British Comedy Guide

What are you listening to now? Page 1,037

The Pros & Cons Of Hitchiking by Roger Waters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwwntfCoWcw

Hearts Of Stone by Los Lobos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4K1tVeEdp4

Hey Joe by Willy DeVille

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCPV3wp--9s

Randy Newman - Dayton Ohio 1903

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrTdiNkhnOc

Nick Drake, Robert Kirby and Harry Robinson - River Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idcaRTg4-fM

Sunday's Slave by Nick Cave & TBS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLl_8ijR5gU

Rag Mama Rag by The Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHy_XeBMagU

Drenge. They're f--king ace.

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Nikka Costa - Push & Pull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LmKHKqxWAQ

Never Say Die! by Black Sabbath

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ5EayHay7w

It's Trugoy's 44th birthday.

De La Soul - Me Myself and I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw02oX3_uC8

Corrinne Drewery is 54.

Swing Out Sister - Breakout

http://vimeo.com/58308970

(on vimeo)

Acadian Driftwood by The Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBTDdaCEY2k

Faris Badwan is 26 today:

The Horrors - She Is The New Thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP7HmHTL6Ik

Drummer, Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor is 58:

Motorhead - Ace of Spades

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iwC2QljLn4

For the Saturday night party.........

Leonard Cohen, 79 today - Sisters of Mercy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ4jv5mqiHY

I've been listening to different versions of The Wife of Usher's Well for a project I've been working on. I really like the contrast between Karine Polwart's or Martin Carthy's versions, which emphasise the sorrow of the song and Bellowhead's recent version which brings out a wrathful, destructive grief.

The Bellowhead version puts me in mind of the myth of the Rape of Proserpina and how her mother, Ceres, ravaged the earth in her despair. It's interesting how the expression of certain emotions hasn't really changed in two and half thousand years.

Carthy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbdTHqlZMZI
Bellowhead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueocbcKFKUU

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