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Title: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Jan on Today at 15:00 The current topic in the Guardian Music supplement's Readers recommend column is Myths and Legends (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/jan/02/readers-recommend-myths-legends?showallcomments=true). Replies to be in by midday on Monday (5th Jan 2009) Could someone eloquently promote Commercial Traveller, which has already been mentioned? Jan |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by sjm on 14.02.09 at 15:23 This weekend it is songs about secret vices............... |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Jan on 21.03.09 at 11:36 This week's theme (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/19/readers-recommend-television-social-class-songs) is ...interested in the hierarchical distinctions that exist between us. I'm looking for songs about social class; songs of lower order and higher manners. Horny-handed sons of the soil and the languorous offspring of the gentry... Can someone suggest Frangipanni - they like eloquence which I'm afraid is in short supply around here? Jan |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by andyw on 21.03.09 at 12:32 re This week's theme is "...interested in the hierarchical distinctions that exist between us. I'm looking for songs about social class; songs of lower order and higher manners. Horny-handed sons of the soil and the languorous offspring of the gentry..." If not "horny-handed sons of the soil", then, to re-establish part of the quotation, shiny-knuckled sons of toil - Carnations on the roof of course: "Forty years of metal tend to get into your skin The surest coin you take home from your wage The green cleaning-jelly only goes to rub it in And that glitter in the wrinkle of your knuckle ... " Incidentally, I had always wondered if this was the only song to reference Swarfega. A quick search reveals that it is a select group with The Matthew Project and Goldfrapp and a few obscure techno outfits. Ah well ... |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Ian Ashleigh on 21.03.09 at 12:49 Would Rain-Wheels count? These days parts of Notting Hill are as 'gentrified' as The Vale of Health by Hampstead Heath. Clive's word pictures as simply wonderful, I am always there watching the E-type Jaguar in the rain - though (sadly) never in it. |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Jan on 12.03.10 at 00:30 This week's topic is "Songs about midnight" http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/mar/12/readers-recommend-midnight-songs?showallcomments=true#post-area Please could someone else post a comment (http://www.peteatkin.com/i68.htm)? Jan |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Simon Reap on 12.03.10 at 14:22 I've added a comment about that (http://www.peteatkin.com/i68.htm) one, and this (http://www.peteatkin.com/d12.htm) one. Simon |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Jan on 12.03.10 at 15:12 Thanks Simon! |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Jan on 21.05.10 at 10:20 This week's Readers recommend is Songs about concerts (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/may/21/readers-recommend-songs-concerts) Someone has already recommended Star of tomorrow and would probably like some support Jan |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Keith Busby on 21.05.10 at 18:16 Or Apparition in Las Vegas? |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Kevin Cryan on 21.05.10 at 21:15 I would have to nominate Uncle Sea-Bird (http://www.peteatkin.com/f14a.htm). Kevin Cryan (as, on BBC4, I watch someone who looks very much like James Paler sitting and still " looking delicate" a handful less than "ten feet in front of Carole King") |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Russ Chandler on 23.05.10 at 14:18 Don't forget "The Man Who Walked Towards the Music". |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Jan on 23.05.10 at 15:38 And no one's mentioned An array of passionate lovers. You have to register on the site to suggest a title but you may be able to click on the Recommend? link to support a suggestion already made. (Much easier if it works) Jan |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Jan on 28.05.10 at 19:36 At last an Atkin-James song gets into the Guardian's Readers recommend list. Star of Tomorrow is on the B-list at number 10 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/may/28/readers-recommend-songs-10-words ) Not one of the greatest but one of the funniest! Jan |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Rob Spence on 31.05.10 at 10:23 on 05/28/10 at 19:36:37, Jan wrote :
Well done for getting that in, Jan. An indication of what people of a certain generation are up against here is in the comment on Delaney and Bonnie (rendered as Bonnie and Delaney): "Second favourite track of the week, and got a little distracted by this pair who I'd never heard of before but look super-cool man!" O tempora, o mores! |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Jan on 17.07.10 at 22:10 This week readers recommend Songs about manual labour http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/jul/16/readers-recommend-songs-manual-labour (I have no idea why there's a gap in the word manual above, it isn't in the hyperlink) Jan |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Ian Ashleigh on 18.07.10 at 12:32 Well, I've had to nominate Carnations on the Roof, it would have been rude not to! ;D |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Rob Spence on 18.07.10 at 17:49 I'll wager that no other song will feature a micrometer or a multi-purpose punch... |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Simon Reap on 20.07.10 at 11:45 The Architect (http://www.lyricsmania.com/the_architect_lyrics_crimson_armada_the.html) by The Crimson Armada (http://www.myspace.com/thecrimsonarmada) (a popular beat combo, I think) has: Perfection to the micrometer and no pillar could ever fall (though that looks like a distance rather than a device) |
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Title: Re: Guardian - Readers recommend Post by Rob Spence on 20.07.10 at 16:38 OK, you got me- no multi-purpose punch though? |
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