Will it make my iPod?

[Ponder]

Don't understand Swedish?
No matter. The melody gets thru anyway.

Hey Erik, this is odd.
Same song, same singer but another language :confused:
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[Erik]

I can clear that up: Vreeswijk was born in Holland (see the name), but his family moved to Sweden when he was twelve. The result is bilingual. Some songs he translated from Swedish to Dutch.

Vreeswijk is a fine artist, on par with the best of them.

 

[Ponder]

I was teasing you. Sorry.
I grew up listening to Vreeswijk
because my parents did.

 

[Erik]

Oh.
So you're located down by THAT river!
;)

 

[Ponder]

Well, yes.
Located 100 yards from the longest? river in Europe.

7. Kate Bush - Hello earth

 

[chronic]

New week:

1) Tom Waits -

 

[Ponder]

Something with train.
2. Supertramp - Rudy

Low voice of Rick? Davies. Recorded from LP version.
Supertramp: who doesn't hate them.
Personally I still like some of their songs.
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[Digney in Burnaby]

Well, involves a train.

Never had heard of Rednex (Swedish pop band) until last week when this got played over the p.a. at Victoria's Western Speedway a couple times. People in the stands stomping along. From 1993/4. Man, I'm outta touch with the masses!

 

[mjp]

Never had heard of Rednex (Swedish pop band) until last week...

Great. The worst of two worlds, fake-hillbilly dancepop. "The masses" can't be listening to that stinking kettle of shit tripe, I simply refuse to believe it. Even the masses aren't that addled.

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

Stuff makes me laugh. It was confusing to hear it at the track last week, the reaction and recognition and all that by a few thousand people. Actually wrote down the title in the program as best as I could understand it and then went to the utube.

 

[mjp]

Well, Cotton-Eyed Joe is an old traditional song (old like early 1800's old), so I wouldn't be surprised if it sounds familiar to most people, even if they don't remember ever hearing it.

But just because ABBA traded in their guitars for fiddles and banjos so they could sing it - I don't know. It's so...it's wrong. Like going in to court and seeing a judge with clown makeup, or a chimp behind the counter of a donut shop. Makes no sense. Fucks with your head.

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

I know you're not big on the wikipedia but here's a take on Cotton-Eyed Joe with a 1939 recording recorded by the Lomaxes.

And I agree, it is wrong, and that's what makes it so right. For the moment anyway. Never heard of it, myself, until a week ago. Hadn't heard of the traditional Cotton-Eyed Joe either until I fooled around on the web. Not sure many people on the west coast of Canada, at a sprint car race, would have heard of it either.

But I could be wrong.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Maybe it is a sign of the times-as wrong as it may be- it just sounds so right to me right now. The new ABBA or whatever, you have to respect people who exist on or near the Arctic Circle. It's almost enough to make me like Country and Western music.

So, my pick for the iPod: 4) -Rednex

Just like ABBA Momma Mia they'll make a musical out of this stinking kettle of shit tripe. You are either with the Swedish pop bands or you are with the terrorists. Love Gerard

 

[Erik]

:eek: Yikes!

Moderators: please replace the previous glitch with this:

 

[Ambreen]

Happy 30th birthday, Walkman !

My best friend is a fan of Mama Mia (musical + film).

Digney in Burnaby, the video clip from Rednex's song is far much funnier than your link: http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x10qmw/video/x1au73_rednex-coton-eye-joe_fun?hmz=746162

I myself only discovered it last month. I was watching Deliverance with a guy and he then showed me that video...we had a lot of fun that day thanks to rednecks and Rednex ! :D

By the way, are the terms "redneck", "white trash" and "hillbilly" all synonyms or do they designate different species ?

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

I know the official video of Cotton Eye Joe is funnier, I was trying to find the noise I heard over the p.a. That didn't include the female vocals, just the "what you say?" b.s.

There is so much depth to this song, it makes me want to dig deeper. And deeper.

And then pull the dirt in behind me.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

You asked for it. Sure it's "Pop"

1)
NEW WEEK

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

2.) by The Ventures.

 

[chronic]

3) The Seeds -

 

[Billville]

Nice one chronic. Made think of this one by the 13th Floor Elevators:

04.

 

[Black Swan]

5) The Box Tops- The Letter 1967

 

[hoochmonkey9]

1. I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos

 

[Black Swan]

2. Chances are. Bob Marley and the Wailers

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Even the masses aren't that addled.

Seriously, they are. Just look at the tripe that sells.

 

[mjp]

2. Chances are. Bob Marley and the Wailers

That song was not recorded when Bob was 19 years old as the kid who posted it guesses. It was recorded twice (once acoustic, once with the band), in 1968, when Bob was 23.

Bob cut two singles for Beverly's (whose early labels credited, "Robert Morley" and "Bobby Martell") when he was 17, then the Wailers got together and started recording when he was 19. Those early recordings are all ska, as rocksteady and reggae hadn't been created yet. The Wailers first record, Simmer Down, was a ska hit in Jamaica in 1964.

By 1968, when Chances Are was recorded, they had slowed the frantic ska beat down to the more laid back rocksteady, which then slowed down a bit more, got a new rhythm featuring the "one drop" drum pattern and that was reggae for almost a decade. Until computers came along and changed music, apparently forever.

Because I know you were all dying to know that. :rolleyes:

Seriously, they are. Just look at the tripe that sells.

What's funny about "what sells" is it isn't even an indicator of what people are listening to anymore, since so much music is freely traded and downloaded.

 

[Black Swan]

Thanks mjp, that was a great little piece of history.

I have always liked that song, also Peter Tosh.
I also like Jimmy Cliff, after seeing "The Harder they come". Where does his music fit in ? :) Is it poppy compare to....

 

[mjp]

Jimmy Cliff's career and music followed pretty much the same arc as the Wailers (ska, rocksteady, reggae), but that could be said of a lot of Jamaican musicians. I think Cliff was known outside of Jamiaca long before the Wailers were. He was poppier and more commercial yes, and considerably less militant than the Wailers. But Marley was trying to be commercial. Within the boundaries he established. Those boundaries included not taming or downplaying the militancy, which of course made him frightening and even more foreign to a lot of Europeans and Americans.

But I have to say, I saw Jimmy Cliff open a show for Peter Tosh once, and I loved Tosh and expected to just tolerate Cliff. But Jimmy Cliff stole the show! He was a tough act to follow, especially for Tosh, who could appear to be rather - uninvolved - during many of his live shows. Cliff is a great entertainer and musician.

 

[Erik]

3. Ronnie Hawkins & Th Hawks - Who Do You Love
(Whoa! is that an injun on lead guitar? ):rolleyes:

PS: Love Jimmy Cliff. He was prety militant, in his own way, wasn't he?
But he had a "bright side" that set him a bit apart from Marley b& Tosh.

He mentions these two sides of his music on a bonus interview on the Harder They Come DVD.
I think.

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

Sunny Goodge Street by Tom Northcott. Donovan's song. Was a big hit in Vancouver (no. 3 on the C-FUNtastic! charts). Last three days I've been in hot country (Kelowna, BC). 30-35 celcius.

 

[chronic]

5) Willie Dixon -