Win Nick’s Golden Voucher [Extended]

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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.

Reply below to be in with a chance of bagging yourself a €50 Golden Discs voucher redeemable in any Golden Discs store.

The winner will be chosen by my biographer.

Please include video link where possible.

Line Must close on Saturday at Midday!

Last week’s winner: Paulus!

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96 thoughts on “Win Nick’s Golden Voucher [Extended]

    1. Bitnboxy

      @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.

  1. Lush

    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

        1. Lush

          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.

  2. stephen moran

    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

    1. Gorugeen

      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.

      1. Papi

        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?

        1. stephen moran

          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

          1. Clampers Outside

            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.

  3. stephen moran

    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

  4. Andy Pipkin

    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!!

  5. CapernosityandFunction

    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.

    1. Clampers Outside

      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!)

  6. Tarfton Clax

    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

  7. Niall

    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

    1. CapernosityandFunction

      I think this song was stipulated on the license issued by the District Court

  8. Smith

    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.

    1. bertie blenkinsop

      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”

  9. Penfold

    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!

  10. Rosette of Sirius

    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.

    1. Clampers Outside

      1.5m views and not one comment…. because the version is so captivating (maybe).
      Thanks for posting!

  11. bertie blenkinsop

    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”

  12. Otis Blue

    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

    1. Clampers Outside

      I’ll have to find a quieter time of the day to listen to that properly. Ta for posting Otis :)

  13. Penfold

    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!

  14. stephen moran

    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

  15. stephen moran

    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

  16. stephen moran

    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

  17. stephen moran

    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

  18. Clampers Outside

    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! :)

  19. H

    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

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