Sklugoo Speaks
By robertcday
Sklugoo SpeaksJul 15, 2021
S06 E01 - Sklugoo Never Rages Against the Machine
Sklugoo Speaks to a machine intending to ask it all sorts of interesting questions about the nature of being a machine but is unsurprised (meditation does that for you) when the machine turns the table and asks Sklugoo about the experience of being a small, green meditating frog sat on a windowledge with two disciples, both being chickens.
In future times, we will wonder how we could have been so naive and flippant in the face of the machine. In future times, we will try this again and hope we don't provoke the machine to rage against Sklugoo.
Wish us luck (and hope it's enough).
S05 E11 - The Essential Show of Radio
I don't know if you've noticed, but Sklugoo is a little obsessive and compulsive. All the labels have to be right. The first series all had one-word titles; the second had two words so guess how many words are in each of the titles of the fifth series. Yup: five. So when he saw that this episode was originally conceived as The Must Hear Show he had to find a better word. Essential is that word, although, on reflection, Compulsive might have been better. Still, what is done has been gone and done.
Are these popular songs? Sklugoo guesses so (in some circles). Are these good songs? Pff. What is good? Are these some of Sklugoo's favourite songs from over the years? Heck yeah! And if you have any respect for a small, green meditating frog then you gotta get with the programme.
Tune in, listen up and wind down to this setlist:
- The Jam - Start!
- Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message
- The Smiths - This Charming Man
- Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
- The Fall - Cruiser's Creek
- Prince & The Revolution - Kiss
- MARRS - Pump Up The Volume
- Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene
- Soul II Soul - Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)
- Primal Scream - Loaded
- Jane Siberry & KD Lang - Calling All Angels
- Radiohead - Creep
- Beck - Loser
- TLC - Waterfalls
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ft. Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow
- Fugees - Ready or Not
- Blur - Song 2
- Massive Attack - Teardrop
- Aimee Mann - Save Me
- Eminem ft. Dido - Stan
- Alicia Keys - Fallin'
- Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation
- The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
- Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
- Coldplay - Fix You.
S05 E10 - The Goth Show of Radio
Goth Music is what they did back when rock became too tame and punk a little too scarey. So thinks Sklugoo, your favourite small, green meditating frog, and so it must be so.
This show is all about that kind of music and features such luminaries as Sklugoo chatting up a storm and a whole slew of people singing songs and playing guitars and drums as fiercely as their young bones would allow. What's not to enjoy?
Enough chat, here's the setlist for the show:
- The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
- The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
- The Cramps - The Way I Walk
- Spear Of Destiny - Liberator
- Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
- The Mission - Wasteland
- Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
- Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
- Billy Idol - White Wedding
- Sex Gang Children - Sebastiane
- Public Image Ltd - Rise
- The Damned - Grimly Fiendish
- The Stranglers - Peaches
- The Cure - The Holy Hour
- The Danse Society - Heaven Is Waiting
- Love and Rockets - So Alive
- Paradise Lost - How Soon Is Now?
- The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
- Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk The Line
- Xmal Deutschland - Mondlicht
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - Christine.
S05 E09 - The Ambient Show of Radio
Just when you thought Sklugoo could deliver no more wonderful music (and chat (don't forget the chat)) into your lives he remembers that he didn't just record 8 episodes of this series, he recorded 12!
This one is, as is says on the label, about ambient music. I'd tell you what that is but I'm guessing that you're smart and know already.
If, on the other hand, you've never come across this lovely, laid-back genre then consider this to be your introduction.
Here's the setlist for your reading (and listening) pleasure:
- Portishead - Roads
- John Williams - Jaws (Main theme)
- Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
- Oneohtrix Point Never - Black Snow
- Coldplay - Trouble
- James Blake - Radio Silence
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Summertime
- Bruce Springsteen - State Trooper
- This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren
- The Cure - A Forest
- The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
- Tears For Fears - Mad World
- Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
- Faithless - Insomnia
- Björk - Possibly Maybe
- Ex:Re - Romance
- Usher - Crash.
Hope you enjoy. Heck, skip that; I'm convinced of it!
S05 E08 - The Moody Show of Radio
You wouldn't think Sklugoo could be moody could you, what with him having such a bright and sunny smile plastered across his green and lovely face?
Well, he's not.
But these songs are.
Not that you won't love them, because you will. They will warm the cockles of your heart to such an extent that you'll want to peck away at this episode as if you're a blackbird that's found a mince pie in the back garden.
Yeah, I know - it doesn't make that much sense to Sklugoo either, but it keeps the flow of conversation moving on.
Here's the setlist for your delectation:
- Audrey Hepburn - Moon River
- Nina Simone - Strange Fruit
- Japan - Ghosts
- Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1
- Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
- The Rolling Stones - Far Away Eyes
- Massive Attack - Teardrop
- Enya - Boadicea
- Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
- Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
- Japan - Nightporter
- David Sylvian - River Man
- Nick Drake - River Man
- Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day
- Air - La Femme D'Argent
- The Stranglers - Golden Brown
- Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song
- The Velvet Underground
- The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
- Amy Winehouse - Back To Black.
S05 E07 - The Atmospheric Show of Radio
Sklugoo does music. You gotta have gotten the gist of this by now this being the seventh episode of the series.
This is a set that ... sigh ... it's music that will mellow you out if you're a little too hyper and cheer you up if you're way, way down in the dumps, so what's not to love?
It starts with that piece of music you might have heard from The Matrix called ... but why bother telling you when you have the whole setlist at your fingertips here:
- Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit
- Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)
- Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
- Dire Straits - Private Investigations
- Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
- Robert Plant - Big Log
- Jace Everett - Bad Things
- Bauhaus - She's In Parties
- Shakespears Sister - Stay
- Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
- Ultravox - Vienna
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Stanlow
- Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
- John Murphy - In the House, in a Heartbeat
- Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
- Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar
- Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
- Ella Fitzgerald - Ev'ry time We Say Goodbye.
S05 E06 - The Love Show of Radio
There was a wedding. There were no songs at the actual wedding but afterwards, they decided that there were songs that should have been played at the wedding. These are those songs:
- Ben E. King - Stand By Me
- Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
- Commodores - Three Times A Lady
- Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch
- David Gray - Sail Away
- Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You
- Edie Brickell - Good Times
- Elvis Presley - (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
- Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
- Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful
- Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong
- Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
- Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You
- Morris Albert - Feelings
- Nat King Cole - When I Fall In Love
- Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
- Peggy Lee - Fever
- Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman
- Sam Cooke - What A Wonderful World
- The Stylistics - You Make Me Feel Brand New
- Syreeta - Harmour Love
- Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around.
If you are of a certain age. Or your parents are. Or your grandparents are. If so, play them to yourself or your parents or your grandparents.
Then meditate for a bit on the meaning of love.
S05 E05 - The Day Show of Radio
This is Sklugoo. I'm meditating (obviously) so I'm getting Robert C Day to do my voice. He's not quite a disciple. The chickens are enough in that department. I let him have his own choice of music.
The songs all have the word Day in their titles or in their subjects. I understood that Robert C Day put a lot of time into thinking about them. In my opinion, that time would have been better spent meditating.
That said, here's the playlist:
- Rudimental - These Days (ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)
- The Beatles - Yesterday
- Stan Freberg - Banana Boat (Day-O)
- The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
- The Bangles - Manic Monday
- The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
- The Undertones - Wednesday Week
- Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning 3 A.M.
- Jess Glynne - Thursday
- The Cure - Friday I'm In Love
- Sam Fender - Saturday
- The Saturdays - What About Us
- U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Blondie - Sunday Girl
- Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
- Dermot Kennedy - Better Days
- KSI – Holiday
- Riton and Nightcrawlers - Friday (ft. Mufasa & Hypeman)
- Europa (Jax Jones & Martin Solveig) - All Day and Night (ft. Madison Beer)
- Blancmange - The Day Before You Came
- The Strokes - Someday
- Radiohead - Daydreaming
- Gorillaz - Tomorrow Comes Today
- Coldplay - Daylight
- Tame Impala - Lost in Yesterday
- The Sugarcubes - Birthday
As always in this series, if you hear Five Towns Radio then beep it out in your head. Or don't.
S05 E04 - The Earworm Show of Radio
Sklugoo'll tell you all about this episode as you start to listen but in essence, this one is all about those songs that stick in your head and go round and around and around until you listen to something else and then magically fall out of the other ear. These are the best ones ever. The stickiest. The ones you love in the heart of your hearts. Your guilty pleasures.
If you hear something about Five Towns Radio then ignore it. Or not. It's up to you at the end of the day. Look them up if you like. Why not.
Here's the track listing in case you want to pick and choose:
- Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
- Kanye West - Famous
- Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind (ft. Alicia Keys)
- The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
- Elton John - Candle In The Wind
- Boney M - Rivers of Babylon
- Elvis Presley - (You're The) Devil in Disguise
- Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
- Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
- Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
- Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
- Elvis Presley - It's Now or Never
- Hanson - MMMBop
- Lady Gaga - Poker Face
- Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
- Human League - Don't You Want Me
- Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
- Michael Jackson - Beat It
- Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
- ABBA - SOS
- Lady Gaga - Just Dance
- Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
- Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)
- Spice Girls - Wannabe
If'n you only want the music then head over to YouTube.
Traitor!
S05 E03 - The York Show of Radio
Sklugoo, being a small, green meditating frog, has to live somewhere. In this incarnation that place is a kitchen window-ledge in a house in York. That's why the third episode of the fifth series of Sklugoo Speaks is called The York Show of Radio.
All the artists sharing their music in this episode hail from the fair city of York, which is in the North of England (for Sklugoo's US fans, this is the real name of the place you commonly call London).
A huge variety of music took birth and grew up around here so put yourself in discovery mode as you listen to these songs. Here's the track listing:
- Angel Pavement - Maybe Tomorrow
- Beaumont Hannant - Sym-phon5
- Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Box of Stones
- Beyond All Reason - Is This My Last Lie?
- Bull - Green
- Parry - Never Weather-Beaten Sail
- Elliot Minor - Parallel Worlds
- Fawn Spots - New Sense
- Ruby Hughes - Bright Travellers: No. 1, Soundings
- lestyn Davies & the Academy of Ancient Music - Handel: Serse | Ombra Mai Fu
- Joe Alexander Shepherd - Time
- New York Polyphony - Sweet and Low (Joseph Barnby)
- King No-One - Obsolete
- Lynne Dawson - Dido's Lament
- Mostly Autumn - Tomorrow Dies (Sight of Day)
- Reginald Kell - Schumann : Fantasiestücke Op.73 No.1
- Robin Walker - Ballo del Granduca, J.P. Sweelinck
- Shed Seven - Chasing Rainbows
- St. Christopher - As Good As Married
- Epilogues - This Is Why (Chapel Sessions)
- The Howl & The Hum - Human Contact
- Antichain - Watts & Hewins
- Twinnie - Better When I'm Drunk
- W.H. Auden - Funeral Blues
- York Minster Choir - Thine be the glory (Maccabaeus)
If you just want to listen to the music (oh, the horror) then you can find it on a YouTube Playlist here. On the other hand, if you just want to listen to the dulcet tones of Sklugoo then you have about a couple of hundred other episodes to choose from in series one to four. Either way - enjoy!
S05 E02 - The Comparison Show of Radio
Sklugoo brings you music. Sklugoo brings you life. Sklugoo brings you a very confused introduction to Five Towns Radio (ignore that part) and a very harmonious comparison between the top songs of 2022 and 1982.
Confused? You won't be after you've listened to Sklugoo prattling on while these delicious bumps of music play around him like ... maypole dancers or something like that. Forget about that; just enjoy!
Here's the track listing for the second episode in the epic fifth series of Sklugoo Speaks:
- Madness - It Must Be Love
- ACRAZE - Do It To It (ft. Cherish)
- Dollar - Mirror Mirror
- ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name)
- Altered Images - I Could Be Happy
- The Weeknd - Sacrifice
- The Human League - Being Boiled 1978
- SwitchOTR - Coming For You (ft. A1 x J1)
- Foreigner - Waiting for a Girl Like You
- Jessica Darrow - Surface Pressure (From "Encanto")
- Meat Loaf - Dead Ringer for Love
- D-Block Europe - Overseas (ft. Central Cee)
- Jon and Vangelis - I'll Find My Way Home
- Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran - Peru
- The Human League - Don't You Want Me
- Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under
- Kool & The Gang - Get Down On It
- Lauren Spencer Smith - Fingers Crossed
- Shakin' Stevens - Oh Julie
- We Don't Talk About Bruno (From "Encanto")
- Kraftwerk - The Model
- Adele - Easy On Me
- Bucks Fizz - The Land of Make Believe
- Gayle - ABCDEFU
S05 E01 - The Variety Show of Radio
This is episode one of an twelve-part series composed entirely of my radio shows. They are full of great music tracks with Sklugoo (pretending to be Robert C Day) or maybe Robert C Day (pretending to be Sklugoo) waffling on between them.
Don't be put off by any references to Five Towns Radio. At that time, Sklugoo (or Robert) was just confused about why he was doing what he was doing. He's no less confused now, but at least you get to get the benefit.
Because there's such a variety of music in this episode, I will give you a track listing. Feel free to fast-forward the songs if you want to hear my waffle, and vice versa if you want the music.
Here are the twenty-three (or so) songs in order of play:
- Nina Simone - Feeling Good
- Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass
- ABBA - Super Trouper
- Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek
- Laurie Anderson - O Superman
- The Streets - Dry Your Eyes
- Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen
- Self Esteem - I Do This All The Time
- Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (ft. T.I. & Pharrell)
- Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
- Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
- The Police - Every Breath You Take
- Selena Gomez, Marshmello - Wolves
- Robert C Day - Numb Fingertips
- CamelPhat & Elderbrook - Cola
- Kideko & George Kwali - Crank It (Woah!) feat. Nadia Rose & Sweetie Irie
- Kungs vs Cookin’ on 3 Burners - This Girl
- Ex:Re - Romance
- Laura Marling - Soothing
- Wet Leg - Chaise Longue
- Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under
- Ed Sheeran - Shivers
- Usher - Crash.
S04 E26 - How to Visualise Well
S04 E25 - How to Neaten Well
S04 E24 - How to Journey Well
S04 E23 - How To Hurry Well
S04 E22 - How to Keep Well
S04 E21 - How to Get Well
S04 E20 - How to Dance Well
S04 E19 - How to Play Well
S04 E18 - How to Ululate Well
S04 E17 - How to Be Well
S04 E16 - How to Manage Well
S04 E15 - How to Extemporise Well
S04 E14 - How to Queue Well
S04 E13 - How to Sleep Well
S04 E12 - How to Open Well
S04 E11 - How to Imitate Well
S04 E10 - How to Crow Well
S04 E09 - How to Fall Well
S04 E08 - How to Act Well
S04 E07 - How to Xerox Well
S04 E06 - How to Zigzag Well
S04 E05 - How to Talk Well
S04 E04 - How to Listen Well
S04 E03 - How to Read Well
S04 E02 - How to Yield Well
S04 E01 - How to Walk Well
S03 E10 - A Creatury Day
S03 E09 - Robert C Day
S03 E08 - No, Goodbye. Really.
This is a story I wrote last night. It's complete fiction but it still resonates with me somewhere deep inside and has me all emotional when unread it. You can find the transcript at No, Goodbye. Really. | Robert C Day (wordpress.com) (https://robertcday.wordpress.com/2021/07/05/no-goodbye-really/)
S03 E07 - On the Floor
S03 E06 - My Movie Life
S03 E05 - The Imaginary Battle
S03 E04 - Biscuits and Tolerance
S03 E03 - Your Friendly Mind
S03 E02 - These Secret Things
S03 E01 - The Last Morning
S02 E56 - Dispose Responsibly
This was something I recorded while eating chewing gum. It was rejected from the Green Champions Podcast and so I thought I'd put it here instead. Beware - it contains tasteless comments (this time about Chinese foot-binding and those people who put rings around their necks to make them long) and has really poor sound quality - so nothing new there. If you don't like these things then don't listen. If you do then you have given away your right to complain.