← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Walter Yannis
Thread ID: 15948 | Posts: 64 | Started: 2004-12-12
2004-12-12 08:58 | User Profile
My computer guy "upgraded" my software and inadvertently erased the entire Windows Player library I had so painstakingly copied from my CD collection. I got busy on a writing project, and I thought I' start the process of re-recording my CD's while I piddled with that.
Right now I'm listening to [URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JC6D/qid=1102841889/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-3352823-2622256?v=glance&s=music]Bela Fleck "The Bluegrass Sessions." [/URL] This is a truly wonderful album, I highly recommend it.
Also, all my old Bob Dylan records, listened to all of them again. They're great.
What are you listening to?
2004-12-12 13:37 | User Profile
I've been in a mostly, but not completely, classic country mood lately.
Waylon Jennings -- [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00014GHP2/qid=1102858759/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/002-3426486-5649603?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]Ultimate Waylon Jennings[/url]
Townes Van Zandt -- [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007MBAH/qid=1102859209/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/002-3426486-5649603?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]For the Sake of the Song[/url]
Vince Guaraldi Trio -- [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000XDJ/qid=1102858786/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-3426486-5649603?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]A Charlie Brown Christmas[/url]
Cake -- [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002SPNQQ/qid=1102858743/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-3426486-5649603?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]Pressure Chief[/url]
2004-12-14 19:41 | User Profile
I'm now listening to Johnny Cash's Solitary Man.
It took a while for me to warm to this album, but it's really grown on me.
His rendition of U2's "One" is simply marvelous.
[I]You ask me to enter, then you make me crawl . . .[/I]
Great line.
Walter
2004-12-14 19:45 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]I've been in a mostly, but not completely, classic country mood lately.
Waylon Jennings -- [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00014GHP2/qid=1102858759/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/002-3426486-5649603?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]Ultimate Waylon Jennings[/url][/QUOTE]
Hey Q, I've got Essential Waylon on CD and it's a great, great album. Only thing it's missing is the live version of "Bob Willis is still the King." Otherwise, everybody should have at least one "Best of" Waylon in their country music collection.
2004-12-14 20:19 | User Profile
Now I'm listening to Johnny's Cash's "The Man Comes Around." Another astounding artistic achievment from the Man in Black.
His voice never fails to move me deeply. I don't know what it is about Johnny Cash - his voice isn't great in a classic sense, but he can put an emotion into his quavering voice like nobody else. His phrasing is unique, too. That's probably half of it.
"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" just lays me low.
Walter
2004-12-15 00:24 | User Profile
Shortly before finding the pathetic little service-sector job that just BARELY enables me to avoid homelessness, I sold off about 80% of my CD collection in order to buy groceries, gas, and get my phone service re-activated (it worked out well, as I wouldn't have gotten the call on my job had I not done so). The 20% I saved was the portion that really mattered, however.
These days, I mainly listen to Flatt & Scruggs (particularly my 2-album combo CD of "Hard Travelling" and "Final Fling"), as well as the newest Laibach release, my one Rammstein CD, Celtic Dawn's only CD ("Faith and Fatherland"), a few of my Bound for Glory CDs (particularly "The Fight Goes On"), and occassional selections from my still vast collection of more-or-less each and every song every recorded by the sainted Johnny Horton, i.e. "The Singin' Fisherman").
Do any of you guys even know who Johnny Horton is? Very few do, but this seems like a place where some might. Just curious.
2004-12-15 00:28 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Kevin_O'Keeffe]Do any of you guys even know who Johnny Horton is? Very few do, but this seems like a place where some might. Just curious.[/QUOTE]
Of course, Kevin. He married Hank Williams' ex-wife Billie Jean. Horton is certainly one of the great ones, for sure.
2004-12-15 19:59 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Kevin_O'Keeffe] Do any of you guys even know who Johnny Horton is? Very few do, but this seems like a place where some might. Just curious.[/QUOTE] I have vivid childhood memories of listening to 'The Battle of New Orleans' over and over and over again at my grandma's house as a youngster. :whstl: 'Oh, they.. ran through the trees and they ran through the bushes...'
2004-12-15 21:02 | User Profile
I became disillusioned with music after I realized how the music industry is controlled by the same Hollywood slime that has been actively working to undermine our culture, heritage and morals. Before waking up to how this works, I wondered why the most effeminate of male vocalists were so popular, but didn't even notice the fact that most White male vocalists almost universally promoted drunkeness, self-defeat and general degeneracy. Now I understand how the selection process works.
I know a lot of people who must continuously have music playing, at least whenever the TV is not on. This prevents them from doing any serious thinking. Many people hate silence, and find that silence in social situations means hostility or anxiety.
I have learned to love silence, as it allows my brain to become more focused.
Try it, ya like it!
2004-12-15 21:47 | User Profile
[QUOTE=travis]I became disillusioned with music after I realized how the music industry is controlled by the same Hollywood slime that has been actively working to undermine our culture, heritage and morals. Before waking up to how this works, I wondered why the most effeminate of male vocalists were so popular, but didn't even notice the fact that most White male vocalists almost universally promoted drunkeness, self-defeat and general degeneracy. Now I understand how the selection process works.
I know a lot of people who must continuously have music playing, at least whenever the TV is not on. This prevents them from doing any serious thinking. Many people hate silence, and find that silence in social situations means hostility or anxiety.
I have learned to love silence, as it allows my brain to become more focused.[/QUOTE] Travis, I agree that silence can be a wonderful thing, and it is an aid to deep contemplation. I also agree that the vast majority of modern music is aimed at undermining our culture, heritage, and morals. However, I think you have taken your conclusion a bit too far. Music is a wonderful thing, and I truly believe it is a gift from God. There is something beautiful, creative, and spiritual about great music, and few things are as moving as a truly magnificent piece of music. Reject that which is bad, but don't reject music itself. Just as the majority of books published these days are trash, but you should not reject literacy.
2004-12-15 22:25 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Kevin_O'Keeffe]Shortly before finding the pathetic little service-sector job that just BARELY enables me to avoid homelessness, I sold off about 80% of my CD collection in order to buy groceries, gas, and get my phone service re-activated (it worked out well, as I wouldn't have gotten the call on my job had I not done so). The 20% I saved was the portion that really mattered, however.
These days, I mainly listen to Flatt & Scruggs (particularly my 2-album combo CD of "Hard Travelling" and "Final Fling"), as well as the newest Laibach release, my one Rammstein CD, Celtic Dawn's only CD ("Faith and Fatherland"), a few of my Bound for Glory CDs (particularly "The Fight Goes On"), and occassional selections from my still vast collection of more-or-less each and every song every recorded by the sainted Johnny Horton, i.e. "The Singin' Fisherman").
Do any of you guys even know who Johnny Horton is? Very few do, but this seems like a place where some might. Just curious.[/QUOTE] Before you sold them you could have easily converted them to MP3 with Music Match. At compressions up to 64 kbps you could have fit around 24 hours onto one CD-R with it still sounding CD quality (if you have a very good ear for music perhaps a lower compression, e.g., 128 kbps, would be better and would still allow you to put 12 hours of music onto one CD-R). It takes about 10 minutes to convert one 60-70 min. CD to MP3. If you had vinyl or audiotapes you could have recorded them into a program such as Audio Cleaning Lab ($40 at CompUSA or Best Buy), cleaned up the audio, exported it and converted it to MP3.
2004-12-15 23:06 | User Profile
I love the bumper music Art Bell plays on the weekend Coast to Coast radio show. Perhaps my tastes are eclectic but it seems I love every song on there, from Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper to Crystal Gayle's Midnight in the Desert to the New Age music.Given my Christian Eurocentric philosophy I have made a concerted effort (no pun intended) to appreciate classical music, symphony music. While I can listen to Strauss for hours (esp. this time of year), and even get a rush from Handel's Messiah (at least the very first part), it seems unnatural and pretentious to listen to this music. It's like fiction. I know the scope of my erudition is narrow, and I don't know nuttin' about classic literature, but I can't find any motivation to read George Eliot or Nathaniel Hawthorne or certainly not Shakespeare. I know the paleo-cons I view highly, e.g., Buchanan and Sobran, are great fans of Shakespeare and the other greats of the Western Christian world, but I'm not sure the effort to read them would be worth it, or if I would get anything out of it (save for being a better Jeopardy player or being one of those offensive pretentious types who quotes "The Bard"-- a pretentious designation in itself). I was forced to read some of the classics in high school (e.g., Edith Wharton, Jack London, et al.) and I'm glad I was. But as much as I was moved by the imagery and story of, let's say, Wharton's Ethan Fromm, none of these have come close to the experience of reading the worst of Stephen King. And frankly, given the rather simple, mundane themes of classic literature I think a movie adaption would be better than the book.
Anyway, my original point was that I think I should be listening to Beethoven and reading Shakespeare, rather than U2 and Stephen King (not that I even read much fiction).
2004-12-16 03:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]I have vivid childhood memories of listening to 'The Battle of New Orleans' over and over and over again at my grandma's house as a youngster. :whstl: 'Oh, they.. ran through the trees and they ran through the bushes...'[/QUOTE]
I believe its,
"They ran through the bushes and they ran through the brambles, And they ran through the thickets where a rabiit wouldn't go!
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em, On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico!"
That pretty much seems to be everyone's first Johnny Horton song....
He actually did a version for his British tour about how the "rebels" got defeated at the Battle of New Orleans....yeah, right. Keep telling yourselves that, sons of John Bull.
2004-12-16 03:08 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Jack Cassidy]I love the bumper music Art Bell plays on the weekend Coast to Coast radio show. Perhaps my tastes are eclectic but it seems I love every song on there, from Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper to Crystal Gayle's Midnight in the Desert to the New Age music.[/QUOTE]
"Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo...."
2004-12-16 03:34 | User Profile
What a shame! Not one post concerning [color=red][u][B]real[/B][/u][/color] music!
2004-12-16 04:25 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Kevin_O'Keeffe]"Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo...."[/QUOTE] Please clue me in to this reference.
2004-12-16 05:05 | User Profile
[QUOTE=OPERA96]What a shame! Not one post concerning [color=red][u][B]real[/B][/u][/color] music![/QUOTE]
I'm listening. What is "real music?"
2004-12-16 07:09 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]I'm listening. What is "real music?"[/QUOTE]
Anything by this guy: :thumbsup:
[IMG]http://hammer.prohosting.com/~coollz/webb.jpg[/IMG]
2004-12-16 07:10 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Jack Cassidy]Please clue me in to this reference.[/QUOTE]
That's an old Statler Brothers' song.
2004-12-16 21:42 | User Profile
I'm finding it harder to listen to any music with lyrics.
[B]Gotan Project[/B]'s (from France) "La Revancha del Tango" is one amazing chill-out, hip, sexy, electronic journey around the world.
On the other extreme, I've been listening to [B]Handel[/B]'s "Messiah", double CD, done by the London Symphony. Apparently, Handel donated a lot of his earnings from perfomances to charities, mostly in Ireland. What a Godly man.
2004-12-17 06:50 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Texas Dissident]That's an old Statler Brothers' song.[/QUOTE] Funny, but now that you mention the group I am able to vaguely recall this tune and sort of play it in my head. This is amazing and speaks to the impression music and songs have on our mind/soul. Think of the range of sounds within a bar of music and then the complexity of even a simple song. Yet our minds can replicate them perfectly or almost perfectly without effort. Think of all the lyrics to songs you know. Isn't this remarkable, that you can recall thousands of words perfectly and the exact complement of the music on each word, part of the word, or between words? This is infinitely more astounding than the questions in the philosophy of language or epistemology.
2004-12-17 14:32 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Jack Cassidy]Funny, but now that you mention the group I am able to vaguely recall this tune and sort of play it in my head. This is amazing and speaks to the impression music and songs have on our mind/soul. Think of the range of sounds within a bar of music and then the complexity of even a simple song. Yet our minds can replicate them perfectly or almost perfectly without effort. Think of all the lyrics to songs you know. Isn't this remarkable, that you can recall thousands of words perfectly and the exact complement of the music on each word, part of the word, or between words? This is infinitely more astounding than the questions in the philosophy of language or epistemology.[/QUOTE] Quite true, and also quite amazing. The human brain seems to remember phrases much, much better when they are set to music. In fact, as a child, I learned the names of all the books of the New Testament, in order, set to music, and I can recite them to this day with no difficulty. However, this cuts both ways. It also means that the vulgarity and filth that passes for lyrics in much of modern music not only has a direct route into peoples' minds, but that it will stay there for a long, long time.
2004-12-31 04:55 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]My computer guy "upgraded" my software and inadvertently erased the entire Windows Player library I had so painstakingly copied from my CD collection. I got busy on a writing project, and I thought I' start the process of re-recording my CD's while I piddled with that.
Right now I'm listening to [URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JC6D/qid=1102841889/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-3352823-2622256?v=glance&s=music]Bela Fleck "The Bluegrass Sessions." [/URL] This is a truly wonderful album, I highly recommend it.
Also, all my old Bob Dylan records, listened to all of them again. They're great.
What are you listening to?[/QUOTE]
Due to my generous Christmas haul:
"Pen to Paper"- Jay Clark "11/12/13"- Kieran Kane and Kevin Welch "Long Way Round"- Acoustic Syndicate "Rosaryville"- Kate Campbell
-and anything the fine folks at WDVX ([url]www.wdvx.com[/url]) choose to spin...
2005-02-26 11:51 | User Profile
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath.
Oh, yeah.
2005-02-26 15:46 | User Profile
As you guys knows I am the "weird" one here hahahahahaah.
Anyway, I always tuned out the lyrics of every song I listen to, been able to do that all my life and as a matter of fact the only complete song that I know is "Happy Birthday".
I listen to "elevator" music like Jany,Hiroshima and so on (new age) and oldies but goodies of the 50's and 60's, I do like the big bands of the 30's and 40's.
2005-02-26 18:00 | User Profile
Woulda taken you for a Ricky Ricardo fan, P... :D
Right now I'm listening to the "Gaelic Symphony" by America's own Amy Beach.
2005-02-26 18:37 | User Profile
Lately, groovin' to some old Van Morrison, specifically Saint Dominic's Preview. Man, his old stuff is great.
2005-02-26 20:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]Lately, groovin' to some old Van Morrison, specifically Saint Dominic's Preview. Man, his old stuff is great.[/QUOTE]
I'm a Van Morrison fan, too.
I love the album he did with the Chieftains called "[URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000009DDO/qid=1109448332/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl15/103-9168425-8597428?v=glance&s=music&n=507846]Irish Heartbeat[/URL]."
2005-02-27 00:01 | User Profile
Lol Howard, I hope that no other Cuban is reading this but Cuban music hurts my ears.
2005-02-27 05:38 | User Profile
Sousa marches--nothing like 'em
2005-02-27 11:34 | User Profile
Now I'm listening to Wilco "[URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002N7G/qid=1109504026/sr=8-8/ref=pd_ka_1/102-8241630-8713752?v=glance&s=music&n=507846]Being There[/URL]."
2005-02-27 14:22 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]Now I'm listening to Wilco "[URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002N7G/qid=1109504026/sr=8-8/ref=pd_ka_1/102-8241630-8713752?v=glance&s=music&n=507846]Being There[/URL]."[/QUOTE]
Walter, I broke out Wilco's "Yankee Foxtrot Hotel" CD a week or two ago and I can't stop listening to it. Fantastic record which I underestimated when I first picked it up a few years ago. I also have their latest "A Ghost Is Born" but I like Yankee better; the new one is way too mellow.
I've also been listening to the posthumously released CD by Elliott Smith called "From a Basement on a Hill". It's one of the most brilliant records I've ever heard. He'll be missed for sure.
2005-02-27 15:35 | User Profile
Paul McCartney and Wings and Frank Zappa lately. And also 1970s-era Black Sabbath on video. It's great.
2005-02-27 15:48 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Franco]Paul McCartney and Wings and Frank Zappa lately. And also 1970s-era Black Sabbath on video. It's great.[/QUOTE] I have mixed feelings about Zappa. He made some really great music, but he usually paired it with absolutely filthy lyrics. For that reason, I'm partial to 'Hot Rats', since it is mostly instrumental.
2005-02-27 17:19 | User Profile
[I]Long Way Round[/I] Acoustic Syndicate
2005-02-28 22:10 | User Profile
[I]Long Way Round[/I]- Acoustic Syndicate
2005-03-01 10:25 | User Profile
[I]Smoke Gets In Your Eyes[/I]- The Platters
KING OF ROCK N ROLL: Complete 50s Masters- Elvis [box]
ELLA SWINGS LIGHTLY- Ella Fitzgerald
What can I say? For the past 2-3 days, time stops at 1959.
2005-03-01 11:04 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno][I]Smoke Gets In Your Eyes[/I]- The Platters
KING OF ROCK N ROLL: Complete 50s Masters- Elvis [box]
ELLA SWINGS LIGHTLY- Ella Fitzgerald
What can I say? For the past 2-3 days, time stops at 1959.[/QUOTE]
Do you like gospel, too.
Like, say, the Staple Singers (I do, but don't tell my racist friends).
2005-03-01 11:44 | User Profile
Well, they show up on the COMPLETE STAX-VOLT SINGLES box I've got, and I actually owned the "I'll Take You There" 45 way back when; but even though, in general, I love old soul and r&b (when it was made by actual humans and not by machines the way it has since disco), full-on gospel mostly turns me off - it's too clear where that ultra-annoying Whitney Houston/Patti Labelle 'style' that every white girl on AMERICAN IDOL mimics comes from, and that's gospel.
On the other hand, Big Maybelle, Booker T, Little Milton Campbell, old Al Green and Curtis Mayfield and Joe Tex sounded great then and still sound great, and they all had a bit of that [I]church style [/I] in their approach.
Of course, it's only white folks who still listen to these records - isn't that somewhat amusing?
2005-03-01 16:08 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno]Well, they show up on the COMPLETE STAX-VOLT SINGLES box I've got, and I actually owned the "I'll Take You There" 45 way back when; but even though, in general, I love old soul and r&b (when it was made by actual humans and not by machines the way it has since disco), full-on gospel mostly turns me off - it's too clear where that ultra-annoying Whitney Houston/Patti Labelle 'style' that every white girl on AMERICAN IDOL mimics comes from, and that's gospel.
On the other hand, Big Maybelle, Booker T, Little Milton Campbell, old Al Green and Curtis Mayfield and Joe Tex sounded great then and still sound great, and they all had a bit of that [I]church style [/I] in their approach.
Of course, it's only white folks who still listen to these records - isn't that somewhat amusing?[/QUOTE]
I love [B]doo-wop[/B] music, which was made by mostly American blacks and Italians. In fact, if you ever saw the doo-wop concerts that were on public television some years ago, virtually everyone in the audience was white. They are the ones who have kept this music alive, and have kept these post-50 black and Italian music artists in business. Same for disco and Motown. If anything, it is the White listening public who have kept this music from being a distant memory, similar to the English who have kept "Northern Soul" (harder-edged-to the most part-'60s and early '70s American R&B music) popular. Black music has more or less succumbed to hip-hop almost entirely in the past 15 years.
2005-03-01 16:11 | User Profile
In the CD player right now - Son Volt's "Wide Swing Tremelo"
2005-03-01 18:27 | User Profile
Homemade compilation of some toe-tappin' stuff.
Kevin Fowler Willie Don Walser Emmylou Harris Derailers Waylon Bonnie Raitt
Oh, and the Clash when I need to switch gears. :thumbsup:
2005-03-02 02:12 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno]Well, they show up on the COMPLETE STAX-VOLT SINGLES box I've got, and I actually owned the "I'll Take You There" 45 way back when; but even though, in general, I love old soul and r&b (when it was made by actual humans and not by machines the way it has since disco), full-on gospel mostly turns me off - it's too clear where that ultra-annoying Whitney Houston/Patti Labelle 'style' that every white girl on AMERICAN IDOL mimics comes from, and that's gospel.
On the other hand, Big Maybelle, Booker T, Little Milton Campbell, old Al Green and Curtis Mayfield and Joe Tex sounded great then and still sound great, and they all had a bit of that [I]church style [/I] in their approach.
Of course, it's only white folks who still listen to these records - isn't that somewhat amusing?[/QUOTE]
Blind Boys from Alabama. Yessir.
2005-03-02 12:26 | User Profile
Two words: [URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006BIMO/qid=1109766351/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-8241630-8713752?v=glance&s=music&n=507846]Dixie Chicks.[/URL]
2005-03-02 13:45 | User Profile
At this moment, [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002MYC/qid=1109771088/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-6596385-5745761?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]Clouds Taste Metallic[/url] by the Flaming Lips.
2005-03-02 20:52 | User Profile
[IMG]http://showandtellmusic.com/images/galleries/gallery%20c/shaggsF.jpg[/IMG]
Here's a sound sample: [url]http://showandtellmusic.com/mp3s/gallery_c/ShaggsWhoAreParents.mp3[/url]
2005-03-02 21:37 | User Profile
[IMG]http://showandtellmusic.com/images/galleries/gallery%20c/shaggsF.jpg[/IMG]
Here's a [URL=http://showandtellmusic.com/mp3s/gallery_c/ShaggsWhoAreParents.mp3]sound sample[/URL]
2005-03-09 06:29 | User Profile
I'm now listening - at full decibel - Bob Dylan's "From a Buick Six" from the Highway 61 Revisted album.
This song ROCKS!!!! :punk:
[I]She keeps this four-ten All loaded with lead . . .[/I]
2005-03-10 13:01 | User Profile
Here's a blast from the past - [URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005AFO0/qid=1110459589/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/002-7127565-3780852?v=glance&s=music&n=507846]Cruel Sister [/URL] by the English (?) folkgroup Pentangle.
Wonderful.
Lead singer Jackie McShea has the voice of an angel.
2005-03-10 13:47 | User Profile
Now it's [URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006957SU/qid=1110462139/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl15/002-7127565-3780852?v=glance&s=music&n=507846]Hell's Ditch [/URL] by the Pogues.
This is my favorite Pogues album, although I understand that this is terrible heresy for Pogues fans.
Irish singer and song writing genius Shane McGowan wrote this on a trip to Thailand in what was apparently a failed attempt to prevent himself from falling over the edge. The foreign, Asian coloration of the songs is what puts off orthodox Pogues fanatics, but me I celebrate diversity!
I understand that Shane was lost to heroin and ultimately left the group, very sad. I don't know what became of either Shane or the Pogues, I'd appreciate any information on that.
[URL=http://www.nme.com/news/110042.htm]This [/URL] is the latest info I could find.
2005-03-10 15:37 | User Profile
Right now in the cassette tape player - The Church's "Priest = Aura"
Oh my, what a great band those Aussies were.
2005-03-10 15:43 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]Now it's [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006957SU/qid=1110462139/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl15/002-7127565-3780852?v=glance&s=music&n=507846"]Hell's Ditch [/url] by the Pogues.[/QUOTE] I used to have "Peace and Love' by the Pogues, and I thought it was quite good. You might object to some of the rabidly anti-Cromwell sentiment expressed on a couple of the songs, though. :wink:
2005-03-10 20:12 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]I used to have "Peace and Love' by the Pogues, and I thought it was quite good. You might object to some of the rabidly anti-Cromwell sentiment expressed on a couple of the songs, though. :wink:[/QUOTE]
I love that song, too. It's called Young Ned on the Hill.
[I]Have you ever walked the lonesome hills And heard the curlews cry Or seen the raven black as night Upon a windswept sky To walk the purple heather And hear the westwind cry To know that's where the Rapparee must die
Since Cromwell pushed us westward To live our lowly lives There's some of us have deemed to fight From Tipperary mountains high Noble men with wills of iron Who are not afraid to die Who'll fight with Gaelic honour held on high
A curse upon you Oliver Cromwell You who raped our Motherland I hope you're rotting down in hell For the horrors that you sent To our misfortunate forefathers Whom you robbed of their birthright "To hell or Connaught" may you burn in hell tonight
Of one such man I'd like to speak A Rapparee by name and deed His family dispossessed and slaughtered They put a price upon his head His name is known in song and story His deeds are legends still And murdered for blood money Was young Ned of the hill
A curse upon you Oliver Cromwell You who raped our Motherland I hope you're rotting down in hell For the horrors that you sent To our misfortunate forefathers Whom you robbed of their birthright "To hell or Connaught" may you burn in hell tonight
You have robbed our homes and fortunes Even drove us from our land You tried to break our spirit But you'll never understand The love of dear old Ireland That will forge an iron will As long as there are gallant men Like young Ned of the hill [/I]
2005-03-11 16:00 | User Profile
Whiggas, puleeeze.
Rimsky's [I]Golden Cockerel Suite[/I] scortcheth my speakers...
2005-03-11 18:20 | User Profile
How about some good ole happy peasant music....Polkas!!! :clap:
2005-03-12 05:55 | User Profile
Right now, [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000060O1Y/qid=1110606814/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/103-4194749-7850214?v=glance&s=music&n=507846]Falconer - Chapters From a Vale Forlorn[/url]. Rockin' metal, clear vocals, European themes, minstrel music... it's a shame they couldn't keep it up.
2005-03-14 17:02 | User Profile
"Save it for Later" by English Beat.
That makes me feel good.
Per Tex, I also recommend The Church's "Metropolis"... never fails to put a smile on my face.
2005-03-15 03:41 | User Profile
Janis Joplin - Pearl
2005-03-15 11:54 | User Profile
Sons Of Northern Darkness by the Norwegian black metal band Immortal (who have recently disbanded, I was saddened to hear).
Lyrics are here (don't worry, nothing that's likely to offend anyone):
[url]http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/immortal/sonsofnortherndarkness.html[/url]
If it's melodic, moody, technical, and original, then it will probably resonate with me.
2005-03-19 07:16 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angler]Sons Of Northern Darkness by the Norwegian black metal band Immortal (who have recently disbanded, I was saddened to hear). [/QUOTE]
Immortal are great; they're a bit cheesy (then again, what good metal band isn't?) but still very enjoyable. Bathory's later Viking saga works are similar-don't know if you've heard them.
I'm currently listening to Hallowed be Thy Name by Iron Maiden.
2005-03-19 08:22 | User Profile
I'm listening to [URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000E6X/qid=1111220392/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/102-3858053-2995340]Silly Wizard[/URL], a truly marvelous Scottish folk music group.
2005-03-19 08:25 | User Profile
I'm now listening to [URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000E6X/qid=1111220392/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/102-3858053-2995340]Silly Wizard[/URL], a truly marvelous Scottish folk group.
2005-03-20 08:52 | User Profile
[QUOTE=2600]Immortal are great; they're a bit cheesy (then again, what good metal band isn't?) but still very enjoyable. LOL, yeah, the image is certainly cheesy. That "corpsepaint" could pass for clown makeup any day! But these bands have superb musicianship and put a lot of soul into their music. You know they aren't playing music for the money, since there's no money to be made in underground metal, so it must be from the heart.
Bathory's later Viking saga works are similar-don't know if you've heard them.
I've heard some stuff by Bathory -- I have Blood, Fire, Death -- but I've been meaning to get into them some more.
I also really like Emperor and Abigor, but I wish their production were a little better. Mayhem is another black metal band I'm into. As far as more "regular" metal goes, my favorite is probably King Diamond. I really think he and his band (especially guitarist Andy La Rocque) are geniuses. I particularly recommend Abigail and Conspiracy if you haven't heard them. They're the perfect blend of melody and brutality.
I'm currently listening to Hallowed be Thy Name by Iron Maiden.[/QUOTE]Oh yeah -- Maiden is definitely great stuff. Quintessential melodic metal. I've been listening to them since Powerslave came out. "Hallowed Be Thy Name" is an awesome song -- especially the live version on Live After Death, IMO. I don't care for most of the stuff Maiden did after Adrian and Bruce left the band, but once those guys rejoined, it was back to ass-kicking as usual. I think Brave New World and Dance Of Death are nearly as good as their classic albums.
2005-03-25 17:49 | User Profile
Ralph Stanley