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Thank Fechin it’s Friday.

Never mind the keyboard wars, it’s the weekend! So let’s have another music competition.

This week the theme again comes courtesy of Andy Pipkin who suggests your favourite song or lyric mentioning a family member: son, daughter, brother, sister, father, mother etc.

Here’s mine.

Reply below to be in with a chance of bagging yourself a €25 Golden Discs voucher redeemable in any Golden Discs store.

The winner will be chosen by my genealogist.

Please include video link where possible.

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

    3. Micko

      Ha!

      I was going for the same. A favourite of my late Father.

      Amazing the amount of people who think this is sung by Cat Stevens actually.

      When I was younger I learned to play the version from Ugly Kid Joe on the guitar just to impress my Dad with a song that he actually knew…

      The sheet music cost me 30 bloody quid at the time

      Totally worth it though ;)

      Here’s the UKJ version – not as good as Harry’s but there’s a vid. Plus it uses a lovely 12 string

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B32yjbCSVpU

  4. Slightly Bemused

    I have to go with Harry Chapin and Cat’s In The Cradle. So a beautifully sad poignant paean to the problems of being a father when you lose your focus, and think simply providing food, shelter and funds is what makes you a father.

    I truly hope that little Slightly will grow up and have some of the traits of mine I think are worthy, and none that are not. This song always reminds me to be the person that I want my daughter to be, while at the same time being entirely her own self.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNZMiYo_4s

  5. Lush

    1983, supposedly cramming for my Inter with my bestie, but we were actually listening to the album this comes from. We were so angst-ridden but didn’t know how good we had it.

    https://youtu.be/P6zaCV4niKk

    Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Father and Son.

    1. Slightly Bemused

      Another beautiful song! Thanks, Lush, for many both bad and good memories to which this was the soundtrack in my head.

      I remember learning this on the guitar so that when I was invited to all those parties that happened (yeah, right!) I could do this as my contribution. I managed the guitar, the singing eluded me just a little.

  8. Papi

    Been having some issues with the eldest lately, and this has, fortunately or unfortunately, been the one I think of in my head when he is maintaining nobody understands.
    Nathaniel Radcliffe, Hey Mama.
    https://youtu.be/nYzubZz2oIQ

    Tough lyrics.

    1. Berlingo

      Well if you’re anything in real life like the simpleton you are on here your son has my sympathy.

    2. Slightly Bemused

      I share this list with a friend of mine, a very lovely lady I have known for many years and consider a sister.

      I commented on this, and Bobby Farrell’s dancing. I made the mistake of saying I always thought it was ridiculous. Apparently, she found it incredibly sexy as a young one. Might explain why I did not have many fine young ladies throwing themselves at me in discos as a young one myself :-(

  40. Eugene

    Nizlopi, My Dad Drives A JCB/ JCB Song: I’m Luke I’m 5 and Dad’s Bruce Lee and he drives me round in his JCB!

    Having top laughs, holding up the bypass, best Dad ever

  41. Eugene

    Nizlopi, My Dad Drives A JCB/ JCB Song: I’m Luke I’m 5 and Dad’s Bruce Lee and he drives me round in his JCB!

    Having top laughs, holding up the bypass, best Dad ever.

    So many great lines including don’t forget your shovel

  43. Paulus

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsyRHoa9A8

    Stretching the brief here; doesn’t mention family in title but is a father-to -daughter song from the great Chris Wood. It should chime with several on here. Saw him in Whelan’s a few years back when he dedicated this to the empty-nesters; many of whom had something in their eye.

  44. Eug

    “Grandma got runover by a Reindeer” by Elmo and Patsy.

    The pathos of the chorus “But as for me and Grandpa we believe”

  47. Slightly Bemused

    I am taking a lead from Paulus, and stretching the brief. The song does not mention a relationship, but a most wonderful father / daughter collaboration. Two phenomenal performers, each in their own right, I love this.

    It is quite simply Unforgettable.

    Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCX1xUdMsNs

  50. CapernosityandFunction

    Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter

    https://youtu.be/m0J7XnbUN5o

    This was a post-Christmas number one back in the 1980s. With that length of time passed it should be a regular on classic hits radio, but somehow it isn’t

  51. Clampers Outside

    “If man is the father, the son is the centre of the earth”

    He Got Game by Public Enemy
    https://youtu.be/7FmPskTljo0
    And featuring the fantastic sample from Buffalo Springfields 1966 track ‘For What it’s Worth’ :)
    Released as part of the movie soundtrack album for the movie of the same name – a basketball movie with a father / son story.
    I must check that again, long time since seeing it.

    And what a beautiful track this is, sadly often overlooked, or so I’ve read :)

  54. Andy Pipkin

    I wasn’t going too post anything this week, but the reason I suggested this category was due to my Spotify playlist including this gem.
    This is the track that got my younger sister into The Stone Roses, and steered her clear of some of the rubbish that was in the charts at that time.

    The Stone Roses – (Song For) My Sugar Spun Sister.

    https://youtu.be/KQTJo1AFV0M

    Enjoy and Happy Friday!!!

  56. Otis Blue

    This one is for Dad’s everywhere. Pour yerself a Teeling Small Batch and listen up to Stephen Rea reading Seamus Heaney to the musical accompaniment of David Holmes and John Hopkins. Published posthumously, it’s a passage from Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI translated by Heaney after the death of his own father and the birth of his first grandchild. It describes Aeneas’s journey to the underworld and an imagined meeting with his father.

    Elsewhere Anichises – https://youtu.be/ljA6xWiazVQ

      1. Otis Blue

        And one for the Mams…

        “My sister’s married and she lives on an estate
        Her daughters go out, now it’s her turn to wait
        She knows they get away with things she never could”

        The Kinks – Come Dancing

        https://youtu.be/hTG7hnnqD5w

  61. Papi

    Bella’s brother would not let her touch his album collection. So, when she did, he turned it around on her and played this.
    https://youtu.be/OlmKCj03fHw
    And that told her to continuously do so.
    Dance, little sister
    It was. Terrence. Trent. Darby

    *Bonus points for grandmother.

  65. Ben Madigan

    One night upon my motorcycle through the desert sped
    And smashed my body so that all my friends thought I was dead
    My sister held me close and whispered to my bleeding head
    “You are the son of a mother f##ker”

    Pixies – Nimrod’s Son

    https://youtu.be/bXKMMbtu85M

  69. eamonn

    Gol Scottt Heron/ Brian Jackson – Hello Sunday Hello Road.,
    This is a twofer – Grandma gets a mention,
    I was on a sunday I met my old man I was twenty six years of age
    Much too late to speculate
    https://youtu.be/HtbKZDT5EuI
    Gi;’s Father played for Celtic once upon a time

  74. Nicorigo

    Pink Floyd – Mathilda mother-

    When Pink Floyd was more a psych-rock combo than the prog-rock juggernaut that we know, Syd Barret uses to pen this charming little ditties. Here he summons the excitement of a child being read a bedtime tale by his mother. Pretty groovy indeed.
    “Oh Mother, tell me more”

    https://youtu.be/vp79_ws6jCM

  80. Gorugeen

    Late I know. Am in rural Aquitaine, France. Connectivity ain’t good. Anyways, Lovefool by the Cardigans is my favourite song mentioning a family member. “mama thinks that you don’t deserve me…” . A relative oddity on their third album, Persson describes it as a sorta bossa nova. It’s catchy lyrics and beat launched the Cardigans onto the world stage. The song has been used many times on screen.

    https://youtu.be/NI6aOFI7hms

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