Gordon - What is the radio like in Switzerland and the countries with which it shares a border? Particularly public broadcasting but not exclusively. I'd like to learn about quality European stations beyond Britain.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street, live at Glastonbury.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxRi06Cimlw
Great stuff!
Definitely blows the Monday cobwebs away.
Blood & Fire by Van Halen
American Honky Honk Bar Associaion by Garth Brooks
I forgot that Liam Gallagher was 41 on Saturday.
Oasis - Live Forever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_2mWhfOhGU
(Another of my favourite 90s bands!)
Old Man by Neil Young
Quote: Harridan @ September 21 2013, 9:27 PM BSTI'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
The Bellowhead take on the track is very different!
Heather Heywood's spare, unaccompanied version always sends a shiver down my spine.
Another curious version is that from Steeleye Span; the Spanners could do dark and boding as well as anyone, but under Mike Batt's production they succeed in being disconcertingly jolly.
Robin Askwith - Confessions http://youtu.be/wAlvVUwfKbU
Hollywood (Down On Your Luck) by Thin Lizzy
Quote: Harridan @ September 21 2013, 9:27 PM BSTI'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
I find Bellowhead hit and miss. Sometimes fantastic. Sometimes not so good. That version is in the first category. Thanks. But I'm unclear. Tursiops is right. The Steeleye version is very Mike Batt. Then I go to Bert Jansch and "The Gardener". Jon Boden says that's a great tune and the Span took it into "Usher's Well"
- http://mainlynorfolk.info/shirley.collins/songs/proudmaisrie.html
Yet Bert's "Gardener" sounds like "She Moved Through The Fair" or even "My Lagan Love" and not much like "Usher's Well". And June Tabor's "Gardener" doesn't even sound like Jansch's "Gardener" - so I'm puzzled!
Bert Jansch - The Gardener
Alabama Shakes - Always Alright (Live on SNL)
Katie's Been Gone by The Band
Eat shit One Direction . .
UK SUBS - Warhead