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Post by crissdee on Oct 25, 2024 9:32:34 GMT
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Post by tetsabb on Oct 25, 2024 15:31:17 GMT
This For absolutely no apparent reason. A little bit of heaven
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Post by efros on Oct 26, 2024 11:06:18 GMT
First heard her years ago when I saw a video of her on Later... with Jools Holland performing this song. This version is every bit as good and the video is better than the original.
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Post by Bondee on Nov 2, 2024 13:51:34 GMT
The residential erect man, Stan, or whatever the fuck it is...
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Post by suze on Nov 2, 2024 14:31:48 GMT
I like a China Crisis song once, but it wasn't that one. It was the one with an oboe and a string section.
The published lyrics of that one, though, are alleged to be "The residential black sea band / They rose up out of a sinking sand / The presidential elect man said / For what you want take me instead". By this time next week we might have a "presidential elect man", so keep it in mind!
But the thought of 80s songs with oboes reminded me of this one. Now OK, the oboe here is actually a cor anglais - but "same difference" as the young people nonsensically say. The drums are orchestral timpani rather than standard rock band drums, the record was produced by Dave Gilmour, and three very middle class kids from North London were probably pleasantly surprised when it hit the Top Ten in the US and Canada. Do you remember that girl in school who was already wearing a twin set at the age of 16 and who normally only listened to classical music? She wasn't actually as "boring" as most people thought, and her parents would have been horrified if they'd known about the sex and the cigarettes - but even she bought this record back in '85. (Her name was Bridget, and in her 50s she probably teaches Music at a private school somewhere in the Pac Northwest.)
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Post by eeyoresmum on Nov 2, 2024 15:37:19 GMT
Right now I am listening to a special rendition of Chopin's Concerto in F Minor, Opus 21. It's an arrangement for guitar. I didn't know what to expect, but - quite bowled over. YMMV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UauRi3ac0Q |
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Post by crissdee on Nov 2, 2024 16:50:06 GMT
Do you remember that girl in school who was already wearing a twin set at the age of 16 and who normally only listened to classical music?
There were no 16 year old girls at my school until after I left, a fact that bothered the 16 year old boys of my acquaintance.... |
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Post by suze on Nov 2, 2024 23:00:58 GMT
There were no 16 year old girls at my school until after I left, a fact that bothered the 16 year old boys of my acquaintance.... I'm sure it did!
About 50% of the pupils at my school were boys, and about 50% of the pupils at TGH's school were girls.
Perhaps surprisingly, Chris's well known public school was similar (perhaps 60% boys, who were the school's entire clientele until 1970, but even in his day it was close to 50/50 among day pupils such as he was and by now it is so overall) - but Elz' state school had 0% boys. That's all to do with a longstanding Kent policy for grammar schools to be single sex. Given that I make my living in a single sex grammar school I shall not critique that policy as I might otherwise like to, but Medway (although not the rest of Kent) is now moving towards mixed grammar schools. Even so, the two grammar schools in Rochester - including the one where Elz went - are to remain single sex for the foreseeable future.
The problem here is that single sex schools are better for girls but mixed schools are better for boys. Quite a few academic studies have shown this to be so, but there is no obvious way to arrange schools to suit both findings.
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Post by celebaelin on Nov 8, 2024 0:38:10 GMT
Top 5% of 11+ grades for boys in the county get free places; no girls.
Come age 16
Behold, I am sending you out like wolves among sheep;
Not perhaps the result you might expect but it seemed to be the case (for those inclined).
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Post by tetsabb on Nov 8, 2024 15:04:01 GMT
How odd. This morning I had Big Yellow Taxi going round in my head. The Joni Mitchell version unsurprisingly. Later in a shop, another version came on, sung by a quite gruff voiced fellow -- not bad.
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Post by Bondee on Nov 8, 2024 16:01:11 GMT
Please tell me it wasn't the god awful Counting Crows version!
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Post by suze on Nov 8, 2024 18:11:33 GMT
There are actually two Counting Crows versions of Big Yellow Taxi. The first version, without Vanessa Carlton, is by now a rarity since it appeared on only one pressing of the band's fourth album. The version with Vanessa Carlton was swapped into the album after it became a hit single. Neither version is much good, and a supposed rock band really shouldn't be borrowing an intro from The Commodores!
That probably was the version that tetsabb encountered, though. He'd have recognised Bob Dylan, who didn't like his own version of the song and never wanted it put out on record. It only appeared after he switched record labels and the old label put out an album of odds and sods.
According to Joni Mitchell's website there are 593 cover versions of Big Yellow Taxi. Bondee probably knows who Pinhead Gunpowder are; most other readers of this site probably don't. But if we must have cover versions, their version of it is better than most, and, erm, they sound even more like Green Day here than they usually do! That's Billie Joe on vocals, if I am not much mistaken.
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Post by tetsabb on Nov 11, 2024 12:41:16 GMT
Yesterday was the 49th anniversary of this |
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Post by Bondee on Nov 11, 2024 13:50:19 GMT
According to Joni Mitchell's website there are 593 cover versions of Big Yellow Taxi. Bondee probably knows who Pinhead Gunpowder are; most other readers of this site probably don't. But if we must have cover versions, their version of it is better than most, and, erm, they sound even more like Green Day here than they usually do! That's Billie Joe on vocals, if I am not much mistaken.
I'm aware of Pinhead Gunpowder, although I've never seen the appeal of Green Day so I haven't paid them much attention. But you're right, it is Billie Joe. I hadn't heard that version before and I agree, it is better than most.
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Post by suze on Nov 11, 2024 18:11:23 GMT
I have quite a lot of time for Green Day. After all, I am a West Coast girl and they are a West Coast band. What's more, they are of of Elz' favourite bands. As a child of the 90s her first musical favourites were the Spice Girls, S Club 7, and such like, but once she moved on from that, Green Day were one of the bands who took their place. Over the years we've agreed to disagree about Bob Dylan and The Eagles (more to my taste than hers) and Ed Sheeran and Jay Z (vice versa), but there is no disagreement about Abba and Green Day. Or indeed about Rammstein, into whom Elz' husband is far too keen to induct Jessica!
American Idiot seems likely to see another revival after the choice that the Americans made last week. It wasn't actually written about Donald Trump but it might as well have been, as Billie Joe has been known to tell audiences. He is still an American citizen, though, despite having previously told audiences that he planned to renounce his citizenship and become either British or Canadian. Apparently one of his sons now lives in Toronto, so it may be the True North to which he is more attracted.
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