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Recommend some music videos to me!
40hz:
Hmmm... the reverbed guitar skronk in that song...
-Edvard (November 19, 2014, 12:44 AM)
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Gotta love that skronk! ;D :Thmbsup: First time I heard it in was when Buck Dharma in Blue Oyster Cult did it for E.T.I.
That was another good song. I just wish there was a really good recorded version of it. BOC had a tendency to rush the beat in live performances, and the original suffers from the recording technology of the era. This was the best I could find for live:
More cowbell!!! :D
40hz:
Ievan Polkka? Love it! :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
Reminds me a bit of an old Jacobian diss on King George called Cam Ye O'er Frae France.
Some background the songCam ye o'er frae France is a Scots mocking[1] folk song from the time of the Jacobite Revolution in the 18th century.
Background
After the death of Queen Anne the British crown passed on to George, the Elector of Hanover. In his entourage George I brought with him a number of German courtiers, including his mistress Melusine von der Schulenburg, whom he later created the Duchess of Kendal, - commonly referred to as the Sow and the Goose - and his half-sister Sophia von Kielmansegg. George I's wife Sophia Dorothea of Celle remained in Hanover, imprisoned at Ahlden House after her affair with Philip Christoph von Königsmarck - the blade in the song. Another historic personality in the song is John Erskine, 22nd Earl of Mar, Bobbing John, who recruited in the Scottish Highlands for the Hanoverian cause. The nickname Geordie Whelps is a reference to the House of Welf, the original line of the House of Hanover.[2]
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Cam ye o'er frae France? Cam ye down by Lunnon?
Saw ye Geordie Whelps and his bonny woman?
Were ye at the place ca'd the Kittle Housie?
Saw ye Geordie's grace riding on a goosie?
Geordie, he's a man there is little doubt o't;
He's done a' he can, wha can do without it?
Down there came a blade linkin' like my lordie;
He wad drive a trade at the loom o' Geordie.
Though the claith were bad, blythly may we niffer;
Gin we get a wab, it makes little differ.
We hae tint our plaid, bannet, belt and swordie,
Ha's and mailins braid—but we hae a Geordie!
Jocky's gane to France and Montgomery's lady;
There they'll learn to dance: Madam, are ye ready?
They'll be back belyve belted, brisk and lordly;
Brawly may they thrive to dance a jig wi' Geordie!
Hey for Sandy Don! Hey for Cockolorum!
Hey for Bobbing John and his Highland Quorum!
Mony a sword and lance swings at Highland hurdie;
How they'll skip and dance o'er the bum o' Geordie!
(Repeat first verse)
Glossary
belyve=quickly;
blade=a person of weak, soft constitution from rapid overgrowth;
bonny woman=a woman of loose character;
braid=broad;
brawly=well;
claith=cloth;
gane=gone;
gin=if, whether;
goosie=diminutive of goose, derisive nickname for the King's mistress;
ha's and mailins=houses and farmlands;
hurdie=buttock;
kittle housie=brothel;
linkin=tripping along;
Lunnon=London;
niffer=haggle or exchange;
tint=lost;
wab=web (or length) of cloth)
Regards,
Jim Clark
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There's probably a thousand different takes on it, although my favorites are by the incomparable Maddy Prior with the band Steeleye Span. This live video doesn't have the best sound quality. But you really get to see the level of dramatic performance Maddy could bring to a song. She was also into the 'trad' dancing thing long before River Dance hyper-refined it and made it mainstream. In a club setting she'd sing and dance around the entire room all night, alone and with audience members, and never miss a single note or step. Sweet and talented woman! Would there were more performers like her.
BTW, Maddy and the band can still do it! :Thmbsup:
As someone else pointed out, nobody will ever deliver a cutting put-down better than a Scots bard. ;D
Renegade:
Not really music videos, but interviews with the lead singer of my absolute favourite band, bar none, with some really good insightful comments on music if you have the patience to listen.
Great comment here about supporting local live music:
And just for the heck of it, a 1988 news piece:
My absolute #1 favourite song to play on the guitar (when I'm completely plastered drunk) is "Proud to be Canadian". :Thmbsup: (Also the only tune I can play hammered. :P )
That tune is just 1,000% insanely fun!
And now, for a seriously just badass tune that is just stupid fun:
Also a really fun tune to play. :)
They put on a great concert with truckload of energy.
Edvard:
Sometimes, and only sometimes, I forget the 80s. Thanks Renegade. DA reminds me of AMQA:
;D
Renegade:
Sometimes, and only sometimes, I forget the 80s. Thanks Renegade. DA reminds me of AMQA:
;D
-Edvard (November 20, 2014, 02:11 AM)
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Hahaha! Good stuff! :Thmbsup:
But times have changed since the 80s...
The album this song is from may just well put the rapper in prison for life:
Now, some of you may be thinking that the music is so bad, that a life sentence is gentle, but c'mon... let's not be haters. :P
No, instead he's facing life simply for publishing the album. Really.
:o
Anyone missing the 80s yet?
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