Goodbye January.
As we approach the start of Spring (yeah, right!), what better way to celebrate the new season than by giving away a Golden Discs voucher worth a blooming €25.
To be in with a chance to win, simply tell me below what is your favourite song about or mentioning Spring.
Here’s mine.
The winner will be chosen by my good self.
Lines close at 9.30pm
Please include video links if possible.
Nick says: Good luck.
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Anything by Springsteen. Except Hungry Heart which is a terrible song.
Talk Talk’s third album, The Colour of Spring, not alone presaged the brilliance of their later career, but also lent its title to the opening track of singer Mark Hollis’s only solo album.
It’s eight lines – intimate and rich – backed with piano and haunting, brittle vocals is a masterpiece of spare, pastoral beauty.
“Forget our fate”, the peddler sings.
Set up to sell my soul,
I’ve lived a life for wealth to bring.
And yet I’ll gaze [at]
The colour of spring,
Immerse in that one moment,
Left in love with everything,
Soar the bridges that I burnt before,
One song among us all.
https://youtu.be/crkXA_aZvdk
Amen to that.
You’re really looking for trouble with that one.
The Producers – Springtime for Hitler and Germany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zY1orxW8Aw
The John Waters Eurovision song “They Cannot Stop The Spring”
I think it was about a Labour leadership contest.
https://youtu.be/VykUjEVVO-Q
I was disappointed to find that this does not include the other John Waters.
No, the other one.
Here comes the sun by the Beatles.
It’s what you hum on tit Monday, which mercifully can’t be too far away..
I do not remember the show, but when worked overseas there was a tv show (one of few in English) that used that as a theme song. Being starved of speaking in a language I could think in, when that came on the radio I had an almost Pavlovian response :)
tit Monday. Always learning. Thanks Scottser
This just sprang to my mind!
When You’re Young and in Love. Originally by the Marevelettes, but I love the Flying Pickets version :) The joy of just voices performing such harmony!
Maybe that is why I like the Pitch Perfect films. Nothing to do with Anna Kendrick or other cute ladies, I am sure :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_kI5Xh4zxo&ab_channel=Vasilikili
Mark Hollis – The Colour of Spring
https://youtu.be/crkXA_aZvdk
or
Sack – Colorado Springs
https://youtu.be/wlz5mG_qb4c
Bertie, you are a man of surprises :)
Another quote from B’s honeymoon
Like you’ve never worn a Spiderman outfit….
Julie Andrews One Step into Spring
Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9-f808BI34#action=share
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY8lp5i9cFM#action=share
and of course the Muppets
tis Friday
Everyone needs the Muppets! Maybe especially on Friday.
Or maybe Mondays. Yep Mondays!
Given the day…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnT7pT6zCcA&ab_channel=TheMuppets
John Martyn – Go Down Easy – (Solid Air)
Curl around me like a fern in spring…..
All I can say is , what an image…. oh my love
I know people judge the man – fair enough
But could he pen a tune?
That man could really pull something incredible from just a few words! Nice choice.
thanks
‘Spring Vacation’ -The Beach Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-8KS9-_CHc
Anything by the Beach Boys, really!
Saint Etienne “Spring” – an uplifting slice of 60’s influenced pop
“It’s only springtime
Oh, you’re too young
To say you’re through with love”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo4lRv51Hf0
Oh, lovely! I had not heard that before: thank you!
nice Liam
The Doors -Waiting for the sun-
“Can you feel it, now that spring has come?”
What can I say? Epic song. Epic reef. Epic singing….A Masterpiece.
Also the song is not on the album of the same name…A idea for future competitions…
‘Please hold an an agent will be with you shortly’
From Four Seasons
Vivaldi – Spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dYNttdgl0
Nice! We do not have enough of the classics :)
+1
Only one that came to mind:
from The Producers: Springtime for Hitler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPXHRX8Q2hs
Some great songs mentioned but mine has to be The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin on Houses of the Holy. One of my favourite Zep tracks too. I love the folksy ballad like feel to the start of the song that builds with intensity as Plant’s pitch and volume increases as does Page’s orchestral. melody.
‘It is the springtime of my loving
The second season I am to know
You are the sunlight in my growing
So little warmth I’ve felt before
It isn’t hard to feel me glowing
I watched the fire that grew so low, oh’
https://youtu.be/TRt4hQs3nH0
It’s a gorgeous and powerful song.
There can be only 1. kermits…its not easy being green
I was always fond of this song.by Johnny Cash. It’s called springtime in Alaska.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tee6VjpXwFU
anything by the man in black works for me
Spring – Two Door Cinema Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m4BUbHEJfA
https://youtu.be/6l0EQ3Uzzb0
Once I was a sentimental thing, threw my heart away each spring…
Spring can really hang you up the most…so says Barbra Streisand… and Big J
makes me laugh everytime:
Springtime for Hitler from the Producers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPXHRX8Q2hs
When I think of Spring, my mind turns to Tom Lehrer’s song about the delightful pastimes that Spring affords us all. This makes me smile every time I hear it. Supplies of peanuts and cya – nide have been laid in for the coming season. Broadsheet face-time in Stephens Green this weekend anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY
I’m sad that he gave up performing back in the 70’s, claiming that satire was dead once Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. On the other hand, he is still alive (aged 91), so there is still hope that he’ll do a retirement World Tour in the near future. I’ll be at the front of the line for tickets.
….I don’t have a pick but I just spent the last two hours listening to…
Blossom Dearie, Nine Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and others on various versions of Spring is Here; It might As Well Be Spring; Spring, Spring, Spring;
as well as…
Donna Summer, Spring Affair;
Tom Waits You Can Never Hold Back Spring….
And a few others… less said about them the better… including Yes, and the great but depressing Rammstein’s Spring…
I still haven’t a pick, but enjoyed the time :)
Van Morrison – Starting a New Life
https://youtu.be/-cgG7jK8M5g
Is spring not a naff thing to put in a song lyric?
U2 – Springhill Mining Disaster