Music favourites, quick checklist

Music Favourites Quick Checklist

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3 June 2015 at 18:56

The creeds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNiCsTDAU70

Jerusalem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKaJ4b0XYmI&list=RDbKaJ4b0XYmI    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmeQ_M7fPMw

I vow to thee my county https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgZ54CvMlu8&list=RDbKaJ4b0XYmI&index=15

Let all mortal flesh keep silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpPm1cxy2B0 words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-4nuLjkIPk no words

Be thou my vision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQxHvBtR7hs

Mussorgsky Great Gate of Kiev   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8gs4TozJbQ

Mendelssohn : The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) - Overture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3MiETaBSnc Memorably heard on the tannoy of Calmac's Columba wallowing in the swell off Fingal's Cave on a round Mull cruise in 1984.

Moorsoldaten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEDBkK_BthA

Der heimliche Aufmarsch  Hans Eisler  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0I0J_fXLo

Bella Ciao politically I am for equality of opportunity which does not mean we are all similar, I believe in diverse lives, but not a diversity which cloaks bullying as culture. Fascism, Nazism, Islamisation, they are the same, evil.  My choice for Bella Ciao is an Italian priest singing it in Church. What memories he had? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePP9AHrncjQ

The Socialist ABC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkJwKwk-L2c

Land of the Pennine God by Mike Donald on his North by North East Album, a Settle Carlisle piece and darned difficult to find online. I have the LP.

Spanish Ladies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0P-fD_aaLk Sarah Blasko (into the world of sea shanties, the song of the waters)

Both sides of the Tweed Hogg http://sangstories.webs.com/bothsidesthetweed.htm and sung at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pkCiSQjkDo

The Yew Tree Battlefield Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uri_RpWzq8

Jock o Hazeldean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzCHRx_ztCM in some measure because this is a short cut into debating the Border Ballads and Tynedale. Another Auden case of missed locations.

"Wha'll be King but Cherlie?" Silly Wizzard version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTPyvKrU1DM&list=RDYtnPquqI3Bk&index=4 I can enjoy very much music from Irish republicans and Jacobites. I can understand how it works but don't assume I agree. I know which side I would have been on in the 1715, and 1745. And I know which way my vote, if I had one, would have gone in 1706. I am a British Unionist.

Related "names"  Hey, Johnnie Cope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qEKGMQLaKs by Ewan MacColl

and Bonnie Dundee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnOIrH-82Qc

Parcel of Rogues  Corries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js7x3u2GHYs

St Laurence O'Toole  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvnImGFJOeY   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorc%C3%A1n_Ua_Tuathail

Dark Iniseoghain     Deanta (more or less anything from them) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK7TG9Fpsi4

The Old Ways Loreena McKennitt (most of what she does although I do hold it against it her that she has never played in the Anglo-Scottish Borders). Note this song refers to Clare, a mix that is sacred to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SG6ZITbWpU&list=PLR6d4wNl92S7l-QLaSytp87kYOT2AfVKi

Dante's Prayer by Loreena has to be listed  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDw3CyOmj20

Bonny Portmore by Loreena we love TREES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hleg0nrh4x8 discussion https://www.facebook.com/robert.forsythe.39/posts/869710093102747?pnref=story

Hot asphalt a Joe Plunkett song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjVwi-kxLFI  this one is done by the Dubliners

Johnny Jump Up Gaelic Storm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u56R_qHTLVI

The Shoals of Herring Ewan MacColl version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ov81aogaxg which directly links Great Yarmouth and Shields and thereby the two rivers so much of life has revolved around. I will always attend to songs of the sea. Also Come all you gallant fishermen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg5odIT-bew  "Norfolk Boys and Lads from Peterheid, Buckie Chiels and Men from Shields". These were Britons.

Heart of the Ocean by Gaelic Storm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8bTH_7maBA

Patriot Game (actually anti war, anti the IRA and nationalism) Dubliners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpOOy7voiZI

Goodbye Saigon Billy Joel  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YoXd_FSdkw

Goodbye Saigon Wil Ferrell http://www.joblo.com/videos/horror-movies/goodnightsaigon

Holding out for a Hero Bonnie Tyler  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA48rDXh1_4

Casino Royale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBLeACT_KBQ

Poetry

In praise of limestone   Auden  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSEABp9kyds  (the version with the dildo!)

There is an amount of Auden out there to listen to but not Amor Loci or New Year Letter though bits are in http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04k9mzl which is thoroughly Pennine biased.

The Grand Inquistor, Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gielgud's monologue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om6HcUUa8DI

The Nasty Party

I love enthusiasts, passionate people but I hate nastiness. For quite some time the Nasty Party has been a phrase. People have used it on my timeline. The Nasty Party is cross party. Yesterday a wheelchair using Independent newspaper reporter was viilified by the crowd at GMEX. Other neutrals were affected. The protests outside GMEX do not impress me, if they have a good case, they do not need nastiness, nor egg throwing. There is a lobby that use Facebook thinking they can call either for a new election now, or Scottish independence quick time. All of which is a refusal to accept democracy. It is fair to say some Tory politicians are out of touch, many might say the Corbynites are too (and will be disappointed as their leader does a Tsipras). Teresa May apparently spent £1,400 on her conference dress complete with gold zip. Totally out of touch and her speech whilst right to worry about the scale of immigration and the challenge of cohesiveness was wrong on the matter of economic effect and since it attracted the ire of the Institute of Directors who called it irresponsible, not serious politics beyond her pitching for leadership. So I don't like Mrs May but it is not about nastiness, it is about reasonable debate. In her audience were immigrants and the children of immigrants. Two Tory MPs in my consciousness refer to that heritage Boris Johnson and Guy Opperman. Wrapping up, honestly, if being nasty gives you a hit, if you think this party or that is The Nasty Party, quietly remove yourself from my Facebook friend list. http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/this-is-everyone-whos-been-called-tory-scum-at-the-conservative-party-conference--bJOodGsNvl

 

(from my Facebook timeline)