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What are you listening to? Part III
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Our national anthem? Oh, you meant the band... Yes. They are excellent!
Ah, yes. Well, yes, the band.
The.....country is another matter entirely. One beyond my prose skills this evening.
Madness. (The British group from the 80s, lest there be any confusion...)
Thanks for the parenthetical qualification. Otherwise one might have simply assumed you were listening to world news.
Our House, One step Beyond, Baggy Trousers, or, other?
In the US, it was Our House in the 80's, but I'd heard some of their other work, too.
Or the voices in her head?
My Girls mad at me, wings of a dove, Uncle Sam.
All good as well.
Seek out the Madness LP entitled, Wonderful.
or:
Just some of the good moments from that one...
" "Johnny the Horse" is a single by British band Madness from their 1999 album Wonderful. The song struggled to make an impact in the charts after the success of "Lovestruck", and peaked at #44 in the UK Singles Chart.
Carl Smyth explained that "The song Johnny the Horse was inspired by a couple of tramps who I used to see often sitting and drinking cheap booze on a wall locally. One day one of them was crying and, after asking him what was the problem, he told me that his friend had been beaten and killed whilst trying to sleep in an empty building. The name is the kind of tag that Scots or Irish might give to a strong drinking hard man type." Another quote states that "...it's funny how people's lives can unravel y'know. So that's what it's about. Who remembers them, they've had a life and then sort of fall between the cracks." "
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Or the voices in her head?
My Girls mad at me, wings of a dove, Uncle Sam.
All good as well.
All of the above.
Actually, Night Boat to Cairo - and Embarrassment - were the songs that got me hooked on Madness, and then, I got into the rest of their stuff; ah, undergraduate days and silly but wonderful parties.....horrible homemade wine - did I drink that dross?
@pachyderm - is that a new CD (sorry, album) or an old one?
One of my favorite groups. I agree with your prose skills statement, it is beyond me the direction my country has gone, hopefully the nation will wake up.
Touché!
You have an excellent sense of the absurd.
Madness is very apt…
"O tempora! O mores!"
Saturday mornin' chores wrap... Paul Butterfield Blues Band... Born in Chicago
From their eponymous debut album, 1965
From their eponymous debut album, 1965
Looks incredible; what is it like?
For my part, listening to "Nothing Else Matters" by Steve'n'Seagulls.
Before purchasing it, I read this review:
It’s quite enjoyable, and it’ll certainly be listened to regularly. I’ve been buying a few CDs from WWWTFWW (We Release Whatever The **** We Want) Records recently. I have yet to be disappointed.
Hank Williams Jr. - America(The Way I See It)
Great songs like:
The American Way(Youtube)
Practice What I Preach(Youtube)
The USA Today(Youtube)
Great songs like:
The American Way(Youtube)
Practice What I Preach(Youtube)
The USA Today(Youtube)
RIP Dolores O’Riordan. 46 no age at all. At all.
Yes I read that tonight. I'll stick some of their stuff on later.
Today was a Dire Straights afternoon. This morning was Cold play.
Excellent choices all round.
Love Dire Straits and also really like Coldplay.
And very sorry to learn about Dolores O'Riordan - what a talented and gifted artist and yes, 46 is far too young.
Is it just me or have we lost a lot of good musicians of late. Certainly feels that way. Might just be that I'm getting older!
Odd, I was just thinking that very thought, or a thought that could have been its identical twin just this very day.
Playing "Linger" - thanks you Dolores O'Riordan and The Cranberries - just now (having listened to Metronomy with "The Look").
Seek out the Madness LP entitled, Wonderful.
or:
Just some of the good moments from that one...
" "Johnny the Horse" is a single by British band Madness from their 1999 album Wonderful. The song struggled to make an impact in the charts after the success of "Lovestruck", and peaked at #44 in the UK Singles Chart.
Carl Smyth explained that "The song Johnny the Horse was inspired by a couple of tramps who I used to see often sitting and drinking cheap booze on a wall locally. One day one of them was crying and, after asking him what was the problem, he told me that his friend had been beaten and killed whilst trying to sleep in an empty building. The name is the kind of tag that Scots or Irish might give to a strong drinking hard man type." Another quote states that "...it's funny how people's lives can unravel y'know. So that's what it's about. Who remembers them, they've had a life and then sort of fall between the cracks." "
Ahhhh Madness, I dug them however I seemed to remember they were short lived with maybe one or two hits that I can remember.
I always liked "It Must Be Love" or "One Step Beyond." Always dug those songs.