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Post by bravomailer on Nov 10, 2019 16:39:29 GMT
Forty-five years ago this day, the Edmund Fitzgerald went down with all twenty-nine crew members.
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Post by alpha128 on Nov 10, 2019 17:48:34 GMT
Thornbridge - "Galley of Horror"
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Post by staggerstag on Nov 10, 2019 22:25:23 GMT
Metaphorically, I guess, if that's okay...
The Bad Seeds on their best behaviour with three-piece suits, knotted ties and little angelic girls playing about.
I think it was a Guardian reviewer who wrote that one particular track from their latest album Ghosteen was "the most beautiful song The Bad Seeds have ever produced". Either he was swept away in the moment or he's never bothered to listen to older tracks such as this one. Ghosteen, my ass. Sorry.
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 10, 2019 23:25:36 GMT
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Nov 11, 2019 0:36:02 GMT
Here's one about an ex-French Navy minesweeper that became an exploration ship.
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Post by Sulla on Nov 11, 2019 0:37:34 GMT
This one is an underground cult classic from around 1969 by Jaime Brockett (correct spelling). It's loaded with historical inaccuracies, but that's part of its charm. It's adapted from Lead Belly’s "The Titanic".
It's 13.5 minutes long. If you stick it out, you'll find out why The Titanic really went down.
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Post by alpha128 on Nov 11, 2019 2:22:35 GMT
This one is an underground cult classic from around 1969 by Jaime Brockett (correct spelling). It's loaded with historical inaccuracies, but that's part of its charm. It's adapted from Lead Belly’s "The Titanic".
It's 13.5 minutes long. If you stick it out, you'll find out why The Titanic really went down. Speaking of Titanic, there's this song:
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Post by Sulla on Nov 11, 2019 2:35:37 GMT
This one is an underground cult classic from around 1969 by Jaime Brockett (correct spelling). It's loaded with historical inaccuracies, but that's part of its charm. It's adapted from Lead Belly’s "The Titanic".
It's 13.5 minutes long. If you stick it out, you'll find out why The Titanic really went down. Speaking of Titanic, there's this song: Metal Church - Rest In Pieces Cool. Never heard that one.
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Post by DrKrippen on Nov 11, 2019 8:39:42 GMT
Split Enz - Six Months In A Leaky Boat
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Post by DrKrippen on Nov 11, 2019 8:48:17 GMT
Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home
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Post by DrKrippen on Nov 11, 2019 8:53:12 GMT
Madness - Night Boat to Cairo
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Post by Sulla on Nov 11, 2019 9:01:22 GMT
Roger McGuinn - Jolly Roger
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Post by DrKrippen on Nov 11, 2019 10:20:48 GMT
The Pogues - Thousands Are Sailing
The island it is silent now
But the ghosts still haunt the waves
And the torch lights up a famished man
Who fortune could not save
Did you work upon the railroad
Did you rid the streets of crime
Were your dollars from the white house
Were they from the five and dime
Did the old songs taunt or cheer you
And did they still make you cry
Did you count the months and years
Or did your teardrops quickly dry
Ah, No, says he 'twas not to be
On a coffin ship I came here
And I never even got so far
That they could change my name
Thousands are sailing
Across the Western Ocean
To a land of opportunity
That some of them will never see
Fortune prevailing
Across the Western Ocean
Their bellies full
And their spirits free
They'll break the chains of poverty
And they'll dance
In Manhattan's desert twilight
In the death of afternoon
We stepped hand in hand on Broadway
Like the first man on the moon
And "The Blackbird" broke the silence
As you whistled it so sweet
And in Brendan Behan's footsteps
I danced up and down the street
Then we said goodnight to Broadway
Giving it our best regards
Tipped our hats to Mister Cohan
Dear old Times Square's favourite bard
Then we raised a glass to J.F.K.
And a dozen more besides
When I got back to my empty room
I suppose I must have cried
Thousands are sailing
Again across the ocean
Where the hand of opportunity
Draws tickets in a lottery
Postcards we're mailing
Of sky-blue skies and oceans
From rooms the daylight never sees
Where lights don't glow on Christmas trees
But we dance to the music
And we dance
Thousands are sailing
Across the Western Ocean
Where the hand of opportunity
Draws tickets in a lottery
Where e'er we go, we celebrate
The land that makes us refugees
From fear of Priests with empty plates
From guilt and weeping effigies
Now we dance to the music
And we dance
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Post by alpha128 on Nov 11, 2019 12:27:22 GMT
Saxon - Sailing to AmericaThis song is about the journey of the Mayflower in 1620.
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Post by Sulla on Nov 12, 2019 1:11:05 GMT
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 12, 2019 1:45:43 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 12, 2019 2:05:41 GMT
That's a great number from their 1966 album, but you are aware, aren't you, that the Beach Boys are now in their 70s? Here is Al Jardin and Brian Wilson, two original founding Beach Boys, recreating The Sloop John B. The beefy guy singing falsetto is Al's son Matt Jardin.
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 12, 2019 2:18:56 GMT
The story is that Jardine suggested the song to Brian Wilson but he didn't like it. Two days later, Wilson asked the other guys to come in for vocal tracks on an arrangement he came up for it with the Wrecking Crew. From time to time there's a Youtube of Brian Wilson putting together the orchestration, audio only, but it keeps getting taken down.
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 12, 2019 5:29:59 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 12, 2019 7:23:25 GMT
Canoe Hear Me - David Bowie
I Rowboat – The Alan Parsons Project
Ya Really Yacht Me – The Kinks
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