Thank Fionnuala it’s Friday.
And technically it’s Springtime too (just stay away from the weather forecasts).
Which brings us to the theme of this week’s music competition: What’s your favourite song whose title or lyrics contain a reference to Spring?
Here’s mine.
Reply below to be in with a chance of winning a splendid €20 gift voucher redeemable at Currys PC World.
The winner will be chosen by my window cleaner.
Lines MUST close at 10pm.
Nick says: Good luck!
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Frank Balatoni – “Fupping Like Rabbits”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHLmcrGgKlI
winner
it was either that or my own composition – alas, no youtube link – ‘I’ve A Spring In My Mickey That Won’t Let Up’ – a joyous feelgood ditty with a euphoric crescendo
good news for you, men who run both get and maintain erections more easily and until later in life
honestly, J, i have the opposite problem
that’s ñot a problem
it kinda was this morning in tesco
every little helps ?
Paulus could work with that line :-)
Ha haaaa. Brilliant BB. Good one.
Carole King – You’ve got a Friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAR_Ff5A8Rk
All four seasons for the price of one
Terry Jacks – Seasons In The Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWdQbxNEFEs
Feel Like Makin’ Love – Roberta Flack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySlLq9t2qgc
“Strollin’ in the park, watching winter turn to spring”
This week, Muchacho will be mostly highlighting his 70’s & 80’s smootchin tunes.
The Flaming Lips – Can’t Stop The Spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjqNEtalhQA
Contains the word Spring, not quite the season though!
99 Red Balloons – Nena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q86nf7mpOXk
I don’t want a PC World voucher. I already have hundreds in different vouchers, most can’t be spent online.
Also, I do not need any more technology, place already looks like the site of a robot massacre.
Good luck to everyone else though!
:)
sore loser
I’d hardly call expressing luck to others ‘sore’.
Also, I am confident my selection would be so mind blowingly good I’d probably win all the Friday vouchers for the rest of the year so I am doing everyone a favour!
:|
I’m good like that…..
;)
was joking
I know…. :) also, to be bluntly honest I just cannot come up with a tune so I invented the above scenario (well I do have lots of unusable vouchers and bits of tech lying around so that part is true.)
I should have just pretended to have not noticed the competition.
Lying is hard.
I already won twice, waiting for shop to open to get new headphones :)
so I’m giving everyone else a chance ;)
I salute you Janet!
Hows the weather in that alternate universe? Worth the trip?
blue skies all the way
4hero: les fleurs
“For all of these simple things and much more a flower was born
It blooms to spread love and joy faith and hope to people forlorn”
thats springy enough for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXK60prBI_w
this surely has to be the ultimate song about spring –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNS_SUmCJm4
the banality of the choice is, i think, compensated for by the elementary brilliance of this version by the only truly talented Beatle
Dudes, don’t forget
Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hBLHkmBKDg
“It’s just a spring clean for the May queen”
Excellent choice
Oh Lori – The Brothers Alessi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYfIFWhyznA
“Oh, Lori, You bring the spring, the summer, fall
Ooo and winter”
Another 4 seasons, this time with additional falsetto.
I entered this one in a previous competition here, and it was well received even though it didn’t win.
So, now I present again
You Are My Love – Liverpool Express
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUz8oo6ezf4
“You are my day
You changed my winter into spring
You came my way, and then my heart began to sing”
Cuidado! You will end up listing all the songs about spring amigo!
Nicorgio, I wasted years of my life listening to this stuff, now it’s my turn to inflict it all on you lot!
Much as I detest the mono-browed midget, this was performed at a friend’s wedding and there must have been something in my eye that day.
In a Country Churchyard – Chris de Burgh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oIfv82a6xo
“Spring is here and turtle doves are singing from the steeple”
fupp right off
You’ve found me out BB, I secretly love all of his works ;-)
you’re dead to me, muchacho
BB, I’m High on Emotion. Maybe if I don’t pay the Ferryman I can take a Spanish Train to your door, just across the Borderline.
The beatles – Here comes the sun-
A song about spring that doesn’t use the word spring. Plenty of references to it though. And a great tune too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUNqsfFUwhY
.suns going down in the cali dessert,its getting late,really late,its a hot dusty night then Kazu Makino struts out…. one my fav bands absolutely,amazing live.
Blonde Redhead – Spring By Summer Fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuj3QE0kyA8
This is off Brian Eno’s recent audio-visual project Mixing Colours-Spring Frost.
https://youtu.be/yo2tHaO-6Jk
-have a great weekend.
Struggling here, I keep thinking of acts with Spring in them Bruce, Buffalo, the bleedin’ Offspring etc. Anyways here’s one I could think of and it covers all four seasons.
Aphrodite’s Child – Spring Summer Winter Fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fcPCZCnL0Q
Here’s my favorite;
‘You Can Never Hold Back Spring’ by Tom Waits from the album Orphans.
Original recording – https://youtu.be/vgeZEdbv_m8
Live – https://youtu.be/wUtSfjGvB3k
What an absolutely gorgeous song.
‘You can never hold back spring
You can be sure that I will never
Stop believing
The blushing rose will climb
Spring ahead or fall behind
Winter dreams the same dream
Every time’
beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zY1orxW8Aw
‘springtime for hitler and germany’ from the producers
genius..
+1945 or something.
What can I say to that, Mr. Bialystock…
Came here for that… saw the show on Broadway, and) it had me in stitches with some brilliant production pieces :)
Bit of Spring bashing!
https://youtu.be/rIuZycu_bLk
If it’s Friday, it must be time for some Cure (no, not that song, this one)
The Lovecats – The Cure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcUza_wWCfA
“I’ll show you in spring
It’s a treacherous thing”
The man Muchacho tried (and failed) to be
Bryan Ferry – Slave to Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kp3N3wQPO0
“Now spring is turning
Your face to mine”
https://youtu.be/xo4lRv51Hf0
Saint Etienne – Spring
It’s a nice, plinky-plunky chillout tonic for the times we live in :)
The Colour of Spring, Mark Hollis (RIP) – hands down winner or no damned justice in this world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdf–O5WWrU
Great call from an absolutely glorious album.
“And yet I’ll gaze
The colour of spring
Immerse in that one moment
Left in love with everything.”
More pastoral beauty from Mark Hollis.
“Let me breathe the colour of spring
Here she comes
Laughter in her kiss
Here she comes
Shame upon her lips
Come wanton spring…”
Talk Talk – April 5th
https://youtu.be/b0Wf0ooFbyw
Stunning album.
Best consumed from start to finish.
UB40 & Chrissie Hynde – I Got You Babe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aP4GaAruws
The best of many versions of this song.
macarthur park
richard harris.
https://youtu.be/tRwYQgk05DY
Spring was never waiting for us……….
My absolute favourite tune that mentions spring won me a voucher this time last year so
this is the first other song that mentions spring.
Fats Waller – Spring Cleaning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUk4Dr_I4Q8
A wonderfully upbeat little number for these dark days.
I’ll polish the leaves, make them green again
Shake out the trees, change the scene again
Spring cleaning – gettin’ ready for love
I’ll sweep out the nook down in lover’s lane
Turn on the brook, make it run again
Spring cleaning – getting ready for love
I’ll dust those wintry bowers
Wash them out with April showers
Cover them with fragrant flowers
Shine up the silvery moon
‘Cause soon you and I have a rendezvous
Under the sky, like we used to do
Spring cleaning – getting ready for love
Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller was born in New York City in 1904. He learned to play piano at age 6 and went on to become an influential composer, songwriter and musician. Considered one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, his stride piano style inspired many more great jazz musicians in the following decades. Two of his recordings were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in the 80’s and 90’s which is a special Grammy Award established in 1973 to honour recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have “qualitative or historical significance”.
https://youtu.be/hkE1y6tnh24
Madness
In the middle of the night
Tales of a deviant in dotage….
not spring, but springs – two for the price of one.
“He whistles timeless tunes as he saunters down the street
Springs in his legs and elastic in his feet.”
What a turn of phrase,It puts a smile on my face every time.
Happy Friday
It’s got to be Springtime for Hitler from The Producers …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPXHRX8Q2hs
you can say that again
Spring 1 – Recomposed by Max Richter.
Perhaps best known for featuring in the Netflix bodice- ripper and lockdown bonkathon Bridgerton.
Max goes off the Ritchter scale as recomposes one of classical music’s most beloved pieces
(Vivaldi’s Four Seasons) into a stunningly ambitious and audacious collage of textured sounds that gets us in the mood to cherish this beautiful season of renewal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaCib0B8T24
My winner .. but sadly musical tastes are different: https://youtu.be/3LiztfE1X7E a very good take on the original. With his shock of red hair, Vilvaldi created an orchestra comprised solely of the ‘fallen women’ of Venice.. and gave us a sensual musical feast that still feeds hundreds of years on.
No spring chicken himself these days, Mr, Paul Weller
Old Father Time
https://youtu.be/hVSStzJ1BXM
How Sweeter in Spring.
The Rain Song – Led Zeppelin
It sounds like sitting on a windowsill happily looking out at the rain
A sweet, sweet sound penned by a duo of unlikely heroin users.
The Go-Betweens – Spring Rain
https://youtu.be/9OFkyyzUOZQ
Didn’t a girl spring in Dirty Old Town?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KSDzOKPvedc
Luke Kelly.
Johnny Cash — When It’s Springtime in Alaska (It’s Forty Below)
https://youtu.be/1RC3000xI24
Reminds me of Canadian Springs I had to endure. Metre of snow outside and green grass on the TV watching Six Nations in the morning.
Fontaines D.C. – Oh Such a Spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyeQLEF8_U
All Kinds of Everything, Ireland’s first Eurovision win, has to get a look in:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8xmnd3uiK_Y
De Danann – My Irish Molly (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGRchbILos
Originally a Vaudeville era song from New York – first published in 1905
“I’m fairly off my trolley,..” is something I’ve said more than once in my time come to think of it. I wonder was the phrase made popular here by De Danann’s song.
“Springtime you know is ring time,”
The Doors – Waiting for the Sun
“Can’t you feel it now that spring has come? That it’s time to live in the
Scattered sun…”
https://youtu.be/yj5WvpkYHz0
Kentucky cosmic, psych-soul rockers are ‘done hibernating’
My Morning Jacket – Spring (Amongst the Living)
https://youtu.be/IdpVCNZu-5Y
The second Tom Waits suggestion this week and I would hate to have to choose between the two but mine is “All The World Is Green”
Maybe when our story’s over
We’ll go where it’s always Spring
The band is playin’ our song again
And all the world is green.
Here is the live version on Letterman
https://youtu.be/33lOH7MPZQI
Ha! I just noticed he skips that lyric in the live version! I suspect he made a mistake. Here is the studio album version so you can check I’m not making it up…
https://youtu.be/mg7wRhtYXnw