5 on Friday - Set 140

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

I'm already two weeks into my Spooky Stories Author series here at A Piece of My Mind, so my sets for the rest of October are going to be all-Halloween, all the time.

If you missed the first two interviews, you can catch them here:

Natalie G. Owens, author of AN INCONVENIENT DEBT

Trish Milburn, author of MAGICK 

The tone for this week begins with unchecked madness and spirals into the hell that follows... 

1 - Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

2 - 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson

3 - All the Madmen - David Bowie

4 - Riders on the Storm - The Doors

5 - Home by the Sea - Genesis

5 on Friday - Set 133

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

I'm currently on vacation--if my comments are sporadic for the next little while, I'll be back soon.

Until then, here's this week's set:

1 - Vacation - The Go-Go's

2 - Holiday - Madonna 

3 - Night Boat to Cairo - Madness

4 - Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones

5 -  Holiday - Green Day

5 on Friday - Set 23 - By Guest Blogger Brad

Today I'm handing 5 on Friday's set list to my third guest blogger - the one and only - my husband, Brad.

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In the early to mid-eighties, a friend of mine made me a mixed tape. I loved it. I listened to it every day. I mean, every day, for about fourteen years. Until the tape head fell off the cassette.

So complacent was I in the fact that I'd always have this tape, that when it broke I found out I didn't know the groups that I'd been listening to.

Following is a sample of five songs that I've been able to find that were on that tape.

1 - Save it For Later - English Beat

Sooner or later
Your legs give way and hit the ground
Save it for later
Don't run away and let me down
Sooner or later
You hit the deck, you'll get found out

Save it for later
Don't run away, run away
And let me down

- Charlery / Cox / Morton / Steele / Wakeling



2 - Our House - Madness

Father wears his Sunday best
Mother's tired, she needs a rest
The kids are playing up, downstairs

Sister's sighing in her sleep
Brother's got a date to keep
He can't hang around

Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our -

- Barson / Bedford / Foreman / McPherson / Smyth / Thompson / Woodgate



3 - Six Months in a Leaky Boat - Split Enz

This has a long intro. The song begins at the 1:28 mark.

When I was a young boy
I wanted to sail round the world
That's the life for me
Living on the sea

Spirit of a sailor
Circumnavigates the globe
The lust of a pioneer
Will ackowledge no frontier

I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Lucky just to keep afloat

- Crombie / Neil Mullane Finn & Tim Finn / Griggs / Rayner



4 - One Step Ahead - Split Enz

One step ahead of you
Time is running out
Catching up with you

One step ahead of you
When I hold you close
Can I really lose?

- Neil Mullane Finn



5 - Another Nail in My Heart - Squeeze

Note: volume is a bit low

I had excuses
Those little boy lies
That she computed
By watching my eyes
And told me firmly

I've had a bad time
Now love is resigned
I've been such a fool
I've loved and goodbyed

So here in the bar
The piano man's found
Another nail for my heart

- Difford / Tilbrook



For more fab tunes, visit Travis at Trav's Thoughts.