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Robin B
Posted: 05 October 2024 00:04:59(UTC)
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Did anybody ever see the documentary, Searching for Sugarman? I think it might be on Netflix. It was released a few years ago.

It is about an artist called Sixto Rodriguez who wrote a great album of songs in the States in the 1970s. The album is called Cold Fact. The record company somehow messed things up l, or there might have been aabotage involved, and the album never became well known. By a weird chain of events it did become well known and very popular in South Africa. The South African documentary maker catches up with Rodriguez living in poverty in Detroit, having spent much of his life working on building sites. This documentary helped him get the recognition he deserved late in his life. It is clear from listening to the album that it deserved to have been in the charts at the time. He seems to have been a very humble chap - since passed away.

Here's my favourite from the album but all of the tracks are good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OilHAe6Os3o

If you can track it down, well worth watching the documentary and then listening to the album!
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Neminem Laedit
Posted: 05 October 2024 00:21:51(UTC)
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Probably the greatest anti-War song ever...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntt3wy-L8Ok

According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, there are 18 Willie McBrides buried in The Green Fields of France...

Well, how do you do, young Willie McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here, down by your graveside?
And rest for a while, 'neath the warm summer Sun
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done

I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the Great Fallen in 1916
I hope you died well, and I hope you died clean
Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the Death March, as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Did you leave a wife, or a sweetheart behind?
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
Although you died back in 1916
In that faithful heart, are you forever nineteen?

Or are you a stranger, without even a name
Enclosed in forever, behind a glass frame?
In an old photograph, torn, battered and stained
And faded to yellow, in a brown leather frame?

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the Death March, as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post and chorus?
And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

The Sun, now it shines on the green fields of France
There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance
And look how the Sun shines from under the clouds
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no guns firing now

But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the Death March, as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Ah, young Willie McBride, I can't help wonder why
Do those that lie here know why they did die?
And did they believe, when they answered the call
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?

Well, the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain
The killing and dying, were all done in vain
For young Willie McBride, it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again...

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the Death March, as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the Death March, as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post and chorus?
And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
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Neminem Laedit
Posted: 05 October 2024 04:11:31(UTC)
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Borodin - "Notturno", from his String Quartet No.2 [1881], dedicated to his wife, Ekaterina Protopopova, on their 20th anniversary...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4TPwfZSY4Q

Before he found repute as a composer, Borodin was renowned as a Professor of organic chemistry.
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Neminem Laedit
Posted: 06 October 2024 00:54:54(UTC)
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Modest Mussorgsky, painted by Ilya Repin, about a week before he died in 1881, aged 42.




Mussorgsky: "Night on the Bare Mountain", arranged/conducted by Stokowski, 1968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuyV37WQo2k
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Robin B
Posted: 06 October 2024 09:43:30(UTC)
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Reminds me of being on top of Cadair Idris a couple of years ago in a blinding gale force hail storm.
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Neminem Laedit on 06/10/2024(UTC)
Neminem Laedit
Posted: 06 October 2024 22:45:34(UTC)
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SF100
Posted: 07 October 2024 14:18:14(UTC)
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Cornershop with Paula Frazer nailing it at 01:30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REzVxf_e2Vs
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Tim D
Posted: 07 October 2024 14:36:00(UTC)
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Robin B;321272 wrote:
Also, how many tabs do you have open!? [/b]


Another Firefox user told me they got an error message saying a 500 tab limit had been hit. I've never seen that message so it must be less than 500! I do make some effort to periodically clean mine up though. Mostly random things I thought "I'll come back and look at that later..." and then weeks or months later I still haven't and whatever the reason I was interested in it has faded or it's old news now.
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Robin B on 07/10/2024(UTC)
Laurence O'Brien
Posted: 07 October 2024 17:41:12(UTC)
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Joined: 04/12/2014(UTC)
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Neminem Laedit;321280 wrote:
Probably the greatest anti-War song ever...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntt3wy-L8Ok

According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, there are 18 Willie McBrides buried in The Green Fields of France...

Well, how do you do, young Willie McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here, down by your graveside?
And rest for a while, 'neath the warm summer Sun
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done

I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the Great Fallen in 1916
I hope you died well, and I hope you died clean
Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the Death March, as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Did you leave a wife, or a sweetheart behind?
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
Although you died back in 1916
In that faithful heart, are you forever nineteen?

Or are you a stranger, without even a name
Enclosed in forever, behind a glass frame?
In an old photograph, torn, battered and stained
And faded to yellow, in a brown leather frame?

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the Death March, as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post and chorus?
And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

The Sun, now it shines on the green fields of France
There's a warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance
And look how the Sun shines from under the clouds
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no guns firing now

But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
To a whole generation that were butchered and damned

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the Death March, as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Ah, young Willie McBride, I can't help wonder why
Do those that lie here know why they did die?
And did they believe, when they answered the call
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?

Well, the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain
The killing and dying, were all done in vain
For young Willie McBride, it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again...

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the Death March, as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post and chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the Death March, as they lowered you down?
Did the band play The Last Post and chorus?
And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?


I recommend Dylan's Masters of War - especially the Eddie Vedder and Mike McCreadie version from the 30th Anniversary concert.

https://youtu.be/dwa2jK0xglk?si=DdH3x9QC2lWm49cP
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Big boy
Posted: 07 October 2024 17:58:28(UTC)
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Joined: 20/01/2015(UTC)
Posts: 6,685
Music to my ears is a beautiful Royal Forster fine instrument or even a Stradivous violin, viola or cello and both make financial sense.
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