The Whole Nine Yards Episode 208

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 19^th 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)