The Wildhearts

I don't know if anyone else was listening to the Chris Moyles show early this morning just after 7am? He was going through a couple of old cover versions and remixes when he started playing the intro to Cheers. He played it several times over trying to get the team to guess what it was. He just played the Taxi part to start with, then went on to the opening of the vocals.

No one knew who it was by though. It just said "Cheers" on the cd without any artist name. They were all going on about how good it was and they asked people to text in if they knew who it was by. I didn't catch the next few minutes of the show after this so I don't know if anyone text in or not with the answer?

Did anyone else hear it???

oh. my. word.

No I didn't hear it - but I wish I had!

inglorious01 wrote:I don't know if anyone else was listening to the Chris Moyles show

Why would anyone listen to that obnoxious tw4t?

Somebody did text it in. But it did highlight the knowledge of Britain's highest paid DJ, "if it don't say it on the tin then i don't know what it is"

they played it at 9.20 as well with zane lowe singing ocasional karoake on it!

I find this a bit bizarre, 'cos when the song came out it was some Radio 1 DJ's 'song of the week'.. it got a lot of airplay back then.

fluffygrue wrote:I find this a bit bizarre, 'cos when the song came out it was some Radio 1 DJ's 'song of the week'.. it got a lot of airplay back then.

That's right, it was Chris Moyles at the time. He obviously has a short memory!

inglorious01 wrote:That's right, it was Chris Moyles at the time. He obviously has a short memory!

Ah, I thought it was him..! *boggle*

He played it constantly at the time it was released, although you'll be terribly surprised to know he's played nothing else by them before or since.

My mate phoned me at 8.30 ish to say The Wildhearts had been on loads of times in the last hour, the Taxi theme before Cheers.

They had announced it was Wildhearts by then.

Yeah, heard it. Moyles was saying Zane Lowe should play it and that the band should re-release it. Not a bad idea really - stick it on the DAM single. It's quite amusing to think of someone buying the single cos Cheers is on it and being confronted with the A-side's 6-minutes of mentalness!

Wrenaldo wrote:Yeah, heard it. Moyles was saying Zane Lowe should play it and that the band should re-release it. Not a bad idea really - stick it on the DAM single. It's quite amusing to think of someone buying the single cos Cheers is on it and being confronted with the A-side's 6-minutes of mentalness!

Yeah, I heard all this happen this morning too.

They played it, then admitted they didn't have a clue who it was. I almost actually slapped myself in the forehead. When does that ever happen on Radio 1, eh? It could only happen to the bloody Wildhearts.

Once they found out who it was, Moyles said they should re-release it and they'd get it in the top 20.

What they should do is re-release it now with The Revolution Will Be Televised as a double A-side, or release it as an EP deal with other poppier stuff from WH07 on it - Oh Bonita, Bipolar Baby or something. Best chance they'll get to promote these songs and get people into them.

There's MySpace as well, I suppose.

Or imagine how many people Ginger might suckerpunch if he stuck Yeah Yeah Yeah or Holiday or 29 x The Pain on a CD of it. Coherence be damned!

Here's the drill for tomorrow (Nov 6).

People text the Chris Moyles show on 81199

or email chris.moyles@bbc.co.uk

And say something along the lines of "can you play that Cheers song you did yesterday - it was mint, I'd love to hear it again."

Or "what was that Taxi song you played yesterday?"

Another good place to spread the word is at the Chris Moyles message board, which can be found at.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675884

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/

you can listen to it on here i think - will probably be gone after tuesdays show though

Running order for mondays show...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles ... l?focuswin

7.20 – The mysterious track was versions of the ‘Taxi’ and ‘Cheers’ theme tunes by the Wildhearts. And we then do birthday corner