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three more slappers.

How did you come to listen to this stuff?

You can answer the question as you please, but here’s what I meant:

Do you have any anecdotes about the songs? Is there stuff you’ve recently gotten into, or did some of these songs just came back to you for some reason?

It’s a callback to the original idea of the thread, posting three songs you currently have on rotation or that’ve been on your mind lately. I don’t mind the thread becoming a more general music channel thread; I think the original idea has it’s charm, though.

But I think it’s even more a forum-thing. Places like this are more based on conversational exchange, a place to do pub quiz-like stuff, enjoy a joke or a discussion, maybe roll your eyes every once in a while. Cue The Cheers Theme..

Sure, do you. Like I said, I don’t really mind if this thread became more like a regular music channel or thread. The original idea appeared past it’s longevity, that was fine as well.

The cool thing about the slightly outdated nature of a space like this, with all it’s design flaws features, is the buffer it provides to resist the solipsistic tendencies of social media and modern message boards. No system of likes and upvotes. A slower pace. Relating to peers as fellow community members, rather than an audience.

I don’t want to get too “deep” or in any way judgemental about it. Maybe it’s just a personal preference that I’m presenting as some sort of goal here. So, do you. Here’s three more songs on my part and then we’ll see where the thread goes.

(forward? sidewards? under?)

Here’s one for the future of reality: Erik Urano, Merca Bae - I+D

One for the past: The Weather Station - Endless Time

And one for our current epoch collapsing in on itself. Or is it never going to die?

Having mentioned 3 albums by Jackie Leven elsewhere yesterday it seems appropriate to follow on from the thread title and post a track from each here. Certainly in the moment for me digitising them
Firstly, from The Mystery Of Love Is Greater Than The Mystery Of Death, we have “Call Mother A Lonely Field”:

Next up from Forbidden Songs Of The Dying West we have Working Alone/A Blessing:

And, lastly, from Fairy Tales For Hard Men we have Fear Of Women:

Wow. Jackie Leven eh? Never heard of him before but that’s some gorgeous songwriting there.

Charophycean - 17 June 2022 09:12 AM

Wow. Jackie Leven eh? Never heard of him before but that’s some gorgeous songwriting there.

For me he’s up there with England’s Richard Thompson, America’s Bob Dylan and Canada’s Leonard Cohen. He’s Scottish, from the Kingdom of Fife as he frequently declared.

Sadly died around 10 years ago but did see him in concert 3 or 4 times and he was really good.

Here’s an odd fact about him.

I think it was when he was fronting his band Doll By Doll that he was nearly murdered by one of the Dalai Llama’s bodyguards!  This was in Trafalgar Square in London and he came close to being throttled. The sad outcome of that was the upper range of his voice was damaged as was, thankfully to a much lesser extent, his general singing. Nice bloke all round as I managed to have a chat with him on a couple of occasions after gigs.

Charophycean - 17 June 2022 09:12 AM

Wow. Jackie Leven eh? Never heard of him before but that’s some gorgeous songwriting there.

Seconded! The music came up in the strange album titles thread as well.

Vegetable Party - 17 June 2022 11:44 AM

Seconded! The music came up in the strange album titles thread as well.

Could be because I did both

You kids! never heard of the man and there I am with 12 albums.
If you feel like a gamble there’s a good compilation of his stuff called “Straight Outta Caledonia” . I’m assuming that it’s available on CD as I buy vinyl every chance I get - which I did here.