Re: Time for a music thread

by lardbucket Mon 30 Nov 2009, 13:46

tac wrote:A tribute to the Indian cricket fans . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbvP7dT3Dx0

Ah, good times.

by tac Tue 01 Dec 2009, 12:10

Something a little chirstmassy from a great Norman band . . .

by buckSH Sun 13 Dec 2009, 12:33

by lardbucket Mon 14 Dec 2009, 07:05

some nice slide ... can't believe it's 35 years old, FFS.

by Zat Wed 23 Dec 2009, 07:24

Mick Cocks, one of the founding members of Rose Tattoo has died. Five members of the band, four have died in the past three years, all from cancer.

by Guest Fri 01 Jan 2010, 20:36

Learnt the solo to this over Christmas, it's not technically that difficult but it rates pretty f*cking high on the awesome scale.

by doremi Fri 01 Jan 2010, 20:47

The intro was one of the first pieces I bullied my teacher into teaching me. It's not that hard a song to play really.

by Guest Fri 01 Jan 2010, 20:49

doremi wrote:The intro was one of the first pieces I bullied my teacher into teaching me. It's not that hard a song to play really.

No, it's perfect for intermediates.

by Jontyh Fri 01 Jan 2010, 21:44

You in a band Vilks?

by Guest Fri 01 Jan 2010, 21:49

Jontyh wrote:You in a band Vilks?

Nah, all my musical mates are either shithouse or so far ahead of me that it's embarassing to jam with them. I just stick with my loop station for the most part, occasionally whip out a solo at parties when I spot a guitar which usually impresses the casual listener, but anyone who actually plays can tell that I'm not particularly shit hot.

by Allan D Fri 01 Jan 2010, 21:52

Here's something which looks easy but ain't. Don't think bullying works with this just practice!

by Jontyh Fri 01 Jan 2010, 22:04

Yeah - not bad, but he's no Segovia or Bream.
Vilks: do you do any songs? That's a top party piece if you can knock out a few on the acoustic..

by doremi Fri 01 Jan 2010, 22:07

Allan D wrote:Here's something which looks easy but ain't. Don't think bullying works with this just practice!

Heh, I was listening to this yesterday and wondering how to play this one.

by Guest Fri 01 Jan 2010, 22:15

Jontyh wrote:Yeah - not bad, but he's no Segovia or Bream.
Vilks: do you do any songs? That's a top party piece if you can knock out a few on the acoustic..

Is there anybody out there by Pink Floyd is my big party piece. I can play that song to perfection, it's great because it's not that hard to play but it sounds utterly immense. Stairway to Heaven also features, but if it's an accoustic guitar then it's hard to do the solo.

by Jontyh Fri 01 Jan 2010, 22:37

vilkrang wrote:
Jontyh wrote:Yeah - not bad, but he's no Segovia or Bream.
Vilks: do you do any songs? That's a top party piece if you can knock out a few on the acoustic..
Is there anybody out there by Pink Floyd is my big party piece. I can play that song to perfection, it's great because it's not that hard to play but it sounds utterly immense. Stairway to Heaven also features, but if it's an accoustic guitar then it's hard to do the solo.

Good call. I like a bit of Elvis, Squeeze, Stones, Dylan and Chuck Berry - no solos, though.
Strictly a strummer on the geetar..

by PeterCS Fri 26 Feb 2010, 00:33

by PeterCS Fri 26 Feb 2010, 00:35

That one was for ZIm and embee.

They've got surfing too!

by Allan D Fri 26 Feb 2010, 03:34

Tom Lehrer expressed the same sentiments as R.Newman but rather more wittily imo:

by Zat Fri 26 Feb 2010, 03:45

Saw this on a Monty Python doco on the weekend. Seems like a good place to put it fttb.

Probably not a song you should listen to loudly at work, though.

Spoiler:

by horace Fri 26 Feb 2010, 03:56

PeterCS wrote:That one was for ZIm and embee.

They've got surfing too!

one of the all time great satirists..."boom goes London boom Paree more room for you and more room for me.."

by PeterCS Fri 26 Feb 2010, 15:26

Allan D wrote:Tom Lehrer expressed the same sentiments as R.Newman but rather more wittily imo:

I wouldn't really compare the two, apart from the general thematic area of "might = right??"
The mode and tone are entirely different.

The Lehrer is breezily skittish with a couple of particular satirical digs about imperialist tendencies in the age of Mad magazine. The Newman is black humour, full of countersunk depthcharges about the supposed "theory" of MAD, and its underlying truculent ("spiteful") and ignorant contempt for fellow humanity, more akin to Dr Strangelove than The Mouse That Roared.

Personally I prefer the Newman in this case, but obviously it's a matter of taste.

by PeterCS Fri 26 Feb 2010, 15:34

Better than "Money for Nothing" or "Teen Spirit" as a sardonic comment on the hard-working artist's public status and hand-to-mouth existence.

And an ironically natty ditty.

I used to like Alan Price's cover better, but that is too fresh-faced, too one-dimensional in its cheerfulness, and loses the "struggle for breath" (as Tadzio Rozewicz put it)

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