QUIMS Meeting 5th September 2008: Transport

Roger played host to the latest quims meeting with the subject being Transport. It was perhaps a sign of the times that the only thing he had to play music on was an iPod docking station meaning we had to bring our tunes on iPods….which actually worked really well enabling us to get more tunes in than ever before. Sat around the kitchen table eating chips and dip, olives, cheese and some rather nice honey glazed sausages, we decided to start by each person having to pick a different form of transport…………..

Motorcycle Emptiness – Manic Street Preachers (Roger)
Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space – Spiritualized (John M)
Finchley Central – The New Vaudeville Band (Jez)
Transfusion – Nervous Norvus (Bob)
South West Trains – Good Shoes (Simon)
Noah’s Ark – Coco Rosie (John F)
Submarine – Black Grape (Roger)
Container Drivers – The Fall (John M)
Nantucket Sleigh Ride – Mountain (Jez)
Serious Drugs – BMX Bandits (Bob)
The Pushbike Song – The Mixtures (Simon)
Bus – The Radio Dept (John F)

We then decided to have a round of cars (as we all seemed to have a lot of them)….

Ol ’55 – Tom Waits (Roger)
White car in Germany – The Associates (John M)
Bad Habit – The Offspring (Jez)
Brand New Cadillac – Vince Taylor (Bob)
Car Bomb – 180 G’s (Simon)
I’m the lovliest guy on the lower east side – Magnetic Fields (John F)

Next, a round of flight…..

Kamikaze – PJ Harvey (Roger)
Flight – A Certain Ratio (John M)
Airport – The Motors (Jez)
Rocket Ship – Tommy McCook (Bob)
Olympic Airways – Foals (Simon)
Expecting to fly – Buffalo Springfield (John F)

Followed by a round at sea……

Sloop John B – The Beach Boys (Roger)
Captains Table – Shack (John M)
Boat to Bolivia – Martin Stephenson and the Daintees (Jez)
Good Ship Venus – Loudon Wainwright III
Surfin’ – Ernest Raglin (Simon)
Big Boat – M Ward (John F)

And then 2 wheels good………..

Black Boys on Mopeds – Sinead O’Connor (Roger)
Dog on Wheels – Belle and Sebastian (John M)
Iron Horse – Motorhead (Jez)
Vincent Black Lightening 1952 – Richard Thompson (Bob)
Caravan Girl – Goldfrapp (Simon)
Little Honda – Yo La Tengo (John F)

It was getting late by then so we had a freestyle round…….

Running up that hill – Placebo (Roger)
Station Approach – Elbow (John M)
Rapture Riders – Go Home Productions (Jez)
Pull up to the bumper – Grace Jones (Bob)
London Underground – Adam Kay and Simon Biswas (Simon)
Tricycle – Psapp (John F)

It was really late so we had a 2 minute round – the shortest one about transport you have…….

Artificial (of milkmaids and architects) – Martha Tilston (Roger)
Fast Cars – Buzzcocks (John M)
Love Rollercoaster – Ohio Players (Roger)
Beautiful Car – Giant Sand (Bob)
Sometimes a pony gets depressed – Silver Jews (Simon)
A good walk spoiled – Cassette boy (John F)

Whatever the hour, no one wanted to go home so the next round was types of transport not used yet……….

Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon – Flaming Lips (Roger)
Ride on time – Ride (John M)
Police Truck – Dead Kennedys (Jez)
Extract from Steam in Stereo (Darlington Goods yard at night) and from the 1977 TT Races (Bob)
Tank – The Stranglers (Simon)
Tram 21 – Electrolane (John F)

The final round was titled obscure after Roger chose a track, which sampled Nightrider…

Hey boy, hey girl – The Chemical Brothers (Roger)
Weather and Fly – Elbow (John M)
Submission – Sex Pistols (Jez)
18 Wheels on a big rig – Trout Fishing In America (Bob)
UFO Theme – Geoff Love and his Orchestra (Simon)
Information of TUA - Yoshinori Sunahara (John F)

And we couldn’t go home without a bit of Kraftwerk now could we…….

Autobahn – Senior Coconut

How often do you get to hear 61 tracks accompanied by great banter in an evening? Not often enough!

Bob the Chiropodist