Last Night in Soho’.
It’s what your ears were made for..
Hour One
The Men – Pony (Buyer Beware, 2024)
Elvis Costello – Lipstick Vogue (This Year’s Model 1978)
The Wildhearts – Just In Lust (P.H.U.Q. 1995)
Ramones – Bonzo Boy Goes to Bitburg (Animal Boy 1985)
Pretenders – Something To Believe In (We’re A Happy Family – A Tribute To The Ramones 15 Songs By 15 Various Artists 2003)
Girls – Alright (Broken Dreams Club EP, 2010)
Whirr – Raw Blue (Raw Blue 2024)
FEX – Subways of Your Mind (Like the Wind) (Single 1983 / remastered on 7” vinyl 2024)
An Dannsa Dub – Kick Up The Dust (Single, 2024)
Burning Sensations – Belly of the Whale (Burning Sensations 1983)
Our Daughter’s Wedding – Lawnchairs (Single 1980 / Digital Cowboys EP 1981)
Ry Cooder – El Corrido de Jesse James (Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, 2011)
Hour Two
The Dead South – Blue Trash (Sugar & Joy 2019)
Saint Etienne – Nightingale (The Night, 2024)
Whitney Rose – Ain’t It Wise (Heartbreaker of the Year, 2015)
Joe Pug – Hymn #35 (Nation of Heat EP, 2008)
Majid Jordan – Waiting For You (ft. Naomi Sharon) (Good People, 2023)
Ayo – How Many Times (Joyful, 2006)
Sault – Signs (Acts of Faith 2025)
DBM & T – Mr President (Fresh Ear 1970)
David Sanborn & Linda Ronstadt – The Water is Wide (Love Songs, 1995)
Graham Bond Organization – Wade in the Water (Take 2) (The Sound of 1965 1965)
Anya Taylor-Joy – Downtown (Downtempo version) (Last Night in Soho OST 2021)
Laibach – Vor Sonnen-Aufgang (Also Sprach Zarathustra 2017)
The Whole Nine Yards Episode 206
With Roy Stannard
On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM
Sunday 5th January 2025 3-5pm
http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen
Forever
Some tracks are timeless – and some are somehow plucked from the ether and will live for much longer than us. Everlasting songs and forever lyrics.
Hour One
Amber Pacific – Forever (Virtues 2010)
The Maccabees – Forever I’ve Known (Given To The Wild 2012)
The View – Best Lasts Forever (Bread And Circuses 2011)
Dry the River – Everlasting Light (Alarms in the Heart 2014)
Vertical Horizon – Forever (Go 2005)
Robert Knight – Everlasting Love (Everlasting Love 1967)
The Drums – Forever and Ever, Amen (The Drums 2010)
Taylor Swift – Forever & Always (Fearless 2008)
Moby – Forever (Hotel 2005)
Alphaville – Forever Young (Forever Young 1984)
Chvrches – Forever (Love Is Dead 2018)
Hour Two
Echo & the Bunnymen – Nothing Lasts Forever (Evergreen 1997)
Stereophonics – Forever (Oochya! 2022)
Jessie Ware -You & I (Forever) (Tough Love 2014)
Mumford & Sons – Forever (Delta 2018)
Noah Kahan – Forever (Stick Season (Forever) 2024)
Neko Case – The Next Time You Say Forever (Middle Cyclone 2009)
Chris Isaak – Forever Blue (Forever Blue 1995)
Carrie Underwood – Forever Changed (Blown Away 2012)
Delirious? – I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever (Cutting Edge 2 1994)
Joshua Idehen – Could be Forever (Could be Forever 2024)
Professor Green – Forever Falling (At Your Inconvenience 2011)
Manic Street Preachers – The Everlasting (This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 1998)
Musical hieroglyphics and wonders 