Ever since my girlfriend and I heard their song in the new Sherlock Holmes movie we've been hooked on them. The Dubliners have a very nice feel to their Irish Folk Songs.
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Ever since my girlfriend and I heard their song in the new Sherlock Holmes movie we've been hooked on them. The Dubliners have a very nice feel to their Irish Folk Songs.
I don't get it either. The early Mother's were quite accomplished musicians - you would have to be to read Zappa's charts. Listen to highly disturbing placement of the kick drum in Cheap Thrills and tell me that the drummer isn't brilliant. The cheese was intentional. There is some speculation that Zappa may have been engaging in some creative historical revisionism, much like the Chinese who air brush people in and out of historical pictures as political needs dictate. Roy Estrada and Art Tripp may have pissed Mr. Z off somehow.Quote:
Originally Posted by slgrieb
By the way, my son went to see the Grand Mothers and the Vancouver Folk Festival a couple of years ago. They were apparently quite pleased that somebody under 50 approached them to chat and ask for autographs, especially as he knew who all them were and could discuss their work quite knowledgeably.
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What? You have a soft and cuddly side?Quote:
Originally Posted by Niclo Iste
The crusty, curmudgeonly, cantankerous persona we have all come to know and love is just a sham?
Say it ain't so, dude. Like I'm shattered.
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Perhaps she loves me because I have a crusty, curmudgeonly, cantankerous persona. ;)
Don't make me call out the attorneys! CCT and I hold the relevant crusty, curmudgeonly, and cantankerous copyrights. We also hold copyrights to the term psykotic. Just a little too slow registering "psychotic". Tim Dorsey beat us to the punch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niclo Iste
Still, what makes traditional Celtic music really interesting are those tempos like 12/8, 6/8, and 9/8 combined with the distinctive instrumentation and the most beautiful language in the world.
Hmmmmm.........Quote:
Originally Posted by slgrieb
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Or ... wait... maybe that was just obnoxious and not crusty, curmudgeonly and cantankerous...Quote:
Originally Posted by houseisland
Been so long, it's all kind of vague now.
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Not from Cruising with Ruben and the Jets, but of the same time period and same genre:Quote:
Originally Posted by houseisland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swgWNM_4eNk
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Agreed that Zappa never had a bad musician in The Mothers, but I sorta think that in later years he fell into the same trap as some other artists, and wanted to "improve" his earlier work. You know that whole Blade Runner: The Absolute Last Final Director's Cut, For Real This Time thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by houseisland
A diamond, one that you are familiar with, is handed to a different gem cutter, and suddenly there are facets of brilliance that you had been blissfully unaware of and now find yourself haunted by....
Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSHf8...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPDneEDBZnw
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Surprised you didn't link to Gabriel's Boy in The Bubble. I absolutely agree that Gabriel has perfectly understood Simon's meaning for the original cut. Truly beautiful.
Of course, I'm a sucker for Loreena McKennitt's version of Greensleeves. On the album liner note (some of you may remember these) she says this cut started out as a speculation on how Tom Waits would sing Greensleeves. I think she went well past that to create a version that is uniquely raw and passionate; not the mincing pseudo-Elizabethan version most are accustomed to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW98E...eature=related
You know, it occurs to me that if I'm going to rant against prissy, mincing pseudo-Elizabethan renditions of Greensleeves, I should present an example. It typifies everything I hate about the conventional arrangements, but at least it has a hot babe. So sue me if I'm shallow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmh9__mI51g
Clipboard error. I didn't check the link after posting.Quote:
Originally Posted by slgrieb
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Yes, they say that as you get older your... what's the word now? Your something or other starts failing. Starts with an "m", Well, I just can't seem to remember.Quote:
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Anywho, for those poor benighted individuals who might not have understood the earlier reference to Tom Waits, I offer The Piano Has Been Drinking.
As a final antidote to prissy "folk music", I think its worth a listen to two of the finest grisly, gruesome murder ballads ever written: The Famous Flower of Servingmen from Martin Carthy, and Fairport Convention's Matty Groves.