[rusty trawler]

Enough already!!!!!

Far too many intelligent people that I rather like having fun with are wasting too much energy on this.

It was a silly thread to begin with and it hasn’t really progressed.

I know I can be just as guilty of this as anyone else, so please shut me down when I get the urge to get involved similar behaviour.

[rusty trawler]

@cath 55 wrote:

I did think about sending you a private message with what i had to say Martin but i thought better of it.

…. but, remember whats the worse anyone can do? type in capitals to u? lol xx

That made laugh out loud. So true.

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@simplysu wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkuf4VzBAUI

I like it simple.

Nice Song, Simply.

Thanks for posting.

[rusty trawler]

@sceptical guy wrote:

I hate to say I’ve not only seen Emmylou, but also wept to this one from the McGarrigle Sisters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDrkUmxrxpQ

but twas embarrassing, coz the song has all the horrors of mixed metaphor etc

Lovely choice Scep.

First things first, to address a previous wrong: the ‘tut, tut, you’re a wrong ‘un’ comment should have been directed at Trapper.

Whilst I struggle with a strategy to get this thread back on topic, I’ll join in with the disregard for my self-imposed rules and take inspiration from your last post.

McGarrigle’s got me going all Wainwright.

I love a good old sea shanty, which is partly the reason for my chosen name, and this one by Loudon is as good as any:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcFsIVE-88w

It’s from Rogue’s Gallery, although probably not originally, a Johnny Depp sponsored album of shanties and songs about the sea. The only good thing to originate from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise in my opinion. I think there’s a Rogue’s Gallery II available now.

And of course Rufus is no slouch. Poses is a great album with many a good song, including one man guy, poses, and greek song, but this… i’m going to say it goddammit.. just beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1IlT7tZIIk

Incidentally, to on the right hand youtube recommends on your song choice shows High Sierra by Parton, Ronstadt and Harris, namely Trio. Its’ from Trio II a great album and well worth a listen if you don’t know it.

[rusty trawler]

@sceptical guy wrote:

I hate to say I’ve not only seen Emmylou, but also wept to this one from the McGarrigle Sisters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDrkUmxrxpQ

but twas embarrassing, coz the song has all the horrors of mixed metaphor etc

Lol. i’ve just realized that the JC profanity police censored the title of song i suggested by the weepies. the song is Dating a P-orn’ star not dating a cuddle and hugs star.

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@sceptical guy wrote:

“look out, Jack, that son of a b it ch is coming”

Actually there is at least one redneck song which avoids easy-tears, good-ol-boys, cheap sentiment, and as I’m hardly an expert there must be more.

Goy Clark’s Desperados Waiting for a Train…about an old folks home where these old guys with unshaven chins and no teeth in their heads sit, like desperados, waiting for Mr Death. It’s genuinely moving at the end, and brilliant music at that point too in getting across those moments when someone realises it’s near.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSxs89qT-r0

And how do you like your blue-eyed boy, Mr Death? as the poet wrote

Hmmmm…. not sure the tears are easy to come by or the sentiment cheap, but i’ll leave that for another thread. If you’re intimating that there must be a lot of songs that don’t take the more populist route then I’m in total agreement.

Townes Van Zandt and Gram Parsons come quickly to mind.

Thinking of Parsons tempted me to post red dirt girl, emmylou harris in response, as it’s a paean to a dead friend who was unlucky in love and unlucky in life but had that plucky stoicism so often noted in songs of this ilk…… But i didn’t.

And then I thought of the pop/country/comedy stylings of The Weepies song Dating a Porn Star….. But I didn’t post it.

That song made me automatically think of a go to song for me, Christmas Card From A Hooker in Minneapolis, Tom Waits and that got me thinking of Hold On… But a Tom Waits response from me would have been sooooooo predictable, not excluding the fact I’ve mentioned the Xmas Card from a hooker song once or twice on these boards before….. So I didn’t

And then I thought of Springsteen songs I love, which got me to Highway Patrolman a song about being torn between love and duty, but Springsteen would have been just as predictable for me…. So I didn’t.

So I was faltering for a suitable response, and with the Guy Clark song still in my mind plus your liking of the son of a bitch line, I thought of LA Freeway (‘that son of a bitch has always bored me’) and I decided that’s the one. Not sure it qualifies a song about the flipside of love, perhaps speaks more of a desire to leave things behind and move forward, but he name checks his wife Susana, so I think it qualifies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPUMthAXJ-o

You sound like an expert to me, old bean.

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@sceptical guy wrote:

@trapper wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poueMAJjOxE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzifK-kByo8

Tut, tut, Scep, you’re a wrong ‘un.

When I clicked on this youtube post on my ‘puter I spotted Right Said Fred, Bernard Cribbins. A far superior comedy song.

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@trapper wrote:

make the effort ffs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-tilSPmpXo

It pains my northern pride to admit to having a bit of a blind spot when it comes to the Kaizer Chiefs and even more so to declare that I think the last good band to come from Leeds was probably The Wedding Present.

But the George Jones song made me go all Grand Ole Opry, which is never a bad thing, and I remembered another relevant song my Old Pa loved.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aa_PLBWx7Y

File next to the Willie Nelson created song Hello Walls and Faron Young by Prefab Sprout.

[rusty trawler]

@annette-curtain wrote:

Rusty * swooooooooooons* :wink:

I would post lots of songs that I like … but a) there is a music thread elsewhere on the boards, and b) I would go on , and on , and on with them …. Please carry on , I’m sure i’m not the only one reading this thread , and listening to the links.

Ps. Btw ……It has finally happened, Someone in the room thinks we were an item :lol: Do i have to tell them we aren’t , do i ? :lol: :lol:

PPs… It’s okay, it was only Alias and he was drunk :wink:

Lol. that makes me laugh. But hang on there a darn second, Miss Netty. Don’t be too quick to put the fella straight; not sure I have ever been referred to as an item before, except the type you hold between two fingers, dangle far from your nose and say, ‘what the hell is this item?’

Oh, that’s not entirely true, as Mr Noddy can’t seem to comprehend that two people using the name Rusty can actually use the chat room at the same time and one of them is permanently left on the shelf, i.e. me, but he’s a nork.

Thanks for the reply.

[rusty trawler]

Lol. Well that went down like a lead balloon. No willing participants, except for dear Trapper. Thanks for humouring me by the way, old chap. You’re a gentleman, scholar and acrobat.

Never let it be said that I would willingly walk past a dead horse and persuade myself that the poor beast has already been flogged adequately. Im a sucker for a girl, a guitar and a song. Here’s a few that I like at the moment:

Because this was the song that I was playing when I thought of the list idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99dh7MBysmI

Because ukelele is technically a small guitar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJvx9jV3Dyc

Because I love the fooling around at the beginning of this track. And its’ a good album!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZT0mvZJXBQ

And this is a great album too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj9tZzl7YCg

A recent discovery:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN6QkxUGkYI

I know it’s a ploy but I love, love, love the ambient train station noises in the background.

The inevitable Tom Waits track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlOr475Q3bI

three cover songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-w3ulxYkqU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StB7G6zFG1k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilG42w_iprI

The ‘what the hell is that doing on this list’ song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc-V4NTOn5s

It popped in my mind when I was trying to think of covers songs. And, and, and….. well, it just kills me. Reason enuff, surely?

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