Today I've been relaxing by playing music I listened to in the past (my youth!)
Here's one such song (Supertramp: Logical Song) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ukKQw578Lm8
Do reply with a song you liked listening to... we can turn this thread into a virtual jukebox!
Can't identify the music, but thanks for providing such an interesting diversion. I got woken up by my dog and can't get back to sleep. This video reminded me of a very funny heartwarming book: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/26/penguin-lessons-memoir-tom-michell-review
Hey. Does anyone recognise the music accompanying this video on human/animal friendships? I have encountered it before but have no idea what it is:
The Detectorists is very funny, subtle wit, the characters are quite varied but each is different and quite neurodiverse compared to the usual tv characters.
I have a close link to the story line.
The last two programmes had a prefound effect on me,
The songs are so beautiful, every word so meaningful.
The storyline where it shows the beginning of the gold being buried and then the passing of time as depicted by several different eras , fields being ploughed, different land workers as time moved forwards,
It is by far one of the best programmes I have ever seen.
Yes I think Andy may well be ASD , he has a spirit that just doesn’t fit with the normal way of things, free thinking, tries so hard to fit but just wants a simple uncomplicated life, I am so glad he realises his dream at the end, his wife although frustrated by his lack of apparent desire to better himself still stands by him, she knows he has a loving heart, and he has a dream which although seemed bizarre was actually the right way to live.
In some ways I am Andy,
I said in an earlier post that I would have to put some John Renbourn on.
And I can't make up my mind so I will put these two. The first is a bit of music written in 1520 and played, not on a lute as is normal for this piece but on the guitar. John Renbourn was an outstanding guitar player, famous for his work in Pentangle. When Pentangle reformed in the 1980's, John Renbourn rapidly left to pursue his studies in Medieaval and Tudor music, of which this is one result, from his ethereal 'Nine Maidens' album.
Variations on My Lady Carey's Dompe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVLhDRPWtkw
The second John Renbourn track is from his album 'Ship of Fools'. It was a tune I would put on at my children's parties, it was a favourite for 'musical bumps'. I don't know why children are force fed pop pap when there is work of this quality that they could dance to!
Cobblers Jig/Maltese Bransle:
I liked Detectorists so much and I think it had much in it that would appeal to autistic people - the obsession with their hobby for one thing.
I also liked the theme tune ... but I found the Magpie song by the Unthanks very haunting, a different version of the same elements as in the Magpie children's programme theme of long ago. The song was also recorded by Maddy Prior in a different version, but the Unthanks version is truly haunting and beautiful.
I cannot resist putting a Pentangle track on for the Juke Box.
As the sixties turned to the seventies, the age of British Folk-Rock was born, with three outstanding groups of the time having beautiful voices of female vocalists.
There was Fairport Convention, with lead vocalists first Judy Dyble and then Sandy Denny, who went from a transatlantic sound inspired by Jefferson Airplane to Electrifying English Folk music when Dave Swarbrick joined the group. Then there was Steeleye Span, who started off playing more or less 'straight' versions of English Traditional Music with vocalists Gay Woods (then wife of Terry Woods later of The Pogues) and Maddy Prior who remained in the group apart from a short period for forty years with her faultless voice. And then there was Pentangle, with vocalist Jacqui McShee.
Pentagle was a fusion of Folk music and Jazz. They were really what would be termed a 'supergroup'. Their members included bassist Danny Thompson (who was a session musician, one of his early sessions was playing in the orchestra which recorded the origial theme for Thunderbirds). Then there were two excellent guitarists in Bert Jansch and John Renbourne, both sadly now deceased, ... and I will include a couple of John Renbourne tracks later if I remember ... !
So having thought about which Pentangle track to include, I will choose this one ... House Carpenter
Nick Cave & Shsne MacGowan singing What a Wonderful World
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OtsXjHk2ZsI
Both are intriguing artists. Here is a piece by Nick Cave on the death of his son:
And here is a link to The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KOu6PbfLO1g 58:08 minutes long
The Detectorists is a funny, gentle, offbeat TV series about metal detectorists. Highly recommended - and the theme sung by Johnny Flynn is wonderful too: m.youtube.com/watch
I liked Meet me on the Corner
I always used to play Lindisfarne on my journeys to Newcastle when my daughter was at University there. Songs such as Clear White Light, Lady Eleanor, Meet me on the Corner and We Can Swing Together as well as Fog on the Tyne seemed to resonate, especially when crossing the Tyne Bridge.
Saw Lindisfarne a couple of times in the seventies, as well as their breakaway group Jack the Lad.
That's a great track, Martian Tom, it has an intensity to it. I lost track of Pink Floyd after The Wall, so cannot claim to be familiar with what came later. Waiting for the Worms seems somewhat prophetic now. I guess I disliked T Rex because of the way all the girls I knew on the school bus had such a massive crush on them, or rather Marc Bolan. I was actually fairly easy ndifferent towards the music. It did somehow define the new decade though.
Strange coincidence Tom - I was listening to this today on a railway journey to London when the wifi on the train wasn't working - it is one of my tracks on my phone but I hadn't listened to it for a couple of years at least.
I like a lot of Mike Oldfields stuff, but this is probably my favourite of his extended works. And then at the end of it is The Horse Song (On Horseback) which was the flip side of the single 'In Dulci Jubilo'. Another of Mike Oldfield's records I like is his 'Voyager' LP which was a collection of celtic and celtic inspired tunes.
I love musician Neil Young. I also love film-maker Jim Jarmusch. And I love Johnny Depp as an actor. Here's a perfect melding of their talents in one of my favourite films... with a bit of input from a favourite poet, William Blake...
A song for displaced people and minorities everywhere...
Here's a track for anyone who loves the Northeast of England and/or a bit of folk music Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne
Interesting reading, Nexus9. Lots of agreements, and a few disagreements. I loved T Rex. But you have such an interesting selection there. I liked All About Eve, too, but found them a bit lightweight later on in life. Tim Bricheno later joined the Sisters of Mercy.
I wonder if you like this as much as I do. I think the lyrics suck a bit... but it entrances me whenever I hear it...
As a teen, I listened to this obsessively. Especially the bit from 12 minutes onwards. It absolutely hypnotized me, and still does 40 years later...
I love Tom Lehrer. Especially 'The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz'.
'I drank some champagne from your shoe, la-la-la...
I was drunk by the time I got through, la-la-la...
For I didn't know as I raised that cup
It had taken two bottles to fill the thing up!'
Perhaps not something that would normally be in a Juke Box, but I have always been a fan of Tom Lehrer. His wordplay and rhyme is very clever and I could choose any number of his songs, although his total output is only around fifty songs. I chose this one as it always brings a smile to my face and it did actually make the charts many moons ago:
I would have to take a key track, a few maybe for each decade.
For the Sixties, I liked then and still like, a little psychedelia
Hole in my Shoe - Traffic. Loved it then because it was not a silly love song, no pun or allusion intended to Wings.
Fixing a Hole - Beatles. My fave from Sergeant Pepper I remember 1967 was a pretty special year, something was certainly in the air. Actually I like that Thunderclap Newman track, though he would be horrified I am sure by the darkening clouds in the air now
Badge - Cream. Discovered that later, but loved the chords.
Wheels on Fire - Judith Driscoll, hated it then but love it now.
70's. Hated T Rex, Donny Osmond, David Cassidy and the like. David Bowie could be trusted to do something weird. I had a sad passion for The Sweet but then much later on, really grew to like a sublime track I didn't recognise as theirs, Love is Like Oxygen.
Erm..... I liked Abba too. Knowing Me Knowing You being the most anthemic.
Every track on Supertramp's Crime of the Century rocked for me at 20. Not a single filler, as every good album should be. There was a boyfriend who introduced to Voyage of the Acolyte, by Steve Hackett, I did not stay with this guy but did continue to love this album.
I could say the same of Dark Side of the Moon and later investigated early Pink Floyd, Saucerful of Secrets: I freaked out some other students from the halls by playing the track with the organ music late at night.
10 CC I'm Mandy, Fly Me.
Recently I discovered an elusive tracks I liked by Blue Oster Cult, Don't Fear the Reaper. Pretty proto Goth.
In the early 80's I liked anything you could dance too, but Blue Monday deserves a mention. Still like that. Or is that 70's?
Soft Cell and Tainted Love and their deliciously decadent Sex Dwarf. I danced to the Sister's This Corrosion but did not know it was Sisters and a Goth anthem. New Romantic sat well with me, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark for example. Later in the 80's I started to like Kate Bush more and more.
In the 90's I discovered Goth, starting with Heaven and LasVegas from Cocteau's, only grew to like their first two albums, which were a lot more Goth, later. I reviewed stuff for a Goth zine called Bats and Red Velvet and got to know lots of new music that way.
Best finds were Coventry kids Attrition - who knew that was brewing right under my nose in the inner city then? Try Cosmic Citizen.
All About Eve is and remains a favourite band of mine.
From Germany there was Engelsstaub, medieval and sinister, industrial Project Pitchfork, Fateful.Passion, Dark Orange,Theatre of Tragedy and Lacrimosa. Australia brought Joy Division-inspired Ikon to my attention. From Italy, Africa, all brilliant finds. In Hungary I encountered the nihilistic FO system and later The Space Monkeez.
In 2005 I was utterly bowled over by Brian Wilson's Smile. He claims it was the closest to a hymn to him and that is how it felt to listen to.
Right now I have Florence on my Machine, especially Ceremonials. Some of the later PJ Harvey albums are pretty good too. Anna Von Hausswolff is worth checking out. And I hope to find still more gems put there at some point.
