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What are you listening to? Part XXX - Sexxxy tunes for sexxxy folks

Just re-listening to this one, and it's sounding amazing. I might change my favouite. It's impossible really as there's so many quality tracks.



Edit: I've now changed my mind again after listening to Country Home, as that is sounding even better. That's the thing with that album, there are so many great tracks.

I won't post the link though, I'd end up posting the whole album, and no one would be up for sampling so many posts. I just can't stop myself sometimes for some reason, especially if on any kind of session. But I will resist this time.
 
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Bleaney said:
Just re-listening to this one, and it's sounding amazing. I might change my favouite. It's impossible really as there's so many quality tracks.



Edit: I've now changed my mind again after listening to Country Home, as that is sounding even better. That's the thing with that album, there are so many great tracks.

I won't post the link though, I'd end up posting the whole album, and no one would be up for sampling so many posts. I just can't stop myself sometimes for some reason, especially if on any kind of session. But I will resist this time.
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Ever hear the original White Line?

 
Yeah I think initially I accidentally posted the same track twice so I had to edit that, and then I added another edit after that.

Anyway, I'll have to check out the original white line.

Not Neil Young related this one, but a recent discovery of a band with some amazing songs. I was a passenger in a car so didn't know which tracks from which albums were being played, so I'm having a listen through to try to find them.

This is one of the ones that sounded like one of the best to me, although all the tracks were at least more than good.

 
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Bleaney said:
I cant help myself now, but I think this track is even better:

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Missed this - loved the Joos.

What do you think of the Purple Mountains album? It was so good that I thought he'd come back and solved his problems. Sadly he decided he hadn't, and the rest is sad history. Suicide at 52.



Love the way he actually gets his estranged wife to appear in a video for a song that's about her.

He was an actual poet too. Not just a lyricist. Not a Pete Doherty 'poet', but one with actual talent.

“...and my signature is drawn in magic marker
on the lower right hand corner of the window

so when something passes in the dark
it's captured for a moment inside my work.”
― David Berman, Actual Air
 
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One of the wonderful things about the music of Britain and Ireland is that tunes and lyrics were widely propagated. So you might find lyrics from one song sung to another air, or a familiar melody with completely different lyrics.





If we could base our national pride on things like THIS, then British nationalism would be so much better. 🇬🇧
 
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Perkins : Reborn said:
Missed this - loved the Joos.

What do you think of the Purple Mountains album? It was so good that I thought he'd come back and solved his problems. Sadly he decided he hadn't, and the rest is sad history. Suicide at 52.
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I've not heard it yet AFAIK. I literally first heard them just a couple of days ago, and they most definitely caught my ear.

I'll be gradually going through their albums as time and mood allows.

Regarding Fairport Convention, do you think that with them being very English, as opposed to celtic (which more folk bands seem to be, if you exclude all American folk artists) affected more than just the accents, but that English folk music, if FC are a typical example, is quite different to the London / Irish folk music played by the likes of The Pogues, and the sublime Irish folk rock album the Waterboys produced on Fisherman's Blues, bringing the genre bang up to date, and the Irish passion of Christy Moore for example?

The Pogues were definitely more raucous and up to date, and with that punk spirit and tinge to a lot of their material. But I guess both bands were unique in their own right, and not really typical.

I've tried listening to FC a few times, and Matty Groves remains the only track that does anything for me. Apparently the band were so fed up of live audiences relentlessly demanding that they perform that song, that they were utterly sick of it by the end. As far as 'English folk music' goes, I can't think of anything better right now, off the top of my head.

Oh I forgot to mention The Levellers, one of my favourite bands of all time, but they have so successfully mastered their blend of folk, rock, and punk, that it's hard to call them just a folk band.
 
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Oh man, you really need to hear the album. It was his comeback after ten years. I was so happy until one day I got a message saying he was gone.

I've spammed this before, but if you never listened, please do.



As for the 'English' folk music being different to the more 'Celtic' stuff, there's so much crossover. I mean, Planxty (featuring Christy Moore) are possibly THE seminal Irish 'folk' band, but at least half their songs were of English and Scottish origin.

Maybe try Steeleye Span, who were all over the place with the origin of their material, but very 'English' due to the wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Maddy Prior.
 


Rose, I hear your voice near to me
I've put away the poisoned chalice, for now
And lie down amongst the flowerbeds
Whichever stars we walk among
We both seek out the darkest red
The wine was turned to blood again
Without this blood we'd both be dead
 


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