Thank Faye it’s Friday.
Rain, glorious rain! We missed you! Normal service has been resumed. The downpours will continue until morale improves.
Alright, so let’s have another music competition. This week the theme comes courtesy of regular reader Andy Pipkin who suggests your favourite song or lyric mentioning a specific year.
Here’s mine.
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I hear you on my wireless back in ’52…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs
Buggles – Video Killed the Radio Star
Yay! I’m out of breath spinning the wee man round the room to that :)
https://youtu.be/r5PbcBfpwk0
69, année érotique, bitta Serge
obviously, proving we are NOT all the same height lying down
You beat me to it Janet…
It’s not about who comes first…..oooh, matron!
;)
@Janet My parents really like Jane Birkin’s “Ex fan des sixties” also composed by Serge. Quite the wordsmith was M. Gainsbourg. Again more decade than year.
Prince – 1999
Munich 1989: shining cars in the BMW factory and developing an unhealthy relationship with weissbeer and curry wurst.
And I discovered Neil Young, and fell in love; bought every album and still do.
But this is one of his best :
After The Gold Rush
https://youtu.be/KAOE3ENMGuo
Though, strictly speaking, it’s not a year, it’s a decade.
I want to hear more about the German sausage
Jeez J, Serge has got you all hot and bothered.
Well the German sausage was before the French saucisson.
Mind you, I think I’m totally over continental cooked meats now.
they don’t age well :)
Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
https://youtu.be/4aeETEoNfOg
No story behind this just highlighting one of my top songs of the 1990’s
Richard Thompson – 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
A tale as old as time – boy meets girl, boy blown to pieces during attempted armed robbery, girl gets free motorbike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yw2yKNLEPc
LOL!… Love the synopsis :)
anyone who nominates the Smashing Pumpkins 1979 should be cognizant of what happened in The Point that night while they were performing Bullet with Butterfly Wings because I was there & they should have been hung drawn & quartered for it
I was there too. My brother and his mates got caught up in the carnage but were pulled out with just some bruises. Blaming the band is way off in my humble opinion. The management of the Point were squarely to blame. From negligent crowd management to fatally flawed arena design they have blood on their hands.
Not right to hang the band cos of a terrible tragedy in the crowd, gorugeen is right, were the footballers responsible for Hillsborough? Ariana Grande in Manchester? Pearl Jam for Roskilde?
the band came back on & played on like nothing had happened. Yes the Point was a shambles that night with not a sole in their seats upstairs but I was merely suggesting that anyone who put forward that song should do so with some local context, memory & knowledge not something some of the punters here are known for
That’s a weird take in fairness. It’s like someone suggesting the song that was playing when the Stardust fire broke out and that no one should mention it without being cognisant of that time it was played. It’s just a weird take Stephen.
anyone who nominates the Smashing Pumpkins 1979 should be cognizant of what happened in The Point that night while they were performing Bullet with Butterfly Wings because I was there and they should be hung drawn & quartered for it. if you need to look this incident you know the square root of diddly squat about live music in Ireland ever
Is it cheating to add several years? In The Year 2525 by Zager and Evans. They through a few more years in for good measure: 3535; 4545; 5555; 6565; 7510; 8510
Great tune, even if a little apocalyptic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic
As I’m writing my choice for this week’s competition I can’t but help think of the brilliant episode of Father Ted at the raffle, ‘It’s not unusual for the people who run the raffle to win the raffle’.
So even though Nick was good enough too go with my suggestion…….. you know what I mean ????
Only the one this week just to be fair,
The brilliant Josh Rouse, from one of, in my opinion the most underrated albums of the same name,
Josh Rouse – 1972
https://youtu.be/1P_9oVbhkW8
Enjoy!
Happy Friday and enjoy the long weekend!!
ha ! :)
I’ve put forward Public Enemy’s Fight the Power (1989, another summer, etc.) under a previous theme so I place that particular song in storage and present you with this instead:
The Pharcyde – Runnin’
https://youtu.be/jQ-RrGCSa2M
“It’s 1995 and now that I’m older/ Stress weighs on my shoulders heavy as boulders
Wistful West Coast hip hop closer to the Daisy Age than it is to Compton.
Nice one, me likey much :)
(my knowledge of rap/hip hop is pee-poor, so when someone posts one I like, it makes me very happy. Cheers dude!)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mmo3HFa2vjg
1989, the number, another summer!
Public enemy, fight the power
One of the greatest protest songs ever written
It is just sooo good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxgYlcNxE8
Has to be this – it’s got cannons! (14mins in)
James Blunt 1973
Can’t believe this is already 13 years old. Good catchy pop number.
https://youtu.be/uWeqeQkjLto
New Order – 1963
https://youtu.be/SofZHE0jBRI
https://youtu.be/SoA8HYaB408
Two versions because I can’t choose which I prefer.
See what you think
First link for me :)
Iggy and the Stooges manic Punk Energy of 1970 I was going to go for the track 1969… but 1970 It’s amazing. Louche and Rocking. “Long legged and easy to live with” as tbe old advert for Ducati motorbikes used to say.
https://youtu.be/v3iruc_v7LE
The stooges -1969-
The lush intro, the gritty riffs, Iggy’s sneering delivery and all that years before punk was a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS_BsLxMqn4
“I said I’ve been this way since 1956” – Love Potion #9 by The Clovers.
I have put this song up before but it’s a doozy https://youtu.be/7rXhXLsNJL8
A staple of teenage discos in the 90s.
I think the reason this resonated so much is the sense of knowing that our best days were imminent, anticipation and fear of the future and a determination not to let it pass us by.
Bryan Adams: Summer of ‘69
https://youtu.be/eFjjO_lhf9c
I think this song was stipulated on the license issued by the District Court
That and Bon Jovi’s Livin’ on a Prayer :-)
Midlake – Roscoe
https://youtu.be/JDL9bXlwbM4
Whenever I was a child I wondered what if my name
Had changed into something more productive like Roscoe
Been born in 1891
Waiting with my Aunt Roseline
Evoking images of simpler, purer times & how quickly generations come and go. Beautiful tune too.
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions – Rich
https://youtu.be/fw9ytRMw9pM
“She left you 1958
When the thought of another fifteen years
Was more than she could face”
“Remember 1970
When the thought of a day without a drink
Was more than you could face”
Great track :)
Ween – Spirit of 76
https://youtu.be/FOCjeDOFGxI
The video is a mini movie with the song not starting until around 1:48.
Fine, frolicking falsetto from Dean and Gene Ween in the City of Brotherly loves.
Correction: Freedom of ’76
Spirit of ’76 was by The Alarm
The Clash – 1977
In 1977 knives in West 11….
https://youtu.be/KorwwAjKpaY
What a band, What a tune and what a year
Thank POGO it’s today
Not within the rules I know but……
This songs references all the years from 1945 to the late 80s without mentioning a single one. Enjoy
Billy Joel: We didn’t start the fire.
https://youtu.be/eFTLKWw542g
Pulp – Disco 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJS3xnD7Mus
Love Jarvis Cocker, from Pulp, his first solo album and recent JARV IS.
Never got to see Pulp live, (had tickets for many gigs, but wasn’t meant to be), but gladly did get to see him solo at EP.
During the Oasis v Pulp debate in secondary school, I got a punch from a douche for preferring Pulp to both. Met him recently, and he’s still a douche!
The overdrive folksy, slightly creepy ode to Anne Frank, among other things.
Neutral Milk Hotel, Holland 1945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eNK38nmzw4
Stiff Little Fingers – 78 R.P.M.
https://youtu.be/hl1Q1scxwe0
It has all the years!
It’s funny, I always loved SLF and when their All The Best record came into the house, it was crazy exciting for me. Loved every song and the fact they were mostly banned by the BBC and deemed subversive made them even more special.
The funny bit being later on in my early 20s mentioning I loved that record to a pal in college and his horror that I might be a Prod. Ços Prods liked SLF and Catholics liked Undertones sort of thing. News to me growing up in Dublin’ suburbia. He was from Dundalk in fairness so perhaps that was a thing outside the Pale.
Great song.
Was that a thing :) Never knew that! Great track too!
Probably in his parish….!
1865 (96 Degrees In The Shade)
Song by Third World
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tY7EQPgkHu0
Ash – True Love 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1khw03svhfA
Bryan Adams with Summer of 69 awesome track
Eric Bogle – The Green Fields of France (No Man’s Land) – 1916
This song has been sung by everyone from yer granny to the Pope (so my granny told me).
This is one of the most beautiful versions. A fine pair of voices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL2U6QX49DQ
+1916
1.5m views and not one comment…. because the version is so captivating (maybe).
Thanks for posting!
1959 by The Sisters if Mercy. Mulling the loss of not so innocent innocence of a byegone time. Moody and atmospheric.
https://youtu.be/BGtNeeLabJg
Zombie by the Cranberries. “1916..” The only Cranberries song I ever liked.
https://youtu.be/6Ejga4kJUts
https://youtu.be/h42WMA-ugT4
Surely this is the ultimate…….. ️
The Who 1921
gonna be a good year – indeed !
on the best albums last year was.
Hasley’s “difficult” third album Manic-929 is from it.
https://youtu.be/moleFybTAAc
but for a lot covid and 2020 was Pale Blue – I Walk Alone with Acid (Original Mix)
https://youtu.be/uhsw-xe_Jtw
Ooooohhh, nice pics Johnny, ta for sharing :)
I give you the mighty peter tosh’s fight on.
by 1983..
https://youtu.be/T6hy1muBzX0
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions – Rich
https://youtu.be/fw9ytRMw9pM
“She left you 1958
When the thought of another fifteen years
Was more than she could face”
“Remember 1970
When the thought of a day without a drink
Was more than you could face”
The Connells – 74/75
https://youtu.be/l-ITv4OBV9c
Forgot this classic
Ol’ 55 by Tom Waits
https://youtu.be/PejBkU4-1fk
Released just over 20 years before his untimely death, Mark Hollis’ eponymous, solo 1998 album remains a fitting swansong to his genius. It’s a beguiling mix of pastoral folk, jazz and ambient music and brimful of hushed, haunted hymnals, the centerpiece of which is A Life (1895-1915), believed to be a tribute to a fallen soldier in WW1.
https://youtu.be/kGRI2o191Cc
I’ll have to find a quieter time of the day to listen to that properly. Ta for posting Otis :)
For all of the kitten lovers on BS
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cqZc7ZQURMs
Al Stewart. The year of the cat
Kraftwerk – EXPO 2000
https://youtu.be/upAfoB6KMsY
David Bowie- Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)
https://youtu.be/Z_x9fzY4WH0
You can’t beat a bit of Bowie at any time. Great piano on this song too.
An inspiration for anyone who doesn’t believe they can write a hit song. Classic.
https://youtu.be/Tu7HoGZaspo
A House – Endless Art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDo6Lgylsjg
It just popped up on my playlist.
Memories of this being announced on the BeatBox on 2FM on way back from mass, and shouting at Dad to drive faster so could get back and watch the video on RTE2.
Not sure if RTE managed to have other simulcast shows, but the beatbox was super, and absolutely loved Endless Art.
Lots of years mentioned!
December, 1963 (oh, what a night!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRFTTjKtlUU
I prayed for mother Russia
In the summer of ’43
And as we drove the Germans back
I really believed
That God was listening to me
class tune altogether – waterboys, red army blues
The Connells with 74 75
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-ITv4OBV9c
Bryan Adams and Summer of 69
’77… peerless!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=q_aMU2DhTeE
On the basis that all songs should be 15 minutes long and feature a climactic volley of cannon fire, ringing chimes, and a brass fanfare finale…
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – 1812 Overture
https://youtu.be/QUpuAvQQrC0
Love this line from the lads from Larne:
“How can I remember 1690, I was born in 1965”
Therapy? – Potato Junkie
https://youtu.be/7FR5qhudrP4
A song as relevant today as when it was written nearly 30 years ago.
A few 1979s
1980 84 88 92 too
REM – Ignoreland
https://youtu.be/03gauuHIgME
Simple Minds (no wait, they used to be great) – New Gold Dream
https://youtu.be/N85mtGZ9JkY
Good album that.
When the Tigers broke Free – Pink Floyd
Louder!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KUSl4-GKwQ&list=TLPQMzEwNzIwMjFEU4E9d2K5gg&index=2
A fantastic little spoken word track from Stuart David formerly of Belle & Sebastian – think it only works because of the Scottish accent…
Looper – Festival ‘95
https://youtu.be/graCI3ZXs9c
Sexcrime 1984 – by the Eurhythmics
1984 David Bowie
Someday they won’t let you, now you must agree
The times they are a-telling, and the changing isn’t free
You’ve read it in the tea leaves, and the tracks are on tv
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984
Thin Lizzy – Angel of Death
I was hanging out in Berlin
In the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty nine
I’ve seen Hitler’s storm troopers
March right across the Maginot line
Live in Dublin 1983 !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KtMq5S13Nw
A classic historical reference is contained in the Band’s great lament to the US Civil War “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”
In the winter of ’65
We were hungry, just barely alive
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell
It’s a time I remember, oh so well
The night they drove old Dixie down
The definitive live version with full brass section is here from The Last Waltz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM
In a similar vein there is a mention of 1915 in what is perhaps one of the definitive anti war songs ever penned . Eric Bogle’s “The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda”
When I was a young man I carried my pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in nineteen fifteen my country said son
It’s time to stop rambling ’cause there’s work to be Done
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they sent me away to the war
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we sailed away from the quay
And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the Cheers
We sailed off to Gallipoli
here performed by The Pogues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqN1glz4JY
In the Band’s great lament to the futility of the US Civil War “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”
In the winter of ’65
We were hungry, just barely alive
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell
It’s a time I remember, oh so well
The night they drove old Dixie down
The definitive live version with full brass section is here from The Last Waltz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM
In a similar vein there is a mention of 1915 in what is perhaps one of the definitive anti war songs ever penned . Eric Bogle’s “The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda”
When I was a young man I carried my pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in nineteen fifteen my country said son
It’s time to stop rambling ’cause there’s work to be Done
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they sent me away to the war
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we sailed away from the quay
And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the Cheers
We sailed off to Gallipoli
here performed by The Pogues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqN1glz4JY
https://youtu.be/gZh3fai8dJc
For your delectation and delight, I present a fully-toothed Shane McGowan performing ‘poor paddy on the railway’. You may choose any year from 1841-1848 as the entry requirement.
Hi thankyew
but if one wants to go all in with the highly questionable Ayn Rand “libertarian” Atlas Shrugged beloved by some BS contributors without noting it’s internal contradictions the “2112” by by Canuks Rush is your only man. I got to see them on the Moving Pictures tour in the Point a few years back & despite my reservations about the undertow to some of the late Neil Peart’s lyrics is was wonderous the hear “The Spirit of Radio” live (reminds me of when we actually all too briefly had such with Phantom in Dublin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPpQWyMjQ-s
I’d like to nominate Bob Seger’s ‘Night Moves’.
A fantastic song in its original mix, but I’m nominating this deep house mix by Nico Pusch because I just love the beat this mix brings to the song. The whole song is still all there, and what a wonderful story does Bob tell :)
Although released in 1976, Bob references another song – “started humming a song from 1962” – in the lyrics.
That song is, apparently, ‘Be My Baby’ by The Ronettes ( Link here – https://youtu.be/jSPpbOGnFgk ).
Bob’s song is about teen romances and summers of them. It always has me humming along and leaves me smiling… Must be played at volume for that ultimate dance-around-the-kitchen feeling! Enjoy :)
“I woke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off, I sat and wondered
Started hummin’ a song from 1962
Ain’t it funny how the night moves?
When you just don’t seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closin’ in
Night moves
Night moves
(Night moves) Yeah
(Night moves) I remember
(Night moves) I sure, remember the night moves”
Original here – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xH7cSSKnkL4
Nico Pusch remix here – https://youtu.be/aItCXthQPiY
I was going to nominate this for the fav “summer” comp but never got around to submitting that post. Glad to get an opportunity to post this great remix of a classic here.This track is as upbeat as any I’ve ever heard, a great mood lifter! I say again… Enjoy! :)
How about one with several years?
“49, 50, 51, 52, 53…. etc
Johnny Cash – One Piece at a time. ;)
https://youtu.be/18cW_yHo3PY
I’m sure I’m well out of time but having had a quick scan down it looks like my choice hasn’t been suggested yet. It was on the radio earlier and I treated my part of London to a blast as I drove past singing at the top of my voice and jigging about it my seat!
Prince 1999 is a twofer!
2000 zero zero party over oops out of time
So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1999
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rblt2EtFfC4
And thanks to The Simpsons whenever I hear that song I think this – https://youtu.be/DgoQLCRxWaE
Wings – Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
https://youtu.be/utMD5GDkLk8
“Shakedown 1979”
1979 – Smashing Pumpkins