Old rediscovered songs

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 Carless 12 Dec 2019

Re-heard this the other day for the first time in years

youtube.com/watch?v=gwyMucpvA2c&

And now I'm standing on the grave of a soldier that died in 1799
And the day he died it was a birthday, And I noticed it was mine
And my head didn't know just who I was, And I went spinning back in time
And I am high upon the altar
High upon the altar, high

I'm flying in Winchester Cathedral

I spent a fair amount of time of my youth flying in Winchester Cathedral...

What have you re-discovered recently?

 Dave Garnett 12 Dec 2019
In reply to Carless:

The artist knew their faces well
The husbands of his lady friends
His creditors and councillors
In armour bright, the merchant men
Official moments of the guild
In poses keen from bygone days
City fathers frozen there
Upon the canvas dark with age

Listened to this again recently after not hearing it for 40 years.  And for the first time I realised and could picture (without googling it) what it was about.  Made me feel as though I must have picked up at least a slight patina of education over the years! 

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 colinakmc 12 Dec 2019
In reply to Carless:

Thanks for the link, it gave me a great buzz to listen to that again. Leonard Cohen’s death prompted  me to re-listen to the “songs from a room” album and recall how darkly funny he could be. Then the Leonard and Marianne documentary came along and spoiled it all....

In reply to Dave Garnett:

Terrific tune, that.  From their best period, for me at least.  Shine, shine . . .

For my part, having recently gone through my vinyl, digitised what I wanted and then sold it, one artist that stood out was a chap called Rog Paterson. Good performer back in the day, he recorded one album and then went off to do other things. Can't find a link to anything, but if Roy Harper grooves your truffles he might be worth seeking out.

Something else I can't provide a link to is a tune called Cross Processed which a friend recorded a few years ago; found amongst others on his laptop after his death.  Today, the lyrics are especially appropriate.

Don’t need guns

You don’t need bombs

You don’t need hostages

You don’t need to burn yourself in the street

You don’t need a needle in your arm

You don’t need attitude

You don’t need scaffold poles and bricks

To throw at the pigs

Don’t need a sacred book

Don’t need to nail yourself to the cross

Don’t need a holy war

Don’t need to fight for what you’re fighting for

Lucky man, that’s what you are

You could be moving down the road

With your home on your back

Or feeling rubber truncheons on your soles

Because you stepped out of line

You could have to watch your words, or watch your back

For your neighbours, friends and colleagues

Ratting to the state for favours

So, it might stink like a midden

But let’s be glad for the state we’re in

So join with me brothers and sisters

Join me beneath the cross

At the church of the blessed ballot box

Join with me brother

Join with me sister

Let’s make ourselves divine

With two tiny lines

We can make a cross

Blessed surely are those

That tell this government where it can go

With a cross

At the ballot box

Brothers and sisters

They cannot resist us

We can make a cross

 Nick Alcock 12 Dec 2019
In reply to Carless:

Though I know that evenin’s empire has returned into sand
Vanished from my hand
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping
My weariness amazes me, I’m branded on my feet
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street’s too dead for dreaming
 

 wercat 12 Dec 2019
In reply to Carless:

blimey, you can get your feet stomped with all those platform soles

 Myfyr Tomos 12 Dec 2019
In reply to Carless:

To follow the current trend in thread titles, how about Pete Seeger's classic. 

Where have all the flowers gone?

Long time passing...

The last two verses by Joe Hickerson add a timely reminder to learn from our mistakes and from the mistakes of others.

Check it out.

 Ceiriog Chris 12 Dec 2019
In reply to Nick Alcock:

I first got introduced to this through the live album, at Budokan , I know some purists aren't fans because it's not acoustic but it worked for me,  happy memories, 

 Nick Alcock 13 Dec 2019
In reply to Ceiriog Chris:

Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow
 

 Andy Clarke 13 Dec 2019
In reply to Nick Alcock:

As a long-time obsessive, I rather fancy having that as my death tune. Like the idea of Mr TM as psychopomp.

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 Nick Alcock 13 Dec 2019
In reply to Andy Clarke:

I've already chosen it for my funeral.

russellcampbell 13 Dec 2019
In reply to Ceiriog Chris:

Budokan has a great version of Love Minus Zero / No Limit.

 Nick Alcock 13 Dec 2019
In reply to russellcampbell:

The bridge at midnight trembles
The country doctor rambles
Bankers' nieces seek perfection
Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring
The wind howls like a hammer
The night blows rainy
My love she's like some raven
At my window with a broken wing

 Andy Clarke 13 Dec 2019
In reply to Nick Alcock:

My long-term climbing partner and good mate went out to Forever Young. 

 wercat 14 Dec 2019
In reply to Carless:

> I'm flying in Winchester Cathedral

> I spent a fair amount of time of my youth flying in Winchester Cathedral...

what else?

youtube.com/watch?v=jKc1OCJ7iXk&

best heard out of a contemporary tranny

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 Nick Alcock 14 Dec 2019
In reply to Andy Clarke:

Ah yes, that was on my list too.

Removed User 14 Dec 2019
In reply to Carless:

Them with Van Morison covering Dylans "It's all over now baby blue". Can't remember where I heard recently but it's brilliant.

russellcampbell 14 Dec 2019
In reply to Nick Alcock:

Thanks.

russellcampbell 14 Dec 2019
In reply to Removed UserDeleted bagger:

> Them with Van Morison covering Dylans "It's all over now baby blue". Can't remember where I heard recently but it's brilliant.

It's on Best of V.M. Vol 2. Loads of videos of him singing it on YouTube. Didn't know about it until your post. Thanks.


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