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'Neil Gow's Apprentice' - Michael Marra


Trivia Question: Who is Neil Gow's apprentice?

The arms trade.

'Oh Effendi' - 10cc

A wee change fae the Wall Street Shuffle.

'Heartland' - Bob Dylan & Willie Nelson


Farmers, and their one-sided relationship with the banks.

'North Sea Oil' - Jethro Tull ~ for E.C.

#1 pass

Ego - the Saturdays

Ambition - We Are Scientists

Money Becomes King - TP

Dog Eat Dog - AC/DC

Sugar Town - Nancy Sinatra

Mr Businessman - Ray Stevens

Backstabbers - John Lee Hooker and the superb Albert Collins (Mr Lucky album) *choice*

TP you may be amazed to know is Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

'Mr. Banker' - Lynyrd Skynyrd

A young man wants to bury his Dad, but the only item of value he owns is a Les Paul guitar...

a spade would be easier

You can no longer depend on the man downtown to take care of business like he's supposed to when he's supposed to....
Let's Clean up the Ghetto / Philadelphia International Allstars

Sell Sell sell / David Gray

Man who sold the world (Big Deal) / David Bowie

Shake Your Money Maker / Fleetwood Mac

Marketplace / Snow Patrol

Call It a Loan - Jackson Browne

Hey Mr Bank Manager - the Silencers


the Ambrosia track was lovely, Paolo.

And the James Grant too.

The Jam - Smithers Jones

MMFC will back this up I hope

and the anti greed, ambition whatever song

Iris DeMent - The Way I Should

one which the title fits but not really the song

King L - Greedy

I commend these songs to the blog...

#8

He wants to pull some strings...

Did I mention he was black?

>8-D

#11

Might be time to hear Wasteland of the Free again.

you HORROR!!!

#14

You can stop digging now...

>8-D

#11 Grrrr of course. Either or I suppose but I second:

Iris DeMent - Wasteland of The Free

#17

It's your shout, to which I wish to lend my support.

Since I chucked the telly out a few years ago, I've never seen The Apprentice. It's unfair to comment since I don't know the man, but based on the little I know my mind drifts towards:

He's Misstra Know It All - Stevie Wonder

I've been running a business for 27 years, through thick and thin, it's still great fun and among the most creative things you can do: I still get a great thrill of building the business with my colleagues.

Of course, I'm nowhere near as successful as Alan Sugar, but hey - when did he last blog on Get It On?

regardez youse

henri

19. At 9:10pm on 04 Oct 2010, Sir Alan Sugar wrote:

Bob Dylan - Desolation Row

Norrie! I commend ur rising to my no Bowie, Eno, Boss challenge, top marks!!

Apprentice songs;

Tears of A Clown by Smokey Robinson
Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Shuttuppa ya Face by Joe Dolce
Young Willing and Able by Minnie Ripperton

I'm a big Apprentice fan but they do drive me mad and the thought of no Margaret is a little worrying!

Mazzy*

#16 next time we complain about the music on GIO just remember:

'Richard Cory' - Simon and Garfunkel

#21 the week is young....

#22 ?!?

Worse than Oasis?

#11 Consider it backed... Come on BB play the single version i.e. 'without the strings' for Mr MacLean.

No Thunderbirds comment Glen, thank you very much!

Ach, stuff it... where is that voice of controversy?

#25 well I thought so, but maybe you liked them?


There you go, another plus for GIO, the em ?music? you never knew existed.


Is it just me or does it seem like all of Skye listens in? Maybe we can have a Sgitheanach chapter meeting next week when I'm not wandering lonely as a cloud in the Cuillin.

Red or Black?

the foothills of either. I'm no climber!

Tuesday:

Sugar on the floor - Kiki Dee






DC

'A Well Respected Man' - The Kinks

The Apprentice is a crock of rubbish.
It's okay if you want to be a salesperson and your profit achieved is better than any of the others!
'As Long As The Price Is Right ~ Dr Feelgood'
Here's a better idea for TV... follow various young adults in the first year of employment be it Manufacturing, Science, Commerce, Education etc and see which one makes the single biggest measurable contribution / benefit to their respective organisation!

My suggestions relate more to the programme than anything elese:
Fire - The Pointer Sisters
It's over - Boz Scaggs
Is it worth it - Allison Moorer
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
Big shot - Billy Joel
Too busy being fabulous - Eagles
Your own worst enemy or I'll work for your love - Springsteen
Where you lead or Will you love me tomorrow - Carole King
All that matters - Curtis Sigers

Joe
Linlithgow

The Who - The Dirty Jobs

'Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap' - AC/DC

'One More Dollar' - Gillian Welch

Must have qualities on an 'Apprentice' CV ...

'Twenty-three lubed up schitzophrenics with illusions of grandeur' ... Locust

'False Ambitions' ... Satanic Surfers
'Money Greedy' ... Tricky
'Ego Drama' ... Dark Tranquility
'Back Stabbers' ... The OJays

Your hired!

not used to laptop keyboards. no fancy html for a bitty
Hue and Cry - Labour of Love (as if - it pays the bills, that's all)
Gunter Gabriel - Hey, Boss - Ich Brauch Mehr Geld (as if - it's no' in Scottish, nor English - ach, well)

the most pertinent is
RESPECT - Aretha Franklin
Fat chance. As in most areas of life, the "face fits" thing seems to be the safest option.

For both sides of the table:

Chairmen of The Board - Give Me Just A Little More Time

Mick Jagger - She's The Boss and/or Hard Woman

I make no further comment...

OK it's reality TV which is usually good enough for me, but I draw the line at anything that reminds me of work, anyway...

Found a Job - Talking Heads

Silly Games - Janet Kay

Three Cheers for Our Side - Orange Juice

Paul from Ayr

One for Joe;

'9 to 5' - Alison Krauss

A wee change fae Dolly's (wonderful) original.

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Glen! Maria's back!

>8-D

#32 spot-on, MM, but make it their second year - the first year would only be more schadenfraude TV with all the daft mistakes we'd rather no-one found out about in the first faltering months.

In general don't want to watch a bunch of people I wouldn't entertain in my own home, but there was a programme last week about 10 year-olds going to boarding school that showed me whole new strata - by the time they were 11 they'd cast aside their childhood, could recite and analyse the Iliad and were ready for parliament. It was terrifying.

Big Boss Man - Pretty Things

Get Rich Quick - Little Richard

Mair Tuesday:

Don't tell me that it's over - Amy Macdonald
Go now - Moody Blues
He's gonna step on you again - John Kongos
High Hopes - Pink Floyd
Alan's psychedelic breakfast - Pink Floyd
Last to leave - Arlo Guthrie
Lookin after no.1 - Boomtown Rats
The man who sold the world - Bowie
Next contestant - Nickleback
No more Mr Nice Guy - Alice Cooper
Part of the Union - Strawbs (I doubt f***book users will understand this)
Sugar Daddy - Fleetwood Mac
Take a chance with me - Roxy Music
Money - Pink Floyd


but the song I really would like to hear but which will no doubt be "fired" by the COB (Chief Officer Babs)......

Wots..uh the deal - David Gilmour (Live in Gdansk)




DC

"Take The Money And Run' - Steve Miller Band

'Tall Buildings' - John Hartford...or Gillian Welch

"Someday my baby, when I am a man
And others have taught me
The best that they can
They'll sell me a suit
They'll cut off my hair
And send me to work in tall buildings"

#44 Here's Johnnie!

#45 That's the pleasure principle for all these types of programmes...

#46 Yip, Johnny Kongos GIO!

Devil's Answer ~ Atomic Rooster... 'You're fired!'

They offered me the office, offered me the shop
They said I better take anything they got
Do you wanna make tea at the Â鶹Éç?
Do you wanna be, do really wanna be a cop?

You're hired!

more Apprentice thoughts ...

'Anything you can do' ... The Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby & Doris Day

'Blockheads' ... Ian Dury + the
'Mind Games' ... Devo
'Pretty Vacant' ... the Pistols
'Accountancy Shanty' ... Monty Python
'Money changes Everything' ... Cyndi
'Fools Gold' ... The Stone Roses
'My Way'... Shane MacGowan

Your hired!

#50 great call MMFC

#32 Not a bad idea.
#43 Good one, Billy

Queen I Want It All
Erasure Ship of Fools

(these are to replace my previous suggestions - I misread the brief. I'm fired)

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If we don't get some Bragg tonight, then someone's gonna complain that there's some degree of censorship going on ;-)

#51 Hey Kene, such eclecticism merits a place on the board!

#46

Ah come on - let's not have the Strawbs, but the song they shredded to make that one:
*
(assuming Woody's original isn't available)

#51

haha - yes the Accountancy Shanty! Although perhaps the Money Song would be more appropriate
There is nothing quite as wonderful as money
There is nothing quite as beautiful as cash...

Sorry for the repeat, last successfull shout for this on the Credit Crunch night with Vic & Mandy...

The handshake seals the contract
From the contract there's no turning back
The turning point of a career
In Korea being insincere
The holiday was fun-packed
The contract still intact

The grabbing hands grab all they can
All for themselves - after all
The grabbing hands grab all they can
All for themselves - after all
It's a competitive world
Everything counts in large amounts

The graph on the wall
Tells the story of it all
Picture it now
See just how
The lies and deceit gained a little
More apower
Confidence - taken in
By a suntan and a grin

Everything counts in large amounts.

My Bragg suggestion:
* Billy Bragg -
which is all about getting that first job. Or not. Depending on what Sirralan/Lord Sugar/get stuffed with your titles thinks.

Less obviously polemical than
* Which Side Are You On?
* There is Power in a Union
* Thatcherites (by name lend an ear, lend an ear)
* NPWA

Decidedly too folky and political for GiO, but can't not suggest:

* Gordeanna McCulloch - Bawbee Birlin'
The bawbee o't, the bawbee o't, the birlin' o' the bawbee o't
It's no for a penny or a shillin' or a groat
But a' for the birlin' o' the bawbee o't

* Eric Bogle - The Contract
Divide and Rule was the bosses' tool
and Son that husnae changed

* Brian McNeill - Sell Your Labour, Not Your Soul

* Matt McGinn - Three Nights and Sunday Double Time
I work all day and I work all night
Tae hell wi' you Jack I'm all right

All from the excellent

Big(head) business and board(rigid) room antics.... cynical... me? Bad day at work... can you tell?

Part of The Union: The Strawbs
Blue Sky: Elaine Palmer (Blue-sky thinking?)
Mining For Gold: The Cowboy Junkies
The Big Ones Get Away: Buffy St Marie
Dignity: Deacon Blue
Industrial Disease: Dire Straits
The Importance of Being Idle: Oasis
Race To Be King: Seth lakeman
What Difference Does It Make: The Smiths

and a big 'second' for all the Bragg suggestions from CaptRamius.

Bryan Ferry

Can't Let Go

J.O'B.

Flight of the Conchords Business Time
"Conditions are perfect, there's nothing good on TV"

#62 Smiths are bound to be played

What's the odds Paolo?

Frankly if anyone who worked for me regularly exhibited the behaviours encouraged by The Apprentice, I'd boot them on the spot...

And as for - he's by no means the success and big boss he used to be and that he'd like you to think he still is.

This is the bloke that predicted in 2005 that the iPod would be dead by the following Christmas, and that his Em@ailer would get used by... well, anyone really.

He sold Amstrad to Sky and is still an employee. His airline is tiny. Viglen is (where the Apprentice leaving scenes are filmed - the Canary Wharf heli footage is highly misleading) and he's chairman of an ad sales company his son runs.

He does have a property company, though, and (probably) a large lump of personal cash left from the Sky sale. But still, not the vast empire you'd expect.

Taking Care of Business - Lindisfarne

#66 He has also given a FORTUNE (certainly by my standards) to Great Ormond Street, whatever he gets good on him, and if he loses any of it well that's a pity and it certainly will not put a £ in my pocket.

Tuesday ~

WORKINGMAN'S BLUES#2 from BOB DYLAN: THE COLLECTION Feted by David Bowie (who sang backing on one of the songs)

THE OPTIMIST from THE NORTH STAR GRASSMAN AND THE RAVENS by SANDY DENNY

WACCY BACCY BANKER from 2032 by GONG

FiredTheFish

Firedthefish! Ha ha ha! Thats good.

Bring me the fired fish head of FredTheFishia

You're Fried!

#73 I know, I'm sorry pass the salt and vinegar/sauce.

Hi Bryan, thanks for yet another great show. I would also love to hear 'Neil Gow's Apprentice' by Michael Marra, or how about 'The Winner Takes it All' by Abba. Cheers!
Deirdre, St Andrews

#1 Brilliant Scotch.

I've just purchased the live album on the back of that song

DC

#1 AND #75 Don't forget the seconder DC! First time i've heard that as well and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Great suggestion Deirdre :)

My apologies Paul,

great song!

#76

DC,

CD or download? I knew a new album was due, but didn't realise it was available.

Will you post a link?

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Other Choons are available

DC