Lockdown week 2 got under way celebrating Motörhead Monday which wasn’t to everyone’s taste before hitting a bigger topic of 80s albums.
▪️Monday 30th: Motörhead songs #motorheadmonday
- Ace of Spades
- Overkill
- Motörhead
- Killed By Death
- No Class
▪️Tuesday 31st: Albums of the 80s
- Surfer Rosa - Pixies
- Searching For The Young Soul Rebels - Dexys MR
- Document - R.E.M.
- Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
- Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits
We had a great midweek discussion on difficult books. That was interesting to see what different people thought were easy to read & I had a lot of feedback about Catch-22 from both points of view.
▪️Wednesday 1st: Books you struggled to finish
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Scenes From Clerical Life - George Elliot
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac
Thursday was really just a chance to share my love of Fulham’s most prolific striker, Gordon “Ivor” Davies.
▪️Thursday 2nd: Childhood sporting heroes
1. Gordon Davies
2. George Best
3. Daley Thompson
4. Ian Botham
5. Jimmy Connors
Who doesn’t love a story about a bear that can talk?
▪️Friday 3rd: Fictional Bears
- Paddington
- Whinnie The Pooh
- Iorek Byrnison
- Yogi Bear
- Fozzie Bear
The weekend topic was a bit of an epic which resulted in me doing three top fives.
▪️Saturday 4th: Song with numbers for titles
- 1969 - The Stooges
- Thirteen - Big Star
- 1,000,000 - R.E.M.
- 1234 - Feist
- 19-20-20 - The Grates
▪️Songs with numbers that are years
- 1969 - The Stooges
- 1999 - Prince
- 1970 - The Stooges
- 1993 - Dananananaykroyd
- 1984 - David Bowie / 1916 - Motörhead
▪️Songs with your favourite number
- Thirteen - Big Star
- Thirteen - Johnny Cash / Danzig
- Thirteen - Forward Russia
- Undegtri - Y Niwl
- Thirteen - The Antlers
